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BravestOfTheLamps posted:This is all incredibly basic stuff. Vol. 2's inspiration, Man of Steel, already did all that and more. Like that scene of Kurt Russell pontificating about how he's not alone with very undynamic shots and set just reminds one how better the equivalent sequences with Jor-El and Zod were. Holy poo poo, you're serious about this nonsense you're spewing, aren't you?
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Soulwrangler posted:So I know character swaps aren't as passe as they used to be but doesn't Fox have the rights for The Watchers? Marvel and Fox share joint custody on them and several other characters.
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Oasx posted:Marvel and Fox share joint custody on them and several other characters.
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# ? May 7, 2017 05:40 |
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Awesome movie. Def hit me in the feels a few times. Robot sex workers. The music was the biggest disappointment for me. IMAX 3d was dope, but fukken 20 dollhairs
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SD87 posted:The music was the biggest disappointment for me. Care to elaborate on that? The old pop hits are a huge part of what makes the movie work.
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Solvalou posted:Holy poo poo, you're serious about this nonsense you're spewing, aren't you? You took the bait.
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# ? May 7, 2017 07:24 |
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Wasn't Nathan Fillion supposed to be in this movie playing Simon Williams? What happened to that?
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bbf2 posted:Wasn't Nathan Fillion supposed to be in this movie playing Simon Williams? What happened to that? I think it was always just him being on movie posters. They may have been cut out of the movie.
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I feel like tossing this thought into the void of the internet: whistle scene was incredibly unsettling. That poo poo was gruesome in the first movie, and it being an extended thing played as a spectacle in this was hard to watch.
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# ? May 7, 2017 09:10 |
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This movie needed one or two more scenes of the main characters walking in slo motion looking extremely bad rear end
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bbf2 posted:Wasn't Nathan Fillion supposed to be in this movie playing Simon Williams? What happened to that? His scene was cut. I think Gunn said so a few weeks ago, or maybe Fillion posted it on Twitter.
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Solvalou posted:Holy poo poo, you're serious about this nonsense you're spewing, aren't you? It's not a particularly radical opinion to note that Man of Steel is visually speaking probably the best of all superhero movies. You don't even need to like Zack Snyder to admit that he's a great visual stylist. It's also not very radical to note that the GotG movies aren't particularly good looking despite all the colourful sci-fi imagery - the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie for example looks superior (also looks funnier, as a comedy). Also,
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Apropos of nothing, but I think it's really funny that after James Gunn divorced Jenna Fischer he wrote a movie about the workers in an Office killing each other.
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# ? May 7, 2017 10:03 |
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Dane Cook hasn't aged that well.
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kater posted:I feel like tossing this thought into the void of the internet: whistle scene was incredibly unsettling. That poo poo was gruesome in the first movie, and it being an extended thing played as a spectacle in this was hard to watch. You mean the knife missile scene? That's a bit of a grey area.
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# ? May 7, 2017 11:02 |
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Shouldve played Cat's in the Cradle at the end
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biracial bear for uncut posted:So who was Thanos wailing on during the 750 jump montage? Quoting for the new page.
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Fragmented posted:You mean the knife missile scene? That's a bit of a grey area. It was a joy to watch. It's been a great year for fun violence actually. Kong, John Wick 2.
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kater posted:I feel like tossing this thought into the void of the internet: whistle scene was incredibly unsettling. That poo poo was gruesome in the first movie, and it being an extended thing played as a spectacle in this was hard to watch. It was a little weird because so much of the rest of the movie had cartoon rules on killing. Like the space ships they blew up were all beep boop videogame drones and rocket defends the ships with home alone silly knockout traps. Then there is just one scene where they are massacring humans and it is weird, because it's not even like they are big villains that they built up as being actually bad or anything. Like it wasn't some super gory scene that would have bugged me in any other movie but in this one it did seem out of left field to suddenly be killing people super casual in a movie that seemed to be on 90s cartoon "only kill robots/monsters/the baddest guy in a special episode" rules.
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# ? May 7, 2017 14:46 |
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Be honest, did you lose a bet? e: got any sevens posted:Shouldve played Cat's in the Cradle at the end That's a song about bad dads and wouldn't apply to this movie.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:It's not a particularly radical opinion to note that Man of Steel is visually speaking probably the best of all superhero movies. Even Darkman beats Man of Steel visually. quote:Weird, I wonder if they've ever worked together before. Oh wait!
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Ya'll forgot what those Ravangers did to Yondu's crew?
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CelticPredator posted:Ya'll forgot what those Ravangers did to Yondu's crew? I felt weird about it too, like the first movie stayed close to "good guy rules" and this one crossed over.
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CelticPredator posted:Ya'll forgot what those Ravangers did to Yondu's crew? Yeah, saying they don't deserve it is pretty strange. Everyone who didn't deserve it was already thrown away. "They killed all my friends"
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:It was a little weird because so much of the rest of the movie had cartoon rules on killing. Like the space ships they blew up were all beep boop videogame drones and rocket defends the ships with home alone silly knockout traps. Then there is just one scene where they are massacring humans and it is weird, because it's not even like they are big villains that they built up as being actually bad or anything. They're all aliens. Aliens are always part of the Robots/Monsters rule of ok to kill. You'll also notice that most of the space pirates with no prosthetics to make them freaky aliens were spaced by the space pirates with prosthetics. The most notable of the non-prosthetic aliens remaining either joined Yondu, were depicted as especially bad and killed just off screen, or were given a comedic instead of a vicious death. Which is leaving aside that Yondu's crew of Ravagers have been built up across both films as being pretty bad guys, even if Yondu himself is a bit of a big ol' softy underneath the gruff. This movie even went out of the way to underline the divide between "cool" space pirates and rear end in a top hat space pirates before having the rear end in a top hat space pirates offed to cool tunes.
