Cael posted:

Snyder seems like a good dude in real life, and a good/caring director on the sets when filming. I just wish he made movies I liked watching.

WampaLord posted:

using Dr. Manhattan energy for the attack instead of a psychic squid monster was a very smart adaptation change

the psychic squid monster works better in the comic where the medium helps amplify the effect of shock when you open up the two page spread of the chaos of the attack, it would have looked silly as hell in a movie

Mantis42 posted:

The Doctor Manhattan ending works better if you see it as less uniting the world against a common foe and more uniting them out of fear of God. Ozymandius kind of hints at this with his line about punishing mankind for flirting with nuclear war but it's not overt. There was a version of the script where he fakes Doc Manhattan's voice to deliver a warning to humanity after destroying cities but I'm glad this was cut, it's kind of corny.

Pryor on Fire posted:

Nope was just kinda bad? What was even the point of the chimp stuff? Like Jordan just heard a story about chimp attacks and randomly threw that in there? Why do you have to look at the monster to get eaten? How did the horse magically figure out this nonsense plot device?

Then we are supposed to believe that the monster is a dumb carnivore outsmarted by horsey man who just knows animals so well, but he never really gets developed as a good horsey man? In fact he seems quite bad at horsing

The scene with all the people getting digested was pretty great, but most of this movie was a clumsy miss which I was not expecting at all

MonsieurChoc posted:

When i die I'm gonna become a ghost and keep posting.

Antonymous posted:

these two people must currently be several sstandard deviations down the line but in the future they will be considered normal

AnimeIsTrash posted:

AnimeIsTrash posted:

I hate all the epic bits the chapos do, and their fans endlessly regurgitate.

AnimeIsTrash posted:

?

I like chapo, I hate their stupid bits though because idiots on the internet will meme it to death. See also pritzker for president, etc, etc.

Antonymous posted:

all those kinds of scenes are good if they have exposition, stakes, tension, revelation or whatever. purpose. But a lot of times the story is on pause so we can watch titties or hear a nice song. I can stream those on the internet now, theaters no longer serve that purpose

MeatwadIsGod posted:

Rewatched The Blair Witch Project for the first time in at least 20 years. Still an incredibly effective horror movie with really naturalistic performances. It makes me think of the wilderness horror stories of Algernon Blackwood in that it hits very specific beats for that type of story and steadily dials up the tension in a very similar way. Except for the original version of Rec I've never seen another good found footage horror, but Blair Witch just has such good pacing and restraint.

indigi posted:

same

the first time I saw Smowpiercer it was a copy that didn’t have subtitles so dude's monologue at the end was largely unintelligible to me except for the feelings, then when Cap said "I didn’t understand" I was like oh that's a brilliant choice putting the audience in his place like that

then I saw a version with the subtitles and I thought it made the scene way worse

loquacius posted:

Remember when GB2016 got like a 90% on RT the year it came out because reviewers were legit afraid to say it sucked and gave it 3/5 or 2.5/4 or whatever the lowest possible score was that RT considered "fresh"

Antonymous posted:

Ari Aster made like a dozen decent shorts before Hereditary and I think he was shopping around several scripts. If you haven't seen his MFA thesis, it's uh, loving insane. lol

https://vimeo.com/155016328

He went to the same MFA program up in the hollywood hills as David Lynch, Terrence Malick, Darron Aronovsky (who got kicked out), Todd Field, Patty Jenkins, Andrea Arnold, Paul Schrader etc.

Antonymous posted:

after playing Yakuza 0 I read about yakuza 1 and there's an interview where the director said they were having trouble getting away from stereotypical plots and so they let a new hire, non writer propose a plot and he said "an orphan girl is the key to a multi billion dollar mystery" and they were so pumped by that they let him write the whole thing. that got me pumped as well.

and drat the writing sucks. yak 1 after yak 0 is an ice bath

pogi posted:

anybody check out the netflix adaptation of the three body problem series that got released a couple days ago? the first episode apparently got decent to good reviews.

i liked the book series a lot, although characterization took a back seat in the second book and just kind of evaporated in the last. also in the last book, the “humanity grew too decadent and the men grew too feminine” stuff blew chunks, but the dark forest stuff was so good.

loquacius posted:

As someone who works with software for a living and in college struggled mightily to teach a robot to cross a room, I gotta say I always thought AI villains were kinda ridiculous, but I always appreciate when a movie recognizes its threat isn't that it'll rebel but that it'll follow orders no matter what

That said lmao did they really program an AI to "eliminate threats" without clearly defining what threats it should care about or telling it murder isn't an acceptable way to do that or even giving it Asimov's Three loving Laws??? That's basically building a murder machine on purpose, it'd never clear a boardroom let alone QA

mawarannahr posted:

anyone watched this Wes craven ? I found out about it cause it used Penderecki on the soundtrack apparently

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_People_Under_the_Stairs

Some Guy TT posted:

i actually like alien for my evil ai go to reference mother isnt actively trying to kill the crew she just has a really stupid priority set that no one knows how to change because it was obviously designed to deal with random novelties not malicious murderous extraterrestrials

Nichael posted:

This is grotesque.

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

i mean if he's used to MCU movies I could see a movie where the characters are treating the things happening to them seriously as being confusing

mawarannahr posted:

never seen a single MCU movie or any comic book movie other than Batman. that’s enough

indigi posted:

as far as rich child movies go I liked Blank Check more than Richie Rich because he made his money righteously and I had the hots for Duff

indigi posted:

I thought the subplot was the stinking pig lies to the kid to gain his trust rather than that she wanted to actually be his girlfriend. but I haven't seen it since the 90s so maybe I’m wrong

Uncle Boogeyman posted:

more people should do this. there's plenty of stuff i haven't seen but i know it sucks poo poo

Communist Thoughts posted:

the john wick movies dont seem very good, the action seems very sterile, it reminds me of something like Bourne Identity or Winter Soldier