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Remake the best movie (The Rock) with the best actor (The Rock).
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Jerusalem posted:All I want is a Riddick sequel co-starring the Rock called RidRockulous. Is that so much to ask? This is one of those things I never knew I wanted till now
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Nov 27, 2014 04:16
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EmmyOk posted:This is one of those things I never knew I wanted till now This but directed at Cage's post above. It would still need Nic Cage though. 
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Nov 27, 2014 05:34
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EmmyOk posted:My irrational irritation with JW is that it released a trailer for its trailer. Don't most big movies do that?
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Nov 27, 2014 07:34
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I saw that scene as Pratt running away with the raptors, implying that the escaped hybrid is even more dangerous than the raptors.
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Nov 27, 2014 13:50
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Fragrag posted:I saw that scene as Pratt running away with the raptors, implying that the escaped hybrid is even more dangerous than the raptors. 1redflag posted:I assumed he was being chased by them and is escaping on a motorbike, but I legitimately want Jurrasic World: Hell's Raptors to happen now. No the raptors are actually trained and are his bros. This is a real thing.
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Nov 27, 2014 14:10
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1redflag posted:I assumed he was being chased by them and is escaping on a motorbike, but I legitimately want Jurrasic World: Hell's Raptors to happen now. At some point they pass him and don't attack him-
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Nov 27, 2014 14:46
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Tiggum posted:As I understand it, the supposed dinosaurs in Jurassic Park are actually more genetically engineered than cloned, thus neatly explaining all the inaccuracies and how they managed to create such variety. People do this in real life to try to make animals that look like extinct species. It won't bring back the real things and it'd probably be better to preserve extant endangered species, but it's a fun project.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeding_back
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Nov 27, 2014 14:52
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Cage posted:Remake the best movie (The Rock) with the best actor (The Rock). Comon Hollywood, this one would be easy to market. The Rock2
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Nov 27, 2014 16:16
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I'm not sure how anyone could think those raptors were hunting him when they are around him clearly not attacking while perfectly in position to and the one just chills and runs ahead
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Nov 27, 2014 18:33
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Jerusalem posted:The moment that the series became great was the moment they realized they could bring in the Rock and do some sweet double-team wrestling moves Seriously, I hated the F&F movies until they started marketing less towards gearheads and more towards people who wanted to see stupid car poo poo, like two cars dragging a giant loving safe down the road without any problems whatsoever with momentum, or seeing an airplane drive down a runway that is nearly 20 kilometers long. Or watching this international police cop do some sweet takedown moves.
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Nov 27, 2014 21:56
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Watching the first Childs Play movie and those dolls should probably be recalled just for how flammable they are. Also there are a lot of moments where Chucky gets the upper hand because the people are constantly flailing around and tripping on things.
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Nov 29, 2014 21:59
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Morpheus posted:Seriously, I hated the F&F movies until they started marketing less towards gearheads and more towards people who wanted to see stupid car poo poo, like two cars dragging a giant loving safe down the road without any problems whatsoever with momentum, or seeing an airplane drive down a runway that is nearly 20 kilometers long. Or watching this international police cop do some sweet takedown moves. F&F has always been a good "shut your brain off for two hours and enjoy stupid poo poo" movie series. It's just gotten substantially better now that The Rock has shown up and soon, Jason Statham.
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Nov 30, 2014 06:22
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Morpheus posted:Seriously, I hated the F&F movies until they started marketing less towards gearheads and more towards people who wanted to see stupid car poo poo, like two cars dragging a giant loving safe down the road without any problems whatsoever with momentum, or seeing an airplane drive down a runway that is nearly 20 kilometers long. Or watching this international police cop do some sweet takedown moves. Yeah the last twenty-odd minutes of both Five and Six were a pair of big fat Stone Cold-style middle fingers to physics and they both ruled.
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Nov 30, 2014 06:53
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Saw the trailer for the Paddington Bear film, and while it all looks very sweet, I don't know why a Peruvian bear on his first trip outside Peru in his life sounds like Ben Whishaw. When I read the books when I was a kid, I always imagined him sounding kind of Spanish (mainly because I didn't know what Peruvian accents sounded like). Maybe when he was learning English (I forget where/when he learnt it) he studied received pronunciation too?
