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Hardcore Henry is dope. It’s a complete mess, but it’s a mess that everyone involved is completely invested in, and I’m happy someone made a full go with the first person gimmick. I imagine it would make a fun drive-in double feature with Crank 2.
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Watching Welcome to the Jungle, a.k.a. The Rundown with Dwayne Johnson (back when he was always credited as "the Rock" in movies) and Seann William Scott. It sort of makes me miss the Rock's hair.  For a very long time this was one of the movies I was always aware of because it was part of my dad's early DVD collection (others I've mentioned before: Minority Report, Mission: Impossible 2, The Perfect Storm, Charlie's Angels, Galaxy Quest) but it's a very fun adventure movie. Could have made for a good ongoing series, but I feel like a sequel to it probably would've disappointed like most early 00s action movie sequels seemed to.
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Thanks to those who suggested I jumped into MI a movie prior to Ghost Protocol, as I ended up enjoying 3 more than 4. Most likely because of PSH being just the best bad guy, and glad I got to see that.
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Fart City posted:Hardcore Henry is dope. It’s a complete mess, but it’s a mess that everyone involved is completely invested in, and I’m happy someone made a full go with the first person gimmick. I imagine it would make a fun drive-in double feature with Crank 2. Sharlto Copley is so loving good in that film.
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I do all my shopping in the clearance bins. . . and I got Wolf Warrior 2! Oh, my god, the sped-up tanks ended up looking extremely cute instead of macho! And those magic missiles that only hit tanks and not buildings. "Don't kill the Chinese! China is on the UN Security Council!!!!" Good scenery, too. I love when a movie actually gives us a view. American movies are all in the back lot of downtown Hollywood, so all you get is super-close-ups of the stars' faces.  I miss the days when a close-up didn't cut off the top of the actor's head.Okay, I'll quit babbling, now, and see if I can find Wolf Warrior 1.
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That's some good poo poo. Saw MI:6 again this weekend, knowing that Cruise did most, if not all, of his stunts just makes the film so much more fun to watch.
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the one that stops right before the car hits the tree is a cock tease the dudes that do the filming during the drop are loving nuts Doorknob Slobber fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Aug 6, 2018 |
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It feels criminal that I only had to pay eight bucks to see this movie.
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I was already impressed by the movie but watching this just blew me away.
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Today I learned that the late Mary Ellen Trainor, who played the newscaster who interviews the psychiatrist about Stockholm syndrome in Die Hard, played the same character in the Denzel Washington movie Ricochet (the one where John Lithgrow tapes books to himself as armour while he swordfights a Nazi in prison). The shared cinematic universe you never knew existed!
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Wheat Loaf posted:Today I learned that the late Mary Ellen Trainor Today I learned that Mary Ellen Trainor had died.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Today I learned that the late Mary Ellen Trainor, who played the newscaster who interviews the psychiatrist about Stockholm syndrome in Die Hard, played the same character in the Denzel Washington movie Ricochet (the one where John Lithgrow tapes books to himself as armour while he swordfights a Nazi in prison). (Die Hard was at one point being considered as the basis of Commando 2, which would make for a weird alternate timeline where Bruce Willis was still best known as "the guy from Moonlighting".) Things I didn't know until today: there's a genus of spider named after the cast and characters of Predator.
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I kind of like that sort of thing - that sort of low-key crossover concept where it's all based on Easter eggs like that because different companies all own the different series.
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Don't forget that David Peoples considers Soldier to exist in the same universe as Blade Runner.
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Soldier is such an underappreciated gem. It's that "lord forgive me, I got to go back to tha old me" but as a feature length movie. Kurt Russel kicks rear end. It's got Loreena McKinnet on the soundtrack and it somehow works. He shoots one (1) guy with a rocket launcher for no reason when shooting him would have worked just fine. The villains get got in such a satisfying way. It also has quite possibly the quickest Chekov's Gun, where we see the training montage in the beginning. Teenage Todd shoots through a fake hostage to get to the target behind it, and then like one fucken minute later he shoots an ACTUAL hostage to the target. Why did they even have the setup?? Who cares! Also there's a bunch of cool references in Todd's service record:  Plissken Patch! MacCready Cross! The BFG!!! I love Soldier.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I kind of like that sort of thing - that sort of low-key crossover concept where it's all based on Easter eggs like that because different companies all own the different series. I always had a personal theory that the events of Predator were John Matrix's last mission (under the codename Dutch Schaeffer) which led directly to his retirement. Ofc., Bill Duke is playing two separate characters. Sometimes people just look similar!
