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Gaz-L posted:Winstead is low-key the best thing in the movie, and it's great because they didn't have to completely ignore the source material like with Cass, they just took the existing backstory and had a unique spin on it. Hell, it's a spin that parodies have done with Batman a ton, but it's just fresh having her play those notes of 'maladjusted woman-child with anger issues'. I'm looking at her scenes here and they loving work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO0vdbwcnWE And then I'm thinking about how Harley's don't, not really. Like, I have no idea how strong she is, why she's able to flip dudes that weigh 300 pounds over her head. She's not just a believable badass. Other iterations of her character get that across. DCU has her being a gymnast. The recent cartoon has her being a psycho. Margot's version...is pretty vanilla. e: lol Margot pops up at 3:45 and she's so slow and mechanical in her movements. Did she not go to fight training camp?
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oh btw here's some leaked pics of Thor's new look. Very hard rock! https://twitter.com/FilmUpdatesBU/status/1356201849129496583 e: hmmm you can't click the link when its spoilered I guess? I don't want to spoil ppl so just c and p into your browser? sorry lol
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I write, so that's the way I judge any movie. Ebert has a great quote when judging a movie, forgive my bad memory and paraphrasing, but it's something like, did the filmmakers achieve what they were trying to do? (just looked at his little man review system, lol that's brilliant). 300 achieved what it set out to do, a glistening ode to manliness and retro masculinity. I think its a good movie. I think BvS is a mess, its narrative threads jumbled, its 3rd act counteracting its nascent (and honestly hard to discern) themes and character thoroughlines. Speed Racer is a near perfect movie, because it sets out to hoist racing to near transcendental elevation and loving achieves it, and the climax is nothing but a kaleidoscope of colors, charcter arc completion, and satisfying narrative closure.
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Feb 5, 2021 15:37
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Phylodox posted:I cannot disagree more. Unless you think Zack Snyder literally believes in eugenics and fascism, you have to assume 300 is meant to be satire in the vein of Starship Troopers. It absolutely don’t think it works as that, though, lacking any of Verhoeven’s subversive elements. Zack Snyder tried to make a film satirizing propaganda and ended up just making straight up propaganda. I absolutely don't believe that Snyder was satirizing anything in 300. And I absolutely believe, like many a director of reactionary bloody 80s action movies, he just wanted to show big strapping men showing whats up to ppl that deserve it in particularly overblown ways.
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Feb 5, 2021 18:28
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SonicRulez posted:Garfield is literally the absolute worst interpretation of Spider-Man. Yes including that one you're thinking of. He's powerfully unlikable and I do not understand how I'm meant to get "hero" vibes off of him flirting with Gwen while her father's body hasn't even gone cold yet. Like yeah the sequel can pick up with the story of him feeling guilty and conflicted. That's a fine beat. But none of that is in that scene in the original and it's always stuck with me as gross. But Garfield picks up his high school degree on a skateboard???
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Feb 5, 2021 18:33
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Jamesman posted:...What? lol worth posting about it then it works, if you know, watch the thing before judgin it
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Feb 5, 2021 19:45
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ImpAtom posted:Zach Snyder makes rape jokes, talks about how cool dead bodies are, intentionally gives people like Jared Leto and Amber Heard bigger roles, and various other things. John Milius is a conservative monster. Couldn't care less about the personality of a filmmaker. Like Lt. Danger said, the work is the work.
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One interesting thing about 300 is the interview with Miller about how he could never fully convey the horror of actual Spartan life because it would make the audience lose sympathy for them as protagonists. Miller at least intellectually grappled with the subject, and decisively decided on the side of making his work a piece of pop propoganda. With Snyder's photo-copying manner towards adaptations, there isn't even that level of thought put into it. There's flashes of bodies or whatever in the beginning, but its essentially an action movie for the bronze age. And it does its job pretty well in that regard. That ending is pure Braveheart btw. Like, on a one to one level. It's pretty in your face regarding it.
