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Schwarzwald posted:As much of a clusterfuck as production was, as a movie it's pretty solid. Yeah, it's incredibly entertaining for giving you a Mario Bros story in a completely unexpected way. When I saw it as a kid I was disappointed because it's not what I wanted from the movie. Now that I am a cynical and broken adult, I love it for how crazy it is. BonoMan posted:And it was gonna be weirder. Nintendo actually sold the rights for way cheaper than the expected market value (and what other players were actually bidding) because they respected the weird avenue they were going for. It was only as the last second when some funding fell through and Disney via Buena Vista offered to pick up distribution that Disney requested... Some modifications to make it less weird (which is why so much of it feels disjointed). I feel like I read an article that went into it. Or maybe I heard a YouTube essay on it. I will have to check that out, though. I do love learning about how weird movies end up the way they do, like how the '90s Street Fighter or Zardoz came to be. Mulaney Power Move posted:I get a kick our of the opening narration where the guy with the Brooklyn accent is like "Eyyyy, But what if the asteroid didn't kill all dinosaurs? What if they were knocked into a parallel world and continued to evolve?!" it's so goofy and contrived. Just have Mario and Luigi working on a pipe and then they get sucked off into the Mushroom Kingdom. That's all you need to do. Yeah, but what IF the dinosaurs really didn't die. YOU GOTTA TINK ABOUT A QUESTION LIKE THAT, EYYYYY! 
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Bogus Adventure posted:Yeah, but what IF the dinosaurs really didn't die. YOU GOTTA TINK ABOUT A QUESTION LIKE THAT, EYYYYY! The dinosaurs went to hell before they died.
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Lobok posted:No but seriously, why is "sucked off" your favourite phrase to use. Is it a subtle bit? fellation station
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somebody said in here that the Angry Birds movie was good. I feel like that’s along the same lines Somebody also said the pixels movie was good once, imagine that
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Battlefield Earth is no one’s favorite. It’s L Ron Hubbard’s favorite for sure
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I owe a great debt to the super Mario brothers movie for introducing young me to the word “corpulent.”
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remigious posted:I owe a great debt to the super Mario brothers movie for introducing young me to the word “corpulent.” lol, same Also "trust the fungus" was an oft used expression in my household growing up. My 4k disc is still making it's way to me from Australia, can't wait to watch it again.
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kiimo posted:Somebody also said the pixels movie was good once, imagine that Josh Gad hosed Q*bert so that thousands more could gently caress the Emperor in Baldur's Gate 3.
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Yeah I haven't got the hype for Horizon, but I guess we could use another western or two.
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checkplease posted:Yeah I haven't got the hype for Horizon, but I guess we could use another western or two. I love Westerns but at this stage you really better be coming with something different. Maybe the story is there and I just don't know yet. I hope so! But even visually it doesn't seem to impress that much.
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checkplease posted:Yeah I haven't got the hype for Horizon, but I guess we could use another western or two. Isn't the market for anything with Costner 60+? The vistas look nicely sweeping. live with fruit fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Feb 26, 2024 |
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BonoMan posted:I love Westerns but at this stage you really better be coming with something different. Maybe the story is there and I just don't know yet. I hope so! But even visually it doesn't seem to impress that much. I was trying to think of different things but yeah so much has been done. Kung Fu western? Shanghai Noon. Time travel western? Back to the future 3. Aliens western? Cowboys vs aliens or maybe even Prey (though too early in time I guess). I guess always multiverse western or John wick western.
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I just don't think Costner's the guy for Westerns. One of my favorite "modern" Westerns ever is Tombstone, and Costner famously made the worse (much longer) version of that one year later, Wyatt Earp. And this is two, presumably long, movies? I'm out. It does look pretty, though.
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checkplease posted:I was trying to think of different things but yeah so much has been done. They’ve tried everything except Good Western
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The guy directed Open Range, which has one of the best kick-offs to a shootout ever. Also, completely off-topic, it's insane how good the first half of Silverado is and how young Costner is in it. Not a shock at all that he became a star.
