‘I herald your end’

[shadowhive]

So the last post I mentioned sorting out the cinema a pass and I was gonna go either today or tomorrow (depending on weather and mood) and I ended up going today. Yipee!

But before I comment on that, I decided last night to check the local cinema last night (the one I usually go to) just to see and… they’re not getting Fantastic 4 till next week at the earliest. Like ???? That’s baffling to me. Sometimes they have had films later than release (like Smile and Sinners) but I never thought they’d do that with a marvel. It makes me glad I got the pass.

So I had a few options today. Fantastic 4 had multiple showings but I was between 10 and 11:45. Then I had the option of either just seeing it or seeing I Know What You Did Last Summer (which had a 12:20 and 3 showing). I didn’t know what I’d go for until this morning. (Mostly cause the weather has been dicey and the forecast said rain was possible)

So I went to the 10 showing of Fantastic 4 and then the 12:20 showing of I Know What You Did Last Summer right after.ten I spent half an hour around town, picking bits mum wanted and got the new SFX and the Starburst Star Wars Episode III issue (that I was sure was out of stores by now). I had hope to get How It Works but I didn’t see it so it was probably tucked away somewhere.

But anyway! Before I go onto the films proper here’s the trailers

The trailers attached to Fantastic 4: First Steps
Odyssey - Honestly I was surprised to see this. I’d heard there was a trailer out but didn’t expect to see it. It doesn’t show too much but honestly? It makes me wanna see it.
Avatar Fire And Ash - It looks really impressive and beautiful but at the same time I’ve not seen the second and I know it would be depressing. In the sense of ‘here’s this beautiful world and here’s humans that wanna trash it again’.
Tron ares - the same trailer I’d seen before, it does look pretty cool though (Evan Peters is apparently in it so I’m curious if he’s in it a lot)
Naked gun - this feels like it was mostly the last trailer of it I saw but there was a few new things. It does look really funny. I might ask mum if she wants to see it when we go to town.

The trailers for I Know What You Did Last Summer
The Long Walk - This is one of those things that looks like it’ll be well done but…. Honestly I hate the concept of it.
Conjuring Last Rites - Honestly I’m not sure if I’ve seen a Conjuring film. I feel I have at some point but I’m not sure. But this did look like it’s really good
Together - Same trailer as before
Bring her back - I’m not sure what to make of this but at least there’s a cute guy
Weapons - I read it was something to do with kids so I didn’t look more into it. But honestly? The trailer left me intrigued. Since I’ve got the pass I may go and see it.

It wouldn’t surprise me if one of those were the mystery film in a few weeks (there’s also one at the end of the month, also a horror film!) but I know there’s a preview showing of Bring Her Back.

Speaking of the mystery film I’m hoping to see Superman before it, but if it’s not showing then (I’ll know next week) I might go and see it next week instead.

But anyway! Film thoughts. Obviously it’s the first day and this may have spoilers so please avoid if you’re avoiding them! However if you are going to see there is a mid credits scene and there’s also a small thing at the end of the credits (though only the mid credits one is important).

I’ve been to showing of films on opening days before but, bar the midnight showings of Star Wars I’ve not been to the first showing. I kinda wanted to for this for the novelty and I was surprised that there was a lot of people there for it.

First off the film isn’t an origin story, it just presents you as them with their powers. The film is clever as it opened (after a short scene) with a retrospective from an in universe show and honestly, that was done so well. It showed a little of their origins and foes they’d faced (including a Chekhov’s gun one for later) and it worked perfectly as an intro to them. (And also the intro of Johnny’s powers was so awesome)

I really loved the whole retro futuristic aesthetic of their world too. Everything from the building shapes, to the interiors and the flying cars. And HERBIE! He’s so cute I love him so so many. I think it helped he had WALL-E like noises too but there was something so charming about him.

Obviously my fav of the main cast was Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm but I feel I won’t be alone there. The others all were great too in their own way and it was impressive how much I ended up invested in these characters despite this being their first appearance.

Also! Their spaceship is so cool! The Excelsior is SUCH a cool ship. It’s one of those ships that you just look at and think THAT is a spaceship. (Plus I love the fil is a separate thing it made me think of Jedi hyperspace rings I have no idea if that was intentional). The whole section of the film with them in space was so cool but also so unexpected.

Also you can tell how this is neither our world nor the regular MCU because of how quickly the world co-operated. Like if there was a galactus level threat to us there is absolutely no way everyone would come together like that.

