[Movies] The Upcoming Movies Trailer Thread
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Not being familiar with the comic, I don't know what 'too much' of a Catholicism angle would be, but I didn't think there was a lot of Catholic symbolism in the trailer; what did you notice?
Also, although I tend to not enjoy many comics, is there a place where one would 'start' if I wanted to investigate Hellblazer?[DOUBLEPOST=1399916317,1399916286][/DOUBLEPOST]
Whoa.
I think he meant specifically christian perspective dark/gothic horror elements. Hellblazer assumed that -all- religions had some reality behind them, with gods vying for psychic power from believers. So while one day John Constantine might find himself having to deal with classic Catholicism-styled demons from hell, the next he might be tracking down the spirit of a Mayan death-god.
Ah, interesting way to go about it
I like the movie, but I think people would accept it more if it was called something else, because it might as well not be based on the comic at all.
Well, not when other people might see them doing it, obviously.[DOUBLEPOST=1399932706,1399932352][/DOUBLEPOST]
--Patrick
GasBandit
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I wish Black and White had been a little better on the simulation and a little less on the Molyneaux factor.
It was a great concept and quite an experience playing, but do you really need god to tell you where to build each individual house when you're overpopulated and have 25,000 units of wood?
It was a great concept and quite an experience playing, but do you really need god to tell you where to build each individual house when you're overpopulated and have 25,000 units of wood?
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I wish the game hadn't ended up being 80% about managing your pet. I don't have time to be flinging your poo out into the ocean, don't you see I have trees to rearrange? I got GOD business to attend to!
A bit more on topic, though, I am especially enamored of the idea that a god is only as powerful as his worshippers make Him.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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Yeah, that part of the game was very well done. I didn't much care for the pet, either, but I found that if you trained the pet well right at the start, you could pretty much leave him to his own devices (outside of those annoying levels where you were entirely dependent upon the pet, like the stupid eternal-meteor-shower-start-with-nothing level)
I think the best place to start would be with Hellblazer, Vol. 1: Original Sins.
They are currently republishing the collected comics which is helpful and they are currently up to Vol.7
Alternatively you could start by reading Alan Moore's Swamp Thing which is a fantastic series and introduces John Constantine.
That's pretty much what I did with the pet; dance for the people, make them forget what a terrible god I am.
That was one of those "great idea, poor execution" games. Don't know if the sequel was any better.
GasBandit
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I trained mine to water crops and trees obsessively, and even though it was never really proven to help or not, to poop on farmland.
That's what I meant by the Molyneaux factor.
No. God, no.
I remember in the first one, if you played the game on the first of April, your creature's footprints were smiley faces.
STOP MAKING THE MOVIES ABOUT THE FUCKING HUMANS YOU HACK
UGH
UGH
You know, that's not my biggest issue or question.
Mine is, why is there a Transformer smoking a cigar at one point in the trailer?
I like how Markie Mark isn't even trying.
As horrible as that trailer looks, and as bad as the movie will be, I do have to admit that Optimus Prime riding a motherfucking t-rex dinobot into battle is pretty fucking cool.
That's the one with the cigar
... or why he has a mouth at all.
Oh God that's going to be Kup, I just know it. Don't do this to me, you son of a bitch.That's the one with the cigar
[DOUBLEPOST=1400177173,1400177129][/DOUBLEPOST]And if you think a robot with a beard is weird, why have you never wondered why Optimus Prime raises a metal shield to protect his metal mouth in combat.
... or why he has a mouth at all.
Although, speaking of cigars, in the IDW run Kup has a "cigar." He doesn't know why he has it, though.[DOUBLEPOST=1400177625][/DOUBLEPOST]Just looked it up, that might be Hound.
Still, though. Stop it.
Dave
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That picture moved so fast I missed that. How fucking dumb.
Frankly I think that robots that are able to basically take any shape would not be bipedal humanoid in shape to begin with. I rather doubt it's the most efficient form. But you're right, their "brain" is spread out through the body so no one part would be a vulnerable portion to have to hide.
But it's Michael Bay. Things don't have to make sense, they just need to be quickly moving and have big explosions.
Frankly I think that robots that are able to basically take any shape would not be bipedal humanoid in shape to begin with. I rather doubt it's the most efficient form. But you're right, their "brain" is spread out through the body so no one part would be a vulnerable portion to have to hide.
But it's Michael Bay. Things don't have to make sense, they just need to be quickly moving and have big explosions.
You want to know the crazy thing? Michael Bay didn't even want to do these films at first. He only looked into it because Steven Spielberg called him and offered him the job and you don't say no to Spielberg. Once he met with Hasbro and actually learned some stuff about Transformers, then Bay got excited about making them.
That said, I'll probably catch a midnight screening of this and then never see it again. Here's hoping Grimlock is at least awesome on-screen.
To be fair, Shia LeBeauf isn't in this one, therefore already making it 500% better than the last three.
Saw that trailer before Godzilla. I'm in.
If it's time travel through the wormhole, I think I'm out.
Dave
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That's exactly what it's going to be, otherwise there won't be a happy ending. With the crew going into some sort of cryogenic sleep and going presumably on an interstellar romp, the kids would be dead for a while by the time they got back.
I predict that the wormhole will allow them to leave and come back to precisely the same time so there's no lag at all, which is just stupid. But Hollywood just doesn't understand science or if they do they assume we're too dumb to know the difference.