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Diunx · « **Reply #16740 on:** February 23, 2013, 12:10:56 AM »

Can't wait for that movie to come out just to see how fucking terrible it is.

chronovore · « **Reply #16741 on:** February 23, 2013, 02:36:53 AM »

New, incredibly ornate Ninja Turtle designs? Seems likely.

Groogrux · « **Reply #16742 on:** February 23, 2013, 09:23:09 AM »

"So they don't want their beloved turtles to be aliens, eh? Someone call Megan Fox! That'll show those fuckers who's boss around here..."

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #16743 on:** February 23, 2013, 11:58:26 AM »

Michael Bay is history's greatest monster.

Enl · « **Reply #16744 on:** February 23, 2013, 01:29:50 PM »

Good thing the new series makes up for whatever crap Bay spews out.

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #16745 on:** February 24, 2013, 12:17:21 AM »

Watched a bunch of Canadian crap today:

Trailer Park Boys: The Movie - Not that great. The concept doesn't work well as a full feature movie.

Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day - Even worse than the first movie.

Hobo With a Shotgun - It was OK.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #16746 on:** February 24, 2013, 12:51:12 AM »

Quote from: Eric P on February 22, 2013, 07:00:00 AM

new Universal Soldier is up as well

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Universal_Soldier_Day_of_Reckoning/70229178

The last Universal Soldier movie was actually pretty decent. I haven't seen this newest one yet, but I'll add it to my queue.

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #16747 on:** February 24, 2013, 02:15:53 AM »

It's genuinely great, and the last 20 mins or so are action fillet steak, with some cracking fighting of the men.

Eric P · « **Reply #16748 on:** February 24, 2013, 07:48:49 AM »

watched American Mary. Not gory by any means but definitely a disturbing little horror film about a medical student who gets in deep into body modification. good acting from the older sister of Ginger Snaps

Yeti · « **Reply #16749 on:** February 24, 2013, 11:48:35 PM »

I thought Michael Bay and Megan Fox hated each other, and that was why she wasn't in Tranformer 3. Did they ~~fuck~~ kiss and make up?

Purple Filth · « **Reply #16750 on:** February 24, 2013, 11:51:52 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on February 22, 2013, 10:24:56 PM

Megan Fox is going to appear in the new Ninja Turtles movies as April O'Neil. DIAF, Michael Bay.

didn't they change the orgins to some alien bullshit? so its was already DOA already imo.

chronovore · « **Reply #16751 on:** February 25, 2013, 12:46:53 AM »

Watched HANNA with da wife last night. Two hour movie, started at 11PM, finished at 1AM, were high on adrenaline for another hour. Great movie. Cate Blanchett's accent was a little unsettling, but then again her character is meant to evoke an unsettling reaction. Numerous faerie tale tropes in it, I was very happy.

chronovore · « **Reply #16752 on:** February 25, 2013, 01:25:52 AM »

Quote from: Yeti on February 24, 2013, 11:48:35 PM

I thought Michael Bay and Megan Fox hated each other, and that was why she wasn't in Tranformer 3. Did they ~~fuck~~ kiss and make up?

Yeah, they had a very public spat about it, first made public by Megan Fox. Apparently they are considering this a public make-up:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/feb/22/megan-fox-michael-bay-ninja-turtles

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Bay himself confirmed the news with a short post on his blog. He wrote: "TMNT: we are bringing Megan Fox back into the family!"

Whatevs; it's not like TMNT is a license which has been handled with consistency or respect.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #16753 on:** February 25, 2013, 01:31:21 AM »

ie, they're fucking again

I don't care. I know what TMNT is and I know what it isn't; likewise I know what Transformers is and isn't. These things cannot be ruined by shitty films, they already exist. Why should I spend a second being butthurt over this

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #16754 on:** February 25, 2013, 01:34:53 AM »

Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning

This is a very surreal, bizarre action movie. In its own way, it takes more inspiration from the likes of Drive and Apocalypse Now than it does your standard brainless action movie. It'd downbeat, it's often deliberate in its pacing [when it's not showing off one of its very slick action scenes], and the violence in the original version eventually added up to an NC-17 rating [the American release snipped away just enough here and there to get an R]. The story is too confusing to really take anything away from on its own merits and lots of the details are left vague, but that tends to serve its surreal nature rather than take away from the movie as a whole.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #16755 on:** February 25, 2013, 02:12:49 AM »

it's not like Watchmen destroyed the book

oh wait i haven't been able to look at it since

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #16756 on:** February 25, 2013, 02:15:08 AM »

Quote from: Cormacaroni on February 25, 2013, 02:12:49 AM

it's not like Watchmen destroyed the book

oh wait i haven't been able to look at it since

The movie destroyed the book, the prequels stomped the pieces into even smaller pieces and then peed on them.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #16757 on:** February 25, 2013, 02:29:47 AM »

come to my arms brother

although I keep hearing that the Darwyn Cooke Minutemen series is legit and I love Darwyn. Still don't want to give money to it or read it though

Momo · « **Reply #16758 on:** February 25, 2013, 03:00:55 AM »

Quote from: Exodust SoulBurn on February 22, 2013, 08:23:14 PM

I absolutely LOVE Doom

This. This motherfucker right here

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #16759 on:** February 25, 2013, 09:42:53 AM »

I read portions of Watchmen all the time. Adaptions have no impact on how I view the source material. They're seperate entities for seperate mediums. The last time an adaption truly pissed me off was Game of Thrones S2, and not because it changed stuff - but because it made changes that led to bad television. I'm fine with changes, just make them good.

