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Anyone else hate it when a childless couple treats their australopithecus afarensis as a human?
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:The idea of an Edgar Wright sex comedy romp is instinctively unappealing to me. Another win for Team Ape.
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May 13, 2024 22:01
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Waffleman_ posted:Need a drat Master's to figure out which version of Blade Runner to watch Any reason we wouldn't just go with the Final Cut?
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May 13, 2024 22:15
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Waffleman_ posted:Need a drat Master's to figure out which version of Blade Runner to watch The Final Cut. Just ignore the dream sequence with the unicorn.
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Carpet posted:The Final Cut. Just ignore the dream sequence with the unicorn. That scene is a must!!
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Schwarzwald posted:The whole thing was a hit but the lines regarding the swim team, the ocean's strongest material, and the final apology to the Icelandic Wrestling Association got the biggest laughs. Glad you liked it. Those seem to be the highlights for most people. It was amazing to see it with a live audience in a Boston and having them explode with laughter mostly at those points. Also at the crew premiere which was almost entirely people who worked on the film but they still laughed. I also laughed some and I wrote the drat thing. I'm guessing the low point was the crime scene scenes which is almost entirely exposition about the characters.
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Final Cut and the earlier Director's Cut are both great for Blade Runner I'd say. On David Lynch and Dune, I've heard him talk about that experience a lot, that is a sadness, gotta give David final cut.
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May 13, 2024 23:47
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the new Apes movie is pretty good tbh. I now believe that when the Zelda movie sucks it will be entirely because of Derek Connolly and that Wes Ball will have tried his best
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May 13, 2024 23:53
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I think all of them are pretty solid and adequate. The first might have the edge for me just cuz gorillas and chimpanzees battling the San Francisco police department is just that dope, and the third might be the silliest (with the comedy relief ape, straight up Vietnam/WW2 homages like calling them "the Kong" lol, and with Woody shouting at the far more "human" Caesar going "SO EMOTIONAL! SO EMOTIONAL!" every time Caesar reacts to Woody being like "I LIKE KILLING FAMILIES" is pretty fun), but all of them are pretty drat solid.
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My complaint is its consistently anti-bonobo which is hosed up. Not sure why Koba and Proximus had to both be bonobos but guess what they were right about human beings.
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May 14, 2024 00:04
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I’m watching a movie that features product placement for Orbitz soda.
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May 14, 2024 00:45
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When I was a kid, my brother came back from a hospitalization with a bottle of Orbitz and told me they let him take his blood sample home.
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May 14, 2024 00:49
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Anonymous Robot posted:When I was a kid, my brother came back from a hospitalization with a bottle of Orbitz and told me they let him take his blood sample home. dudes rock. I did probably as few dozen blood tests as a kid but they never let me keep any of the blood no matter how often I asked.
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https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1790246100961788086
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May 14, 2024 06:44
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Alright, fine, Francis Ford Coppola. I’ll go see your expensive scifi movie.
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May 14, 2024 06:47
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DAY loving ONE NEVER DOUBTED
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Chris James 2 posted:DAY loving ONE
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May 14, 2024 07:11
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Amy Adams' willingness to just do whatever is highly appealing in an actor. It's a smart thing too, I've riffed on Will Smith a lot for ruining his career by overthinking it, while actors who'll appear in whatever probably not only get more regular paychecks but have better odds of starring in a surprise smash hit.
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Over/under on critics panning this because they read about Ayn Rand on the Internet?
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It's a smart thing too, I've riffed on Will Smith a lot for ruining his career by overthinking it, while actors who'll appear in whatever probably not only get more regular paychecks but have better odds of starring in a surprise smash hit. Ehh, it's hit or miss either way I think. Sean Connery turned down the Morpheus role in The Matrix because he didn't understand the movie and then when that was a huge hit he did League of Extraordinary Gentlemen despite not understanding that movie either.
