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Flinty wrote: Baby Driver is also great. None of his stuff is normal, but I find it hard to say any of it is actual crap. As long as they don’t fall prey to the Total Recall pit of retelling where they make terrible creative decisions that make absolutely no sense just to divorce it from the Arnie original.
I liked Baby Driver except for Baby Driver's ridiculously stupid ending. Sorry, Federal Prison aka The Bureau of Prisons doesn't work like that.
BorderCountess wrote: Just because you're doing something right doesn't necessarily mean you know what you're doing...
I am sure someone, somewhere is writing a thesis on the idea that for the past 25 years cinema has been fixated on Superheroes to save us, and Post-apocalyptic Zombie movies that focus on our destruction. Pretty sure there is something to say about the Cultural Zeitgeist there.
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It's going to be interesting to find out how the zombies survived considering that the other films kept establishing that without regular food the zombies would eventually die off and just fall apart.
Granted they did hit mainland Europe at the end of the last film but in theory after 28 years you'd have thought they'd have burned through the population.
"Sometimes the only victory possible is to keep your opponent from winning." - The Emperor, from The Outcast Dead.
"Tell your gods we are coming for them, and that their realms will burn as ours did." -Thostos Bladestorm
2025/04/22 19:26:08
Subject: Re:Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
This franchise never had the legs of its near contemporary, Scream, but I loved the original flick:
"Sometimes the only victory possible is to keep your opponent from winning." - The Emperor, from The Outcast Dead.
"Tell your gods we are coming for them, and that their realms will burn as ours did." -Thostos Bladestorm
2025/04/22 21:06:14
Subject: Re:Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
"Unimaginably ancient xenos artefact somewhere on the planet, hive fleet poised above our heads, hidden 'stealer broods making an early start....and now a bloody Chaos cult crawling out of the woodwork just in case we were bored. Welcome to my world, Ciaphas."
Inquisitor Amberley Vail, Ordo Xenos
"I will admit that some Primachs like Russ or Horus could have a chance against an unarmed 12 year old novice but, a full Battle Sister??!! One to one? In close combat? Perhaps three Primarchs fighting together... but just one Primarch?" da001
Scream was Slasher. Torture pron is a different kind of horror movie genre.
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"Sometimes the only victory possible is to keep your opponent from winning." - The Emperor, from The Outcast Dead.
"Tell your gods we are coming for them, and that their realms will burn as ours did." -Thostos Bladestorm
Nope - It was exactly that - they drew out the first girls (Drew Barrymore?) kill over about half an hour. Truely terrible film that I wish I walked out of the cinema.
Why in a country apparently full of guns - no girl just pulls one out and shoots the stupid idiots in masks....
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"Unimaginably ancient xenos artefact somewhere on the planet, hive fleet poised above our heads, hidden 'stealer broods making an early start....and now a bloody Chaos cult crawling out of the woodwork just in case we were bored. Welcome to my world, Ciaphas."
Inquisitor Amberley Vail, Ordo Xenos
"I will admit that some Primachs like Russ or Horus could have a chance against an unarmed 12 year old novice but, a full Battle Sister??!! One to one? In close combat? Perhaps three Primarchs fighting together... but just one Primarch?" da001
Not at all feeling this Predator: Badlands trailer.
Supposedly one of the skulls in the opening shot is one of the Independence Day aliens. Sweet, more gakky crossovers that fail to come close to its potential!
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"Sometimes the only victory possible is to keep your opponent from winning." - The Emperor, from The Outcast Dead.
"Tell your gods we are coming for them, and that their realms will burn as ours did." -Thostos Bladestorm
2025/04/24 16:33:44
Subject: Re:Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
Saw this trailer the other day and giggled. It's so much crammed into a movie but both of those guys are underrated for their comedy. I'm kinda excited for the silly.
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2025/04/25 05:04:45
Subject: Re:Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
nels1031 wrote: Not at all feeling this Predator: Badlands trailer.
Supposedly one of the skulls in the opening shot is one of the Independence Day aliens. Sweet, more gakky crossovers that fail to come close to its potential!
It looks like its following the vein of a Predator comic series that started after The Predator and was about as bad as Predator. I suppose hoping we could get another movie like Prey was hoping for too much because everything about this looks like someone's gakky scifi concept with the Predator name slapped onto it, not a real Predator movie.
nels1031 wrote: Not at all feeling this Predator: Badlands trailer.
Supposedly one of the skulls in the opening shot is one of the Independence Day aliens. Sweet, more gakky crossovers that fail to come close to its potential!
That was... unexpected. Well a 'bold' new twist I guess.
2025/04/25 21:08:26
Subject: Re:Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
Saw this trailer the other day and giggled. It's so much crammed into a movie but both of those guys are underrated for their comedy. I'm kinda excited for the silly.
Ok, I laughed several times in that trailer, it looks like exactly the right kind of dumb to be good
nels1031 wrote: Not at all feeling this Predator: Badlands trailer.
Supposedly one of the skulls in the opening shot is one of the Independence Day aliens. Sweet, more gakky crossovers that fail to come close to its potential!
That was... unexpected. Well a 'bold' new twist I guess.
It didn’t wow me, but consider me intrigued. It feels much more like the original AvP novelisations, and having something more from the Predator’s point of view could be interesting to see on screen.
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Zed wrote: *All statements reflect my opinion at this moment. if some sort of pretty new model gets released (or if I change my mind at random) I reserve the right to jump on any bandwagon at will.
2025/04/29 20:02:55
Subject: Re:Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
Really looking forward this. "The Rock" getting into a pretty intense dramatic role, Emily Blunt looking hot AF, a slew of early UFC/Pride FC lore, and a bunch of UFC/Boxing folks playing early MMA guys.
Its based on a pretty good documentary, if anyone wants to skip ahead!
And some nightmare fuel :
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"Sometimes the only victory possible is to keep your opponent from winning." - The Emperor, from The Outcast Dead.
"Tell your gods we are coming for them, and that their realms will burn as ours did." -Thostos Bladestorm
BobtheInquisitor wrote: Does his contract still forbid the Rock from losing a fight on screen?
Ha, I thought about that too. We'll have to wait and see!
"Sometimes the only victory possible is to keep your opponent from winning." - The Emperor, from The Outcast Dead.
"Tell your gods we are coming for them, and that their realms will burn as ours did." -Thostos Bladestorm
2025/05/03 18:03:32
Subject: Re:Thread for Upcoming Movies and Trailers
Bridesmaids meets Gross Pointe Blank. It looks like it takes itself about as seriously as its title suggests. I laughed a couple times at the trailer, but I still don’t know whether this will be a decent action-comedy or a total trainwreck.
The Legend of Ochi
I didn’t see much advertising for this one, but it’s out now (except in the UK where it was yanked for mysterious reasons) and reviews are deeply divided.
People who loved it describe it as Stephen Spielberg’s How to Train Your Dragon, starring fuzzy Grogu, as directed by Wes Anderson.
People who loathe it describe it as a Wes Anderson film about a fuzzy Grogu based on a knock-off How to Train Your Dragon script meant for Stephen Spielberg.
Everyone agrees that Willem Dafoe is the best part of the movie.
