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Rahxephon91

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« Reply #28620 on: December 15, 2017, 08:58:51 PM »
The movie was pretty good.

BlueTsunami

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« Reply #28621 on: December 15, 2017, 10:06:26 PM »
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Fans got their jimmies rustled. There should be an award category for that.
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benjipwns

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Re: The new and improved "Movies you've seen recently" thread
« Reply #28622 on: December 16, 2017, 03:23:40 AM »
As the biggest DC fan here (shut up benji I am)
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Are you not counting Vertigo? Because I may be willing to make a compromise to end our serious and not at all joking feud over this.
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If they can keep Snyder away from this shit, it might be salvageable.
I mentioned it above, but they actually did really sneak this out the other week behind some other announcements. Snyder isn't returning to the films. He's sticking around as an executive producer (on any films with characters from MoS/BvS/JL) for essentially contractual reasons, but executive producer in films is not the title it is in TV. It's a figurehead, residuals title, not an actual creative position. Usually. Since they dropped Justice League 2 completely they don't even need his input for that. And he was never going to do the second Superman movie, Matthew Vaughn is basically trying to box everyone else in the industry out for that.

I have a feeling they're looking at soft rebooting this thing, especially with the Batman films/Affleck situation, and the fact that Flashpoint is their next group film. They're going to see how Aquaman, Shazam and Wonder Woman 2 do probably, while filling the gaps with those fifty Harley Quinn films. Then if Cavill actually does want out, even though age wise he's fine, they can Flashpoint him out too. (Though he's been tweeting and talking about excited about the role again...after the Whedon reshoots despite the mustache fiasco...and suggested he wants a cameo in Aquaman. So maybe Snyder's auture vision was just a drag on the actors for being too mentally hard and intellectual.)

I was ragging on their schedule earlier, but I realized later...there actually is a small bit of sense they maybe accidentally fell into with Justice League and everything getting moved out and Wonder Woman doing well so it got promoted into the gap. They're completely skipping Avengers/Star Wars now rather than trying to release around them like before. And if the rumor about them now targeting FIVE films for 2020 (of which I hope they realize Cyborg shouldn't be one lol...do Green Lantern if you want to keep one of those two 2014 announcements in the schedule) now is true, they're going to be rushing into the Marvel gap post-Infinity War AND post-Spider-Man 2. Wonder Woman 2 is the only thing they're throwing into that time, and that should be fine financially if nothing else. If they could find someone who can be given that Fiege type of role, only because it means there's a clear line of decision making and authority along with long term planning, they could turn this around. Snyder didn't want that role, but he defaulted into it but both of his major decisions were the kind you build towards, not that you start with because there's no where else to go. Batman fighting Superman. Followed up by Darkseid. lol no breh

Jeffery Irons needs canon armor though so he can stay on as Alfred. Even if the Batman films are flashbacks to 20 years earlier, I don't care, dye his hair or something.

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« Reply #28623 on: December 16, 2017, 08:43:43 AM »
Yeah I don't include any of the other imprints in that statement like Vertigo, Milestone, etc. :P

Will read the rest later cause ya...

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Re: The new and improved "Movies you've seen recently" thread
« Reply #28624 on: December 16, 2017, 10:41:31 PM »
I'm not gonna watch Justice League until Zack Snyder writes me a personal letter saying it's okay.

nudemacusers

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« Reply #28625 on: December 17, 2017, 12:15:03 AM »
Finally watched justice league via TS rip... pretty much like age of apocalypse: Saturday morning cartoon in live action. Dumb but fun in a disposable way.
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Re: The new and improved "Movies you've seen recently" thread
« Reply #28626 on: December 17, 2017, 12:16:47 AM »
I still cant believe Stepenwolfs henchmen designs looked like that. I'm not a comic book reader but that shit was awful straight from conception.
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nudemacusers

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« Reply #28627 on: December 17, 2017, 12:17:54 AM »
That is a good point I failed to note; needed to be more campy and ridiculous in design across the board. I mean they’re fighting over a box for 90 percent of the movie ffs
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nudemacusers

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« Reply #28628 on: December 17, 2017, 12:33:59 AM »
I can’t disagree that it’s objectively bad but I still enjoyed it on a level 🤷‍♂️
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« Reply #28629 on: December 17, 2017, 05:04:07 PM »
Apocalypse was a ton of fun. The Quicksilver scene alone was more fun than the entirety of Justice League combined.

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« Reply #28630 on: December 18, 2017, 06:58:40 AM »
I watched Fight Club again this weekend. It’s my second time with this movie; the first time I saw it, I was 16 or so. When anyone asked me, I’d always praise the movie; say it was one of my favorites and yada yada. But I don’t think I really liked the movie back then, apart from its ingenuity that is.

