Posts by rapidstag74

Nancy Allen was HOTT.

Walter Fisher said:You overlooked Ben Stiller's comedies. 😁

Zoolander is easily the best comedy from the last decade or two. Get some taste, dickwad.

Cpl. Hicks said:It’s not going to work because they messed up Dr. Doom's origin! That is a cardinal sin right there. Some ridiculous cosmic radiation? Everyone knows Doom is a master of black magic.

Man, Doom's backstory is such a massive stretch—ruling his own monarchy in Eastern Europe, being Reed's roommate via fax, a super-genius, a sorcerer, and a nomad—that they honestly should have just made an entire movie dedicated solely to him and how he decided that iron was his ultimate fashion statement.

I'll admit it—it wouldn't be a bad thing.

Is it just me, or does the guy playing Richards look exactly like the actor who played Hornblower in that British series?

Richard Hernandez13 said:(Standard) rotoscoping is ancient history.
It was being used way, way before Bakshi.

Zam, I brought up Bakshi because he's the closest example I have.

Richard Hernandez13 said:Here’s an interesting little flick.
Adaptation is a timely take on Philip K. Dick.

It’s set in a future USA where drugs are everywhere, and the latest craze is called Substance D—guaranteed to split the user's brain in two.
Bob Arctor is a dealer and a user of this new stuff, while Fred is an undercover narc tasked with catching Bob.
The catch? They're both the same person.

Complicated, right?

I read the book; it’s one of my favorites. By the end, even I was losing track of the identities. 😁
This might actually be the most faithful Dick adaptation out there (besides Blade Runner). Usually, they just grab a title and turn it into a generic action movie.

If the plot isn't enough to hook you, the style certainly will:
It uses advanced digital rotoscoping, a technique Linklater already mastered in Waking Life.

Interesting. Like a high-tech version of Bakshi's Lord of the Rings. I guess.

Lloyd Dobler said:Stan Lee +
Justice League +
Metropolis +
Nick Fury and his helicarrier +
Indiana Jones
___________ =

SCREECH

👍

I couldn't have put it better myself.

Maybe throw in those Fleischer Superman cartoons from the '40s too.

The movie was incredibly dull.

The only interesting part was how Morbius constantly forgets to mention things to those identical guys led by Leslie.

"Oh, by the way, after my crew died, I realized an ancient, terrifyingly advanced civilization lived here."

"Oh, yeah. I have a daughter."

"Oh, right. Everyone who came to this planet with me is dead, but I love the place, so I'm doing fine."

"Oh, you want to know about the crew members who died? Well, they were torn apart by some alien force."

"Oh, did I mention I boosted my intelligence?"

"Oh, also, I can build giant robots, yet I had to dig my crew's graves with my bare hands because I couldn't find any tools—maybe some kind of... massive... spoon..."

"Oh, I forgot to tell you last time about the massive nuclear reactors stretching 4351 miles beneath the planet's surface. There are about 400 of them somewhere."

I'm in!

Is this that same movie where they use those alien stethoscopes to measure intelligence?

casualotter21 said:<snip>

I watched it.

I appreciated the realism... or maybe not strictly realism, but there wasn't any romanticized nonsense cluttering the plot. Whenever I hear the term "period drama," my mind immediately jumps to some old Errol Flynnov flick. Nothing against Errol, but this one was a pleasant surprise.
Especially the portrayal of the Catholic priest. A total lunatic with all those "You're going to burn in Hell!!!" outbursts. Reminds me of my own priest. 😁

And Michael Caine's German accent is pure genius!

casualotter21 said:Funny.

To be fair... one episode from season 2 and one from season 3.

casualotter21 said:I watched Conan II on TV for the first time recently, which was a relief because I would have demanded a refund if I'd paid to see it.

Spot on.
When I was a kid, I actually preferred Conan II over the original. I was six years old at the time. Red Sonja was HAWT back then, which says a lot about my questionable taste.

