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Jonas Albrecht posted:I hate that I can't get excited for If anything, it'll be the opposite. The simple fact that it's set in 2049 means that if Deckard were a replicant, he'd be long dead, and he doesn't look particularly dead in the teaser.
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Tars Tarkas posted:An unnecessary sequel I'm glad they made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uTbSudJ96o Holy loving finally, I swear this movie has been an absolute Bristol 1. How long has it been since they announced this, and announced that it was gonna be a hard R with Iko and Yayan in it? 2 years, at least?
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Jan 3, 2017 22:01
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Darthemed posted:Allegedly, former NYC Club Kid James St. James is going to be part of the YA movie scene in 2017. ...jesus, now is not the time I would have picked to make that.
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Jan 4, 2017 07:54
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When I was like 5, I was channel-flipping on the little TV in my room and Aliens was on FX. It was exactly at the moment where Bishop gets ganked by the Alien Queen, and I had no idea what the hell was going on and was a bit terrified. I'm pretty sure that's what set me on a path to loving the Alien movies.
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RBA Starblade posted:somehow convinced one student I was a robot-piloting child soldier  that must have been interesting to explain
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Jan 11, 2017 20:17
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FCKGW posted:Underworld holding on to the lead as the highest grossing movie of the year. Underworld loving owned so I'm cool with this
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Jan 14, 2017 23:27
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Snowman_McK posted:Ah, Gran Torino, in which a rich old white man explains to two poor young minorities why political correctness is bad. I don't disagree about American Sniper, but I think you misread Gran Torino a bit. The whole point is that Clint Eastwood's views cannot survive in the modern era, and the best thing he can do is make way for minorities in a way that helps them up. It's shockingly not awful for something coming from Clint "yelling at empty chair" Eastwood.
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Jan 15, 2017 20:07
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Yeah, Walking Dead is probably the closest and it's not quite there. You don't really see 1:1 comic to TV adaptations.
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Jan 18, 2017 19:03
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TTBF posted:I don't think you'd find a 1:1 manga to anime adaptation either, at least not of an ongoing series. Well, I mean more in the sense that no major plot details are changed. Like, if you compare the Walking Dead comic to the show, the broad strokes are the same but a lot of the specifics of events are different between the two. Not to mention stuff like Rick still having both of his arms in the show. Meanwhile, the One Piece anime (for example) adds filler and stretches out scenes, but is largely a very faithful adaptation of the One Piece manga. Stuff typically happens in both in the same way.
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Jan 18, 2017 19:15
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Skwirl posted:So much loving filler, I played and beat the video game and liked the characters so I tried to watch the anime, it's like four episodes to get through what was the tutorial level in the game. The manga's way tighter pacing-wise. The One Piece anime is kind of not good, it was just the first example of an anime trying to slavishly stick to an ongoing manga I could think of.
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Jan 18, 2017 19:29
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Len posted:The arm thing could easily be because looking back he regrets having him lose the hand Oh, almost certainly, but that's beside the point. The type of adaptation we're discussing doesn't make major changes like that, period. Even in anime, there are exceptions to this- something like Gantz or Soul Eater is closer to how American series adapt their source material- but the general rule, especially with Shonen Jump series, is to stay as close to the source as humanly possible.
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Jan 18, 2017 22:07
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Sinners Sandwich posted:Sometimes when adapting a current running manga into an anime you have to split from the source material and thats why Hitler and Fritz Lang are characters in Full Metal Alchemist FMA 2003 is especially weird because it turns into its own bizarre thing way before the ending, and has themes and subtext that are pretty much the literal polar opposite of the manga and Brotherhood. But it's also a drastic exception rather than the rule, which is why Brotherhood exists.
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Jan 18, 2017 23:41
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Tars Tarkas posted:WHO WANTS A LISA FRANK MOVIE?!??!?!?! I am so excited for this movie to completely loving tank and put the final nail in Lisa Frank's coffin.
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Jan 19, 2017 05:21
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Hat Thoughts posted:wtf is ur problem Read that Jezebel article. Pretty much everything recounted in it is my problem. That company needs to loving die yesterday. e: also, yeah, the Rose thing was one of the things specifically coming to mind when I said the FMA manga/Brotherhood and the 2003 show have absolutely diametrically opposed themes. Brotherhood is all about how humanity can rise above the lovely things in its past and make something better. 2003 is all about how we'll never ever put those atrocities behind us, how every step forward for human progress is two steps back for world peace, and how the world is utterly hosed. WeedlordGoku69 fucked around with this message at 05:42 on Jan 19, 2017 |
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Hat Thoughts posted:i read that entire "expose" and unless im missing something its like the least scandalous thing on earth. The first third is about how lisa frank is wealthy & interested in her self-image, the second third is about how theyre a bad company to work for because of franks' abusive husband and the third part is about how she divorced him and he isnt in charge of the company any more. Lisa Frank herself seems fine. The company sounds absolutely horrific, like an actual no-poo poo sweatshop for making cutesy stationery. It says he's not in charge anymore, but it also doesn't say that any of their policies have changed, whatsoever.
