[Kruppe's snacky cakes]

I don't know if it's as bad as being a brony, but I will admit to having been a male Jem fan. 1) Catchy theme song, 2) on TV after G.I. Joe and Transformers, 3) science-fictiony twist, what with the hologram computer, 4) pink hair disguise almost as laughably ridiculous as Superman's glasses... What's not to like?

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[Spoilsport Stonny]

And her real name was Jerrica. I mean, THAT'S NOT EVEN A NAME!

Such hubris...

[amphibian]

Spoilsport Stonny, on 25 April 2014 - 02:12 PM, said:

Caught SNOWPIERCER. Loved it. FIghting with hatchets?!?! Brutally awesome. Also, perhaps the best ending to any post-apocalyptic film I've seen since BEYOND THUNDERDOME.

The Snowpiercer love train is building up steam!

[Spoilsport Stonny]

amphibian, on 25 April 2014 - 04:35 PM, said:

Spoilsport Stonny, on 25 April 2014 - 02:12 PM, said:

Caught SNOWPIERCER. Loved it. FIghting with hatchets?!?! Brutally awesome. Also, perhaps the best ending to any post-apocalyptic film I've seen since BEYOND THUNDERDOME.

The Snowpiercer love train is building up steam!

Its neat cuz if you start to over analyze the technical aspects of things, you'll find yourself in a very unsatisfying rabbit hole where the implausibilities interfere with the enjoyment. Which is why suspension of disbelief is so fucking important.

[Tiste Simeon]

Kruppe, on 25 April 2014 - 03:33 PM, said:

I don't know if it's as bad as being a brony...

While rest of what you said was interesting and all I would just like to reassure you that nothing is as bad as being a brony. Not even being a furry LARPer...

[QuickTidal]

Kruppe, on 25 April 2014 - 03:33 PM, said:

I don't know if it's as bad as being a brony, but I will admit to having been a male Jem fan. 1) Catchy theme song, 2) on TV after G.I. Joe and Transformers, 3) science-fictiony twist, what with the hologram computer, 4) pink hair disguise almost as laughably ridiculous as Superman's glasses... What's not to like?

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I also enjoyed the show back in the day...and I've seen it as an adult and it holds up as much as TF and GI JOE do...oh and Techrat....TOTALLY voiced by the same guy who did Starscream and Cobra Commander.

[A Demon Llama!]

I just saw "Dracula 3000" on netflix. It is probably the worst movie I have ever seen. I try to recommend anyone to watch it just so I can have the peace of mind that I was not the only person to have wasted and hour and a half of my life on that.

Watch it now.

[QuickTidal]

A Demon Llama!, on 26 April 2014 - 04:50 PM, said:

I just saw "Dracula 3000" on netflix. It is probably the worst movie I have ever seen. I try to recommend anyone to watch it just so I can have the peace of mind that I was not the only person to have wasted and hour and a half of my life on that.

Watch it now.

It's probably better than DRACULA 2000 which aside from starring Pop-star-flash-in-the-pan Vitamin C, also had the Van Helsing Institute set in a portion of the Eaton Center mall...

[A Demon Llama!]

Nope, its not.

[Aptorian]

Just watched Man of Steel. Loved it. Pretty much the perfect superman movie.

I am sure that die hard Superman fans would object to some of the liberties they take with the lore but as an on screen story I think it was awesome.

Perfect mix between the Batman movies "understated" approach to the superhero universe and the massive collateral damage a battle between superhumans would cause.

[Silencer]

A Demon Llama!, on 26 April 2014 - 04:50 PM, said:

I just saw "Dracula 3000" on netflix. It is probably the worst movie I have ever seen. I try to recommend anyone to watch it just so I can have the peace of mind that I was not the only person to have wasted and hour and a half of my life on that.

Watch it now.

Is that...is that the one in space? Because I think I watched that aaaaaaaaaaages ago. XD

Apt Hoc, on 26 April 2014 - 08:27 PM, said:

Just watched Man of Steel. Loved it. Pretty much the perfect superman movie.

I am sure that die hard Superman fans would object to some of the liberties they take with the lore but as an on screen story I think it was awesome.

Perfect mix between the Batman movies "understated" approach to the superhero universe and the massive collateral damage a battle between superhumans would cause.

Oh, you mean the collateral damage which was completely ignored and had no impact on anyone? (Because, hooray for us, the Daily Planet guys survived, so all good?) Because that really needed to be more...you know...important, for it to have any impact on the audience/bearing on the story.

In fact, I think there's quite a bit of online commentary about how that mostly-destroyed-city just gets glossed over in favour of the fact that the three people whose faces we knew, somehow survived. And that no civilians actually got personally hit in the face by said superhumans. Somehow.

