Bruce Lee is my god!!:D I cosplay as him usually at most of the melbourne pop culture conventions.Quote:
Originally Posted by lancalot
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Bruce Lee is my god!!:D I cosplay as him usually at most of the melbourne pop culture conventions.Quote:
Originally Posted by lancalot
Please tell me that you showed them how a one inch punch works.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kazza
Lol, i've done something similiar to my friend during a sparing session, and he did go flying.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sinnertwin
Oz: the great and powerful
Army of Darkness for kids, and obligatory Bruce cameo. Good film.
****
Jack the Giant Slayer's trailer made me think it was some kind of dark, adult thing. Man was I wrong!:p:o
Not really interested in seeing it though.
I'm not sure whether to see this film, it will probably be the usual Hollywood mess, but I really like the idea of armoured giants stomping medieval soldiers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bidoofdude
Good to hear! Love Army of Darkness, I admit I was worriedQuote:
Originally Posted by Gutsman Heavy
Definitely worth a watch, it amusing how much the story follows the Army of Darkness structure, even the missus noticed it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lint
i hit up g.i.joe last night and loved it.8/10. saw die hard also on tight arse tuesday and it was garbage, give it a miss.
i saw GIjoe as well... and i agree with that 8/10 ...it a great action movie .... just pure fun action , love the close gun fighting :eek: :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Darthprimus
Any nods to things that were in the original show? (things that were ONLY in the show- not movie renditions)
Just watched The Croods 9/10, sooooo funny. Everyone in the cinema was laughing as well.
Yeah GI JOE was a kick-ass action flick, give it a 3.5/5.
the way cobra command looks ....love his helmet :eek: and the cobra heli ...just like the origQuote:
Originally Posted by Bidoofdude
-SPOILER ALERT QUESTION REGARDING GI JOE-
Er did anyone wonder whatever happened to Destro?
SPOILER ALERT QUESTION REGARDING GI JOE
Didnt they just left him in there.....:) "you stay destro" cobra commanderQuote:
Originally Posted by SkyWarp91
I guess, cos the facility didn't blow up. But still, odd thing to do.Quote:
Originally Posted by lancalot
SPOLIER:Quote:
Originally Posted by SkyWarp91
He looked towards Destro and said "Sorry Destro, you're out of the band."
Great movie.
On a recommendation from a friend I watched a movie called "All Superheroes Must Die" I was going to write quite a lengthy review as I have quite an opinion on this movie but all I will say is I would rather watch Birdemic on loop continously for the rest of time instead of watching this ever again.
"Cheapskate Tuesday" was the only reason I needed to watch GI Joe today... :o
What can I say without giving major spoilers away? Compared to the 1st movie, Retaliation was 100% better. The characters actually reminded me of why I luved Cobra/Joe as a kid. & what about General Joe Colton's house? :D Negatives? They brought Storm Shadow back to life but they couldn't bring back my two favourite members of Cobra? (the Baroness & Destro) What was the real reason for delaying this movie for a year - to convert it to 3D or to film that Duke/Roadblock playstation scene? & who's gonna be the major villain in the 3rd movie? Serpentor? :D
Watched GI Joe today and while it was ok, it could have been A LOT better.
Written for the website of my gaming clan, but I'll put it here too
A Good Day to Die Hard
Or, a lesson how to make a quick buck while missing the point
(note: this has a spoiler in it. The spoiler is that the bad guy dies at the end of the film. Now that you know that, it isn't a spoiler. With that out of the way...)
One of life's great tribulations is trying to decide how much a sequel should be judged against the body of work from which it sprang as opposed to on its own merits. I call this the Max Payne 3 problem. In the years after the release of the original Die Hard a particular subgenre of action films became known as 'Die Hard clones', or 'Die Hard on a _______'. For example, Air Force One, for my money the best of these clones, was Die Hard on a Plane. There are certain elements involved in Die Hard that were aped not only by the Die Hard sequels but this subgenre of film - a tense, slow build up as the (invariably cash motivated) antagonists position themselves to spring into action, a sophisticated bad guy, a vulnerable, trapped hero who gets beaten within an inch of his life by the end of the film. A Good Day to Die Hard, which I'm just going to call Die Hard 5 from now on guys, ignores basically all of this. That doesn't in itself make it a terrible film, but basically everything else about it does.
So we start the film with John McClane's son Jack, now a CIA agent, getting arrested for trying to assassinate someone in a Russian club. He gets put on trial and basically says he will give false testimony against some dude named Komarov in exchange for a lesser sentence. Meanwhile John McClane boards a plane to Russia more or less just so he can watch, because his son doesn't like him or really want his help. He rocks up at the court room just as a bunch of bombs go off because some nasty men want to kill both Jack and this Komarov guy, but all it does is allow them to escape. It turns out that Komarov (who about 45 seconds before Jack had been willing to sell down the river more or less) has a file that incriminates someone else in whatever scandal was going on there, so they now need to run around town being shot at by European stereotypes while they try to find it. This is all established in the first 25 minutes or so, and to be honest there's not much else except for a final twist. This is a short film, thankfully.
