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So, "Godzilla v. King Kong" is a Go
The deal was struck. The monsters are owned by different companies but they made a deal once before (for a film that made Toho more money than any other), and they've made that deal again.
Following Legendary’s and Warner Bros. Pictures' 2014 success with the global reinvention of the Godzilla franchise, the companies have come together to create an epic, new shared cinematic franchise. All-powerful monsters become towering heroes for a new generation, revealing a mythology that brings together Godzilla and Legendary’s King Kong in an ecosystem of other giant super-species, both classic and new. Monarch, the human organization that uncovered Godzilla in the 2014 film, will expand their mission across multiple releases. The announcement that the reinvention of monsters continues was made today by Legendary CEO, Thomas Tull and Kevin Tsujihara, Chairman and CEO, Warner Bros. The initial trio of films are 2017’s KONG: SKULL ISLAND, GODZILLA 2 in 2018 and then GODZILLA VS. KONG, arriving in theaters in 2020. While Legendary maintains its new home at Universal Pictures, the GODZILLA films remain in partnership with Warner Bros., who will now also distribute KONG as a part of this franchise. Production on KONG: SKULL ISLAND begins October 19th. Warner Bros. and Legendary released Godzilla in May 2014 with an agreement to release Godzilla 2 on June 8, 2018. Both films feature the human Monarch organization. Shortly following Legendary’s pact with NBC Universal, Legendary acquired rights to additional classic characters from Toho's Godzilla universe, including Rodan, Mothra, and King Ghidorah. This paved the way for developing a franchise centered around Monarch and anchored by Godzilla, King Kong, and other famous creatures.The battle of the titans has already caused on casualty: The sequel to the other giant-kaiju fighting movie, Pacific Rim, seems to be no longer in the works.
Oddly enough, in the same report it was revealed that the long-awaited Pacific Rim 2 would be on put on hold for the foreseeable future. The film was slated to be released in 2017 and reports came out earlier this year that production was suspected to begin in November, so why the sudden change of heart? According to the official release they didn’t want to put up the cash in order to make the 2nd film.... While the report says one thing, many believe that the main reason that the studio decided to hold off on the sequel to Pacific Rim, is the recent development with Godzilla vs King Kong. Earlier reports claimed that if all the pieces fell into place, the studio would move very quickly on their plans to get the two film icons to face-off, with King Kong releasing in 2017 and the sequel to Godzilla hitting theaters the following year. While Pacific Rim does have a fan base, it is not a sure-fire hit in the same capacity that a Godzilla vs King Kong film would do.Guillermo Del Toro says the Pacifc Rim sequel is not dead, but directors always say that. You know, I guess maybe I'll see Godzilla v. King Kong (I might even see Skull Island -- which always interested me more than Kong himself), but I've had the opportunity to watch Godzilla free for a while and I keep letting it slip through my fingers. I watched the first fifteen minutes and realized something was missing from the movie -- namely, me being twelve years old. Thanks to @johnriverstoo. Cool Video, Brah: This guy's video is great. It's about the 5 Most Pointless Uses of CGI in movies. Watch it -- at the end he shows you some practical effects people made for movies, which looked very good, which were replaced with awful looking CGI.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Those women talk in creaky voices, have lips that look like they are going to explode, and are always stuffing their pie holes. They never stop shoveling food in.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 14, 2015 08:47 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: donna at October 14, 2015 08:47 PM (/dSsq)
Posted by: Snoodling World Champion 1997 at October 14, 2015 08:48 PM (k9qR4)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 08:49 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 08:50 PM (FsuaD)
Ghiddorah, Mothra, Rodan, Destroyah, and a whole slew of others.
Now if they rope in Gamera, Gyaos... oh boy, let the monsters rumble.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 08:50 PM (kVLm4)
Posted by: Feh at October 14, 2015 08:50 PM (Uk9e2)
Posted by: @votermom at October 14, 2015 08:50 PM (cbfNE)
Batman.
...
don't you watch war movies?
Batman is about the War for the Soul of Gotham City.
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 08:51 PM (dciA+)
Is that too much to ask?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 08:51 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 08:51 PM (kVLm4)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at October 14, 2015 08:51 PM (VAsIq)
Posted by: All Teh Meh at October 14, 2015 08:51 PM (VviqM)
Posted by: bour3 at October 14, 2015 08:51 PM (5x3+2)
Posted by: Danube River Guide at October 14, 2015 08:51 PM (mcm0N)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 14, 2015 08:52 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, hither and yon at October 14, 2015 08:52 PM (m9V0o)
Alexthechick hardest hit
Posted by: chemjeff - go royals at October 14, 2015 08:52 PM (5p18q)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at October 14, 2015 08:52 PM (oVJmc)
Never seen a Godzilla movie. Or a King Kong movie.
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at October 14, 2015 08:51 PM (VAsIq)
Da fuk???
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 08:52 PM (FsuaD)
I was reading about this last night -- Godzilla 2 is rumored to have Mothra and Giddorah.
about rodan i'll say nothing. I hear things, though.
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 08:52 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at October 14, 2015 08:52 PM (VAsIq)
Posted by: Kindltot, faking a bernigasm at October 14, 2015 08:53 PM (3pRHP)
Posted by: Brenden at October 14, 2015 08:53 PM (ohemp)
plus, the Clinton Foundation gets incinerated
and ISIS deploys against Godzilla, but he dispatches them when he toasts Mecca
Posted by: Feh at October 14, 2015 08:53 PM (Uk9e2)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 14, 2015 08:53 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 08:54 PM (kVLm4)
Posted by: chemjeff - go royals at October 14, 2015 08:54 PM (5p18q)
Your "I'm Impressed" button is a bit harder to push when you get older.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at October 14, 2015 08:54 PM (Xo1Rt)
Posted by: chemjeff - go royals at October 14, 2015 08:54 PM (5p18q)
Posted by: Weasel at October 14, 2015 08:54 PM (e3bId)
Kong counters with an evil gun. With a thing that goes "up."
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 08:55 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Bluey Raisin at October 14, 2015 08:55 PM (sSxn3)
Posted by: Jane D'oh
I was kid # 6, and kids 1-5 weren't into monster movies. By the time I was old enough to have a say in what would be watched I had other interests than rubber-suited monsters.
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at October 14, 2015 08:55 PM (VAsIq)
I identified this trick he uses. I'm not musical, so it's hard to explain, but he does these sort of light shivers of strings, then it gets quiet for a few seconds, then there is this super-low toned blare of horns, like DUNH-DUNH.
He uses this trick in so many movies. He uses it in the WWII spy mystery Enigma, I think he uses it in The Deep.
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 08:55 PM (dciA+)
Atomic breath?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 14, 2015 08:55 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: CJ at October 14, 2015 08:56 PM (K00f7)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 14, 2015 08:56 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 14, 2015 08:56 PM (g0dZ5)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 14, 2015 08:56 PM (9Fc79)
https://youtu.be/broPmKFqmpI
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 08:56 PM (kVLm4)
Posted by: Kindltot,
How about a three five-hour movies? The first 12 hours are walking through Tokyo.
Posted by: Peter Jackson at October 14, 2015 08:56 PM (VAsIq)
Posted by: Weasel at October 14, 2015 08:56 PM (e3bId)
What?!?!
Posted by: Curt LeMay at October 14, 2015 08:56 PM (2iV3X)
Posted by: Feh at October 14, 2015 08:56 PM (Uk9e2)
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 14, 2015 08:57 PM (iQIUe)
A willingness to mow down all who stands in her way in her quest for total world domination?
Posted by: chemjeff - go royals at October 14, 2015 08:57 PM (5p18q)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarin, Model Citizen at October 14, 2015 08:57 PM (qhUQl)
Posted by: DaveA at October 14, 2015 08:57 PM (DL2i+)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at October 14, 2015 08:57 PM (Xo1Rt)
Posted by: AD at October 14, 2015 08:57 PM (S9XdH)
Posted by: Danube River Guide at October 14, 2015 08:57 PM (mcm0N)
The entire movie is just the chase scenes from The Road Warrior.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 14, 2015 08:57 PM (rwI+c)
That was my favorite Japanese monster film as a kid; I always liked the little singing ladies.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 14, 2015 08:58 PM (GERXL)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 08:49 PM (FsuaD
there was a Godzilla movie after the Matthew Broderick one I take it (assuming I didn't dream that one)?
