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MattW said:
Got tickets to see the new Pirates of the Caribbean film tomorrow night in Imax 3D :)
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I've missed too many of them to know what's going on. :hit
I like the first couple...tons of fun!
Debs Flock said:
:pop Looking forward to hearing what you think about it. Are you planning to see the new Wonder Woman movie? I believe it will open end of June.
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I think it will be good.:clap I'm looking forward to it. I didn't agree with casting of Gal Gadot to the part...just couldn't see her pulling it off from seeing her in the Furious Franchise. I think I was wrong. I'm not a purist or even that knowledgeable about her part...but she brings more to it than I expected in any trailers I've seen.

Sorry...hi everyone! :frow HUGE movie buff here. I just never seem to make it to the thread...lol. Movies are awesome...it's like taking a trip...without actually having to go anywhere or having to pack.:yesss:
 
drumstick diva said:
it is being panned badly by reviewers.
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oh, is it? I saw the trailer and it didn't inspire me to want to see it. I haven't seen all of the others, I think I've seen a couple of them, I thought the first one was good fun. If that's all they could put in the trailer I didn't think the movie could be much good, but I thought it was "just me", not that others would also think it was lacking.

A lot of the 'boys' on another forum were complaining that Gal Gadot wasn't physically big enough for Wonder Woman, but the early reports are that she's terrific in the role. I hadn't much interest in it before seeing the trailer, I think it looks good, and she looks "the part" and after seeing the trailer want to see it. I've collected some free ticket points (and they expire) so I have to find SOMETHING to go and see soon if I want to get my free tickets and I was thinking that this will be it.

As for GOTG and that the second is 'darker', I saw at the cinema number 1 (for the first time) a few days before I saw number 2 (almost back-to-back sittings). I didn't get any feeling that the second was darker. The villain in the first one was scary, really scary and there were some other things in the second that I found very "uplifting". I wonder whether the feeling that the second wasn't as good could be affected by memory of the first? The fun parts might "stick" more over time than the "dark" parts? I thought they were quite "even" in their content insofar as darkness and lightness.
 
So, I had to stay overnight at the hospital and got to watch some movies. I saw Lala Land, Arrival, and Queen of the Desert. These may have been mentioned before in the thread, but I'm not sure how far back so I'll just give my thoughts.

I'm not sure why Lala Land got such huge attention. I wasn't very impressed with the singing and dancing, but I'm old/er and compare it to the old MGM musicals or Busby Berkley shows. I thought Emma Stone was excellent, she really is a talented girl, and the romance story (without the singing and dancing) was quite well done.

Unfortunately, I started watching Arrival and fell asleep for a while (no reflection on the movie) at the beginning. Also, the monitor was too dark so I couldn't really see what was happening... Anyway, what I did see was quite entertaining and the special effects for the aliens were very well done. I'd like to get it out on dvd later on and watch it properly.

Queen of the Desert I'd never heard of. It stars Nicole Kidman as this woman Gertrude Bell who rides around the desert researching and meeting bedouins and was involved in partitioning after WWI. It was worth sitting through, I can't understand wanting to hang out on camels in the desert, but she seems to have been a very admirable explorer/scholar. It seems extraordinary that she would have been accepted by the people she met, she must have been "really something" to have done that "back then" when women were supposed to be more "sit back and look pretty, dear".
 
drumstick diva said:
Potato Chip hope you are feeling okay. Didn't know you could watch movies in a hospital.
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Thanks, I'm fine (as indicated by sitting up watching movies :D) They just have some rule that you can't be alone for 24 hours after an anaesthetic so they made me stay there. There are tv sets at the end of everyone's bed (in the wards). Usually, you have to pay for them to turn the service on, but for some reason, the ward they put me in had it already hooked up and it had the "normal" free-to-air tv and some movie channels. It certainly helped pass the time.

The early reports on Wonder Woman continue to be good. I'm quite looking forward to seeing it.
 
I didn't go to Alien Covenant because I stayed home to put the chickens in...but the guys went. They seemed to think it was pretty...depressing. As in leaving no hope at all. DH usually likes horror flicks...it didn't seem to grab them.

Now Wonder Woman...the more I see the more I gotta see it. :celebrate I watched the following clip. It does have some of the scenes from the movie so don't watch this if you don't want to see movie tidbits...but it only makes me want to see the movie more.

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