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Jan 19, 2017 05:44
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DC Murderverse posted:this sounds way more interesting IMO, even if I don't agree with the thesis. that's dark as gently caress It's definitely interesting but... it's 50 episodes long and 50 episodes of that kind of bleakness is an absolute loving slog to get through. The ending is also kind of a wet fart that comes completely out of left field and doesn't really make a ton of sense. I would say check out some of Sho Aikawa's other stuff for the same themes as 2003, just done better, but... they're kind of not done better. Dude's kind of a poo poo writer, honestly. That said, however, Genocyber, Angel Cop, and Violence Jack all have a pretty similar worldview to FMA 2003, and all three are a loving hoot (though be warned that Genocyber and Violence Jack have some seriously  gore in them- they're basically anime Fulci, whereas FMA 2003 is kinda like anime Von Trier).Wandle Cax posted:Just saw the new XXX, it's one of the most embarrassingly terrible things i've ever seen and I actually like stupid action movies. Do not see it at any cost. If I go in expecting hilarious garbage, will I still end up hating it? How well does it fare compared to Underworld: Blood Wars? WeedlordGoku69 fucked around with this message at 07:38 on Jan 19, 2017 |
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Jan 19, 2017 07:34
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Wandle Cax posted:It's not hilarious garbage, it's sad, sad, old people trying to be cool garbage. And I like Vin Diesel. Unfortunate Donnie Yen and Tony Jaa playing much younger than they are in poorly filmed choppy fight scenes too. The action is pathetic and the script seems like it was written in half an hour. So I take it xXx 3 doesn't have anything quite as funny as two dudes unloading an entire clip into each other and then yelling so hard the bullets proceed to fly out of their bodies. Shame.
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I made a thread for Underworld: Blood Wars if anyone else saw it and wants to gush about how hilariously loving awesome/awful it was.
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Mierenneuker posted:I'll have to remember that thread when somebody finally uploads a clip of the main bad guy and male protagonist firing their guns at each other. I want to see that scene again. Oh my loving god I know right? I thought whoever originally mentioned that scene was kidding DC Murderverse posted:oh my god this man wrote the Urotsukidoji OVA The first one is a legit decent horror flick that just goes to some really grunchy places, I can't speak for any of the others (Sho Aikawa is not a well-adjusted man, if that wasn't already pretty clear)
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Jan 19, 2017 09:43
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Brother Entropy posted:how big was the birth of a nation controversy re: the main actor? i don't remember how much fallout that ended up getting outside of internet nerd spheres I mean, it pretty much bombed, but God only knows how much of that was due to the lead actor.
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Jan 20, 2017 07:11
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DC Murderverse posted:My secret (completely not true) theory is that Mel Gibson, who advised the BoaN director during the filming of the movie, set him up for a big fall so that when Hacksaw Ridge came out everyone would think "well, Mel's really terrible but at least he's not a full on rapist" and they'd let him back into the Oscars. ... I would completely buy this.
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Jan 20, 2017 07:52
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MrBling posted:Speaking of bad directors, did people finally stop giving big budget movies to McG? I can't really recall him being attached to anything huge after Terminator Salvation. He's on a He-Man reboot according to Wiki.
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I mean, it's not like the game sets a particularly high bar for narrative, if it's just about a Japanese guy chilling with adorable cats and setting up a cat park it's basically a perfect adaptation.
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Jan 22, 2017 22:35
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Groovelord Neato posted:that sounds like the dumbest video game in history. japan is hosed up. It's basically just a cute timewaster? Like it's not even really a game, you just put out cat toys and food and decorations on your first run and then let it sit until you feel like looking at cats again (and make sure to refill the food every now and then so you keep getting an influx of cats)
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Jan 22, 2017 22:49
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I have significantly less of a problem with it than stuff like Tiny Tower (which is kinda in the same vein) because it's not really the same kind of absurd Skinner box
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Jan 22, 2017 22:50
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muscles like this! posted:He got his big break as a sidekick on the first season of Spartacus. Then for some reason he kept getting cast as these stoic "badass" characters when the role that got him noticed was more of a good natured joker. Yeah, honestly he was really good on Spartacus. I'd kinda like to see him play a Varro type again.
