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FreudianSlippers posted:Maybe all the native plant and animal life was like mega calorie rich so just eating a single berry is like eating half a roast piglet. I like this explanation and it is now my headcanon for the film.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Maybe all the native plant and animal life was like mega calorie rich so just eating a single berry is like eating half a roast piglet. My favorite part was how it was established that the jungle had been stocked with all kinds of dangerous plants and animals, and it literally only matters once in the entire movie, to explain where the guy got the paralyzing potion in that very stupid twist betrayal
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Also, what kind of lovely sport is it to hunt prey in a place where the landscape has a decent chance of doing the work for you? That's not even shooting fish in a barrel, it's shooting something that can't swim in a barrel.
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Predator has this very prominent theme of familiarity with the setting being important. The soldiers are at home with the jungle, they do their camouflage, they hunt other people, they know what they're doing. But the Predator is the jungle. Like, literally, that's stated in the text of the movie. "The jungle came alive and took him". Dutch is only able to beat the predator when he becomes even more the jungle than the predator. His weapons are sticks and logs. He is camouflaged literally by jungle mud. That is how he wins. So in Predators, the humans are completely out of place. They don't know the jungle, they can't know the jungle because it's artificial, designed completely to be the Predator's hunting grounds. But then they meet a guy who lives in the jungle. The predators hunt there, but Laurence Fishburne lives there. And they get grenades from him and then he dies and that's the end of that I can't stress enough how disappointed/mad I am about Predators.
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Finally got around to seeing La La Land. I'm not one for musicals but the movie really clicked with me. Probably something to do with Ryan Gosling being so charismatic.
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teagone posted:My favorite part of Predators was Laurence Fishburne being chubby despite having survived being hunted on an alien planet for years. He was eating for two
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banned from Starbucks posted:He was eating for two I didn’t know it was also an Alien crossover.
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Hughmoris posted:Finally got around to seeing La La Land. I'm not one for musicals but the movie really clicked with me. Probably something to do with Ryan Gosling being so charismatic. My take on La La Land is that I liked it a lot but it absolutely didn’t deserve the Oscar for best picture. That was also a hilarious fuckup that gave us this picture: 
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Coffee And Pie posted:My take on La La Land is that I liked it a lot but it absolutely didn’t deserve the Oscar for best picture. That was also a hilarious fuckup that gave us this picture: La La Land didn't get Best Picture, but you are, by far, not the first person to make that mistake. Terrible reading comprehension Air Skwirl fucked around with this message at 05:47 on Jan 27, 2020 |
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I remember somebody in this thread said that the magic of the first Predator and, to a lesser degree, the second, is that they take a fairly straightforward contemporary action plot and then drop a loving big game hunter from space into the middle of it, and the key failure of every movie in the series since is that they are each about predators as a subject, rather than about how an action movie reacts to a Predator getting all up in its poo poo. Anyway, where I'm going with this is that if they want to make it work in the modern day, they need to have a Predator show up at the top of act 2 in John Wick 4.
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teagone posted:My favorite part of Predators was Laurence Fishburne being chubby despite having survived being hunted on an alien planet for years. *weeks He talks about surviving a few seasons and by the end of the movie, which couldn't have taken place over more than a few days, a new season seems to start. Which just makes it better because it means he arrived on the planet already out of his mind.
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Skwirl posted:Also, what kind of lovely sport is it to hunt prey in a place where the landscape has a decent chance of doing the work for you? That's not even shooting fish in a barrel, it's shooting something that can't swim in a barrel. It's not any different from how people hunt. Sitting in a little camoflaged box in a tree using a long ranged scope to shoot a deer isn't a fair fight either. Let's see if any of these assholes can take down a large animal with a pointed stick.
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CPL593H posted:It's not any different from how people hunt. Sitting in a little camoflaged box in a tree using a long ranged scope to shoot a deer isn't a fair fight either. Let's see if any of these assholes can take down a large animal with a pointed stick. There's still a difference, french canadians trapping small animals to make into coats didn't call themselves hunters
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Now I want to see a Predator movie where the Predators' stated goal is population control and they try to be really humane about it and there are Predator protestors trying to convince their people to stop skull collecting.
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Skwirl posted:There's still a difference, french canadians trapping small animals to make into coats didn't call themselves hunters I'm pretty sure they do have some kind of bullshit like that for rich people and it was at one of these things where Dick Cheney shot that guy in the face. I could be wrong though. Not on the part where Dick Cheney shot that guy in the face because he totally did shoot a guy in the face because he thought he saw a bird.
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Like, they gave Ice-T better food, got him to quit smoking and gave him physical training before he was hunted for sport in Surviving the Game. The predators in Predators are like "if you eat the wrong plant on an alien world where even if you had a degree in botany you could probably do that on accident, and we know you don't have a botany degree that's a win."
