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RCarr posted:Extreme reaching here. It’s a game about aliens. I ask because I'm playing through the games, and the first one is just a game about aliens, yeah. But the second one has an early level where the earth military (modeled after the American military, as far as I can telling) fight a rolling battle through a destroyed desert city. The villains are the invading force, sure, but the imagery of the American military forces has some resonance. This prompted a little bit of research, and apparently the Arbiter was originally called the Dervish? Plus the Arbiter levels use a crescent moon targeting symbol. But as I said, I'm not particularly familiar with the lore here, but they certainly don't read as Catholic -- which was my original point.
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Started watching that Max series on Dan Schneider and the dark side of Nickelodeon. It's pretty grim, to the point that I'm upset at the idea that there's going to be enough material for four episodes. It also feels disorienting that this entire story is just IMMEDIATELY after my time. By the time All That premiered, I had already been exposed (too young) to The State and Kids in the Hall. I think it helps that I don't have that "my CHILDHOOD  " aspect because... oof.
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The one thing about that doc that was a bit of a stretch was how innuendo focused it was. For sure it was there. and some of it is cringey as gently caress and really makes me side eye the dude. Especially the Ariana Grande poo poo, yikes. A few of the others came off as really inappropriate too. But at the same time, they are doing these montages suggesting that everytime some got some liquid on them it was a secret cumshot or whatever. And I'm sorry but even before that guy was around Nickelodeon's whole thing was low level gross out humor and slime and getting pies to the face. The doc acts like any time that happens it's shocking. Some of the clips were pretty damning but some of them felt like people just over analyzing the hell out of things. Either way he seems like a POS and a sketchy dude who should have never been in charge of kids. by the end I practically forgot about him though cause the other guy was uh, so much worse.
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I've been watching a lot of garbage lately, here's my roundup: Albert Pyun's Nemesis series is brutal because it's one really good movie followed by four truly awful sequels. The first one has this kind of 'what if bladerunner was made into an NES game, and then that game was turned back into a movie' feel to it with just enough charm to really shine, and the rest are almost totally disconnected stories about a female bodybuilder walking around empty desert or empty cities. Is there a term when one movie is so good it accidentally spawns a franchise of garbage? Jawsing? Jurassic Parksing? Lair of the White Worm is the most phallic movie I've ever seen, starring baby Hugh Grant and an extremely sexual snake woman, and it expertly combines the horror of British small town life with the horror of Lovecraftian snake cults. Highly recommended! Aqua Man & the Lost Kingdom is funny because there's absolutely nothing wrong with it for typical superhero fare, its honestly significantly better than the first one because they embrace the absurdity of Patrick Wilson being Jason Mamoa's younger brother and give a good buddy comedy performance, but people are so absolutley done with this superhero poo poo that it bombed hard despite the first one making a billion dollars. Too little too late guys! The Grey is funny because as a survival movie it's totally nonsensical but as a movie about a group group of guys who are suicidally depressed because they live in rural Alaska it rocks. Maybe the perfect synthesis of Liam Neeson in a movie equal parts dumb action bullshit and a little bit thoughtful. Night of the Hunter slaps and I couldn't believe that every single variation of the love/hate knuckle tattoos I've seen in media over the years were a reference to a 1955 horror movie about a serial killing volcel preacher. And finally, after several months my wife and I finally finished watching Parks and Rec. I had only ever seen the first few seasons and then a random episode here and there back when it was airing and...it kind of sucks! The third season that introduces Adam Scott and Rob Lowe is the show at its absolute best and every season after that is diminishing returns with the final season jump to the future being especially bad, and not just because of how little the 'lol joe biden is the best!' jokes land now that he's our lovely genocidal president. After a certain point it becomes a show less about jokes and more about how nice everyone is and how much they want to help each other and while I can tolerate a little bit of that poo poo when you're doing the Office finale or whatever multiple seasons of it is just grating. Also they do that sitcom thing where they make a big deal out of the characters having children and then write out the children as much as possible (I think you see Leslie's triplets....three times? Ever? And Ron's child twice?) which I get because working with child actors has to suck but then why introduce that element at all?
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Nemesis 2 > Nemesis. The first movie is a fun hodgepodge of cyberpunk cliches where Olivier Gruner tries his damndest to be Harrison Ford in Blade Runner, and fails because he's not even a poor man's Harrison Ford, he's a poor man's Jean Claude Van Damme. But it's still fun. The sequel is a fever-dream of a film where a Lady Conan fights the PredaTerminator. They do degenerate into boring crap after that, though. I haven't seen the doc, but I did read Jenette McCurdy's biography wherein Dan Schneider was only referred to as The Creator, creeped on her and other child actors, and instead of firing him they just curtailed his role so he didn't have direct contact with the talent. He's a pedophile. But yeah, if they're suggesting that all the slime in All That was down to Dan Schneider being a pedophile...did it slip their minds that the show was a replacement for You Can't Do That On Television? Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Mar 22, 2024 |
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Halloween Jack posted:Nemesis 2 > Nemesis. The first movie is a fun hodgepodge of cyberpunk cliches where Olivier Gruner tries his damndest to be Harrison Ford in Blade Runner, and fails because he's not even a poor man's Harrison Ford, he's a poor man's Jean Claude Van Damme. But it's still fun. The sequel is a fever-dream of a film where a Lady Conan fights the PredaTerminator. They do degenerate into boring crap after that, though. insane take. both 2 and 3 both feel less like real movies and more 'we started doing preproduction in the desert, ran out of money after a week and had to use whatever footage we'd already shot to cobble together something' Also, Olivier Gruner seemed less like he was doing Harrison Ford and more he'd only ever seen production stills of Bladerunner and didn't understand that Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer were playing two different characters. Its wonderful.
