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King Arthur is fine, but it's pretty mixed tonally. Jude Law definitely was pulled from a more serious movie that doesn't have a character named 'Kung Fu George' in it. Also, Eric Bana kills a horse about a minute into the movie and it's given no attention.
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Vegetable posted:It is in fact a bad movie franchise. The second one was insufferable It's a kids movie
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well why not posted:King Arthur is fine, but it's pretty mixed tonally. Jude Law definitely was pulled from a more serious movie that doesn't have a character named 'Kung Fu George' in it. Also, Eric Bana kills a horse about a minute into the movie and it's given no attention. I don't think he killed the horse, they just parted ways 
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May 22, 2017 11:09
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Do we really need Johnny English when Austin Powers existed? Anyways, King Arthur isn't nearly as bad as people are saying. It's third act is a bit incongruous, even compared to the rest of the movie's weird tone flipping. It's fairly fast paced and a nicely shot movie with some cool aesthetics. Acting is pretty solid for what's basically a cartoon adaptation of "what if King Arthur but with swearing and London chicanery". Far worse movies have done far, far better. well why not fucked around with this message at 11:47 on May 22, 2017 |
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May 22, 2017 11:44
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Johnny English is completely different than Austin Powers. It's about a bumbling office worker who becomes a spy, while the second is more about an old spy using old methods caught in a modern action movie. It's closer to Spy if anything.
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May 22, 2017 11:48
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Between Jonny English, Austin Powers, Spy and Get Smart, the spy-spoof genre is almost more present than actual spy movies.
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May 22, 2017 11:54
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well why not posted:Between Jonny English, Austin Powers, Spy and Get Smart, the spy-spoof genre is almost more present than actual spy movies.
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May 22, 2017 12:24
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Johnny English 2 isn't very good, but had it's moments, especially the chase scene. Johnny English 1 though is fantastic.
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May 22, 2017 12:25
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Vegetable posted:Most of those are pretty dated examples. Past two years have been big for spy movies: Bridge of Spies, Spectre and Man from UNCLE. Probably missing a few. Fair, we're also disregarding stuff like Jason Bourne or Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
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May 22, 2017 12:34
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Vegetable posted:Most of those are pretty dated examples. Past two years have been big for spy movies: Bridge of Spies, Spectre and Man from UNCLE. Probably missing a few. Recent spy comedies/parodies: Keeping Up with the Joneses, Central Intelligence, The Brothers Grimsby, Spy, Penguins of Madagascar, Minions ... Dunno which category you'd put Kingsman: The Secret Service and the recent Fast & Furious films into but they're definitely spy films which attempt to deconstruct the genre to some extent.
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May 22, 2017 12:40
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Pablo Bluth posted:Sounds like there might be a Johnny English 3 in the works. It might not be greatest movie franchise in the world, but I'm a sucker for the charms of the first two. It's hilarious that the second movie came out like 11 years after the first.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:It's hilarious that the second movie came out like 11 years after the first. Only 8 years which isn't really that much. We're getting a Blade Runner sequel later this year which is 35 years after the original and we're also getting a Mary Poppins sequel next year which is a 54 year gap between films. Sequel gaps over over 10 years are actually pretty common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_longest_gaps_between_film_sequels
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The only person I know who would be totally amped for a new Johnny English is this weirdo Hindu guy in my class who also thinks videos of Sikhs are inherently hilarious.
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Vegetable posted:Most of those are pretty dated examples. Past two years have been big for spy movies: Bridge of Spies, Spectre and Man from UNCLE. Probably missing a few. Well, of the those three, Man from UNCLE had a strong comedic/parody element to it also. Even Spectre was pretty much the Daniel Craig Bond era's version of Austin Powers in how it's pretty much a stereotypical 60s Sean Connery Bond film plopped down into the super-serious 2010s.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:The only person I know who would be totally amped for a new Johnny English is this weirdo Hindu guy in my class who also thinks videos of Sikhs are inherently hilarious. That guy is going to set fire to the Golden Temple while cackling maniacally and screaming "SIKH BURN!" at the top of his lungs.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:we're also getting a Mary Poppins sequel next year which is a 54 year gap between films. Wait, what?
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got any sevens posted:Wait, what? Emily "Full Metal Bitch" Blunt is Mary Poppins. Lin-Manuel Miranda is the Dick Van Dyke replacement. No word on a Michael Rooker cameo yet.  
