GustavFriend of GoatsSomewhere in the OzarksRegistered Userregular
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Heavy Metal has some sequences I enjoy. But the whole thing looks like someone glanced at some Moebius and Corben comics and then looked a the edgy bootleg art on some fireworks and decided to lean into the latter.
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I used to have these friends who were into heavy metal and whenever I drank or smoked with them we'd be like "hey man hook me up with some of that plutonium nyborg"
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GustavFriend of GoatsSomewhere in the OzarksRegistered Userregular
edited March 2017
Now Heavy Metal 2000? That was the result of someone who enjoys playing pocket pool in public seeing Titan AE.
Writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, speaking to ComicBook.com:
[Zombieland 2] is in active development. We're trying to get it going. All of our cast have read the script and love it. Ruben [Fleischer] is signed on. It's just a matter of making our cast deals and making it for a budget number...We see [Sony chairman] Tom Rothman pretty frequently now and we're pestering that dude. We're not letting it go. We really want to see Zombieland 2.
I still can't think of a better fit for Cable than Stephen Lang. (Believe me, I've tried.) He just...has the look, you know? I'm not sure if he could pull it off...but man, does he have that Cable look locked and ready to go.
Just saw Life, was pretty dissapointing to be honest. It was fine and enjoyable in parts, but overall felt really lacklustre. Lots of clunky lines and dumb decisions, with no surprises or anything really to recommend about it.
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the monster itself was ok, but again it just felt like "pretty flower" style CG tentacles and I'm so sick of CG tentacles. It also seemed like it was going to keep growing into some terrifying beast, but kind of just stopped at about medium size? Like I was "oh so that's it?"
The ending was dumb. The whole film they're going on about quarantine and yet they keep doing dumb shit (my super safe firewall idea doesn't account for the Japanese guy opening the airlock door from the other side? Etc) and then finally they have a good, sensible plan, and the film just arbitrarily punishes them for it. It was a tone shift that felt completely unearned.
I was just like "oh ok whatever" when it's revealed the pods were switched in editing. Which is something I hate when directors do, it's not clever or shocking or misdirection, it's just dumb. In a better, darker film it could have been an interesting ending, but it just felt pointless and weird in this one.
The film kept drawing attention to quarantine protocols and whatnot but not a single person was really all that alarmed at an organism growing that fast.
Also why did thy not have a tracker on the pods and blow them out of the sky with missiles if they were so worried about quarantine
I was hoping that like midway through the film the creature got to earth and we saw that. Cos that would've been unexpected and at least different enough to make the film standout.
Also the creature uses a tool to escape, but then never uses any objects again right? Like I was thinking, oh cool it's going to be super smart but they just dropped that angle. I'm pretty sure it disabling communications and such was just it drinking the coolant from the computers. It was implied to be super smart and adaptive early on but they kind of never capitalised on that
Overall it was one of those films where I couldn't ignore all the little inconsistencies and bits of dumbness because there wasn't really much else interesting to focus on, so by the end it had died a death by a thousand cuts kind of thing and I was just ready for it to be over
For context Alien is one of my all time favourite movies and pretty much anything in the genre interests me.
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Writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, speaking to ComicBook.com:
[Zombieland 2] is in active development. We're trying to get it going. All of our cast have read the script and love it. Ruben [Fleischer] is signed on. It's just a matter of making our cast deals and making it for a budget number...We see [Sony chairman] Tom Rothman pretty frequently now and we're pestering that dude. We're not letting it go. We really want to see Zombieland 2.
This is five years to late for me to care. Do they give any of the cast?
Writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, speaking to ComicBook.com:
[Zombieland 2] is in active development. We're trying to get it going. All of our cast have read the script and love it. Ruben [Fleischer] is signed on. It's just a matter of making our cast deals and making it for a budget number...We see [Sony chairman] Tom Rothman pretty frequently now and we're pestering that dude. We're not letting it go. We really want to see Zombieland 2.
This is five years to late for me to care. Do they give any of the cast?
Assumption is all four original stars will be back, and they wouldn't be as excited to do a sequel if any were hesitant
Not counting Rifftrax events, here's a complete list of movies that I've watched that have come out in theaters since 2015.
2015:
Shaun the Sheep Movie Mr. Holmes
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Ant-Man
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F'
The Intern
The Peanuts Movie
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2016: Only Yesterday
Zootopia
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Warcraft My Best Friend's Wedding
Miss Hokusai
Doctor Strange
Moana
Rogue One
Well, what one of them looked like. They tend to vary a lot depending on the layout of the building. The one pictured there has been demolished for years.
this is making me flash back to 2015
where i watched over 700 different movies just to win a bet that had no prize
Heavy Metal has some sequences I enjoy. But the whole thing looks like someone glanced at some Moebius and Corben comics and then looked a the edgy bootleg art on some fireworks and decided to lean into the latter.
