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mehguy · Post by **mehguy** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 2:23 am

I watched terminator genisys. Seriously, dont see this movie. Its not worth your money. Buy it when it gets into bargain bins.

BrianC · Post by **BrianC** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 2:57 am

BIL wrote: Aggressively mediocre like all the other damage sponging shit Virgin did on the platform. I wipe my ass with Richard Branson's beard.

To be fair, Probe did the Genesis version, with Virgin only publishing. Virgin did do the Sega CD version, though.

I watched Inside Out. Very cute movie. I liked it quite a bit. It made me teary eyed in parts.

xxx1993 · Post by **xxx1993** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 4:48 pm

mehguy wrote:I watched terminator genisys. Seriously, dont see this movie. Its not worth your money. Buy it when it gets into bargain bins.

Too late, I already saw it.

Some-Mist · Post by **Some-Mist** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 7:24 pm

the color wheel

alex ross perry film directed, written, produced, and starring alex ross perry with a pretty intense but humorous guest appearance from bob byington. interesting tidbit about this movie - all the actors are alex ross perry's friends, and he admitted that anyone who wanted to be in the movie could be in the movie. it was also his second film released after impolex. kinda similar to the mumblecore genre that perry denies any association with, this one is a black and white film about a sister who convinces her brother to help her get her belongings from the professor she was dating. there's very intense rapid fire dialogue which is pretty hard to keep up with on my first run through, but I will probably try and make my way through it again to catch anything I missed. most of the movie made me feel uncomfortable which I kind of like, but nothing tops the

Spoiler

incest

scene which I'll skip over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOtO8JBtxpE

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Mon Jul 06, 2015 10:13 pm

Kingsman - The Secret Service. 4/5

Funny, pretty and the action was very good.

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 4:11 am

xxx1993 wrote:
mehguy wrote:I watched terminator genisys. Seriously, dont see this movie. Its not worth your money. Buy it when it gets into bargain bins.
Too late, I already saw it.

We know.

Watched:

The Mummy

On a recommendation. Meh. Not very good is it? I remember it being popular on release and spawning some sequels with Da Rock, but while I can see it being fun for little kids it's too amateur-theatrics in too many areas to qualify as an Indy void-filler.

The best thing about it is Brendan Fraser as Edward Randy/Earnest Evans. As an actor he's the only one in control of the concept and material. He manages to make a paper thin character with zero depth at least semi-believable, and that's while chewing around some horribad 'comedy' dialogue. Some of those quips grate hard.

John Hannah is fucking useless, a terrible and terribly irritating overactor. No idea how he ever got a job in performing arts. Rachel Weiss is similarly bad, far too camera concious and self-aware. Also irrirtating.

The CG has aged awfully, which doesn't help, but I will say it's good fun for little children. Got a touch of the mystery and adventure that does fuel a nipper's imagination, and Fraser is reall trigger happy, gunning down everything recklessly, which I also approve of in an old-fashioned hero sense.

On the whole, it's a bit shit.

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 5:28 am

Beyond The Reach

Pretty great, very intense! Michael Douglas plays a psychotic asshole stalking a kid through the desert with a high powered rifle. He won't let him drink or get to shade. Pretty cool survival story with only a couple of hoaky elements.

Terminator Genisys

Not as good as 1 or 2, better than 3 or 4. It's what I expected, & if you want a condensed version just watch the trailers. It's pretty much all in there. This isn't the first time a Terminator marketing team spoiled the movie.

Matt Smith's paycheck should have gone into practical effects. His screen time is almost non existent. Actually, all of the established actors are unnecessary besides Ahnie.

Now for Kingsmen.

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 7:48 pm

Finally checked out the sci-fi flick that is known as Ex Machina (from the writer whom brought us the earlier sci-fi movie of Sunshine). Fascinating and very intelligent movie dealing with subject matter such as AI, programming, big web search companies/corporations such as Blue Box (filling in/standing in for "Google" -- a sly reference to the big "G" these days), delving into exotic mass storage solutions rather than sticking with the tried 'n' true bulky PCBs and some other subject matters worthy of your time.

