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Dissapointed Owl posted:Has Jeremy Renner ever been in something good and, more importantly, been good in something? The guys got a lot of fans and a lot of opportunistic in the business, for some reason. He's about as bland and uninteresting as they get. He got all his heat from Hurt Locker. He hasn't done anything since though even remotely as interesting. Right now he's basically at the apex of what that heat brought him, but it's likely we'll be seeing less and less of him because he's just not a draw, or much of a leading man.
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Mission Impossible 4 is excellent and Jeremy Renner is excellent in it.
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Oct 31, 2012 11:05
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He was also good in The Town which is also a good movie.
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Oct 31, 2012 12:19
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He was also in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and 12 and Holding.
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I haven't seen The Town. Or MI:4. Gotta get on it. Jesse James... He's fine in bit parts, but a leading man he is not. This is funny to me somehow: 
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Vagabundo posted:Let's bring the tone down in this here thread. I can't read "Witch Hunter" and not think of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLPm_IUx-Kc
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Has there ever been a good movie with the premise of "take an old fairy tale but make it badass?" Hansel & Gretel looks terrible, Red Riding Hood was criminally boring and bad, The Brothers Grimm was stupid, Van Helsing was awful. Has anyone ever made something like that but had it turn out even halfway decent?
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Oct 31, 2012 15:11
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Maybe not movies, but it works on TV.
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Yodzilla posted:Has there ever been a good movie with the premise of "take an old fairy tale but make it badass?" Hansel & Gretel looks terrible, Red Riding Hood was criminally boring and bad, The Brothers Grimm was stupid, Van Helsing was awful. Has anyone ever made something like that but had it turn out even halfway decent? The Hellboy movies are full of that kind of thing, and they were pretty good.
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Aphrodite posted:Maybe not movies, but it works on TV. My wife is absolutely addicted to Once Upon a Time. It's definitely more tolerable than some of the movies I posted and the special effects budget seems to have tripled in the second season. The first was so greenscreened with bad CG that everything looked like it was outtakes from an old FMV adventure game like Phantasmagoria. Shanty posted:The Hellboy movies are full of that kind of thing, and they were pretty good. I...guess. But those at least had something good to start with. That and Guillermo del Toro is awesome with that sort of material. e: though i just remembered Blade 2, but then again he was young and has since said that much of that film is embarrassing to him now
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Hellboy movies weren't very good at all! I love Perlman in them but that's pretty much the only good thing I can recall Oh and some of the monster designs, I still like (some) of those
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Zzulu posted:Hellboy movies weren't very good at all! I love Perlman in them but that's pretty much the only good thing I can recall
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Strange Matter posted:The Hellboy movies, and probably Guillermo Del Toro in general, are probably going to be rememebered in the same way that Ray Harryhausen is today. As a forward-thinking special effects genius? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61GrbjeNc1E
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Yodzilla posted:Has there ever been a good movie with the premise of "take an old fairy tale but make it badass?" I'm not sure "badass" is how I would describe it, but The Troll Hunter is a pretty great movie.
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HoldYourFire posted:As a forward-thinking special effects genius? (Pan's Labyrinth may sink this analogy, but I stand by it)
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Yodzilla posted:Has there ever been a good movie with the premise of "take an old fairy tale but make it badass?" Hansel & Gretel looks terrible, Red Riding Hood was criminally boring and bad, The Brothers Grimm was stupid, Van Helsing was awful. Has anyone ever made something like that but had it turn out even halfway decent? Since when was Van Helsing based on a fairy tale?
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Well if we're stretching that "genre" I just made up to fit Hellboy I think Van Helsing fits in there. Also just the general attitude and feel of the movie is right at home with the rest of that bunch.
