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Vagabundo posted:Miles Teller also looks like he's in the middle of making GBS threads his pants. It's to match the poo poo-eating grin he has in those movies. And since they killed off Jai Courtney's character in the second movie he has to up the ante on being a smarmy oval office. If you didn't watch Insurgent, you also missed out on wonderful stuff like this (feel free to skip the first two minutes). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7OLbTkGguo I love to hate this series so much. I am already hoping they have enough material and/or profit for a fourth movie. Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 10:47 on Nov 14, 2015 |
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Lurdiak posted:I am pretty sure it's called The V Vitch.
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I feel like Vin Diesel is a big enough nerd to change his name again to Win Diesel.
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Should of been the 'uuitch' for authenticity. If it was set before 1300 AD, which it isn't. Either way it is linguistically impure. Burn it!
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rawillkill posted:There's also this The character-poster trend has gone too far.
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Maxwell Lord posted:I like how the guy in the center is clearly having second thoughts. To be fair, that's his character.
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I don't know what this is based on or even its number in the series but I'm going to say it's a YA novel, yeah? Didn't we learn anything from Eragon?
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I think it's the dystopian YA sci-fi where people are put into a caste based on personality test but some people are really unique snowflakes that don't fit perfectly into a any of the castes and they are oppressed and then they rebel.
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Shoehead posted:I don't know what this is based on or even its number in the series but I'm going to say it's a YA novel, yeah? Didn't we learn anything from Eragon? The subset of "rebellious teenagers in a dystopian future" YA movie adaptations has made way more money than "teens in fantasy start wars ripoffs"
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Which is a shame, because some of the most visually striking films ever made were post-apocalyptic or dystopian.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I think it's the dystopian YA sci-fi where people are put into a caste based on personality test but some people are really unique snowflakes that don't fit perfectly into a any of the castes and they are oppressed and then they rebel. That's it more or less. I've never the books, and only saw the first film, but it's the most weirdly needlessly convoluted caste system I've ever seen. People are raised in whatever caste until they're teenagers, and then have a personality test tripping balls...which somehow determines aptitude? But they then can choose what caste they want to be a part of, even if it goes against whatever results their acid trip suggested. Then they have to train, and take another acid trip exam - the failure of which results in being placed into the reject caste. It's really loving dumb. In the LSD trip, there's a scene where the protagonist is trapped inside a cabient, filling with water, and instead of trying to break the glass, she tries to unscrew the bolts or something using logic...only to be told she shouldn't do that because that shows that she is a divergent (read: unique snowflake), and because she's in the warrior caste, she should act in the manner a warrior would, not the inteliigensia caste. It's as though the writer saw the houses from Harry Potter, and decided that the house values (courage, intelligence, caring, cunning) were only specific to people inside that house; eg. Hermione is really smart, ergo she shouldn't be in Griffindor, but Ravenclaw. Also, the antagonists can mind control castes through drugs unless they're a divergent, and then they're immune to it? And the drugs are tailoured to work on specific castes, IIRC - despite the individual members of the caste having no genetic links between each one another, aside from being placed together in the same caste. It's really loving dumb. Pesky Splinter fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Nov 14, 2015 |
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Pesky Splinter posted:the protagonist is trapped inside a cabient, filling with water, and instead of trying to break the glass, she tries to unscrew the bolts or something using logic...only to be told she shouldn't do that because that shows that she is a divergent (read: unique snowflake), and because she's in the warrior caste, she should act in the manner a warrior would, not the inteliigensia caste. So it's a movie about Captain Cabinets?
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Shoehead posted:I don't know what this is based on or even its number in the series but I'm going to say it's a YA novel, yeah? Didn't we learn anything from Eragon? I think this is a bit more successful than Eragon, considering that stopped at one movie and now we are up to 3 Divergent ones.
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I saw Eragon, and the only thing I remember from it is wondering if the cat got out when I left the house throughout the entire thing.
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I recall hearing that the author of Divergent made the smart people the bad guys because a professor was mean to her in college or something like that. And I haven't seen the movies, but the lead looks extremely unconvincing as an action star.
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Dr. S.O. Feelgood posted:I recall hearing that the author of Divergent made the smart people the bad guys because a professor was mean to her in college or something like that. And I haven't seen the movies, but the lead looks extremely unconvincing as an action star. I'm pretty sure the whole thing is an allegory for the author disliking those four-letter personality tests.
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Pesky Splinter posted:That's it more or less. The best part of this is she gets into the warrior "Dauntless" caste which is translated as "You never show the slightest hesitation at anything ever" so there's literally a point where they're throwing knives at targets and something falls over on the range and they send one of the recruits to pick it up without stopping the knife throwing and "if he flinches, he's cut." And these guys are supposed to be like the stormtroopers of the setting so they've designed their fascist goon squad to be suicidal idiots. It's hilarious.
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Maxwell Lord posted:I'm pretty sure the whole thing is an allegory for the author disliking those four-letter personality tests. Well they are completely worthless and have been actively disproven by the psychological community yet schools and businesses still use them because they're so heavily marketed, the frustration at the course of your lie being determining by a bullshit multiple-choice test is a pretty rich vein to mine.
