A young Sam Rockwell skateboarding and smoking cigarettes, no less.
“Regular, or menthol?” has been burned into my mind since I was 5 years old.
The Messenger was an absolute blast to play, and actually quite funny to boot. That’s enough of an endorsement for me to check this out.
The Axem Rangers... SUCH a product of the 90s Power Rangers zeitgeist.
The only thing that disappointed me in the trailer is that we didn’t get a look at those sweet bastards at the top of Barrel Volcano.
Marc Singer has to be wishing that Cannon Spider-Man movie had come out so he could have booked this.
“Ah, now I have my gritty backstory!”
I got the Chromecast and the controller for free with some sort of upgrade to my Drive storage in 2020. I always found it remarkable that while the rest of the world complained about the Cyberpunk release problems, that thing ran like a freaking dream on my internet connection.
The biggest problem to me - and likely…
If I never have to see that anecdote in the comments section of a story regarding method actors again, it still won’t be enough.
You know what you almost never see? Someone heckling a diver.
“Think Cannon Films+.”
I was a relative latecomer to the Battlefield franchise - I have only played 1 (the WWI one) and 5 to this point - and the thing I like about those is that there are numerous ways to really make a difference.
Was that “The Quality of Mercy?”
That’s an all-timer.
I would say the other preferred use of CGI should be to hide the zippers, as it were. Hide safety harnesses on stunt men, or to finish off set pieces, as opposed to making the entire movie in front of a green screen.
Especially because so many of these movies are so artificially full! One would not have to work all that hard to trim these down.
Where I disagree with that, though, is the amount of money the buyer is investing in the game. If I’m dropping $60 into a game, I want more than 30 hours of action.
The thing that always sticks out to me with OHMSS are the on-location shots and lighting. M’s office looks like an actual office! The institute is an actual building in the Alps! It doesn’t feel as much like moving from one studio lot set to the next.
There are other parts of the direction that are... ehhh. The way…
But where those films...emphasized practical effects and the amazing skills of highly trained stunt people, Shang-Chi insists on either interrupting or burying the stunt work...with mountains of blatant CGI.
You mentioning that just gave me heartburn.
This reminds me of a conversation with my cousin when her second kid was born.
In particular, I felt like the Gunn learned the wrong lessons from the first GOTG movie, and really doubled down on the quirky soundtrack and all that goofy stuff instead of finding a different story to tell.
To me, Winter Soldier didn’t do an effective enough job of creating the dread and paranoia, and the feeling of powerlessness for the protagonist, that the good spy thrillers possess. That is, in large part, because we are ultimately watching a super-powered good guy and his hyper-competent team go against a…