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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:There's gotta be a word or term for a movie idea that seems like it would be amazing, but the idea gets made, and it's terrible and a huge letdown. Reign of Fire syndrome. Who wants a movie about dragons versus tanks? Everyone? Yeah nah, get hosed. We're setting the movie 20 years after all the cool poo poo happens, there's only one tank, and it only shoots about twice in the entire film!
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One of the more frustrating things about Iron Fist was how they spend so much time just standing around talking about the time he punched out the still-beating heart of a dragon without ever actually showing it.
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Mar 21, 2022 04:30
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Sum up a disappointing movie : Batman comes out of retirement to fight ninja clan terrorist leader hellbent on revenge and is left broken and exiled,will he escape and save his closest allies? Reality : boring mumbley shite in a deserted boring city with a badguy and hero who both sound like scooby doo.
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Mar 21, 2022 04:31
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Len posted:I only half remember reading the books but I remember it as Elfangor just dropping in and saying 2 hours lol I feel like the whole thought-speech thing covers that somewhat. He describes an amount of time, it's auto-translated because it's telepathic, and it just happens to line up with two hours on a human scale. Also, Elfangor lived on Earth for decades so probably knew how best to quickly get the point across with human measurements if needed. Really the more unlikely part is how precisely it lined up with Earth hours in the first place, but that's something you have to handwave on occasion.
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Mar 21, 2022 04:35
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:There's gotta be a word or term for a movie idea that seems like it would be amazing, but the idea gets made, and it's terrible and a huge letdown. It’s like getting Sucker Punched
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Mar 21, 2022 05:00
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oldpainless posted:It’s like getting Sucker Punched Sucker Punch is truly IIMM: The Movie. The movie goes out of its way to say "objectifying women is terrible" just before objectifying women. You can't play it both ways, Snyder!
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Mar 21, 2022 05:13
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I think the only time that really worked was FarScape.
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The thing is about the terrible pewpew post-nuclear future of Terminator is that it was always presented like a nightmare to be avoided at all costs, of course it's gonna be a letdown unless you have an extra special vision for it. 'All the big cool poo poo already happened and this is the last gasp' is its own kind of disappointment possibly worse than 'We saved all of the cool poo poo people want to see for a sequel that'll never get made because the movie was boring as gently caress without it'.
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Mar 21, 2022 05:55
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Cowslips Warren posted:I want a prequel to Get Out. I want to see other people the family has hosed over and gotten away with. That sounds amazing. I give it a go picture.
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El Fideo posted:I think the only time that really worked was FarScape. Farscape was just a whole bunch of stuff that shouldn't have worked jammed together which somehow added up to possibly the best sci-fi tv series yet made. It's the anti-IIMM show.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The thing is about the terrible pewpew post-nuclear future of Terminator is that it was always presented like a nightmare to be avoided at all costs, of course it's gonna be a letdown unless you have an extra special vision for it.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Reign of Fire syndrome.  Yeah, the posters for that movie showed dragons fighting armies of Apache helicopters over London. There are no helicopters or airplanes in the movie at all.
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Mar 21, 2022 08:28
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IshmaelZarkov posted:My IIMM is when a trailer is so much better than a film that you feel like you've been lied to. I watched that trailer earlier tonight after listening to the NIN album the song is from (the Fragile) Never saw the movie and I’ve never heard anything good about it but the trailer is great
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SimonChris posted:
There's one helicopter. That gets trashed pretty quickly I think. Also the good guys have this bizarre method of killing dragons which involves using a helicopter to hover very high up, then having dudes skydive out of it. They bait the dragon into chasing them in freefall and use a... Net gun I think? To Tangle it up so it dies in a fall.
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Armacham posted:Sounds like District 9
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:There's gotta be a word or term for a movie idea that seems like it would be amazing, but the idea gets made, and it's terrible and a huge letdown. I feel like Jurassic World fits. Dinosaurs running amuck in a fully operational park crowded with tourists?
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Mar 21, 2022 15:15
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Tommy Lee's penis prosthetic in Pam and Tommy looks kinda weird. Not just when it's talking there's just something wrong with that man's dick.
