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First of all: Micheal Bay is a nerd. In conclusion, Pacific Rim has a heart and a sense of humor so I actually care what happens in the few dark and murky robot monster fight scenes.
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Pacific Rim isn't great but doesn't have anything nearly as bad as the twins, or tape Guy, or Shia and his parents, or robot testicles or robots pissing and humping things, or Romeo and Juliet laws.
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Jun 17, 2017 16:58
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I know that Eric sometimes stops in here so I gotta take this opportunity where I can: Book of Henry - Worst of 2017 PLEASE
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Jun 17, 2017 17:48
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I believe Andrew all but confirmed that it's going to be one of the 4 on twitter.
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Jun 17, 2017 18:45
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Guy Mann posted:Pacific Rim was mostly just boring. Like, I don't understand how the people who criticize the Transformers movies for focusing too much on the humans and not enough on the robot action are perfectly fine with Pacific Rim having only three big robot fight scenes and instead being mostly training montages, flashbacks, and inter-team drama broken up with the loud comic relief characters running around and yelling a lot. The cool kind of nerd that hates everything, especially himself.
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Jun 17, 2017 19:56
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Fsmhunk posted:The cool kind of nerd that hates everything, especially himself. The #SomethingAwful #Brand
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Jun 17, 2017 21:31
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Charlie Day was pretty much the highlight, yeah. Please explain to me like I'm a very stupid child how Pacific Rim is like Getter Robo at all besides very basic elements that are actually more similar to Mazinger Z if anything?
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Jun 17, 2017 22:48
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Guy Mann posted:Pacific Rim was mostly just boring. Like, I don't understand how the people who criticize the Transformers movies for focusing too much on the humans and not enough on the robot action are perfectly fine with Pacific Rim having only three big robot fight scenes and instead being mostly training montages, flashbacks, and inter-team drama broken up with the loud comic relief characters running around and yelling a lot. I think Pacific Rim is ok and despise the Transformers movies. Pacific Rim is a movie about humans piloting giant robots. Humans belong in the movie. It's Top Gun with mechs. I grew up in the 80s with Transformers cartoons and no one I knew ever walked in to the toy store and looked for the Sparkplug or Spike action figures. On top of that the Transformers themselves in the movie look like blurry garbage. Who looked at those designs and liked it? I've never been more disappointed coming out of a movie that I was after seeing the first one. Obviously nostalgia clouds my view a bit about Transformers and Pacific Rim is far from a perfect movie. All that said, if Tape Man is an actual character in the last Transformer movie I might go see it.
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Jun 17, 2017 23:44
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Fsmhunk posted:Please explain to me like I'm a very stupid child how Pacific Rim is like Getter Robo at all besides very basic elements that are actually more similar to Mazinger Z if anything? A plot summary of Mazinger Z: a German archaeologist named Dr. Hell finds the ruins of an ancient Greek civilization and rebuilds its ancient "titans" to try and take over the world, and kills the rest of his archaeological team except for one survivor who goes back to warn humanity. In response, a scientist builds a (one, single) robot named Mazinger Z from an alloy found in Mt. Fuji, and with his last breaths as he dies from a bomb blast caused by one of Dr. Hell's allies, entrusts his son Kouji with the robot. Kouji, along with his friends and remaining family, then attempts to fight back against Dr. Hell's forces. A plot summary of Getter Robo: A scientist builds a combining robot powered by the pilot's willpower initially as a means of deep-space exploration, then when a civilization of alien dinosaurs invades the Earth, entrusts three strong-willed teenagers with its use as Earth's first line of defense. In later incarnations of the franchise, the Getter Robo is part of an international team of super robots fighting said alien threats (often kaiju-sized). Which of these sounds more like Pacific Rim to you, the one where the protagonists are a relatively small group of people fighting a guy who wants to take over the world and his evil buddies, or the one where an international team fights alien kaiju?
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Jun 18, 2017 01:41
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It's kind of irrelevant because who the gently caress has even heard of Getter Robo?
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Jun 18, 2017 01:59
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:A plot summary of Mazinger Z: a German archaeologist named Dr. Hell finds the ruins of an ancient Greek civilization and rebuilds its ancient "titans" to try and take over the world, and kills the rest of his archaeological team except for one survivor who goes back to warn humanity. In response, a scientist builds a (one, single) robot named Mazinger Z from an alloy found in Mt. Fuji, and with his last breaths as he dies from a bomb blast caused by one of Dr. Hell's allies, entrusts his son Kouji with the robot. Kouji, along with his friends and remaining family, then attempts to fight back against Dr. Hell's forces. To be honest neither of them sound much like it, and thats ignoring the themes or characters which couldn't be more different. Keep in mind you said that Pacific Rim IS Getter Robo. The aliens in Pacific Rim are obvious analouges of Toho aliens, not the dinos from Getter Robo who are from earth's ancient past and indeed not even aliens.
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Jun 18, 2017 02:58
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weekly font posted:I know that Eric sometimes stops in here so I gotta take this opportunity where I can: That bad huh.
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Jun 18, 2017 04:16
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:That bad huh. It's 100% in the same vein as Collateral Beauty.