I caught it on TV the first time and I remember that I switched to other channels a lot while watching it. And I also remember that I related to the protagonist a bit too much and that I was intensely jealous of Pitt, his physique and especially how he was skillfully humping Bonham-Carter  :doge

Now that I watched it again, I can honestly say it’s a great movie. I guess knowing about the twist while watching it again is very appealing, but the simple fact that I’m older now makes me appreciate Fight Club all the more. I’m no longer an insecure gawky teenager and I can appreciate Tyler Durden for what he is: an idealized phantom conjured up by the minds of a generation of spoiled, rudderless and insecure men (me included), who care way too much about superficialities and what other people think of them and who indulge in silly power and revenge fantasies when things don’t go their way.

For a twenty year old movie, Fight Club is still highly topical.

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« Reply #28631 on: December 18, 2017, 08:57:03 AM »
I watched Fight Club again this weekend. It’s my second time with this movie; the first time I saw it, I was 16 or so. When anyone asked me, I’d always praise the movie; say it was one of my favorites and yada yada. But I don’t think I really liked the movie back then, apart from its ingenuity that is.

I caught it on TV the first time and I remember that I switched to other channels a lot while watching it. And I also remember that I related to the protagonist a bit too much and that I was intensely jealous of Pitt, his physique and especially how he was skillfully humping Bonham-Carter  :doge

Now that I watched it again, I can honestly say it’s a great movie. I guess knowing about the twist while watching it again is very appealing, but the simple fact that I’m older now makes me appreciate Fight Club all the more. I’m no longer an insecure gawky teenager and I can appreciate Tyler Durden for what he is: an idealized phantom conjured up by the minds of a generation of spoiled, rudderless and insecure men (me included), who care way too much about superficialities and what other people think of them and who indulge in silly power and revenge fantasies when things don’t go their way.

For a twenty year old movie, Fight Club is still highly topical.

The point is even more driven-home in the novel.

desert punk

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« Reply #28632 on: December 18, 2017, 09:50:29 AM »
The point is even more driven-home in the novel.

I actually read the novel 7 years or so ago. I admit that I remember almost nothing from the book, though I think I liked it more than the movie back then. Maybe I'll pull it out and read it again.

I know it's off topic but have you read anything else by Palahniuk? I'm a bit wary of trying out his other works because some of the topics he's engaging with sound a bit revolting to me tbh.

chronovore

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« Reply #28633 on: December 18, 2017, 10:03:20 AM »
The point is even more driven-home in the novel.

I actually read the novel 7 years or so ago. I admit that I remember almost nothing from the book, though I think I liked it more than the movie back then. Maybe I'll pull it out and read it again.

I know it's off topic but have you read anything else by Palahniuk? I'm a bit wary of trying out his other works because some of the topics he's engaging with sound a bit revolting to me tbh.

Lullaby's been on my backlog for years. I should get around to it.  I read Choke, which I enjoyed very much. It's a kind of Christ-myth telling, and easily as fucked up as Fight Club. Do not bother with the movie. I also read his short story GUTS after hearing that people were passing out at Chuck's book-tour readings. I assumed it was a staged thing, and then I read it on the train and almost fainted.

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Re: The new and improved "Movies you've seen recently" thread
« Reply #28634 on: December 18, 2017, 10:18:40 AM »
Definitely read Choke.  Chuck actually properly ends the book in that one.


My favorite sequence in Fight Club (which is elaborated on more in the book) is where Jack is just starting out his life on his own. He calls his father repeatedly for advice, "Dad, what should I do now?" Each time he gives him advice on going to college, getting a job, getting a place of his own, furnishing it. Then finally when he does all that, he calls his Dad again and says "What now?" Then his dad says, "I don't know .. I'm still trying to figure that one out."

It's a great movie/book for guys aged 18-26. It really just nails the uneasiness of your place in the world at that age. The flaw of it is that it doesn't really pay any of it off at the end.


desert punk

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« Reply #28635 on: December 18, 2017, 10:21:58 AM »
Were you actually trying to hold your breath while reading it?  :lol

Thanks for the recs! Think I'll put Choke on my to read-list.

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« Reply #28636 on: December 19, 2017, 12:51:07 PM »
the future in demolition man is truly the worst dystopian future we can never hope for.

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« Reply #28637 on: December 19, 2017, 01:26:09 PM »



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Great Rumbler

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« Reply #28638 on: December 19, 2017, 04:29:17 PM »
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ToxicAdam

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« Reply #28639 on: December 19, 2017, 04:48:14 PM »
I'm a sucker for a heist movie and boobs. I'll watch it (oceans 8 ).


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« Reply #28640 on: December 19, 2017, 06:27:14 PM »
Why is there a Sicario 2?

first was wildly successful so they're gonna rambo it

VomKriege

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« Reply #28641 on: December 20, 2017, 02:53:47 AM »
Why is there a Sicario 2?

first was wildly successful so they're gonna rambo it

More like Jack Ryan it  :doge

Anyway, the following are apparently real quotes from the book Ready Player One, soon on the silver screen courtesy of renowned visionary director and producer Steven Spielberg.