XD

[QuickTidal]

Silencer, on 27 April 2014 - 02:07 AM, said:

A Demon Llama!, on 26 April 2014 - 04:50 PM, said:

I just saw "Dracula 3000" on netflix. It is probably the worst movie I have ever seen. I try to recommend anyone to watch it just so I can have the peace of mind that I was not the only person to have wasted and hour and a half of my life on that.

Watch it now.

Is that...is that the one in space? Because I think I watched that aaaaaaaaaaages ago. XD

Apt Hoc, on 26 April 2014 - 08:27 PM, said:

Just watched Man of Steel. Loved it. Pretty much the perfect superman movie.

I am sure that die hard Superman fans would object to some of the liberties they take with the lore but as an on screen story I think it was awesome.

Perfect mix between the Batman movies "understated" approach to the superhero universe and the massive collateral damage a battle between superhumans would cause.

Oh, you mean the collateral damage which was completely ignored and had no impact on anyone? (Because, hooray for us, the Daily Planet guys survived, so all good?) Because that really needed to be more...you know...important, for it to have any impact on the audience/bearing on the story.

In fact, I think there's quite a bit of online commentary about how that mostly-destroyed-city just gets glossed over in favour of the fact that the three people whose faces we knew, somehow survived. And that no civilians actually got personally hit in the face by said superhumans. Somehow.

XD

Collateral damage and superhero movie/franchise...these go hand in hand.

Cities get routinely destroyed in ALL kinds of comics, and the focused attack in MoS is FAR less city-annhilating than the Attack of New York in AVENGERS...but it's funny you don't hear people complaining about that.

Sorry Silencer, expecting collateral damage to matter in a superhero piece like this is silly. The source material largely ignores it, and so I see nothing wrong with it happening in the movie verison.

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[Silencer]

QuickTidal, on 27 April 2014 - 02:26 AM, said:

Silencer, on 27 April 2014 - 02:07 AM, said:

A Demon Llama!, on 26 April 2014 - 04:50 PM, said:

I just saw "Dracula 3000" on netflix. It is probably the worst movie I have ever seen. I try to recommend anyone to watch it just so I can have the peace of mind that I was not the only person to have wasted and hour and a half of my life on that.

Watch it now.

Is that...is that the one in space? Because I think I watched that aaaaaaaaaaages ago. XD

Apt Hoc, on 26 April 2014 - 08:27 PM, said:

Just watched Man of Steel. Loved it. Pretty much the perfect superman movie.

I am sure that die hard Superman fans would object to some of the liberties they take with the lore but as an on screen story I think it was awesome.

Perfect mix between the Batman movies "understated" approach to the superhero universe and the massive collateral damage a battle between superhumans would cause.

Oh, you mean the collateral damage which was completely ignored and had no impact on anyone? (Because, hooray for us, the Daily Planet guys survived, so all good?) Because that really needed to be more...you know...important, for it to have any impact on the audience/bearing on the story.

In fact, I think there's quite a bit of online commentary about how that mostly-destroyed-city just gets glossed over in favour of the fact that the three people whose faces we knew, somehow survived. And that no civilians actually got personally hit in the face by said superhumans. Somehow.

XD

Collateral damage and superhero movie/franchise...these go hand in hand.

Cities get routinely destroyed in ALL kinds of comics, and the focused attack in MoS is FAR less city-annhilating than the Attack of New York in AVENGERS...but it's funny you don't hear people complaining about that.

Sorry Silencer, expecting collateral damage to matter in a superhero piece like this is silly. The source material largely ignores it, and so I see nothing wrong with it happening in the movie verison.

Oh, I have a similar issue with collateral damage in *most* movies, superhero or otherwise.

It's just that Avengers is clearly on the lighter side of the new Superhero movie divide - whereas Man of Steel often gets compared to the Batman movies, as being a bit darker/more gritty and "realistic".

The difference being, new Batman didn't quite have city-wide catastrophes, and when it did have serious effects on the population, we got to see at least some of those consequences. Through the lens of named characters, sure, but the tens of thousands of dead people in MoS were...ignored. The only people who mattered at all were the ones we knew (even barely, through the Daily Planet crew). Every other death wasn't even referenced. In Batman you *saw* people being affected by the mind-bending gas. You *saw* people being evacuated from hospitals and dealing with the threat of the Joker. You *saw* people living in fear and hiding in their homes under Bane's lockdown.
That wasn't so much there in MoS. Yes, it wasn't there in Avengers either, but that entire continuity isn't exactly portraying itself as "more serious". To an extent, it's apples and oranges - yes, they're both superhero movies, but they're going at it from a different direction, so they don't get held to the exact same standards.



