Movie News/Discussion Thread 2 - Taylor Bowl Trailers p306

Fed up talking videogames? Why?
User avatar
Rapidly-Greying
Member
Joined in 2008
Location: Kelty, scotland
Contact:

PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Rapidly-Greying » Wed Sep 12, 2018 9:55 am

Preezy wrote:Ironically MJ probably looks like that now.


I haven't laughed so loud in a long time.

Rapidly-greying is Mediocre to Average at games :fp:
User avatar
Tafdolphin
RETURN POLICY ABUSER
RETURN POLICY ABUSER
Joined in 2008

PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Tafdolphin » Wed Sep 12, 2018 12:23 pm

Ecno wrote:The reviews of The Predator look mixed, which is a bit disappointing.


Given that Shane Black, who I'd rigorously defended recently, gave a bit part to a mate of his who serve 6 months for grooming a minor without telling the cast or crew...strawberry float that film.

---------------------------
Games wot I worked on:
Night Call: Out now!
Rip Them Off: Out now!
Chinatown Detective Agency: 2021!
EXOGATE Initiative: Early Access Summer 2021
t: @Tafdolphin | Twitch: Tafdolphin
User avatar
Godzilla
Member
Joined in 2008

PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Godzilla » Sat Sep 15, 2018 9:15 am

Venom rated PG-13 in USA plus runtime of 112 mins.

Toned down bollocks which will see a unrated cut released on Blu Ray 4 months later.

Wish my image sig would work
User avatar
Met
Member
Joined in 2015

PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Met » Sat Sep 15, 2018 3:00 pm

Just got out of Predator. It's never been stupider. Like, not even counting the sex offender thing or the other big thing I'll mention below, it's not a good Predator film.

First things first, in case anyone's not aware, I'll just lay it on the table right away: superpowered autism juice.

There's a kid who is the next step in evolution because he has autism. It lets him instantly translate the Yautja language and operate their tech. It's great, having autism, guys.

Why is this important? Well, the main predator has a mission: to kill a rogue Yautja and capture this kid so it can take him back home and extract that sweet, sweet autism and inject it into everyone on the planet. Yeah, that's why they hunt. Not to test their skills as warriors or the thrill: all their trophies are just so they can harvest DNA. Sure this was touched on before, but was dropped because it's dumb. Well, now it's back.

It did give us the great exchange:
"He's a bit retarded."
"Come on, can you use a different word?"
"Yeah man, his son's retarded..."

And I have no idea what they're trying to say.

Anywho, first mission: kill the traitor. THIS COULD HAVE BEEN COOL! For the first half we have a regular predator running around, generally strawberry floating gooseberry fool up trying to find tech the main character took after his ship crashed. Half way through the big main predator shows up and kills him in one punch. From there it pretty much hard swerves into protecting the kid because everyone wants what he knows or is.

All we get on the traitor is he stole predator tech and wants to share it with humans, because we're about to go extinct due to global warming and the Yautja are about to invade because warm climates are their jam. So the predators developed specialised anti-predator Iron Man suits for the humans or something.

It's never explained why he's a race traitor, just roll with it. Maybe the sequel they hooked will explain it.

But other than it feeling like 2 movies stapled together, the tone is weird. Didn't expect to go into this and see a Yautja use a severed arm to give a guy a thumbs up, but here we are.

The pacing was also nuts and it felt like every named character but one died within 5 minutes at the end when they went "Oh gooseberry fool, this is a Predator movie...uh...hunt scene go!"

As for the kills and stuff, everything just feels clumsy, like people were bumblefucking into letting the predator decapitate them. There was a really well done double suicide bit, but that's the exception rather than the norm.

Also, before I end, I just remembered the predator dog thing that just randomly shows up to give The Woman One various miscellaneous weaponry as and when it may be useful before disappearing back into the shadows until she's next in trouble when he'll produce another frag grenade from his stomach or whatever.


Overall, it doesn't really feel like it knows what it wants and doesn't have anything I'd peg as standout moments like any of the others have.

Not as bad as Alien Resurrection/10

User avatar
KjGarly
Member
Joined in 2008
AKA: TheArbiter
Location: Liverpool

PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by KjGarly » Sat Sep 15, 2018 7:29 pm

Sounds strawberry floating fantastic, can't wait to see it now.

Image
Image
User avatar
Mafro
Moderator
Joined in 2008
AKA: based
Contact:

PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Mafro » Sat Sep 15, 2018 10:05 pm

Sounds like a mess and I knew it would be dodgy as soon as I saw that child in the first trailer.

