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Yeah the problem wasn't that they tried to do a character drama but that they picked the worst and most bland ones to follow around. I personally liked all the cutaways from Godzilla and holding out on him until the end.
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Jun 17, 2016 23:13
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At least Bryan Cranston should've survived the rest of the goddamn movie
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CineD also likes Godzilla.
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It is a neat film imo but it has plenty of problems (mainly the Cranston thing) and I can totally see why loads of people hate it or don't rate it much.
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Gaunab posted:CineD also likes Godzilla. CineD hates everything except Surviving Edged Weapons, Magic Lizard, and Blacula. Rightfully so.
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Just having finished watching The Disappearance/Disparue (a mystery about the murder of a young girl) I was hoping it wouldn't be like Broadchurch where the killer was the one person who wasn't accused of the murder, so by the time it gets to the last episode you only have to remember who hasn't been accused and that's who did it. Of course you can say it's the journey not the destination but the endless red herrings trying to get you to think it was this person or that means that the story was supposed to be about the murder mystery and not the way the story was told. I wish there was a way in advance to know if it was going to be one of those mysteries.
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I'm really getting tired of shows where someone murders someone 1) very suddenly without really thinking and/or 2) using some sort of decorative object in the room.
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Henchman of Santa posted:I'm really getting tired of shows where someone murders someone 1) very suddenly without really thinking and/or 2) using some sort of decorative object in the room. But murders happen like they do in the game Clue, don't they? Henchman of Santa in the conservatory with a lead pipe!
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"Reboots"/sequels of older movies that, instead of trying to expand on the original theme, just try and reproduce nearly the same exact movie with different people. I'm especially thinking of Kindergarten Cop 2 with Dolph Lundgren and the entirely unnecessary remake of cabin fever that came out this year. Why did these movies need to be made? There's nothing new whatsoever about them, and in the case of Cabin Fever it's seriously almost a shot for shot remake, the plot is almost exactly the same.
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Murphy Brownback posted:"Reboots"/sequels of older movies that, instead of trying to expand on the original theme, just try and reproduce nearly the same exact movie with different people. I'm especially thinking of Kindergarten Cop 2 with Dolph Lundgren and the entirely unnecessary remake of cabin fever that came out this year. Why did these movies need to be made? There's nothing new whatsoever about them, and in the case of Cabin Fever it's seriously almost a shot for shot remake, the plot is almost exactly the same. Did it have pancakes kid?
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BROCK LESBIAN posted:Did it have pancakes kid? I forget if he said pancakes this time but it did still have weird shop kid that bites strangers character. They took out the sick flips the pancakes kid did though.
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Murphy Brownback posted:"Reboots"/sequels of older movies that, instead of trying to expand on the original theme, just try and reproduce nearly the same exact movie with different people. I'm especially thinking of Kindergarten Cop 2 with Dolph Lundgren and the entirely unnecessary remake of cabin fever that came out this year. Why did these movies need to be made? There's nothing new whatsoever about them, and in the case of Cabin Fever it's seriously almost a shot for shot remake, the plot is almost exactly the same. People poo poo on the 2014 robocop, and it's not perfect, but it did at least bother to actually update the themes of the story instead of retreading the same ground.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:People poo poo on the 2014 robocop, and it's not perfect, but it did at least bother to actually update the themes of the story instead of retreading the same ground. Yeah, I thought it did a good job of trying to expand on the original and mix it up. Original Robocop was a robot remembering how to be human, new Robocop was a human learning how to live as a robot.
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New Robocop at least gave us Our Robocop Remake (dot com) and I'll forever be thankful for that image of new robocop being a garbage eating raccoon that everyone shoos away. And the fatalframe scene with all the squib work. I don't like remakes in general but why were they so proud that the psycho remake from maybe '98 was literally a shot for shot remake you could overlay with the original. What was the point? Ironically, I am not going to like Ghostbusters as much because it isn't literally a genderswapped reshoot of exactly ghostbusters from the 80s. They've got two egons, a ray and a winston but no peter. And no peters between the bunch of them haha I get it now. I'm back on board.
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My problem with the new Ghostbusters (at least from the trailers) is that all the humor is lovely and unfunny 🙁
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I guess my week ends the same day it starts cos there's not gonna be a fresher take than that.
