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Nina - Low Fodder (who?)
Max Payne - Low Fodder
Mr. Incredible - High Fodder
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Nominate:

Elwood Blues (The Blues Brothers)
Eddie Valentine (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
Roger Rabbit (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
Judge Doom (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
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Nominate:

Asterix (Asterix)
Arkantos (Age of Mythology)
Sniper Wolf (Metal Gear Solid)
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Nominate: Barry B. Benson (Bee Movie)
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Nominate:

Hans Gruber (Die Hard)
Douglas Quaid (Total Recall)
Amanda Ripley (Alien: Isolation)
Dick Tracy (Dick Tracy)
Sonic Man (Sonic '06)
Unagi (Super Mario 64)
Mad Piano (Super Mario 64)
Osmund Saddler (Resident Evil 4)
Kraid (Metroid)
Phantoon (Metroid)
Crocomire (Super Metroid)
Helmasaur King (The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past)
Helmaroc King (The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker)
Zant (The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess)
Ghirahim (The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword)
Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
Professor Charles Xavier (Marvel)
Daredevil (Marvel)
Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle)
Mace Windu (Star Wars)
Lucius Best/Frozone (The Incredibles)
Nick Fury (Marvel)
Commissioner James Gordon (DC Comics)
J. Jonah Jameson (Marvel)
Severus Snape (Harry Potter)
Sirius Black (Harry Potter)
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Okay, I messed up and thought Carmine Falcone IS Scarecrow, when it's actually Jonathan Crane. Whoops.

I had some more nominees in mind but I forgot.
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Just a vote for Scarecrow.

Also nominate: The Mask (The Mask)
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Nominate:

Auric Goldfinger (Goldfinger)
Max Zorin (A View to a Kill)
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Nominate:

Sallah (Indiana Jones)
Rick Deckard (Blade Runner)
Dr. Alan Grant (Jurassic Park)
Claire Dearing (Jurassic World)
Velociraptor (Jurassic Park)
Indominus Rex (Jurassic World)
Indoraptor (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom)
GUN Truck (Sonic Adventure 2)
E-123 Omega (Sonic)
E-102 Gamma (Sonic Adventure)
Black Doom (Shadow the Hedgehog)
Mephiles (Sonic '06)
Willy Wonka (Charlie & the Chocolate Factory)
Francisco Scaramanga (The Man with the Golden Gun)
Saruman (LOTR)
Count Dooku (Star Wars)
Max Schreck (DC Comics)
Lex Luthor (DC Comics)
Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin (DC Comics)
Edward Nygma/The Riddler (DC Comics)
Harvey Dent/Two-Face (DC Comics)
Carmine Falcone/Scarecrow (DC Comics)
Ra's Al Ghul (DC Comics)
Doomsday (DC Comics)
Harley Quinn (DC Comics)
Deadshot (DC Comics)
Mr. Blonde (Reservoir Dogs)
Kevin McCallister (Home Alone)
Ernst Stavro Blofeld (James Bond)
Alec Trevelyan (Goldeneye)
Boromir (LOTR)
Frodo Baggins (LOTR)
Samwise Gamgee (LOTR)
John Connor (Terminator)
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Nominate:

Gimli (LOTR)
Bruce Banner/The Hulk (Marvel)
Betty Ross (Marvel)
Thaddeus Ross (Marvel)
Jack Bauer (24)
Lotso Huggin' Bear (Toy Story 3)
Sid Phillips (Toy Story)
Stinky Pete (Toy Story 2)
Xenia Onatopp (Goldeneye)
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Minecraft was officially released to the public in 2011. Its two years in open beta clearly do not count.
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HAL was in LEGO dimensions.
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Nominate:

HAL 9000 (2001: A Space Odyssey)
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I don't even remember my own nominations lol, I'm getting lazy.
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Saw The Front Runner. It's pretty good, especially JK Simmons.
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Nominate:

Jareth (Labyrinth)
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Honestly I try to check the rankings ahead of time to see who we have already done, but I just slipped up this time, even though I checked it specifically to make sure we didn't do Jean yet!

