Astromech Posted October 1, 2016 Share Posted October 1, 2016 1 hour ago, GallowKnight said: I really hope that the fight choreographers for Iron Fist take some inspiration from old Kung-Fu movies like the one from Shaw Brothers. Seeing as how they kept the feel or theme of the original Powerman/Luke Cage in certain regards, I am really excited for Iron Fist. I'm wondering how The Defenders will shape up when they combine all these Marvel Netflix heroes into one show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Channel4s-JonSnow Posted October 1, 2016 Share Posted October 1, 2016 If anyone has ever seen the movie Black Dynamite, its quite hard to watch Luke Cage without thinking about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martell Spy Posted October 1, 2016 Share Posted October 1, 2016 Quote I'm also finding some of the Luke Cage translation quite interesting since the character was introduced in the early 70s riding the popularity of Blaxploitation at the time. Some elements of that genre are visible in Luke Cage. http://www.vox.com/culture/2016/9/30/13099518/marvel-luke-cage-origin-story Marvel's Luke Cage isn't afraid of the character’s blaxploitation roots. It embraces them, and is better for it. What makes Marvel’s Luke Cage origin story so effective? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted October 1, 2016 Share Posted October 1, 2016 5 hours ago, GallowKnight said: I really hope that the fight choreographers for Iron Fist take some inspiration from old Kung-Fu movies like the one from Shaw Brothers. Spoiler In the Luke Cage series, as far as I've gotten in it, there are explicit references to the early martial arts movies we saw here, and then the later, by a discussion between two characters as to preference as to # 1 kung fu be Bruce Lee or Jet Li. Then later reference via Luke's listening to (of course) 1990's Wu Tang Clan. So this Iron First of which I know nothing personally, will more than likely roll with all that you like. In non-spoiler reactions, LJ still looks far more 1920's to me than it does 1970's -- more Boardwalk Empire on screen than Shaft, who was indeed far more cartoony than Luke is, Never would I suggest not watching Jessica Jones. But yah, JJ's Luke will look quite different than Luke Cage's Luke does, even though a character important in the JJ series for LJ shows up in this series too (not saying who, for non-spoilery reasons). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astromech Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 What is LJ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l2 0 5 5 Posted October 2, 2016 Share Posted October 2, 2016 I saw Sully the other night. Not a bad movie. It was pretty much what I expected. Very similar to Flight in that regard. I figured the film had a solid floor with Hanks in it, but was doubtful it would blow me away. You can do without seeing it. On a side note, I became aware of just how abruptly people hang up the phone in movies. No manners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jace, Extat Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 Kingdom of Heaven directors cut. Ridley Scott, always a classic... Also wanted to say that I saw Magnificent Seven and loved every minute of it. Hadn't read any reviews and went as a treat to the BF, but yeah. I liked it a lot. A lot of critics blasted it for being unoriginal and basically no depth, valid criticisms, but I just had a great time watching a lot of good actors shoot the hell out of a bunch of bad guys. It was a fun movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Channel4s-JonSnow Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 Watched 'No Escape' with Owen Wilson on Amazon Prime. A pretty entertaining movie, set in a country that is obviously NOT Thailand, please don't mention that its Thailand! Apart from a number of pretty brainless occurances it was a lot of fun. I'd also say that Pierce Brosnan does a fantastic impression of a typical drunken British Expat. I'd go so far as to say it was Oscar worthy, thats how accurate it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarGalley Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 Over the past few weeks I finished out Season 1 of Narcos and then marathoned right through Season 2. I was going to post something after finishing Season 1 but couldn’t find the right words. The show left .. a bad taste in my mouth after Season 1.. I was disgusted of being entertained by it. I can’t remember a show that’s done that. I was not familiar with the detailed horrors of Pablo Escobar so it was almost surreal to see what this man did (and the sheer balls he had doing it) and knowing that it actually happened in real life. It should be a social stigma to glorify this man and his actions as a form of entertainment.. and yet, here I am hitting play on every new episode. Season 2 had a different feel and tempered me better.. but I had no sympathy for his family. Learning that Escobar’s family tries/tried to make money off royalties and branding associated with his name (at least according to Wikipedia)…. well fuck those people. I don’t care if my opinion is based entirely off a fictionalized drama piece. I have no sympathy for them. Going through Luke Cage now. Entertaining (especially the music) and I like the distinctive theme. However sometimes I feel like it’s kind of corny and not quite up to the quality as the other Netflix shows. I’ll elaborate more in that thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martini Sigil Posted October 3, 2016 Share Posted October 3, 2016 Finished S5 of Longmire (liked it) Just in time to start Luke Cage (loved it)...... this week we get out DC/CW shows back... so the TV season is about to kick in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamjm Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 On 01/10/2016 at 6:05 PM, Martell Spy said: The huge alien invasion happened in NY as well. So you would expect changes there. I'm not even sure Obama is the President in the MCU. They've shown Obama on Mr. Robot as the President, and that series has been shown to be an alternate reality. The MCU seems to vary much more from our reality than Mr. Robot's reality. This shouldn't be surprising though. They already had aliens, and they are about to have a wizard. The MCU's version of the US President appeared in Agents of Shield played by William Sadler, so Obama doesn't seem to be President there during the timeframe of the TV shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martell Spy Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 Quote The MCU's version of the US President appeared in Agents of Shield played by William Sadler, so Obama doesn't seem to be President there during the timeframe of the TV shows. We've been discussing this in the Luke Cage thread. There's been more than one name drop of Obama in the series. So it appears Obama lost to the President (Ellis Ithink it is) played by William Sadler in 2012 in the MCU. Either that or a large continuity error was made. Them name dropping a US Senator doesn't seem to make sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astromech Posted October 6, 2016 Share Posted October 6, 2016 I caught Roar on TCM the other day. It's been discussed before on these boards. Not much of a plot besides surrounding the actors with several dozen big cats and watching what happens, but thrilling nonetheless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedEyedGhost Posted October 7, 2016 Author Share Posted October 7, 2016 New thread, since we've been over the limit for quite some time now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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