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Spatulater bro! posted:I can't exactly tell from the trailer, but is it a "look how awful literally every single man is" type movie?
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Josh Lyman posted:Not really. NOT ALL MEN are depicted as trash. Most but not all. I thought it was well done, it had some style, Mulligan was good - but it was a bit too on the nose and unsophisticated for me.
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Jan 24, 2021 20:20
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Matthew Broderick killing two people seems to be a very well-kept secret. You'd think it would be brought up more often, considering it's literally the only interesting thing about him.
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Jan 24, 2021 20:46
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Godzilla vs Kong looks way more like Pacific Rim than the previous American Godzillas. And they are barely even trying to hide that it's actually Mechagodzilla vs Kong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO02uW15_WU
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Jan 24, 2021 20:55
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wizardofloneliness posted:Matthew Broderick killing two people seems to be a very well-kept secret. You'd think it would be brought up more often, considering it's literally the only interesting thing about him. I feel like it's the first thing anyone mentions whenever he's brought up. But maybe that's because nobody talks about Matthew Broderick except film dorks.
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Jan 24, 2021 21:09
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Gripweed posted:Godzilla vs Kong looks way more like Pacific Rim than the previous American Godzillas.
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Jan 24, 2021 21:31
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Gripweed posted:Godzilla vs Kong looks way more like Pacific Rim than the previous American Godzillas. And they are barely even trying to hide that it's actually Mechagodzilla vs Kong That’s going to be something else. I’m sure. But who knows.
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Jan 24, 2021 21:32
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Necrothatcher posted:A giant gorilla punching an atomic lizard in the face is what I need right now and this seems to provide that.
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Jan 24, 2021 21:39
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Yeah but men really are trash.
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Jan 24, 2021 21:40
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If king kong fashioning an axe out of skeleton so he can go all monster hunter isn’t making you at least a little interested then I honestly don’t know what the gently caress it is you want from a giant monster movie
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:If king kong fashioning an axe out of skeleton so he can go all monster hunter isn’t making you at least a little interested then I honestly don’t know what the gently caress it is you want from a giant monster movie All that plus a love triangle with Mothra. 
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Jan 24, 2021 21:48
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:If king kong fashioning an axe out of skeleton so he can go all monster hunter isn’t making you at least a little interested then I honestly don’t know what the gently caress it is you want from a giant monster movie Maybe this is a fun piece of schlock but the way it looks so self serious combined with the cliched "BWWWWWOOOOOOMMMMM" Hans Zimmer style bullshit in movie trailers we've been subjected to for the last decade and store brand Limp Bizkit really doesn't grab me. Just like Gripweed said there's also some serious Pacific Rim vibes and man oh man did I hate that movie for somehow making "giant robots fighting giant monsters" soooooo boring. It looks really bad.
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Jan 24, 2021 21:48
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CPL593H posted:there's also some serious Pacific Rim vibes and man oh man did I hate that movie for somehow making "giant robots fighting giant monsters" soooooo boring.
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Jan 24, 2021 21:52
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caligulamprey posted:Del Toro is (possibly was at this point) one of my favorite working visual stylists and 80% of that movie takes place in drab underground bunkers. I was so bummed out by that movie. YES! The first thing I think of when that movie comes up is Charlie Hunnam's wooden acting in a concrete hallway and the shameful way they wasted Idris Elba. The Shape of Water was a decent return to form I think. And they managed not to have a bunch of great actors they did nothing with.
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Jan 24, 2021 21:56
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I was actually thinking about watching pacific rim today lol. Crank up the volume to hear that badass theme song
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Jan 24, 2021 21:57
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I have to say this looks actually-promising, in that "Godzilla vs. Kong" seems to refer an aesthetic conflict between those two films. I also appreciate that there's hardly a trace of Godzilla 2 in there.
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Jan 24, 2021 22:10
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I was going to say that I'm an easy mark because you give me giant monsters and I'm there for it, but then I (vaguely) remembered Pacific Rim and how it sapped so much goodwill that I didn't bother with the sequel. Though that also probably had just as much to do with the talent downgrade. The only thing I'm bummed about that it seems to ignore from KotM is the vast planet-wide destruction caused by the monsters in that film. Hopefully it doubles down on the weirdest lore bits if nothing else.
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I hope they don't chicken out and actually show the fights this time. KoTM has way too many fights where the battle itself is obscured by fog or rain or clouds or the ocean so you don't actually see the fight itself. Also I'd like to see a stuntman in a rubber suit slam into a highly detailed model building smashing it to bits Which won't happen but a man can dream
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Jan 24, 2021 22:27
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Maybe kaiju movies just aren’t for me but Godzilla 2014 is the only recent one I like. Pacific Rim was okay I guess.