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Nov 30, 2014 15:06
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Stottie Kyek posted:Saw the trailer for the Paddington Bear film, and while it all looks very sweet, I don't know why a Peruvian bear on his first trip outside Peru in his life sounds like Ben Whishaw. When I read the books when I was a kid, I always imagined him sounding kind of Spanish (mainly because I didn't know what Peruvian accents sounded like). Maybe when he was learning English (I forget where/when he learnt it) he studied received pronunciation too?
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Nov 30, 2014 15:28
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I was talking with a friend about Guardians of the Galaxy earlier and was reminded of one thing that's always bugged me in sci fi. The team is thrown in jail by an extremely advanced race who are pretty much 'the good guys' by any measure. But their prison system is something out of the loving dark ages. It's like a nightmare version of a prison out of a Republican's wet dream rather than what you'd expect from an interstellar empire of peace and plenty. I know it's done for drama and to show how badass everyone is as they face off against rapists and murders and so on. But it's just lazy. Just once I'd like to see, "Okay Mr Star Lord, here's your three room suite, lights off whenever you feel like and the prison masseuse will be around shortly to help you with any tension you're feeling. Someone will be around later to take your request for dinner."
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Nov 30, 2014 15:53
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In a lot of sci-fi that's done to make a point about real-life prisons or justice systems, like the Cardassian or Romulan prisons or the mind prison thing that made you feel like you'd done a 20-year stretch in Star Trek, or some of the worlds in Stargate. But yeah, there didn't seem to be any reason for it in Guardians, they weren't making any political points about it at all.
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Nov 30, 2014 15:58
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in chronicles of Riddick they had this except it was all "lol private sector prisons" about it.
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Nov 30, 2014 19:14
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Stottie Kyek posted:In a lot of sci-fi that's done to make a point about real-life prisons or justice systems, like the Cardassian or Romulan prisons or the mind prison thing that made you feel like you'd done a 20-year stretch in Star Trek, or some of the worlds in Stargate. But yeah, there didn't seem to be any reason for it in Guardians, they weren't making any political points about it at all. Prisons are scary, prisoners are animals. They probably never considered doing it any other way. How do you even film a scene in prison without rape coming up or instantly getting in a fight?
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Nov 30, 2014 19:37
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Wasn't it specifically the super lovely prison for super lovely inmates that probably exists mostly as a deterrent? Of course then the question becomes how was their crime severe enough to get them there.
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Nov 30, 2014 19:46
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So the society that consider themselves beacons of truth and justice imprison large numbers of people (who disproportionally dont look like them) in hellish conditions for crimes that doesnt seem to warrant those conditions. Nope, definately no possible message or parallel to be taken from that.
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Nov 30, 2014 20:47
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Its a space movie.
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Nov 30, 2014 21:05
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irrational, dude
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Nov 30, 2014 21:34
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It's the Marvel Universe. Anything in space has a week, tops before it's blown up by the Kree, eaten by a giant planet or Galactus, pierced by an errant Mjolnir throw, used as a club by the Sentry, laser beamed by Captain Marvel, the site of an X-Men brawl or hijacked by Forge and rebuilt as a toaster oven. You won't bother making your fancy pants space prison nice, you want it cheap and easily cobbled together.
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Nov 30, 2014 23:10
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incidentally there's a really good Ask Me About Prison thread in Ask/Tell, we could direct "science fiction prisons as commentary" questions to them instead
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Nov 30, 2014 23:32
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I hate when a character goes to a new country and immediately breaks their most famous cultural rule. It's really common with people going to Japan and not taking off their shoes. They're trying to show that the character is out of their element but it's just so obvious and lazy. "Oh no! I'm an average American businessman so I don't know people bow in this country I was sent to do business in."
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Nov 30, 2014 23:57
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Blade Trinity is basically 90 single irritating moments edited into a movie.
