I miss when we’d get 2 similar action movies back to back and could do a direct comparison of them.
Was the last time this happened the two about DC and the president being attacked? And they both got sequels with another famous city being attacked?
Wikipedia calls these "twin films" and has a whole entry about them. They have the most recent as being Violent Night and The Mean One, which I don't think fit together quite as well as pairings like the White House action movies or Deep Impact and Armageddon or Dante's Peak and Volcano.
On the other hand, the item before that is the two Pinocchio movies that came out last year.
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KetarCome on upstairswe're having a partyRegistered Userregular
Well shit, way to take way too long typing that up self.
I miss when we’d get 2 similar action movies back to back and could do a direct comparison of them.
Was the last time this happened the two about DC and the president being attacked? And they both got sequels with another famous city being attacked?
Wikipedia calls these "twin films" and has a whole entry about them. They have the most recent as being Violent Night and The Mean One, which I don't think fit together quite as well as pairings like the White House action movies or Deep Impact and Armageddon or Dante's Peak and Volcano.
On the other hand, the item before that is the two Pinocchio movies that came out last year.
The three Pinocchio movies that came out last year
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The third has fallen movie has a scene where they set off mines that goes on for 3 minutes and it is the dumbest thing. It's great
Next summer: The Moon has Fallen: Gerard Butler fights terrorists on, and in the Moon. And then he fights the Moon itself in order to save the President
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Next summer: The Moon has Fallen: Gerard Butler fights terrorists on, and in the Moon. And then he fights the Moon itself in order to save the President
Next summer: The Moon has Fallen: Gerard Butler fights terrorists on, and in the Moon. And then he fights the Moon itself in order to save the President
Not Gerard Butler but watch Moon Fall
Or just take a nap and enjoy your afternoon that much more.
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Moon Fall rules!
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DepressperadoI just wanted to see you laughingin the pizza rainRegistered Userregular
edited January 2023
Moonfall was dope I went to see it and it obviously wasn't packed, but there was a dude who was like, scoffing at scientific inaccuracies, some real Neil Degrasse Tyson shit
eventually, the dude a few seats down from me yelled "SHUT UP NERD, NO ONE CARES"
edit: "movie 'bout an evil moon and this guy talking about how spaceships don't work and that."
Depressperado on
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KalTorakOne way or another, they all end up inthe Undercity.Registered Userregular
Frank Conniff likes Moonfall, so at worst it's a good bad movie
Johnny ChopsockyScootaloo! We have to cook!Grillin' HaysenburgersRegistered Userregular
God, I hated Moonfall. Just an endless cavalcade of me going "Oh hey, you could do something real cool with that setup. So... are you?" and Moonfall replying "Fuck no, we're not gonna do the cool thing."
I could have sworn there was already a Gerald Butler vs the Moon movie but no, I was thinking of Geostorm. Gerard Butler vs a Space Station/Weather machine.
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Gerard butler will fight anything in a movie. Just point him in the right direction, wind him up, and he’ll go punch String Theory in the face for a paycheck.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
I also don't think the intended targets of The Menu are exclusively, or even most predominantly, the food industry
Like, regardless of how well it hit the targets it was aiming for, I have a hard time looking at a film that
includes among its victims a snooty fan who thinks he knows everything but cant make his own thing, a critic, mindless consumers who cant remember the things they consumed, and very specifically a sell-out actor, and going "this film is taking aim at the food industry"
In fact, id argue when it tries to specifically bring the metaphor back closer to the food industry is when the seams started to show for me and when the movie felt the broadest
This was why I thought Menu could be about movies, because it could be
the youtuber who can't actually shoot anything but pretends to know everything, entitled critics are somewhat universal, the people who watch movies (especially franchise movies) just to check off a box and not even caring about the movie itself, and sell-out actors
I think it's much more broadly about how
capitalism elevates and eventually destroys art through greed
regardless of what medium/industry we're talking about
I could have sworn there was already a Gerald Butler vs the Moon movie but no, I was thinking of Geostorm. Gerard Butler vs a Space Station/Weather machine.
