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Watched Lockout and Guy Pierce has and delivers the best one liners I've seen in a while.
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I wanted to see that flick for just that reason, but it looked so bad I figured everything else would make it not worth watching. Those trailers of him being interrogated were funny as hell.
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That interrogation, exactly the way the trailer runs, is the opening. I really liked Lockout. It makes no promises about what it is. Everyone was all up in the clouds about how The Expendables was a return to 80s action movies, and that was a bunch of horse shit. Lockout isn't a return but it is a loving post card to them. There's a line delivered at the very end of the movie that I swear is not about the character, but is spoken directly to us about action movies.
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More Scottish music.
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^^ The movie felt more like a throwback to Carpenter's style than the big 80's action that The Expendables was going for.
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So I've finally decided to get into Godzilla, starting with the original, which I just finished. It was quite good, I must say; the miniature work was deliciously tactile when compared to modern CGI, which just renders everything kinda weightless. It's kind of amazing to see how a relatively somber atomic allegory got turned into the kid-friendly monster fightfest of the later movies, though. Anyway, onto Godzilla vs. Mothra now (and I now see where the Greatest Movie Ever Podcast got its old intro music).
EDIT: vs. Mothra was GREAT. Even If I was stuck with the pan-and-scan, dub-only early 'aughts release. -
So apparently Crunchyroll has options for spanish subs in "Folktales from Japan". I've been watching it with my daughter and it's pretty solid if you like fables in general.
Also, apparently The Giving Tree kind was kind of a rip off of one of the stories. -
Why did you skip Godzilla Raids Again/Gigantis the Fire Monster/Gojira's Counterattack?
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Because I'm limited to what is available through inter-library loan :T
EDIT: Oh hey, upon second look, they do have Raids Again, so I'll pick that up. -
You need to see the glorious joy that is KOBAYASHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!
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Well, continuing my plunge into Godzilla, I just finished vs. Mechagodzilla (yes, I know I'm not watching them in order, but I watch 'em as I get 'em from the library, and I know to save Destroy All Monsters for last when it comes to the Showa films at least). King Caeser was a lame-ass monster, and I wasn't a fan of the impromptu musical number (even if it did sound like the kaiju equivalent of an old-school Bond theme almost) or of how Godzilla moved way more like a guy in a suit in this one than he did in vs. Mothra, but otherwise I loved this movie. The style, the direction, the evil spaceman leader who enjoys fine earth cigars, the Silver Age Batman-caliber leaps in deductive logic, the spacemen in question looking like refugees from Planet of the Apes, the awesome score, that great final battle; I've been missing out all these years in my Godzilla ignorance.
Anyway, either Godzilla Raids Again or vs. Gigan is next, depending on which I get first. After that, my library network only has vs. Hedorah, vs. the Sea Monster, Terror of Mechagodzilla, Destroy All Monsters, Son of Godzilla, and Godzilla's Revenge of the Showa movies (can't remember if Megaguirus is Showa too, I'll have to double check that). Probably gonna avoid the latter two at least. After them, on to Hesei; I'll see which movies are available for purchase in the US to see about the ones I'm missing and want to own. I'll keep posting my thoughts as I go I suppose. Now, for those of you who are more versed: are there any I should specifically avoid, in any era? And how availalbe are most Godzilla flicks here in the US anyway? I know from the Greatest Movie Ever Podcast that we either never officially got vs. Megalon over here or it's just hard to get, I can't recall which. -
This reminded me that I haven't seen a good Civil War movie in awhile.
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I kinda prefer the re-imagined Civil War, the one with a touch of Hannibal.
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I strongly recommend Terror of Mechagodzilla, which is probably better than Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla. Also Monster Zero is great fun and one of my favorite old school Godzilla movies. Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster is kind of like taking drugs. And if you wanna talk new school, I love Godzilla 2000, but make sure you watch it dubbed. The dub is hilarious.
Most of the '90s Godzilla movies are crap and Godzilla vs. Megalon and Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster are crap too.
Oh, I almost forgot: Revenge of Godzilla is kind of INSANE, but it's about a little kid who has no friends and his parents work all the time and so he never sees them. Mostly he hangs out by himself and imagines he is friends with Minya, Godzilla's son. It's garish and depressing and and weird, and that's before he gets kidnapped by robbers and pisses himself. I guess the monster footage is mostly recycled from other movies (mostly Son of Godzilla), but the movie is really odd. -
Awesome, thanks for the recommendations. Terror of Mechagodzilla is a lock for sure.