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"Standing on the left side of the runway was my battle-worn X-wing fighter. Parked on the right side was my DeLorean. Sitting on the runway itself was my most frequently used spacecraft, the Vonnegut. Max had already powered up the engines, and they emitted a low, steady roar that filled the hangar. The Vonnegut was a heavily modified Firefly-class transport vessel, modeled after the Serenity in the classic Firefly TV series. The ship had been named the Kaylee when I’d first obtained it, but I’d immediately rechristened it after one of my favorite twentieth-century novelists. Its new name was stenciled on the side of its battered gray hull. I’d looted the Vonnegut from a cadre of Oviraptor clansmen who had foolishly attempted to hijack my X-wing while I was cruising through a large group of worlds in Sector Eleven known as the Whedonverse."
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I made a big entrance when I arrived in my flying DeLorean, which I’d obtained by completing a Back to the Future quest on the planet Zemeckis.The DeLorean came outfitted with a (nonfunctioning) flux capacitor, but I’d made several additions to its equipment and appearance. First, I’d installed an artificially intelligent onboard computer named KITT (purchased in an online auction) into the dashboard, along with a matching red Knight Rider scanner just above the DeLorean’s grill. Then I’d outfitted the car with an oscillation overthruster, a device that allowed it to travel through solid matter. Finally, to complete my ’80s super-vehicle theme, I’d slapped a Ghostbusters logo on each of the DeLorean’s gullwing doors, then added personalized plates that read ecto-88.

I’d had it only a few weeks now, but my time-traveling, Ghost Busting, Knight Riding, matter-penetrating DeLorean had already become myavatar’s trademark.

I knew that leaving my sweet ride parked in a PvP zone was an open invitation for some moron to try to boost it. The DeLorean had several antitheft systems installed, and the ignition system was booby-trapped Max Rockatansky–style so that if any other avatar tried to start the car, the plutonium chamber would detonate in a small thermonuclear explosion. But keeping my car safe wouldn’t be a problem here on Neonoir. As soon as I climbed out of the DeLorean I cast a Shrink spell on it, instantly reducing it to the size of a Matchbox car. Then I put the DeLorean in my pocket. Magic zones had their advantages.
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VomKriege

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« Reply #28642 on: December 20, 2017, 03:01:22 AM »
Seen The Adjustement Bureau which was mostly mediocre but not insultingly so (some of the set locations and art direction was verging on quietly classic and the writing was more subdued than I expected for a celebration of free will).

But damn, Emily Blunt is fantastic, isn't she ?
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benjipwns

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« Reply #28643 on: December 20, 2017, 03:22:16 AM »
the future in demolition man is truly the worst dystopian future we can never hope for.
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benjipwns

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« Reply #28644 on: December 20, 2017, 03:46:36 AM »
I'm a sucker for a heist movie and boobs. I'll watch it (oceans 8 ).
I'm glad it being a Ghostbusters type "reboot" turned out to be an unfounded rumor and it's just set in the same universe and will have cameos from the other characters. Not that the Ocean's films after the Eleven remake were anything to protect, especially 12, or uphold as a grand franchise or anything. It's just seems more appropriate to just do a sequel instead of having to remake/reboot everything.

And the time off makes me hope it's as good as Eleven which I legitimately think is great and am always disappointed at films that rip off the stylistic beats but don't keep the heists tightly planned and plotted out properly despite it being the core spine of the heist film genre. Like say, the two sequels, though Thirteen was better at it despite deciding absurdly it needed what seemed like ten double crosses randomly at the end that everyone had already planned for or something. (I forget, haven't seen it since launch, saw a bit of 12 on TV a couple years ago and remembered how bad it was.)

Eleven's also a really good movie to bring up when thinking about ensembles, considering how many fucking characters are in it (13 when you include Julia Roberts and Andy Garcia), Clooney's obviously slightly front-rowed past Pitt, but they still manage to feature most everyone in some respect and fit the whole dang thing under two hours. Either characters get something like Bernie Mac who gets his own scene and then another with one of the "stars" or they're like Casey Affleck and coming along in a whole bunch of the scenes. Heck, Pitt for most of the movie is just eating and overseeing things rather than being the focus of scenes.

I have to imagine eight, well, ten or eleven, will be way easier to juggle.

benjipwns

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« Reply #28645 on: December 20, 2017, 03:47:13 AM »
I forgot the reporting that it was going to be called Ocean's Ocho :lol

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« Reply #28646 on: December 21, 2017, 03:14:26 AM »
A Serious Man, a Cohen Bros. Film
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I think this is one of their lesser known films but a cult hit. About an unassuming Jew whose life becomes assailed by tremendous adversities and mishappenings. The moral of the story is probably that no one truly has any control over their life. I also found the ending deeply hilarious in a perfect Cohen Brothers way.

(…)
All three of these are movies I really enjoyed while I was feeling hapless or in a derealized state (or in one of those vacuous 'wow life's so meaningless' moods), hope it interests someone else.

This is legit one of my favorite Coen Bros. films. I dunno why it is so overlooked. Fantastically deep in simple ways… and that ending scene is pure gold.

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« Reply #28647 on: December 21, 2017, 09:11:53 AM »
Watched The Hitman's Bodyguard. That was stupid and kinda fun, but needed to be more cartoony or more gritty. It loses track of its own internal reality. In the end, it was cute, but a wasted opportunity for a great story.

