It is Genesis game good. It just has so many nice little throwbacks to that era of X-men without being blatant about it. I mean one of the characters is almost an exact replica of the toy I had of that character and it doesn't look silly. it doesn't pander to nostalgia. It's done in a quick way for folks who will get it without making it jarring for the audience members who don't know what's going down.
Although my friend who only knows the movies was a little confused by the final scene but still enjoyed it.
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Except the Genesis game had no concept of a hitbox. Coupling that with erratic character movement and enemies that were too fast to track, the game played like everything killed you and moved at twice the speed it was supposed to.
Also my Genesis was broken, so I never beat it, because I couldn't reset the computer to stop the bomb.
That game was garbage, I'm sorry.
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The reset trick was amazing because I never expected a game to actually want me to do that, that it was all a trick Mojo was playing to make me lose my progress. And then you actually hit reset after arguing with your friend about whether you should do it or not and then whoaaaa, it was serious about it.
And all I know is if you used Cyclops and Nightcrawler you were super swick, if you used those losers Gambit and Wolverine they probably died all the time.
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The Do-Over (Netflix exclusive!!!!!!!!!!) is just another one of those average comedy movies, the only difference here being it's an R movie. It's got some laughs because of that, but it's 20 minutes too long and has the weirdest editing of any recent movie I've seen since.....Special Correspondents, another Netflix movie (though Do-Over is better by miles which is saying something).
The trailers made it look like something else, an FBI Zohan getting his old high school buddy to fake their deaths and then they have wacky adventures, but it's weirder than that, and at the beginning it's just plodding on and sweeping shots of Puerto Rico and living the Georgia high life before you get to ptew ptews and Paula Patton, all the while you're wondering WTF with this story because it's not clicking at all. It finally does make sense, twenty mionutes before the end of a 2 hour comedy, but it doesn't excuse everything leading up to it. Lots of it feels like forced scenes for tax credits showing the lush beautiful locations you can visit in Georgia, and I know I already wrote this but the editing is just bad, badly filmed shots are accompanied by a lot of weak country music stuff or whatever is country music these days. Even the credits used is weird, this dark red color used on small, obscurely placed condensed fonts makes it hard to read, I know this might read as nitpicking but it's more a lack of completing the most mundane things a film needs to do.
Sandler and Spade are bland but not bad here, you can tell Sandler's just now in his comedic equivalent of Liam Neeson's tough guy phase and resorting to harsher jokes which actually works better for him, Paula Patton Oswalt is just a generic character who doesn't have much to work with and there's no scenes like that BMW entrance in MI4 where you go "nice", Kathryn Hahn has a nice appearance here as well as Natasha Leggero being terrible wife to Spade (but is poorly underused), and then there's The Shield for two minutes and Dan Patrick as always.
It's a movie made to simply get a C in class, if that, but every now and then it slips up and gives you a 7/10 joke or does some legit grossout comedy (the worst kind of rude titties near the end be warned, ie they are not rude titties so much as lewd titties #scoreboard). So if you just need something to watch this weekend and have already seen some other movies, it's worth a watch I guess.
I do question Netflix's quality control when it comes to their films, whether they just put out what's given to them simply because they need it to hit the service or if they would look at something and tell the producers to clean this shit up or give back some of their money. Ridiculous 6 at least tried to be presented as a "real" movie yet still had editing flaws while Crouching Tiger 2, Special Correspondents, and The Do-Over all feel like they were put together by interns with total lack of concern or respect for getting it done properly. I'm reminded of the Seinfeld standup joke about the Library being the nerdy kid who would give out his toys to people just so they would like him even though the kids knew they could treat him like crap. But anyway yeah back on track, drink pineapple juice and play the Genesis X-Men game because Power Rangers.
What are some recent movies that have had the Hansel and Gretel seal?
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Took my daughter (who is an X-Men fanatic) to see Apocalypse. It was much better than I expected. Not as good as DoFP, but still great.
My daughter squealed when a certain scene toward the end happened, and I admit, I got a bit squealish too.
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Scott and Jean get a lot of screen time, and while I was worried I wouldn't like them in the roles, I was pleasently surprised at how much I enjoyed them.
