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I'm even worse, literally the only Edgar Wright movie I've seen is his Scott Pilgrim adaptation, which was certainly entertaining but lost too much nuance and character development in the adaptation process.
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Shaun is the "worst" one, The World's End edges out Hot Fuzz (which may actually be the funniest movie I've ever seen) through thematic depth. Shaun is still a fantastic movie.
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Regy Rusty posted:I like The Worlds End. I love Hot Fuzz. I don't like Shaun of the Dead. You've got red on you
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I'm actually pretty surprised that Edgar Wright hasn't done any Who episodes yet.
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EvilTobaccoExec posted:I like the show Spaced Everybody in the world who hasn't seen Spaced is making their mothers weep gently into their palms at the thought of how their precious child has wasted their life.
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Party Boat posted:I'm actually pretty surprised that Edgar Wright hasn't done any Who episodes yet. He's a bit big by now I guess?
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Gaz-L posted:Was this back when the 'Remastered' versions of 1-3 were the only ones you could get? My buying Red Dwarf on VHS predated the existence of the remastered version by a long time.
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probably too busy throwing tantrums about multibillion dollar movie franchises boom. headshot
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Group of friends get caught in apocalyptic situation and try to reach predetermined location and survive. During the ordeal, the group is picked off one by one as the main character tries to reconnect with female lead. But enough about Alien, EvilTobaccoExec posted:I like the show Spaced Spaced is better than any of their films, partially because using action film cliches for visual sequences is kind of amusing when it's a fake finger pistol gunfight and less so when it's an actual gun fight.
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I really wanted to see his Antman film 
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Toxxupation posted:probably too busy throwing tantrums about multibillion dollar movie franchises You're right, only you should be allowed to do that
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Jerusalem posted:I really wanted to see his Antman film I did too but i think his whole "filmmakers are being choked by the disney machine" is p disingenuous for two reasons: one, it's a multibillion dollar movie franchise so everyone going in knows that they're gonna have about fifteen different executives breathing down their neck for every cinematic decision they make, and two, guardians was a james gunn movie just with a budget
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Toxxupation posted:probably too busy throwing tantrums about multibillion dollar movie franchises Yeah no. You crossed a line there.
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Jerusalem posted:I really wanted to see his Antman film I don't always care of Wright, but I have to think he'd do something more interesting with Ant-Man than what we've seen from that terrible trailer...
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Toxxupation posted:I did too but i think his whole "filmmakers are being choked by the disney machine" is p disingenuous for two reasons: one, it's a multibillion dollar movie franchise so everyone going in knows that they're gonna have about fifteen different executives breathing down their neck for every cinematic decision they make, and two, guardians was a james gunn movie just with a budget I'm not familiar with what he's been saying, but yeah considering that Guardians was pretty much just Disney/Marvel giving James Gunn the freedom to do whatever the hell he wanted (turns out what he wanted was to make an incredible movie), it surprises me to hear that he was being micro-managed/getting lots of creative interference. Maybe that just goes to show Gunn is way better at handling people 
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Jerusalem posted:I'm not familiar with what he's been saying, but yeah considering that Guardians was pretty much just Disney/Marvel giving James Gunn the freedom to do whatever the hell he wanted (turns out what he wanted was to make an incredible movie), it surprises me to hear that he was being micro-managed/getting lots of creative interference. Maybe that just goes to show Gunn is way better at handling people He said in an interview that Disney is choking out creatives with its interference in the Marvel series of films, and basically laid all the blame for being kicked off Ant-Man at their feet
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It might to some degree be creative vision. I doubt they'd give any director free reign. I can't imagine they'd give, for instance, Quentin Tarantino carte blanche to make a typical Tarantino movie if they gave him a Marvel deal. It's reasonable to retain some tonal consistency between franchises, but I can see why it'd rub a lot of directors the wrong way if it's their vision that Disney doesn't agree with.