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CPL593H posted:I'm pretty sure they do have some kind of bullshit like that for rich people and it was at one of these things where Dick Cheney shot that guy in the face. I could be wrong though. That time Supreme Court Justice Scalia died hosting a Masonic Hunting Lodge they were definitely up to some poo poo Probably had some aliens teleported in to harass The Peccadillo fucked around with this message at 08:37 on Jan 27, 2020 |
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CPL593H posted:I'm pretty sure they do have some kind of bullshit like that for rich people and it was at one of these things where Dick Cheney shot that guy in the face. I could be wrong though. I don't want to defend Dick Cheney, but it was a lawyer he shot in the face, and specifically a lawyer that was friends with Dick Cheney. Edit: Also, the fact your friend might accidentally shoot you in the face makes it a much more fair sport. That's almost a reality show, which truly is The Most Dangerous Game. Air Skwirl fucked around with this message at 08:41 on Jan 27, 2020 |
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Skwirl posted:I don't want to defend Dick Cheney, but it was a lawyer he shot in the face, and specifically a lawyer that was friends with Dick Cheney. It’s a win-win!
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Reminder that the guy he shot in the face went on tv to apologize for the problems his being shot in the face caused his face-shooter.
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In case you folks didn’t hear, there’s an official track for the Sonic the Hedgehog movie with Wiz Khalifa, Lil Yachty, Ty Dolla $ign, and Sueco the Kid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCuCpVPkWDY
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:I remember somebody in this thread said that the magic of the first Predator and, to a lesser degree, the second, is that they take a fairly straightforward contemporary action plot and then drop a loving big game hunter from space into the middle of it, and the key failure of every movie in the series since is that they are each about predators as a subject, rather than about how an action movie reacts to a Predator getting all up in its poo poo. Anyway, where I'm going with this is that if they want to make it work in the modern day, they need to have a Predator show up at the top of act 2 in John Wick 4. (Predator removes mask) Predator: John...loving...Wick... Wick: Hey Charlie.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:In case you folks didn’t hear, there’s an official track for the Sonic the Hedgehog movie with Wiz Khalifa, Lil Yachty, Ty Dolla $ign, and Sueco the Kid. not as bad as I was expecting it to be, but still bad. the white guy at the end looks like someone who'd have a Sonic OC
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Coffee And Pie posted:My take on La La Land is that I liked it a lot but it absolutely didn’t deserve the Oscar for best picture. That was also a hilarious fuckup that gave us this picture: Oooh, forgot all about that cluster. And I agree, good movie but not best movie.
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Honestly confounded that it's 2020 and we're talking about the Adrien Brody Predator movie I saw with my high school friends. The samurai fight was the only worthwhile part and even that was a little underwhelming.
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My favorite part of that movie was the goon who met Adrien Brody and asked him how he got so ripped for it and he just said "Steroids."
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Skwirl posted:I don't want to defend Dick Cheney, but it was a lawyer he shot in the face, and specifically a lawyer that was friends with Dick Cheney. I'm amused that you thought it would sound like you were defending Dick Cheney by pointing out that being friends with him is a moral failing. TrixRabbi posted:Honestly confounded that it's 2020 and we're talking about the Adrien Brody Predator movie I saw with my high school friends. The samurai fight was the only worthwhile part and even that was a little underwhelming. Yeah, why is this not the universal reaction to Predators? I thought I was going crazy for a minute because it's such a forgettable movie.
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CPL593H posted:Yeah, why is this not the universal reaction to Predators? I thought I was going crazy for a minute because it's such a forgettable movie. It looks a lot better these days now that The Predator came out and showed us how bad a Predator movie can really be. Kinda like how Terminator 3 seems better and better because every sequel is worse and worse.
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Basebf555 posted:It looks a lot better these days now that The Predator came out and showed us how bad a Predator movie can really be. Kinda like how Terminator 3 seems better and better because every sequel is worse and worse. Putting a bigger pile of poo poo next to a pile of poo poo doesn't make the first pile not of poo poo. edit: Although, Predators isn't even bad enough to be memorable. It's just a nothing movie. I really did forget it even exists until someone mentioned it a few pages ago.
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CPL593H posted:Putting a bigger pile of poo poo next to a pile of poo poo doesn't make the first pile not of poo poo. Especially when you put two nuggets of solid gold before the the first pile of poo poo.
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i avoided Star Wars IX for a solid 5 weeks but my dad wants to go see it and so i am going to see Star Wars IX
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It's pretty dumb but like, fine enough. Things happen, it doesn't really drag.
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Baron von Eevl posted:It's pretty dumb but like, fine enough. Things happen, it doesn't really drag. That would make a fantastic poster quote.
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Is Kobe Bryant going to be in the "In Memoriam" part of the Oscars?
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Skwirl posted:Is Kobe Bryant going to be in the "In Memoriam" part of the Oscars? I'd be surprised if he wasn't, seeing as he's an Academy Award winner.
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It'll take a lot to top leaving out Jonas Mekas last year.
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I haven't really been taking about this because it's weird and kinda personal, but the Kobe thing is extra weird because my wife and I went to his high school and because odd that I've always kind of hated him. Also the whole rape thing.Skwirl posted:Is Kobe Bryant going to be in the "In Memoriam" part of the Oscars? My wife and I were taking about that last night, came to the conclusion that pospysyl posted:I'd be surprised if he wasn't, seeing as he's an Academy Award winner.
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