Someone on reddit posted this about X-Men Apocalypse:
That was a really good movie that someone said "this is a good movie, lets fucking ruin it with a bunch of super cheesy, cliche, bullshit dialogue and emotions"
I agree with them. I didn't hate it like Batman vs. Superman. In fact, I was rooting for it cause the first 2 were good and this had some interesting ideas. But I want to slap the shit out of Simon Kinberg for writing such bad dialogue. And then when he's had enough, Bryan Singer can film a closeup of a tear running down his cheek, because that's a thing he's trying to bring back.
Someone on reddit posted this about X-Men Apocalypse:
That was a really good movie that someone said "this is a good movie, lets fucking ruin it with a bunch of super cheesy, cliche, bullshit dialogue and emotions"
I agree with them. I didn't hate it like Batman vs. Superman. In fact, I was rooting for it cause the first 2 were good and this had some interesting ideas. But I want to slap the shit out of Simon Kinberg for writing such bad dialogue. And then when he's had enough, Bryan Singer can film a closeup of a tear running down his cheek, because that's a thing he's trying to bring back.
There were like at least four of those fucking tear shots.
The review on birth.movies.death haaaaaated Apocalypse, but then they also said there had never been a good X-Men movie, sooo...
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The review on birth.movies.death haaaaaated Apocalypse, but then they also said there had never been a good X-Men movie, sooo...
Also, they thought birth.movies.death would be a good name.
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I think I've said this before, but it's a great name for the (really well produced) Alamo Drafthouse monthly print magazine that you can get at their theaters and a pretty poor name for an internet blog. (But maybe I shouldn't be throwing stones on that one.)
It was... good? I think I respected it more than I liked it. It had a very specific vision, and i think it pulled off exactly what it was trying to do, I'm just not sure that a hyper-realistic portrait of colonial Super Christians being stalked by an evil goat is necessarily something to enjoy.
But craft-wise, everything was top notch. Great performances, moody as shit, and the last fifteen minutes was damned good. I'm eager to see what this director does next.
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What are some recent movies that have had the Hansel and Gretel seal?
I give that seal to Pride & Prejudice and Zombies.
My wife and I saw it on Valentines Day. She thought she was making a big sacrifice like when we went to Abe Lincoln Vampire Hunter, but she had as much fun as I did.
The review on birth.movies.death haaaaaated Apocalypse, but then they also said there had never been a good X-Men movie, sooo...
I'll have to read their review, but in general I have to say I agree with them. There have been fun X-Men movies, and several of them have very good scenes, but they're all compromised in one way or another and have whole stretches that are mediocre at best. E.g. I've told people that First Class was a really good movie, but when thinking about it I'd have to say that it's mainly the first third or so and especially the scenes with Magneto hunting Nazis that are good, the rest is simply okay. I'd more or less say that the best X-Men movies are only a little better on the whole than the worst MCU films.
On a different note, we're currently in the process of rewatching a bunch of films that were done in Jordan, since we were there recently. Last week was Last Crusade (<3 Petra), this week was The Martian, a film that still holds up tremendously well. I think the main reason it does is that its tone is pitch perfect for the story it's telling. It's never weighed down by trying to be serious business, and as is so often the case, I find it easier to take the drama that's there seriously if it isn't constantly telling me how serious it is. (IMO this is also a key difference between the MCU movies and the DC movies.)
But damn if poor Mark Watney doesn't keep driving past the same mountain (AKA the Seven Pillars of Wisdom):
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I think the first two X-Men movies are really good, and better and more interesting than most of Marvel's output. The rest I'll agree on, though (having not seen the new one yet).
I'll grant that I'm probably unfair to the second one, but I don't think the first one holds up particularly well. It's got some great actors, but so many of the characters are nothingy (if I remember correctly - it's been many, many years since I've seen the film). What is it you like so much about the first X-Men movie, Astaereth?
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It was... good? I think I respected it more than I liked it. It had a very specific vision, and i think it pulled off exactly what it was trying to do, I'm just not sure that a hyper-realistic portrait of colonial Super Christians being stalked by an evil goat is necessarily something to enjoy.
But craft-wise, everything was top notch. Great performances, moody as shit, and the last fifteen minutes was damned good. I'm eager to see what this director does next.
