I know, I can't believe I wrote that much, either. I may have written a longer one for BR 2049 lol

The latter is completely understandable, the former... I am still shocked, tbh!!!

Battle Royale 2001 Special Edition; The lost Write-Up

In the beginning:

Beat Takashi, 7th Grade teacher, gets knifed.

At the dawn of the millennium: The Nation collapsed!
800,00 students: Boycotted school!

Look, there she is: The winner is a girl!

Go, Shuya!

Now they have: Digital watches around their necks!

No! It’s Cliff Clavin’s shock collar!

Beat lands in a chopper!

Chigusa: Gogo Yubari!!!




*Your teacher, Mr. Hayashida: Was very opposed to the selection of Class B!

**Now we have: A training film with a perky girl!
"Fight correctly!: With Energy!"

Crossbow Fu.

***He Taught me: Guitar.

Shotgun Fu. Pot Lid Fu.

Taser Fu. Some weird pruning tool Fu.

Blue Danube nice-tie-in to 2001: A Space Odyssey-Fu.

****I found a tampon in the toilet: ****ing all those boys but you still had to steal my boyfriend.

*****My father’s a doctor: My father’s a chef.

They’re listening: A mic in the necklace!

Chigusa, also a track star!: Training at this time?!

I’ll never understand the meaning of the smile she left behind: I think it may mean foreshadowing.

Every inch of me will resist you!: I see why she was selected for Gogo!

God, can I say one more thing?: You look really cool!

More drawn-out death scenes than: A Bugs Bunny opera!

Sword Fu; Poison Fu; Stew Fu; Pistol Fu; Uzi Fu; Kitchen Fu; another Wild Bunch middle-school girl bloodbath.

Bulletproof-vest Fu.

Lighthouse Fu.

Always Dark and gloomy.

I’ve been in love with you for a long time.

Mitsuko, a four-year-old killer: That Barbie Doll **** don’t work on me.

Third Man Hacker Program Virus Invasion!!!

Boom goes the Droog: 3 left.

Winner: Boy #5???

Unit Still Photographer: Grandma Moses.

Fade out to: Zippo Fu!

Fade out to: “I’m glad I found a true friend!”

Fade out to: Middle School girl with a butterfly knife!

Fade out to: Swelling Music!

Fade out to: Two kids running into the sunset (traffic (Shibuya))!

Fade out to: Hoops Dream!

Fade out to: Noriko and Beat eating Creamsicles by the river. (We’ve seen this before, but I didn’t think to mention it… Although that may have been a different girl.)

This film was controversial when it was released because of its violence, but it is no worse than if Sam Peckinpah re-filmed The Wild Bunch using the Lord of the Flies as the script and 40 middle-schoolers for the cast. And also re-filming a classic Wild-Bunch-like bloodbath-climax every 3 minutes.

Interesting historical tie-ins: its attempted initial USA release was nearly concurrent to the Columbine shootings; and, the director’s personal history as a 15-year-old munitions worker who was bombed during WW-II.

Has to be seen to be believed. Check it out!

edge of tomorrow was pure popcorn fun

dom,

awesome write up can't wait to see it but small nitpick cruise didn't actually fly.
while he def could of and does fly some badass planes in his private life and would have totally done the flying if he could have the navy wouldnt let him fly their jets.

He's in the back seat though, from what I understand. Great review from Dom. It definitely puts the movie on my list.

Yep! I went to what was billed as the "Canadian Premiere" earlier this week at the TIFF building in Toronto. Cronenberg, Viggo Mortensen and some of the other actors introduced the film in person. After the film they showed a pre-recorded Q&A with the same group, meaning they showed the movie somewhere else in the building earlier. I'm a little pissed at TIFF for the bait and switch but whatever.