Not everything from a novel can work on screen. Like the climax of Watchmen.

Momo · « **Reply #16760 on:** February 25, 2013, 12:14:13 PM »

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better costume

cool breeze · « **Reply #16761 on:** February 25, 2013, 12:57:18 PM »

new costume looks more like the old old costume, but better

Diunx · « **Reply #16762 on:** February 25, 2013, 01:21:45 PM »

Looks fantastic, hopefully they gave him a full red line on his waist, was the worst thing about the previous costume imo.

Boogie · « **Reply #16763 on:** February 25, 2013, 01:27:57 PM »

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on February 25, 2013, 02:48:53 AM

honestly the adaptation that first got me (and probably most people) onto the turtles was a fucking eldritch abomination anyway, so let bay do his worst.

and he didn't ruin transformers because transformers was never good. the show was a blatant series of toy commercials, you fell for it, i fell for it, let's just admit it was garbage and try to salvage some dignity. toys were awesome though.

Beast Wars was awesome tho

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #16764 on:** February 25, 2013, 01:59:39 PM »

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #16765 on:** February 25, 2013, 03:35:30 PM »

I just saw the new Judge Dredd, wow, so much better then I expected. Great action flick.

Miles better then tripe like Expendables that just tries to tap in to the old nostalgia bone (although Van Damme was great).

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #16766 on:** February 25, 2013, 03:42:11 PM »

Quote from: chronovore on February 10, 2013, 10:36:27 AM

Skyfall: pretty darned great. Only had a couple problems, but I liked it almost as much as Casino Royale.

You don't think its much better?

Its my new fav Bond movie.

cool breeze · « **Reply #16767 on:** February 25, 2013, 10:50:12 PM »

Quote from: Diunx on February 25, 2013, 01:21:45 PM

Looks fantastic, hopefully they gave him a full red line on his waist, was the worst thing about the previous costume imo.

set shot

gloves are back to Raimi style, too.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #16768 on:** February 25, 2013, 10:59:29 PM »

wtf is he hanging for? about to get busy with himself?

cool breeze · « **Reply #16769 on:** February 25, 2013, 11:06:05 PM »

well...

the untold story isn't what we thought it'd be

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #16770 on:** February 25, 2013, 11:10:47 PM »

Beast Wars

I don't see how anyone could think the Watchman movie took anything away from the book. Even if it didn't succeed as a movie, it still was a amazing collection of vignettes that unfortunately just added up to less than the sum of its parts.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #16771 on:** February 25, 2013, 11:45:42 PM »

Watched drive last night. Thought it was decent enough but not as good as I had expected based on the reviews. Decent movie that I will completely forgot ever existed in a month.

I did like how it had the pacing and sort of tone of a 70's movie.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #16772 on:** February 25, 2013, 11:55:33 PM »

the proportionate sexual needs of a spider

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #16773 on:** February 25, 2013, 11:56:27 PM »

Quote from: Mamacint on February 25, 2013, 11:10:47 PM

Beast Wars

I don't see how anyone could think the Watchman movie took anything away from the book. Even if it didn't succeed as a movie, it still was a amazing collection of vignettes that unfortunately just added up to less than the sum of its parts.

Rationally, it didn't. In reality, every time I think about re-reading it, I think about the fucking movie and put it back on the shelf. And i thought the movie had redeeming qualities.

Momo · « **Reply #16774 on:** February 26, 2013, 12:14:55 AM »

Quote from: fryinghigh on February 25, 2013, 11:06:05 PM

well...

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the untold story isn't what we thought it'd be

Purple Filth · « **Reply #16775 on:** February 26, 2013, 02:48:32 AM »

Quote from: fryinghigh on February 25, 2013, 11:06:05 PM

well...

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the untold story isn't what we thought it'd be

so peter couldn't take it anymore

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #16776 on:** February 26, 2013, 08:27:51 AM »

Objectively, Watchmen has more than a few good scenes and some great ones. There are some great visuals, many from the book, and IMO the problem is they got the look right but nearly everthing else wrong. The acting is terrible and the delivery of dialogue is worse; it reminds me of the Star Wars prequel where the basic concepts of making a good movie (acting, writing, etc) are overlooked in order to focus on visuals.

Snyder has such a slavish objective to bring comic panels/images to life that he lost sight of everything else. But I do remember thinking they handled the midnight climax better (less cheesy).

