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Re: Movie Discussion Thread
« Reply #450 on: July 25, 2015, 10:37:52 PM »

I think Cavill is British.

You are right. I missed that bit of information. He is from the island Jersey between Britain and France. He must be very versatile as he had a good run in U.S. films. I never detected a strong British accent in U.S. media. 
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Re: Movie Discussion Thread
« Reply #451 on: July 25, 2015, 10:54:41 PM »

It's an adaptation of the Japanese light novel "All You Need Is Kill". The movie didn't do so well at the box office. A shame really, a refreshing original entry in a market saturated with reboot and sequels.
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Re: Movie Discussion Thread
« Reply #452 on: July 30, 2015, 04:59:44 AM »

Took the kids to see Ant-Man which was a lot of fun. We agreed that Michael Peña stole the show. Marvel's sense of humor is the main draw here.

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Re: Movie Discussion Thread
« Reply #453 on: July 30, 2015, 04:45:21 PM »

Liked Ant Man as well.
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Re: Movie Discussion Thread
« Reply #454 on: July 31, 2015, 07:24:23 AM »

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation: 9/10

One of the top blockbuster of 2015 IMHO. Excellent set-piece, that plane sequence was only the amuse-bouche. Great humor peppered throughout, particularly from Simon Pegg. A tad long if I were to nitpick.
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Re: Movie Discussion Thread
« Reply #455 on: August 07, 2015, 08:40:19 PM »

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: "The latest reboot of the Fantastic Four -- the cinematic equivalent of malware -- is worse than worthless. It not only scrapes the bottom of the Marvel-movie barrel; it knocks out the floor and sucks audiences into a black hole of soul-crushing, coma-inducing dullness."

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Re: Movie Discussion Thread
« Reply #456 on: August 12, 2015, 03:00:09 AM »

Watched Fantastic Four. Wasn't even that bad really. Predictable, rushed, and Teller's dialogue and delivery near the end was shit, but I've seen worse. Doom looks like a mix of the Crash Test Dummy and the Bicentennial Man.
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Re: Movie Discussion Thread
« Reply #457 on: August 12, 2015, 04:00:08 AM »

Went to see Ant-Man and it was definitely fun. Not bad at all. I actually had not heard of this "superhero" before... I know I know...

Fantastic Four --> http://io9.com/the-most-important-scenes-from-fantastic-four-as-i-rem-1723363327

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FINALLY saw Mad Max and holy balls!!! It was completely entertaining and I would love to see more!!!!
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Re: Movie Discussion Thread
« Reply #458 on: August 14, 2015, 01:45:59 AM »

Project Almanac. It's a time travel movie targeted towards people (teenagers) unfamiliar with time travel. (Read = they make the rules up as they go, and even then you need to shut your brain off) The first half with all its nonsense is alright, although the characters are really stupid considering they built a damned time machine. The main protagonist gets accepted to MIT at the very beginning, so. And the second half straight up mimics Butterfly Effect.

The film also doubles as a two-hour commercial for Lollapalooza.
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Re: Movie Discussion Thread
« Reply #459 on: August 22, 2015, 07:06:05 PM »

Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection of F

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Bullshit. So much bullshit. Suspension-of-disbelief, even in the context of just the Dragon Ball universe, is needed in levels that both childhood and adult me find offensive.

Frieza returns, this isn't a surprise. But he becomes, in the course of the film, as powerful as Goku in Super Saiyan God mode. The same Frieza that was cut to shreds by Future Trunks, who isn't anywhere near as powerful as the Z fighters during the Majin Boo arc. This is explained by Frieza as we'd known him having never trained a day in his life, his then strength being a sole product of his genetics. It takes him six months of training after being resurrected to achieve his present Goku-rivaling form.

Okay so I mean, Frieza comes from a unique race likely, one that IIRC has never really been defined. Maybe his people are just that formidable. But during the Namek Arc, it's stated the reason he and his family destroyed the Saiyan race was because one of theirs could someday become strong enough to defeat him. If Frieza knew he could achieve this insane form of from the start, why would he be afraid of the Saiyans? Considering their collective power levels at the time, there's no way Frieza could feasibly conceive that they'd be able to beat him? And even then, if all of six months of training is all he needed to vastly overshadow the Saiyans, why not just do that and never have to worry? Hell, his brother and father could do it too, and they'd be unstoppable throughout the universe.

And why didn't he try it when he came to Earth to kill Goku before, unless his cybernetics (which actually mad him stronger than he was on Namek) precluded this evolution in power?

Ignoring that, and just taking the movie itself as word, Frieza states shortly after his return that his father told him to avoid fighting two specific people- Beerus and Majin Boo. The same Majin Boo that was defeated by Goku before he learned his God mode from Beerus.

And speaking of, why wouldn't Frieza attempt to take on Beerus? If six months gets him to a point where he's over halfway to Beerus' strength (in the previous film, Beerus stated that he was using ~70% of his true power against God Goku, who by the way was probably a smidge weaker then), couldn't Frieza beat him by simply training even longer? Once again, maybe Frieza's already reached his genetic limit, and he's become as strong as he'll ever be.

Or not.

Also, even one of the stronger Z Fighters should've been more than enough to waste Frieza's troops in an instant. The strongest among them were said to be on the same level as the Ginyu Force.

Fuckin' eh, the ending. Frieza's lackey has a magic ring that fires a lazer capable of piercing God Goku's chest.

What.

What the fuck.

Why not just equip all your troops with this absurdly dangerous weapon of downing gods? Oh, he does. Frieza gloats that it's a "common ray gun".

Bullshit. So much Bullshit.

The film was decently entertaining. The previous one had more humor, with this one being the "action-packed" sequel.

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