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Jose Oquendo posted:Is Disney/Pixar's Onward not tracking well? They're doing a sneak preview on Saturday, which is pretty unusual. I know I personally have a level of interest where if it happened to be just starting when I turned the channel, 50/50 chance I keep flipping.
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Urdnot Fire posted:https://twitter.com/SonyPictures/status/1233406684061548545 "Starring Milla Jovovich" has become a huge red flag.
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Alhazred posted:"Starring Milla Jovovich" has become a huge red flag. From that Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/Cyclonebros/status/1233412317410250752
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Gatts posted:Lol that would be pretty good. A movie like a heist set up with meticulous planning and as if everyone has their poo poo together and under control and are cool and calm but during the actual heist right away the smallest thing goes differently like a guard drops his keys throwing the entire Timing and sequence off and then it turns into a Benny Hill type comedy of bumbling violence and messy sloppy panicked slapstick BS to conclusion. This sounds like the unseen heist that sets up Reservoir Dogs. And/or about half my Payday games.
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Jose Oquendo posted:Is Disney/Pixar's Onward not tracking well? They're doing a sneak preview on Saturday, which is pretty unusual. Pixar seems to have gotten really complacent lately. I remember when Cars was their only "bad" film, and now there have been several in the last few years that I can't imagine anyone giving a poo poo about.
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As a huge fan of urban fantasy novels from the early 1980s like War for the Oaks and The Iron Dragon’s Daughter, I’m 100% pumped for Onward, but I guess that’s a pretty small niche.
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Jose Oquendo posted:Is Disney/Pixar's Onward not tracking well? They're doing a sneak preview on Saturday, which is pretty unusual. The movie does feel a bit cold (I’m looking forward to it, but I’m also an A-List member at AMC, so I’ll see whatever), but I recall Ratatoullie having a sneak preview too.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Pixar seems to have gotten really complacent lately. I remember when Cars was their only "bad" film, and now there have been several in the last few years that I can't imagine anyone giving a poo poo about. The entire point of Cars was selling merchandise that could be coded masculine to toddlers and young kids (as opposed to the endless princess poo poo from regular Disney), and afaik it’s been a huge success for that *sigh*
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Alhazred posted:"Starring Milla Jovovich" has become a huge red flag. Actually, all of the movies she's in by W.S. Anderson are fun lively action flicks. Late period Tony Jaa is a much bigger red flag.
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Found Overlord (2018, JJ Abrams) in my library the other day, sat down to watch it this morning. Given that it's Abrams, there's a fair few problems here (only one female character with a speaking role and she of course gets sexually assaulted, politically correct history with race-integrated US army units in WW2), but beyond that this is a pretty decent Weird War Two action flick, rather a lot like an old-school Wolfenstein game on the big screen as American paratroopers stumble into Nazi super soldier zombies. It's a dark, chaotic, violent movie with lots of body horror that sets the tone well in the first five minutes. Despite the problems, a pretty enjoyable movie that I'm surprised I'd never heard of.
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Cythereal posted:Found Overlord (2018, JJ Abrams) in my library the other day, sat down to watch it this morning. Given that it's Abrams, there's a fair few problems here (only one female character with a speaking role and she of course gets sexually assaulted, politically correct history with race-integrated US army units in WW2), but beyond that this is a pretty decent Weird War Two action flick, rather a lot like an old-school Wolfenstein game on the big screen as American paratroopers stumble into Nazi super soldier zombies. It's a dark, chaotic, violent movie with lots of body horror that sets the tone well in the first five minutes. Despite the problems, a pretty enjoyable movie that I'm surprised I'd never heard of.
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Overlord is probably the closest we’ll get to a Castle Wolfenstein movie.
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Patrick Spens posted:Actually, all of the movies she's in by W.S. Anderson are fun lively action flicks. Late period Tony Jaa is a much bigger red flag. "Late period" meaning everything after Tom Yum Goong.
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Lid posted:This reminded me of a film that i have never actually seen but always wanted to because the premise was so great. Accident is on US Netflix. It's more somber and less 'final destination' than I had hoped.
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Alhazred posted:"Starring Milla Jovovich" has become a huge red flag. She donates heavily to Bernie's campaign, so I'll take a bad actioner from her to makeup for it.
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The red flag has a hammer and a sickle on it, comrade.
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Cythereal posted:Found Overlord (2018, JJ Abrams) in my library the other day, sat down to watch it this morning. Given that it's Abrams, there's a fair few problems here (only one female character with a speaking role and she of course gets sexually assaulted, politically correct history with race-integrated US army units in WW2), but beyond that this is a pretty decent Weird War Two action flick, rather a lot like an old-school Wolfenstein game on the big screen as American paratroopers stumble into Nazi super soldier zombies. It's a dark, chaotic, violent movie with lots of body horror that sets the tone well in the first five minutes. Despite the problems, a pretty enjoyable movie that I'm surprised I'd never heard of. My headcanon is that the US military in the film's world was desegregated because the Union needed extra soldiers after the Confederates, like the Nazis in the movie, found an elder god corpse they mined for its blood. Which is to say the movie is also the closest thing we have to a Bloodborne adaptation. Baron von Eevl posted:"Late period" meaning everything after Tom Yum Goong. He was pretty good in Furious 7.
