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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4500 on: Mar 06, 2019, 08:37:19 PM »
Sausage Fest
People told me this was a very funny movie but I found it not funny at all. I don't know what I was expecting out of a Seth Rogan comedy but, of course, all the humor was sex jokes, drug jokes, and a massive amount of profanity just for the sake of profanity. Comedy-wise it was a let down. Story wise it was average.


this reminds me Tim Russ, who played Tuvok on Star Trek: Voyager. Literally every time I see him, no matter the role, I'm only thinking of his small line in Spaceballs: "We ain't found shit."
I now wish there was a scene in Voyager that goes like this:
Janeway: "Tuvok, scan the surface for life signs....
...have you found anything yet?"
Tuvok: "I ain't found shit Captain."

Wonder Woman. First half: Good. Second half: Godawful CG shitfest. I can't figure out why it's reviewing so well. It has a promising setup, but then it just completely falls apart. Disappointed.
Having not seen Aquaman yet I would say that Wonder Woman is probably the best of the current DC universe movies. BvS was mostly a piece of shit, being that the whole premise was to have Batman and Superman fight for fanservice and the rest of the story was just half assed thrown together. And holy fuck did I hate Lex Luthor. MoS was decent, the fighting scenes were magnificent but the drama felt too forced (am I supposed to feel sorry for Kent's dad just standing there and letting a tornado suck him up?). I tried to enjoy Justice League but it felt like it was missing something... maybe back story for most of the characters.

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Wonder Woman was at least enjoyable for most of the movie. Although I'll agree that it fell apart, just for me it was after Stryker was killed. So we have this moment when Diana finally realizes that war happens because humans are shitty creatures. And then fucking Lupin shows up and is like "I'm Ares and the reason why mankind fights." And then Ares is killed. So.... did anyone forget about WW2 which was far worse than WW1? If Ares isn't around then why do people still fight? It implies that wars are so horrible because Ares encourages people to be horrible, but now that he's dead, WW2 shouldn't have happened at all.
So, great movie, but ending was a let down.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4501 on: Mar 06, 2019, 09:57:52 PM »
Although I'll agree that it fell apart, just for me it was after Stryker was killed.

That was the exact moment. I was wrong to say the second half sucked. More like most of the third act.

Fucking flinging giant metal shards at each other or whatever. God that was the worst shit.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4502 on: Mar 06, 2019, 10:46:52 PM »
So.... did anyone forget about WW2 which was far worse than WW1?
TOTAL tangent time, here.

WW2 was a much bigger, spread-out conflict than WW1, with ferocious fighting in general. But, purely pound-for-pound, I don't think anything matches the charnel-house slaughter, wanton destruction, traumatizing horror, and political fallout of WW1.

As the first truly mechanized war (The American War of the States being the first modern war), the pure butchery of the Great War was unprecedented in human history. An entire generation of young Europeans were predominantly wiped out. Historic locales were forever altered or destroyed. Regions were razed and covered with craters, barbed wire, and trenches. Cities were evacuated and demolished. Civilians were decimated and displaced only to starve later. And recovery was weak, as it instigated a world-wide depression that only the United States was isolated from, and then only for about ten years. WW2 was bad and larger-scale, but WW1 was a God-forsaken grindhouse. And had it not been for the intervention of the United States, delayed though it was, they might still be taking pot-shots out of trenches over there, as it, itself, was a culmination of over a hundred years worth of build-up.

Following the war, the Japanese who were part of the Allied powers were slighted by their non-inclusion at Versailles, which pissed them off enough to build themselves into an industrialized powet that couldn't be taken for granted the next go-around...ultimately setting them back decades until the 80's. The German Empire was dismantled and its people punished for something they had no powet to prevent, which engendered the rise of the likes of Hitler and led to it being a checkerboard piece throughout the cold war. It's only been within my lifetime that the reunited Germany has reasserted its position in European affairs. Russia was distracted by the war to bring the Red and White Bolsheviks together long enough to fight, but finally the Reds would stab the Whites in the back and institute Lenin's Soviet Union, the first and greatest bastion for communism, a wart on the ass of human civilization for a hundred years now that has resulted in more human suffering than any other system second to Islam.

Speaking of which, the colonial system which had basically concentrated powet in Europe, was utterly destroyed (except the British Empire, but it would never recover) leading to destabilization world-wide as the empires holding things together largely disintegrated. This was most notable in the dissection of the Ottoman Empire which gerrymandered the Middle-East into straight-line bordered nations that yugoslavia'ed warring groups together and brought about a multitude of internal conflicts, coup d'etats, and the reintroduction of terroristic Islam to the world.

