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I unironically loved Gods of Egypt. It's on my shelf next to Apollo 18 in my "movies apparently made just for me because nobody else liked them" section.Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Quite literally why I like him. He's just so pathetic, it's great. They couldn't out-badass Vader, so they didn't even try. I like it from a lore (I know, I know) way too - the Dark Side is all about uncontrolled emotion, after all.
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The MSJ posted:The most recent game was released a year ago and it was pretty good. I only played the first reboot, but it was incredibly satisfying to go from injured desperate Lara to a loving Fury tearing dudes' faces off with a shotgun while his buddies scream and run for their lives at the sight of you.
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Gods of Egypt scratched an itch that basically no other movie has. Immortals came close, but didn't embrace the mythology to the extent Gods did.
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21 Muns posted:Just saw an article about how Jurassic World 2 has started filming, and I've been shaken into a realization. No dinosaurs break out in Jurassic World.
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IDR is especially obvious since the original was made in 1995 so China isn't even mentioned.
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Independence Day actually had to do without military support because it used Area 51.
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Sir Kodiak posted:Star Trek 2009 is much better looking than Beyond. The opening shot of the USS Kelvin as an abstract play of light across its hull is a delight and a great way to give me good will for a movie. Enterprise rising from Titan's atmosphere was loving beautiful.
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Snowman_McK posted:As a counterpoint, is there a film that had a whitewashing controversy that did really well? Off the top of my head, every one I can think of was a flop. Last Airbender, Gods of Egypt (though that was hardly the only issue) Prince of Persia and Exodus all did really poorly. Yeah, but three of those were people getting mad that white people were playing white people.
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CharlestheHammer posted:It's a big white supremacist thing that Egyptians and Persians were white, which assumes that middle eastern people mudt of all come from Arabs or something. Middle Eastern people are white. Egyptians, Persians, Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians, etc, etc. They're all white. 
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SleepCousinDeath posted:People must have very high standards if Man of Steel can't even be considered "passable". Everything it did good, Superman I and II did better. Everything it did bad, it did really bad.
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MisterBibs posted:They don't need to address it again, because it's such a drastic scene that flaunts convention*. We're still talking about it long after the movie is out because it's so jarringly different. A lady dies a Bad Guy Death without being a bad guy, just because she was in the wrong place at the wrong time around wrongly made monster-dinos. That just doesn't happen. The Jurassic series has been pretty consistent in killing people evenly, Good Guy or Bad Guy, with similar discretion shots (or lack of) for both. I think it's the nature of it. It doesn't feel like a "wrong place, wrong time" thing, that would be the kid from the start of Lost World with the compy flock.
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GonSmithe posted:Hercules was only bad because Because they got The Rock to play Hercules and then went with some de-mythed story.
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GonSmithe posted:No actually those are good things For clarity, the bad part is the de-mything.
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wyoming posted:Do they answer what the black goo is? 
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VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:Which Avenger has the Stare of Death as a power? Maybe Luigi can be Cyclops. Ghost Rider?
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well why not posted:Gods of Egypt was way more interesting. If you wanna watch an over-the-top Egypt themed movie, definitely see that instead. It's a PS3 cutscene, but it's the best PS3 cutscene ever made, by far. At least that movie was fun and colourful. This is just lovely and boring. Gods of Egypt is the myth movie I have always wanted.
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Rirse posted:I just hope the Duke Nukem movies ended with him becoming the Duke Nukem from Captain Planet. He runs for President and then it turns into Saints Row 4.
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Fictional love stories in historical epics are pretty much always godawful.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Was it the first Jurassic Park that was going to have a scene with pterodactyls but the idea was scrapped due to budget? Yep. The scene was used in JP3, along with the river attack.
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Skwirl posted:I like the bit in Raimi's Spider-Man where New Yorkers start throwing rocks at Green Goblin, saying "you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us." It was 2002, so I can give that a pass. Also in the sequel they try that and Doc Ock just goes "k" and slaps them all out of his way.
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That's some incredibly Nordic names.
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Whitewashing the whites
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Obviously it's a stealth Varangian Guard movie.
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Neo Rasa posted:This is idiotic but a massive improvement for Disney, who gave us a Prince of Persia movie where basically the entire cast was white except for Ben Kingsley who is half Indian. Still too idiotic for me to ever see the movie though. How dare they cast white people to play white people, this shall not stand.
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How the hell are they not white, just look at them. They're as white as the Greeks.
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Force Awakens was awesome when it premiered in 1977
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So, Hercules versus Apollo, God of Light? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w9gUPQRsj8&t=70s
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:strait of messina Byzantina heathens screaming, hands beating, fire clinging to their faces, ships, waves, ears ringing dromons singing, hear the chanting while I'm ranting, Bulgars panting now they're stumbling Jesus help the blind to see why you don't gently caress with me Basil Basileus Pantokrator, ruling over those who rule Renovatio Imperii these fools Macedonian, Alexander and Caesar Like the Hagia I'm wiser
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pospysyl posted:The worst best picture winner is Crash. I'm surprised the question is even controversial. The Great Zeigfield, How Green was My Valley, An American in Paris, and Annie Hall were all worse
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Barudak posted:An ice cold take: Casablanca deserves its best picture win. It's a good movie, but by the time I saw it the effect was mostly "oh, so *that's* what that other thing was referencing".
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porfiria posted:I believe Maximus becomes the god or incarnation of war and the movie ends with him in a war room in the Pentagon. By Nick Cave! Yeah, Maximus was supposed to become a god, so the sequel would be him fighting in wars through history. Which sounds loving awesome, like the original ending of God of War.
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Skwirl posted:I sorta understand the idea of making a bigger dinosaur as a themepark attraction The funny part being that Indominus was smaller than 3's Spinosaurus.
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'98 was a really good Western Godzilla, it just wasn't a good Western Godzilla
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Inescapable Duck posted:I mean, there's that, but then there's having Goku in high school. Then there's having Goku in high school when the series already has a "superpowered teen in high school" segment.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I have a bad feeling Pacific Rim: Uprising is going to suck. The first one sucked the chrome off a car bumper, so I don't know why you're surprised.
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