Posted by: Lea at October 14, 2015 08:58 PM (vmMMi)
Posted by: Clarney at October 14, 2015 08:58 PM (A9xvX)
Posted by: Weasel at October 14, 2015 08:58 PM (e3bId)
It's a Giant Jet Powered Turtle. I bet the Chinese hear it when it's still over Tokyo.
Posted by: DaveA at October 14, 2015 08:59 PM (DL2i+)
Fat thighs and a big butt, for one.
And the laugh.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at October 14, 2015 08:59 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 08:59 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Danube River Guide
Payback will be represented by Hillary(!). Because, as we all know...
...payback's a bitch.
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at October 14, 2015 08:59 PM (VAsIq)
Or maybe Ramona Quimby vs Rainbow Brite.
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 14, 2015 08:59 PM (g0dZ5)
Posted by: Lea at October 14, 2015 08:58 PM (vmMMi)
I don't remember. All I remember is sniveling over the first one, and trying not to let little D'oh Boy hear.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 08:59 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Bluey Raisin
I heard (or read) somewhere that Godzilla was a metaphor for the USA. It trashed Japan once but comes back to save Japan from some other monsters which were metaphors for other countries.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 14, 2015 09:00 PM (9Fc79)
Posted by: Blue Oyster Cult at October 14, 2015 09:00 PM (5p18q)
Posted by: Danube River Guide at October 14, 2015 09:00 PM (mcm0N)
https://youtu.be/nRS5f1Hy05o
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 09:01 PM (kVLm4)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, self-aware douchebag at October 14, 2015 09:01 PM (jR7Wy)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 09:01 PM (FsuaD)
... v. Robocop v. The Punisher v. Archie...
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at October 14, 2015 09:01 PM (EHU9F)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 09:02 PM (kVLm4)
Drive the SJW's nuts. (well they're already nuts. Nutsier then).
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at October 14, 2015 09:02 PM (Xo1Rt)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 08:59 PM (FsuaD)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_%282014_film%29
Basically, all you see are giant lizard footprints and lots of infighting among soldiers until the last 15 minutes, where Godzilla trashes SF
Posted by: chemjeff - go royals at October 14, 2015 09:02 PM (5p18q)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 09:02 PM (FsuaD)
This is the key to my relationship with 20-something women.
I thank God for this.
@26 Grump, I agree. I was prepared to watch a very silly movie. Parts of the plot were, just, simple. But Shermans vs German armor (were they all Tigers? Mk IV's were often mistaken for "King Royal Tigers" from underneath) was distressingly realistic. I advised my dad not to watch it. He was in the road show of the play.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 14, 2015 09:02 PM (xq1UY)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 14, 2015 09:03 PM (9Fc79)
Posted by: blaster at October 14, 2015 09:03 PM (2Ocf1)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at October 14, 2015 09:04 PM (VAsIq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 09:04 PM (kVLm4)
And ace they do utilize a few blue oyster cult lyrics in the film.
Posted by: Buzzion at October 14, 2015 09:04 PM (z/Ubi)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at October 14, 2015 09:04 PM (Xo1Rt)
Posted by: mugiwara at October 14, 2015 09:04 PM (UFZRg)
I'd pay big money to watch that treat.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 09:05 PM (FsuaD)
Aye...there's the rub.
Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2015 09:05 PM (rjtGa)
i saw some of the 1976 King Kong a year ago and I really liked the score -- John Barry, of the bond films, and many others of course.
I identified this trick he uses. I'm not musical, so it's hard to explain, but he does these sort of light shivers of strings, then it gets quiet for a few seconds, then there is this super-low toned blare of horns, like DUNH-DUNH.
He uses this trick in so many movies. He uses it in the WWII spy mystery Enigma, I think he uses it in The Deep.
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 08:55 PM (dciA+)
Yeah but it's a GOOD trick. Conveys an understated aura of doom. Reminds me a bit of the closing phrases of The World At War.
I really like Barry's score for Enigma. Perfectly evokes the quiet desperation and dread of England in WWII.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 14, 2015 09:05 PM (o98Jz)
yes, there was a 2014 one which had a small appearance by the Breaking Bad guy in it. It was, um, attempting to be dark and realistic and gritty at the same time it was trying to get me to buy into some giant Space Egg or something.
I don't think dark and gritty works with a Giant Space Egg so I turned it off.
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 09:05 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at October 14, 2015 09:05 PM (VAsIq)
I really like Barry's score for Enigma. Perfectly evokes the quiet desperation and dread of England in WWII.
...
i agree, I like it every time i hear it. But it's definitely his Pet Trick.
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 09:06 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 09:06 PM (kVLm4)
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 14, 2015 09:07 PM (g0dZ5)
Posted by: @votermom at October 14, 2015 09:09 PM (cbfNE)
I still get confused at the KFC/Taco Bell merger.
Posted by: DaveA at October 14, 2015 08:57 PM (DL2i+)
That ain't nothin', pal.
Posted by: John Spartan lost in the Pizza Hut version of Demolition Man at October 14, 2015 09:09 PM (o98Jz)
Posted by: donna at October 14, 2015 08:47 PM (/dSsq)
I'm holding out for the Mothra twins.
Posted by: Iblis at October 14, 2015 09:10 PM (ADMJH)
Posted by: chemjeff - go royals at October 14, 2015 09:10 PM (5p18q)
The opening for Pacific Rim where they 'educate' the movie
audience on what kaiju means annoyed me greatly - uh hello why am I in
this dark cinema watching your movie? - and ruined any pleasure I might
have derived from watching the rest of the movie. Completely knocked me
out of the entertainment zone.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 09:06 PM (kVLm4)
well to be fair, I had no idea what kaiju was before this movie
Posted by: chemjeff - go royals at October 14, 2015 09:11 PM (5p18q)
Posted by: donna at October 14, 2015 08:47 PM (/dSsq)
I'm holding out for the Mothra twins.
Posted by: Iblis
I'm holding out for a hero.
Posted by: Bonnie Tyler at October 14, 2015 09:11 PM (VAsIq)
Posted by: Ace is a Dick at October 14, 2015 09:11 PM (+DaTf)
i agree, I like it every time i hear it. But it's definitely his Pet Trick.
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 09:06 PM (dciA+)
True, but at least it's not quite as blatant as some other film composers
*koff, koff* James Horner *koff, koff*
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 14, 2015 09:11 PM (o98Jz)
Why not just kind of have the world be where the audience is at, mentally -- not having dealt with Kaiju for 50 years yet, having it be new?
they wanted to shoe-horn this idea in about kaiju parts being farmed but... it's not such a great idea in the first place, and also, SAVE IT FOR THE SEQUEL, when the audience has already bought into kaiju and you can introduce NEW THINGS like "and now people have gotten used to this and are searching for kaiju body parts."
I did not get that whole set up, or why they worked so hard to make the kaiju thing old hat in the movie already.
I also totally did not get the stupid "Twins with their minds in sync, powering the robots" nonsense.I didn't get it on a technical level (huh? Why do we need two brains for this? What?), and I also did not get whatever bullshit theme they were going for, like "togtherness" or "unity" or whatever.
Just a total fail for me. I think I Liked one scene, where the lights of some asian city were so colorful in the dark, the picture was just really dazzling.
but other than that minute of film -- which was, *literally*, "oooh, such shiny bright colors!" -- just effing hated it.
Hated charlie day, even.
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 09:12 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2015 09:12 PM (rjtGa)
Godzilla appears, and stomps them all to hell.
Not a great screenplay, but it's my fantasy. *sticks tongue out*
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 09:12 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: blaster at October 14, 2015 09:12 PM (2Ocf1)
Posted by: Ace is a Dick at October 14, 2015 09:12 PM (+DaTf)
True, but at least it's not quite as blatant as some other film composers
*koff, koff* James Horner *koff, koff*
...
what's his trick?
Oh and Hector, take your medicine and tell your mom you sinned today.
bye bye.
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 09:12 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Feh at October 14, 2015 09:13 PM (Uk9e2)
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 09:14 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: blaster at October 14, 2015 09:12 PM (2Ocf1)
Godzilla was the hero.