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« Reply #28648 on: December 21, 2017, 10:49:41 AM »
Why is there a Sicario 2?

first was wildly successful so they're gonna rambo it

More like Jack Ryan it  :doge

Anyway, the following are apparently real quotes from the book Ready Player One, soon on the silver screen courtesy of renowned visionary director and producer Steven Spielberg.

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"Standing on the left side of the runway was my battle-worn X-wing fighter. Parked on the right side was my DeLorean. Sitting on the runway itself was my most frequently used spacecraft, the Vonnegut. Max had already powered up the engines, and they emitted a low, steady roar that filled the hangar. The Vonnegut was a heavily modified Firefly-class transport vessel, modeled after the Serenity in the classic Firefly TV series. The ship had been named the Kaylee when I’d first obtained it, but I’d immediately rechristened it after one of my favorite twentieth-century novelists. Its new name was stenciled on the side of its battered gray hull. I’d looted the Vonnegut from a cadre of Oviraptor clansmen who had foolishly attempted to hijack my X-wing while I was cruising through a large group of worlds in Sector Eleven known as the Whedonverse."
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I made a big entrance when I arrived in my flying DeLorean, which I’d obtained by completing a Back to the Future quest on the planet Zemeckis.The DeLorean came outfitted with a (nonfunctioning) flux capacitor, but I’d made several additions to its equipment and appearance. First, I’d installed an artificially intelligent onboard computer named KITT (purchased in an online auction) into the dashboard, along with a matching red Knight Rider scanner just above the DeLorean’s grill. Then I’d outfitted the car with an oscillation overthruster, a device that allowed it to travel through solid matter. Finally, to complete my ’80s super-vehicle theme, I’d slapped a Ghostbusters logo on each of the DeLorean’s gullwing doors, then added personalized plates that read ecto-88.

I’d had it only a few weeks now, but my time-traveling, Ghost Busting, Knight Riding, matter-penetrating DeLorean had already become myavatar’s trademark.

I knew that leaving my sweet ride parked in a PvP zone was an open invitation for some moron to try to boost it. The DeLorean had several antitheft systems installed, and the ignition system was booby-trapped Max Rockatansky–style so that if any other avatar tried to start the car, the plutonium chamber would detonate in a small thermonuclear explosion. But keeping my car safe wouldn’t be a problem here on Neonoir. As soon as I climbed out of the DeLorean I cast a Shrink spell on it, instantly reducing it to the size of a Matchbox car. Then I put the DeLorean in my pocket. Magic zones had their advantages.
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Sorry Steve, I can't watch that.
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« Reply #28649 on: December 22, 2017, 12:24:40 AM »
The Shape of Water - Why are you so good!? Gorgeous set design and performances, great score, great script, directing and visuals. My only knock is getting Michael Shannon is cool, but would like good directors like Del Toro to make better use of him than just what he's typically typecast as. I thought he worked really well in Nocturnal Animals.

Also, awkward family movie. Not because of anything in particular, just it's a really romantic film which is awkward seeing with family. See this on a date.

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« Reply #28650 on: December 22, 2017, 12:30:39 AM »
I can't wait to go see it.  Saturday night after a 19 hour flight.  IDGAF.  I need to see it as soon as possible.  Pan's Labyrinth is still my GOAT movie and I'm crazy excited that Shape of Water is being compared to it.

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« Reply #28651 on: December 22, 2017, 12:38:49 AM »
There's definitely similarities in the period piece fairy tale feel, the visual style, the graphic violence. Very different films and I still prefer Pan's Labyrinth just because the storyline's more my cup of tea, but they're both great films.

I actually would've liked it if Crimson Peak was done a little more fairy tale feel in visual style like this. I like Crimson Peak (and all of Del Toro's movies, there isn't a single one I dislike except maybe Pacific Rim could've been a lot better), but Crimson Peak feels more like a normally shot movie with some cool sets and CGI and bloody snow.

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« Reply #28652 on: December 22, 2017, 01:44:26 AM »
There's definitely similarities in the period piece fairy tale feel, the visual style, the graphic violence. Very different films and I still prefer Pan's Labyrinth just because the storyline's more my cup of tea, but they're both great films.

I actually would've liked it if Crimson Peak was done a little more fairy tale feel in visual style like this. I like Crimson Peak (and all of Del Toro's movies, there isn't a single one I dislike except maybe Pacific Rim could've been a lot better), but Crimson Peak feels more like a normally shot movie with some cool sets and CGI and bloody snow.
I absolutely adore Pacific Rim and felt that Crimson Peak was his least interesting since Mimic.  It just doesn't feel like a GDT movie to me at all. 

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« Reply #28653 on: December 22, 2017, 02:56:19 PM »
Sluts, I have a flight tonight. Tell me what to watch. Amazon or Netflix preferred.
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« Reply #28654 on: December 22, 2017, 03:25:24 PM »
Fine, you asswipes. I’ll just DL a bunch of Forensic Files episodes. You people are making me who I am by not giving suggestions.
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« Reply #28655 on: December 22, 2017, 04:01:21 PM »
Anyway, the following are apparently real quotes from the book Ready Player One, soon on the silver screen courtesy of renowned visionary director and producer Steven Spielberg.

