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Jonny 290 posted:so holy poo poo i'm watching Atomic Blonde (2017) and its not scifi but is one hell of a cold war artistic color balance cold war nutshot asskicker movie and i literally never heard of it 4 hours ago Atomic Blonde was def a great sleeper hit, mostly because it really just nails that cold war berlin setting that also makes me wish I had been able to experience berlin in the late 80s. e: for more hot Charlize Thereon but in sci-fi, I really liked The Old Guard that just came out. I don't know what the source material is but the movie is an action movie about a small group of immortal people dating back to Sumarian times that still do figthing poo poo. Not great, but its a fun shlocky movie Xaris fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Sep 15, 2020 |
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Jonny 290 posted:last night's feature film: The Old Guard (2020) Also the gay characters owned I'm trying to think of some other Charlize things but those are the two recent ones that come to mind. Well I guess Mad Max Fury Road if you haven't seen it you shoudl rectify that. I guess Snow White and the Huntsman was OK, not great Xaris fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Sep 16, 2020 |
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SmokaDustbowl posted:lol I had to cover my eyes at the face ripping scene too. face ripping is my gore limit it wasn't even gorey but the faceripping scene in star trek insurrection and the body crisping poo poo in mystery men had me queesy for days. i was like 10 though and it's tolerable now but man i remember that did not sit well with me at all. the cgi is hilariously garbage bad awful in retrospect
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# ¿ Sep 19, 2020 06:31 |
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SmokaDustbowl posted:I can't watch anything with steven segal or tom cruise because I hate their faces have you seen Edge of Tomorrow? its probably the onyl good cruise movie bc he also dies a bazillion times, genuinely also a really fun movie; aside from Collateral. i totally agree otherwise
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i liked the part where the mean lady told mission impossible that you can't cum the time travel into someone and stopped him right in his tracks lol i forgot about this scene so i just rewatched the movie and lol yeah that owned. i didn't intend to watch the whole thing but ended up happening. still a good movie
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# ¿ Sep 20, 2020 00:27 |
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:the first like 2/3rda of edge of tomorrow is also a good antidote for action movie machismo because it shows how hillariously dangerous even really mundane stuff is. Try to roll under a truck? gently caress you it runs you over. Then it collapses into action movie bs, but there is at least the justification that he has gained an insane amount of combat experience through time travel
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# ¿ Sep 20, 2020 06:06 |
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Sagebrush posted:as far as i can tell the only contact graph has with this forum any more is posting baseball videos that no one cares about and periodically putting smoka in jail for anime I don't have much love for anime (does primal count as anime? Primal was cool) but i also don't have some weird goony-self-loathing hate boner over it either in order to loudly declare that i'm a so much cooler normal-guy unlike those other nerds because see how much I Hate Thing. imo let people enjoy and talk about what they want to, and also youtubes are unembedded for me anyways so i can just like.. not click smoka's youtube links. maybe if people are spamming actual .gifs/.webms writ-large and become a problem sure ok. And stuff like eva/akira/gits/cowboy bepop/whatever is sci-fi afaik so it's on-topic. seems stupid and arbitrary in tyool 2020, and also purple-stymie was right.
