The Movie Thread

[Maniakkid25]

That is in fact the poster. That was the image used in the trailers, as well, and it's impressive at how blatant it is. Also, the movie is a shot-for-shot remake of a spanish movie called Rec, so if you knew that, you knew how it ended, anyway.

Ah, Women In Refridgerators. Now THAT is a term I haven't seen in a minute. Yeah, for those that don't know the story, it's literally named after a comic where the hero's wife is killed off-screen, and is stuffed into a fridge. It's absurd, and its now used to describe women who are killed off unceremoniously to "heighten the tension", as if there aren't a hundred different ways they could do that. Gotta love writers, sometimes.

[Moonface]

I haven't seen either movie (I was aware though that Quarantine was just a remake that doesn't feel necessary at all) but at face value I don't see the poster as being spoilery. It's just of a woman screaming presumably being grabbed by something, but it doesn't really tell me if she's going to die or whatever. Although, the taglines do come off as giving away that she and no one else will live, and if that is what happens then the image choice is redundant.


As for the term, I only ever saw it for the first time around discussion about TLoU 2 prior to its release, and I've never seen it since.

[Maniakkid25]

Well, you'd be surprised, then, Moony. Because the term is common enough to have its own Wikipedia page. And yes, that is just as insane as it sounds. It's up there with "Jumping the Shark" (referring to an event in a piece of media that is so beyond the pale, the media in question never recovers) in media discourse. It's legit an important term to know in such discussions, especially when we're talking about empowering female characters. Thanks, Gail Simone, famed writer of Wonder Woman (not the original, obviously, but she's the longest-running female writer for that character).

[Moonface]

Okay this has to be a comedy movie of some sort right? You can't just drop a second trailer that starts with child Jack Black saying "as a child I yearned for the mines" and not be a self-aware comedy to some extent.

[ShiraNoMai]

It's definitely gotta be a tongue-in-cheek family film. To be honest I'm unsure how you'd make a concept like Minecraft relatively serious unless you really went for some cringe shit anyway, so might as well just run with the fantasy of it anyway, I suppose.

I just really wish it didn't just look like a fucking green screen studio. Like, come on.

[Moonface]

Oof, yeah watching the trailer again I didn't really give enough attention to notice how egregious the green screen usage looks. I know it obviously has to use it but it feels as obvious as those fake driving scenes in old movies.

With how big it got so quickly I'm surprised there's been no supposed talks of a Fortnite movie or anything. Although I bet if the Minecraft movie turns out good and/or performs well that it won't be long before a Fortnite movie gets announced, similar to how Detective Pikachu saw a lot of other gaming IP get movies off the back of its success.

[Moonface]

28 Years Later | Official Trailer

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I only just yesterday watched a Dead Meat Kill Count for 28 Days so having that movie fresh in my mind really helped me realize how well this trailer captures the tone that movie had. I remember being really disappointed by 28 Weeks because Boyle wasn't part of it beyond the opening and the change in direction is incredibly obvious and doesn't work at all, so seeing everyone who did 28 Days is working on this fully gives me hope it turns out really good!

Also for anyone wondering what's being played in the background of the trailer, it's a rendition of a poem called Boots by Rudyard Kipling. Listening to the recording on the Wiki page and following the words it's such a good poem and the recording makes it *chefs kiss*.