My only question is: how will the cute android character recharge her batteries out in the "real world" (considering that she would simply recharge her batteries by simply standing on the handy induction plates located nearby) -- perhaps, construct a simple battery charger and and hook it up directly? Of course, there's no mention of the type of batteries used to power up the shapely female looking androids but it'd be safe to say that some exotic li-po batteries that are super thin, super compact and flexible enough to be fit within the super thin endo-skeletal frame setup seems to be the logical method to make it all work from a "real-world manufacturing standpoint" (considering that the female androids are prototypes/one-offs anyways). Plus the fact that there's no mention of the voltage necessary to power everything up properly -- perhaps using some exotic power transformers to ramp up the voltages necessary for all the fine servo motors in the hands, facial expression servos and whatnot.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

chempop · Post by **chempop** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:47 am

The LEGO Movie A+++++++

Godzilla (2014) Bleh, visually way too dark, could barely make out many of the scenes. Didn’t have a care in the world for any of the characters.

Mischief Maker · Post by **Mischief Maker** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 2:16 am

I'm curious why Ahnold always returns to the Terminator series when he needs some child support cash, but never Conan.

Robert E. Howard wrote several Conan stories that took place after he throttled the king of Aquilonia with his bare hands and wore the crown on a troubled brow. What's more, these were the kind of stories that featured just the kind of giant CGI battle scenes Hollywood even puts into Alice in Wonderland in the post-LOTR movie market. Don't tell me the star of "Junior" considers Conan beneath himself?

MR_Soren · Post by **MR_Soren** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 2:56 pm

Mischief Maker wrote:I'm curious why Ahnold always returns to the Terminator series when he needs some child support cash, but never Conan.

Robert E. Howard wrote several Conan stories that took place after he throttled the king of Aquilonia with his bare hands and wore the crown on a troubled brow. What's more, these were the kind of stories that featured just the kind of giant CGI battle scenes Hollywood even puts into Alice in Wonderland in the post-LOTR movie market. Don't tell me the star of "Junior" considers Conan beneath himself?

Conan would be awesome! Terminator peaked with 2 and has been rental/streaming/broadcast/on demand material ever since.

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 3:44 pm

He is supposed to be back in 'Legend Of Conan', the King Conan movie supposedly shooting sometime late this year.

Khan · Post by **Khan** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 11:13 pm

mehguy wrote:I watched terminator genisys. Seriously, dont see this movie. Its not worth your money. Buy it when it gets into bargain bins.

Just watched it myself and truth be told im sooo glad I didnt pay to watch this garbage at the flicks seriously what a load of poop....I dont recognise any of the faces in the movie except Arnie who the hell are these b movie actors

Khan · Post by **Khan** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 1:35 am

Just finished watching Pacific rim and must say its pretty much Neon genesis evangelion in hollywood format and truthfully its not bad at all the cgi is done really quite well and teh action is pretty good it also stars Ron pearlman as well definitely an enjoyable watch for me atleast.

lilmanjs · Post by **lilmanjs** » Sat Jul 11, 2015 3:25 am

Point Of No Return
This movie surprised me. A Hong Kong movie from 1990 that actually has a good story to go along with all the gunplay and martial arts. Starts off with a neat sequence that sets in motion the rest of the movie. Somebody breaks the assassin's code and must be killed. His brother tries to take revenge through the rest of the movie. The movie also happened to have a pretty nicely done synthy soundtrack that fit the movie and changed on the fly quite well. Overall it is worth watching. Good acting, action and story.

chempop · Post by **chempop** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 1:55 am

lilmanjs wrote:Point Of No Return

At first I thought you were talking about the Bridget Fonda remake of La Femme Nikita.

Where did you find: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103307/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3

Post by **system11** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 1:06 pm

Just watched Chappie, despite some issues it's hugely enjoyable and hilarious in places. Not quite up there with District 9, but better than Elysium. I'm happy they keep giving this guy money to make films, they're refreshingly different to everyone else.

For people who don't mind spoilers, this scene made me lose it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7Lf1KByfMI

Mischief Maker · Post by **Mischief Maker** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 4:47 pm

system11 wrote:Just watched Chappie, despite some issues it's hugely enjoyable and hilarious in places. Not quite up there with District 9, but better than Elysium. I'm happy they keep giving this guy money to make films, they're refreshingly different to everyone else.

For people who don't mind spoilers, this scene made me lose it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7Lf1KByfMI

I liked this movie better when it was called Short Circuit 2.