Posted by: Iblis at October 14, 2015 09:14 PM (ADMJH)
But look at Gojira, he has the atomic breath weapon. Mothra will glitter bomb you and then play bondage games. Rodan is supersonic. Ghiddorah can materialize and throws lightning bolts. All are giant monsters, but they also have a unique trick.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 09:14 PM (kVLm4)
Posted by: Ace is a Dick at October 14, 2015 09:14 PM (+DaTf)
Honest Trailers did a spot-on takedown of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fupWquPNoTc
I'm on the fence about this. On the one hand, I enjoyed the 2014 Godzilla immensely even though the main character was a non-factor who just wandered through his own movie. On the other, I literally could not give less of a shit about King Kong if I tried. The 1933 flick was 90 minutes of perfection. Every other version has been a bloated crapfest (yes, even the 70s version). 90 minutes is how long I can take a giant ape smashing stuff. Anything beyond that is an egotistical director run amok.
Posted by: sans_sheriff at October 14, 2015 09:14 PM (+RDoJ)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 09:14 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 14, 2015 09:15 PM (PT+qV)
I have a feeling it will suck.
Posted by: @votermom at October 14, 2015 09:15 PM (cbfNE)
Posted by: Hillaroid! at October 14, 2015 09:15 PM (djBqY)
Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at October 14, 2015 09:15 PM (Cq0oW)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 14, 2015 09:15 PM (9Fc79)
Besides Dino de Laurentis built a giant animatronic ape for some of his 1976 Kong film. Used in the scenes where Kong is put on display and breaks free. Size perspective matters.
Posted by: CJ at October 14, 2015 09:15 PM (K00f7)
Posted by: Ace is a Dick at October 14, 2015 09:16 PM (+DaTf)
Posted by: steevy at October 14, 2015 09:16 PM (8HTq1)
i've been listening to the great "Blue Shadows on the Trail" from Three Amigos lately.
Just such a great song. Evocative. Perfect to have the cowboys sing in Three Amigos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdDZqkDMCv8
some people agree with me-- i saw some covers of it, one by Paul Young (80s british blue-eyed-soul singer; think he covered "Every time you go away" by Hall and Oates).
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 09:16 PM (dciA+)
This will not end well.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 09:16 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 14, 2015 09:16 PM (PT+qV)
seemed to me that they did have special weapons, one of them had the EMP weapon, one had the acid breath
Posted by: chemjeff - go royals at October 14, 2015 09:17 PM (5p18q)
They should have built up. Added new ones with new capabilities. The running out of robots movie could have been Rocky IV
Posted by: blaster at October 14, 2015 09:17 PM (2Ocf1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLSBSvNUUjY
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 09:17 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 09:17 PM (kVLm4)
Posted by: Ready For Hillary!!11!! at October 14, 2015 09:17 PM (Dwehj)
Posted by: bergerbilder at October 14, 2015 09:17 PM (djBqY)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 09:17 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 09:14 PM (FsuaD)
That's what I can't stand about stupid trolls. Here we're talking about awesome monster movies, and this guys trying sadly to bring politics into it.
A smart troll would drop a line about Godzilla 1998 being the best evah!
Posted by: Iblis at October 14, 2015 09:18 PM (ADMJH)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarin, Model Citizen at October 14, 2015 09:18 PM (MwNIp)
I am watching criminal minds for some reason, which is generally a bad idea.
Posted by: Lea at October 14, 2015 09:18 PM (vmMMi)
gee there's no way you can do that with the assumption that they just started building the robots (and ergo only have three finished robots, and a couple of prototypes, and a few failures that could be kit-bashed into a working robot)
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 09:18 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2015 09:18 PM (rjtGa)
Posted by: RAYKONNN!!!!!!! at October 14, 2015 09:18 PM (5p18q)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 09:19 PM (FsuaD)
Well, the explanation for that was two people were needed because one person just couldn't handle it by themselves, which really isn't a bad explanation, they're dealing with a huge machine and could have gone crazy saying it needed an entire crew of people.
Posted by: All Teh Meh at October 14, 2015 09:19 PM (VviqM)
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 09:19 PM (dciA+)
I have a feeling it will suck.
The ending will call for massive CGI.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 14, 2015 09:19 PM (rwI+c)
And if they were tag-teaming, another troll would bring up Peter Jackson's "King Kong".
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo has maybe outed himself at October 14, 2015 09:19 PM (PT+qV)
Put me in, Coach, I'm ready to play, today
Look at me, I can be Center field
Posted by: Ace is a Dick at October 14, 2015 09:19 PM (+DaTf)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 09:20 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Iblis at October 14, 2015 09:20 PM (ADMJH)
...
Accept the wonderful plot magic of radiation.
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 09:21 PM (dciA+)
Obama as Fay Wray? It could work.
"The airplanes killed him!"
"It wasn't the airplanes. It was a slimy, worthless, traitorous, shitstain totalitarian asshole killed the beast."
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 14, 2015 09:21 PM (g0dZ5)
Posted by: chemjeff at October 14, 2015 09:21 PM (5p18q)
Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at October 14, 2015 09:21 PM (Cq0oW)
We're born again, there's new grass on the field
Posted by: Ace is a Dick at October 14, 2015 09:21 PM (+DaTf)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 14, 2015 09:21 PM (PT+qV)
Posted by: Woody Allen at October 14, 2015 09:22 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Montgomery Burns at October 14, 2015 09:22 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: steevy at October 14, 2015 09:22 PM (8HTq1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXCUBVS4kfQ
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 14, 2015 09:22 PM (PT+qV)
*sigh*
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 09:22 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 14, 2015 09:22 PM (V1gRv)
And if they were tag-teaming, another troll would bring up Peter Jackson's "King Kong".
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo has maybe outed himself at October 14, 2015 09:19 PM (PT+qV)
Heh. Kong meets LOTR.
Posted by: Iblis at October 14, 2015 09:22 PM (ADMJH)
The end fight was great, including Godzilla getting fish-hooked.
Also my derp Rodan <> Gamera.
Was it Rodan that picked people up and ate them like snacks?
Posted by: DaveA at October 14, 2015 09:22 PM (DL2i+)
Posted by: steevy at October 14, 2015 09:23 PM (8HTq1)
Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2015 09:23 PM (rjtGa)
Chemjeff, I am saying the definition used in the movie was off-putting because it just said kaiju = giant monster. Never anything about their tricks. And that annoyed me. And the whole rift to another dimension, all I could think of was the anime OVA series Battle Fairy Yukikaze because guess what aliens are trying to invade Earth through such a rift. And the big save at the end of Pacific Rim was basically the same as Battle Fairy Yukikaze - blow up a super bomb and close the breach.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 09:23 PM (kVLm4)
I am complaining that there were not enough giant robots. For a giant robot film.
Posted by: blaster at October 14, 2015 09:23 PM (2Ocf1)
Posted by: Ace is a Dick at October 14, 2015 09:24 PM (+DaTf)
Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at October 14, 2015 09:24 PM (Cq0oW)
Besides Dino de Laurentis built a giant animatronic ape for some of his 1976 Kong film. Used in the scenes where Kong is put on display and breaks free. Size perspective matters.
kind of a HUGE LIE. I mean, technically, yes, he had a standing Kong in restraints (something he used for promotion purposes).
Apart from a few shots of Kong standing there, more or less immobile, it was all smaller puppetry.
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 09:24 PM (dciA+)
We just saw an ad for that On Demand or something. My wife, who has seen all of those types of movies, said, "When did that come out?"
Posted by: CJ at October 14, 2015 09:24 PM (K00f7)
Posted by: chemjeff at October 14, 2015 09:24 PM (5p18q)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 14, 2015 09:24 PM (PT+qV)
Alien - Jerry Goldsmith
The Wind and the Lion - Jerry Goldsmith
Conan - Basil Polidouris (ripping off Prokofiev)
Darkon - Jonah Rapino
Star Wars - John Williams (occasionally ripping off Stravinsky)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, self-aware douchebag at October 14, 2015 09:25 PM (jR7Wy)
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at October 14, 2015 09:25 PM (AC0lD)
Posted by: Stan Lee at October 14, 2015 09:25 PM (VAsIq)
Posted by: steevy at October 14, 2015 09:25 PM (8HTq1)
Dammit all to hell. *close to rage headache*
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 09:25 PM (FsuaD)
Well, Horner recycled a LOT of themes and tricks. He was notorious for it.
The steel drums in Commando and 48 Hours, and I believe even in Gorky Park (going from memory).
