TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
edited September 2016
The Magnificent Seven '16, good movie, 5 out of 7 magnificents, but it's not as good as Olympus Has Fallen or The Equalizer. Largely because that first thirty minutes is a chore to get through, which makes this the second best western movie featuring Byung-Hyun Lee.
Like The Good, The Bad, The Weird, there's enough changed here overall in terms of setting and characters that it's not a true remake outside of 7 vs. 100. No mexican sonsofbitches raiding a town, this time it's a so cartoonishly evil John Galt Andrew Ryan knockoff robber baron (that isn't played well by Peter Skaarsgard). The Seven themselves are good throughout, Ethan Hawke being the standout I thought since he has an arc (Pratt is better here than Jurassic World but he never seems to own the joker/trickster role and is sort of whatever the scene calls for compared to others knowing their role). The humor mostly hits, often coming in the less "this is the comedy part" scenes used to separate the various ptew ptews. And the PG-13 didn't really seem to be a problem at all, it seems you can show arrows hitting people all the live long day and people can be shown being shot as long as their shirts were already dirty.
The best part is the last hour with the shooting and the planning and the more shooting, but it does fall into the usual setup these films usually have of drawing out the situation with an unseen obstacle (the trailer gave it away), only because it's done to try and fill the lack of any real character building. And that's the thing, I don't care about the lack of characterization because not all movies need it, you get who they are through their banter and it works well for this type of movie (I actually enjoyed how there was no conflict between anyone like anti-indian/chinese or civil war sides, etc, it's mentioned but not an obstacle to working together). But in order to feel like a real film, it has to have that hero/villain standoff while it hits you over the head with "he's good, he's bad, do you understand? Here, to show you again, he's good, he's bad, understand now?"
It's a good movie, I am literally referenced in the movie for a scene, and don't regret seeing it in the theater but it's better suited for watching as a rental or on Starz, as you can really just go do whatever you want for the first 30 minutes.
I am literally referenced in the movie for a scene,
Haha! That's right. I didn't even think about it until you mentioned it.
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knitdanIn ur baseKillin ur guysRegistered Userregular
Today's haul at the Barnes & Noble movie section:
Blazing Saddles
Silver Streak
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
I really love the b&n movie section. They always have interesting stuff, like British tv shows that aren't Dr who, and tons of criterion collection films.
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Chris Pratt turns to the camera and says "this is for my friend TexiKen on the PA forums"
It sounds weird but it makes sense in the scene
Not as far-fetched as it'd seem.
Several forum shoutouts exist in Mass Effect 3.
No matter where you go...there you are. ~ Buckaroo Banzai
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Watched The Free State of Jones the other night. It feels like they had a hard time deciding what the film was going to be about. The "free state of Jones" plot is over and done with well before the time you'd expect a film's climax to happen, but maybe that's ok because there isn't really a climax I can point to. There's an entire subplot about his great-grandson that actually spoils the story from the earlier time period.
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ShadowfireVermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered Userregular
Chris Pratt turns to the camera and says "this is for my friend TexiKen on the PA forums"
It sounds weird but it makes sense in the scene
Not as far-fetched as it'd seem.
Several forum shoutouts exist in Mass Effect 3.
Wait, really?
I know a Bioware employee posted on the forum for quite a while, but I didn't know there were callouts in their games.
Yeah, I noticed them when I played through a couple weeks back, posted about em as a joke, like what a coincidence, right? And the ME3 thread confirmed they were intentional PA references.
Yo I'm watching The Last Winter. It's very good! I'm noticing a trend with Larry Fessenden related media...
that motherfucker is all about Wendigos, huh?
Oh brilliant
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Chris Pratt turns to the camera and says "this is for my friend TexiKen on the PA forums"
It sounds weird but it makes sense in the scene
Not as far-fetched as it'd seem.
Several forum shoutouts exist in Mass Effect 3.
Wait, really?
I know a Bioware employee posted on the forum for quite a while, but I didn't know there were callouts in their games.
Yeah, I noticed them when I played through a couple weeks back, posted about em as a joke, like what a coincidence, right? And the ME3 thread confirmed they were intentional PA references.
Mind posting a link? I'm just about to finally start that series. I'd just search, but well that seems like it would lead to some spoilers very quickly.
Oh don't be afraid its going to be bad, know full out that it will be.
