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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Greg Land does movie posters now? Glad I'm not the only one seeing it.
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I'm really torn between reading the spoilers for Noah and waiting to go in blind. If I knew without a doubt it wouldn't get chopped, I would definitely wait; as it is, I kind of want to know more just to understand everyone's reactions, but I kind of want to go in unprepared for what I get.
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Random Stranger posted:The details of that Noah plot are interesting since it's only theologically objectionable in the broadest sense (which I think we were all suspecting would be the case). I bet that if we saw that cut there would still be a lot of angry people about it but thematically it fits nicely with the original story. Well, except the ecological message which sounds incredibly clumsy but I'd want to see it before judging. Yeah, the using non-renewable energy is bad detail is the one element of the plot I think they can safely get rid of. And it's more because that's the kind of thing stupid people would get super hung up on and distract from the far, far more fascinating things worthy of discussing in the movie. I mean, holy poo poo, we've got text-accurate really alien-looking angels, giants, an Ark hijacking, and prehistoric beasts including, if I'm reading those spoilers right, accurate Maniraptors. Be still my heart. 
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turtlecrunch posted:Is Divergent actually a good novel or is it just Hunger Games + Twilight = YA monies? I read the first book and the trailer definitely shows a lot of the neat scenes from it, and the casting seems pretty spot on. The book is explicitly set in dystopian Chicago, so it's a little less generic. But the overall plot is weak, especially the ending, so I don't have high hopes for the movie.
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Noah spoilers, about the major villains downfall; The oil subplot does come back in the end because Noah has Ray Winstone defeated in combat and kills him by dousing him in oil and setting him alight, which leads to a really cool shot of Russel Crowe, covered in blood and dirt, watching this man burn while prehistoric predators prowl on the edge of the fires light. Then, I imagine more controversially, God speaks to Noah through the burning body - like a gory burning bush, basically. EDIT: Just to clarify, the gore isn't extreme or anything. PriorMarcus fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Jan 4, 2014 |
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PriorMarcus posted:Noah spoilers, about the major villains downfall; The oil subplot does come back in the end because Noah has Ray Winstone defeated in combat and kills him by dousing him in oil and setting him alight, which leads to a really cool shot of Russel Crowe, covered in blood and dirt, watching this man burn while prehistoric predators prowl on the edge of the fires light. Then, I imagine more controversially, God speaks to Noah through the burning body - like a gory burning bush, basically. Goddamnit PriorMarcus, you better not be lying about this because, holy poo poo.
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smackfu posted:I read the first book and the trailer definitely shows a lot of the neat scenes from it, and the casting seems pretty spot on. The book is explicitly set in dystopian Chicago, so it's a little less generic. But the overall plot is weak, especially the ending, so I don't have high hopes for the movie. I do think that it bears repeating that the author made the intelligent faction the bad guys because she was mad at a professor in one of her classes who said some bad things about some popular best selling books or something.
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Young Freud posted:Goddamnit PriorMarcus, you better not be lying about this because, holy poo poo. I'm accurately describing the film that I saw early last year (2013). Even back then there was a lot of talk about how controversial it was, so how much of it remains intact I've no idea. I hope all of it. Also back then the temporary score was music from The Fountain and it fit in really well to give you all an idea of the overall tone and rhythm of scenes.
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PriorMarcus posted:I'm accurately describing the film that I saw early last year (2013). Even back then there was a lot of talk about how controversial it was, so how much of it remains intact I've no idea. I hope all of it. Nah, I'm just voicing a concern, because the internet and all. Most of what you've stated kinda jibes with previous reports from pre-screenings (such as the third act which I thought had Noah killing his family members, hence the Sunshine reference, because I hadn't known that the villagers take the Ark), so I'm willing to take it as the word of God.
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Young Freud posted:Nah, I'm just voicing a concern, because the internet and all. There's a lot of stuff I'm kind of unclear on because some of it was still storyboard shots. The battle that allows the villagers to take the Ark, for example, was mainly a mix of CGI and hand drawn storyboards, and the way that Noah builds the Ark looked rough as hell in the cut I saw. Basically he's given a single seed from the garden of Eden, because the Earth is a barren wasteland all around, and uses it to grow a massive forest that he uses for wood. I'd bet it looks awesome in the finished film but for me it was just a bunch of people standing around watching nothing.
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Do we hear the voice of God? Because it would be pretty wild if Crowe just rolls his eyes back into his skull like he's having a seizure and starts foaming at the mouth while muttering 'yes lord yes I will' every time God talks to him.
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So does anyone else get the feeling that Lone Survivor will be jingoistic trash and that the new Paranormal Activity is going to be super racist?
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Do we hear the voice of God? Because it would be pretty wild if Crowe just rolls his eyes back into his skull like he's having a seizure and starts foaming at the mouth while muttering 'yes lord yes I will' every time God talks to him. God speaks to Noah three times in the film, once in a dream that shows him the story of creation, once as a burning bush; the flames are CGI wisp of energy, and again at the end in the bigger spoiler I detailed, again turning from practical fire into CGI energy. We hear him speak, Noah doesn't have seizures or anything.
