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Ulio posted:-Top Gun Maverick. Never watched the first but loved this. quote:Some good music as well although not as good as the first one. quote:Danger Zone being in the opening was a great touch though. 
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I think they know part of the soundtrack, which is ubiquitous.
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Feb 1, 2023 21:02
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Ya so I have heard the soundtrack of Top Gun, never seen the actual movie. I always heard how the soundtrack was great so I listened to it one day. I never watched the movie because I already knew the plot. Maybe I will get around to it though, not sure how it holds up these days.
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Feb 1, 2023 22:27
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If my experience of re-watching Top Gun with people under 35 who've never seen it before tracks in any way, it reads as intentional gay camp to a modern audience. There's a really cheesy, brazen quality to just about every interaction, and the Maverick/Iceman tension is every bit as homoerotic as people joke that it is. Nobody found it earnestly cool, just absurdly over the top to the point of comedy. The soundtrack contributes immensely to this feeling.
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Feb 2, 2023 01:30
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People get Top Gun wrong all the time. They don't want to gently caress each other. They want to gently caress their planes.
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Feb 2, 2023 04:00
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Top Gun ‘86 holds up very well. The Tomcat was one of the most photogenic airplanes of all time IMO, and the aerial sequences were pretty groundbreaking at the time.
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Feb 2, 2023 05:10
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Snowman_McK posted:People get Top Gun wrong all the time. They don't want to gently caress each other. They want to gently caress their planes. No they very much want to gently caress each other.
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Feb 2, 2023 07:25
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Mulva posted:No they very much want to gently caress each other. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRwud05YMHI
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Feb 2, 2023 19:11
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They're not mutually exclusive.
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Feb 2, 2023 19:31
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mobby_6kl posted:They certainly do Funnily enough, as K. Waste pointed out in his review, Tarantino actually misremembers the line.
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Feb 2, 2023 22:14
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You're out of your drat mind if you think I Ain't Worried by OneRepublic is better than Playing with the Boys by Kenny Loggins.
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Was going to rewatch The Terminator tonight, but the Blu-Ray in my four-disc eBay Arnold boxset was hosed - first unplayable BR I've ever had,  - so I watched Commando instead.drat, I miss the days when an action movie would deliver on its promise in just 90 minutes. Get to plot point, action, next plot point, more action, final story point, then all of Act 3 is non-stop action ending with one main bad guy getting three shotgun blasts to the chest and being blown out of a window, and the other being impaled on a steam pipe with a cheesy one-liner. 40 minutes shorter than mega-budgeted shite like The Grey Man, and a lot more fun.
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Watched Pushpa The Rise. As far as South Indian action movies goes. I liked it more than RRR/KGF1/Bahubhali even though those movies are great. This had less action but the character of Pushpa was far better than the mc in those movies
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Chas McGill posted:Project Wolf Hunting was pretty disappointing. It delivered the gore without any novel action, plot, or characterisation. One of those movies where the effects team and actors did a decent job with a limited an unimaginative script. It's a real shame that a film so very willing, enthusiastic, even, to kill off characters unexpectedly was also unable to come up with a single memorable character. Also, a lot of the direction in the action scenes was just sloppy, where you didn't really get a sense of why some people were able to win or not. The fight in the engine room especially felt like half the characters hadn't plugged in their controllers. They were just standing there to be killed. I think it was trying to replicate something like From Dusk Till Dawn (there are probably other films with surprise genre shifts but they don't spring to mind as easily) but without being especially good at any of the three genres. It half assed the Con-Air aspect (who are any of these criminals? Give them cool backstories, come on) which lead into me not really caring once the monster started picking them off, which in turn lead me to really not care once it turned into super soldiers punching each other. It's a shame, since the gore effects and some of the action were really loving good. The people responsible for those really did their jobs, it's just that no one else did
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More great stuff from Jacobus https://youtu.be/td1PGFpLYF0
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I haven't seen Paathan yet but War is the best Fast and Furious movie since the tanks chase/infinite runway one
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I wish Violent Night had an actually consistently good script and a decent director and a better budget because when the movie hits it hits hard, but it's hyper-inconsistent, frequently poorly written, has an action scene that's absolute bottom-tier poo poo, and is generally cribbing way too hard from What If The Christmas Chronicles, But Action?
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Feb 7, 2023 20:11
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I just saw Sisu and it was pretty friggin' dope. There's some pretty nasty gore, and more importantly: a bunch of nazis get loving wrecked.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:I wish Violent Night had an actually consistently good script and a decent director and a better budget because when the movie hits it hits hard, but it's hyper-inconsistent, frequently poorly written, has an action scene that's absolute bottom-tier poo poo, and is generally cribbing way too hard from What If The Christmas Chronicles, But Action? Massive same. I mean I enjoyed it because the general premise and the cast carried and like you said with it hits it's on fire, but god drat, what could have been.