And go to a theater that serves booze.
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
Masterminds is a movie they've been sitting on for nearly two years, some of that time because the production company went bankrupt. I remember seeing trailers for it last year and wondered if it was so bad they were going to quietly do a VOD dump.
The body count for that movie was ridiculously high. In Olympus has fallen, Secret Service dude had to kill maybe 15 North Koreans to save the President. In London, he had to kill, like 50 goons each armed with grenades and assault weapons. Less is more, movie franchise.
I have to say; when i watched it i was all "where are all these goons coming from"?
RhalloTonnyOf the BrownlandsRegistered Userregular
edited September 2016
So ARQ was...lower budget. And lower other things.
The world-building really hit you over the head, which kind of defeats the point of subtle background world-building. And there's some real clunky relationship dialog littered about.
It's not terrible or anything, but when the similarities to Edge of Tomorrow are that close and the differences* (which are a legitimately novel idea on the conceit) aren't explored to their fullest, it just comes off as disappointing/feels like there's a missing 3rd act somewhere.
Also if you're cribbing another recent near-future Tom Cruise sci-fi time travel movie's hook, maybe it's best to not cast a guy that kinda looks like Tom Cruise and a lady that kinda acts like Nicole Kidman
*Differences/spoilers
Edge of Tomorrow Multiplayer? Sounds great! Too bad it spends most of the time in single player or co-op. And ends right as it actually gets interesting.
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
While gathering the group Ethan Hawke (a former confederate sharpshooter) is talking about how it's a merry band of people they got here here, blue and grey, a man from the orient, a drunk irishman, a woman, and a TexiKen (the mexican bandit guy). Then bandit guy says he's mexican and his grandfather fought at the Alamo and probably killed Hawke's grandfather who also fought at the Alamo.
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AtomikaLive fast and get fucked or whateverRegistered Userregular
In what seems like a pretty inevitable thing, following their success with The Jungle Book Disney and Jon Favreau are reteaming to make a live-action version of The Lion King.
For any of you out there that might care, this probably either makes your day or grinds your gears, accordingly. As someone not a fan of the latest Jungle Book nor The Lion King, I'm mostly ambivalent about this news.
Good day.
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ShadowfireVermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered Userregular
I mean, the Broadway musical was supposedly great, so maybe?
Amazing in the number of animals maimed or killed, perhaps.
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
Don't put wrong words into my sexy mouth, I wrote the Lion King knockoff would be a hella weak knockoff of Milo & Otis (and Homeward Bound), implying they are already great!
Yeah, I love both the Broadway and original Lion King, but I have hard time seeing how this works without a real person anchoring a bunch of talking animals.
The kid playing Mowgli was by far the best part of the live Jungle Book.
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MalReynoldsThe Hunter S Thompson of incredibly mild medicinesRegistered Userregular
Without a human there to be the live action anchor, it's gonna be some hella weak Milo & Otis or Homeward Bound knockoff.
Animation rules, live action drools.
Most of the live action adaptations have been super well received, though.
And I'm hella looking forward to Beauty and the Beast, aka Stockholm Syndrome But Cheery: The Movie
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Warcraft came out on iTunes so I watched it. Man, I feel like this movie was treated really harshly by the critics. It's a great adaptation and a really fun, exciting time. I'd recommend it.
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
The weird thing about Milo and Otis was that was my first time knowing who Dudley Moore was, so when I hear his voice in Arthur as a drunk guy as a kid I'm going "wait, what happened here."
The Comebacks (HBO), your usual low budget _______ Movie spoof film from the late 00's, only this time making fun of sports movies, and it actually wasn't that bad. It wasn't consistently funny but it had some good jokes with the sport films and it's always interesting to watch these films a decade removed and see in a cast full of B and C listers (including the son from Mrs. Doubtfire who was also in Super Human Samurai Syber Squad and wow he has not aged at all), and then see Bradley Cooper and Will Arnett.
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Dark Raven XLaugh hard, run fast,be kindRegistered Userregular
Warcraft came out on iTunes so I watched it. Man, I feel like this movie was treated really harshly by the critics. It's a great adaptation and a really fun, exciting time. I'd recommend it.
What if I know nothing about WoW or indeed original flavour Warcraft?