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If nothing else I'll stan for Overlord's end credits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21HFtnxCL4k
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Speaking of who greenlit a movie I would love to hear how The Foreigner was greenlit. Because it definitely feels like two entirely different movies. Or rather it was like they pitched a script for a IRA thriller and then it's someone said no one's going to watch that so they add Jackie Chan. Like he has no real character arc, and his actions are weirdly inconsequential in a Indiana Jones kind of way. There's there's entire long stretch of the movie where it's not about him at all, and all about Pierce brosnan's IRA politicking. He's great in it though, but almost in a Predator monster way. Thundercracker fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Mar 1, 2020 |
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Wasn't foreigner the one w Johnny Depp?
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RBA Starblade posted:Wasn't foreigner the one w Johnny Depp? You're probably thinking of The Tourist.
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I liked The Foreigner. If you want a really lovely Chan movie from recently there's Bleeding Steel which I thoroughly gave up on halfway through.
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It's his best movie in the last five to ten years, he has starred in so many horrific Chinese flicks like loving Kung fu yoga
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The MSJ posted:He was pretty good in Furious 7. He was fine but the extent of his role was "heavy #2*" and like all he had to do was stare intently and kick in a mildly acrobatic way. I'm not mad at the guy, I understand that people who train that heavily in muay thai have a very limited shelf life. He was also responsible for maybe the best action movie of the first decade of the 2000s, and then made another movie that had some of the best action setpieces from the same. Just from those 2 movies he deserves a lot of credit, but he went downhill really fast. *and trust me, I'm familiar with heavy #2s
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I think tony just had that same problem of Hollywood not knowing what to do with him since he’s not exactly known for his English speaking chops Didn’t help that Iko Uwais is basically taking the roles now that young tony would have gotten and people seem to seek him out
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He also had that mental breakdown, that might have contributed.
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Welp. News to me
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Thundercracker posted:Speaking of who greenlit a movie I would love to hear how The Foreigner was greenlit. Because it definitely feels like two entirely different movies. Or rather it was like they pitched a script for a IRA thriller and then it's someone said no one's going to watch that so they add Jackie Chan. Like he has no real character arc, and his actions are weirdly inconsequential in a Indiana Jones kind of way. There's there's entire long stretch of the movie where it's not about him at all, and all about Pierce brosnan's IRA politicking. It's based on a book called The Chinaman yet the book is only from the 90s, which explains why it is weird but not why it has a racist title (the movie rules, though) Casimir Radon posted:I liked The Foreigner. If you want a really lovely Chan movie from recently there's Bleeding Steel which I thoroughly gave up on halfway through. Bleeding Steel is one of the most insane recent Chinese movies, by the end they are fighting on Star Destroyers and regenerating limbs. It's also weirdly predicts the basic plot of Star Trek: Picard Alan Smithee posted:Welp. News to me That was either during or just after filming for Ong Bak 3 and around the time of one of the unrests in Thailand but I can't remember if any of that is directly responsible.
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Thundercracker posted:Speaking of who greenlit a movie I would love to hear how The Foreigner was greenlit. Because it definitely feels like two entirely different movies. Or rather it was like they pitched a script for a IRA thriller and then it's someone said no one's going to watch that so they add Jackie Chan. Like he has no real character arc, and his actions are weirdly inconsequential in a Indiana Jones kind of way. There's there's entire long stretch of the movie where it's not about him at all, and all about Pierce brosnan's IRA politicking. From what I can gather it's mostly the same as the novel it was based on right up to the end where Nguyen and the SAS are setting up to attack the bombers in the hotel at the same time and the SAS kill the bombers and Nguyen, and then they fail to stop the reporter boarding the plane with the rigged laptop and it explodes mid flight.
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Time Cowboy posted:As a huge fan of urban fantasy novels from the early 1980s like War for the Oaks and The Iron Dragon’s Daughter, I’m 100% pumped for Onward, but I guess that’s a pretty small niche.
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I'm a "Storm of the Iron Daggerfiend part Six: Gremlin War of the Four Kingdoms: Whirlwind and Lava of the Elder Gods" fan What were those eighties dad sci fi books called, Robot Rat or something? He was like lazer James bond The Peccadillo fucked around with this message at 12:21 on Mar 1, 2020 |
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The Stainless Steel Rat?
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Y Pixar no make muscle barbarian with muscle barbarianess grab leg
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The Stainless Steel Rat is kind of a comedy series.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The Stainless Steel Rat? That started back in 1957 but I guess it was also an 80s series, the most recent book was published in 2010
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:That started back in 1957 but I guess it was also an 80s series, the most recent book was published in 2010 I love old sci-fi, and The Stainless Steel Rat in particular, for the wild-rear end technology they extrapolate from the technology of the time.
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:The Stainless Steel Rat is kind of a comedy series. Did he have a family
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Eventually, yes. A wife, two sons, and sometimes a porcuswine.
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ChickenMedium posted:I love old sci-fi, and The Stainless Steel Rat in particular, for the wild-rear end technology they extrapolate from the technology of the time. I remember one of the Foundation books has a character comment on the "beautifully-aged plastic" that some monument was made out of.
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