leeallen01

Saw it yesterday, loved it. As a lifelong 30+ year F1 fan, I was not really interested in any hollywoodised version of F1, but yesterday, when I was going to see Superman, I just thought, 'do I really give a damn about another superman film?' considering all the marketing was awful, so I just saw F1 instead haha. Soooo happy I did. It has a hell of a lot of hollywoodised and fake F1 racing stuff that just doesn't happen, but it was fun as hell. An old-school, 80's action sports film with all the cliche's. But todays film world needs some old fashioned storytelling and cheesy moments. Zimmer's score was classic cliche Zimmer, too. But it was perfect for the film. Glad I chose this over Superman.

Even though I've only seen Prisoners (enjoyed it), Arrival (not particularly good), Dune 1 (can't get interested in Dune) and Sicario (didn't care for it), I am still happy about this director choice. Mainly because in today's film world, I was expecting the next Bond director to be someone with one credit co-directing a short film 7 years ago. Or an activist director hell bent on remaking bond for 'A Modern Audience.' Which basically means killing it with the same 'progressive' trash all other franchises have been *blessed* with. At least with Denis I know I'm getting a real filmmaker who seriously cares about his craft and is a self-confessed Bond fan. So I know it will be made with love from him and it will be at least visually interesting. Just bring Brosnan back, as an old Bond, or Cavill and set it in the 60's, and you have a billion dollars either way. But I guess that means we're getting Zimmer scoring it...again.

I understand your point. I guess I was too dismissive of it in that case. I loved the new Who of the last 20 years, but haven't rewatched some of those considered great episodes since then. And I was kind of disappointed that it wasn't as good as I remember. I just kind of was flat with it. I felt the dialogue was weak and the performances were too extreme. Of course I understand it was portraying a condensed timeline of paranoia, but I felt it could've been done better. And I remember the copying creature being more sinister, yet was quite unimpressed on rewatch.

I'm a bit 'out of the loop' but have we had any confirmation, other than in trailers, whether Gunn is going to have Williams' original themes in there? I adore Ottman's use and his own interpretation of Williams' many themes. And to be honest, for me, Williams' Superman theme holds the same meaning as Bond's theme. It just doesn't feel fully Superman without it, personally.

It's pretty pathetic that when I mentioned my desire for this new Superman film to capture the Donner films' patriotic feeling of truth, justice and the american way from 40 years ago! so many people immediately refer to current-day politics to insult that sentiment. I don't give a damn about politics. The patriotism of truth, justice and the American way, should never be about that. It's such a shame that every conversation about America devolves into that shite. Can we not discuss the 100 year old themes of Superman (which heavily involves talk and exploration of 'American values') without doing that?

I just watched the episode right before writing that. They all decide as a group to murder the copying woman after about 3 minutes of her copying. She's only been repeating their speech for a few minutes. Nothing else, and they all agree to murder her. Then they immediately agree to murder the doctor after he was repeating for only a couple of minutes. It's ridiculous writing.

But the doctor is smart enough to know that it came from outside. Sending it back out there will do nothing. Not a single character says this. They all just act like they got rid of it. The characters are awful. Not just morally, but written. They decide as a group to murder a woman after about 3 minutes of her copying. That's not realistic.

Someone's insecure about their opinion it seems. I just watched the sequel 'The Well.' Far better than 'Midnight.' The characters react more realistically to the confusion and paranoia and the performances are better. The creature's mechanics is better explained and makes more sense than just repeating. A definite better way of getting people to kill each other than just saying words again haha. Of course the production is of hugely better quality, and the midnight creature is actually scary. It's a good mix of subtle fear and 'in your face' fear. Very effective. And a good epilogue that makes it even more disturbing.

I've never understood the general opinion being Midnight is one of the best DW episodes. I think Midnight is a hugely overrated Doctor Who episode. The mimic creature isn't scary at all, just annoying. It never shows it can do anything other than talk. Every single character is mindnumbingly stupid and just shouts for 45 minutes. And immediately chooses to be murderers because some woman is copying their speech... wtf. The dialogue is so unnatural and cringeworthy. No one talks like that. There's no character development and the doctor just presumes things like he read the script. And why does everyone, the doctor especially, become instantly relieved that it's gone at the end when it went out the airlock? It literally came from outside haha. Why would the doctor for one second not think it's immediately coming back? Dumb. Just a bad episode.

I'm aware haha.

Superman Returns is one of my all-time favourite films. I love the melancholy, calming, slow atmosphere, and Ottman's score is breathtaking, especially his beautiful and reverent integration of Williams' material. Donner's is so bright and fun and optimistic, Singer's is so nostalgic and thoughtful, and Snyder's is bloody miserable. I hope Gunn's is a mixture of Donner and Singer. We don't want it to be 2 hours of jokes or 2 hours of an edgy teen. As long as it gives off sincerity and respect, with a patriotic tone, it doesn't matter what the plot is, because it will succeed at being Superman.

I have his name tattooed on my arm, no joke, and I've been to Dallas, Vienna, and London to see him conduct and to meet him. Other than that, he's alright, I guess.

Now that he uses a wheelchair, I'm looking forward to his cameo in the new Naked Gun.

I'm 35 years old and currently resting my hip and leg because I pulled the muscles quite badly by doing nothing I can think of. This man is basically 3 times my age and makes me ashamed of myself. Thank you Maestro.

I can make Amazon billions of dollars with ease by doing exactly this; it's really not that bloody difficult - Bring Pierce Brosnan back for one film, as an old-man-style Bond. The film focuses on something that only Brosnan's Bond experienced decades ago. And he covered it up. So he has to come back to solve the problem. Martin Campbell Directs, David Arnold scores it. THEN - Henry Cavill takes over as Bond. It's set in the 1960's. Classic espionage, classic cars, classic women, classic gadgets, classic values. You film the Brosnan film and the first Cavill film at the same time. So that you can release the Cavill opener only one year after Brosnan's. That means Cavill can play Bond for three films easily before getting too old. But there's NOT A CHANCE IN HELL Amazon will do this because it's too 'toxic' masculinity and 'toxic' values. They will do exactly what they've done to Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Ghostbusters, Lord of the Rings, Wheel of Time, and soon Harry Potter etc etc; they will demean the 'white male hero,' then ironically make all the women act like men, because not only masculinity, but femininity is looked at as bad now in media. And of course they will make it 'wonderfully diverse' which of course means less white. Bond is dead. Just like every other once great series. I've accepted it, and after cast announcements and eventually the films' release, so too will the rest of the still hopeful people.