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Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


The existence of 13 Hours pisses me off. We will never hear the end of BEEENNGHAAAAZI!!1

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Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Rageaholic Monkey posted:

And look how fondly those are remembered! I'm sure this one will be a similar cinematic achievement.
First one wasn't bad as I remember it.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


broken clock opsec posted:

Which was a thing that needed to exist for some reason
Yes, it was.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Young Freud posted:

I hate to say this, but I was turned on (no pun intended) to this fact when I was watching a relatively-recent porno and they shot some of the photo model prologue bits with a drone: there was a couple high angle shots of the pornstar lounging at the pool and I was wondering if they actually got a crane or a helicopter until I saw the shadow of a quadrotor hovering at the edge of the frame.

If they're employing quadrotors in porn, then it's likely a lot of people are using them for aerial or crane shots nowadays, especially since they're cheap enough for independent filmmakers now.

For instance, here's a drone operator replicating the famous shot of the ECTO-1 crossing the Brooklyn Bridge in Ghostbusters...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3NDPBwQGJs
Cool but probably at least a couple different kinds of illegal.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


muscles like this? posted:

Speaking of Ice Cube, been seeing a lot of commercials for Ride Along 2 and man, he comes off as just an awful person in it. His entire part seems to be just him scowling and insulting Kevin Hart in some way.
Kevin Hart is obnoxious. Ice Cube is supposed to be there to appeal to the people who don't find Hart funny.

My dad and brother rented Ride Along, I fell asleep and didn't feel like I missed much

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


i like Jennifer Connelly and Muppets. I can easily enjoy it as a product of its time. I saw The Dark Crystal later and found it kind of disappointing.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


I guess there's an unofficial rule that you can tell how many issues a girl has by how into Labyrinth she is. This started a pretty massive debate in GBS one time with the cat ladies throwing a fit about how this joke was incredibly sexist. Anyway liking the movie puts me in some pretty strange company.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Uncle Boogeyman posted:

Labyrinth has great creature/set design and fantastic work from the Henson workshop, and a David Bowie soundtrack, and it's fun. all around a dope movie.

modern backlash against Labyrinth smacks of people who loved it as a kid terrified to be seen as uncool.
I agree with all these statements.

The only effects that don't really hold up are the Fire Gang, and the owl. I went back and looked and the owl honestly doesn't look too bad for CGI from a movie that came out 2 years before I was born. The Fire Gang on the other hand uses a not very convincing green screen. If they'd managed to set the scene a little bit better and cleaned it up a little bit more it could have been a non-issue.

I like Return to Oz too. It's probably the Henson touch.

Neverending Story and its sequels always looked like garbage to me.

Casimir Radon fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Jan 13, 2016

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

Neverending Story is the poo poo.
Mostly what I've seen is the beginning of the third one, which I guess is supposed to be pretty awful. A couple times in elementary school they put it on the CCTV system. The creatures looked like absolute poo poo and I had no idea what was going on.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


I think 90s cartoons are a bit better. Most of them seemed to at least attempt not to be blatant toy commercials all the time.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Lady Naga posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g01ud9TUtIk
They look like big, strong hands, don't they?
Beyond being dumb as hell the peddling effect on the puppet is the laziest loving thing ever. Compare that to the bike segment in The Great Muppet Caper which came out 13 years earlier.


I kind of miss these trailers for subpar family films before watching a movie. Not in any sort of practical way, we used to have those, now we don't.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Now if they were doing it with movies that were actual contemporaries of the main feature that would make sense, it would still be dumb, but it would make sense.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


What devastating scene is everyone talking about?

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Snowglobe of Doom posted:

I feel sorry for Patrick Jean who had no part of the Adam Sandler film Pixels apart from creating the original independent short film which inspired it but still gets a shout out in the Razzies category for Worst Screenplay. Also Stan Lee and Jack Kirby getting shout outs for Fantastic Four.
Sure, pick on the guy who's been dead for 20 some years, that makes a lot of sense.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


The Golden Compass is particularly unfortunate as it already ends on a cliffhanger, and then the filmmakers decided not to even go that far, though they had filmed it. A really great cast got squandered on the aborted attempt.

It would be interesting to see how the controversy would have played out roughly 10 years later with everyone social media. Most of the negative stuff circulating about the film last time was passed around in chain emails. The political climate in the US has also gotten even more divisive.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


I keep hoping we can have a cadaver synod with Reagan so he can explain what happened in Beirut.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


resurgam40 posted:

For those of you who've seen it, how political is it really? Ted Cruz and Rick Santorum (as well as Reince Preibus) advertised for it during the recent debates, so you would think it took a hardcore anti Hillary stand, but... it doesn't seem to me that Michael Bay takes stands of that nature in his movies. Oh sure, the American Flag is prominently portrayed in most of his movies, as well as a healthy dose of what a lot of people interpret as "ARE TROOPS" military worship, but truth be told it doesn't seem to me to go much deeper than the quickest route available to big guys with big guns swearing and shooting each other whilst things explode. The most political I've ever seen Bay get is with Pain & Gain, and that not very.
From what I've read it portrays a massive disconnect between the security contractors as brave and heroic, and contrasts that with an invented station chief who is a college educated guy whose cowardly behavior results in lives lost. It also gives credence to the myth that the government was unwilling to send air support.

