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Omg, the chap in the opening "they destroyed everything I own - my catina!" - he's in Wing Commander 3 as a pilot who dreams of opening his own catina someday!
I was going through some films I have over the weekend looking for something to have on as background noise as I painted. It made me remember one more film I enjoyed far more then probably everyone else.
I actually really enjoyed Jupiter Ascending. The concept was cool, even if the execution was lacking for some.
Also Channing Tatum as a half-dog person was...odd.
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Turnip Jedi wrote: Jupiter Ascending felt like a 10-12 episode streaming show jammed into a film run time
I mean...it was suppose to be a trilogy. But yeah it would have been way more interesting as a series. I still enjoy it though.
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Super Ready wrote:Another one I'll add here is Love Actually. It's the only "chick flick" I enjoy to this day, probably because of its focus on characters rather than plot - I find most romantic films waaaay too predictable, and also incredibly unrealistic because their conflicts would unravel if the main characters just sat down and actually talked for five minutes.
In contrast, Love Actually has realistic characters with realistic relationships and issues, and it makes those characters much easier to identify and empathise with.
OMG this is one of my favorite films of all time. It's my go to reference whenever anyone questions me singing Laura Linney's accolades. If her plot line doesn't absolutely crush your soul by the end of the movie, you were never human to begin with.
Sure they suffer from sequelitis, and none of them are approaching great. But they’re still bloody good fun, and I’ll watch them at the drop of a hat.
Somewhat comparable, Underworld and its initial sequel. Absolute nonsense, but still enjoyable.
My problem with Underworld is they go for a very dark pallet in the film. So unless you've got the screen setup just right you can easily end up squinting half the time to see what the heck is going on.
On the other hand, Kate Beckinsale in skintight clothing.
Personal tastes I guess, but I was more smitten with Sophia Myles in that movie...
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Underworld and Res Evil series are great fun (as well as staring the Directors stunning wives ) - love a tv series of either both - crossover
Both Sophia and Kate are gorgeous in Underworld -- also amsuingly in the commentry when she is watching with her husband she does says somewhat wryly she does not remember the topless scene with Sophia..... but he replies it was when she caught pneumonia!
I tried watching the animated Res Evil films and...yeah...not good. (speaking as someone who loved Res Evil on PS1)
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Commodus Leitdorf wrote: I was going through some films I have over the weekend looking for something to have on as background noise as I painted. It made me remember one more film I enjoyed far more then probably everyone else.
I actually really enjoyed Jupiter Ascending. The concept was cool, even if the execution was lacking for some.
Also Channing Tatum as a half-dog person was...odd.
It was good I thought, some pretty entertaining concepts and set pieces.
But, I think the film suffered from coming from the makers of the Matrix, after the Matrix, and there was a ridiculously amount of hype and high expectation that doing something 'new' the Wachowskis would knock it out of the park again.
Which, I don't think they did (certainly not in the same way - I would give it a 3/5, the original Matrix 5/5 and probably in my top 10 of all time)
Omg, the chap in the opening "they destroyed everything I own - my catina!" - he's in Wing Commander 3 as a pilot who dreams of opening his own catina someday!
Commodus Leitdorf wrote: I was going through some films I have over the weekend looking for something to have on as background noise as I painted. It made me remember one more film I enjoyed far more then probably everyone else.
I actually really enjoyed Jupiter Ascending. The concept was cool, even if the execution was lacking for some.
Also Channing Tatum as a half-dog person was...odd.
It was good I thought, some pretty entertaining concepts and set pieces.
But, I think the film suffered from coming from the makers of the Matrix, after the Matrix, and there was a ridiculously amount of hype and high expectation that doing something 'new' the Wachowskis would knock it out of the park again.
Which, I don't think they did (certainly not in the same way - I would give it a 3/5, the original Matrix 5/5 and probably in my top 10 of all time)
This movie confuses me. If you de-construct it into component pieces..... each piece is good. There is a subtext and themes. There is world building. There is a rags-to-riches/fairy tale story line. The actors are good. The script and dialogue is good.
Then you put it all together and it is..... not good. If I were a film student, this would be my Doctoral Thesis project to figur eout why this movie is not good! It should be..... but it is not.
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Omg, the chap in the opening "they destroyed everything I own - my catina!" - he's in Wing Commander 3 as a pilot who dreams of opening his own catina someday!
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Robocop 2.
A perfectly good sequel, which isn’t a simple retread of the original, and instead delves a bit more into Future Detroit, and the well dodgy morals of OCP.
It’s definitely a “I don’t think twice about watching it” movie. Plot wise it could do with a spit and polish (lean more into Murphy’s Catholicism, and hence distaste for suicide for instance) and it could’ve equalled the original.
It’s still a cracker all the same!
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Automata (2014) - Starring Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith.
Wholly unoriginal tale of insurance investigator (pound shop Blade Runner) investigating sentient androids but it was a really good movie considering it's budget.
Archive (2020) - Starring Theo James. Another Android movie, this time more along the lines of Ex Machina. Also really enjoyed this one.
Both were films i went in with low expectations but was pleasantly surprised.
