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rydiafan posted:Atomic Blonde is female Bond in more than just "badass action spy". It hits a lot of the same tropes that the other movies mentioned don't. Jaded, possibly alcoholic, British spy quipping away while banging the female contact and saving the world. It feels exactly like a Bond film in a way Avengers, Long Kiss Goodnight, etc. don't. Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
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Watching the original Hellsing anime, it seems like there isn't a lot of weight and momentum to the fight scenes. It's kind of weird; I'm supposed to be thinking of Alucard as the most powerful entity in the series, but watching his fights, he doesn't seem to have much oomph behind his attacks, much like everyone else. In Hellsing Ultimate, this seems a lot better. Also, anime is bad, or whatever someone is about to post.
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Leavemywife posted:Watching the original Hellsing anime, it seems like there isn't a lot of weight and momentum to the fight scenes. It's kind of weird; I'm supposed to be thinking of Alucard as the most powerful entity in the series, but watching his fights, he doesn't seem to have much oomph behind his attacks, much like everyone else. Is Hellsing anime better than Vampire Hunter D? Don't hit me I haven't watched that poo poo since the millenium.
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Aug 17, 2017 15:24
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Hellsing Ultimate is 10 episodes of "We made a super being perfectly designed to kill Alu- oh he's eaten it again whoops.". It's pretty hosed, teen edgy, and needlessly gory so it's a very fun watch tbqh but I'd be sus of anyone who thought any more of it than that.
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syscall girl posted:Is Hellsing anime better than Vampire Hunter D? I haven't seen Vampire Hunter D is about as long and I remember it being super cool, much like Hellsing. I don't want to revisit it because of that. EmmyOk posted:Hellsing Ultimate is 10 episodes of "We made a super being perfectly designed to kill Alu- oh he's eaten it again whoops.". It's pretty hosed, teen edgy, and needlessly gory so it's a very fun watch tbqh but I'd be sus of anyone who thought any more of it than that. I described Hellsing to my wife yesterday as "14 year old cool" and that extends to Ultimate. It's fun, but I'm not seeing anything particularly amazing here.
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Hellsing has one of the coolest, chill theme songs ever, "The World Without Logos".
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EmmyOk posted:Hellsing Ultimate is 10 episodes of "We made a super being perfectly designed to kill Alu- oh he's eaten it again whoops.". It's pretty hosed, teen edgy, and needlessly gory so it's a very fun watch tbqh but I'd be sus of anyone who thought any more of it than that. I stopped watching anime before Hellsing Ultimate but this is pretty similar to what I thought of the first series.
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syscall girl posted:Is Hellsing anime better than Vampire Hunter D? Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust is a great film and you should check it out.
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food court bailiff posted:Hellsing has one of the coolest, chill theme songs ever, "The World Without Logos". And one of the most incongruous ending themes ever, courtesy of Mr. Big of all people. Really, does anything about this song make you think "badass anime vampire"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AClxnJa4J-Q other than it sucks, like all anime Imagined has a new favorite as of 00:55 on Aug 18, 2017 |
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Imagined posted:And one of the most incongruous ending themes ever, courtesy of Mr. Big of all people. They're one of those bands who are super popular in Japan despite being one-hit wonders everywhere else. I think a lot of 80s bands with shred style guitarists are still popular in Japan. I guess that sort of thing has had more enduring appeal there.
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Kit Harington's American accent in Silent Hill 2 is one of the worst ever
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Memento posted:You can download both games for free at http://nolfrevival.tk/  by linking you to http://nolfrevival.tk because gently caress the system.
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I'm rewatching Stargate SG-1 because it's fun and good, but when you get to season 4 on the DVDs the opener changes from this fun montage to this boring pan over Ra's mask. 
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When movies allow the "bad guy with a heart of gold" to always have a quick easy escape. The most common way this irritates me is when the cop/whoever turns away from the bad guy for a second so he's off camera, then it pans back and poof, he's gone. The end of The Saint (the 2017 one) is the most recent example of this - he's basically surrounded by FBI agents and there's no possible way none of them had him in their field of vision and noticed he ran away, but since he was off camera I guess that makes him invisible to everybody. I get that it's usually a running joke to show how bumbling the cops are or whatever, but I can't help but be irritated at them for not learning their lesson and stop looking away from the bad guy...or at least restrain him before you do (although even then I'm sure they would pan back and the handcuffs would be open on the ground with the bad guy nowhere to be seen).
