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Kung Fury is the sort of thing I would have hyped over when I was 10. Good watch. Good Entertainment. There is no better villain than Hitler.

gosh I GUESS this is the right thread for it? We don't really have a thread for theater stage shows but there was a movie adaptation, so anyway~

One of those terribly unmanly things about me is I adore stage shows and musicals. My favorite is The Phantom of the Opera. It has excellent music, a great story, and it's always so enjoyable to watch. I'm bringing this up because I'm watching the 25th Anniversary show that they put on at Royal Albert Hall in 2011 and it's so excellent.

There was a movie adaptation released in 2004 that I also love. It's different from the stage show in that the two mediums are very different. It stars Gerard Butler as the Phantom, Emmy Rossum as Christine Daae (the only other movie people really know her from is that Roland Emmerich film from the same year: The Day After Tomorrow), and Patrick Wilson as Raoul (in recent years he has appeared in horror movies (??? idk why) like Insidious and The Conjuring).
Sometimes (admittedly pretty often) the actor's lips don't match up to their pre-recorded singing, and in group scenes you can pick out certain voices but that actor's lips are still, but that is really the only complaint. I mean, this is the opening scene that introduces the Opera Populaire:


The Phantom of the Opera has epic music, beautiful music, wonderful singing, violent deaths, horrible murders, an emotionally manipulate pseudo-rapist, an utter cunt, and fiery disaster. If you like any of these things then at the very least watch the movie. Maybe make it a datenight thing, so you can get brownie points with your lady/emotionally overdeveloped man. Also good for solo watching if you are a total sap.

yeah so whatever carry on with discussing whatever you were discussing Mad Max or Ultron or something

Who says it's un-manly to like musicals?

I find Guys and Dolls to be quite manly. It has gambling! And men singing about gambling!
It had a movie adaptation five years after it debuted, but I wish it could get another.

Phantom of the Opera is awesome. I have one of the old copy of the book. Another one I like is Les Mes.

So, new Disney film.
You know what word is on everyone's mind right now due to this.

I am Groot.

That means I saw Guardians of the Galaxy tonight and it was pretty fucking good.

I think Zootopia looks like fun. I hope they'll do some interesting things with the whole 'animal characteristics' deal.

What is it with the sudden wave of sequels that actually live up to the originals? Just walked out of Jurassic World and yeah, fine thriller and feels more like the original then either of the two sequels. James Cameron recently said that Terminator Genesys is the true third movie in the franchise, hell the new Mad Max is straight up better than the original trilogy.

Someone in Hollywood realized that the shameless cheddar grabs that are sequels can actually make loads MORE cheddar if they are worthy of the franchise name and are good films?

Didn't the Jurassic producers or director or whoever say that the movie was basically going to be a true sequel to the original, ignoring the second and third? Genesys is doing the same thing, following up on the strongest entry in the canon, and honestly I think Mad Max is one of those movies where chronological canon simply doesn't exist. Is it the same Max? Is it before or after Thunderdome, or Road Warrior, or is it even a remake of the original? It just doesn't matter.

Also, I'm loving the positive feedback for Jurassic World. It'll still be another week or so before I can see it but it's nice knowing I won't be crying for spoiled opportunities.

Eh, I went to see it this Friday and was pretty underwhelmed.

Just got back from seeing Jurassic World. I liked it. Not totally amazeballs the best, but it was much better than II and III. No "ALAN" or gymnastics-level stupid scenes.

My experience in a full theater was fun-ish. THe people next to me laughed way too fucking hard at anything close to humor. And some people were reaaaalllly sloooow on the uptake. The scene where they find the old park, for instance. As soon as they had ONE FOOT on the stairs I was like "aw shit, that's the old Visitor Center". So they go up the stairs. THey push open the door. They uncover the ICONIC BANNER, USE THE ICONIC BANNER TO LIGHT THEIR WAY (PAST THE T-REX SKULL), AND THEY ARE HALFWAY THROUGH THE DINING ROOM when someone behind me gasps really loudly and goes "Oh! THat's the old Visitor Center!" I get that some people might not have seen the first film (cough) many times, but you would think the callback to the iconic banner scene would have triggered that realization, not the fucking wall.

As for my complaints... maybe I missed something, but my complaint is that the #29 Jurassic Park jeep
A) works at all, but they cover that one with they fixed their grandfathers dune buggy or something, and
B) did they run on electricity or gas? Nothing would hold a charge for 22 years, and I thought gasoline degrades to uselessness in like <2 years
Other than those complaints, I thought it was pretty good.

Oh, except for the drawn out death scene of the assistant lady.
like "oh jeez we know the mosasaur is gonna fuck em up just quit smacking her against the water you useless pteranodon"
And I was sad when the helicopter crashed. I liked the well-meaning but slightly misguided company owner guy.

And the scene at the end where the velocirapor and the tyrannosaurus are like "we cool?" "yeah bro we cool" "see ya around". I thought it was unrealistic (buhbuhbuh dinosaurs alive "unrealstic" he says), but I was okay with it.

Side note: my friend and I have started cramming Chris Pratt's name into every new thing he stars in (or thing he might potentionally star in) since Guardians. Jurassic Pratt, Indiana Pratt, etc. It's a stupid 'joke' but we giggle every time.

That was the most immersion-breakingly stupid part for me. "We're a billion dollar company with our own private army and multiple helicopters, but we've got no one else to pilot this helicopter!"

Man, this is gonna make even more people think "anthropomorphism" just means animals that walk and wear clothes like humans. :'[ It's a much broader term than that dangit, the friggin' Pixar lamp is anthropomorphic

The movie does look interesting though, even if what I've heard of the plot seems a little generic. I wanna see what kinda gags they can get out of the animals... well, acting like the animals they are. Though I'm disappointed it seems to be pretty much all mammals. Where the birds and lizards at??