I'm forgetting a lot of stuff, primarily because I haven't studied it in a long time, and it's past bedtime (gotta be back at work around daybreak), and it's not welcome in this thread. But I'm always amazed at how much WW1 directly affects life today and how it's often overlooked because of the horrific scale and cost of WW2. But war's hell, regardless.
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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4503 on: Mar 11, 2019, 02:54:56 PM »
Saw Captain Marvel and liked it quite a bit.

It does suffer from similar issues as y'all are describing for Wonder Woman, the CGI-heavy portions harm the film overall.

Some of the 90s references were just awful and forced, including some possible anachronisms regarding music cues and arcade games, and also Stan Lee's cameo here is somewhat baffling if you really want to nerd it out to conclusion. Then again, we can't call their universe the same as ours so maybe some of those things happened differently in their universe.
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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4504 on: Mar 14, 2019, 02:22:59 AM »
Yeah, it kind of turned into a CG fuckfest at the end, just like Wonder Woman, didn't it?

It was pretty good, though. I was prepared not to like it, so it exceeded my expectations.


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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4505 on: Mar 15, 2019, 09:01:32 AM »
I saw this review already but I swear all I remember about it is Wisconsin.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4506 on: Apr 05, 2019, 03:58:13 AM »
Shazam. I was on board for most it, but it got a little bit too hokey at the end. Like, any sense of tension there might have been was completely undercut by how goofy everyone was behaving. Jokes are fine, and this movie is definitely funny, but try to keep that shit to a minimum in your climactic action scene.

Pet Sematary. Are you familiar with the premise? I feel like most of us are, even if only through cultural osmosis. I have no idea why they even bothered "remaking" this movie. It's seriously just the same old shit, recycled for no apparent reason. Beyond bland in its absolute predictability.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4507 on: Apr 05, 2019, 05:10:41 AM »
"Us".

Overhyped. Not that scary. Stupid ending.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4508 on: Apr 05, 2019, 06:04:16 PM »
I couldn't decide what I wanted to say about Us. I liked it for the most part, but... something was off.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4509 on: Apr 05, 2019, 07:47:31 PM »
Going to see the real Captain Marvel movie tomorrow.
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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4510 on: Apr 09, 2019, 06:53:34 PM »
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Shazam. I was on board for most it, but it got a little bit too hokey at the end. Like, any sense of tension there might have been was completely undercut by how goofy everyone was behaving. Jokes are fine, and this movie is definitely funny, but try to keep that shit to a minimum in your climactic action scene.

THIS. This is what I hate about movies these days: this need to do this kind of snarky bullshit that ruins dramatic tension in a film. It reminds me of this video I saw the other day, which I thought was really good about this subject.


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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4511 on: Apr 09, 2019, 10:05:52 PM »
This is what I hate about movies these days: this need to do this kind of snarky bullshit that ruins dramatic tension in a film.
The thing was, there was not a whole lot of snark in Captain Marvel Shazam. It was just goofy, which I like because I'm all about this franchise being as goofy as humanly possible. I nearly shit my pants when
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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4512 on: Apr 10, 2019, 08:32:09 PM »
Ha ha, I was wondering about that when I saw it. Thanks. :)

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4513 on: Apr 12, 2019, 11:21:33 PM »
I went to Hellboy last night. I didn't really blow me away or anything. I kept waiting for it to really grab me, and it never did.

Also, they were all about telling those jokes. I don't think I laughed once. They tried to make Hellboy all snarky and flippant and it was just nah, man. No thanks.

There was one scene where he fought a group of giants, that was probably the stand-out moment of the movie. Unfortunately it happens pretty early on, and this flick is two hours long.

Speaking of length, they wanted to cram as many story arcs from the long-running comic book in there as they could, and as a result everything came off rushed. It's like they were afraid they wouldn't get a second crack at it, so they might as well just spill it all out there in one go.

Still no goat legs either, the cowards. Guess they don't want him looking too Satanic. Or maybe the required CG would inflate the budget too much, who knows.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4514 on: Apr 22, 2019, 09:58:01 AM »
My daddy's movie is coming out in less than a month and I cant wait. I had a heart attack when I saw a pic of him and my gurl Anjelina Houston . HOW COULD THAT BE!?!? TWO OF MY FAVES AT ONCE?!?!?

