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Kevin DuBrow posted:I haven't read the Reacher books but I have listened to several I Don't Even Own a Television episodes covering them and I can confidently say that whoever is cast for Jack Reacher will never have large enough hands. They will need to CGI in his big meaty hands in order to do the books justice. See you'd think that and then in the first season of Reacher he's handed a Desert Eagle and it looks like a toy in his hands. The dude is firing it one handed and I absolutely did not have to suspend my disbelief. The dude is HUGE.
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FFT posted:Not to anyone but the audience or those within a few yards, mind. My Marvel character knowledge is very sparse. I'm more familiar with animated series vs comics but I don't get the feeling they've really done anything in line with that for anyone but Spider-Man, Hulk, and that's about it? Maybe it's just that I don't know Black Panther, GotG or Captain Marvel that well but I don't think they had any lines that're very well known from their comics? RareAcumen has a new favorite as of 09:12 on Jan 6, 2024 |
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Obviously you have forgotten all the times that reed has yelled out "I blinded you, with science!"
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Fil5000 posted:See you'd think that and then in the first season of Reacher he's handed a Desert Eagle and it looks like a toy in his hands. The dude is firing it one handed and I absolutely did not have to suspend my disbelief. The dude is HUGE. It is awesome how effortlessly Alan Ritchson portrays Reacher the character unironically as intended, and it's great instead of lame. It could have been so stiff and wooden but he's got charisma and a kind of menacing aura. And also at one point he headbutts someone else's pitiful fist and breaks it
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I only saw the second (2005) Fantastic Four movie on DVD so probably somewhere around 2006 or 2007? No prior Fantastic Four knowledge and I haven't seen either of the bad sequels or Multiverse of Madness so I've got nothing to compare him against.
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dr_rat posted:Oh god this. I'm so sick of movies that are just filled with generic good looking hollywood actor types and it's really hard to tell who's who, and everyone looks boring as hell. People in real life often have interesting faces not boring generic hollywood ones. Haha I watched American Assassin last night, for over half the movie I legitmately thought the protagonist and the antagonist were the same person.
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CJacobs posted:It is awesome how effortlessly Alan Ritchson portrays Reacher the character unironically as intended, and it's great instead of lame. It could have been so stiff and wooden but he's got charisma and a kind of menacing aura. And also at one point he headbutts someone else's pitiful fist and breaks it I think that's probably careful casting because you absolutely need someone who can make the character work to make the premise not laughable.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I think that's probably careful casting because you absolutely need someone who can make the character work to make the premise not laughable. The second season, from what I've seen so far, lacks the 'normal people having reasonable reactions to this giant murderer' energy and it is very much worse for it.
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Season 2 is great and people just like bitching about things.
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I don't know if this has ever been discussed before given it is now 8 years old, but after 48 years and countless movies, I have never been so let down by a horror/thriller movie so badly as the last ~10 minutes of A Dark Song. I watched it last night and was really into it up to that point. You have this movie with an unsettling tone throughout and then in the last few minutes there's a 20' tall, cartoonish CGI roman gladiator-looking guy who is kneeling and doubled over to fit within the confines of the house that appears to have elephantiasis of the head and while his mouth moves, nothing is said. Evidently, this was the woman's guardian angel who was granted by completing the ritual performed throughout the movie but the CGI was so bad I went from "I quite like this" to "wtf is this poo poo" real quick.
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Kirk Vikernes posted:I don't know if this has ever been discussed before given it is now 8 years old, but after 48 years and countless movies, I have never been so let down by a horror/thriller movie so badly as the last ~10 minutes of A Dark Song. I watched it last night and was really into it up to that point. It's not CGI, that was a real angel. That's just how they look. Be not afraid.
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Nah I've seen real Angels. They just look like people in dollar store angel costume outfits. Heavens cheap and people back in biblical times were just much more easily wowed I guess?
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dr_rat posted:Nah I've seen real Angels. They just look like people in dollar store angel costume outfits. There's more than one kind of angel, okay? For example wikipedia has this Orthodox icon of nine orders of angels.  The art styles back then didn't have the ability to show the true glory of the dollar store angels and bad CGI angels, but they're in there.
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I mean, obviously keeping white regal robes spotless in the desert requires some sort of miracle.
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RareAcumen posted:I only saw the second (2005) Fantastic Four movie on DVD so probably somewhere around 2006 or 2007? No prior Fantastic Four knowledge and I haven't seen either of the bad sequels or Multiverse of Madness so I've got nothing to compare him against. best FF movie is still The Incredibles. I don't understand why such a simple premise of the FF otherwise is so hard to do well. but then again, I said the same thing about the xeno Alien and Predator franchises, and here we are with more bad movies than good.
