Zack Snyder Will #ReleaseTheSnyderCut of ‘Justice League’ on HBO Max

ManicPanda767 · 2020-05-20T13:41:25+00:00

And yet, I would still choose to go and watch them in the cinema each and every time.

pushthestartbutton · 2020-05-19T21:56:10+00:00

I read they did motion capture of Andy Serkis' penis to get it just right.

AidilAfham42 · 2020-05-20T00:49:12+00:00

His Shy Hulud

lokithepunishr · 2020-05-19T13:40:30+00:00

If you can't read Korean:

~~data~~

~~wifi~~

~~texts~~

~~calls~~

Everything is broken

hodenkobold4ever · 2020-05-19T14:05:53+00:00

"Yeah this looks like a job for me..."

mojoslowmo · 2020-05-19T14:58:29+00:00

Little Zombies, feeling rebellious

waltjrimmer · 2020-05-19T14:39:29+00:00

Let's take a look at this. The following information comes from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_zombie_films and my own opinions.

Thought to be the first zombie film, White Zombie came out in 1934 (I actually have this on one of those old $1 DVDs they used to sell in brightly colored super-thin cases at the front of stores). What followed were 10 zombie films in 10 years from 1936 to 1946. This could be considered the first wave, but I'd call it a teaser wave. It showed an interest, but didn't really overtake the horror genre.

Then almost 10 years passed before another zombie film, but then you have another twenty in the following ten years, and this time there's no hiatus after that point as they just keep going. This would be the first wave of zombie films, the classic zombies. These are known for being slow, for having various causes for animation (radioactive "science," voodoo magic, space aliens, unexplained reasons, and others), for occasionally being rather racist, and overall fitting with the other 1950's-1960's monster movie trends. I'm going to make a judgement call to say this wave ends with Night of the Living Dead in 1968.

In 1968, Night of the Living Dead came out. This ushered in a new era of zombie films, not only continuing the ever increasing frequency of their release but also setting most of the precedents that we know today and commonly had in zombie films for quite some time. Zombies crave human flesh, they're not generally dangerous unless they surprise or surround you, their main horror aspect is that they are relentless as they never stop coming and there get to be too many to fight off.

This starts the 2nd wave which will go for a very long time. You'll see these movies transforming through the 70's and 80's and maintaining their popularity for the most part. They're cheap to make and there's just so damn many of them, but their popularity really does start to decline even if the frequency kind of doesn't. You may say this means the wave keeps going, but while the films are still being made, they're not culturally significant like they used to be. You do get some well known zombie films, such as Braindead (Dead-Alive) and Bride of Re-Animator, but even these wouldn't become widely popular for some time, especially Braindead reaching very, very cult status.

After about a 10 year break from the big name zombie films, you get 28 Days Later and Resident Evil coming out. These were popular, but didn't really bring zombie films back into vogue. However, they're the first splashes of the coming 3rd wave which gets stronger and stronger until crashing over the theater scene entirely with Zombieland in 2009. Now, there's been a lot before this, I admit. The remake of Dawn of the Dead (2004) normalized fast zombies and the modern zombie film with a focus on high action and sometimes gross-out imagery. But the total takeover of the pop-culture really comes with Zombieland, where it went from something weirdos were into to something everyone was into.

Has the 3rd wave ended? That's a good question. You still have certain things that started in the 3rd wave going, such as The Walking Dead as a TV series. But it's not culturally significant anymore. There was a time it was talked about CONSTANTLY, that it took over everyone's interest. The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones were, for a time, impossible to avoid. While Game of Thrones ended with much controversy, The Walking Dead is talked about less than Game of Thrones despite still being on the air. And the George Romero film series span multiple waves. So I would argue that the 3rd wave has ended as there has a slight decrease in zombie films overall and more importantly they've become less culturally significant. The big-name zombie films really haven't tended to do too well. Zombieland 2 came out and... I never heard much about it. You've got a lot of buzz around new Resident Evil games (or remasters) and The Last of Us 2, but zombies have started to go back into a niche category.

If there's a resurgence of zombie films and it becomes hardcore mainstream again this early, I would say that we're in a lull and not really a break of wave 3. But give it just a couple of years for it to get going again, and I'd say that's wave 4.

But of course, all this is my own opinion and I'm happy to hear arguments against what I've just said.

ContributorX_PJ64 · 2020-05-19T11:16:46+00:00

I’ve heard it said before (on Red Letter Media) that early versions of Star Wars were terrible before ILM’s special effects and Marcia Lucas’ edit salvaged it.

Respectfully nobody should pay any attention to the absolute garbage perpetuated by Red Letter Media. They have done so much damage by spreading lie and distortions about the series.

