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The Great Schism of Post-Apocalyptica will be between the people who accept the Later Eddas detailing Thor's adventures in the Americas and those who believe them to be heretical.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:At least she's stopped kissing every female performer as soon as they break out as though she's attempting to suck the fame out of them. They're remaking The Mummy again?
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Mar 5, 2020 17:07
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Iron Crowned posted:Was The Good Dinosaur the tipping point for Pixar? I never got around to seeing it, but I don't think I ever heard any reviews of it that were better than lukewarm. The beautiful scenery being blopped through by a goofy-rear end playdoh model dinosaur killed any interest I had in giving it a watch.
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Mar 9, 2020 19:52
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8one6 posted:Was that the one that's a top down game outside and Doom once you go indoors? I rented that game so many times I should've just bought it.
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Apr 10, 2020 04:41
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MechanicalTomPetty posted:Pretty sure there was also one for the 1998 Godzilla movie of all things. It was actually a good cartoon too, bizarrely.
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Apr 10, 2020 16:21
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The Clowner posted:Top 5 sci-fi movies, go. 2010: The Year We Make Contact
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Apr 16, 2020 07:13
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Colostomy Bag posted:For some sick deragened reason I like this film. It is unironically good sci-fi, just has the problem of being a sequel to one of the all-time legends.
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Apr 17, 2020 17:03
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Payndz posted:Don't forget that Godzilla 98 at one point blows up a nuclear-powered SSBN in the Hudson River. (And the sub shoots itself with its own torpedoes...) Godzilla 1998 is a far, far better American Godzilla than 2014.
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Apr 30, 2020 17:52
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ANOTHER SCORCHER posted:I wanna hear this take, genuinely. Godzilla (1954) is famously a nuclear allegory, but it also invokes the fear of an unstoppable invader from Japan's defeat in World War II. Godzilla (2014) is a "better" Godzilla movie because it lifts those themes and slaps them onto San Francisco. But it has the fundamental problem that Americans don't have the same fears. We don't fear the Bomb anymore, so that aspect was minimized and the movie is left groping for something to replace it with. They mostly settle on a vague environmental message (delivered with a nice fat MAN ARROGANT THINK CONTROL NATURE line in case you missed it) with some leftover sprinklings of nuclear, some climate change, a bit of 'wrath of the gods' and a bit of 'god doesn't register your existence'. But..we don't fear any of those things either. Godzilla (1998) is and was criticized for dropping that, but it does so to mold itself to the fears of America, especially in the 1990s. We fear that our government cares more about getting re-elected than it does protecting us. We fear that our military is a bunch of cocky idiots who will destroy everything in their path, including themselves, to no effect. We fear that the press that's supposed to serve as a check on power is a bunch of selfish ladder-climbers who don't care who gets hurt so long as they get credit for the story. We fear being toppled from our dominance and replaced. We fear the enemy that hides in and around and under, not some unstoppable looming force because we don't believe anything is unstoppable. G54 is the nightmares of a defeated empire, G98 is the nightmares of a victorious one. G14 is stapling the former to the latter and is thus far less relevant to America in the 21st century than G98, making 98 the better American Godzilla. I mean, the part where the populace demands to be let back in immediately, clogging the phone lines so the heroes can't get out word that there's a second, worse outbreak coming that the leadership isn't prepared for because they're ignoring the scientists and declaring victory is more relevant now than anything in 14.
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May 2, 2020 23:35
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got any sevens posted:Gods of Egypt freakin owns, i got the blueray Hell yeah. 
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May 21, 2020 19:31
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McCloud posted:Just to clarify, not only did Whedon remove most scenes relating to Cyborg, they almost entirely removed his mother from the movie, removed scenes with his father, and removed all scenes with Iris West, played by a black actress. And instead they inserted a segment involving a (white) russian family that adds nothing. belarus needs representation too
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May 27, 2020 16:02
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Alan Smithee posted:Is Godzilla a woman G-98 (the better American one) is.
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Jun 5, 2020 01:29
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Tars Tarkas posted:I've not been as active as usual in this thread because we're going to have a baby but if there is a CineD out there when things all shake out I'll try to put up a version of the greenlight thread there how is babby greenlought
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Jun 24, 2020 20:01
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God of War 3 is one of the very few reinterpretations of Greek myth to treat the gods as essential and fundamental parts of the universe like they're supposed to be, and not just a team of X-Men who live on a mountain. It's also far more accurate to the themes of Greek mythology than people give it credit for, and being able to play as Apollo just makes it even more fitting in so many ways. It's honestly one of my favorite games ever for how soaked in Hellenism it is (figuratively and literally).
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Jul 1, 2020 10:51
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Alan Smithee posted:does Helen of Troy squirt on you i never played it you cuckhold your cousin by loving your sister
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Jul 1, 2020 16:27
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aware of dog posted:Chris Nolan must really wanna kill people cause Inception is being re-released to theaters More like Infection.
