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^At least they're not calling it a cinematic universe. Stupid disposable comedies have been doing the franchise thing longer than any other genre. American Pie vastly out stayed its welcome. The UK had that lovely Carry On series. I was really surprised that The Space Between Us isn't an adaptation from the The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns guy because it's got a similar title and some manipulative emotional stuff going on. He seems like he's well on his way to being the Nicolas Sparks of YA lit. At the very least there's some good actors in it. I'm predicting that both DC films this year will suck, but I'll probably see them in theaters depending on how bored I am around those times. Right now it doesn't look like there's anything else opening those weeks that I'm actually excited about, but that's not necessarily enough to get me out to see them. It's easy to pick apart Marvel CU stuff because a lot of it is pretty dumb, but the contrast between overall quality between the two franchises is stark. Marvel is obviously doing enough right, and DC is just a disaster. Casimir Radon fucked around with this message at 08:51 on Jan 2, 2017 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Vin dropped out of the project so he could go star in The Pacifier instead so it's understandable if they were a little salty.
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Jan 3, 2017 04:54
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Vin Diesel announced it so it looks like it'll be a real sequel, although I wouldn't all that be surprised if poo poo happened and WWE stepped in. The ascent of WWE studios is just bizarre. Scooby Doo was one thing as their movie once a year model was going to resort to that eventually, but resurrecting Surfs Up! 10 years later is just weird. I'm sure the licensing deal was generous enough but it seems like they'd be better off writing something original at that point than messing with a property whose name recognition is long dead.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Not really, their original films are awful as well
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Jan 3, 2017 05:42
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I really hate nu-Metal James Bond. Post 9/11 nostalgia isn't something that should exist. It's kind of like German Ostalgia. We shouldn't want it back but people can't cope apparently.
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Jan 3, 2017 22:54
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My mom made me look away during Raiders' face melting scene when I'd watch it, taped off HBO. I eventually decided to keep them open and it didn't bother me that much. VHS really lent itself to repeated watchings due to lack of other options, ironic in that it's the home format that holds up the worst to that. I guy I work with was babysitting his niece one day and the only thing she wanted to so was watch Howard the Duck on repeat.
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Jan 7, 2017 19:28
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Dexie posted:Oh gently caress that creepy rear end show. My mom used to watch it all the drat time. Just the sound of the theme song was enough to keep me from being able to sleep.
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Jan 9, 2017 05:18
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We watched the 60s version of Romeo and Juliet in 9th grade, from way back when you could flash some tits in a PG movie. Nobody got in trouble. Now the PG rating is probably the least represented rating outside of NC-17.
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Baron von Eevl posted:We watched that too, and I'm pretty sure the actress was under 18 on top of everything else.
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Jan 10, 2017 04:52
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Young Freud posted:I have heard she was wearing a bodysuit to make her seem she was naked, but I'm not sure if that's happened.
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Jan 10, 2017 06:14
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WENTZ WAGON NUI posted:My 9th grade english teacher showed us the 90s Romeo + Juliet so we could laugh at it and then the 60s version also she was kinda lazy. We got stuck with A Seperate Peace.
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Jan 10, 2017 21:27
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Chieves posted:My jazz band teacher didn't care at all by the end of the year so we spent the final few weeks of the year watching Braveheart, Event Horizon, Run Lola Run, and Office Space.
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Jan 10, 2017 22:38
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We watched The Odyssey miniseries in 6th grade. I've had a crush on Bernadette Peters ever since.
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Jan 10, 2017 23:00
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The most "reaching" I ever saw for a movie day was in Earth Science. Teacher explained what a diamond in the rough was, then put on the first 50 minutes of Aladdin. She was still a great teacher.
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Jan 11, 2017 02:04
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Lobok posted:Sean Connery's one handsome motherfucker. I skipped out on our basketball team going to state so there were three of us in physics one morning. Our teacher told one of us to go to the movie room in the library and pick something out, so we watched The Sandlot. I don't suppose anyone remembers a series of science videos where the information was presented through framing sequences in a white, maze-like, cgi museum?