If there was a slight issue it was galactus’ ship. It arrives in the solar system at Jupiter and then seems to just… take ages to research earth. Was it going on super slow mode or something? That felt really strange.

Also I did feel like it would lead into the Thunderbolts mid credits scene but… it didn’t, despite a few times feeling like it would.

But those are small things really. It was really fun and I had a great time with it and I honestly recommend it.

And now for something completely different.

I checked the time when the credits rolled and, to my surprise it was 12:10, so I had ten minutes to go to the bathroom and then head to I Know What You Did Last Summer. (It does feel like a missed opportunity for the cinema not to have some concessions thing upstairs, cause the screens are upstiars and the entrance is downstairs).

I was glad that I watched the original film on Sunday, as it meant it had things fresh which was good as events from it was mentioned a few times and two of the characters appear in person (and Helen in a dream sequence which was so cool)

What was funny to me is the first three kills weren’t from the group that actually were involved in the accident. And this time it actually was more of an accident, they didn’t dump the body or anything and they did call the police.

But it was pretty much the same sort of the thing as the first one, which of course is the idea. The staging of some of the kills and it was nice that one of the guys was played by the jerk from Doctor Who so it was good to see him get killed in this.

It did suck a bit that the second kill was the coolest character, a true crime podcaster who was WLW and who was awesome. But it did mean that one of the survivors was a messy bisexual which was cool to get rep.

Overall though it was pretty good.like it is a similar plot line, someone getting revenge on the group cause of causing the accidental death of someone, so it is the same concept but it was done pretty well.

Has anyone seen either I’m curious what other people thought.

And now non film thoughts, well non these films anyway.

It’s comic con and yesterday there was already interesting things.
*The Lego Game Boy got revealed and it has a Link’s Awakening cart and screens!
*A new V/H/S is coming this year! V/H/S - Halloween and that title alone makes me hyped. I hope there’s a trailer soon
*Theres a Stranger Things dnd thing themed on the campaign Eddie is running which sounds so cool
*I jus saw the new FNAF film trailer has been posted so I’ll watch soon

Also yay I finished a fic! So hopefully that block has shifted. I do need to find a copy of The Loved Ones from somewhere for research though.

And Hell Of A Summer is finally on Amazon prime, alas it’s a paid thing so hopefully there’ll be one of those discount things they put out randomly.

There was also Pokémon Presents Tuesday which, as always is most eh. But there was a trailer of the new Aardman show (of course featuring Wooloo) and some info on ZA which looks so good! Also there’s a new sexy guy and, for some reason, a team flare person working as a researcher with team flare logos just… right there which is kinda?? And there’s a mega dragonite which is cute.

Comments

[kitarella_imagines]

oh are you a film fan? I love films. The last one I saw at the cinema was the F1 Movie with Brad Pitt and Javier Bardem.

[shadowhive]

Yeah! I usually watch a few films a month (on tv/blu rays/streaming and syuch) and go to the cinema a few times a year. But I just got a cinema pass so I hope to go much more often now! Before this my films this year were: The Minecraft Movie, Thunderbolts*, Sinners, Clown In A Cornfield, Jurassic World Rebirth

Oh nice! Was it good?

[kitarella_imagines]

Oh yes I do that too! Last year I noted down all the films I watched in a year, I think it came to 52! So that was one per week.

The F1 Movie was good- the racing sequences were very realistic, Brad Pitt had obviously spent a lot of time at races and talking to drivers. There were only a few unbelievable bits i.e. a 60 year old man cannot drive an F1 car, he wouldn't be fit or strong enough; drivers don't tell each other how to drive during a race. And the ending was pretty silly. But apart from that, as a longstanding F1 and motorsport fan, it was believable. You'd probably enjoy it.

[shadowhive]

Oh wow! I note them down too but I didn’t think to count them. I usually average a several a month (though it varies a lot) currently I’m on 6 for this month and it’ll probably end on 8.

Oh I’m glad you enjoyed it! I’d heard about it but it wasn’t really on my radar really but Brad Pitt is usually pretty good. I’m not usually a car guy myself (though I remember watching a racing one awhile back that was pretty good, I think it was Rush or something?) but I’m glad it was good! I’d probably give it a watch if it was on tv

[kitarella_imagines]

I thought I'd note them down just for one year and see what happened- and it averaged out at 1 film per week. Very satisfying for a geek like me.

