Vermain posted:Completely agreed. It flowed so much better and felt far less forced in. Was she in Mortal Kombat vs D.C so we could get that matchup?
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Re-listening to the Earnest episode made me curious. What's the worst movie you guys have seen the most times? As in, one you didn't like even the first time but you just ended up seeing it over and over again for whatever reason (being couchridden with a hangover and the TV's on Comedy Central and the remote's far away, for instance) Growing up in the same house as my sisters, I suffered through many second-hand views of classics like the Little Rascals and a few others. As for ones I watched halfway willingly I have no idea. Probably Space Jam.
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Batman V Superman is an awful, broken, unlovely movie, but it manages to at least sort of work in short bursts; Zach Snyder is awful, but he can frame the hell out of a scene, occasionally, which makes for really good two minute increments of really terrible long-rear end movies. Suicide Squad is just awful. At first I thought there might be a good movie somewhere underneath those draconian cuts and studio meddling, but I honestly don't think there ever was. Even if you pare it back to what was apparently the original director's cut's core, you're left with a bleak, depressing tale of nasty criminals being abused into becoming soldiers, without a shred of fun or humor to be seen. And even then, you're saddled with Enchantress and a bunch of tar-goons for villains, which just undercuts any energy the movie might have had before it started. It just doesn't work on any level.
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Suicide Squad would make a great TV series. You'd have time to explore the relationships between characters and give them a Mission of the Week, and every time an actor leaves you give them a shocking death and bring in another c-list villain. Cast Taraj P Henson (Cookie from Empire) as Amanda Waller and you're set.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Re-listening to the Earnest episode made me curious. What's the worst movie you guys have seen the most times? As in, one you didn't like even the first time but you just ended up seeing it over and over again for whatever reason (being couchridden with a hangover and the TV's on Comedy Central and the remote's far away, for instance) Sleepless in Seattle (on TV a lot, especially around Christmas/New Year's Eve/Valentine's Day, since all 3 are settings for the movie). A woman with a fiancee hears some other guy on the radio and decides to stalk him and this is true love. Man I hate that movie and yet I've seen it at least a dozen times.
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Count Chocula posted:Suicide Squad would make a great TV series. You'd have time to explore the relationships between characters and give them a Mission of the Week, and every time an actor leaves you give them a shocking death and bring in another c-list villain. Cast Taraj P Henson (Cookie from Empire) as Amanda Waller and you're set. I gotta say, there's no truer sign that something is good than when people insist it's better told as an HBO miniseries.
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That would mean world war z was a good movie though
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BvS and SS were successes in one and only one respect: making me want to see a standalone Irons/Affleck Batman movie
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Stairmaster posted:That would mean world war z was a good movie though So be it.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:BvS and SS were successes in one and only one respect: making me want to see a standalone Irons/Affleck Batman movie They also made only slightly less than the metric asston of money WB was hoping for in their wildest dreams. Plus most of the audience that saw them actually liked them. So that's at least 3 successes.
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Count Chocula posted:Suicide Squad would make a great TV series. You'd have time to explore the relationships between characters and give them a Mission of the Week, and every time an actor leaves you give them a shocking death and bring in another c-list villain. Cast Taraj P Henson (Cookie from Empire) as Amanda Waller and you're set. Surely they've had enough bad guys between those Arrow and Flash tv shows to do this?
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Jan 20, 2017 10:33
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Red Bones posted:Surely they've had enough bad guys between those Arrow and Flash tv shows to do this? They did. Suicide Squad/Amanda Waller has been a recurring infrequent arc in Arrow. (They eventually revealed that while Oliver was "lost at sea" she grabbed his rear end and went "You're dead, so I get deniability if we use you for whatever." as a proto-Squad.)
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Gyges posted:They also made only slightly less than the metric asston of money WB was hoping for in their wildest dreams. Plus most of the audience that saw them actually liked them. So that's at least 3 successes. BvS was a solid box office disappointment, despite being technically probably profitable. On paper it's not unreasonable to think that a movie starring Batman and superman, if given an avengers level budget and marketing, should pull in Avengers level money. Instead it made sub-Iron Man 3 money. Put another way , adding Superman and increasing the marketing actually caused the movie to make less money than the previous Batman movie. Suicide Squad was a legit box office success though, which is sad, because it was terrible.
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SS also makes merch money out the rear end don't forget. The frustrating thing about SS is that there's already dozens of films about ragtag bands of ne'er do-well types becoming families who do good. Just copy a Fast & Furious movie and be done with it. Instead they smashed like four ideas together and it's one of the most baffling 'genre' films I've ever seen. The repeated helicopter crashes should never have made it past a script editor.
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Both SS and BVS are bad movies, but at least Suicide Squad was entertainingly terrible. Batman V Superman was a chore to get through, and wasn't cheesy/bad enough to laugh at, it was just... there.
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I had to think about this for a while but the worst movie I've seen the most is Glitter. I used to work for a movie store and one of the shift leads that I disliked the most loved to put that movie on. Before we were corporate mandated to play ad rolls, we had free reign to pick films. A lot of times we chose musicals and whatnot because it would be something we could appreciate while rear end deep in VHS tapes (I worked there right at the end of the format) to put away. We had a few films that meant something as well. Stomp and Garth Brooks Live were used to drive customers away or encourage quick leaving. I think one of the shift leads used to put in Woodstock live videos until someone saw a naked boob. We also used to play Grease a lot until that one got complaints as well. Phantom of the Opera and Napoleon Dynamite got so much play time I never actually say them beginning to end and I never will, I got so sick of them both. Also one super awkward moment where we put in Back to the Future and found out that PG back then is different than PG now.