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I couldn't take more than like 10 minutes of Nemesis 2 and I loved the first one 
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The Grey really sticks with you. What a great movie about depression and fighting wolves
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veni veni veni posted:The one thing about that doc that was a bit of a stretch was how innuendo focused it was. For sure it was there. and some of it is cringey as gently caress and really makes me side eye the dude. Especially the Ariana Grande poo poo, yikes. A few of the others came off as really inappropriate too. But at the same time, they are doing these montages suggesting that everytime some got some liquid on them it was a secret cumshot or whatever. And I'm sorry but even before that guy was around Nickelodeon's whole thing was low level gross out humor and slime and getting pies to the face. The doc acts like any time that happens it's shocking. Some of the clips were pretty damning but some of them felt like people just over analyzing the hell out of things. Yeah, some of that was silly, but it's mostly in the first episode. Although it was funny that they brought Marc Summers in basically for the sole purpose of reacting to one of those moments that happened well after he left the network ("Wait, did this actually air on Nickelodeon?"). The Modern Leper fucked around with this message at 22:08 on Mar 22, 2024 |
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I love the part with Thomas Jane in the beginning of Nemesis. Apparently he was only supposed to be shirtless and the actress fully naked but he said if she's naked then I'm going to be naked too, took all his clothes off, and that was that.
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Shageletic posted:The Grey really sticks with you. What a great movie about depression and fighting wolves Yeah that's a good flick. In that similar vein I remember liking The Edge, with Alec Baldwin and Anthony Hopkins.
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If y'all looked Nemesis I'd recommend the significantly cheaper, weirder, jankier version Future Kick. It's a world where everyone is kickboxers, like that's just a thing. Beyond that it's some sort of mashup of RoboCop, Total Recall and Blade Runner. There's a nonsensical shot of pizza at the end.
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The Grey and Dredd are a good double feature 
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isaboo posted:Yeah that's a good flick. What would be the third movie in what I have to name The Men being emotionally open as theyre bring ripped apart by animals trilogy.
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The Revenant I know there's an obvious comedy option answer I'm missing though isaboo fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Mar 22, 2024 |
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Shageletic posted:What would be the third movie in what I have to name The Men being emotionally open as theyre bring ripped apart by animals trilogy. Ravenous
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Ghost and the Darkness Jaws Crawl ruddiger fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Mar 23, 2024 |
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For the most realistic The Revenant but all of those are solid too
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Shageletic posted:The Grey really sticks with you. What a great movie about depression and fighting wolves I still loving remember every word of that poem from The Grey. It's a banger.
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Wolfsheim posted:After a certain point it becomes a show less about jokes and more about how nice everyone is and how much they want to help each other It's such a Michael Schur thing that he wrote a whole show about how every person on Earth is actually inherently good and just wants to be friends with everybody else on Earth. Even the literal embodiments of evil who take sadistic joy in mutilating and dismembering people are redeemed by the end of the series. That's just the guy's philosophy.
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it's very funny to me that he's the guy with the film rights to Infinite Jest, of all people
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Bayham Badger posted:it's very funny to me that he's the guy with the film rights to Infinite Jest, of all people Wtf, he directed that Decemberists video?
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E always beaten
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isaboo posted:The Revenant Still need to see it. The director always makeing movies that bum me out was the only thing stopping me previously ruddiger posted:Ghost and the Darkness Oh hell yeah thanks for mentioning this. I loved this movie as a kid. That can easily slot in. quote:Jaws Another good choice but a little too well known for my own curated sharing your feelings while fending off animals marathon. quote:Crawl I haven't even heard of this one. What's it about, Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Ravenous That's dudes eating each other and not helping each other thru emotional crisis at all Never heard of this one either.
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The grey is about death, the fact that Neeson himself talked about how its helped process the grief about his wife death is just , like, poignant or something.its a flawed but great film.
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Crawl is about gators during a Florida hurricane. It’s pretty good Roar is an utterly insane film with an absurd amount of untrained big cats on screen made by a real-life lunatic. It’s supposed to be a lighthearted comedy. 70 members of the cast and crew were injured, some severely. Despite this, the movie is somehow fairly boring
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david_a posted:
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If you wanna see Madam Web's mom nearly get killed by a bunch of lions then Roar's the movie for you.
