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Kramdar posted:'98 Godzilla is literally the result of Toho Co. pulling out the Likeness rug from Columbia Tristar and the resulting movie's only connection to OG Godzilla is by name. Wait, I thought they did that afterwards. Like they were worried about the Tatopoulos design, but still went with it.
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What bothered me about King of the Monsters is how about two thirds of the kaiju battles are obscured in some way making it so you only catch fleeting glimpses at what is supposed to be the main selling point (i.e. monsters loving each other up). Also how the baddies are trying to reverse global warming because the trend of everyone who actually wants to do something being evil and the heroes wanting to uphold the status quo is getting tiring.
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Aug 22, 2019 02:41
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What the bad guys are doing is killing millions of people while hiding behind an issue that needs to be addressed.
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My favourite thing about the '98 Godzilla, is that he had a cameo in a 'real' Japanese Godzilla film, (I forget it's name, but basically Godzilla had to fight a whole bunch of different Kaiju's), and in their fight, Japanese Godzilla just backhands American '98 Godzilla, knocking his arse out cold, and keeps walking without breaking stride.
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Aug 22, 2019 03:37
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Dr Christmas posted:But it doesn’t feel like enough for me. Like 700 Club dominionist rear end in a top hat Jesus should be both able and extremely willing to kick the rear end of every old god. Nah. Largest denomination in the US is Catholicism which is pretty postmodern and amiable at the parish level. Hell, look at the current Pope; he’s apparently open to the possibility that even atheists can get into Heaven. They outnumber Southern Baptists more than 4:1, and the Jesuses of the various evangelical denominations would be too busy throwing down with each other to do anything. https://youtu.be/WjQTiD3tzAk
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Aug 22, 2019 03:56
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Wait, I thought they did that afterwards. Like they were worried about the Tatopoulos design, but still went with it. I’m no expert. But if you go off of IMDb trivia, it mentions that a lot of the input was from the director to go in a different direction. That’s usually a good cover up though.
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BrigadierSensible posted:My favourite thing about the '98 Godzilla, is that he had a cameo in a 'real' Japanese Godzilla film, (I forget it's name, but basically Godzilla had to fight a whole bunch of different Kaiju's), and in their fight, Japanese Godzilla just backhands American '98 Godzilla, knocking his arse out cold, and keeps walking without breaking stride. Close! The scene (from "Godzilla: Final Wars") is definitely worth watching again for a refresher.
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FreudianSlippers posted:What bothered me about King of the Monsters is how about two thirds of the kaiju battles are obscured in some way making it so you only catch fleeting glimpses at what is supposed to be the main selling point (i.e. monsters loving each other up). It drove me nuts. You know how bad fighting choreography is usually hidden by cutting right before a blow is actually landed and switching angles? Imagine that but every time a monster is gonna get hit it cuts to the girl from stranger things yelling at her mom.
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Aug 22, 2019 05:39
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Ghidorah's left head is the best kaiju.
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I had no issue following the fights in Godzilla 2 and people are really understating the amount of fights in it. The issue is the superfluous human characters, not the monster fighting which was pretty good.
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Aug 22, 2019 12:32
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Phanatic posted:Nah. Largest denomination in the US is Catholicism which is pretty postmodern and amiable at the parish level. Hell, look at the current Pope; he’s apparently open to the possibility that even atheists can get into Heaven. They outnumber Southern Baptists more than 4:1, and the Jesuses of the various evangelical denominations would be too busy throwing down with each other to do anything. Evangelicals represent political power and not much else. Most of them don't go to or support their churches, but they're single issue voters so they get an out-sized influence. If it wasn't for those drat kids the Catholic church would look surprisingly progressive compared to a lot of Protestant denominations.
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Aug 22, 2019 12:57
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Dammerung posted:Close! The scene (from "Godzilla: Final Wars") is definitely worth watching again for a refresher. not the opera house! thats where we keep our fat ladies!
