2017: Great movie year?

[JereFuzz]

Supposed to see Valerian this weekend. Will report

I liked it. It has a Star Wars feel, but I didn't realize that the comic pre-dated Star Wars.

[Invisible Man]

I think the art for the comic was big for Ralph McQaurrie (the concept artist for SW).

[jrfox92]

I liked it. It has a Star Wars feel, but I didn't realize that the comic pre-dated Star Wars.

The story behind the film's creation is interesting, too.

[Bloodhammer]

Please do.

The hatred for big-budget movies makes sense to me to a point, but isn't that what theaters are for? They're dream palaces, not art houses where we can soak up small, dramatic stories. People aren't philistines because they want to see larger-than-life archetypes blow shit up on a massive screen. I love those movies for all the reasons people love them, and I love more 'sophisticated' text/media, too. But the latter is better enjoyed in my home, by myself.

I'll probably watch every Spider-Man and Star Wars movie for the rest of my life. I can live with being a plebeian sometimes.

I certainly didn't intend to imply that folks who like summer blockbusters are philistines. I like the first two Riddick movies (although that third one was just too Riddick-ulous, even for me LOL).

I'm just overwhelmed by the sheer volume of movies that are all of the same franchise. To me, it would be like if eight-out-of-ten hit songs every year were covers of the same Journey and Styx songs. I'm sure that for some people, every new take on "Wheel In The Sky" would be a fresh interpretation worthy of getting into the song all over again. Then there's people like me who don't like Journey and Styx in the first place and feel a bit overlooked by the industry.

Actually, a better analogy would probably be the proliferation of slasher movies in the 80's. Between Freddie Kruger, Jason Voorhees, and Michael Myers, there must have been like 50 teenagers-getting-picked-off-one-at-a-time movies made in one decade. If I'd been old enough to care back then, I'd probably have bitched about that too.

[jrfox92]

I'd be more inclined to agree with you if you hadn't included Star Wars, honestly.
With the exception of the last two years, SW movies were decently far apart. Not to mention that there was a period of 17 years between the two trilogies, plus an additional ten between the current one and the previous (if you ignore the cartoon movie, of course).
So, it's not like Star Trek where the films last from '79 to '02 and the got rebooted in '09.

Plus, I tend to welcome sci-fi film franchises (which the comics kinda border on, too).

[Blackened Soul]

You know they are going to now make every one of those cartoons into a live action now.. Including the xmas special AND the. 80s droid/ewok show the mouse people are going to make you hate star wars even more than king neck beard did with those shitty re-edits and prequels.....

[Disarm D'arcy]

Valerian was a joke.

[Achtane]

I knew it wasn't gonna work out when the trailer for the ambitious space movie featured Gangsta's Paradise.

[jrfox92]

Valerian was a joke.

That sucks.





Wait, did you like The Fifth Element?

[Invisible Man]

Nooooooo

And yeah I feel ya, Bloodhammer. Took no offense.

[Bloodhammer]

I'd be more inclined to agree with you if you hadn't included Star Wars, honestly.
With the exception of the last two years, SW movies were decently far apart. Not to mention that there was a period of 17 years between the two trilogies, plus an additional ten between the current one and the previous (if you ignore the cartoon movie, of course).
So, it's not like Star Trek where the films last from '79 to '02 and the got rebooted in '09.

Plus, I tend to welcome sci-fi film franchises (which the comics kinda border on, too).

Fair enough.

I love sci fi. Granted, it rarely gets done well, but I still watch whatever Interstellar/The Martian/Arrival-type movies come out. Well, actually I usually wait until they're free on Amazon Prime streaming, but I always make a take-out and movie night of watching them. Bad "science" and touting of the anthropic principle be damned.

[jrfox92]

Well, actually I usually wait until they're free on Amazon Prime streaming, but I always make a take-out and movie night of watching them.

Same.

[comesect2.0]

Rented two Steven Segal flicks from redbox this weekend....here's two quotes from the two movies..."I'd love the fuck outa sum cookies" & "it's like a monkey fuckin a football" .....so bad...yet...arousing.

[Disarm D'arcy]

Valerian was a joke.

That sucks.





Wait, did you like The Fifth Element?

Yup

[darthbatman]

Anybody go see The Dark Tower?