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Event Horizon is a fine movie, but I find it unrealistic that noone at any stage of the design process looked at each other and said "Hey, we're building an evil spaceship. What's up with that?"
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LoonShia posted:Event Horizon is a fine movie, but I find it unrealistic that noone at any stage of the design process looked at each other and said "Hey, we're building an evil spaceship. What's up with that?" people build evil poo poo all the drat time
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Mar 29, 2015 20:43
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A group of weapons designers pore the blueprints of their latest cluster-bomb, one of them looks up. "Is this evil?". Edit: A group of Arby's food designers pore the blueprints of their latest sandwich, one of them looks up. "Is this evil?".
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Mar 29, 2015 20:56
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Lord of War is a fine movie, but I find it weird that during the design process of the AK47, nobody looked at each other and said "hey, we're building a machine designed to blow holes in people until they bleed out and die, what's up with that?"
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Mar 29, 2015 20:58
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It was presumably built by engineers, who I can only assume had a conversation somewhere along the lines of "wait, we can go places faster by taking a shortcut through Hell? AWESOME!" I can't even really say they're wrong!
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Mar 29, 2015 20:58
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Shopping is still W.S.'s best film.
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Mar 29, 2015 21:00
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LoonShia posted:Event Horizon is a fine movie, but I find it unrealistic that noone at any stage of the design process looked at each other and said "Hey, we're building an evil spaceship. What's up with that?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU
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Mar 29, 2015 21:05
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Kramjacks posted:A group of weapons designers pore the blueprints of their latest cluster-bomb, one of them looks up. "Is this evil?". They sell gyros now so yeah
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Mar 29, 2015 21:11
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K. Waste posted:Shopping is still W.S.'s best film. I haven't seen Shopping but Mortal Kombat's one of the best movies of the '90s so I find this hard to believe
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Mar 29, 2015 21:15
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LoonShia posted:Event Horizon is a fine movie, but I find it unrealistic that noone at any stage of the design process looked at each other and said "Hey, we're building an evil spaceship. What's up with that?" Wasn't its becoming-evilness due to the unforseen "turns out we go through literal hell every time we use the engine" thing?
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Mar 29, 2015 21:24
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FishBulb posted:They sell gyros now so yeah
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Mar 29, 2015 21:30
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best movies of 1995: 1. Showgirls 2. Mortal Kombat 3. Seven 4. Casino 5. Lord of Illusions 6. Strange Days 7. To Die For 8. Dead Presidents 9. Gamera: Guardian of the Universe 10. Clockers rad year.
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Mar 29, 2015 21:30
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Lurdiak posted:Being so violently corrupt for so long is finally catching up to it. Wrestling is still in the Olympics, they reversed the decision a few months later. It was basically a political stunt by the IOC to put pressure on FILA.
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Mar 29, 2015 21:30
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Mortal Kombat fuckin oooooowns. It's just a dumb little cheesy action movie but it's completely and utterly unapologetic about it, the fights are all surprisingly brutal and well-done (that black guy who gets his ribcage crushed by Liu Kang  ), the aesthetic is extremely well-realized, the soundtrack kicks rear end, and it doesn't overstay its welcome at all. It's also got some really, really good dialogue in it, surprisingly.I have a soft spot for Annihilation, because I was the biggest MK fanboy as a little kid, but god drat that is not a good movie.
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Mar 29, 2015 21:36
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:best movies of 1995: Where do you fall on Dead Man and Welcome to the Dollhouse?
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Mar 29, 2015 21:37
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TrixRabbi posted:Where do you fall on Dead Man and Welcome to the Dollhouse? completely forgot about Dead Man, that one's definitely got a spot in the top 10. it's been forever since I've seen Welcome to the Dollhouse, but I don't recall caring for it. I could put together a top 10 runners up for 95 that's just as strong, though. very solid year, especially for genre flicks. we even got 2 really good kaiju movies (Gamera and Godzilla vs. Destroyah)
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Mar 29, 2015 21:44
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:best movies of 1995: Lord of Illusions or To Die For over Heat? Shameful.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:best movies of 1995: I feel like Leaving Las Vegas could be argued for.
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Timby posted:Lord of Illusions or To Die For over Heat? Shameful. Heat's pretty okay for a movie that's about 90 minutes too long Mechafunkzilla posted:I feel like Leaving Las Vegas could be argued for. i need to rewatch it but you're absolutely right other signs 1995 was an uncommonly good year: i haven't even mentioned Braveheart yet, and i loving love Braveheart
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Mar 29, 2015 22:20
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I've only seen 20 films from 1995 and, yeah, in general, that was a pretty rad year. I think my tentative top five is something like 1) Your Studio and You 2) Multi-Facial 3) Fallen Angels 4) Kids 5) 12 Monkeys It's also fitting that the same year should have two of my favorite short films ever. Both Trey Parker/Matt Stone's Your Studio and You and Vin Diesel's Multi-Facial are seriously great.
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Mar 29, 2015 22:26
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1995 also had Seven, Babe, and The Brady Bunch.
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When are Bowling for Soup gonna come out of de facto retirement to record their new single "1995"?