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"Standing on the left side of the runway was my battle-worn X-wing fighter. Parked on the right side was my DeLorean. Sitting on the runway itself was my most frequently used spacecraft, the Vonnegut. Max had already powered up the engines, and they emitted a low, steady roar that filled the hangar. The Vonnegut was a heavily modified Firefly-class transport vessel, modeled after the Serenity in the classic Firefly TV series. The ship had been named the Kaylee when I’d first obtained it, but I’d immediately rechristened it after one of my favorite twentieth-century novelists. Its new name was stenciled on the side of its battered gray hull. I’d looted the Vonnegut from a cadre of Oviraptor clansmen who had foolishly attempted to hijack my X-wing while I was cruising through a large group of worlds in Sector Eleven known as the Whedonverse."
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I made a big entrance when I arrived in my flying DeLorean, which I’d obtained by completing a Back to the Future quest on the planet Zemeckis.The DeLorean came outfitted with a (nonfunctioning) flux capacitor, but I’d made several additions to its equipment and appearance. First, I’d installed an artificially intelligent onboard computer named KITT (purchased in an online auction) into the dashboard, along with a matching red Knight Rider scanner just above the DeLorean’s grill. Then I’d outfitted the car with an oscillation overthruster, a device that allowed it to travel through solid matter. Finally, to complete my ’80s super-vehicle theme, I’d slapped a Ghostbusters logo on each of the DeLorean’s gullwing doors, then added personalized plates that read ecto-88.

I’d had it only a few weeks now, but my time-traveling, Ghost Busting, Knight Riding, matter-penetrating DeLorean had already become myavatar’s trademark.

I knew that leaving my sweet ride parked in a PvP zone was an open invitation for some moron to try to boost it. The DeLorean had several antitheft systems installed, and the ignition system was booby-trapped Max Rockatansky–style so that if any other avatar tried to start the car, the plutonium chamber would detonate in a small thermonuclear explosion. But keeping my car safe wouldn’t be a problem here on Neonoir. As soon as I climbed out of the DeLorean I cast a Shrink spell on it, instantly reducing it to the size of a Matchbox car. Then I put the DeLorean in my pocket. Magic zones had their advantages.
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I'm not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your police work there, Lou.

I found Ready Player One *INCREDIBLY* cringeworthy(bonus points for the audiobook read by...Will Wheaton)...but this was the basis for The Godfather:

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During the summer, preparing for the wedding of her best friend, Connie Corleone, Lucy heard the whispered stories about Sonny. One Sunday afternoon in the Corleone kitchen, Sonny’s wife Sandra gossiped freely. Sandra was a coarse, good-natured woman who had been born in Italy but brought to America as a small child. She was strongly built with great breasts and had already borne three children in five years of marriage. Sandra and the other women teased Connie about the terrors of the nuptial bed. “My God,” Sandra had giggled, “when I saw that pole of Sonny’s for the first time and realized he was going to stick it into me, I yelled bloody murder. After the first year my insides felt as mushy as macaroni boiled for an hour. When I heard he was doing the job on other girls I went to church and lit a candle.”

They had all laughed but Lucy had felt her flesh twitching between her legs.

Now as she ran up the steps toward Sonny a tremendous flash of desire went through her body. On the landing Sonny grabbed her hand and pulled her down the hall into an empty bedroom. Her legs went weak as the door closed behind them. She felt Sonny’s mouth on hers, his lips tasting of burnt tobacco, bitter. She opened her mouth. At that moment she felt his hand come up beneath her bridesmaid’s gown, heard the rustle of material giving way, felt his large warm hand between her legs, ripping aside the satin panties to caress her vulva. She put her arms around his neck and hung there as he opened his trousers. Then he placed both hands beneath her bare buttocks and lifted her. She gave a little hop in the air so that both her legs were wrapped around his upper thighs. His tongue was in her mouth and she sucked on it. He gave a savage thrust that banged her head against the door. She felt something burning pass between her thighs. She let her right hand drop from his neck and reached down to guide him. Her hand closed around an enormous, blood-gorged pole of muscle. It pulsated in her hand like an animal and almost weeping with grateful ecstasy she pointed it into her own wet, turgid flesh. The thrust of its entering, the unbelievable pleasure made her gasp, brought her legs up almost around his neck, and then like a quiver, her body received the savage arrows of his lightning-like thrusts; innumerable, torturing; arching her pelvis higher and higher until for the first time in her life she reached a shattering climax, felt his hardness break and then the crawly flood of semen over her thighs. Slowly her legs relaxed from around his body, slid down until they reached the floor. They leaned against each other, out of breath.

