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When people with puny handguns keep shooting at the thing that is either obviously or has proven to be impervious to things much more powerful than some bullets. If you see a thing withstand basically every conventional weapon, just run, don't keep futilely shooting.
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Hate watching Wynonna Earp and I hate how these Canadian Buffy the Vampire Slayer rip-offs...do pretty much everything but everything about they do with Romance is especially horrendous.
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Nov 19, 2019 03:13
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yeah I eat rear end posted:When people with puny handguns keep shooting at the thing that is either obviously or has proven to be impervious to things much more powerful than some bullets. If you see a thing withstand basically every conventional weapon, just run, don't keep futilely shooting. At the very least, throw the gun at it and make it duck. Worked on 50s superman, might work on whatever that thing is.
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Nov 19, 2019 03:38
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Zaphod42 posted:All this Last Action Hero talk just reminded me of the movie Sidekicks with Chuck Norris, which I think the universe has forgotten existed. I loved Sidekicks for the same reason I rewatched seaQuest once a year for a decade whether I liked it or not (RIP Jonathan Brandis) and looking back on it with 2019 knowledge of Chuck Norris is pretty cringy also don't forget Rodney Dangerfield and Jackee Harris were in it
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Nov 19, 2019 06:54
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BrigadierSensible posted:Apart from the already mentioned "I just killed a man, and I did it on purpose!" scene, my favourite part of Last Action Hero is when movie Arnold goes back to his lovely one bedroom apartment, casually shoots the ninja hiding in his closet, and then tells the kid how pathetic his life really is, (his ex wife has moved on, he is racked with grief and guilt about his dead son, he feels bad about his daughter knowing how to field strip a rifle etc.) When the kid asks how he knew there would be a guy in his closet and he sadly says "there's always a guy"  Reader, I cried with him.
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Nov 19, 2019 09:26
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Krispy Wafer posted:Murtaugh should be suffering PTSD every time he walks into his kitchen after the bloodbath that occurred there in the first Lethal Weapon. How the hell could you keep living in that house with your wife and kids after dozens of people have been murdered in it? They finally burn the loving thing down by the fourth one.
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Nov 19, 2019 15:55
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Well forget about selling it with that history
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Nov 20, 2019 05:25
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Pope Corky the IX posted:How the hell could you keep living in that house with your wife and kids after dozens of people have been murdered in it? They finally burn the loving thing down by the fourth one. Do not forget toilet bomb
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Nov 20, 2019 07:59
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Pope Corky the IX posted:How the hell could you keep living in that house with your wife and kids after dozens of people have been murdered in it? They finally burn the loving thing down by the fourth one. Look they've only got a few years of payments left and moving would just be a huge hassle. Also no one would buy a mega murder house for it's actual worth so they'd have to downgrade to something much cheaper.
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Nov 20, 2019 12:18
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I disliked the Lighthouse. The entire time I was watching, it felt like I was back in high school english class reading a inscrutable story.
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Nov 20, 2019 13:02
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Krispy Wafer posted:I liked the part where it addresses how utterly emotionally crippled every action hero would be in the real world. This is a bad example because he's supposed to be crazy, but I was watching Lethal Weapon 2 over the weekend and Riggs should probably be curled up crying in the shower. Riggs spent much of the first movie doibg that though. If I remembers correctly he literally put a gun In his mouth at one point and tries to find the courage to pull the trigger.
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Nov 20, 2019 13:09
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The Purge in general is just a giant IIMM, but I've just started watching Season 2 of the Amazon Prime series and how the hell do you live a $1mil house with full perimeter barricades and you don't think about taking a nice vacation during Purge night outside of the Purge zone? Or even better, why don't you just move to Canada 
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Nov 20, 2019 18:54
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Everything about the Purge franchise is dumb as gently caress but it's heart is in the right place.
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Nov 20, 2019 19:10
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The Terminator series is really guilty about this but I see it in other mainstream films all the time. Both points are in regards to something super-powerful relative to normal human anatomy, totally uninhibited, and whose singular goal is to kill a particular target... ...and yet they decide to throw their defenseless target around the room harmlessly, walking slowly to wherever they threw them to do it again when they could easily crush/impale/tear them apart once they have them restrained the first time ...or they have their super-powered/robot hand around the neck of their target, utilizing maybe 1% of its total constriction capacity for reasons? because their normal human target is struggling valiantly instead of instantly being turned into a human tetherball
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Nov 20, 2019 19:37
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The only time it really made sense in Terminator was in Salvation where he was beating the crap out of Conner. I just got the sense that the skynet AI was loving pissed about how off the reservation Whitey McProtag had gotten and was just loving sick and tired of all the weird poo poo, so she wanted him to suffer a bit before she ended him. The rest of the time (like in Genesys) they were just straight up trying to murder them with spikes or something. The new movie BIG OL SPOILER solves your problem though, pretty quickly.
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Nov 20, 2019 19:45
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God Hole posted:The Terminator series is really guilty about this but I see it in other mainstream films all the time. Both points are in regards to something super-powerful relative to normal human anatomy, totally uninhibited, and whose singular goal is to kill a particular target... I think this is part of a bigger problem which is just bad fight choreography. Movies are full of it. Like the star wars battle where the throne guards just stand around waiting for Rey to take turns hitting them. Its bad choreography. You could come up with fight sequences where Terminators do everything they can to try to kill someone, but due to the circumstances the person gets away. But they're too lazy so they just have them do something stupid that lets the protagonist get away. Its the action version of someone doing something totally out of character because the plot needs it.