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OK, it wasn't GOOD, but it was SURPRISINGLY GOOD. I wanna get out front on this one.
Basically, my partner and I both love the youtube series Best of the Worst and one of our favorite episodes is one about a zero budget twilight ripoff called The Last Vampire on Earth. So, when super drunk on Halloween we decided to watch the first Twilight, then LVOE as a horror double feature because I had never actually sat down and watched all of twilight.
And as we were sitting down, riffing on LVOE, laughing at how ludicrous it was, we started getting extremely frustrated by the fact that this was actually a better romance story setup than twilight.
The actors can't act, and the hunky male lead is a dude who's probably super average looking but unfortunately has a somewhat unusual facial structure that makes you think, just looking at his face in a close-up, that he's going to be kind of pudgy and does NOT lend him to an emo look. And it does that zero budget film thing where it just doesn't explain things to you that it could explain but, objectively, LVOE is a better love story than twilight.
Let's compare Edward Cullen to Shrekward as characters. Imagine they're two dudes who both look like Robert Pattinson.
-Edward Cullen is slightly over 100 years old IIRC. He became a vampire because he was going to die of spanish flu and his vampire pimp daddy was a doctor during the pandemic, which makes one immediately wonder why daddy vampo does not have a whole bevy of 120 year old small innocent children he rescued from the clutches of Spanish Influenza instead of one emo teen. Anyway, whatever. Point is, Shrekward is TWO THOUSAND TWENTY. He's lived long enough to see every human he's ever befriended and cared about die, twenty times over. Why does this matter? it matters because Shrekward has 100x more reason to be an emo sadboi than Edward does, and honestly, Edward doesn't really come off as that, instead he basically just comes off as a super huge callous donkey-cave.
-Both movies use the shtick of 'protagonist is a normal girl whose smell the vampire lovelad finds irresistible for no adequately explored reason'. But what does Shrekward do with this? He immediately tries to do everything he can to get to know this girl, he talks to her, meets her family, spends as much time as he can with her, and as soon as he meets her he goes out and makes sure he makes sure he has a source of blood lined up so he doesn't get thirsty around the object of his affection. And he gets it by bribing a red cross truck guy. You know, like a normal humane person who does not consider terrifying then murdering large animals for sport just the height of selfless abstinence. Your entire family is based around A fething DOCTOR, Edward, why can you not figure out some way to get blood?
-Bella has literally no character setup at all. She is JUST a self-insert, pure and simple. Other than their relative location to her, we know basically nothing about her family, she has no interests outside of Edward, and no real motivation at all besides to be with Edward. Chloe, while being a probably perfectly nice community college freshman who definitely can't act, at least is given some kind of something to make her a potentially interesting romance protagonist. She has...aids cancer, it isn't clear really, her incredibly blase sleazy used car salesman of a doctor is one of the best sources of unintentional comedy throughout the movie but she definitely has aids and I'm 99% she also has cancer at some point but it's delivered with all the gravitas of Lisa's mom from The Room. That's something for you to work with: The person who wants to do good things for the world, but is still really early in her college education and just might not have enough time to get to the end of college. Do you just...drop out, live in misery not accomplishing any of your goals and die? Do you try to push through, knowing you probably won't make it? It's not the most original, but it's at least something.
-At the very crux of the movie, the climactic tension is very similar. In Twilight, it becomes clear that Bella is basically a helpless meat balloon in an impossibly dangerous world of nigh-invincible vampires with extremely dubious protection. She's nearly murdered multiple times and each time it's heavily implied that her murderers are also planning to sexually assault her first. And in LVOE, Chloe has aids cancer and will most likely die. The obvious question is, do we save our protagonist by making her a vampire, which Bella and Edward literally have zero reason not to but which for Chloe would essentially mean forsaking her religious faith and going against everything she's ever believed in.
Edward flatly refuses Bella, essentially forcing her to give up her mortal life and every relationship she's ever had to live as his favorite scented candle, and Shrekward just asks Chloe to make sure she's taking plenty of time to make an informed decision, and then when she says she's certain what she wants to happen to her body, he obliges and bites her in the final shot of the movie.
There's so much more that is functional and workable as a romantic storyline in the zero budget, hilariously inept, terribly written, terribly acted knockoff of twilight than there is in twilight itself that it's almost enough to make me unironically like LVOE. You can imagine a version of that story that works. And the Best of the Worst episode goes into the antics of the movie's director, who is this eastern european immigrant fella who seems a little egotistical, a little delusional about his directorial talents, you know the classic Trolls 2 The Room director shtick. But I love that this guy picked up Twilight with the full intention of shamelessly ripping it off, and even HE was like "Wait...no...this doesn't work. What? Well, we're not going to do THAT." several times.
"Got you, Yugi! Your Rubric Marines can't fall back because I have declared the tertiary kaptaris ka'tah stance two, after the secondary dacatarai ka'tah last turn!"
