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Al Borland Corp. posted:Was the last major kid's adventure film starring kids that JJ Abrams one with the alien escaping a train? Stranger Things isn't a movie but it got talked about as much as one. I think the kid actress who played Eleven got cast in Godzilla 2 and other stuff now.
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Basebf555 posted:Decades from now no one but a select few will remember that Jai Courtney era, something I'll always be able to say I lived through. Makes you think. Whenever I see Jai Courtney's name, I picture Michael Jai White. I had to google him just now just to remember that he's "We couldn't afford Chris Evans."
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Jai Courtney probably made more money, but I would totally rather have Michael Jai White's career.
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Jai Courtney was good in Spartacus
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Basebf555 posted:Correct, the band's jumping off point was supposed to be The Boondock Saints soundtrack. The shoot for the album cover was absolutely hilarious. Duffy's attitude towards the band was ridiculously schizophrenic. One day he'd be saying stuff like "this movie poo poo is just a fun hobby, the real business is the band", then the next day it would be "remember, the movie is what put us here, we have to think of the movie first and foremost". Basically what it comes down to is Duffy was an alcoholic who would say random poo poo while on a bender. Yeah, the band was originally called the Brood (because of loving course they were, it was the late 90s) and their signing and doing the soundtrack were also part of Weinstein's original offer.
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davidspackage posted:The effects work is great (and gross) and I looove the concept of the Vietcong beating back the invaders with a f'ing rivergod, but it kinda gets ruined by the government guy laying out a ridiculous monologue about reality distortion and other nonsense. That stuff would be okay in a videogame, not here. I love Blomkamp's aesthetic and I still think his cancelled Halo and Alien projects are huge missed opportunities, but these Oats shorts do nothing for me. They're 25 minute trailers for stories that will probably never be finished. I'd much rather he pour his effort into another full length feature.
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marshmallow creep posted:Teen Titans GO is entertaining in its own right for how batshit it can be and what it seems to get away with. Like, the last episode I watched with my kids was a competition between Robin and Kid Flash to be the first to stop 52 crimes. Santa Claus sings a song about how teammates are garbage. Robin wins by going full Tonya Harding and breaking Kid Flash's knee. Final shot is Kid Flash crippled and crying in pain. It had Weird Al as Darkseid which ruled
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It had beast boy make a new crypto currency, which was just literally bees, and then when Robin was in dire straights, made him "Dance for yo bees". It's a bizarre, fun, madcap show.
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davidspackage posted:The effects work is great (and gross) and I looove the concept of the Vietcong beating back the invaders with a f'ing rivergod, but it kinda gets ruined by the government guy laying out a ridiculous monologue about reality distortion and other nonsense. That stuff would be okay in a videogame, not here. Where does this happen in the movie? Sounds hilarious. edit: lol, watching it now. That CIA guy is a one man suspense deflator. Way to give away the mystery by blathering about a river god, then spend the next minutes following him proving that yes, its a river god. Bad writing in a project associated with Blompkamp? I never edit 2: making a movie with moneyshot Diablo 2 cutscenes not as fun as you would hope for. edit 3: oof, finished it. Real bad, real amateur level storytelling here. On a script, plotting level. Let's finish off basically a sizzle reel with a guy never stopping talking, capping a 25 mins of never ending backstory and flashbacks. None of these characters make sense. Shageletic fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Jun 29, 2017 |
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Jun 29, 2017 22:00
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Death Note trailer. Dafoe is insanely perfect. I'm stoked.
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Jun 29, 2017 22:46
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:And Jumanji's trailer On the one hand, this does not look good. On the other hand, I want Marc Evan Jackson to keep getting work.
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I think the little kid movies in the early-mid 90s were a demographic thing. Just before that there were a bunch of films about people having babies (including, oddly enough, Ghostbusters II), so I think they were targeting an actual baby boom. And of course Home Alone was a surprise hit that became one of the biggest movies of all time so that was part of it.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:"what if we removed everything good and memorable from Jumanji and had Kevin Hart scream for two hours?"
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Jun 30, 2017 01:01
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In Jumanji game escapes into life, in Jumanji 2 life escapes into game! 
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:And Jumanji's trailer So, the Rock is essentially video game Den?
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Maxwell Lord posted:I think the little kid movies in the early-mid 90s were a demographic thing. Just before that there were a bunch of films about people having babies (including, oddly enough, Ghostbusters II), so I think they were targeting an actual baby boom. The echo boom is a real thing yeah, although nowhere near as massive as THE baby boom.
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The first time I even heard anyone refer to Millennials they were called "Echo Boomers". Which sounds like a enemy type in a FPS.
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Millenials as a generation are larger than the boomers actually
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basic hitler posted:Millenials as a generation are larger than the boomers actually I thought both terms were overused and spanned decades apiece.
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Generation is a useful concept but the pop sci baggage around them does indeed suck, but generations do tend to vary in culture and priority, and boomers were initially just notable for being the huge nimbers of children born during the post war economic boom. Millenial is used in a bunch of garbage ways but it is a generation of people and its the largest single generation of people. If you say nothing else about them then that's their most notable trait
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Oh c'mon "post war economic boom" It was Rosie the Riveter and the sailor suit man doing kisses to jazz music and a lot of booze.
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it was the rise of suburbs, soldiers coming home during the age of the GI bill and many finding work and education and stability that fed a desire to pump out children after more than a decade of hard fuckin' living for much of the country
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Lot of words to say it was not consensual.
