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Re: Last Movie You Watched?
« Reply #585 on: July 05, 2013, 12:53:17 am »
Against my better judgment, I tried to watch "An American Carol." I got through about the first twenty minutes or so.

This, people, is why conservatives don't make comedy movies: They're not funny. It doesn't even qualify as satire...it's just a long list of jokes belittling Afghans, Mexicans, Cubans, Michael Moore and everyone else they don't like.
I'm sure they say the same about our comedies, Sirius.
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Re: Last Movie You Watched?
« Reply #586 on: July 05, 2013, 04:56:31 pm »
Equestria Girls it was ok, though it got a bit too weird when they went the demon route. Good thing someone uploaded it to youtube.

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Re: Last Movie You Watched?
« Reply #587 on: July 05, 2013, 10:32:06 pm »
Just got back from World War Z.  It was a lot more unintentional comedy than actual tense action thriller.
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Re: Last Movie You Watched?
« Reply #588 on: July 05, 2013, 10:42:49 pm »
Just got back from World War Z.  It was a lot more unintentional comedy than actual tense action thriller.

Told ya so.

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Re: Last Movie You Watched?
« Reply #589 on: July 05, 2013, 10:51:42 pm »
Just got back from World War Z.  It was a lot more unintentional comedy than actual tense action thriller.

Told ya so.

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I was laughing way more than anything else.  There were a couple scenes were everybody burst into laughter too.  The whole thing was just over the top and grasping at straws.  Just went a couple pages back and read your synopsis and it was SPOT ON.
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Re: Last Movie You Watched?
« Reply #590 on: July 06, 2013, 07:52:13 pm »
Just got back from World War Z.  It was a lot more unintentional comedy than actual tense action thriller.

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Re: Last Movie You Watched?
« Reply #591 on: July 07, 2013, 01:16:51 am »
Watched the new Man Of Steel today.  Not bad, not bad at all.  But holy collateral damage Batman!

I just went and saw it.

......ugh.

All right, I went in expecting good things. Not like World War Z, where I will gladly admit to being biased against it from the start (any movie that takes a thoughtful horror book that discusses human nature and turns it into a CGI action film with jump scares is never going to turn out well). I legit thought Man of Steel would be a good film, and a fair treatment of Superman.

Not so.

I can understand the changes they made. It's a more realistic Superman film, and is much darker (probably TOO dark: there's maybe half a dozen moments of humor, mostly mild, within the entire 2 hours). The "darkness" thing is literal, since the movie is heavily desaturated and loves cloudy skies. Superman's costume remains faithful while making it closer to the more serious version of Krypton we saw. It mostly stayed true to how Clark grew up.

But it didn't feel right. Things felt rushed, especially the early portion of the film where it seemed like they wasted too much time on big all-CGI action sequences on Krypton and had to scramble to get to the not-Fortress of Solitude.

Superman's personality felt a bit....odd.

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The violence and collateral damage were obscene. Like, you get the idea that the creators were masturbating to every scene of destruction. Literally every single move in every fight involving Kryptonians resulted in untold millions of dollars in damage. They can't have a sequel because there's no Metropolis or Smallville left! The few hundred extras we see on screen after the big battle were probably the only people left in the entire city when he was done. Smallville really is nothing by the end of the film; the one fight between three Kryptonians (plus a fourth for about a minute) reduced the entire main street to rubble, to say nothing of the military's decision to send in A-10s and just strafe the buildings that civilians were hiding in with 30mm Gatling guns because "LOOK OUT! ALIENS IN THE STREET!" They even include another gratuitous explosion after the big battle is over, just 'cause.

The PG-13 rating was also likely the only thing that kept Zack Snyder from demanding a recreation of 300 for half the film. I'm not even close to exaggerating when I said that this movie has a higher body count than Saving Private Ryan. Dozens upon dozens of people, from civilians to soldiers, are killed in extremely painful looking ways repeatedly. They even insisted on showing deaths when it wasn't necessary, like multiple shots of the World Engine's gravity beam lifting screaming (obviously CGI) people into the air and slamming them down into the dust cloud that conveniently obscures them being sprayed across a wide area as a fine pink mist. Or an F-35's missile going haywire, which is accompanied by an almost purposeful shot of it blowing up a crowd of fleeing civilians on the street below. It came off as gratuitous.