Also when it was called Robocop.

lilmanjs · Post by **lilmanjs** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 6:25 pm

chempop wrote:
lilmanjs wrote:Point Of No Return
At first I thought you were talking about the Bridget Fonda remake of La Femme Nikita.

Where did you find: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103307/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3

I was talking about this movie: http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?i ... ay_set=eng
My recent HK movie purchases are coming from dddhouse.

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Sun Jul 12, 2015 8:34 pm

The 2015 remake of "The Town That Dreaded Sundown" is cool (this particular horror genre flick completely bypassed the American theatrical movie method of distribution and was released directly to video via DVD and Blu-Ray formats instead -- clocks at a modest 1:25:59 overall running time) and out on Redbox right now listed in the horror genre section..."quickens the pace/suspense factor several notches up" at around the 9:30 timecode section. You might recall the 1978 original version of TTTDS flick with a different old-school type of horror/change of pace that the 2015 remake is based on. The eventual ending has a few twists and spins leaving the audience to guess how it'll conclude in less than 90 minutes (the average length for a typical horror flick).

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 5:10 am

Terminator Genisys.

I agree with Skykid, the movie was an abomination. To screw around with the originals timeline and the originals story is just too much. In T1 Reese used to say things like "we were starving, we ate rats, we were dying out" etc etc. In Terminator Genisys everyone is super nourished in the future and wearing really nice clothes. It just doesn't match what was told in T1 at all. I didn't want to watch it at the cinema because of the reviews hitting 5's and 6's but a friend invited me and I took the bait.

Also, I just had to laugh when they went to 2017. They spent the whole of 1984 in a sewer so they could avoid having to use old cars and scenery. Then when given a choice to go to 199x or 2017 it was 2017 where immediately its all outside in the traffic etc. Too predictable. I'm guessing the Terminator franchise is all about time travel since in all the movies except Salvation its the time travel which not only gets regurgitated but also what ruins the movies. And to see "Bad Boys" being played in the jail scene just took every little bit of seriousness out of the movie.

What everyone is holding out for (I think I'm right) is the war/battle at the start of T2. As with "Aliens", someone needs to start where T2 left off again.. and with Aliens also.. Someone needs to reinvent the timeline so we can pretend certain iterations of the franchise just didn't exist.

brentsg · Post by **brentsg** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 5:19 am

emphatic wrote:Kingsman - The Secret Service. 4/5

Funny, pretty and the action was very good.

We watched this one last night and we enjoyed it. I think I liked it a bit more than the wife, and I got a new line that's going to be fun.

Did some things for the wife and told her that I felt like I'd saved the world.

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 7:15 am

neorichieb1971 wrote:Terminator Genisys.

I agree with Skykid, the movie was an abomination.

I haven't even seen it! Although that's what I expect it to be.

And to see "Bad Boys" being played in the jail scene just took every little bit of seriousness out of the movie.

Jesus.

What everyone is holding out for (I think I'm right) is the war/battle at the start of T2. As with "Aliens", someone needs to start where T2 left off again.. and with Aliens also.. Someone needs to reinvent the timeline so we can pretend certain iterations of the franchise just didn't exist.

No Richie, what everyone is holding out for is for one stinking modern Hollywood producer studio to take one of these existing IP's and do it justice rather than fucking it up beyond all recognition by trying to appeal to kwiddies and CGI merchants. So far everything beautiful about the 80s has been completely trashed:

Die Hard - stank like an old man's shit on arrival of Live Free or Die Tard and it's special PG-13 daddy wuvs you flavour. Thanks talentless nobody, Mr Blue Tint himself, Len Wiseman.

Aliens - Gave it to Paul WS Anderson, a hack so bad he makes Joel Shumacher look like Welles. The resulting movies were of course, dog shit. Prometheus, marginally less shit, but still crippled by no one caring about scripting or acting. About to give it to a guy who's made two consecutively rubbish films. Thanks guyz!

Predator - Also gave it to Paul WS Anderson. Fuck's nuts. Ruined two fabled franchise with one film.

Predator again - Impressively gave it to a director of some proven worth (Kontrol) and it still turned out like dogs balls thanks to the paint-by-numbers producer system. Not as bad as Anderson's effort, mind.

Terminator - Where were we again? Christian Bale as John Connor? Awful. Two Australian hunks of wood in two different movies getting progressively worse. Thanks. Arnie in drag? Fine idea.

