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dont even fink about it posted:Max Brooks found when he did some research on the topic that most police forces and emergency crews have put significant thought into how they would handle a zombie outbreak as an intellectual exercise. He also included a blind monk and otaku with a katana
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Shaman Ooglaboogla posted:You'd think the creators of zombie fiction would realize that zombies are so stale and overplayed that they have to come up with a dumbass euphemism like "hungries" just to avoid people tuning out. But in this case, the book and movie are quite good? The story isn't a generic zombie apocalypse survivors' journey.
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Aggro posted:But in this case, the book and movie are quite good? The story isn't a generic zombie apocalypse survivors' journey. The story is very much a generic apocalypse survivors' journey. It just has a gimmick.
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Aggro posted:But in this case, the book and movie are quite good? The story isn't a generic zombie apocalypse survivors' journey. That doesn't change out dumb the term "hungries" is
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"Crazies" was the only name that ever made sense.
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Shageletic posted:How many loving Bears are in this thing. I think there's only one, the bear dude can change halfway into a giant werebear or all the way into a full bear
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Is he on like savage and World breaker Hulk rules with the different forms?
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The MSJ posted:By the way, Fantastic Beasts have now surpassed $800 million worldwide, so it's about as successful as the other Harry Potter movies. Well, it made slightly more money than Prisoner of Azkaban which was the low point of the original movie series. All the other Harry Potter movies made between $879m and $1.3b. If you adjust for inflation then all the original Harry Potter movies all made between $1b and $1.46b so Fantastic Beasts is still at least $200m short. I guess that's a pretty nitpicky way of looking at it but if we're judging success by comparing unadjusted grosses of film series that span several decades then that would mean that The Force Awakens was more than three times as successful as A New Hope even though A New Hope was wayyyy bigger in its day.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Well, it made slightly more money than Prisoner of Azkaban which was the low point of the original movie series. All the other Harry Potter movies made between $879m and $1.3b.
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It easily is, but it was also the first one to stop slavishly adapting every minute detail of the book, so Potter fans got really mad at the time
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Patriots Day has gotten mostly positive reviews. I'm flummoxed.
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Vegetable posted:Patriots Day has gotten mostly positive reviews. I'm flummoxed. I'm surprised it finally came out, since it was also one of those movies who had a release date that was just constantly slipping.
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:It easily is, but it was also the first one to stop slavishly adapting every minute detail of the book, so Potter fans got really mad at the time They weren't slavishly adapting every minute detail before; they cut Peeves out starting in the first movie and they cut the Deathday party from the second movie and and and 
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muscles like this! posted:I'm surprised it finally came out, since it was also one of those movies who had a release date that was just constantly slipping.
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Vegetable posted:Patriots Day has gotten mostly positive reviews. I'm flummoxed. Berg's a good director and there's nobody really making secular religious movies about America at the moment other than Dinesh D'Souza and Clint Eastwood, both of whom are bad filmmakers.
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Monster Trucks is tanking as expected this weekend. It's expected to finish in the $12-14 mil range. Somehow it cost at least $125 million and I'm pretty sure that figure does not include marketing. Ben Affleck's film Live By Night, which originally had some hype, has come out to mediocre reviews and is looking at $6-8 mil for the weekend on a $65 mil budget.
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The MSJ posted:This looks both janky and badass in the most Russian of ways. Pretty sure all the others would be over $1billion if anyone bothered to do nation by nation ticket price inflation. Domestically it's almost $100million down adjusted. Still a money maker but big time diminishing returns.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Berg's a good director and there's nobody really making secular religious movies about America at the moment other than Dinesh D'Souza and Clint Eastwood, both of whom are bad filmmakers. I was about to be real mad but I'll give you a pass on the use of the present tense, he ain't making High Plains Drifter these days, that's for sure.
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I love Eastwood but he hasn't made a passably good movie in a long, long time. At least when Spike Lee lays a brick it's still got a little something of him in it, latter-day Eastwood movies look and feel like they could be made by anyone.
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When I saw Gran Torino I legit thought Eastwood was doing a favor to a film student by starring in it. I couldn't believe my eyes when the end credits came up.
