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BrigadierSensible posted:My favourite joke in it will always be:  Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I'm a sucker for Doctor Evil's monologue about his upbringing. Also I just learned that the therapist is Carrie Fisher!
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IIMM: It's really a shame that Princess and the Frog drags so much in the middle, because the beginning and end are a lot of fun. The setting is great too - 1920's New Orleans, except magic is real and people are just like "yeah that makes sense". It also follows the classic Disney tradition of having a great villain song, along with a classic (?) brutal villain death (he's dragged to hell along with his implied-to-be-sentient shadow while voodoo dolls and floating heads sing his own theme song back at him) Oh, another one: It has both a terrible side character (the loving firefly) and a great one (the gator who really just wants to play jazz). oldpainless posted:Also reminder that Jason Stathams cameo in Collateral is meant to be the Transporter.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Nah it's actually fine and Ray isn't even that bad. Also I will reiterate how great the gator (who I just remembered was amusingly named Louis  ) was. His character arc was basically I'm a gator who just wants to trumpet in a jazz band -> hey these humans are letting me into a band cause they think I'm in costume -> oops, revealed I'm actually a talking gator -> now in a jazz band again for real this time, even though I'm not even pretending to be human anymore, and everyone's OK with thatCrowetron posted:Maguire was a good Peter Parker but a bad Spiderman whereas Garfield was a good Spiderman but a bad Parker.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Just rewatched Rise of Skywalker with a friend who hadn't seen it before and it's just worse than I had remembered and I am going to rant about it. The even worse part is that there are parts I genuinely liked! The duel by the ocean looks stylish and cool as hell, for example! Something interesting or with potential would happen, and then the movie would immediately undercut it somehow. They had Hux threaten to have a little depth to his character (he's maybe not a true believer and just wants to save his own rear end? he got pushed aside by the new kids and wants to get them back by any means? had a change of heart entirely?). Before anything can develop from this, he just gets murked and the movie moves on, never mentioning him again. Why even bother?? theironjef posted:That's a huge aspect of all those fuckin books though in the Sun Crusher so I assume they wanted to avoid having a million dorks ask when Kyp Durron was going to show up.
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Mierenneuker posted:And if you thought the first Species already was all about loving and reproducing, whoo-whee, Species II is a sequel for you!
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HopperUK posted:Surely it doesn't matter, since he can poop with strength enough to fire that thing back out again like a harpoon.
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Kind of tangential to the Alien discussion of the past few pages, I saw Pitch Black for the first time recently, and actually quite liked most of it! Great use of lighting/color/darkness (how appropriate), pacing, character development, and a constant sense of tension. It reminded me a lot of Alien, and it probably could have been just as good with some tweaks and also a non-shoestring budget. I also laughed when I realized Claudia Black was in it, because I couldn't not think of her as Vala from Stargate who somehow got on the wrong ship. I went in knowing essentially nothing about it as well, so the twist halfway through (the eclipse and what happens after) was really unexpected. Up to that point, I figured something would happen because of the orrery teaser, but not horrible murder monsters with free reign of the entire planet. Oh no, this scifi movie is actually also a survival horror flick! (unsure if I really need spoilers on a 20 year old movie, but w/e). Overall it was surprisingly good, but about 2/3 of the way through, things started to bug me, which is why I brought it up in this thread: - A forever present IIMM is whenever powers are inconsistent. The monsters can't stand the barest hint of light, but this doesn't apply to their tails after a while I guess? - Also how did this species evolve exactly? I didn't care before now, but now that you've got me questioning things... - Turns into too much of an action movie towards the end and loses the suspense. - Absolutely does not stick the landing. - Radha Mitchell was fantastic and deserved to have as big a career breakout as Vin Diesel. Some minor editing and a rework of the last 30-45 minutes, and you go from "cult classic" to just "classic".
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BiggerBoat posted:Thanks for reminding me that Pitch Black is a movie that exists since my son digs Alien and Predator and I was trying to come up with a new movie in that vein. I haven't seen it since it came out but recall liking it. Also, Chronicles of Riddick is completely different in every aspect (but still a lot of fun and a guilty pleasure I'll watch every time it pops up on tv). The third movie in the series, Riddick, tries to return to the roots of Pitch Black, but doesn't hit the same notes, and isn't really all that great. It does have Starbuck from BSG as a fun random cameo though!