Wrath of Khan and Aliens reused some themes as well. Etc, etc.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 14, 2015 09:25 PM (o98Jz)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 09:26 PM (kVLm4)
Posted by: Feh at October 14, 2015 09:26 PM (Uk9e2)
well I don't know if you're addressing me. I don't need many giant robots like I don't need many Iron Man's. (And Iron Man 3 proved that, I think.)
You need two or three or four, tops.
Giant monster fights are usually not massed engagements with cavarly and reinforcements. Usually one-on-one affairs, sometimes two-on-one or two-on-two.
(As a historical matter. Sure, there was Monster Island, but only a couple of monsters mattered there. Most were dumb filler crap.)
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 09:26 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: steevy at October 14, 2015 09:26 PM (8HTq1)
Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2015 09:27 PM (rjtGa)
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 14, 2015 09:27 PM (g0dZ5)
Wrath of Khan and Aliens reused some themes as well. Etc, etc.
...
OH SHIT HE'S JAMAICAN DRUM MAN?!?!?!!!
I hear that there's a specific sound in Aliens, sort of metal percussing a metal wire, that was specifically and entirely lifted from Kahn and used as a stinger in Aliens.
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 09:27 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Ace is a Dick at October 14, 2015 09:27 PM (+DaTf)
You mentioned Gino de Laurentiis. Are you aware his hot granddaughter is available now? Giada.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 09:28 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Kreplach at October 14, 2015 09:28 PM (WVvzl)
Posted by: Bernard Herrmann at October 14, 2015 09:28 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich
My jaw hurts from eating that bread. Too tough.
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at October 14, 2015 09:28 PM (VAsIq)
Posted by: fluffy at October 14, 2015 09:28 PM (2iV3X)
Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at October 14, 2015 09:28 PM (Cq0oW)
Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2015 09:28 PM (rjtGa)
Posted by: Nip Sip at October 14, 2015 09:29 PM (jJRIy)
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at October 14, 2015 09:29 PM (VAsIq)
Someone should try to bring something like that "clock" next time s/he's invited to meet up with Barky. And have cameras rolling
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 14, 2015 09:29 PM (PT+qV)
Posted by: steevy at October 14, 2015 09:29 PM (8HTq1)
Posted by: Smart Troll at October 14, 2015 09:29 PM (KUa85)
Never watched the sequels, didn't know that they drafted Colonel Sanders ....
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at October 14, 2015 09:29 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: Feh at October 14, 2015 09:30 PM (Uk9e2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at October 14, 2015 09:30 PM (9Fc79)
Damn. I was 11 and Oscar Jones shared a copy of his March 1976 "Monsters" magazine with me that stated that as fact. And I thought I saw the arms move in the film. (Again, 11.)
Still, 100% CGI = nice video game.
Posted by: CJ at October 14, 2015 09:30 PM (K00f7)
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at October 14, 2015 09:30 PM (g0dZ5)
I hear that there's a specific sound in Aliens, sort of metal
percussing a metal wire, that was specifically and entirely lifted from
Kahn and used as a stinger in Aliens.
Kahn also reused a lot of his earlier score from Battle Beyond the Stars.
Posted by: Bernard Herrmann at October 14, 2015 09:30 PM (oVJmc)
Come hold me tight
Kiss me my darling
Be mine tonight
Tomorrow will be too late
It's now or never
My love won't wait
Posted by: Ace is a Dick at October 14, 2015 09:30 PM (+DaTf)
Posted by: chemjeff at October 14, 2015 09:30 PM (5p18q)
That absolutely made the movie.
Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2015 09:28 PM (rjtGa)
---
The part where they discover the space jockey gives me the heebiejeebies just thinking about it.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, self-aware douchebag at October 14, 2015 09:30 PM (jR7Wy)
=====/
giant monster fights are a metaphor for prison sex.
Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich at October 14, 2015 09:30 PM (Cq0oW)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 09:16 PM (FsuaD)
Isn't that the point?
Posted by: Hrothgar at October 14, 2015 09:30 PM (ftVQq)
Posted by: All Hail Eris
I really like the soundtrack to Glory. And Last of the Mohicans, uneven as it is (with two different composers), is really good.
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at October 14, 2015 09:30 PM (VAsIq)
*glares at husband for sending the idiot money*
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 09:30 PM (FsuaD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvEZ32oFtTw
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 14, 2015 09:30 PM (PT+qV)
Real Steel. That's a fighting robot movie. Maybe not more in number than in Pac Rim but they fought a lot.
Posted by: blaster at October 14, 2015 09:30 PM (2Ocf1)
Posted by: Ace is a Dick at October 14, 2015 09:31 PM (+DaTf)
So that they could completely ignore the obvious WTF re: Giant Robots as ridiculous weapons in the 1st place because "Giant Robots - Cool"
And then they failed the Delivery of the Japanese Monster Movie science.
Posted by: DaveA at October 14, 2015 09:32 PM (DL2i+)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 09:32 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: ace
Done!
Posted by: Stan Lee
hah!
Here's a funny exchange with stan lee. He was being interviewed by Kevin Smith.
SMITH: Who are your favorite heroes that you created?
STAN LEE: The X-Men, I think.
SMITH: Why?
STAN LEE: Because they were born that way.
SMITH: Ohhhh...! You mean like thematically, like how they echo the outsider or homosexual in society...!
STAN LEE: No, I mean they were just BORN THAT WAY. I didn't have to come up with some goofy origin story for any of the X-Men. They were just BORN THAT WAY. Boom. Done. Next.
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 09:32 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at October 14, 2015 09:32 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 14, 2015 09:32 PM (PT+qV)
Posted by: Feh at October 14, 2015 09:32 PM (Uk9e2)
*looks at Z's link and charges up AlextheChick's flamenwerfer*
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 09:33 PM (kVLm4)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 14, 2015 09:33 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Bigby's Knuckle Sandwich
And isn't prison sex just a metaphor for the Obama administration?
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at October 14, 2015 09:33 PM (VAsIq)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 14, 2015 09:33 PM (PT+qV)
Posted by: Snoodling World Champion 1997 at October 14, 2015 09:33 PM (k9qR4)
Posted by: Picard at October 14, 2015 09:33 PM (MQEz6)
Eh I kinda liked the 2005 King Kong
Posted by: chemjeff at October 14, 2015 09:21 PM (5p18q)
Honestly the best part was when Smeagol was eaten alive by a giant caterpillar. That really creeped me out.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 14, 2015 09:33 PM (o98Jz)
Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2015 09:34 PM (rjtGa)
Pacific Rim worked because the movie was an original concept, entertaining and lacked any kind of intellectual pretensions. It was giant robots battling giant lizards and smashing cities to bits along the way.
Posted by: Ernie McCracken at October 14, 2015 09:34 PM (hL1jD)
That's an actual plot element in Chekhov's Cherry Orchard? Described as being like a well-bucket rope breaking in the distance, as if anyone in Theatre to-day would have any idea what that sounded like.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 14, 2015 09:34 PM (xq1UY)
mentioned but I think the superior show might have been Johnny Socko (?)
about a Japanese kid who controlled the giant robot that always saved
the day.
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at October 14, 2015 09:25 PM (AC0lD
Ultraman, Johnny Sokko, and Goldar (The Space Giants) are the holy trinity of the 1970s Japanese zipper-monster-kid hero genre.
Posted by: CJ at October 14, 2015 09:34 PM (K00f7)
Posted by: Lea at October 14, 2015 09:34 PM (vmMMi)
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 09:34 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 14, 2015 09:35 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Snoodling World Champion 1997 at October 14, 2015 09:35 PM (k9qR4)
Posted by: Feh at October 14, 2015 09:35 PM (Uk9e2)
Posted by: chemjeff at October 14, 2015 09:35 PM (5p18q)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at October 14, 2015 09:35 PM (oVJmc)
i banned him via tb3k but it's not responding... it gets stuck
sometimes. I'm waiting to see if it starts working before I bother Maet.
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 09:34 PM (dciA+)
Thanks. Funny how the trolls came out the day after the Communist debate.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 09:36 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Ace is a Dick at October 14, 2015 09:36 PM (+DaTf)
they wanted to shoe-horn this idea in about kaiju parts being farmed but... it's not such a great idea in the first place, and also, SAVE IT FOR THE SEQUEL, when the audience has already bought into kaiju and you can introduce NEW THINGS like "and now people have gotten used to this and are searching for kaiju body parts."
I did not get that whole set up, or why they worked so hard to make the kaiju thing old hat in the movie already.