I saw Heavy Metal when I was 10? again when I was 16 and again when I was 24
Each time it was a different movie to me
I still can't think of a better fit for Cable than Stephen Lang. (Believe me, I've tried.) He just...has the look, you know? I'm not sure if he could pull it off...but man, does he have that Cable look locked and ready to go.
stephen lang has the precise look of Cable and also a sour demeanor but I will say that Michael Shannon could probably bounce off of Ryan Reynolds better. I think Lang is too naturally charismatic and wry.
One thing popular culture had not told me about the Godfather 3: The incest. And not just the incest, but the fact that everyone in the movie except Michael Corleone is cool about it. Also everyone treats him like he's crazy for being like "Hey maybe don't fuck your cousin."
I was just like, "Seriously, we as a culture just let this one go? We're just decided to not talk about this?"
I mean, all I know about The Godfather part 3 is that it's "the bad one"
You should watch it.
It's not bad at all. It's just not as good as the first two.
I wish There and Back Again had been mediocre instead of a trashfire.
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One of these days I'll have to sit down and just edit all three Hobbit films into something more manageable/entertaining.
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One of these days I'll have to sit down and just edit all three Hobbit films into something more manageable/entertaining.
Oh, so Rankin and Bass?
I said I wanted mediocre, not trash fire.
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He's not my first choice, but I wouldn't complain.
good lord, the cast alone!
seeing that in theaters rocked fifteen year old me's world
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The ending was dumb. The whole film they're going on about quarantine and yet they keep doing dumb shit (my super safe firewall idea doesn't account for the Japanese guy opening the airlock door from the other side? Etc) and then finally they have a good, sensible plan, and the film just arbitrarily punishes them for it. It was a tone shift that felt completely unearned.
I was just like "oh ok whatever" when it's revealed the pods were switched in editing. Which is something I hate when directors do, it's not clever or shocking or misdirection, it's just dumb. In a better, darker film it could have been an interesting ending, but it just felt pointless and weird in this one.
The film kept drawing attention to quarantine protocols and whatnot but not a single person was really all that alarmed at an organism growing that fast.
Also why did thy not have a tracker on the pods and blow them out of the sky with missiles if they were so worried about quarantine
I was hoping that like midway through the film the creature got to earth and we saw that. Cos that would've been unexpected and at least different enough to make the film standout.
Also the creature uses a tool to escape, but then never uses any objects again right? Like I was thinking, oh cool it's going to be super smart but they just dropped that angle. I'm pretty sure it disabling communications and such was just it drinking the coolant from the computers. It was implied to be super smart and adaptive early on but they kind of never capitalised on that
Overall it was one of those films where I couldn't ignore all the little inconsistencies and bits of dumbness because there wasn't really much else interesting to focus on, so by the end it had died a death by a thousand cuts kind of thing and I was just ready for it to be over
For context Alien is one of my all time favourite movies and pretty much anything in the genre interests me.
I'm actually shocked that it was in theaters.
Thinking back on this, yeah my haven't seen list is basically genres that don't entice me or hold my attention at all.
So almost no westerns, nearly any sport films, and absolutely no huge monster/robot films.
This is five years to late for me to care. Do they give any of the cast?
Assumption is all four original stars will be back, and they wouldn't be as excited to do a sequel if any were hesitant
Steam
Which makes about 20% of the conversations in this thread fun, let me tell you.
this is making me flash back to 2015
where i watched over 700 different movies just to win a bet that had no prize
I saw Heavy Metal when I was 10? again when I was 16 and again when I was 24
Each time it was a different movie to me
I agree
I thought it would be more like what I saw with the Original Heavy Metal
stephen lang has the precise look of Cable and also a sour demeanor but I will say that Michael Shannon could probably bounce off of Ryan Reynolds better. I think Lang is too naturally charismatic and wry.
All of them.
All of them.
Steam
I love wizards and sorcerers and shit like that
Romcoms?
@Solar, you and me both there buddy.
Give me this
And some of that
You should watch it.
It's not bad at all. It's just not as good as the first two.
Oh, so Rankin and Bass?
Counterpoint: its super enjoyable and more fun than the LoTR trilogy
that movie is so so so so so good.
the smaug scene alone is waaaaaaay better than anything the new movies did.
I said I wanted mediocre, not trash fire.
Them's fighting words.