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Did not expect my day to include learning Link is canonically a silent protagonist because he's essentially a traumatized war orphan lost in time, but it makes sense.
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Biplane posted:You dishonor Mario at your own risk Given Nintendo's history with licensing out their IP I imagine they make a point of keeping licencees on a very short leash.
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Oct 19, 2021 13:43
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If I had to try to figure out things that the various Links have to deal with, like the Phonogram Man time loop from Ocarina of Time, I'd probably stay pretty quiet too.
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Oct 19, 2021 13:52
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That Italian Guy posted:Link, as played by Clint Eastwood. Clink Eastwood.
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Oct 19, 2021 13:56
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That Italian Guy posted:In this version of the movie, are both characters played by Chris Pratt? Unless it’s directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. Then both are played by Milla Jovovich.
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Oct 19, 2021 14:57
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Bussamove posted:Unless it’s directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. I’m very okay with that.
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Oct 19, 2021 15:59
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Crowetron posted:The Metal Gear Solid movie should not cut out any dialogue whatsoever, but still just end when it hits two hours. The whole movie should have a countdown timer in the corner that Oscar Issac keeps nervously looking at while people go on and on about nuclear disarmament procedures and PAL cards. Bussamove posted:Unless it’s directed by Paul W.S. Anderson.
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Just finished the third Fear Street movie, and I am really glad that they made Sarah Fier innocent, not just in the past but in the present as well, meaning that she wasn't responsible for any of the deaths. I fuckin' hate that trope of oh, this innocent person was killed, so as revenge they decided to murder many innocents. It makes me really not give a poo poo about their innocence while living if they're willing to murder while dead..
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Biplane posted:Did not expect my day to include learning Link is canonically a silent protagonist because he's essentially a traumatized war orphan lost in time, but it makes sense. If they made a Legend of Zelda movie using Ocarina of Time it would be the most brutal of them all with this.
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Oct 20, 2021 03:09
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Baron von Eevl posted:C'mon, What We Do In The Moonlight was right there. If you think that's a better title than We're Wolves you're out of your drat mind.
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Oct 21, 2021 14:24
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Biplane posted:But how will people know what reactions to have if the protagonist doesn't literally spell it out for them “Hey, listen! Link’s really sad right now!”
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Oct 21, 2021 14:51
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Gargamel Gibson posted:If you think that's a better title than We're Wolves you're out of your drat mind. This is correct.
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Oct 21, 2021 15:22
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Oh of course it's not, it's just better than "what we do in the woods."
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Oct 21, 2021 16:54
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Baron von Eevl posted:Oh of course it's not, it's just better than "what we do in the woods." I dunno, you put the viewer off guard - they expect a movie about bears or the Pope, and hit them with were-wolves instead.
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Oct 22, 2021 16:08
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Bears aren't the only animals in the woods you know.
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Oct 22, 2021 16:16
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Yeah, they already said the pope.
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Oct 22, 2021 16:22
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Gargamel Gibson posted:If you think that's a better title than We're Wolves you're out of your drat mind. The Way We Were.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:The Way We Were. 
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Saw Dune last night. I saw it in IMAX and got thoroughly Zimmered by the soundtrack. Pretty good, would recommend seeing in a theater if you can. My IIMM is all of the clumsy expository world-building dialogue. Like, I get that one of the things people rag on Lynch's version for was all of the voice-over inner monologue narration but this ain't better, imo. Even though they had characters describing the world to each other, they made the odd choice to avoid describing a lot of things that I would think were really important to understanding some of the plot points. Biggest example (major spoiler if you aren't already familiar with the story): They never talk about Yueh's Imperial Conditioning and why it was such a shock that he was able to betray the Atreides. They kind of just ignored his character until he was necessary to the plot and it felt like it came out of nowhere. I don't recall them ever using the word "Mentat" or saying who Thufir was supposed to be. Maybe there were some scenes that got cut? Also, I think it may be impossible to show the Fremen breakstep walk on film without it looking super embarrassing. Ornithopters loving rule though.
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Yeah I also thought the dialogue was super stilted and awkward, especially the lines taken straight from the book! There were a lot of newly-invented bits that actually sounded believably human and real, but then someone would say "They have tried to take the life of my son." or some poo poo from the book and it just took me straight back to the Star Wars prequels, of all places.
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Oct 23, 2021 21:22
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800peepee51doodoo posted:Like, I get that one of the things people rag on Lynch's version for was all of the voice-over inner monologue narration but this ain't better, imo.
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Oct 23, 2021 21:32
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Dune is a pretty dense novel and really hard to adapt to film. I had a rough time just with the book first time I read it in high school and had to go back to it like decades later.
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BiggerBoat posted:Dune is a pretty dense novel and really hard to adapt to film. I had a rough time just with the book first time I read it in high school and had to go back to it like decades later. Yeah, friends and I were talking about that when we got out of the movie. Dune doesn't have a fish-out-of-water character that's common to scifi/fantasy that lets the other characters explain the world to the audience and there's a lot of world that needs explaining. I was just a little irritated that they combined some really stilted exposition through dialogue while also ignoring some world building elements that I thought were pretty important to the story. It's hard for me to tell how well it comes across to people who don't already know the story and setting going in, though.
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800peepee51doodoo posted:Yeah, friends and I were talking about that when we got out of the movie. Dune doesn't have a fish-out-of-water character that's common to scifi/fantasy that lets the other characters explain the world to the audience and there's a lot of world that needs explaining. I was just a little irritated that they combined some really stilted exposition through dialogue while also ignoring some world building elements that I thought were pretty important to the story. It's hard for me to tell how well it comes across to people who don't already know the story and setting going in, though. On the other end of the spectrum, my gigantic IIMM of Hellboy was the introduction of John Myers as the audience stand-in. He was totally useless and adds nothing to the story. IMO it's what I liked a lot about Hellboy: The Golden Army: just jump right in with the characters you know & have some interesting worldbuilding to boot.