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Jan 23, 2017 02:11
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Groovelord Neato posted:lol what. I kind of agree? My expectations were in the absolute toilet and it was a decently enjoyable, if super clunky and flawed, movie.
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Jan 23, 2017 20:44
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Ang Lee's Hulk and BvS fall into a pretty similar zone for me: I can appreciate a lot of what they're going for, but most of it doesn't really land for me.
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Feb 5, 2017 18:00
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:so 2 good movies provided you're one of the freaks like me who likes Punisher War Zone (and the other good one, Death Proof, really only features one action scene). dude Death Sentence and Bad Boys II both loving own Crank and Shoot 'Em Up, I can see not being everyone's bag (and Crank has that lovely rape scene), and 300 aged very poorly very quickly, but there's at least four inarguable good movies in that list
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Feb 7, 2017 20:09
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Sir Kodiak posted:Nah, 300 is still good, it's just overshadowed by the even better movies that followed. i mean it's not a bad movie but its aesthetic is already really really dated and it pretty much lives and dies on said aesthetic and yes. gently caress yes. fuuuuck yes. Uncle Boogeyman posted:as for Death Sentence, I'm amazed people even remember that movie but I'm pretty firmly in the "James Wan didn't get at all good until Insidious" camp. If you want a good, grimy revenge movie of that era, Man on Fire blows it out of the water. i don't think he got great until Insidious, but the things that make him a good director didn't spring up from nothing in that movie. I'll agree that Man On Fire is better, but I don't think it's really that big of a gap between the two in quality. and it's... kind of weird as an adaptation, because the plot is completely different but the themes made it across pretty much completely intact. which is the opposite of the Bronson movie, which nailed the plot and turbofucked the themes to make it a less dark movie.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:I mean, I don't think he got great ever, but Insidious and The Conjuring are pretty good. meh, I guess his stuff is just more my poo poo than it is yours and that's totally fair
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TF2 HAT MINING RIG posted:Spaceballs is pretty bad imo. It's still loving miles better than any of the Seltzer/Friedberg movies.
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Feb 8, 2017 22:54
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Yeah, I'm a dog owner and I loving loved John Wick. His reaction is just about proportionate to the offense.
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Feb 9, 2017 03:14
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GonSmithe posted:2000AD came out and said that no, he's not, and they don't plan on letting him. Didn't he come out and say he's not? Like, I remember his youtube video about it being pretty much "hey yeah I hear y'all, this is a thing I'd like to do, but if it ever actually does happen, check out the window for flying pigs because Dredd loving bombed"
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Shageletic posted:You'd have to make it The Purge to try to justify how batshit the bad guys were in the Raid. I don't see it translating to America unless you resurrect some sort of Death Wish 3 view of urban crime. Er... really? The bad guys weren't that batshit in The Raid, they were kinda on the same level as standard movie criminals. The most batshit thing is the main villain owning the apartment building, in my view.
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Shoombo posted:I never took the apartment in The Raid to be wall-to-wall criminals. There's the gang that runs the place, sub and splinter gangs within it,and that's it for outright violent criminals. The rest are junkies or extremely poor people, some of who become mooks despite not being gangsters because there's a bounty placed on the cops' heads. Most of the people the cops kill in that movie aren't actually career criminals. Yeah, plus there's a good proportion of people who react to everything going on by just holing up in their apartments and who absolutely poo poo themselves when the cops get in. It's basically just a ghetto apartment block that the crime lord owns and also keeps his people in because why wouldn't you.
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Young Freud posted:I think she's too old now. Tilda Swinton would actually be perfect for Benten, I never got the impression any of them were supposed to be particularly young. Like, honestly if I had to cast a CCO808 movie: Keanu as Sengoku, Batista as Gogol, Tilda Swinton as Benten.
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Alhazred posted:Gerard Butler is the least interesting choice in anything. He's fun when he's actually given something to work with. His scenery-chewing in 300 is hilariously awesome.
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kiimo posted:This seems like the right moment to mention that Gore Verbinski spent countless hours cutting trailers and TV spots that he wouldn't let marketing professionals cut and Cure for Wellness made 4 million opening weekend behind a movie about dogs that tried to kill dogs and is in the fourth week of its run so anyway that's pretty much over. The thing I was asked most about that movie was "what is that about?" and that's not generally a good sign. I mean, he made some loving good trailers, it's just that everyone already saw that movie when it was called Shutter Island.
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kiimo posted:I prefer the movie when it was a sex comedy romp called The Road to Wellville. ...and now I'm aware that's a movie. Seriously, though, the trailers for Cure for Wellness made it look almost exactly like Shutter Island.
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