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Mar 21, 2022 16:07
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I feel like Jurassic World fits. Dinosaurs running amuck in a fully operational park crowded with tourists? I'll throw Batman V Superman on that pile. Might actually make a decent thread: Great Trailer/poo poo Movie
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BiggerBoat posted:I'll throw Batman V Superman on that pile. If you watch the theatrical cut maybe.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I feel like Jurassic World fits. Dinosaurs running amuck in a fully operational park crowded with tourists? The lamest part of the whole thing was how little the operational park mattered. They had the one big set piece with the pterosaurs and tourists, and the rest of the scenes were either in exhibits or after the evacuation. That was also really the only time anything other than the "villain" dinosaur really mattered, while in the first movie the entire point was about the system breaking down.
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Push El Burrito posted:Tommy Lee Jones' penis prosthetic in Pam and Tommy looks kinda weird. Not just when it's talking there's just something wrong with that man's dick. This is how I read it and boy howdy does that raise some questions.
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BiggerBoat posted:I'll throw Batman V Superman on that pile. The big ones for me are: Brightburn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6eB0JT1DI4 What if superman, but evil? So much great potential there, the trailer deliberate evokes shots from Man of Steel, and generally promises an escalating nightmare as these parents realise what a monster they've raised. But instead we get a really bland horror that plays much of its gore for laughs, and it just doesn't work. One review said "Brightburn is a great idea for a movie. Sadly, that's all it is". Franklyn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoJHbE6HMWE The trailer promises all sorts of parallel-reality shenanigans, but instead we got a slow, unfocused tale about PTSD and trauma. And the best line of the trailer ("the girl I was supposed to save, is running out of time") which suggests oodles of time-fuckery, doesn't exist in the movie, and has actually been spliced together from two different lines. Prometheus:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFfhttZYoEw The film at least delivers on what the teaser promises - people running round a spaceship screaming - but god drat if this isn't one of my favourite trailers. It's like a 1 minute panic attack, and rattled my nerves more than most horror movies.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Prometheus:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFfhttZYoEw An aggravatingly awful movie with a sequel that manages to be even worse? Sign me up! I've given up hope on having a 'horror' movie that doesn't just progress by characters being idiots.
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I kind of liked Brightburn and Franklyn. They weren't as good as they could have been but I had fun with both (kind of liked that Brightburn had a complete reversal of the villain ending stinger - the schoolgirl who's hand he crushed during Gym class getting a robot hand and looking vengeful is a funny twist on things - Brightburn has gotten himself a superHERO to confront his villainy) and I liked that Franklyn's subplots all came together to visually resemble that one famous painting of the American diner with the people in it. I thought that that was a cute visual thing. My dad watched it with me as I'd picked it up for his birthday not knowing anything about it and he had fun playing "Find the Alan Moore ripoffs/homages", so he enjoyed it too despite it's flaws.
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DarkDobe posted:An aggravatingly awful movie with a sequel that manages to be even worse? Sign me up! My Prometheus IIMM is that I saw it after years of hearing the internet talk about how bad it was and it was just okay. Not really good but also not as bad as it was built up to be
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I started watching the Snyder Justice League and hoo boy, there are a lot of little things (and big things - was the original movie so terrible that this was a massive improvement?). I guess my irrational irritation is, in additional to how many dramatic slow motion turns there are, when Batman goes to try to recruit Aquaman at the beginning, they do that thing where the villagers say something and everyone laughs at Batman, who ostensibly doesn't know what they're saying. It's just an annoying trope, where the one guy doesn't speak the local language, so the tough guy who's doing the translating says something, then the head villager laughs and all the villagers around laugh too. Anyways, terrible movie.
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I remember how impressive the Dead Island trailer was at the time - I hadn't seen a trailer like that for a videogame before. The game was a bit whatever but the trailer had a lot of art to it at least. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ialZcLaI17Y
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I'm watching more Highlander and boy howdy does MacLeod's supporting cast become a revolving door in season 2. I actually think it's kind of a good idea that helps emphasize the isolation of immortals and add a tragic air to his character outside of the flashbacks. But this 'comical' French neighbor character is so much worse than every other sidekick so far. I didn't think I would miss Ritchie's 90's 'tude so much, but jesus, this new guy is poison on screen.
