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Field Mousepad posted:It's three and a half hours long?! That is insane. Well you see they had to squeeze in a capture/rescue sequence for each of the 57,000 child characters.
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Bayham Badger posted:Overall, I enjoyed Way of Water, warts and all, with the single glaring exception being the roided out literal 14 year old running around in a diaper and gasmask for the majority of the film (this is not an insult to the actor, I'm sure it was a grueling process, but it was a terrible creative decision). Yeah, I had fun with it. The issue with Spider is that he had to film the movie twice, two years apart. The actor said that it was odd watching himself, because in some scenes he was 14 and kind of chubby, and other scenes he was 16 and had abs.
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Jun 12, 2023 17:02
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Spider was the one of the only good parts of the movie. I liked he was with quaritch the only other good part/ I'm good on the next one.
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Jun 12, 2023 17:10
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Bayham Badger posted:Overall, I enjoyed Way of Water, warts and all, with the single glaring exception being the roided out literal 14 year old running around in a diaper and gasmask for the majority of the film (this is not an insult to the actor, I'm sure it was a grueling process, but it was a terrible creative decision). Not to be rude but in my experience every fit sixteen year person pretty much looks like that now. The high school swim team looks like that now (a bit skinnier but Fight Club'd to hell), the football players look like that now, the wrestlers look like that now. A physique that only a handful of genetically gifted and very dedicated guys when I was in school is now pretty common. Either every single athlete at the local high school is juiced or the training techniques have improved in the 30 years since I was a kid. I'm gonna go with the latter.
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RCarr posted:Bro Cuz
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Not to be rude but in my experience every fit sixteen year person pretty much looks like that now. The high school swim team looks like that now (a bit skinnier but Fight Club'd to hell), the football players look like that now, the wrestlers look like that now. A physique that only a handful of genetically gifted and very dedicated guys when I was in school is now pretty common. A fast metabolism does wonders. Until I was 25 or so, I could literally eat anything I wanted at any time and have a six pack with 10% body fat. Now, not so much.
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Bayham Badger posted:Overall, I enjoyed Way of Water, warts and all, with the single glaring exception being the roided out literal 14 year old running around in a diaper and gasmask for the majority of the film (this is not an insult to the actor, I'm sure it was a grueling process, but it was a terrible creative decision). Well now I want to watch it
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RCarr posted:A fast metabolism does wonders. Until I was 25 or so, I could literally eat anything I wanted at any time and have a six pack with 10% body fat. Now, not so much. It has nothing to do with metabolism and everything to do with the gas mask and diaper. Most modern HS athletic programs require their varsity squad at minimum to use them during the off-season. The practice was founded at San Dimas HS based on the teachings of Aristotle; "all food must be capable of being digested" led to the use of masking to ensure that the students are fed only pure nutrients via controlled intakes.
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Jun 12, 2023 17:45
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Avatar was perfectly fine and it looked cool. you guys are debbie downers.
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Zachack posted:It has nothing to do with metabolism and everything to do with the gas mask and diaper. Most modern HS athletic programs require their varsity squad at minimum to use them during the off-season. What school did you go to that makes you wear diapers and gas masks?
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Jun 12, 2023 18:26
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mcmagic posted:Avatar was perfectly fine and it looked cool. you guys are debbie downers. Yeah if you can't enjoy the whale fight scene then your adult cynicism is getting in the way of your joy
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Jun 12, 2023 18:32
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i would be a lot more charitable if the runtime was sub 180 minutes lol at least give us an intermission or something. and it wasn't exactly lawrence of arabia
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I saw the way of water in a premium format after ingesting an attention span increasing gummy and found it amazing except for the whole end bit with the assault on the ship. I don't know if I'd enjoy it on a smaller screen.
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Papercut posted:Yeah if you can't enjoy the whale fight scene then your adult cynicism is getting in the way of your joy It was okay
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You’re right it was pretty sick seeing whales get exploded by missiles
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mcmagic posted:Avatar was perfectly fine and it looked cool. you guys are debbie downers. RCarr posted:Bro
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CelticPredator posted:What school did you go to that makes you wear diapers and gas masks? I mean I didn't go to one like that but growing up in LA in the 80s-90s meant that I constantly had to hear about how the San Dimas High School football program ruled and they apparently had a lot of notable "different thinkers" go through around then so it's no surprise that some of it stuck. Like, presumably the Mongolian hordes couldn't stop during battle so that's where the diapers come from.
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Jun 12, 2023 22:00
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Lol if you can't sit through a 3+ hour movie. Skill issue.
