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  • CptHamiltonCptHamilton Registered User regular
    edited August 2019
    Atomika wrote: »
    I saw the new Hellboy on the plane today

    It was pretty dire. No part of that movie seemed like it was made by a professional who knows what they’re doing.

    The CG was mostly pretty decent. Everything else, though...

    Unrelated Edit:
    I saw Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark last night. It was thoroughly decent. Not great. I don't think anyone should run out to see it in the theater. But it's worth watching if you have fond memories of the cheesy stories with creepy visuals; it's basically the same thing in movie form.

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  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    Nobeard wrote: »
    Home Alone directed by Zack Snyder. Kevin has a girlfriend that is inexplicably well developed for her age. Harry and Marv are internationally wanted thieves, stern and brooding instead of bumbling and goofy. Kevin's dad is an ex-marine, allowing Kevin access to military grade equipment from his dad's "secret" stash.
    Kevin is a prodigy, remarkably adept at using tech. Instead of the old man neighbor saving Kevin at the end, it's an Interpol agent played by John Turturro.

    At the end it's revealed that the events of the movie happened 13 years ago, in the DC Cinematic Universe. Kevin went on to work for Wayne Tech, on several off the books projects.

    Thent he burglars and Kevin form a truce because thier moms have the same names or some stupid crap

  • jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    edited August 2019
    How about a Home Alone directed by Bay?

    The whole fucking neighborhood is a boobytrap.

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  • WiseManTobesWiseManTobes Registered User regular
    Have Kevin make it to the airport, but gets on the wrong plane, and ends up stranded in Europe finding himself.

    Eat, Pray, Home Alone

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  • GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    I'm pretty over constant reboots and not reboots (looking at you, the new new "we're getting rid of the new things and going back to the old things" Ghostbusters movie) but if they could just sweep the 2019 Hellboy under the rug and make the third Del Toro Hellboy that'd be swell.

  • Harry DresdenHarry Dresden Registered User regular
    Michael Bay directs the first Home Alone, Snyder gets the sequel.

  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    Jesus Harry

    I thought you had died in a crevasse or something

    I haven’t seen you in ages

  • RickRudeRickRude Registered User regular
    edited August 2019
    So the hunt, which was set to release in September, is being cancelled in wake of the mass shootings. I thought it looked really fun. Hopefully there's a way to see it still like that north Korea movie

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/10/media/universal-cancels-the-hunt-mass-shootings/index.html

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  • NobeardNobeard North Carolina: Failed StateRegistered User regular
    RickRude wrote: »
    So the hunt, which was set to release in September, is being cancelled in wake of the mass shootings. I thought it looked really fun. Hopefully there's a way to see it still like that north Korea movie

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/10/media/universal-cancels-the-hunt-mass-shootings/index.html

    Honestly, probably the right PR move.

  • RickRudeRickRude Registered User regular
    Nobeard wrote: »
    RickRude wrote: »
    So the hunt, which was set to release in September, is being cancelled in wake of the mass shootings. I thought it looked really fun. Hopefully there's a way to see it still like that north Korea movie

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/10/media/universal-cancels-the-hunt-mass-shootings/index.html

    Honestly, probably the right PR move.

    I'm not sure pulling it is. It's not out until late September so you can stop the push until this heat dies off. And it seems to have little to do with mass shootings watching the trailer, just heavy with gun usage. And movies like that are coming out still all the time

  • NobeardNobeard North Carolina: Failed StateRegistered User regular
    RickRude wrote: »
    Nobeard wrote: »
    RickRude wrote: »
    So the hunt, which was set to release in September, is being cancelled in wake of the mass shootings. I thought it looked really fun. Hopefully there's a way to see it still like that north Korea movie

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/10/media/universal-cancels-the-hunt-mass-shootings/index.html

    Honestly, probably the right PR move.

    I'm not sure pulling it is. It's not out until late September so you can stop the push until this heat dies off. And it seems to have little to do with mass shootings watching the trailer, just heavy with gun usage. And movies like that are coming out still all the time

    Oh wait I did not notice you said cancelled. Yea permanent cancellation is an overreaction.