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There is literally an extended shot showing all the crew that have been shoved out the airlock that were loyal to Yondu, which is also a helpful callback thread for the ending. The overhead shot of the arrow flying through the ship gave me wicked Doom Map/Spectator Camera flashbacks which is not a shot I recall in a film previousy so that was neat.
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That scene where the guy gets sucked out of the airlock was really rough. The effects of space plus the POV, waving goodbye shot was nasty.
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Franchescanado posted:Even Darkman beats Man of Steel visually. How so? Man of Steel is a great-looking movie. You don't like it, but to deny it's technical accomplishments is just silly. The GotG movies are praised for being colourful, but it actually gets quite dull, and is mostly just adequate. Like here's an alien city under attack, and it looks like somebody clicked on a disaster while playing SimCity: Even GotG2's high-lights, like the body-warping hyperspace pinball or or the arrow massacre, aren't that good. The latter for example would've been improved by dropping the pointless slow-mo walk and music. Franchescanado posted:Weird, I wonder if they've ever worked together before. Yes, that's my point. Now that Gunn has made a movie that bears some resemblance to a movie made by his acquaintance and one-time coworker, the logical thing is to assume that it was an influence. BravestOfTheLamps fucked around with this message at 16:11 on May 7, 2017 |
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:The GotG movies are praised for being colourful, but it actually gets quite dull, and is mostly just adequate. Like here's an alien city under attack, and it looks like somebody clicked on a disaster while playing SimCity: Yeah, I looked into this and it's not true. When you posted screen caps in the comic book movie thread, they were all met with a chorus of "Wow, I remember this movie looking a lot brighter in theatres!" and they're right. I went and checked out the scenes you capped on Netflix on an actual television and the difference is literally night and day. Everything is brighter, the colours pop, the contrast is better. There's some fuckery with computer screens, as far as I can tell. I'm sure someone more technologically knowledgeable than me might be able to explain it. EDIT: The same was true with Thor, too. Phylodox fucked around with this message at 16:16 on May 7, 2017 |
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Phylodox posted:Yeah, I looked into this and it's not true. When you posted screen caps in the comic book movie thread, they were all met with a chorus of "Wow, I remember this movie looking a lot brighter in theatres!" and they're right. I went and checked out the scenes you capped on Netflix on an actual television and the difference is literally night and day. Everything is brighter, the colours pop, the contrast is better. Yeah, it was unfair that way. It's definitely better, but it doesn't really cover for how uninventive the movie's visuals and their underlying story are. BravestOfTheLamps fucked around with this message at 18:18 on May 7, 2017 |
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Zach Snyder is an awesome visual designer if you think the clarity filter in photoshop is the raddest thing to ever exist. Also, I'm Mary Poppins Y'all is life. Yondu 2020
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biracial bear for uncut posted:Quoting for the new page. I don't think it was him, I think it was just two random aliens fighting on a random planet.
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Gyges posted:They're all aliens. Aliens are always part of the Robots/Monsters rule of ok to kill It feels less that I'm shocked they killed them, and more like the movie felt like it went SO far out of it's way to make the sovereign absolutely not die in the space battle and then had rocket, who is a total psychopath only use fun traps when defending the ship. So it felt really suprising when suddenly they kill like 50 people really casually. It's like if there was a gi joe episode where they are blowing up planes and always showing the parachutes coming out then there was just some random scene where they shoot xamat in the face and he dies or something.
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Jose Oquendo posted:Care to elaborate on that? The old pop hits are a huge part of what makes the movie work. I think it is just because in the first one the songs that were used are more known than the ones used in the second
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# ? May 7, 2017 17:26 |
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It was a fun, cotton candy film. Except for a few standout moments (Mantis feeling Drax's loss) it felt like a Universal Studios theme park ride.
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They had an entire guy whose Thing was pulling levers. Big levers, small levers. Upside down action sequence levers. Pretty weird.
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Maaannnn Yondu Best part of the movie. Please bring him back some how. So, it took me a minute to realize what bothered me about this one and it hit me...it didn't feel like it moved the whole MARVEL story. At all. It was a bunch of amazing little scenes, one after another, that didn't really feel like they connected in the big picture.
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Tommy 2.0 posted:So, it took me a minute to realize what bothered me about this one and it hit me...it didn't feel like it moved the whole MARVEL story. At all. It was a bunch of amazing little scenes, one after another, that didn't really feel like they connected in the big picture. This is a good thing.
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got any sevens posted:Shouldve played Cat's in the Cradle at the end I legit thought this was the song that started playing over the final battle until the lyrics kicked in and I felt like an idiot.
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Franchescanado posted:Even Darkman "Even" Darkman?
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