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I love how Oblivion (2013) starts with the stereotypical Hollywood sci-fi movie monologue that explains the entire backstory because they don't trust the audience to figure anything out by themselves, only to then subvert it by revealing that the whole thing was a lie. Telling instead of showing and then showing that what you told was wrong. I love it.
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I remember hating Oblivion, but I can't remember why. Was it well liked, generally? Maybe I should give it another go. I can't even remember what the plot twist was about.
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credburn posted:I remember hating Oblivion, but I can't remember why. Was it well liked, generally? Maybe I should give it another go. I can't even remember what the plot twist was about. I loved it. The biggest thing against it is my general dislike of Tom Cruise, no matter how good of an actor he is.
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The subtle movie moment in Oblivion is having Tom Cruise standing on platforms whenever he's having scenes with Olga Kurylenko. Because he's so much shorter.  I liked Oblivion a'ight. Having M83 do the score was  .
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If I remember right, the 3rd Act was kinda weak compared to the first two. Not terrible, just fine.
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Yeah the 3rd act when the twist was revealed just didn't stick the landing.
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An actually subtle thing I liked about Oblivion was how the giant space triangle looked like it was covered with Widmanstätten patterns, like you get in nickel-iron meteorites Subtle because, if that's what they were going for, it's a hint to the true origin of the giant space triangle Phy has a new favorite as of 22:39 on Apr 4, 2023 |
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Phy posted:An actually subtle thing I liked about Oblivion was how the giant space triangle looked like it was covered with Widmanstätten patterns, like you get in nickel-iron meteorites That makes me think of the Interstellar tesseract too
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Android Apocalypse posted:The subtle movie moment in Oblivion is having Tom Cruise standing on platforms whenever he's having scenes with Olga Kurylenko. Oblivion is low key a fantastic movie with a fantastic score. Lol at Jamie Lannister appearing randomly.
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GenSpecific posted:I loved it. The biggest thing against it is my general dislike of Tom Cruise, no matter how good of an actor he is. The dichotomy of Cruise. I've enjoyed every film of his I've watched, but he also seems to be such a knob.
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I liked oblivion, the only thing to hate about it is the standard Hollywood poo poo where survivors are a bunch of models with artistic smudges of makeup to denote post apoc
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Oblivion was great and had just pure *vibes* that only M83 can supply. My friend I saw it with hated it though. Usually our tastes were very in sync.
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M83 is great, but Oblivion was right in the middle of that period where all sci-fi had to have a shyamalan twist. Ugh.
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Oblivion was good but the fact that (big spoiler) they never showed any of the invasion of cruise cloneswas such a lost opportunity.
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 Obviously intentional, but I found it amusing that in this dumbass movie Stagknight (2007) this old lady appears to be composing a letter but the only thing on her screen is Newgrounds
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Just watched the first episode of Justified. At the end of the episode somebody hostile offers Raylan fried chicken. He eats it with his left hand because he doesn't want grease on the fingers of his shooting hand. I'm a little 'meh' on the show, but I'll give it another episode or two.
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deoju posted:Just watched the first episode of Justified. First season is super procedural, dumb criminal of the week stuff that's solidly entertaining but not much more. After that it gets a lot more serialized with season long villains and way more Boyd action.
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deoju posted:I'm a little 'meh' on the show, but I'll give it another episode or two. The strength of Elmore Leonard is little stories about dirtbags doing dirtbag schemes that fall apart for dirtbag reason. That is sprinkled throughout Justified, but the show really is the Raylan Givens soap opera.
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Henchman of Santa posted:First season is super procedural, dumb criminal of the week stuff that's solidly entertaining but not much more. After that it gets a lot more serialized with season long villains and way more Boyd action. Yeah, this. The first season is okay but nothing stellar. They really hit their stride in the second season with the move to big season long story arcs.
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Nthing all this, it's absolutely worth watching the whole show.
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I really enjoyed Justified. The villains in each season are always really interesting and well rounded characters
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Yeah, watch it all. Season 2 is especially phenomenal.
