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The 2009 Summer Movie Thread
April 17th 2009, 19:56 CEST by Trunks Star Trek, Up, Terminator, Wolverine, Transformers 2, Harry Potter 6. Bitch about the upcoming summer blockbusters here. |
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I remembered I've missed the last Indy Jones movie. Was it worth watching, or is it Episode 1 all over again? Also, please remind me - which Indy movie is the best? |
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Number three is best. I thought the fourth was aight, but it's pretty divisive how people feel. It's pretty much all silly fun, wacky shenanigans. If you can accept that in the context of Indy you're good to go, otherwise it's safe to pass. |
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Did I just fall down a sarchasm? |
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Indy 4 was very clearly written by the new George Lucas. "IT consultant of perfect lovemaking art."
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Indy 4 is garbage. BUYBUYBUY
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#127 by BobJustBob Indy 4 is garbage. Your post fails the Codex of Jamie. Prepare to die. |
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Indy 4 was ok. Game Developers: Don't forget the zombie monkeys.
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#123 by Milan Brezovský I remembered I've missed the last Indy Jones movie. Was it worth watching, or is it Episode 1 all over again? Also, please remind me - which Indy movie is the best? Indy 4 is shit. If you must watch it, turn it off around the 75 minute mark. Raiders of the Lost Ark is best. |
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Indy 4 is fine. People are just haters. That said, it's 3 of 4, behind Raiders and Last Crusade. |
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Yeah, it's not that bad. It ticks most of the right boxes and has some genuine 'Indy' moments. That said, the final act does go a little too far and there are some slightly embarassing moments (Shia LaBeouf's Tarzan moment being the most objectionable). And all of the CGI does make you hearken back to a time when scenes would have been grounded in reality by virtue of the fact that someone would have to be physically able to do all of the stunts. |
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Oh, and I actually liked what Karen Allen brought to the film - there was still some chemistry between her and Ford and it was refreshing to have the female lead played by someone who is around the same age as the male hero. |
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I thought 4 was just fine. Although Patton Oswalt made a great observation about the series. He said the first one ended with the ominous warehouse full of crates that wrapped up a great adventure- the second one ended with a happy village, people laughing, the hero kissing the girls, the whole nine yards, a good ending- the third one ended with Indiana Jones and JAMES BOND riding off into the sunset on horses, off to chase more adventure.... How did the fourth one end? With a line of old people walking out of a church. 52 Weeks and Something's On Movie Blog
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The first half of four was very Indy. The second half was very Lucas. You know what I mean. "some of those words want to be other words." - LP
"the concept that a happy worker is a productive worker is hardly an entry from Matt's Big Book Of Things The Fairies Said." - Dum |
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jjohnsen (#130): If you must watch it, turn it off around the 75 minute mark. What's special about the 75 minute mark? It starts out stupid and never stops. The end may be the stupidest part, but it's a constant descent into more and more stupid rather than a sudden turn. "I hope you one day decide to smarten the fuck up so I can stand to look at your posts." - gaggle
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Shadarr (#136): jjohnsen (#130): If you must watch it, turn it off around the 75 minute mark. What's special about the 75 minute mark? It starts out stupid and never stops. The end may be the stupidest part, but it's a constant descent into more and more stupid rather than a sudden turn. Jaded much? I'm not saying it's gold or anything, but to say the fourth one is complete poop ignores the other movies which had similar fillings at points... "some of those words want to be other words." - LP
"the concept that a happy worker is a productive worker is hardly an entry from Matt's Big Book Of Things The Fairies Said." - Dum |
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It starts out with him surviving a nuclear bomb by getting inside a fridge. The kind of fridge that kids used to get trapped inside and suffocate. And then after he's been blown through the air by a nuclear bomb he somehow just opens that fridge up from the inside and pops out, no worse for wear. Nothing in the first three movies was that stupid. Since when is having standards a bad thing? It means that when I tell you something is good, you can trust that it's actually good because I don't tell you shitty movies like Indy 4 were good. And before you go all "You're just jaded, you don't like anything", fuck you. Batman Begins was good. The XMen movies were good. Indy 4 was worse than Terminator 3. "I hope you one day decide to smarten the fuck up so I can stand to look at your posts." - gaggle
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X-Men 3 was poor. "the bullets aren't having any impact on him. Maybe I have to wait until he's finished talking." - Jibble
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It wasn't as good as the first two, but it wasn't the complete nose-dive I was expecting, as happened to the Batman series when Burton left. "I hope you one day decide to smarten the fuck up so I can stand to look at your posts." - gaggle
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I've just seen Poltergeist. The first one. It was surprisingly good. It had some weirdly odd cuts in certain places that tore up the pacing, and the special effects were of course laughable at times, but it was pretty damned decent! Then, as I walked home, lighting suddenly flashed out of nowhere. I, of course, started counting. It's gotten closer. PRETTY FUCKING SCARY HUH?? At least give me it's a bit of a coincidence. And finally, the leading lady of that movie is pretty as heck. |
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Indy 4 was shit. "Bioshock, sadly, is no Painkiller." - BobJustBob
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Thank you kindly, PC hive mind, I've think I have enough information. "assemblerer is like the dorkier male version of ryslin. His posts make my head hurt." -- Mister Nutty
