The Movie House - Part 4

El Shaarawy wrote:Saw Big Hero 6 yesterday, made me feel like a kid again, 8/10.

Adonis Johnson (Michael B Jordan) never knew his famous father, world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, who died before he was born. Still, there’s no denying that boxing is in his blood, so Adonis heads to Philadelphia, the site of Apollo Creed’s legendary match with a tough upstart named Rocky Balboa.

Once in the City of Brotherly Love, Adonis tracks Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) down and asks him to be his trainer. Despite his insistence that he is out of the fight game for good, Rocky sees in Adonis the strength and determination he had known in Apollo—the fierce rival who became his closest friend. Agreeing to take him on, Rocky trains the young fighter, even as the former champ is battling an opponent more deadly than any he faced in the ring.

With Rocky in his corner, it isn’t long before Adonis gets his own shot at the title…but can he develop not only the drive but also the heart of a true fighter, in time to get into the ring?

El Gunner wrote:Yo Freeze you seen Incendies yet?

El Gunner wrote:So who here has seen Inherent Vice?

I guess I should've payed more attention to the actual meaning of the film's title, instead of getting a hard on on its trailer.

PTA outdoes himself this time imo.
6.5/10

Mark Hughes wrote:I didn’t even list all of 2014′s good-to-great adult dramas mostly in the mid-budget range, but I was able to name 36 such films. How many superhero movies came out in 2014? Five. Even if we expand the count to include every movie based on a comic book, we get perhaps ten.


Notice that on those lists, there are about two dozen original concept films, by the way. So this notion that adult dramas, original stories, and mid-to-low budget films just don’t get made anymore, and that they are being pushed out of theaters by superhero movies, is fairly laughable. Notice, too, there were more mid-range budgeted adult drama adaptations than comic book adaptations, so those complaints about lack of originality in the superhero genre apparently apply many times more to supposedly superior critically praised adult dramas.


To put this even more clearly into perspective, consider this: every single superhero film releasing in the next six years (2015 through 2020) combined still doesn’t amount to the number of possible and actual Oscar-contending adult dramas released in 2014.