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Post by frinspar on Jun 21, 2020 23:42:36 GMT -5
I always forget how dumb Thunderdome is until I get to the kids and that proto-Nux fuckhead mime. I still really like Tina's song, and "Ain't we a pair, Raggedy Man" still comes out of my mouth occasionally.
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Post by GhostRider5289 on Jun 22, 2020 0:23:19 GMT -5
Shame it takes such a hard left turn since the Thunderdome fight with Blaster was pretty cool.
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Post by okcomputer on Jun 22, 2020 10:11:42 GMT -5
Is Thunderdome the one with Bruce Spence on the mini-copter? That thing is cool, and the only thing I remember from that movie, unless I got the wrong movie then I don't really remember anything from Thunderdome.
I prefer the Dre & Tupac video.
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Post by ravenmaniac on Jun 22, 2020 13:09:37 GMT -5
Bruce Spence and the gyro were in both. The scene where we meet his son is pretty hilarious.
What drove me crazy about Thunderdome is how the kids were even there in the first place. They had kids there that looked as young as 5. If that's the case, then there had to be parents around 5 years earlier. How is it that the kids ended up there (left there? parents died?), and in 5 years came up with the crazy Captain Woooka story and lost the ability to correctly speak the English language? Just lazy writing.
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Post by ravenmaniac on Jun 22, 2020 13:26:01 GMT -5
Is Thunderdome the one with Bruce Spence on the mini-copter? That thing is cool, and the only thing I remember from that movie, unless I got the wrong movie then I don't really remember anything from Thunderdome. I prefer the Dre & Tupac video. Jedidiah's airplane is a Transavia PL-12 "Airtruk", a single-engine agricultural biplane designed by Transavia in Australia. First flown in 1965, around one hundred twenty had been built by the time this movie was made.
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Post by S. Griffin on Jun 22, 2020 16:31:08 GMT -5
Bruce Spence and the gyro were in both. The scene where we meet his son is pretty hilarious. Bruce Spence is in both The Road Warrior and Thunderdome, but the gyrocopter is only in the Road Warrior. In Thunderdome he has a plane, and George Miller says he's supposed to be a different character from the last movie.
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Post by ravenmaniac on Jun 23, 2020 7:47:24 GMT -5
Bruce Spence and the gyro were in both. The scene where we meet his son is pretty hilarious. Bruce Spence is in both The Road Warrior and Thunderdome, but the gyrocopter is only in the Road Warrior. In Thunderdome he has a plane, and George Miller says he's supposed to be a different character from the last movie. I did notice on imdb.com that his character was The Gyro Captain in Road Warrior and Jedediah in Thunderdome. I figured when I read that that he just wasn't important enough in the first one to have a name but it was the same character. I had forgotten he had a plane in Thunderdome. I just figured in Thunderdome they just ran into the same guy who now has a son. So a tall lanky guy who's a pilot but they're supposed to be different characters? That's pretty dumb.
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Post by S. Griffin on Jun 23, 2020 11:45:57 GMT -5
Thunderdome is pretty dumb. I don't know what George Miller was thinking when he made that shit.
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Post by frinspar on Jun 23, 2020 12:11:33 GMT -5
It was just one long 80s music video. Without the music.
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Post by okcomputer on Jun 23, 2020 13:41:18 GMT -5
Whatever he was thinking, after he made it he thought "I'm gonna wait 30 or so years and blow everybody's tits off with the best goddamn action movie I can possibly make". And he did, and it was good.
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Post by frinspar on Jul 19, 2020 13:29:14 GMT -5
I finally saw Pluto Nash. What a piece of shit. Some movies can be forgiven after some time, edges dulled, a little nostalgic sheen on them. Not this one. The only funny thing in it was the slot machine on wheels.
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Post by S. Griffin on Jul 19, 2020 17:16:22 GMT -5
Whatever he was thinking, after he made it he thought "I'm gonna wait 30 or so years and blow everybody's tits off with the best goddamn action movie I can possibly make". And he did, and it was good. He'd been trying to make Fury Road since the late '90s. The September 11th attacks and Iraq war halted the first couple attempts to get production started. Mel Gibson's antisemitic tirade in 2006 put the kibosh on plans again. I know some time around 2007 Miller hired Star Trek designer John Eaves do some vehicle concepts, and he finally recast Max with Tom Hardy in 2010. I'm sure you were speaking rhetorically, OK, but just to be clear, waiting 30 years was not the plan, nor did he just decide to finally make a fourth movie after all that time. Sure as fuck paid off, though.
