I have watched the Road House remake and I feel like this movie would be a lot better if it wasn't claiming to be a Road House remake. Enough elements are there to make it seem like a similar movie, but all the changes just make it feel so different. Gyllenhall doesn't bring the same energy for the role and doesn't have the effortless cool where you get why everybody likes him, and he's too dour of a character. I regret to inform everybody that Connor McGregor is a lot of fun in this movie. Jessica Williams is good until she just disappears for the conclusion.
Dana White is exactly the kind of dummy who would approve the UFC being used as an organization that lets a fighter die in their ring is worth it to be in a movie. It also kind of feels weird to make Dalton a UFC fighter and then whenever he fights he fights like any idiot off the street and doesn't protect himself more or fight like an MMA fighter.
At no point does Dalton actually make the bar run any better or smoother in this movie, which makes sense as he has no skills for doing this kind of job. He doesn't seem to have any friends or to make friends with any of the people in the movie beside Ellie, and the girl at the bookstore. I also don't get the point of the scene where you can't deliver liquor by water because of the reefs and then the villain just drives the boat right into the Road House. It also sucks that Conor kills the main bad guy before Dalton kills him.
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despite the ai bullshit that really annoys me, I do really, really want to see that because david dastmalchian is honestly just one of my favorite actors and the premise seems 100% up my alley.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
edited March 27
One of the main characters legitimately looks so much like TLB that it was honestly throwing me for the entire runtime
But also yes I liked it quite a bit, the AI art is kind of baffling because of how easy it would have been to get real art instead
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I think
Yeah…I’m going to marathon all of the Wrong Turn movies.
Damn early days of DVD and releasing everything as Full Screen. Now that all the tvs are widescreen it is full screen that has black bars on the side of Last Action Hero.
GustavFriend of GoatsSomewhere in the OzarksRegistered Userregular
edited March 27
Late Night with the Devil rather unfortunately has fallen on the pile of "maybe i'll toss it on when it hits Tubi some day"
Too many other things I need to catch in theaters already.
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
The one thing that stood out in a kind of negative way with Late Night with the Devil is that I think it struggles a little bit to fill even it's 90 minute runtime.
There's like a solid 10-15 minutes that feels like padding, but when it's going for it it's really fun.
I forgot how ridiculous Last Action Hero is. Slater shoots a bad guy off the truck chasing him and the guy falls into an ice cream truck that then explodes, and the explosion shoots an ice cream cone that goes into the back of one of the other bad guys heads and kills him too. I remembered it was ridiculous, but forgot some of the lengths it goes to.
I forgot how ridiculous Last Action Hero is. Slater shoots a bad guy off the truck chasing him and the guy falls into an ice cream truck that then explodes, and the explosion shoots an ice cream cone that goes into the back of one of the other bad guys heads and kills him too. I remembered it was ridiculous, but forgot some of the lengths it goes to.
“One of the other bad guys”?
Show some respect to Al Leong!!
Making a movie in the mid 80’s to mid 90’s and need a good Asian henchman?
You called Al
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
My friend gave me her Max login but there’s commercials.
I have watched 3 movies on there the last 2 days and I’ve seen the Zach Braff/Donald Faison/Jason Mamoa T-Mobile commercial at least 50 times.
Not an exaggeration.
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MaddocI'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?Registered Userregular
When I was watching a lot of Hulu with ads that's generally how it was, yeah
It feels like they have only like three or four commercials at any given time on the service, so you just see the same one over and over and over again
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
When I was watching a lot of Hulu with ads that's generally how it was, yeah
It feels like they have only like three or four commercials at any given time on the service, so you just see the same one over and over and over again
I was watching the USMNT-mexico game on Paramount+ the other day and during the commercial break they just had a screen that said "commercial break.". Literally the one time you could be selling ads and you can't be arsed to scrounge one up.
Titans of industry running these services I tell you
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
When I was watching a lot of Hulu with ads that's generally how it was, yeah
It feels like they have only like three or four commercials at any given time on the service, so you just see the same one over and over and over again
I was watching the USMNT-mexico game on Paramount+ the other day and during the commercial break they just had a screen that said "commercial break.". Literally the one time you could be selling ads and you can't be arsed to scrounge one up.
Titans of industry running these services I tell you
I think sporting events are weird. I see that a lot when I stream sports. Might have something to do with the league and team sponsors or something.
When I was watching a lot of Hulu with ads that's generally how it was, yeah
It feels like they have only like three or four commercials at any given time on the service, so you just see the same one over and over and over again
I was watching the USMNT-mexico game on Paramount+ the other day and during the commercial break they just had a screen that said "commercial break.". Literally the one time you could be selling ads and you can't be arsed to scrounge one up.
