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Eric P · « **Reply #5640 on:** April 27, 2010, 12:47:38 PM »

Quote from: muckhole on April 27, 2010, 12:37:33 PM

Quote from: Eric P on April 26, 2010, 03:08:47 PM
I sell the Dead - horrible. totally failed to be even an entertaining trainwreck

:'( I had this lined up to watch this coming weekend. Disappointing.

Will large amounts of beer make it watchable/passably entertaining?

probably not

it was just so boring

it's not clever or original which is fine, but it's not really done well either.

muckhole · « **Reply #5641 on:** April 27, 2010, 01:00:57 PM »

Damn. I was hoping for some decently low budget-y fun.

Ah well. Back to the video store.

Himu · « **Reply #5642 on:** April 27, 2010, 06:34:13 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on April 25, 2010, 12:33:47 AM

101 Dalmations better than BEAUTY AND THE BEAST? What the fuck

stop making me agree with Manabyte, holy shit himu

I dunno. As a kid I liked it more.

Fresh Prince · « **Reply #5643 on:** April 27, 2010, 08:00:19 PM »

This movie poster is awesome:

Raban · « **Reply #5644 on:** April 28, 2010, 04:18:34 AM »

Quote from: Fresh Prince on April 27, 2010, 08:00:19 PM

This movie poster is awesome:
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brawndolicious · « **Reply #5645 on:** April 28, 2010, 05:00:50 AM »

There's some pretty mixed reviews on that movie. I don't think it premiers until next month though.

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #5646 on:** April 28, 2010, 08:13:14 PM »

Danny Trejo just did an interview, and good golly, that man is amazing. Doesn't have a mean word to say about anybody, and he knows how to properly rob a bank.

Quote from: Danny the Knife

"What does an armed-robbery consultant do?"

You just make it look real. You show somebody how to hold a gun. You show somebody how to walk into a bank. You show somebody how to take control. Everybody has an idea of what an armed robbery is supposed to be, and the reality is, you have to scare people up until a point. If you scare them too much, you will lose control, because they will freak out. That’s the last thing you want. So some people will come in, “All right, you motherfuckers! Everybody get up against the fucking…” and it’s like, “Dude, they’re going to blow. You understand what I’m saying?” But if you walk up to somebody and say, “Look, I’ve got a gun, and if you make one move, I’ll kill you.” All of a sudden, they take that in, okay, they’ve taken that into their senses, and they’re saying, “I better not move.”

Quote from: The Trejo

This guy’s 80. Anybody over 40 is an older person. You better give them some respect.” So I just jacked this punk up and told him, “You know what, bitch? I’ll beat your ass. I nominated him director. Now fuck you. Do whatever he says.” This guy looks at me, almost starts crying, and says, “Hey, I’m trying to stay in character.” I was, “Well, your character’s about to get his ass beat.”

So then I turn around. Charles Bronson is standing right behind me, and he’s watching this. And the last thing you want anybody to see is that you could be violent on a movie set. I look at Charlie, and he saw what I was doing. But he says, “You know, Danny. I like the way you deal with people.”

Pretty damn cool.

Mupepe · « **Reply #5647 on:** April 29, 2010, 10:50:17 AM »

The Survival of the Dead trailer looks amazing...

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1563035417/

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #5648 on:** April 29, 2010, 10:54:55 AM »

Quote from: Rob Thomas on April 29, 2010, 10:50:17 AM

The Survival of the Dead trailer looks amazing...

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1563035417/

I...I really don't know what to think...

Mupepe · « **Reply #5649 on:** April 29, 2010, 11:02:23 AM »

Amaaaaaazing

Fuck it, I said I wouldn't do drugs anymore, but I'm getting high as shit and watching this.

WrikaWrek · « **Reply #5650 on:** April 29, 2010, 12:28:30 PM »

George Romero lost it.

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #5651 on:** April 29, 2010, 12:47:12 PM »

Quote from: WrikaWrek on April 29, 2010, 12:28:30 PM

George Romero lost it.

I think he's just sick and tired of making zombie movies, but he's said as much that he can't get financing for anything else.

shame, really.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #5652 on:** April 29, 2010, 01:00:40 PM »

i wonder whose backyard this was filmed in

[youtube=560,345]XIZFfPxC8bE[/youtube]

at the tears

Mupepe · « **Reply #5653 on:** April 29, 2010, 02:03:31 PM »

Quote from: mojovonio on April 29, 2010, 01:10:02 PM

I've seen Survival of the Dead. Its terrible.

Details. Terrible like so bad it's funny?

Mupepe · « **Reply #5654 on:** April 29, 2010, 02:05:54 PM »

ah fuck. i need to download it then.