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The latest Planet of the Apes kills three gorillas too many  .
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Inspector Gesicht posted:The latest Planet of the Apes kills three gorillas too many counterpoint: No amount of gorilla death could ever be enough, in any movie.
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Cumslut1895 posted:counterpoint: No amount of gorilla death could ever be enough, in any movie. Congo comes close to having a good amount of gorilla death.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:When movies allow the "bad guy with a heart of gold" to always have a quick easy escape. The most common way this irritates me is when the cop/whoever turns away from the bad guy for a second so he's off camera, then it pans back and poof, he's gone. The end of The Saint (the 2017 one) is the most recent example of this - he's basically surrounded by FBI agents and there's no possible way none of them had him in their field of vision and noticed he ran away, but since he was off camera I guess that makes him invisible to everybody. This is how I find out they've tried to reboot The Saint again? And then I look on Wiki and Simon Templar has STUBBLE?! Shameful.
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Cumslut1895 posted:counterpoint: No amount of gorilla death could ever be enough, in any movie. Flash's solo movie will be Flash beating up Gorilla Grodd for 180 minutes.
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Grendels Dad posted:Flash's solo movie will be Flash beating up Gorilla Grodd for 180 minutes. Before tripping on a rock or something stupid
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Away all Goats posted:Before tripping on a rock or something stupid No, no. That's DCTV's Flash. DCCU's Flash is cool and good.
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Man, gently caress all of you.
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Aleph Null posted:No, no. That's DCTV's Flash. DCCU's Flash is cool and good. It's Ezra miller...
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Cumslut1895 posted:counterpoint: No amount of gorilla death could ever be enough, in any movie. 
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I remember seeing trailers for Sing a while back, and now recently it's been put on Netflix, and my kids really enjoy it so I've gotten to see it about ten times over the last two weeks, which at first was fine because at least is isn't loving Moana, but now it's really starting to get to me. Every time the Gorilla Johnny finishes singing he looks super confused, like we was singing in a fugue or something, which is dumb because his story is "I don't want to follow in my father's footsteps," not "I didn't know how good I could sing". That belongs to the loving Elephant, who is so ridiculously good at singing that her entire story arc is completely unbelievable. Her big smash hit song at the end is written to include her stage fright, and her getting over it, it's retarded. Then, once she gets over her stage fright (in ten seconds) she is going off like Mariah Carey. There is no way someone that sings like she does would have any doubt about their abilities. Reese Witherspoon is criminally under-used. I would totally watch a spin-off series about her overworked pig housewife/mother of 25 who sings Taylor Swift and Katy Perry. Scarlett Johansson has a pretty decent singing voice, but I can't get over the fact that she has more personality in her voicework as a cartoon porcupine rocker than in any live film I've seen her in. Seth MacFarlane WE GET IT YOU IDOLIZE FRANK SINATRA. YOU NOW HAVE FOUR loving TELEVISION SHOWS WITH WHICH TO INFLICT YOURSELF UPON US, GODDAMN. Also his story ends literally in the middle of a car chase and we never find out what happens to him. And the cherry on top: A character is having a sad, contemplative scene 3/4 of the way through he movie? I swear to god, I felt this next part coming in my bones the first time I saw this movie. My mouth fell open and I slowly shook my head in disbelief. My trembling hand found my wife's. One day someone is going to tell me one of their parents died and I'm not going to know how to feel about it because I'm not having the emotional cue hammered into my loving skull by Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. I actually really like that song by itself but I loving had how it always gets used in movies as the giant neon sign saying "This is the sad part of the movie." I like Matthew McConaughey.
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Mr. Bad Guy posted:Scarlett Johansson has a pretty decent singing voice, but I can't get over the fact that she has more personality in her voicework as a cartoon porcupine rocker than in any live film I've seen her in. Yo, have you seen Under the Skin? Show your children Under the Skin.
