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  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    Jimothy wrote: »
    ...He did?
    Best superhero movie of 2018.

    TTGTTM

    (I have not seen Spider-Man

  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    Jimothy wrote: »
    ...He did?
    Yep in Teen Titans go to the movies

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  • Sweeney TomSweeney Tom Registered User regular
    I still need to see Mom & Dad

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  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    Jimothy wrote: »
    ...He did?

    Teen Titans go the The Movies has a buuuuunch of inside baseball jokes about DC

    god that movie was so good

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  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field njRegistered User regular
    Mr. G wrote: »
    I ask you to consider if we are currently in a Nicholas Cage renaissance

    This might be the best year he's ever had

    Mom & Dad was pretty well-liked, Mandy was critically adored, and Spider-Verse looks like it's going to be a genuine phenomenon that he's a beloved aspect of

    and, most important of all, he finally got to play Superman

    Mandy is a strong contender for my favorite film of the year. Cage is incredible in it.

    Everything looks beautiful when you're young and pretty
  • Bloods EndBloods End Blade of Tyshalle Punch dimensionRegistered User regular
    edited December 2018
    I thought it was pretty cheap how the fight between Orm and Aquaman was stopped by them both realizing their moms shared the name Atlanna

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    Nic Cage is legitimately not just one of the greatest movie actors alive but one of the greatest movie actors period

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  • TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    -Tal wrote: »
    You'll get more conservative as you get richer

    This is what people really mean when they say "you'll get more conservative as you get older" because that was their experience. They got richer as they aged. What they forget is they're grinding down younger generations under their boot, so young generations aren't getting more wealthy the way they did. Colbert is like "oh you will understand when you're old. I didn't get it when I was a spry 45 year old. But now that I'm 55 I get it." No, you're just a hell of a lot richer now.

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited December 2018
    I saw Crazy Rich Asians on the plane to Cali


    I love that movie very much.

    Michelle Yeoh fucking killed it.

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  • Bloods EndBloods End Blade of Tyshalle Punch dimensionRegistered User regular
    Also legit great in aquman
    black manta iron manning his armor while angrily listening to depeche mode

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  • Ms DapperMs Dapper Yuri Librarian Registered User regular
  • FawstFawst The road to awe.Registered User regular
    I sometimes think I love the act of making films more than I like films themselves. That’s a good example right there.

    Shit, I like trailers more than films sometimes.

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  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited December 2018
    saw man-spider
    best damn 3D animation I've EVER seen holy moly
    also the movie was good too

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  • 2 Marcus 2 Ravens2 Marcus 2 Ravens CanadaRegistered User regular
    Fawst wrote: »
    I sometimes think I love the act of making films more than I like films themselves. That’s a good example right there.

    Shit, I like trailers more than films sometimes.

    Do you make films? Or do you just mean the craft/form is interesting?

  • FawstFawst The road to awe.Registered User regular
    Oh, the latter. Would love to make one, but I don’t have many friends or contacts that are actors. Or much equipment available. Or a script. lol

    I do have a camera...

  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field njRegistered User regular
    One of the cool little touches I loved about Into The Spider-Verse is how instead of bokeh and depth of field blur, they used Ben-Day dots and out-of-registration colors.

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    One of the cool little touches I loved about Into The Spider-Verse is how instead of bokeh and depth of field blur, they used Ben-Day dots and out-of-registration colors.

    Beg pardon?

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  • minor incidentminor incident expert in a dying field njRegistered User regular
    edited December 2018
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    One of the cool little touches I loved about Into The Spider-Verse is how instead of bokeh and depth of field blur, they used Ben-Day dots and out-of-registration colors.

    Beg pardon?