Mupepe · « **Reply #5655 on:** April 29, 2010, 02:09:03 PM »

Seriously. I remember talking up Land of the Dead because I was convincing myself that he was going to amaze me with it because I had recently discovered Night, Dawn and Day. So I dragged my mom, her boyfriend and my wife at the time. Oh Jesus. I felt so bad for making them endure that shit.

Mupepe · « **Reply #5656 on:** April 29, 2010, 02:28:22 PM »

I thought Land was just a fluke. I thought "everyone has their bad moments!"

Then I watched Diary and I laughed and laughed and laughed and cried.

When I first heard the premise of Survival I knew it would be shit. He keeps going down the same path of crap. I don't even know how he still keeps getting funding. Wasn't Diary a huge flop? I know Land made some money but hell, no one could look at Survival and think "Yeah, this is going to do well"

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #5657 on:** April 29, 2010, 02:36:43 PM »

Quote from: Rob Thomas on April 29, 2010, 02:28:22 PM

When I first heard the premise of Survival I knew it would be shit. He keeps going down the same path of crap. I don't even know how he still keeps getting funding. Wasn't Diary a huge flop? I know Land made some money but hell, no one could look at Survival and think "Yeah, this is going to do well"

Diary made less than a million in the states, but it's budget was only $2 million to being with.

Mupepe · « **Reply #5658 on:** April 29, 2010, 02:40:53 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on April 29, 2010, 02:36:43 PM

Quote from: Rob Thomas on April 29, 2010, 02:28:22 PM
When I first heard the premise of Survival I knew it would be shit. He keeps going down the same path of crap. I don't even know how he still keeps getting funding. Wasn't Diary a huge flop? I know Land made some money but hell, no one could look at Survival and think "Yeah, this is going to do well"

Diary made less than a million in the states, but it's budget was only $2 million to being with.

Ah. Did not know that. I guess maybe he found a good niche market. I'm sure he'll find at least a dedicated group of people to see anything he puts out and as long as it has a low enough budget he'll be okay.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #5659 on:** April 29, 2010, 04:35:22 PM »

Robin Hood

Not the new one with Russel Crowe, I mean the old one with Errol Flynn. Talk about a fun, rousing adventure, because this is it. Nothing about this movie is serious or "gritty", it's all about Robin Hood and his band having fun adventures and pulling one over on the bad guys [Basil Rathbone is awesome as Sir Guy]. And it looks really good too, I was surprised that a movie over 70 years old could look that vibrant. Forget about that new Robin Hood movie, go get this masterpiece on Bluray instead, it even costs about the same amount of money!

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #5660 on:** April 29, 2010, 06:33:15 PM »

surprise, guess what looks like an overblown turd

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/jonah-hex.html?showVideo=1

too bad, jonah hex would have made a really cool little weird-western tv series

ManaByte · « **Reply #5661 on:** April 29, 2010, 06:46:08 PM »

Reviews say it's basically a remake of Wild Wild West using leftovers from that movie.

chronovore · « **Reply #5662 on:** April 29, 2010, 07:03:39 PM »

Wikipedia says even Romero's release schedule is loco:

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Survival of the Dead is a horror film by George A. Romero which follows the thieving National Guardsmen characters who briefly appeared in Diary of the Dead.[1] The film was first released on DVD in the UK on March 15, 2010.[2] That will be followed by a video on demand release on April 30, 2010[3], followed by a theatrical release on May 28, 2010.[4]

brawndolicious · « **Reply #5663 on:** April 30, 2010, 01:18:51 AM »

Crank 2

This is the most entertaining movie that you could possibly make without creating any story beyond one-liners.

"Did I drop some change or did I hear a chink?"

Milk

I liked it and felt that they handled the historical and political aspect pretty tastefully. I was disappointed though when they suggested the popular myth of the twinkie defense to make the murders seem more random and hate-fueled.

Weekend At Bernies

It was on tv and all I knew was that it was supposed to be a really stupid 80's, comedy. I was not disappointed. It was easily so bad that it was good.

naff · « **Reply #5664 on:** April 30, 2010, 01:26:00 AM »

Boy by Taika Waititi

Made in New Zealand about a poor rural Maori family and a young boy who idolises Michael Jackson and his dad that ran away. Good humour if a little slapstick at times for the content (it's got some fairly serious themes).

edit: I think it's in theatres in America, not sure though, screened at sundance a while ago. He's fairly well known over there (affiliated with Flight of the Conchords and such).

ManaByte · « **Reply #5665 on:** April 30, 2010, 03:14:01 AM »

Watched The Incredible Hulk for the first time since seeing it in the theater and it still shits all over Ang Lee's version.

