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Guy A. Person posted:Eh I don't think Justice's League's terrible flop is indicative of the comic book movie bubble bursting Yeah I made a count a few pages ago and there were three superhero/comicbook films in 2015, eight in 2016, ten this year, twelve listed for 2018 so far and 10 plus a bunch of unconfirmed/untitled movies already listed for 2019. The bubble is still expanding. But maybe euphronius was just referring to the DCEU's bubble bursting. 
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I thought it was kind of a neat fact !!
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Davros1 posted:It'll probably surpass Man of Steel by the end of the week, and there's a chance it'll pass BvS too I mean, even if it only makes half of what Force Awakens does, it will surpass all but a half dozen or so super hero films, including incredibly popular stuff like GotG2, Deadpool, Spider-Man, etc. euphronius posted:I thought it was kind of a neat fact !! Oh yeah I agree, comparing it to the most recent big release super hero movie is totally valid, and puts into perspective how bad it flopped
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Davros1 posted:It'll probably surpass Man of Steel by the end of the week, and there's a chance it'll pass BvS too By the end of its second weekend it'll most likely have passed all the DCEU films including Wonder Woman and possibly all the MCU films except Avengers, and there's a good chance it'll pass Avengers on its 3rd weekend.
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I’m impressed by Wolf Warrior 2 and will need to check it out. I don’t see foreign born cinema so high on global box office charts and am surprised someone didn’t release it wide in US. My man Frank Grillo doing good. Should be leveraged as an international Star now. It’s made 870 million overseas entirely and is #5. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=2017&p=.htm Grillo also made the best Punisher in the Purge movies Gatts fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Dec 18, 2017 |
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I didn't realize live action B&B made over a billion, but it makes sense since my wife and all her sisters/friends/every woman their age they know seemed to see it multiple times.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Depending on how Alita: Battle Angel does, anime and manga are a distinct possibility. We've already gotten Ghost in the Shell and Death Note in the past couple years. All the talk about anime/manga adaptations made me realise that I'd never actually seen Dragonball: Evolution so I tracked down a copy and .... oh drat, that was hard viewing. It took me quite a while to finish it, I kept stopping the film and going off and doing other things and very nearly gave up on it. The scene at the start where he refuses to fight the bullies and defeats them by dodging their blows was probably the only scene in the entire film worth a drat but even then it heavily cribbed off a really similar scene in the first Raimi Spider-Man film. Hilariously enough the general plot (weird guy living double life assembles a team of loners with special skills so they can track down [x] number of ancient macguffins before the evil space warlord gathers them all and combines them to receive the power to take over the entire planet, final fight happens in a huge towering structure that the bad guy summoned out of nowhere) made me go "Holy poo poo, did Justice League steal its plot from fuckin' Dragonball: Evolution???!" We also had scenes where the characters use the macguffins to bring back a dead character, the strongest character loses his memory and attacks the rest of the team, the bad guy had an army of spiky carbon-copy warriors who were pretty much useless, the bad guy only gets all the macguffins because the good guys pretty much didn't bother with security, the bad guy was initially defeated thousands of years ago because a bunch of powerful warriors from all over the place banded together, etc etc.. And then the movie ended with a lighthearted scene where two characters meet up away from the others to finally determine who was faster and ended with a freeze frame of them leaping into action and that removed all doubt. JUSTICE LEAGUE IS A REMAKE OF DRAGONBALL: EVOLUTION
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Guy A. Person posted:I didn't realize live action B&B made over a billion, but it makes sense since my wife and all her sisters/friends/every woman their age they know seemed to see it multiple times. Bedknobs and Broomsticks was always live-action
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K. Waste posted:We already have two white Akiras - the aforementioned Lucy and the obvious Chronicle - but we also have a black Akira in the form of Kanye West, Daft Punk & Hype Williams' Stronger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsO6ZnUZI0g M83 basically made a trilogy of Akira fan vids starting with this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX3k_QDnzHE
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:All the talk about anime/manga adaptations made me realise that I'd never actually seen Dragonball: Evolution so I tracked down a copy and .... oh drat, that was hard viewing. It took me quite a while to finish it, I kept stopping the film and going off and doing other things and very nearly gave up on it. The scene at the start where he refuses to fight the bullies and defeats them by dodging their blows was probably the only scene in the entire film worth a drat but even then it heavily cribbed off a really similar scene in the first Raimi Spider-Man film. I always felt it was from Karate Kid 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KF4iJzBVWM I had such high hopes for the DB movie until they called it "Evolution" ugh. Original DB needs a lot of updating, but the acting, design, storyboarding and overall execution were so bad.
