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Do you think the Japanese-inspired setting hurt it too?
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got any sevens posted:The climax of Dr Strange was a breath of fresh air compared with the usual punch-bad-man-harder type of victory. My big problem with the Dr. Strange ending was, why didn't the villain just set Dr. Strange aside in some prison and say, "All right, I won't kill you, you'll just sit here for the next ten billion years while I get back to work"? I mean, I try not to nitpick stuff like this, especially with a comic movie, but that immediately came to mind while watching that scene in the theater, and I don't think I missed (but maybe I did, granted) any reason the movie established why that wouldn't work.
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I wanted to see Kubo but the girlfriend and I just couldn't sync schedules to make it to the movie
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Chairman Capone posted:My big problem with the Dr. Strange ending was, why didn't the villain just set Dr. Strange aside in some prison and say, "All right, I won't kill you, you'll just sit here for the next ten billion years while I get back to work"? Well, if you mean before the time loop, I just assume that Strange wasn't even a blip on the guy's radar, like The Ancient One. If you mean after, well magic allows you to make up a lot of bullshit, so I imagine Strange's thing allowed him to do the mystical cosmic version of 'I totally trap you and you can't get out of it, no take backs-ies'.
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Chairman Capone posted:My big problem with the Dr. Strange ending was, why didn't the villain just set Dr. Strange aside in some prison and say, "All right, I won't kill you, you'll just sit here for the next ten billion years while I get back to work"? Because the concept of time freaked him the gently caress out. It was a Lovecraftian horror being confronted by something he can't comprehend and not being able to handle it. Or that's how I understood it.
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The film explicity states Dormamu exists in a place without time so Strange literally inteoduces him to the concept of time and thus traps him in an endless temporal loop until Dormamu meets his demands. I hate time travel in story plots but ill give the film big points for making the villain defeated in negotiations not combat and giving a cosmic horror an understandable weakness that didnt just seem silly.
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I want a Lovecraftian being whose weakness is the existence of black people.
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The MSJ posted:I want a Lovecraftian being whose weakness is the existence of black people. So you want an HP Lovecraft biopic?
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The MSJ posted:I want a Lovecraftian being whose weakness is the existence of black people. If I remember right, one of Lovecraft's deities is actually described as being a black guy. I think Nyarlathotep.
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Jan 25, 2017 04:36
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Just make a Planetary movie and keep Lovecraft's bit:
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Jan 25, 2017 05:19
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Planetary omnibus was a seriously pro purchase, will never regret it.
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GrandpaPants posted:Do you think the Japanese-inspired setting hurt it too? I figured this was a lot of it.
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Chairman Capone posted:If I remember right, one of Lovecraft's deities is actually described as being a black guy. I think Nyarlathotep. Shub-Niggurath
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Killer Croc had fantastic design?? He took off his jacket and looked like a featherweight boxer with monster makeup His design is excellent. He's not actually a crocodile man, that's not even his comic book backstory. He's just a guy with a hosed up deformity, so he doesn't look like the Hulk but an habitual swimmer, which he is. But his affected, performative blackness is reflected in his dressing like a boxer or pro wrestler so he can unveil himself dramatically. It's all a put on, which is a great reinterpretation of the character.
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Improbable Lobster posted:Shub-Niggurath That's the black goat. One of Nyarlathotep's forms, which I believe he took in The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath, is a black priest. Being Lovecraft, I guarantee this is better documented on the internet somewhere in a more reliable form.
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I thought his deal wasn't being black when he was human but looking Middle Eastern.
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Jan 25, 2017 21:40
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Lovecraft named The Black Goat Niggur
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muscles like this! posted:I thought his deal wasn't being black when he was human but looking Middle Eastern. Wikipedia says he was reminiscent of the Egyptian pharaohs of old or something. So...technically African?
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quote:And it was then that Nyarlathotep came out of Egypt. Who he was, none could tell, but he was of the old native blood and looked like a Pharaoh. The fellahin knelt when they saw him, yet could not say why. He said he had risen up out of the blackness of twenty-seven centuries, and that he had heard messages from places not on this planet. Into the lands of civilisation came Nyarlathotep, swarthy, slender, and sinister, always buying strange instruments of glass and metal and combining them into instruments yet stranger. He spoke much of the sciences—of electricity and psychology—and gave exhibitions of power which sent his spectators away speechless, yet which swelled his fame to exceeding magnitude. or in other words: Black dude came out of the desert and the locals knelt to him instinctively because it is their blood to be servile to their superiors. Then he did some freaky Tesla stuff with electricity that made people go "woah". FreudianSlippers fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Jan 25, 2017 |
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"swarthy, slender, and sinister", that's the dream
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muscles like this! posted:I thought his deal wasn't being black when he was human but looking Middle Eastern. We talkin' about Killer Croc or Nyarlathotep?
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At the risk of sounding like a doofus the first Quicksilver scene was perfectly crafted and had a slightly melancholy aspect to it that illustrated the loneliness of the character, but the one in Apocalypse was just goofy and dumb.
