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Post by ganews on Mar 1, 2018 19:21:32 GMT -5
Waterworld was a great movie, you guys. Sure it's got problems, but it's basically Mad Max but ocean instead of desert. A gasoline-driven cult of bad guys terrorizes a small band of post-apocalyptic survivors who dream of one unspoiled place left in a world running on scavenged technology. Only one tough loner can save the people! There's a gyro captain, a kid, lieutenant baddies on oxygen supply, and a warlord throwing blessings on his exploited masses.
It's great. And it's due for a remake: Tom Hardy as the Kevin Costner's stoic Mariner Woody Harrelson as Dennis Hopper's bald, over-the-top warlord Scarlett Johansson as Jean Tripplehorne's younger-than-the-male-lead starlet (cast as an action girl) Jeffrey Wright as Michael Jeter's scientist/gyro captain an Asian moppet as the kid with the map tattoo (instead of a white girl born of unseen but obviously Asian parents)
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Post by LazBro on Mar 1, 2018 23:42:27 GMT -5
Waterworld was a great movie, you guys. Sure it's got problems, but it's basically Mad Max but ocean instead of desert. A gasoline-driven cult of bad guys terrorizes a small band of post-apocalyptic survivors who dream of one unspoiled place left in a world running on scavenged technology. Only one tough loner can save the people! There's a gyro captain, a kid, lieutenant baddies on oxygen supply, and a warlord throwing blessings on his exploited masses. It's great. And it's due for a remake: Tom Hardy as the Kevin Costner's stoic Mariner Woody Harrelson as Dennis Hopper's bald, over-the-top warlord Scarlett Johansson as Jean Tripplehorne's younger-than-the-male-lead starlet (cast as an action girl) Jeffrey Wright as Michael Jeter's scientist/gyro captain an Asian moppet as the kid with the map tattoo (instead of a white girl born of unseen but obviously Asian parents) Oh shit, Woody Harrelson would make a fantastic Deacon. I agree with this entire post. Waterworld doesn't get the love it deserves.
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Post by Prole Hole on Mar 7, 2018 5:40:37 GMT -5
I thoroughly enjoyed the movie "Happy Death Day". I ended up watching it on the assumption that it would, hopefully, fall into the category of so-bad-it's-good as a shitty film to watch on a Saturday with Booze Selection, because "college students do Groundhog Day" sounds like a frankly terrible idea, and that's an incredibly stupid title the film has. And yet it was absolutely delightful. The cast are universally strong, it's funny and witty, it's remarkably inventive for an obviously low-budget movie, and I find myself incredibly surprised by how terrific it was. Flawless? Nope, it's not that, but it's just so, so much better than the incredibly crap marketing campaign made it look and sound (for some reason they tried to make it look like it's a straight-up college horror piece, which it isn't, rather than a generally very funny movie, which it is). Really, the worst thing about it is the name.
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Post by Sanziana on Mar 15, 2018 5:55:58 GMT -5
Dunkirk is a deeply boring movie.
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Post by Post-St. Patty's Day Bloat on Apr 12, 2018 19:27:42 GMT -5
Dunkirk is a deeply boring movie. Avatar/comment synergy
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2018 20:24:40 GMT -5
If you think Speed Racer is an unheralded masterpiece, you probably also eat glue.
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Post by Celebith on May 13, 2018 22:46:06 GMT -5
I regularly get whatever the largest sized beverages are at the theater, and I still had no problem sitting through BR2019, Infinity War or any of the other long-ish movies without a bathroom break. Intermissions would be a nice return to tradition, because they'd give me a chance to refill without missing anything, but other than that, I don't feel like they're necessary.
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Post by Post-St. Patty's Day Bloat on May 14, 2018 16:47:12 GMT -5
Well, way to brag about actually having bladder control, ya jerk!