    So, in normal film/photography, when something is out of focus (too close/too far from the lens), you get depth of field blur. You see it all the time in movies. Looks like this:

    gnome-dof.JPG

    In Spider-Verse, instead of doing the blur effect for objects/people that are "out of focus" they use deliberately mis-registered colors, which is basically a printing mistake from old comics -- because each color is printed one at a time, sometimes they wouldn't align quite right so you get an effect like this:

    off-reg.jpg

    It's most noticeable in a few scenes where a character's back is very close to the camera and they're out of focus. It's a cool look that's a neat nod to the comics and accomplishes the same thing as depth of field blur in a way that fits with the look of the film even better.

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    Peas wrote: »

    This is like, power rangers, iron man, journey to the west, and like, a couple other different things all smooshed together.

  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Okay can you tell me what that movie is cause I know it sure isn't titled "Chinese Iron Man"

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    edited December 2018
    The font is very stylized and I don’t read the simplified Chinese so good.

    Lemme take a stab at it.

    Edit: “Mecha War Gods: Sun Wu Kong”

    Sun Wu Kong is the Buddhist name given to the Monkey King (which, incidentally is pronounced “Son Goku” in Japanese).

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  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    edited December 2018
    Google translate says "Mech God of War The ultimate preview: national armor super burning against subversive imagination"
    Director: Liang Guangming / Zhang Weiye Actor: He Wei / Bai Na Ri Su
    The heavens, the human world and the demon world are three parallel universes. The heavens and the demon world master the science of humanoid mechs and develop scientific instruments that can travel through different universes. The Xia Qingqiu of the demon world crossed into the heavens, killing the lover of Wukong and fleeing to the human world. Wukong succeeded in killing Xia Qingqiu with the help of the human brother Xiaowu, but the death of Xia Qingqiu awakened Yang Lan, who was imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison. Yang Lan was imprisoned for many years because he and Xia Qingqiu loved each other across the universe and violated the prohibition of heaven. Yang Lan jailed to the human world, wanting to resurrect Xia Qingqiu with high technology, and a duel between the armored Sun Wukong and the armor Erlang God started...
    disclaimer: is google translate

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    Hold on
    Heaven and hell made their own power armor? That seems excessive

    wandering
  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    Hold on
    Heaven and hell made their own power armor? That seems excessive

    Is Heaven and Hell ever not excessive?

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  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    I mean, Mazinkaiser could be God or a Devil

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    I feel like magic power armor is sillier than regular power armor, but I have no solid reasoning to defend this position.

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  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    Does that mean this is also an adaptation of Journey to the West

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  • 3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    I'd watch Angels and Demons in power armor beating the shit out of each other, yeah.

    I mean that's basically Warhammer 40K.

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    Platy wrote: »
    Does that mean this is also an adaptation of Journey to the West

    Seems more like a sequel (I don’t recall Wu Kong having a lover in Journey), but it seems pretty clearly to be using characters from it.

  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    The Iron Man armor is basically his staff

  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    I feel like that sucks and I hate it.

  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    sarukun wrote: »
    I feel like magic power armor is sillier than regular power armor, but I have no solid reasoning to defend this position.

    I mean, arc reactor is basically science magic.

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  • AtomicTofuAtomicTofu She's a straight-up supervillain, yo Registered User regular
    I am here to tell you all that Mortal Engines was bad, and not in the fun way

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    sarukun wrote: »
    I feel like magic power armor is sillier than regular power armor, but I have no solid reasoning to defend this position.

    I mean, arc reactor is basically science magic.

    The difference between most sci-fi and most fantasy tends to be aesthetics.

    “Magic” that looks like “science” usually makes me go “blegh, why?”.

    It is not really a defensible reaction

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Look, I don't care as long as the suitup sequence is rad.

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  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    And vice versa.

    Eddy
  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    Chinese special effects still tend to look like they’re happening at 15 frames per second, so that doesn’t really help either.

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Yeah, the mask going on was... not overwhelming

  • EtchwartsEtchwarts Eyes Up Registered User regular
    AtomicTofu wrote: »
    I am here to tell you all that Mortal Engines was bad, and not in the fun way

    That's a damn shame

    I wasn't expecting much, but I was really hoping to be wrong

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