I think that's basically how I feel about it. I really, really appreciate & admire it. Every aspect of the movie is expertly crafted. It did an excellent job of setting mood & tone, and eliciting emotions.
It's just that all the mood, tone, and emotions are unpleasant, so it's difficult to say I "enjoyed" the movie.
It's just that all the mood, tone, and emotions are unpleasant, so it's difficult to say I "enjoyed" the movie.
I agree with this until those last 15 minutes. Then it became "This is awesome. I'm so glad it ended that way!"
I also appreciate that
they weren't interested in making you guess if the supernatural stuff is real. At the very beginning, we get that question out of the way. Also, horror movie without jump scares = .
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Ending of The Witch
I thought it would have been stronger if she just had followed Black Phillip/The devil into the forest. Meeting the coven of witches who were doing advanced Magic was a bit too much for my taste. But an excellent movie, those creepy twins...
Someone on reddit posted this about X-Men Apocalypse:
That was a really good movie that someone said "this is a good movie, lets fucking ruin it with a bunch of super cheesy, cliche, bullshit dialogue and emotions"
I agree with them. I didn't hate it like Batman vs. Superman. In fact, I was rooting for it cause the first 2 were good and this had some interesting ideas. But I want to slap the shit out of Simon Kinberg for writing such bad dialogue. And then when he's had enough, Bryan Singer can film a closeup of a tear running down his cheek, because that's a thing he's trying to bring back.
I slept on it and woke up and remembered that almost all the dialog was clunky and stupid. Something about the writing really dragged this movie down. Definitely not as good as the first two in this series.
Oscar Isaac was magical as usual though and there were some neat scenes. I loved the Egyptian opening.
I thought it would have been stronger if she just had followed Black Phillip/The devil into the forest. Meeting the coven of witches who were doing advanced Magic was a bit too much for my taste. But an excellent movie, those creepy twins...
They had me up through Tomasina meeting the coven, but I think they should've cut it before everyone started flying.
I get what they were going after, showing Tomasina ecstatic with this new power, but I think they could've gotten that across without going all Occult Mary Poppins.
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I thought it would have been stronger if she just had followed Black Phillip/The devil into the forest. Meeting the coven of witches who were doing advanced Magic was a bit too much for my taste. But an excellent movie, those creepy twins...
They had me up through Tomasina meeting the coven, but I think they should've cut it before everyone started flying.
I get what they were going after, showing Tomasina ecstatic with this new power, but I think they could've gotten that across without going all Occult Mary Poppins.
I think the point of the film was to tell this folktale from the POV of the time period, so for me that worked okay
witches can fly
how else do you know they are witches?
otherwise they're just, like, swamp hags or crones or something
dang, jeffe, learn your paranormal taxonomy
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I thought it would have been stronger if she just had followed Black Phillip/The devil into the forest. Meeting the coven of witches who were doing advanced Magic was a bit too much for my taste. But an excellent movie, those creepy twins...
They had me up through Tomasina meeting the coven, but I think they should've cut it before everyone started flying.
I get what they were going after, showing Tomasina ecstatic with this new power, but I think they could've gotten that across without going all Occult Mary Poppins.
I think the point of the film was to tell this folktale from the POV of the time period, so for me that worked okay
witches can fly
how else do you know they are witches?
otherwise they're just, like, swamp hags or crones or something
Calling it now: someone is going to re-make the movie into a "dark and gritty" mess, where she's actually on the run and persecuted for her magic. Maybe Tim Burton, with Johnny Depp in Dick Van Dyke's role.
Calling it now: someone is going to re-make the movie into a "dark and gritty" mess, where she's actually on the run and persecuted for her magic. Maybe Tim Burton, with Johnny Depp in Dick Van Dyke's role.
I think the author's estate still exerts control over the rights to Marry Poppins so I'm gonna go with "no way".
TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
Will post a better review but X-Men Apocalypse was great, the best comic to screen adaptation of a comic series since Spider-Man 2, and the ending filled me with Paddington levels of joy and unbridled kid enthusiasm.
Plus Quicksilver has the best scene of the year so far.
Will post a better review but X-Men Apocalypse was great, the best comic to screen adaptation of a comic series since Spider-Man 2, and the ending filled me with Paddington levels of joy and unbridled kid enthusiasm.
Plus Quicksilver has the best scene of the year so far.
