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Mark Henry used to be called "the silver back."

the cake being a lie

You still knockin' boots with Rouge?

She was better looking than the original. Belle was the least attractive young woman in the animated film. The three bimbo sisters and the sexy French maid were hotter.

Ah, yes, the "I got drunk and slept with a 16 year old" defense.

They just want the bad guys to win.

The hot one who has sex with her employees.

^ Staring at the Thanksgiving turkey and saying, "Mmm. That looks yummy."

On the negative side of things, this means Creed 3 will have Adonis battling a blond haired white guy Trump stand-in. On the plus side of things, this means we'll get Creed 3.

The guy who scored Batman is the composer for The Simpsons?

ledbowman posted...

Skye Reynolds posted...

Die Hard is literally a movie about a Christmas party.

But but it have blood and no magic elf. How can be christmas

The same can be said about It's a Wonderful Life.

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I could live with that.

The Trent posted...

i vote yes
but to come to any sense about this, we must first define what a Christmas movie is

I'm sure if an official definition of a Christmas movie were written out, it would be worded in such a manner to specifically exclude films like Die Hard.

"Christmas Movie: A film set at Christmastime, incorporating the holiday into the plot, not dwelling on excessive violence or ulterior forms of entertainment not central to Christmas as a theme." ~ Big Damn Movie Corporation

Die Hard is literally a movie about a Christmas party.

She wasn't illiterate. A dictionary was her entire education.

I didn't catch it this year, but I can't imagine the commentary was any better than last year's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGwmZq2XVdc

"Featured here in his Super Cyan blue form. You can experience his other forms, blazing speed / powers of light, in his new movie, Dragon Ball: Super Bro'ly."

Commentary begins at 27 seconds.

hockeybub89 posted...

Skye Reynolds posted...

On the plus side, no boobs in video games means not having to spend money on video games.

This is a lame gimmick bro

It's no worse than passing on a fighting game because it replaces drops of blood with beads of sweat. Or skipping the PG-13 sequel to an R-rated movie because it cuts out a few four letter words. It's part of the presentation. It's part of what makes the game and the fantasy world it creates what it is.

"We know Dr. Doom has one of the greatest character designs of all time... so here's our latest redesign to show you that every studio in Hollywood is equally embarrassed to put the real Dr. Doom on screen."

This would lead me to a "one dog lives, one dog dies" scenario. I lost a dog as a teen and we adopted the runt of a litter from a shelter almost immediately following. There's no guarantee he would've been adopted.

Also, I'd have to watch the events of September 11th again knowing there would be nothing I could do about it. An anonymous phone call from a random teen wouldn't prevent a terrorist act, but it might get me seriously interrogated after the fact. It's not a matter of letting people die. It's a case of being unable to stop it.

He does awful things. They sweep it under the rug more or less. The point is that the bad guys call him a terrorist and the film frames him in such a manner that we're supposed to want to see him win.

Webmaster4531 posted...

Skye Reynolds posted...

Umbreon posted...

You're an actual human being trying to suggest to another human being that a group of people as monstrous as the fucking drug cartels will be made sympathetic because of Trump.

You're insisting this isn't a parody?

Look at V for Vendetta. The good guy's a "terrorist" because the bad guys are an exaggerated fascist stand-in for the Bush administration.

However V was depicted in the graphic novel, the film treats him as wholly justified. And whether or not his actions make him a terrorist, it is the term used by the bad guys to describe him because it's how Bush labeled America's enemies at the time.

It's called V for Vendetta not H for Hero.

Something Alan Moore called the movie out on.

Umbreon posted...

You're an actual human being trying to suggest to another human being that a group of people as monstrous as the fucking drug cartels will be made sympathetic because of Trump.

You're insisting this isn't a parody?

Look at V for Vendetta. The good guy's a "terrorist" because the bad guys are an exaggerated fascist stand-in for the Bush administration.

However V was depicted in the graphic novel, the film treats him as wholly justified. And whether or not his actions make him a terrorist, it is the term used by the bad guys to describe him because it's how Bush labeled America's enemies at the time.

Umbreon posted...

Skye Reynolds posted...

Drug dealers are good guys now 'cause Trump doesn't like them.

You know no one who says anything like that is sincere....

I don't know. If the oompa loompa gets reelected, I can imagine there being a film in 2021 which has a cartel member who is "just trying to feed his family" while fending off the evils of capitalism, bigotry, and American hegemony. That, or go the V for Vendetta route and have the powers that be label all rebels against them as "cartels."

Hell, maybe the term cartel will appear in a future Star Wars movie.

Drug dealers are good guys now 'cause Trump doesn't like them.

Not really. Christmas factors into the plot and soundtrack of Die Hard. First Blood just had a mini Christmas tree on a police officer's desk.

It was shown at a local theater last year as part of their Christmas movie lineup. When the film was over, much of the audience joined in singing Let It Snow as it played during the end credits.

That sounds pretty Christmas-y to me.

Right, sorry. I haven't seen the movie since 2004.

The problem with Mulan is that she wasn't the one who had a reason to kill the villain. Ping lost his father. But never mind that shit, Mulan found a doll belonging to a little girl she never met and that PISSED. HER. OFF.