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And his output ever since makes Gran Torino look like Broken Blossoms.
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TBH I can't remember his last good movie. I remember not hating Mystic River but I couldn't tell you a thing about it a decade later.
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DeimosRising posted:TBH I can't remember his last good movie. I remember not hating Mystic River but I couldn't tell you a thing about it a decade later. I can tell you about "IS THAT MY DAUGHTER IN THERE???" and the crappy ending.
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Eh! Frank posted:I can tell you about "IS THAT MY DAUGHTER IN THERE???" and the crappy ending. Hey, Sean Penn won an Oscar for that garbage.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Monster Trucks is tanking as expected this weekend. It's expected to finish in the $12-14 mil range. Somehow it cost at least $125 million and I'm pretty sure that figure does not include marketing. Underworld holding on to the lead as the highest grossing movie of the year. They should run ads with this fact.
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Is he answer really loving Unforgiven or Pale Rider or something? Goddamn that's a long fallow period.
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I thought people liked Million DollarBaby, but I havent seen it myself, just the Always Sunny ep
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I remember liking Letters from Iwo Jima. Before that I'd give him Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil or A Perfect World.
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DeimosRising posted:Is he answer really loving Unforgiven or Pale Rider or something? Goddamn that's a long fallow period. The answer is Letters from Iwo Jima, which was 2006.
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got any sevens posted:I thought people liked Million DollarBaby, but I havent seen it myself, just the Always Sunny ep I saw that episode when I was younger and didn't know Million Dollar Baby and I laughed so hard
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FCKGW posted:Underworld holding on to the lead as the highest grossing movie of the year. Underworld loving owned so I'm cool with this
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Jack Gladney posted:When I saw Gran Torino I legit thought Eastwood was doing a favor to a film student by starring in it. I couldn't believe my eyes when the end credits came up. Ah, Gran Torino, in which a rich old white man explains to two poor young minorities why political correctness is bad. Speaking of bad movies by Clint, gently caress American Sniper. It's not that I hate it, or can't understand why people love it, I just can't get my head around how anyone formed a strong opinion. It's so loving bland and pointless. He shoots people, he feels bad that he didn't save more people, then finally shoots enough people (or the right people) and goes home. It feels like a straight to DVD action movie (like those action packed 'sequels' to Jarhead, yes, those are a thing) except with an a-list cast and director, but without the quality level that would usually entail. Changeling was good, though. So I'll say that was his last good movie.
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Snowman_McK posted:Ah, Gran Torino, in which a rich old white man explains to two poor young minorities why political correctness is bad. Why is Clint "rich" here? He's got a house on the same drat block and PTSD up the whazoo but he's not exactly rolling in it. They're poor cuz they're kids.
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syscall girl posted:Why is Clint "rich" here? He's got a house on the same drat block and PTSD up the whazoo but he's not exactly rolling in it. They're poor cuz they're kids. Clint Eastwood himself is really rich, and so, when he makes a film where he gets to tell poor minorities that he's not really racist while playing a character who speaks almost exclusively in racial slurs, it's kind of hard not to see it in a loaded light.
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Eastwood's latest good movie is Sully, drat it. It has Tom Hanks knocking it out of the park in a role where he doesn't get to shout and cry. Made me cry like a baby.
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Snowman_McK posted:Clint Eastwood himself is really rich, and so, when he makes a film where he gets to tell poor minorities that he's not really racist while playing a character who speaks almost exclusively in racial slurs, it's kind of hard not to see it in a loaded light. His character was a bitter angry old stereotype who helps out the family next door while grumbling a lot. The whole "didn't bring a gun now fight me you fucks" scene owned.
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syscall girl posted:His character was a bitter angry old stereotype who helps out the family next door while grumbling a lot. I didn't say it didn't have good scenes, but in context, it's kind of...uncomfortable. It also has a scene where he pulls a gun on two unarmed black kids, and that leaves a really uncomfortable taste in the mouth.
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Get off my lawn and pull up your pants: the movie
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Jack Gladney posted:Get off my lawn and pull up your pants: the movie That's why I thought I'd hate it. I guess Bill Murray did it better in St. Vincent but then when doesn't he?
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