Jumanji 2017

I didn't plan on seeing it, but now I am intrigued. Could this mean that good adaptations of video games are to become a regular thing? Could Spielberg's Ready Player One & Disney's Wreck-it Ralph 2 set a new trend?

I might be a hopeless optimist, but every time I see "good" and "video game movie" in the same sentence my mind wonders "does that mean Mass Effect could make it to the big screen?"

These aren’t adaptations though. They’re movies about fictional video games,

Exactly. You're not losing interactivity, you're gaining knowledge of a game you otherwise wouldn't have known anything about.

One of the major reasons you don't see good video game movies is because games are inherently interactive in a way most movies just aren't. You could do a good video game movie, but you really have to do a good job of the writing and you have to get the visual effects close to the game.

Yeah, I'll be honest, I've been expecting this to fail pretty much from the outset. But from what I'm hearing, it sounds like it might actually be worth a watch. Color me surprised.

So...it pulled a Lego Movie on us? Sounded and looked dumb as hell but is actually good?

Eh...I wouldn't call it that good.

I'm still hoping for a cursed RPG book version of Jumanji.

Sometimes I like the idea of Wonderland coming to the protagonists rather than the other way around. Probably because of the spectacle of carnage.

Needs a catchy song before it can be compared to the likes of the Lego Movie

Jumanji was the best movie of 2017 fite me irl

I'll just come on out and say it; I enjoyed this movie more than The Last Jedi.

...I can't believe I just said that.

edited 30th Dec '17 5:02:54 AM by LDragon2

I can. I haven't heard very many, if any, dissenting opinions about this one. That one very obviously has issues that make it extremely hit or miss for people.

So I saw it last night and I enjoyed it a lot. It was an enjoyable movie the characters were funny and the ending was funny as well all in all I would recommend going to go see it. I wouldn't put it above the Last Jedi but it was a nice way to spend 2 hours.

I saw this movie for my birthday, and I'm glad I did. It won't beat Get Out for me as best movie of the year, but it was still great. I didn't realize the mercenary was the same dude as the hunter from the original movie, but it makes sense.

edited 1st Jan '18 6:38:02 PM by Weirdguy149

SPOILER TAG, my friend.

Anyways, does this movie explain what van Pelt did to deserve such a damnation?

edited 1st Jan '18 6:27:46 PM by Worlder

I don't think it's supposed to be the exact same Van Pelt. Jumaji seems to cast "Van Pelt"s as villains (though the original and newest VP are two very different kinds of characters), but the two of them have different personalities and backstories and such.

edited 1st Jan '18 6:31:58 PM by KnownUnknown

Yeah, he's an NPC.

A construct as opposed to a damned soul? That's not as juicy, IMO.

Great movie, pretty lighthearted action comedy, good acting, would gladly re-watch. Non-R-rated live action comedies are too rare, especially actual good ones, and there are still serious stakes involved though everything turns out all right in the end. I think this movie could be enjoyed by a really large audience.

Jack Black was surprisingly good at pretending to be a teenage girl trapped in an middle-aged chubby man's body, without needing to go annoyingly over the top with it. They actually handle it, surprisingly tastefully overall.

Karen Gillan being able to keep up with the other three in the comedy department was fun to see as well. I mean I knew that The Rock, Jack Black, and Kevin Hart could do comedy well, but she was quite good at it here as well.

I do think that Kevin Hart was the weak link of the main cast though. Rock, Black, and Gillan were all tailoring their performances to make it seem like these were the younger actors in adult avatars (which they were). And doing a pretty good job of it.

Hart, was just doing his usual thing. And while I don't usually mind it too much, it stood out here in comparison to the other (and not in a good way unfortunately).

I was honestly really skeptical about seeing this because of the trailers. I wasn't sure how the girls would be treated by the film, given that all of the tv spots I saw really played up Bethany being self obsessed and Martha running around half naked. I was very pleasantly surprised. Not only did I feel like the girls got some of the best comedic scenes, but the movie takes the time to give Bethany a lot of character development, and she gets one of the most heartwarming scenes in the movie. And I loved that we got to see her encouraging and supporting Martha.

Just saw it. That was a BLAST. So much goddamn fun.

And just saw it.

This movie should not have been this good. It had so much against it and yet it turned out as a pretty enjoyable hour and a half of goofy fun, and I was surprised by how they took this kinda silly premise and made it actually kind of interesting. I was worried the characters would mostly be stereotypes and really thin, but they were fairly fleshed out, not deep but engaging and pretty fun. They did a bit more there than I thought they would, and that's kind of refreshing.

Jack Black and Dwayne Johnson were super into their performances. Hell, this is probably one of Johnson's best performances I've seen. Normally he plays the same general "The Rock" archetype, but here he comes off as genuinely dorky, awkward, and scared. Jack Black is even better, I spent most of the film forgetting this was even him in there. Usually Jack Black has the one type of character he's known for (which admittedly he's done more than enough films where he's broken from that mold), but here you can tell he really got into the role and fit it perfectly. Gillan does a good job too, though I don't really have much to say about her that I haven't already about Johnson and Black. The weakest of the main cast I guess would be Hart, but mostly because he just comes off as being Kevin Hart and not "teenage kid who is stuck in a video game as Kevin Hart". Not to say he's bad in there (I mean he gets the best line of the film), but he's a bit weaker than his co-stars.

Overall it's a not that bad movie that is worth seeing at least once. I am going to wholeheartedly admit, my first impressions of it from the trailer were wrong. This is a pretty damn fun film.

It's not masterpiece material, but at least it lives up to the Cult Classic goodness that made Jumanji beloved by 90's kids. It makes me wonder how Robin Williams would have thought of this new movie. I just can't stop missing the man.

This just surpassed Spider-Man: Homecoming domestically. Who would have thought?

Jumanji is murdering the winter theater dead zone.