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Post by okcomputer on Jul 20, 2020 8:40:36 GMT -5
Whatever he was thinking, after he made it he thought "I'm gonna wait 30 or so years and blow everybody's tits off with the best goddamn action movie I can possibly make". And he did, and it was good. He'd been trying to make Fury Road since the late '90s. The September 11th attacks and Iraq war halted the first couple attempts to get production started. Mel Gibson's antisemitic tirade in 2006 put the kibosh on plans again. I know some time around 2007 Miller hired Star Trek designer John Eaves do some vehicle concepts, and he finally recast Max with Tom Hardy in 2010. I'm sure you were speaking rhetorically, OK, but just to be clear, waiting 30 years was not the plan, nor did he just decide to finally make a fourth movie after all that time. Sure as fuck paid off, though. I knew Fury Road was in development hell for a long time before finally getting made, but I don't think I knew it was quite that long. And that movie has some of the most note-perfect casting I've seen in years. Tom Hardy is so great and understated as Max that I think the movie would've suffered if they'd cast an aging Mel Gibson. The way Hardy and Theron play off each other is just brilliant, and maybe it's just Gibson's asshole persona but I just can't see him playing the role the same way. But yeah, you're absolutely right. However long it took for George Miller to get the studios on board and the cast together, it paid off almost miraculously. The stars were aligned just right on that one. I can honestly say I've never seen another action movie on the same level as Fury Road, not even the other Mad Max movies. Minimal CGI, practical cars, practical stunt work, unapologetically feminist... it's a goddamn treasure.
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Post by S. Griffin on Jul 20, 2020 15:03:11 GMT -5
He'd been trying to make Fury Road since the late '90s. The September 11th attacks and Iraq war halted the first couple attempts to get production started. Mel Gibson's antisemitic tirade in 2006 put the kibosh on plans again. I know some time around 2007 Miller hired Star Trek designer John Eaves do some vehicle concepts, and he finally recast Max with Tom Hardy in 2010. I'm sure you were speaking rhetorically, OK, but just to be clear, waiting 30 years was not the plan, nor did he just decide to finally make a fourth movie after all that time. Sure as fuck paid off, though. I knew Fury Road was in development hell for a long time before finally getting made, but I don't think I knew it was quite that long. And that movie has some of the most note-perfect casting I've seen in years. Tom Hardy is so great and understated as Max that I think the movie would've suffered if they'd cast an aging Mel Gibson. The way Hardy and Theron play off each other is just brilliant, and maybe it's just Gibson's asshole persona but I just can't see him playing the role the same way. But yeah, you're absolutely right. However long it took for George Miller to get the studios on board and the cast together, it paid off almost miraculously. The stars were aligned just right on that one. I can honestly say I've never seen another action movie on the same level as Fury Road, not even the other Mad Max movies. Minimal CGI, practical cars, practical stunt work, unapologetically feminist... it's a goddamn treasure. I read somewhere that after the Happy Feet's success and Mel Gibson's meltdown, Miller thought very strongly about doing Fury Road entirely CGI. So glad he didn't stick with that idea.
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Post by S. Griffin on Jul 20, 2020 15:10:19 GMT -5
Speaking of Charlize Theron...any of you who haven't seen The Old Guard, yet, go watch that on Netflix first chance you get. It is really fantastic. There are some deviations from the comics but not at all to its detriment. Charlize does some "heavy lifting" here and there, but the movie is so much more than "Highlander meets The Expendables" or whatever. The male characters aren't quite as fleshed out as the female leads, and that's okay. It would have been amazing in a theater, but I prefer to keep breathing. Glad Netflix got a hold of it, because I think it makes a sequel (whenever this fucking virus thing is over) a little more likely. Giving it an 8 out of 10.
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Post by frinspar on Jul 20, 2020 16:33:34 GMT -5
^ Watched the other night. It was really good. The franchise setup was telegraphed pretty blatantly, and that's okay because it was good and fun and well done. And it fits right alongside the other 2 most recent NF movies with Reynolds and Hemsworth, both of which are also wide open to sequels.
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Post by NecroDragon on Aug 9, 2020 14:01:13 GMT -5
Thunderdome is pretty dumb. I don't know what George Miller was thinking when he made that shit. His close friend passed away halfway into production and he had to back out and let someone else take over directing. I think that accounts for some of the shittiness, but it probably doesn't account for the script, since the movie was already in production. I bought the blu-ray boxed set a couple years ago and watched all the movies again for the first time in years and I actually enjoyed Thunderdome a lot more than I expected to or did the last time I had seen it.