Fisher wrote:shyguy64 did you sell weed in animal crossing new horizons today.

Twitter
User avatar
Preezy
Skeletor
Joined in 2009
Location: SES Herald of Vigilance

PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Preezy » Sat Sep 15, 2018 10:21 pm

I'll be skipping this at the cinema, sounds like I'd be wasting my money.

JediDragon05
Member
Joined in 2010
Location: The Grcade asylum

PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by JediDragon05 » Sat Sep 15, 2018 10:46 pm

Glad I read the spoiler. Think this will be a rent when I’m blind drunk

West side mofos
User avatar
Godzilla
Member
Joined in 2008

PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Godzilla » Fri Sep 21, 2018 8:11 pm

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn_uihPAVhL ... dphillips1

Joker in make up.... Looks interesting

Wish my image sig would work
User avatar
Tragic Magic
Member
Joined in 2008
Location: Leicester
Contact:

PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Tragic Magic » Fri Sep 21, 2018 9:11 pm

Err...

User avatar
Preezy
Skeletor
Joined in 2009
Location: SES Herald of Vigilance

PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Preezy » Fri Sep 21, 2018 10:12 pm

Godzilla wrote:https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn_uihPAVhL/?taken-by=toddphillips1

Joker in make up.... Looks interesting

I guess they can't just recreate Ledger's look, and I'm glad they jettisoned Leto's version. Phoenix is a fantastic actor with the right edge of crazy about him, he could nail it.

User avatar
Denster
Member
Member
Joined in 2008

PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Denster » Sun Sep 23, 2018 3:51 am

I hope that’s his on stage persona and not the final look. Because that looks awful. He looks more like the drunk clown out of Uncle Buck than the joker.
My interest at what Joaquin Phoenix might do with the role has taken a considerable hit.

User avatar
Tafdolphin
RETURN POLICY ABUSER
RETURN POLICY ABUSER
Joined in 2008

PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Tafdolphin » Sun Sep 23, 2018 7:23 am

It's almost exactly the same pattern as John Wayne Gacy's makeup.

I love it. Although apparently some people prefer that he have tattoos literally describing his character traits again!

Also, it's from a screen test so is highly unlikely to be the final design.

---------------------------
Games wot I worked on:
Night Call: Out now!
Rip Them Off: Out now!
Chinatown Detective Agency: 2021!
EXOGATE Initiative: Early Access Summer 2021
t: @Tafdolphin | Twitch: Tafdolphin
User avatar
Denster
Member
Member
Joined in 2008

PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Denster » Sun Sep 23, 2018 8:06 am

It’s awful.

User avatar
Tafdolphin
RETURN POLICY ABUSER
RETURN POLICY ABUSER
Joined in 2008

PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Tafdolphin » Sun Sep 23, 2018 9:40 am

Denster wrote:It’s awful.


Nah.

---------------------------
Games wot I worked on:
Night Call: Out now!
Rip Them Off: Out now!
Chinatown Detective Agency: 2021!
EXOGATE Initiative: Early Access Summer 2021
t: @Tafdolphin | Twitch: Tafdolphin
Corazon de Leon

PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Corazon de Leon » Sun Sep 23, 2018 11:51 am

It is. Still an improvement on Leto's but really bad all the same.

User avatar
Dual
Member
Joined in 2008

PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Dual » Sun Sep 23, 2018 12:01 pm

Does it make a difference?

User avatar
Dual
Member
Joined in 2008

PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Dual » Sun Sep 23, 2018 12:03 pm



I'm not crying.

User avatar
Tafdolphin
RETURN POLICY ABUSER
RETURN POLICY ABUSER
Joined in 2008

PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Tafdolphin » Sun Sep 23, 2018 7:23 pm

Set photos from Joker. Full costume:

http://www.justjared.com/2018/09/22/joa ... iot-scene/

Image

---------------------------
Games wot I worked on:
Night Call: Out now!
Rip Them Off: Out now!
Chinatown Detective Agency: 2021!
EXOGATE Initiative: Early Access Summer 2021
t: @Tafdolphin | Twitch: Tafdolphin
User avatar
Godzilla
Member
Joined in 2008

PostRe: Movie News/Discussion Thread 2
by Godzilla » Sun Sep 23, 2018 7:30 pm

Better than suicide squad joker but everything is better than that. Hope they offer Mark Hamill the live action role one day,

Wish my image sig would work

Return to “Stuff”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Trelliz and 444 guests