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[Satan]

A War on Everyone is like that friend of a friend you had at 14 that was a douche and lacked the capacity for empathy to understand that they are not funny and people don't like them, but laugh along with their jokes so they don't get shit from them.

[soprano1]

In the Name of the Father (1993)
I watched this on a whim, was pleasantly surprised. Wonderful performances by Daniel Day-Lewis and Pete Postlethwaite.

[lilmanjs]

Fight Back To School
Stephen Chow doing what he later became quite famous for. Policeman who has to go undercover to find a stolen police pistol but it ends up being more slapstick comedy and random humor after he enters the school undercover. I enjoyed the heck out of this, and I think this might be a dvd release to go along with the blu-ray.

Fight Back To School II
Same premise, he goes undercover at an international school this time. Less humor but it is top notch when it is in the movie. The opening traffic cop bit is great and the ending shootout is done really well. I haven't a clue if this was filmed with sync sound, but it sure felt like it. Or they actually got all the white guys to do their own dubbing for their english lines.

[WelshMegalodon]

Earth's Mightiest Heroes did Ultron better. Too bad Disney replaced good marvel shows with inferior ones. Not sure if putting Christopher Yost on live action Thor instead of animated shows was a good idea.

I couldn't get into Earth's Mightiest Heroes. The voice acting rubbed me the wrong way, and the character designs are an insult to John Buscema's art. I tried to give it a chance after seeing how recommended it was, but then they had the gall to write an adaptation of the Masters of Evil storyline that had Jan do practically nothing.

The second season of the 1994 Fantastic Four animated series is one of Marvel's better animated adaptations, if not one of the less appreciated. I'd like the celebrated X-Men series more if they hadn't mucked about with Dark Phoenix and Spectacular Spider-Man if Peter and company didn't look 10. Neither really match up to the DCAU.

The Marvel Superheroes series from the 60s is notable for its reasonably faithful adaptations of comic storylines and the use of authentic Kirby artwork. It's kind of watchable if you look past the hilariously stiff animation.

[BrianC]

but then they had the gall to write an adaptation of the Masters of Evil storyline that had Jan do practically nothing.

That sadly seems to be par for the course in the early Avengers comics.

[Skykid]

Fight Back To School
Stephen Chow doing what he later became quite famous for. Policeman who has to go undercover to find a stolen police pistol but it ends up being more slapstick comedy and random humor after he enters the school undercover. I enjoyed the heck out of this, and I think this might be a dvd release to go along with the blu-ray.

Fight Back To School II
Same premise, he goes undercover at an international school this time. Less humor but it is top notch when it is in the movie. The opening traffic cop bit is great and the ending shootout is done really well. I haven't a clue if this was filmed with sync sound, but it sure felt like it. Or they actually got all the white guys to do their own dubbing for their english lines.

Yeah, both great fun, some of early Chow's more easily digestible. Definitely not done with sync sound though, no way no how!

[Skykid]

Fight Back To School
Stephen Chow doing what he later became quite famous for. Policeman who has to go undercover to find a stolen police pistol but it ends up being more slapstick comedy and random humor after he enters the school undercover. I enjoyed the heck out of this, and I think this might be a dvd release to go along with the blu-ray.

Fight Back To School II
Same premise, he goes undercover at an international school this time. Less humor but it is top notch when it is in the movie. The opening traffic cop bit is great and the ending shootout is done really well. I haven't a clue if this was filmed with sync sound, but it sure felt like it. Or they actually got all the white guys to do their own dubbing for their english lines.

Yeah, both great fun, some of early Chow's more easily digestible. Definitely not done with sync sound though, no way no how!

[reckon luck]

Galaxy Quest. That movie will never get old.

Let's get out of here before one of those things kills Guy!

[Skykid]

Galaxy Quest. That movie will never get old.

Let's get out of here before one of those things kills Guy!

Yeah that's the funniest line!

[WelshMegalodon]

That sadly seems to be par for the course in the early Avengers comics.

While that's true (goddammit Stan), the adaptation is still a disservice to Stern's original storyline, which was about Jan demonstrating her leadership. Stern did a better job with Jan in four years than other writers managed to do in twenty, and here's this retelling that completely disregards his work.