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No worries. Have fun!
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just not the same -
Not even close.
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It will be perfect when this is remixed with the original.
I am glad to see they obviously made enough to make another video. -
The video killed the mystique that he never takes off the sunglasses :(.
Although I'm down for capes coming back in style. -
Where are her eyebrows?
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well, in it's favor this version does have him in hammer pants...
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Well HyunA was suppose to be part of the Wonder Girls. Got gastro just as they were about debut and got replaced.
The kpop industry is 100x harsher then jpop. Oh the stories I read makes you believe they still have slave labour. -
I hate how the Gangam Style girl sings in that riduculous infant/coquette fashion. I find it both exhausting and irritating, maybe especially because the original Gangam Style's sexuality is so ridiculous and stupid and over the top and unique and hers, in the new video, is like... yep, that's a female Asian pop singer.
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Yeah, but that's her actual singing voice. Also I just love watching fat people dance... Drew Carey could bust some moves!
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Sorry to disappoint you but Drew Carey isn't fat anymore.
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SC or it didn't happen.
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I was pretty suprised when he showed up on Community all skinny. -
He looks like Tom Arnold now, creepy. But good for him.
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In regards to the new Gangnam style’s lack of greatness, I think part of the fact that PSY feels like he has a ridiculous amount of confidence and energy in his music and a whole “Imma be and do what I wanna be and do no matter what anybody thinks” attitude. Most other Asian pop stars (male and female) generally feel very conscious of themselves and their image and will mold themselves into whatever they think their labels and the masses want. There’s nothing more grating and annoying than someone trying really hard to be cool, or sexy.
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The only good Tommy february song:
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NOPE
midnight brown's pretty cool though -
Sure was some Asian girls in black face in that video.
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Which one? And was it black face or ganguro or whatever the hell you call that style when you tan the shit out of yourself then wear nothing but really glittery white makeup so you look as stupid as possible?
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God. I love this version of this song so much!!!
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Reminds me of the menu music to a video game in the 90s in the best way
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So Expendables 2 was actually pretty fucking great. They fixed basically every issue I had with the first one, condensed everything that was good about that one into the opening sequence before moving on to new great stuff, and the fights are (with one sort-of exception) shot competently and coherently. I have a few complaints (Van Damme got really underserved in the final showdown, though he got some great licks in; one of the fights towards the end could have been longer and done with less Hollywood constant-close-up fight editing), but on the whole it lived up gloriously to my expectations. It's pure fanservice, of course, but they get some great character moments in there too. Also, one of the best theatre-going experiences I've had in awhile; people were cheering, clapping, really getting into it from the get-go, so a fun time was had by all.
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I was looking for some good horror films and I came across The Kill List, a british movie from 2011. It's about two guys who, after coming back from serving their tours of duty in the military, become assassins and take up a job in which they are hired to kill three individuals. This mission gradually becomes chaotic due to the mental instability of one of the main characters, Jay, as well the duo's overall wariness of their employers and their true goals.
It wasn't scary nor too frightening, but it did have an intense caustic atmosphere that did a neat job of keeping me on the edge of my seat and consistently engaged. It's quite blistering as a semi-throwback to the old themes of british horror, and it's plot is definitely distinctive. Unfortunately, the conclusion seems inefficient when you experience the buildup. There is a climax, but it's in the wrong scene. There should have been more of a an explanation and pay-off in the end.
I do feel it's worth watching despite my criticisms. The journey is worth appreciating while the destination is pretty throw-away.
I also watched The Interrupters; my God I've never held back tears so many times as I did when I watched this documentary. It's something you have to see. -
The Interrupters is easily one of the most powerful films I've ever seen. More people need to watch it.
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Someone mentioned it before when they saw it and I chimed in with agreement. I'm doing that again.
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So uh i know ive never posted anything in here before, because essentially i am musically retarded but sometimes something comes along and kicks my ass and forces me to remember that music is...so uh yeah SANTIGOLD, she is fucking great.
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PS I'm know im late to this party and everyone will be like UGH DUH SHUT UP WE KNOW which is fine
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I'm just genuinely surprised you didn't know about her earlier. I could have sworn you heard her before, mostly because of Dave..
Yeah, I really like her. This is the song that I heard first and made me curious.
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I don't believe I've ever heard her before.
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L.E.S. Artistes is one of my favorite songs.
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just finished golgo 13 and now im watching samura 7 as i was having trouble finding any anime worth watching anymore on netflix
I'm listening to nujabes and shaolin jazz at the moment
