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What about in the Pokemon movie when all the Pokemon are fighting and then Ash nearly dies and then pikachu tries to revive him and they all cry and now you're crying too.
it's very rare for a movie to have worse writing than a game so you'll be fine there
I've got to say that I'm not sure I could name a game to movie adaptation where the movie writing was better.
see i'd say most of them do for the sheer fact that most games that get adapted have terrible or non-existent writing to begin with
like, you can't really make bloodrayne worse
The Hitman games have pretty minimal writing, but what's there is better than either Hitman movie, especially in terms of plotting. Bloodrayne I can't speak to, Uwe Boll is kind of a special case but I haven't seen any of his movies or played the games. Silent Hill is better plotted than the movie, I'd argue that the Resident Evil games are better plotted.
Games tend to shoot lower and generally hit the target, game adaptations tend to shoot for mediocre and miss badly.
see i never saw the hitman movie, but i really do disagree on silent hill and especially resident evil. and i'm looking at these movies as what are they adaptations of and when.
resident evil the movie came out before resident evil 4 and on. it is one hundred percent better than its source material. bringing in things that happened later is kind of disingenuous.
same with mortal kombat. is the writing in modern mortal kombat better than the movie? yes! is the writing in mortal kombat circa 1995? no!
There was a scene in a movie with a guy riding two horses at once though right? Google image search is hot garbage now, which is causing no end of frustration.
What about in the Pokemon movie when all the Pokemon are fighting and then Ash nearly dies and then pikachu tries to revive him and they all cry and now you're crying too.
Spoilers for a twenty year old film?
A cinematic masterpiece
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OK, so people who have seen obscure movies, help me out here. A friend of mine reminded me of a scene from a movie we saw at like 1 in the morning back in the 90's, PROBABLY on USA Up All Night, but it may have been MST3K (so no idea when it actually came out). The only part we can remember is there's a guy maybe on a beach, or in a field, and this possibly shirtless, possibly long-haired man rides up standing on two horses. The character not on horseback needs a horse, and the rider replies "I have two feet, therefore I need two horses!" and then a moment later he says something like "I'll call another horse! HOOOOOOOOOOOOORSE!" and then a third horse just shows up.
It is KILLING us that we can't recall what it was. Google is absolutely no help on this one. Anyone have any ideas?
OK, so people who have seen obscure movies, help me out here. A friend of mine reminded me of a scene from a movie we saw at like 1 in the morning back in the 90's, PROBABLY on USA Up All Night, but it may have been MST3K (so no idea when it actually came out). The only part we can remember is there's a guy maybe on a beach, or in a field, and this possibly shirtless, possibly long-haired man rides up standing on two horses. The character not on horseback needs a horse, and the rider replies "I have two feet, therefore I need two horses!" and then a moment later he says something like "I'll call another horse! HOOOOOOOOOOOOORSE!" and then a third horse just shows up.
It is KILLING us that we can't recall what it was. Google is absolutely no help on this one. Anyone have any ideas?
Silent Hill 2 is chock-full of clunky dialogue and stilted performances, but something genuine still shines through them and the plot itself is incredibly dark and affecting.
OK, so people who have seen obscure movies, help me out here. A friend of mine reminded me of a scene from a movie we saw at like 1 in the morning back in the 90's, PROBABLY on USA Up All Night, but it may have been MST3K (so no idea when it actually came out). The only part we can remember is there's a guy maybe on a beach, or in a field, and this possibly shirtless, possibly long-haired man rides up standing on two horses. The character not on horseback needs a horse, and the rider replies "I have two feet, therefore I need two horses!" and then a moment later he says something like "I'll call another horse! HOOOOOOOOOOOOORSE!" and then a third horse just shows up.
It is KILLING us that we can't recall what it was. Google is absolutely no help on this one. Anyone have any ideas?
Scene is at 1 hour and 13 minutes or so (movie is probably NSFW)
Yes I just spent my whole lunch break figuring it out on my phone
Holy.
Fucking.
Shit.
How? I spent all afternoon going down a rabbit hole of Italian fantasy including Ator the Invincible (another film I wasn't sure I didn't fever-dream into existence), every movie on USA Up All Night, all of MST3K... wow. Props to you.
Also, my friend who was suffering with me on trying to figure this out?
