Exactly that. Maybe my expectations were too high after Attack the Block, but I found it so ordinary. And it utterly wasted Rebecca Ferguson, which is a crime in and of itself.

I would be all over this... if The Kid Who Would Be King hadn’t been so disappointing. I guess I’ll wait and see what the reviews are like.

I feel like “things like this” is doing a lot of heavy lifting when it stretches from Leto’s “sends a dead pig and ‘used’ condoms to castmates” to Strong’s “mostly keeps to himself” and “wears clothes”.

Well, we’re not going to agree (how exactly is the emotional subtext better communicated by the artificial third dimension?), but I am curious as to what the other two movies were.

Agreed 100%. I saw it in 2D, in a small independent cinema with a not especially big screen, and I have no complaints.

Meh. I saw it in 3D, it looked great. I later saw it in 2D, it looked equally great. I don’t have a local IMAX, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the screen size had much more of an impact than the 3D.

Well... a lot of people who’ve been sold that “this time it’ll be great, honestly” anyway. Plus a bunch of people who couldn’t get 2D tickets at an appropriate time, because cinemas tend to schedule a lot more (of the more expensive) 3D screenings, particularly in the first few weeks.

but more importantly, that visual spectacle is best enjoyed in 3D

Huh? Well, that’s certainly a choice.

That’s really describing the first film, which is on Netflix. It’s a pretty entertaining (but not really “good”) Roland Emmerich-style disaster movie — about as dumb as you’d expect, but with some cool ideas and spectacular visuals.

There was lots of stuff in there that I really, really liked, but it was such a chore to actually watch it that I only got half way through.

Well, no. The background is a realtime 3D virtual environment. You can place the stage and cameras wherever you like within it, so long as you’ve built the part of the background that will be visible. That’s exactly the same as real sets where, for example, you can’t easily have a set up showing the Friends apartment…

If any good comes out of HBO’s The Last of Us, I hope it’s that it lets us see once and for all how unnecessary all these distinctions and rivalries are, how games and films and television are all great potential art forms with different strengths

It was renewed for a second season, but the reports suggest they’re pulling the plug with immediate effect (i.e. whatever work has been done on season 2 so far will not see the light of day).

I haven’t seen Hereditary, but “it’s a lot” is a good description of Midsommar. I suspect this will be far less of a departure that it might seem at first glance.

Yeah, it’s not that common, which is probably why it was easy to drop. Also, it means they don’t have to address the game’s complete lack of a decontamination process — it’s just masks off as soon as they’re out of an area of high spore concentration, with their clothes (and everything aside from their faces) presumab…

Totally upends? When you boil it down, doesn’t the volume work almost exactly like a traditional set? You have to build it in advance, and then you can put your actors in it. If you want to change where the scene takes place, you need to build a new set.

Face/Off isn’t necessarily a good movie by normal standards

I think they know there’s a problem, I don’t think they’ve learned what that problem is or what they should do about it.

Why are you trying to angrily argue with me about something I stated I didn’t agree with? I was just explaining why the MCU would be Scorsese’s main reference point over stuff like Avatar. You’ll notice he doesn’t usually namedrop Jurassic World or whatever Michael Bay’s shat out recently either — do you think that…