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I'm just kidding at this point. But there was a PTSD psychosexual thing going on there as well. And women competing for the few men left who could do the dirty deed. The make-up, stockings and bullet bras were off the charts. Birth control was bleach with ammonia. Abortions were a hanging offense.
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To bring it back to movies Mulholland Falls and LA Confidential best epitomize this.
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NorgLyle posted:It's not like they could have Robin Williams in it again and I don't know what else might be 'good and memorable' about Jumanji. I might be slightly biased though because the Office Depot I was working in while going to school played the drat movie nonstop for like five months one summer to show off this fancy new DVD technology that everyone was going crazy for. wyoming posted:In Jumanji game escapes into life, in Jumanji 2 life escapes into game! The elements of the Jumanji game being unleashed on the real world were a huge part of the original movie. Elephants in the street, monkeys in the store, the lion in the mansion, etc. Without that, the new movie is just "idiot kids in a jungle".
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I don't know what the last big kid action movie was but I know what the next one will be https://twitter.com/TaikaWaititi/status/879957239653580800
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syscall girl posted:I'm just kidding at this point. But there was a PTSD psychosexual thing going on there as well. I remember a friend thinking about why you saw so many people drinking in post-war film and TV programs, or the famed "three-martini lunch" that was popular with business folks up until the '70s. The revelation was that it was veterans becoming functional alcoholics and drinking their PTSD away.
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Detective No. 27 posted:Death Note trailer. I only know the premise and have never read the manga or watched the anime but this actually intrigues me because the idea is applied on a global scope. I always thought it was some silly horror movie, and they could've absolutely gone that way, but they're looking at the bigger picture and it's neat.
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syscall girl posted:To bring it back to movies Mulholland Falls and LA Confidential best epitomize this. Looking up the trailer for Falls, I saw that Michael Madsen was in it. Wondering what happened to him, I found this article: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/5gkwe3/the-slow-star-death-of-michael-madsen-724 And most importantly, I found this trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4dl_4WLwqo Whooooo that is amaaaazing edit: ^^^ I"ve seen that trailer like 4 times now, and when I'm watching one that is boring, I just flip it to the Death Note one instead. Shageletic fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Jun 30, 2017 |
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Big Mean Jerk posted:The elements of the Jumanji game being unleashed on the real world were a huge part of the original movie. Elephants in the street, monkeys in the store, the lion in the mansion, etc. Without that, the new movie is just "idiot kids in a jungle". Totally agreed. Now, there's still a chance that the movie uses the video game motif really well in a bunch of interesting ways, but right now it does look like idiots bumbling around in a jungle.
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Jumanji 2 is Jungle Tron without any of the aesthetics that define Tron. It also has the unfortunate side effect of making me think of The Rundown, a movie that I would likely prefer watching. Maybe it'll be a fun family movie, though, I dunno.
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GrandpaPants posted:Jumanji 2 is Jungle Tron without any of the aesthetics that define Tron. It also has the unfortunate side effect of making me think of The Rundown, a movie that I would likely prefer watching. Maybe it'll be a fun family movie, though, I dunno. 'Welcome to the Jungle' was The Rundown's title in Germany so yeah, same. Basebf555 posted:Totally agreed. Now, there's still a chance that the movie uses the video game motif really well in a bunch of interesting ways, but right now it does look like idiots bumbling around in a jungle. We already saw everyone except Kevin Hart being able to dash, I guess at the very least we'll see some goofy 90's video game-based superpowers.
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syscall girl posted:I thought both terms were overused and spanned decades apiece. Yeah, millennial is especially hilarious because between contempt for young people and being terrified of getting older it just keeps getting broader and broader until now it's being used to describe people in their 40s all the way down to current elementary schoolers.
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Grendels Dad posted:We already saw everyone except Kevin Hart being able to dash, I guess at the very least we'll see some goofy 90's video game-based superpowers. It really needs to be a main focus, not just a few throwaway moments though, so we're gonna just have to see the movie to find out. The original Jumanji wasn't like some showcase for the comedy stylings of Robin Williams, so I'm hoping that the whole movie isn't just The Rock and Kevin Hart riffing.
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Grendels Dad posted:We already saw everyone except Kevin Hart being able to dash, I guess at the very least we'll see some goofy 90's video game-based superpowers. Kevin Hart gets weapons expertise and zoology which I guess means animal control (we see him riding an elephant in the trailer) and at the start of the video the Rock says his character has super strength and a boomerang attack. Jack Black's character is a "cartographer, code-breaker, curvy genius" but seems to be impervious to crushing damage. Karen Gillan's character description is "fighter, killer of men".
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Guy Mann posted:Yeah, millennial is especially hilarious because between contempt for young people and being terrified of getting older it just keeps getting broader and broader until now it's being used to describe people in their 40s all the way down to current elementary schoolers. Everything makes so much more sense if you have a thing for your browser that replaces the word "millennial" with "kids these days."
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Cythereal posted:Everything makes so much more sense if you have a thing for your browser that replaces the word "snake person" with "kids these days." Mine replaces it with "snake person"
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Kevin Hart gets weapons expertise and zoology which I guess means animal control (we see him riding an elephant in the trailer) and at the start of the video the Rock says his character has super strength and a boomerang attack. Jack Black's character is a "cartographer, code-breaker, curvy genius" but seems to be impervious to crushing damage. Karen Gillan's character description is "fighter, killer of men". So its a stealth dungeons and dragons movie? Kickass
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got any sevens posted:So its a stealth dungeons and dragons movie? Kickass loving hell now I really wish they'd found a cursed D&D set instead of making GBS threads Jumanji.
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