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Zero_Grade posted:Both very fun dumb movies, but The Rock has Sean Connery. This is controversial but I gotta go with John Malkovich on this one
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Morpheus posted:Then there's London Has Fallen in which the terrorist organization is the greatest undercover agency in the world, having infiltrated not only like every aspect of the police force, but also the Queen's guard as well as even emergency personnel. And they've reached all these positions in two years. London Has Fallen had an insider working with them as well - a very minor character that gets offed in a garage at the rear end end of the movie, but he gives them access to the surveillance network.
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DarkDobe posted:For some reason I have been binging the 'Secret Service Guy Saves President'/'Bodyguard takes on an army' movies and firstly: holy poo poo there are a lot of these! The best part is how the insider often makes a lot of the rest of the bad guys actions completely redundant. Like, Olympus Has Fallen starts with a massive frontal attack on the White House, but then it turns out that their plan hinges on having insiders take the president hostage in his bunker and telling the army to back off. There was no need to actually attack the White House at all. All they had to do was cause enough of a ruckus for the president to be taken to the bunker, and then they could just tell everyone else to leave.
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Just once I would like to see one of those "head of state is under attack" movies resolve by them just going "ok shoot the guy, we can just elect another one, idiot"
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I mean, the idea this would happen and 50% of the population wouldn’t start immediately wildly celebrating in the streets is pretty irritating.
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OwlFancier posted:Just once I would like to see one of those "head of state is under attack" movies resolve by them just going "ok shoot the guy, we can just elect another one, idiot" Might put people off the job if they know there won't even be a token attempt to rescue them. Actually, I'm not sure that that's a bad thing. Maybe no-one should want to be head of state?
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The Ideal system of governance is one where the only way to become head of state is to murder the current one.
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Torquemada posted:I mean, the idea this would happen and 50% of the population wouldn’t start immediately wildly celebrating in the streets is pretty irritating.
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Angrymog posted:Might put people off the job if they know there won't even be a token attempt to rescue them. Actually, I'm not sure that that's a bad thing. Maybe no-one should want to be head of state? Absolutely yes, no one who wants to do that job should ever be elected to it. Unfortunately, that's where we're up to.
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I'm around 10 minutes into Many Saints of Newark and I just have one question: was their lighting budget like 10 dollars? Did the same guy who directed that one night battle episode of game of thrones do this one? It's like watching a movie while having a stocking or something over my head. e: maybe i'm not giving it a fair chance but I think this movie might just suck yeah I eat ass has a new favorite as of 00:07 on Oct 2, 2021 |
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I'm around 10 minutes into Many Saints of Newark and I just have one question: was their lighting budget like 10 dollars? Did the same guy who directed that one night battle episode of game of thrones do this one? It's like watching a movie while having a stocking or something over my head. Christopher Tellefsen was the editor for both MSoN and the 2016 assassin's creed movie, and both of them were ridiculously dark and sucked
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That Italian Guy posted:If real life is any indication, a good chunk of the US population would be
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yeah I eat rear end posted:I'm around 10 minutes into Many Saints of Newark and I just have one question: was their lighting budget like 10 dollars? Did the same guy who directed that one night battle episode of game of thrones do this one? It's like watching a movie while having a stocking or something over my head. I'm planning to check this out tonight or tomorrow but this reminded me of a meta-IIMM: all these directors whining and bitching that their movies are going to simultaneous theater + streaming releases. gently caress off dickheads, there's a pandemic literally killing people maybe folks would like to see the movie somewhere safe. I dunno though, maybe your artistic vision is worth getting intubated for, who can really say
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It's because they are getting screwed by hollywood accounting
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I saw ScarJo and Disney settled her suit, I automatically assume any time that happens they would really rather just pay to make it go away than run the risk of any of their "accounting" methods coming out in discovery.
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I didn't love the movie, but it irritates me how the advertisers portrayed "cry macho" in the commercials. When I saw the commercials, it looked incredibly dumb and unwatchable. The stupid name didn't help it I guess, but when I saw the commercial I thought "well i'll never watch that". But then I saw the post here saying that directors are mad about these hbo max screenings so I watched it figuring well at least I can make them upset about it, but I ended up not hating it.
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Apparently Eastwood's been trying to make Cry Macho for over 10 years (he had the script written ages ago) but it was only recently he got it to the finish line. To play advocate for directors whining about simultaneous theater/streaming releases, I kind of get their argument. At home it'a way too easy for me to get distracted by other poo poo going around, and some movies benefit from the big screen spectacle overwhelming your visual senses. I saw Tenet in the theaters and I believe it's one of the main reasons I enjoyed it; meanwhile I only caught Godzilla Vs. Kong on a stream and I lamented not seeing it in a theater. Either way I don't begrudge studios doing simultaneous releases, but I do think people making the films should be compensated correctly due to this & directors can be a lot more diplomatic in voicing their preference on how viewers experience their art.