It might have been going on for some time but now they could hear the soft knocking on the door. Sonny quickly buttoned his trousers, meanwhile blocking the door so that it could not be opened. Lucy frantically smoothed down her pink gown, her eyes flickering, but the thing that had given her so much pleasure was hidden inside sober black cloth. Then they heard Tom Hagen’s voice, very low, “Sonny, you in there?”

Sonny sighed with relief. He winked at Lucy. “Yeah, Tom, what is it?”

Hagen’s voice, still low, said, “The Don wants you in his office. Now.” They could hear his footsteps as he walked away. Sonny waited for a few moments, gave Lucy a hard kiss on the lips, and then slipped out the door after Hagen.

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And from Spielberg himself there's Jaws. And Jurassic Park. Kubrick got The Shining out of a Stephen King book(I mean, I like his stories, but are people actually fans of King's prose?) The Bourne movies came from airport novels(?). From the other side, the American Pastoral movie that Ewan McGregor put out last year was pretty meh.

Personally, I think It'll probably be in "BFG" territory but I'm really hoping Spielberg will surprise us(I quite liked Tintin and Bridge of Spies so I think he still has it.)

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« Reply #28656 on: December 22, 2017, 04:27:31 PM »
Jesus, just saw Total Recall for the first time now that it's on Amazon Prime.  :rejoice


I love Robocop and Blade Runner but avoided this due to thinking it might be in Big Trouble in Little China(sorry) or Hollow Man cheeseball territory but it's cheesy and fun in all the right ways. And even though this was the first time seeing it the practical effects and world building are fantastic, not because they're perfect or seamless but they're just really interesting to look. And then there's Arnold. :D

I watched Fight Club again this weekend. It’s my second time with this movie; the first time I saw it, I was 16 or so. When anyone asked me, I’d always praise the movie; say it was one of my favorites and yada yada. But I don’t think I really liked the movie back then, apart from its ingenuity that is.

I caught it on TV the first time and I remember that I switched to other channels a lot while watching it. And I also remember that I related to the protagonist a bit too much and that I was intensely jealous of Pitt, his physique and especially how he was skillfully humping Bonham-Carter  :doge

Now that I watched it again, I can honestly say it’s a great movie. I guess knowing about the twist while watching it again is very appealing, but the simple fact that I’m older now makes me appreciate Fight Club all the more. I’m no longer an insecure gawky teenager and I can appreciate Tyler Durden for what he is: an idealized phantom conjured up by the minds of a generation of spoiled, rudderless and insecure men (me included), who care way too much about superficialities and what other people think of them and who indulge in silly power and revenge fantasies when things don’t go their way.

For a twenty year old movie, Fight Club is still highly topical.
I just rewatched this for the first time in years and was pleasantly surprised that it held up way better than I thought it would. I went from adoring it back as a high schooler when it was every Internet dude's favorite DVD to cooling on it due to trying to distance myself from that dudebro culture that surrounded it that didn't understand it was satire and not going back to it until now.

The composition and editing are top tier. Funny as hell. Pitt and Norton are still great. Gorgeous HD transfer on the Bluray. Biggest gripe are that a lot of the flashy CG stuff that Fincher uses(like the camera moving from the top of the skyscraper to the basement, or the CG trashcan with all the Starbucks cups and Krispy Kreme boxes) aren't so seamless anymore. Not a big deal but I hope Zodiac's effects hold up a little bit better in 10 years.


Seen The Adjustement Bureau which was mostly mediocre but not insultingly so (some of the set locations and art direction was verging on quietly classic and the writing was more subdued than I expected for a celebration of free will).

But damn, Emily Blunt is fantastic, isn't she ?
Every couple of months I like to have an internal sensible chuckle at the idea that this was a thing that exists(that Matt Damon scifi hat movie) and get a little sad that something that absurd is kind of lost to time. I saw it in theaters and remember it not being exactly good but liking Anthony Mackie in it, I think.

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« Reply #28657 on: December 22, 2017, 05:11:22 PM »
In early King, prose was one of his strongest areas. He was good at putting a catching sentence together back in the day.
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« Reply #28658 on: December 22, 2017, 05:36:07 PM »
Anyway, the following are apparently real quotes from the book Ready Player One, soon on the silver screen courtesy of renowned visionary director and producer Steven Spielberg.

Is it really that surprising that Spielberg is doing this movie? The main theme of the books seems to center around how totally awesome 80's Spielberg/Zemeckis were.
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« Reply #28659 on: December 22, 2017, 08:11:37 PM »
I love how GDT is consciously stretching himself with each film even as their still very much distinctly his, and also despite his wildly varying commercial fortunes/and as such resources, his films don't really ever feel creatively constrained. I loved Crimson Peak, but The Shape of Water may be even better. A wonderfully oddball blast of creativity that is unlike anything else he's ever made (its lightly comedic, social issue grappling, sexual frankness), while still being something exactly like what he's made (Lovecraft callbacks). Its tone is also different from any other Del Toro joint, its European if that makes sense (one can easily imagine in French), while also being distinctly American in its content. I could spend many more paragraphs analyzing the whole damn thing, but I'd rather just gush about it. Its got one of the best cast ensembles of the year, despite the capital 'M' melodrama it still feels somewhat grounded, and its refreshingly adult for a straight up fantasy film. I wish all Oscar bait movies would be this loveably weird and entertaining.

