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Unoriginal Name posted:Your proposal is that a 2 hour propaganda film about how great it is to be a militarist fascist is flanked by 2 mins of "THIS IS PROPAGANDA" is...better? I do love the argument "It has a false narrator, so you can't criticize it!" I mean, by that logic, films like The Lone Ranger and Wonder Woman also apply.
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CharlestheHammer posted:Hell in real life the Greeks weren’t really the good guys. "Persian territory" being "the Greeks in Asia Minor". The Anatolian Greeks revolted in a bid for independence, the European Greeks supported them, so Persia decided to invade.
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Davros1 posted:I do love the argument "It has a false narrator, so you can't criticize it!" I mean, by that logic, films like The Lone Ranger and Wonder Woman also apply. Well, yeah, I don't think anyone's beef with The Lone Ranger is that it failed to accurately capture the historical realities of the 19th century West.
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Samuel Clemens posted:Well, yeah, I don't think anyone's beef with The Lone Ranger is that it failed to accurately capture the historical realities of the 19th century West. I totally saw people complain about the logistics of The Lone Ranger riding Silver atop a train
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Byzantine posted:"Persian territory" being "the Greeks in Asia Minor". The Anatolian Greeks revolted in a bid for independence, the European Greeks supported them, so Persia decided to invade. Yep though it was the Athenians not all Greeks. When the Persians invaded Greece rallied behind Athens despite Athens clearly being the party in the wrong and most of the Greeks hating them. It’s rather bizarre
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CharlestheHammer posted:Yep though it was the Athenians not all Greeks. Not really. "Me against my brother, my brother and me against our neighbour, all three of us against those wankers from over the hill" is about the most common culture in history.
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Jedit posted:Not really. "Me against my brother, my brother and me against our neighbour, all three of us against those wankers from over the hill" is about the most common culture in history. I mean the Spartans did work with Persians against the Athenians on several occasions.
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Wheat Loaf posted:300 is a pretty dull movie to me. I don't really get much out of it either way so it's strange that people manage to have such massive arguments over it. I thought the visuals were pretty incredible when I first saw it, both the cinematography and the half naked men, and left the theater thinking it was a fantastic movie. When it came out on DVD 6 months later, I put it on with my roommates, and halfway through my roommates complained that it was boring. I realized that I was pretty bored too. CG can't sustain a full movie, and there was better porn on the internet.
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As a gay man I personally loved watching 300, but I admit my motivations may have been corrupt.
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MikeJF posted:As a gay man I personally loved watching 300, but I admit my motivations may have been corrupt. And thankfully for us, one of those Spartan soldiers was a young Michael Fassbender who later graced us with more impressive visuals than we got in 300.
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Nihonniboku posted:And thankfully for us, one of those Spartan soldiers was a young Michael Fassbender who later graced us with more impressive visuals than we got in 300. Oh, so that's what Assassin's Creed Odyssey is about.
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So many people watched Shame "for the visuals".    
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Everybody is talking about Bale's physical changes for Vice and not enough people are talking about how he's just kinda using the Batman voice for Cheney.
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Oh, the English-language version of The Intouchables finally happened? I hope the filmmakers do a better job of adapting a fairly well-received French film into English, to a presumably American setting than the loving monsters that ruined Sleepless Night did. Good lord, that remake loving blew.
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Going to go round america in one of those loudspeaker cars, giving speeches on street corners giving the good news that movies with subtitles are totally fine and possible to watch once you get used to it after like, thirty seconds, and sometimes it helps you learn cool foreign swear words They will name streets after me you'll see
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Vagabundo posted:Oh, the English-language version of The Intouchables finally happened? the movie premiered at last year's Toronto International Film Festival. This is Lantern Entertainment's first release under their new name. The old name being The Weinstein Company.
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feedmyleg posted:The one that's coming was originally called Robin Hood: Origins and was meant to be a franchise-starter. There was another Robin Hood movie that was meat to spin off into a cinematic universe for each character. And there's also like 5 more Robin Hood films in development, but I don't think a single one is meant to be a straight Robin Hood story, they've all got some kind of dumb twist on the material. This is reaching back in the thread a bit, but going by the trailer, this actually seems to be what they're doing, with Robin Hood as a class traitor who pulls heists to take down the corrupt government, and what seems to be a Battle In Seattle-inspired fight with masked up protesters versus medieval riot cops. Seems very King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword, in a good way.
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I like how they're doubling down on Alita's eyes.
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Darthemed posted:What an empty tag-line. "You gotta sea to believe!"
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Renoistic posted:I like how they're doubling down on Alita's eyes. "You gotta SEE to believe!"
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The eye's are the only reason I want to see that film. Seeing the trailer have me actual chills from his unnatural it looks. It made me feel as uncomfortable as stuff like Salo and Cannibal Holocaust. Which is always good fun
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FreudianSlippers posted:The eye's are the only reason I want to see that film. Seeing the trailer have me actual chills from his unnatural it looks. It made me feel as uncomfortable as stuff like Salo and Cannibal Holocaust. Which is always good fun maybe you wanna dial back the hyperbole a notch
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I am 100% dead serious. Ok maybe like 45% serious since those eyes are not quite as bad as unstimulated animal slaughter.
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Aquaman should court controversy by changing that tagline to "A blue wave is coming"FreudianSlippers posted:Ok maybe like 45% serious since those eyes are not quite as bad as unstimulated animal slaughter. Talk about Freudian...
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Sir Lemming posted:Aquaman should court controversy by changing that tagline to "A blue wave is coming" That would be pretty tone-deaf in the wake of a tsunami ravaging Indonesia.
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Samuel Clemens posted:That would be pretty tone-deaf in the wake of a tsunami ravaging Indonesia. Hehehe
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Have they finally fixed the giant creepy eyes? God, I hope not
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The eyes were actually a selling point for me. In the manga, Alita is one of the few characters that have the big eyes, all the normal humans have regular size ones which adds to her sense of isolation.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Have they finally fixed the giant creepy eyes? Nope, I talked to a guy that's working on it and he said they actually made them a little bit bigger.
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Dillbag posted:Nope, I talked to a guy that's working on it and he said they actually made them a little bit bigger. Alita, but every time there's a camera cut, the eyes get bigger (I love the weird big eyes)
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davidspackage posted:Alita, but every time there's a camera cut, the eyes get bigger Keane fan spotted.
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The funny thing is that this is hardly even top 50 opening weekend cash nowadays, which is surprisingly prescient for a DC flick.
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The weird eyes are literally the only thing I (and thus, because I am the center of the universe, presumably most people) know about this film. Even if they wanted to make them normal now the marketing team would force them to change it back, probably at gunpoint.
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Honestly, if they went full CGI Anime in a live action world it might have worked. As is, the mostly-but-not quite human approach was weirdly contentious.
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