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Macksy posted:I'd wager it's Riki-oh since Riki is a wandering bum warrior very similar to Ryu and one of the big bads is literally M. Bison. Nah, it was Karate Baka Ichidai (A Karate-Crazy Life) also known as The Karate Master. It was a fictionalized telling of the life of Korean-born karate master Mas Oyama, who founded Kyokushin Karate and is credited with causing the karate boom in Japan in the 70's and 80's. The manga was turned into three films (Champion of Death, Karate Bearfighter and Karate for Life) starring Sonny Chiba who was a real-life student of Oyama. Ryu is based on the manga's version of Oyama and Sagat is based off one of his opponents a bald, one-eyed, Muay Thai fighter named Reiba. Horrible Taste fucked around with this message at 03:50 on Mar 24, 2018 |
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Al Borland Corp. posted:Castlevania? It was alright, got good at the end. If they make the next season which is already greenlighted more like the last episode of the first season it'll be really good. I want to believe but there’s some doubt
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Sir Kodiak posted:Taika Waititi does need to save some time for We’re Wolves, though. please
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Len posted:I want to believe but there’s some doubt You gotta remember that the Castlevania show was a reworking of a vaporware movie they started a decade prior. The next season is going to be better by default.
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Detective No. 27 posted:You gotta remember that the Castlevania show was a reworking of a vaporware movie they started a decade prior. The next season is going to be better by default. Oddly enough makes me think of an inverse of the Sonic the Hedgehog OVA, which was a failed anime pilot they reworked into a standalone movie.
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Inescapable Duck posted:Oddly enough makes me think of an inverse of the Sonic the Hedgehog OVA, which was a failed anime pilot they reworked into a standalone movie. Makes me wonder what we missed out on. Aw well, at least we're getting Sonic Mania Adventures.
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Inescapable Duck posted:Seems a bit weird given the alternative is things like Nintendo having no idea what the gently caress the Mario movie turned into and swearing off movies for decades. (Pokémon aside, but that's a special case) DC Murderverse posted:that was also a case of "people who had no idea what they were doing", they just weren't Nintendo's people. Super Mario Bros was made in the era where films like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Batman '89, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Beetlejuice had all been wildly successful so it was a complete no-brainer to make it darker and edgier and "hip" to appeal to the same audience, so bringing in the people who made the edgy & hip Max Headroom to direct must have seemed like a clever idea but ... yeah, nah. They were hoping for the next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles-esque hit but instead they got another Masters Of The Universe.
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The Mario movie is perfect and brilliant and if you disagree you have no taste
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Yeah, they really did make a veritable cult classic of cinema, just like Masters of the Universe.
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The stories about the production on Masters Of The Universe is nearly as  as the stories about Super Mario Bros. The studio closed down the production three days before the end when the money ran out so the director had to sneak back onto the set with Dolph Lundgren and the fight choreographer in the Skeletor costume and hurriedly film the final sword fight with just one lovely light. There's a great documentary about Cannon films which everyone who loves lovely low budget films need to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5nKFvQ8gIM Edit: here's a deleted scene about their failed Spider-Man project and that awful, awful 1990 Captain America live action film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x35S5JyIEU Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 13:52 on Mar 24, 2018 |
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Chairman Capone posted:That's funny, because I got the comic when the movie came out and from what I remember (which is admittedly not much of either), they are extremely different. IIRC, the comic is very pointed satire of westerns, explicitly making the aliens stand-ins for the cowboys and Europeans invading and conquering this new world to take the gold and resources from the natives.
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That actually sounds very good. Since I've never heard anyone even mention having read the comic I assume it wasn't executed well, but that concept would make a great film.
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Yeah, it was called War of the Worlds
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feedmyleg posted:That actually sounds very good. Since I've never heard anyone even mention having read the comic I assume it wasn't executed well, but that concept would make a great film. I'm a librarian, so I've encountered a lot of odd things over the years. IIRC the comic outright has a dying cowboy scream "Just because they have better guns doesn't give them the right to take our land!"
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Can you even make an alien invasion movie without it being a colonization allegory?
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Krankenstyle posted:Can you even make an alien invasion movie without it being a colonization allegory? Sure. Invasion of the Body Snatchers is about communism, conformity, and paranoia under McCarthyism. Man of Steel's alien invasion reflects modern resource exploitation, climate change, and environmental collapse.
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Inescapable Duck posted:Oddly enough makes me think of an inverse of the Sonic the Hedgehog OVA, which was a failed anime pilot they reworked into a standalone movie. Sonic OVA was so good. I really wish it had been followed up on.
