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Davros1 posted:It was established in Highlander that the Immortals are born "Immortal", but their immortality only kicks in when they first die. So the show introduced a ten year old immortal (who had been killed when he was a slave in ancient Rome), and one spin off media introduced an Immortal who was housed on holy ground, since he had lived a full life and died at the age of 102. He existed in a perpetual coma. What happens if you're maimed, like if the slave boy had had a hand cut off or something, then dies of something completely unrelated later?
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Hm. I think my revulsion at 90s aesthetics may have faded just enough to let me try to selectively rewatch the Highlander show for the first time since I was a youngster. That ponytail's still going to be rough, though. Where on the scale of 90s high-concept Vancouver-filmed TV does it fall in retrospect? More X-Files or more Total Recall 2070? feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Feb 14, 2017 |
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Feb 14, 2017 22:44
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feedmyleg posted:Where on the scale of 90s high-concept Vancouver-filmed TV does it fall in retrospect? More X-Files or more Total Recall 2070? I remember it being squarely in the "Showcase channel daytime TV made-for-syndication programming" niche with things like Relic Hunter, Forever Knight, and that Mortal Kombat show.
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Feb 14, 2017 22:49
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Josh Lyman posted:Would Murray have been a better fit? Yes, Murray still tries.
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feedmyleg posted:Hm. I think my revulsion at 90s aesthetics may have faded just enough to let me try to selectively rewatch the Highlander show for the first time since I was a youngster. That ponytail's still going to be rough, though. It's been a while since I've watched it but I feel like it was really good and fun until about the fourth/fifth season when it started to get a bit convoluted. The scenes of McLeod remembering his past were always really well done, the costuming especially. It's possible I'm just biased since I always thought Adrian Paul was drat sexy and extremely talented especially with all the martial arts bits. It makes me sad that he didn't have a better career. The TV movies are all complete poo poo though. Edit: Apparently there's a spin off called The Raven? huh, never saw it Sirotan fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Feb 15, 2017 |
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feedmyleg posted:Hm. I think my revulsion at 90s aesthetics may have faded just enough to let me try to selectively rewatch the Highlander show for the first time since I was a youngster. That ponytail's still going to be rough, though. I think it's like a less self aware Hercules
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Sirotan posted:It's been a while since I've watched it but I feel like it was really good and fun until about the fourth/fifth season when it started to get a bit convoluted. The scenes of McLeod remembering his past were always really well done, the costuming especially. It's possible I'm just biased since I always thought Adrian Paul was drat sexy and extremely talented especially with all the martial arts bits. It makes me sad that he didn't have a better career. The only person from the Highlander TV show I remember ever seeing anywhere else was the guy who played Methos having a bit role as Stryker's soldier henchman in X-Men 2. Actually, I also think one of the first season episodes of Highlander was where I first saw Marion Cotillard. But yeah, the first few seasons at least of the Highlander show are decent enough to still enjoy. I actually think the overall mythology of the show is pretty good as it continued, but there are definitely later-season plot developments that drag it down.
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Skwirl posted:I think it's like a less self aware Hercules drat. I love Hercules, but mostly the super self-aware comedic episodes. It did not do melodrama well.
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Feb 15, 2017 00:30
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The show jumped the shark when they killed Ritchie and then brought him back as an immortal. What are the chances???