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Nov 20, 2019 20:02
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what also comes to mind is brainwashed metal arm guy in the avengers who chokes a bunch of normal people at random points when on a murderous rampage and they all just need a sec to walk it off, instead of ya know having their larynx crushed irreversibly like a candy wrapper
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Nov 20, 2019 20:12
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If robots and superheroes fought like chimpanzees then movies would be a lot shorter. Just go for the eyes already.
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Nov 20, 2019 20:53
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Pope Corky the IX posted:How the hell could you keep living in that house with your wife and kids after dozens of people have been murdered in it? They finally burn the loving thing down by the fourth one. Maybe he figures that with all the poo poo he’s gotten through in that house without a scratch, as long as he’s within its walls, he’s invincible.
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Nov 20, 2019 21:03
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In the opening of Iron Man 2, Tony air drops from a plane above the event he shows up to. Why? He can fly. It makes for a cool scene but doesn’t make any sense
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Nov 22, 2019 02:02
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Are you saying Tony Stark wouldn't do something JUST because it was cool?
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Nov 22, 2019 02:20
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Imagined posted:Are you saying Tony Stark wouldn't do something JUST because it was cool? Fair enough
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Nov 22, 2019 03:34
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I think at that point he was mainlining the green stuff to keep from getting Arc Reactor poisoning too, so he was being conservative with his flight time.
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Nov 22, 2019 07:07
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More of a RIMM, but in Bloodfist, Don “The Dragon” Wilson’s character has been drugged right before the final fight, and he’s able to shake off being drugged as soon as the backstory leading to his betrayal is explained to him.
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Nov 23, 2019 02:56
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You know how ultron and venom talked? Who thinks that is a cool funny way to talk? Can we please never do that again? It's just dumb for a super advanced AI or an alien to talk in a gravelly robot voice but instead of saying anything meaningful it is just a smug and/or foul mouthed teenager.
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Nov 23, 2019 03:01
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Related, I'm sad this isn't actual Ultron dialogue from the film: https://youtu.be/Tf-_230SjbM
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Nov 23, 2019 03:09
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yeah I eat rear end posted:You know how ultron and venom talked? Who thinks that is a cool funny way to talk? Can we please never do that again? It's just dumb for a super advanced AI or an alien to talk in a gravelly robot voice but instead of saying anything meaningful it is just a smug and/or foul mouthed teenager. TBF, in Ultron's case he literally learned all about culture and basically Earth just by being on the internet.
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Nov 23, 2019 04:02
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He's also Tony's "Son"
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Ultron is an incel
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In retrospect, the title Avengers: Age of Ultron was a little grandiose. Maybe Avengers: Week of Ultron? Avengers: The Days of Ultron?
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Nov 23, 2019 11:57
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Olaf The Stout posted:In retrospect, the title Avengers: Age of Ultron was a little grandiose. Maybe Avengers: Week of Ultron? Avengers: The Days of Ultron? Ultron's Long Weekend Backpacking in Sokovia
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Nov 23, 2019 12:02
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BioEnchanted posted:Ultron's Long Weekend Backpacking in Sokovia A weekend at Ultron's
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Nov 23, 2019 12:50
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Afriscipio posted:A weekend at Ultron's I prefer Weekend at Ultron's II. He's still Ultron, but if you play Calypso music he dances.
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Olaf The Stout posted:In retrospect, the title Avengers: Age of Ultron was a little grandiose. Maybe Avengers: Week of Ultron? Avengers: The Days of Ultron? It's called Age of Ultron because the entire runtime of the film is Ultron's age.
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Could you imagine an irritation more irrational than James Spader's voice.
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You would think with so much improvement in CGI and special effects in general, horror movies would have gotten even more scary. But the new IT movies are proof that they haven't figured out how to use it to make scary things. The garage scene and the weird dancing part in the first one, the old lady in the kitchen and the bug babies in the second one...it's more funny than scary. They should have left the TV miniseries as it was. It wasn't perfect and the acting was pretty bad, but it was fine. When I first saw that it made me want to read the book. These reboots just don't seem to "get" it.
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Nov 24, 2019 00:46
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yeah I eat rear end posted:You would think with so much improvement in CGI and special effects in general, horror movies would have gotten even more scary. But the new IT movies are proof that they haven't figured out how to use it to make scary things. The garage scene and the weird dancing part in the first one, the old lady in the kitchen and the bug babies in the second one...it's more funny than scary. The problem is with improved CGI they show more, so it leaves less to your imagination. That makes for an overall less scary experience.
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Nov 24, 2019 00:52
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The IT miniseries is really dire aside from Curry's performance. The first film is a much better version of the same story even if it's overly reliant on "clown runs toward camera screaming" for scares. The second part not so much.
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It would have worked much better as a miniseries. Jump scares and gross-out don’t compare to the characterization and metaphysics of the book. They’d still need to cut the pre-teen sewer gangbang though.
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FreudianSlippers posted:The IT miniseries is really dire aside from Curry's performance. I would argue the first is only better in production value compared to the miniseries. Modern hollywood just doesn't seem to "get" stephen king villains, like how they totally miswrote walter in the dreadful dark tower movie. Tim curry's pennywise felt a lot more like the book version. The new one is more like "what if we made him more dark and twizted". Even if King has given it his stamp of approval, that's just because he's not on drugs anymore and got his brain jostled in the accident.
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