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Payndz posted:It's funny in hindsight that Clint's biggest critics in his heyday absolutely hated him because "he's not an actor, he doesn't do anything, he expends the minimum effort possible in front of the camera!", and now it's universally accepted that's exactly why he was so iconic - he didn't need to. He dominated the screen just by being on it. There aren't many megastars who have that same minimalism and yet absolutely draw the viewer's attention: maybe Cary Grant, John Wayne, Arnold? Ryan Gosling has been making bank sitting in cars looking beat up and vaguely sad.
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Wyatt Russell is, I'm sure, a fine actor, but once I noticed that his voice sounds extremely similar to that of Timothy Simons (Jonah from Veep) I am going to have a hard time taking him seriouslyMacdeo Lurjtux posted:Is it the same reboot that had that anime spin off from the animation studio that did MD Geist? i don't think that had anything to do with the reboot - that movie predated Lionsgate* getting the remake rights by a year or so *technically it was Summit which was then acquired by Lionsgate a few years later but who cares
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Payndz posted:It's funny in hindsight that Clint's biggest critics in his heyday absolutely hated him because "he's not an actor, he doesn't do anything, he expends the minimum effort possible in front of the camera!", and now it's universally accepted that's exactly why he was so iconic - he didn't need to. He dominated the screen just by being on it. There aren't many megastars who have that same minimalism and yet absolutely draw the viewer's attention: maybe Cary Grant, John Wayne, Arnold? It's also a reflection of what his most iconic roles happened to be. The Man with No Name especially is a silent badass who exudes power by standing there; Clint Eastwood's scowl does a lot of heavy lifting, but Leone's style as a filmmaker really supports that. Lots of slow, tense stand-offs, and wordless exchanges where you really dwell on his posturing. Filmmakers doing that today are more or less engaging with pastiche or purposeful reference: Tarantino, or something like Logan or The Mandalorian (which is especially funny because it's just a goddamn helmet.) Otherwise, I don't see an Eastwood type working in a modern action-y blockbuster thing. Something like an MCU movie is half comedy now...a stern, silent badass type becomes Drax in that environment.
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https://twitter.com/ComicBookNOW/status/1395525998012157959?s=20 didnt even realize Thora was back (havent watched Walking Dead in ages) so hopefully she kicked her dad to the curb
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Are they stealing the plot from spelunky 2 where Indiana goes to space then he kids and dog have to go rescue him? As long as Shia Labeouf is replaced with a leather jacket wearing sloth I'm on board.
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The MSJ posted:There is a rumored Indiana Jones 5 plot leak and guess who Madds Mikkelsen is apparently playing? A Nazi scientist! 
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The source of that Indy 5 “leak” is the Illuminerdi, a site nearly as worthless and click-baity as WeGotThisCovered. 
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Big Mean Jerk posted:The source of that Indy 5 “leak” is the Illuminerdi, a site nearly as worthless and click-baity as WeGotThisCovered. That's just how modern leaks are done. You tweet and post whatever you come up with and then ride the twitter clout when you finally get it right. Or at least that's how it works with videogames
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I would prefer that Mads plays a robot scientist of some kind who is trying to find and neutralize Dracula. That would be cool. A stealth Castlevania movie where Indy uses his whip a lot.
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La-Mulana movie I think you mean
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Indy Jones finds that the fossil in question that he was in search of this whole time was....himself
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He finds a collection of mosquitos in amber and it's a stealth Jurassic Park prequel
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I wouldn't have said no to Indy punching moon nazi's though.
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The nazis and the soviets pursue him and he says “both sides actually”
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The MSJ posted:There is a rumored Indiana Jones 5 plot leak and guess who Madds Mikkelsen is apparently playing? A Nazi scientist! According to Crystal Skull, Indy worked for the OSS in World War II so if anything, he would have been the one helping rescue all the Nazi scientists in 1945/
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It's canon that Indy is horrible. He's a murderous cultural heritage thief and a pedophile.
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Alan Smithee posted:Indy Jones finds that the fossil in question that he was in search of this whole time was....himself I belong in a museum! gently caress, this joke probably gets made all the time
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Indiana Jones feels so weird in 2021. Like the whole point of it is as a teardown/mashup of a bunch of 1940s/50s pulp serials. But it's generations later and none of that is anything anymore. So it's just this weird stand alone character separated from it's origin. Like he's more recognizable than the things he was riffing off. So what is even worth writing him doing?
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Indiana Jones feels so weird in 2021. Like the whole point of it is as a teardown/mashup of a bunch of 1940s/50s pulp serials. But it's generations later and none of that is anything anymore. So it's just this weird stand alone character separated from it's origin. Like he's more recognizable than the things he was riffing off. So what is even worth writing him doing? Return all the artifacts he has stolen, work his rear end off to pay for the untold damage he has caused.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Indiana Jones feels so weird in 2021. Like the whole point of it is as a teardown/mashup of a bunch of 1940s/50s pulp serials. But it's generations later and none of that is anything anymore. So it's just this weird stand alone character separated from it's origin. Like he's more recognizable than the things he was riffing off. So what is even worth writing him doing? The Flash Gordon television program feels so weird in 1954. Like the whole point of it is based on a book rooted in the works of Verne and Wells at the turn of the century. But it's generations later and none of that is anything anymore. So it's just this weird stand alone character separated from it's origin. Like he's more recognizable than the things he was riffing off. So what is even worth writing him doing?
