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CruelBuffalo
07/19/19 11:39:53 PM
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And ive seen Red Sparrow, Tomb Raider, Fantastic Beasts 2, and Aladdin
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PiOverlord
07/19/19 11:40:49 PM
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That's how I felt about Detective Pikachu.
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CruelBuffalo
07/19/19 11:41:04 PM
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PiOverlord posted...
That's how I felt about Detective Pikachu.

I also saw Detective Pikachu
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Infinite 2003
07/19/19 11:41:07 PM
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Youre just racist against lions
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boxington
07/19/19 11:42:02 PM
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please rank every movie you've seen in theaters within the past few years, and make sure to give a brief description explaining their placement
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CruelBuffalo
07/19/19 11:42:36 PM
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boxington posted...
please rank every movie you've seen in theaters within the past few years, and make sure to give a brief description explaining their placement

Give me 10 mins to drive home
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Hanky_Bannister
07/19/19 11:42:46 PM
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Good

CGI sucks
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Damn_Underscore
07/19/19 11:48:08 PM
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What were you expecting TC?
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CruelBuffalo
07/20/19 12:09:14 AM
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I am way too lazy to do a synposis on all of them so I hope you accept a Tier List from memory of the last movies I've seen in theaters (not counting ones I saw at home)

Tier S
Avengers: Endgame
La La Land

Tier A
Moonlight
A Star Is Born
Avengers Infinity War
Guardians 2
Spiderman Homecoming
Black Panther
US
Toy Story 4

Tier B
Crazy Rich Asians
Antman and the Wasp
A Simple Favor
Searching
Spiderman Far From Home
Red Sparrow
Star Wars: The Force Awakenes
Pokemon Detective Pikachu
Halloween
Creed 2

Tier C
Mission Impossible: Fallout
Captain Marvel
Aladdin
Tomb Raider
Fantastic Beasts 2

Tier D
Lion King
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boxington
07/20/19 12:13:04 AM
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I was messing with you, lol.

but thanks.

I feel like Mission Impossible: Fallout is a bit too low, though.
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SoundNetwork
07/20/19 12:14:51 AM
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Racist against Africans
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Solid Snake07
07/20/19 12:18:44 AM
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What's wrong with it?
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CruelBuffalo
07/20/19 12:20:31 AM
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Solid Snake07 posted...
What's wrong with it?


Lifeless and uninspired. They didn't do anything new creatively and being non-cartoon ruins a lot of puns and emotions in the characters. It just feels like someone took a video of an animal planet show and then did some cheap Air Bud animation with the mouths.

Glover was meh, Beyonce sounded like Beyonce talking, rest of the characters were fine.

Timon & Pumba were good
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sabin017
07/20/19 12:24:03 AM
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CruelBuffalo
07/20/19 12:25:48 AM
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sabin017 posted...
Passionate review about the film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7qjnJ6gJjw" data-time="


35 minutes?! Good lord that's like half the movie
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Geiki Ganger
07/20/19 12:33:58 AM
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oh man
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8-bit_Biceps
07/20/19 8:23:23 AM
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Woah woah woah. Detective Pikachu was literally a guy walking around saying nothing at all for like 10 minutes after he tries to catch the Cubone at the beginning. There was nothing that happened. And then it's blatantly obvious that the main drive of the movie is to show off pokemon rather than to have a good story. I CANNOT take your rankings seriously if you put that movie in Tier B.

As far as I'm concerned, Lion King is second to Jungle Book of all the Disney remakes. Aladdin was mediocre. Lion King was pretty good.
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PiOverlord
07/20/19 10:03:11 AM
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I hated the story and the direction they took to move the story along in detective Pikachu. The lead actress played one of my least favorite characters in a while and honestly the acting was subpar. Also, the comedy was a miss. Finally, the final fight was pretty disappointing for a Pokemon movie.
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Jeff AKA Snoopy
07/20/19 10:05:20 AM
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I've heard it's just a lesser version of Lion King. That still makes it better than a lot of other films.
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CruelBuffalo
07/20/19 10:18:29 AM
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FYI I did fall asleep during pikachu but for 5 mins. I remember enjoying the movie and surprised there was an actual plot
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pres_madagascar
07/20/19 10:31:07 AM
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sabin017 posted...
Passionate review about the film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7qjnJ6gJjw" data-time="

Lmao at giving that shit lord and his God awful company any attention or ad revenue.
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HBOSS
07/20/19 10:35:04 AM
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yikes.