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I wish I could watch an R-Rated Power Rangers animated series, by the same guy who made that edgy Power//Rangers short that was supposedly ironic 
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Hemingway To Go! posted:I wish I could watch an R-Rated Power Rangers animated series, by the same guy who made that edgy Power//Rangers short that was supposedly ironic No, bad
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FlamingLiberal posted:It's apparently been 7 years since they had a theatrical release. That was the much maligned 'Vampires Suck' (bad Twilight spoof). Since then they have done a Hunger Games spoof, a Fast and the Furious spoof, and some movie that I'm assuming references Bridesmaids and party movies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIGzjXmEP6g
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Hemingway To Go! posted:I wish I could watch an R-Rated Power Rangers animated series, by the same guy who made that edgy Power//Rangers short that was supposedly ironic I don't know if I'd consider the producer to be "the same guy"
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Hat Thoughts posted:I don't know if I'd consider the producer to be "the same guy"
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Hemingway To Go! posted:I wish I could watch an R-Rated Power Rangers animated series, by the same guy who made that edgy Power//Rangers short that was supposedly ironic Surely the director of Torque and Detention made a 100% sincere short film about superviolent Power Rangers and wasn't in fact taking the piss out of the marketing formula that got us five insane Michael Bay Transformers movies Edit: and it's not like Shankar can get a whole TV series off the ground using the Power Rangers name without going along with Saban. So he's bullshitting to remind people of the thing he put money into that went viral as the marketing for the movie picks up. It's a good way to attract money from some avenues. The Cameo fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Feb 15, 2017 |
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I'm tired and misread the article. Thought process was that if that if it was the same guy and he said yes to making a full series that makes the ironic qualities of the first one a little more questionable but as is... yeah, sorry.
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The Cameo posted:Surely the director of Torque and Detention made a 100% sincere short film about superviolent Power Rangers and wasn't in fact taking the piss out of the marketing formula that got us five insane Michael Bay Transformers movies Particular since Shankar is trying to fund a Dredd sequel, either as a film, streaming series, or animated series.
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Anyone who unashamedly dresses like the Crow is ok in my book, doubly so if they help make Judge Dredd stuff.
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Anyone who unashamedly dresses like the Crow is not ok in my book. They really aren't ok. They need help. Getting over their teenage self. But that aside, anyone who unashamedly makes cool poo poo is ok in my book. But a super gritty R-rated Power Rangers cartoon in 2017 unequivocally does not count as cool poo poo.
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Josh Lyman posted:Would Murray have been a better fit? Probably. The character's a bit of a sad sack.
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Young Freud posted:Particular since Shankar is trying to fund a Dredd sequel, either as a film, streaming series, or animated series. 2000AD came out and said that no, he's not, and they don't plan on letting him.
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The Cameo posted:... and wasn't in fact taking the piss out of the marketing formula that got us five insane Michael Bay Transformers movies
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FilthyImp posted:In his zeal to provide bleeding edge commentary, he neglected to make his product "good". I'm pretty sure that's part of the joke. He went into the thing going "how do I make what's already really campy a different sort of camp" and went "what if it was a me-too Transformers clone that went over the top with grit and actual grim dark bullshit". By the time the black ranger drops into a North Korean nuclear site and every single movement has the exact same Power Rangers "whoosh" sound, it should be fairly obvious this is a big dumb joke being played straight-faced.
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GonSmithe posted:2000AD came out and said that no, he's not, and they don't plan on letting him. Didn't he come out and say he's not? Like, I remember his youtube video about it being pretty much "hey yeah I hear y'all, this is a thing I'd like to do, but if it ever actually does happen, check out the window for flying pigs because Dredd loving bombed"
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Mel Gibson might direct Suicide Squad 2 http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/warner-bros-courts-mel-gibson-suicide-squad-sequel-974436
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Tars Tarkas posted:Mel Gibson might direct Suicide Squad 2
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Warner Brothers needs to put their money where their mouth is and make The Filming of Suicide Squad 2 the feature presentation
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Sounds like there's some more forward motion on the American version of The Raid as Frank Grillo has been cast as the lead.
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muscles like this! posted:Sounds like there's some more forward motion on the American version of The Raid as Frank Grillo has been cast as the lead. Wasn't he already in one of The Raid movies? Or at least some other movie with the Raid guys?
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You might be thinking of The Purge. He was the lead in the last two of those.
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purge/raid crossover let's do it
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muscles like this! posted:Sounds like there's some more forward motion on the American version of The Raid as Frank Grillo has been cast as the lead. Frank Grillo looks exactly like what someone named Frank Grillo would look like.
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Didn't he basically just play The Punisher in The Purge
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Chairman Capone posted:Wasn't he already in one of The Raid movies? Or at least some other movie with the Raid guys? He's in the upcoming sequel to Skyline with Iko Uwais.
