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Fingerless Gloves posted:I'm glad Dan Stevens managed to get out of Downton Abbey and started wearing towels in The Guest Apostle is a drat great movie, and feels almost like a tour of horror cinema through the years. You can practically hear them switch between subgenres.
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torgeaux posted:I agree with everything but your first sentence. Yeah, but the Michael Myers mask bit was pretty good. Escaping a helicopter chase in your red sports car by finding two other red sports cars is a stretch. At least make it a grey Honda Civic.
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Krispy Wafer posted:
Yep, it wouldn't have had nearly as much Hope or any of Luis' recaps - and would absolutely have been the lesser for it.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Yeah, but the Michael Myers mask bit was pretty good. He hid between a Jetta and a Chevy Cruze. They only looked alike from the air because they're red cars with sunroofs. Point taken that nobody drives red cars anymore though.
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CaptainApathyUK posted:Yep, it wouldn't have had nearly as much Hope or any of Luis' recaps - and would absolutely have been the lesser for it. Really? I thought Luis' recaps were leftover from Wright's involvement. Shows what I know.
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I wish they had a Luis recap at the beginning of Endgame.
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Krispy Wafer posted:I wish they had a Luis recap at the beginning of Endgame. I want a Luis recap at the start of Spider-Verse 2.
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There exists a Luis recap for most of the MCU too, but it was only ever shown at D23 or SDCC or one of those cons.
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Krispy Wafer posted:It holds up for exactly one viewing and only because the stupid ending is at the end of the movie so you don't have enough time to go 'wtf?'. This about sums up my feelings for it. Not great, but better than F&F movies. Also, much like Ronin, I really enjoyed the driving sequences.
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Basebf555 posted:I think it really was equal parts Wright and Elgort. It's easy to forget that Elgort was really hot a few years ago after The Fault in Our Stars. He was also in the Divergent series so for teenage girls he was really popular there for a while. I’m not going to weigh in on the quality of the movie, but holy hell did Baby Driver make me want to play Shadowrun again.
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Android Apocalypse posted:Really? I thought Luis' recaps were leftover from Wright's involvement. Ant-Man is kinda weird there, because everything in it that looks like it was an awesome Edgar Wright idea just... wasn't even there in his, it came later. The one that makes complete sense to me is that Hope was added post-Wright. If I had to raise an issue with him it's that he's not great about giving female characters spotlight. It's not that he does them poorly when he does write them, it's that they don't really seem to naturally occur to him.
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Regarding female characters, IIRC the comics ending of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World wasn't written by the time the movie was about to come out & the movie initially had Scott end up with Knives instead of Ramona.
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If you were interested in Baby Driver or Drive, check out Walter Hill’s The Driver (1978) which I guess was the original inspiration for both.
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I was at the London premiere of Baby Driver, which meant I was in the same room as the handsome Don Draper man AND Danny DeVito at the same time. Film can do no wrong on that basis alone.
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Flint_Paper posted:I was at the London premiere of Baby Driver, which meant I was in the same room as the handsome Don Draper man AND Danny DeVito at the same time. Film can do no wrong on that basis alone. I hope someone took that opportunity to pitch a road trip movie where Danny DeVito is Jon Hamm's dad.
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The Rum Hamm Diary
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Aphrodite posted:The Rum Hamm Diary
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Aphrodite posted:The Rum Hamm Diary 
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On a similar note, I really want them to do some sort of movie where DeVito's Frank Reynolds teams up with William H. Macy's Frank Gallagher on a trip of ultimate debauchery. DeVito, Macy, IASIP, and Shameless have done an amazing job showing how disgusting people named Frank are.
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Eh! Frank posted:On a similar note, I really want them to do some sort of movie where DeVito's Frank Reynolds teams up with William H. Macy's Frank Gallagher on a trip of ultimate debauchery. DeVito, Macy, IASIP, and Shameless have done an amazing job showing how disgusting people named Frank are. this is the ideal post/username combo you might not like it but this is what peak performance looks like
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Eh! Frank posted:On a similar note, I really want them to do some sort of movie where DeVito's Frank Reynolds teams up with William H. Macy's Frank Gallagher on a trip of ultimate debauchery. DeVito, Macy, IASIP, and Shameless have done an amazing job showing how disgusting people named Frank are. Dennis Hopper eclipsed them all single-handed.
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I enjoyed Baby Driver for the editing and it being the only movie I'm aware of that showcases Hocus Pocus by Focus on the soundtrack.
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couldcareless posted:I enjoyed Baby Driver for the editing and it being the only movie I'm aware of that showcases Hocus Pocus by Focus on the soundtrack. There's another one! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-SLhDmaTqI
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Perestroika posted:There's another one! That movie existing is such a bummer
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DyneAvenger posted:That movie existing is such a bummer its really a shame, it has a lot of good parts but it just never cohered properly
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It’s a much better reboot attempt than the god awful Colin Farrel Total Recall E: but ya robocop reboot still sucked
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From what I remember the Colin Farrel Total Recall reboot was different enough that if felt more like a new attempt to adapt the book than a remake of the verhoeven film. Still wasnt particularly good though. If the original Robocop had never existed, but the newer one somehow still got made then I think it would be thought of as an okay action sci fi movie with a largely decent cast and some big flaws. But because its a remake of Robocop it suffers by comparison. A really good robocop remake would have had a hill to climb, a mediocre one was doomed. Having said that, I think the most telling thing about either film to me personally is that I saw both of them in the cinema and I entirely forget that they exist unless something specifically reminds me.