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LesterGroans posted:The guy directed Open Range, which has one of the best kick-offs to a shootout ever. Fair, I completely forgot Open Range existed, because I never saw it, so that's on me.
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thrawn527 posted:Fair, I completely forgot Open Range existed, because I never saw it, so that's on me. I saw it once when it came out and literally ONLY remember the shootout, so you still might be onto something
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Even the vistas look fairly generic in this like anybody could have shot it. Compared to something like The Assasination of Jesse James where it's like "oh this is Roger Deakins." But I generally do like Costner. And christ does he age? Other than looser skin around the neck he looks young as hell.
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Costner burst onto the scene as a director with a Western, and he won Best Picture/Best Director Oscars for it. So that's why people of a certain age get excited about a new Costner Western. Open Range is solid, mostly because of Duvall though more than anything else.
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BonoMan posted:Even the vistas look fairly generic in this like anybody could have shot it. Compared to something like The Assasination of Jesse James where it's like "oh this is Roger Deakins." That's apples to oranges. There weren't really a lot of vistas in Assassination..., since it was set in Missouri and filmed in Canada. This looks more like a proper Monument Valley style western.
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LesterGroans posted:I saw it once when it came out and literally ONLY remember the shootout, so you still might be onto something I just looked it up on YouTube (assuming you're talking about the "You the one who killed our friend?" scene), and while yeah, the kick-off is fantastic (and it really is), the rest of the shootout is pretty bad. There's not much tension like the O.K. Corral scene in Tombstone, and it's not silly fun like any of the shootouts in The Quick and the Dead. Meh. But that's not really fair, I'm watching it out of context. I'm obviously only comparing it to other Westerns of the 90's and early 2000's, not older Westerns.
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live with fruit posted:That's apples to oranges. There weren't really a lot of vistas in Assassination..., since it was set in Missouri and filmed in Canada. This looks more like a proper Monument Valley style western. It's not apples to oranges. Whether or not it's literally "vistas" is irrelevant. It just doesn't have an interesting visual language (or at the very least, it's not bringing anything to the table there) to me.
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It's a "Say the line, Bart" situation. The people who are going to see this movie want this kind of look over strapping a camera to a train and pensive shots of Brad Pitt looking off in the distance in a wheat field.
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thrawn527 posted:I just looked it up on YouTube (assuming you're talking about the "You the one who killed our friend?" scene), and while yeah, the kick-off is fantastic (and it really is), the rest of the shootout is pretty bad. There's not much tension like the O.K. Corral scene in Tombstone, and it's not silly fun like any of the shootouts in The Quick and the Dead. Meh. But that's not really fair, I'm watching it out of context. No, you're right. The beginning is the best part (I actually think they put it in the trailers?) but the rest is... unglamorous? Which I kind of like. People like 20 feet from each other firing blindly and missing. It just makes me feel like Costner might have some tricks even if everything surrounding them is pretty rote. But yes. Tombstone and The Quick and the Dead are much better modern shootouts. gently caress, I want to rewatch Tombstone.
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Vintersorg posted:I can't believe we're saying the 90s Super Mario was good. To each their own with trash I guess. I watched it again within the past year. The first hour or so was significantly better than I remembered, but the last thirty minutes or so was just as bad as I remembered, if not worse.
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Horizon looks like it has a lot in common with that Tyler Sheridan prequel to Yellowstone with Sam Elliot. Basically, horrible poo poo happens on the wagon train. (And after they settle, too, I guess).
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Jewmanji posted:They’ve tried everything except Good Western Unforgiven, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Proposition, Ravenous, Silverado (Costner's breakout role)
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I was just being cheeky but the most recent of those is almost 20 years old.
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Jewmanji posted:I was just being cheeky but the most recent of those is almost 20 years old. Westerns were already "dead" when Assassination, and No Country and There Will Be Blood, came out.
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