Posted by: ace
It's really quite simple, Ace.
Guillermo Del Toro is a fucking walking disaster of a writer.
Think Hellboy II. What a fucking indulgent piece of shit that was. And that was just the trailer.
That said, I'm straining mightily to not see Crimson Peak.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 14, 2015 09:36 PM (JmGFJ)
He ran out of vaseline and kleenex.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 14, 2015 09:37 PM (PT+qV)
i hated that movie's guts and want to fight it.
So bad. so excessive. so, so excessive. so relentlessly indulgent. so tedious.
Guy doesn't know when to say when.
You know when to say when? Here are some times to say when:
Brontosaurus stampede?
The FIFTH wave of giant bugs attacking people.
Adding not just another t-rex, but TWO more t-rexes.
Just such swill. HATRED.
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 09:37 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 14, 2015 09:37 PM (JmGFJ)
Posted by: chemjeff at October 14, 2015 09:37 PM (5p18q)
Posted by: Ace is a Dick at October 14, 2015 09:38 PM (+DaTf)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at October 14, 2015 09:38 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: fluffy at October 14, 2015 09:28 PM (2iV3X)
"Borrowing" from Honegger, Mahler, Strauss, Dvorak, et al. More of a rip-off artist than Pouf Daddy was.
Posted by: Snoodling World Champion 1997 at October 14, 2015 09:38 PM (k9qR4)
Think Hellboy II. What a fucking indulgent piece of shit that was. And that was just the trailer.
...
hellboy 2 was fine. I liked it.
he had to throw in his Pan's Labyrinth-style weird visuals (out of place in this movie), but I thought the movie was relatively streamlined. Wasn't too convoluted, I don't think.
suffered from not having Niles Crane's voice for the Fish Guy though.
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 09:38 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: chemjeff - go royals at October 14, 2015 09:38 PM (5p18q)
Posted by: chemjeff at October 14, 2015 09:35 PM (5p18q)
How so? Hawaii (Barrys alleged Birth place) and San Fran get trashed by a nuclear powered dinosaur. Total metaphor for a Cruz presidency.
Posted by: Iblis at October 14, 2015 09:39 PM (ADMJH)
Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at October 14, 2015 09:39 PM (0O7c5)
That being said, they all need to DIAF. Because they will never learn better and will breed.
If that seems cruel, so be it. Look at what's happening to our country.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 09:39 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2015 09:39 PM (rjtGa)
Posted by: steevy at October 14, 2015 09:39 PM (8HTq1)
They were about to go swimming in a sewer filled with piranhas (or whatever -- gross + dangerous), and fish guy turns to Hellboy and says, cheerfully, "We live a charmed life."
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 09:39 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at October 14, 2015 09:39 PM (0O7c5)
Astros: Chevy Chase's career
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at October 14, 2015 09:40 PM (PT+qV)
Posted by: steevy at October 14, 2015 09:40 PM (8HTq1)
Posted by: Ace is a Dick at October 14, 2015 09:40 PM (+DaTf)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 14, 2015 09:40 PM (V1gRv)
And on the reusing themes front, as I recall from the DVD extras, Jerry Goldsmith was accused of reusing a bunch of his music from the movie Freud on Alien. Except that he was using it as temporary filler for pacing purposes and it was NEVER intended to be in Alien at all. Ridley Scott and his editors left it in the film, the reason was unstated.
Goldsmith was apparently a bit annoyed that his friends razzed him about being lazy.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 14, 2015 09:41 PM (o98Jz)
Posted by: Iblis at October 14, 2015 09:39 PM (ADMJH)
heh I guess that's another way to put it
Posted by: chemjeff - go royals at October 14, 2015 09:41 PM (5p18q)
Posted by: steevy at October 14, 2015 09:41 PM (8HTq1)
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 09:41 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Snoodling World Champion 1997 at October 14, 2015 09:41 PM (k9qR4)
Posted by: Ace is a Dick at October 14, 2015 09:41 PM (+DaTf)
Posted by: chemjeff - go royals at October 14, 2015 09:42 PM (5p18q)
Just like any Peter Pan movie is bad.
It just is. The premise is dumb.
Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2015 09:42 PM (rjtGa)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 14, 2015 09:42 PM (V1gRv)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 09:42 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Danube River Guide at October 14, 2015 09:42 PM (mcm0N)
Posted by: Iblis at October 14, 2015 09:39 PM (ADMJH)
heh I guess that's another way to put it
Posted by: chemjeff - go royals at October 14, 2015 09:41 PM (5p18q)
Gotta remember Godzilla is the Hero.
Posted by: Iblis at October 14, 2015 09:43 PM (ADMJH)
Posted by: steevy at October 14, 2015 09:43 PM (8HTq1)
Well that explains the team's epic collapse Monday.
You can trace Japan's rally in the 2012 Women's World Cup to the very moment that Julie Foudy mentioned his spawn, Shasha and Malady.
Posted by: Ernie McCracken at October 14, 2015 09:43 PM (hL1jD)
Posted by: chemjeff
First one is meh. Second was an ego trip through Del Toro's colon.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 14, 2015 09:43 PM (JmGFJ)
Oh. Looked up the Alien/Jerry Goldsmith thing on IMDB. It appears it was worse than what Goldsmith implied in the DVD extras.
"Jerry Goldsmith was most aggrieved by the changes that Ridley Scott and his editor Terry Rawlings wrought upon his score. Scott felt that Goldsmith's first attempt at the score was far too lush and needed to be a bit more minimalist. Then, Goldsmith was horrified to discover that his amended score had been dropped in places by Rawlings who inserted segments from Goldsmith's earlier score for Freud (1962) instead. Rawlings had initially used these as a guide track only, and ended up preferring them to Goldsmith's revised work. Goldsmith harbored a grudge against the two until his death in 2004."
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 14, 2015 09:44 PM (o98Jz)
I'm surprised he didn't go with "KKKons," because, you know, so witty.
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at October 14, 2015 09:44 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 14, 2015 09:44 PM (V1gRv)
Posted by: chemjeff - go royals at October 14, 2015 09:44 PM (5p18q)
Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2015 09:44 PM (rjtGa)
Posted by: Danube River Guide at October 14, 2015 09:45 PM (mcm0N)
Just like any Peter Pan movie is bad.
It just is. The premise is dumb.Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2015 09:42 PM (rjtGa)
Giant Peter Pan?
Posted by: CJ at October 14, 2015 09:45 PM (K00f7)
you can continue if you like. I just thought you or someone else asked for a thread.
it's an open thread, I don't mind if you post baseball stuff here.
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 09:45 PM (dciA+)
It was Nils in I, you're right the other guy isn't nearly the voice actor.
Posted by: DaveA at October 14, 2015 09:45 PM (DL2i+)
1. https://youtu.be/w4aGsiy1HPs
2. maybe -> https://youtu.be/GwNfhTJTiok
3. perhaps -> https://youtu.be/Ui7tHYKoyYs.
Or check out www.crunchyroll.com
http://www.crunchyroll.com/is-it-wrong-to-try-to-pick-up-girls-in-a-dungeon
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 09:46 PM (kVLm4)
Honestly, that movie confused the hell out of me. I just had to settle for enjoying Ken Watanabe, who I like as an actor.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 14, 2015 09:46 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2015 09:46 PM (rjtGa)
Posted by: fluffy
In his tepid defense, that's what he's hired to do, now, is sound like John Williams.
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at October 14, 2015 09:46 PM (VAsIq)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 14, 2015 09:46 PM (xq1UY)
Plus The dark Knight while we are at it.
Ace is finicky.
Posted by: Danube River Guide at October 14, 2015 09:46 PM (mcm0N)
Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2015 09:44 PM (rjtGa)
As a Phillies fan I have soft spot for the Royals. 1980, Mike Schmidt-George Brett and all. Nice to see their resurgence.
Posted by: CJ at October 14, 2015 09:47 PM (K00f7)
I wouldn't insist that everyone I knew should see it because it's one of those love/hate movies.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 14, 2015 09:47 PM (JmGFJ)
Just like any Peter Pan movie is bad.
It just is. The premise is dumb.Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2015 09:42 PM (rjtGa)
...
i don't like pan or kong movies, but I don't think I can agree the premise is too dumb to pull off. Iron Man has a dumb premise and I liked that.
