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Mierenneuker posted:remember The Number 23? You've got to be making GBS threads me (count the characters, including spaces)
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:It's a lot more than that, actually. Why don't you expound on that thought? It's not obvious to me and I'd like to hear it.
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Apr 18, 2018 21:59
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kiimo posted:Thursday Now the real question: will it be better than Pixels, the laugh-a-minute side-splitting riot that had audiences coming back for more? 
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May 8, 2018 01:02
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Sir Kodiak posted:This trend where seeing movies about scantily-clad models killing people is feminist is pretty convenient. I Spit On Your Grave is feminist empowerment! *gag*
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May 14, 2018 19:27
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It's honestly a joke to pretend Queen was still Queen after Freddie. Come on.
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May 14, 2018 21:25
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Vintersorg posted:Agreed, I loving love that setup. Cavill is so cool. Over in the action thread we've been talking about how actors with real acting backgrounds make certain scenes crackle with their physical facial acting and I absolutely think that Cavill's face is doing a lot of work here. He looks like he's gonna murder that dude.
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May 18, 2018 17:22
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MI tends to kill their villains...but, assuming Cavill can live up to that trailer scene, I wouldn't mind seeing him in the sequels. Hopefully they won't throw him off a cliff.
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May 18, 2018 23:50
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"The more brutal, thuggish Ethan Hunt" is actually a good character idea. Also the guy in Fallout was the bad guy in the last movie (Solomon Kane) so maybe they're turning over a new leaf or something. IDK. McQuarrie is the first guy to direct two in a row so we'll see what happens.
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May 19, 2018 00:13
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kanonvandekempen posted:I liked the 1973 movie, with steve mcqueen and dustin hoffman. This looks lame. It looks very different...not sure it's possible to beat the McQueen-Hoffman combo. Charlie Hunnam really has a lot of work to do, here.
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May 23, 2018 20:38
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Wheat Loaf posted:Wayne also turned down the Gary Cooper role in High Noon because he realised that it was subtly anti-blacklisting and he thought blacklisting was the bee's knees. John Wayne was also a draft dodger (to fight the drat Nazis) and serial divorcee. A genuinely bad person.
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May 31, 2018 21:04
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It looks like it could have been an ok movie but drat that production design is some New Adventures of Hercules tier poo poo
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Jul 18, 2018 00:09
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The MSJ posted:That World War 2 movie that was rumored to be part of the Cloverfield series but apparently not anymore. Love it!
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Jul 18, 2018 23:48
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BonoMan posted:And the "look" of Halo only works for video games and just looks cringe worthy in real life. There's been a couple of live action Halo commercials and it's looked like generic sci-fi. Nothing noteworthy about it either pro or con. There's also some pretty accurate cosplay out there and, again, it looks like fairly standard sci-fi miltech. Not quite sure what's cringe-worthy about it, maybe you want to post a pic?
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Jan 31, 2022 19:06
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I just can't get behind your perspective. Video games are not always dumb fun and movies are not always smart work (the opposite of dumb fun, I suppose). And I do think there's a niche for near-future tech that looks like modern stuff with a few more doodads bolted on. But thank you for taking the time to illustrate this for me, I do appreciate it.
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Jan 31, 2022 19:36
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I gotcha, but since I am a huge fan of Battletech 3025 - the very definition of dumb-rear end blocky impractical milshit - it's just an aesthetic clash. My initial reading of your post was that they had taken it in a bad direction but it's just the same ol' chunk that it always was, for better or worse.
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Jan 31, 2022 19:58
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I didn't know that about Liv Tyler in Ad Astra. Also, I'm one of 5 people who really loved Ad Astra.
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Apr 21, 2022 17:44
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I wish their was a market for sci-fi movies that cost decent money but only had a few small action set-pieces and mostly spent that money on mood. Ah well.Colonel Whitey posted:The moon buggy chase sequence was great So was the space elevator sequence.
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Apr 21, 2022 19:34
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Bugblatter posted:I hope it *is* like the Batman and we just keep getting progressively grittier takes until in 2050 someone like Zack Synder is releasing his grimdark version. Snyder's version is only grimdark because he's being manipulated by a supervillain. By the next movie, he's full of hope and faith. Also Snyder will be 84 in 2050, unless he's pulling a Ridley Scott I think we're "safe" (I wrote this before checking Ridley Scott's age, which is pretty weird).
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Apr 22, 2022 15:06
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If y'all didn't hear, Avatar trailer views smashed every single record there ever was.
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May 11, 2022 20:10
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FoneBone posted:to be fair, I'll watch Tilda in anything, but I'm definitely in for this This is my hole, it was made for me, etc.
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May 20, 2022 17:54
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Amazon Prime essentially has a Black Rifle Coffee Movie Division that churns out Tom Clancy pap, so this is right in their wheelhouse.
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May 20, 2022 19:02
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precision posted:literally why is it so hard for people to admit it's a pretty okay movie at best? Do not attempt to tell a bunch of strangers to accept your hot take as fact. And it is 100% a hot take btw. I mean the fact that if you did a poll of the movie industry literally 80% of the people 50 or younger would say "I got into the movies because of Star Wars", it had so much cultural gravity it quite literally distorted the entire film industry toward it. Any movie that could break so many peoples' minds so thoroughly and remain relevant for over 45 years is not "a pretty okay movie" that got lucky, come on now.