It's not some right wing screed, but it's a controversial topic not well served by Bay's typical smashing-action-figures-together mentality, and shouldn't have been made.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Madae is becoming Garfield it seems, except his Halloween special was good.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


SciFiDownBeat posted:

Well then Snyder spoiled 2/3 of the movie. Which is better than 100% I guess.



DOOMSMILLIENIA
DOOMSWILLENIUM a Suicide Squad tie-in.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


CharlestheHammer posted:

I would watch it if Doomsday was played by Will Smith.
What if he brings his kids along for the ride?

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Chronicle haf better flying effects than movies with budgets several times larger. Amazing what you can do when you aren't smelling your own farts 24x7.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Sleeveless posted:

More like amazing what you can do when the effects shots are obscured thanks to the found footage gimmick.
Most of the flying shots weren't obscured. The only things they really "cheated" with were "security camera" footage. Movies that are intended to be blockbusters probably have budgets almost as large as Chronicle's just for flying effects, so they still did a really good job.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Remember when Avatar was the next Star Wars? Now it's going to try to go up against a real Star Wars film and get smashed.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


I kind of hope Shia takes his performance art shtick to it's logical conclusion and ends up doing something so unforgivable or incapacitating that he can't possibly be in a new Indy movie.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Snowglobe of Doom posted:

I'm wondering what might be the widest recognised secondhand film reference. Possibly "I think I hear banjos" or "Squeal like a pig!" from Deliverance?
Play it again Sam.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Random Stranger posted:

EL James is as if one of the really terrible comic book nerds somehow got some control in the production of a Superman movie.
And if superman raped the poo poo out of Lois Lane.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


People who like a movie that only exists as the setup for a silly drawn out joke.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


When I read it the Invisible Man on Mina assault was all "Well that was really unpleasant", then the Hyde on Invisible Man one was "And now it's unfilmable".

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Now You See Me sounds incredibly stupid having read the synopsis. On the other hand it doesn't seem so bad that I wouldn't watch it all the way through. I suppose that's something.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


greatn posted:

It's a movie you go to cause the thing you wanted to see was sold out, and you don't hate it, but immediately forget it and don't really enjoy.
I don't think there was anything else worth seeing when it came out, still didn't go see it. That was also back at a point when I was seeing a movie in theaters most weeks.

The only time I've ever shown up to a theater and the movie was sold out was when my mom wanted to see A Walk in the Woods, which seems pretty bizarre. The girl working the booth said Pixels was about to start and we could watch that, we went a did something else instead.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Chairman Capone posted:

I love that Ready Player One was awarded the Prometheus Award for best libertarian sci-fi novel of 2012. Sure, the novel depicts the world being completely hosed over by corporations run amok who've used privatization and deregulation to essentially bring back slavery and plummeted the standard of living to Zimbabwe levels... but... at least there's no government!
They like Snow Crash for the same reasons despite Stephenson blatantly parodying their ideas. They're not very smart.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Snowman_McK posted:

I know that they the production was paid to shoot the opening scene in Mexico by the Mexican government and all the extras are, inexplicably, played by Italians.
You'd think the Mexican government would prefer to not encourage the idea that Mexico is a violent place that you probably shouldn't visit.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Tars Tarkas posted:

Emily Blunt is the new Mary Poppins, making a film about rich children who are raised by a nanny something I might slightly want to see in the world of 2016 income inequality.
Emily Blunt is mai waifu, so shut your face.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

No-nonsense Mary Poppins would be hilarious. Everytime a number gets started she could just cut it off.
She could shoot the kids in the face. On a more serious note maybe Dick VanDyke can keep living so he can cameo.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


People act like him suing his brother was a totally awful thing to do. Now even of I had a weak shtick like his, I'd be pretty pissed off if my deadbeat brother decided to all but impersonate me. If he's forced to sponge off Gallagher's talent it doesn't exactly speak highly of him.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


raditts posted:

actually they're pretty hot depending on the tats and the person
That's incredibly care. 99% of tattoos are trashy looking.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


raditts posted:

Didn't seem to stop Robert Pattinson while he was still doing Twilight.

Speaking of, has he been in anything recently?
He was in Herzog's Queen of the Desert which I haven't seen yet. He's also supposed to be in the upcoming adaptation of The Lost City of Z.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Terminator Salvation isn't particularly good on its own. Joseph McGinty Nichol, not calling him by his nickname because it's loving stupid, added 45 seconds to the director's cut. All it was were that one lady's tits.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Cage's last big role was in Left Behind a couple years ago, which didn't do very well. He's been in a bunch of movies nobody has seen, likely to pay off his debts. Is this what the rest if his career looks like?

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Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


IShallRiseAgain posted:

They didn't want everybody to like the Anti-Christ more than the protagonist.
Well then they hosed up last time too because a serial rapist is more likable than Kirk Cameron.

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