Will post a better review but X-Men Apocalypse was great, the best comic to screen adaptation of a comic series since Spider-Man 2, and the ending filled me with Paddington levels of joy and unbridled kid enthusiasm.
Plus Quicksilver has the best scene of the year so far.
Calling it now: someone is going to re-make the movie into a "dark and gritty" mess, where she's actually on the run and persecuted for her magic. Maybe Tim Burton, with Johnny Depp in Dick Van Dyke's role.
Wouldn't you rather have the dark PG-13 prequel with amazing amounts of CGI that the movie company pulled out of its rear end?
The first X-Men movie did not age well, but I give it a pass since it was one of the first comic book movies to rebirth the genre after that dark, dark era of the 90's Batman movies. (I'm not sure if Blade came out before or after)
The first X-Men movie did not age well, but I give it a pass since it was one of the first comic book movies to rebirth the genre after that dark, dark era of the 90's Batman movies. (I'm not sure if Blade came out before or after)
Blade was before, it filmed in 97, released in 98, with the first Singer X-Men landing in 2000.
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Will post a better review but X-Men Apocalypse was great, the best comic to screen adaptation of a comic series since Spider-Man 2, and the ending filled me with Paddington levels of joy and unbridled kid enthusiasm.
Plus Quicksilver has the best scene of the year so far.
Fuck the movie critic haters.
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It is Genesis game good. It just has so many nice little throwbacks to that era of X-men without being blatant about it. I mean one of the characters is almost an exact replica of the toy I had of that character and it doesn't look silly. it doesn't pander to nostalgia. It's done in a quick way for folks who will get it without making it jarring for the audience members who don't know what's going down.
Although my friend who only knows the movies was a little confused by the final scene but still enjoyed it.
Except the Genesis game had no concept of a hitbox. Coupling that with erratic character movement and enemies that were too fast to track, the game played like everything killed you and moved at twice the speed it was supposed to.
Also my Genesis was broken, so I never beat it, because I couldn't reset the computer to stop the bomb.
That game was garbage, I'm sorry.
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And all I know is if you used Cyclops and Nightcrawler you were super swick, if you used those losers Gambit and Wolverine they probably died all the time.
Care to elaborate?
Just like my low opinion of Wolverine was raised substantially by Hugh Jackman.
The trailers made it look like something else, an FBI Zohan getting his old high school buddy to fake their deaths and then they have wacky adventures, but it's weirder than that, and at the beginning it's just plodding on and sweeping shots of Puerto Rico and living the Georgia high life before you get to ptew ptews and Paula Patton, all the while you're wondering WTF with this story because it's not clicking at all. It finally does make sense, twenty mionutes before the end of a 2 hour comedy, but it doesn't excuse everything leading up to it. Lots of it feels like forced scenes for tax credits showing the lush beautiful locations you can visit in Georgia, and I know I already wrote this but the editing is just bad, badly filmed shots are accompanied by a lot of weak country music stuff or whatever is country music these days. Even the credits used is weird, this dark red color used on small, obscurely placed condensed fonts makes it hard to read, I know this might read as nitpicking but it's more a lack of completing the most mundane things a film needs to do.
Sandler and Spade are bland but not bad here, you can tell Sandler's just now in his comedic equivalent of Liam Neeson's tough guy phase and resorting to harsher jokes which actually works better for him, Paula Patton Oswalt is just a generic character who doesn't have much to work with and there's no scenes like that BMW entrance in MI4 where you go "nice", Kathryn Hahn has a nice appearance here as well as Natasha Leggero being terrible wife to Spade (but is poorly underused), and then there's The Shield for two minutes and Dan Patrick as always.
It's a movie made to simply get a C in class, if that, but every now and then it slips up and gives you a 7/10 joke or does some legit grossout comedy (the worst kind of rude titties near the end be warned, ie they are not rude titties so much as lewd titties #scoreboard). So if you just need something to watch this weekend and have already seen some other movies, it's worth a watch I guess.
