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Dacap posted:Michael Chernus is playing Tinkerer in Spider-Man Homecoming If you're gonna have the Tinkerer in a movie with the Vulture, best to interpret him as Goon Tinkerer since otherwise you'd have two crusty old hook-nosed tech villains. Also not surprised they want Tinkerer in there. I've never liked the idea but it's popular to have an easy, single source for other (lesser?) villains down the line. It's usually Norman Osborn. Dacap posted:And there are rumors that Bokeem Woodbine's character is Shocker His gauntlets need to incorporate this somehow:  (Yes, that's an obscure reference to The Big Hit) Lobok fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Aug 10, 2016 |
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Travis343 posted:Blazing Saddles is the greatest comedy of all time. I love Ghostbusters but it's not even the funniest movie Bill Murray has been in. Blazing Saddles is phenomenal, and one of the greatest comedies, but I also think Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Airplane, Animal House and The Big Lebowski belong in that league as well.
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Travis343 posted:Blazing Saddles is the greatest comedy of all time.  Yeah boyee!Jonny_Rocket posted:Blazing Saddles is phenomenal, and one of the greatest comedies, but I also think Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Airplane, Animal House and The Big Lebowski belong in that league as well. Don't forget Hot Shots Part Deux.
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Bruceski posted:Animal Crackers You misspelled Duck Soup.
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There must be some word filter that keeps changing Clue to other movies, it's annoying.
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Toxxupation posted:In related news, Ghostbusters 2016 looks to be heading to, at a minimum, a $70 million loss. It's apparently so bad rumors are flying that Sony's shuttering their entire live action slate for GB and focusing solely on animated efforts from here on out. That's a huge shame, I really, really liked the new Ghostbusters. The only issue I had with it was that third act fight scene. I haven't seen Spy, but from that scene I get the impression that Paul Feig just doesn't really have a grip on directing action because that scene just felt very flat to me. But other than that I loved it. I mean, it doesn't beat the original, but then again, neither did Ghostbusters 2. It's been a while since I last saw that, but I feel like I'd tentatively put the new one slightly above 2 even.
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Jonny_Rocket posted:How many villains do we need in a Spider-Man movie? Didn't they learn from Spider-Man 3 or more recently, The Amazing Spider-Man 2? Although, it might work if the Tinkerer works with the Vulture and is the one that helps create his wings or whatever. Time will tell I guess. Civil War had like 8 villains. (Team Cap.)
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Aphrodite posted:Civil War had like 8 villains. My worldview has been completely flipped upside down
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I'm looking forward to the scene where Tony beats Tinkerer just by making fun of him and shaming him
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ImpAtom posted:The writing is less of a problem than the editing which is genuinely pretty bad and there's at least one major character beat noticeably absent from the film. How odd. Seems like it's been a bad year for film editing. I honestly can't recall a time ever when a film review bitched about it at all or even mentioned it prior to this year. Now we have SS, BvS and Ghostbusters all talking about wonky editing. edit: And all you fuckers keep misspelling "Raising Arizona" BiggerBoat fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Aug 11, 2016 |
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BiggerBoat posted:How odd. Seems like it's been a bad year for film editing. I honestly can't recall a time ever when a film review bitched about it at all or even mentioned it prior to this year. Now we have SS, BvS and Ghostbusters all talking about wonky editing. It's super noticeable in all of them honestly. In Ghostbusters there's a clear point where the team breaks up over a conflict which is missing entirely from the film which weakens the third act because "one of the Ghostbusters comes back to save the day" is sort of meaningless without it.
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Travis343 posted:but enough about your posting How's this for a knee slapper - The most brave and powerful people in suicide square were women. Besides Diablo of course. I'll be here all night, tip your Travis's
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AAA DOLFAN posted:How's this for a knee slapper - It is true that Waller is brave and Enchantress is powerful. I'm not sure how Katana or Harley add to either of those points. At least any more than Deadshot or Flag or Croc. Especially with as little character as we get for Katana. Aphrodite posted:Civil War had like 8 villains. I believe the record will show that Team Iron Man didn't have Captain America on it. Therefore they were the bad guys.
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Yeah try explaining that to the brain damaged UN prison guards. It might take a few tries.
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Aphrodite posted:Yeah try explaining that to the brain damaged UN prison guards. To be fair you already have to be pretty stupid if you're going to get into a fist fight with Cap and you're not some kind of special powered person, technologically powered person, magically powered person,..............etc etc and so forth.
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Jiro posted:To be fair you already have to be pretty stupid if you're going to get into a fist fight with Cap and you're not some kind of special powered person, technologically powered person, magically powered person,..............etc etc and so forth. It's exactly what Cap would do in their situation.
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The people under Sokovia don't give a poo poo about those UN guards getting punched. Ya know, cause Tony's bad puppy dropped meteors on them.
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SonicRulez posted:It is true that Waller is brave and Enchantress is powerful. I'm not sure how Katana or Harley add to either of those points. At least any more than Deadshot or Flag or Croc. Especially with as little character as we get for Katana. Harley is described as more fearless than the Joker and Katana wields a sword that captures souls. Sounds brave and powerful to me.
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It was very brave of Harley to get punched in the face by Batman.
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Something something superstitious and cowardly, something I am the night, something
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Did you guys know the only reason this movie isn't doing well is because Feminazis are complaining about Harley Quinn being too sexy? I didn't know, thank you internet.