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FuzzySkinner posted:All it is, is him making funny faces, with funny voices, and discussing his own personal childhood. Not in the Eddie Murphy, "YOU EVER HAVE A MOM THAT MAKE YOU A HAMBURGER"-type way, but to him, and him specifically. If you're trying to say something bad about that bit from Raw then you can go straight to hell. I guess I'm partial to that one because it described my mom perfectly, down to putting onions in the house burger. I never knew other people actually did that. Dissapointed Owl posted:At least Eddie Murphy had the decency to be goddamn hilarious if you chose to ignore his homophobia, which is absolutely a product of the time (doesn't make it right in any way whatsoever, of course). Yeah, at the very least you could reasonably expect Eddie Murphy to not say stuff like that now. greatn posted:Everyone knows that reboot will star Jaden and Will Smith. He will drive a Tesla to 1985 and the doc played by Bryan Cranston will be astounded the burnt out time circuits require 1.21 Jigabytes of RAM. Jaden will have to perform Smells Like Teen Spirit at the high school dance to make sure will marries Jada Pinkett. In the third one they'll go to 1915 and need the help of the real Tesla. If you take the Smiths out of the equation I'm legit on board with this concept. What happens in the second one though? What's the current-day equivalent of the sports almanac?
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raditts posted:What happens in the second one though? What's the current-day equivalent of the sports almanac? Wikipedia. He downloads a future copy of the Wikipedia website.
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door Door door posted:So does anyone else get the feeling that Lone Survivor will be jingoistic trash and that the new Paranormal Activity is going to be super racist? The trailer to Lone Survivor gave me that feeling, yeah. Besides the premise, the "God is on our side" line seemed pretty indicative.
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It sounds like Aaronfsky is going full-on John Milton or Dante Alighieri with Noah, taking a basic story and fleshing it out until it becomes almost Biblical apocrypha.door Door door posted:So does anyone else get the feeling that Lone Survivor will be jingoistic trash and that the new Paranormal Activity is going to be super racist? There's already been discussion about Lone Survivor among military critics. A lot of the stuff in the book is inaccurate from what actually happened in Operation Red Wings. I'll crosspost from the TFR movie thread to get you up to speed... Bored As gently caress posted:I was really, really disappointed to learn that the book Lone Survivor is full of inaccuracies, as I thought it was fantastic aside from his LIEBERALS ARE THE DEVIL bullshit. As a result of the inaccuracies, though, the movie, based on the book, is probably going to be highly inaccurate at best. The book itself was ghost-written by a British military *fiction* writer while Luttrell himself was in Iraq, so that should give you some clue as to how well the book portrays reality. So, yeah, expect the movie to be a game of telephone with the real incident with some added exaggeration of events and jingoism. Young Freud fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Jan 4, 2014 |
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Young Freud posted:It sounds like Aaronfsky is going full-on John Milton or Dante Alighieri with this, taking a basic story and fleshing it out until it becomes almost Biblical apocrypha. If you want to know anything else just ask. I've avoided mentioning a lot of the weirder/cooler details about the world the story takes place in because I think it's one of the really unique Aronofsky aspects of the film that really sold me on it but it would be more interesting to go in fresh.
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My god, Noah sounds like the best biblical movie since Last Temptation of Christ. 
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PriorMarcus posted:Wikipedia. He downloads a future copy of the Wikipedia website.  I'd like to see that flopping around in Biff's car.
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Young Freud posted:It sounds like Aaronfsky is going full-on John Milton or Dante Alighieri with Noah, taking a basic story and fleshing it out until it becomes almost Biblical apocrypha. ...almost? Whatever its appeal might win up being it sounds like Noah: The Theme Park Ride.
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PriorMarcus posted:God speaks to Noah three times in the film, once in a dream that shows him the story of creation, once as a burning bush; the flames are CGI wisp of energy, and again at the end in the bigger spoiler I detailed, again turning from practical fire into CGI energy. We hear him speak, Noah doesn't have seizures or anything. Disappointing.
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IUG posted:
Obviously, it would just be printouts of Category: World Series Champions.
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IUG posted:
That's just the Anime portion of Wikipedia right?
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So, how much of that is devoted to Star Wars, My Little Pony, and anime? That's a joke edition, because the real Wikipedia without pictures, circa 2006, would be 1,954 500-page volumes.
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raditts posted:If you're trying to say something bad about that bit from Raw then you can go straight to hell. I guess I'm partial to that one because it described my mom perfectly, down to putting onions in the house burger. I never knew other people actually did that. No, No, that's the point. It's a relate-able bit that is very MUCH a shared experience, thus making it all the more hilarious for the audience. Kevin Hart has never even remotely stumbled upon that. FuzzySkinner fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Jan 4, 2014 |
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IUG posted:
The chase now takes place in a warehouse so Biff can lug it around on a fork lift.
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door Door door posted:So does anyone else get the feeling that Lone Survivor will be jingoistic trash and that the new Paranormal Activity is going to be super racist? I didn't find it racist at all. Slasherfan fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Jan 4, 2014 |
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IUG posted:
Or he could get one of these: 
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I more had in mind that he downloads it into a USB; most likely a novelty one shaped like an American football.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Or he could get one of these: Actually, I was thinking about a iPad or Nexus or something similar tablet or netbook. Enough memory on it and it'll store a backup of Wikipedia, with pictures. The October 2013 dump, with no talk, user, or history pages, is something like 9.5GB compressed, 44GB uncompressed.
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This post doesn't belong here, you're looking for "PYF Ridiculous 90s Video Game Cover".
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Squallege posted:The chase now takes place in a warehouse so Biff can lug it around on a fork lift.
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So is he a person that used to be a cyborg or is he a cyborg that is also a mutant?
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Slasherfan posted:I didn't find it racist at all. I haven't seen it, but the only full length trailer I saw made it look like all the characters would be pretty big stereotypes.
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