Man, that was really annoying, and five times longer than it needed to be for an introduction.
It's not an introduction so much as him explaining that one, Really That Bad is going to be a one off; and two, what exactly it took to make him feel like it was necessary in the first place.
Eh, still annoying. I got tired of the no punctuation fast-talking complex sentence structure schtick a while ago.
Anyways, I just got this lovely email from moviepass
Hi Jim,
Thanks for subscribing to MoviePass! Your personalized card has been ordered and should arrive in about 5 business days. Once your card arrives, log in to the MoviePass app and activate your card. You‘ll then be ready to check in at the theater and start seeing the movies you want. It’s that simple! If you've already received your card in the mail, feel free to disregard this email.
Thank you so much for your patience and support. We can’t wait to go to the movies with you!
Sincerely,
The MoviePass Team
PS - Have any questions while you wait? Check out our FAQ's here.
I ordered it on the 17th. Of August.
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
Assassin's Creed (HBO) was a bad movie that felt like it was plucked from 2001. Takes itself way too seriously for a movie about using muh DNA to trigger memories of turd sandwiches fighting giant douches.
Granted I haven't played any of the games but I know the general idea of ancestry to unlock something something, which allowed me to be a relative blank slate to judge the movie on the merits of being a movie, not a franchise. And from the odd as hell beginning of kid Magneto to him being "killed" and such a weak attempt to slow drip information in the first thirty minutes with a laughable through-line of being about getting rid of violence with something that is essentially the anti-life equation from DC Comics, I'm already looking for the exit. And it just never gets better from there on out.
A big problem I had was, when doing the flashbacks, the movie itself doesn't keep the perspective on Magneto, the guy doing this time travel. You can't cut away to show assassin helper doing her thing on the wagon chase 10 meters ahead because it simply isn't feasible if these are supposed to be an individual's memories. Plus it's all rather bland stuff, with the present day drab concrete setting of the building and the brown filter on the past, with dust errywhere, it all has that "take me seriously" motif about it that only the most emo among us can appreciate. I care about no one in the film because there's no one to care for even as they say the most generic things trying to sound so serious ("it's my life's work." / "it's my life."). Plus, when actually having to keep things intact for historical reasons because of real life figures, the character actions become flat out silly.
Fassbender is phoning it in like it's just a contract movie, Alfred does nothing but stare quietly and his daughter Talia is a bland character who simply is there to act surprised when exposition needs to be told to us or that what we're seeing is amazing because it's important being drift compatible and reaching super saiyan levels. And Omar's screentime is very Little (lolz nailed it). If we were treated to innovative or at least consistent action scenes there would be something to get from the film, yet it's all so meh that it's more like a lesser Lionsgate movie than something from Fox. Writing this out I realize the fault of the movie is trying to be a drama more than an action movie, and that is ultimately it's undoing because it fails at both.
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AstaerethIn the belly of the beastRegistered Userregular
Now you're revealing spoilers via character names in place of actor names? You've gone too far, Tex.
Hey guys, looking for a weird assortment of movie recommendations. Basically anything featuring:
- Fantasy/supernatural elements in a modern setting
- "90s cool" (black trenchcoats and attitudes)
- Cyberpunk elements
- Cool action scenes
Essentially, if you had to build a Shadowrun type movie out of pieces of other movies. I'm pretty forgiving on plot if there are cool visuals and people impractically wielding katanas.
So far:
Blade 1 and 2 (I hear the 3rd is garbage so I'm not bothering, but my god the first two were perfect)
Underworld (are any of them worth anything past the first one?)
The Matrix (you can't talk about late 90s cool without this)
Johnny Mnemonic (lol)
The Crow
Blade Runner
Constantine
Wiki tells me Dark City might have some of what I'm looking for - y/n?
knitdanIn ur baseKillin ur guysRegistered Userregular
edited September 2017
I enjoyed Kingsmen: The Golden Circle quite a lot. Possibly even more than the first. Loved what they did with the villain, loved the Statesmen. Just loved it.
As for the President's plan, here's the deal:
He wanted to appear as if he was taking the deal, because there are a lot of people out there with loved ones on drugs and he didn't want to be known as the guy who killed them all. But he also thinks there's a lot more bad people than good who will be affected, so he's fine with letting them die.
