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Megillah Gorilla posted:I would have bet a testicle that the whole Rebel Moon Cinematic Universe project would have been cancelled after the first one. I heard industry gossip that that wasn't on the cards. The whole series is getting made even if six people watch the last one.
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Rockman Reserve posted:dawn of the dead owned and I’m not super convinced there could be a better cinematic adaptation of watchmen that didn’t completely ignore the themes of the source material in favor of slavishly recreating scenes shot-by-shot. I think he only included those themes because he was slavishly copying what was on the page.
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Imperador do Brasil posted:I also just watched it and my feelings from the first one carried over exactly - the only part I liked was the space priest (or whatever) costumes. Every other part was forgettable at best. Their background is "Zack Snyder watched Star Wars Episode One and liked the costumes". 
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Megillah Gorilla posted:The only thing I really know about that movie is that they use Skyginas. The funniest thing is that the Spacegina ends up being one of the few things that are actually interesting about it. In the second part there's a glimpse of what powers the ship: A giant metal statue of a woman held in bondage, tangles of wires running into and out of her brain and mouth, with some kind of consciousness imprisoned inside it. And that's pretty cool! There's some kind of actual vision there. But those moments last a total of maybe 10 seconds, and literally nothing else in the movie even tries to swing for the fences in the same way. It's like they had exactly one concept artist who even tried doing something cool, but they were constantly drowned out by uninteresting slop so generic it may as well have been AI generated. Rubber Chicken posted:I did lol every time they tried for pathos and the Braveheart/gladiator music started playing because what a bunch of uninspiring caricatures. That aspect was downright embarrassing. Like the movie knew it had no real emotional impact, so it just tried to brute force it through cinematography. Extremely overwrought scenes of pretty things in slow motion while the most on-the-nose rousing music plays, like the movie is getting in your face and screaming "This is very dramatic and evocative! You are now emotionally invested!!!"
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Cowslips Warren posted:I know there are other non Star Wars terms that could be used, but Rebel Moon just seems like part of that universe. That is intentional, right?
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Pilchenstein posted:Supposedly it was pitched as a star war but disney told him to gently caress off. It's weird hearing about disney making a smart decision.
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Torquemada posted:I heard industry gossip that that wasn't on the cards. The whole series is getting made even if six people watch the last one. This sounds like things are going to get epic in the best possible way. Perestroika posted:The funniest thing is that the Spacegina ends up being one of the few things that are actually interesting about it. In the second part there's a glimpse of what powers the ship: A giant metal statue of a woman held in bondage, tangles of wires running into and out of her brain and mouth, with some kind of consciousness imprisoned inside it. That is a cool as gently caress visual, no lie. I just feel like the movie(s!) were made after Snyder had a box of random art dropped on his desk and he madlibbed them into a plot.
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dr_rat posted:It's weird hearing about disney making a smart decision. I assume the pitch was "it's a star war but they say gently caress and there's blood everywhere" which even the most concussed Disney exec would say "nah, we're good" to.
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One the one hand relaxing that rule would give us so much tryhard edgelord bullshit but on the other Fiona Shaw would've been allowed to say "gently caress the empire" in Andor, so it's impossible to say if it's good or bad.
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Pilchenstein posted:One the one hand relaxing that rule would give us so much tryhard edgelord bullshit but on the other Fiona Shaw would've been allowed to say "gently caress the empire" in Andor, so it's impossible to say if it's good or bad. 
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That guy was such an amazing flunky. A+ brownshirt wannabe. The sort of person who still uses Rhodesia instead of Zimbabwe. Well, the Star Wars equivalent.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:That guy was such an amazing flunky. A+ brownshirt wannabe. The sort of person who still uses Rhodesia instead of Zimbabwe. Well, the Star Wars equivalent. The sideburns is what really does this. You just can't have sideburns like that and be a sympathetic character.
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Alhazred posted:The sideburns is what really does this. You just can't have sideburns like that and be a sympathetic character. it makes me wonder about casting for the "disposable fiancé/spouse" in all the romcoms. like, do you cast your main person first, and then have all those people act out scenes with them, and the one who has the worst chemistry gets the role?
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There's a scene in Civil War where an Apache comes down way too close to the street, way too close to the surrounding buildings, and fires its weapons at a target that's way too close. And when it fires its chain gun, it's got the rate of fire of a minigun. And you can't even say okay, it's a civil war, they might have improvised a minigun under the chin instead of the standard armament because what's clearly shown on the thing is the normal chain gun.
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Phanatic posted:There's a scene in Civil War where an Apache comes down way too close to the street, way too close to the surrounding buildings, and fires its weapons at a target that's way too close. And when it fires its chain gun, it's got the rate of fire of a minigun. And you can't even say okay, it's a civil war, they might have improvised a minigun under the chin instead of the standard armament because what's clearly shown on the thing is the normal chain gun. Isn't that right out of the tactical manual? I've sure seen plenty of fighter jets perform strafing runs against Godzilla that bring them within swatting range.
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Phanatic posted:There's a scene in Civil War where an Apache comes down way too close to the street, way too close to the surrounding buildings, and fires its weapons at a target that's way too close. And when it fires its chain gun, it's got the rate of fire of a minigun. And you can't even say okay, it's a civil war, they might have improvised a minigun under the chin instead of the standard armament because what's clearly shown on the thing is the normal chain gun. That scene was badass in Dolby though if you don't care about that stuff The chopper sound right "over" the audience was top tier sound mixing
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Cowslips Warren posted:it makes me wonder about casting for the "disposable fiancé/spouse" in all the romcoms. like, do you cast your main person first, and then have all those people act out scenes with them, and the one who has the worst chemistry gets the role? Furthermore, is there some b- or c-list actor who has ended up typecast as "dickish partner", with the occasional "dickish middle manager" role?