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Yodzilla posted:Well if we're stretching that "genre" I just made up to fit Hellboy I think Van Helsing fits in there. Also just the general attitude and feel of the movie is right at home with the rest of that bunch. Hellboy 2 has tooth fairies and trolls and poo poo. That's like the definition of fairy tales in a way that a bunch of Draculas laying Frankenstein eggs or whatever the gently caress was going on in that movie isn't. e: I think I see the connection, though, that kind of medieval hamlet they go to has a fairy tale feel to it
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Ha, well I just realized that I apparently forgot almost the entirety of Hellboy 2 but yeah that's what I was thinking. e: my original point still stands unless Snow White and the Huntsman was any good
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Yodzilla posted:Well if we're stretching that "genre" I just made up to fit Hellboy I think Van Helsing fits in there. Also just the general attitude and feel of the movie is right at home with the rest of that bunch. Well I mean if you're counting Dracula is a fairy tale, then yes, there have been lots of good Dracula movies. Hell, there's even been one genuinely great Van Helsing solo movie(Brides of Dracula).
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Oct 31, 2012 17:10
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Frankenstein shows up in Once Upon a Time. Classic horror is now fair game.
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Van Helsing is based on the Universal Horror franchise. If it has a sequel, we might get Van Helsing fighting Gillman and Imhotep, with an Invisible Man as the villain. Actually, that might happen in the reboot for all we know.
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Aphrodite posted:Frankenstein shows up in Once Upon a Time. Classic horror is now fair game. Frankenstein or the Monster?
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oldpainless posted:Frankenstein or the Monster? The doctor, and the monster's hand from under a sheet at the end of the episode. However, on the show the monster is his brother so the monster's name actually is Frankenstein. vvv They haven't actually given the monster a name yet, since it was in the last 5 seconds of the episode. It's just something someone in the thread pointed out. vvv Aphrodite fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Oct 31, 2012 |
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Aphrodite posted:
Immersion: ruined.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:I haven't seen The Town. Or MI:4. Gotta get on it. Jesse James... He's fine in bit parts, but a leading man he is not.
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casa de mi padre posted:Without the 007 logos slapped all over this I would assume it's a live-action adaptation of some awful anime. The gold 007 seems especially precariously placed.
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Next Mondo: The Man with the Iron Fists - Tomer Hanuka  The Lord of the Rings - Vania Zouravliov   
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Dissapointed Owl posted:I haven't seen The Town. Or MI:4. Gotta get on it. Jesse James... He's fine in bit parts, but a leading man he is not. Also irrelevant but the Chinese name of the movie is literally "Crisis from the Sky".
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Aphrodite posted:Maybe not movies, but it works on TV. Does a made-for-TV-movie count? Because Snow White: A Tale of Terror is p. good I say this as someone who is one course short of a minor in fairy tales.
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Vegetable posted:Also irrelevant but the Chinese name of the movie is literally "Crisis from the Sky". I read it as "Opportunity from the sky" 
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Aphrodite posted:The doctor, and the monster's hand from under a sheet at the end of the episode. I choose to stake whether or not I actually start watching that show on them naming the monster Adam. That'll show me if they actually care.
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DKWildz posted:
Who is this in the poster? It's nice looking and all, but I seriously have no idea who it's depicting.
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HoldYourFire posted:I read it as "Opportunity from the sky" Yes... Crisi-tunity!
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GonSmithe posted:Who is this in the poster? It's nice looking and all, but I seriously have no idea who it's depicting. Bilbo, of course. There are something like three women in that whole trilogy, and it's clearly not Cate Blanchett or Miranda Otto, soooo.......
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Shanty posted:That's like the definition of fairy tales in a way that a bunch of Draculas laying Frankenstein eggs or whatever the gently caress was going on in that movie isn't. Wasn't the premise of Van Helsing that Dracula felt no emotion whatsoever, and him not feeling any emotion made him really angry and sad? That movie is one of the funniest comedies I have ever seen.
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The Iron Fists poster is nice but those LotR pieces are total cluster fucks. Well done, but nothing tells me the hell it's supposed to be. e: except the tree emblem on the bottom right, I guess
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Dissapointed Owl posted:I haven't seen The Town. Or MI:4. Gotta get on it. Jesse James... He's fine in bit parts, but a leading man he is not. Anyone else getting a Matt Smith/new Who vibe from new Q?
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Dissapointed Owl posted:I haven't seen The Town. Or MI:4. Gotta get on it. Jesse James... He's fine in bit parts, but a leading man he is not. Otacon, do you think love can bloom on the battlefield?
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