ManaByte · « **Reply #5666 on:** April 30, 2010, 03:47:53 AM »

Banner doesn't hulk out due to daddy problems. Thus Ang Lee's version is horse shit.

ManaByte · « **Reply #5667 on:** April 30, 2010, 04:13:23 AM »

End of Ang Lee's shitty Hulk: Banner and daddy have an argument and then the Hulk fights some kind of giant jellyfish or something.

End of SUPERIOR Hulk: HULK SMASH ABOMINATION

ManaByte · « **Reply #5668 on:** April 30, 2010, 04:29:45 AM »

Ang Lee's Hulk is like remaking Commando as a boring drama with George Cloony as Matrix and Miley Cyrus as his cocaine addicted daughter.

ManaByte · « **Reply #5669 on:** April 30, 2010, 04:49:18 AM »

2008 Hulk out-grossed Shit Hulk because people hated Shit Hulk.

People don't pay $12 a ticket to go see a Hulk movie where he cries about his daddy issues. They want to see Hulk smash shit.

ManaByte · « **Reply #5670 on:** April 30, 2010, 05:19:35 AM »

If they released Let the Right One In and slapped a Twilight title on it you'd just piss people off. That's what Shit Hulk did basically.

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #5671 on:** April 30, 2010, 06:03:03 AM »

Quote from: ManaByte on April 30, 2010, 04:49:18 AM

2008 Hulk out-grossed Shit Hulk because people hated Shit Hulk.

People don't pay $12 a ticket to go see a Hulk movie where he cries about his daddy issues. They want to see Hulk smash shit.

actually 2008 Hulk only outgrossed 2003 Hulk by about 2 mil, and those weren't constant dollars.

It did do slightly better internationally, but really, one wasn't any more financially successful then the other. Excepting of course if you measure a movie's success by how little it sucks (a fair metric), and in that category, I thought the Ang Lee Hulk was waaaaaaaaaay more successful then the competent but dunderheaded Leterrier Hulk.

I dunno, I think its always better for a film to suffer for having too much ambition rather then too little.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #5672 on:** April 30, 2010, 06:09:10 AM »

I liked 2003 Hulk

I also liked 2008 Hulk.

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #5673 on:** April 30, 2010, 06:24:23 AM »

2008 Hulk is better then most big ticket action movies in that you can actually see the action. The special effects are quite good and the whole thing flies by without insulting your intelligence too much. Its a big, dumb, action movie that ablely entertains but is criminally devoid of personality, wit, or hell, a modicum of innovation.

I haven't seen Lee's Hulk in years and years, but I saw 2008 Hulk only fairly recently, guess which one I remember better?

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #5674 on:** April 30, 2010, 11:07:31 AM »

Lee's Hulk sucked. Haven't seen the new one, not interested

WrikaWrek · « **Reply #5675 on:** April 30, 2010, 11:22:06 AM »

I like the first Hulk.

But honestly...for me, these movies are about having fun and trying to recreate what make the comics fun. So, 2nd Hulk was a much more fun.

Eric P · « **Reply #5676 on:** April 30, 2010, 11:24:13 AM »

i like the first one

didn't see the second one.

Ichirou · « **Reply #5677 on:** April 30, 2010, 11:35:36 AM »

Both sucked, and Manabyte still has the worst taste of anyone in the forum.

ManaByte · « **Reply #5678 on:** April 30, 2010, 12:52:33 PM »

ManaByte · « **Reply #5679 on:** April 30, 2010, 01:49:53 PM »

2008 Hulk had a better story and villains so much better it shows how crap Ang Lee's version was.

Norton is also a better Banner.

Banner on the run trying to cure the Hulk and eventually trying to control it and focus it is so much better than Banner sitting at the dinner table crying about how his daddy didn't love him.

Abomination is like the Joker to the Hulk, the perfect villain for a Hulk movie, but the movie also had the origin of The Leader and set up Doc Samson.

Third · « **Reply #5680 on:** April 30, 2010, 02:06:05 PM »

Watched Toy Story and Toy Story 2 for the first time yesterday. (blu-ray versions)

Amazing movies. Will see Toy Story 3 in theatre for sure now.

I don't know which Toy Story I liked more. I think Toy Story 2 was better. The cg in the original was pretty mediocre at times.

Third · « **Reply #5681 on:** April 30, 2010, 02:36:05 PM »

Yeah, I know.

I've played the SNES game and Ps1 game, though.

ManaByte · « **Reply #5682 on:** April 30, 2010, 04:05:00 PM »

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/44881

Pics from the set of the Coen's remake of True Grit. No shots of THE DUDE yet though.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #5683 on:** April 30, 2010, 04:25:09 PM »

They're already gone.