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Finally saw the "new" dark universe The Mummy movie It's... bad. Such a worse movie in literally every way compared to the prior version The most IIMM thing though was the whole series pilot feel to it
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Cowslips Warren posted:best FF movie is still The Incredibles. the best way to do FF would be as a tv series without an origin story. just give us this group of four people and have them go on wacky science adventures
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Len posted:the best way to do FF would be as a tv series without an origin story. just give us this group of four people and have them go on
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Len posted:the best way to do FF would be as a tv series without an origin story. just give us this group of four people and have them go on wacky science adventures I feel like they would need some sort of adorable pet for this format to really work.
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It's not that complicated, all the movies so far (minus the sequel which was lovely for other reasons) were trying to do their whole origin and a whole origin for Doctor Doom and tie all that together because that's how some successful movies in the past had done it (it was Joker that killed Batman's parents!), along with that same mentality of "we better wrap this up because we may not get a sequel." If they stick to just the FF origin and an easy lower stakes villain with no connection like Mole Man, it'll be fine.
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CJacobs posted:The Reacher movie is a travesty. The Reacher Amazon show is awesome schlock. It properly represents the story pace and character really well. edit: also the running pie joke in season 1 was very on-brand SLOSifl has a new favorite as of 03:22 on Jan 7, 2024 |
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I’m ok with another FF movie with another Dr Doom as long as they stay to his character 
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theironjef posted:It's not that complicated, all the movies so far (minus the sequel which was lovely for other reasons) were trying to do their whole origin and a whole origin for Doctor Doom and tie all that together because that's how some successful movies in the past had done it (it was Joker that killed Batman's parents!), along with that same mentality of "we better wrap this up because we may not get a sequel." If they stick to just the FF origin and an easy lower stakes villain with no connection like Mole Man, it'll be fine. Stephen Root as Mole Man. I'm irrationally irritated it hasn't been done yet.
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maybeadracula posted:Finally saw the "new" dark universe The Mummy movie The only good part was when they rescued him from the mummy and mention she didn't get the gemstone and he was like  Yea she was REAL mad about that...I dunno if it was him playing against type or what but that hit my giggle button. The rest was basically just a fever dream because of the massive amount of mercury fumes everyone inhaled by being around literal tons of it with no form of safety equipment.
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I just watched The Golem, a horror thriller movie about a village of Latvian Jews summoning a monster to protect them from invaders. Except the village is very generic and the big monster in the promo shots doesn't show up except in the five seconds intro. They even tease that the kid monster can evolve into the big monster and then they just don't. Also the invaders decide to kill the whole village because the bad guy lost his daughter but the hero is forgiven and sympathetic after she kills the whole village as a result of losing her son. I think. It was not a great movie. BigHead has a new favorite as of 07:47 on Jan 7, 2024 |
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Cowslips Warren posted:best FF movie is still The Incredibles. It's pretty simple, the FF are largely defined by their family dynamic and that's not something that action movie execs are interested in. The Incredibles was made as a family movie so it had no issues with that.
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the holy poopacy posted:It's pretty simple, the FF are largely defined by their family dynamic and that's not something that action movie execs are interested in. The Incredibles was made as a family movie so it had no issues with that. The other issue with an FF movie is that you need to make Reed Richards likeable when he's by definition a massively arrogant prick who canonically is only not evil because Sue loves him.
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Any time a movie has a computer declare "nope, [thing] is impossible" and then they go ahead and do it without incident. The big one was in one of the Iron Man movies (creating a new element or something?) but I just watched the drama 1000 Days in Space and the computer happily calculates that it's impossible to return to Earth in the Soyuz capsule. Outside of one shot of the person frustratedly trying to run the numbers it's never mentioned again, and then, what do you know, the astronauts figure out a solution on what amounts to Post-It notes and a whiteboard. It just adds useless drama the emotional impact from which is immediately undone by its effortless resolution. Anyway, I'll have a baconator and two fries.
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Jedit posted:The other issue with an FF movie is that you need to make Reed Richards likeable when he's by definition a massively arrogant prick who canonically is only not evil because Sue loves him. Weirdly enough I feel like the character you could use as a taking off point is Woody from Toy Story, an egotistical prick whose saving grace is having loved ones he genuinely cares about.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Weirdly enough I feel like the character you could use as a taking off point is Woody from Toy Story, an egotistical prick whose saving grace is having loved ones he genuinely cares about. Man, correctly aged Hanks would have been a fun Reed Richards.
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poo poo, you're not wrong. Also one episode brought up that Rick Sanchez ultimately is based a lot more on Reed Richards, the whole Council of Ricks plot is literally taken straight from the F4 comics.
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maybeadracula posted:Finally saw the "new" dark universe The Mummy movie Tom Cruise is ~2 years older than Russell Crowe.
