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People keep bringing up things like that that were supposedly in the first movie and I do not remember ANY of it. It's like the whole world collectively imagined this movie/franchise into existence.
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Avatar does feel like a franchise that was made up to be a joke in the background of another movie. It's baffling to me that this is Cameron's big late career passion project. I wish I could gin up some enthusiasm because Cameron is one of the best action directors ever, but I remember the hollow experience of watching the first one.
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Ehud posted:I really love James Cameron's earlier career, but I did not connect with Avatar at all. That trailer makes me feel absolutely nothing. It's like watching a trailer for a ride at a theme park. Yeah this is me too. I love James Cameron to death. But Avatar never did anything for me and this looks even worse. At least from this teaser... it's just so melodramatic and corny but not in a fun way. The CG looks great (except I feel like the Avatars themselves are now the low point that take me out of it... the environments look amazing). Story wise it just looks boring. Also I briefly got a big Avatar: Moana Edition feeling from it
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Cameron had free reign to create a completely alien world and populated it with indigenous peoples analogues, horse analogues, flying horse analogues, panther and rhino analogues etc. I barely consider it a sci fi movie because the colonialism metaphor is laid on so thick. Hopefully the sequels give him more freedom to do something else?
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James Cameron making a live action Moana with The Rock and this tech would be so sick.
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I want to say that Avatar Two looks derivative, uninspired, unremarkable. But gently caress, it's not based on a loving comic book, it's about killing Americans, and the first one made literally billions of dollars. You do gotta hand it to him.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiohkY_XQYQ
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZILRPjsaew I had no idea all of the child actors from the original were still acting (and alive) and the fact that they got them all back for this sequel is kinda cool. clown shoes fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Nov 2, 2022 |
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Kaiju troll movie - I can dig it.
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I’d just rather watch troll hunter
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Yes! More troll movies please.
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Yes! Nah. As much of a sucker as I am for Christmas movies, I never really clicked with A Christmas Story. I can't even tell you why, I just...meh. Also, that's an objectively terrible title.
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Always appreciate a great cover of "In the Hall of the Mountain King."
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ruddiger posted:Yes! I'll just wait for Troll 2.
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Ehud posted:I really love James Cameron's earlier career, but I did not connect with Avatar at all. That trailer makes me feel absolutely nothing. It's like watching a trailer for a ride at a theme park. this
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He has made 2.5 good movies in the last 30 years
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Don't leave me hanging what's the 2.5 films?
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Zzulu posted:He has made 2.5 good movies in the last 30 years You sure it's not 40?
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A Christmas Story is one of my least favorite movies. Congrats to the actors getting work though!
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AceOfFlames posted:You sure it's not 40?
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precision posted:Baby Driver is simultaneously the best and worst Edgar Wright movie I haven't seen The Sparks Brothers or Last Night in Soho yet, but the only movie of his I really love is Scott Pilgrim. Besides that, I think the only movie of his I've been compelled to watch more than once is Hot Fuzz. I thought Baby Driver was fine and a fun watch, but I don't think I'd ever say it's a must watch or anything.
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Watched Tokyo Vice all the way through. It’s really loving good but Ansel Elgort and also he fucks a lot in it it’s like they are just leaning into it or something
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kiimo posted:Watched Tokyo Vice all the way through. Yeah, watched it with my wife when it first came out and really liked it. Glad it got renewed.
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Christmas Story is grotesque and absolutely feels like it's coming from the same kinda dude who made Black Christmas. I don't get the appeal at all. Black Christmas rips, though. caligulamprey fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Nov 3, 2022 |
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caligulamprey posted:Christmas Story is grotesque and absolutely feels like it's coming from the same kinda dude who made Black Christmas. I don't get the appeal at all. A Christmas Story creeps me out and I cannot relate to that hosed up nightmare of a movie. Do not understand the appeal either.
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A Christmas Story is my Christmas comfort movie. I don't think it's good or bad, I just have a lot of nostalgia for it. As a middle-class Jewish kid in a not-Jewish area, I didn't have a lot to do before the Chinese buffet dinner except play computer games all day and the 24-hour marathon on TNT was excellent background noise.
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Cameron's movies don't generally have the most groundbreaking premises, but the execution of each scene is what makes his stuff magic. I'm very much looking forward to 3 more hours of Cameron.
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On the one hand James Cameron is a megalomaniac rear end in a top hat on set who is hard to work with but on the other hand it prevents all the extra voices from loving up scenes. Good directors know that too many cooks in the kitchen creates a bad product
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caligulamprey posted:Black Christmas rips, though. It's so good.
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Christmas Story is grotesque but growing up in the US north east rust belt it was alarming accurate to Christmas in that region even into the early 2000s. The people there are just like that.
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The rust belt is home to the country's grouchiest people for sure. It's not for the timid. Haven't any of you seen the 1993 historical documentary Airborne
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Re: the new Christmas Story, the original is based on a guy's books and it basically pulled all his best vignettes and put them in the movie. In a sense it's similar to a Marvel movie in that they had this big pool of literature and already knew people's favorites so that's what they went with. This new one does not appear to be similar in any way; it's an original script. Maybe they'll beat the odds and actually make something worthwhile but I wouldn't bet on it. Also I guess I'll go to bat for Christmas Story. It's not the greatest movie and I can't imagine watching that marathon of it they do on AMC or whatever but both the parents are well-cast and acted and I absolutely adore the scene where The Old Man is trying to put the stupid-rear end leg lamp back together and the mom is very obviously breaking for real.
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Christmas Story is definitely a nostalgia machine for people. The movie itself for folks that grew up watching it or people that related to the actual content. It's got its charm. But this new thing seems completely devoid of all of that. Just stupid wink wink nudge nudges to the original jokes that aren't funny at all out of their original movie. This is like Dumb and Dumber 2.
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Christmas Story is a good insight into the lifestyle of a Packers fan.
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BonoMan posted:Christmas Story is definitely a nostalgia machine for people. The movie itself for folks that grew up watching it or people that related to the actual content. It's got its charm. This just looks like any disposable middle America-pandering white bread boring-rear end Hallmark Channel movie. Talk about a groan when Ralphie says like "don't let Santa kick your face" or whatever. Just lame wink-wink to the audience. JazzFlight fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Nov 3, 2022 |
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ruddiger posted:Christmas Story is a good insight into the lifestyle of a Packers fan. Are they in Green Bay? I always had it in my head that they were in Indiana but now I think about it I have zero reason to believe that.
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kiimo posted:Are they in Green Bay? I always had it in my head that they were in Indiana but now I think about it I have zero reason to believe that. They are indeed in Indiana.
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They’re in Indiana but the dad is a cheesehead.
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You think the dad jerked off to that lamp
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