I do question Netflix's quality control when it comes to their films, whether they just put out what's given to them simply because they need it to hit the service or if they would look at something and tell the producers to clean this shit up or give back some of their money. Ridiculous 6 at least tried to be presented as a "real" movie yet still had editing flaws while Crouching Tiger 2, Special Correspondents, and The Do-Over all feel like they were put together by interns with total lack of concern or respect for getting it done properly. I'm reminded of the Seinfeld standup joke about the Library being the nerdy kid who would give out his toys to people just so they would like him even though the kids knew they could treat him like crap. But anyway yeah back on track, drink pineapple juice and play the Genesis X-Men game because Power Rangers.
My daughter squealed when a certain scene toward the end happened, and I admit, I got a bit squealish too.
Scott and Jean get a lot of screen time, and while I was worried I wouldn't like them in the roles, I was pleasently surprised at how much I enjoyed them.
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I agree with them. I didn't hate it like Batman vs. Superman. In fact, I was rooting for it cause the first 2 were good and this had some interesting ideas. But I want to slap the shit out of Simon Kinberg for writing such bad dialogue. And then when he's had enough, Bryan Singer can film a closeup of a tear running down his cheek, because that's a thing he's trying to bring back.
There were like at least four of those fucking tear shots.
Man come on Singer.
Also, they thought birth.movies.death would be a good name.
It was... good? I think I respected it more than I liked it. It had a very specific vision, and i think it pulled off exactly what it was trying to do, I'm just not sure that a hyper-realistic portrait of colonial Super Christians being stalked by an evil goat is necessarily something to enjoy.
But craft-wise, everything was top notch. Great performances, moody as shit, and the last fifteen minutes was damned good. I'm eager to see what this director does next.
I give that seal to Pride & Prejudice and Zombies.
My wife and I saw it on Valentines Day. She thought she was making a big sacrifice like when we went to Abe Lincoln Vampire Hunter, but she had as much fun as I did.
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On a different note, we're currently in the process of rewatching a bunch of films that were done in Jordan, since we were there recently. Last week was Last Crusade (<3 Petra), this week was The Martian, a film that still holds up tremendously well. I think the main reason it does is that its tone is pitch perfect for the story it's telling. It's never weighed down by trying to be serious business, and as is so often the case, I find it easier to take the drama that's there seriously if it isn't constantly telling me how serious it is. (IMO this is also a key difference between the MCU movies and the DC movies.)
But damn if poor Mark Watney doesn't keep driving past the same mountain (AKA the Seven Pillars of Wisdom):
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
This quote needs to be on The VVitch dvd/blu-rays.
it's the subject of my next article
I think that's basically how I feel about it. I really, really appreciate & admire it. Every aspect of the movie is expertly crafted. It did an excellent job of setting mood & tone, and eliciting emotions.
It's just that all the mood, tone, and emotions are unpleasant, so it's difficult to say I "enjoyed" the movie.
I agree with this until those last 15 minutes. Then it became "This is awesome. I'm so glad it ended that way!"
I also appreciate that
I slept on it and woke up and remembered that almost all the dialog was clunky and stupid. Something about the writing really dragged this movie down. Definitely not as good as the first two in this series.
Oscar Isaac was magical as usual though and there were some neat scenes. I loved the Egyptian opening.
I get what they were going after, showing Tomasina ecstatic with this new power, but I think they could've gotten that across without going all Occult Mary Poppins.
I think the point of the film was to tell this folktale from the POV of the time period, so for me that worked okay
witches can fly
how else do you know they are witches?
otherwise they're just, like, swamp hags or crones or something
dang, jeffe, learn your paranormal taxonomy
Tobin's Spirit Guide.
Came as a giant sloar.
Calling it now: someone is going to re-make the movie into a "dark and gritty" mess, where she's actually on the run and persecuted for her magic. Maybe Tim Burton, with Johnny Depp in Dick Van Dyke's role.
I think the author's estate still exerts control over the rights to Marry Poppins so I'm gonna go with "no way".
Plus Quicksilver has the best scene of the year so far.
Fuck the movie critic haters.
wow
much disagreement here!
interesting
Quicksilver is always the best tho I agree
How do you feel about The Mighty Ducks 2 though?
Wouldn't you rather have the dark PG-13 prequel with amazing amounts of CGI that the movie company pulled out of its rear end?
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Blade was before, it filmed in 97, released in 98, with the first Singer X-Men landing in 2000.
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(Well minus the spider-man thing. but i don't have any thoughts on that movie)