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got any sevens posted:Bedknobs and Broomsticks was always live-action He was talking about Beavis and Butthead
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Davros1 posted:He was talking about Beavis and Butthead B&B Do America should be in everyone's top 10
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Eeehhh...I guess? Sure. Not exactly hot about the casting or designs tho. Except I like the actors in general and I know Chiwetel can make anything work
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That Zantana is so drat generic. She looks like the protagonist of a paperback fantasy series, and probably named Cathy "Kitty" Catt. And you can't improve on this:
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Those are pretty good. I'd like to think the weaker ones would get tightened up. I actually like that Zatanna, but I freely admit she looks a lot like a girl I dated once.
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I’d like Daniel Craig as Constantine and someone like Allison Brie as Zatanna for contrast. Chiwetel is fine as Blood. Christopher Walken as Deadman. Swamp Thing would end up CG I guess. Who else is in the roster?
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The lady from Tron should be Zatanna. Don't even change the costume just add a cape and make the lights red instead of blue
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My submission for Zatanna
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Just make Constantine 2 and bring Keanu back
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bring back old gbs posted:The lady from Tron should be Zatanna. Don't even change the costume just add a cape and make the lights red instead of blue Olivia Wilde and sure. Basically a beautiful petite brunette with charm and upbeat personality and a history with Batman. I also thought Keanu but eh. Rihanna is a good singer but imo I don’t quite think she’s all that but it doesn’t really matter I guess.
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"Justice League Dark" is a very silly name.
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josh04 posted:"Justice League Dark" is a very silly name. On top of that at this point they would almost certainly not want to bank on the JL name anyway. It would def get renamed to like Shadowpact I'm guessing
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Mordiceius posted:Uhhhhhhh White Akira already happened with Chronicle???? i mean if we're counting stuff that doesn't use the IP and just rips off anime, the creators of Stranger Things have directly cited Elfen Lied (of all loving things) as a huge inspiration for the show and... it kinda shows because the whole Eleven plot is basically Elfen Lied with all the gross poo poo surgically removed
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:i mean if we're counting stuff that doesn't use the IP and just rips off anime, the creators of Stranger Things have directly cited Elfen Lied (of all loving things) as a huge inspiration for the show and... it kinda shows because the whole Eleven plot is basically Elfen Lied with all the gross poo poo surgically removed lmaoooo Elfen Lied. I gave it a shot because everybody was comparing is to Stranger Things. The first episode has some cool ideas with the psychic powers looking like giant invisible manifested animals or something, just tearing limbs off of guards as they get too close to the girl. It has some really strong Akira vibes, then it goes into tropey oversexualized anime so quick you don't even have time to make a  face. It's the most jarring tonal shift. Anime is trash.I'd really like to post an example gif of the psychic powers but I have NO loving CLUE what will pop up if I type Elfen Lied into google image search. I don't want to know.
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I'll gladly give an anime a chance if the protagonist doesn't act like Felix Biederman's impression of Jared Kushner at all times.