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Feb 5, 2021 21:12
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site posted:I want to see a show with Fury and Maria contemporaneously starting up shield and sword, both knowing what they know from CM1, with everyone thinking they're completely batshit, and the whole thing is being overseen by hydra Im starting to get annoyed at all these massive international bureaucracies being started up by one person like their mom and pop shops. Thats not how national security agencies work!!!
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Feb 6, 2021 15:11
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Sin and Baron Zemo were given significant time I thought
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Feb 8, 2021 13:25
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I remember on a behind the scenes featurette on Buffy S1, Charisma Carpenter mentioning that she was a little shocked at her character's introduction was mentioning getting the imprint of the hand brake on her back, like she was surprised she was written to be so loose. I think that's what she said.
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bushisms.txt posted:He wasn't wrong because now you're calling his current films dark, and they aren't! what's interesting about Rorscharch in the movie and the Rorschach in the comic books, is that the movie (iirc) elides his batshit conservatism.
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CelticPredator posted:I just really like Dawn of the dead. The last act lost me. And killing all the characters in the credits left a bad taste in my mouth. Also, what the gently caress was that point of that movie? Like the original had some salient points about commercialism at least.
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Feb 16, 2021 03:07
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Roth posted:Not really. He's still an obvious bigot that regularly calls women whores and thinks purely in black and white terms. If anything, I think the difference is that while Alan Moore regrets writing him so sympathetically, Snyder doesn't mind that people sympathize with the mentally ill homeless man. Rorscharch seemed to be more "whole" in the comics, his actions being a natural result of his beliefs. The movie sanded off those edges and made him a much more conventional and relatable protaganist of an already sympathetic character in the comics. This is at least partly due to the limits of the 2 hour movie format. That's why I think it's impossible to really do Watchmen justice on the screen. It can only really be at its fullest within the restraints and freedom of the comic book page.
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Feb 16, 2021 03:14
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Cael posted:I would rather watch Age of Extinction 10 times over end to end than see a minute of Revenge of the Fallen when Skids and Mudflap are on screen. Also come on, Stanley Tucci slamming a blackboard as he literally yells "ALGORITHSM! MATH!"? Perfection. lol, you remember that random college kid who went along with everyone in I think Revenge of the Fallen? They should call the movie and the entire series Revenge of the Fallen Comedy Relief Characters. So many fell by the wayside.
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bushisms.txt posted:I'm pretty sure every one has some issue with BvS, even the cined approved black and white cut had controversial edits within the dome. They just don't entertain bad faith takes based on media outside the film. Snyder is called a fascist emboldening objectivist dude bro, so what are his fans? Clutching your pearls at people asking for clarification to inane takes doesn't change that. i'm still reeling from "youtuber led dialogue". Is there a chart of disapproved arguments pinned up somewhere? i couldn't care less about Snyder's superhero movies. I just wanna get on that loving chart!!! e: Snyder's DC movies. His Watchmen, while having plenty of flaws, has some good spots in it. Shageletic fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Feb 16, 2021 |
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A talking coyote posted:No don’t! Embrace the Baychat! Pain and Gain is a legit good movie???
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Feb 16, 2021 03:23
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We all know the funniest notes of all time is the Sony Amazing Spiderman ones. And Spidey does douchebag marathon poo poo! Yolo!
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Feb 16, 2021 13:12
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0h i remembered what it was. Tough mudder lol
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Feb 16, 2021 14:17
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Whose angry about Batman killing people again?
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Batman is the least interesting character in comics, as demonstrated by the last couple of pages
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The Mortal Kombat trailer didn't show a lot of visual promise. Seemed kinda stilted and unimaginative. Hope that isn't extended to the movie as a whole.