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I'm still watching bad movies  This time it's Yet Another Jackie Chan movie, Kung Fu Yoga, which was also a Chinese/Lunar New Year film.Quick verdict: The first act is really bad but it get increasingly bonkers that it becomes entertaining, it's strictly a movie the actors go on holiday disguised as a kid's show but drat the story is p typical, A LONG TIME AGO there were warring Indian kingdoms that led to a treasure being lost. the descendants of the two emperors are now bitter rivals and they engage/force Jackie Chan, a famed Chinese archaeologist, and his team of bad actors to go open some tomb to get the treasure. for some reason one of the team members is a non-bad actor who also steals poo poo and has some hint of a redemption arc but loving lol this is chan's movie, gently caress that guy The first act is p loving awful that when they introduce everyone and the plot they add a bunch of forced infatuations and i'm like is this even 2017 ffs. They go to Alaska and the baddies appear etc, and then straight after that the movie actually becomes fun? like they changed directors? who knows but here's what happens in this loving dumb film: - kung fu scenes: 99% - yoga scenes: 0.1% - cg animals: 0.9% - cg animals addendum: in the pre-credits scene of "5k yrs ago", they couldn't be bothered to hire an actress to act beside the real-life actors at a green screen, so they used a bad cg woman instead - the villain has won many awards in Bollywood/Tollywood for "best villain" - places Chan took a grand vacation: China/HK, Alaska, Dubai, India - in Alaska they are warned that packs of wolves are approaching their camp. So Chan and his co-actor go out into the snow and do their kung fu... and fight each other. The wolves are impressed by this display of alpha build and leave - no homosexual/phobic jokes (in a chan movie???????) - best action blocking scene: to separate a teenage girl from the a group (to allow the fight to happen), she takes a selfie at the stairs for no reason - dubai involves a car chase scene straight out of post-F5 Fast & Furious, including a loving cg lion in the same SUV as chan, a SHITLOAD of expensive cars get destroyed, and the villain 's SUV spins in the air into a lake, but while spinning the villain opens the driver seat door, falls into the streets, then walks into a cafe like a boss. seriously that guy is great - "i'm a princess but i pretended to be an archaeology to deceive u... uh.... because i can." - a beautiful bollywood actress cries and demands a chinese actor to wipe the snot dripping off her nose - the ending is possibly THE MOST INSANE WAY to resolve the fight between the two monarch descendants ever and i strongly urge you to watch the film instead of clicking the spoilers the treasure turned out to be a bunch of wooden scrolls because "the true treasure is knowledge lol", the villain gets mad and the princess is like "buuuuuuuuuuuut we need to show it to the world", and then SOMEHOW a bunch of hindu wisemen appear with a troupe of people and they're like "yaaaassss knowledge is great". THen everyone prayed to the golden buddha and is like "yaaaaaaas ikr" then they dance to a bollywood remix version of a jackie chan song THIS VIDEO IS A MASSIVE SPOILER AND ONLY CLICK IT IF YOU HAVE NO INTENTION TO WATCH THE FILM. the mass prayer for peace begins and after that, it's amazing in its own right and srsly if it weren't for this ending sequence i wouldn't have thought much of the film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0U-zZaH028 Final judgment: 4/10 wouldn't watch again but will inflict on ppl
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LesterGroans posted:He's in the upcoming sequel to Skyline with Iko Uwais. That is still the strangest looking loving thing. It's like if it turned out Ong Bak was actually a sequel to transformers or something. I'll be there day one.
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Snowman_McK posted:That is still the strangest looking loving thing. It's like if it turned out Ong Bak was actually a sequel to transformers or something. Michael Bay is making an ivory poaching documentary and one of the best Optimus Prime toys ever transformed into a mammoth. I wish these facts are connected somehow.
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The MSJ posted:Michael Bay is making an ivory poaching documentary and one of the best Optimus Prime toys ever transformed into a mammoth. I wish these facts are connected somehow. Sadly, this world isn't quite beautiful enough.
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