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Happy New Year, Generation Chat!
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Steve Yun posted:I loved Gattaca but after a decade I started thinking hey this guy with a heart condition that could die at any time lied his way into a year long space mission where he could jeopardize the whole thing by dying, all so he could feel better about himself Uh, the point was that his diagnosis was vastly overblown and he did fine the whole time?
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Jan 4, 2024 00:17
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null_pointer posted:Silly question, probably the wrong place for it, feel free to kick me out if needed, etc ... The card game in Training Day starts with everybody being kinda goofy in a disarming way but the whole situation slips into You Done hosed Up so fast.
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Jan 4, 2024 02:11
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null_pointer posted:God drat my memory is poo poo No I'm pretty sure your memory is correct. The doctor is always trying to tell him about his son throughout the movie. ccubed posted:Gattaca chatter. It's been awhile, but wasn't there a scene where Ethan Hawke is exercising but he has something altering the heart monitor and it slips at some point and his heart was racing a million miles an hour even though he wasn't showing the effects? At that point Hawke has been running for a million hours. There might be something to the genetic engineering where all the other applicants are really at peak performance without breaking a sweat... or everybody is full of poo poo and constantly collapsing behind the scenes, and it's just that Hawke's methods of concealment are a little cruder than everybody else's.
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Jan 4, 2024 03:18
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Bright Bart posted:
Not exactly what you mean but I always laugh when I remember that Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game exists.
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Jan 7, 2024 12:11
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:I finally got around to seeing M3gan, which was entertaining but could have stood to be weirder and meaner. Feels like they chickened out from making a full-throated "parenting sucks, especially when you never asked for it" movie. I'd say they didn't chicken out so much as that is the complete opposite of what they wanted to say, i.e. you will be a terrible parent if you don't commit.
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Jan 10, 2024 04:35
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CatstropheWaitress posted:Watched Desperado randomly yesterday and having never sought out Rodriguez's stuff, I get why he had a career based on this alone. Was just so much fun, with Trejo's scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTTYOJ3oqSs) being a highlight. Was howling when the hero had two friends that look exactly like him show up without any prior mention also with guitar cases and more so when one of the cases turned out to be a tiny rocket launcher. That scene owns so much, I wanted so badly to get throwing knives after seeing that as a kid. It cemented Danny Trejo too, dude is just a colossal badass in that scene and the movie did a perfect job setting him up as one until then. As for the Mariachi's band members, I always imagined they both had their own story similar to Antonio's character, just that when the rocket launcher guy walked into a bar seeking Bunko, the ensuing shoot-out was rather short. The dual gun guy is the same actor as El Mariachi's, iIrc. Gripweed posted:El Mariachi is extremely good, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico is a lot of fun if you don’t just recoil at the sight of Johnny Depp, which at this point is understandable. One of these days I need to rewatch Once Upon a Time in Mexico because I bounced off of it hard when it came out. Not even because of Depp, this was all pre-Sparrow. I just expected a direct sequel to Desperado and this was definitely not it. It was like wanting to see the next episode in your favorite cartoon show, but instead you got a different but very similar cartoon show, reusing some of the character designs.
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Jan 12, 2024 23:49
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Roth posted:You're a moron. The menacing Snyder fan has logged on, ready to take names and snap necks!
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Jan 13, 2024 02:09
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Kevin James is fantastic in Becky.
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Jan 14, 2024 21:44
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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done has Shannon do a young-ish Kinski.
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Jan 17, 2024 18:28
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Gaius Marius posted:The biggest problem with Reacher is that the titular character is not large enough. They should do an episode with Lord of the Rings-esque perspective trickery to increase Reacher's height by 17%
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Jan 18, 2024 06:29
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Air Skwirl posted:Yeah, having him be surrounded by a bunch of mini-Reachers I think was a poor choice. Should have stuck with the whole drifter in a strange town uncovering something nasty by accident thing. Like that old Hulk show, but Bruce Banner is Smart Hulk all the time.
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Jan 19, 2024 09:00
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It's a fantastic concept, although I wouldn't want to miss the transformation scenes and accompanying plot contrivances for the world.
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Jan 19, 2024 09:11
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I would have guessed The Reader but that's the wrong blonde lady.
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Jan 20, 2024 10:46
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Aquaman 1 was a troubled production, where they evidently had to make a lot of changes in pre-production and beyond. You can get a sense of the original concept by watching the darn Snyder Cut, where the Aquaman is a bitter alcoholic because of his exile from the land of straightfaced science fantasy. When 'grimdark' became a meme, the studio obviously panicked at the premise of 'bitter alcoholic Aquaman' and consequently tried to 'lighten the tone' through such methods as literally just dialing up the saturation by 50%. The biggest change was, of course, making Aquaman into a wisecracking party doofus who loves beer in a goofy way. I liked the first movie a lot but drat, this makes me wanna watch the second where I had zero interest before due to the shoddy marketing and it's weird place in Inconsequential Limbo.
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Jan 25, 2024 16:00
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If Scorcese wanted to be controversial, he should make a movie about Mohammad.
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Jan 30, 2024 10:56
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Welcome to being German!
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Jan 30, 2024 15:00
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Gripweed posted:Man, Barbarella just refuses to generate any kind of narrative momentum. First thing that happens: Barbarella crash lands on a planet, breaking her spaceship’s stabilizers and requiring assistance from a local to repair it. Second thing that happens: Barbarella crash lands on a different part of that planet, breaking her spaceship’s stabilizers and requiring assistance from a local to repair it. It's called an "arch", Barbarella tries to learn not to be a lovely pilot.