Don't forget Gerard Butler vs Meteors in Greenland
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I could have sworn there was already a Gerald Butler vs the Moon movie but no, I was thinking of Geostorm. Gerard Butler vs a Space Station/Weather machine.
Don't forget Gerard Butler vs Meteors in Greenland
Or Gerard butler versus gravity in plane
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Johnny ChopsockyScootaloo! We have to cook!Grillin' HaysenburgersRegistered Userregular
What Moonfall presupposes is, what if the moon... Fell?
Yes…but so much more
I'd argue that it presupposes even less than that. The whole affair feels so muted and mhall compared to the usual Emmerich insanity, which is insane given the subject matter. It says weird dumb things instead of doing weird fun things.
I bounced off it like I bounced off Carter: it was a bland lifeless disaster instead of a fun insane disaster.
Plane was actually pretty good? Like, it was just a solid mindless popcorn action flick, and it was smart enough to keep things short and efficient. Some great cinematography for the chaos of plane crashes/fighting, too.
I'm sorry, I looked up the plot synopsis as I didn't think it'd be for me but...
THAT'S HOW IT ENDS?
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edited January 2023
The greatest sin of the Synderverse is making Cavill play Superman as stoic. Superman should enjoy helping people! He should treat every life saved and disaster averted as being a positive and a big win, and he should get to have fun with his dual identities. And he should've got a chance to do some hero shit as Clark Kent, helping people with the pen as well as with his might. Pin some corrupt politician or abusive police to the wall with an expose and feel just as good about that as he does catching a falling piece of building before it hits the crowded street below.
Superman and Batman are supposed to be two sides of the hero coin: the one who protects as an obligation to prevent what happened to him from happening to others, and the one who protects because they genuinely enjoy helping people. If they're both brooding and stoic, then why do you even need both when you've essentially written the same character twice?
When I die I’ll be very angry and it’ll be because a) of what they did to Kelly Marie Tran in Rise of Skywalker, and b) because of what Zach Snyder did to Superman.
When I die I’ll be very angry and it’ll be because a) of what they did to Kelly Marie Tran in Rise of Skywalker, and b) because of what Zach Snyder did to Superman.
Don't wait until you die BE ANGRY NOW!
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When I die I’ll be very angry and it’ll be because a) of what they did to Kelly Marie Tran in Rise of Skywalker, and b) because of what Zach Snyder did to Superman.
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There’s quite a few on that list that I do not consider to be twin films at all.
Wikipedia calls these "twin films" and has a whole entry about them. They have the most recent as being Violent Night and The Mean One, which I don't think fit together quite as well as pairings like the White House action movies or Deep Impact and Armageddon or Dante's Peak and Volcano.
On the other hand, the item before that is the two Pinocchio movies that came out last year.
Get out of here ya long winded bastard!
What about movies starring Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen?
The three Pinocchio movies that came out last year
Not Gerard Butler but watch Moon Fall
Or just take a nap and enjoy your afternoon that much more.
eventually, the dude a few seats down from me yelled "SHUT UP NERD, NO ONE CARES"
edit: "movie 'bout an evil moon and this guy talking about how spaceships don't work and that."
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Yes…but so much more
I think it's much more broadly about how
Don't forget Gerard Butler vs Meteors in Greenland
Or Gerard butler versus gravity in plane
I'd argue that it presupposes even less than that. The whole affair feels so muted and mhall compared to the usual Emmerich insanity, which is insane given the subject matter. It says weird dumb things instead of doing weird fun things.
I bounced off it like I bounced off Carter: it was a bland lifeless disaster instead of a fun insane disaster.
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Watch Tar
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Love this little murderbot
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I liked him a whole lot in that there Mission Impossible movie. MFU was definitely a better role for him, but MI was still pretty fun.
I'm sorry, I looked up the plot synopsis as I didn't think it'd be for me but...
THAT'S HOW IT ENDS?
Superman and Batman are supposed to be two sides of the hero coin: the one who protects as an obligation to prevent what happened to him from happening to others, and the one who protects because they genuinely enjoy helping people. If they're both brooding and stoic, then why do you even need both when you've essentially written the same character twice?
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Don't wait until you die BE ANGRY NOW!
You are right for saying it.