Fast forward to about a year ago—I caught the movie again on PBS and ended up passing out halfway through.
The thing is a total snooze fest.

Xerxes said:It really is a shame he passed away...

...I heard he was supposed to show up in an episode of that Superman series as a kid.

He actually appeared in two episodes during season three.

casualotter21 said:The last time I saw Superman on TV, I was still in elementary school. Has Superman even been shown on PBS in the last ten years? I don't think so.

Superman is exactly why I feel like things were better back in the old days.
Every year during the Christmas holiday, they’d air at least one movie.
Then the nineties hit, and now for New Year's Day, we just get stuck watching various Matrix sequels or bad Van Damme movies.

Actually, PBS did show him a few years ago when I was still in high school; they had a "Movie night with Superman" where they aired the first three films.

Kate Diaz said:I'm curious, which movie is this Maddox guy actually enjoying? Which one features battles that are flawlessly executed?

The guy is hilarious, nitpicking the entire film just because he catches a camera shot during a battle sequence. By his logic, neither Thin Red Line nor Saving private Ryan hold any water—and I guess those movies are total garbage to him too (especially Thin Red Line, since blood splatters on the lens.

"This Maddox"?
Oh, please. This is the *FILM* subforum.
Sarcasm isn't exactly welcome here.

Jason Cook5 said:You can find inaccuracies in any historical film, but for me, Braveheart remains one of the best movies ever made. I’ll admit, that pointless love affair was unnecessary. But those battle scenes? Perfection. No matter how many times I see them, I'm still on the edge of my seat.

Uh...

Maddox said:Everyone always thinks the battle scenes in this movie were awesome; even people who didn't like the movie say "...but the battle scenes were done well." What the hell do you know about battle scenes? You're a team manager for an insurance company, go manage something. People watch Mel Gibson running around with his bitch tits for a few hours and they suddenly think they're experts on swordery (swordery is like sorcery with swords).

Why does every battle scene in the universe have to have a shaky cam? Just whose view point are we seeing this from anyway? Wow, the cam is shaky, I feel like I'm right in the battle, looking through the eyes of some idiot who can't fight, yet he still can't focus on an object for more than a few seconds. Hey assholes, here's an idea: how about the perspective of someone who got stabbed in the face? The camera would just sit there staring up at the blue sky as an occasional limb would come flying across, or someone would trip over his body. That would be tits.

I'd side with Maddox on this one. 😁

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N/A said:Honestly, maybe they shouldn't bother filming them. If they did, they wouldn't be considered so original.

Dude, back in the 80s, half the movies followed that exact formula. Some guy shows up and just levels an entire city block.
I’d say at least 50% of the movies from my era fall into that trash category.

In all honesty, the only decent comic from that era was the third Indiana Jones.

Tuesday, Sept 28 at 10:00 PM!

This is one of those movies that shifts your entire perspective on life. You realize that any problem can be solved with an endless supply of ammunition and an unshakeable desire to see your enemies bleed.

Arnold Schwarzenegger playing John Matrix. The only guy capable of taking down Rambo during a lunch break.

The screenwriter behind this masterpiece is Jeph Loeb, one of my favorite comic book writers, and COMMANDO is essentially a comic book movie through and through.



They just don't make them like this anymore.

Cpl. Hicks said:Let’s not even get started on how that ninja genocide basically built the careers of Dudikoff and Bradley!

I wouldn't go quite so far as to say they actually had careers.
Fine, Dudikoff.

Bradley... 😁

Zachary Bennett3 said:After that massive slump in ninja movies during the 90s, it feels like the genre never truly recovered...

And then you have the skeptics claiming Dolph never actually played a major role in human history...

Man, oh man.

In five years of fighting crime, the Punisher took out 125 people. Then, in just fifteen minutes of this movie, he mows down 180... and does it with flair.

The ninja community spent the next few years trying to recover from that onslaught. If they ever actually did.