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 09:48 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Kreplach at October 14, 2015 09:48 PM (WVvzl)
Posted by: AmishDude at October 14, 2015 09:48 PM (Xd2w5)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 14, 2015 09:46 PM (xq1UY)
You SOB, you're right.
But that character remains grossly under-explored.
Posted by: CJ at October 14, 2015 09:48 PM (K00f7)
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 09:48 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Danube River Guide at October 14, 2015 09:48 PM (mcm0N)
Posted by: otho at October 14, 2015 09:48 PM (EWg9n)
First was the better of two for me. Second one just sorta tried to tie up some ends from the first with some action thrown in. If Perlman wasn't 60 they might have been able to make a real little series of it.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 14, 2015 09:49 PM (V1gRv)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 09:49 PM (FsuaD)
hated it so hard.
i was making loud Ignatious J. Reilly noises in the theater in protest when they added an Act IV to Act III (and I thought it was already tedious by act III) and then I got really loud when they added an Act V.
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 09:49 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 09:37 PM (dciA+)
I try not to pile on abuse, but that movie. It had such promise... But it made even fighting giant cockroaches with a tommy-gun boring and tedious.
I have no idea how that was done.
Posted by: Kindltot, faking a bernigasm at October 14, 2015 09:49 PM (3pRHP)
Like wise for episodes 1-3 of Star Wars, which were technically pre-quells which is even gayer than sequels.
Posted by: Kreplach at October 14, 2015 09:50 PM (WVvzl)
Posted by: chemjeff - go royals at October 14, 2015 09:44 PM (5p18q)
I liked Inception, and I did watch it thrice!
Posted by: Hrothgar at October 14, 2015 09:50 PM (ftVQq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 09:50 PM (kVLm4)
Posted by: chemjeff
It's on Netflix. I started it, then stopped and wandered away, then picked it back up several days later, then stopped it and wandered away. I was very bored with the movie. Monsters and Nazis should not be boring.
Posted by: Turd Ferguson at October 14, 2015 09:50 PM (VAsIq)
Posted by: chemjeff - go royals at October 14, 2015 09:50 PM (5p18q)
Posted by: Radar at October 14, 2015 09:50 PM (KzmOC)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 14, 2015 09:50 PM (V1gRv)
If you haven't seen the Japanese remake of Unforgiven, you must. Must.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 14, 2015 09:50 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: freaked at October 14, 2015 09:50 PM (BO/km)
Not if you live In The Valley. The Valley of The Jolly Green Giant.
Down there, it's...personal.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 14, 2015 09:51 PM (xq1UY)
LOL
...
not my line, I have to tell you. A guy called Deen Ween said that about the song "What's Up?" by 4 Non Blondes. He said "I hate that song. I want to fight it."
Google that if you want a funny read about a guy who really hates that song, even more than you do, I bet.
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 09:51 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: steevy at October 14, 2015 09:51 PM (8HTq1)
Posted by: freaked at October 14, 2015 09:50 PM (BO/km)
Obviously. Atomic flamethrower. Take that monkey boy!
Posted by: Iblis at October 14, 2015 09:52 PM (ADMJH)
Posted by: Feh at October 14, 2015 09:52 PM (Uk9e2)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 14, 2015 09:50 PM (rwI+c)
Name?
Posted by: Hrothgar at October 14, 2015 09:52 PM (ftVQq)
I looooove Ken Wantanabe.
If you haven't seen the Japanese remake of Unforgiven, you must. Must.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 14, 2015 09:50 PM (rwI+c)
Oh yes. Good flick.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 14, 2015 09:52 PM (o98Jz)
Vin Diesel really doesn't want to make a decent movie, does he?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 14, 2015 09:53 PM (JmGFJ)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 14, 2015 09:53 PM (rwI+c)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 09:53 PM (kVLm4)
Posted by: america at October 14, 2015 09:53 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Feh at October 14, 2015 09:53 PM (Uk9e2)
Shakespeare did it. Shakespeare did it.
Posted by: AmishDude at October 14, 2015 09:53 PM (Xd2w5)
Oh yeah.
Mothra would too. Supersonic speed, etc.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 14, 2015 09:53 PM (V1gRv)
King Kong....a giant ape(??????????) that falls in love with a regular sized human woman(????????????????)
Only Pinocchio is more lame than those two silly ideas.
Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2015 09:53 PM (rjtGa)
Posted by: Feh at October 14, 2015 09:54 PM (Uk9e2)
Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at October 14, 2015 09:54 PM (oVJmc)
the song "What's Up?" by 4 Non Blondes. He said "I hate that song. I
want to fight it."
---
Local PA band Ween. Cool stuff.
Posted by: CJ at October 14, 2015 09:54 PM (K00f7)
What are they recycling this old shit. Is there truly nothing new under the sun?
Posted by: america at October 14, 2015 09:53 PM (BO/km)
Hollywood loves the commies who keep recycling the same tired 1930s fascism/Stalinism....it's only fitting they do the same with their movies.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 14, 2015 09:55 PM (o98Jz)
I always thought that was a cool sounding fake (?) sciencey sounding thing. Wonder if they ever explained what "wave motion" was or how it was used as a weapon.
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 09:55 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: otho at October 14, 2015 09:56 PM (EWg9n)
Posted by: steevy at October 14, 2015 09:56 PM (8HTq1)
Posted by: Feh at October 14, 2015 09:56 PM (Uk9e2)
Peter Pan....a boy who doesn't want to grow up.(??????????)
King Kong....a giant ape(??????????) that falls in love with a regular sized human woman(????????????????)
Only Pinocchio is more lame than those two silly ideas.
Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2015 09:53 PM (rjtGa)
*insert JugEars and Mooch joke here*
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 14, 2015 09:57 PM (o98Jz)
Posted by: chemjeff - go royals at October 14, 2015 09:57 PM (5p18q)
https://youtu.be/mSF2mvtjDYU
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 09:53 PM (kVLm4)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Wl0p_TF0Q
Posted by: Iblis at October 14, 2015 09:57 PM (ADMJH)
Eastwood sings these lyrics: "I talk to the trees, but they never listen to me."
I just thought I'd throw this out.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 09:57 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: freaked at October 14, 2015 09:57 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2015 09:53 PM (rjtGa)
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As The Simpsons "King Kong" Halloween episode explained, the regular sized gal (in this case, Marge) just had to "do some stretches" to make it work with Kong (Homer)..
Posted by: CJ at October 14, 2015 09:58 PM (K00f7)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 14, 2015 09:58 PM (rwI+c)
The Smothers's Brothers version was better.
Posted by: freaked at October 14, 2015 09:59 PM (BO/km)
[sobs] The Ostfriesland was a beautiful ship! Damn you Billy Mitchell!
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 14, 2015 09:59 PM (xq1UY)
Posted by: otho at October 14, 2015 09:59 PM (EWg9n)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 14, 2015 09:59 PM (rwI+c)
A hyper-drive as a really Big Freaking Gun.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 10:00 PM (kVLm4)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 10:00 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 10:01 PM (kVLm4)
Posted by: Feh at October 14, 2015 10:02 PM (Uk9e2)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 10:00 PM (FsuaD)
Crap. Got to fight another Simpsons reference.
Posted by: CJ at October 14, 2015 10:02 PM (K00f7)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 14, 2015 10:02 PM (rwI+c)
Bought your albums !!!!
451, Sinbad, good stuff ...
Posted by: Adriane the Movie Critic ... at October 14, 2015 10:03 PM (qOsoH)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at October 14, 2015 10:03 PM (rwI+c)
I don't know what that means, but, I remember that song.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 14, 2015 10:03 PM (V1gRv)
It's about AIDS. Lebowitz out front should have told ya.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 14, 2015 10:04 PM (xq1UY)
yeah. he is too enamored of plot. he thinks "intricate plotting" is a good thing; it's not. See John Wick. You just need *enough* plot. Enough plot to impel the characters from start to finish.
He also likes jamming in these stupid themes that make no sense in the movie. I remember he (or his brother) talked up pushing a Tale of Two Cities/French Revolution theme into Dark Knight Rises; if it's there, it's there for three seconds, making you wonder: Why put it in at all?
A theme needs to be explored. if you're not going to explore it, simplify your movie and excise it!
I really hate everything he does except for Memento and one of my favorite movies of all time, The Prestige.
I don't know why The Prestige works so well when everything else doesn't... But you see him overstuffing that, too, and resorting to every trick in the book to shorten the movie.