Titans of industry running these services I tell you
I think sporting events are weird. I see that a lot when I stream sports. Might have something to do with the league and team sponsors or something.
Yes I see that on the MLB.tv stuff, but they at least make their baseball zen thing
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
When I was watching a lot of Hulu with ads that's generally how it was, yeah
It feels like they have only like three or four commercials at any given time on the service, so you just see the same one over and over and over again
I was watching the USMNT-mexico game on Paramount+ the other day and during the commercial break they just had a screen that said "commercial break.". Literally the one time you could be selling ads and you can't be arsed to scrounge one up.
Titans of industry running these services I tell you
I think sporting events are weird. I see that a lot when I stream sports. Might have something to do with the league and team sponsors or something.
Yes I see that on the MLB.tv stuff, but they at least make their baseball zen thing
I love those. SOUNDS OF THE GAME
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I am beginning my journey of watching all of the Wrong Turn movies.
Choosing to do that may have been... an incorrect value judgment on the best direction to go in with your time. Feels like there should be a better way to get that idea across.
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Choosing to do that may have been... an incorrect value judgment on the best direction to go in with your time. Feels like there should be a better way to get that idea across.
God i just miss that era of film criticism. Felt a whole less like trying to figure out a take or an angle for traction. Which paradoxically felt way more like you'd get the wild opinions. More fun to read.
I forgot how ridiculous Last Action Hero is. Slater shoots a bad guy off the truck chasing him and the guy falls into an ice cream truck that then explodes, and the explosion shoots an ice cream cone that goes into the back of one of the other bad guys heads and kills him too. I remembered it was ridiculous, but forgot some of the lengths it goes to.
“One of the other bad guys”?
Show some respect to Al Leong!!
Making a movie in the mid 80’s to mid 90’s and need a good Asian henchman?
You called Al
I'll never forget Al putting that dude's face into a brick wall in Big Trouble in Little China.
I am in the business of saving lives.
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Al Leong’s wedding announcement is incredible
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
it is the GOAT of marriage announcements
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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Seems like there's an easy test.
How many keyboards have you eaten this weak, Raijin?
My normal 3
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Dana White is exactly the kind of dummy who would approve the UFC being used as an organization that lets a fighter die in their ring is worth it to be in a movie. It also kind of feels weird to make Dalton a UFC fighter and then whenever he fights he fights like any idiot off the street and doesn't protect himself more or fight like an MMA fighter.
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McGregor slams his head on a piano mid fight and he just casually says, “This piano is out of tune.”
He’s been fighting McGregor for a good 5 minutes and that point and he delivers the line like he’s reading a textbook in class.
McGregor responding "Sounds pretty good to me." is great.
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It’s fantastic. Gyllenhall just sounds so disinterested and bored. Not like a guy who just got his head slammed multiple times into a piano.
Statuettes are for suckers
The best exchange of the film remains
"Who taught you shapes?"
Steam
It was good to see @The Lovely Bastard on the big screen
But also yes I liked it quite a bit, the AI art is kind of baffling because of how easy it would have been to get real art instead
Yeah…I’m going to marathon all of the Wrong Turn movies.
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Too many other things I need to catch in theaters already.
There's like a solid 10-15 minutes that feels like padding, but when it's going for it it's really fun.
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“One of the other bad guys”?
Show some respect to Al Leong!!
Making a movie in the mid 80’s to mid 90’s and need a good Asian henchman?
You called Al
I have watched 3 movies on there the last 2 days and I’ve seen the Zach Braff/Donald Faison/Jason Mamoa T-Mobile commercial at least 50 times.
Not an exaggeration.
It feels like they have only like three or four commercials at any given time on the service, so you just see the same one over and over and over again
I was watching the USMNT-mexico game on Paramount+ the other day and during the commercial break they just had a screen that said "commercial break.". Literally the one time you could be selling ads and you can't be arsed to scrounge one up.
Titans of industry running these services I tell you
I think sporting events are weird. I see that a lot when I stream sports. Might have something to do with the league and team sponsors or something.
Yes I see that on the MLB.tv stuff, but they at least make their baseball zen thing
I love those. SOUNDS OF THE GAME
I’ll see you on the other side.
Time is a flat circle
I miss critics hav in
I'll never forget Al putting that dude's face into a brick wall in Big Trouble in Little China.
I just ate a grape and I
JIZZED IN MY PANTS
And then we have his successor, Yayan Ruhain,