Nominate: Elise (Sonic '06)
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Nominate:

Sparkster (Rocket Knight Adventures)
Ristar (Ristar)
Gex (Gex)
Taj (Diddy Kong Racing)
Jean Grey/Phoenix (Marvel)
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Nominate:

Darkman (Darkman)
The Rocketeer (The Rocketeer)
The Shadow (The Shadow)
Judge Dredd (2000 AD)
The Crow (The Crow)
The Phantom (The Phantom)
Martin Riggs (Lethal Weapon)
Anthony Higgs (Metroid: Other M)
Nebula (Marvel)
Pepper Potts (Marvel)
Wilhuff Tarkin (Star Wars)
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Dart would probably be around Vyse's level at best, and Vyse looked pretty darn bad in his last contest appearance.

Nominate:

Mr. Freeze (DC Comics)
Elise (Sonic '06)
Johnny Storm/Human Torch (Marvel)
Susan Storm/Invisible Woman (Marvel)
Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic (Marvel)
Ben Grimm/The Thing (Marvel)
James T. Kirk (Star Trek)
Spock (Star Trek)
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Nominate:

Conan the Barbarian (Robert E. Howard)
Major Alan "Dutch" Schaeffer (Predator)
Jack Slater (Last Action Hero)
Harry Tasker (True Lies)
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Nominate:

Max Payne (Max Payne)
Sam Fisher (Splinter Cell)
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Nominate:

The Mariner (Waterworld)
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Nominate:

Black Panther (Marvel)
Poison Ivy (DC Comics)
Bane (DC Comics)
Tron (Tron)
Gilgamesh (Final Fantasy)
Gizmo (Gremlins)
The Cat in the Hat (Dr. Seuss)
Gwen Stacy (Marvel)
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BetrayedTangy posted...

No, it was overall a really mediocre movie, but majority of the cool things were spoiled in the trailer. So it wasn't a fun watch.

That said it showed some potential, and I'm hoping we some movies based on the actual games now

I get what you mean but Detective Pikachu was a game first.
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Saw Heat for the first time recently and liked it a lot.
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Wouldn't necessarily say it was a good movie but I enjoyed watching it, if only to see the Pokmon world brought to life. On a scale of 1-10 I give it a 6.
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To be fair Halloween did have an acclaimed new movie last year. Still a good point though.

Nominate:

John Rambo
Rocky Balboa
John Wick
Michael Corleone (The Godfather)
Carol Danvers\Captain Marvel (Marvel)
Slimer (Ghostbusters)
Loki (Marvel)
Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible (The Incredibles)
Chris Taylor (Platoon)
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Mid-Fodder for Myers and Ripley, High Fodder for T-800?
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Nominate:

Max Rockatansky (Mad Max)
Harry Callahan (Dirty Harry)
Tyler Durden (Fight Club)
John McClane (Die Hard)
Axel Foley (Beverly Hills Cop)
Ellen Ripley (Alien)
Sarah Connor (Terminator)
T-800 (Terminator)
T-1000 (Terminator)
The Thing (The Thing)
Michael Myers (Halloween)
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Saw three movies last weekend: Ad Astra, which I'd say is the best movie I've seen so far this year, Bohemian Rhapsody, which was probably a step above average, and the first Iron Man which was impressive in a lot of ways.
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Nominate:

Gordon Gekko (Wall Street)
Noah Cross (Chinatown)
Torgo (Manos: The Hands of Fate)
Trumpy (Pod People)
Demogorgon (Stranger Things)
Frank Underwood (House of Cards)
Adam Malkovich (Metroid)
Terl (Battlefield Earth)
Jar-Jar Binks (Star Wars)
Kylo Ren (Star Wars)
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I saw Once Upon A Time in Hollywood last week. Overall I liked it but it was a clear triumph of characters and setting over plot. Not one of Tarantino's best.
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Why do people deem it a re-hash of the original trilogy, and then proceed to ferociously attack every last thing it does differently? Heck, how did we go from complaining about Indiana Jones acting too much like his younger self in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull without his aging really being explored, to complaining about Han and Luke acting too differently from their younger selves?

Heck, why do people criticize the sequel trilogy for re-hashing the original trilogy, then turn around and insist that Han, Luke, and Leia should have been the main characters of the sequel trilogy?
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Zelda had only Melee pics in 2003.
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Just realized that Sephiroth had to go through Captain Falcon and Ryu last contest, just like Cloud did in 2010. Interesting coincidence.