So there's no slow buildup, with the explosions starting about 10 minutes in and not really stopping, and the climactic car chase that so much fuss was made about is about 15 minutes in. This lack of pacing reflects what is my biggest problem with the film - it tries to be 1988's Die Hard in all the really unimportant aesthetic ways and misses the point entirely. The bad guy doesn't get any character development, he's an eloquent well dressed European who dislikes "American cowboys" and is after a payday, and that's basically all the audience needs to know because hey, that character was developed in 20-25 years ago in Die Hard 1 and 3, so why bother devoting time to that in 2013, right? Hey you know what else was cool? That bit at the end of Die Hard where a subdued and disarmed Bruce Willis just started laughing, and then all the bad guys were instantly off guard and laughing with him so he could take them by surprise. I liked that, lets have a bit of that, but not at the end of the film as an absurd punchline to horrible beating that Bruce Willis has taken over the last few hours, lets just drop it randomly in the middle. Oh, and wouldn't it be cool if the bad guy in this died basically the exact same way as the bad guy in Die Hard, with the same camera angle, facial expression and musical score? It is basically like it was written as Die Hard fan fiction by a fan too immature to understand the themes and key conventions underpinning the series, but aware enough to steal some of the unimportant aesthetic fluff which would usually represent a nod to the fans but here seems to be the basis for the entirety of the connection with the rest of the series.
The problems are worsened by the tangibly bad acting, especially by Willis. As with every other aspect of this film except the important ones, Die Hard 5 tries to directly copy Die Hard by having Bruce Willis popping off a series of one liners as the film goes on. I love one liners - a bad pun or two is usually all the emotional fuel I need to get through the day.Here however their delivery is so unbelievably poor that it changes not only your perception of the directing abilities of John Moore (as if the Max Payne film didn't make you think he was shit already, am I right?), but your perception of the character of John McClane himself. An early car chase in the film is punctuated by Willis dropping father-son themed one liners, as if to suggest that tearing up Moscow in a three way van - APC - truck chase is normal father-son fare. However, as with all of the 'witty' 'dialogue' in this film they are delivered under the breath, muttered and barely intelligible, leaving the viewer with the impression not that this is an adrenaline pumping car chase but the actions of a senile old man who doesn't really know what he's doing. Basically Bruce Willis spends most of this film walking around Moscow talking to himself under his breath while perpetrating violence against a variety of Russians, some of whom don't even deserve it. Like a socio-path Mr Magoo.
So there's basically an hour and a half of running through Russia while John tries to rebuild his relationship with his son, the outcome of which is basically his son just accepting that he's a shit dad but is good at "killing scumbags", which is the kind of heart warming character development that I had been hoping would be there, and makes me feel that John McClane is a human character and not basically a walking aimbot/one liner machine. Fortunately this film did not cause me to have to think about the Max Payne 3 problem (see the first paragraph if you've forgotten what that is already). As a Die Hard sequel, disappointing. More importantly, as a film, very very poor. It's just shit across the board.
Score: I told you it's shit, I don't need to put a number here. Don't see this. If you want to see this then watch the trailers a bunch of times, they're a lot more fun than the film.
I've read some really scathing reviews about the new Die Hard. To say that I'm disappointed would be an understatement :(
saw that late last week, good friday I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by ILikeSoundwave
Thought it was very funny. Animation was flawless. Character design very good. :D 9/10 could have done with more for the grown ups... and more animals
Watched GI Joe as there is nothing else worth spending money on.
Never watched the cartoon or had the toys, so had no attachment to it. It was silly, cheesey, illogical, almost every character and member of the world it is based in must be morons, there are time gaps and seems like scenes and sequences missing.
I loved it. Wouldn't go see it again in the cinema, but as a popcorn summer action flick, it was fun and enjoyable as long you don't think about it much.
Yeah. While GI Joe: Retaliation isn't the clown car Rise of Cobra was it had the stupidest twists of logic behind it's plot advancements. But it's your classic 80's dumb action flick and thus does all the textbook examples from "How to not take over the world". I won't spoil everything detail but the parts that I found that killed the most brain cells were *Spoilers in white text* Storm Shadow's sudden and unconvincing defection, japanese ninja clans without any japanese and SELF DESTRUCT DEVICES IN YOUR ULTIMATE WEAPON!!
I don't recommend it (watch Oz, Excape from Planet Earth or Jurassic Park 3D instead) but I can see others enjoying it.