[EmperorIng]

Watched Tremors 2 last night. Was expecting a movie that's just ok, and was pleasantly surprised that it's still plenty fun! Must be because they still had Fred Ward to balance things out (he was my favorite character in the first Tremors). The fanboy character Grady lightly pokes fun at how popular and successful the first movie was (I wish I could have seen what that Graboid game looked like).

Some of the CGI is a little bad (though not too bad - like the later Tremors movies), but the new designs are pretty lovely, especially when they take the time to make real fabricated monsters blow up (spoilered for NSFW MAN ON WORM CARNAGE):

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[kaicooper]

Europa Report

its like Dicum/Footage/Mestrey realstick movie..i skiped this movie alot
cus i hate Footage movie or Dicuma style..but this's great idea for this movie
its like there's many camera in the Spaceshipt and Theme so atmospheric
v.good little indie space movie

8/10

[Zen]

Europa Report

its like Dicum/Footage/Mestrey realstick movie..i skiped this movie alot
cus i hate Footage movie or Dicuma style..but this's great idea for this movie
its like there's many camera in the Spaceshipt and Theme so atmospheric
v.good little indie space movie

8/10

Great sci-fi film. Puts most modern "sci-fi" to shame. The ending has this incredible moment of profound pause. Fantastic.

[boagman]

Galaxy Quest. That movie will never get old.

Let's get out of here before one of those things kills Guy!

Proof that great writing trumps bad CGI and such. Delivery helps, too, of course, but as a technical/special effects thing, that movie is pretty atrocious. Doesn't matter: it's pretty stinking hilarious anyway. The cast kicks absolute tail.

[Doctor Butler]

Ong Bak Trilogy: It starts off pretty good, about a Thai man who becomes an illegal prize-fighter so he can recovery the head of his village's sacred statue from a gangster. The 2nd and 3rd films are prequels that undermine the character, and delve into complete insanity, involved karma, on-the-spot reincarnation, and a villian who's a total ripoff of Brandon Lee from The Crow.

The later two films would work better as their own IP - it almost feels like they slapped Ong Bak on them to capitalize off the first film.

Mary and Max: Shifting gears entirely, this is a stop-motion film about a nerdy, outcast Australian girl and an autistic Jewish man from Manhatten whom become pen-pals, and communicate between the mid 70's and the late 90's and bond over frivolous, yet important interests. It's bleak and dark, but has a lot of heart.

Good shit. Watch it.

[null1024]

Galaxy Quest. That movie will never get old.

Let's get out of here before one of those things kills Guy!

Proof that great writing trumps bad CGI and such. Delivery helps, too, of course, but as a technical/special effects thing, that movie is pretty atrocious. Doesn't matter: it's pretty stinking hilarious anyway. The cast kicks absolute tail.

I don't remember it looking too bad [and it's something I can confirm a quick check of some scenes on Youtube, it's not amazing in the CG department, but it's not the worst thing I've seen, I've certainly seen worse looking CG from even two years later].
but hot damn, what a brilliant movie

[Sly Cherry Chunks]

^I was going to say. One of the last great miniature effects movies that I can think of.

[boagman]

Galaxy Quest. That movie will never get old.

Let's get out of here before one of those things kills Guy!

Proof that great writing trumps bad CGI and such. Delivery helps, too, of course, but as a technical/special effects thing, that movie is pretty atrocious. Doesn't matter: it's pretty stinking hilarious anyway. The cast kicks absolute tail.

I don't remember it looking too bad [and it's something I can confirm a quick check of some scenes on Youtube, it's not amazing in the CG department, but it's not the worst thing I've seen, I've certainly seen worse looking CG from even two years later].
but hot damn, what a brilliant movie

The main bad guy looks, moves, and speaks like he's straight out of a Sid & Marty Krofft production, or possibly in a Power Rangers feature.

[BrianC]

That sadly seems to be par for the course in the early Avengers comics.

While that's true (goddammit Stan), the adaptation is still a disservice to Stern's original storyline, which was about Jan demonstrating her leadership. Stern did a better job with Jan in four years than other writers managed to do in twenty, and here's this retelling that completely disregards his work.

I assumed it was based on the original Lee/Kirby Masters of Evil comic (though it has been awhile since I watched the show, so I could be mistaken).

[Satan]

Passengers is dogshit.