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Directors are, to a man, whiny little babies who have less impact on how a movie turns out than the catering staff
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Memento posted:I saw ScarJo and Disney settled her suit, I automatically assume any time that happens they would really rather just pay to make it go away than run the risk of any of their "accounting" methods coming out in discovery. Disney's main argument against Scarjo was shaming her for not being more socially conscious about the pandemic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMzHfSIl2Kc
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Totally stupid, but in that crappy CGI The Lorax, why the gently caress was the dude chopping down all the trees instead of just harvesting the loving leaves he needed?
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Because he's a metaphor for capitalism
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Cowslips Warren posted:Totally stupid, but in that crappy CGI The Lorax, why the gently caress was the dude chopping down all the trees instead of just harvesting the loving leaves he needed? Because he doesn’t speak for the trees
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Crowetron posted:Because he's a metaphor for capitalism And if anything a far too generous one.
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Cowslips Warren posted:Totally stupid, but in that crappy CGI The Lorax, why the gently caress was the dude chopping down all the trees instead of just harvesting the loving leaves he needed? It's faster and easier, and therefore guarantees a greater profit.
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I’m from Buenos Aires and I say let it grow!
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Escape Room: Tournament of Champions: Just like the first one, this isn't even a good variant of the escape room horror movie. None of the puzzles make actual sense, but somehow the heroes stumble on the answer at the last second every time. There's no logic to how they figure stuff out, it's just shouting over each other until the camera guides them to the answer, then more screaming as they race to the exit etc. I know the obvious explanation for all the magic poo poo going on is going to be some lame "it's purgatory/hell" twist, but I'm irrationally hoping (knowing that they won't) they go for a more creative explanation...as long as they actually reveal it instead of teasing another sequel. e: I guess they're sticking to the "it's real" story. No explanation on how they made outdoor rooms indoors or how these impossible traps were built - just a handwavy "mysterious rich cabal did it" and a laughably dumb cliffhanger ending. I need to find better things to spend my 20 dollars on. yeah I eat ass has a new favorite as of 19:44 on Oct 2, 2021 |
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The Call: I'm upset they baited me into a horror movie with Lin Shaye and she's only in it for like the first 5 minutes. I didn't like Saw but they got the jigsaw guy to be her husband, and he also had maybe 5 minutes of screentime. I don't blame them not wanting to have a bigger role in such a dumb movie, but still.
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The Call was good until the last third where Halle Berry completely goes awol and loses the professionalism. The whole "Thriller from the perspective of a 911 operator" was a neat concept that the ending squanders.
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BioEnchanted posted:The Call was good until the last third where Halle Berry completely goes awol and loses the professionalism. The whole "Thriller from the perspective of a 911 operator" was a neat concept that the ending squanders. no not that one, the 2020 one where Lin Shaye brings the kids who harassed her for years to hell through the telephone.
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Why do sci-fi series always show critically damaged space ships sinking down as if they were boats?
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Angrymog posted:Why do sci-fi series always show critically damaged space ships sinking down as if they were boats? It makes as much sense as anything else about spaceships in sci-fi that's not 2001 or The Martian. Reminded of how DS9 occasionally features an abandoned Cardassian starbase called Empok Nor made from the same blueprints as the titular one, so they can conveniently reuse the sets, and in establishing shots it's always shown to be at an angle compared to Terok Nor/Deep Space Nine, since they use the same model. Ghost Leviathan has a new favorite as of 08:05 on Oct 3, 2021 |
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Angrymog posted:Why do sci-fi series always show critically damaged space ships sinking down as if they were boats? Dude they're ships. That's what ships do when destroyed.
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Wasabi the J posted:Dude they're ships. That's what ships do when destroyed. I wanted to link the scene in Star Wars where the Executor loses control and impacts the Death Star (2) And the one in Battlestar Galactica when the battlestar gets nuked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwsK-dJ1drs&t=286s Loss of helm control is a real thing though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAmZ_HbVvzM
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The Death Star, Endor, and whatever Endor was orbiting all have gravity for the SSD Executor to be pulled in by.
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Beachcomber posted:The Death Star, Endor, and whatever Endor was orbiting all have gravity for the SSD Executor to be pulled in by. Executor wasn't orbiting the Death Star, either. Like yeah spaceships listing and sinking off the plane is visual language but this particular one isn't really an issue.
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Space isn'T real the sky is a big dome held up by a guy
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FreudianSlippers posted:Space isn'T real the sky is a big dome held up by a guy are you making up a guy just to get mad at movies
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I assume when the A wing crashed into the bridge the guy driving it died and his foot went on the accelerator and it just went off into the death star.
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OwlFancier posted:I assume when the A wing crashed into the bridge the guy driving it died and his foot went on the accelerator and it just went off into the death star. That sounds right. Also the sound effects people just went ham with it.
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