They should have have changed it so that Ping's dad was just some random officer he looked up to. But even then, they still should have given Mulan a better reason for fighting the bad guy. That's the real disconnect in the movie. The villain's not connected to the hero, but rather to her... mentor? sidekick? love interest? How exactly would you define Ping's role, anyway?

ledbowman posted...

3 is the fewest amount of legs a table can have

Somebody somewhere has designed a post modernist table with two legs and plenty of support at the base of those legs to keep the table from toppling over.

But with a few name changes, and a slight shift in focus, they could've been onto something spectacular. Let's let the Muslim guy be the hero in our medieval story for a change. The Robin Hood character (with a name change) could be the sidekick and the story would play just fine.

Sorry to bump a dead topic, but this movie has been on my mind.

It hits all of the necessary notes -- aside from having a skinny Friar Tuck who doesn't drink -- but there's just something that's missing. Robin and Marian are fairly shallow characters as far as any sort of character depth is concerned. The film's focus is on Jamie Foxx, but the filmmakers didn't want to go all "Adventures of the Sidekick" and have him be the one to defeat the bad guys while Robin Hood sat in the corner.

So, while the action sequences go to Robin Hood, Little John is the emotional center of the film. Robin Hood himself really only has agency in one scene and that's the one where he goes against Little John and attempts to rob the treasury. This creates a problem in that the one saving the day isn't the character we actually care about in the movie.

I think this movie would've been better if they had made Jamie Foxx the star and just made it an original property centering on a Muslim hero trying to stop the crusades rather than trying to tie the story into Robin Hood. It would have garnered more media attention and would've allowed greater freedom. It would have also been a much stronger film as the character whose story arc we cared about would've been the man who was front and center.

This is just one of those films that really makes me stop and think about the filmmaking process in general.

Clearly, Michael B. Jordan was what was wrong with Fant4stic.

Deal.

So, did Henry Cavill's Superman get hit with the race-swapping kryptonite? Is this a standalone movie like The Joker? Is DC pulling the plug and rebooting already? Is this an animated movie?

I'm not altogether against the idea, but I'm curious how this is going to be implemented. Or is this just a media buzz leak where he's actually gonna turn around and play a superhero who was already black or so far off the grid that changing his race won't matter?

On the plus side, no boobs in video games means not having to spend money on video games.

Dark_SilverX posted...

They're days off for everyone.

Maybe that's why there's a sudden influx of aggression toward the holiday. The individuals espousing the truth of Thanksgiving are the ones who got stuck working that day.

sylverlolol posted...

Eve Hewson is hot so why is her wearing revealing clothing a negative exactly?

I didn't say that it was a negative. Just that it was uncommon for a 2018 movie.

I very much appreciated Eve's attire in that movie. And the way that they worked her running to a fallen ally's aid into the film. I may or may not have hit the rewind button a few times.

1337toothbrush posted...

80s because April O'Neil.

This is a good answer.

At its heart, the Errol Flynn movie was a kids movie.

I'd say that, for a PG-13 movie, this one was probably about as lighthearted as it was gonna get. For the most part, it didn't really try to be gritty. There were moments -- such as prisoners being decapitated -- but Robin himself was an optimistic character who had a boyish smile more often than not. I think that's as close as we're going to get to the old Robin Hood unless someone wants to make another kids movie whether animated or live action.

There was no Prince John this time around. They replaced him with the Cardinal.

Oh, one more thing I missed...

At one point, Sir Guy threatens Marian with rape. You don't see that too often in modern films either. It really caught me off-guard when he said he was going to have fun with her later. Personally, that's one cliche I don't mind putting in the past.

I think Hollywood is still nervous about fantasy because of the 1980s. A lot of fantasy movies came out in that decade and not many of them were successful at the box office. Some of the films that flopped or under-performed included Legend, The Dark Crystal, Ladyhawke, Willow, Masters of the Universal, The Black Cauldron (animated), and Dragonslayer.

It's certainly been long enough that they could try and appeal to a new generation that isn't suffering from fantasy film burnout, but that relies on Hollywood taking risks and studios aren't often known to do so.

I liked that one a bit better as well. This one had more energy, but that film was of a higher quality overall. I'm really not sure where I'd rank this one among the Robin Hood films I've seen.

This one at least gets points for having Sir Guy. Despite being the primary adversary in the silent film and the Errol Flynn movie, he's been a relative rarity in Robin Hood movies since. The Russell Crowe movie replaced him with Sir Godfrey, Disney replaced him with Sir Hiss, and the Kevin Costner film treated him as comic foil.

No, I'm not complaining about Little John being black. The Robin Hood stories were always anachronistic and idealistic. Besides, Jamie Foxx gave the best performance. I'm talking about other things.

- The film can't decide whether it wants to be Batman Begins or Equilibrium.
- The good guys dress like Antifa. (And ninjas!)
- There are no swords and there is no Sherwood Forest.
- Marian wears a revealing outfit throughout the film and is made a damsel in distress at one point.
- Leonardo DiCaprio produced it.

On the whole, it was better than I thought it would be. I'm surprised they'd give it such a generic title as Robin Hood though. When a title is basic, it usually means it's going to be awesome or it's going to be shit. There's seldom an in-between and this was in-between.

All three of them have awful animation design. <_<

There's probably some white supremacist Poke fans who chose 88 as their number.