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Gargamel Gibson posted:I just saw Sisu and it was pretty friggin' dope. There's some pretty nasty gore, and more importantly: a bunch of nazis get loving wrecked. Hell yeah this movie rocks. Where did you see it? I caught it at a festival last year but didn't know it'd been released.
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Neo Rasa posted:Massive same. I mean I enjoyed it because the general premise and the cast carried and like you said with it hits it's on fire, but god drat, what could have been. Pro tip, violent night should be watched really drunk on Christmas Eve with your family and then it owns. That’s the only way I’m ever going to watch it
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CelticPredator posted:Pro tip, violent night should be watched really drunk on Christmas Eve with your family and then it owns. We prefer to INFLICT a movie on our family each Christmas instead. This past year was Santa With Muscles lol
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Feb 9, 2023 03:56
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Also acceptable
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flashy_mcflash posted:Hell yeah this movie rocks. Where did you see it? I caught it at a festival last year but didn't know it'd been released. I live in Finland, so I just went to the movies.
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Neo Rasa posted:We prefer to INFLICT a movie on our family each Christmas instead. This past year was Santa With Muscles lol Now we're talkin! My wife and I are boring. We do Krampus and Die Hard. When my son turns ten we're doing a Lord of the Rings every year (1 each Christmas). I showed him the beginning of Fellowship and he got insanely hyped for it.
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Gargamel Gibson posted:I live in Finland, so I just went to the movies. 
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Oh, if anyone was curious about the aforementioned Sisu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88f77kkiqDs During the Lapland War nazis steal a Finnish gold miner's gold. He wants it back. Simple, brutal, over the top, funny.
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That trailer seems to be geolocked to Finland but Sisu goes so fuckin hard.
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flashy_mcflash posted:That trailer seems to be geolocked to Finland but Sisu goes so fuckin hard. Aw FFS. Annoying.
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So here's an odd thing. A couple of years ago a movie was shot starring Jackie Chan, John Cena and Pilou Asbæk (who might be most familiar to worldwide audiences as Euron Greyjoy in Game of Thrones) and it's because of Pilou that I learned about this movie. He randomly tweeted out that the movie is coming to Netflix in the summer. He's pretty sure they filmed it in 2019 but it could have been 2018 and he can't speak to the quality of it because he hasn't actually seen it himself. On IMDB it is called Project X-Traction but at some point along the way it got renamed to S.N.A.F.U before it seemingly got shelved for a couple of years. This is all IMDB has to say about it: quote:Two ex-special forces soldiers must escort a group of civilians along Baghdad's "Highway of Death" to the safety of the Green Zone. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6879446/
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MrBling posted:Pilou Asbæk Ah, he was Batou in the Ghost in the Shell live action. Also lol I went and looked up a trailer for Project X-Traction on YouTube; watched it, was nonplussed So where's Cena!? , looked in the comments quote:That is not the movie. That is the trailer for the Kung Fu Yoga 
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John Wick Chapter 4 confirmed the longest in the series (so far) John Wick: 101min Chapter 2: 2hr 2min Parabellum: 2hr 11min https://collider.com/john-wick-4-runtime-keanu-reeves/ 2hr 49min
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Hmmm. IMO it is possible to have just *too much* John Wick in one sitting.
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I do appreciate a tight runtime, sure rewatched Crank a zillion times, but I can dig on 2:49 of Wicky goodness.
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I remember the last two Wick films bugging me with their length, certainly something the first and by far best didn’t, so this doesn’t bode well for me.
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MrMojok posted:Hmmm. IMO it is possible to have just *too much* John Wick in one sitting. Upcoming thinkpiece headline from cinemadicks.com Does this Wick need trimming?
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Yeah, my issue with the Wick movies is how they dig deeper and deeper into lore bullshit with each sequel (don't forget, they're making a prequel TV show with Young Winston) and I'm a bit concerned that they might go way up their own rear end with a runtime like this. A John Wick movie does not need to be knocking on the door of three hours.
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Feb 14, 2023 04:07
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Agreed. A lot of the beauty of the first Wick was the sparse, almost fairy tale quality of the world building
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A significant chunk of JW3 was boring, pointless wasting of time, it needed 40 minutes less not 40 minutes more
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I'm not totally against the Wick sequels getting increasingly up their own rear end with worldbuilding bullshit and meaningless fight scenes, and having the first one be its own separate nice thing but the only way to justify a 3-hour John Wick movie is if he loving dies at the end
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