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The Klowner posted:The Flash Gordon television program feels so weird in 1954. Like the whole point of it is based on a book rooted in the works of Verne and Wells at the turn of the century. But it's generations later and none of that is anything anymore. So it's just this weird stand alone character separated from it's origin. Like he's more recognizable than the things he was riffing off. So what is even worth writing him doing? And where is Flash Gordon now?
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/hobby-lobby-president-to-return-11-500-antiquities-to-iraq-and-egypt-11585324494 Artifacts are still being stolen in modern times, plenty of room for an Indiana Jones, just more covert and even scummier.
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I'd watch a Defenders of the Earth movie.
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Neurolimal posted:https://www.wsj.com/articles/hobby-lobby-president-to-return-11-500-antiquities-to-iraq-and-egypt-11585324494 That's basically the premise of Tomb Raider, lol. OK, it's more complicated than that, but it is explicit in one of the newer games that Lara's parents looted artifacts from around the world and kept them in their private collection, and I don't think the game had a very strong sense that there was anything wrong with that. Silver2195 fucked around with this message at 18:52 on May 22, 2021 |
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Gonz posted:I would prefer that Mads plays a robot scientist of some kind who is trying to find and neutralize Dracula. Someone get Scott on the phone, I've got the plot for his third Prometheus film.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Indiana Jones feels so weird in 2021. Like the whole point of it is as a teardown/mashup of a bunch of 1940s/50s pulp serials. But it's generations later and none of that is anything anymore. So it's just this weird stand alone character separated from it's origin. Like he's more recognizable than the things he was riffing off. So what is even worth writing him doing? Worked for Star Wars. To a point, anyway.
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Silver2195 posted:That's basically the premise of Tomb Raider, lol. Hitman 2 had the final story targets be obvious Lara Croft riffs who are thrill-killing thieves and murderers. (and one of them on-off dating an obvious Nathan Drake riff)
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Grendels Dad posted:And where is Flash Gordon now?
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Grendels Dad posted:And where is Flash Gordon now? Brian Blessed threatened to hunt down and murder anyone who tried to remake it https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/flash-gordon-40-sam-j-jones-brian-blessed-interview-135843361.html They tried to placate him by offering him a cameo and he told them to gently caress off. 
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Man, I loving love Brian Blessed.
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It’s not hard to make Indy not a thief. Just have him expressly doing things at the behest of the locals. When he says “belongs in a museum” it’s for the Egyptian national museum instead of London.
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galagazombie posted:It’s not hard to make Indy not a thief. Just have him expressly doing things at the behest of the locals. When he says “belongs in a museum” it’s for the Egyptian national museum instead of London. Right, he can retrieve stolen historical artifacts of cultural significance and return them to their rightful owners! Just like noted Good Indiana Jones movie... *checks notes* Temple of Doom?  I actually legit like that one
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Silver2195 posted:That's basically the premise of Tomb Raider, lol. Yeah, the last game, Shadow of the Tomb Raider was especially bad about that. Laura loots and loots and kills hundreds of Innocents in her insatiable lootlust. Finally the main villain confronts her and explains how her actions will lead the inevitable cultural genocide of his undiscovered indigenous people and her answer was more or less "What about how I feel!" It was so insanely tone deaf I can imagine there were two scripts, the first of which deconstructed her role as a British Imperialist smash and grab looter, and some suit said no, and we ended up with her doing exactly that without any of the examination.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Worked for Star Wars. Like 40 years ago.
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Chairman Capone posted:According to Crystal Skull, Indy worked for the OSS in World War II so if anything, he would have been the one helping rescue all the Nazi scientists in 1945/ Thundercracker posted:Yeah, the last game, Shadow of the Tomb Raider was especially bad about that. Laura loots and loots and kills hundreds of Innocents in her insatiable lootlust. Finally the main villain confronts her and explains how her actions will lead the inevitable cultural genocide of his undiscovered indigenous people and her answer was more or less "What about how I feel!" Whatever happened to that?
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Neurolimal posted:https://www.wsj.com/articles/hobby-lobby-president-to-return-11-500-antiquities-to-iraq-and-egypt-11585324494 it belongs in a Hobby Lobby!
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The United States posted:Wait didn't Rise of the Tomb Raider give her an explicit moral justification for her raiding - that she was trying to stop a doomsday cult that were themselves trying to find and piece together ancient artifacts of great power that would allow them to end the world? That's still the case in Shadow, its just that Lara considers that a fringe benefit to avenging her rich dad.
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Outside of Lara avenging what she thinks is Jonah’s death I don’t think Shadow was that violent. A major complaint people had of the first game in the reboot series was that Lara mowed down too many cultists and there weren’t enough puzzles. Shadow on the other hand has much improved tomb puzzles, and a lot of new stealth mechanics, but not many enemies to use them on.
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Scrooge McDuck was doing it first. (the iconic Raiders scene is ripped straight from a comic)
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IDK with the tomb raider reboot I still saw it as a bit of a deconstruction - in the second game she's going completely off the rails with no one around to keep her sane, completely disregarding the island people ande it kind of plays it as "she's been so badly broken by her experiences in the first game that she's lost her humanity" - I saw the third game as "Because Jonah's around, he's doing his best to keep her somewhat human, but after his supposed death she completely falls off the cliff into total monster, but to the extent that she end up getting her revenge on the company that tore her family apart by becoming ONE of the ancient weird zombie warriors and following them into battle. A bit white savioury of course but I thought it was an interesting contrast.
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