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2018 20:21:06 GMT -5
Lars Von Trier is like if all the problems normies have with "pretentious cinema" manifested into an actual person
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Post by kitchin on May 16, 2018 7:29:01 GMT -5
Lars Von Trier is like if all the problems normies have with "pretentious cinema" manifested into an actual person I prefer his type of pretentiousness to the TV show Bloodline, the one set in the Florida Keys. Not only was it full of hard-gaze pretentiousness, but it also brought out the worst in almost every actor in it. I'll give Kyle Chandler a pass, but the rest, ugh.
On the other hand, Trier made Nicole Kidman very watchable, and Bjork too, though it put her off films forever. He's a bit of simpleton - hates the USA! - but I liked the way the bottom keeps dropping out in his movies. Don't know about his latest, and he is so repellent a person, I may never find out.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2018 8:20:59 GMT -5
If you think Speed Racer is an unheralded masterpiece, you probably also eat glue. If you don't like speed racer you must have saw your parents be run over by car being drove by a chimp in overalls and a striped shirt and are having PTSD flashbacks.
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Post by Post-St. Patty's Day Bloat on Jun 2, 2018 10:41:40 GMT -5
Black Panther was OK.
Just OK.
Nothing more.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Jun 2, 2018 15:43:03 GMT -5
Black Panther was OK. Just OK. Nothing more. I felt more or less the same. For a movie that's nominally about Black Panther, T'Challa himself seemed very passive for most of the story.
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Post by Celebith on Jun 4, 2018 1:45:32 GMT -5
If you think Speed Racer is an unheralded masterpiece, you probably also eat glue. If you don't like speed racer you must have saw your parents be run over by car being drove by a chimp in overalls and a striped shirt and are having PTSD flashbacks. I started watching this the other day and couldn't get past the scene where Speed gets out of school and is picked up by Rex. The whole aesthetic of the movie just turned me off. I like most of the Wachowski's movies - I even enjoyed Jupiter Ascending waaaay more than it deserved. It might be great, but it's not for me.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2018 8:11:24 GMT -5
If you don't like speed racer you must have saw your parents be run over by car being drove by a chimp in overalls and a striped shirt and are having PTSD flashbacks. I started watching this the other day and couldn't get past the scene where Speed gets out of school and is picked up by Rex. The whole aesthetic of the movie just turned me off. I like most of the Wachowski's movies - I even enjoyed Jupiter Ascending waaaay more than it deserved. It might be great, but it's not for me. Well, it is an aesthetic that has rarely if ever been pulled off before. Live action anime. I can think of only one other anime/manga adaptation that was pulled off live action wise with better than "decent" results, Ichi the Killer. Also, the original blade runner, but it is more like Blade Runner influenced anime or maybe it was two way influence with that film.
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Post by Post-St. Patty's Day Bloat on Jun 4, 2018 17:22:34 GMT -5
Black Panther was OK. Just OK. Nothing more. I felt more or less the same. For a movie that's nominally about Black Panther, T'Challa himself seemed very passive for most of the story. Yeah, Michael B. Jordan/Kilmonger turned out to be vastly more interesting to watch (and served as a nice distraction from the garish CG landscapes).
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Post by moimoi on Jun 5, 2018 0:09:25 GMT -5
I was pretty unimpressed with the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie. That's a very unpopular opinion with my wife. I fucking hate that movie so much. The special effects are good, but it's totally devoid of actual feeling. I really resented being emotionally manipulated so blatantly in the opening scene in particular. It was manufactured sentiment and wasn't earned at all. Also, Karen Gillan is not a good actor. There, I said it. And neither is Zoe Saldana. I agree with you except about Karen Gillan and Zoe Saldana. Finally got around to watching this and I think its reputation got inflated, since so many people went in expecting it to suck. It doesn't suck, but it really falls apart after the first act. Dumb plotting and zero character development - like, the tree and the raccoon are the most well-developed characters. I can't blame Gillan and Saldana for being given nothing to work with, let alone the criminally underused Lee Pace, Peter Serafinowicz (sp?), John C. Reilly, and Glenn freakin' Close.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2018 11:24:27 GMT -5
Star Wars needs to die, the fanbase around Star Wars has ruined the whole damn thing. The fanbase harasses the actors and are now doing shit like this:
All under the guise of: "the direction they took the characters in was wrong"
Boo fucking hoo, luke was a grumpy old man. Grow the fuck up.