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Too late now, comrade Brezovskiy. You have awoken the mind, and it will FACT YOU TO DEATH. "the bullets aren't having any impact on him. Maybe I have to wait until he's finished talking." - Jibble
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#136 by Shadarr jjohnsen (#130): If you must watch it, turn it off around the 75 minute mark. What's special about the 75 minute mark? It starts out stupid and never stops. The end may be the stupidest part, but it's a constant descent into more and more stupid rather than a sudden turn. There's nothing great about 75 minutes, except the last 30-45 minutes is when it goes from bad to horrible. |
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I'm sure George Lucas will be happy to hear that I will not infringe on his copyrights by not pirating his movie. He'll have his not money and I will have my ~90 minutes of not watching not-so-good-or-maybe-outright-terrible movie! "assemblerer is like the dorkier male version of ryslin. His posts make my head hurt." -- Mister Nutty
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Making stuff so bad it's not even worth stealing: the new anti-piracy technology from George Lucas™. "I hope you one day decide to smarten the fuck up so I can stand to look at your posts." - gaggle
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Indy 4 hate? What a surprise! |
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We are pretty consistent about hating on things that suck. "I hope you one day decide to smarten the fuck up so I can stand to look at your posts." - gaggle
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I didn't hate it, as I've already mentioned. It's worth a watch because it's entertaining. It isn't Citizen Kane, nor is it meant to be. |
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Incidentally, now that I've rolled out the Citizen Kane trope, all other argument is null and void. It's a bit like Godwin's Law in that respect. |
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You can't deliberately invoke Godwin's. "the bullets aren't having any impact on him. Maybe I have to wait until he's finished talking." - Jibble
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Hitler would've said something like that. "THE FUCKING KITTY LITTER FUCKING BOMB GHRHGURHGUHGRUGHRUGHURHGURHGHHGHUAHUHU KITTY" -- greg
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it's horseshit. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" - "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
"LP, your big balls are a religion." - Jibble |
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#148 by Trunks Indy 4 hate? What a surprise! Can you blame us? |
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Indy was complete crap. I turned it off after about 20 minutes and I have a high tolerance for bad movies. I was embarrassed watching Indy 4 like I was caught wanking or something. |
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Citizen Kane was garbage. |
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Your mom was garbage. "THE FUCKING KITTY LITTER FUCKING BOMB GHRHGURHGUHGRUGHRUGHURHGURHGHHGHUAHUHU KITTY" -- greg
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It's true, I gave Jamie's mom 2/10. |
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C'mon, no "I turned her off at the 75 minute mark" quips? |
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Indy 4 was fine, Citizen Kane was awesome, Jamie's mom rocks, and I'm going to be with a headache. 52 Weeks and Something's On Movie Blog
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Jamie (#160): C'mon, no "I turned her off at the 75 minute mark" quips? We have top men working on urmom. Who? Top men. |
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The best part about Indy 4 was that I only paid 9 RM to see it. That's less than 2 euros. "IT consultant of perfect lovemaking art."
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ReichsMark? If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate!
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Ringgit Malaysia "IT consultant of perfect lovemaking art."
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Shadarr (#138): And before you go all "You're just jaded, you don't like anything", fuck you. Batman Begins was good. The XMen movies were good. Indy 4 was worse than Terminator 3. See, now you're just talking crazy talk. The first two X-Men moves are all right, the second one being the best. The third one was just junk. The story was horrible, the setup was horrible, the dialog was even pretty bad at points. Brett Ratner. nuff said. So yeah, the fridge part was dumb, sure...Even more so than anything previous to that in the Indy movies, agreed completely. But aside from that, and before the last 30-40m, it was very Indy. If the previous Indy movies didn't exist, this one would have been absolutely horrible. But to say Terminator 3 was better...ugh. And people think I have bad taste in movies.... "some of those words want to be other words." - LP
"the concept that a happy worker is a productive worker is hardly an entry from Matt's Big Book Of Things The Fairies Said." - Dum |
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There's been a lot of ramblings around that Wolverine won't even reach X3 levels of quality. Yikes. |
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Trunks (#167): There's been a lot of ramblings around that Wolverine won't even reach X3 levels of quality. Yikes. I'd bet money it won't. It's basically the fourth movie in not stellar series to begin with... "some of those words want to be other words." - LP
"the concept that a happy worker is a productive worker is hardly an entry from Matt's Big Book Of Things The Fairies Said." - Dum |
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It's the "let's put Wolverine in EVERYTHING, AND give him his own book!" phenomenon in movie form. |
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Swine flu google map. Not sure where the data comes from. Really interesting to see the clusters. |
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How long until Fox greenlights the Swine Flu made for TV movie? |
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I know it sounds horrible but I find the ability to follow a potential pandemic in real-time in our day and age gruesomely fascinating. Viruses and their spread has always fascinated me to begin with -- the detective work required to trace them back to index cases, their mutation and remixing in order to jump species, and the incredible speed with which they can spread in our day and age. A real-time Google map of the spread really is amazing and it's kind of interesting to trace each pocket and see how the clusters move. I would love to see a thermal-like temporal map of the spread. |
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