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Post by S. Griffin on Aug 17, 2020 12:31:00 GMT -5
We watched Birds of Prey, featuring the Birds of Prey, starring Harley Quinn. It sucks. 5/10 Here are some random thoughts and issues (SPOILERS ABOUND):
-I didn't give a shit about Harley Quinn in this movie. I don't think Margot Robbie understands the character, the writer doesn't, and neither does the director. She breaks up with the Joker, but aside from that, her motivation for everything after that is unclear...or it's muddled by the annoying, "Wait, I forgot to tell you this part," non-linear story structure. -Harley says she was raised by nuns. In the comics she's Jewish, so way to take that away from my people, WB. -This movie wants very much to be DC's Deadpool, but it's not anywhere near as funny, and I find Deadpool pretty irritating, too. The humor rarely lands. The best joke is Rene Montoya getting a bunch of garbage thrown on her and having to go back to the precinct and get new clothes from lost and found and spending most of her scenes wearing a T-shirt that says, "I shaved my balls for this." -In the intro where she mentions being raised by nuns, Harley says she got her PhD and became a psychiatrist. She says she has a PhD a second time, and mentions having been a psychiatrist a second time. Psychiatrists don't have PhD's, they're medical doctors and therefore have MD's. -Black Canary and Renee Montoya have their backstories and motivations clearly established in only a few scenes, and they are much more interesting characters. Both actresses give better performances than everyone else, too. I never thought I would say that Rosie Perez had the best performance in a movie, but it's true, and it's not because everyone else was terrible. Jurnee Smollett was quite good. Rosie Perez was just...She's really very good in this. -Ewan McGregor is not good in this at all. He is miscast as Roman Sionis, AKA Black Mask, and plays the character like a kind of zany cartoon bad guy. He's only scary in maybe one scene. I have to believe he was cast for name recognition, but since this movie bombed, they could have cast Chris Diamontopolos or Jason Mantzoukas, and those guys could have played the exact same character (only actually Greek) for way less money. McGregor also only wears the mask for five minutes. Had they cast someone else, say, Bobby Canavale (yes, I know, he's Italian and not Greek) and had him play the character straight and sinister, it would have been much better, in part because he would have contrasted better against Harley, who is also basically a zany cartoon character in this movie. -Everyone in the movie pronouces Sionis with a long O, and it sounds really fucking weird. -Victor Zsasz is Roman Sionis's enforcer. I'm not sure if anything has changed in DC Comics over the last few years, but I remember Zsasz being a serial killer who doesn't work well with others. This movie would have been more interesting had they stuck with that and instead of him being the big bad's #2, they could have had him be someone Sionis calls to go after Harley (and the girl who swallowed the McGuffin diamond) but have him obviously be impetuous, intractable, and all helter skelter and shit. -Mary Elizabeth Winstead was wooden as fuck as Helena Bertinelli/Huntress. She's also about a Sicilian as English Bob, but that's something I might have been able to overlook had she not played the role like a piece of patio furniture. -Almost all the fight scenes seem a bit over-choreographed, except for the climactic final fight at Joker's hideout, which is just sloppy. I couldn't totally tell if it was just the fight itself that was sloppy or if it was the direction of that entire scene. -Black Canary's canary cry is powerful enough to send goons flying into the air and move a car, but somehow Harley is able to roller skate right through the middle of it with no problems because she's covering her ears. -I hated the aesthetic, which while different from David Ayer's Suicide Squad, is still very closely tied to it.
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Post by S. Griffin on Aug 29, 2020 23:54:35 GMT -5
Bill and Ted Face the Music It's not going to save the world, but it's nice to have a good, nice, sweet, fun, funny, silly, and subversively smart movie where you can tell that everyone involved wants to be and isn't just looking to collect a check. It's got a lot of heart and "hits the spot," much in the same way ice cream does on a hot day. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are both excellent (dare I say they're both better than they were 29 years ago?), Bridget Lundy Paine is really pretty outstanding and channels Keanu as Ted very strongly without it ever seeming like an impression, Samara Weaving can't quite keep up with Paine but still has great comedic sensibility herself. William Sadler is once again fantastic as Death, but he's not really in the movie as much as I personally would have liked. If I have one problem with the movie, it's that Princess Joanna and Princess Elizabeth are pretty underserved. An extra five minutes would have helped flesh out their part of the story a lot. Is it worth going to a movie theater to see? No. A drive in? Definitely. On Demand? It depends on how much you feel the need to forget that the real world is a flaming shithole and have a good time for 90 minutes and spend $20 for a rental (although for an extra $5 you can lease it from Amazon). 8/10
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Post by ravenmaniac on Sept 8, 2020 9:57:02 GMT -5
I watched Bill & Ted and I found it pretty blah. I actually dozed off for a few minutes in the middle of it. It seemed to me to be too forced. I also thought Bridget Lundy Paine did a horrible job. I thought she was overacting and her performance was distracting.
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Post by S. Griffin on Sept 8, 2020 10:34:46 GMT -5
Well, we're not all gonna feel the same way about the same things. Also, Bridget Lundy Paine doesn't use female pronouns, by the way, and goes by they/them.