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Wasn't Piece Brosnan the villainous fiance in something? Weirdly enough it works. Have them be an rear end in a top hat but entertainingly so.
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Arrath posted:Isn't that right out of the tactical manual? drat near every kaiju movie want to recreate the famous Kong on the empire state building scene in 1933. It works if your special effects are very limited and the stat of the art fighter aircraft are biplanes with fixed machine guns. Not so much in 2024. But movie makers are going to continue doing it until the end of time, I suppose.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Wasn't Piece Brosnan the villainous fiance in something? Weirdly enough it works. Have them be an rear end in a top hat but entertainingly so. Timothy Dalton was amazing as the villain in Hot Fuzz. An incredibly charming bastard. But, no, not a romantic foil in that one, lol.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Wasn't Piece Brosnan the villainous fiance in something? Weirdly enough it works. Have them be an rear end in a top hat but entertainingly so.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Wasn't Piece Brosnan the villainous fiance in something? Weirdly enough it works. Have them be an rear end in a top hat but entertainingly so. Mrs. Doubtfire
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Leave posted:Mrs. Doubtfire That's it, I was gonna say, but it almost felt too obvious. Also maybe not a straight example given how it ends.
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Yeah, the Fiance often isn't even a bad guy, he's just who the audience roots against by virtue of not being the main character. Liar Liar also does this with the rival being the sweetest guy in the universe, it's just that because he doesn't have Jim Carrey's manic energy he can't sell the banter with the child so he has to go.
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Oh, so I found a more obscure Brosnan role where he's the villainous ex-fiancé
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Wasn't Piece Brosnan the villainous fiance in something? Weirdly enough it works. Have them be an rear end in a top hat but entertainingly so. People like Brosnan who are effortlessly charming in general work really well as the villanous fiance just because of audience expectations, I think. Megillah Gorilla posted:Timothy Dalton was amazing as the villain in Hot Fuzz. An incredibly charming bastard. I bloody love Dalton in that. The man knows that you sell comedy by playing it entirely straight, and while he's playing it BIG he never quite hits scenery chewing levels of excess.
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Fil5000 posted:People like Brosnan who are effortlessly charming in general work really well as the villanous fiance just because of audience expectations, I think. This is something I really love in The Tailor of Panama. Brosnan goes from Bond to full Archer and it's fantastic.
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A Worrying Warlock posted:This is something I really love in The Tailor of Panama. Brosnan goes from Bond to full Archer and it's fantastic. The thing is with Archer is that he's barely a parody. BioEnchanted posted:Yeah, the Fiance often isn't even a bad guy, he's just who the audience roots against by virtue of not being the main character. Liar Liar also does this with the rival being the sweetest guy in the universe, it's just that because he doesn't have Jim Carrey's manic energy he can't sell the banter with the child so he has to go. Yeah, a lot of the better romcoms/designated love interest stories at least knew what they were doing and rolled with it. Not nearly so common these days (I think Mrs Doubtfire mighta set up the subversion with the ending that Robin Williams had to throw his weight around to get) but back when that was obligatory some movies knew how to make it funny, and there's entire genres of comedy about huge assholes who happen to be funny for a reason.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The thing is with Archer is that he's barely a parody. Yeah, Archer is Bond with no attempt to make him likable. He's an alcoholic misogynist who just happens to be very good at the parts of his job that stop him from getting killed.
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Fil5000 posted:Yeah, Archer is Bond with no attempt to make him likable. He's an alcoholic misogynist who just happens to be very good at the parts of his job that stop him from getting killed. If anything, he's more likeable because Archer actually has to interact with his co-workers...and he has a Pam. Everyone needs a Pam.
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Archer's incompetence directly led to Pam being given a shot as an agent.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Timothy Dalton was amazing as the villain in Hot Fuzz. An incredibly charming bastard. No, that was Nick Frost.
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Just because Pierce Brosnan came up I need to throw out the eternally overlooked film The Matador with Greg Kinnear. Pierce Brosnan crushes it and that is a drat fun movie.
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Fil5000 posted:People like Brosnan who are effortlessly charming in general work really well as the villanous fiance just because of audience expectations, I think. Wish there were more Timothy Dalton as hammy bad guy roles, he was one of the highlights of The Rocketeer for that too
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TGG posted:Just because Pierce Brosnan came up I need to throw out the eternally overlooked film The Matador with Greg Kinnear. Pierce Brosnan crushes it and that is a drat fun movie. I love this movie. It's a perfect shot at the spy thriller genre.
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Phy posted:Wish there were more Timothy Dalton as hammy bad guy roles, he was one of the highlights of The Rocketeer for that too
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TGG posted:Just because Pierce Brosnan came up I need to throw out the eternally overlooked film The Matador with Greg Kinnear. Pierce Brosnan crushes it and that is a drat fun movie. Irrationally irritating movie moment: every mention of Greg Kinnear immediately makes me think of this king 
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BioEnchanted posted:Yeah, the Fiance often isn't even a bad guy, he's just who the audience roots against by virtue of not being the main character. Liar Liar also does this with the rival being the sweetest guy in the universe, it's just that because he doesn't have Jim Carrey's manic energy he can't sell the banter with the child so he has to go. Check out The Baxter, by the same guy who directed The Big Sick. Our hero is the inoffensively boring schlub who got left at the altar at the end of every other romantic comedy.
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