(Think of the part in the second G.I. Joe movie, where an entire city gets wiped out. That's pretty much ignored. That's what I'm talking about here - MASSIVE scale destruction which is glossed over. Then people go on about how the city-wide destruction was great because it was THERE in MoS...sure...but honestly, those were buildings. No PEOPLE died. At least, not that we're meant to realise/feel anything for. It was bloodless carnage. In reality, so many people died in that movie, Superman should have been paying off the debt for millennia. (Sure, it wasn't "his fault" any more than New York was the Avengers fault - but neither film actually acknowledges the loss of LIFE inherent in all that city-wide destruction, which is kinda disconcerting, even for a Superhero movie...but *especially* for ones which are attempting to play up the "darker and edgier" angle.)

[Aptorian]

The part in GI Joe retalliation was made even more ridiculous because London gets nuked and a million people killed WHILE THE JOES ARE JUST STANDING BY. They were waiting to make their move but apparently the destruction of London was not that important to them (I hate the GI joe films so much).

I actually agree with both Silencer and QT on this. It is preposterous how much damage happens in Man of Steel and how little reaction there is to it, how ever as QT says this is a superhero thing. Specifically when Superman is involved or you have epic showdowns.

I did find it silly that Superman did not assess the situations and take the fight out of the small town or the heavily populated city center, how ever it made for much more interesting footage than them just slugging it out in a corn field or across the ocean. I want to see somebody throw a locomotive at Superman or Superman getting punched through numerous skyscrapers. It just looks awesome.

[Silencer]

Apt Hoc, on 27 April 2014 - 08:21 AM, said:

The part in GI Joe retalliation was made even more ridiculous because London gets nuked and a million people killed WHILE THE JOES ARE JUST STANDING BY. They were waiting to make their move but apparently the destruction of London was not that important to them (I hate the GI joe films so much).

Granted, they did also let every nuclear nation on the planet launch their nukes beforehand, as well. I liked that movie primarily for the fact that it's nuke substitute weapon is the single most badass concept (which is actually a genuine experimental/theoretical weapons system) on the face of the planet. Rods from God are kickass.

And I like the first one because of the impeccable taste in (real) weapons displayed. That taste degraded in the second film (along with...well...almost everything else, actually) but was made up for by the aforementioned superweapon.

Aside from that, they were pretty atrocious movies. XD (Which I nevertheless kind of enjoyed)

[Messremb]

Holy mother of god but Amazon Prime movies is full of uhh... odd... films. Just watched Strippers vs Werewolves and couldn't help putting on Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl. It is even worse than SvW.

[McLovin]

Finally saw TOY STORY 3.

That scene with the incinerator is pretty intense, for a kid's movie.

[Aptorian]

Watched a bunch of Nicolas Cage movies because Nicolas Cage is awesome. I watched Knowing, Wickerman and Frozen Ground.

Knowing turned out to be a lot less weird than I expected but it was a solid thriller/disaster type movie. One of the higher budget movies I have seen with Nicolas Cage. Hardly had any trademark Nicolas Cageness in it. I'd give it 4 out of 5 jumbo jet surprise attacks.

Wickerman was fantastic. Everyone has probably seen the gifs or video clips of Cage punching a woman while wearing a bear costume or the "NOT THE BEES OH GOD NOT THE BEES!" scene. The movie turned out to be every bit asw weird. 5 out of 5 women getting punched in the face with Cage at his weirdest.

Frozen Ground was pointless. It's based on some kind of true story about a serial killer and some hookers but it's pretty boring. Nicolas Cage just did his bit and John Cusack was a pretty boring bad guy. 2 out of 5 buried hookers.

[amphibian]

I need you to watch Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Apt.

[Aptorian]

amphibian, on 28 April 2014 - 05:13 PM, said:

I need you to watch Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Apt.

I've been meaning to watch that one. It's not on (Danish) Netflix unfortunately. As far as I have heard that is probably the Nicolas Cage'iest Nicolas Cage film ever made.

Come to think of it I have recently watched two other Nicolas Cage films according to Netflix:

Seeking Justice in which Nicolas Cage makes a deal with some kind of shadow vigilante group to have his wife's rapist "brought to justice" but then they want him to return the favor. It was an okay film but I didn't really buy the conspiracy angle and the story was sort of eh. I'd give it 3 out of 5 frowning Nicolas Cages.

Trespass was a movie that I ended up quitting 30 minutes in. You'd think a thriller featuring Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman would be exciting but I just did not care. No Cages for Trespass.