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4515 on: Apr 22, 2019, 04:49:33 PM »
I should take that day off just to drive the two hours to see it in a decent theater. As a 3-gun competitor the Wick movies are like instructional videos on course running and handling technique.
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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4516 on: Apr 27, 2019, 05:19:50 AM »
Endgame. Man, there was this one girl in the crowd, she couldn't have been that old, just sobbing uncontrollably. What a movie. I'll probably go again later this week.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4517 on: Apr 30, 2019, 04:00:55 PM »
Avengers: Endgame was mostly good. I enjoyed the heck out of it. It does include a particular plot device which I cannot stand but the movie kind of didn't take it that seriously so it worked out mostly okay. It's got some holes, though. Either way, I'm still excited to see whatever Marvel does next.
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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4518 on: Apr 30, 2019, 07:20:02 PM »
I saw the end battle of the first Transformer's movie on TV.

And I only mention it because of how badly it's held up. I remember mostly enjoying Transformers 1 in theater before the series went all downhill. But I seem to remember thinking the final battle was way too chaotic and suffered from too much jiggle camera, and it seems even worse watching it now. It's almost impossible to figure out what's going on half the time in the damn fight. And of course, now, every damn movie has to have chaotic jiggling camera shots at bizzare angles where you don't even know what the fuck's going on half the time.
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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4519 on: May 01, 2019, 05:27:00 PM »
The whole movie doesn't hold up well.
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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4520 on: May 02, 2019, 12:42:57 PM »
I saw the end battle of the first Transformer's movie on TV.

And I only mention it because of how badly it's held up. I remember mostly enjoying Transformers 1 in theater before the series went all downhill. But I seem to remember thinking the final battle was way too chaotic and suffered from too much jiggle camera, and it seems even worse watching it now. It's almost impossible to figure out what's going on half the time in the damn fight. And of course, now, every damn movie has to have chaotic jiggling camera shots at bizzare angles where you don't even know what the fuck's going on half the time.

I thought you meant 1986 and I was very confused because all the battles in that were fantastic.
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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4521 on: May 03, 2019, 03:33:24 AM »
That reminds me...


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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4522 on: May 11, 2019, 12:24:21 AM »
Endgame was ok...I think Infinity War was better. But "Hulk hate stairs!"  was fun.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4523 on: May 11, 2019, 01:35:09 AM »
Infinity War is better. Like, unequivocally.

But Endgame mostly did everything it needed to do.

Here's the thing now, though.

How the fuck do they top the guy who wiped out half of all life everywhere?

And will the next cycle be another decade? Or will it be accelerated because they've already laid all the groundwork?

I feel like now is the time for them to drop the ball hard.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4524 on: May 11, 2019, 09:46:34 PM »
They almost have to go smaller. Although I heard a rumor that X-Men vs Avengers movie was in the planning stages now that the Fox deal went through.
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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4525 on: May 14, 2019, 02:39:28 AM »
I was never a Pokémon kid. I was already a little too old when that craze came around, but I did watch the show with my younger cousins, and I remember that fondly enough. I've dabbled with a few of the more recent games, but I've never gone the distance and reached the actual end of any of those. I'd say I can appreciate Pokémon about as much as the next person.

This Detective Pikachu movie, though? Man, what a bummer. It starts out strong, and then just kind of deflates. The plot is way too epic for its own good, and the villain's goal makes about as much sense as the Lizard's in Amazing Spider-Man. Like, it's almost one-to-one.

If you've seen the various trailers and TV ads, you've already witnessed all the best this film has to offer. Really disappointing.

But then again, I was never a Pokémon kid.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4526 on: May 14, 2019, 08:20:54 AM »
Yeah I saw it too, and it wasn't all I hoped for really.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4527 on: May 14, 2019, 09:12:02 AM »
So I guess it goes without asking that Detective Pikachu doesn't get any gore or anything juicy for him to, uh, detectiveate. Like a dead body or something. Shining a giant sperm light on Snorlax or whatever.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4528 on: May 14, 2019, 01:33:59 PM »
The movie is about a murder over a land deal and water rights in LA circa 1938.




Nah I'm shitting you. It's about Pokemon.....and stuff.

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Re: The last movie I saw was...
« Reply #4529 on: May 14, 2019, 02:47:21 PM »
The first one would've been a fun Pokemon movie tho'. Detective Conan's for kids and he gets corpses 'n shit.