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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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celedhring

#47475
February 18, 2021, 08:48:34 AM
I hope Burton can shake off the two past decades of overproduced and overstylized movies with little substance. I'm not optimistic though.

Darth Wagtaros

#47476
February 18, 2021, 08:57:37 AM
Quote from: celedhring on February 18, 2021, 08:48:34 AM
I hope Burton can shake off the two past decades of overproduced and overstylized movies with little substance. I'm not optimistic though.
Yeah, he's kind of a has been.  I don't know how he still gets work.
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HVC

#47477
February 18, 2021, 11:23:08 AM
Watched season 5 of the expanse. Enjoyed it. but much like the past seasons it jumped around. the season almost seem disconnected
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Valmy

#47478
February 18, 2021, 04:11:27 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on February 18, 2021, 06:07:39 AM
The premise sounds fucking awesome, but the execution will make it or break it.

A supernatural teen detective show starring Wednesday Addams at an Edgar Allan Poe inspired academy directed by Tim Burton.
https://twitter.com/netflix/status/1362129692921266177

That sounds horrible. Doing weird spinoff shows with characters from ensemble casts has a very mixed track record. Not everybody can be Frazier.

But hey it will probably be better than Joey.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

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Savonarola

#47479
February 18, 2021, 05:00:47 PM Last Edit: February 18, 2021, 05:02:54 PM by Savonarola
Blade 2 (2002)

The vampires face a new deadly foe with a vampire who eats vampires.  They form a truce with Wesley Snipes and he and a group of vampire commandos led by The Villain's Beautiful DaughterTM go to hunt the new threat down; but maybe all is not as it seems...

This time they get rid of what little character development they had in Blade; only The Villain's Beautiful DaughterTM has even a character arc.  The ass-kicking gets taken up a notch here, unfortunately with the aid of the dreaded power creep.  Even without his sunglasses Blade is about level Batman in terms of ass-kicking; with his sunglasses he goes to level Ninja Jedi Batman.  The film does have some Wuxia like scenes (probably derived from The Matrix) but wisely avoids using the bullet time they had pioneered in the original film.

I think the largest failure is that the next movie wasn't "Vampire Commandos," but instead "Blade 3: Trinity".  "Vampire Commandos" would have been B-movie gold (and Blade 3 was not.)
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

HVC

#47480
February 18, 2021, 08:11:02 PM
The mortal Kombat trailer actually looks pretty good. CGI ranges from pretty good (ice) to not that great.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

jimmy olsen

#47481
February 19, 2021, 10:10:38 AM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on February 18, 2021, 07:11:24 AM
How many good supernatural teen detective shows exist? I'm at a loss...
Scooby doo?
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Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Valmy

#47482
February 19, 2021, 01:10:14 PM
That's not supernatural. It is always old man Withers in a mask.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Barrister

#47483
February 19, 2021, 01:14:04 PM
Quote from: Valmy on February 19, 2021, 01:10:14 PM
That's not supernatural. It is always old man Withers in a mask.

Some of the 80s Scooby-Doo Series had real ghosts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_13_Ghosts_of_Scooby-Doo

Was a delightfully stupid series that had Vincent Price in it.
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Darth Wagtaros

#47484
February 19, 2021, 01:16:39 PM
Quote from: Barrister on February 19, 2021, 01:14:04 PM
Quote from: Valmy on February 19, 2021, 01:10:14 PM
That's not supernatural. It is always old man Withers in a mask.

Some of the 80s Scooby-Doo Series had real ghosts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_13_Ghosts_of_Scooby-Doo

Was a delightfully stupid series that had Vincent Price in it.
I loved that. I used to hate having to go to CCD and missing it.
PDH!

viper37

#47485
February 19, 2021, 10:40:56 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on February 18, 2021, 05:00:47 PM
I think the largest failure is that the next movie wasn't "Vampire Commandos," but instead "Blade 3: Trinity".  "Vampire Commandos" would have been B-movie gold (and Blade 3 was not.)
I'm waiting for that review, btw! :P

#3 is a lot more hit&miss than than the 2 previous ones, imho.  Overall, not that bad of an action movie, but the first two were clearly superior. By #3, Snipes believed himself to be a real super hero :P
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Malthus

#47486
February 20, 2021, 02:43:51 PM
I'm late to the party, but I've just watched the first episode of *The Queen's Gambit*.

It's as good as everyone says it is.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Tonitrus

#47487
February 20, 2021, 03:06:17 PM
Tribes of Europa (on Netflix)

Greenie forest-dwelling German luddites battle goth-punk cannibal Berliners in a post-apocalyptic tribal Europe.

A couple episodes in, but it's actually rather good and fun so far.  Tentative recommend.

crazy canuck

#47488
February 20, 2021, 03:12:00 PM
Quote from: Malthus on February 20, 2021, 02:43:51 PM
I'm late to the party, but I've just watched the first episode of *The Queen's Gambit*.

It's as good as everyone says it is.

Better.   :)

Grey Fox

#47489
February 20, 2021, 09:45:14 PM
I really liked the penultimate episode.
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