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precision posted:Why did Kubo flop so hard anyway? We watched it the other night and it's absolutely fantastic, it seems like something that should have been a massive hit I saw one poster for it when I was visiting Vancouver in early August and was like "huh, that looks neat." I neither saw nor heard anything about it in the States until it was on DVD.
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Phylodox posted:Wikipedia says he was reminiscent of the Egyptian pharaohs of old or something. So...technically African?
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Lemon posted:At the risk of sounding like a doofus the first Quicksilver scene was perfectly crafted and had a slightly melancholy aspect to it that illustrated the loneliness of the character, but the one in Apocalypse was just goofy and dumb. it was good. goofy i can agree with. i couldn't wait for it to hit youtube since it was the only good part of the movie.
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f#a# posted:I saw one poster for it when I was visiting Vancouver in early August and was like "huh, that looks neat." I neither saw nor heard anything about it in the States until it was on DVD. It had tie in toys at Burger King. My nephew ended up with a Monkey toy of some sort. I didn't actually investigate it very much, but it exists. They don't really advertise kid's meal toys anymore though.
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Neo Rasa posted:I enjoyed Genisys because I went in expecting total megashit,
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Slugworth posted:He's got thousands of forms, so there's that, but in Dreams In The Witch House he's described as 'the black man', which could I guess mean African or literally just like a shadow. Nah. quote:...a figure he had never seen before--a tall, lean man of dead black colouration but without the slightest sign of negroid features: wholly devoid of either hair or beard, and wearing as his only garment a shapeless robe of some heavy black fabric. His feet were indistinguishable because of the table and bench, but he must have been shod, since there was a clicking whenever he changed position. The man did not speak, and bore no trace of expression on his small, regular features. He has the "regular" features of a white dude, but black skin. 
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Groovelord Neato posted:it was good. goofy i can agree with. i couldn't wait for it to hit youtube since it was the only good part of the movie. Magneto breaking bad after his wife and daughter was killed deserved a better movie, if only because mass decapitation strikes me as really gruesome for PG-13 even if it was technically bloodless.
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Jacob Tremblay of Room fame will play an autistic kid who might decode the Predator language.Guy Mann posted:Magneto breaking bad after his wife and daughter was killed deserved a better movie, if only because mass decapitation strikes me as really gruesome for PG-13 even if it was technically bloodless. I loved the final battle of Breaking Dawn Part 2 for all the PG13 decapitations. But my favorite is from the Clone Wars cartoon. 
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The MSJ posted:Jacob Tremblay of Room fame will play an autistic kid who might decode the Predator language. For gently caress's sake writers stop using this lazy rear end writing crutch.
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Forgot to post this one: Michael Bay's next movie will be set in a future where America's economy tanked and there is a mass migration of Americans to China. The story will be about an American-Chinese ex-Marine being hired by a Chinese billionaire to rescue his daughter in an American ghetto. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/universal-wins-bidding-war-michael-bay-produced-script-trump-like-dystopia-968359
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The MSJ posted:Forgot to post this one: Michael Bay's next movie will be set in a future where America's economy tanked and there is a mass migration of Americans to China. The story will be about an American-Chinese ex-Marine being hired by a Chinese billionaire to rescue his daughter in an American ghetto. He's just producing, though
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i misread that and for a moment thought Danny from The Room was going to do the autistic child routine again at the age of 40-50
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DeimosRising posted:His design is excellent. He's not actually a crocodile man, that's not even his comic book backstory. He's just a guy with a hosed up deformity, so he doesn't look like the Hulk but an habitual swimmer, which he is. But his affected, performative blackness is reflected in his dressing like a boxer or pro wrestler so he can unveil himself dramatically. It's all a put on, which is a great reinterpretation of the character. It's a completely understated little story about having a "skin problem". The assumption is that the character was born with a genetic deformity that makes him brutal and animalistic
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That brought me to the news that there's an adaptation of Larry Niven's "Inconstant Moon" coming out. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/arrival-producers-plan-new-sci-fi-film-director-james-ponsoldt-968523 It's funny because for some reason I was just thinking of this story not too long ago, years after having read it. It will be funny if this ends up becoming Niven's first big-screen adaptation after Ringworld being in development hell for decades.
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Mhmm now thats a Chinese-American joint production that hits right into the vein
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The MSJ posted:Forgot to post this one: Michael Bay's next movie will be set in a future where America's economy tanked and there is a mass migration of Americans to China. The story will be about an American-Chinese ex-Marine being hired by a Chinese billionaire to rescue his daughter in an American ghetto. I'm not sure if this is a rip-off of Big Trouble in Little China, or Escape From New York, but no Kurt Russell, no buy.
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I would have figured Michael Bay to be a Trump supporter. Wrong!
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Cacator posted:I would have figured Michael Bay to be a Trump supporter. Wrong! Nah, Bay is probably Hollywood liberal, but also realizes fascism pays better. His most humanist film (The Island) was also his only commercial failure, and then he re-used clips from it in Transformers 3, his most right wing film, there's gotta be at least some self-awareness going on there.
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