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Lurdiak posted:Did you guys know the only reason this movie isn't doing well is because Feminazis are complaining about Harley Quinn being too sexy? I didn't know, thank you internet. I thought the big thing holding this movie back was the Disney funded spies at Rotten Tomatoes who were loading this film down with negative reviews. Anyway I saw the film last night. It's no where near as bad as people are trying to make it out to be, but it's a film with some glaring problems. Spoilers to follow. Like this movie just seems like it's two films joined together. One a Harley and Joker crime film and one part a Suicide Squad movie. Only the Harley and Joker film was assembled from a couple of scenes that were shot from a project that was started and then abandoned. While the Suicide Squad was one that had a ton of ideas and plot threads dropped, moved around etc... Like all the stuff with Enchantress in the first act. I can almost garuntee that was put in late in the day. It just feels like she was supposed to be hinted at early on, and then when Floyd get's the Dossier that Rick Flag would fill in all her back story and we discover that this entire operation was to cover up her role in it. Like that would make more sense rather than the audience learn about her from the start. Though in that version of the movie, she probably just ends up dead at the end of the movie. Also one problem that has been pointed out is that a lot of time is spent building up the reason why the Government need to put together Task Force X. (Deniability, a new way to fight war, get use out of dangerous individuals...) But at the end of the day, the first mission these guys are used for, the crisis they are called on is one that Waller herself made. It just makes them look dangerous. Like this film could have done with a short sequence of the team being sent in on some high risk "stop Russians from selling Nukes to IS" mission to showcase the team and what they are intended for. As for the licensed music. The amount of it was off-putting, but also the way it was used was really sloppy. Yes, showecase Belle Reeve Prison with House of the Rising Sun. Perfect. But don't do that then just linger on Deadshot's cell. Show the ENTIRE prison and how messed up the inmates are. Absolutely use Without Me by Eminem. But don't use it for a Suiting up sequence. Put it to a sequence where the Joker and Harley are driving around Gotham committing crimes. I think a little bit of planing could have helped. Oh one last point, did anyone remember the scene where Flagg says to Waller that she should just let him make his own squad. That he'd get "Some Tier 1 operatives and make them into some real Pipe Hitters." Now I'm not what you would call particularly sensitive to offensive language, but did they really have a US Marine type tell his Black, Female Commanding Office quote Marcel Wallace from Pulp Fiction? Because that moment had me almost double take in the cinema. Yeah there's a lot of strange choices in this movie. I will say that the cast is by and large really good and no one stuck out as being bad. Some people needed more time to work, but Robbie and Will Smith were much better than I thought they would be from the trailers. I really did love the title cards they had for characters, particularly how Deadshot's mirrored the comic cover to Secret Six.
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The Question IRL posted:I thought the big thing holding this movie back was the Disney funded spies at Rotten Tomatoes who were loading this film down with negative reviews. It still perplexes me how invested some people are in this. I just don't get it.
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Lurdiak posted:Did you guys know the only reason this movie isn't doing well is because Feminazis are complaining about Harley Quinn being too sexy? I didn't know, thank you internet. TBF I've heard basically the same thing about Ghostbusters and MRAs so whatever.
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Realistically, how much of the general audience that goes to see comedy films in the summer cares (or knows) all that much about MRAs complaining about "feminazis"?
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Wheat Loaf posted:Realistically, how much of the general audience that goes to see comedy films in the summer cares (or knows) all that much about MRAs complaining about "feminazis"? Reddit is one of the most trafficked sites on the internet and they have multiple front page stories where people are cheering the death of the Ghostbusters sequel to stop the further "raping of my childhood" and to "send a message" to Hollywood about pandering and being too PC.
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MacheteZombie posted:Harley is described as more fearless than the Joker and Katana wields a sword that captures souls. Sounds brave and powerful to me. Two things we are told and never shown. Another reason Katana was done a disservice in this movie as well.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Reddit is one of the most trafficked sites on the internet and they have multiple front page stories where people are cheering the death of the Ghostbusters sequel to stop the further "raping of my childhood" and to "send a message" to Hollywood about pandering and being too PC.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Reddit is one of the most trafficked sites on the internet and they have multiple front page stories where people are cheering the death of the Ghostbusters sequel to stop the further "raping of my childhood" and to "send a message" to Hollywood about pandering and being too PC. Sure, they're about, but I reckon a lot more people saw all the magazine covers and saw the TV appearances or heard the radio spots by the cast than went on the bad parts of Reddit to decide what movie they should go out to see.
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Looks like Aquaman's big bad guy will be a black man ...ta. http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/08/10/jason-momoas-aquaman-will-battle-black-manta
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Haha I always forget about this origin: Black Manta has some different origins, but here’s hoping they go with the 1993 version, where he was shanghaied and sexually assaulted on a boat, causing him to hate the sea and everything associated with it - including Aquaman
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MacheteZombie posted:Haha I always forget about this origin: Sounds like the work of Azzarello's Amazons...universe tie-in!
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greatn posted:I may have enjoyed Spy more because I watched it on a 12 hour flight, so it's going to be the best thing happening to me at the time in comparison to the rest of my environment. Spy is a legitimately great comedy. The comedy is on point, and kinda rare for a comedy, so is the plotting/characterization/thematics. Jason Statham was great in it as well.
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For some reason the people who cut trailers always make anything Melissa McCarthy's in look like "Fat Lady Fall Down: The Movie" even when that's really, really not what she does.
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I think it's hilarious that Facebook is blowing up with all these clickbait articles about "OMG HUGE ACKMAN LOOK OLD NOW?" It has to be makeup for Old Man Logan, and even then, poo poo, dude's like 50. People get wrinkly.
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Shageletic posted:Spy is a legitimately great comedy. The comedy is on point, and kinda rare for a comedy, so is the plotting/characterization/thematics. Jason Statham was great in it as well. I really liked Spy until you get to the end and they pull that triple turn out of their asses. It felt like such a cop out.
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