Akin to the "Musical Picks" topic, I want to hear what your all time favourite movies/television shows are. It can be anything from action to drama to sports to romance (who watches that anyway though?). Don't be shy and don't be mean to other members, even if they really did enjoy Superbaby-Geniuses or whatever that piece of crap was called

 

I'll start off with a couple of my favs; I find most of the ones I put down are great films all together, but have shining endings.

 

Blood Diamond (Thriller/Drama): Leo DiCaprio picks up a sick south african accent in this eye-opening thriller/drama. Great music but if you're a Leo fan, you can probably already guess how it ends lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtPX2kXhu7I

 

Friday Night Lights (Sports): I'm not a football guy, but the cinematography and story made this a refreshing change to the typical, predictable, sports movie. Plus, the instrumental music by Explosions in the Sky fits perfect (note: the trailer is crap, watch the film).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzyp4qOW0F0

 

The Lord of The Rings Trilogy (Fantasy): If you are on a Lego forum where Lego LOTR products are frequently discussed, you probably already know how awesome the films are. If you don't, I'll leave it up to the mods to immediately revoke your membership to BrickPicker (jk).

 

And last I'll just end with my favourite TV show, which is probably going into its final season this year, The Mentalist (crime procedeural): this murder-a-episode series focuses on a former psychic who is now tracking the serial killer who murdered his family. The show can be light and funny, but when the serial killer ("red john") gets involved, it can get pretty unnerving. The series has spent 5 years tracking down murderers so feels a bit tired, but it is still my favourite. And, I'll post a trailer for the 3rd season finally:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzejrms4YLk

 

Phew, if you got through all that... you don't get bored easily, do you? Now tell me your picks!

Marvel released the trailer officially

Agree on Snyder.

Ben Affleck is a fine actor but as Batman? No.

And even the title Batman vs. Superman is ridiculous. Batman is a human being, a great detective, and a great fighter working in a realm that isn't "Supernatural". If this movie were to be realistic based on each mans abilities, it would be a .00078 second film, with Superman flying off to his next lame/boring "adventure" after using his laser-vision, super-speed, or whatever else to make Batman a bowl of soup.

Lego Batman vs. Regular Superman would make a much more interesting premise.

L2kryptonite

Krypto-Batman? That could play well. The Batsuit in 70's style harvest gold and avocado green for kryptonite components...

Affleck pulled off the 70's motif in that movie last summer about the fake movie to save hostages and such. Maybe that landed him this role.

Brilliant social media move to release it early after the leak and blame it on Hydra lol.

 

Good lord they better have a Lego Hulkbuster set soon (can't remember if that is on the 2015 list?). There are a couple of excellent Ideas ones.

Seen the new Keanu Reeves new Movie John Wick Last night and it was great, His best movie in years. And like I said best action movie in years, All Star cast, Great Acting by everybody in the film, He Looses is wife, wife leaves him a small Dog, but the bad guys want his car and kill his dog, and then the Revenge Killing starts, and I mean Brutal Killing, Check the reviews which at least 3/4 of them are great. since I go to the movies all the time, Fury was good, The Equalizer was good, but John Wick is the best. So Go See it its great. Score 9/10    Ed

Looking forward to when the sets come out ;-)

My big issue with it - the movie would feel way less fake if they used actual russians. What, they ran out of russians up there in Hollywood?? At the least they could have try to do proper voiceovers using actual russian speakers - i am sure computers these days can modulate the speech such that nobody would ever notice the dubbing. Reeves' futile attempts at speaking in russian were laughable...

 

Good thing there were english subtitles - I could hardly understand what were they were saying most of the time. 

Edited October 24, 201411 yr by No More Monkeys

Kill my dog and watch arrmageddon style retribution commence. Nuff said 

That's the plot?  They killed his dog?  HA!

 

Looked like Alfie Allen is in it, hope he fairs better than in Game of Thrones.

Kill my dog and watch arrmageddon style retribution commence. Nuff said 

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=124424

Cheers Ed!

 

We love this franchise!

I've never watched past the first one.  Which in the series in the best?  Put them in order...

awesome! R.I.P. Paul Walker.

here is his final pic alive in the car right before the fatal crash that took his life almost a year ago.

Edited November 1, 201411 yr by legopocalypse

awesome! R.I.P. Paul Walker.

here is his final pic alive in the car right before the fatal crash that took his life almost a year ago.

 

I like his movie "Running Scared".  That's a pretty wild flick.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0404390/?ref_=nv_sr_1

I've never watched past the first one. Which in the series in the best? Put them in order...

The fifth and sixth are probably the best ones as far as being coherent, well-written movies, but as a fan of the series and of car tuning I think they're all worth watching through to see how both the movies have matured and the car scene changed.

anyone see Brick Mansions?

I've never watched past the first one.  Which in the series in the best?  Put them in order...

I actually liked Tokio Drift best. Great setting, good acting of Lucas Black and Sung Kang.

http://411mania.com/movies/alternate-takes-marvel-phase-3-announced/

I went and watched "Nightcrawler" tonight. Finally, an original story and it was good to boot.

I went and watched "Nightcrawler" tonight. Finally, an original story and it was good to boot.

I was fortunate enough to see an advanced screening and...

I don't think that it was an original story (I don't want to post anything that could be a spolier) and I thought that it was great for 2/3 but the last act was ridiculous and farfetched. The acting was excellent and I really appreciated the mood, tone, dialogue and other technical qualities. I would happily see it again as it was a very enjoyable experience.

Ex Astris, Scientia.

I haven't watched any of these yet, but can't wait for the extended editions to hit blu-ray.