Snowglobe of Doom posted:

You can just picture a group of frowning studio execs sitting around a large screen TV in a board room with a bunch of scruffy writers standing behind them with note pads, all watching the original GiTS.
"Okay nerds, we want you to write that exact thing we just saw," says the chief exec. "But cut out all that lovely sciencey gobbledygook and all the ponderous talky crap .... oh and make it wayyy less Asian-y, okay? Maybe keep some geishas and poo poo but cut way down on the rest. Keep all the guns and explosions yadda yadda yadda you know the drill." "But what about the philosophical questions it poses about selfhood in the modern era?" "Cut that dumb poo poo out and make it Robocop. 'Oh no I'm a robot now, they stole my memories, wah wah.' Done. Next. Whatever. Get out of here."

CharlestheHammer posted:

Robocop had nothing to say about selfhood tho.

Shageletic posted:

loooooooooooool

"Will people not get access to healthcare due to this bill"

"What I can say is that there will not be any costs to the federal govt"

weekly font posted:

Who greenlighted this healthcare bill is a p good question though

LesterGroans posted:

It took me a while to figure out what was going on because it came right after RoboCop chat.

Like, "What I can say is that there will not be any costs to the federal govt" is basically a RoboCop line.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

You can just picture a group of frowning studio execs sitting around a large screen TV in a board room with a bunch of scruffy writers standing behind them with note pads, all watching the original GiTS.
"Okay nerds, we want you to write that exact thing we just saw," says the chief exec. "But cut out all that lovely sciencey gobbledygook and all the ponderous talky crap .... oh and make it wayyy less Asian-y, okay? Maybe keep some geishas and poo poo but cut way down on the rest. Keep all the guns and explosions yadda yadda yadda you know the drill." "But what about the philosophical questions it poses about selfhood in the modern era?" "Cut that dumb poo poo out and make it Robocop. 'Oh no I'm a robot now, they stole my memories, wah wah.' Done. Next. Whatever. Get out of here."

Same with the iconic music: "Make it exactly the same, just less ponderous and Asian-y." "Uh, we could maybe sample it and run it through a dubstep generator?" "Whatever, just do it."



It'd actually be pretty disappointing to discover that everyone at every level behind the project were really passionate behind adapting the original movie/manga and this was their very best effort rather than just a quick attempt at pumping out yet another effects-heavy action flick which was generic enough to be palatable to the general masses.

MacheteZombie posted:

We do kind of have Pres Jones

LORD OF BOOTY posted:

How did it take this long for a Just Cause movie? I never played 3 but JC2 was like Bond meets Crank: High Voltage in game form.

Guy Mann posted:

Just Cause 2 is a fun game but aside from the relatively unique Southeast Asian setting the only thing that was interesting about the story was watching a bunch of Swedish game developers horribly mangle the English voice acting for every other character. And the action with the grappling hook/parachute/jetpack is physically impossible so they would either have to scale it back to something way less entertaining or do everything with weightless cartoon people and be super boring.

Also it's kind of funny that one of the defining things about Rico Rodriguez is that he's one of the only Mexican video game protagonists who isn't a gangster or a drug dealer or a luchador but they couldn't actually cast a latino actor for the role.

Sir Kodiak posted:

If the character doesn't surf on the wing of an airplane that he was previously flying then parachute off to grapple himself onto a moving car, the movie is a failure.

Guy Mann posted:

Just Cause 2 is a fun game but aside from the relatively unique Southeast Asian setting the only thing that was interesting about the story was watching a bunch of Swedish game developers horribly mangle the English voice acting for every other character. And the action with the grappling hook/parachute/jetpack is physically impossible so they would either have to scale it back to something way less entertaining or do everything with weightless cartoon people and be super boring.

Also it's kind of funny that one of the defining things about Rico Rodriguez is that he's one of the only Mexican video game protagonists who isn't a gangster or a drug dealer or a luchador but they couldn't actually cast a latino actor for the role.

Sir Kodiak posted:

If the character doesn't surf on the wing of an airplane that he was previously flying then parachute off to grapple himself onto a moving car, the movie is a failure.

The MSJ posted:

I don't know, I'm from South-East Asia and some of those voices sound pretty authentic. I love the the great Malay names they have for the locations, like the nuclear plant and chemical plant are literally named "Mushroom Cloud" and "Poisonous Toys" respectively, or the desert with a shipwreck in the middle is called the "Old Ocean".

Rico is also technically a terrorist protagonist, he's just a CIA-funded one.

Rageaholic Monkey posted:

I got free passes to see Kong: Skull Island.

It was dope.

Monsters got dismembered. People got dismembered.

John C. Reilly owned like he always does.

That was the best King Kong movie I've ever seen and I can't loving wait for Godzilla vs. Kong.

Detective Dog Dick posted:

Using Robocop as a perjorative smdh.

Sinners Sandwich posted:

Is Kimg Kong in Skull Island comparable to Godzillia's size?

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Nope, apparently he's about 32m tall and Godzilla 2014 was 108m tall, so he's less than a third as tall.

Grendels Dad posted:

I hope a wizard makes King Kong taller for their fight. Otherwise Godzilla will look like an rear end in a top hat for kicking around that poor little chimpanzee.

Grendels Dad posted:

I hope a wizard makes King Kong taller for their fight. Otherwise it'll look weird having a tiny monkey climb Godzilla and whoop his rear end

Punkin Spunkin posted:

Grendels Dad posted:

I hope a wizard makes King Kong taller for their fight. Otherwise Godzilla will look like an rear end in a top hat for kicking around that poor little chimpanzee.