The early version of Star Wars was edited by John Jympson. Lucas was filming the desert scenes over in Tunisia for most of the process. Lucas was displeased with the draft, and the final version of Star Wars was edited by Richard Chew, Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, and of course George Lucas, who chose to be uncredited, just as he chose to be uncredited when he supervised post-production/VFX/editing on Jurassic Park since Spielberg was shooting Schindler's List.

There has been this ridiculous attempt by people who don't like the Star Wars Prequels to paint Lucas as some kind of incompetent hack. A "bad director" or a "bad editor". Or even a "bad writer". Lucas was a proven filmmaker with multiple acclaimed films under his belt. (THX 1138 and American Graffiti). He was basically an art director who inexplicably hit it big with Star Wars and this derailed his career of making weird experimental films with heavy political undertones -- stuff he tried to put into Star Wars where the audience didn't necessary understand or appreciate it.

If Lucas hadn't made Star Wars his career would have gone very differently. The man is a deeply talented and accomplished filmmaker with a great love of the craft and a deep knowledge of its history that translates into movies in love with classic styles of cinema that have largely fallen from favour.

His student films are very interesting because they show all his core influences and aspirations. Lucas is at heart an editor. This is why his films are so fixated on editing. On telling the story through editing moreso than what was actually shot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TUf2GHM1N4&list=PLVa5jmET303rxZoKiZRIfubiI9rNrZOoK

an_ordinary_platypus · 2020-05-19T15:21:26+00:00

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

iforgotmyoldpass2 · 2020-05-18T23:30:55+00:00

List if anyone is too lazy to click through:

2001: A Space Odyssey

42nd Street

Adam’s Rib

The Adventures of Robin Hood

An American in Paris

Ben-Hur

Body Heat

Bonnie and Clyde

Bringing Up Baby

Cannery Row

Casablanca

Cheyenne Autumn

Cimarron

Citizen Kane

City of Angels

Cool Hand Luke

Countdown

Dirty Harry

Doctor Zhivago

East of Eden

Elvis: That’s the Way it is

Footlight Parade

Freaks

Giant

Gone with the Wind. Girl Crazy

Gold Diggers of 1933

Gold Diggers of 1935

Gone with the Wind

How the West was Won

Keeper of the Flame

King Kong

Klute

The Little Drummer Girl

Lolita

The Maltese Falcon

Mildred Pierce

Million Dollar Mermaid

Mrs. Soffel

Network

North by Northwest

Now, Voyager

The Nun’s Story

Pat and Mike

A Patch of Blue

The Philadelphia Story

Point Blank

Polyester

The Postman Always Rings Twice

Pride and Prejudice

Rebel Without a Cause

Rebel Without a Cause. Rhapsody in Blue

Rio Bravo

Romance on the High Seas

The Sea of Grass

The Searchers

Shall We Dance

Shoot the Moon

Singin’ in the Rain

The Singing Nun

The Song Remains the Same

A Star is Born (1954)

A Star is Born (1976)

A Streetcar Named Desire

Strike Up the Band

Tortilla Flat

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Wattstax

The Wild Bunch

Without Love

The Wizard of Oz

Woman of the Year

Woodstock

The 47 Ronin - Part 1. CRITERION COLLECTION 8½

...And God Created Woman

16 Days of Glory

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her

The 3 Penny Opera

The 39 Steps

The 400 Blows

The 47 Ronin: Part 1

The 47 Ronin: Part 2

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Amarcord

An Angel at my Table

Ashes and Diamonds

Atlanta’s Olympic Glory

Au Revior Les Enfants

Autumn Sonata

Babette’s Feast

Battle of Algiers

Battleship Potemkin

The Beales of Grey Gardens

Beauty and the Beast

Belle De Jour

Bicycle Thieves

The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant

Black Girl

Black Narcissus

Black Orpheus

Blithe Spirit

The Blob

Blood Simple

Breaking the Waves

Breathless

Brief Encounter

A Brief History of Time

The Brood

Brute Force

Buena Vista Social Club

Calgary ‘88: 16 Days of Glory

Carnival of Souls

Chimes at Midnight

La Ciénaga

Eraserhead. The Circus

City Lights

Cleo from 5 to 7

Cranes are Flying

Cries and Whispers

Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment

Cronos

Daisies

A Day in the Country

A Day’s Pleasure

The Daytrippers

Dead Man

Desert Hearts

Destroy All Monsters

Diabolique

Divorce Italian Style

A Dog’s Life

Don’t Look Back

Down by Law

The Earrings of Madame De

Eating Raoul

Ebirah, Horror of the Deep

Elevator to the Gallows

The Emperor Jones

The Entertainer

Equinox

Eraserhead

Europa

Europe ‘51

Eyes Without a Face

F is for Fake

Faces

Fanny and Alexander

Fantastic Planet

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla. Fat Girl

First Man Into Space

For All Mankind

Foreign Correspondant

The Four Feathers

Fox and His Friends

The Front Page

Funny Games

George Stevens: A Filmmakers Journey

George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin

Germany Year Zero

Gidorah, The Three Headed Monster

Gimme Shelter

Godzilla

Godzilla Raids Again

Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla

Godzilla vs Megalon

Godzilla vs Gigan

Godzilla vs Hedorah

Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

The Gold Rush

The Gold Rush: 1942 Version

The Grand Olympics

Gray’s Anatomy

The Great Dictator

Great Expectations

Grey Gardens

Hamlet

Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice

Hanzo the Razor: The Snare

Hanzo the Razor: Who’s Got the Gold?

