NewEnglandGothic

Anybody read "Trigger Mortis" yet? Bought it at K-Mart for $5.

Why can't Wonder Woman be established as a sequel-follow-up (to Batman Vs Superman) or a reboot to Linda Carter's beloved 70's TV series?

Don't forget Selma (Blair)! I always remember all my snowstorm movies. The absolute worse being '97 Scream 2 (I was all over the road,) '98 Sphere (WTF was I thinking ) and '03's Daredevil (it was a blizzard.)

Ahem. Orphan Black. "Why do you hurt me, seestra"

I caught it in a wood-splitter. There was ice under the plate while it was running and I tried to fix it. It activated and was crushed in the maul and severed before I knew it. Never felt a thing. Hardly any blood too. Doctor was not even going to bother, but I talked him into sewing it back on. A few days later, I'm watching The Corrupter, The Cider House Rules ('98 carry-over), I think Ravenous, Go, etc, waiting to be able to make a fist again. I must admit out of my experience watching movies, 1998 was the absolute worst year in quality of giant movies at the cinemas. Before my accident, I was planning to cut down. It was the little ones that kept me going. I still think 1999 was the best year for quality blockbusters in the past 20 years (sans The Phantom Menace.)

Nope. No kids at 42. Just writing all the time now. I should add that it was so crazy in '99 because I chopped my finger off and required 4 months recovery time. Only thing to do was go to the movies with my squeeze ball (for physical therapy.)

Totally agree here. I've been a movie nut since I got my driver's license. I would go to the movie theater every Friday. Sometimes I would watch two in a row (Sleepy Hollow and The World is Not Enough, The Thomas Crown Affair and The Sixth Sense, if there was a certain excitement over competing movies on one weekend) or the same movie if it made me go "WTF!" (The Matrix.) I drove in a snowstorm to watch Cruel Intentions even. Sticking with those movies, in 1999, I saw 149 movies in theaters. That was my record. Flash forward to now, 0.0. I love little intimate independent movies, but with my format at home is more than adequate for them to enjoy. I'll support them, by buying the Blu Ray/DVD the Tuesday they are released. I think it's about equal in costs if I saw them in a theater. ...But there hasn't been a big-budget movie that drew me to theater in a looooong while. I occasionally read about these hyped up movies on here, but seriously, am I ever going to watch Transformers 4 (I totally forgot it's name) more than once for intellectual stimulation. Sure, there are dumb popcorn movies I get a kick out of (22 Jump Street, Jurassic World,) but that falls under personal taste too. Unless Black Friday has a killer deal on them, I don't see me ever buying King Arthur, Pirates Of The Caribbean, Transformers, Valerian, Emoji Movie or Alien: Covenant. Maybe Baywatch or The Mummy. I still love movies, just not a lot of the swill out there. I'll be waiting for things to get better watching my Criterion of The Vanishing tonight and buying Riverdale tomorrow in the meantime.

Looks like Cruise will be in gauze again after a stunt went bad on the "Mission: Impossible 6" set.

Everything from Ward's everyman looks, to Craig Saffan's musical score worked in that one. Not bad for an action hero whose boss is the Quaker Oats pitchman. But the director did make the best bond movie (Goldfinger,) albeit a string of blah ones too (Diamonds are Forever, Live and Let Die and The Man with the Golden Gun.) Joel Grey wasn't too controversial for me growing up as he portrayed his character with so much dignity and respect, unlike say Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Roddy McDowell played the Chiun character in the pilot in the same manner (Remo on roller-skates at the beach in the opening scene.) Glad I caught the one back in the day. Speaking of Tiffany's, Patrick Kilpatrick really stood out as the henchman as well. For me, this was the new Bond as "A View To a Kill" was just not as entertaining that year.

I know she's done some TV and the Superbowl and had an Oscar nominated song, but I just still think of her coming out of an egg on stage or having horns on her head.

Depending on her New Mutants schedule it would be a joy if Anya Taylor-Joy got to play the monster's mate. Her soulful eyes would translate very well into a genre film like this.

Now, I'm confused with your "shelf-life" explanation. When I think Lady Gaga, I think 2009.

That's way better than some of my TARDIS creations. I still remember how high I would get from the blue spray paint. I'll have look for some pictures. I was mainly a role player in public (see first page of this thread) on a similar Dr. Who budget (my sonic screwdriver was a tire pressure gauge.)