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Post by ravenmaniac on Sept 8, 2020 19:06:30 GMT -5
Well, we're not all gonna feel the same way about the same things. Also, Bridget Lundy Paine doesn't use female pronouns, by the way, and goes by they/them. See my picture and quote regarding your opinion. Didn't know that about BLP, I'd never seen them before.
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Post by S. Griffin on Sept 8, 2020 20:19:09 GMT -5
Your avatar is the namesake for commode, so you can dump your shitty opinion.
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Post by BeefEaster on Sept 8, 2020 22:19:35 GMT -5
I don't think I would have made it all the way through the new bill and ted if I hadn't been watching it with someone that insisted on finishing it. That's all I have to say about that.
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Post by ravenmaniac on Sept 9, 2020 8:07:10 GMT -5
Your avatar is the namesake for commode, so you can dump your shitty opinion. Is that a commode dis?
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Post by frinspar on Sept 9, 2020 22:31:46 GMT -5
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Post by S. Griffin on Dec 26, 2020 1:11:50 GMT -5
Wonder Woman 1984 Generally good, but overlong and it maybe could have used one more draft of the script. Gal Gadot is great, Chris Pine might be even better in this movie than the last one, Pedro Pascal is fantastic, and so is Kristen Wiig, although her character is kinda underserved. In the comics, the character is basically WW's Joker, but here she very much plays second fiddle to Maxwell Lord. It's not that she isn't given good stuff to do, there just isn't enough of it. It feels weird to say "the movie is too long" and also "Barbara Minerva/Cheetah needed a few more scenes to flesh out her character more," but it's true. The cast carries the movie, which has some structural and story issues, but it does have a much stronger third act (four act?) than the fist movie, and it's probably the best or the second best movie in the DCEU. 7/10
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Post by ravenmaniac on Jan 7, 2021 18:59:02 GMT -5
Wonder Woman 1984 Generally good, but overlong and it maybe could have used one more draft of the script. Gal Gadot is great, Chris Pine might be even better in this movie than the last one, Pedro Pascal is fantastic, and so is Kristen Wiig, although her character is kinda underserved. In the comics, the character is basically WW's Joker, but here she very much plays second fiddle to Maxwell Lord. It's not that she isn't given good stuff to do, there just isn't enough of it. It feels weird to say "the movie is too long" and also "Barbara Minerva/Cheetah needed a few more scenes to flesh out her character more," but it's true. The cast carries the movie, which has some structural and story issues, but it does have a much stronger third act (four act?) than the fist movie, and it's probably the best or the second best movie in the DCEU. 7/10 I thought it was very meh, which was hugely disappointing, since I liked the first one so much. All of the acting was good, especially Kristen Wiig, but I really didn't like the plot at all. I was bored at times and thought the end was a real eye-roller.
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Post by okcomputer on Jan 8, 2021 10:20:15 GMT -5
Tenet - 8.5/10
Finally saw this last week, and it fuckin rules. I'm kinda glad I read some lukewarm reviews because it tempered my expectations slightly. I've seen enough of Nolan's heady sci-fi spectacles at this point to know how to approach them: some things will make sense, some things probably won't, but if you pay attention you'll be able to follow along and enjoy the ride. Tenet doesn't have enough quiet moments of pure awe like Interstellar (a masterpiece, imo) and the science that moves the story isn't given as good an in-universe explanation as in Inception, but the movie still works and works well. A few years ago when they announced his next movie would be something called "Tenet" my first thought was that he was gonna make a movie that is also a (kinda) palindrome. He did, and it rules.
At the risk of sounding like an annoying Nolan fanboy, he still hasn't made a movie I haven't enjoyed. I'm not gonna declare him the second coming of Orson Welles or Stanley Kubrick, but he's carved out a nice for himself and he's damn good at what he does.
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Post by ravenmaniac on Jan 8, 2021 11:43:23 GMT -5
Tenet - 8.5/10 Finally saw this last week, and it fuckin rules. I'm kinda glad I read some lukewarm reviews because it tempered my expectations slightly. I've seen enough of Nolan's heady sci-fi spectacles at this point to know how to approach them: some things will make sense, some things probably won't, but if you pay attention you'll be able to follow along and enjoy the ride. Tenet doesn't have enough quiet moments of pure awe like Interstellar (a masterpiece, imo) and the science that moves the story isn't given as good an in-universe explanation as in Inception, but the movie still works and works well. A few years ago when they announced his next movie would be something called "Tenet" my first thought was that he was gonna make a movie that is also a (kinda) palindrome. He did, and it rules. At the risk of sounding like an annoying Nolan fanboy, he still hasn't made a movie I haven't enjoyed. I'm not gonna declare him the second coming of Orson Welles or Stanley Kubrick, but he's carved out a nice for himself and he's damn good at what he does. Good to see, I've been kind of wanting to see it but was leery with the negative reviews.
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