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Krinkle posted:New Robocop at least gave us Our Robocop Remake (dot com) and I'll forever be thankful for that image of new robocop being a garbage eating raccoon that everyone shoos away. And the fatalframe scene with all the squib work. Egon was funny as gently caress, Two Egons should be great in theory*, are you sure they really have any Egons at all? Because the promotional material makes it look like there are no actual jokes at all. *actually they did this in the comic book and it was great so fuckin proven
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It annoys me in movie commentaries - in almost every commentary - the following series of lines is said, paraphrased: - Someone says a spoiler about the movie - Someone (maybe him, maybe the other person in the commentary) will talk about talking about spoilers - The question of watching a commentary before watching the movie proper Do people think this is a clever thing to say? Nobody is gonna watch the goddamned commentary without having watched the movie beforehand.
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Krinkle posted:New Robocop at least gave us Our Robocop Remake (dot com) and I'll forever be thankful for that image of new robocop being a garbage eating raccoon that everyone shoos away. And the fatalframe scene with all the squib work.  I'm stealing this. This is now my go-to joke for the rest of the month before that comes out.
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Murphy Brownback posted:"Reboots"/sequels of older movies that, instead of trying to expand on the original theme, just try and reproduce nearly the same exact movie with different people. I'm especially thinking of Kindergarten Cop 2 with Dolph Lundgren and the entirely unnecessary remake of cabin fever that came out this year. Why did these movies need to be made? There's nothing new whatsoever about them, and in the case of Cabin Fever it's seriously almost a shot for shot remake, the plot is almost exactly the same. It's called "playing it safe" because production companies are pussies about steering away from specific formulas. It's exactly why Star Wars TFR was almost literally a shot-for-shot retelling of the first 3 SW movies, just with characters that had different names. Same reason that some movie adaptations from books, games or other media end up being lovely, because the producers butcher the plot and take out important info to the point that it's almost an entirely different story. There's a reason a lot of really good movies in the last decade have been indie hits that didn't have massive budgets and weren't part of big studios - independent filmmakers are willing to take a chance and not be total pussies looking for a quick cash grab by making a 27th sequel to a lovely movie that shouldn't have had a sequel, let alone multiple.
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BOOTY-ADE posted:There's a reason a lot of really good movies in the last decade have been indie hits that didn't have massive budgets and weren't part of big studios - independent filmmakers are willing to take a chance and not be total pussies looking for a quick cash grab by making a 27th sequel to a lovely movie that shouldn't have had a sequel, let alone multiple. MacGruber being the exception to this rule though.
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Top Dollar could've easily avoided his death in The Crow: Eric Draven kills a bunch of people related to his, and his fiancée's, death. He just wanted vengeance against those people involved, not Top Dollar himself. He was returning to his grave, but then TD goes and kidnaps Sarah, leading Eric to save her and kill him in the process. TD was powerful enough to just leave it at "oh poo poo most of my men were killed" and rebuild his empire without interference from a nearly invincible zombie man.
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The Endbringer posted:Top Dollar could've easily avoided his death in The Crow: But Draven had hurt Top Dollar's pride, so he couldn't just let it slide.
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GIANT OUIJA BOARD posted:But Draven had hurt Top Dollar's pride, so he couldn't just let it slide. Oh sure I get that revenge was the whole theme of the movie, I'm just saying that if had he let it slide, the last third of the movie wouldn't have taken place.
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The Endbringer posted:Top Dollar could've easily avoided his death in The Crow: It took me a few seconds to figure out who you were talking about and then I realised I never knew the name of "bad guy from The Crow who fucks his maybe-sister and collects swords".
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Memento posted:It took me a few seconds to figure out who you were talking about and then I realised I never knew the name of "bad guy from The Crow who fucks his maybe-sister and collects swords". Being a goth kid in the 90s, that guys monologue about death was the best thing. That and finding out that NIN had an original song in the soundtrack. And that only two other guys dressed up as D. Raven with the face paint at the high school Halloween party to share your shame.