When I'm watching movies, I'm looking for the ones that would fit best in roles, not stars. But, I do agree with you that Hollywood has this mentality still in order to "sell" a movie to the broadest audience possible. I've come to terms with that now, but I'm not buying the swampland they keep selling us over and over again.

If Tatiana Maslany is unemployed now, she would also be a perfect choice.

You had me until Kate. Granted, I love her on SNL and Ghostbusters. I'm thinking Rooney Mara (check out her work in 'Carol') or Felicity Jones. 12-15 years ago, the perfect choice would have been Essie Davis.

Totally agree with this. I personally won't see The Bride with Angelina Jolie in the titular role myself. I have to admit, every movie I saw her in, I kept seeing Jolie the actor not a character. Although, it's going to be argued Tom Cruise's marquee name saved the international grosses. I think these movies were ran into the ground by the late 40's anyway, before they went into parody. Universal strived in horror in the 60's with Psycho and the 70's with Jaws, while they ignored these kinds of films. Why did dig them all up now, thinking they are all going to work like 1999's The Mummy or 1992's Dracula (Sony.) Hate to say it, but these films don't have to be the biggest budget films. I know Whale wanted to top the original with a bigger budget "She's Alive!: The Making of the Bride of Frankenstein." Despite their faded brands, people have a general idea what they should expect when they choose to see one. Definitely bring in unknowns, so we see them as the characters, not actors out to pay the mortgage payment. Who was Elsa Lanchester back then, other than a stage actress and the wife in the sham wedding of Charles Laughton. Valerie Hobson, a total newbie (had a crush on her since Meet Me Tonight.) Colin Clive was on his unfortunate way out. That just left Karloff who is under make-up anyway. Hire a skillful no-name actor who can do make-up, ala Ron Perlman (ironically a millionaire, if not billionaire through Revlon.)

But, I'm one of few who LOVED "Into Darkness."

The TNG movies have not aged well, imho. But I was not a fan of the syndicated late 80's TV show. I would say First Contact was the best of the bunch, by default. Default... Default... default.

Don't forget the "narrators." These are the stalwart folks who try to impress their friends with spewing off random Wikipedia or film continuity dribble before and after the movie. They mean well as the constantly mix up "Arrow" with "Hawkeye" and call "Black Widow" Scarjo. It's always best to move as soon as you see one of these folks as they will inform their friend/family/date who is good and who is bad throughout the movie. If they are alone and engage in a half- history discussion from 2008's "Iron Man," it's best not to make further eye-contact and move your seating. I knew once continuities were starting to be established in these films (DC and Marvel,) the narrators would rise.

I hope they bring back Alice Eve's character in the new one. I was really disappointed she was written out of "Beyond," because added a fresh dynamic to the crew in the second movie. It would have been an awesome vulnerability to Kirk, if she was with child while marooned on that planet and added another dimension of him being bored in space and wanting to retire if he was to be a father. Just my opinion.

It did help A View To a Kill that they "showcased" the older supporting cast (Q, M and Moneypenny) in the field (the horserace) and he was given an older John Steed, somewhat, to team-up with. But, the new "younger" cast seemed to just amplify the age difference with Walken, Roberts and Jones, not to mention bit parts by Dolph Lundgren and Indiana Jones's Allison Doody.

You forgot the freakin' ice palace. Here I don't mind Stromberg's undersea palace in The Spy Who Loved Me, because it just worked through that actor and the movie's 70's tone, but flash forward 25 years later and you are right, it's a cartoon. The only reason it remains in the Bond collection of mine is because of how bad-azz Rosamund Pike's Miranda Frost was in it. A stone-cold ice queen, for sure. I loved Brosnan's all telling reaction to her demise at the end. Something that was lost to the contrived climax and Michael Madsen's phoned-in performance.

With all the Bourne stuff, Bond has always adapted to the various popular genre movies over the years to survive. The 1970's inner-city ones yielded... Live & Let Die in '73. The karate stuff gave us segments in The Man with the Golden Gun. Star Wars morphed into Moonraker in 1979. Revisionist spy movies like True Lies, helped Goldeneye arrive after well after the Cold War. etc, etc

I really noticed that with Moonraker in 1990.