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# ¿ Sep 24, 2020 02:25 |
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Roosevelt posted:don't wear a man bun, ffs man buns are sexy and cool
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# ¿ Sep 24, 2020 03:30 |
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Shaggar posted:i think the way they're doing it is kinda smart cause they're protecting you from binging but also giving you 2 eps each release day. if there was more content to fill out the other days i dont think people would care as much. from an Big Netflix-type (or even really any media), you want your show to remain in the zeitgeist for as long as possible and keep subs going (be it cable or streaming services). there is also the ability to release-as-you-go although I think most of the time they're already finished before they go out the door. from my limited experience, and I can't say I watch much tv these days, is that shows that drop a big steaming dump all at once get some brief flash fanfare and then wink out of existence very quickly. there's also that just having "too much dumped on you" at once is kind of discouraging in a way that seeing yet another Big Triple AAAA publisher Open-World game is just dauntingly ughhh whereas picking up something that "has just started" is easier. But also waiting too long in between is also dumb--maybe (and probably) weekly is optimal, maybe twice-weekly works just as well, maybe every other week also works almost as well although prob not people with a lot more data than us and being paid infinitely more than any of us have probably mostly figured this out. i think one of the give-aways is that streaming services initially tried "big steaming dump" of episodes all at once approach and have seemed to backtracked to a more cable-approach of weekly-releases, so they're probably came to the similar conclusion for their bottom line. Xaris fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Sep 25, 2020 |
# ¿ Sep 25, 2020 04:35 |
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i assumed the multi-year gaps in their release schedule was what killed venture bros
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# ¿ Sep 25, 2020 05:09 |
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Jonny 290 posted:halftime update: holy poo poo this movie is good and i hate every single review that's all BuT iT tAkEs iTsElF tOo sErIoUsLy like thats the whole god drat point you absolute hack matt had a good vlog rant where the only two movie options these days are grimdark-realism ~SERIOUS ART~ nolan-garbage or quippy self-aware ironic-poisoned Whedon writing where every character is going "oh wow, so THAT just happened. so huh we're doing THIS now". super serious vs knowingly humorous and both are loving garbage, bring back fun-and-endearing-sincerity
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# ¿ Sep 28, 2020 01:35 |
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SmokaDustbowl posted:did you watch colour out of space? that was the good poo poo yeah i really liked that. 2019 was actually a really great year for movies (lumping COOS into 2019 even tho i think itwas like jan 2020). the previous years of like 2010 to 2018 mostly sucked, and now it looks like 2020+ is going to suck. all of my favorite recent movies have basically been A24 films as well. if it wasn't for A24, movies would be trash
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# ¿ Sep 28, 2020 01:48 |
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Jonny 290 posted:btw lmaooo the prequels suck so loving bad yall. i mean you knew this but. oh my god they suck and acting/dialog is dogshit, but at least lucas had a vision and passion for poo poo. these days i generally like more endearing-passion even if the final product is garbage because at least you can see some humanity behind it. that's more than i can say about the jjabraquels
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# ¿ Sep 28, 2020 04:11 |
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FMguru posted:yeah the one thing i will say about the prequels is that lucas at least tried to do something different, something that wasn't just more x-wings and stormtroopers and the millenium falcon that's also why a lot of recent A24 Films (esp Ari Aster work) and other low-budget stuff has been the best things ive seen in like a decade because there's like, passion and sincerity in there, and it's not refined down to a dull knob everytime there's something that's ridiculous they just roll with it because gently caress yeah that probably didn't make sense but oh well
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# ¿ Sep 28, 2020 04:30 |
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SmokaDustbowl posted:yo I don't give a gently caress about riker's relationship with his father
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# ¿ Sep 28, 2020 04:30 |
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Roosevelt posted:i watched the last two episodes of lovecraft country and it's...boring! i really want to like it, but i don't think they have any idea what direction they're going. i think having a dozen executive producers may have something to do with it I'm still pretty early on, kinda fallen behind for various reasons, but I think the best part about it is some period-piece sets they did were really cool. Rest of it? yeah it's just alright. good production values, not bad, but it's also overhyped as a lot of ~prestige tv~ tends to be. also gently caress the sound editting holy loving poo poo, put the loving vocals on a louder stream and normalize the effects a bit more aaaaaaaaaa
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# ¿ Sep 28, 2020 23:02 |
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indigi posted:yeah idk if any of his movies have lived up to the hype for me with the possible exception of Dark Knight and even that I have a bunch of problems with. mainly I liked it mostly because of Heath Ledger if I'm being honest everything after that? yeah pretty much. i was on vacation when Inception came out and everyone was hyping it up and finally saw it months later and i was like... really? it was awful and the action wasn't even very good.
