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Skwirl posted:There's a weird concept that Republican President leads to better action flicks that I don't think holds up. Yes, the 80's had a ton of great flicks, but so did the 90's, and aside from the first Matrix I have a hard time remembering truly excellent action flicks from the Bush years, whereas Obama got us John Wick, Fury Road and the three best Fast and Furious movies, also 2 good Rocky movies. The Matrix came out well before the election, though. Like, a year and a half before the election. So Bush can't even claim that one.
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2000-2008 the period of incredible action films such as Resident Evil: Apocalypse and Extreme Ops.
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Neo Rasa posted:2000-2008 the period of incredible action films such as Resident Evil: Apocalypse and Extreme Ops. We did get 'Ong-Bak' and 'Ong Bak, but with elephants' in that time. But I don't think you can attribute that to the US political system.
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Lobok posted:I'd say the 80s had good action movies because of consumerism, the Cold War, and the fear of nuclear weapons before I'd attribute them to Reagan. Nothing good can ever attributed to Reagan. No way that fucker gets credit for Commando and Aliens. Rambo 3 maybe.
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Feb 7, 2017 05:53
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Especially since Commando is quite deliberately a comedy, and Aliens features the failure of the military.
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Baronash posted:You don't have to look much farther than the 4K/120fps/3D disaster of cinematography that was Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk to see that Ang Lee is perfectly capable of making dumb decisions. I know The Hobbit movies were shot in 48fps (2x the normal framerate) and that sucked rear end as a viewing experience, but what's the point of shooting at 5x the normal framerate? Smoother 3D or something? That seems like it would have the opposite effect and make everything look like a garbage soap opera like that lovely motion interpolation effect on HDTVs. That's what happened with The Hobbit. Well, the first one at least. I learned my lesson and didn't see the second 2 movies in that trilogy in HFR.
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Rirse posted:Yeah the two reboot games are pretty good and Lara for the most part dress normal. The movie is looking more like the previous movies through.
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Young Freud posted:Except the zombie craze started during Bush with 28 Days Later and the Snyder-Gunn Dawn Of The Dead remake. There was a lot of terrorism undercurrent at the beginning of the zombie craze. I had it kind of sideways. In a bad economy, supposedly, vampire movies take off. In a good economy, hordes of unwashed zombies come to take everything away. http://www.bigissue.com/features/3188/when-recession-bites Definitely NOT saying Republicans are good for thee economy. Edit: Also, yeah, it doesn't work perfectly or anything. Beachcomber fucked around with this message at 07:03 on Feb 7, 2017 |
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Casimir Radon posted:She's wearing pants, that's different. That's pretty much how Lara dressed in the 2013 game. She spends most of her time wearing a jacket in ROTTR. That or chainmail which was pretty awesome.
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More nuts for everyone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpmJcS35830 Rageaholic Monkey posted:Woah woah woah, 120fps? It was to make it super-realistic, which helped with the giant stadium spectacle mixed with Billy obviously suffering some sort of PTSD-like thing (and maybe there was an action scene in the flashbacks that worked with it, not sure cuz I didn't want to see it) and be some sort of technical marvel, but it turned out most theaters couldn't even play the film because it was so advanced. Some directors get so caught up with the technical side of things they forget to focus on everything else about the film, including making it look good and having good stories, George Lucas is usually the go to example here.
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Neo Rasa posted:2000-2008 the period of incredible action films such as Resident Evil: Apocalypse and Extreme Ops. Crank, Shoot 'Em Up, Punisher War Zone, Death Proof, Death Sentence, Bad Boys loving II, 300. \
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CelticPredator posted:Crank, Shoot 'Em Up, Punisher War Zone, Death Proof, Death Sentence, Bad Boys loving II, 300. Yeah 300 is the perfect film to capture 2001-2007. Utter garbage poo poo you never want to think about again.
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Ammanas posted:Yeah 300 is the perfect film to capture 2001-2007. Utter garbage poo poo you never want to think about again. 300 and 302 are good, actually.
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Beachcomber posted:If I remember correctly, traditional wisdom is that when Democrats are in charge, people are afraid of hordes of filthy Poors taking over everything. When Republicans are in charge the zeitgeist changes to cold, omnipotent, bloodsucking Aristos. Not really, the Twilight craze began and ended during the Obama presidency
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Where do you guys get your movie news?
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Improbable Lobster posted:Not really, the Twilight craze began and ended during the Obama presidency The books all came out before Obama though
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Enos Cabell posted:Japanese poster for Kong: Skull Island is so badass. Man the tagline on the top is great "On this island, mankind is the weakest!" Also the title seems to be "King Kong, skull islands GIANT GOD" which is even better.
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Improbable Lobster posted:Not really, the Twilight craze began and ended during the Obama presidency Now I'm wondering a world where Mitt Romney won and making Mormon interpretations of various horror tropes became the norm.
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Chairman Capone posted:Now I'm wondering a world where Mitt Romney won and making Mormon interpretations of various horror tropes became the norm. now I wish there was an entire Mormon-influenced subgenre of horror.
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Man now I know that I'll never see Mormon Mummies and I'm sad.