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I like it when the audience has to figure poo poo out on their own. gently caress explaining anything. Explanation is for the weak.
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Android Apocalypse posted:IMO it's what I liked a lot about Hellboy: The Golden Army: just jump right in with the characters you know & have some interesting worldbuilding to boot. Not only that, but when someone mentions him, Liz is like "he
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FreudianSlippers posted:I like it when the audience has to figure poo poo out on their own. I think it can be a good thing if the movie provides the context so you can figure it out within the movie. If I have to go read a wiki afterward then gently caress that. Like the eagles in the the LOTR movies.
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Android Apocalypse posted:On the other end of the spectrum, my gigantic IIMM of Hellboy was the introduction of John Myers as the audience stand-in. He was totally useless and adds nothing to the story. IMO it's what I liked a lot about Hellboy: The Golden Army: just jump right in with the characters you know & have some interesting worldbuilding to boot. Yeah, its not great to have an obvious audience stand in either. Ideally, the world should be able to speak for itself. Fury Road is a good example of the world being self-explanatory. No exposition needed to describe the political relationship between Immortan Joe and the Bullet Farmer or the religion of the Warboys or whatever. What you need to know is on screen. I also realize that isn't always possible, especially with adaptations of novels/comics, but it would be an ideal I think.
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I absolutely love Fury Road, despite its inclusion of what I hate (strong female characters), but I was confused by it the first time but on the rewatch the film pretty clearly gives you all the information you need (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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They should make a Legend of Zelda movie, but have it be about Zelda Fitzgerald instead. And it should follow the exact plot of the video games. Also, I know this is a while back, but in Frozen 2, Kristoff's song rocks! BOO to all y'all who cannot appreciate its silliness/awesometude. (All other criticisms of the movie seem valid though.)
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oldpainless posted:I absolutely love Fury Road, despite its inclusion of what I hate (strong female characters), but I was confused by it the first time but on the rewatch the film pretty clearly gives you all the information you need Is your being openly misogynistic supposed to be a joke?
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Oct 24, 2021 13:11
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More like olddameless.
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ghostwritingduck posted:Is your being openly misogynistic supposed to be a joke? The reason why he does these lame hot takes is that someone always falls for it and does this stupid poo poo: Pope Corky the IX posted:More like olddameless. It’s like he has a squad of people who follow him around to make the same attention feeding joke.
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Oct 24, 2021 13:27
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I was unaware I was nourishing his essence, my apologies.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I was unaware I was nourishing his essence, my apologies. Speaking of Dark Crystal Age of Resistance (and gently caress Netflix for canceling it. I know puppets are expensive but they could at least continue the story in animation) the ending with the Skesis literally just walking/running away and NO ONE STOPS THEM but instead the gelfing celebrate and poo poo is just stupid as gently caress. The war literally just loving started, and they let the other side just leave! It would be one thing if the spiders chased them off, but they literally let the enemies, who have been murdering them, walk away without even trying to stop them. But I guess I should not be surprised; even when Rian had the general dead to rights, he refused to kill him. Like, okay, I know it's a show aimed at kids too, but it's not like the Skesis were going to stop!
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Cowslips Warren posted:Speaking of Dark Crystal Age of Resistance (and gently caress Netflix for canceling it. I know puppets are expensive but they could at least continue the story in animation) the ending with the Skesis literally just walking/running away and NO ONE STOPS THEM but instead the gelfing celebrate and poo poo is just stupid as gently caress. The war literally just loving started, and they let the other side just leave! It would be one thing if the spiders chased them off, but they literally let the enemies, who have been murdering them, walk away without even trying to stop them. But I guess I should not be surprised; even when Rian had the general dead to rights, he refused to kill him. Like, okay, I know it's a show aimed at kids too, but it's not like the Skesis were going to stop! Kinda hard to have the gelfling kill all the skeksis characters when it's a prequel to a movie where the skeksis rule the land and almost all the gelflings are dead. It also complicates things that for every skeksis they kill they also kill a peaceful mystic,
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On the topic of Dune, two things that I don't think require spoilers: did they explain why everyone fights with swords in a universe with interstellar travel and at least some light-based weapons? I know why, I just don't recall it being included in the movie. The other is the scene where Paul is speaking with the groundskeeper at the compound on Dune. In the previous scene, it was shown that it gets so hot during the day that they have to seal buildings at a certain time. Then Paul finds the groundskeeper, who is watering trees that require vast amounts of water to keep alive, and who is also wearing like 4 layers of protective clothing. He even tells Paul that being outside is a bad idea, but pasty-rear end Paul just smiles like "thanks dude, but I got it" without a drop of sweat on his face. As a pasty-rear end dude, I feel like he should have been laying in bed covered in aloe vera for his hubris in the next scene.
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BrianRx posted:On the topic of Dune, two things that I don't think require spoilers: did they explain why everyone fights with swords in a universe with interstellar travel and at least some light-based weapons? I know why, I just don't recall it being included in the movie. Because shields, is why. Fast physical objects bounce off a shield, and lasguns hitting a shield cause a very large explosion at both ends. So people use swords and daggers because they're actually effective against the most common form of personal defence.
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BrianRx posted:On the topic of Dune, two things that I don't think require spoilers: did they explain why everyone fights with swords in a universe with interstellar travel and at least some light-based weapons? I know why, I just don't recall it being included in the movie. Shows right in the movie that they have personal shields that keep out fast-moving objects. They didn't explain laser/shield interactions, they might in Part 2.
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