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# ¿ Sep 29, 2020 00:13 |
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qirex posted:I haven't seen wolf of wall street but the message a lot of the worst people got from it was "being an alpha bro finance douche is totally awesome [the bad stuff won't happen to me because I'm smart though]" wolf of ws was really good just because everyone in it is loving trash and trash monsters are also running america (all the corporate boards, hedge fund, private equity leveragers, politicans, management, etc)
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# ¿ Sep 29, 2020 08:56 |
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rotor posted:I kinda think it is though. If you make satire and it ends up as propaganda for the people you're satirizing, maybe your movie isn't good. it'd only make for far far worse entertainment to constantly beat you over the head going duhh did you get it yet, did you get it yet? how about now??? Trabisnikof posted:nah starship troopers owns
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# ¿ Sep 29, 2020 17:54 |
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Jonny 290 posted:i watched Ponyo last night. it was weird and cool. i liked it. we were doing a ghibli kick the past couple of months. it was pretty good though certainly their 2005+ movies haven't been nearly as good.
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# ¿ Sep 29, 2020 19:17 |
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Carthag Tuek posted:yeah, all satire is bad, and also all art this. book burn all copies of starship trooper and robocop. unnecessary fascism apologia. the only thing worth watching is Crash 2004 on repeat for the rest of your life
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# ¿ Sep 29, 2020 19:18 |
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SmokaDustbowl posted:a good trilogy for halloween this year is videodrome, they live, then escape from new york i really want to setup maybe a pos/spam movie-watch night every fri (or sat) around midnight for the month of october watching 2spooky movies but i have no idea how to setup a twitch-like system where i can do and stream it with a chat. maybe discord streaming? or can you do a private twitch stream without them cracking down?
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# ¿ Oct 2, 2020 04:38 |
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gratzi i'll take a look is that the node.js setup though that requires people to do some weird plugin on their browser or is it pretty seemless?
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# ¿ Oct 2, 2020 04:51 |
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infernal machines posted:it's not bad, it's just not very good either. the writing is flat and there aren't that many laugh out loud jokes Season 1 was quite promising and enjoyable, i can't say i noticed the animation looking particularly bad in that, but season 2 was a noticeablely big decline in both animation and writing/etc.
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# ¿ Oct 3, 2020 21:24 |
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infernal machines posted:i too was expecting the notoriously risk-averse film industry to forgo box office receipts and release films costing hundreds of millions of dollars direct to netflix not surprised but lol at there even being theaters to show it to in 2021
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# ¿ Oct 5, 2020 20:55 |
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:i think he’d be happy how that industry turned out
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# ¿ Oct 6, 2020 06:47 |
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The Fool posted:I liked it
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# ¿ Oct 6, 2020 07:58 |
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Jabor posted:the story made no sense, the action scenes were laughable, never any real stakes or pathos mindless action flick should have good action it doesnt need to be john wick precision but idk, even Shoot 'Em Up or Equilibrium has silly good action scenes
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Schadenboner posted:Finished The Sad-Brained Horse Show. that said the preceeding episode was better, and final could have been better; but either or would have worked, and it wrapped up well. much better than i expected going into the last season tbf Xaris fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Oct 13, 2020 |
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Sagebrush posted:i agree, it's extremely masturbatory counterpoint: Synecdoche, NY is a god-tier masterpiece and seymor-hoffman's (rip) magnum opus
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# ¿ Oct 13, 2020 22:00 |
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good finales: - hannibal - nathan for you - justified - chernobyl - bojack - fargo* - mr robot - h jon benjamin has a van - over the garden wall - tuca & bertie - primal - broad city - too old to die young ok finales: - psych - happy endings - pushing daisies - burn notice - awake bad finales: - lost - bsg - dexter - nip truck and every other ryan murphy show - stargates - all treks - mythbsters - got - fringe - breaking bad - westworld - nikita - altered carbon - stranger things - every other p r e s t i g e tv - a zillion half-finished shows Xaris fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Oct 15, 2020 |
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Jonny 290 posted:breaking bad had an overwrought but still Good ending. yeah n/t was awful, but also just an absolutely batshit insane show progressively somehow getting evne more insane from the start and i have a love/hate relation with it.