  • Kipling217Kipling217 Registered User regular
    Nobeard wrote: »
    RickRude wrote: »
    Nobeard wrote: »
    RickRude wrote: »
    So the hunt, which was set to release in September, is being cancelled in wake of the mass shootings. I thought it looked really fun. Hopefully there's a way to see it still like that north Korea movie

    https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/10/media/universal-cancels-the-hunt-mass-shootings/index.html

    Honestly, probably the right PR move.

    I'm not sure pulling it is. It's not out until late September so you can stop the push until this heat dies off. And it seems to have little to do with mass shootings watching the trailer, just heavy with gun usage. And movies like that are coming out still all the time

    Oh wait I did not notice you said cancelled. Yea permanent cancellation is an overreaction.

    If it follows the Interview playbook it will probably be released quietly on VOD.

    I am kind of sad, I was looking forward to a Rednecks teaching Coastal Elites not to mess with salt of the earth REAL AMERICANS movie. Could have been fun.

    But nooooo thanks Trump.

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  • Havelock2.0Havelock2.0 Sufficiently Chill The Chill ZoneRegistered User regular
    edited August 2019
    How about a Home Alone directed by Bay?

    The whole fucking neighborhood is a boobytrap.

    It explodes and then for some reason there's a 20 minute segment involving some aspect of the US Military that feels like a recruiting piece

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  • DonnictonDonnicton Registered User regular
    How about a Home Alone directed by Bay?

    The whole fucking neighborhood is a boobytrap.

    It explodes and then for some reason there's a 20 minute segment involving some aspect of the US Military that feels like a recruiting piece

    The Department of Defense basically hands you as much surplus equipment as you'd like to play with for your movie provided you portray the military in a positive light.

  • TehSpectreTehSpectre Registered User regular
    edited August 2019
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    I saw Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark today.

    As a big fan of the books and Del Toro, I was pretty hyped for the film.

    The first half works very well with Harold and The Red Room being standouts. The second half both mangles one of the stories (Me Tie Doughty Walker) into inconprehensality and the monster in it is more comical than scary. (It's face also resembles a goomba from the Mario Bros. movie) While I liked some of the kids' interactions, it probably would have worked better as an anthology film instead of attempting to ape Stand By Me / IT.

    Also, the ending is horrible. Also also, some of the editing looks weird and there was at least one redub of a line because the mouth movements didn't align with what the character was saying.

    C+ for great atmosphere and mostly great visuals

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  • DonnictonDonnicton Registered User regular
    Er....what? What a bizarre direction. If anyone had told me they were going to make a movie adaptation of those books, probably the first thing I would have thought is that it would be an anthology film. It's such a natural way to adapt it that of course Hollywood would do the opposite.

  • Havelock2.0Havelock2.0 Sufficiently Chill The Chill ZoneRegistered User regular
    Donnicton wrote: »
    Er....what? What a bizarre direction. If anyone had told me they were going to make a movie adaptation of those books, probably the first thing I would have thought is that it would be an anthology film. It's such a natural way to adapt it that of course Hollywood would do the opposite.

    I still feel like LotR being allowed to be made into three films was like

    the product of some kind of planetary conjunction

    I've seen things you people wouldn't believe
  • NobeardNobeard North Carolina: Failed StateRegistered User regular
    Donnicton wrote: »
    Er....what? What a bizarre direction. If anyone had told me they were going to make a movie adaptation of those books, probably the first thing I would have thought is that it would be an anthology film. It's such a natural way to adapt it that of course Hollywood would do the opposite.

    I still feel like LotR being allowed to be made into three films was like

    the product of some kind of planetary conjunction

    Of course we had to pay for that with The Hobbit getting tied to the rack and stretched to three films.

    Hollywood: learning the wrong lesson since forever.

  • TehSpectreTehSpectre Registered User regular
    edited August 2019
    It would have worked fine if the kids' plot (and the "villain's") was better written.

    People expect the connecting threads of an anthology film to be mediocre, but if you're going to make the movie a character-driven narrative, it needs to be sharp.
    The "big bad" was an albino girl named Sarah Bellows who was framed for killing some kids in the late 1800's. She didn't and tried to implicate her family for poisoning the kids because of murcury run-off from the family paper mill and they hanged her to make it look like a suicide. (or just sent her to an institution? It's muddled.)