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Movie reboots have the yoke of their predecessors around their neck, so if there's any weakness it will be dragged down.
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SiKboy posted:From what I remember the Colin Farrel Total Recall reboot was different enough that if felt more like a new attempt to adapt the book than a remake of the verhoeven film. Still wasnt particularly good though. If the original Robocop had never existed, but the newer one somehow still got made then I think it would be thought of as an okay action sci fi movie with a largely decent cast and some big flaws. But because its a remake of Robocop it suffers by comparison. A really good robocop remake would have had a hill to climb, a mediocre one was doomed. I'm of the opinion that if the Farrel reboot was named something completely unrelated to Total Recall - it would have been received better.
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I tried to watch the live action Aladdin movie and it solidified something for me: There's no point in a remake that says nothing new. The live action Disney movies are basically shot-for-shot and are worse for it. Plus they don't have the charm of animated movies because that would be nearly impossible. They're all trainwrecks and I suspect Mulan will be the same except to even better in the Chinese market. The RoboCop remake ultimately is more shallow than the original. Instead of being a condemnation of police corruption and corporate short-sightedness, it's just "evil corporate guy does predictable evil things."
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It was at least ever closer to a Metal Gear Rising movie, but then Alita happened.
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Inzombiac posted:I tried to watch the live action Aladdin movie and it solidified something for me: What's even more frustrating is that director José Padilha's previous works were about the police & the corruption that can take place in its position of power. His Robocop had a chance to explore it, but it got a quick once-over before focusing on Michael Keaton's Steve Jobs impression.
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Inzombiac posted:The RoboCop remake ultimately is more shallow than the original. Instead of being a condemnation of police corruption and corporate short-sightedness, it's just "evil corporate guy does predictable evil things." Where is the police corruption in the original Robocop? The cops are portrayed as beholden to their corporate overlords and not in the main very happy about it.
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Inzombiac posted:I tried to watch the live action Aladdin movie and it solidified something for me: The thing that was disappointing about Aladdin is that it's almost got something appealing and different going on, but it's too corporately-driven to actually use it. Will Smith's a pretty solid casting choice for the Genie, chiefly because he's absolutely NOT Robin Williams but still has his own ways to nail the balance between being comic relief while still being an actual non-joke character without it all falling over. If you want to make an entirely new, interesting alternative take on Aladdin, 'Will Smith as the Genie' is a REALLY good start. But they never really give themselves enough creative room to make that casting choice work, it's still basically just Aladdin but with a slightly more feminist-friendly Jasmine, and very rarely you see a glimpse of a fun, interesting Fresh Prince Genie. Although that still puts it above the Lion King remake, because one squandered new idea is better than no new ideas at all. EDIT: Also the Lion King remake basically cut Be Prepared, so that wins the 'worst Disney remake' award by default, in perpetuity. Nothing they can still do will be worse than cutting Be Prepared. Cleretic has a new favorite as of 11:08 on Feb 23, 2020 |
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Jedit posted:Where is the police corruption in the original Robocop? The cops are portrayed as beholden to their corporate overlords and not in the main very happy about it. I wonder if Verhoeven would ever comment on people with good intentions doing terrible things because they're being ordered to...  I know, that's not corruption
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Cleretic posted:
Yeah, Will Smith as the Genie is an excellent choice and he does a fantastic job and is very charming and funny. It's even more impressive that the movie is such a nothing. It's not that it's awful. It's fine. Just - fine.
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Jedit posted:Where is the police corruption in the original Robocop? The cops are portrayed as beholden to their corporate overlords and not in the main very happy about it. While the remake actually showed police corruption, directly confronted with the issue that when you have a supercop who follows the letter of the law exactly, he quickly ends up arresting half his precinct until someone hits the off switch.
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BiggerBoat posted:I really enjoyed the live action version of Jungle Book It was delightful! They had a unique opportunity to incorporate more of the source material (Shere Khan's backstory, Kaa as a storyteller that becomes an ally, the drama with the wolf pack, King Louie/Bandar Log as menacing figures), as well as the original animated version being extremely out of date and needing a huge rework to work at all. Instead of having to make jokes to differentiate itself from the original (Lion King's fart joke nod, etc.), Jungle Book was so much its own thing that it needed to make references to remind you of the original (the two songs, Kaa saying to trust her, etc.). It got a lot of poo poo but I really enjoyed the hell out of it, too.
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BiggerBoat posted:I really enjoyed the live action version of Jungle Book  I think it's safe to say that one really kicked off the "live action remake of Disney animated classics" renaissance. I also enjoyed Pete's Deagon, which changed a fair amount of stuff from the original but succeeded in being a good "boy & his ____" story. Heck, even Carl Urban as the antagonist worked, as he wasn't cartoonish as a villain & had understandable goals.
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