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Jan 20, 2017 20:13
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Gyges posted:I think the real issues for the movie were that it apparently got written in just a few weeks, and then had meddling from all sides thrown in. Like, Enchantress is probably the biggest single element you can look at and strap the bad decisions to. But it almost feels like some sort of mandate came down that the big bad in the movie had to be a huge spectacle and tie into the team, which kind of lead to her inclusion. I would watch the poo poo out of this movie. Which is yet another reason SS is so loving disappointing.
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The worst movie I've watched the most number of times is definitely Master of Disguise, which I have watched almost once.
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I have to watch that Jim Carrey "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" every year when I go home for the holidays. It's a loving massacre of a classic cartoon, made worse because I can't bitch about how bad it is since it's a family tradition now. If only it were "Elf"  They also like the Ryan Reynolds in a fat suit Christmas comedy "Just Friends," but that's not every year and isn't as dire.
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I've watched the Scooby-Doo live action movies a like four times each. I guess they were just cheap to acquire, because they were on television very shortly after being in theaters
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PostNouveau posted:I have to watch that Jim Carrey "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" every year when I go home for the holidays. It's a loving massacre of a classic cartoon, made worse because I can't bitch about how bad it is since it's a family tradition now. That one is the worst because the Grinch was supposed to just be a curmudgeon who grows a heart by the end instead they made him a tragic creature who had every right to be pissed off at the Whos, all of which were racist assholes.
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ghost emoji posted:I've seen Gone Fishing multiple times. For some reason it was always this followed by Cocoon.
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:Zach Snyder is awful, but he can frame the hell out of a scene, occasionally, which makes for really good two minute increments of really terrible long-rear end movies. Tiny Brontosaurus posted:What's the worst movie you guys have seen the most times? Including childhood years, it's probably, like, Krull. Or maybe Dune, for which I have passed through ironic love into real love. As an adult, I think... 88 Minutes. I'd like to hear the WHM people do an episode on that one.
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I've seen Date Movie like five timesPostNouveau posted:I have to watch that Jim Carrey "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" every year when I go home for the holidays. It's a loving massacre of a classic cartoon, made worse because I can't bitch about how bad it is since it's a family tradition now. I've seen that like twice and the nicest thing I can say is that Anna Farris is really going for it and Ryan Reynolds is only in the fat suit for like ten minutes
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I've seen Eight Crazy Nights way too many goddamn times. That is a purely wretched movie if I've ever seen one, and a great episode too!
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I watched the FX "dvd on TV" of the Butterfly Effect so many times because I thought it was cool when I was 15.
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A Meat posted:I've watched the Scooby-Doo live action movies a like four times each. I guess they were just cheap to acquire, because they were on television very shortly after being in theaters Didn't James Gunn write the first one? That's part of why Marvel is successful, they tweak the genre to the characters. Which means I get to watch a zillion dollar acid trip Doctor Strange movie. They would do the Suicide Squad heist movie everyone seems to want. That would be a way to actually do a cinematic universe organically, since the McGuffin could be a chunk of kryptonite or Aquaman's trident or whatever. Something that makes the audience gasp a bit. I heard part of SS' success was the diversity of its cast, which is one positive thing. I watched a ton of Spawn and Waterworld as a kid, I kinda like them. Count Chocula fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Jan 21, 2017 |
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Sax Solo posted:Including childhood years, it's probably, like, Krull. Krull is great though??
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Count Chocula posted:Didn't James Gunn write the first one? I think it's less that people really want a SS heist movie, and more that the only real situations you would use a Suicide Squad would be heists, assassinations, or demolitions. Like, why do you need a plausibly deniable link to a unit you're sending in to rescue a government official in an American city? Especially when you have US military meet up with them. Even if you were worried about violating Posse Comitatus, the solutions isn't to also send in a military squad while you're at it.
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Gyges posted:I think it's less that people really want a SS heist movie, and more that the only real situations you would use a Suicide Squad would be heists, assassinations, or demolitions.
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Count Chocula posted:I heard part of SS' success was the diversity of its cast, which is one positive thing. Who knows how accurate polls are, but lots of polls were saying Suicide Squad was the most popular recent superhero movie among women. MOM! GET IN HERE! In a minute honey, I'm watching the Suicide Squad!
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Meanwhile Tilda Swinton and Scarlett Johansson are apparently completely believable as Asian women
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Tilda Swinton is completely believable as somebody who doses you with acid and then guides you through the best trip of your life.
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Count Chocula posted:Tilda Swinton is completely believable as somebody who doses you with acid and then guides you through the best trip of your life. Question: Does the Dr. Strange movie ever end up visually resembling the comics, or is it the boring-rear end Inception visuals seen in the trailer the whole way through? Also nobody in their right mind is disputing that Tilda Swinton is a great actress
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Meanwhile Tilda Swinton and Scarlett Johansson are apparently completely believable as Asian women At least one of the directors apologized and said he made a mistake not using an Asian actor once the situation was explained to him.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:Meanwhile Tilda Swinton and Scarlett Johansson are apparently completely believable as Asian women Tilda Swinton was a Celtic wizard. Which was not a good change from an Asian dude, but it did acknowledge that she wasn't a Tibetan lady who happened to look like a Nordic lady.
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Shirec posted:Also one super awkward moment where we put in Back to the Future and found out that PG back then is different than PG now. The Vosgian Beast posted:Question: Does the Dr. Strange movie ever end up visually resembling the comics, or is it the boring-rear end Inception visuals seen in the trailer the whole way through? Darthemed fucked around with this message at 06:21 on Jan 21, 2017 |
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Darthemed posted:In regards to which part? Probably the rape scene.
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Gyges posted:Tilda Swinton was a Celtic wizard. Which was not a good change from an Asian dude, but it did acknowledge that she wasn't a Tibetan lady who happened to look like a Nordic lady. Don't use the Thermian defense, bruh
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