OK, so people who have seen obscure movies, help me out here. A friend of mine reminded me of a scene from a movie we saw at like 1 in the morning back in the 90's, PROBABLY on USA Up All Night, but it may have been MST3K (so no idea when it actually came out). The only part we can remember is there's a guy maybe on a beach, or in a field, and this possibly shirtless, possibly long-haired man rides up standing on two horses. The character not on horseback needs a horse, and the rider replies "I have two feet, therefore I need two horses!" and then a moment later he says something like "I'll call another horse! HOOOOOOOOOOOOORSE!" and then a third horse just shows up.
It is KILLING us that we can't recall what it was. Google is absolutely no help on this one. Anyone have any ideas?
OK, so people who have seen obscure movies, help me out here. A friend of mine reminded me of a scene from a movie we saw at like 1 in the morning back in the 90's, PROBABLY on USA Up All Night, but it may have been MST3K (so no idea when it actually came out). The only part we can remember is there's a guy maybe on a beach, or in a field, and this possibly shirtless, possibly long-haired man rides up standing on two horses. The character not on horseback needs a horse, and the rider replies "I have two feet, therefore I need two horses!" and then a moment later he says something like "I'll call another horse! HOOOOOOOOOOOOORSE!" and then a third horse just shows up.
It is KILLING us that we can't recall what it was. Google is absolutely no help on this one. Anyone have any ideas?
OK, so people who have seen obscure movies, help me out here. A friend of mine reminded me of a scene from a movie we saw at like 1 in the morning back in the 90's, PROBABLY on USA Up All Night, but it may have been MST3K (so no idea when it actually came out). The only part we can remember is there's a guy maybe on a beach, or in a field, and this possibly shirtless, possibly long-haired man rides up standing on two horses. The character not on horseback needs a horse, and the rider replies "I have two feet, therefore I need two horses!" and then a moment later he says something like "I'll call another horse! HOOOOOOOOOOOOORSE!" and then a third horse just shows up.
It is KILLING us that we can't recall what it was. Google is absolutely no help on this one. Anyone have any ideas?
Scene is at 1 hour and 13 minutes or so (movie is probably NSFW)
Yes I just spent my whole lunch break figuring it out on my phone
OH MY GOD this is better than I could have hoped. He tries to do a finger-whistle but the dubber can't do one so they just record him going "pfffff" and then yells "HOOOORSE!"
OK, so people who have seen obscure movies, help me out here. A friend of mine reminded me of a scene from a movie we saw at like 1 in the morning back in the 90's, PROBABLY on USA Up All Night, but it may have been MST3K (so no idea when it actually came out). The only part we can remember is there's a guy maybe on a beach, or in a field, and this possibly shirtless, possibly long-haired man rides up standing on two horses. The character not on horseback needs a horse, and the rider replies "I have two feet, therefore I need two horses!" and then a moment later he says something like "I'll call another horse! HOOOOOOOOOOOOORSE!" and then a third horse just shows up.
It is KILLING us that we can't recall what it was. Google is absolutely no help on this one. Anyone have any ideas?
i really shoulda guessed it was a troma movie, too. late night usa played so many of them.
it's where i first saw sgt. kabukiman, nypd
I've still only seen one of them, Terror Firmer
I'd heard about it because the software dev who made the NES emulator I used (NESticle) also made a Terror Firmer game that I downloaded on a lark when I was looking for emulators back in like 2002
the rest of my engagement with page 3 of this thread is going to be bashfully scrolling up to the b&w photo of alicia vikander and sighing. lets move along to page 4 please
Just saw mother. Not sure if I like it, but I'm pretty certain I get it.
I guess I just get annoyed at absurdist characters and storytelling. I get that they're in service of the allegory, but seeing people be so assholish for an entire movie got tiring.
Movie posters can't ever not be at least 60% photoshopped it seems.
that's just how you do graphic design, you use photoshop and you do photoshop things to images
what matters is making a design that doesn't make people think "that looks like a hundred other generic looking posters I've seen"
or worse "that looks sloppily made and wrong"
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I was rereading the beginning of Murder on the Orient Express and a lady seeing Poirot through the train window describes him as having an "enormous mustache" so I guess I have to give Kenneth Branagh a pass.
