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Sierra · « **Reply #1925 on:** July 28, 2013, 10:10:23 PM »

Apparently he's also Tyrion Lannister.

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #1926 on:** July 28, 2013, 11:39:49 PM »

Quote from: Hunter Sopko on July 22, 2013, 02:21:04 AM

Pacific Rim: Apocalypse cancelled. Fucking great time.

Indeed. I found it amusing that it took until Mark V Jaegers were designed for someone to say "maybe we should put the best weapons in the torso" though. I was like "bitch that's half the reason a Hunchback is better than YLW*"

*the other half is that YLW tends to be piloted by a whiny, unlikable tool.

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #1927 on:** July 31, 2013, 02:21:00 AM »

The Wolverine: Wow Mariko is pretty. Also pretty good aside from the first major action sequence. Good emotional core, which's been missing from the X-films for a while, nice to see it again.

Captain K. · « **Reply #1928 on:** August 03, 2013, 11:21:12 PM »

Gundam vs Godzilla: This is gonna make a billion dollars when it releases in Japan.

DjinnAndTonic · « **Reply #1929 on:** August 08, 2013, 05:47:48 PM »

It's pretty old news in Japan, isn't it?

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #1930 on:** August 08, 2013, 11:05:18 PM »

It just released in Japan last weekend. No idea why they held off so long on the Japanese and Chinese release. Came out in Korea same weekend as US

Shale · « **Reply #1931 on:** August 08, 2013, 11:06:18 PM »

Supposedly the studio is now pushing for a sequel based on the Chinese box office alone.

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #1932 on:** August 08, 2013, 11:17:06 PM »

Yeah, they did ~45 million in China on opening weekend alone. No figures for Japan yet. Runaway hits do 10 mil opening weekend, so we'll see.

More reasons, Pacific Rim's 45 mil opening weekend actually puts it at #4 All Time for opening weekends in China.

DjinnAndTonic · « **Reply #1933 on:** August 09, 2013, 04:19:33 AM »

By "Old news in Japan", I meant "Isn't Japan already pretty inundated with giant robots and godzilla-clones?" I suppose it'll be pretty novel for them to have Western actors in it...

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #1934 on:** August 09, 2013, 09:07:33 AM »

Quote from: DjinnAndTonic on August 09, 2013, 04:19:33 AM

By "Old news in Japan", I meant "Isn't Japan already pretty inundated with giant robots and godzilla-clones?" I suppose it'll be pretty novel for them to have Western actors in it...

They don't usually have the $180 million budget of Pacific Rim.

Shale · « **Reply #1935 on:** August 25, 2013, 06:03:29 AM »

The World's End: awesome. I didn't like it quite as much as Hot Fuzz, but it's up there with Shaun of the Dead. Very funny, lots of well managed chaos, and an ending that feels a little clunky but also puts a nice philosophical capstone on the Cornetto trilogy. And the cast is fantastic, of course.

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #1936 on:** August 25, 2013, 07:27:34 AM »

Quote from: Shale on August 25, 2013, 06:03:29 AM

The World's End: awesome. I didn't like it quite as much as Hot Fuzz, but it's up there with Shaun of the Dead. Very funny, lots of well managed chaos, and an ending that feels a little clunky but also puts a nice philosophical capstone on the Cornetto trilogy. And the cast is fantastic, of course.

Pretty much this. Not just the ending that feels clunky, though. For each genre they blend in the elements from them miss out on complete examination and development. Love the pubs though.

Sierra · « **Reply #1937 on:** September 01, 2013, 09:10:25 PM »

Yeah. Not as good as Hot Fuzz (but then very few things are), possibly better than Shaun of the Dead. Need to watch it again to be sure, so many callbacks in Hot Fuzz you miss the first time through that I'd imagine the same holds true here. Went a bit squiffy at the end but still quite satisfying as a whole.

Absolutely genius use of the Sisters of Mercy.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #1938 on:** September 07, 2013, 07:27:37 AM »

Shakespeare in Love - I have always considered myself a romantic but I tend to find romantic movies to be corny as fuck. That's pretty much how I feel about this one. I love most of the side characters, from the smug nobleman with the villain stache to Mercutio to the rat kid who is the secret villain to the MORALITY police. And Judi Dench is boss. Too bad the movie has a serious case of the overblown sappy romance story that modern movies love(and hell, a love which R&J seems to be satiring, which is a play incorporated in the movie). Incidentally, it feels like Will and Viola have less interaction than even R&J do, since all they do is have sex and make out because that's what relationships consist of?