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Schneider Inside Her posted:I really enjoyed Justified. The villains in each season are always really interesting and well rounded characters Agreed. I'm not finished the show (still haven't seen the final season), but Quarles seemed Bond-villain-lite, especially with that contraption. Not a complaint, it was awesome. Neal McDonough sells the gently caress out of it.
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Schneider Inside Her posted:I really enjoyed Justified. The villains in each season are always really interesting and well rounded characters Except when it’s Michael Rapaport trying to play a Florida Man. But that season is balanced out by the presence of Alicia Witt.
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Henchman of Santa posted:First season is super procedural, dumb criminal of the week stuff that's solidly entertaining but not much more. After that it gets a lot more serialized with season long villains and way more Boyd action. First season does have the Robert Picardo episode where he's an art collector buying up Hitler's paintings to burn them and store the ashes in little glass jars to spite the memory of his shithead Nazi father
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Justified was great, really felt like everyone involved had a blast making it.
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Poldarn posted:The strength of Elmore Leonard is little stories about dirtbags doing dirtbag schemes that fall apart for dirtbag reason. That is sprinkled throughout Justified, but the show really is the Raylan Givens soap opera. its remarkable how faithful it is to the spirit of Leonard’s writing while adapting almost none of it. the platonic ideal of a spiritual adaptation. even the dialogue feels right out of his books
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Dragonstoned posted:Sarah Conner Chronicles did something along those lines, where one gets sent back to the 1920's and sets up a businesses that will later become important (think it killed someone by accident in the time travel mishap and that person needed to ~do something important~ so the robot made a fake identity and did the ~important thing~ itself) and when its all set up, it just hides in a wall until it's time for its original mission to take place 80 years later. He was also the Sasquatch in the TV show. Best song of the series, too.
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Justified has a good subtle moment. In the episode where They're trying to find the killer who lets his victims try to grab the gun then he ice picks their hand to the table and then shoots them, at some point he steals a cab to get away. When Givens is walking into his motel room you can see an out of focus cab in the background, easy to miss. Then of course the killer is in his room already.
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Man, I gotta finish Justified. I fell off around season 4 (is that the skydiver one?) because I had a kid, and that was... Almost 9 years ago 
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Phy posted:First season does have the Robert Picardo episode where he's an art collector buying up Hitler's paintings to burn them and store the ashes in little glass jars to spite the memory of his shithead Nazi father This is one of only two scenes I've seen of the entire show. The other being the shootout with the guy from two posts above mine. I should probably watch the show...after I finish the last season of The Expanse. ... And watch The Wire again.
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Just finally watched most of Mystery Men. Lots to love about it, but I think the ending is my favourite- the heroes have saved the day and finally get recognition from a bunch of media, and they all really just want to thank the little guys and get on their way and get some rest, possibly in a hospital, because they're tired and beat up and just glad to have all that poo poo over with so they can get on with another day.
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Mystery Men is great and if it had come out just five years later it would have smashed box office records
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Was that secretly directed by Tim Burton? I feel like I've heard that from multiple sources. None reliable, but independent of each other.
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Arrath posted:"Why is a wrestler driving a car, anyway?" Because Vince McMahon is too stingy to pay for his employees travel.
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credburn posted:Was that secretly directed by Tim Burton? I feel like I've heard that from multiple sources. None reliable, but independent of each other. Nah, it's definitely taking inspiration from his Batman movies but the feel is very different. Very The Tick vibes more than anything. On another note, Nope is full of these, but just noticed the bit where Em says if she sees that loving praying mantis again she's gonna eat it. As above, so below?
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Nah, it's definitely taking inspiration from his Batman movies but the feel is very different. Very The Tick vibes more than anything. Not surprising because both The Tick and Mystery Men started as indy comics in the late 80's/early 90's, so they both have that vibe of "let's satirize a lot of the tropes and plotlines of Silver Age comics." I don't think they ever crossed paths, but Mystery Men are part of the Flaming Carrot universe, and Flaming Carrot crossed-over with the OG TMNT comics, so the Mystery Men movie might take place in the same universe as the TMNT movies, and we'd never know!
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