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I was talking to my adult friends in a diner about how pointless a live action / CG Beauty and the Beast is. And soon after a family left the restaurant and their little 5 year old girl was just staring at me. I felt a real fat sack of poo poo. edit: more so Captain Lavender fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Jul 2, 2017 |
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Rocky reviews: Rocky - A classic and a best picture winner. Solid film. Definitely watch it. Rocky 2 - Pretty good. Only watch it if you loved the first. Rocky 3 - Silly as hell and very 80s. Mr. T is the bad guy and the beach frolicking scene is a classic of 80s cheese. Skip it if you want to. Rocky 4 - Required viewing by all Americans. If you want to see the cultural zeitgeist of Regan era America this is a better satire than American Psycho and RoboCop because it's so unashamedly sincere. Rocky 5 - Even huge Rocky fans know this one blows. Don't watch. Rocky Balboa - This one is all about the context of seeing the previous movies and Stallone's career itself. Has more of an impact if you've seen all of the movies and you love the character. Otherwise it won't do anything for you. Creed - Excellent movie if you've seen Rocky 1-4. Can't imagine it being very interesting if you haven't. ........... First Blood - Classic Rambo: First Blood Part 2: Has nothing to do with the heavy story of a PTSD-addled psycho veteran from the first movie. He's now basically a terminator and he goes back to Vietnam for revenge with hilarious results. Rambo 3: see review of Rocky 4 Rambo (IV): Holy poo poo: The Movie
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Jul 2, 2017 16:58
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:Rocky 3 - Silly as hell and very 80s. Mr. T is the bad guy and the beach frolicking scene is a classic of 80s cheese. Skip it if you want to. Ranking them in this order is a commonly held wrong opinion. Rocky 3 is superior.
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Rocky 3 is a fun gay romp through the 80s. Like Top Gun. Rocky 4 is literally the best advertisement for hot dogs and bbq grills and giant cars ever made. It's America The Movie.
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Jul 2, 2017 17:08
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:Rocky reviews: Very good rankings
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quote:Rambo (IV): Holy poo poo: The Movie This one gave me PTSD
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Creed is good even if you've never seen a Rocky, the gently caress is wrong with you.
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Captain Lavender posted:I was talking to my adult friends in a diner about how pointless a live action / CG Beauty and the Beast is. And soon after a family left the restaurant and their little 5 year old girl was just staring at me. She was probably trying to figure out how to subscribe to your review service.
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Jul 2, 2017 17:27
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:Rocky reviews: I agree with all of this.
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:Rocky 3 is a fun gay romp through the 80s. Like Top Gun. I guess that's fair. Rocky III is something akin to a real movie, with a complete narrative arc, and lots of schlock elements that are very well integrated. Rocky IV is pure schlock through and through. Also, Eye of the Tiger is a better song than Burning Heart.
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Jul 2, 2017 17:33
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Tacky-rear end Rococco posted:I guess that's fair. HEARTS ON FIRE
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Yug posted:HEARTS ON FIRE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAtBVRFD_Zg?
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Jul 2, 2017 17:59
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Paladinus posted:Nah, he proceeded to tell me about some Transformers mobile game where you can play as Optimus Prime from the cartoon, which was better than the movie. Wow only 6 years old and already out of the closet.... Brave!
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Jul 2, 2017 18:08
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Lurdiak posted:Creed is good even if you've never seen a Rocky, the gently caress is wrong with you. Yeah that's what I was going to say, I think my most prominent thought coming out of Creed was "wow, this is much better than it needed to be". It would be solid movie even if Stallone was just playing a character we'd never seen before, adding the history and meta-context of Rocky is just icing on the cake.
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I love Rocky. I don't know why, but I have to watch it alone. Just doesn't feel like a group movie. It's the most trite thing by now to say that 'Rocky isn't a boxing movie', but it's true. I think most people that hate it are waiting for the boxing to start and that'll ruin it. Or they are generally just intolerant of slow burn movies.
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Jul 2, 2017 18:56
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:Rocky reviews: And what about Italian Stallion?
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I HATED the obvious CGI fights in Creed. Like you could tell the crowd stuff was all green screened in , really took me out of it. Stallone was excellent in it. Warrior has ruined other sports movies for me , that was so so good.