A Hard Day’s Night

A Hard Day’s Night. Harlan County U.S.A

Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages

Hearts and Minds

Henry V

The Hidden Fortress

Hobson’s Choice

The Honeymoon Killers

Hoop Dreams

House

I Married a Witch

I Shot Jesse James

I Was a Teenage Zombie

The Idle Class

Ikiru

The Immigrant

In the Mood for Love

In Vanda’s Room

Intermezzo

Invasion of Astro-Monster

Irma Vep

Ivan the Terrible Part 1

Ivan the Terrible Part 2

Jubilee

Jules and Jim

Juliet of the Spirits

The Jungle Book

The Kid

Kill!

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

A King in New York

The King of Kings

Knife in the Water

Kwaidan

Lord of the Flies. Lady Snowblood

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance

The Lady Vanishes

L’Amore

L’Argent

The Last Emperor

The Last Metro

The Last Wave

Late Autumn

Late Spring

L’Avventura

Lillehammer ‘94: Days of Glory

Limelight

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

Lola

Lola Montes

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby in the Land of Demons

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengence

Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell

Loneliness of the Long Distance

The Runner

The Long Voyage Home

Look Back in Anger

Lord of the Flies

The Lost Honor of Katarina Blum

Love in the Afternoon

Major Barbara

Man Bites Dog

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Marriage of Maria Braun

Masculin Feminin

Metropolitan

Mikey and Nicky

Modern Times

Mon Oncle

Mona Lisa

Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday

Monsieur Verdoux

Monterey Pop

The Most Dangerous Game

Mothra vs Godzilla

Mr. Arkadin

Multiple Maniacs

My Brilliant Career

My Dinner with Andre

My Life as a Dog

My Night at Maud’s

Nagano ‘98 Olympics: Stories of Honor and Glory

The Naked City

The Naked Kiss

My Dinner with Andre. Nanook of the North

Nice and Friendly

A Night in the Show

Night of the Living Dead

Of Mice and Men

Oliver Twist

Onibaba

Paris, Texas

Pather Panchali

Pay Day

Pepe Le Moko

Permanent Vacation

Persona

Picnic at Hanging Rock

The Pilgrim

The Player

Police Story

Primary

The Private Life of Henry the VIII

Pygmalion

Quadrophenia

Querelle

Rashomon

The Red Ballon

Red Desert

The Red Shoes

Rembrandt

The Return of Bulldog Drummond

Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Richard III

The Rink

The Rise of Catherine the Great

The Rite

The River

Rodan

Rome Open City

A Room with a View

The Ruling Class

Sabotage

Safety Last!

Salesman

Le Samourai

Samurai Trilogy 1: Musashi Miyamoto

Samurai Trilogy 2: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

Samurai Trilogy 3: Duel at Ganryu Island

Seven Samurai. Satan’s Brew

Sawdust and Tinsel

Scanners

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Scenes From a Marriage

Schizopolis

Seance on a Wet Afternoon

Secrets and Lies

Senso

Seoul 1988

Seven Samurai

Seventh Seal

The Seventh Veil

Shadows

Shock Corridor

Shoot the Piano Player

The Shooting

The Shop on Main Street

Shoulder Arms

Sisters

Smithereens

Solaris

Son of Godzilla

Speedy

Stagecoach

La Strada

Stranger Than Paradise

The Stranger

Stromboli

Summertime

Sunnyside

Sweetie

Taste of Cherry

A Taste of Honey

Terror of Mechagodzilla

The Testement of Dr Mabuse

That Hamilton Woman

The Thief of Bagdad

Three Colors: Blue

Three Colors: Red

Three Colors: White

Throne of Blood

Watership Down. Through a Glass Darkly

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

Time Bandits

The Times of Harvey Milk

The Tin Drum

To Be or not To Be

Tokyo Olympiad

Tokyo Story

Tom Jones

The Trial of Joan of Arc

True Stories

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

Two English Girls

Ugetsu

Umberto D.