    The kids pretty much don't believe Sarah murdered a bunch of children within the first 30 minutes of the movie. This robs the audience of any story tension or mystique. Also, while they do take the movie to "solve" what really happened...it doesn't really matter because the family is dead, so there's no real payoff.

    At the end, our heroine gets her own scary story which transports her back in time to live a moment of Sarah's life where the already known abusive family are abusive and the already known innocence of Sarah is shown.

    There's no point of this dang scene. If the girl was thought to be evil most of the movie and the "flashback" showed that it was really the family who was evil, that would be something, but instead it just reiterates what we already know. Blugh.

    Then there's a weird, bittersweet, open-ended final scene where she's going to search for her lost friends with the evil book of stories even though she put Sarah's spirit to rest already?

    Meh. Then the credits get a bad cover of Season of the Witch by Lana Del Ray. :(

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  • ElJeffeElJeffe Moderator, ClubPA mod
    Aquaman is one of the most fearlessly stupid movies I've ever seen. I more or less enjoyed it, but it should've been like 30 minutes shorter.

    Patrick Wilson gets mad props for being able to repeatedly declare I AM OCEANMASTER with a straight face.

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  • KetarKetar Come on upstairs we're having a partyRegistered User regular
    ElJeffe wrote: »
    Aquaman is one of the most fearlessly stupid movies I've ever seen. I more or less enjoyed it, but it should've been like 30 minutes shorter.

    Michael Buffer of the seas gets mad props for being able to repeatedly declare I AM OCEANMASTER with a straight face.

  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    You guys are still on Home Alone?

  • KoopahTroopahKoopahTroopah The koopas, the troopas. Philadelphia, PARegistered User regular
    edited August 2019
    Krathoon wrote: »
    You guys are still on Home Alone?

    Death, taxes, and Macaulay Culkin.

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  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    ElJeffe wrote: »
    Aquaman is one of the most fearlessly stupid movies I've ever seen. I more or less enjoyed it, but it should've been like 30 minutes shorter.

    Patrick Wilson gets mad props for being able to repeatedly declare I AM OCEANMASTER with a straight face.

    I always feel some pity for superhero scripts where they clearly feel like they just have to use the comic name. Like, some of them come naturally, some of them just put a reference in there somewhere that people who don't know the names won't even notice (Like Stane saying they're ironmongers in Iron Man, but never actually using the name for his suit or anything).
    Then there are examples like this, where they just force it in and try to pretend it doesn't sound stupid.

    I feel like Agents of Shield mocked that right at the start with a fire-guy who started calling himself 'Scorch', and everyone else just rolls their eyes.
    Flash on the other hand, races to get each name out there the moment each character is introduced.

    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
  • KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    edited August 2019
    Justice League kind of intrigues me. You had these aliens that were like demons.

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  • Atlas in ChainsAtlas in Chains Registered User regular
    ElJeffe wrote: »
    Aquaman is one of the most fearlessly stupid movies I've ever seen. I more or less enjoyed it, but it should've been like 30 minutes shorter.

    Patrick Wilson gets mad props for being able to repeatedly declare I AM OCEANMASTER with a straight face.

    Can you name another face Patrick Wilson has ever made besides straight face?

    The best part of the entire movie is when that power ranger villain fell down a cliff and somehow managed to hit his head on every rock, tree branch, and outcropping on the way down.

  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    klemming wrote: »
    ElJeffe wrote: »
    Aquaman is one of the most fearlessly stupid movies I've ever seen. I more or less enjoyed it, but it should've been like 30 minutes shorter.

    Patrick Wilson gets mad props for being able to repeatedly declare I AM OCEANMASTER with a straight face.

    I always feel some pity for superhero scripts where they clearly feel like they just have to use the comic name. Like, some of them come naturally, some of them just put a reference in there somewhere that people who don't know the names won't even notice (Like Stane saying they're ironmongers in Iron Man, but never actually using the name for his suit or anything).
    Then there are examples like this, where they just force it in and try to pretend it doesn't sound stupid.

    I feel like Agents of Shield mocked that right at the start with a fire-guy who started calling himself 'Scorch', and everyone else just rolls their eyes.
    Flash on the other hand, races to get each name out there the moment each character is introduced.