To summarize, it is fine but I want better romance!

Meeplelard · « **Reply #1939 on:** September 07, 2013, 02:28:24 PM »

The Impossible: Only saw this because mother got it from Netflix and kept bugging me about it, so whatever. Don't really have a strong impression of the movie, either way.

Captain K. · « **Reply #1940 on:** September 08, 2013, 02:49:38 AM »

City of Bones: Started decently, then got progressively worse. Much like Wild Arms 3!

They do get bonus points for no less than 5 different Ghostbusters references though. Then again, I think the director would probably rather be remaking Ghostbusters than working on this shit movie.

Fenrir · « **Reply #1941 on:** September 14, 2013, 07:29:50 PM »

Toy Story 2: Watched with my nephews.
Way to guilt trip people about their objects.
I'm sure this movie has done a lot of damage to emotional people now too impacted by this movie to throw away their old chairs or something.
I'm now morbidly curious about the third one, since all signs point to this being an even bigger mega guilt trip.

Sierra · « **Reply #1942 on:** September 14, 2013, 08:14:35 PM »

It is, but it's also a much better movie.

Meeplelard · « **Reply #1943 on:** September 15, 2013, 02:28:58 AM »

The 3rd movie is probably my favorite of the 3. I was never a huge fan of the first, to be fair (though it's not bad by any means, mind you, just saying you won't see my raving about it), but whatever.

Big thing the third movie does is handle the whole idea of "Growing Up" in a kind of bitter sweet way, one that many can somewhat relate to, while not being actually emo about it, and you don't really feel bad about any of the characters in question.

It also has the only villain I know of who smells like strawberries which pretty much invalidates all negative arguments you can say about said villain!

Idun · « **Reply #1944 on:** September 15, 2013, 07:18:47 PM »

Quote from: Luther Lansfeld on September 07, 2013, 07:27:37 AM

Shakespeare in Love - I have always considered myself a romantic but I tend to find romantic movies to be corny as fuck. That's pretty much how I feel about this one. I love most of the side characters, from the smug nobleman with the villain stache to Mercutio to the rat kid who is the secret villain to the MORALITY police. And Judi Dench is boss. Too bad the movie has a serious case of the overblown sappy romance story that modern movies love(and hell, a love which R&J seems to be satiring, which is a play incorporated in the movie). Incidentally, it feels like Will and Viola have less interaction than even R&J do, since all they do is have sex and make out because that's what relationships consist of?

To summarize, it is fine but I want better romance!

What kind of romance? I have a humongous list, but it really depends on several different productive aspects. So you like loving-vibing relationships so long as it doesn't inundate the movie with "sappy" scenes? And relationships with "substance"? You know, romance movies pre-1950s weren't much different, and if at all more offensive for taking normative relationships between men and women too seriously.

Let's see...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Before Sunrise -> Before Sunset -> Before Midnight. Although I would caution that the first two films are incredibly dialogue-driven to the point of exhaustion and a bit dated.
The Adjustment Bureau
The Painted Veil.

I'll suggest more afterwards.

Sierra · « **Reply #1945 on:** September 16, 2013, 02:28:13 AM »

Quote from: helvetica on September 15, 2013, 07:18:47 PM

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Obliged to second this (haven't seen the others) as it's one of my favorite movies.

Grefter · « **Reply #1946 on:** September 16, 2013, 03:02:25 AM »

Adjustment Bureau would be the movie I watched on the plane the year it came out and was baffled why they marketed it as a romance movie with action. When it is really a movie about predestination VS free will and both romance and action are kind of incidental.

Fucking rad movie though, I do need to get around to reading the Dick story. One of the more quality Dick adaptations.

Clear Tranquil · « **Reply #1947 on:** September 16, 2013, 07:57:05 AM »

Tristan and Isolde!? *flee*~

Sierra · « **Reply #1948 on:** September 16, 2013, 11:09:59 AM »

Quote from: Grefter on September 16, 2013, 03:02:25 AM

Adjustment Bureau would be the movie I watched on the plane the year it came out and was baffled why they marketed it as a romance movie with action. When it is really a movie about predestination VS free will and both romance and action are kind of incidental.

Fucking rad movie though, I do need to get around to reading the Dick story. One of the more quality Dick adaptations.

So it's a movie about ideas. And does either Hollywood or the general viewing public typically know what to do with those? Of course they marketed it as something else.

Grefter · « **Reply #1949 on:** September 16, 2013, 02:29:23 PM »

Well I even oversell the "action" there. It is essentially people running through a bunch of doors.

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