Speaking of obvious CGI, it seems like half of the movie was done with the latest advances in film technology and the other half was done with what they use to make FMVs for video games. A shot of a pickup getting thrown into the Kent farmhouse looked like it was made for a Bollywood film. Faora throwing soldiers around in Smallville resembled a video game like Bayonetta, which isn't a good thing when everything otherwise looks like it's at least trying to LOOK realistic; bodies don't flop to a stiff halt like that.

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Re: Last Movie You Watched?
« Reply #592 on: July 07, 2013, 02:01:39 am »
Also, Michael Shannon (General Zod) seems to have heard the phrase "chewing the scenery" right before filming and decided that it was something he'd like to do. I was initially complimentary of his performance, viewing him as the only Kryptonian to actually speak naturally instead of in generic overblown Proper English. Then he began screaming, groaning, raving, bulging his eyes, and making what looked like actual gnawing motions at times.

He came off as so legitimately insane that it was funny. I'd say that TV Tropes listing his acting on the Crowning Moments of Funny page for the movie would back this up, but they also included Clark telling Lois "This is going to hurt" right before using his eye beams to cauterize a wound as she screams in horrendous agony. So the writers may be psychopaths.
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Re: Last Movie You Watched?
« Reply #593 on: July 07, 2013, 05:55:28 am »
The Dark Knight has a lot to answer for.
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Re: Last Movie You Watched?
« Reply #594 on: July 07, 2013, 12:22:16 pm »
The Dark Knight has a lot to answer for.

Well, Christopher Nolan was only the producer for Man of Steel (meaning his job is just to secure funding and select the director and such), but people still insist on comparing it to The Dark Knight Trilogy because of the connection to him.

I do think he still had some influence, even unintentionally, since his Batman films ended up popularizing the idea of a realistic, dark, serious superhero film. The problem is that Batman IS dark and serious. Superman is the epitome of Lawful Good, a guy that can get away with wearing bright tights and a cape because he has dedicated his life to using his invincibility and powers (greater than almost all other beings) to help mankind. A Superman film really shouldn't be dark and depressing with a high body count, realism or otherwise. It doesn't fit Superman.
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Re: Last Movie You Watched?
« Reply #595 on: July 07, 2013, 03:23:48 pm »
But grimdark. It needs to be grimdark.
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Re: Last Movie You Watched?
« Reply #596 on: July 08, 2013, 12:18:20 am »
That was one thing I didn't like about Stark Trek: Into Darkness and [Superman] Man of Steel. The destruction porn. I've actually wanted to cringe seeing so damn many buildings being destroyed in both those films.

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Re: Last Movie You Watched?
« Reply #597 on: July 08, 2013, 12:55:56 am »
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Re: Last Movie You Watched?
« Reply #598 on: July 08, 2013, 12:57:26 am »
That was one thing I didn't like about Stark Trek: Into Darkness and [Superman] Man of Steel. The destruction porn. I've actually wanted to cringe seeing so damn many buildings being destroyed in both those films.

Star Trek wasn't really bad on that. You had one bombing at the beginning, a gunship attack a little later, then a ship crashing into a city at the end. All of the destruction in that film was plot relevant, and only a few buildings took any damage (one wasn't even destroyed, just one of the floors got shot up).

Man of Steel was, according to a disaster analysis, was 12.72 September 11th attacks from nothing but the property damage. Economic impact (including cleanup) alone is $2 trillion, and there's a potential 379,000 dead and 1 million injured.

For comparison, Manhattan has about 1.58 million people. They literally have almost as many casualties as the entire population of Manhattan.
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Re: Last Movie You Watched?
« Reply #599 on: July 08, 2013, 02:03:09 am »
Speaking of the damage report of Star Trek: Into Darkness, my brother mentioned the destruction of numerous buildings in San Francisco isn't as bad (or big a deal) as the terraforming plus destruction of Metropolis in Man of Steel. After all, in the Trek universe, money is a thing of the past and living in a futuristic society they could just easily rebuild most of the destruction. Metropolis... I had to say I felt more nauseous seeing most of it get destroyed. I actually though "What about the cost of numerous property damages?" and "Holy shit, that's one nasty body count from the destruction."

* Alehksu Kihdo, feeling concerned about people who don't exist and serve no purpose in films other than to piss you off when the bad guys do heinous deeds on them, intentionally or not. I mean it's a trope we've seen many times before, under "Kick The Dog," even "Moral Event Horizon" when at worst.

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