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Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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Maxwell Lord posted:

Everyone sitting in the first five rows needs to be offered a protective plastic tarp.

A Storm of GWARS.

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Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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AceOfFlames posted:

Yeah, analysing a show by "lines of dialogue per unit of time" sounds just as dumb as evaluating programmer productivity by LOC per day, IMHO.

It reminds me of people measuring the quality of superhero movies by counting the seconds they wear their costumes on screen.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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Jack B Nimble posted:

What's a bridge film, please?

Alternative version of Casino Royale.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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Hi, I'm UNTITLED BEE GEES. How are you?

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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Good for him, he will barely notice he's in jail then!

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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Cythereal posted:

He could be the villain.

He will be the bumbling, perpetually drunk sidekick.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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47 Ronin & 47 Ronout


Edit: What a terrible page snipe.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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47 new posts about 47 new Ronin.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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FoneBone posted:

Season 3 still has Ian McShane, and that counts for a lot IMO, but.... not much else

I currently rewatch Game of Thrones with my girlfriend because we haven't seen the last two seasons and are completionists, and I got angry all over again at the episode where he shows up. The showrunners must have thought "We didn't waste Ciaran Hinds hard enough, but how can we top that?"

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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feedmyleg posted:

Hard disagree. That is in fact the Lamest Take. Though I do think it's exactly what they're doing.

There's also a TV series in development that's a lower-stakes take on the world so that's the one I'll really have my eye on. Fantasy doesn't have to be all world-ending disasters, and Dungeons & Dragons is the perfect franchise for low-stakes fantasy adventures.

Two hours of heroes unable to leave a tavern.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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The Klowner posted:

Maybe I need to watch Romeo plus Juliet because every comment in this thread about it makes it sound awesome even though on paper it sounds lame as hell

It's good, just extremely hyperactive.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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From the other side of the table, I have mentioned Midsommar in my Religios Education class and a week later a student approached me to tell me she watched it and how hosed up it was. That was great.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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feedmyleg posted:

No, I mean, why on earth would a school take kids to a movie theater? It's just admitting to parents that they have no interest in educating their kids.

There's actually a poo poo ton children can learn on excursions, even if it's only to go to the movie. Caveat: This requires teachers not to half-rear end poo poo.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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Thinking back on it, the Stallone Dredd feels like a challenge to all the actors in it to enunciate the word "law" as exaggeratedly as possible.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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Preceded by 75 minutes of Cruella on a boat.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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Collapsing Farts posted:

I don't know who that is

Thanks for stopping by

He was the weirdo Hello Fellow Black Person! party guest in Get Out.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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Pope Corky the IX posted:

Was there an actual story here? Who gives a poo poo?

They made a sex tape and Tommy made a song about it.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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Max Flyis? Yes.

Max Landis? No.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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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.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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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?

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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Man, I loving love Brian Blessed.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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Warcraft. We don't deserve something as stupid as a Warhammer movie.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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Failed Imagineer posted:

Isn't Event Horizon set in the Warham universe?

The means of transportation that leads to the events in EH also exist in Warhams with the same consequences, but I don't remember anything more specific.

I just have to laugh at the thought of a huge Space Marine blasting through the wall during the last scene in EH and loving up Sam Neil with his grenade launcher machine gun.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:

The canon is inherently and deliberately unreliable both because of the timespan covered in the setting, and the unreliability of the Emperor as a narrator. And the number of writers and varying degrees of rigour in establishing background.
The St. George stuff could be true, that the dragon was a star eating space entity he imprisoned on Mars. That he's a gestalt entity created by primitive shamans using the warp to merge themselves into a super being who then shaped human history from the rise of the first civilisation could be true. But then there's also the more modern in-universe theory that he's an engineered weapon from the Dark Age of Technology that escaped the lab and was never even remotely human.

The most explicitly Christian reference I can remember is that during his awkward internet atheist phase the Emperor destroyed every religious institution, document, and adherent on earth. Because in 40k belief shapes the warp, the warp influences reality, and that's why Oks thinking red is a fast colour makes their red vehicles go faster. And believing in Scientology might make Tom Cruise actually have the powers he thinks he has.

And to tie this back to the subject of cinema, in many ways the ultimate evolution of the Fast & Furious franchise is just a film about Orks.

I never thought about it like this, but does this mean that Discworld exists in the Warhams universe?

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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mycot posted:

Why is there a dick and balls shot of a dog

It's metaphorical for toxic masculinity, bro

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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Neo Rasa posted:

I saw Cruella and it notably ends on the note of her NOT skinning some dalmations to make a coat though this is teased and hinted at throughout the movie. With her giving the two main dalmations to the friends she made a long the way, and her basically being good at the end. And she doesn't even hate dalmations or dogs in particular or anything like that, even having a pet dog throughout the flick. So it just felt like totally disconnected from the first movie, which is fine, but it's the way they try to have her be misunderstood/actually good but still bad and a villain at the same time never lands. Like others have said it just feels bloated and with too many cooks in the kitchen.

Got to save something for the sequel, I guess.

Like, come on. You really believe this wont have a sequel?

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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CelticPredator posted:

Twinkies now with Toothpaste filling

I mean, at least it would be good for one part of your body.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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I have only checked out Gaston's song from that movie and was completely underwhelmed by it's lack of energy. I like Evans in theory but Hollywood needs to stop making him the main guy.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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Alan Smithee posted:

Chill but not insane divas like Americans


Russel Crowe just calmly but drunkenly beating up a dude over there.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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Ghost Leviathan posted:

Joke may be he's originally from New Zealand

I wish, that was just plain ignorance on my part.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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Ghost Leviathan posted:

A lot longer than that. Thomas the Tank Engine anybody?

Ship of Theseus: "Don't worry, friend Theseus! I will carry us safely through this storm. Oooops, lost my mast."

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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Antifa Turkeesian posted:

It's acceptable if someone stops him mid-delivery to explain that there are two in each package because toasters traditionally have an even number of slots and pop tarts are meant to be placed in the toaster.

It's also acceptable if someone stops him to say they don't want to listen to a grooming creep.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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Tars Tarkas posted:

This concept art from an unproduced figure appeared and then it sort of took a life of its own



https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Dracula

There was also concept art of The Creature and The Fly

It looks like Batula gives two thumbs up while flying :3:

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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Vegetable posted:

I've got a tiny bit of the phobia of holey stuff and boy that thing is hosed up

Freud scribbling furiously in his grave.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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ONE YEAR LATER posted:

The final reveal is that it's actually a game of dnd being played and Vin Diesel is the DM behind the cardboard screen with the cool dragon painted on it.

One member of the party is Dame Judi Dench still trying to learn the game since he first told her about it on the set of Riddick: Chronicles of Riddick.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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For some reason I thought Space Jam 2 had already come and gone. Like, there are movies you read about and suddenly you go "Wait, that came out already?" Space Jam 2 is exactly that kind of movie.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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Alan Smithee posted:

used to be star wars

and now he owns both

Batman too. Snyder is a jock taking all your toys away.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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Sorry, this has only Dwayne Johnson it it. It says right there on the poster.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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Tomorrow War sounds like they took the worst excesses of the Terminator franchise and made a movie about them.

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Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

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Gatts posted:

"...we fight them in Russia in the winter....then make our last stand in Afghanistan."

This is the SS's answer to everything.

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