Himu · « **Reply #5684 on:** April 30, 2010, 05:50:50 PM »

Quote from: ManaByte on April 29, 2010, 06:46:08 PM

Reviews say it's basically a remake of Wild Wild West using leftovers from that movie.

Wild Wild West?

...

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #5685 on:** April 30, 2010, 06:05:01 PM »

Quote

Looks like Michael Caine shouldn’t get too comfy: According to an internally distributed e-mail at Warner Bros. the release date for the next Batman movie has been set for July 20, 2012. Of course, there are exactly zero new details beyond that to report, which is actually quite liberating; after all, now is the brief window when we can speculate wildly without facts getting in the way. Johnny Depp as The Riddler! Batgirl origin story! A plot where Batman goes on sabbatical and Alfred takes over as a bumbling detective!

http://www.avclub.com/articles/release-date-set-for-next-batman-movie,40683/

ManaByte · « **Reply #5686 on:** April 30, 2010, 06:09:18 PM »

Avengers is May 4th 2012. Sorry Batman.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #5687 on:** April 30, 2010, 06:15:08 PM »

Thor looks good. Simple design. I like the color contrast.

Are there any Thor TPB's ala stuff like The Long Halloween, ie: gritty and violent and not cheesey?

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #5688 on:** April 30, 2010, 06:16:10 PM »

True Grit is an awesome movie, and a cool book. A remake more in line with the book could be fuck awesome, and with the Coens on board=

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #5689 on:** April 30, 2010, 06:17:23 PM »

Quote from: ManaByte on April 30, 2010, 01:49:53 PM

2008 Hulk had a better story and villains so much better it shows how crap Ang Lee's version was.

Norton is also a better Banner.

Banner on the run trying to cure the Hulk and eventually trying to control it and focus it is so much better than Banner sitting at the dinner table crying about how his daddy didn't love him.

Abomination is like the Joker to the Hulk, the perfect villain for a Hulk movie, but the movie also had the origin of The Leader and set up Doc Samson.

While I agree Lee's version is shite, it's odd hearing that argument coming from a LOST fan

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #5690 on:** April 30, 2010, 06:22:13 PM »

Quote from: ManaByte on April 30, 2010, 06:09:18 PM

Avengers is May 4th 2012. Sorry Batman.

ManaByte · « **Reply #5691 on:** April 30, 2010, 06:26:32 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on April 30, 2010, 06:22:13 PM

Quote from: ManaByte on April 30, 2010, 06:09:18 PM
Avengers is May 4th 2012. Sorry Batman.

What cast member will Nolan kill to ensure massive box office this time?

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #5692 on:** April 30, 2010, 06:29:18 PM »

Quote from: ManaByte on April 30, 2010, 06:26:32 PM

Quote from: Great Rumbler on April 30, 2010, 06:22:13 PM
Quote from: ManaByte on April 30, 2010, 06:09:18 PM
Avengers is May 4th 2012. Sorry Batman.

What cast member will Nolan kill to ensure massive box office this time?

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #5693 on:** April 30, 2010, 06:33:38 PM »

You honestly think an Avengers movie will be better than the next Batman?

TDK>every Marvel film

ManaByte · « **Reply #5694 on:** April 30, 2010, 06:34:26 PM »

Iron Man > TDK

Spider-Man 2 > TDK

X2 > TDK

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #5695 on:** April 30, 2010, 06:37:14 PM »

Quote from: ManaByte on April 30, 2010, 06:34:26 PM

Iron Man > TDK

Spider-Man 2 > TDK

X2 > TDK

Okay, now I know you're just giving me a hard time.

Himu · « **Reply #5696 on:** April 30, 2010, 06:37:38 PM »

The only thing I could possibly agree with there is that Spidey-Man 2 is better than TDK and even that's a stretch.

Diunx · « **Reply #5697 on:** April 30, 2010, 06:39:12 PM »

Hey look everyone Manabyte is being a shit poster!

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #5698 on:** April 30, 2010, 06:40:15 PM »

I can't understand people saying Spider-Man 2 is better. I disagree, but it's a legitimate opinion

On the other hand, Iron Man and X2 being better than TDK is just crazy talk

ManaByte · « **Reply #5699 on:** April 30, 2010, 06:41:13 PM »

http://themovieblog.com/2008/07/why-the-hyper-praise-for-the-dark-knight-is-bullshit
http://www.chud.com/articles/articles/15353/1/THE-DEVIN039S-ADVOCATE-HOLY-HYPERBOLE-BATMAN/Page1.html

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