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GrandpaPants posted:Not a movie, but still has me asking why: Wow. This looks like a fake trailer made by fans. Awful.
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GrandpaPants posted:Not a movie, but still has me asking why: Is it meant to look cheap?
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Feb 24, 2018 07:59
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Vagabundo posted:Is it meant to look cheap? They're going for the look of the lovely 1990s compter animated show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYkxC4mraBQ my younger siblings watched it
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"Hey Netflix, I want a super sentai live action version of Reboot!!" said literally no one ever. Reboot loving ruled (just pretend season 4 never happened), but I can't even begin to understand why someone thought this was a good idea. Do pre-teens even know what Reboot is? Just, why??
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GrandpaPants posted:Not a movie, but still has me asking why: gently caress this gay earth
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Feb 25, 2018 02:24
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Reboot and Captain America were the two shows that happened when I woke up too early Saturday mornings as a kid.
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Gettin real mad about childrens TV
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“Hey kid, i’m a computer. Stop all the downloadin’.” help computer
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Krankenstyle posted:They're going for the look of the lovely 1990s compter animated show. I'm your younger siblings. Seriously, the animation was trash but for some weirdass reason I loved that show  And that trailer...I thought it was a parody.
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Feb 26, 2018 15:07
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God drat it. I wish Tommy Wiseau would go away.
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Feb 26, 2018 16:16
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He is here to stay.
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Feb 26, 2018 19:11
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEhsFEgsI5U Wasn't Fahrenheit 451 more intended about the dangers of new media (film/television) rather than any sort of reverence for books? I vaguely recall a possibly apocryphal quote stating something along those lines from Bradbury himself, but obviously culture took a different spin on it. GrandpaPants fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Feb 26, 2018 |
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Feb 26, 2018 21:53
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Bit soon for an Equilibrium remake isn’t it? 
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CelticPredator posted:I won't be doing this all that much, but I will say the reasons why the 80's poo poo is all over the place is kind of interesting and makes sense. The Wonka Like man died and has that egg contest thing, and everyone consumes his diaries for clues where he hid it. It's full of 80's poo poo, so everyone gets into it too just so they could try and get the egg thing. The book picks up a few years after his death so it became part of the culture (again) LORD OF BOOTY posted:i don't think anyone's really fantasizing here. the worldview exhibited by his books is a really genuinely awful one that he's voiced support for in nonfictional contexts. Ernest is trash and his book is trash, but it spawned a pretty good podcast: http://372pages.com
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Yeah that’s what got me to read the book. I just finished the book. I love how the themes of the book, obsession, control, do not mesh at all with the ending in anyway shape or form. I also love how there’s a random button to destroy the oasis for some reason because...uh... It isn’t used or anything. It’s just there. Which fits more with the book than the ending did.
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Feb 26, 2018 22:00
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CelticPredator posted:It isn’t used or anything. It’s just there. So like the references throughout?
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clown shoes posted:God drat it. I wish Tommy Wiseau would go away. He’s just the worst.
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GrandpaPants posted:So like the references throughout? Imagine someone playing a game and then writing down how they played the game. That’s how it is. I don’t get it.
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clown shoes posted:God drat it. I wish Tommy Wiseau would go away. Wth kind of life are you living that he's unavoidable?
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cvnvcnv posted:Wth kind of life are you living that he's unavoidable? Ha ha ha.
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cvnvcnv posted:Wth kind of life are you living that he's unavoidable? Clown Shoes is secretly Greg Sestero
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GrandpaPants posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEhsFEgsI5U Gotta be hard to have to go up against François Truffaut.
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CelticPredator posted:Bit soon for an Equilibrium remake isn’t it? My body is ready for Flamethrower Kata.
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CelticPredator posted:Bit soon for an Equilibrium remake isn’t it? It's been over 15 years since Equilibrium, and people are still making jokes about it. Can't you pick on Ultraviolet instead?
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Jedit posted:It's been over 15 years since Equilibrium, and people are still making jokes about it. Can't you pick on Ultraviolet instead? it is on.
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Jedit posted:It's been over 15 years since Equilibrium, and people are still making jokes about it. Can't you pick on Ultraviolet instead? Equilibrium stars Christian Bale, who is usually only in "good" movies. Though I'll admit that I like Equilibrium more than I should, and I have a feeling other people do too.
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Before John Wick, Equilibrium had the best scene where a gun wizard kills people for a dog.
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Feb 27, 2018 13:44
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You could do worse than Equilibrium. You could be doing Equals, which also features an emotionless society but with none of the shooting and faceslicing.