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Harime Nui posted:I always had a personal theory that the events of Predator were John Matrix's last mission (under the codename Dutch Schaeffer) which led directly to his retirement. Real canon facts: Commando and Predator take place in the same fictional country (Val Verde, formerly Guatemala), which is also the origin of the villain in Die Hard 2. After Predator, Dutch was the used as the basis for the T-800 in a ‘good’ timeline where Cyberdyne Systems was apparently bought out by Weyland-Yutani and rebranded as Hyperdyne Systems.
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Al Cu Ad Solte posted:Soldier is such an underappreciated gem. It's that "lord forgive me, I got to go back to tha old me" but as a feature length movie. Kurt Russel kicks rear end. It's got Loreena McKinnet on the soundtrack and it somehow works. He shoots one (1) guy with a rocket launcher for no reason when shooting him would have worked just fine. The villains get got in such a satisfying way. It also has quite possibly the quickest Chekov's Gun, where we see the training montage in the beginning. Teenage Todd shoots through a fake hostage to get to the target behind it, and then like one fucken minute later he shoots an ACTUAL hostage to the target. Why did they even have the setup?? Who cares! I always like that Todd didn't do like all the other Repressed Super Soldier movies and suddenly become a well-spoken, well-adjusted person as soon as he wakes up on the trash planet. He stays a barely-verbal, PTSD-ridden mass of twitches.
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Soldier is like, peak dad laying on a couch on Sunday movie.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Real canon facts: Commando and Predator take place in the same fictional country (Val Verde, formerly Guatemala), which is also the origin of the villain in Die Hard 2. After Predator, Dutch was the used as the basis for the T-800 in a ‘good’ timeline where Cyberdyne Systems was apparently bought out by Weyland-Yutani and rebranded as Hyperdyne Systems. There's also a fighting robot based on Arnie in Aliens Vs Predator - the video game, no not that one, or that, the side scrolling one.
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Snowman_McK posted:There's also a fighting robot based on Arnie in Aliens Vs Predator - the video game, no not that one, or that, the side scrolling one. That's not a robot, it is Dutch Schaefer with a bionic arm  I think his in-game bio stated he lost his arm in the blast when the Predator killed himself at the end of the movie. I must've finished that game a dozen times, it was really fun.
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BioTech posted:That's not a robot, it is Dutch Schaefer with a bionic arm Snowman_McK posted:There's also a fighting robot based on Arnie in Aliens Vs Predator - the video game, no not that one, or that, the side scrolling one. That’s what I’m referring to; the cyborg (i.e. not android) copy of Dutch has a Cyberdyne Systems serial number. BioTech may be misremembering; cyber-Dutch was built like 100 years after Predator, and lost his arm in ‘The Second Alien War’.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:BioTech may be misremembering; cyber-Dutch was built like 100 years after Predator, and lost his arm in ‘The Second Alien War’. You're right! One of my favorite beat-em-ups, but it has been a while.  I could've sworn someone lost an arm to a Predator explosion at some point, though. At first I thought it may have been in the super wacky comic with the original idea for Predator 2. Dutch's big brother as a NY cop going to the jungle and a Russian nuclear power plant in Siberia. However, paging through it I cannot find anything about it either. Oh well
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I fuckin love Hardcore (Henry), the only good videogame movie ever made.
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That last Resident Evil movie left one of its stunt performers really horribly injured in an accident - what the BBC always describes as "life-changing injuries" which seems like understating things to me - and I remember reading about it thinking no movie is worth that happening to a person, but it probably goes double for a Resident Evil movie.