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Enola Gay-For-Pay posted:Man now I know that I'll never see Mormon Mummies and I'm sad. Wrapped in magic underwear?
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Remulak posted:Nothing good can ever attributed to Reagan. No way that fucker gets credit for Commando and Aliens. Rambo 3 maybe. I will not sit here and let you besmirch the good name of Bedtime For Bonzo.
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got any sevens posted:There was an article in the paper today where the humane society or something reviewed the tape and said it had been edited to look worse and the timing of it going public right before the premiere is suspicious. You should read up on the AHA. They are full on shills for Hollywood. A bunch of animals died making Lord of the Rings and they claimed it wasn't animal abuse. The tiger in Life of Pi almost drowned and they covered it up. They looked the other way when a husky was repeatedly punched in the throat in some lovely Disney movie. That "No animals were harmed " disclaimer is worthless.
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CelticPredator posted:Crank, Shoot 'Em Up, Punisher War Zone, Death Proof, Death Sentence, Bad Boys loving II, 300. so 2 good movies provided you're one of the freaks like me who likes Punisher War Zone (and the other good one, Death Proof, really only features one action scene).
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:so 2 good movies provided you're one of the freaks like me who likes Punisher War Zone (and the other good one, Death Proof, really only features one action scene). I was gonna say...
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2000-2008 did have some good action movies though: the Bourne Trilogy, Casino Royale, Hot Fuzz, Battle Royale, Rambo, the Rundown. Master and Commander is also an underrated, somewhat unconventional one.
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is wonderful, one of a handful of movies I watch at least once a year. Shame we're never going to get the sequels they were hoping to do.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:so 2 good movies provided you're one of the freaks like me who likes Punisher War Zone (and the other good one, Death Proof, really only features one action scene). dude Death Sentence and Bad Boys II both loving own Crank and Shoot 'Em Up, I can see not being everyone's bag (and Crank has that lovely rape scene), and 300 aged very poorly very quickly, but there's at least four inarguable good movies in that list
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Nah, 300 is still good, it's just overshadowed by the even better movies that followed. Is Death Sentence actually worth tracking down? I always assumed it was a lovely Death Wish ripoff, like that Jodie Foster movie.
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gently caress Bad Boys II as for Death Sentence, I'm amazed people even remember that movie but I'm pretty firmly in the "James Wan didn't get at all good until Insidious" camp. If you want a good, grimy revenge movie of that era, Man on Fire blows it out of the water. Sir Kodiak posted:Is Death Sentence actually worth tracking down? I always assumed it was a lovely Death Wish ripoff, like that Jodie Foster movie. it's actually a lovely adaptation of the Death Wish source novel iirc. Uncle Boogeyman fucked around with this message at 20:15 on Feb 7, 2017 |
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I didn't hate it but it's pretty forgettable. It's absolutely nowhere near one of the best action movies of the Bush years.
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I only mentioned it because I rewatched it a year ago and found it enjoyable. I was gonna say Grindhouse but Planet Terror is kinda eh, so I picked the good half.
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CelticPredator posted:I was gonna say Grindhouse but Planet Terror is kinda eh, so I picked the good half. I'd definitely agree that the car chase in Death Proof is one of the best action sequences of that era, Death Proof is a little light on action to really feel like an exceptional action movie though. Really, I'd say 2009-present has been much more fertile ground for great and forward-thinking action cinema than 2000-2008: The Raid 1&2, Universal Soldier 4 & 5, Mad Max: Fury Road, John Wick, Haywire, Dredd, Drive, '71, Drug War, Edge of Tomorrow, the Fast & Furious series getting actually good starting with Fast Five, even some oddball stuff like Enthiran or Hanna or the Planet of the Apes movies.
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Thank you. Planet Terror sucked.
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Thundercracker posted:You should read up on the AHA. They are full on shills for Hollywood. A bunch of animals died making Lord of the Rings and they claimed it wasn't animal abuse. The tiger in Life of Pi almost drowned and they covered it up. They looked the other way when a husky was repeatedly punched in the throat in some lovely Disney movie. This is crazy, I had no idea that they made a group named similar to a real group to legitimize themselves so brazenly. It's amazing hollywood is seen as progressive. wow.
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Sir Kodiak posted:Nah, 300 is still good, it's just overshadowed by the even better movies that followed. i mean it's not a bad movie but its aesthetic is already really really dated and it pretty much lives and dies on said aesthetic and yes. gently caress yes. fuuuuck yes. Uncle Boogeyman posted:as for Death Sentence, I'm amazed people even remember that movie but I'm pretty firmly in the "James Wan didn't get at all good until Insidious" camp. If you want a good, grimy revenge movie of that era, Man on Fire blows it out of the water. i don't think he got great until Insidious, but the things that make him a good director didn't spring up from nothing in that movie. I'll agree that Man On Fire is better, but I don't think it's really that big of a gap between the two in quality. and it's... kind of weird as an adaptation, because the plot is completely different but the themes made it across pretty much completely intact. which is the opposite of the Bronson movie, which nailed the plot and turbofucked the themes to make it a less dark movie.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:i don't think he got great until Insidious I mean, I don't think he got great ever, but Insidious and The Conjuring are pretty good.
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