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got any sevens posted:Wait, what? *daintily floats down from the sky and folds up her unbrella* "Miss me, motherfucker?"
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Schwarzwald posted:*daintily floats down from the sky and folds up her unbrella* Shame the chimmery man isn't Tom Cruise and it turns out Mary Poppin is another life they live in "Live, Dead, Repeat, Repeat".
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Rirse posted:Shame the chimmery man isn't Tom Cruise and it turns out Mary Poppin is another life they live in "Live, Dead, Repeat, Repeat". He dies so horribly, they jump back to 1890?
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quote:‘Uncharted’ Reconfigured: ‘Spider-Man Homecoming’s Tom Holland To Play Young Nathan Drake For Shawn Levy http://deadline.com/2017/05/tom-holland-uncharted-nathan-drake-movie-spider-man-homecoming-shawn-levy-1202099530/ Oh boy
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The MSJ posted:Emily "Full Metal Bitch" Blunt is Mary Poppins. Lin-Manuel Miranda is the Dick Van Dyke replacement. Well, he's the Dick Van Dyke replacement most of the runtime. Dick Van Dyke himself will actually appear in the film.
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Dick van Dyke is still alive?!
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:http://deadline.com/2017/05/tom-holland-uncharted-nathan-drake-movie-spider-man-homecoming-shawn-levy-1202099530/ Well, I mean, it's kind of reassuring to know that Sony hasn't really learned anything and are going to continue making weird, bad, obviously focus-group oriented choices going forward. At least they're reliable.
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:http://deadline.com/2017/05/tom-holland-uncharted-nathan-drake-movie-spider-man-homecoming-shawn-levy-1202099530/ Oh neat, they took the least interesting route to get their adventure franchise off the ground. Well at least if it gets to a third and fourth entries they wont be using an aged out guy to do the stunt work. And they could, you know, edit the gently caress out of the third ones story to be cohesive and not arbitrary.
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It isn't like adult Nathan Drake is a radically inventive new character, either. Charismatic Holland with a solid Sully could make for a fun mentor buddy movie, something between adult Indy and the Tintin movie from a few years ago. The levels of the game they allude to involve teen Drake trying to steal a relevant thing from a museum in Colombia and encountering an older thief who was hired to steal it too. Older guy has standard change of heart when his boss wants to kill the kid and takes him under his wing for a lifetime of adventure. e: I guess I'll say that I find that idea mildly more interesting than another Indy/National Treasure 35-year old white guy archaeologist. But Uncharted doesn't really lend itself to interesting movies for the story, only for maybe the setpieces that are less compelling when you aren't actually playing.
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Grendels Dad posted:Dick van Dyke is still alive?! Dick is eternal.
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Visually the airplane shootout/crash sequence in 3 is rather engaging even without the element of play and could easily be retooled into a great sequence. The hours of Drake climbing a thing to get to a window to drop down to the other side of a locked door could be reduced to a montage.
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I really don't like the Young Drake idea. The game was smart not to let that drag on for too long.
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:http://deadline.com/2017/05/tom-holland-uncharted-nathan-drake-movie-spider-man-homecoming-shawn-levy-1202099530/ Yay another origin movie that has a six-movie franchise rising on it that totally wont implode from high expectations
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The Universal Monsterverse is now called Dark Universe  http://www.welcometoprodigium.com/
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Very disappointed that Javier Bardem is playing Frankenstein's monster instead of Frankenstein himself. Also the rest of it sounds dumb. Who decided we need a Universal monsters extended universe, anyway?
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Grendels Dad posted:Dick van Dyke is still alive?! So is Jerry Van Dyke, though he's a few years younger, and they even tried to do a Coach revival show a little while ago.
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Universal Monsters was the original extended universe but at least it didn't have a dumb name then
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Tars Tarkas posted:The Universal Monsterverse is now called Dark Universe So Dracula Untold has been completely swept under the rug.
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Depp could be very good as the Invisible Man.
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Ugh, I'm so tired of Universal trotting out this shared universe bullshit. They're so desperate to create something on the scale of Marvel's films they'd probably sell coke in front a police station if it increased their odds of success by 1%.
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Parasol Prophet posted:Very disappointed that Javier Bardem is playing Frankenstein's monster instead of Frankenstein himself. Universal Studios in the 1920's 
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Tars Tarkas posted:Universal Monsters was the original extended universe but at least it didn't have a dumb name then
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They should have Frankenstein played by different actors for several movies in a row, including whoever is set to play Dracula.
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