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Ghost Leviathan posted:It's amazing how Hollywood keeps finding new ways to make video game movies crash and burn. Paul WS should have been the first mistake but RE movies apparently make money
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Mortal Kombat is still arguably the best video game movie which is weird because it's one of the few that kept the movie relatively accurate to the game. You'd think studios would've learned something from that. And you are right the Resident Evil movies do make money. I'm guessing China carries them.
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it's funny because there was a time you could probably ask the Chinese what they thought of the really really racist poo poo in Hollywood movies and they'd be like "oh yeah Americans think our food, language and bodies are different, of course they do"
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Groovelord Neato posted:Mortal Kombat is still arguably the best video game movie which is weird because it's one of the few that kept the movie relatively accurate to the game. You'd think studios would've learned something from that. Some aspects of the movie made it's way into the official games like Raiden as the mentor, Cage as the braggart, and Shang Tsung being played by the same actor.
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I think video game movies can start to do well for the same reason comics movies blossomed in the past decades. There are now multiple generations of potential fans. Before it was basically just kids and some young 20-somethings, but now you have parents who grew up with the IP who can be reached through nostalgia on top of the kids in the target demographic.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Some aspects of the movie made it's way into the official games like Raiden as the mentor, Cage as the braggart, and Shang Tsung being played by the same actor. I also know the games have ridiculous and convoluted lore now so I'm glad they got the movie out when the game was just "fantasy Enter the Dragon".
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Groovelord Neato posted:I also know the games have ridiculous and convoluted lore now so I'm glad they got the movie out when the game was just "fantasy Enter the Dragon". Yeah I don't know what a story in an MK movie today would even be to fit into 2 hours or whatever. They won't want to just be an ultra violent tournament movie even though that would be ideal. Like just get Scott Adkins and every other good action person together make the costumes look badass and have them all fight a lot while Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa says "FINISH HIM!" and "YOUR soul, is MINE." a lot it would own.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Some aspects of the movie made it's way into the official games like Raiden as the mentor, Cage as the braggart, and Shang Tsung being played by the same actor. They even just released a voice and costume pack for Raiden, Johnny and Sonya based on the movie, original actors included. Kind of a mixed bag. Ashby is fine. Lambert not only has the whole problematic aspect of the model but he sounds like a late stage cancer patient. Wilson-Sampras is also fine but then again, ANYONE would look good next to Ronda Rousey's god awful acting. Them having gotten Tagawa earlier freaking onwed and he utterly stole the show in the Aftermath DLC campaign.
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Neo Rasa posted:Yeah I don't know what a story in an MK movie today would even be to fit into 2 hours or whatever. They won't want to just be an ultra violent tournament movie even though that would be ideal. Like just get Scott Adkins and every other good action person together make the costumes look badass and have them all fight a lot while Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa says "FINISH HIM!" and "YOUR soul, is MINE." a lot it would own. The first one is just a new version of the old movie. Then you just continue using mortal Kombat 9 as a road map for the sequels.
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The first three games coulda made a decent trilogy of movies but Annihilation was the worst film I've seen in theatres.
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AceOfFlames posted:Wilson-Sampras is also fine but then again, ANYONE would look good next to Ronda Rousey's god awful acting. I was watching videos of this recently and both of them have some lines that are just completely off (as in the actresses sound bored out of their skulls) but its not the same lines so it's completely random in delivery. Wilson is way better at calling people "do nothing bitch"es which is lol because it is not who I would have bet on. Bridgette Wilson returning after a decade of being a mom is still amazing considering she was all over the movies I watched in high school
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Neo Rasa posted:Yeah I don't know what a story in an MK movie today would even be to fit into 2 hours or whatever. They won't want to just be an ultra violent tournament movie even though that would be ideal. Like just get Scott Adkins and every other good action person together make the costumes look badass and have them all fight a lot while Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa says "FINISH HIM!" and "YOUR soul, is MINE." a lot it would own. There’s one coming out next year produced by James Wan and it sounds like it’s gonna be remarkably similar to this idea. Joe Taslim is Sub-Zero, Hiroyuki Sanada is Scorpion. It’s not super high budget so it will probably end up resembling the original movie, but with no holding back on the violence or gore. Chin Han is playing Shang Tsung, which could be a very different take on that character but he’s good at playing a shitheel so he’ll be just fine. The other night as I restarted the MK11 story mode, and really remembered just how much the games themselves have shifted from a loving rip-off of Enter the Dragon to a sort of R-rated sci-fit/fantasy/Kung-fu blockbuster that basically just merges a bunch of aesthetics that young men who were teens/young adults in the 1980s would have loved. Shao Khan and Outworld are very Conan the Barbarian, all of the robots and super-soldiers are real Terminator/Predator, and of course there are still ninjas and shaolin monks, plus lots of horror inspired characters and motifs
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DC Murderverse posted:There’s one coming out next year produced by James Wan and it sounds like it’s gonna be remarkably similar to this idea. Joe Taslim is Sub-Zero, Hiroyuki Sanada is Scorpion. It’s not super high budget so it will probably end up resembling the original movie, but with no holding back on the violence or gore. Chin Han is playing Shang Tsung, which could be a very different take on that character but he’s good at playing a shitheel so he’ll be just fine. Also the games are now literally filled with 80s horror and action characters.
