Movie News & Miscellany

[PatrThom]

Is Hollywood really getting lazier, or awe just more prone to notice nowadays?

http://everythingisaremix.info/
Basically as you get older, you have an increasingly likely chance to have seen a previous version during your lifetime, so the older you get, the more often it happens.
Now you know why @Dave is so into this VR thing.

plenty of classic films are based on something already (Apocalypse Now is based on Heart of Darkness, for example)

Don't forget Cannibal Women in the Avacado Jungle of Death.

--Patrick

 

[Dave]

I'm into the VR because it's fucking cool!! Also, it's rare that I'm able to participate in ground-breaking technology at the ground level. I'm usually way behind the curve.

Besides, I have to experience what I can before I inevitably die from old age.

 

[PatrThom]

Besides, I have to experience what I can before I inevitably die from old age.

Perhaps you can challenge Death to a VR battle and stave off the inevitable.

--Patrick

 

[Bubble181]

Besides, I have to experience what I can before I inevitably die from old age.

I thought you were definite proof positive that just "old age" wasn't actually a cause of death?

 

[PatrThom]

It's "complications arising from old age"

--Patrick

 

[evilmike]

Perhaps you can challenge Death to a VR battle and stave off the inevitable.

--Patrick

I imagine it would go something more like this:

 

[PatrThom]

I've seen that movie in the theater.
In Spain.

--Patrick

 

[filmfanatic]

Willem Dafoe will be voicing Ryuk in Netflix's live-action Death Note film.

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/ne...ice-ryuk-the-shinigami-in-netflixs-death-note

 

[GasBandit]

Willem Dafoe will be voicing Ryuk in Netflix's live-action Death Note film.

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/ne...ice-ryuk-the-shinigami-in-netflixs-death-note

He could pretty much portray him live, as well, with barely any makeup involved [DOUBLEPOST=1470173299,1470173200][/DOUBLEPOST](reads link)

Whoa whoa whoa... Light TURNER? Ok, usually I yawn when people gripe about whitewashing anime movies, but that just feels like something trying to go in the out door.

 

[Ravenpoe]

I'm into the VR because it's fucking cool!! Also, it's rare that I'm able to participate in ground-breaking technology at the ground level. I'm usually way behind the curve.

Besides, I have to experience what I can before I inevitably die from old age.

Have you tried Raw Data yet? It has coop...

 

[Kovac]

Yup. A great many of the films that are considered great are either adaptations or remakes. We're just more aware of it now.

And I think as time passes people forget the movie's source material and begin to think of the film as original. The Godfather is the perfect example of this.

I have wondered for some time now if our ever growing artificial memory would put an end to our imagined ability to create ever original content.

That one day we would realize that there is no new music to create - every possible combination of notes has been used.

And at that realization, society will collapse, all knowledge will be lost and we can start it all over again.

 

[Hailey Knight]

I have wondered for some time now if our ever growing artificial memory would put an end to our imagined ability to create ever original content.

That one day we would realize that there is no new music to create - every possible combination of notes has been used.

And at that realization, society will collapse, all knowledge will be lost and we can start it all over again.

 

[Bubble181]

something trying to go in the out door.

 

[GasBandit]

That one day we would realize that there is no new music to create - every possible combination of notes has been used.

That is pretty much numerically impossible. Though, granted, we have a tendency to limit ourselves to the same four chords.

 

[Denbrought]

All music has already been "created", insofar as you can pipe π (or any non-terminating real fraction) to a suitable format and obtain every single composition possible, eventually.

What matters is the music that has been played.

 

[evilmike]

That is pretty much numerically impossible. Though, granted, we have a tendency to limit ourselves to the same four chords.

All music has already been "created", insofar as you can pipe π (or any non-terminating real fraction) to a suitable format and obtain every single composition possible, eventually.

Harold Finch would approve:

 

[GasBandit]

 

[CynicismKills]

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HIM YOU MONSTERS

[DOUBLEPOST=1470365748,1470365568][/DOUBLEPOST]WHY DOES HE LOOK LIKE BOUSHH

 

[bhamv3]

Are they planning on introducing Rodimus Prime?

 

[CynicismKills]

Are they planning on introducing Rodimus Prime?

Honestly I don't know. Outside of this image and the one Frank posted I don't know anything about this movie and much like the previous entry I'm going to avoid it.

 

[Frank]

Gormless mess of a robot design that doesn't even vaguely look appealing.

Yup, that's new Transformers

 

[SpecialKO]

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HIM YOU MONSTERS

 

[Yoshimickster]

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO HIM YOU MONSTERS

[DOUBLEPOST=1470365748,1470365568][/DOUBLEPOST]WHY DOES HE LOOK LIKE BOUSHH

For a second I read that as Hot SHOT, made me feel sad. Then my brain stopped protecting me and I read it as "Hot Rod"...now I'm crying.

 

[Frank]

So, it's the 30th anniversary of the original Transformers movie hitting theaters. It's also, the 30th Anniversary of the first movie I ever saw in theaters.

This bit of animation still gives me a nostalgic goosebumps to this very day:

Hell, the whole transformation.

 

[CynicismKills]

For a time, I considered sparing your wretched little planet Cybertron.

But now

you shall witness

ITS DISMEMBERMENT

Fucking 10/10

 

[ThatNickGuy]

Ba weep granna weep ninny bong!

 

[Frank]

I sicken most people I know by being able to recite the entire script from memory.

 

[GasBandit]

I wanted to see it in theaters, but my grandma didn't, and she was buying the tickets, so we went to see Flight of the Navigator instead.

But it's ok. I had a little brother, so I later got to watch it 7000 times on VHS at home.

 

[AshburnerX]

I wanted to see it in theaters, but my grandma didn't, and she was buying the tickets, so we went to see Flight of the Navigator instead.

But it's ok. I had a little brother, so I later got to watch it 7000 times on VHS at home.

To be fair, I have many a fond memory of Flight of the Navigator. And Explorers... which is apparently getting a remake?

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

Beast Wars was my jam. My 1st or 2nd online screen name ever was some part "Rattrap", since he was my favorite. His catchphrase "We're all gonna die!" introduced me to nihilism as a philosophy.

 

[CynicismKills]

I sicken most people I know by being able to recite the entire script from memory.

Yeah, I didn't have to look up that last post. Every time I watch the movie I catch myself reciting it even if I'm doing something else.

 

[PatrThom]

I had a little brother, so I later got to watch it 7000 times on VHS at home.

It's still one of those movies I own on VHS, but have never watched.
I've watched the GIJoe movie, though.

--Patrick

 

[Denbrought]

YMS' 2014 list is out. Just finished watching it, and I have quite a few additions to my watchlist from it.

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

if you don't want to watch 120 minutes - http://www.imdb.com/list/ls058598068/ - goes to ~30

Lego Movie at 7 is laughable, Gone Girl is a good pick, Under The Skin and Nightcrawler should be higher.

mine, just for argument's sake, although i only saw 62 movies that year

Under the Skin
Gone Girl
Nightcrawler
Whiplash
Birdman
Foxcatcher
John Wick
Lucy
Big Hero 6
The One I Love

 

[bhamv3]

Lucy

I'm curious as to why you've got Lucy on your list.