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AccountSupervisor posted:Hi BSS, I only lurk here but saw this post and its insane to me to see this because I knew jefferoo for years IRL, knew he was a goon but had no ides he was this infamous. He was closely involved in my college circle for a few years and boy do I have stories! hey now jeffaroo lore, go! e: John Wick of Dogs posted:The first murder was God murdering Adam by kicking him out of Eden. In response to this Adam became the Joker we live in an adamah....
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Feb 23, 2021 05:25
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TwoPair posted:"I'm going to go home and sleep with my wife" Spiderman: Homeward Bound
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Vince MechMahon posted:Jack and Jill led to the dunkacino edits so it's demonstrably and materially a better, more well remembered movie than dark world. The loving audacity of Jack and Jill is incredible, and interesting, although bad. hahahaha just learned about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jux6_xBPew e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MnS2BZfoGM
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twistedmentat posted:Wait what? Does it also feature Eva music on it? uh you mentioned drums https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnYP1yzSe5E
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everyone always talks about lois lane, but never man's pain
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Knives Out was a good way to go...out
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The United States posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCEo7SCvYH4 Lol I never watched this movie holy poo poo what is this
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Posting sans reading the thread to say I liked it! And Leto almost made me quit the movie with like 3 mins left!
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Chill Penguin posted:drat that kicked rear end. Consider me Snyderpilled— give that man the keys to the DC kingdom. I didn’t even like BvS or MoS. This hit the level of Endgame/IW for me. This is the Justice League movie we needed.
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AngryBooch posted:Blocking bullets with her bracers at full speed and killing people who deserve to die. This is Wonder Woman. Patty Jenkins wakes up sweating and doesn't know why
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Soonmot posted:what you didn't like gay jokes in tyool 2021? wait he did that? At that point I was rolling my eyes so hard that I could only see my orbital nerves
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Mar 19, 2021 15:04
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I was really hoping they were going to do the Greek Gods right right in WW2 instead of whatever the hell we got. Base it off Rucka or Azzerrellos run instead of having a person who knows nothing about comics run to Geoff Johns for inspiration.
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Phylodox posted:I just remembered that while watching Justice League I kept getting distracted and giggling every time we see Steppenwolf from behind because he’s got an adorable little glutey booty. like concave disco balls
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BrianWilly posted:Alright sure Justice League was a movie but you know what's also a movie but different? Civil War! Literally just now I saw it referred to as the one that the Winter Soldier is better than, which is fair, but I still like it so here's a new video about it: In the middle of this, just wanted to say I'm really enjoying it. Slick and well done.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Cary Fukunaga is doing Tokyo Ghost don't have much to say but this got my attn: "THR notes that Remender will write for the Legendary adaptation" A comic book writer writing a comic book movie?!??! What kind of madness?!?!?
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BrianWilly posted:lol @ at the idea that WW hates the justice system so her response is to deploy...excessive, lethal force. Falcon and the Winter Soldier is good for this. Love it everytime they bring in the grinding theme of Winter Soldier.
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Karloff posted:That's a fascinating interview. It's hard to evaluate a writer working in blockbuster films because the end product goes through so many revisions and is touched by so many people that to make a declarative statement about the skills of a writer based entirely on the finished film is difficult. You don't know what edicts they had to stick to and how their script got changed in the process of shooting and editing and this interview provides a rare insight into that process. Chris Terrio has been credited on two films that I consider to have the among the worst writing in a blockbuster film of the last five years; Batman v Superman (and yes, I include the Ultimate Edition which is while better than the theatrical still exemplary of how not to structure character and story) and Rise of Skywalker. Argo's strength is def not in its writing. Its the acting, and the irreverent tone created thru rapid cuts and the type of visual choices made in the movie. Overall its alright. I didnt finish the interview with Terrio, because it just seemed like a way to foist off responsibility, without the usual bursts of fun derails you see in a lot of interviews with screenwriters. I think Terrio does have some responsibility with the bad writing in the Snyder movies, and his other output absolutely doesnt change my mind.
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