Rate the latest movie you've seen.

[Baruch]

Wasn't the villain in Skyfall, an ex-00 agent?

[Blackleaf]

Wasn't the villain in Skyfall, an ex-00 agent?

I don't remember him being assigned a number, but you might be right. I remember something about him being sent on a mission as a spy, and feeling betrayed by how things went down. That's one movie where the villain actually gets what he wants.

[Unbeliever]

This movie might be pretty good. The cast is high quality, and the story sounds interesting.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6AaSMfXHbA

I was hoping it was based on a series I recently read by Stephen Baxter (Proxima and Ultima), but apparently it's different. Still looks good, though.

[Munch]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7TkIQV3W9kk

Hoping this works out better then the TV part 2

[Gawdzilla Sama]

006 was indeed the rogue agent in one movie.

[Baruch]

Ad Astra movie, updated version of Joseph Conrad's "Heart Of Darkness"  according to note in Wiki entry.

[Unbeliever]

Oh, OK, that was good too. I thought it might be from the Baxter book because they had a ship named Ad Astra, which means "to the stars."

"Per ardua ad astra" is a Latin phrase meaning "through adversity to the stars," so a character in the book named the planet at Proxima Centuri "Per Ardua," to go with the Ad Astra.

[Munch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtSd844cI7U

[Sal1981]

[spoiler]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtSd844cI7U

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I don't get why it has so many dislikes.

[Munch]

I don't get why it has so many dislikes.

fact that its so ugly looking, that its another CGI nightmare, which today is the cheapest form of creativity

[Sal1981]

fact that its so ugly looking, that its another CGI nightmare, which today is the cheapest form of creativity

IDK man, doesn't seem so bad to me. Seemed like just some tame liveaction movie version of Cats by Webber.

[Blackleaf]

Okay. If they're going to CGI the thing to death, why make the characters look like people in cat costumes when you could just as easily just make them look like cats? If the goal was to make it look like the play it's based on, why not use real costumes? The decision to purposefully use CGI to make the characters look like people trying to look like cats is just bizarre.

[Hydra009]

I don't get why it has so many dislikes.

Uncanny valley.  People say that the CGI looks horrible, but it's not.  It's actually very good - not quite photorealistic though, so it feels very, very wrong.  If you notice in the trailer reactions, a common reaction is disgust, which is exactly how people react to uncanny valley things.

[Baruch]

Okay. If they're going to CGI the thing to death, why make the characters look like people in cat costumes when you could just as easily just make them look like cats? If the goal was to make it look like the play it's based on, why not use real costumes? The decision to purposefully use CGI to make the characters look like people trying to look like cats is just bizarre.

Breaking the Fifth Wall?  Still, it is Cats, a musical.  I like it anyway ;-)

[SGOS]

I noticed this notation regarding the movie Hellboy at my Redbox website.  I struggled with it because I couldn't believe there was such a movie Association.  I think it was hard to understand because some words are capitalized that might normally not be.  Also, it's 1:00 AM:

Rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for Bloody Horror Violence