    Hah

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    klemming wrote: »
    ElJeffe wrote: »
    Aquaman is one of the most fearlessly stupid movies I've ever seen. I more or less enjoyed it, but it should've been like 30 minutes shorter.

    Patrick Wilson gets mad props for being able to repeatedly declare I AM OCEANMASTER with a straight face.

    I always feel some pity for superhero scripts where they clearly feel like they just have to use the comic name. Like, some of them come naturally, some of them just put a reference in there somewhere that people who don't know the names won't even notice (Like Stane saying they're ironmongers in Iron Man, but never actually using the name for his suit or anything).
    Then there are examples like this, where they just force it in and try to pretend it doesn't sound stupid.

    I feel like Agents of Shield mocked that right at the start with a fire-guy who started calling himself 'Scorch', and everyone else just rolls their eyes.
    Flash on the other hand, races to get each name out there the moment each character is introduced.

    I am pretty sure if Ironman was made today they'd call him Ironmonger straight up.

    Phase 1 people were still kiiiiiinda embarrassed about a lot of comic book silliness in movies.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • ArchangleArchangle Registered User regular
    ElJeffe wrote: »
    Aquaman is one of the most fearlessly stupid movies I've ever seen. I more or less enjoyed it, but it should've been like 30 minutes shorter.

    Patrick Wilson gets mad props for being able to repeatedly declare I AM OCEANMASTER with a straight face.

    Can you name another face Patrick Wilson has ever made besides straight face?
    A-Team probably counts where he looked like he was having a ball as a slimy CIA agent.

    Bonus points for his bromance with Bradley Cooper's Face.

  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    klemming wrote: »
    ElJeffe wrote: »
    Aquaman is one of the most fearlessly stupid movies I've ever seen. I more or less enjoyed it, but it should've been like 30 minutes shorter.

    Patrick Wilson gets mad props for being able to repeatedly declare I AM OCEANMASTER with a straight face.

    I always feel some pity for superhero scripts where they clearly feel like they just have to use the comic name. Like, some of them come naturally, some of them just put a reference in there somewhere that people who don't know the names won't even notice (Like Stane saying they're ironmongers in Iron Man, but never actually using the name for his suit or anything).
    Then there are examples like this, where they just force it in and try to pretend it doesn't sound stupid.

    I feel like Agents of Shield mocked that right at the start with a fire-guy who started calling himself 'Scorch', and everyone else just rolls their eyes.
    Flash on the other hand, races to get each name out there the moment each character is introduced.

    I am pretty sure if Ironman was made today they'd call him Ironmonger straight up.

    Phase 1 people were still kiiiiiinda embarrassed about a lot of comic book silliness in movies.

    I dunno, I don't think they ever called Nat by her comic name in the entire run. Which makes the upcoming Black Widow movie funnier.
    My mom watches them (she isn't up to Endgame yet though), and she heard about the title and thought it was a new character.

    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    klemming wrote: »
    klemming wrote: »
    ElJeffe wrote: »
    Aquaman is one of the most fearlessly stupid movies I've ever seen. I more or less enjoyed it, but it should've been like 30 minutes shorter.

    Patrick Wilson gets mad props for being able to repeatedly declare I AM OCEANMASTER with a straight face.

    I always feel some pity for superhero scripts where they clearly feel like they just have to use the comic name. Like, some of them come naturally, some of them just put a reference in there somewhere that people who don't know the names won't even notice (Like Stane saying they're ironmongers in Iron Man, but never actually using the name for his suit or anything).
    Then there are examples like this, where they just force it in and try to pretend it doesn't sound stupid.

    I feel like Agents of Shield mocked that right at the start with a fire-guy who started calling himself 'Scorch', and everyone else just rolls their eyes.
    Flash on the other hand, races to get each name out there the moment each character is introduced.

    I am pretty sure if Ironman was made today they'd call him Ironmonger straight up.

    Phase 1 people were still kiiiiiinda embarrassed about a lot of comic book silliness in movies.

    I dunno, I don't think they ever called Nat by her comic name in the entire run. Which makes the upcoming Black Widow movie funnier.
    My mom watches them (she isn't up to Endgame yet though), and she heard about the title and thought it was a new character.

    I don't feel like much of anything has changed since phase 1 with respect to how they use names.