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the holy poopacy posted:It's pretty simple, the FF are largely defined by their family dynamic and that's not something that action movie execs are interested in. The Incredibles was made as a family movie so it had no issues with that. Sue, in the original comics, loving sucks. She's not a good character, she's not interesting and she doesn't have a lot going on with her superhero powers for a long while. Later comics largely fix this but putting fixed Sue into FF Origin comics messes up the character balance and changes the initial relationships and conflicts quite a bit. Origin Story Reed, on the other hand, just doesn't exist in modern media. He's not a nerd, he's not socially awkward or insecure about his ideas challenging established science basically on every page; he's a Science Pulp Hero more akin to Doc Savage or, from this page, Jack Reacher than Peter Parker or Tony Stark. Like his nemesis Dr. Doom, he's literally the best at everything and that's why he's the leader of the FF who launches them on their thought to be impossible mission that gives them all superpowers.
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FreshFeesh posted:Any time a movie has a computer declare "nope, [thing] is impossible" and then they go ahead and do it without incident. The big one was in one of the Iron Man movies (creating a new element or something?) but I just watched the drama 1000 Days in Space and the computer happily calculates that it's impossible to return to Earth in the Soyuz capsule. Outside of one shot of the person frustratedly trying to run the numbers it's never mentioned again, and then, what do you know, the astronauts figure out a solution on what amounts to Post-It notes and a whiteboard. When it's stuff like "Will this make this new element?" and the computer goes "no, that's not a real element" I'm fine with it because humans program computers to know stuff so the computer isn't gonna be able to do the leap needed for something like that. If it's "no it's impossible" and the humans do the exact thing that was impossible and just make it work somehow then yeah it's bullshit. At least with Iron Man you can quickly show him reprogramming the A.I. or whatever to understand what the new element is because he's a genius playboy philanthropist bing bang bom so easy.
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FFT posted:What I found most annoying is that Russell Crowe's character talks down to Tom Cruise's character because he's younger. The funniest actor age thing is in Morbius where there's a flashback to 20 years before (IIRC it explicitly says 20 years) with Morbius as a little kid. Except 20 years ago Jared Leto was a grown rear end man. Motherfucker is in his 50s.
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FreshFeesh posted:Any time a movie has a computer declare "nope, [thing] is impossible" and then they go ahead and do it without incident. The big one was in one of the Iron Man movies (creating a new element or something?) but I just watched the drama 1000 Days in Space and the computer happily calculates that it's impossible to return to Earth in the Soyuz capsule. Outside of one shot of the person frustratedly trying to run the numbers it's never mentioned again, and then, what do you know, the astronauts figure out a solution on what amounts to Post-It notes and a whiteboard. "Hyperspace skipping? Hyperspace skipping is impossible! Even if hyperspace skipping was possible the Millennium Falcon could never hyperspace skip!" The Millennium Falcon immediately proceeds to hyperspace skip about 540 times. e: muscles like this! posted:The funniest actor age thing is in Morbius where there's a flashback to 20 years before (IIRC it explicitly says 20 years) with Morbius as a little kid. Except 20 years ago Jared Leto was a grown rear end man. Motherfucker is in his 50s. Legit question here - how was Morbius? The only reviews and opinions I've seen of the movie were all tainted by internet memelord bullshit. Megillah Gorilla has a new favorite as of 15:37 on Jan 7, 2024 |
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Megillah Gorilla posted:"Hyperspace skipping? Hyperspace skipping is impossible! Even if hyperspace skipping was possible the Millennium Falcon could never hyperspace skip!" I say this not as Internet meme lord bullshit but the ending of Morbius is Michael Keaton as the Vulture finding Morbius and saying they should team up. That is indicative of the quality of the movie as a whole. If you've seen the scene with Matt Smith dancing about and occasionally making a monster face then you've seen the best of it, and if you haven't it's on YouTube. Seriously this movie went back into theatres after endless memery and it STILL tanked, it's real bad.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:
It's not good but it's not utterly terrible either like you might think Hating it is more a meme than a reality I actually kind of like some of the effects Flash-tier
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Hot take: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer had a decent plot line where Reed felt so bad about getting the rest of his friends in the mess that is their origin story that he builds a machine to try to remove their super powers (with humorous results). It maddens me that the Fantastic Four archetypes should translate if done well. gently caress it, let's use another foursome group with a working dynamic and map them accordingly using… the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Reed is Leonardo. The natural leader. Sometimes his arrogance means he doesn't listen to the others. Sue is Donatello. Actually the smartest, but introverted and doesn't like drawing attention to themselves. Ben is Raphael. Pretty emotional, thinks it's him vs. the world. Deep down though he still cares for his family I will fight those that wish them harm. Johnny is Michelangelo. Party dude, free spirited. Gets into antics sometimes because it would get a laugh from the others (like Ben).
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