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Warcraft came out on iTunes so I watched it. Man, I feel like this movie was treated really harshly by the critics. It's a great adaptation and a really fun, exciting time. I'd recommend it.
What if I know nothing about WoW or indeed original flavour Warcraft?
It's a retelling of Warcraft 1, so you should be fine.
I had to run back to the floor at work today and I saw Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead on Blu-Ray. 25th anniversary edition. Man, fuck I'm old, lol. Don't know if I'll buy it or not. It is pretty good, and the word game was excellent, but I don't know if I'd ever just pull it out to watch it.
Without a human there to be the live action anchor, it's gonna be some hella weak Milo & Otis or Homeward Bound knockoff.
Animation rules, live action drools.
Most of the live action adaptations have been super well received, though.
And I'm hella looking forward to Beauty and the Beast, aka Stockholm Syndrome But Cheery: The Movie
The live action films have had human people. There are no human people in Lion King, unless Simba is played by Actual Matthew Broderick, or they cast a human in monkeyface as Rafiki (which is incredibly offensive to monkeys in this day and age).
So yeah, basically this is somewhere between Milo and Otis (which, hahano) and a photorealistic animated movie (in which case, why bother?)
This annoys me because, as a huge fan of both the original and the musical, I am going to be obligated to watch this. And the absolute best case scenario is that I spend two hours wishing I was watching the original or the musical.
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Without a human there to be the live action anchor, it's gonna be some hella weak Milo & Otis or Homeward Bound knockoff.
Animation rules, live action drools.
Most of the live action adaptations have been super well received, though.
And I'm hella looking forward to Beauty and the Beast, aka Stockholm Syndrome But Cheery: The Movie
The live action films have had human people. There are no human people in Lion King, unless Simba is played by Actual Matthew Broderick, or they cast a human in monkeyface as Rafiki (which is incredibly offensive to monkeys in this day and age).
So yeah, basically this is somewhere between Milo and Otis (which, hahano) and a photorealistic animated movie (in which case, why bother?)
This annoys me because, as a huge fan of both the original and the musical, I am going to be obligated to watch this. And the absolute best case scenario is that I spend two hours wishing I was watching the original or the musical.
What if it's live action, but stylized? Less like Jungle Book, and more like the Broadway show, say?
Without a human there to be the live action anchor, it's gonna be some hella weak Milo & Otis or Homeward Bound knockoff.
Animation rules, live action drools.
Most of the live action adaptations have been super well received, though.
And I'm hella looking forward to Beauty and the Beast, aka Stockholm Syndrome But Cheery: The Movie
The live action films have had human people. There are no human people in Lion King, unless Simba is played by Actual Matthew Broderick, or they cast a human in monkeyface as Rafiki (which is incredibly offensive to monkeys in this day and age).
So yeah, basically this is somewhere between Milo and Otis (which, hahano) and a photorealistic animated movie (in which case, why bother?)
This annoys me because, as a huge fan of both the original and the musical, I am going to be obligated to watch this. And the absolute best case scenario is that I spend two hours wishing I was watching the original or the musical.
What if it's live action, but stylized? Less like Jungle Book, and more like the Broadway show, say?
Something that's computer-animated, but looks like moving sculptures and stuff, rather than cartoons?
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Like The Good, The Bad, The Weird, there's enough changed here overall in terms of setting and characters that it's not a true remake outside of 7 vs. 100. No mexican sonsofbitches raiding a town, this time it's a so cartoonishly evil John Galt Andrew Ryan knockoff robber baron (that isn't played well by Peter Skaarsgard). The Seven themselves are good throughout, Ethan Hawke being the standout I thought since he has an arc (Pratt is better here than Jurassic World but he never seems to own the joker/trickster role and is sort of whatever the scene calls for compared to others knowing their role). The humor mostly hits, often coming in the less "this is the comedy part" scenes used to separate the various ptew ptews. And the PG-13 didn't really seem to be a problem at all, it seems you can show arrows hitting people all the live long day and people can be shown being shot as long as their shirts were already dirty.
The best part is the last hour with the shooting and the planning and the more shooting, but it does fall into the usual setup these films usually have of drawing out the situation with an unseen obstacle (the trailer gave it away), only because it's done to try and fill the lack of any real character building. And that's the thing, I don't care about the lack of characterization because not all movies need it, you get who they are through their banter and it works well for this type of movie (I actually enjoyed how there was no conflict between anyone like anti-indian/chinese or civil war sides, etc, it's mentioned but not an obstacle to working together). But in order to feel like a real film, it has to have that hero/villain standoff while it hits you over the head with "he's good, he's bad, do you understand? Here, to show you again, he's good, he's bad, understand now?"