  • Dark Raven XDark Raven X Laugh hard, run fast, be kindRegistered User regular
    klemming wrote: »
    klemming wrote: »
    ElJeffe wrote: »
    Aquaman is one of the most fearlessly stupid movies I've ever seen. I more or less enjoyed it, but it should've been like 30 minutes shorter.

    Patrick Wilson gets mad props for being able to repeatedly declare I AM OCEANMASTER with a straight face.

    I always feel some pity for superhero scripts where they clearly feel like they just have to use the comic name. Like, some of them come naturally, some of them just put a reference in there somewhere that people who don't know the names won't even notice (Like Stane saying they're ironmongers in Iron Man, but never actually using the name for his suit or anything).
    Then there are examples like this, where they just force it in and try to pretend it doesn't sound stupid.

    I feel like Agents of Shield mocked that right at the start with a fire-guy who started calling himself 'Scorch', and everyone else just rolls their eyes.
    Flash on the other hand, races to get each name out there the moment each character is introduced.

    I am pretty sure if Ironman was made today they'd call him Ironmonger straight up.

    Phase 1 people were still kiiiiiinda embarrassed about a lot of comic book silliness in movies.

    I dunno, I don't think they ever called Nat by her comic name in the entire run. Which makes the upcoming Black Widow movie funnier.
    My mom watches them (she isn't up to Endgame yet though), and she heard about the title and thought it was a new character.

    Twice! Bruce calls her Widow during the Mjolnir tugging contest in AoU, and Zemo refers to her as Black Widow in Civil War, while he's torturing the Hydra guy.

    Oh brilliant
  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    Hawkeye never gets called anything other than “Clint” or “Barton.” Wanda is always just Wanda. “Black Panther” is a title, not a name. AFAIK they’ve never actually said “Captain Marvel” at all.

    And I’m perfectly okay with all of that. DC’s stubborn adherence to dated aspects of their history and lore has pretty much ruined them for me.

  • JayrichoJayricho Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    The closest to Hawkeye I can remember Clint being called is “The Hawk”. At the beginning of Avengers, Fury asks Selvig where Barton is. Selvig’s reply is “The Hawk? He’s up in his nest”.

  • klemmingklemming Registered User regular
    Sometimes they get used as actual names (Iron Man, Cap), sometimes they're nicknames. But I can't think of an MCU movie moment where someone's gone "Call me... Superhero Name(tm)!" like in a comic you know it'd get the special 3D font effect.

    Nobody remembers the singer. The song remains.
  • ElJeffeElJeffe Moderator, ClubPA mod
    "I'm Doctor Strange."

    "Oh, we're using our made up names! I'm Spiderman."

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  • Dark Raven XDark Raven X Laugh hard, run fast, be kindRegistered User regular
    Jayricho wrote: »
    The closest to Hawkeye I can remember Clint being called is “The Hawk”. At the beginning of Avengers, Fury asks Selvig where Barton is. Selvig’s reply is “The Hawk? He’s up in his nest”.

    Laura calls him Hawkeye as a goof in AoU, because he can't see Nat and Banner are smooching.

    Oh brilliant
  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    klemming wrote: »
    Sometimes they get used as actual names (Iron Man, Cap), sometimes they're nicknames. But I can't think of an MCU movie moment where someone's gone "Call me... Superhero Name(tm)!" like in a comic you know it'd get the special 3D font effect.

    “Batman! There’s a new villain in town! He’s called: MR. FREEZE.”


    Actual dialogue from Batman & Robin

  • ElvenshaeElvenshae Registered User regular
    ElJeffe wrote: »
    "I'm Doctor Strange."

    "Oh, we're using our made up names! I'm Spiderman."

    Also, the introduction sequence from Dr Strange.

    “Well, who am I to judge?”

  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    Atomika wrote: »
    klemming wrote: »
    Sometimes they get used as actual names (Iron Man, Cap), sometimes they're nicknames. But I can't think of an MCU movie moment where someone's gone "Call me... Superhero Name(tm)!" like in a comic you know it'd get the special 3D font effect.

    “Batman! There’s a new villain in town! He’s called: MR. FREEZE.”


    Actual dialogue from Batman & Robin

    Someone got paid to write that.

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