Brad Pitt looks amazing for a 60 year old man! He must have a portrait in the attic aging like Dorian Gray.🤣

I am a keen motorsport fan, I watch Formula 1 with some interest but what I like is motorbike racing. I wrote a post about it for one of the Sunshine Revival Challenges here:

https://kitarella-imagines.dreamwidth.org/80816.html

So I know A LOT about what goes on at race weekends and who does what, how teammates interact, how fit and healthy they have to be (they generally retire aged 35 or so, not 60!) So I watched the F1 Movie with a sceptical eye, and I couldn't pick out much wrong with it, apart from what I said in my previous comment.

Yes, Rush was brilliant, so well done and poignant as it was a true story of Niki Lauda's terrible accident and his rivalry/friendship with James Hunt. Much better than the F1 Movie.

And then yesterday I watched Nonnas, about a man who employs Italian grandmothers to cook in his restaurant! A very different film, but I will usually watch anything unless it's gruesome, like crime and horror. Can't bear those.

[shadowhive]

That’s good! Yeah when I started doing it it was just out of interest and now I’ve done it for a few years now.

Wait he’s 60?? No way how’s he look like that? I think you’re right

Ohh nice! I’ll have to give that a read later

But that’s good! It sounds like they did so much right with it which always good for a film like that

Yeah it was on tv and I had no real idea what it was gonna be about. Like I knew it was based on a true story, but mostly I was sold on Chris he’s worth😂 but it was really good and I got swept along with it.

Oh that sounds sweet! I watch all kinds of things, apart from westerns and war movies those are bleh. Horror and spooky things are among my favs though especially around spooky seasom

[kitarella_imagines]

Amazingly, Brad is at least 60 years old. He looks about 40 or less but he’s older than me!

Yes, I was expecting all sorts of nonsense in the F1 movie but it is much better than the Stallone movie Driven, I think it was called. That was ridiculous. So well done Brad.

However, it was nowhere near as good as Rush (which IMO should have been called Driven, because racing drivers obviously ‘drive’ and they are ‘driven’, as in ‘highly motivated.’ But Stallone had nicked that title already, damn him 🤣 )

Chris Hemsworth was perfect as James Hunt (and perfect as Thor), he is a great actor. So was the other guy, Daniel Buehl (?) as Lauda.

So Rush > F1 Movie > Driven. Lol.

Nonnas was indeed sweet. I don’t mind westerns but I wouldn’t choose one specially and yes, war movies are soooo booooring. I think once I've seen one bunch of men fighting, I've seen them all really! 😅

[fleshdoll]

I think the long walk looks good 😭 I’m not big into dystopian stuff but I love Stephen king so I likely will see it. and I heard bring her back was REALLY good so I wanna see that too… I hadn’t heard about weapons but I looked it up and it looks so good I really want to see it! (idk if you meant you’re triggered/upset by child death when you said you don’t like horror films about kids but it doesn’t look like… too violent or anything so I assume you will be ok!) and I’m a conjuring hater for multiple reasons so I’m disappointed there will be another one fdshdikg ik they’re popular tho so it’s understandable

I’m interested to hear you enjoyed I know what you did last summer! I haven’t seen it but I saw charlie critikal’s review of it and some of the major plot holes he talked about baffle me a little lmao but if it’s a fun time despite that I might have to check it out (honestly you had me at wlw true crime podcaster like sign me up I’m sold)

[shadowhive]

I feel like The Long Walk will be well executed(like visually and stuff it looked great) I’m just not liking the concept of people doing this long walk and being killed just for slowing down? I am curious about Bring Her back though. I dunno I think my mind heard it was about school kids and the title and I thought it might be a shooting or something like that? But watching the trailer is a lot more mysterious so I’m so intruiged. I feel like this Conjuring will be the last one? The trailer had the vibe of it being that way ‘find out how these people died’ was a tagline so I assume the main characters die in this? But I dunno

I did enjoy it, like yeah there were probably some plot holes if i think too hard but it was enjoyable. Honestly she was awesome! Her intro was wild😂 lemme know what you think if you do see

[turps]

It's fantastic to see you already getting value from your cinema card.

I saw Fantastic 4 and really enjoyed it. I liked the style in which it was filmed and like you, enjoyed all the characters. The time flew past while I was watching.

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It is! I’m definitely gonna be going again soon and will definitely make it a regular thing

Oh I’m glad! It was so great and I loved the style and characters too. YeahI definitely felt the same too!