Transformers - Michael Bay.

Star Wars - George Lucas. Had a cartoon and marionettes where the movie was meant to be.

Conan - Just... don't speak. Don't speak.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Forgetting How Movies Work - Last Crusade was 50% duff, but this was just horrific. Harrison Ford + Steven Spielberg = ...A useless parody that misses every possible mark from scripting, pacing, credibility etc. Amazing a man once so untouchable in the industry can't steer a fucking kid's movie in the appropriate direction any more.

Basically, everyone holding out for any kind of return to form for any of these franchises may as well give up because it's the producers holding them by the nuts. And these producers don't care about character development, personality, scriptwriting, acting, atmosphere, tangibility: they care that you've spent all 150 million of your allotted budget on CGI and effects to be transitioned into 3D. Everything else doesn't matter.

Unless the film making craft becomes fashionable again - and that's doubtful since all the kids are spending their money and then telling everyone "it was awesome!" - I'd pretty much call these beloved movie series a write off.

Post by **system11** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 9:18 am

Ever considered you might be the Pretas of film?

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 10:21 am

system11 wrote:Ever considered you might be the Pretas of film?

Sly Cherry Chunks · Post by **Sly Cherry Chunks** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 11:23 am

Low blow!

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 11:27 am

system11 wrote:Ever considered you might be the Pretas of film?

Not at all. Don't understand the connection.

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 2:06 pm

Skykid wrote:
No Richie, what everyone is holding out for is for one stinking modern Hollywood producer studio to take one of these existing IP's and do it justice rather than fucking it up beyond all recognition by trying to appeal to kwiddies and CGI merchants.

You left the robocop remake off your list, which probably just goes to show how forgettable it was.

Amazing how Mad Max is the only film that got it right, where so often these directors, some 30+ years later can't get back into their vision, plus a studio system that basically prevents what they did back then anyway.

When I was rewatching the first Terminator (the only one I really like, though I'll admit the second is an incredible action film), I could see how a remake could do a lot to service the material, but this hollywood system could never pull it off, despite the fact that T1 is in a way Halloween with a robot instead of Michael Myers. Its just amazing to me how people can't pull off simple ideas anymore.

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 3:49 pm

CMoon wrote:
Skykid wrote:
No Richie, what everyone is holding out for is for one stinking modern Hollywood producer studio to take one of these existing IP's and do it justice rather than fucking it up beyond all recognition by trying to appeal to kwiddies and CGI merchants.
You left the robocop remake off your list, which probably just goes to show how forgettable it was.

Amazing how Mad Max is the only film that got it right, where so often these directors, some 30+ years later can't get back into their vision, plus a studio system that basically prevents what they did back then anyway.

When I was rewatching the first Terminator (the only one I really like, though I'll admit the second is an incredible action film), I could see how a remake could do a lot to service the material, but this hollywood system could never pull it off, despite the fact that T1 is in a way Halloween with a robot instead of Michael Myers. Its just amazing to me how people can't pull off simple ideas anymore.

Agreed, it's very unusual.

All these beloved movies took their inspiration from comic books, if not directly then in spirit. Aliens, future cyborg killers, robot cops, one-man armies. It's surprising how at the time they were looked down on as the pulp that they intended to be, but in hindsight they were done with incredible imagination, panache and vision - especially when placed side-by-side with their soulless, conveyor belt modern equivalents. I have no idea why capturing the audience's imagination is so utterly elusive in film these days. These movies aren't Shakespeare, how is it they keep ruining them all so horribly?

What really gets me going these days, I'm sad to say, is a script. Any bit of decent writing. Seriously, when I rewatched Robocop recently it was like a dialogue/screenplay orgy. I miss scripts.

What happened to all the writers? Did they all die off or move to TV or something?

neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Mon Jul 13, 2015 3:57 pm

Its also a shame that people that started making great movies in their 1st, 2nd and 3rd movies went fast track to the BS being spurted out today.

Anyway I am sure in the next Terminator Sarah Connor will have yet another bunker, with yet another $10m worth of weapons hidden somewhere in a sewer, mountain bunker or elsewhere.. Perhaps even under water lol.

I think Asia is going down this route as well. Attack on Titan comes out in August and it looks to follow the same traits of Hollywood.

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