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May 14, 2024 07:28
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Air Skwirl posted:Ehh, it's hit or miss either way I think. Sean Connery turned down the Morpheus role in The Matrix because he didn't understand the movie and then when that was a huge hit he did League of Extraordinary Gentlemen despite not understanding that movie either. LxG is terrible compared to the comic BUT is underrated amongst cbm imo Way more consistently fun than all the xmens put together, including the Deadpools
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May 14, 2024 07:37
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Blood Boils posted:LxG is terrible compared to the comic BUT is underrated amongst cbm imo The X-Men series is incredibly inconsistent, but I have a huge issue with that statement. I was actually really annoyed when Disney bought Fox because good or bad, Fox was making very different movies than Disney was with the MCU and now, if and when we get more X-Men movies they're going to be MCU movies.
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LxG was among the first movies I remember seeing a theater leaving thinking "huh. That wasn't that good." My big hangup iirc is that the movie had noticeably no background actors, so even when they're fleeing a major city, the world just felt really lifeless and empty. That and the whole thing looked so 'cold', the kind of gritty look Batman Begins would perfect and tonally work better for. Haven't rewatched it, but imagine the ambition eases a lot of it's rough edges.
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CatstropheWaitress posted:LxG was among the first movies I remember seeing a theater leaving thinking "huh. That wasn't that good." It's also just a terrible adaptation of a great loving comic book. This obviously matters a lot less to people who don't read comics, but being a terrible adaptation of something a lot of people love is going to get you a lot of extra hate. All of the X-Men movies change a lot from the stories they are based on but the good ones manage to capture the feel that the comics brought to fans.
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Air Skwirl posted:It's also just a terrible adaptation of a great loving comic book. This obviously matters a lot less to people who don't read comics, but being a terrible adaptation of something a lot of people love is going to get you a lot of extra hate. That's true but as a life long reader & collector of comic books* I just don't care about that, it's an adaptation through a different medium. Your baggage is your own burden, not anyone else's! Even without seeing it in a decade I can recall minor characters: Nemo's first mate who dies in his arms, Phantom/Moriarty's equivalent who goes Red Hulk, the bookkeeper guy who played Eomer in LOTR - it's not hard to do this with anything if you pay attention. I agree that the LxG movie's world is cold & empty, that's why I compared it to X-Men. Not gritty though, I don't see that at all. To me grit implies either serious emotional distress or at least literal visible particles blowing around like a Ridley Scott joint. *I have hard copies of all the league, even the Janni Nemo stuff. Moore's 2nd best work imo (I forgot about from hell, also an objectively inferior but still fun adaptation) Blood Boils fucked around with this message at 08:25 on May 14, 2024 |
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Oh, it's a total mess, and a waste of a cast, but it at least has some fun bits. Also it taught me the plural of Nautilus.
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Escobarbarian posted:the new Apes movie is pretty good tbh. I now believe that when the Zelda movie sucks it will be entirely because of Derek Connolly and that Wes Ball will have tried his best Planet Ape 4 is a mixed bag because it opens on a Revenge Of The Sith reference (cool) but then its "300 Years Later" setting is kinda shockingly ill-conceived.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Oh, it's a total mess, and a waste of a cast, but it at least has some fun bits. Also it taught me the plural of Nautilus. Nautilopodes?
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Planet Ape 4 is a mixed bag because it opens on a Revenge Of The Sith reference (cool) but then its "300 Years Later" setting is kinda shockingly ill-conceived. When it got into the third act, I was convinced we were going to get nuke worshipping inbred mutant people ala Beneath the Planet of the Apes and was really let down when that wasn’t the case.
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Nautilus, Oneilus, Twoilus, all the way up to Octonaut
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I was dubious but this looks sick, definitely one for imax.
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Chris James 2 posted:DAY loving ONE
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I think Megalopolis will be good but even if it isn't, I gotta respect FFC for putting so much of his own money on the line.
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People dropping "LxG" like it's the obvious natural way of abbreviating "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"
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Jay Rust posted:People dropping "LxG" like it's the obvious natural way of abbreviating "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" The branding worked I guess, 
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Jay Rust posted:People dropping "LxG" like it's the obvious natural way of abbreviating "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" it is. tf you want me to call it, “LEG”?
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Made me google that "XXX" movie but that's tricky to search for
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:it is. Is that really such a big ask?
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Gripweed posted:Is that really such a big ask? yeah dude the movie came out 20 years ago. the LxG fandom will not go for it this late in the game.
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