Doesn't direct extrapolation from 2010 have Ryu getting about the same % on Sephiroth that he got last contest? What happened to Ryu?
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Team Rocket Elite posted...

We lost Chrono Trigger either giving OoT the fight of its life or even winning straight up. No gimmicks or handicaps involved.

Oh yeah, that was definitely a possibility, I forgot. Instead we had a foregone-by-that-point Undertale stomp. Point still stands otherwise?
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In any case 2013 and 2015 were still probably more exciting contests on the whole than 2018. But I'm not going to pull an Ulti and insists that anyone who begs to differ is wrong. I just don't like the idea of telling people not to come vote on our site because they might interfere with the contest in ways we don't want.

And what did we really lose in '13 and '15 from rallies? We didn't get to see Chrono Trigger vs. Final Fantasy VII, any "fair" clash between the Mario games and RBY, and a clash between the winner of those? That would have been nice, sure, but what was what we really got that much worse? It can be inferred anyway that CT beats FFVII now (with Cloud still being stronger than Crono due to having a personality and being in Smash), and that RBY would handle the Mario games no problem. All right, so we were deprived of seeing CT/FFVII vs. RBY in the semifinals in favor of a Melee-Undertale rally-fest. Okay.

On a side note, I kept viewing Snake as underwhelming last contest until I realized that he only really looked bad against Zelda and Samus, and that IIRC Snake got a comparable percentage on Samus to what Crono got against Cloud. If Samus/Cloud is still a debatable matchup, Snake is somehow still an upper tier Noble Niner, but by this point the Noble Nine are guaranteed to no longer be the 9 strongest characters even in a "fair" setting. We probably just expected more out of Snake due to how well he did against Link in the 2013 bonus match.

I'm rather surprised by how strong Samus is in that case, being an easy top 4 character and potential top 3, but it makes sense. She just covers every base among the site's voters.
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I don't even have a problem with rallies. I just didn't like the way they affected the 2013 and 2015 contests. In theory nothing really wrong with bringing in more votes.
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Jason Momoa is DC.
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So I finished the movie. I remembered it being hilariously bad (saw it last almost exactly five years ago), and I felt similarly about Bad Boys when I watched it for the first time last year. I still stand by enjoying Michael Bay's films ironically because of how much they do wrong, but now this movie just comes across to me as being somewhere between average and awful, probably slightly closer to the former. It's not nearly as much of a trainwreck as Wild Wild West, and nowhere near as depressing - in fact, I actually laughed at some of the jokes in Armageddon! - but it's still really bad.

The biggest problem with this movie is that the script feels like it suffers from ADHD just as badly as the editing, if not even worse. There's too much going on in any given 10-minute timeframe, which is about what you'd expect from a simple premise stretched into a 2.5-hour plot. Roger Ebert was probably right on the money that any four minutes of the film could make a trailer from that perspective. The story feels like it just HAS to do everything it can and take its goddamned time doing it, with the rapid edits, noisiness, and melodrama trying to mask this by making the viewer think it's more fast-paced and eventful than it really is. Complain all you want about the leave-the-camera-running scenes in films like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Alien, but at least those movies were more honest and upfront about being a slow burn. It gets even worse in the last half of the film, when the team lands on the asteroid and then things constantly go wrong just to pad out the film's running time. At least the infamous space chase in The Last Jedi had some kind of narrative arc to it: here the script just throws clichs into the plot for the sake of it.

In the past year or so I saw three movies I felt suffered from a script going through the motions to varying degrees - Willow, Con Air, and Captain Marvel. Of those movies Willow was the biggest offender since it felt like it constantly dragged, but Armageddon is probably even worse for the reasons I outlined above. It reminded me of how Con Air would throw in some similar plot points to Die Hard and then not inject any meaning to them: that was this whole movie.

Thankfully, it wasn't all bad. This movie actually probably deserves all of its Oscar nominations. "I Don't Want to Miss A Thing" was the perfect note to start the credits with, and the visual effects actually hold up much better than you'd think - almost certainly because priority was placed on practical effects! I also really liked the casting, with particular praise going to Billy Bob Thornton and Liv Tyler for being able to commit to this crazy movie. I also enjoyed some of the other actors' snarks, with Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare being the big winners here. I was also surprised to see Keith David here, since now I recognize him from The Thing and Platoon. Bruce Willis was kind of on autopilot though, and I have two more points for the casting:

-Liv Tyler played what I felt was the most "human" character in the film, and she had good chemistry with Ben Affleck, but the romance should have either been expanded on or left out entirely.