ManaByte · « **Reply #16777 on:** February 26, 2013, 07:24:08 PM »

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #16778 on:** February 26, 2013, 07:49:45 PM »

I hope Nacho Vigalondo wins an Academy Award for Best Name.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #16779 on:** February 26, 2013, 08:02:37 PM »

Timecrimes was awesome, haven't seen any of his other movies, though.

Diunx · « **Reply #16780 on:** February 27, 2013, 12:46:23 AM »

Yikes! can we have Kirsten back?

Momo · « **Reply #16781 on:** February 27, 2013, 12:52:02 AM »

Quote from: ManaByte on February 26, 2013, 07:24:08 PM

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... someone needs to explain this to me

chronovore · « **Reply #16782 on:** February 27, 2013, 08:56:44 AM »

Quote from: Premium Lager on February 25, 2013, 03:42:11 PM

Quote from: chronovore on February 10, 2013, 10:36:27 AM
Skyfall: pretty darned great. Only had a couple problems, but I liked it almost as much as Casino Royale.

You don't think its much better?

Its my new fav Bond movie.

In terms of portraying Bond as a broken human who walks a very thin, self destructive line, it was better than Casino. It felt less grounded, and edged toward absurd action more than Casino, and I was less fond of that.

ManaByte · « **Reply #16783 on:** February 27, 2013, 09:50:12 AM »

Quote from: Diunx on February 27, 2013, 12:46:23 AM

Yikes! can we have Kirsten back?

Sure:

Diunx · « **Reply #16784 on:** February 27, 2013, 09:51:56 AM »

Still looks hotter than that thing up there.

Groogrux · « **Reply #16785 on:** February 27, 2013, 11:25:02 AM »

That pic is not very flattering of her. Here's one when she's in makeup.

I'd smash that.

ManaByte · « **Reply #16786 on:** February 27, 2013, 03:54:50 PM »

http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/scoop-early-screenings-of-man-of-steel-reveal-more-about-the-tone-action-and-superman-kicking-all-kinds-of-ass

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- Imagine a Nolan story with Snyder effects/action.
- It's the best movie of the year.
- There's TONS of action with Superman kicking all kinds of ass in his suit.
- The cape is CG'd most of the time so it can look awesome.
- They have intentionally left out most of the the Super action in trailers to save it.
- It's not nearly as dour and serious as the trailers suggest.
- The movie is complete, minus the 3D post-conversion, which is currently taking place

Yeti · « **Reply #16787 on:** February 27, 2013, 04:02:54 PM »

Lol, I'll believe it when I see it. I remember Superman Returns having similar hype trains.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #16788 on:** February 27, 2013, 04:07:09 PM »

Sounds good, a Superman movie definitely needs to have a ton of big action scenes.

Mupepe · « **Reply #16789 on:** February 27, 2013, 04:20:27 PM »

Im hyped as fuck. But I'm a pretty big Snyder fan. Haters be damned. He always entertains me.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #16790 on:** February 27, 2013, 04:26:48 PM »

Snyder's great on the visual side, just needs somebody writing a strong script for him.

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #16791 on:** February 27, 2013, 04:40:10 PM »

who wrote it?

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #16792 on:** February 27, 2013, 05:00:33 PM »

Quote from: BrandNew on February 27, 2013, 04:40:10 PM

who wrote it?

Not someone I would consider being a strong writer, unfortunately, but maybe enough of the Nolan influence rubbed off on Goyer to get him to turn in something decent.

Diunx · « **Reply #16793 on:** February 27, 2013, 11:09:50 PM »

BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR!!!!

ManaByte · « **Reply #16794 on:** February 28, 2013, 02:03:26 AM »

Jack the Giant Slayer

Really bad shit CG. Really awesome Ewan McGregor.

chronovore · « **Reply #16795 on:** February 28, 2013, 06:30:30 AM »

DREDD: better than it had any right to be, and I would love if it got a sequel. I was a little distracted after I realized Karl Urban was doing a straight up Clint-Eastwood-as-Dirty-Harry impression, but now I plan to read all future DREDD comix in 'dat voice.

Eric P · « **Reply #16796 on:** February 28, 2013, 09:32:32 AM »

OMG TIMES A BILLION

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #16797 on:** February 28, 2013, 09:40:36 AM »

Yep, I'm watching that.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #16798 on:** February 28, 2013, 10:00:02 AM »

Taco-dile....SUPREME!

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #16799 on:** February 28, 2013, 01:13:32 PM »

Watched a netflix thing on Jonestown.

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/American_Experience_Jonestown_The_Life_and_Death_of_Peoples_Temple/70058891?locale=en-US

Was pretty good. Kinda heart breaking as a lot of the people involved and affected are still alive. I knew the basic details already but it did help fill out a few gaps in my knowledge.

Also watched Marathon Man which I had obviously always heard about but never seen. I compare it to something like Drive in that it was a lot better than I expected compared to drive being the opposite. Different movies of course but Marathon Man exceeded my expectations. Was really good and a nice 70's tense thriller.

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