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Under the Volacno

Vampyr

Victim

Vivre Sa Vie

Voyage to Italy

The Wages of Fear

War and Peace

The War of the Gargantuas

The War Room

Watership Down

Weekend

Wild Strrawberries

Wings of Desire

Wise Blood

Withnail and I

A Woman of Paris

A Woman Under the Influence

The X From Outer Space

Yojimbo

Young and Innocent

Young Girls

Z

TURNER FILMS Freedom Song

Regular Show: The Movie

Howl’s Moving Castle. THIRD PARTY TITLES Annie Hall

The Awful Truth

Aya

Baby Boom

The Bells of St. Mary’s

Braveheart

Capricorn One

Castle in the Sky

The Cat Returns

Dr. Strangelove

Eagle Eye

Ella Enchanted

From Up on Poppy Hill

Good Will Hunting

Harold and Maude

Hey Arnold! The Movie

Howl’s Moving Castle

In Cold Blood

Kiki’s Delivery Service

The Killing

Kung Fu Panda

Last Holiday

The Last Waltz

Let’s Spend the Night Together

Lilies of the Field

Little Black Book

The Long Goodbye

Manhattan

Mona Lisa Smile

My Neighbor Totoro

Annie Hall. My Neighbors the Yamadas

Nausicaa of the Walley of the Wind

Ocean Waves

An Officer and a Gentleman

Once Upon a Time in the West

Only Angels have Wings

Only Yesterday

Paths of Glory

Pet Sematary

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

Pom Poko

Ponyo

Porco Russo

Pretty in Pink

Princess Mononoke

Reds

Save the Last Dance

The Secret World of Arrietty

Shall We Dance?

Shooter

Some Kind of Beautiful

Spirited Away

Stealing Harvard

Swingers

The Take of the Princess Kaguya

Tales from Earthsea

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Tropic Thunder

Varsity Blues

What Women Want

When Marnie was There

Whispers of the Heart

The Wind Rises

The Wood

Taman_Should · 2020-05-19T08:25:14+00:00

Actual answer? Because plot, that's why. God, I wish people would stop looking for depth where there is none. You just end up thinking about it 5 times harder than the actual writers did. There are actually deep science fiction movies out there people, go watch those.

Demderdemden · 2020-05-17T18:36:49+00:00

kind of like how the Schindler's List Oscar winner was the cinematographer for Cool As Ice.

What a career, gets to be the cinematographer for the greatest film ever made and also Schindler's List.

BadWolfCubed · 2020-05-16T22:12:27+00:00

We did this.

We stopped paying for news since the internet taught us that information is free. So newsrooms cut costs to survive. The person who wrote that article is an independent contractor who will only get a few bucks, paid by the clicks. We're getting what we pay for.

bsbbtnh · 2020-05-16T21:36:43+00:00

She can't use Baroness because she holds the title of Scream Queen.

Mightyjohnjohn · 2020-05-16T19:09:43+00:00

Wha happened?

rex1030 · 2020-05-16T10:06:04+00:00

I think you are a moron. This movie was the most fake looking shit I’ve ever seen. Your judgement is impared like a special needs kid sniffing markers. That movie sucked.

King_Allant · 2020-05-16T04:31:34+00:00

Sure, I know many people preferred the lightheartedness of the first one, but come on, the second and third movies are way above most blockbusters that come out these days.

It's not because the first movie is somehow more lighthearted that people prefer it; I don't even get where that idea comes from. It's because Curse of the Black Pearl is an absolute paragon of structure and economical storytelling. This tightness is partly a result of the film being originally conceived as a self-contained work, as it means everything gets to be set up and paid off before the credits roll.

Almost every scene is both distinctly memorable and accomplishes many things at once, communicating so much about the characters and setting from so many different angles so elegantly, often wordlessly, that a lot of the time you don't even realize the information you're absorbing until it comes back around later. Perhaps most impressive is that it does all this while maintaining a strong sense of narrative momentum. The jokes consistently land, but the movie also knows when it's earned a moment to let the drama breathe in earnest. It builds and builds on itself to a wonderful supernatural twist midway through which keeps the viewer on their toes and frames everything in a new light, clearing the deck for a climax in which every thread neatly weaves together.

Each character is dynamic and well-realized, even the distant secondary antagonist of Elizabeth's prospective husband who would have been so, so easy to write as a totally generic one-note asshole. Yet in the end when Elizabeth tells him she doesn't want to marry him, he just... respects her wishes. And as primary villain, Barbossa is both properly sinister and sympathetic. His fate is surprisingly bittersweet and places the focus squarely on the figure's humanity. Elizabeth and Will are strong leading characters who display a lot of growth over the story. And Jack stands above them all as a true wildcard; the character is simply magnetic. It isn't random that he instantly launched into pop culture immortality following this first appearance, and I don't think he ever again feels as enigmatic as he does here.

Curse of the Black Pearl is a perfect example of a smart adventure movie that never condescends to its audience but also never loses sight of fun, and it fully deserves to be ranked alongside the all-time greats of its genre.

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