I still don't like it as much as David Suchet's mustache.
I dug mother for the most part. The first half or so was unsettling in some super unique ways.
The ending
goes a little overboard, I think. But I'd rather see Aronofsky trying too hard than have him play it safe. Honestly, the only parts I thought truly didn't work was the bad cgi hard dying inside the walls, and the baby peeing all over everyone while being carried away. That felt like he was trying to be edgy, undermining the allegorical horror of the moment.
It was weird, a little silly, but it felt pretty coherent other than those moments.
Either way, there was a lot of great filmmaking on display. Great sound design, great performances, and the best cinematography focusing that heavily on faces I've seen this side of, I dunno, Bergman? Great stuff.
I value the Italian option. And there’s still Japan also to open. We still have a couple of countries. But so far there’s a huge, huge fanbase for Valerian. I’m very surprised. Like I receive messages every day, I mean like people screaming for Valerian 2 already. So there’s a community for sure.
If Akira were remade, it should be a miniseries. Or a series of movies. So they can follow the source more faithfully. The (awesome) movie is like a Cliff's Notes or a digest version.
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Spoilers for a twenty year old film?
see i never saw the hitman movie, but i really do disagree on silent hill and especially resident evil. and i'm looking at these movies as what are they adaptations of and when.
resident evil the movie came out before resident evil 4 and on. it is one hundred percent better than its source material. bringing in things that happened later is kind of disingenuous.
same with mortal kombat. is the writing in modern mortal kombat better than the movie? yes! is the writing in mortal kombat circa 1995? no!
Oh definitely, but compared to the games that had been released when the movie came out? No contest.
Oh but they did.
i cannot support any movie that is pro hurting pigs
No. The movie is definitely worse.
Unless the person watching it is a racist.
You're really not going to like the revolution
Eeek - guess I didn't realize that. It's one of the rare animated flicks we haven't watched yet.
A cinematic masterpiece
You're thinking of the Troma movie Getting Lucky
Scene is at 1 hour and 13 minutes or so (movie is probably NSFW)
Yes I just spent my whole lunch break figuring it out on my phone
well I've never played the games but if the movie has better writing than the silent hill games they have to be fucking terrible
Silent Hill 2 is chock-full of clunky dialogue and stilted performances, but something genuine still shines through them and the plot itself is incredibly dark and affecting.
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Holy.
Fucking.
Shit.
How? I spent all afternoon going down a rabbit hole of Italian fantasy including Ator the Invincible (another film I wasn't sure I didn't fever-dream into existence), every movie on USA Up All Night, all of MST3K... wow. Props to you.
Also, my friend who was suffering with me on trying to figure this out?
Ok, so I'm skipping through random parts of the movie to get to the mythical horse scene.
Typical 80s high school movie...
Typical 80s high school movie...
Typical 80s high school movie...
Guy is shrunk down to a tiny size and is clinging to a woman's pubic hair as she showers...
Typical 80s high school movie...
Ah, the horse scene.
OH MY GOD this is better than I could have hoped. He tries to do a finger-whistle but the dubber can't do one so they just record him going "pfffff" and then yells "HOOOORSE!"
it's where i first saw sgt. kabukiman, nypd
I'm really good at Google
I've still only seen one of them, Terror Firmer
I'd heard about it because the software dev who made the NES emulator I used (NESticle) also made a Terror Firmer game that I downloaded on a lark when I was looking for emulators back in like 2002
anyway that movie is ridiculous
hmm well played
It is a movie where I like the action but hate every single character in it.
that's just how you do graphic design, you use photoshop and you do photoshop things to images
what matters is making a design that doesn't make people think "that looks like a hundred other generic looking posters I've seen"
or worse "that looks sloppily made and wrong"
I still don't like it as much as David Suchet's mustache.
The ending
It was weird, a little silly, but it felt pretty coherent other than those moments.
Either way, there was a lot of great filmmaking on display. Great sound design, great performances, and the best cinematography focusing that heavily on faces I've seen this side of, I dunno, Bergman? Great stuff.
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Of course he is.
Also, don't adapt it maybe?
I mean Taika Waititi is a bad fit for a giant blockbuster superhero movie too, based on his filmography
But Thor 3 looks stupendous
So who the fuck knows
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