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[–] Pencilnoob@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (5 children)

A few favorites:

  • Constantine
  • The Last Jedi
  • Jupiter Ascending
  • Minority Report
  • Prometheus
  • Valerian
  • Logan's Run
[–] thequickben@lemm.ee 2 points 10 hours ago

Constantine and Minority Report don’t belong on the list tbh. And I say that as a fan of the Hellblazer comics, and someone who doesn’t care for Tom Cruise.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 day ago

I love Constantine, and genuinely do not get the hate that film got. Sure it was different from the comics, but it was good in its own right, and the casting and acting (with the exception of that guy from Even Steven) was spot on

Constantine and Minority Report shouldn't be on that list, IMO. The former in particular is very well executed and thoroughly enjoyable!

[–] bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I'll be that guy that enjoyed The Last Jedi explicitly because it was something different, and leaned into more of the mystical side of the force while on the "big screen."

Edit and spoiler just in caseI just remembered the hyperspace "weapon" moment, and both how cool it was and how much it could affect the empire. They probably didn't mean for it, but that you could effectively point and shoot a ship like that was an amazing usage.

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

In response to your spoiler:

I specifically didn’t like that scene because it’s a massive departure from the lore of all the other films. If they could just do that, why haven’t both sides been doing that all the time? Is it supposed to be that this group is the first group to try this, with the tech that has been around for at least a few centuries? If they had all died in the process I’d be more ok with that, although that also seems like a departure from how hyperspace works in the other films.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 9 points 1 day ago

I think episode 7, 8, 9 would have been better if 7 had flipped the script rather than being a story analog to 4. Whole movie could have been largely the same, but rather than the Resistance stopping the First Order at the end, let the First Order win - let Starkiller Base succeed in blowing up the Resistance' base planet and achieve, for all intents and purposes, total victory. It would have come as a shock to viewers (especially given how close the macro plot adhered to episode 4), and they could have made the rest of the new trilogy about the scattered remnants of the resistance trying to get their shit together and field some kind of opposition against overwhelming, impossible odds.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was ok with using the ship as a suicidal torpedo, but I wasn't ok with a single person being able to fully maneuver the thing all by herself, or the ensuing space rip conveniently doing that V shape and getting all 3 ships.

But the bombing run at the beginning of the movie really set the tone for "Prepare to be sorely disappointed"

[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 1 points 23 hours ago

What a stupid, stupid, stupid design for a 'space' bomber. Just utterly stupid. I can't say stupid enough.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Last Jedi was a good movie, it just wasn't a good Star Wars movie.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 0 points 1 day ago

Nah, even if it wasn't Star Wars, it'd be 6/10 at best

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bruh Constantine is one of my favorite films ever. It's so fucking awesome!

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Keanu reeves is such a weird casting choice. He's playing a guy from manchester and all he can do is play himself, like in every movie he does.

[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 2 points 17 hours ago

Keanu just can't shake the Messiah image after played Neo in The Matrix. Ever! It's too weird to see him playing Constantine.

In contrast, the Constantine played by Matt Ryan in TV franchise Arrowverse was spot on.