It's easy for him to write them off as "junkies", something less than human. Sadly it's not an uncommon view in the US, which is why you end up with situations like Sherriffs refusing to let their deputies carry lifesaving anti-overdose kits.
Also: Looooved the bagpipe rendition of Take Me Home Country Roads at the beginning.
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“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
I, Frankenstein started off decent for the first 20 minutes, establishing the world and the lore of gargoyles vs vampire demons and a pretty good first group fight scene.
.....and then it just falls apart and creates plot sinkholes in its wake.
But hell at least it has those 20 minutes to hang its hat on compared to Assassin's Creed.
Hey guys, looking for a weird assortment of movie recommendations. Basically anything featuring:
- Fantasy/supernatural elements in a modern setting
- "90s cool" (black trenchcoats and attitudes)
- Cyberpunk elements
- Cool action scenes
Essentially, if you had to build a Shadowrun type movie out of pieces of other movies. I'm pretty forgiving on plot if there are cool visuals and people impractically wielding katanas.
So far:
Blade 1 and 2 (I hear the 3rd is garbage so I'm not bothering, but my god the first two were perfect)
Underworld (are any of them worth anything past the first one?)
The Matrix (you can't talk about late 90s cool without this)
Johnny Mnemonic (lol)
The Crow
Blade Runner
Constantine
Wiki tells me Dark City might have some of what I'm looking for - y/n?
Hardware
Cyber city Oedo 808
Hackers
Fifth Element
12 Monkeys
Event Horizon
I, Frankenstein started off decent for the first 20 minutes, establishing the world and the lore of gargoyles vs vampire demons and a pretty good first group fight scene.
.....and then it just falls apart and creates plot sinkholes in its wake.
But hell at least it has those 20 minutes to hang its hat on compared to Assassin's Creed.
i can't understand how anyone would think the assassin's creed movie would be good when the games are like taking an ice pick to the part of your brain that appreciates fun and engaging story lines and replacing that with pushing through crowds doing flips and lol Nostradamus.
Bill Nighy is in I, Frankenstein which I believe was his fifty millionth portrayal of some sort of super Dracula or reverse werewolf king or the devil himself
Broke as fuck and the bills past due, all amounts assist and are kindly received.
Bill Nighy is in I, Frankenstein which I believe was his fifty millionth portrayal of some sort of super Dracula or reverse werewolf king or the devil himself
In all his films, he merely portrays one of the infinite possible Slartibartfasts in the multiverse.
No matter where you go...there you are. ~ Buckaroo Banzai
For killtoberfest how about some Zombie: House of 1000 Corpses (which is kind of shit) andThe Devils Rejects(which is actually kind of awesome)
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AstaerethIn the belly of the beastRegistered Userregular
Uggggggh
Fuck Rob Zombie, man
I rejected The Devil's Rejects, and I only got about 400, 450 corpses into the House
Take one part "rated-R haunted house aesthetic," one part "I don't have any original ideas so I'm just gonna remix old horror movies I enjoy for the wrong reasons," two parts "cruelty because it's funny," add a layer of pointless grime over everything and set to shitty music for 120 minutes
Serves any audience member who is or should be on a government list
I rejected The Devil's Rejects, and I only got about 400, 450 corpses into the House
Take one part "rated-R haunted house aesthetic," one part "I don't have any original ideas so I'm just gonna remix old horror movies I enjoy for the wrong reasons," two parts "cruelty because it's funny," add a layer of pointless grime over everything and set to shitty music for 120 minutes
Serves any audience member who is or should be on a government list
I rejected The Devil's Rejects, and I only got about 400, 450 corpses into the House
Take one part "rated-R haunted house aesthetic," one part "I don't have any original ideas so I'm just gonna remix old horror movies I enjoy for the wrong reasons," two parts "cruelty because it's funny," add a layer of pointless grime over everything and set to shitty music for 120 minutes
Serves any audience member who is or should be on a government list
his movies are kinda like his music?
his Halloween was especially bad.
Rob Zombie movies are interesting, in that I'm in no way interested in watching them, ever, even though many of their fans have taste in film that overlaps my own.
But, in this case, it seems like the movies kind of miss the point of the films they supposedly homage or pastiche. Or even just the place the originals occupy in film canon.