The movie was fantastic. Oddly, Cronenberg said that this movie was something very different from his earlier work but it was very in tune with his body horror output. It reminded me most of Crash. The cast is great, there's a haunting score and the atmosphere where they filmed in Greece perfectly suited the tone. Highly disturbing, graphic and thought provoking. I'm interested in hearing what others thought of the ending.

Great write-up on Maverick Dom. Saw it with my wife today. Her request, as she loves the original. I am almost ashamed to admit that I've never seen it. So I had no real idea what to expect going in.

Anyway it was really fun and I'm glad I saw it on a giant XD screen with awesome sound. Could practically feel my seat blow back when the fighter jets ignited. I think Cruise held out on releasing it because he wanted it to be experienced in a theater. Wise choice. This is the first movie I've seen in a theater since pre-Covid, and it deserves to be seen on the big screen. The story was pretty slight and seemed like typical popcorn fare to me, but the entire cast was likeable, and the stunts and flight scenes were phenomenal.

Agree about Cruise deserving an Oscar nom for this. He's an honest-to-god movie star... maybe the last one left. His charisma carries the movie.

On a side note they showed a trailer for the next Mission Impossible movie which also looked awesome and had Tom in full action movie star mode. Gonna see that one on the biggest screen I can find also.

oh ya all the actors were in the backseats so went thru all the flying and pulled those Gs for real.

miles teller was talking about how some of them (not him) puked every time heh I honestly don't think I could handle it with how weak my stomach is so mad props to all of them for going thru it.

trying to act in that scenario just seems so impossible to me.

Just watched Many Saints of Newark, morning movie with my dad. I thought it was a great little flick. Don’t really understand the poor reviews. I feel like I got exactly what I expected.

i thought it was bland and just needless fan service

even though i had the bar of expectations very low for this, it still was far worse than expected

Yeah, the last thing I want as a fan is to be serviced.

if something can't hold up on its own merit as a standalone existences then it doesn't deserve to exist

#prochoice2022

That’s not very cash meta of you.

Will pass on Top Gun in theatre, but then again, am looking forward to seeing Avatar on the big screen, so...

There are others his age or younger who I was say are "movie stars" as well as better actors than Tom Cruise. Coming to mind immediately are Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio. Watch Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.

As far as A-list movie stars, would put Pitt/Norton ahead of Cruise, but you can't argue against Cruise filmography, amazing stuff

I love Edward Norton too, but he's not really in that many big films. I find Cruise's filmography very hit and miss, and the films of his that I do like, I tend to like for other reasons than because of him, though is he is good in many films. Then he was also the star one of the only two films I ever walked out of before the end.

Totally agree on Cruise, but I tend to add Norton to the A list of commercially known actors, but maybe my read is off, don't know...

Edward Norton is a great actor, but does not open a movie.

Cruise
DiCaprio
Smith
Clooney still?
Washington maybe

Who else? Pitt? Jennifer Lawrence?

Oblivion?

No, never saw that one, but maybe I should. Most of the Cruise movies I have liked were those that had futuristic / science fiction elements (like Edge Of Tomorrow, Minority Report, Vanilla Sky). Also enjoyed American Made.

It's not a popular stance, and I've mentioned it in this thread before, but I walked out of Mission Impossible (and Jurassic Park, also an unpopular opinion).

Will Smith? I'm thinking you can now take him off your list.

https://images.app.goo.gl/vvHMfcVeqkFnucX87

Walking out of movies is lol, but walking out of those two is double lol. What exactly about the promotional material misled you about those films?

Not really about the promotional material, but I found MI nearly impossible to follow, and then the last straw was when someone removed a face mask which had also somehow changed his voice and height/general body shape to appear exactly as someone else. In JP I just found all the characters completely unlikable apart from Jeff Goldblum, and the screaming kids just grated on me until I couldn't stand it anymore. I really was rooting for them to get eaten by a dinosaur, but since I realized there was no was the movie would have my desired happy ending of the dinosaurs killing all the people, I ditched to give my ears a rest.