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Post by Celebith on Jun 6, 2018 16:34:21 GMT -5
Star Wars needs to die, the fanbase around Star Wars has ruined the whole damn thing. The fanbase harasses the actors and are now doing shit like this: All under the guise of: "the direction they took the characters in was wrong" Boo fucking hoo, luke was a grumpy old man. Grow the fuck up. It's really possible to enjoy a work independent of its fanbase. Or to spite its fanbase. If we got rid of everything that had horrible fans, we'd have no sports or fox 'news'.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2018 18:01:29 GMT -5
Star Wars needs to die, the fanbase around Star Wars has ruined the whole damn thing. The fanbase harasses the actors and are now doing shit like this: All under the guise of: "the direction they took the characters in was wrong" Boo fucking hoo, luke was a grumpy old man. Grow the fuck up. It's really possible to enjoy a work independent of its fanbase. Or to spite its fanbase. If we got rid of everything that had horrible fans, we'd have no sports or fox 'news'. It is also possible for a fanbase to intertwine itself with the product so much that they are inseparable, at least with sports teams each team has their own fans and in their own bubble. Star Wars is so pervasive and everyone seems to be all about star wars, and the "fans" are so adamant about being heard that it is hard to separate them from the product. Especially when fans are harassing the actors of the movies so much that those actors are having to quit social media.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Jun 6, 2018 20:35:32 GMT -5
A certain kind of Star Wars fan is hilarious because they act like Star Wars is, or has EVER BEEN, a cult fandom. IT SET BOX OFFICE RECORDS THAT WEREN’T BROKEN FOR DECADES & CHANGED EVERYTHING ABOUT HOW SCI-FI MOVIES WERE MADE AND (perhaps more importantly)REVOLUTIONIZED TIE-IN MARKETING. It’s like insisting that no-one’s ever heard of Cinderella except for you and your small circle of supercool friends.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jun 6, 2018 23:01:11 GMT -5
Luigi's Mansion is the best Ghosts Busters. Definitely better than the shitty first movie.
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Post by Sanziana on Jun 6, 2018 23:50:19 GMT -5
Ghostbusters 2016 is a good, extremely funny and charming movie and I rewatch it periodically.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Jun 7, 2018 12:04:02 GMT -5
Ghostbusters 2016 is a good, extremely funny and charming movie and I rewatch it periodically. Agreed. I own it and enjoy it much more than I ever did the original.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2018 15:16:59 GMT -5
Grease 2 is having a critical resurgence, I don't even know how to process this.
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Post by Prole Hole on Jun 8, 2018 4:29:11 GMT -5
Jack Nicholson is the best movie Joker. By some distance, in fact.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Jun 8, 2018 8:32:07 GMT -5
Jack Nicholson is the best movie Joker. By some distance, in fact.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Jun 8, 2018 13:53:01 GMT -5
Jack Nicholson is the best movie Joker. By some distance, in fact. Mark Hamill and I both laugh in your face.
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Post by The Sensational She-Hulk on Jun 8, 2018 15:17:52 GMT -5
Jack Nicholson is the best movie Joker. By some distance, in fact. Mark Hamill and I both laugh in your face. Mark Hamill is the best overall Joker in any format. But Jack Nicholson is the best live-action Joker.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Jun 8, 2018 15:30:49 GMT -5
Mark Hamill and I both laugh in your face. Mark Hamill is the best overall Joker in any format. But Jack Nicholson is the best live-action Joker. Fine, but Prole Hole didn't say live-action Joker. He said movie Joker, and so Hamill's portrayal in Batman: Mask of the Phantasm counts.
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