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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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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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for this to be useful, we need to overlay the official list of zombie sightings. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" - "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
"LP, your big balls are a religion." - Jibble |
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Matt Perkins (#166): 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. I included the third one because it is what people are saying Indy 4 was--a fun action movie. It wasn't on par with the first two, but it also wasn't ridiculously stupid the way Indy was. It didn't have Harrison Ford, an 80 year old man, falling on rocks and getting punched in the face and just sort of shrugging it off like nothing. He would've broken his hip walking across uneven ground. "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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#173 by LPMiller for this to be useful, we need to overlay the official list of zombie sightings. I had the same idea and did some Googling for a Google Maps Zombie Attack mashup. Instead I found a Google map that tracked apparently true stories that are "suspicious" in as much as they suggest zombie sightings. Stuff like a mother beheading her children, people getting shot in the head, etc. Kind of unpleasant. |
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That could be a fun modern-day War of the Worlds-like performance project: use modern communication channels and technology to "perform" a tale of a zombie infestation. Google maps of the spread, a CDC-like web site detailing the most current news, etc. |
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And you could set up a bunch of blogs from people blogging about it. That could be pretty neat. It's similar to a project chris and I had started a while back that had nothing to do with zombies but was an attempt at a new kind of interactive fiction project. It was fun and I still think the idea hasn't been explored like it could be. |
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In fact, what could make it even more fun is the social nature of the net allowing people to just jump on the creative bandwagon and participate virally. Start their own blogs and keep the fiction going. Make Facebook updates about it. |
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At first I was thinking that it would inevitably lead to trolling matches to determine who could fuck it up the most, but that would actually add another element of entertainment to it as people misreporting the severity (or lack thereof) of a news situation is pretty common. |
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I can smell another PCwrite brewing. "assemblerer is like the dorkier male version of ryslin. His posts make my head hurt." -- Mister Nutty
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So, I guess California is technically under a state of emergency, though it is quite a beautiful day out, here in San Diego. 2 possible swine flu deaths in LA. If you think the hype and panic is bad now, wait until a couple of dozen healthy adult white folks in the US die from this thing. |
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Better stock up on oinkment. "the bullets aren't having any impact on him. Maybe I have to wait until he's finished talking." - Jibble
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Oh, you fucker. "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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#178 by Caryn In fact, what could make it even more fun is the social nature of the net allowing people to just jump on the creative bandwagon and participate virally. Start their own blogs and keep the fiction going. Make Facebook updates about it. I'm in. #181 by Mister Nutty So, I guess California is technically under a state of emergency, though it is quite a beautiful day out, here in San Diego. 2 possible swine flu deaths in LA. If you think the hype and panic is bad now, wait until a couple of dozen healthy adult white folks in the US die from this thing. Can I choose the white folks, because there' a long list of actors that shouldn't be getting work anymore. |
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Caryn And you could set up a bunch of blogs from people blogging about it. That could be pretty neat. It's similar to a project chris and I had started a while back that had nothing to do with zombies but was an attempt at a new kind of interactive fiction project. It was fun and I still think the idea hasn't been explored like it could be. Would have been a pretty cool viral campaign for L4D, really. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" - "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
"LP, your big balls are a religion." - Jibble |
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There's a section of World War Z that deals with pretty much this kind of thing. In Japan there was a scene where people would track the zombie breakouts online, chat about it, exchange information, and blog about it. They were obsessive about it and had tons of data, but you got through see (though the point of view of one of the characters) how the updates got fewer and fewer as the people who were so obsessed with tracking this stuff virtually got consumed (like, literally) by it in real life. The character in question eventually turned his computer off (or maybe the power failed) and realized that he was sitting at a computer in a high rise apartment teeming with zombies and it had all happened while he was obsessed with the outbreak in a very abstract sense. I thought it was one of the cooler touches in the book, seeing the online world destroyed in tandem with the offline one. |
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Caryn: check out my milwuake (I think that's what it's called). I'm posting from my phone right now or I'd give links. There's a thread on qt3 about it. Not quite zombies, and not on the scale you're describing, but it's one of the more complex ARGs out there. Or was, until they ran out of money. |
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Jamie (#186): virtually got consumed (like, literally) Which is it?! So confused! |
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That's the joke. You've found it! |
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