One trick he uses to compress two scenes into one is to play the visual of one scene while laying over the dialogue of a different scene.
But you can only do this so much before the movie starts to look like a mess.
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 10:04 PM (dciA+)
okay... but i guess no deets on what "wave-motion" is?
sounds maybe like direct conversion of matter into energy (turning matter into a wave... of motion?), maybe?
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 10:05 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Feh at October 14, 2015 10:05 PM (Uk9e2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 10:00 PM (kVLm4)
Point of inquiry, how can a reactionless drive be a gun? Does it accelerate only part of the enemy ship, or does it accelerate langrage placed in front of it, like a giant claymore?
Posted by: Kindltot at October 14, 2015 10:07 PM (3pRHP)
Getting back to the big lizard, try watching both the Americanized version of the original film (with Perry Mason insert scenes) and the original Japanese-only version. VERY different films, the Japanese version is much more serious in tone, without some of the B-movie atmosphere of the Americanized version.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 14, 2015 10:07 PM (o98Jz)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 14, 2015 10:07 PM (V1gRv)
Posted by: freaked at October 14, 2015 10:08 PM (BO/km)
You can actually watch the eps on youtube. They do have some exposition on the engine and the gun (which is like the engine) but it's just a big deus ex machina and the explanation is just a Star Trek metaphor without any attempt at sciencey.
But the cool thing is that it takes about 5 minutes (early in the series) to prep the thing so they do sell the idea that it's insanely complex and powerful.
Posted by: AmishDude at October 14, 2015 10:09 PM (Xd2w5)
Sucker Punch. Hot chicks scantily clad with machine guns and samurai swords fighting steam powered zombie Nazis?
I mean how do you screw that up?
The movie just didn't close its deal.
But I still like watching it.
Posted by: blaster at October 14, 2015 10:09 PM (2Ocf1)
And the rest of the song is so good, right up until all that naming starts.
Well that, and rhyming with "fi-ah." Alan Jay Lernah?
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 14, 2015 10:09 PM (xq1UY)
Posted by: freaked at October 14, 2015 10:11 PM (BO/km)
No one else does this except this cartoon though. People "divert" energy to the phasers or whatever, but if you have an engine that can warp space through intense (singularity producing) gravity, why can't you just turn that bitch on an enemy ship and warp it to pieces?
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 10:12 PM (dciA+)
hah....so true.
That was awful.
Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2015 10:13 PM (rjtGa)
http://tinyurl.com/qjl3v
Wasn't he a Marine? If so, OofuckingRah.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 10:13 PM (FsuaD)
Oh, it's there. The trial scene with Scarecrow as the judge. Pretty haunting, IMHO.
Posted by: AmishDude at October 14, 2015 10:13 PM (Xd2w5)
Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2015 10:14 PM (rjtGa)
Posted by: steevy at October 14, 2015 10:15 PM (8HTq1)
Posted by: Ace is a Dick at October 14, 2015 10:15 PM (+DaTf)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 10:16 PM (kVLm4)
Posted by: Kindltot at October 14, 2015 10:16 PM (3pRHP)
I remember he (or his brother) talked up pushing a Tale of Two Cities/French Revolution theme into Dark Knight Rises; if it's there, it's there for three seconds, making you wonder: Why put it in at all?
Oh, it's there. The trial scene with Scarecrow as the judge. Pretty haunting, IMHO.
Posted by: AmishDude at October 14, 2015 10:13 PM (Xd2w5)
Honestly, I laughed my ass off in the theater when they did the "Bunga-Bunga" punch line at Gordon's trial.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 14, 2015 10:16 PM (o98Jz)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 10:17 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 14, 2015 10:17 PM (xq1UY)
eh. that and dragging the well-heeled gotham citizens through the hallway of a tony apartment building ( a one-second scene).
I just don't really see why a cluttered movie needs more cluttering.
I also hate -- hate! -- this idea people have that they need three or four climaxes happening simultaneously.
They did that in the Phantom Menace, and it was awful.
They avoided it in the Avengers, which is tough (because the Avengers naturally want multiple climaxes, for each character), but then did it in the Avengers 2, and that wasn't good.
In Dark Knight Rises, he gives Gordon, Batman, Catwoman, and Blake/robin each their own Act III arc/climax, intercutting between each, but three of them are plainly "Have to give them something to do" filler (as Mr. Plinkett calls it).
It's just such a terrible idea. Have one climax or maybe two, but you can't just give every major character some kind of arc in the big finish of the movie. Some characters are simply more important.
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 10:17 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 10:19 PM (kVLm4)
There's just so much fat there.
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 10:20 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: freaked at October 14, 2015 10:20 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 10:20 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Trimegistus at October 14, 2015 10:21 PM (UNMHa)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 10:00 PM (kVLm4)
Do Not Stand Behind Active Hyper Drive
Posted by: Obvious Warning Label at October 14, 2015 10:21 PM (0NdlF)
Posted by: Trimegistus at October 14, 2015 10:22 PM (UNMHa)
they could do it the Marvel Way and have them fight in the middle of the movie, then team up later to fight an even greater threat (like King Giddorah).
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 10:22 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: steevy at October 14, 2015 10:23 PM (8HTq1)
Posted by: Trimegistus at October 14, 2015 10:23 PM (UNMHa)
did you know Dracula Untold is intended as the first movie in a slate of films reestablishing the Universal Monsters, who will team up in a later movie?
Look it up!
how the hell do monsters team up?
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 10:23 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Adriane the Movie Critic ... at October 14, 2015 10:23 PM (qOsoH)
Posted by: Trimegistus at October 14, 2015 10:24 PM (UNMHa)
No. They'll do it for the Blu-Ray special features.
Has it been done since Clue?
Posted by: AmishDude at October 14, 2015 10:24 PM (Xd2w5)
why did we have to even feature Matthew Modine in Act III of Dark Knight Rises?
There's just so much fat there.
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 10:20 PM (dciA+)
I get the feeling he was there mainly to pay off the "marching down main street in my dress blues" comment. That's really the only thing he does in the film.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 14, 2015 10:24 PM (o98Jz)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 10:24 PM (FsuaD)
Anderson Cooper calls their campaign managers and asks them if they want to be at a debate together.
Posted by: AmishDude at October 14, 2015 10:25 PM (Xd2w5)
I thought the idea of Godzilla was that Godzilla was America to the Japanese.
Why would a giant gorilla represent the US?
See....none of this makes any gotdamn sense.
Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2015 10:25 PM (rjtGa)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 10:24 PM (FsuaD)
All systems go.
Engaging in 3...
Posted by: Hyper Drive Operator at October 14, 2015 10:26 PM (0NdlF)
I mean how do you screw that up?
The movie just didn't close its deal.
But I still like watching it.
Posted by: blaster
That movie is single-handedly responsible for the rise of aggro SJW.
Yes, I stand on that.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 14, 2015 10:26 PM (JmGFJ)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 10:27 PM (FsuaD)
Posted by: freaked at October 14, 2015 10:27 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Ace is a Dick at October 14, 2015 10:27 PM (+DaTf)
It is useful and can be maddening sometimes. Can stick in the research area links and notes. Also do notecards on your characters. Mark each chapter as draft or final and it will also be color coded to reflect that. Can drag around whole chapters or just scenes to new spots if you think that works better. Will export in various formats including Word, .mobi, or PDF.
One of the big prizes for NaNoWriMo is a 50% off coupon to buy Scrivener. Knock it from $40 to $20.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 10:27 PM (kVLm4)
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 10:20 PM
That's the thing with with Nolan "big films"... flabby, flabby, flabby. They're one hour stories told in 3 hour movies. Seriously, the guy can obviously direct. But, he needs people who are prepared to tell him... "You don't need any of this shit in the script... it'll cut 40 mins of unneeded time." and "That's a stupid fucking idea... don't include it." He's like a pimp that takes a good looking hooker and force feeds her donuts until sh'es whale sized. But, it seems a lot of fans like the porky ones.
Posted by: otho at October 14, 2015 10:27 PM (EWg9n)
That movie, by the way, is fucking weird.
Posted by: Trimegistus at October 14, 2015 10:29 PM (UNMHa)
Because everyone was scared to ask for his green card?
Do they even have green cards anymore?