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syscall girl posted:Being a goth kid in the 90s, that guys monologue about death was the best thing. That and finding out that NIN
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Android Bicyclist posted:I loved The Crow because I have a soft spot for movies set in my birth town of Detroit. See also: True Romance, Darkman, and Grosse Point Blank. Nice call on the song origin, whoops. My birth town was featured in the longest running sitcom in history, making fun of fat white dumb people. Natch Rewatched Grosse Pointe Blank a week ago and it was still fun. Minnie Driver and Cusack and just a really great cast.
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syscall girl posted:Being a goth kid in the 90s, that guys monologue about death was the best thing. That and finding out that NIN had an original song in the soundtrack. And that only two other guys dressed up as D. Raven with the face paint at the high school Halloween party to share your shame. I mainlined that soundtrack, The Downward Spiral, Pretty Hate Machine and Psalm: 69 (ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ) for basically the entire mid-90s.
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Memento posted:I mainlined that soundtrack, The Downward Spiral, Pretty Hate Machine and Psalm: 69 (ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ) for basically the entire mid-90s. I traded a stack of CDs to my brother for that soundtrack. Pearl Jam, Oasis, Live, all the best poo poo you could steal from BMG and Columbia for that one glorious halo. It was worth it in retrospect because giving your bro the old Oasis is just never not funny.
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syscall girl posted:giving your bro the old Oasis is just never not funny. Dominic you rat!
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The Endbringer posted:Top Dollar could've easily avoided his death in The Crow: Actually he couldn't. Top Dollar was also on Eric's vengeance list because he's the one who ordered the building cleared and sent T-Bird's posse to drive them out when they refused to leave. Eric just didn't know it because Top wasn't there and none of T-Bird's gang ever mentioned him.
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syscall girl posted:Rewatched Grosse Pointe Blank a week ago and it was still fun. Minnie Driver and Cusack and just a really great cast. My friend and I always crack up at Benny Urquidez at the reunion: "It is I, Sidney Feldman." "Oooh, you've changed. Save a dance for me!" The Endbringer posted:Top Dollar could've easily avoided his death in The Crow: Goddamn, I went through 2 or 3 CDs of the Crow soundtrack, and it's still on my yearly Halloween watchlist. 10 Beers has a new favorite as of 18:36 on Jun 21, 2016 |
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There's a lot of stupid things about the first Highlander movie but something that kind of bugs me is how at the beginning Conner is at some wrestling match. Like, what was he doing there in the first place?
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muscles like this? posted:There's a lot of stupid things about the first Highlander movie but something that kind of bugs me is how at the beginning Conner is at some wrestling match. Like, what was he doing there in the first place? When you put it that way it sounds silly. And boy does it look silly. Silly cops, silly foe with no silly backstory. It was the quickening that brought them together though.
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muscles like this? posted:There's a lot of stupid things about the first Highlander movie but something that kind of bugs me is how at the beginning Conner is at some wrestling match. Like, what was he doing there in the first place? He was a big fan of the free birds hahahaha
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Everything about the opening is ridiculous, Conner at some wrestling thing going there all dressed up in his fancy European sports car and the guy who fights by constantly flipping around for no reason, like seriously watch the beginning of the movie again and try to figure out why the guy is flipping his way around the garage. Then there's the scene where Conner is arrested and the cop is cocking his gun and holding it up to Conner's head when all they know is that there was some kind of disturbance and Conner was driving away.
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Just got nostalgic and watched Ernest Goes to Jail and I am very surprised at the surreal sets and very dark tone of this movie. Like there are a total of four sets in the movie and every one is a dadaist fever dream. The bank where Earnest works is a high-ceiling doctor's office, the jail is a neon-lit dungeon full of guards wearing hot pink nazi uniforms, and every scene is shot at a crazy dutch angle. The whole thing seems like it is meant to convey a sense of disorientation and dread. Also there is a rape scene.
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Danger Mahoney posted:Just got nostalgic and watched Ernest Goes to Jail and I am very surprised at the surreal sets and very dark tone of this movie. Like there are a total of four sets in the movie and every one is a dadaist fever dream. The bank where Earnest works is a high-ceiling doctor's office, the jail is a neon-lit dungeon full of guards wearing hot pink nazi uniforms, and every scene is shot at a crazy dutch angle. The whole thing seems like it is meant to convey a sense of disorientation and dread. Then I guess it's time to revisit my childhood. How would you bookend Xmas Ernest with this movie? Before? After?
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