so lion king flops?
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PiOverlord
07/20/19 1:04:16 PM
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CruelBuffalo posted...
FYI I did fall asleep during pikachu but for 5 mins. I remember enjoying the movie and surprised there was an actual plot

Plot is fine, it's how they drove the plot. Felt lazy, and I am sad these guys will get the chance to do more movies. It felt like a bad made-for-tv Nick movie.
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CruelBuffalo
07/20/19 1:37:46 PM
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PiOverlord posted...
CruelBuffalo posted...
FYI I did fall asleep during pikachu but for 5 mins. I remember enjoying the movie and surprised there was an actual plot

Plot is fine, it's how they drove the plot. Felt lazy, and I am sad these guys will get the chance to do more movies. It felt like a bad made-for-tv Nick movie.


I would put it in the B- tier. Lion King still worse
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Tupacrulez
07/20/19 2:18:22 PM
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Lion king in a single word:
Sterilized.

The entire movie other than Scar was read off at a monotonous level. You could tell the VAs were just reading off a script. Where in older animated movies you'd feel the VA revel in their character, and often times the character was full stop animated around the VA, even taking some of their physical expressions, with the new realistic style, it's all very muted.

The movie was excessively self aware, breaking the 4th wall a time or two and making millenial jokes. It was clear who the movie was aimed at.

Timon and Pumbaa were horrific. Neither VA did a decent job, but the lack of emotion in the animation hurt these two the most. They're supposed to be a couple of outrageous bachelor's who do ridiculous immature stuff. That didn't come across here.

Rafiki was the worst character after being a highlight of the original.

Certain things were done well. "Be Prepared" was pretty good, and I liked the "word of mouth" style. Nala's escape was well done. The death of Mufasa wasn't as bad as I expected. The movie in the lead up to Mufasas death was pretty well done. It was after that when things dropped off heavily.

The worst thing about it though, was that all the best humour was cut. "THEY CALL ME MR PIG!" was cut for a speech about a pig being offended at being called chubby. Dress in drag was cut for a shitty Beauty and the Beast joke. The entire scene between Rafiki and Simba about his father being alive was chopped to bits as was the following scene, in favour of a shitty montage to a bad Beyonce song.

It all felt sterilized, and very much like the entire thing was approved by a PR board.
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CruelBuffalo
07/20/19 2:26:48 PM
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I felt this did at least a better job of showing the circle of life and how are all connected. And made the plot make a little more sense.

I honestly thought Timon and Pumba were the only decent voice acted characters. I mean their dialogue was OK but I thought they did it well.

Did you expect the animal to dress in drag in this remake?
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Tupacrulez
07/20/19 2:37:51 PM
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CruelBuffalo posted...
I felt this did at least a better job of showing the circle of life and how are all connected. And made the plot make a little more sense.

I honestly thought Timon and Pumba were the only decent voice acted characters. I mean their dialogue was OK but I thought they did it well.

Did you expect the animal to dress in drag in this remake?


I agree with the plot being better fleshed out, and that Scar was shown to be a worse king for better reasons than "brother lion bad". Scar and his interactions with most of the cast were the highlights post-mufasa death.

I expected them to take that funny moment and run it through the PR ringer.
And they did.
What could have been "What do you want us to do? A singalong and a Hula dance?!" Was instead a 4th wall break joke. It wasn't bad. Just felt weird. There to make 25 year old women go "OMG A BEAUTY AND THE BEAST JOKE OMG OMG!"

The issue with the big fight regarding Pumbaa was "I ALWAYS STAND UP TO BULLIES!!"
Just bad. Aladdin had the same thing with Jasmine's shoehorned song. Blatant pandering that made everyone in the theatre roll their eyes.

I want to add that I wasn't overly excited for this. My fiance used our scene points for free tix and we went. I wasn't let down because it was different. I was let down because the changes made weren't that great.
Some were well done. "Just Can't Wait to be King" was really well done, and I wasn't expecting a tower of giraffes and hippos either.
But then Hakuna Matata was just 3 animals walking through a generic jungle. Oh, and another "lol self awareness" joke.
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littlebro07
07/20/19 2:46:16 PM
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It's kind of funny that the hype leading up to Aladdin made everyone think it would suck and it ended up being pretty good, but the hype leading up to Lion King made people think it'd be good because it's the fucking Lion King and there's no way Disney would fuck that one up and it ends up being mediocre
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