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Captain K. · « **Reply #1900 on:** June 16, 2013, 05:29:01 AM »

Epic: Story was a bit generic but they put a lot of effort into the little (HAHA) details. Like the warriors having fighting styles designed around the fact that they basically weigh nothing.

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #1901 on:** June 16, 2013, 09:43:46 AM »

Quote from: Meeplelard on June 15, 2013, 09:25:03 PM

Man of Steel: First off, the important stuff!

Superman punches someone. Multiple times. In one scene. Needless to say, this movie made good on it's promise!

Otherwise? To keep it short and simple as a review, it feels like it's Jurassic Park logic applied to a Super Hero movie. Make the spectacle damned good and people will overlook other shortcomings. The action sequences are a lot of fun, look cool, and even last quite a while, so you won't have to deal with the plot getting in the way too much.

Mind you, it's shortcomings aren't "ruins movie" bad, just...kind of eh. It's a fun movie in any event. Not "WOMG AMAZING!" like, say, Marvel's better Phase 1 movies but decent enough in it's own right.

I found that "as dour as its color palette" was a pretty good description of the movie, personally. On the other hand, for a movie about a living god, Superman racks up an enormous body count.

Sierra · « **Reply #1902 on:** June 16, 2013, 05:41:19 PM »

Wait, are you telling me Zack Snyder filmed every scene of a movie entirely in the same sickly, washed-out golden hue? You have blown my mind.

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #1903 on:** June 16, 2013, 07:18:21 PM »

The hue is gray, not gold, IDIOT.

Sierra · « **Reply #1904 on:** June 16, 2013, 07:50:28 PM »

Clearly he's diversified since I watched 300 and tried to expunge it form my memory.

AndrewRogue · « **Reply #1905 on:** June 18, 2013, 06:23:09 PM »

Quote from: Hunter Sopko on June 16, 2013, 05:17:09 AM

Quote from: Shale on June 16, 2013, 04:55:13 AM
Oz The Great And Powerful: Well that wasn't worth the dollar I spent at Redbox.

I enjoyed it. Wasn't as good as it could have been though. China girl was adorable.

Scar · « **Reply #1906 on:** June 27, 2013, 12:39:40 AM »

This Is The End

Good stuff. One of the funniest movies I have seen in quite some time. If you like these actors, you will most likely enjoy the film.

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #1907 on:** June 27, 2013, 06:15:30 AM »

This is the End: It's good, not great. Coulda been great. When it gets on a roll, it's gold. There's time wasted on some stinker scenes though, and that final dance number, while funny, needed to either be shorter or spliced with credits.

DjinnAndTonic · « **Reply #1908 on:** June 27, 2013, 08:03:50 AM »

So not "Shaun of the Dead" good?

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #1909 on:** June 27, 2013, 08:29:06 AM »

No, different kind of movie though.

DjinnAndTonic · « **Reply #1910 on:** July 20, 2013, 03:22:14 AM »

Pacific Rim: the anime est not-anime ever made. Michael bay finally found a good match for his talents: shounen anime robot fetish sci fi.

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #1911 on:** July 20, 2013, 04:15:57 AM »

Del Toro directed Pacific Rim, not Michael Bay. You should have suspected he had nothing to do with it the moment the female lead showed any signs of independent thought.

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #1912 on:** July 20, 2013, 07:27:32 AM »

Pacific Rim- Was everything it promised it would be.

DjinnAndTonic · « **Reply #1913 on:** July 20, 2013, 07:31:22 AM »

@rob: I realized my error right around that time but I was literally posting that fifteen minutes into the movie. Del Toro and anime robots and my comments still apply. Why did everyone I talked to keep calling it a Michael bay film?

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #1914 on:** July 20, 2013, 08:27:09 AM »

Talk to smarter people then. Problem solved.

Grefter · « **Reply #1915 on:** July 20, 2013, 08:51:33 AM »

If you just retroactively implied that just now Del Toro only just found a worthy use of his talents then I will fist fight you next time we meet.

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #1916 on:** July 20, 2013, 09:01:55 AM »

I would say he has found an ideal use of his talents here. His previous work largely is better in some areas, but Pacific Rim is a sort of summation of all aspects of his career, if that makes sense.

Grefter · « **Reply #1917 on:** July 21, 2013, 12:24:58 AM »

It does not.

Shale · « **Reply #1918 on:** July 21, 2013, 04:37:34 AM »

Movie things from Comic-Con:

Veronica Mars preview.

Avengers 2 will feature Ultron.

This happened.

Meeplelard · « **Reply #1919 on:** July 21, 2013, 05:00:55 AM »

Looks like Warner Bros. is doing something actually different than Disney after-all, playing it safe by shoving Batman and Superman in a movie together before going all out with Justice League. Probably smart way of doing things I suppose?

Avengers 2 having Ultron sounds cool. Also GotG having more cosmic characters in it is nice too!

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #1920 on:** July 21, 2013, 07:35:12 PM »

It's made by the same guys who did Man of Steel. Considering what they did with Superman, I imagine Batman will basically just be The Comedian.

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #1921 on:** July 21, 2013, 07:41:23 PM »

So... audiences completely miss point, hail as greatest Batman of our times?

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #1922 on:** July 22, 2013, 02:21:04 AM »

Pacific Rim: Apocalypse cancelled. Fucking great time.

Sierra · « **Reply #1923 on:** July 28, 2013, 09:06:53 PM »

The Wolverine: Decent enough. Fights are a little more shaky-cam than I'd like, but they get the job done. Strictly a small-stakes affair, which is kind of refreshing after the last couple Marvel movies. Spoiler stuff:

Both of the girls lived! I am genuinely surprised.

Basic plot: dude offers Logan chance to stop being unkillable and age like a normal person. Logan makes no mention that this is supposedly already possible due to X3's cure plot, which is of course as it should be. Movie makes no reference to X3 beyond "Jean's dead" and "Xavier's dead," (and none at all to the previous Wolverine movie), which is fine, I'm willing to acknowledge its existence just that far.

My comics memory is failing me, what significance does "Trask Industries" have in the Marvel world?

So Wolvie's back to boneclaw mode. I guess so he doesn't break the space-time continuum when he goes back in time for Days of Future Past or whatever. Actually I never read Days of Future Past so I'm just guessing based on IMDB's plot synopsis here. I would've assumed dystopian future because all X-futures are dystopian futures.

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #1924 on:** July 28, 2013, 09:29:48 PM »

Trask, if I'm not mistaken, is the Sentinels dude.

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