-The presence of Buscemi and Stormare brought back fond memories of Fargo, but as Patrick Willems pointed out, there's some odd overlap between the production posses of Bay and the Coens. For example, The Rock re-united Nicolas Cage with his Raising Arizona co-star William Forsythe, and also The Big Lebowski's Steve Buscemi, John Turturro, and John Goodman all in Transformers 5. Interesting.
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Fun fact about Die Hard 3: since I live in Ireland, I got to see the Cinergi logo at the beginning of the film after the Fox one, indicating that DISNEY distributed this movie internationally. And now Disney owns the whole franchise. What a coincidence.

I'm halfway through Armageddon (the team has landed on the asteroid), and I'll come back with more after I finish the film. I'm basically watching the film out of boredom, and it's keeping me occupied but honestly, it's pretty dull.
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Got stuck on one boss in Disc 2 and then never felt like finishing the game.
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Great game, but I wouldn't call it one of the best of all time. I like what I've played of FFVII more than FFVI.
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In fairness Star Fox 64 has been in a contest before.

Twilight Princess, I used to like it a lot, but the game just feels forgettable compared to Ocarina and Wind Waker, and even Majora's Mask to a lesser extent if only because of that game's unique mechanics and general weirdness. Lots of people love it though, so good for them.
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Johnbobb posted...

LinkMarioSamus posted...

Hardcore_Adult posted...

^ It's better than that shitshow 4.0!

I liked 4 actually. If they hadn't cut it back a little to make it PG-13, it might've been on par with 3

1>3>>4>>>2

never bothered seeing 5

The really dumb thing is that both Siskel & Ebert felt Die Hard 2 was the best of the first three, when it's typically considered to be the weakest of them due to being too similar to the first one. Gene even named Die Hard 2 one of the 10 best films of 1990 (one spot ahead Dances with Wolves no less!), and then was very disappointed in the third film. For reasons that I do understand.

Also Die Hard 2 has some glaring plot holes, and yet I've never seen someone criticize Die Hard 2 on that basis. I think people are just willing to pass off the planes not heading over to Andrews Air Force Base or something as action movie logic.

Come to think of it, even the best action films of the era had some glaring logic errors. For example, a lot of time travel shenanigans in Terminator 2 make no sense when you think about them, and yet thankfully the people who pick up on this are typically huge fans of the film. That kind of makes me interested to see how James Cameron might justify some of those "problems" in the new Terminator film.
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Team Rocket Elite posted...

Sonic and Snake are fine. Zelda seemed to embarrass them at first:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7362-finals-bracket-round-1-snake-vs-zelda
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7372-finals-bracket-2-zelda-vs-sonic

But that was all Zelda:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7379-finals-bracket-semifinal-zelda-vs-mario
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7386-loser-bracket-final-zelda-vs-cloud

Okay, yes, Zelda was a beast. True. But other Metal Gear characters underwhelmed, and there is no way Snake is on par with Mario in strength. Especially after Snake got royally killed by Samus!
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Hardcore_Adult posted...

^ It's better than that shitshow 4.0!

Never seen that one. Was mostly interested in seeing the third one again because of the director. Been considering seeing Predator and The Hunt for Red October again for the same reason.
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Bit off-topic, but how do Samus and Mega Man retain their strength when their franchises are seemingly being ignored, while Snake and Sonic collapse from their franchises being over and/or receiving too many bad games?

Posted this in the other topic by accident.
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Saw Die Hard with A Vengeance yesterday, for the second time (first time was back in January 2015). Not nearly as memorable as the original but still enjoyable on its own merits. Samuel L. Jackson and director John McTiernan are probably the MVPs of the movie, and Jeremy Irons makes a fun villain. The script feels like little more than a way to drive the heroes from setpiece to setpiece, perhaps not surprisingly for a writer whose future credits include Jumanji and Armageddon, so I can see how this film didn't get such great reviews on release. On a scale of 1-10 I give this movie a 7, but very close to an 8, so around the same rating I'd give to Avengers: Endgame.
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