Like, the filthy grindhouse horror and slasher flicks that 1000 Corpses and Rejects take after are accepted to be subversive and transgressive cinematic shitshows. Some of them were actually better crafted than their budgets and the era would generally indicate, but that's generally because the film makers were trying. But they're mostly just disgusting schlock served up on the heels of a very conservative era in western media.
Zombie's ouvre is kinda just north of a juggalo's idea of edgy and clever, and seems to largely appeal to the more unpleasant, grimier corners of a horror fan's psyche, while not really having anything particularly insightful to say about it between the grunts, screams, and not-actually-clever banter.
They remind me of my old band's drummer, who was a fan of Zombie's movies- a big, dumb violent idiot, with a head full of methamphetamine and a heart of bullshit.
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daveNYCWhy universe hate Waspinator?Registered Userregular
Hey guys, looking for a weird assortment of movie recommendations. Basically anything featuring:
- Fantasy/supernatural elements in a modern setting
- "90s cool" (black trenchcoats and attitudes)
- Cyberpunk elements
- Cool action scenes
Essentially, if you had to build a Shadowrun type movie out of pieces of other movies. I'm pretty forgiving on plot if there are cool visuals and people impractically wielding katanas.
So far:
Blade 1 and 2 (I hear the 3rd is garbage so I'm not bothering, but my god the first two were perfect)
Underworld (are any of them worth anything past the first one?)
The Matrix (you can't talk about late 90s cool without this)
Johnny Mnemonic (lol)
The Crow
Blade Runner
Constantine
Wiki tells me Dark City might have some of what I'm looking for - y/n?
Freejack should be in there.
The best that can be said for the Underworld movies is that they have Kate Beckinsale in tight leather. Whether that's enough to make them worth watching is up to you.
Robocop gets you corporate dystopia action, but it's not very Shadowruny.
Shut up, Mr. Burton! You were not brought upon this world to get it!
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Is this a Bojack joke?
if not it should be
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Man, that was really annoying, and five times longer than it needed to be for an introduction.
The Youtube video or the movie?
It's not an introduction so much as him explaining that one, Really That Bad is going to be a one off; and two, what exactly it took to make him feel like it was necessary in the first place.
Anyways, I just got this lovely email from moviepass
I ordered it on the 17th. Of August.
Granted I haven't played any of the games but I know the general idea of ancestry to unlock something something, which allowed me to be a relative blank slate to judge the movie on the merits of being a movie, not a franchise. And from the odd as hell beginning of kid Magneto to him being "killed" and such a weak attempt to slow drip information in the first thirty minutes with a laughable through-line of being about getting rid of violence with something that is essentially the anti-life equation from DC Comics, I'm already looking for the exit. And it just never gets better from there on out.
A big problem I had was, when doing the flashbacks, the movie itself doesn't keep the perspective on Magneto, the guy doing this time travel. You can't cut away to show assassin helper doing her thing on the wagon chase 10 meters ahead because it simply isn't feasible if these are supposed to be an individual's memories. Plus it's all rather bland stuff, with the present day drab concrete setting of the building and the brown filter on the past, with dust errywhere, it all has that "take me seriously" motif about it that only the most emo among us can appreciate. I care about no one in the film because there's no one to care for even as they say the most generic things trying to sound so serious ("it's my life's work." / "it's my life."). Plus, when actually having to keep things intact for historical reasons because of real life figures, the character actions become flat out silly.
Fassbender is phoning it in like it's just a contract movie, Alfred does nothing but stare quietly and his daughter Talia is a bland character who simply is there to act surprised when exposition needs to be told to us or that what we're seeing is amazing because it's important being drift compatible and reaching super saiyan levels. And Omar's screentime is very Little (lolz nailed it). If we were treated to innovative or at least consistent action scenes there would be something to get from the film, yet it's all so meh that it's more like a lesser Lionsgate movie than something from Fox. Writing this out I realize the fault of the movie is trying to be a drama more than an action movie, and that is ultimately it's undoing because it fails at both.
I. Frankenstein was a better movie. There. Now I might have gone too far.
- Fantasy/supernatural elements in a modern setting
- "90s cool" (black trenchcoats and attitudes)
- Cyberpunk elements
- Cool action scenes
Essentially, if you had to build a Shadowrun type movie out of pieces of other movies. I'm pretty forgiving on plot if there are cool visuals and people impractically wielding katanas.