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Jul 2, 2017 19:21
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Why doesn't Hollywood just get a bunch of hicks and pay em 5 bucks plus catering to stand around yelling their heads off. We spent 150 million loving dollars either way.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:I HATED the obvious CGI fights in Creed. Like you could tell the crowd stuff was all green screened in , really took me out of it. Stallone was excellent in it. I didn't notice that at all. Is it the first fight? The first fight in the movie is excellent. The whole thing is one flowing over-the-shoulder shot. I was super disappointed when the climactic fight was shot like a lot more like a standard boxing movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqSSHmr8bR4
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PostNouveau posted:I didn't notice that at all. Is it the first fight? The first fight in the movie is excellent. The whole thing is one flowing over-the-shoulder shot. I was super disappointed when the climactic fight was shot like a lot more like a standard boxing movie. Um, defense of any kind is illegal in boxing in the Rockyverse, those guys should have been disqualified. Nah that was real good. They struck a nice balance by making it an action fight without it being as comical as Rocky 3/4.
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Rocky IV is just depressing because you watch and realize it's 30 years later and we still don't have cake serving maid robots. It's sad how little technology has progressed since 1985.
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Schweinhund posted:Rocky IV is just depressing because you watch and realize it's 30 years later and we still don't have cake serving maid robots. It's sad how little technology has progressed since 1985. posted from my telephone
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Jul 2, 2017 20:40
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PostNouveau posted:I didn't notice that at all. Is it the first fight? Yeah all the crowd here is CGI. It was super obvious to me in the cinema. I like the idea but the background really took me out of it. It's not a great movie but Southpaw had really good boxing cinematography. Warrior is still the gold standard. I know it's MMA but it's definitely the best fight cinematographer I've ever seen.
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Fun fact, Rambo III was dedicated to the Taliban.
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Yeah he teams up with them. That was when they were the good guys. Maybe in 20 years ISIS will be our pals. Here's hoping.
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Jose Oquendo posted:Yeah he teams up with them. That was when they were the good guys. Maybe in 20 years ISIS will be our pals. Here's hoping. The remnants of ISIS will get funded, armed and trained by us to help fight against... whoever we're funding, arming and training right now? The Kurds maybe? And so the cycle continues.
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counterfeitsaint posted:The remnants of ISIS will get funded, armed and trained by us to help fight against... whoever we're funding, arming and training right now? The Kurds maybe? And so the cycle continues. The Kurds are bros and should have their own state
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You got my cyclical political commentary in my movie thread??? *runs off to trump thread for rlm talk*
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Jose Oquendo posted:Yeah he teams up with them. That was when they were the good guys. Maybe in 20 years ISIS will be our pals. Here's hoping. Rambo 5 was rumored to have him go up against ISIS. I still want it to happen just because Rambo 4 was ultra violent and rad as gently caress. SeANMcBAY fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Jul 2, 2017 |
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Jul 2, 2017 22:39
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Chapo go on Best of the Worst
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I would watch a 70 year old Stallone pulling out the throats of Isis dudes.
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Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:The Kurds are bros and should have their own state Last time people said something like that, Israel happened 
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Rocky IV is so loving good. He fixes the Cold War by punching really hard a bunch. It's the peak ideal of America.
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Avirosb posted:Last time people said something like that, Israel happened Don't you mean South Sudan?
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WampaLord posted:Rocky IV is so loving good. Wrong kind of guns  Guy Goodbody posted:Don't you mean South Sudan? South...? Huh, you learn something new every day.
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I love Creed's entrance to the fight in Rocky IV, which is supposed to be WAY over the top, but maybe unintentially matches the tone of the whole film exactly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeoHcB9_wss
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If listening to this doesn't raise goosebumps on your skin, you are a soulless commie bastard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0I-IgfpSEQ
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Hey, they're drinking a period-inappropriate drink! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adjfTktpIzg
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Tacky-rear end Rococco posted:Hey, they're drinking a period-inappropriate drink! If the 'period' is the 20th century, yeah. Zima and Blade Runner are like 10 years apart. When Blade Runner premiered, Zima was but a wonderful dream - not yet science fact.
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