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Jan 24, 2021 22:31
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You guys are crazy Pacific Rim kicked rear end.
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Jan 24, 2021 22:34
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It’s one of my favorites but it’s not worth arguing about lol. It clicked with me real good
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:I have to say this looks actually-promising, in that "Godzilla vs. Kong" seems to refer an aesthetic conflict between those two films. The main cast from G:KOTM appears to be the only people they brought back from either franchise.
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Jan 24, 2021 23:04
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Gripweed posted:You guys are crazy Pacific Rim kicked rear end. This
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Jan 24, 2021 23:04
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The first Pacific Rim was good. Waiting for Transformers Destroy All Monsters.
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Baron von Eevl posted:The main cast from G:KOTM appears to be the only people they brought back from either franchise. yeah but they're adding the guy from True Blood.
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Jan 24, 2021 23:09
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Did king Kong grow or did Godzilla shrink? I dont remember them being close to the same size in their most recent movies. Weren't people skydiving past Godzillas legs in the first one?
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Jan 24, 2021 23:12
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There's a throwaway line in Skull Island about how Kong's still growing. It would have been neat to bring back Brie Larson and Tom Hiddleston's characters from Skull Island in old age makeup.
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Jan 24, 2021 23:15
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banned from Starbucks posted:Did king Kong grow or did Godzilla shrink? I dont remember them being close to the same size in their most recent movies. Weren't people skydiving past Godzillas legs in the first one? In the King Kong movie they mention that he's not fully grown yet.
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Jan 24, 2021 23:15
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Skull Island takes place in the early 70s and he's at most a teenager and still much larger than any previous Kong.
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Oh. Cool.
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Hand Knit posted:I believe the rattle is quite right with respect to how the argument frequently gets deployed. I think the people who do use the argument , "There is no ethical consumption under capitalism", in that way would act the same regardless of having encountered that phrase, since it relies on an overly prescriptivist reading. A descriptivist reading opens up the space for taking a step back and examining the actions one might take that may end up unintentionally reinforcing what one opposed. The call is to not fall for the allure of acting, but to theorize. caligulamprey posted:Del Toro is (possibly was at this point) one of my favorite working visual stylists and 80% of that movie takes place in drab underground bunkers. I was so bummed out by that movie. At least we got this solid sequence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqzm5EwGgjk
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CPL593H posted:Yeah but men really are trash. Not emptyquoting Gripweed posted:You guys are crazy Pacific Rim kicked rear end. Also not emptyquoting
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Gripweed posted:You guys are crazy Pacific Rim kicked rear end. This but I cannot emphasize how much the sequel sucks.
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yoohoo posted:This but I cannot emphasize how much the sequel sucks. I remember hearing that the cockpit set for the first movie was insanely expensive, so they could only have one, and that's why you never get a good look inside the Chinese Jaeger with the three pilots. And it was also a massive pain in the rear end for the actors. So they decided for the sequel to drop the complex cockpit idea and just have the pilots standing in a room. I think that was the point when they should have realized that they shouldn't make the movie. If you can't even be bothered to do the cockpit right, give up on your giant robot movie idea.
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It's amazing how we have the technology and artistry to bring these enormous fantasy creatures to life for audiences, but it's horrible how all we do is make them fight each other to the death. Maybe some people want to see Godzilla and King Kong in a kind of My Dinner with Andre scenario?
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Carly Gay Dead Son posted:It's amazing how we have the technology and artistry to bring these enormous fantasy creatures to life for audiences, but it's horrible how all we do is make them fight each other to the death. Maybe some people want to see Godzilla and King Kong in a kind of My Dinner with Andre scenario? And then they retire to the bedroom?
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Carly Gay Dead Son posted:It's amazing how we have the technology and artistry to bring these enormous fantasy creatures to life for audiences, but it's horrible how all we do is make them fight each other to the death. Maybe some people want to see Godzilla and King Kong in a kind of My Dinner with Andre scenario? In "The Nightmare Before Christmas," the monsters reign over christmas!
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Detective No. 27 posted:There's a throwaway line in Skull Island about how Kong's still growing. Joe Morton cameos in King of the Monsters playing an older version of that guy with the glasses who was on the other side of the island or most of it.
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Carly Gay Dead Son posted:It's amazing how we have the technology and artistry to bring these enormous fantasy creatures to life for audiences, but it's horrible how all we do is make them fight each other to the death. Maybe some people want to see Godzilla and King Kong in a kind of My Dinner with Andre scenario? It's sad really.
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