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The last Resident Evil movie was the only time I've thought "This sound mixing is unbearably bad" in the theatre. Has anyone else noticed that the default sound of some kind of inhuman monster in a movie is high-pitched shrieking, and does anyone else find this more annoying than anything? I don't know why a dinosaur, a giant bat, a giant bug, and a dragon should all sound like the xenomorph from Alien. It's become as much a cliche as the "generator starting up" sound from every horror and sci-fi trailer.
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Halloween Jack posted:I was impressed with Resident Evil 5 the first time because I expected it to be so incredibly bad, but on a rewatch, most of the action isn't all that great. For some reason I like it when a director is overly enamored with how hot his wife is, so the RE movies don't bother me, per se. And it's really funny they had a big influence on the games, which have become action-packed to the point of ridiculous spectacle and every single character looks like an immaculately styled supermodel. Wheat Loaf posted:That last Resident Evil movie left one of its stunt performers really horribly injured in an accident - what the BBC always describes as "life-changing injuries" which seems like understating things to me - and I remember reading about it thinking no movie is worth that happening to a person, but it probably goes double for a Resident Evil movie. Somebody getting bagged for Deadpool 2 left a bad taste in my mouth.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:For some reason I like it when a director is overly enamored with how hot his wife is, so the RE movies don't bother me, per se. I imagine the notoriously awkward sex scene in the second Underworld movie is as bad as it is because Kate Beckinsale was married to the director at the time.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I imagine the notoriously awkward sex scene in the second Underworld movie is as bad as it is because Kate Beckinsale was married to the director at the time. I'm of two minds about it, it's very Old Hollywood to have a weird fixation on a 'muse' that you are lovingly filming every inch of ala Hitchcock but at the same time it's cute that it's a vanity project about telling everyone how hot his wife is.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:For some reason I like it when a director is overly enamored with how hot his wife is, so the RE movies don't bother me, per se. And it's really funny they had a big influence on the games, which have become action-packed to the point of ridiculous spectacle and every single character looks like an immaculately styled supermodel. I find it charming that RE is basically like the Anderson/Jovovich family business at this point. Every few years it's like "hey honey, we could use a few mil, wanna make another Resident Evil?"
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I'm of two minds about it, it's very Old Hollywood to have a weird fixation on a 'muse' that you are lovingly filming every inch of ala Hitchcock but at the same time it's cute that it's a vanity project about telling everyone how hot his wife is. And a project which brings in a second paycheque for the household.
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Yeah, if not for that, I doubt RE would've gotten a second sequel, much less five.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:For some reason I like it when a director is overly enamored with how hot his wife is, so the RE movies don't bother me, per se. And it's really funny they had a big influence on the games, which have become action-packed to the point of ridiculous spectacle and every single character looks like an immaculately styled supermodel. Wheat Loaf posted:I imagine the notoriously awkward sex scene in the second Underworld movie is as bad as it is because Kate Beckinsale was married to the director at the time. Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Aug 7, 2018 |
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Halloween Jack posted:What's the worst case of this sort of thing? In terms of box office disaster it's got to be Cutthroat Island, but that's actually a good movie with nothing lascivious in it. I would give it to all of the movies John Derek and Bo Derek made together. Just in terms of nepotism? I suppose the tired, hoary old example at this point is Sophia Coppola in Godfather III (she is not great in it and Winona Ryder, who was Coppola's first choice, would have been better, but she was criticised a lot more harshly than the performance merited) but there's bound to be better examples. If you mean directors or producers casting their other halves and getting them to take their kit off, I can't really think of many good examples.
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Actually, I changed my mind: It's definitely Dario Argento and Asia Argento because directing your daughter in a sex scene is unbelievably gross
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Didnt Sweet Sweetback's Badass Song have him direct his son in a sex scene too?
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Wheat Loaf posted:I imagine the notoriously awkward sex scene in the second Underworld movie is as bad as it is because Kate Beckinsale was married to the director at the time. No, that's because they filmed the scene with nudity originally, and then Beckinsale went back on being willing to do nudity so they had to cut around the titty like a TV edit.
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got any sevens posted:Didnt Sweet Sweetback's Badass Song have him direct his son in a sex scene too? Yes. And also the director claims the sex scene he (the director, not his son) performed with the same woman was unsimulated and resulted in STDs. Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 22:53 on Aug 7, 2018 |
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