Welcome to the Weekend Watch. Where we try to point you towards the best ways to spend your viewing time (or, at least, steer you clear of the garbage).

Movies

Atomic Blonde

Loren: Let’s hope this is more Furiosa and less Aeon Flux.

RDT: 

Rick: 

Jen: 

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The Emoji Movie

Loren: Is there an emoji for “nope the fuck no, get the fuck outta here with this lame ass bullshit”? Asking for a friend.

RDT:

Rick: A garbage idea for a movie begets garbage marketing:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yep. That happened.

Jen: I’m such a no on this that I won’t even use an emoji to express my feelings. Sad face. Poop icon.

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An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power

Loren: I’m with Rick on this one. I’m glad this is a movie but I already know all of this.

RDT: What everyone else said is similar to what I would say.

Rick: I’m glad Al Gore is still out there stumping for climate science, but this is preaching to the converted for me.

Jen: Al Gore is doing his part to save the world. If only a few more people were paying attention.

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The Comic-Con Extravaganza continues, as we dive deep into all the DC and Marvel news!

• Justice League full length trailer
• 8 movies confirmed as coming out in the next few years.
• More “Affleck bolting Bats” rumors
• No Black Adam in Shazam
• The Flash movie will, at least, be titled Flashpoint
• Hal & John confirmed for Green Lantern Corps
• Joss Whedon starting on Batgirl next year
• Krypton features “time travel twist”
• Death of Superman/Reign of the Supermen getting 2 animated movies
• Capt. Marvel will be a prequel
• No, Mark Ruffalo did not spoil Avengers: Infinity War
• New Thor trailer!
• Walton Goggins joins Ant-Man and the Wasp
• Iron Fist will return for season 2
• Legion’s Noah Hawley Is Definitely Making a Doctor Doom Movie
• C.Tates says Gambit will still happen
• The Gifted will not connect to Legion or the movies
• The Runaways will premiere this year, Nov. 21
• All that and some tangents.

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You read that right. With all the news coming out of #SDCC2017, we split this week’s episode in half (you’re welcome, Dave). So, here’s part 1 covering most of the non-DCEU and non-MCU news.

• Kingsman: Golden Circle trailer 2
• Ready Player One trailer
• Pacific Rim’s new Jaegars released
• R-rated Spawn reboot confirmed
• Creed v Drago
• New Inhumans trailer. 
• ST:D trailer
• The Flash season 4 trailer
• Arrow Season 6 trailer
• Legends season 3 trailer
• Supergirl season 3 trailer
• The new Dr.!
• Patton Oswalt is an imaginary blue unicorn
• Westworld season 2 trailer
• Stargate: Origins
• Bright trailer
• Stranger Things, season 2 trailer
• New “cast” announced and character designs shown for Young Justice: Outsiders

All that and a few the tangents.

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Welcome to the Weekend Watch. Where we try to point you towards the best ways to spend your viewing time (or, at least, steer you clear of the garbage).

Movies

Dunkirk

Loren: This looks gorgeous and epic and well acted, I just don’t really do war movies. Never been my thing.

RDT: I dunno, I like Nolan a lot. And, as Loren said above, it looks great. But I’m just a little burnt out on WWII movies.

Rick: I’ve been anxiously awaiting this since I saw the special IMAX preview attached to the Rogue One 70mm screenings last December. Excited doesn’t quite cover it, but it’ll have to do.

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Girls Trip

Loren: I know there’s an audience for this. I am not it.

RDT: Where’s Jen when we need her???

Rick: It has a great cast, but I’m unlikely to see it. Maybe on a lazy Saturday when it’s streaming.

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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Loren: If anything is getting my money this week, this is it. I’ve been a Luc Besson fan since The Professional (Léon) and this looking like the spiritual sequel to The Fifth Element has my interest piqued. Even Lucy, garbage science aside, had some decent action scenes. Hopefully Dane Dehaan and Cara Delevingne don’t Dane Dehaan and Cara Delevingne it all up.

RDT: This might get me back into a 3D screening. It just looks so pretty.

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Welcome to the Weekend Watch. Where we try to point you towards the best ways to spend your viewing time (or, at least, steer you clear of the garbage).

Movies

War for the Planet of the Apes

Loren: The first of these movies made me very uncomfortable with all the Malfoy abusing ape parts. I have yet to bother with the sequel so the same will probably hold true for this one.

RDT: Well damn, I guess I’m the outlier this week. I really liked the first two. So count me in for the 3rd, and final (nobody believes that, right?), film in this trilogy.

Rick: I can’t bring myself to care about this prequel story arc. I feel like it’s more interesting not knowing how it all happened. Also, spoiler alert from 1963: The apes win.

Jen: Dammit Dicky-Dick! Well I’m out now. Kidding… although I have seen all the original Apes films, I’ve not seen any of this new series and I’m sort of OK with it.

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Wish Upon

Loren: It’s good to see that Barb is still a killjoy that presumably gets what she deserves. In this case what she deserves is being in this standard ass looking fable.

RDT: Horror. Not my thing.

Rick: So, it’s “The Monkey’s Paw” shoved into a Hellraiser-esque mechanical box. It’s not the worst idea, though it has the same look of nearly every lower budget studio horror movie that’s come out in the last decade. Maybe once it hits home video.

Jen: Meh, it sure is a horror movie.

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Battle Scars (Limited)

Loren: War movies are not my thing. I like my violence less realistic and hopefully involving Nicholas Cage.

RDT: Not gonna lie, for the first 30 seconds of that trailer, I thought it was a documentary. When I saw the lap dance I was like “Damn, they really got personal.” Then I saw the JAG guy and was like “Oh. I’m an idiot.” As to the quality of the film, doesn’t look ½ bad. Maybe…?

Rick: No. I think I’m good.

Jen: Meh, it sure is a war movie.

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Pop culture news and pop culture tangents. That’s what we do here.

• Frozen 2: The Frozening starts recording.
• Incredibles 2: The….Incredibling releases some art that causes a lot of conjecture.
• Gemini Man casting, director and release date confirmed.
• Spawn reboot far from confirmed.
• We fire Colin Trevorrow from Star Wars Episode 9.
• John Cho has some demons.
• Supergirl gets a new mom.
• The Flash gets a new writer.
• Mayans MC get (re)shot.
• Hulu gets HBO and Cinemax.
• The Umbrella Academy heads to Netflix.
• Castlevania picked up.
• The Batman cinematic universe.
• Alternate Batman gets animated.
• Weird Luke Cage season 2 casting.
• Capt. Marvel to get Fury.
• Ant-Man and The Wasp get Park.
• Spidey makes lots of money.

All that and all the tangents.

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