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bring back old gbs posted:lmaoooo Elfen Lied. I gave it a shot because everybody was comparing is to Stranger Things. The first episode has some cool ideas with the psychic powers looking like giant invisible manifested animals or something, just tearing limbs off of guards as they get too close to the girl. It has some really strong Akira vibes, then it goes into tropey oversexualized anime so quick you don't even have time to make a I am a pretty huge anime fan and Elfen Lied is extremely loving bad seriously, if it's not the bottom of the barrel it is pretty damned close e: that said, it's actually probably totally safe to GIS, because most of the American fandom for it (which, yeah, unfortunately that's a thing) likes to pretend it's this deep artsy sad series and ignore the weird sex poo poo and hilarious gore Halloween Jack posted:I'll gladly give an anime a chance if the protagonist doesn't act like Felix Biederman's impression of Jared Kushner at all times. watch G Gundam it loving rules and has no pedo poo poo e: also just to bring it back around to movies, if you're okay with reading a comic book and not watching a cartoon, the Battle Angel Alita manga is legit loving incredible WeedlordGoku69 fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Dec 18, 2017 |
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G Gundam is loving fantastic and I will fight anyone who says otherwise. I mean they got a Mexican Gundam that has cactus shoulder pads and a goddamn sombrero
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Scyantific posted:G Gundam is loving fantastic and I will fight anyone who says otherwise. The Rose Gundam is the absolute top tier of Gundams imo
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Gatts posted:I’m impressed by Wolf Warrior 2 and will need to check it out. I don’t see foreign born cinema so high on global box office charts and am surprised someone didn’t release it wide in US. My man Frank Grillo doing good. Should be leveraged as an international Star now. My prediction is that Grillo will star in the next Transformers movie after Bumblebee to rake in China money, due to his connection to Michael Bay via The Purge. got any sevens posted:Bedknobs and Broomsticks was always live-action A good part of it was animated, though.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:i mean if we're counting stuff that doesn't use the IP and just rips off anime, the creators of Stranger Things have directly cited Elfen Lied (of all loving things) as a huge inspiration for the show and... it kinda shows because the whole Eleven plot is basically Elfen Lied with all the gross poo poo surgically removed Holy poo poo. They referenced Elfen Lied? gently caress. Now I guess I really do need to watch Stranger Things.
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It's not really any kind of direct reference. The similarities begin and end at "Girl experimented on by government has psychic powers."
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Mordiceius posted:Holy poo poo. They referenced Elfen Lied? gently caress. Now I guess I really do need to watch Stranger Things. Not all of it.  Honestly with how some things were recycled from season one and that they were mostly inspired by anime, they shoild just own it and go full anime repetition. Like every season Will gets possessed/taken by some otherworldly thing, Eleven gets angry about something and runs off to a different big city where she just happens to run into the same gang and helps with a heist, Paul Reiser is in some new deep cover program but then helps the good guys out and suffers no consequences for anything, etc.
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K. Waste posted:We already have two white Akiras - the aforementioned Lucy and the obvious Chronicle - but we also have a black Akira in the form of Kanye West, Daft Punk & Hype Williams' Stronger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsO6ZnUZI0g Chronicle is a) the only movie to "make me believe a man can fly" and b) all about how terrible nerds are, and that even self aware nerds need to grow the gently caress up. Chronicle seriously owns.
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I loved Stranger Things season 1, and while I recognize that there were some issues still think it's quite good. But hooo boy was season 2 just a sloppy and poorly written redo of season 1. They made all the same mistakes that they swore up and down in interviews that they were going to avoid. So much fan service (double down on Eggos! Make a totally unnecessary Barb subplot! Ship those characters!), so much repetition of plot points from the first season (Will is pursued by a monster in the upside down... again!!), so much repetition of visual elements from the first season (Wynona needs something weird hung up on all her walls), so many obvious straight-up lifts from 80s films (yes, we have also sen Temple of Doom and remember the Willie/Indy back and forth between rooms), so many fourth wall breaking meta moments (Brett Gelman's everything). It's textbook bad sequel. And on top of that, the writing was awful. Bad dialogue, characters hiding things from each other for no reason, etc.
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Waffles Inc. posted:The Rose Gundam is the absolute top tier of Gundams imo Any mobile suit with aerods is automatically the best thing. Except for the motion suit entrance scene when Master Asia's horse gets its own Gundam, that's the best thing.
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Timby posted:He's made an impressive turnaround, considering how terrible he was early in his career.
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Tom Hardy has always owned, he's just owning in less garbage now.
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TetsuoTW posted:Tom Hardy has always owned, he's just owning in less garbage now. Nah, he was straight garbage in Star Trek Nemesis.
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Timby posted:Nah, he was straight garbage in Star Trek Nemesis. Every time I think about him in Nemesis I think of him as a grown up version of Clint Howard's character in TOS.
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