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Taeke posted:Same way when I was like 8 I thought the Bermuda triangle was a huge thing that would affect my entire life. LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Why exactly is Morpheus tagging along with Neo on his way to the Source? He has nothing to do and somehow does less than nothing.
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HopperUK posted:e: here's the Dore engraving of the tenth plague. Look at that angel, no fucks given.
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HopperUK posted:The Rock rather than Con Air?
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Elissimpark posted:Someone should make Mad Max, but this: Also the closed captioning is good:
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:But Christopher Lloyd was in Star Trek! Phy posted:Kind of like how if I ever watch another zombie movie I'm going to call bullshit on it if it doesn't have hordes of uninfected people walking straight into the zombies while screaming "I refuse to live in fear"
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Crowetron posted:The Metal Gear Solid movie should not cut out any dialogue whatsoever, but still just end when it hits two hours. The whole movie should have a countdown timer in the corner that Oscar Issac keeps nervously looking at while people go on and on about nuclear disarmament procedures and PAL cards. Bussamove posted:Unless it’s directed by Paul W.S. Anderson.
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Saw Dune on Sunday and loved it. A couple minor nitpicks, because that's what this thread is for: Lady Jessica is a notably strong-willed character in the book and that was not present in most of her scenes. She came off as constantly anxious and meek, with a couple exceptions (Sardaukar ornithopter ride and punking Stilgar). I guess maybe this was intentional to have her hiding her true nature/all the stuff she's juggling, but it didn't quite land for me. This got mentioned upthread, but I was a bit confused they didn't mention or even allude to the lasgun-on-shield effect. Come to think of it, they didn't mention the House Atomics either, although I'd have to re-skim the book to see where that's first talked about. Personal opinion here, but I think they should have included Paul crying over Jamis at the end, right after the duel. I know in the book it takes place once they reach the sietch, but IMO it would have been much more emotionally impactful to include it at the close of the first movie (I described the scene to my family and they agreed it would have been a good emotional moment). Plus I suspect some of the Sietch Tabr stuff is going to be cut in part II anyway.
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MariusLecter posted:Both the Lynch DUNE and new DUNC needed more of the ominous piano, militaristic drums and orchestra that peak with the guitar riff and vocals in the Big Battle track by TOTO.
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Imagined posted:Also, having grown up where tornados are common, unless that RV was a LOT more heavily armored than it looked, all staking it to the road would mean is that the shredded remains of the RV would be easy to find after the tornado passed. I've seen 2x4s driven through cinderblock walls. A lot of movies make this mistake with tornados, even, famously, Twister, the movie about tornados, i.e. it's not the wind -- it's what else is in the wind. A tornado is not a small hurricane, where you tie everything down and ride out the wind. A tornado is the cartoon Tasmanian Devil carrying meat cleavers in both hands.  "What kind of psycho lives here??" because it looks like they just stumbled onto the set of a horror movie.Push El Burrito posted:I really like the movie I just wish they focused more on the corn and maybe the people growing and harvesting the corn.
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Cowslips Warren posted:Then again I always thought, pre prequels, that the clones would have been the bad guys. A Festivus Miracle posted:The Rise of Skywalker made me realize that you can, in fact, make a movie that can blow your mind and simultaneously suck total rear end. Stars Wars, a land of contrasts I also caught Last Jedi on TV recently, and I think I actually liked it more than when I first saw it. Ellie Trashcakes posted:Super Troupers are from Space Sweden
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Have I told you about...
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That Italian Guy posted:I was surprised to learn how many practical effects there in the Matrix sequels. The latest corridor crew has a good reel with them (and Adam Savage, who was part of the work crew for most of the practical stuff).
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Can't believe there's all this talk about what Disney movies make someone cry, and nobody mentioned Inside Out.
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BiggerBoat posted:It's Alive, IT Follows Them & They Live
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^^^ ugh, sameBaron von Eevl posted:My only real issues with Moana are that it's real obvious there were some heavy rewrites, they introduce a cute pig sidekick and then just sort of leave him behind after 15 minutes and then he's gone. The only reason he needs to be there at all is a pork joke!