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Jun 18, 2017 05:36
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:That bad huh. The difference is that Collateral Beauty at least looked like a normal (bad) overly saccharine movie from the trailers, then swerved into this weird sociopath scheme involving fake actors and stuff. Book of Henry lays out how both annoyingly precocious and insane it is in its trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz8R2xxeyaA
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Jun 18, 2017 05:39
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:That bad huh. I loved it. It's loving insane. Room level of how did someone let this get made.
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Jun 18, 2017 14:54
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weekly font posted:I loved it. It's loving insane. Room level of how did someone let this get made. When I saw the trailer I knew it would make me uncomfortable.
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Jun 18, 2017 15:29
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:When I saw the trailer I knew it would make me uncomfortable. I didn't realize until the end it was directed by Trevorrow and then I laughed so hard I lost vision.
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Jun 18, 2017 15:53
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Clearly I liked Pacific Rim a lot more than others. I don't think it's great, but that's the point. It's on a watchable level that the Transformers flicks aren't. Obviously I want my Transformers movies to be the Citizen Kane of Giant Robot movies but if I can't have that I'll gladly have them be on the same mediocre level as PR. A Transformer movie having the eh quality of Pacific Rim would be an improvement.
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Jun 18, 2017 17:19
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I haven't seen Pacific Rim because I heard it sucks but there's no way anything in it matches up to the Chicago invasion/battle from Dark of the Moon.
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Jun 18, 2017 17:25
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They cut a monster in half in outer space with a massive sword.
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Jun 18, 2017 17:46
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Fsmhunk posted:They cut a monster in half in outer space with a massive sword. I think the 90s Power Rangers movie ends the same way. edit: how have they done the new Power Rangers but neither of those 90s movies?
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Jun 18, 2017 17:52
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I need to hear the WHM guys do The Book of Henry. I saw it yesterday and it's just baffling in its insanity. I know Jurassic World was a huge hit and all, but why anyone let Trevorrow do that is still a mystery to me. The theater I was in was fairly packed with families with kids. I don't think the parents had any idea what the gently caress kind of movie they were actually in for.
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SleepCousinDeath posted:I think the 90s Power Rangers movie ends the same way. Nope that ends with giant monster getting kicked in the dick and thrown into a comet.
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Jun 18, 2017 18:59
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Cracking up pretty hard at the Michael Bay = Michael Myers goofs
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Jun 19, 2017 01:48
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New episode is up, no Cabin, he must not have been able to take it.
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Jun 20, 2017 12:20
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I'm almost an hour in and they've barely gotten past the first few scenes of the movie. 
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Jun 20, 2017 14:57
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Yeah they're really struggling to talk about these Transformers movies.
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Jun 20, 2017 16:07
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I assume it must be like that podcast that would watch Grown Ups every week, but somehow worse and more painful
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Jun 20, 2017 16:23
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Super Fan posted:Yeah they're really struggling to talk about these Transformers movies. It doesn't help that the movies barely give you an idea of anyone's personality outside of Prime.
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Jun 20, 2017 16:32
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Marvel has been getting better with villain visual design - Guardians 2 in particular shines for me - but I agree with the gang that blockbusters are resorting to really incoherent and uninteresting design. Hell, Power Rangers went for "melted action figure" as an aesthetic because the people making that were terrified of putting a robot dinosaur on the screen.
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The Deleter posted:Marvel has been getting better with villain visual design - Guardians 2 in particular shines for me - but I agree with the gang that blockbusters are resorting to really incoherent and uninteresting design. Hell, Power Rangers went for "melted action figure" as an aesthetic because the people making that were terrified of putting a robot dinosaur on the screen.  But seriously, it's the same problem with the Transformers movies: don't lead with the ins and outs of the normal human characters' everyday lives. I'm here for giant robot fighty time, not watching Sam go through a bunch of job interviews with all these ~quirky~ people for half an hour.
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Jun 20, 2017 17:32
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Super Fan posted:Yeah they're really struggling to talk about these Transformers movies. Next week is Marky Mark swillin' Buds, talking about statutory rape, and totally being a top notch inventor, right? There's at least fun impressions and shout outs to Goober to lean back on.
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Jun 20, 2017 19:21
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The Wikipedia summary of The Book of Henry is...something: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Henry Can't wait for this worst of 2017!
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Jun 20, 2017 20:33
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GrandpaPants posted:The Wikipedia summary of The Book of Henry is...something:
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Jun 20, 2017 20:38
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GrandpaPants posted:The Wikipedia summary of The Book of Henry is...something:  What the gently caress?
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Jun 20, 2017 20:48
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Book of Henry needs to be a WHM Emergency Broadcast 
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Jun 20, 2017 20:51
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The Blank Check guys did Book of Henry so if you want a taste of the lunacy with less jokes you can give that a listen.
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Jun 20, 2017 21:05
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Fezz posted:The Blank Check guys did Book of Henry so if you want a taste of the lunacy with less jokes you can give that a listen. For a moment I thought you were saying the people who made the movie Blank Check made Book of Henry, and I was...very confused.
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thrawn527 posted:For a moment I thought you were saying the people who made the movie Blank Check made Book of Henry, and I was...very confused. I was hoping that's what it was as well.
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Oh hey Transformers 1 is on TNT right now; right at the scene where Shia's at the party and basically creeping on Megan Fox, too!
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