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Guardians was already written when Gunn signed on. He rewrote it, I'm not sure if it was with the original screen writer or not, but a lot of stuff like Thanos, the Infinity Gem, and the Collector were already there and had to stay. Wright had been thinking of an Ant-Man adaptation for like a decade, and had every script he turned in torn to pieces and was told he had to shoehorn in a bunch of stuff for the Marvel movie universe stuff. So, maybe it's a bit whiny, but I can see his point for feeling strangled by the business side. And if he cared more about telling good stories than making all the money in the world, I can respect the decision to leave. Considering most of the staff went with him, he wasn't seen as a big baby by the people he was working with, either.
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Toxxupation posted:I did too but i think his whole "filmmakers are being choked by the disney machine" is p disingenuous for two reasons: one, it's a multibillion dollar movie franchise so everyone going in knows that they're gonna have about fifteen different executives breathing down their neck for every cinematic decision they make, and two, guardians was a james gunn movie just with a budget Guardians would have been better if the two main characters weren't the worst part of the ensemble and if it didn't have so much setup awkwardly jammed in.
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Guardians is a Marvel movie through and through. Just cause they let him add some quips and rock in doesn't make it "a James Gunn movie with a budget".
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Shaun is one of my favorite movies. I like Hot Fuzz well enough. Went into World's End knowing NOTHING about it. When it switched Genres it of nowhere I loving LOST IT. I never laughed so hard in my life. I was chuckling throughout the rest of the movie just from that. I could see how it might not have been everyone's favorite, but going in like that was magical.
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RodShaft posted:Went into World's End knowing NOTHING about it. When it switched Genres it of nowhere I loving LOST IT. I never laughed so hard in my life. I was chuckling throughout the rest of the movie just from that. I envy you so much for going in blind. 
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Going into Hot Fuzz blind was pretty great too.
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I get the feeling I should watch these two movies before I learn too much about them...
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Jsor posted:I get the feeling I should watch these two movies You are correct.
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Jsor posted:I get the feeling I should watch these two movies before I learn too much about them... I felt the same way, and discovered they are not on netflix streaming. However, I am now watching episode 2 of Broadchurch because I happened to skim by it while on netflix and remember this thread talking about it.
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Jsor posted:I get the feeling I should watch these two movies before I learn too much about them... Abandon thread, man, abandon thread.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:It was very far from a bad film, it's just easily the worst of a great trilogy. Why does everybody forget Paul exists? edit: holy poo poo this topic made the thread move fast. vv My bad, guess I was assuming the Pegg/Frost movies were 'the series' zzMisc fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Jan 20, 2015 |
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Smello posted:Why does everybody forget Paul exists? Because Edgar didn't write or direct it?
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Pinwiz11 posted:I envy you so much for going in blind. Like knew NOTHING about it other than the writer and stars. Except my wife told me The Worlds End is a bar in Britton-land. It was amazing. I'll probably never experience anything like that cinematically again. Jsor posted:I get the feeling I should watch these two movies before I learn too much about them...
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Wow all these replies must be a new review. (Cornetto trilogy is great, though)
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Toxxupation posted:He said in an interview that Disney is choking out creatives with its interference in the Marvel series of films, and basically laid all the blame for being kicked off Ant-Man at their feet Doctor Spaceman beat me to it, but you can't really blame the guy for being annoyed at having changes forced on his movie because Marvel wanted to grandfather it into a franchise that didn't exist until after he started working on it. Jon Favreau didn't direct Iron Man 3 because of similar issues he had working on Iron Man 2, and some of the broader MCU stuff in that movie hurt the film, especially the pacing.
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ThePlague-Daemon posted:Jon Favreau didn't direct Iron Man 3 because of similar issues he had working on Iron Man 2, and some of the broader MCU stuff in that movie hurt the film, especially the pacing. To be fair, while I enjoyed Favreau's direction, I thought Iron Man 3 was wonderful and that Shane Black did a great job - though as others have noted it's really a Tony Stark movie (which is a good thing).
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I'm pleased to announce a new grade system for reviews, it'll be a five point system based on the Rory scale Rory of course will be at the top of the scale, getting the full 5 Rories out of a possible 5 Rories
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The Raid 2? Pretty good, but not Rory, 4 Rories out of 5
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Racism? 1 Rory out of 5
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Donna Noble? Wonderful, still not Rory, 4 Rories out of 5
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Rory really is the best.
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I'd go 4.5 Rories for Donna.
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