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Jan 31, 2024 04:46
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BonoMan posted:Looks like the new 28 Days Later Sequel is actually going to be a 2 parter with Boyle directing the first one and Alex Garland writing (Murphy is EP and unkown if he'll act) and no announcement of the second director. 14 Days later and 14 Days Later 2.
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Feb 1, 2024 02:11
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Vargo posted:Debating between Rocky 2 or 3 tonight. I think Rocky 2 is a better movie but 3 might be a better Carl Weathers movie Predator Or Action Jackson
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Feb 2, 2024 23:18
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I died seven times over watching that.
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Feb 4, 2024 09:17
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Gripweed posted:I watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutant Mayhem. It was fun! It's a movie about the toy line from the 90s, those always felt so much weirder and grosser than the cartoons from that time.
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Feb 7, 2024 04:59
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Baron Porkface posted:What are some movies other than The Rock that start with panicked radio chatter? Fury
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Feb 8, 2024 05:52
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Gripweed posted:It makes no goddamn sense that anyone knows about Shredder. How are the newspapers reporting on him? The Foot Clan just started doing crimes and is very mysterious, how does anyone even know they have an even more mysterious leader? You kind of just have to take one look at the guy to come up with that name. The Turtles had some weird-rear end comics going on even considering they're Turtles comics. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a story about how being called Shredder is just a cosmic inevitability for the guy no matter what he does.
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Feb 12, 2024 05:27
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Maybe he's really buff? Or a very enthusiastic guitar player? I dunno, I got nothing.
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Feb 12, 2024 05:37
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Pirate Jet posted:Just got out of Lisa Frankenstein and thought it was great. What most saw as derivative I saw as deconstructive. This is a movie that criticizes goth culture in a way that only could have come from someone who lived it. Diablo Cody is a good writer gently caress everyone who says she isn’t. Goth culture is not, like, super deep. South Park mostly got it right. Is the movie as good as the South Park episodes featuring the goth kids?
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Feb 12, 2024 19:13
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Air Skwirl posted:Me being upset she didn't know them. Seriously, if you really want to piss off a kid under the age of ten, say the name of their toys wrong. This works remarkably well with Ninja Go, TMNT's spiritual successor.
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Feb 14, 2024 07:31
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Oooooh, it's ON!
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Feb 14, 2024 09:22
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BonoMan posted:She is absolutely an A-lister, wth y'all talking about?? Oh yeah? Please remind me, which superhero did she portray and how much money did that movie make? I genuinely can't remember if she was in any cape poo poo movies, would be kind of impressive if she circumvented them until now.
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Feb 15, 2024 23:07
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Kinda funny given Sam Worthington was for a while seemingly Hollywood desperately trying to push a leading man despite have no real personality traits or appeal whatsoever, which at least worked for Jakesully, and by the time the sequel came out it's almost a throwback to cast him given iirc he ain't done poo poo since then. He's been in Things, I'm sure of it. But it's all more appropriate to what he can do and what audiences might want from him. During this brief period where he was pushed hard, he might as well have been Taylor Lautner. Except Terminator Salvation, he kind of was one of the better parts of that one.
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Feb 15, 2024 23:28
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That's not how any of that works!
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Feb 20, 2024 09:56
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What little motivation I had to watch The Marvels was completely annihilated by the boring opening on the moon. It just looked so flat and grey and I didn't get a handle on who these people were. Like, they were clearly bad guys, but they weren't menacing or interesting at all. Why would I watch a movie where these fuckers are the bad guys?
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Feb 20, 2024 10:56
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The Peccadillo posted:Chat is roasting Madame Web's CPR Is his name Captain Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
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Feb 21, 2024 17:06
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The Peccadillo posted:No they don't turn into the spiderwomen who kill him he dies while they're just regular lmao perfect, a Kyle Reese-less Terminator
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Feb 22, 2024 06:41
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Did... did Peppa learn that lesbians aren't scary?
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Feb 22, 2024 08:12
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FreudianSlippers posted:*Who because my family is weird is only two years younger than me. I teach a girl in 9th grade who I know has an aunt in 7th grade and I am still not prepared to deal with that.
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Feb 25, 2024 01:49
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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:I haven't seen it in probably fifteen years, but I remember is as good, and the early scene of the two heroes in full coats and hats as very visually striking. There must have been at least two different occasions where I started watching Brotherhood... because I remembered cool poo poo like that only to be reminded that it also has ~150 minutes of French historical political drama. I respect it for the stuff it pulls off, but there are large chunks that just drag.
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Feb 26, 2024 05:31
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Blood Boils posted:The Jason Momoa Conan is underrated, in the sense that nobody talks about it but it's actually decent It barely manages to rise to Okayish for most of its runtime but the ending is just terrible. It's got similar problems as Pathfinder, the "Native Americans fight Vikings" movie, in that both have so much going on that sounds really loving metal on paper, but somehow falls flat in the movie.
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Feb 26, 2024 22:26
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Failed Imagineer posted:*Paul Muad'Dib having prophetic vision of a galactic Jihad enacted in his name*: Oh my gawd, it's a galactic Jihad enacted in my name! Script-doctored
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Feb 27, 2024 09:12
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FreudianSlippers posted:Want to steal it for some future project, where even if there is a main monster there's occasional bonus ghosts that nobody ever notices or comments on just kinda lurking in the frame. Goon ghosts gotta lurk more!
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Feb 27, 2024 22:17
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