Also great, Lady Bird. But what's terrific about Lady Bird is its very limited scope. Its a character study of girl in her last year of Catholic school. She's a very well realized character, and the pleasure of this film is seeing how this richly drawn character lives her life. This sort of detail and nuance is actually seen throughout the cast, even the minor characters very often get to be made multi-dimensional, efficiently so even. Like last year's also very good but more mainstream leaning The Edge of Seventeen, it aims somewhat in between a realistic depiction of late adolescence and a stylized version thereof, but all the non obtrusive artistic touches work like gangbusters and the movie feels emotionally true and resonant, and I'm pretty far afield from having lived the life that this movie depicts. No grand proclamations, no big 'lay it all out' speeches, no metaphors for anything else than what the characters actually are and feel like, human, humane, and sometimes complicated and conflicted.

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« Reply #28660 on: December 22, 2017, 11:02:55 PM »
Jumanji was better than Star Wars. It wasn't even close.

Definitely the best video game movie I've seen. Not that those are real high bars to clear.

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« Reply #28663 on: December 23, 2017, 08:44:03 AM »
https://www.netflix.com/title/80119234

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I take it back it was a pretty entertaining Will Smith popcorn flick like back in the heyday of his career, which is.  :mindblown
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« Reply #28665 on: December 24, 2017, 03:13:44 AM »
I watched Bright and ended up enjoying it. It has a dumb setup that it doesn't bother to try to make the audience at ease with. It just says suspend your disbelief and follow along. It then hits you over the head with the Cops v Minority stuff, but it all seems like a distraction before the real plot sets in and it's this fantasy buddy cop movie with high stakes and mythical legends.

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« Reply #28666 on: December 26, 2017, 04:07:32 AM »
Krampus oooohhhhh boy.

It's weird because Trick or Treat was really good. It had good short stories interwoven, it had creepy/moody/spooky feel and it had real horror gore/violence/scares. Krampus has nothing. It's not scary, it's not gory/violent, and it's glacially paced and boring. It takes an hour into the film for things to even start happening. The movie has a professionally directed sheen to it all, but it's just not enjoyable at all. I don't know how it went so wrong. Was Dougherty a one hit wonder? Or did the studio make him take a concept for a R-rated horror Krampus horror flick and detooth the fuck out of it for mainstream audiences and mass christmas appeal? Idk, but I'm a lot less confident in Godzilla 2 (since he's directing) after this movie. I guess we'll see what he's got? But man, if Godzilla 2 is slow and boring coming from a different director after Edwards made Godzilla 1 slow and boring....fuck, please don't Krampus Godzilla.

Blade Runner 2049

While it absolutely is a good movie found myself not liking it much, especially compared to the original. Don't exactly want to discuss it further as I know everyone loves it and I can see why. Just didn't work for me and I have my reasons. Will just accept that I have a minority opinion here and leave it at that.

I think the story is weak or just ok (I don't like Michael Green much as a writer), but visually and audio-wise it's the best/coolest looking/sounding film I've seen in many, many years and I am happy the film exists for just the beautiful cyber-punk visuals and world it brings and the great cinematography. Plus the direction and action is stellar. The final fight scene on the water is easily the most intense scene I've seen all year thanks to the directing and cinematography.

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« Reply #28667 on: December 26, 2017, 04:19:18 AM »
Ended up seeing Bright twice, once as a joke with friends and the unironically with my 50-something parents who wanted to see it.

Honestly not an awful film. Like everything Max Landis touches Bright is derivative and mediocre but Bright's still more entertaining than most comic book movies. At least it tries to do something different.

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« Reply #28668 on: December 26, 2017, 04:50:40 AM »
Krampus is 5/5 gtfo bebpo.

Dougherty da gawd :rejoice

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« Reply #28669 on: December 26, 2017, 08:57:59 AM »
Ended up seeing Bright twice, once as a joke with friends and the unironically with my 50-something parents who wanted to see it.

Honestly not an awful film. Like everything Max Landis touches Bright is derivative and mediocre but Bright's still more entertaining than most comic book movies. At least it tries to do something different.
yeah, I just saw this. It was actually a pretty good movie for what I expected from a buddy cop big budget action flick. I actually have no idea why it got panned so hard.

I really liked it, and am baffled at how such a negative reaction is possible. Lots of fun, less dumb than half the police action/dramas that are out there, good performances across the board, and a world that doesn't insult viewers by explaining everything away. Thought it was wonderful. I hope it becomes a series.

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« Reply #28670 on: December 26, 2017, 08:59:37 AM »
Watched a review for Bright on YouTube it already got picked up for a movie sequel.
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« Reply #28671 on: December 26, 2017, 09:31:39 AM »
The Shape Of Water was so incredibly good. Richard Jenkins is a treasure.

The group I saw it with were kind of shocked by how much of a romance it was but I thought that was laid out pretty obviously in the trailer.