It's a good movie, I am literally referenced in the movie for a scene, and don't regret seeing it in the theater but it's better suited for watching as a rental or on Starz, as you can really just go do whatever you want for the first 30 minutes.
Blazing Saddles
Silver Streak
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
I really love the b&n movie section. They always have interesting stuff, like British tv shows that aren't Dr who, and tons of criterion collection films.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
What? Explain
It sounds weird but it makes sense in the scene
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Not as far-fetched as it'd seem.
Several forum shoutouts exist in Mass Effect 3.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Wait, really?
I know a Bioware employee posted on the forum for quite a while, but I didn't know there were callouts in their games.
And, like, Baldur's Gate 2.
And Dragon Age.
EDIT: Bioware forums, not necessarily PA forums, though.
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Yeah, I noticed them when I played through a couple weeks back, posted about em as a joke, like what a coincidence, right? And the ME3 thread confirmed they were intentional PA references.
Yo I'm watching The Last Winter. It's very good! I'm noticing a trend with Larry Fessenden related media...
A sign of distinction and taste.
Mind posting a link? I'm just about to finally start that series. I'd just search, but well that seems like it would lead to some spoilers very quickly.
(PM if it's considered super off topic)
Kind of afraid this is gonna be bad.
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And go to a theater that serves booze.
In the movie one of the characters refers to the mexican character as a Texiken.
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The world-building really hit you over the head, which kind of defeats the point of subtle background world-building. And there's some real clunky relationship dialog littered about.
It's not terrible or anything, but when the similarities to Edge of Tomorrow are that close and the differences* (which are a legitimately novel idea on the conceit) aren't explored to their fullest, it just comes off as disappointing/feels like there's a missing 3rd act somewhere.
Also if you're cribbing another recent near-future Tom Cruise sci-fi time travel movie's hook, maybe it's best to not cast a guy that kinda looks like Tom Cruise and a lady that kinda acts like Nicole Kidman
*Differences/spoilers
For any of you out there that might care, this probably either makes your day or grinds your gears, accordingly. As someone not a fan of the latest Jungle Book nor The Lion King, I'm mostly ambivalent about this news.
Good day.
I still think this is a really dumb move. Seriously? Stahp making live-action versions of your old movies, Disney!!
Animation rules, live action drools.
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The kid playing Mowgli was by far the best part of the live Jungle Book.
Most of the live action adaptations have been super well received, though.
And I'm hella looking forward to Beauty and the Beast, aka Stockholm Syndrome But Cheery: The Movie
"Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor
My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
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The Comebacks (HBO), your usual low budget _______ Movie spoof film from the late 00's, only this time making fun of sports movies, and it actually wasn't that bad. It wasn't consistently funny but it had some good jokes with the sport films and it's always interesting to watch these films a decade removed and see in a cast full of B and C listers (including the son from Mrs. Doubtfire who was also in Super Human Samurai Syber Squad and wow he has not aged at all), and then see Bradley Cooper and Will Arnett.
What if I know nothing about WoW or indeed original flavour Warcraft?
It's a retelling of Warcraft 1, so you should be fine.
The live action films have had human people. There are no human people in Lion King, unless Simba is played by Actual Matthew Broderick, or they cast a human in monkeyface as Rafiki (which is incredibly offensive to monkeys in this day and age).
So yeah, basically this is somewhere between Milo and Otis (which, hahano) and a photorealistic animated movie (in which case, why bother?)
This annoys me because, as a huge fan of both the original and the musical, I am going to be obligated to watch this. And the absolute best case scenario is that I spend two hours wishing I was watching the original or the musical.
What if it's live action, but stylized? Less like Jungle Book, and more like the Broadway show, say?
Something that's computer-animated, but looks like moving sculptures and stuff, rather than cartoons?
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Although Shere Khan had enough presence in this year's Jungle Book, so maybe they'll make Scar evil and petty enough.
If it doesn't have 'Hakuna Matata' I'm not sure you can even legally call it 'The Lion King'.
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