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I liked the first two Creed films and will watch the third at some point. It's funny that the Creed films are the most serious instalments in the franchise but the core of the emotional drama comes from the events of Rocky 4, the one with 30 minutes of montages, a talking sexbot, and Rocky punching out communism.
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It's not like original Star Trek set a high bar, it was mostly trash
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ptier posted:The boys are just so excited that it isn’t COMPLETE trash and has a story that isn’t completely disjointed deus ex machina that they got a little excited. The bar is so completely low. it’s still complete trash, it’s just not also on fire like seasons 1 and 2 were at this point
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Jennifer Lawrence must need money to want to star in that. absolutely none of that story is viable in 2023.
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bitterandtwisted posted:I liked the first two Creed films and will watch the third at some point. Is that the one with the Soviet anthem? That's the only segment I have ever watched on cable by accident from the Rocky franchise. I was mighty impressed by the that, I thought it was cooler than any wrestling entrance.
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Andro Dunos posted:Avery Brooks is crazy as gently caress and hasn't acted in 17 years. Guessing Patrick Stewart, right?
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I'm kind of all tapped out on the idea of bothering with another streaming service, but I have to admit I'm starting to want to watch Picard season 3. It probably won't happen just due to laziness more than anything else. But I'm usually pretty tolerant of dumb plot stuff as long as the characters feel good.
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So instead of copying King of Comedy and Taxy Driver they are now going to be copying Scorsese's mafia movies?
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stephenthinkpad posted:Is that the one with the Soviet anthem? That's the only segment I have ever watched on cable by accident from the Rocky franchise. I was mighty impressed by the that, I thought it was cooler than any wrestling entrance. Yep! It's one of the worst Rocky movies but also one of the best because of the incredible campness, plus Ivan Drago is the best Rocky baddie. IP Man 2 is the same movie done more seriously
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Until I watched the first one, for YEARS I thought it was a movie about, like, a Man who was from Ip, or it was an IP placeholder, or something.
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Internet Protocol Man
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Soviet Union in the 80s, make the best foreign villain. Nothing come close.
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stephenthinkpad posted:Soviet Union in the 80s, make the best foreign villain. Nothing come close. *hastily covering up mustache and trying to cover up my German accent* Da!
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stephenthinkpad posted:Soviet Union in the 80s, make the best foreign villain. Nothing come close. I personally think the nazis were the worst but you do you.
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orrr maybe he isn't in costume?
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Gripweed posted:I personally think the nazis were the worst but you do you. Not really what they're saying.
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"Best" as in coolest or most suitable to make in action figure toys. See Arnold played a Soviet official and made it fun. Can he play a Nazi and still make it fun? stephenthinkpad fucked around with this message at 14:54 on Mar 10, 2023 |
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Sir Lemming posted:I'm kind of all tapped out on the idea of bothering with another streaming service, but I have to admit I'm starting to want to watch Picard season 3. It probably won't happen just due to laziness more than anything else. But I'm usually pretty tolerant of dumb plot stuff as long as the characters feel good. I've been watching it. I want to enjoy it (and I think I should enjoy it?) but am incredibly scared because it could turn to poo poo at any minute. So I find myself looking everywhere for signs of doom.
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If you want a villainous world power that's irredeemable evil, and your hero has to win by shooting at it enough, you want Nazis. If you want a villainous world power that is evil, but redeemable, and your hero can win by finding common ground, you want Soviets. You can do the first version with Soviets if you want, but you can never do the second version with Nazis.
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Great news for things I like today. Red Dwarf was always one of those things where it disappears for years on end before resurfacing again. Well, it turns out there was a rights dispute between the guy that kept making the show and the guy who didn't want to anymore. Sounds like they're settling it by allowing each guy to split the canon and each make whatever they want at the same time. If only other scifi properties could be so lucky. https://twitter.com/RedDwarfHQ/status/1634162231951736833
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Lister posted:Great news for things I like today. Red Dwarf was always one of those things where it disappears for years on end before resurfacing again. Well, it turns out there was a rights dispute between the guy that kept making the show and the guy who didn't want to anymore. Sounds like they're settling it by allowing each guy to split the canon and each make whatever they want at the same time. If only other scifi properties could be so lucky. Quite an odd announcement.
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RealityWarCriminal posted:Jennifer Lawrence must need money to want to star in that. absolutely none of that story is viable in 2023. idk why people were convinced she was this incredible actress, she was fine in a few movies and then did two big franchises with forgettable films, then got upstaged by Amy Adams in American Hustle / appeared in a godawful no pun intended Aronofsky movie. I'd put her on the same level as Olivia Munn lol.
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Why the hell was this greenlit
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I honestly thought it was Richard Kind at first.
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Noam Chomsky posted:Why the hell was this greenlit Because Joker made bank.
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Lister posted:I think it's more that boxing is a sport that lends itself well to personal drama and a climactic end. It could be about anybody, but today everything has to be related to an IP that people recognize to get greenlit. Major studio sports movies aren't really getting made anymore anyway, but I feel like the ones I'm seeing the most recently are about fighters or wrestlers. Yeah the Rocky connection just isn't that important and the movies would have been just as good if they were originals Improbable Lobster fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Mar 10, 2023 |
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DLC Inc posted:idk why people were convinced she was this incredible actress, she was fine in a few movies and then did two big franchises with forgettable films, then got upstaged by Amy Adams in American Hustle / appeared in a godawful no pun intended Aronofsky movie. I'd put her on the same level as Olivia Munn lol. It's like Jay said in the HitB where they reviewed American Hustle: she's not very believable in most of her "serious" roles because she always comes across like a kid who's playacting as a grownup.
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Noam Chomsky posted:Why the hell was this greenlit Do you really think this is the most absurd Batman TV series?
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Pennyworth got three loving seasons
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Gripweed posted:Do you really think this is the most absurd Batman TV series? Edit: Lol it’s a series.
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DLC Inc posted:idk why people were convinced she was this incredible actress, she was fine in a few movies and then did two big franchises with forgettable films, then got upstaged by Amy Adams in American Hustle / appeared in a godawful no pun intended Aronofsky movie. I'd put her on the same level as Olivia Munn lol. Had that great breakout role in Winter's Bone and then fairly quickly won an Oscar, although I'd argue it was a weak field.  Jessica Chastain wasn't all that good in Zero Dark Thirty. Wallis was, like, 10 years old at the time. Watts and Riva were in movies absolutely no one saw.
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Improbable Lobster posted:Yeah the Rocky connection just isn't that important and the movies would have been just as good if they were originals After Creed 3 didn't have Rocky at all and seemed to be better for it, I kinda wonder if Creed 1 would have been better off without him. Creed 2 probably would have been, although I think a lot of the problems with that one was in Creed's plot, not Rocky's or Drago's.
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PostNouveau posted:After Creed 3 didn't have Rocky at all and seemed to be better for it, I kinda wonder if Creed 1 would have been better off without him. Creed 2 probably would have been, although I think a lot of the problems with that one was in Creed's plot, not Rocky's or Drago's. Like so many other recent films it probably would have been at least a little better as a fullblown standalone instead of being a Rocky tie-in
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