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MNIMWA posted:I started watching the Snyder Justice League and hoo boy, there are a lot of little things (and big things - was the original movie so terrible that this was a massive improvement?). I guess my irrational irritation is, in additional to how many dramatic slow motion turns there are, when Batman goes to try to recruit Aquaman at the beginning, they do that thing where the villagers say something and everyone laughs at Batman, who ostensibly doesn't know what they're saying. It's just an annoying trope, where the one guy doesn't speak the local language, so the tough guy who's doing the translating says something, then the head villager laughs and all the villagers around laugh too. Anyways, terrible movie. Also Aquaman's attempt at Icelandic is so mangled that it's basically nonsensical gibberish.
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Crowetron posted:I'm watching more Highlander and boy howdy does MacLeod's supporting cast become a revolving door in season 2. I actually think it's kind of a good idea that helps emphasize the isolation of immortals and add a tragic air to his character outside of the flashbacks. My problem with Highlander: The Series was I was constantly hoping that it didn't awaken anything in me. My Quickening, as it were. 
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:My problem with Highlander: The Series was I was constantly hoping that it didn't awaken anything in me. My Quickening, as it were. It's a lot of good looking people wearing leather in Paris and swinging swords around. Unavoidable, imo.
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HopperUK posted:I remember how impressive the Dead Island trailer was at the time - I hadn't seen a trailer like that for a videogame before. The game was a bit whatever but the trailer had a lot of art to it at least. Going from that emotional trailer to "Who Do You Voodoo, Bitch?" was quite a trip.
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Watching The Nun and there's a character whose nickname is "Frenchie" because he is French Canadian. The actor is Belgian, however, and his French-Canadian accent is not even close! it doesn't even resemble a France-French accent, and at times he sounds almost australian. As a guy who works in Gatineau, I was disappointed that he didn't sound like a Quebecker
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MNIMWA posted:Watching The Nun and there's a character whose nickname is "Frenchie" because he is French Canadian. The actor is Belgian, however, and his French-Canadian accent is not even close! it doesn't even resemble a France-French accent, and at times he sounds almost australian. As a guy who works in Gatineau, I was disappointed that he didn't sound like a Quebecker There was Dallas, from Phoenix; Cleveland - he was from Detroit; and Tex... well, I don't remember where Tex come from.
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Only three IIMM on Train To Busan. 1. Seems to vary how fast you turn when bitten; the cheerleader turned within a minute max, the main dad got like 2-3 minutes of talking to his daughter before staggering away for another 2 minute flashback and then falling from the train before turning. Dear God I was so sick of the daughter crying and screaming, it seemed to last way too long. Now if he had turned and killed both daughter and the pregnant woman, I would have forgiven this IIMM for the realism of people loving around when they know they have seconds before they go nuts. 2. Why does no one shut the loving train doors once the first zombie gets up! Don't just run, close a loving door! 3. We never see the deer again. gently caress, I want to see zombie deer!
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it's probably been said, but The Guest is a good "what if super hero but evil" movie (Capt America in this case) and if you haven't seen it I'd recommend it as a Brightburn palate cleanser. great acting, tightly paced plot, and thr soundtrack rules.
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Sally posted:it's probably been said, but The Guest is a good "what if super hero but evil" movie (Capt America in this case) and if you haven't seen it I'd recommend it as a Brightburn palate cleanser. great acting, tightly paced plot, and thr soundtrack rules. I liked this movie a lot.
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MNIMWA posted:I started watching the Snyder Justice League and hoo boy, there are a lot of little things (and big things - was the original movie so terrible that this was a massive improvement?). I guess my irrational irritation is, in additional to how many dramatic slow motion turns there are, when Batman goes to try to recruit Aquaman at the beginning, they do that thing where the villagers say something and everyone laughs at Batman, who ostensibly doesn't know what they're saying. It's just an annoying trope, where the one guy doesn't speak the local language, so the tough guy who's doing the translating says something, then the head villager laughs and all the villagers around laugh too. Anyways, terrible movie. Even the people who have a frothing hateboner for Snyder all had to admit that it was a massive improvement over the theatrical cut, which wasn't helped by the replacement director having been revealed as a philandering sexual harasser, racist and abuser, and also happened to have cut all the nonwhite people from the movie as much as he possibly could.
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I respect the Snyder cut of Justice League as it's the artist's unfiltered, complete vision. This means I there's no other excuse for why's it's bad and I can hate it with impunity.
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I can't hate it... Because there's no way I'm sitting through a four hour cut of a superhero movie unless the original vision for Superman is miraculously restored.
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