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CopywrightMMXI posted:1995 also had Seven, Babe, and The Brady Bunch. i mentioned Seven but good call on the other two edit: LORD OF BUTT posted:Mortal Kombat fuckin oooooowns. It's just a dumb little cheesy action movie but it's completely and utterly unapologetic about it, the fights are all surprisingly brutal and well-done (that black guy who gets his ribcage crushed by Liu Kang goin back to this for a minute, another thing Mortal Kombat has going for it is a great slate of villains. Shang Tsung, Kano, and Goro are all extremely fun bad guys in very different ways. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa seriously rules. double edit: Wikipedia posted:Tagawa was the filmmakers' first and only choice for the role; he was instantly selected after he came to his audition in costume, and read his lines while standing on a chair.[2] fuckin' dooooooooooooooope Uncle Boogeyman fucked around with this message at 22:50 on Mar 29, 2015 |
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Mar 29, 2015 22:45
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Showgirls is pretty good, but is it truly better than A Goofy Movie?
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Mar 29, 2015 23:04
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I would legitimately go to bat for MK as one of the best action movies of the last 20 years
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LORD OF BUTT posted:I would legitimately go to bat for MK as one of the best action movies of the last 20 years at the very least it's both Paul W.S. Anderson's best and the best video game movie ever made (not that either of these are tremendously high bars to clear, but still)
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Am I wrong to think that the end of AI is the most cynical, nihilistic, cruel ending possible if the rest of the movie is about Haley Joel Osmet developing consciousness and emotion? Wouldn't a normal movie have him grow enough to get over his love for a mother who doesn't deserve it, or have him acknowledge that his parents were flawed people and he can now grow and be his own person in an amazing outer-space future? Instead it's like he's just a simulation of consciousness who fooled everyone and can only be satisfied by a simulation of his dead mother giving him an artificial version of the love she withheld in reality because he's programmed to only want the signs of love and to not care that it's not actually his mother. Like, those robots just straight-up told him that they could make his desires flesh, but his whole problem was that his desires weren't possible. Did I misread the end of the movie? I wasn't really paying attention until the last act, but it seems like maybe Spielberg kept Kubrick's story but his soft-headed sentimentalism made him think it was a happy ending?
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Jack Gladney posted:Did I misread the end of the movie? I wasn't really paying attention until the last act, but it seems like maybe Spielberg kept Kubrick's story but his soft-headed sentimentalism made him think it was a happy ending? I think that's exactly what happened, although probably more of a "deliberately directed it that way" and less "somehow didn't notice." The real question (to me, at least) is how cynical were his reasons for doing it. e: Alternatively, there are only two ways to write a story about someone who's stuck being a child forever, and the other way is exemplified by Interview with a Vampire. Tuxedo Catfish fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Mar 29, 2015 |
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A.I. is a weird loving movie. i go back and forth a lot on whether i actually like that one. definitely too long, though.
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At least it isn't Bicentennial Man.
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i don't even think it's bad. it's just... challenging. maybe Spielberg's most challenging movie. getting back to the question of the ending, i didn't always feel this way, but i've come to think it's definitely tragedy and it's definitely deliberate. it kinda feels like Spielberg acknowledging the falsehood of a lot of the happy endings in his films, and of a lot of happy endings in general. i think maybe taking on a Kubrick scenario kinda forced him to be self-critical (not to mention atypically downbeat) Uncle Boogeyman fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Mar 29, 2015 |
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Mar 29, 2015 23:23
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Lord of Illusion and Scott Bakula is great, Mortal Kombat was awesome and a blast as a kid, Event Horizon had a great atmosphere and aura of dread. All three rock.
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Mar 29, 2015 23:28
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i'm glad people are coming around to Lord of Illusions and Mortal Kombat. those two haven't exactly had sterling reputations over the past 20 years. ditto Face/Off, which i'm rewatching now.
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Mar 29, 2015 23:37
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On the other hand, I don't understand why people like Nightbreed so much. It's just a big convoluted mess that goes nowhere.
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Mar 29, 2015 23:48
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There's lots of cool monsters and it looks pretty.
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CPL593H posted:On the other hand, I don't understand why people like Nightbreed so much. It's just a big convoluted mess that goes nowhere. i agree with the big convoluted mess part but i still love that movie. it's just such a crazy, wildly ambitious segue from '80s horror into '90s horror. Barker wanted to make the Star Wars of horror. i think in a way he succeeded. people just weren't ready. now that the director's cut had that splashy rerelease, i could see it finding a following with the Neil Gaiman crowd. Uncle Boogeyman fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Mar 29, 2015 |
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:i agree with the big convoluted mess part but i still love that movie. it's just such a crazy, wildly ambitious segue from '80s horror into '90s horror. I agree that it was extremely ambitious, but it just seems like it builds up to nothing. David Cronenberg was really good in it.
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CPL593H posted:I agree that it was extremely ambitious, but it just seems like it builds up to nothing. and again, you're not wrong. the reason he couldn't really make the Star Wars of horror like he wanted is that nobody in 1990 was gonna throw a Star Wars budget at a weird, gory horror movie, not even by the guy who had such a smash hit with Hellraiser. fake edit: actually, it appears that Nightbreed had the exact same budget as Star Wars, with $11 million. but, y'know, 1990s dollars, not 1977 dollars.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Lord of War is a fine movie, but I find it weird that during the design process of the AK47, nobody looked at each other and said "hey, we're building a machine designed to blow holes in people until they bleed out and die, what's up with that?" That's a really poor choice for that analogy.
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Mechafunkzilla posted:Wrestling is still in the Olympics, they reversed the decision a few months later. It was basically a political stunt by the IOC to put pressure on FILA. I was going to say. LORD OF BUTT posted:Mortal Kombat fuckin oooooowns. It's just a dumb little cheesy action movie but it's completely and utterly unapologetic about it, the fights are all surprisingly brutal and well-done (that black guy who gets his ribcage crushed by Liu Kang I was also gonna say the best thing about the MK movie is how you never notice there's no blood in it.
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