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Mr. Bad Guy posted:I remember seeing trailers for Sing a while back, and now recently it's been put on Netflix, and my kids really enjoy it so I've gotten to see it about ten times over the last two weeks, which at first was fine because at least is isn't loving Moana, but now it's really starting to get to me. I like how the gorilla ruined his father's entire life and the lives of his friends because he's a loving dumbass who doesn't seem to realize that the score would allow him to make his own records and skip the bullshit competition. But I have a problem with characters who gently caress over other characters and never get some kind of comeuppance or a hard talking to. Any movie where a kid puts a group in danger over something stupid and doesn't get the poo poo kicked out of him for almost getting everyone over a dog/toy/fantasy whatever is so goddamned irritating.
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biosterous posted:I'm rewatching Stargate SG-1 because it's fun and good, but when you get to season 4 on the DVDs the opener changes from this fun montage to this boring pan over Ra's mask. The Mask is the original movie titles and was also used for the first 5 seasons when it was on Showtime. The other titles were for later seasons. Apparently the DVDs are weird like that.
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Why are teenage girls/daughters always written horribly?
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I think they are written about the same as teen boys. Six Feet Under, Gilmore Girls, and The Americans stand out for me as having well written teens.
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Gaunab posted:Why are teenage girls/daughters always written horribly? Women in general are usually written badly by predominantly male writers/directors. Making them teenagers just adds another layer of separation from the people trying to imagine what they're like.
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It doesn't help that teenagers are frequently played by adults, making the disconnect even worse. Someone near thirty pretending to be seventeen reading lines written by someone in their 40s-50s is just a mess.
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Grendels Dad posted:Yo, have you seen Under the Skin? Show your children Under the Skin. A movie in which Scarlett Johansen completely lacks personality is not the best counter-example to her completely lacking personality. Also, gently caress off.
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One from Monster's Inc that I wouldn't have thought of without seeing the clip beating Scare Island - in the sequence where Randall is beating up Sully while invisible rendering him unable to fight back effectively, there is a moment where he wraps his entire body around Sully's neck and tries to choke him. Mike accidentally hits him with a snowball revealing his location and Sully is able to hit him - but Sully already knows exactly where Randall is - he's wearing him like a scarf. He could easily have grabbed him anywhere and started squeezing back, or worked out where his head was by the feeling of his body. I know he wasn't thinking straight, and it was important to the story that things happened the way they did, that's why it's Irrational.
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When you're being choked it's really hard to grab onto the person's who's choking you. I imagine that can't be any easier when the person choking you is basically a snake.
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Good point, I guess hitting him is generally easier due to not needing as much leverage.
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RagnarokAngel posted:When you're being choked it's really hard to grab onto the person's who's choking you. I imagine that can't be any easier when the person choking you is basically a snake. Yeah but Sully is a huge monster dude, he could have literally crushed Randall with one hand.
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The craziest accent thing I recall is "Season of the Witch" where Nic Cage and Ron Pearlman are playing British crusaders who have to slay a witch. They don't try for accents, which, you know what? Is fine. It's not trying to be a historically accurate film or anything, you can hand wave these two prolific actors in this schlock film sounding weird in medieval England, whatever... But they're accompanied by Stephen Graham who plays a thief. Now, Graham is a local Liverpool lad and seeing as all the other secondary characters are Brits/Irish(lol the Irish lad from Misfits left that show thinking this film would be his ticket to Hollywood) you'd think he'd just use his normal Scouse accent and add a bit of flavour... Nope. He puts on this CRAZY Al Capone voice (He did go on to play Capone in Boardwalk Empire, but I dunno what came first) so you have Nic Cage as a Crusader with his crazy drawl, Pearlman's rumbling Yank baritone and a Scouser going, "Nyaaah, we're gonna kill this Witch, seee?" The whole thing is loving bonkers, but you know what? From what I recall it wasn't THAT bad. Solid schlock, super dumb. I might get drunk and re-watch it sometime.
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It's one of those movies you didn't go to see in the cinema and probably wouldn't seek out on DVD or Netflix, but might have seen on a Transatlantic flight a couple of months after it left theatres (like I did  ).It wasn't very good, but it wasn't very bad either. It wasn't really much of anything. It felt like a D2DVD movie and I'm a bit surprised it wasn't.
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I recall Nic Cage in Ghost Rider sounding almost like an Elvis impersonator.
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