So far:
Blade 1 and 2 (I hear the 3rd is garbage so I'm not bothering, but my god the first two were perfect)
Underworld (are any of them worth anything past the first one?)
The Matrix (you can't talk about late 90s cool without this)
Johnny Mnemonic (lol)
The Crow
Blade Runner
Constantine
Wiki tells me Dark City might have some of what I'm looking for - y/n?
Do... Re... Mi... So... Fa.... Do... Re.... Do...
Forget it...
Strange Days would fit
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that movie has a weird place in my heart because I lived in a neighborhood where there was a billboard for it right around the corner for months.
that's my whole story. it was just like this specter of an awful movie that i knew i'd never watch.
Seconding both of those
And thirding Strange Days because I fucking love Strange Days.
Steam ID XBL: JohnnyChopsocky PSN:Stud_Beefpile WiiU:JohnnyChopsocky
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0403358/
I really wanted to like that movie.
This is the only reason I care about I, Frankenstein. The Spanish-language title.
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
As for the President's plan, here's the deal:
It's easy for him to write them off as "junkies", something less than human. Sadly it's not an uncommon view in the US, which is why you end up with situations like Sherriffs refusing to let their deputies carry lifesaving anti-overdose kits.
Also: Looooved the bagpipe rendition of Take Me Home Country Roads at the beginning.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
.....and then it just falls apart and creates plot sinkholes in its wake.
But hell at least it has those 20 minutes to hang its hat on compared to Assassin's Creed.
Hardware
Cyber city Oedo 808
Hackers
Fifth Element
12 Monkeys
Event Horizon
I love this series
i can't understand how anyone would think the assassin's creed movie would be good when the games are like taking an ice pick to the part of your brain that appreciates fun and engaging story lines and replacing that with pushing through crowds doing flips and lol Nostradamus.
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In all his films, he merely portrays one of the infinite possible Slartibartfasts in the multiverse.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
For killtoberfest how about some Zombie: House of 1000 Corpses (which is kind of shit) andThe Devils Rejects(which is actually kind of awesome)
Fuck Rob Zombie, man
I rejected The Devil's Rejects, and I only got about 400, 450 corpses into the House
Take one part "rated-R haunted house aesthetic," one part "I don't have any original ideas so I'm just gonna remix old horror movies I enjoy for the wrong reasons," two parts "cruelty because it's funny," add a layer of pointless grime over everything and set to shitty music for 120 minutes
Serves any audience member who is or should be on a government list
I liked enough about Night Watch to be interested in what Bekmambetov did after that. Until he actually made more movies, but hey.
Night Watch is one where the book is much, much better than the film though. Even more so with Day Watch.
Thank you for smoking and dark knight
As someone who hasn't seen I. Frankenstein, I don't think you went too far.
his movies are kinda like his music?
his Halloween was especially bad.
Rob Zombie movies are interesting, in that I'm in no way interested in watching them, ever, even though many of their fans have taste in film that overlaps my own.
But, in this case, it seems like the movies kind of miss the point of the films they supposedly homage or pastiche. Or even just the place the originals occupy in film canon.
Like, the filthy grindhouse horror and slasher flicks that 1000 Corpses and Rejects take after are accepted to be subversive and transgressive cinematic shitshows. Some of them were actually better crafted than their budgets and the era would generally indicate, but that's generally because the film makers were trying. But they're mostly just disgusting schlock served up on the heels of a very conservative era in western media.
Zombie's ouvre is kinda just north of a juggalo's idea of edgy and clever, and seems to largely appeal to the more unpleasant, grimier corners of a horror fan's psyche, while not really having anything particularly insightful to say about it between the grunts, screams, and not-actually-clever banter.
They remind me of my old band's drummer, who was a fan of Zombie's movies- a big, dumb violent idiot, with a head full of methamphetamine and a heart of bullshit.
Freejack should be in there.
The best that can be said for the Underworld movies is that they have Kate Beckinsale in tight leather. Whether that's enough to make them worth watching is up to you.
Robocop gets you corporate dystopia action, but it's not very Shadowruny.