I found Oz really lacking in.... Something. Not too sure what.
Jurrasic Park 3d was well, interesting. Most of the dinos are in the back ground, so a lot of the 3d is a bit lost on them. Having said that though, the 3d conversion was relly well done and it looked a billion times better than the carppy examples of Clash of the Titans and Star Wars ep 1.
Saw ' warm bodies' today. It was a good movie. I think it has to be the first comedy romance zombie flick. it was very well made, i liked it. go see it:D
I want to see it as well but in no rush, maybe on Blu-Ray when it comes out.Quote:
Originally Posted by morg176
Saw the GIJoe movie the weekend before last, and it wasn't too bad.
I was really disappointed that the two leading ladies weren't in it from the first movie (Baroness & Scarlet), as well as a lot of other major classic characters from the first one as well. (I looked up the cast before I went to see it, just to know who to look out for)
One thing I was surprised about, and kinda in a good way, was the writer following the original comic version of events relating to StormShadow's turn to Cobra, in that his Master was killed by Zartan, leading him to re-evaluate his loyalty to that evil organisation.
Usually I would be rather negative towards copying existing story elements, but after the first movie suggested that StormShadow was the murderer (and very evil himself), I was not expecting the second movie to twist it back around to copy the comic. I was so surprised, which is weird - being surprised to see something I should have been expecting. (and it was funnier that I was telling Christalcase while watching the first movie, all about the comic version of StormShadow and Zartan, and why SS was part of Cobra to start with, and why he then left)
If they make a third one, I really hope they bring back Destro, Dr Mindbender, Baroness and Scarlett... with emphasis on Scarlett & Snake-Eyes being a couple (it just didn't feel right seeing her getting cosy with that black guy in the first movie).
I'd also like to see more focus on the vehicles and gadgets in a third movie... which, I think would have to introduce Serpentor. Maybe the "classic" Cobra Civil War, with the GIJoe team having to contain the mess.
There's so much history there to draw from, to homage. (something that Bay could have done with Transformers more than a few names and objects homages)
watched oblivion really liked it dont want to say anything as i dont want to spoil it for anyone else.
It has dashes of old scifi, like 2001 or Metropolis but with modern Hollywood action scenes.Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Damned
I don't think the two work well together but this is enjoyable.
I watched Cloud Atlas the other day.
It had it's moments but unfortunately i didn't really enjoy it.
It was a bit busy for me, too many different scenarios set over various times and realities, loosely (too loosely at times) linked together.
There were some futuristic scenes that i liked but the majority, for me, failed to hammer home any kind of point.
I think if they had dropped a few of the realities it could have made a stronger, shorter movie.
On the other hand, I just thoroughly enjoyed Gangster Squad. :D
Saw Star Trek into darkness last night, I am familiar with ST Next Generation but I haven't really watched any of the other star trek movies. I got to say I enjoyed it, lots of drama, action and fighting but to me I didn't really get the whole "into darkness" thing because it all went really fast, just a superior being going around killing people trying to save his own people. It felt like it all was a blur. Overall 3 and a half out of 5.
Saw Star Trek into darkness last night, I am familiar with ST Next Generation but I haven't really watched any of the other star trek movies. I got to say I enjoyed it, lots of drama, action and fighting but to me I didn't really get the whole "into darkness" thing because it all went really fast, just a superior being going around killing people trying to save his own people. It felt like it all was a blur. Overall 3 and a half out of 5.
I saw it last friday, thought it was awesome. Nice to see the original Spock again. Special effects were great, I liked it. Go see it. :D
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ll_%26_Ted.jpg
- Stupidly fun and the movie is well self-aware of that. You can tell everyone seemed to have fun making this and I had fun watching it - an excellent 7/10!
Just saw it as well...and i like it ..... The orig Spock appearing like that from the future?..wasn't really necessary ... i think they should of implemented that abit better ...it was like an after thought .... love the homage to the old movie with the reactor scene .... And the two red shirt on the away mission ..:DQuote:
Originally Posted by morg176
Watch the '09 Star Trek movie. The one with Eric Bana. It explains how there are two Spocks in this universe and Vulcan got Alderaan'ed.Quote:
Originally Posted by lancalot
Cool thanks....i totally forgot that bit...ill go back to watch it againQuote:
Originally Posted by CBratron
If you wanna do some peripheral continuity catch up, look up an episode of the original Star Trek series called "Space Seed" -- I recently watched it on YouTube, including cheesy 1967 TV ads! (including tobacco advertising! :eek:) -- you might want to consider watching the movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan; Into Darkness has several bits that parallels that movie. I need to watch that film again -- haven't seen it in decades! :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by ILikeSoundwave
"KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!"