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Aug 22, 2019 13:23
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Krispy Wafer posted:Evangelicals represent political power and not much else. Most of them don't go to or support their churches, but they're single issue voters so they get an out-sized influence. Or their stance on abortion. Or their official views on homosexuality. My IIMM is in the movie Silence when they'd cut to a picture of Jesus when Rodriguez has his crisis of faith. The reflection of Jesus in the water over Rodriguez's face was kind of hammy too. We get it, you're Christ-like in your persecution for spreading Christianity in Japan. I dunno, I guess I liked The Last Temptation of Christ better.
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Aug 22, 2019 13:24
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Android Apocalypse posted:Or their stance on abortion. To be fair almost every religion has suspect opinions about abortion and homosexuality, but Catholics are known for kids. They probably don't abuse children anymore often than church leaders of other religions, but papists kept written records of all the people abusing them. Is the Last Temptation any good? I've always meant to watch that.
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Aug 22, 2019 13:28
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In Godzilla 2 all the goofy GI Joe-level military technology like the stupid flying wing operations center also irritated me.
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At least they didn't have giant laser tanks.
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Krispy Wafer posted:To be fair almost every religion has suspect opinions about abortion and homosexuality, but Catholics are known for kids. They probably don't abuse children anymore often than church leaders of other religions, but papists kept written records of all the people abusing them. No, that's every religion, too. https://twitter.com/JaBogen/status/...23post493577464
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Krispy Wafer posted:To be fair almost every religion has suspect opinions about abortion and homosexuality, but Catholics are known for kids. They probably don't abuse children anymore often than church leaders of other religions, but papists kept written records of all the people abusing them. For a film where Scorcese explores his thoughts on his religion, I think it's great. Jesus is more of a firebrand while Judas seems more of the "rational" one. Of course everybody freaked out over the "Jesus had sex" part but that was kind of the point. Jesus saw life a regular human*, which included starting a family & dying of old age. I think Silence looks better (year's of doing films sharpened his craft well) but i think The Last Temptation of Christ was more passionate & from the heart. Speaking of passionate, my IIMM of The Passion of the Christ is the implication that Jesus invented the high standing table. My totally rational irritating movie moment is the rest of the film. *excluding goons
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Android Apocalypse posted:For a film where Scorcese explores his thoughts on his religion, I think it's great. Jesus is more of a firebrand while Judas seems more of the "rational" one. Okay, that makes sense. If I'm recalling correctly the story is Jesus being tempted by the Devil, showing what his life could've/would've been like and Jesus decides to forgo Earthly pleasures and die on the cross. Which you'd think would be a reaffirmation for religious people, but of course not. I'll stick it on my watch list. And I'm not spoilering that ending. If there's an after credits scene I'll put spoiler tags on that.
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Phanatic posted:Nah. Largest denomination in the US is Catholicism which is pretty postmodern and amiable at the parish level. Hell, look at the current Pope; he’s apparently open to the possibility that even atheists can get into Heaven. They outnumber Southern Baptists more than 4:1, and the Jesuses of the various evangelical denominations would be too busy throwing down with each other to do anything. What? Nah. https://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/
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I'm irritated that the go to song to show that it's the 80's is "You Spin Me Round"
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Gaunab posted:I'm irritated that the go to song to show that it's the 80's is "You Spin Me Round" I'm convinced it's because the Wedding Singer used it to open the movie.
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Aug 22, 2019 21:13
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Gaunab posted:I'm irritated that the go to song to show that it's the 80's is "You Spin Me Round" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlfK51tN-xo
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That doesn't contradict at all, open the table. Catholicism is the largest individual denomination, 20.8%. Southern Baptists are 5.3%. Under that table of "Evangelical Protestants" are a whole bunch of schismed and fractious subsects who feel that all the others are going straight to hell, they would not all have one Jesus in Gaimanland.
