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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Eric P on March 14, 2008, 11:41:51 PM

Title: hello. please see the motion picture Doomsday
Post by: Eric P on March 14, 2008, 11:41:51 PM
it absolutely rocks your lame faces.

Title: Re: hello. please see the motion picture Doomsday
Post by: The Fake Shemp on March 14, 2008, 11:48:52 PM
Mad Max called and it wants its props back.
Title: Re: hello. please see the motion picture Doomsday
Post by: Phoenix Dark on March 14, 2008, 11:52:08 PM
huh? the trailer looked absolutely horrible. don't 10 movies like this come out every year
Title: Re: hello. please see the motion picture Doomsday
Post by: Eric P on March 14, 2008, 11:52:37 PM
that's how it was sold, but that's not what it is.

it's essentially neil marshall telling the ultimate boy's own tale writ large.

i had an absolutely wonderful time.  it's a shame that many people won't give this film a fair shake, because it just absolutely dances around tropes, stereotypes and conventions we all know with a smile on it's face the whole time.
Title: Re: hello. please see the motion picture Doomsday
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 14, 2008, 11:58:14 PM
Mad Max called and it wants its props back.

Only if he's going to use them!
Title: Re: hello. please see the motion picture Doomsday
Post by: Eric P on March 15, 2008, 12:01:01 AM
i'm stopping any hyperbole here because i don't want people who don't enjoy it to come back and say "zomg you said greatest thing ever" when it's not my intention to GAF this movie.

i'll just say this:

1) it's not a mad max clone, though road warrior along with many, many other 80s films figure largely into it (to list them would be to ruin surprises)

2) i found it quite enjoyable and well worth my full priced evening showing money.

3) many of the people walking out of the theater had big goofy grins on their faces and excitedly discussing scenes

there are strong elements of british comic book / science fiction sense of "cool."  It's not guy richie or anything else like that.  it's rather more tank girl or the like than an attempt to emulate american action films (though not the horrid tank girl movie)

it was to me, just a great, fun film.  not for everyone, but it was certainly for me.
Title: Re: hello. please see the motion picture Doomsday
Post by: Solo on March 15, 2008, 03:48:57 PM
The Descent (original UK version, not the US one with the botched ending) absolutely rocked my socks, so Im down for Doomsday. Will I see it in theatres? Probably not. But its something Ill probably blind buy on Bluray without much fear.
Title: Re: hello. please see the motion picture Doomsday
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 15, 2008, 07:09:19 PM
:bow Best bad movie since the Renaissance. :bow2
Title: Re: hello. please see the motion picture Doomsday
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on March 15, 2008, 11:47:03 PM
I am going to go see Doomsday at a company movie day next Friday.

:bow my company :bow2
Title: Re: hello. please see the motion picture Doomsday
Post by: Ichirou on March 16, 2008, 11:52:48 PM
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b4/Doomsday.jpg)
Title: Re: hello. please see the motion picture Doomsday
Post by: Tauntaun on March 16, 2008, 11:55:51 PM
I want to see this movie. :gun

Ichi: oh man a badass (aka bloody) anime about doomsday vs superman would be hawt. :punch
Title: Re: hello. please see the motion picture Doomsday
Post by: Ichirou on March 16, 2008, 11:56:19 PM
The Superman: Doomsday direct-to-DVD movie is really bad unfortunately.  :(
Title: Re: hello. please see the motion picture Doomsday
Post by: Tauntaun on March 16, 2008, 11:58:26 PM
The Superman: Doomsday direct-to-DVD movie is really bad unfortunately.  :(

I've seen that at the local rental place but I've been hesitant to get it, now I know not to.  :(
Title: Re: hello. please see the motion picture Doomsday
Post by: Eric P on March 17, 2008, 08:46:46 AM
The Superman: Doomsday direct-to-DVD movie is really bad unfortunately.  :(

I've seen that at the local rental place but I've been hesitant to get it, now I know not to.  :(

yeah, it's pretty bad
Title: Re: hello. please see the motion picture Doomsday
Post by: Ichirou on March 17, 2008, 09:03:57 AM
They're doing some animu Batman stuff to coincide with the release of the new film, they should do the same for Superman when the next Superman flick comes out.

I'd LOVE to see the Japanese interpretation of Superman. :lol
Title: Re: hello. please see the motion picture Doomsday
Post by: Eric P on March 17, 2008, 09:24:11 AM
i think the ultimate interpretation of superman remains yet unwritten.

too many people try to relate his humanity to try to give us something to latch onto as an audience, but i think this is a bit of a disservice to the concept.

alien raised by middle americans who is amazingly secular?
Title: Re: hello. please see the motion picture Doomsday
Post by: TVC15 on March 24, 2008, 07:59:51 PM
http://www.avclub.com/content/hater/doomsday_is_the_best_awful_movie
Title: Re: hello. please see the motion picture Doomsday
Post by: Eric P on March 24, 2008, 08:02:34 PM
it's sooooo goooooooooood
Title: Re: hello. please see the motion picture Doomsday
Post by: BlueTsunami on March 24, 2008, 10:10:38 PM
The movie was definitely fun. The main female protagnist was totally the female version of Snake Plisken. Good times

I wish they would have had her wear an eye patch for the whole duration of the movie but maybe that would have been too much.
Title: Re: hello. please see the motion picture Doomsday
Post by: Joe Molotov on March 24, 2008, 11:26:06 PM
http://www.avclub.com/content/hater/doomsday_is_the_best_awful_movie

IAWTP
Title: Re: hello. please see the motion picture Doomsday
Post by: TVC15 on October 25, 2008, 05:59:36 AM
I just watched this, and Eric P is right, as usual.  Although I disagree on this point

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i found it quite enjoyable and well worth my full priced evening showing money.

I'm kinda glad I rented it.  I dug the movie, but it was rather reminiscent of higher-end low budget fare.  I'd still recommend peeps check it out, mainly because I am sure it will be like 7 dollars in every bargain bin soon.
Title: Re: hello. please see the motion picture Doomsday
Post by: Great Rumbler on October 25, 2008, 09:58:28 AM
I'd go and dig up my old post where I laid out all the reasons that I didn't particularly like this movie, but I don't feel like it.

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Someday I want a film that doesn't just deal with the aftermath of a huge viral outbreak, but shows the outbreak itself.

Andromeda Strain and Invasion of the Body Snatchers are kind of like what you're looking for.
Title: Re: hello. please see the motion picture Doomsday
Post by: Eric P on October 26, 2008, 08:38:55 AM
I just watched this, and Eric P is right, as usual.  Although I disagree on this point

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i found it quite enjoyable and well worth my full priced evening showing money.

I'm kinda glad I rented it.  I dug the movie, but it was rather reminiscent of higher-end low budget fare.  I'd still recommend peeps check it out, mainly because I am sure it will be like 7 dollars in every bargain bin soon.

i wouldn't buy the film or anything of that nature.  i rented it again from netflix and i enjoyed it then as well.

of course last night i was able to overlook some komedy to enjoy Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao in Wheels on Meals.
Title: Re: hello. please see the motion picture Doomsday
Post by: Eric P on October 26, 2008, 09:02:44 AM
which was the point
Title: Re: hello. please see the motion picture Doomsday
Post by: GilloD on October 27, 2008, 10:30:44 AM
I can't believe this movie exists. Awesome.