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May 29, 2022 04:33
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Eh we all have hot takes, it's trying to convince people they're correct that I object to. As far as Star Wars succeeding on coincidence, I think that's an interesting theory. I do think that the New Hollywood movement was going to end at some point (the mass audience was not going to turn out in droves for The Deer Hunter which was famously in production when Star Wars debuted, or Sorcerer, which is a great film but a grueling one). I don't see anyone else accomplishing what Lucas did in the short term. Spielberg maybe, although I don't see Raiders changing lives like Star Wars did. What are some of your candidates?
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May 29, 2022 05:34
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wyoak posted:Spielberg - Jaws had maybe already done it? I think Spielberg is probably the best candidate, I mean ET was enormous. Enormous! It just wasn't built for a franchise so it didn't leave much of a footprint. I think blockbusters may have warped slightly toward being more kid-friendly if Spielberg had been the breakout, though.
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May 31, 2022 18:41
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Jewmanji posted:That's ahistorical nonsense, sorry. To a kid it would absolutely be the equivalent. The top 5 ticket sales of all time are Star Wars, E.T., Gone with the Wind, the Sound of Music, and Titanic. Basically these movies were all massive cultural phenoms in a league of their own (Titanic absolutely was, even though I was too old to get swept up in it, and my mom was absolutely gaga for Sound of Music) separated only by degrees. So yeah, technically E.T. wasn't as "big" as Star Wars, and it certainly didn't have the longevity, but it was huge. I had the bed sheets (and the Star Wars bed sheets, you know the ones.) and remember hearing "phone home" jokes for what seemed like 5 years, so yeah.
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May 31, 2022 21:28
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Also ET hit at just the right time. The year before ROTJ. I remember my dad was going to the movies all the time and coming home with wild tales of what he just saw for my brother and I. Blade Runner was the detective movie with the best lighting of all time (this is how he described it)! The Thing made him sick and he hated it. Referred to Arnold in Conan the Barbarian as a "real hardbody". I really wish we had more "person on the street who just walked out of the theater and gives you their first impression of the movie" footage from that time, would be fun to see.
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May 31, 2022 22:40
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Jedit posted:"We don't cotton much to Atari VCS cartridges in these parts, boy." They were playing ET a year after it came out too and in fact for a brief period of time it actually had made more money than Star Wars. Anyway, this is a silly conversation because both films were massive cultural juggernauts, but ET was not built for toys or franchise and so gradually faded away. Still a good film for kids, my son's gonna watch it this summer.
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Jun 1, 2022 14:56
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I imagine it will involve the Predator getting overconfident and falling to human ingenuity and persistence, as per usual.
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Jun 7, 2022 16:18
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It was a really great decision to make Predators sport hunters. People intrinsically understand that sport hunting is disgusting. Little kids know that Elmer Fudd deserves to be tormented.
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Jun 7, 2022 17:49
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BonoMan posted:Looks pretty good but the perfect english is throwing me off In the tradition of one of McTiernan's other movies they should zoom in on the mouth of a person speaking Commanche, and have them switch to English.
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Jun 7, 2022 17:54
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You could absolutely do a movie where the Predators are the good guys, just not one that involves the kind that do the sport hunting. Predator vs The Thing. Now there's a movie that isn't some boring "how about a movie where the aliens kill people I don't like, no I'm not a reactionary I promise" poo poo.
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live with fruit posted:Isn't that basically AvP? If badly written, yes.
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Jun 7, 2022 21:10
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precision posted:presumably because the vast majority of humanity has apparently decided they're funny and good and people like us who dislike them are the weirdos I know it can feel this way but it's because Youtube has shuttled you off the "main track". 99% of Youtube Movie Crit people's best video aren't even in the same league as, say, your average moderately popular Video Game Lore video. If we get into Affiable Engineering area they're a blip, can't remotely compete with, say, a guy who makes 3 minute videos of him picking a lock while pleasantly discussing security issues. If we actually go into the True Mainstream Youtube area, the Mr. Beasts of the world, they are quite honestly less than a speck of dust. The average person is not watching or engaging with this poo poo.
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Things Youtube has been absolutely fantastic for: Helping me do physical projects and diy repair (painting tips, fixing an electrical issue, understanding why an engine won't start) Deep dives into scientific and engineering topics Comparing the size of a thing to another thing "Hey remember this thing from when you were a kid? You weren't crazy, here's footage that it actually existed" Things Youtube is not absolutely fantastic for: Literally everything else
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Jun 8, 2022 18:12
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precision posted:oh man i love science youtube I know the dude and yeah the "I'm explaining stuff my planet learns in kindergarten to the dumbo earthlings" vibe is very strong.
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Jun 8, 2022 19:02
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"What if you were grappling and your opponent was a limb-bending vampire?" is a dang good premise for an action scene, honestly.
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Jul 11, 2022 21:30
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I really want to hear a interview with Zombie about what he's going for, because I think the look was deliberate and it's just coming off as dated and cheapo to everyone, including people like me who are interested in the movie but just totally put off by everything they've seen so far.
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Jul 13, 2022 18:23
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thrawn527 posted:Found an interview from last month where he talks about the colors. Well, IMO it doesn't look like a live action cartoon, it looks like a live-action TV Movie circa 1981.
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Jul 13, 2022 19:53
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Vintersorg posted:Doesn't explain why it looks so cheap tho as his other movies look wonderful. He didn't have the budget or the expertise (or both) to get what he was going for, he has said he was shooting for a stylized look and it just didn't land. Or it did land, but only to a small handful of people - the rest of us thinks it looks cheapo or weird or dated or whatever.
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Jewmanji posted:Woah, I thought that looked like absolute bile. An utterly bland and cynical cash grab. When I think bland D&D I think like, Elminster and poo poo. Not Hugh Grant dressed like a combination game show host/playboy.
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