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Equilibrium made a new way to do gunfights (after 80-odd years) and should be respected simply on that basis.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Equilibrium made a new way to do gunfights (after 80-odd years) and should be respected simply on that basis. You mean the aping of Jon Woo’s 80s and 90s action movies?
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Proteus Jones posted:You mean the aping of Jon Woo’s 80s and 90s action movies? It's actually different in important ways, if you actually look at how Woo shoots action it's very dynamic, the characters are always in motion, walking, ducking, moving from side to side, leaping, it's extremely kinetic. Equilibrium is built around posing and minimal motion, characters stay on their feet (often planting them) and do "moves" and guys die, it's called "gun kata" for a reason. Both have elements of dance but that's an extremely wide space to play in. I absolutely think that there's no Kurt Wimmer without John Woo but calling it "aping" of him is facile.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:It's actually different in important ways, if you actually look at how Woo shoots action it's very dynamic, the characters are always in motion, walking, ducking, moving from side to side, leaping, it's extremely kinetic. Equilibrium is built around posing and minimal motion, characters stay on their feet (often planting them) and do "moves" and guys die, it's called "gun kata" for a reason. Both have elements of dance but that's an extremely wide space to play in. I absolutely think that there's no Kurt Wimmer without John Woo but calling it "aping" of him is facile. I was really more taking issue with your “a new way to do gunfights (after 80-odd years)” as if all gunfight choreography and staging has been stuck in stasis since the 30s. Equilibrium is more iterative than innovative. The Matrix Bullet Time is innovative. “Gun Kata” is simply the next step from the hyper-kinetic Hong Kong style of gun play, melding Kung Fu with gunplay. Hell you can even see it’s precursor in the first Matrix movie. Most of the gun “fights” were ridiculous to the point of parody, but there were some flashes of genius in there I will admit that. The movie as a whole is a not bad reimagining of Fahrenheit 451.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:It's actually different in important ways, if you actually look at how Woo shoots action it's very dynamic, the characters are always in motion, walking, ducking, moving from side to side, leaping, it's extremely kinetic. Equilibrium is built around posing and minimal motion, characters stay on their feet (often planting them) and do "moves" and guys die, it's called "gun kata" for a reason. Both have elements of dance but that's an extremely wide space to play in. I absolutely think that there's no Kurt Wimmer without John Woo but calling it "aping" of him is facile. Woo, maybe being the best at it, still ultimately has his characters moving and dodging hoping that they don't get hit. Which is pretty much what every other regular human character does in other movies or TV. Equilibrium (and whatever that Art of War movie was around the same time?) IIRC had its characters get out of the way of the actual path of the bullet that they could predict based on where the opponent's gun was. Like if each gun had a laser sight they were moving so that the laser never crossed their body, the same way a martial artist would dodge attacks from a regular weapon.
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Equilibrium is more fun than john wick Fight me With gun kata
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Equilibrium is more fun than john wick john wick 2, sure. john wick 1 no lol the only good thing to come out of Equilibrium was the Max Payne 2 mod and even then it was immensely stupid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZN3KmsLp4I
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Equilibruim's fusion of cinematic martial art and gunplay seems obvious in retrospect, but it really isn't. The reality is that nobody had done stuff like that, there's nothing that actually looks and plays like the scene where Bale backflips into some dudes and does bullet-punches. At the time I was absolutely blown away and I had seen every John Woo movie up to that point and most of the stuff he'd executive-produced (God of Gamblers and such). Time and backlash to the movie's inane plot has considerably dulled it's achievement, but it was an achievement. Again nobody is arguing that Woo wasn't a tremendous influence, but it's not aping him. I'm not interested in playing semantic games to determine exactly how much iteration is required before Equilibrium becomes it's "own thing"; much like pornography it's something I know when I see it. Equilibrium did it's own thing, and did it very well. BTW if you're reading what I'm saying as some sort of postulate that Equilibrium is an "evolution" of Woo style action ballet...don't. Megaman's Jockstrap fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Feb 27, 2018 |
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The John Wicks are great but there's something just more...sterile about them. He's just a dude really good at killing, and it's basically two movies worth of something that was done better in the Collateral club scene by Michael Mann and Tom Cruise. There's something still unique and weird in a dumb fun way about the Equilibrium fights, and as megaman is saying they were different at the time too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U02E2sjwlLM #hottakecorner
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Rewatching this actually I'm struck by how Tom cruise's character is tall enough to see over most of the people in the club That's some peter Jackson lotr poo poo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTcrJdZgyUk
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I don’t care how original the gunplay in Equilibrium is when the result is so embarasssing to watch.
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