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teagone posted:Lol if you can't sit through a 3+ hour movie. Skill issue. It’s not the length, it’s the pacing. It’s total dogshit. Not to mention that it’s basically the exact same arc as the first movie with a bunch of annoying kids in the same (now literal) fish out of water scenario. Not to mention that everyone spends two hours learning how to swim, and then in the last 30 minutes they all completely forget everything they’ve learned just to give the movie some unearned tension.
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I could’ve watched another 2 hour John wick or wolf of Wall Street after it ended but man I wanted to leave during avatar 2. It just wasn’t for me in the slightest. The 3D projection was terrible too so the whole movie looked like poo poo.
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I can sit through a 3+ hour movie, I watched barry lyndon this year an loved it. just didn't like avatar 2 that much, really didn't care about the aliens at all. Wanted more marines killing stuff like in Avatar 1
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I do think it's a fairly slow and languorous movie which makes it's success at the box office surprising. But then again, I've always felt "the dumb rubes need excitement and explosions" school of blockbuster to be very reductive.
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I enjoyed Avatar 2 quite a bit, I like that Cameron said 'okay I'm gonna devote half this movie to superintelligent talking whales' and made it work in a story about children striving to surpass their parents.
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There is a difference between “I can’t watch a 3 hour film” and “I don’t want to watch a 3 hour film”. Or even more precisely “I don’t want to watch that 3 hour film.” If a film really speaks to you then sure you’ll get on board with a long run time and make whatever adjustments you gotta. You’re hyped for it. But if your reaction to a movie is “I didn’t really love that original one 10 years ago but this one’s getting buzz so maybe I’ll check it out” then that’s when a 3+ hour runtime turns you away. Which is to say nothing as to whether or not a film makes good use of its run time. Lots of films don’t and could stand to be trimmed or better paced. But you only find that out if you actually watch it. And the runtime factors into that decision.
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CelticPredator posted:I could’ve watched another 2 hour John wick or wolf of Wall Street after it ended but man I wanted to leave during avatar 2. It just wasn’t for me in the slightest. The 3D projection was terrible too so the whole movie looked like poo poo. Yeah, while John Wick 4 did have a few spots where it arguably dragged a little, overall it felt dense and like it made good use of its runtime. Nearly every scene felt worthwhile both on its own merits as well as how it contributed to the overall movie and its resolution. Meanwhile Avatar 2 felt a lot more like it was just loving around wasting my time in a lot of spots. The characters weren't so interesting that I particularly wanted to spend all that much time with them, nor was the finale good enough that it felt like it made the build-up retroactively worthwhile.
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I started doing chores after 45 minutes of Avatar 2 so the amount of runtime after that is pretty much irrelevant
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Saw WotW in Dolby 3D and had fun. Not high art aside from the visuals, but there's something immensely satisfying about watching this, then flying to Miami the next day and sipping on some White Claw Surf on the Biscayne (which tastes like an 80's flanger guitar lead).
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I wanted John Wick 4 to end so badly. It put the grandmas in my row to sleep. There's such thing as bloat with any movie. Miss those tight 90~ minute action films of yesteryear
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Like even something like Stone Cold is head and shoulders over JW4. Respect the Boz. Gimme a 80s/90s American or Hong Kong action film anyday. Seeing Donnie Yen just made me sad "Remember him from other way better films??"
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I mean, it's kinda hard to beat when you got powerhouses like Lance Henriksen and William Forsythe eating the poo poo out of every scene they're in. 
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Lance Henriksen old man falling down the stairs a million times after killing the entirety of the Mississippi Supreme Court is all time. Also you know any film is an all timer that starts with wildly psychotic heavily armed criminals attacking a grocery store like it's D-Day for like...20 bucks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm-P3uuvCz0
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I watched "The Playlist" on Netflix, about the creation of Spotify. I kind of liked the narrative structure they used for their episodes, which I won't spoil, and thought that was the most interesting part of the whole thing. But I've gotta say it really, really makes you question the accuracy of everything when a "retelling of true events" style show decides to spend the last forty or so minutes of their final episode in the near future, focusing on a person and social movement that does not exist, culminating with a fake congressional hearing in the year 2025 It made me do a one eighty from "I guess this is pretty interesting" to "What even is this show" in like one second when the date on screen said 2024
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If you can’t do it as a tight 90 then write a loving book
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Lance Henriksen old man falling down the stairs a million times after killing the entirety of the Mississippi Supreme Court is all time. Stone Cold is so much better than it has absolutely any right to be
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We get it. one of you really didn't like John Wick 4 I did a ton. And recommend it highly I'm currently liking lower decks for not being Rick and Morty Upsidads fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Jun 14, 2023 |
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I agree with the tight 90 in principle but Avatar and Avatar 2 look photorealistically good despite being 90% blue cat people and after 30 MCU movies that all have CGI that is on par with local car dealer commercials I think the spectacle is earned The fact that its literally about committing eco terrorism is just the cherry on top
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