The Movies Thread

[wjfox]

^ Aliens is my favourite movie of all time, btw.

[funkervogt]

A Disney Alien film?

No.

[wjfox]

A Disney Alien film?

No.

Give it a chance.

[wjfox]

Meanwhile, this just got released today –

[funkervogt]

A Disney Alien film?

No.

Give it a chance.

I promise to watch at least the first 15 minutes of it after I download a free pirated copy.

[wjfox]

[wjfox]

I’m a climate scientist. Don’t Look Up captures the madness I see every day

Wed 29 Dec 2021 14.08 GMT

The movie Don’t Look Up is satire. But speaking as a climate scientist doing everything I can to wake people up and avoid planetary destruction, it’s also the most accurate film about society’s terrifying non-response to climate breakdown I’ve seen.

The film, from director Adam McKay and writer David Sirota, tells the story of astronomy grad student Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) and her PhD adviser, Dr Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio), who discover a comet – a “planet killer” – that will impact the Earth in just over six months. The certainty of impact is 99.7%, as certain as just about anything in science.

The scientists are essentially alone with this knowledge, ignored and gaslighted by society. The panic and desperation they feel mirror the panic and desperation that many climate scientists feel. In one scene, Mindy hyperventilates in a bathroom; in another, Dibiasky, on national TV, screams “Are we not being clear? We’re all 100% for sure gonna fucking die!” I can relate. This is what it feels like to be a climate scientist today.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... up-madness



Credit: Niko Tavernise/Netflix/PA

[funkervogt]

Anyone seen Aniara?

[wjfox]

[wjfox]

[wjfox]

[andmar74]

Why??

[wjfox]

Out in cinemas next week.

Currently 7.8 on IMDB, which is quite good.

[Time_Traveller]

Obi-Wan Kenobi movie trilogy was the first casualty of Solo bomb

Yesterday 6:50PM

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, we now return Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Star Wars Story to the Earth’s crust.

Roughly four years after an explosive box office bomb known as Solo wiped out a library of unread Star Wars Stories, sources excavated the blast’s first identified casualty. Before it was a Disney+ series, Obi-Wan Kenobi was a proposed spin-off trilogy in development when Solo exploded, presumably, due to a coaxium leak.

Speaking to The Direct, Stuart Beattie, the Obi-Wan Kenobi film series screenwriter who received writing credits on the recently-concluded TV series, said that Solo was the deciding factor in taking Obi-Wan from the big screen to the small one.

“It was Solo that changed the direction of the system,” Beattie said. “I like Solo, personally, but it hadn’t made a lot of money… it certainly crushed us. Devastated, absolutely devastated. But, that’s the business, you know, highs and lows. I’m glad it got made. I’m glad the show got made. I’m proud of my story. I’m glad my characters are all through it. And I’m glad I got credit for it. I wish they’d been able to make my movies.”

Solo reportedly needed to make more than $500 million just to break even but grossed roughly $393 million at the worldwide box office, a disappointing total that director Ron Howard later blamed on online trolls.

https://www.avclub.com/obi-wan-kenobi-m ... 1849120693

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Currently watching

[Vakanai]

Going to list my favorite movies of the past decade.
1. Shin Godzilla
2. Mr. Holmes
3. Joker
4. The Batman
5. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

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[wjfox]

[wjfox]

Anyone seen this?

[Time_Traveller]

Anyone seen this?

No, haven't seen this yet?