[Movies] Talk about the last movie you saw 2: Electric Threadaloo

mikerc

mikerc

It loses points for no Raul Julia, but I quite like the animated SFII movie from the mid 90's. Ridiculous plot, but it's really about an excuse to show the characters fighting which it does well enough.

Also, depending on your opinion on whether cartoon ladies are sexy they have a scene of Chun-Li in the shower & then attacked by Vega before she gets dressed.
 
Frank

Frank

It's also supposedly an 80/20 split between real world and animus world. So it's going to be mostly about people in a room talking about the past.

Also, Advent Children is fucking terrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrible. It's decent action interspersed with nonsensical, NONSENSICAL, nonsense.

Also, it's CG isn't aging well.
 
Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

Null said:
can't translate as a movie because too much of the horror of the experience is in the immersion and tension you experience as a player, the creeping dread and horrors that you invest time into. It's not nearly as scary watching it compressed (giving it no time to build up tension) and removed by being a passive experience.
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i'm asking this half-seriously, have you ever seen a good horror movie? Like once? A great director/movie can build dread and tension in seconds, without 30 hours of opening doors.
 
Frank

Frank

Charlie Don't Surf said:
i'm asking this half-seriously, have you ever seen a good horror movie? Like once? A great director/movie can build dread and tension in seconds, without 30 hours of opening doors.
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This is true, but also in my case I've never watched a horror movie that put me into the state I got into playing Amnesia. Horror games and movies are different animals.[DOUBLEPOST=1478099224,1478099110][/DOUBLEPOST]
Null said:
The Resident Evil series just gets worse as it goes on.
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Nah, they've gotten better. They stopped being utterly mediocre shitty horror movies and have become amazingly terrible shlocky action movies designed entirely by one man trying to keep his wife interested.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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AshburnerX said:
RE 1 is a perfectly servicable horror movie.
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The laser hallway scene though...

Not that standard horror movies don't have their share of dumb moments. "NO, Don't go in THERE, stupid!"

Ravenpoe said:
I feel like Event Horizon was a pretty good Doom movie.
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LIBERATE TUTEMET EX INFERIS[DOUBLEPOST=1478101145,1478101071][/DOUBLEPOST]
bhamv3 said:
I'd go for Advent Children and Street Fighter,
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Advent Children was near unwatchable, and that's coming from a FF7 fan.

Street Fighter was so bad it killed Raul Julia. They told us it was cancer, but we all know it was really Street Fighter.
 
phil

phil

I saw Bram Stoker's Dracula the other day to finish out scary movie month.

The phrase that most comes to mind during watching is "lol wtf is this?"

The start is ok. I like the visuals going on for the most part. When the carriage comes to pick up Keanu it looks kind of eerie. the effect of the shadows not matching Dracula's movements is neat, but quickly goes to "yeah we get it" territory. there just gets to be so much 'look at this, now ok look at this, and now look at this!' cuts and segments

It's also just boring. like for having vampires, werewolves, nudity and violence I was bored as hell halfway through. I mean I don't know how but a movie where Gary Oldman dressed like a werewolf gives the business to a redhead was just plain boring. I dunno how you do that, but they did it.

4/10 and that's just because Gary Oldman is awesome as usual. Even Anthony Hopkins was just ok in this.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

phil said:
I saw Bram Stoker's Dracula the other day to finish out scary movie month.

The phrase that most comes to mind during watching is "lol wtf is this?"

The start is ok. I like the visuals going on for the most part. When the carriage comes to pick up Keanu it looks kind of eerie. the effect of the shadows not matching Dracula's movements is neat, but quickly goes to "yeah we get it" territory. there just gets to be so much 'look at this, now ok look at this, and now look at this!' cuts and segments

It's also just boring. like for having vampires, werewolves, nudity and violence I was bored as hell halfway through. I mean I don't know how but a movie where Gary Oldman dressed like a werewolf gives the business to a redhead was just plain boring. I dunno how you do that, but they did it.

4/10 and that's just because Gary Oldman is awesome as usual. Even Anthony Hopkins was just ok in this.
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This movie has such great visuals and music, but feels like it has barely any content, and it's a lot to ask someone to sit through at length for just the visuals and music.

The climax is one of those situations where they're trying to make a dull situation seem much more exciting than it is. A movie like this needed to end with a confrontation, not a really lame action beat.
 
strawman

strawman

figmentPez said:
Yeah, but how often are tentacles involved?
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Weren't there tentacles involved in the opening scenes of the 1983 bond film Octopussy?[DOUBLEPOST=1478146960,1478146816][/DOUBLEPOST]If not, opportunity missed.