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Jan 11, 2017 03:44
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PublicOpinion posted:Probably Eyewitness:
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We watched Stand and Deliver in 7th grade math. I left very inspired, but still haven't learned calculus  Supersize Me came out while I was in high school and we watched it 4 times because teachers kept assuming we hadn't seen it yet. I really hated it after the second time through. The movie we probably watched the most in school was Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, several times just in elementary school. They let us vote on what we wanted to see and it won, a lot. The school did a thing where we decorated the classrooms once a year based on a book so in 4th grade we had a very movie influenced classroom decorated with a shitload of colored paper. Casimir Radon fucked around with this message at 06:42 on Jan 11, 2017 |
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Hat Thoughts posted:So is this or Baywatch gonna be the better "Greenlighted because of 21 Jump Street" movie?
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Jan 12, 2017 13:41
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Well, it made slightly more money than Prisoner of Azkaban which was the low point of the original movie series. All the other Harry Potter movies made between $879m and $1.3b.
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Jan 14, 2017 09:18
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NorgLyle posted:Since someone mentioned this and brought up The Departed on the same page I feel like I need to mention that his character in that movie was similarly the least believable serious cop in an otherwise pretty solidly okay film. It's like they wrote themselves into a corner and realized they had reached the end of the movie and, aside from losing Madolyn, nothing horrible had happened to Colin Sullivan so they went back and wrote in a completely useless rear end in a top hat cop caricature into a few scenes (where he doesn't, y'know, do anything actually related to the story or cause anything to happen) and then had him available to shoot Sullivan at the ending.
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Skwirl posted:One of us definitely needs to re-watch Infernal Affairs,because I'm pretty god damned it doesn't and the ending is the Matt Damon character gets away Scott free with a vague idea he'll be an honest cop from now on.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Flight has some weird tonal issues. It's also kind of disjointed at times. The love interest or whatever only shows up for part of the film to preach about AA and then goes away. Then there's John Goodman as comic relief which, while good, doesn't seem to fit the tone that well. It's an alright movie but it's kinda strange.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:did ice cube make a cameo I haven't seen it but he's in the commercials
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Jan 19, 2017 09:02
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Apocalypse was worth it for the Quicksilver scene alone, but there was a lot of dumb poo poo going on in that movie. Such as Hugh Jackman's cameo which was entirely pointless fan service. Additionally the whole new timeline makes my head hurt. BvS and Suicide Squad both sucked, though the latter was slightly better in that it wasn't completely boring. The whining from comic fanboy edgelords about bad reviews only cemented my opinion further.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:isn't his benghazi film the most right wing?
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Jan 26, 2017 08:53
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Wandle Cax posted:Hilary is not portrayed nor even mentioned nor even implied to exist in the film, it's almost an entirely apolitical retelling of the events
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Jan 26, 2017 14:28
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Is the DC franchise going to fail this early?
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Jan 31, 2017 21:22
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got any sevens posted:Or Tim Burton!
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Feb 1, 2017 01:16
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I don't think Gibson can make it that long without doing something unforgivable.
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I will watch whatever Dune movie they put out. It's a bizarre enough story that you'd have to be eating stupid pills full time to make it not be at least an interesting failure.
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precision posted:Now that some time has passed, are we still calling Suicide Squad a failure for angering comic book nerds and critics or still calling it a sleeper that connected with demos they weren't even aiming at? From my outsider's perspective it seems like DC authors and fans need to get over the whole Joker schtick. Particularly The Killing Joke, which came out 28 years ago. It's time to move on.
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:Does The Hot Topic Crowd even exist still? Did it ever?
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Feb 2, 2017 21:46
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FCKGW posted:I've got some bad news for you buddy ...
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Timby posted:I was going to say Green Lantern wasn't that long ago, but holy poo poo, it's been six years. None of the Fantastic Four movies did all that well so I'd say the modern movie going public just doesn't want them.
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Hemingway To Go! posted:Or most of the other Avengers, or hell talk about the Guardians of the Galaxy.
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Feb 3, 2017 00:29
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She was in Suicide Squad so this is a step above that.
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Feb 4, 2017 00:36
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People cried about The Departed winning, so I rented Babel to see what they were on about. It was terrible.
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The Hurt Locker kept Avatar from winning so it's cool in my book.
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Feb 5, 2017 03:08
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Is Brokeback Mountain at all effective for someone who doesn't get upset about the idea of gay cowboys?
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Pretty sure I haven't heard anyone say anything about SIL since it came out.
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