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holy poo poo quote:Noel Marshall was bitten through the hand when he interacted with male lions during a fight scene; doctors initially feared that he might lose his arm... Marshall had already been bitten around eleven times.[65] He was hospitalized when his face and chest were injured[66] and was diagnosed with blood poisoning. Marshall was also diagnosed with gangrene after being attacked many times.[47] It took Marshall several years to fully recover from his injuries. quote:During a promo shoot in 1973, Tippi Hedren was bitten in the head by a lion, Cherries, whose teeth scraped against her skull... She was admitted to Antelope Valley Hospital after Tembo, the five-ton elephant, picked her up with his trunk by the ankle, fracturing it before bucking her off his back; She was left with phlebitis and gangrene, in addition to a fractured hand and abrasions on her leg Cherries was apparently a bad egg quote:Most members of the crew were injured, including de Bont, who was scalped by Cherries while he was filming under a tarpaulin;[73][51][74] he received 220 sutures, but resumed his duties after recovering. quote:Melanie Griffith received 50 sutures after being attacked by a lioness. It was feared that she would lose an eye, but she eventually recovered without being disfigured, although she did require some facial reconstruction.[44][22] A lion jumped on John Marshall and bit the back of his head, inflicting a wound that required 56 sutures.[citation needed] Jerry Marshall was bitten in the thigh by a lion while he was in a cage on set, and he was in hospital alongside Hedren for a month.[72][52] quote:Togar, one of the lead lions, bit assistant director Doron Kauper in the throat and jaw and tried to pull off one of his ears after Kauper unintentionally cued an attack; Kauper also received injuries to his scalp, chest and thigh, and he was admitted to Palmdale General Hospital where he had to undergo four and a half hours of surgery. quote:Pipes and berms from Aliso Canyon became flooded with water and burst on February 9, 1978, after a night of heavy rain. Both were pointed towards the Marshall property to redirect water from the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. The property was destroyed by a 10-foot (3.0 m) flood, from which four sound-crew members had to be rescued. Marshall, who had left the hospital despite being scheduled to undergo knee surgery, helped to rescue many of the animals.[76] Fifteen lions and tigers escaped from the set after fences and cages collapsed; the sheriff and local law enforcement killed three lions
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david_a posted:Roar is an utterly insane film with an absurd amount of untrained big cats on screen made by a real-life lunatic. It’s supposed to be a lighthearted comedy. 70 members of the cast and crew were injured, some severely. Despite this, the movie is somehow fairly boring Roar is the scariest drat movie I've ever seen. It felt like I was close to a panic attack the whole time watching it. Just pure insanity. Wolfsheim posted:Lair of the White Worm is the most phallic movie I've ever seen, starring baby Hugh Grant and an extremely sexual snake woman, and it expertly combines the horror of British small town life with the horror of Lovecraftian snake cults. Highly recommended! I remember wanting to watch this really badly as a kid when it was on HBO, and my parents would never let me. Finally saw it last night and it was a lot of fun, but I definitely understand why they wouldn't let an 11 year old watch lol. Had some major early Peter Jackson vibes to it.
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Wolfsheim posted:After a certain point it becomes a show less about jokes and more about how nice everyone is and how much they want to help each other and while I can tolerate a little bit of that poo poo when you're doing the Office finale or whatever multiple seasons of it is just grating. Oh it was awful to watch in real time over years, just always hoping the show would get its edge back somehow, unable to stop watching, tuning in week after week for the most treacly bullshit about the magic of friendship. I've never had less of a desire to rewatch anything other than the later seasons of Parks and Rec, tied with Come and See.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Oh it was awful to watch in real time over years, just always hoping the show would get its edge back somehow, unable to stop watching, tuning in week after week for the most treacly bullshit about the magic of friendship. I've never had less of a desire to rewatch anything other than the later seasons of Parks and Rec, tied with Come and See. This is good to know because I stopped like 2 eps into the last season of Parks and Rec and had been meaning to go back and finish, but couldn't seem to. Now I think I'll just not bother.
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That Works posted:This is good to know because I stopped like 2 eps into the last season of Parks and Rec and had been meaning to go back and finish, but couldn't seem to. Now I think I'll just not bother. Smarter than me
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Veep made me totally forget about Park & Rec's existence. Actually I take that back seasons 2 and 3 of P&R are solid
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Shageletic posted:The Grey really sticks with you. What a great movie about depression and fighting wolves I like the Grey. It's these broken dudes being dismantled by a magic understanding of a wolf pack as a pure judgemental force of purgatory
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There's the Evil one, and Liam Neeson has to fist fight it. could there be a mirror there, we can only imagine. It's not a subtle movie but it would have been annoying if it tried
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Crawl is decent and solid mostly because you get Barry Pepper grunting while bashing gators with a shovel. 🎶Who could ask for anything mooore 🎶
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Is Crawl the one where Barry Pepper gets his arm fully bitten off but treats it like its mostly a minor inconvenience, like if you had a slight muscle cramp or something
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