But then that was the one where the horse had a jet engine installed in it as one of bonds gadgets, so I think a lot of bond enthusiasts would like to pretend that one didn't exist.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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figmentPez said:
Yeah, but how often are tentacles involved?
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Well, uh... Thunderball's was underwater... in fact, most of them also have a reflecting water theme... You only live twice had japanese chicks...

And octopussy implies it in the title![DOUBLEPOST=1478147459,1478147254][/DOUBLEPOST]And really, the reason for the octopus imagery in spectre was because the octopus is the Spectre logo. I mean, really, it's not such a leap :p
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

GasBandit said:
Well, uh... Thunderball's was underwater... in fact, most of them also have a reflecting water theme... You only live twice had japanese chicks...

And octopussy implies it in the title![DOUBLEPOST=1478147459,1478147254][/DOUBLEPOST]And really, the reason for the octopus imagery in spectre was because the octopus is the Spectre logo. I mean, really, it's not such a leap :p
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It's just evoking classic art.

slighty nsfw

 
bhamv3

bhamv3

Ravenpoe said:
It's just evoking classic art.

slighty nsfw

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True story, I had a discussion with some classmates when I was in graduate school about the cultural implications of tentacle porn, and I cited this image as evidence that tentacle porn has cultural implications at all.

And then our professor, who happens to be a Jesuit priest, walked in, and asked us what we were talking about. We said we were talking about cross-cultural influences.
 
Null

Null

bhamv3 said:
True story, I had a discussion with some classmates when I was in graduate school about the cultural implications of tentacle porn, and I cited this image as evidence that tentacle porn has cultural implications at all.

And then our professor, who happens to be a Jesuit priest, walked in, and asked us what we were talking about. We said we were talking about cross-cultural influences.
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Well, I mean, you're not wrong...
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

My only insanely microscopic doesn't ruin the movie but is still weird qualm...anyone else think Cumberbatch's American voice makes him sound like Downey's Tony Stark?
 
Gryfter

Gryfter

I actually thought he was doing House especially at the beginning, he and Hugh Laurie pitch their voice in similar ways when they speak American.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

So I'm watching Captain America: Snowpiercer. It's pretty great, but when do The Avengers show up to rescue him from the train?

And who knew The War Doctor was part of Marvel continuity?

Also, the global warming cover-up must be the work of Loki. He unleashed the Bi-Frost again, didn't he?

Snowpiercer

EDIT: Finished it and yeah, that was pretty solid. Definitely worth checking out. Some really great ideas, fantastic directing and action sequences, and overall good movie. Though as I think about more and more, there are many logistic problems with the idea or at least how it's presented.

Plus...(ending spoilers)
The ending really doesn't feel as uplifting as the movie wants it to be. The two apparent last survivors are stuck in the mountains? They're basically dead, right? That polar bear in the last shot must be thinking, "Oh cool. Lunch."
 
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Frank

Frank

Liked Dr. Strange quite a bit.

DORFUCKINGMAMMU LOOKED AWESOME. I really liked the way Strange beat him too.
 
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Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Goodnight Mommy: Meh.

I'm surprised this was getting strong reviews. The pace is pretty lethargic and none of the characters are all that engaging or interesting. It's really hard to give a shit about what's going on until it gets to a point where it's just trying to gross the audience out. It's hard to draw tension when you're not interested in the characters. The movie also thinks it's a lot more clever than it is--maybe it wasn't supposed to be a twist, but the movie pretends it is at least, and you can call it 5 minutes into the movie. There's some parallels to be drawn to The Babadook, but that was a more engaging film.

Was really hoping for a good horror movie tonight. I'll try The Witch and hope that's better.
 
Dave

Dave

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Miss Peregrin's Home for Peculiar Children

It was okay...I guess. I mean, the cast was bloody amazing and the story was pretty cool, but the ending and basic premise just made very little sense to me.
All of these kids and they've never fought back before? And his dad just...stayed on the island while the kid disappeared?
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

Dave said:
Miss Peregrin's Home for Peculiar Children

It was okay...I guess. I mean, the cast was bloody amazing and the story was pretty cool, but the ending and basic premise just made very little sense to me.
All of these kids and they've never fought back before? And his dad just...stayed on the island while the kid disappeared?
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The story makes more sense in the books. The movie changed a lot of details of how Wights (Mr. Bannon and boys) both work and operate.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

The Witch was ... better. This has been described as slow, but compared to the last movie I saw, nope.

Most of it was good, but I felt like it never hit much of a third act and the filmmakers weren't sure how to end the movie. Also I had to keep turning on captions because they wanted to the dialogue to sound authentic for the time. But despite that stuff, a lot of good scenes and tension, and I overall was into it.
 
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