"So you think, Kaiba! I declared my Thousand Sons the cult of Duplicity, which means all my psykers have access to the Sorcerous Facade power! Furthermore I will spend 8 Cabal Points to invoke Cabbalistic Focus, causing the rubrics to appear behind your custodes! The Vengeance for the Wronged and Sorcerous Fullisade stratagems along with the Malefic Maelstrom infernal pact evoked earlier in the command phase allows me to double their firepower, letting me wound on 2s and 3s!"
"you think it is you who has gotten me, yugi, but it is I who have gotten you! I declare the ever-vigilant stratagem to attack your rubrics with my custodes' ranged weapons, which with the new codex are now DAMAGE 2!!"
"...which leads you straight into my trap, Kaiba, you see I now declare the stratagem Implacable Automata, reducing all damage from your attacks by 1 and triggering my All is Dust special rule!"
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"We have clearly reached the point where only rampant and unchecked stabbing can save us." -Black Mage
Oh! The Ninth Gate. Johnny Depp is a scholarly rare book collector, who gets entangled in some secret societies and magical texts. It is weirdly understated, but kept my attention thoroughly. Very good film, and not at all what I'd usually see!
And for B rated action films that deliver the goods- Beowulf. Not the Angelina Jolie version. The Christopher Lambert version. What if Beowulf was in a slightly post apocalyptic future, but they never mentioned why this was and it had almost no effect on the plot, it just made the weapons pseudofuturistic? Or- Highlander vs the Beowulf. It is a grand old time! Much more my usual fare.
Klawz-Ramming is a subset of citrus fruit?
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Orkeosaurus wrote:Star Trek also said we'd have X-Wings by now. We all see how that prediction turned out.
Orkeosaurus, on homophobia, the nature of homosexuality, and the greatness of George Takei.
English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleyways and mugs them for loose grammar.
If you're talking about Last Vampire on Earth, it is free on youtube.
Regardless of being over the bar of being a better love story than twilight, LVOE is still 100% a funny bad movie that's enjoyable to watch. Even if only for the epic climactic soliloquoy at the end and the fact that every medical professional in the LVOE canon universe is some sort of used car or greasy sub shop owner.
"Got you, Yugi! Your Rubric Marines can't fall back because I have declared the tertiary kaptaris ka'tah stance two, after the secondary dacatarai ka'tah last turn!"
"So you think, Kaiba! I declared my Thousand Sons the cult of Duplicity, which means all my psykers have access to the Sorcerous Facade power! Furthermore I will spend 8 Cabal Points to invoke Cabbalistic Focus, causing the rubrics to appear behind your custodes! The Vengeance for the Wronged and Sorcerous Fullisade stratagems along with the Malefic Maelstrom infernal pact evoked earlier in the command phase allows me to double their firepower, letting me wound on 2s and 3s!"
"you think it is you who has gotten me, yugi, but it is I who have gotten you! I declare the ever-vigilant stratagem to attack your rubrics with my custodes' ranged weapons, which with the new codex are now DAMAGE 2!!"
"...which leads you straight into my trap, Kaiba, you see I now declare the stratagem Implacable Automata, reducing all damage from your attacks by 1 and triggering my All is Dust special rule!"
I'll say that i finally watched cruise's "the mummy" remake and was pleasantly surprised.
As horrible as the reviews were i almost expected excrement to literally fly off the screen as i watched it. I decided it wasn't all that bad really.
I like the gender flip with a male being chased by the undead mummy instead of a women having to be rescued by a male lead as usual. Also the fact that there was a sort of department dedicated to fighting the paranormal in a world where paranormal powers existed was a nice touch. I mean if we accept a world where the paranormal is a fact, i'd like to think some government and agencies would finally get that thru their heads and begin taking action to protect their people and societies from them instead of just the eccentric professor to stop the supernatural menaces.
The exotic hawtie they had playing the titular role didn't hurt.
All in all I'd say i liked it better than the hugh grant mummy movie remakes, of which i had a low opinion. But i have to say karloff's version beats them all.
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"But the universe is a big place, and whatever happens, you will not be missed..."
Damnatus; the enemy within. It is a fan-made movie about W40k.
the one movie that was made by German Fans and advertised in White Dwarf, and than banned/forbidden to released as GW read the German Copyright Laws right before it should be released
this was also the time when GW removed any community based content from their website, closed all fan-zines and wanted people to add "copyright by GW" to all pictures of painted models because they did not knew that stuff made somewhere else does not follow UK Copyright and they have no control over it
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Harry, bring this ring to Narnia or the Sith will take the Enterprise
GW has had a long history of abusing copyright laws to crush any form of competition. I remember hearing how they would basically sue most other british miniature makers out of existence on very shaky grounds simply because the other companies didn't have the financial resources to fight them even if their claim and injunction was false.
I don't know if it's true but some have said that britian redid their copyright laws partially based on testimony about how GW had misused them to wipe out competition on a wide scale.
I do know britain redid its copyright laws which allowed the judge dredd cursed earth comics t be released for the first time in decades, and loved the all out assault on mdconalds which was just so perfect.
"But the universe is a big place, and whatever happens, you will not be missed..."
Wolfspear's 2k
Harlequins 2k
Chaos Knights 2k
Spiderfangs 2k
Ossiarch Bonereapers 1k 
) - love a tv series of either both - crossover 