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Vince MechMahon posted:Also the games are now literally filled with 80s horror and action characters. Yeah most of the guest characters have fit right into the aesthetic of MK because they were all inspirations for the people making the games.
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DC Murderverse posted:Yeah most of the guest characters have fit right into the aesthetic of MK because they were all inspirations for the people making the games. It's still pretty weird seeing Joker there. And if you believe recent leaks, we're also getting Deathstroke in the spring. I know, Injustice and all that but come on.
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Mierenneuker posted:A year I ago I caught S.W.A.T. on the telly and I was amazed to see him in a decently sized role. SWAT is kind of an amazing film. They turn down one applicant because he doesn't have any civilian complaints against him, and then get betrayed by two other SWAT guys who presumably had heaps of civilian complaints, one of whom got fired for a civilian complaint. Vandar posted:I liked Renner in Tag. My god I loving hated Tag. Might have just been timing, since my dad was diagnosed with cancer the week I saw it, but a bunch of rich spoiled idiots getting mad because they can't tag arrow guy just really rubbed me the wrong way Payndz posted:The Bourne Legacy is such a weird tangent to the Damon films. They're kinda-grounded action conspiracy thrillers about a guy who's been brutally trained into a killing machine. Legacy, meanwhile, goes full sci-fi with genetically modified super-soldiers. (All the weirder because for it to be contemporaneous with Ultimatum, it would have to be set in the early 2000s.) And the genetically modified super soldiers only benefit from their genetic engineering is 'good at riding motorcycles' The fight scene in the house was really good, though.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Legacy doesn't have an actual ending. I was extremely confused when the credits started rolling. The credits just start rolling when a chase scene ends, and they get away with none of the plots really wrapped up. "Sorry, can't hear you over the sound of another Extreme Ways remix." Fake edit: the screenplay of Ultimatum literally ends with something like "CUE THE MOBY as BOURNE starts swimming." Small Strange Bird fucked around with this message at 10:22 on Dec 7, 2020 |
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Alan Smithee posted:I feel like both those guys are way nicer though, something about Aussies. Maybe it's because we expect them to put holes in walls everywhere they go and they dont actually do that For the last time, famous temperamental monster Sam Neil is from New Zealand
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Vince MechMahon posted:Also the games are now literally filled with 80s horror and action characters. a Mortal Kombat movie today is basically Ready Player One
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The series was almost horror movie Smash Bros between Freddy, Jason (sadly not in the same game), Alien, Predator and Leatherface. (I think there's actually a cheapo steam fighting game with legally distinct knockoffs of horror icons from the Ring girl to Slenderman.) The new Mortal Kombat movie was apparently filmed in the city I live in. I really hope there's a Fatality involving the Mall's Balls.
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The Peccadillo posted:For the last time, famous temperamental monster Sam Neil is from New Zealand As is Russell Crowe. Clearly NZ isn’t as innocent and peaceful as it appears.
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https://twitter.com/FilmUpdates/status/1335940753420398592 Dune is a documentary
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https://twitter.com/lifetimetv/status/1335947170281885699 Yes this is real* and here is a trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHHbTm3Npfk *it's 15min long Sirotan fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Dec 7, 2020 |
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Sirotan posted:https://twitter.com/lifetimetv/status/1335947170281885699 I’m okay with this. Shitposting is one of the greatest joys in life and this is the advertising/parody whatever equivalent.
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Shoulda been called eleven herbs and vices
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"Oh Colonel, don't you see? While you were battering the chicken, the chicken was also battering you!"
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Reminds me of the time that Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig did the Lifetime movie that everyone was sure was going to be a parody, and then turned out to just be a straight Lifetime movie.
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The genre has basically become self-aware to the point where it's very hard to parody anymore.
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They had the romance novel a few years ago, so just a natural evolution: Wendys did the rap album (someone else did that first but I can't remember who) and their D&D sourcebook. Corporate dystopia is bad but there are a few scraps
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The series was almost horror movie Smash Bros between Freddy, Jason (sadly not in the same game), Alien, Predator and Leatherface. (I think there's actually a cheapo steam fighting game with legally distinct knockoffs of horror icons from the Ring girl to Slenderman.) Dead by Daylight currently has Leatherface, Freddy (the lovely reboot version), Ghostface, Michael Myers, Pyramid Head, Bill From Left 4 Dead, Ash from Evil Dead, two of the Stranger Things kids, and the Demogorgon. You can’t have them all fight each other at once but you could have Michael stalk and chase Ash, Bill, and the Stranger kids through Midwich Elementary School or Springwood.
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Alan Smithee posted:https://twitter.com/FilmUpdates/status/1335940753420398592 Half an hour’s notice? God ATT is so bad at running this company.
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Tars Tarkas posted:Wendys did the rap album (someone else did that first but I can't remember who) and their D&D sourcebook. Corporate dystopia is bad but there are a few scraps Critical Role shilling that book was such a surreal experience.
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Tars Tarkas posted:They had the romance novel a few years ago, so just a natural evolution: They also had this: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1121910/I_Love_You_Colonel_Sanders_A_Finger_Lickin_Good_Dating_Simulator/
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Vandar posted:They also had this: I never noticed that the developers are literally called Psyop.
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AceOfFlames posted:Critical Role shilling that book was such a surreal experience. They got in trouble for that
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