[worry]

Hugo Weaving tends to be the best thing about the CGI crapfests he's in, so there's always that.

[Macros]

True dat

[Tiste Simeon]

PARADISE is here bitches, on 16 August 2018 - 03:42 PM, said:

I honestly don’t even care. I just wanna see it on the big screen in 3D. Technodrome on steroids.

Lots of “Mortal” titles of late.

I should finish and submit my Mortal Dick Becomes an Immortal Dick novel asap

See it's attitudes like this that mean these things keep getting made...

[Tsundoku]

Tiste Simeon, on 17 August 2018 - 07:03 AM, said:

PARADISE is here bitches, on 16 August 2018 - 03:42 PM, said:

I honestly don’t even care. I just wanna see it on the big screen in 3D. Technodrome on steroids.

Lots of “Mortal” titles of late.

I should finish and submit my Mortal Dick Becomes an Immortal Dick novel asap

See it's attitudes like this that mean these things keep getting made...

Sounds like Twilight.

[QuickTidal]

PARADISE is here bitches, on 19 August 2018 - 09:54 PM, said:

Watching Braveheart on BBC America in between No Mans Sky, TTH and Dragonlance 2!

Though history-wise it is mostly full of shit and totally inaccurate...it's still one of my favourite movies of all time.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 20 August 2018 - 01:20 PM

[Macros]

It's a great watch, but as you say, historically shite.

Like Gladiator.

[QuickTidal]

Macros, on 20 August 2018 - 02:48 PM, said:

It's a great watch, but as you say, historically shite.

Like Gladiator.

Yep. Another film I adore...but yeah totally shit on a history spectrum.

That raises a good question, what is the best Ancient Rome-era film that hews closer to history?

I liked both THE EAGLE and CENTURION....but I'll wager they are as off the historical angle than even GLADIATOR is.

[QuickTidal]

PARADISE is here bitches, on 20 August 2018 - 06:00 PM, said:

Maybe Cleopatra? Though that is heavily romantized at times.

My dad likes to point out that Cleopatra's parade goes through Constantine's Arch, which was built 300 years after her death.

[polishgenius]

Luv2B_Sassy, on 16 August 2018 - 07:20 AM, said:

Hugo Weaving tends to be the best thing about the CGI crapfests he's in, so there's always that.

It's a bit weird how often he is in CGI crapfests considering how he is supposedly such a technophobe that he doesn't even own a watch.

Making it somewhat ironic that possibly his most iconic role is playing a computer program.

[Tsundoku]

PARADISE is here bitches, on 20 August 2018 - 06:00 PM, said:

Maybe Cleopatra? Though that is heavily romantized at times.

I, Claudius? Although that was a TV series.

I'd like HBO to get back on the Rome horse and do the Masters of Rome series by Colleen McCullough.

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 24 August 2018 - 09:43 AM

[Macros]

Yes!

[Macros]

Part of me would love to see Igguldens take on the Marius/Sulla struggle and have them throw down in the streets of Rome. Historical accuracy be damned

[Mezla PigDog]

Yesterday I stayed up until midnight channel hopping and watched the second half of The Day After Tomorrow followed by the second half of Jurassic World followed by most of World War Z. It was good until WWZ and I've seen them all before so knew that particular one was shite already. Then the offspring woke at 4am so it was a double slap in the face for my foolishness.

I regret nothing! Sometimes you stay up late watching rubbish just to prove you still can. Living on the edge.

I'm wondering how many times I have seen The Day After Tomorrow now. Got to be double figures and I couldn't tell you why.

[Primateus]

Burt Reynolds is dead

[worry]

Just watched Jurassic World 2. That was seriously the worst. Like sub-JP3 nonsense from start to finish. But since I'm a bit late on this one I won't get all into it.


I will single out one bit of dialogue stuffed into the esteemed Jeff Goldblum's mouth, emblematic of the whole thing: "Yet I can assure you it most assuredly is." Was Colin Trevorrow dropped on his head on each of his first ten birthdays?

[QuickTidal]

worry, on 14 September 2018 - 08:47 AM, said:

Just watched Jurassic World 2. That was seriously the worst. Like sub-JP3 nonsense from start to finish. But since I'm a bit late on this one I won't get all into it.


I will single out one bit of dialogue stuffed into the esteemed Jeff Goldblum's mouth, emblematic of the whole thing: "Yet I can assure you it most assuredly is." Was Colin Trevorrow dropped on his head on each of his first ten birthdays?

1. I've not seen it yet, but you hating it like this gives me hope I'll like it...since we often disagree on good content for a film.
2. Derek Connelly wrote most of the original script, based on Trevorrow's story, and that script was then overwritten by director J.A Bayona as he shot the film (though he didn't overwrite enough for the board to give him a writing credit as well), so that line is either by Connelly (a seasoned author), or a man with English as a second language. Not Trevorrow.

3. Coming from the guy who loves a movie with lines like:

“We’re going to win this war not by fighting what we hate, but by saving what we love.”
"Master Skywalker, we need you to bring the Jedi back because Kylo Ren is strong with the dark side of the Force."

WOOF

And my personal favourite for ridiculous: "Hope is like the sun. If you only believe it when you see it you'll never make it through the night." As if the SUN is something that requires belief...or that a person won't make it through the hours of nighttime unless they believe in it rising the next day...this is like a bad office poster quote if it was written by a chimpanzee who was hit in the head with a shovel first and then handed a pen.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 14 September 2018 - 02:11 PM

[worry]

Not sure what movie those quotes are from, but it sounds good.

[Tiste Simeon]

worry, on 14 September 2018 - 07:43 PM, said:

Not sure what movie those quotes are from, but it sounds good.

Aye, that's some top level script writing right there...

[amphibian]

Doesn't hold a candle to "It's the Collection Agency, Bison. Your ass is six months over-due, and it's mine."

Asses have deadlines? They're transplantable?

[worry]

Guile actually was dropped on his head though.

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