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LesterGroans posted:Upstream Color is one of the best movies of the 21st century and a much better "proto-Malick" than Ain't Them Bodies Saints. Which is a shame, because I had high hopes for that. Upstream Color is seriously incredible.
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flashy_mcflash posted:For what it's worth, I wrote a review of this doc a few weeks ago and was EXPLICITLY and REPEATEDLY told by the distributor and publisher not to reveal the 'twist' of the movie in the piece. I think the trailer communicates that something more than tickling is afoot (heh) here as well as it can without actually saying so. This this phenomenal. I love this resurgence of indie/low budget horror films lately.
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Assassin's Creed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfJVoF5ko1Y Never played it, but certainly looks like another nonsensical video game adaptation to me.
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A trailer making a big dramatic button to the trailer be one of the goofiest aspects of the game - diving off tall things into a cart full of hay - is applaudable in a really, really dumb way. But yeah this is going to be very pretty and incredibly nonsensical. Which might make it great! But based on every other foray into video game movies, not very likely.
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Barret and Wingard are so good at this movie thing guys, so good.
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feedmyleg posted:Assassin's Creed The games are fair but insist on injecting this nonsense b plot in the present/near future of unlocking memories through DNA and poo poo. It's worthless and largely hated. No idea why they had to include that, just make the movie about medieval assassins and whatever, is that not interesting enough? Also Michael Fassbinder is excellent in everything and will elevate this. Enough?/probably not. But some.
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feedmyleg posted:Assassin's Creed It's Justin Kurzel and the same lead cast he had for Macbeth so I'm excited even if the games are pretty dumb.
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Ammanas posted:The games are fair but insist on injecting this nonsense b plot in the present/near future of unlocking memories through DNA and poo poo. It's worthless and largely hated. No idea why they had to include that, just make the movie about medieval assassins and whatever, is that not interesting enough? its the best part & i dont care about ubisoft's watered down version of history nearly as much as the weird centuries-spanning off-brand illuminatus alien stuff that is technically the backbone of the story but never comes through as much as it should in the games.
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Hat Thoughts posted:its the best part & i dont care about ubisoft's watered down version of history nearly as much as the weird centuries-spanning off-brand illuminatus alien stuff that is technically the backbone of the story but never comes through as much as it should in the games. in the games the illuminati stop trying to emd the world and decide to use the animus to make video games lol
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GonSmithe posted:Upstream Color is serious doodoo.
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May 12, 2016 06:26
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as long as we agree it's serious
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why the hell is the animus a thing that pointlessly lifts fastbender in the air? poo poo looks stupid and yeah even as a fan of those games (in the past, the series is garbage now) the animus stuff is pretty much universally hated, I expect the same from the film
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The ac trailer actually looks insanely good wtf? Digging the whole aesthetic vibe they are putting down there. Wanna see fassbender fassbending around parkour style.
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I can bet that the reviews will say the plot's an incomprehensible mess but they'll praises the look of the film. They should have left the animus stuff out or atleast not made it even more silly with a VR crane machine thing, but I suppose that's more interesting to see than Fassbender asleep on a table for half the movie.
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Deakul posted:I can bet that the reviews will say the plot's an incomprehensible mess but they'll praises the look of the film.
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The only thing the trailer has done is encouraged me to finally play Brotherhood, which came with my video card in 2012.
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Yeah I have no idea whether it's thematically appropriate for Assassin's Creed because I know jack poo poo about those games, but it's a spooky and badass track so I'm all for it in this broody, stylized action movie. For those who know more about the franchise, what makes the song stick out like a sore thumb?
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Deakul posted:They should have left the animus stuff out or atleast not made it even more silly with a VR crane machine thing, but I suppose that's more interesting to see than Fassbender asleep on a table for half the movie. If they had to include a VR suspension machine then they should have really committed to the idea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWLHIusLWOc
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cat doter posted:why the hell is the animus a thing that pointlessly lifts fastbender in the air? poo poo looks stupid In the games the animus is just a chair/bed and you get connected and relive memories and poo poo then after too much use the "abilities" start bleeding through to the present. They're obviously going for the same idea but by having the animus be this VR room where Fassbender's character has to "move" and jump and poo poo his body will be in and getting trained/exercise so when he escapes in the end it'll make sense that he's a super assassin in the present. Which makes it really convenient that they equipped him with two real hidden blades in the present to aid with his "VR" because that's obviously not going to backfire.
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May 12, 2016 15:02
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The problem with using I am a God is that I really want to see Kanye himself in the movie now and I know I'll be let down.
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:The problem with using I am a God is that I really want to see Kanye himself in the movie now and I know I'll be let down.
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Has he ever dive bombed off a building to knife someone in the neck? Because that's what I want to see him do. In the movie or real life, whatever.
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cat doter posted:the ezio trilogy is pretty much the only good thing to come out of that series The modern day parts sucked, but AC4 was awesome just cruising around being a pirate.
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Jenny Angel posted:Yeah I have no idea whether it's thematically appropriate for Assassin's Creed because I know jack poo poo about those games, but it's a spooky and badass track so I'm all for it in this broody, stylized action movie. For those who know more about the franchise, what makes the song stick out like a sore thumb? Video game nerds hate Kanye. I will say, while watching the trailer I enjoyed the song's use in theory but not necessarily in execution. Like, while it was playing I was thinking "oh, cool, 'I Am a God' would make a good trailer song" while being pretty indifferent to its use in this trailer.
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scary ghost dog posted:in the games the illuminati stop trying to emd the world and decide to use the animus to make video games lol These ubisoft guys are creative as hell!!!
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It could be worse but that looks ok. It's not like AC is some treasured concept and as mentioned, the only good thing to come out of it was the Ezio stories.
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AFewBricksShy posted:The modern day parts sucked, but AC4 was awesome just cruising around being a pirate. Please don't talk about pirating on this forum.
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Trailer was good until Kanye's voice showed up.
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Scyantific posted:Trailer was good until Kanye's voice showed up. Much like his music 
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GonSmithe posted:Upstream Color is seriously incredible. Yes! It's absolutely stunning.
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Jack's Flow posted:Yes! It's absolutely stunning.  but at the same time I would not blame anyone for thinking it was just a bit sillysee also: The Fountain
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Clipperton posted:
Yeah, I agree. I love both of those movies, and I have recommended them to a lot of friends... with mixed results.
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Jack's Flow posted:Yeah, I agree. I love both of those movies, and I have recommended them to a lot of friends... with mixed results. Carruth seems to give even less of a poo poo than Aronofsky about whether the audience is along for the ride, which is kind of impressive
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LesterGroans posted:nerds hate Kanye.
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Some nerds like Kanye, others don't, much like every other demographic
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I notice a very visceral instant reaction from nerds/dorks/white people/people on the internet/people with bad taste/whatever you want to call them/, though that's mostly to any sort of hip hop music being mixed with their crappy media. I hope they make a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie reboot and cast Kanye West as every Ninja Turtle so that the resulting aneurysms will improve the gene pool
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