Yeah, it's so frustrating. I can't remember if Australia was a different region from the UK in the DVD days, which was even more frustrating. At least we are in the same region for Blu Rays. I have an Australian PS5 and UK PS4 & 3, so at least I have a variety of players!
Yeah, I have a PC Blu-Ray drive I use to rip Region B discs to Plex. Region locks suck.
They were. Looks like there were up to 8 Region codes back then which i guess is why it was so easy to mod a DVD player to be Region free. Other wise it would have been a dumpster fire trying to import a title haha
We just finished it.Almost through this one and really enjoying the vibe of it. Plus the dude's vinyl collection is fantastic. He's clearly one of us.
YupWe just finished it.
Totally justified my physical media collection
I'm surprised you have Endgame so low
It's a very mid movie to me haha
Wait, 4DX throws you out of your seat?
Agreed; while I think this was the most successful Godzilla movie at foregrounding human characters and giving personal stakes to an impersonal monster (Godzilla is already a metaphor for trauma, but in this movie he felt like an actual personification of one specific person's trauma), the human story was a little rote and melodramatic.
While I like the first two Ant Mans more than you, this ranking seems right
I liked Shang-Chi a lot. So I'd bump that up too.
Wait, 4DX throws you out of your seat?
Agreed; while I think this was the most successful Godzilla movie at foregrounding human characters and giving personal stakes to an impersonal monster (Godzilla is already a metaphor for trauma, but in this movie he felt like an actual personification of one specific person's trauma), the human story was a little rote and melodramatic.
When it comes to the end:
I'm curious what didn't land with folks. I don't disagree it was a bit clumsy and rote, but I felt like the ejector seat, while fumbled with a Hudsucker-esque flashback, had thematic importance in terms of the Japanese army not providing ejector seats for pilots tying in to the endeavors of the people rescuing us. I guess it was convenient that everyone survives but the reunion at the end got to me.
An interesting tidbit I read was that the director, while wanting to do a sequel, didn't write the end with a sequel in mind so much as they wanted the audience to feel like the story and characters keep going. Very Back to the Future esque...at least until they made BTTF 2.
Yup