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« Reply #28672 on: December 26, 2017, 12:48:48 PM »
I really liked it, and am baffled at how such a negative reaction is possible..

Anti-Netflix bias from old-Hollywood media.
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« Reply #28673 on: December 26, 2017, 02:43:02 PM »
Krampus is 5/5 gtfo bebpo.

Dougherty da gawd :rejoice

Ok, let's fight! What did you like about Krampus?

Things I didn't like:

-Wasn't scary. It just wasn't at all.

-Wasn't creepy/spooky. The only creepy part of the film were the evil snowmen outside the window that kept multiplying and getting closer. But...they don't do anything!

-Lack of interesting deaths. Outside the chimney fishing line which was cool and the snake jack in the box (which you don't even see happen), there were all these stupid annoying characters and there aren't even good horror deaths. Like the end of the movie when they're running for the snow mobile, the film is like "oh shit, we have to many characters surviving!" so it literally just drops them into the snow one after the other. There's a scene where Adam Scott and David Koechner's characters are just sitting and leaning against the blinds/boarded window with evil snowmen all outside and I kept waiting for like a snowman's branch arm to burst through the window impaling Koechner in the chest or something, but nope. There are very few cool holiday-take kills.

-The monsters are boring. Evil teddy bear? Flying doll Cherub? zzzz kids movie stuff. Krampus is cool from the outside but I didn't find him scary/intimidating when you saw his face, I thought he'd be a lot freakier underneath. Like, everything about the movie feels PG-13 kids movie, which it is.

-It's boring. Nothing happens for half the runtime and it's just the family being jerks with nothing interesting about it. The opening black friday chaos scene was great to establish the loss of the spirit of christmas, but then the movie just lulls for an hour.

-The ending was good, and felt horror movie-ish. I liked that. I also liked the first scene with Krampus on the roof jumping from roof to roof. I also liked the Elf masks. Felt nightmare before xmas live-action-ish. Oh, the CG backstory part was good. Maybe the movie would've been better entirely CG?

Looking at IMDB I didn't even realize the movie was PG-13. I thought it was R. I guess part of my problem is I wanted an R-rated horror film in the vein of Trick R' Treat. Instead it's a PG-13 kids movie that as an adult I found very boring. There's almost no risks/creativity outside the intro and the ending.

Also I want to add that in the early eerie parts, I felt like Dougherty was essentially trying to make the film like Silent Hill/The Mist. There's a part where Adam Scott is planning the escape with a town map and it's literally a silent hill type map. I think if the film spent more time outside the house exploring the mysterious void world filled with monsters it might've been a bit more interesting. There's definitely some good ideas and nice set design/costume design, direction, but the film never really makes good on anything. Feels neutered.
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« Reply #28674 on: December 26, 2017, 03:47:10 PM »
yeah, I just saw this. It was actually a pretty good movie for what I expected from a buddy cop big budget action flick. I actually have no idea why it got panned so hard.

Max Landis is really easy to hate. He's not just a mediocre and derivative product of nepotism, but also an awkward self-promoter who thinks he can be a woke softboy and an Entourage dudebro at the same time. Doesn't help that his dad also killed two children :doge

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« Reply #28675 on: December 26, 2017, 06:38:31 PM »
watched Ben-Hur with my dad

now THAT'S a Christmas movie
as in it's actually a movie that relates to the stuff Christmas is about
wasn't expecting that but i respect it

somebody bring back gigantic real-life sets and stunts that look like people really did die doing that

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« Reply #28676 on: December 26, 2017, 08:33:48 PM »
I really liked it, and am baffled at how such a negative reaction is possible..

Anti-Netflix bias from old-Hollywood media.

I can't tell if you're serious or not…  :doge

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« Reply #28677 on: December 26, 2017, 08:39:29 PM »
I really liked it, and am baffled at how such a negative reaction is possible..

Anti-Netflix bias from old-Hollywood media.

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« Reply #28678 on: December 27, 2017, 12:52:58 AM »
2049 went down smoother for me when my friend broke it down like this

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"Thom Andersen once said that the appeal of the original Blade Runner was that it expresses nostalgia for a dystopian vision wherein everything might be terrible but at least it's sublime. That's best exemplified in Deckard's apartment, which is dark and dingy but actually beautiful, with the blinds casting a texture of light, the cloying haze surrounding everything, the photographs everywhere, the piano. Whereas in 2049, K lives in a big utility closet lit by the most shadowless, harshest, ugliest work site lighting ever. But it's OK because he has a holo-waifu and his slave job pays enough that he can buy her the DLC to go on his smartphone"

"Los Angeles 2019 may be an overcrowded shithole, but at least the bustling street life is stimulating. In 2049, K impassively glides above it all and is introduced to us asleep at the wheel. Deckard gets to eat sushi; K has to eat worms. And so on."
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I'm still not in love with it but I can appreciate how it tackles loneliness through a different lens than the original

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« Reply #28679 on: December 27, 2017, 01:35:59 AM »
Bright: cool stuff, obviously ready to be a Netflix show now