Posted by: freaked at October 14, 2015 10:29 PM (BO/km)
General Tso's Chicken. The Big Throwdown.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 14, 2015 10:30 PM (V1gRv)
That's the thing with with Nolan "big films"... flabby, flabby, flabby. They're one hour stories told in 3 hour movies. Seriously, the guy can obviously direct. But, he needs people who are prepared to tell him... "You don't need any of this shit in the script... it'll cut 40 mins of unneeded time." and "That's a stupid fucking idea... don't include it." He's like a pimp that takes a good looking hooker and force feeds her donuts until sh'es whale sized. But, it seems a lot of fans like the porky ones.
Posted by: otho at October 14, 2015 10:27 PM (EWg9n)
You sure you're not describing George Lucas?
Oh, wait.
*Seriously, the guy can obviously direct.*
Never mind.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 14, 2015 10:30 PM (o98Jz)
Posted by: freaked at October 14, 2015 10:30 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Ace is a Dick at October 14, 2015 10:31 PM (+DaTf)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 14, 2015 10:31 PM (JmGFJ)
a lot of these ideas are not stupid -- they are just extraneous to the actual storyline.
editing means cutting the good stuff, too! Any idiot can cut the BAD stuff! A real editor cuts the good stuff because he knows while it's good, it's not *needed*.
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 10:32 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 14, 2015 10:30 PM
LOL
Posted by: otho at October 14, 2015 10:32 PM (EWg9n)
Neither man is what I'd call a towering musical talent.
Posted by: Trimegistus at October 14, 2015 10:29 PM (UNMHa)
To be fair, Eastwood is a hell of a good jazz piano player. Just have to throat punch him when he tries to sing. He's done it in a bunch of films and it's ALWAYS awful.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 14, 2015 10:33 PM (o98Jz)
Posted by: blaster at October 14, 2015 10:33 PM (2Ocf1)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 14, 2015 10:33 PM (JmGFJ)
Posted by: Ace is a Dick at October 14, 2015 10:33 PM (+DaTf)
Well, it's a musical, so, ya know.
You're right, though. Marvin did not "sing" it. It's Marvin mumble-talking.
But I can sing the song to myself and feel all good and stuff.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 14, 2015 10:33 PM (V1gRv)
what does that mean? They make you convert from old scrivener format to the new one?
what are the maddening parts of it?
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 10:34 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 10:32 PM
True.
Posted by: otho at October 14, 2015 10:34 PM (EWg9n)
Posted by: Ace is a Dick at October 14, 2015 10:35 PM (+DaTf)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at October 14, 2015 10:35 PM (V1gRv)
Are you stumped for names for the minor characters?
Can have the software create names for you. Male or female. You want ancient Amazonian or a Czech name? It can generate it.
For example German female names:
Ailsa Blumenraht
Fernanda Greene
Adal Weisstock
Romhilde Helft
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 10:36 PM (kVLm4)
Is there a compelling reason to get the new version of Scrivener at all? Unless there's some crazy useful new function or you're sharing in-process projects with other folks, I don't see the point.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 14, 2015 10:37 PM (o98Jz)
Posted by: Trimegistus at October 14, 2015 10:23 PM (UNMHa)
The horrors... The horrors...
Posted by: The Chicken at October 14, 2015 10:37 PM (3pRHP)
Posted by: nosuchthingasworstcasescenario at October 14, 2015 10:38 PM (ee11p)
Posted by: Ace is a Dick at October 14, 2015 10:38 PM (+DaTf)
When exporting as PDF, unless you uncheck one box during the compile, Scrivener will print at the top of every page in the PDF the file name for the project. That is the default, to print. Little things like that to annoy.
Correct, when opening a pre-existing project in the new version you have to convert to the new format. Or Scrivener will not open the project.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 10:39 PM (kVLm4)
Amusing. The author of this post thinks that our society will still be coherent enough to make movies in 2020.
Posted by: nosuchthingasworstcasescenario at October 14, 2015 10:38 PM (ee11p)
Ewoks be stubborn.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 14, 2015 10:39 PM (o98Jz)
See, 'cause Church's is a fried chicken chain. That makes it funny. You can laugh now, damn you.
Posted by: Trimegistus at October 14, 2015 10:39 PM (UNMHa)
While the picture book project on the desktop will now use the new format.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 10:41 PM (kVLm4)
Posted by: Ace is a Dick at October 14, 2015 10:41 PM (+DaTf)
so you wouldn't recommend, you're abandoning it ?
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 10:42 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: DaveA at October 14, 2015 08:57 PM (DL2i+)
Taco Bell is going to try liquor in a few outlets somewhere.
WHAT TOOK SO LONG?
Posted by: Swamprat at October 14, 2015 10:43 PM (PHsbY)
Just the graphics intensive project on the desktop is using the new version
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 10:44 PM (kVLm4)
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 10:45 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Ace is a Dick at October 14, 2015 10:45 PM (+DaTf)
Picture book? What's brewing?
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at October 14, 2015 10:46 PM (0NdlF)
it just wasn't a very good movie.
While there are some great scenes, there are two big mistakes that weaken the movie;
SPOILERS FOLLOW:
1) They stuff in a lot of unnecessary/irrelevant stuff about the Ainu.
You can think of the Ainu as Japan's Indians. And we get treated to a to of Japanese-style SJW posturing about the Ainu.
"Unforgiven" ain't about and doesn't need the boring loooong extraneous Ainu sub-plot.
2) It suffers from the Japanese tendency to make sure the point of the movie isn't lost on you.
In this case, you need to understand that the Watanabe/Munny character is not good!!!!
So the climactic slaughter scene is undercut with a fair amount of jibber-jabber and a long, really you must understand what a bad character this is series of scenes-
where Watanabe is driven mad by his own villainy and wanders off to die alone in the snow.
So, while it's interesting to see the cultural differences...there is too much extraneous plotting and message sending for it to be on the same high level as Eastwood's "Unforgiven".
it's okay. Nothing more.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 14, 2015 10:47 PM (KUa85)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsroR_MWZ18
Fine piece of work, I thought.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at October 14, 2015 10:48 PM (xq1UY)
Posted by: Ace is a Dick at October 14, 2015 10:48 PM (+DaTf)
Posted by: Ace is a Dick at October 14, 2015 10:52 PM (+DaTf)
It's just this new format. Once a project is converted to the new format, my netbook won't be able to read it. And I like taking the netbook to the library to write and then porting over to the desktop to work on it plus all the compiling and exporting when done.
I really don't want to update the netbook yet. I waited a week before installing 1.9 just in case of bugs. Still being cautious since I don't want to lose both systems.
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 10:52 PM (kVLm4)
Posted by: ace at October 14, 2015 10:53 PM (dciA+)
Posted by: Ace is a Dick at October 14, 2015 10:53 PM (+DaTf)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 10:54 PM (kVLm4)
Posted by: Ace is a Dick at October 14, 2015 10:54 PM (+DaTf)
Posted by: Ace is a Dick2.1 at October 14, 2015 10:56 PM (+DaTf)
Posted by: Ace is a Dick2.12 at October 14, 2015 10:58 PM (+DaTf)
Posted by: Ace is a Dick2.12 at October 14, 2015 11:01 PM (+DaTf)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 10:41 PM (kVLm4)
Makes sense. I'm using 1.0.2 and like it fine. But at best I'm just a mediocre writer, so it's just hobby writing for me. I'd probably have a more compelling opinion if I were writing to actually publish.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 14, 2015 11:02 PM (o98Jz)
mmmmmmm
Posted by: Ace is a Dick2.12 at October 14, 2015 11:02 PM (+DaTf)
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Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at October 14, 2015 11:22 PM (iQIUe)
Posted by: Ace is a Dick2.1213 at October 14, 2015 11:24 PM (+DaTf)
Well no kidding, and it's been more than a while.
Posted by: Baron Bon Mot at October 14, 2015 11:56 PM (UKhBB)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at October 14, 2015 09:19 PM (FsuaD)
Heh. I remember Ace's post about not caring for the practice of hugging. The poor guy would have to be tranquillized if he moved to Texas.
Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at October 15, 2015 12:16 AM (dPpmC)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 14, 2015 10:01 PM (kVLm4)
The problem I had with Frontier, and now Knights of Sedonia, is they made the bad guys so powerful nothing the good guys have works against them. Then somehow on Colony Spaceships with limited/no resources they figure out a way to use parts of the aliens themselves against the aliens. Even Evangelion had that problem.
Posted by: Iblis at October 15, 2015 10:34 AM (Yq6P2)
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