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# ¿ Oct 15, 2020 00:49 |
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i'm not kidding at all though when I say Nathan For You has absolutely the god drat best finale i've ever seen. I don't feel it'd have quite the impact if you just go directly to it; although you certainly can, but god drat
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# ¿ Oct 15, 2020 00:50 |
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Jonny 290 posted:also is mr robot Finished finshed? i've never seen a second of it, i was waiting for it to end before i dove in It is, it wrapped up I want to say in Feb of this year or something. It was REALLY good I would highly recommend it the only downside is that if you're starting just now, early seasons are kinda quaint Obama-era-as-gently caress naivity that would just come off as LMAO now. i dont know how to describe Obama-era As gently caress, but you'll understand. then again it's also only like 4 seasons long (10 eps each) and doesn't waste much time wtih filler, so it's an easy watch
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# ¿ Oct 15, 2020 00:52 |
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Roosevelt posted:i just remembered i've seen every episode of House, except the very last one it wasn't great no but also could be worse. they rode off into the sunset on a midlife crisis. part of that was just House-fatigue. s1/s2 were really good and then just started getting worse and worse and i just lost interest in it entirely on/off. it went on for about 3-4 seasons too long. Xaris fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Oct 15, 2020 |
# ¿ Oct 15, 2020 00:56 |
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Chris Knight posted:jj abrams and lindelhof, Star Trek Into Darkness: critic embargo until after opening weekend so no knows we just remade wrath of khan and worse no you see... kirk dies instead of spock! fuckin' motherfuck genius. GOTY
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# ¿ Oct 15, 2020 02:27 |
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qirex posted:karl urban is good. see also: dredd, almost human almost human was so frustrating because it was kinda lovely by the books serial-NCSI clone network tv garbage with a gimmick that was barely used at all, but it started to get really good and then got cancelled. i suppose that's pretty typical of the time though but yeah i love urban. see also The Boys
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# ¿ Oct 15, 2020 04:13 |
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infernal machines posted:it was also aired out of order, because fox god drat fox is fuckinbg trash. have they even had any hits in the last 6+ years?
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# ¿ Oct 15, 2020 04:20 |
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AnimeIsTrash posted:Also all the USA shows, but I love that garbage. monk was fun and enjoyable burn notice had a very strong (for USA) first 1-2 seasons and woweee it went to loving poo poo real fast holy hell. they clearly wanted to filler it out and string along and the writing (especially fiona) went to absolute dog poo poo quick. fionas character handling was just ughhhh; just constanty flipping between im STRONG FEMALE EX-IRA SPY TERRORIST GUN EM ALL DOWN I LOVE GUNS to being weak cliche ~female jiminy cricket consciousness~ no michael no!! cops are people too you know royals pains was horrible right from the start though. woe is me im a mega billionaire in the Hamptons and my 18 year old son sprained his ankle but I just can’t take him to the PUBLIC hospital because it’ll ruin his future political career if it ever comes out he had broken ankle so I spent 500 million building a private ICU in our guest room just for us to use, plz treat him? and just played completely straight as if we were supposed to nod our heads and sympathize with hampton elite Mr Robot is the best show they've ever done and one of the beter TV shows i've ever seen, I was surprised that it was even a USA show at all. i have no idea how it lasted it's entire length that it did and easily could have been HBO Xaris fucked around with this message at 04:47 on Oct 15, 2020 |
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AnimeIsTrash posted:psych has a lot of very questionable episodes e.g. there is one where a white dude is raised by an asian family and talks with an asian accent the whole time.
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# ¿ Oct 15, 2020 04:59 |