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Sir Kodiak posted:Sure. Invasion of the Body Snatchers is about communism, conformity, and paranoia under McCarthyism. Man of Steel's alien invasion reflects modern resource exploitation, climate change, and environmental collapse. Fair
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Sir Kodiak posted:Sure. Invasion of the Body Snatchers is about communism, conformity, and paranoia under McCarthyism. Man of Steel's alien invasion reflects modern resource exploitation, climate change, and environmental collapse. The same for the independent day movies
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Krankenstyle posted:Can you even make an alien invasion movie without it being a colonization allegory? The Imaginary Worlds podcast had a good episode on Native American sci-fi authors and their view of first contact stories: https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/first-contact.html
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exquisite tea posted:Tomb Raider was also a very big deal in 2000 Was it? That would have been 4 years after the first game, around Tomb Raider Chronicles at least, and I don't remember knowing anyone who still gave a poo poo about Tomb Raider at that point. Given the choice, I went to see the first Fast and the Furious movie, myself. raditts fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Mar 24, 2018 |
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It is much bigger deal in hindsight because it had it Daniel Craig before Bond and Iain Glen before Game of Thrones. And holy hell, Glen is chewing scenery in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. He must have read that script and owned it. It makes his character in the Resident Evil series (of movies) look tame. And Craig has the wonkiest American accent ever. I guess the accent coach budget was all spent on Angelina Jolie.
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Mierenneuker posted:It is much bigger deal in hindsight because it had it Daniel Craig before Bond and Iain Glen before Game of Thrones. Noah Taylor, too, though obviously not as big a name as those two. Though when I rewatched it the other day I actually thought it was Ben Mendelsohn at first.
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raditts posted:Was it? That would have been 4 years after the first game, around Tomb Raider Chronicles at least, and I don't remember knowing anyone who still gave a poo poo about Tomb Raider at that point. Given the choice, I went to see the first Fast and the Furious movie, myself. The 2001 film had a $115 million budget, which made it a more expensive production than the current one in theaters 17 years earlier. I remember the advertising for it was absolutely everywhere. It also had a larger worldwide box office gross than the first Fast and Furious movie.
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The advertising was basically "Angelina Jolie's Sideboob: The Movie". Every commercial ended with a shot from behind of her taking off her shirt and getting in a shower.
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They knew what people were paying for.
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It was also the era where music videos were still a big thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19KstSgU-c0 Even "Deep" got a video even though it never appeared on any of Nine Inch Nails' albums (and the version in the movie is an instrumental). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBFwXoyjU2E
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Deep is actually a pretty neat song, I don't really get why it's considered such a weird black sheep of NIN's discog. Fits in pretty much perfectly with the other Fragile/Perfect Drug era stuff.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Deep is actually a pretty neat song, I don't really get why it's considered such a weird black sheep of NIN's discog. Fits in pretty much perfectly with the other Fragile/Perfect Drug era stuff. The story I've always heard is that Trent hates it for some reason? I'm also in the camp that it's pretty good.
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I believe it was discussed way back near the start of this thread (or the last one) but it seldom ceases to surprise me that Jolie was 26 (i.e. the age I am now) when she played Lara Croft. What was Daniel Craig's career trajectory before Casino Royale? He'd had some attention for Road To Perdition and Layer Cake but if Clive Owen had been Bond instead, where would Craig have ended up going?
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Wheat Loaf posted:I believe it was discussed way back near the start of this thread (or the last one) but it seldom ceases to surprise me that Jolie was 26 (i.e. the age I am now) when she played Lara Croft. The same age Orson Welles was when he made Citizen Kane. Coincidence?
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Chairman Capone posted:Noah Taylor, too, though obviously not as big a name as those two. Though when I rewatched it the other day I actually thought it was Ben Mendelsohn at first. I am Australian and grew up with both of their movies, and regularly make that mistake too. I wasn't even sure they were different people.
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 ishhttps://goo.gl/images/X2EHgL The end of every. single. commercial and trailer for this film
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Side Boob: Tomb Raider
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Side Boob Raider
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FilthyImp posted:They need to do a series in the vein of Westworld. Call it something innocuous and then the end of the first season is really just the setup for the rest of the series when the lead meets with his team on the Santa Monica pier and looks out to the ocean. Late reply but after reading this post I can't get over the idea of advertising a show as an Ayn Rand biopic and then slowly diverging from historical fact until it turns into a Bioshock tv series.
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Gia was 1998 so anybody with HBO could already see Angelina's boobs all they want!
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fyi the internet did exist in 1998 & lol at paying for HBO prior to like s3 of Sopranos
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Stink Billyums posted:Gia was 1998 so anybody with HBO could already see Angelina's boobs all they want! Foxfire was 1996, so you didn’t even need HBO.
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Phylodox posted:Foxfire was 1996, so you didn’t even need HBO. Hackers was in 1995, so you didn't even need Foxfire!
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