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Thor Ragnarok: The movie sure does jump through a poo poo-ton of hoops in the first twenty minutes just to get to the story they want to tell. FIRST Thor beats Surtur, THEN Thor reunites with Loki, THEN Thor gets help from a wizard, THEN Odin dies, WHICH leads to Hela showing up, WHO strands Thor in Saakar. I guess they didn't want to break a two hour runtime so they just rocket through the first act at mach speed. Karl Urban feels weirdly disconnected from the action since none of the heroes ever get to acknowledge his existence and the story would have been the same without his involvement. Sorry, three guys. You were the supporting characters from the pretty lame prior movies. At least one of you has a career as Shazam. It's all well and good to have a sense of humour but you don't need undercut every dramatic-beat with a joke all the time. The adage "Asgard is not a place, but a people," would have held a lot more weight if wasn't introduced in the last 15 minutes. Reminds me of when all the serjeants started saying "Words are Wind", in the GRRM book that reminded me that the Wheel of Time was finished and probably has a better ending.
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The speeding through things in the beginning is a good thing to me. The Loki is pretending to be Odin set up at the end of Dark World was stupid and I'm glad they acknowledged that and sped through it.
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Gaunab posted:The speeding through things in the beginning is a good thing to me. The Loki is pretending to be Odin set up at the end of Dark World was stupid and I'm glad they acknowledged that and sped through it. It felt really, really Edgar-Wright-esque to me, especially in the start. There's a bit where it's multiple smash cuts* from Thor telling off Loki, opening the Bifrost, shooting out the beam, Earth, New York that is pure Cornetto trilogy. *not sure if that's the right word but it's the one I'm using
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I thought Ragnarok was good compared to Dark World, which I’ve seen fully and can’t remember a single thing about. I think there’s some red stuff in it?
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The best part of The Dark World is The Great Thorbowski trying to explain it's plot to the rest of the Avengers in Endgame and they all being justifiably baffled
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Rolo posted:I thought Ragnarok was good compared to Dark World, which I’ve seen fully and can’t remember a single thing about. There’s some red stuff and the bad guys with pointy ears want it and I think they use it to blow up Vulcan? Wait.
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I’m watching Chopping Mall on Amazon Prime and it’s got a similar theme to Dawn of the Dead in that the mall has a gun shop. Also a place to buy tanks of propane and gasoline. Has anyone ever seen a gun store in a shopping mall? Is this just a deus ex machina or were my local malls just lame?
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Krispy Wafer posted:I’m watching Chopping Mall on Amazon Prime and it’s got a similar theme to Dawn of the Dead in that the mall has a gun shop. Also a place to buy tanks of propane and gasoline. I've been to a mall with a bass pro shop in it, I think they have guns. Don't know about tanks of propane and gasoline, but sears probably would have those and they're in malls.
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Krispy Wafer posted:I’m watching Chopping Mall on Amazon Prime and it’s got a similar theme to Dawn of the Dead in that the mall has a gun shop. Also a place to buy tanks of propane and gasoline. sounds like you live in some kind of godless liberal pinko hellhole
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I've been to a mall with a bass pro shop in it, I think they have guns. Don't know about tanks of propane and gasoline, but sears probably would have those and they're in malls. Sears went belly up.
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Gaunab posted:Sears went belly up. There's one open within walking distance of my apartment Edit: it is not on the list of Sears closing this year
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I know Walmart has guns, but this is an actual mall with a food court, elevators, and anchor stores. I’ve seen sporting goods shops in malls, but those sold tennis rackets and fishing poles - not firearms. The 80’s were also a surprisingly rational and moderate time when people didn’t open carry AR-15’s around JC Penney. Krankenstyle posted:sounds like you live in some kind of godless liberal pinko hellhole My governor got elected by airing commercials of himself aiming guns at teenage boys his daughter likes and yet somehow I can’t get a .357 magnum and bourbon chicken at the same place.
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Rolo posted:I thought Ragnarok was good compared to Dark World, which I’ve seen fully and can’t remember a single thing about. Also a bit with portals and Mjolnir's pathfinding going all over the place.
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Rolo posted:I thought Ragnarok was good compared to Dark World, which I’ve seen fully and can’t remember a single thing about. I remember it being a tremendous waste of Chris Eccleston
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