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Yep. It’s Max that convinces Furiosa and the rest to go back to take the Citadel which leads to the death of Immortan Joe, even if Max isn’t the one to kill him. He also transfuses his blood to Furiosa at the end of Fury Road, saving her life.
Max is the catalyst that destroys Immortan Joe’s entire empire.
Yeah I think a lot of cinemas will close down in the next few years unfortunately, I want to stay optimistic but it’s not looking good.
I saw Dune Part Two in IMAX and it was one of the best cinema experiences of my life. I fear by the time Dune Part Three comes out the cinemas will all be gone and I’ll be watching it on my TV instead.
Prequels without the original cast don’t do as well at the box office. Solo: A Star Wars story flopped and the Hunger Games prequel didn’t make anywhere near as much as the Jennifer Lawrence Hunger Games films. Fantastic Beasts had about 5 films planned but they’ve stopped at number 3 as the box office returns weren’t as good as the Harry Potter films.
This was always going to flop but it’s a shame it has done as it’s one of the best film prequels I’ve ever seen.
Hopefully we can still get a Mad Max film with Tom Hardy because the world-building George Miller is doing here is fantastic.
Absolutely, just like watching The Force Awakens and seeing Ray, Finn and Poe and missing Han, Luke and Leia. You'd think if they were gonna have brand new characters they'd make them interesting but nope.
I don't mind the characters, I just didn't really care for them much and if I don't care much for them or the story then it's not compelling viewing. This is the longest of the reboot Apes films and it certainly felt it for me, yes the film has to lay the groundwork for the inevitable sequels down the line but it doesn't do much if anything exciting or interesting unlike say Rise of the Planet of the Apes which managed to setup the sequels whilst telling a very compelling story as a standalone film with an incredible protagonist in Caesar.
In Kingdom Mae is more of a plot device than a fully fleshed out character. Noa is an okay protagonist but he's just a bit bland. Kingdom is exactly how I feel about Star Wars: The Force Awakens; you have a time jump, new characters and a familiar story line and I just end up going "This is nowhere near as good as A New Hope" and I'm the same with Kingdom, I'm just like "This is nowhere near as good as Rise of the Planet of the Apes."
I'm glad you liked the film, I really wish I did because the Caesar trilogy is one of my favourite film trilogies of all time and I was really looking forward to Kingdom but alas I just found it bad and I've pretty much forgotten most of it just a few days after seeing it.
Dune Part Two, Civil War, Love Lies Bleeding and Monkey Man are the best films of the year so far for me. Just finished watching Challengers and I didn't think much to it at all outside of the performances and the score so it's quite a bit of a letdown for me.
4/10
Very slow and boring and none of the characters were compelling. Also it rips off War for the Planet of the Apes by having the main characters held prisoner in an abandoned weapons depot again. Shamefully derivative scriptwriting.
1. War
2. Dawn
3. Rise
4. 1968
5. Kingdom
6. 2001 remake
Haven’t seen any of the others. My top 4 I consider to be great films and would give each of them at least a 9 out of 10. Kingdom had its moments but I mostly found it boring and a massive letdown compared to the Caesar trilogy. The remake is kind of entertaining for a bad film, Tim Roth is great.
Just saw the film and came here to say the exact same thing. It all was so creatively bankrupt. The villain was rubbish and there was not much excitement to any of it.
Not only did Andy Serkis’ commanding performance help carry the original trilogy but the screenplays were so much better with much better pacing and thrills.
Turns out Josh Friedman wrote this film and he’s also responsible for Terminator: Dark Fate and Avatar 2 which I didn’t like either, his writing is just so bland and forgettable.
I think now in hindsight the story of how Anakin Skywalker becomes Darth Vader is just a bit unnecessary and one that probably didn't need to be told. Having said that if Lucas was going to tell this story it should have been done a lot better.
Yes fans had unrealistic expectations and the film was massively over hyped by them but it's a horribly written film and the cast don't have any chemistry together. Compare it to something like Star Trek (2009) ten years later and whilst that film again doesn't have the best writing it has a fantastic cast that brings those characters to life. The interactions that the characters have are far more entertaining and watchable than the character interactions of The Phantom Menace.
Loved this film as a kid but it’s quite painful to sit through as an adult apart from the podracing scene and the lightsaber duel which are still great.
Lucas sounds like he didn’t have a clue what made the original trilogy so beloved to people of all ages when he made The Phantom Menace.
Saying it’s a film meant for children doesn’t excuse him from making a bad film.
Just because the films are PG doesn’t mean it needs to be silly and meant just for kids, it should be entertaining for people of all ages.
That is a fantastic review haha
I’m working my way through season 2 now and I haven’t seen a show decline in quality this much from the first to the second season in a long time, maybe since Heroes.
Venom was a box office success largely due to the star power of Tom Hardy and the trailers that promoted the film as a dark and gritty take on one of Spider-Man’s most iconic villains.
For some reason though Sony were deluded enough into thinking they could replicate that box office success with characters such as Morbius and Madame Web. It’s laughable and I have no idea how those two films ended up being greenlit.
Same here.
Going to be the first time Kraven has appeared on cinema screens and it’s going to be in a film without Spider-Man? Very annoying.
The problem is Zack is an awful writer, these Rebel Moon films have atrocious screenplays with bland storytelling and flat dialogue.
But people watch it because it’s just more crap shovelled onto Netflix so I wouldn’t be surprised if they green light more of this trash.
Yep, what an incredible episode. Now I want a continuation of the 90’s Spider-Man animated series even more if Marvel can deliver the same quality of emotionally impactful storytelling that this X-Men revival has achieved.
It's not bad considering it's budget was only $10 million but yeah it did seem to struggle to fill the two hour running time, especially in the second act. Worth a watch but won't be revisiting again anytime soon.
$10 million budget apparently.
The action is quite impressive but there isn’t much of it.
For me The Last Jedi is by far the worst Star Wars film. It felt like punishment for liking Star Wars, for wanting your childhood hero Luke Skywalker to be heroic. You wanted to see Luke kick some ass and be a hero? Well we're gonna subvert your expectations and have him be a miserable old man who sits around whinging for most of the film. Even that crappy animated Clone Wars movie is better than this.