True Romance was not only a good film but had a great soundtrack as well, which made it even better.
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True Romance was a great soundtrack but a shit film, letās get it right.
I liked the film in spite of the ending, tbh. I donāt think Iām being too much of a purist, itās just that the change meant that the ending didnāt quite make sense to me. I know Dr Manhattan obliterated New York as well as other major world cities, but I still donāt think thatās enough for the rest of the world and the USSR to forge a peace with the US when Dr Manhattan was a product of America, the guy they sent in to disintegrate entire armies and win wars like in Vietnam. It never quite rang true to me that Dr Manhattan destroying the worldās major cities would have been a unifying moment, that the US would not be considered culpable.
And the thing is, I agree that it would have been hard to do the giant squid monster thing and not have it seem ludicrous. It seemed kinda ludicrous in the comics still haha. I just think you replace alien squids with a different alien threat, one that audiences unfamiliar with the source material would have had no problem getting on board with, something that wouldnāt look ridiculous. I would have supported them changing it, I just didnāt like that when they changed it they made it Dr Manhattan instead of alien squids, because I donāt think they had to.
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Anyone seen Once upon a Time In Hollywood, Tarentinoās new one and itās just on Netflix now. Very cool soundtrack from the 60ās.
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Great soundtrack, shit film
Boo you have bad taste, it was amazing.
Iāll let you have that True Romance was a little wonky but Once upon a time was masterful.
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Yo, did you see theyāre releasing a Batman 89 comic this summer?
It could be absolute shit, a dastardly plot to steal money off 30 to 50 year old men with too much disposable income, but Iām pretty fucking hyped man
We finally get to see Billy Dee Williams as Two Face. Sorta.
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Holy fuck I havenāt bought a comic in my adult life but I might have to fucking break that. Like you say blatant as fuck cash grab but my God man anyone our age should be dieing for this. Thanks for letting me know.
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I think its available digitally in August, but fuck that. I think I might wait til September/October and just get the hardback compilation of all six issues. Think it was only 15 to 20 quid, not exactly an extravagant purchase either.
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Fuck yeh man I might do the same, itās not expensive until it opens the floodgates of wanting to start collect comic books properly in some desperate quarter to mid life crisis haha. Ah man honestly thatās so fucking cool, as flawed as it is Keatonās Batman is so synonymous to the franchise for me. I think itās why I loved the Arkham games so much to, you can really tell they formed Gothamās image from Burtonās neo gothic style and a truer sense from the comics.
Whereas I watched all of the TV show Gotham and felt absolutely nothing.
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I didnāt watch Gotham cos I just felt it was gonna be shit. Also, itās mostly a Batman show without Batman, that isnāt immediately appealing. Obviously, if it was a Batman show without Batman done to the HBO True Detective level, yeah Iād watch it, but Iām pretty sure this aināt that.
I also have to admit, Iāve not seen a single Batfleck film. Nothing against him really, if heād had a solo film Iād have definitelt watched it, but I donāt really care for Superman or any of DCās Justice League, and it seems that the general consensus is that none of those films are much good. So Iāve just never sat down and felt that there wasnāt a better use of two and a half hours than watching one of them. Let alone four fucking hours to watch the Snyder cut, which is the only.one people seem to agree is actually kinda good? Whatās your take, is that misguided of me?
Also, whatās your take on the Tom Holland solo Spider-Man films? Iām wondering whether youāre classing them with the average, cash grab filler MCU films or not.
And finally, tell me you love Into the Spiderverse, or we canāt be friends/acquaintances/people who tolerate each other
Once upon a time in Hollywood.
Thatās was almost 3 hours of Tarantino wanking himself off, with numerous little bits of him wanking to the feet shots he rammed in, wasnt it?
Also I can see why so many lovers of Bruce Lee were annoyed by his representation in this film.
6/10.
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Did you get all the stuff about the Manson cult, I swear so many people Iāve seen bash this film didnāt even seen to understand what Tarentino was doing with this film.
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Incredible film. I loved every single minute of it.
The film is basically just a 3 hour vibe. I loved just experiencing 60s LA, what a trip. Some great acting from everyone involved as well.
Superb film!
But definitely a bit like marmite for most.
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I didnāt notice the Manson family even in the film. EDIT: was that ranch Pitts character went to meant to be the Manson familyās?
The acting was great and why the film doesnāt get a 0.
I have nothing to do with 60s Hollywood so that side of things didnāt appeal to me too much.
If any other writer or director served that up though, theyād get panned.
Tarantino privilege running rampant.
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Batman is in Gotham heās just a whiney little emo teen. The show has its moments, mainly the female cast but yeh youāre not missing much.
Batfleck stuff is fun man I think you might enjoy it if you have an open mind and can let a lot of Synderās nonsensical parts be suspended in disbelief. Joshua pointed out a lot of the issues but for me they were a little easier to ignore because Iām not super high on Superman as a character. Aquaman is amazing fun and visual spectacular- definitely try it.
Holland- I like this kid man a lot, I like his Spider-Man but I donāt like his inclusion in the world as much. His stand-alones arenāt actually too bad but Iām still butt hurt over Raimiās trilogy and that will always be Spider-Man to me. I wouldnāt include them in the cash grab category of MCU but I think they would have been better distanced from the world, thatās impossible now unfortunately. Iām still waiting for the perfect Peter Parker story and for me Raimiās take was still my favourite. Spider-Man 2 is my favourite comic film of all time.
Havenāt seen Spiderverse yet, the hype train put me off a little as people weāre making it into something it didnāt need to be in regard to race and everything. Itās like people donāt even understand that multiverse theory is literally a huge part of any comic arc be the DC or Marvel. Thereās so many fun adaptions and evolutions that can be done but people on Reddit are so one track mind and everything is about over and underrepresentation.
I am going to watch it though because it looks a fun story, and Iām a sucker for the multiverse switch ups, like that Soviet Superman animated movie nobody watched lol.
Bruh what
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Yes my man, so glad Iām not the only one absolutely amazing story telling. The Timmy Olyphant cameo on the Gunsmoke show, the cars, Brad Pittās Bullhead Citizen watch that was actually released in 1970s. Damn everything was so stylish and cool.
@Electrifying I wonāt say too much but this is a story much like Inglorious Basterds in that itās a retelling of an actual event in history. Margot Robbieās character, Sharon Tate was a real actress killed during a sadistic house invasion in the 60s by Manson cultists, in this film they get the next door neighborās and have a bad time. Itās a fuck you to the real events, Tarentino had a plan and it was masterful, if a little too nuanced.
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This
I liked the ending as well tbf.
But it was a little too on the nose in terms of self-indulgence.