Film of the Moment

OutsideIn wrote:I watched Justice League: Snyder Cut over several days. Snyder could have cut a lot more. There seemed to be a lot of unnecessary filler. It felt like the theatrical version stretched out for no real reason. But if you are a hardcore DC fan, you might enjoy it.

I've yet to get around to watching it. Ideally I want to do it in one sitting but 4 hours is a long time to carve out for one single film so it's taking a while to finally get round to it.

I've heard mixed things about it (some friends love it, some hate it) but I'm infamously one of the mutants who really enjoys Batman v Superman so I'm expecting to be more on the positive side about it than the negative.

Watched Netflix’ Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb last night with my friend’s mom. It was a pretty interesting movie and it was certainly neat to get to see how the excavation process works.

Marmaduke wrote:Right? Everyone else has been saying “omg, it’s amazing, I loved it” and I could barely get though it. Having it in 4:3 was such self-indulgent wankery. The story was changed, but I don’t feel like it bought anything new to the narrative. It just felt like a set-up to an expanded universe we all know is never happening, that Snyder knew was never happening when he made it. It’s just 4 hours of wasted time where the only thing new we learn is that Bruce Wayne has ugly business cards that look like he ordered them from Vistaprint. And who the ever-loving-fuck is Martian Manhunter?

I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but there were so many "revelations" that made no difference to the story. Is it even a spoiler when none of it mattered? The attempts at humor fell completely flat. And Aquaman apparently has a neverending supply of shirts that he strips off and litters on the ground every time he swims.

I only know Martian Manhunter as the telepathic, shape-shifting Martian from the animated series, which were actually more enjoyable than the movies. Once again, he made no difference to the story except as a setup to a sequel that will never happen.

Severelius wrote:I've yet to get around to watching it. Ideally I want to do it in one sitting but 4 hours is a long time to carve out for one single film so it's taking a while to finally get round to it.

I've heard mixed things about it (some friends love it, some hate it) but I'm infamously one of the mutants who really enjoys Batman v Superman so I'm expecting to be more on the positive side about it than the negative.

I treated is more like a mini-series, which is really what it was.

Movies like this are made less enjoyable to me by the inflated expectations set by people raving about it.

Watched Underwater at long last.

And I see why a lot of people who know me were telling me to watch it. Was expecting something akin to Alien but just underwater. Like isolated base and one monster hunting them one-by-one. But I was pleasantly surprised that it was more than just the expected and the addition of Lovecraftian elements is always welcome.

Watched John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness and honestly I think I have a new entry on my list of all-time favourite films because oh my god I love it so much.

Yesterday night, which seems like today since I've not slept in nearly 24hrs, I was somewhat dragged into watching Nathaniel Nuon's latest horror movie, The Voices. I found it slow, not in the frightening in the least, and a tad unnecessarily disturbing. Moreover, I found its centering on a character who (seemingly) suffers from hallucinations (of a demon, dead children, and assorted other things) to be not only predictable, but also somewhat bothersome insofar as it continually reminded me of my own struggles with mental illness (though, for the record, I don't hallucinate). In any case, it wasn't a particularly fun time and while I didn't hate the movie, I wouldn't necessarily recommend it either.