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Dr. S.O. Feelgood posted:And I haven't seen the movies, but the lead looks extremely unconvincing as an action star. She's blandly acceptable, from what I remember from the single time I watched it  Maxwell Lord posted:The best part of this is she gets into the warrior "Dauntless" caste which is translated as "You never show the slightest hesitation at anything ever" so there's literally a point where they're throwing knives at targets and something falls over on the range and they send one of the recruits to pick it up without stopping the knife throwing and "if he flinches, he's cut." I forgot about that - yeah that's a great idea, training your soldiers to have no survival instinct. They also jump on and off trains, and from massive heights too. I recall it having a super weird plot structure; like twenty minutes of a sorting hat scene, two hours of underdog high school relationship bollocks, and then a hurried half hour for sequel bait, and whateverthefuck Kate Winslet had been doing. Sleeveless posted:Well they are completely worthless and have been actively disproven by the psychological community yet schools and businesses still use them because they're so heavily marketed, the frustration at the course of your lie being determining by a bullshit multiple-choice test is a pretty rich vein to mine. Thing is, the premise of the movie wouldn't be bad material for such a thing, but it undermines itself by allowing people to actively choose what caste to train in. Like, it'd make more sense if they have the bullshit test and "Well you're a farmer - on that farm you go - no soldiering for you!" and were forced to become a farmer or whatever...but they don't. It's "I want to become a soldier!" "Ok, that goes against the results of your psyche evaluation, but ok. Sure. Soldier it is then!".  Waffleman_ posted:I saw Eragon, and the only thing I remember from it is wondering if the cat got out when I left the house throughout the entire thing. You mean you can't remember John Malkovich's suffering? Have some Eragon Posters:   I forgot Robert Carlyle was even in this thing.  Let's play a game; what colour is Eragon's jacket?   Also a weird photoshop of what'sherface showing a bit of shoulder in one. Carlyle's expression saying it all. 
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Sleeveless posted:Well they are completely worthless and have been actively disproven by the psychological community yet schools and businesses still use them because they're so heavily marketed, the frustration at the course of your lie being determining by a bullshit multiple-choice test is a pretty rich vein to mine. I lost a job that I all but had because of the results of a Briggs Meyer test. Two interviews, a working interview, and all references called. Then the test. Then silence.
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Slugworth posted:I lost a job that I all but had because of the results of a Briggs Meyer test. Two interviews, a working interview, and all references called. Then the test. Then silence. I'm surprised that's even legal. Like I did temp work for a bit and had to take a personality test, but 80% of the questions were about whether or not you would assault co-workers or steal, so its a fair cop if you can't pass that test. Hiring people based on Briggs Meyer seems dumb as hell.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:That seems pretty arbitrary. What, introverted people are incapable of getting a job done? Probably don't want people who think.
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Dr. S.O. Feelgood posted:I recall hearing that the author of Divergent made the smart people the bad guys because a professor was mean to her in college or something like that. And I haven't seen the movies, but the lead looks extremely unconvincing as an action star. IIRC, the author is a fundie Christian, who became Christian to rebel against her secular mother. The Abnegation faction are pretty much Christians being persecuted by the intelligent elite.
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ID4: Resurgence Tagline: Now, the aliens have Norton Virus Protection
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:That seems pretty arbitrary. What, introverted people are incapable of getting a job done? I probably tested as Divergent and they were afraid I would upset their society and lazily rappel down their dams.
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Maxwell Lord posted:The best part of this is she gets into the warrior "Dauntless" caste which is translated as "You never show the slightest hesitation at anything ever" so there's literally a point where they're throwing knives at targets and something falls over on the range and they send one of the recruits to pick it up without stopping the knife throwing and "if he flinches, he's cut." Aren't the factions and their methodologies in Divergent ultimately revealed to have been deliberately created to be total bullshit and incapable of being actually effective? MikeJF fucked around with this message at 15:21 on Nov 15, 2015 |
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Hoping this will be the first of a dystopian young adult trilogy.
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MikeJF posted:Aren't the factions and their methodologies in Divergent ultimately revealed to have been deliberately created to be total bullshit and incapable of being actually effective? It's all some sort of big social experiment with the end-goal of finding a person who represents all the factions equally. That person gets hooked up to a VR plot device, faces a trial for every faction and then unlocks a message from the past saying that the entire world HASN'T gone to poo poo and they are waiting out there somewhere. Queue movie #3. I don't remember the specifics, but go see these movies. They're really funny to take apart and feature such hokey overdramatic acting/action. It's wonderful.
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Spazzle posted:Hoping this will be the first of a dystopian young adult trilogy. The 5th Wave is your alien invasion YA dystopia movie (series???): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmxLybfGNC4
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Spazzle posted:Hoping this will be the first of a dystopian young adult trilogy. Only Jaden Smith can welcome these aliens to erf.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Only Jaden Smith can welcome these aliens to erf. *after erf
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I am hyped as all hell for this movie. It looks fun as hell with humanity pretty much spending all the time between the first movie and this one scavenging the alien ships and developing new technologies/ships/weapons to face any more invasions. Some of the concept art and ships they've shown so far look rad as hell and I think there's a moon base too.
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GrandpaPants posted:The 5th Wave is your alien invasion YA dystopia movie (series???): I'm pretty sure they telegraphed the twist in that movie in the trailer. I'm speculating that (spoiler tagging just in case it does turn out to be true) Moretz is really an alien doppelganger, just doesn't know it.
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FoneBone posted:Pretty sure that's fanart; it has the wrong studio logo on it (it's a Fox movie). I was going to say, yeah.
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