General Movies Thread

[ChiakiKakumei]

Was the Skrull always a peaceful race and the Kree complete assholes in the comics? All I know is that they always want to kill each other,

[Spartacus]

both are complete assholes in the comics.

[Mattias]

And then when the Skrulls lost their homeworld to Galactus, they became Death Cult Terrorists rather than refugees.

[Asunder]

Was the Skrull always a peaceful race and the Kree complete assholes in the comics? All I know is that they always want to kill each other,

Skrulls used to be peaceful but then the Kree started attacking them because they lost a competition, killed the winning race as well as the skrull judges for not choosing them.

[Toa of Gallifrey]

Just saw Jordan Peele's Us and I really liked it, maybe a little more than Get Out. I'm glad I knew nothing about it or what to expect beyond the name of the director and the fact that it was some sort of horror movie. It was a beautifully crafted film with some really good ideas. It has some really good twists and turns and it was very satisfying to watch unfold. I think Get Out is better written, acted, paced and edited, but I found Us to be better filmed, written, scored and more consistently enjoyable. Definitely recommend seeing this one without any foreknowledge, not even the poster, if possible.

[Mcjon01]

Everybody but you already saw the announcement trailer a few months ago

[Toa of Gallifrey]

Everybody but you already saw the announcement trailer a few months ago

Yeah, I tend live under a rock for live-action stuff in general. I'm aware that just about no one goes into this completely blind, but I felt it worth noting because it added a lot to the experience for me where it doesn't for many other things.

[ItsaRandomUsername]

Hellboy (2019) was pretty good, but I'd like to have a sit-down with the sound mixer and just figure out what the heck they were thinking with some of those scenes where the music was way too damn loud. The scene where Hellboy gets pissy at the changeling was full of dramatic tension and uncertainty, but I cannot say that other like instances were as successful.

[Strange_One]

[Reign]

Detective Pikachu was fun. There's a scene where an instrumental of the original theme plays, and now I wonder if the Japanese dub has the first Japanese OP in that scene.

[aldeayeah]

to me it was atrocious

[Spartacus]

It kinda boring imo.

[SpoonyViking]

Is it worth for a non-Pokémon fan to watch it?

[Rafflesiac]

Detective Pikachu was fun and good.

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Is it worth for a non-Pokémon fan to watch it?

It's a coin flip really, remove the constant sense of wonder at seeing Pokemon brought to the big screen well and you get a middle of the road movie.

[Mattias]

I liked Detective Pikachu, but it loses it's way about two thirds through when the normal bullshit magic of Pokemon replaces the detective narrative they had built up to that point. Which is sort of how every game goes since Gen 3.

[Rafflesiac]

I like how instead of the expected and usual

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[Pokemon villain motives of Pokemon WMDs or shattering the bonds between people and Pokemon it was Instrumentality instead, I didn't expect that. Also using evolution for a Bond cat moment was a good idea.]

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Also how

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[the R gas was basically the Berserk Gene from the games, that was a really nice touch.]

[Pendant]

Is it worth for a non-Pokémon fan to watch it?

Though I haven't gone to see it yet I sincerely doubt it.

And I say this a Pokemon "fan" who stupidly buys a new game every generation naively thinking that "this time for sure they'll fix the mid-to-late game decline noticeable in all the games"

[Spartacus]

Is it worth for a non-Pokémon fan to watch it?

If you mean that you need to get the references to understand the full picture then I believe its a no, it pretty much self-contained.

[Reign]

The story is self contained outside of

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Mewtwo's origins, since all they give you is that he escaped from Kanto 20 years ago, referring to the gen 1 games.

But that's not a major plot point so it really wouldn't affect you being able to follow along. But like Raff said, outside of all the fun Pokemon stuff it's a pretty middle of the road movie. I wouldn't recommend it to non fans, I absolutely would to fans.

[SpoonyViking]

I see, I see.
Thanks for the help, everyone!