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Cowslips Warren posted:What movie do you like, but you prefer someone other than the main characters?
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BiggerBoat posted:Ultimate FF is at my library. Pass then? Push El Burrito posted:The perfect Fantastic Four movie was already made and it was called The Incredibles. 
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What I'm getting from this is that comics are bad.
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SiKboy posted:Sex times at spring break high.
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IIMM for 2012: In a movie that is ruthless about killing off secondary characters (seriously, it feels like someone dies every scene change), how does the US Chief of Staff survive the film? He's relentlessly dickish about everything whenever he's in a scene, and in a movie like this that usually means you're being set up for a amusing death towards the end. However, he just kinda says "sorry" as the movie ends and that's it? Fifteen minutes earlier he was admitting to brazenly assassinating people in front of a huge crowd!
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Cowslips Warren posted:When was the last good non animated Batman movie?
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nine-gear crow posted:I like the Harley Quinn cartoon’s take on a villain finding out Bruce Wayne is Batman. The Joker just gets mildly upset because he enjoyed not knowing who Batman was and then just starts complaining to him about WayneTech’s lovely customer service.
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Glad to see A Goofy Movie finally getting the respect it deserves.christmas boots posted:I don’t think Mrs Maisel is the kind of show you’re imagining it to be
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Kit Walker posted:Any alien that had any curvature whatsoever that didn't also immediately kill you is an alien that someone somewhere would try to gently caress upon first encounter
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Sometimes the existence of a movie combined with the fact that I sat through it irritates me. This was the case for the sequel to Drumline. It's just the same movie, except now it's a girl and the "humbling initiation", the "good but they get in a fight and they get demoted/threatened to get removed" and the climax where they win the championship scenes the whole movie is built around are made more ridiculous and over the top. It's irrationally irritating because like with bring it on, there's not really any more you can do with the concept than make it more outlandish, but still. Cowslips Warren posted:I am just so glad Toy Story wasn't out when I was a kid; the idea that my toys could feel betrayal when I didn't play with them anymore, or be sad if I gave them away, or turn into murderous loving monsters if they were replaced, would be worse than any Chucky movie ever. gently caress, I was one panicky anxiety mess of a kid who sometimes worried the stuffed animals I slept with felt left out if they got accidentally kicked off the bed, so they got special love the next day. But then the other toys might be jealous, so do they get another kiss or....this is probably why I chewed my nails till they bled when I was a kid.
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dr_rat posted:And I think it's less he wants them made into movies, and more he just likes people making stuff in general and sees this as helping out people starting off in their career.
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Haha, I genuinely had no idea. I'll have to look that up! Shame it doesn't seem they did some of the best stories in the book ("House on Maple Street", with "Moving Finger" and "Head Down" as runners-up). I guess that sorta counts as an IIMM.
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theironjef posted:She's still the worst at processing grief, though. That's her whole deal. Recall that her introduction to the MCU was volunteering to let Nazis tinker with her head using alien tech because she was mad at Tony Stark.
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FreudianSlippers posted:He spent the 20 years between trilogies eating nothing but hot pockets and drinking 2 liters of Mountain Dew per day.
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The previous page is dedicated to the brave mujahideen fighters of Afghanistantribbledirigible posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5N1Aukm4Bo
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 BOOTY-ADE posted:I wonder if it's not just him, but sound mixing in general in modern movies. Most movies I've seen over like the past decade have horrible mixing where the music & sound effects are BLASTING but voices are whisper quiet (unless there's no background noise). I think I heard something about studios not bothering to change up the audio for people using home setups, so it always ends up sounding off-balance & lovely coming from a home theater setup vs. IMAX or a regular theater.  but they reduce the volume from "earsplitting" to "just loud enough" and I have no regrets. Also this made me think about what the last movie I saw in a theatre was, and I'm pretty sure it was Rise of Skywalker, loving lol what a self-own.
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Indiana Jones must have had one hell of a dry cleaning bill. Remulak posted:Protip: most theaters turn down the volume considerably during matinees. I like my poo poo loud so this takes all the fun out of skipping work to see a movie.
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