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Aug 2, 2020 23:17
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"i just wanted to see titties" is most of art, really
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Aug 4, 2020 22:53
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Red Bones posted:The one thing I don't like about Beyond is that everything introduced in the story comes back as a component of the plot in some way. Chekov's phaser
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Aug 13, 2020 21:54
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CopywrightMMXI posted:HIMYM’s finale was so bad that it killed any residual interest in the show and that’s why it’s not even airing in syndication now. I'm in the dark about this, what was so bad about it?
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Aug 14, 2020 01:23
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END ME SCOOB posted:So the entire show they'd been cutting to shots of "the kids" he was telling this story to, and they filmed all of these ahead of time because otherwise the kids were going to age up. This meant that they stuck with the ending they'd planned way back when, ahead of all the development or changes the cast went through. Hahaha, drat.
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Aug 14, 2020 01:27
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END ME SCOOB posted:I feel like we get one tops. I think those are as dead as the showrunners' "Confederate" which also went dead loving silent. I was kinda disappointed in that, tbh. Most if not all "what if the south won" stuff is lazy and just has one absorb the other, a world where the South broke off and then there's two States of America jockeying for position during the 20th century has potential. I mean, I get it, but still.
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Aug 14, 2020 04:03
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Lid posted:I haven't seen it but from what i've heard the directors cut of KoH is meant to be one of the best films of the 21st century and should be in the same conversation as things like The New World, There Will Be Blood and other epics. I haven't seen it partially because of that level of praise and the original was so poor it makes me side eye it. If it's still got the dumbass 21st-century-humanism big speech at the end, I can't see how it could be.
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Aug 18, 2020 05:31
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Shageletic posted:Troy was in a weird netherworld of not being fantastical enough, and not being real enough. I'll never understand the drive to adapt mythology but cut out all the..well, mythology.
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Aug 18, 2020 17:06
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Thundercracker posted:It's a Sword Art Online style MMORPG. You start as a plantation slave and level up to become a courtesan queen at lvl 99 like those Facebook ads. The actual character is a basement dwelling incel on the year 2077. October 2077?
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Sep 3, 2020 03:09
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Lobok posted:Ah, right. Lame it was wasted like that because nothing was shown. The part from the book was one of the more memorable kills from the book series for how creepy it was. One of the hunters gets swarmed by compys later in Lost World too.
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Sep 19, 2020 18:05
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A movie about Jesus kicking in the doors of hell and wrecking the place up would fuckin own.
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Sep 23, 2020 05:29
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:If we're going to resurrect a dead script for a super hero movie, it's going to be Nick Cave's Gladiator script. We'll change Maximus to Kratos, based on the ending of the first game.
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Oct 6, 2020 01:52
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X-Men First Class.
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Oct 14, 2020 02:26
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Jurassic Park on a theater sound system was god drat amazing, I'd pay the :100bux: to go by myself.
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Oct 15, 2020 06:36
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it's about a lot of cool byzantine stuff
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Oct 28, 2020 17:10
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The Cold War stuff is legit good spy/milwank. It helps that it’s all low-key stuff like “a sub captain is trying to defect” or “we need to get a compromised agent out of Moscow” until Sum’s crescendo (or a stand-alone WW3 novel).
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Oct 30, 2020 21:43
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:significantly better, though watching it in isolation robs you of the buildup from all the variations they do on Holmes' analysis fighting: When Moriarty suddenly cuts in, that's one of the few times I've felt the audience collectively gasp at the theater.
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Nov 20, 2020 10:50
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I will always defend Mission to Mars because I think it's in the category of "bland sci-fi". Totally great, nobody's phoning it in, but it's just something you could fall asleep to. 2010: The Year We Make Contact is another example. I unironically love 2010 and I think it'd be much better regarded if it didn't have to follow one of the all-time legends.
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Nov 29, 2020 07:16
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Tars Tarkas posted:Marv is the Christmas division of Marvel 
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Flying Zamboni posted:Buzz Lightyear is real and he is Andy's dad. Major Thomas “Buzz” Lightyear
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Dec 11, 2020 14:28
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Where's the part where Oddjob runs around karate-chopping people in the shins.
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Dec 22, 2020 11:00
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They should tell the real story, where an imperial superpower invades a region of city-states because they had been supporting rebellion against the empire's tyrants, only to be turned back by the ferocity of the region's resistance.
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I like that it's a (pseudo)historical movie that has its people think and act like they would have, instead of something like Kingdom of Heaven where the main character is recast as a modern humanist who gets a big speech about how religion is dumb and everybody in the crowd in 1187 Jerusalem agrees. Even Gladiator, which is much better and one of my favorite movies, still does that by having the whole republic vs empire sentiment/subplot/resolution.
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Dec 27, 2020 00:28
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The Empire fell to Muslim aggression.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Did the Roman Empire just overstretch itself and got worn down with attrition, or did Fallout New Vegas lie to me? It got hit with the Black Death and an apocalyptic 30 year war with Persia that exhausted both and left them vulnerable to the Caliphate.
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