[kaicooper]

i dont wanna post new thread..but

give me a list of great Dark Space movies

somthing like:
Moon 2009
Solairs 1972
2001 Spaec Odessy 1968
Interstellar 2015
Sunshine 2007
Red Planet 2000

a good movie in space..trying to survive or explorations stuff slimier to those up?

and yea i watched these

Gravity
Lost Horizon
Europa Report
Missions to Mars
Red Planet
Contact

[Mischief Maker]

i dont wanna post new thread..but

give me a list of great Dark Space movies

somthing like:
Moon 2009
Solairs 1972
2001 Spaec Odessy 1968
Interstellar 2015
Sunshine 2007
Red Planet 2000

a good movie in space..trying to survive or explorations stuff slimier to those up?

and yea i watched these

Gravity
Lost Horizon
Europa Report
Missions to Mars
Red Planet
Contact

Kind of a starvation genre there.

You could add Event Horizon, Apollo 13, The Martian, Space Camp... yeah not that many options.

[Zen]

i dont wanna post new thread..but

give me a list of great Dark Space movies

somthing like:
Moon 2009
Solairs 1972
2001 Spaec Odessy 1968
Interstellar 2015
Sunshine 2007
Red Planet 2000

a good movie in space..trying to survive or explorations stuff slimier to those up?

and yea i watched these

Gravity
Lost Horizon
Europa Report
Missions to Mars
Red Planet
Contact

Got a lot of good films on your list already. Of course the problem with Sci-Fi films is that there are rarely straight Sci-Fi. Instead, they are usually just a setting for a drama, war/action, western, chase film.
Here is mix (heavy and light Sci-Fi) that you might not have seen yet. Most are "dark" (Pandorum is mainly action/chase but its gritty and dark if thats what you are looking for)

The Zero Theorem (2013) - Terry Gilliam
Pi (1998) - Darren Aronofsky
The Fountain (2006) - Darren Aronofsky
Primer (2004) - Shane Carruth
Upstream Color (2013) - Shane Carruth
Pandorum (2009) - Christian Alvart
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) - Nicolas Roeg
Sphere (1998) - Barry Levinson

The remake of Solaris in 2002 by Steven Soderbergh, although it gets a lot of hate, is worth a look.

[kaicooper]

oking for)

The Zero Theorem (2013) - Terry Gilliam
Pi (1998) - Darren Aronofsky
The Fountain (2006) - Darren Aronofsky
Primer (2004) - Shane Carruth
Upstream Color (2013) - Shane Carruth
Pandorum (2009) - Christian Alvart
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) - Nicolas Roeg
Sphere (1998) - Barry Levinson

The remake of Solaris in 2002 by Steven Soderbergh, although it gets a lot of hate, is worth a look.

watched all of these..
Sphere (1998) is the only movie i didnt ..it got shitty ratings..is it that bad?

[Mischief Maker]

watched all of these..
Sphere (1998) is the only movie i didnt ..it got shitty ratings..is it that bad?

It's terrible. Do yourself a favor and watch "Forbidden Planet," the movie it blatantly rips off, instead.

Actually... yeah. Despite its age, Forbidden Planet does count as dark exploration sci fi. See that!

[BrianC]

Forbidden Planet is good stuff

[lilmanjs]

Fury
This would be a movie I could recommend. I really wanted to love the hell out of this. They should of fired the composer and hired somebody in his place who wasn't so darn lazy. Run of the mill story about a drug deal gone wrong and everything after that years later when the money from the deal is used to start legal business. Action is done pretty nicely, it is acted pretty well, but the music. You don't know it yet, but that opening credits music that is actually nice and fits will be played like a million more times it feels like. Couldn't they get more music than just that one and stuff for the action scenes? I guess not.

[kaicooper]

Falling Down 1993

we need movies like this..a movie show us how crazy society is
such a great performance by M.Dohglas and amazing thrills from start to finish
that Ham burger scene ... ow yea that hurts

Can i have Breakfast plz lol

8.5/10

[kaicooper]

guys
could anyone just tell me who's this chick? from Savage streets movie

[trap15]

Seems to be Linnea Quigley. You could've helped a bit by giving the actual name of the movie and what her character's name is (in which case I guess you could've used IMdb yourself, but...).