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Dec 1, 2014 02:51
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oldpainless posted:Blade Trinity is basically 90 single irritating moments edited into a movie. If it helps, the making of the film was one long line of irritating moments for the cast as well.
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Dec 1, 2014 03:45
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DrBouvenstein posted:How in the world did they get blood of an aquatic dinosaur from a mosquito? That's just how they explained the DNA in the first movie, who knows if they're going to continue with that explanation. Back in 2005 some researchers discovered soft tissue in the femur of a T-Rex. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/03/0324_050324_trexsofttissue.html While this discovery doesn't seem to have DNA, I can guarantee that people are going to start looking a little harder now knowing it can be preserved that long. It isn't beyond the realm of possibility to find intact partial sequences of DNA and patch it back together, this is a Sci-Fi movie and their manipulation of genetics is far beyond what is currently possible.
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Dec 1, 2014 07:58
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DNA has a 521 year half-life. So the dinosaurs could have left behind freezers full of frozen samples and we'd get no useful genetic information from it.
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Dec 1, 2014 08:22
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Very true but for the sake of Jurassic Park movies they choose to ignore all of that, and middlebrows in the audience don't really care how the dinosaurs get to be alive as long as it sounds just plausible enough in the moment of exposition. Hell, there's a minority that actively celebrates when movies say "gently caress your logic and facts we're going with this and you're either on board or gently caress you" like in Looper.
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Dec 1, 2014 08:30
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Yeah it's a movie and they just need to throw out something plausible sounding and move on to the Dinosaurs and poo poo. It's just that arguing about what method of getting the Dino DNA is most realistic is pretty much missing the point. Also I think the half-life fact is itself interesting.
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Dec 1, 2014 22:03
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I'm irrationally irritated at the "made a new dinosaur" gimmick. What set JP apart from other monster movies for me was that dinosaurs were very real. Even if the movies got details wrong (either outright, or because of later discoveries), T. Rex? Real. Raptors? Real (albiet Utahraptors given their size, not Veloci-). Even the plots of the movies were based on dinosaur controversies of the time. The old "were dinosaurs warm-blooded?" and "did dinosaurs become birds?" ones shaped the first, "were dinosaurs parental?" the second, "was T. Rex really a scavenger?" the third. Even the Spinosaurus stuff was based on something. Hell, the first Jurassic Park is the entire reason people now think of dinosaurs as fast-moving and dangerous animals instead of lumbering behemoths. Grant was supposed to be seen as a bit of an eccentric for advocating bird-like dinosaurs at the start of the movie. Now what? Just "yeah, we made 1998's Godzilla for giggles, everybody run around in panic woooo raptor motorbike squad"?
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Dec 2, 2014 01:14
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Byzantine posted:I'm irrationally irritated at the "made a new dinosaur" gimmick. Didn't the second Jurassic Park book have a chameleon dinosaur? It isn't like ridiculous hybrids are too far fetched.
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Dec 2, 2014 02:20
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Len posted:Didn't the second Jurassic Park book have a chameleon dinosaur? It isn't like ridiculous hybrids are too far fetched. I read the original Jurassic Park novel something like eight times in the fifth grade alone, and I could not get more than a handful of chapters into the second book; it would not surprise me.
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Dec 2, 2014 02:27
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All I want is a movie with Navy SEALs and trained raptors killing Osama Bin Laden is that so much to loving ask.
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Dec 2, 2014 02:54
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I want the Navy SEALs to be actual seals, though.
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Dec 2, 2014 03:20
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Len posted:Didn't the second Jurassic Park book have a chameleon dinosaur? It isn't like ridiculous hybrids are too far fetched. Because it was thought Carnotaurus was an ambush predator that fed on smaller prey at the time.
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Byzantine posted:Because it was thought Carnotaurus was an ambush predator that fed on smaller prey at the time. I wasn't aware that was a thing. But still the entire plot of the first book is "hey we built hybrid dinosaurs our of frog dna and blood from mosquitos and hope" so hey if they want to get EXTREME to reattract the youth of today then I wouldn't be surprised if they just threw poo poo into a pot to see what happened.
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