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Post by Bill in the rain on Dec 28, 2022 14:48:30 GMT
Why would anyone willingly have watched another after watching 2?!! Why would anyone watch another after having seen the first one? Morbid curiosity.
I heard it was really awful. It was worse.
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Post by jetsetchilli on Dec 28, 2022 16:07:53 GMT
Went to the cinema to watch Skyline with my best mate (who loved it).
I now refuse to watch anything he recommends. The worst sci-fi film I have ever seen (not seen Battlefield Earth thankfully)
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Post by 😎 on Dec 28, 2022 16:13:43 GMT
I readily admit the newest Hellboy was kind of wank, and I’ve gone on this quasi-rant before, but I did appreciate that it was far more comic faithful than the GDT films. The second especially is just a GDT movie that happens to have Hellboy in it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2022 16:18:36 GMT
I don't really get why GDT is so revered, Pans Labrynth is the only great film he's done.
The rest range from good to shit.
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Post by Syrette on Dec 28, 2022 16:47:24 GMT
Think Pinocchio is superb, myself...
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Post by zephro on Dec 28, 2022 18:19:45 GMT
Why would anyone willingly have watched another after watching 2?!! Why would anyone watch another after having seen the first one? Exactly this, I'm very unclear if I ever watched 2 and definitely did not pay money to do so. |
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Post by Chopsen on Dec 28, 2022 21:13:35 GMT
I sort of enjoyed Skyline in its own way. Aliens invade and then proceed to kill off the entire cast one by and then it ends. No purpose. No hope. No redemption. Just puny humans dying.
There should be more films like that.
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Post by Whizzo on Dec 28, 2022 21:32:07 GMT
Skyline is watchable shit, the two sequels are just complete shit.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Dec 29, 2022 1:29:31 GMT
Why would anyone watch another after having seen the first one? Morbid curiosity.
I heard it was really awful. It was worse.
Actually, rethinking it, it was because the basic idea of Transformers is awesome, and Optimus Prime is awesome, and the first movie was terrible, but I still held out hope that they'd get it right if they tried again. But it just got worse. And long. So so so long. Fool me once... |
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Post by 😎 on Dec 29, 2022 1:33:31 GMT
The Transformers in general were too spiky and weren’t really transforming so much as weirdly morphing. Something they kind of corrected for Bumblebee and appear to be fixing completely with whatever the Beast Wars movie is called.
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Post by 😎 on Dec 29, 2022 1:36:21 GMT
Also the third one wasn’t absolutely awful, mainly because the switch to 3D meant Bay had to tone down his cuts and camera movement. But that’s damning with faint praise.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Dec 29, 2022 2:33:08 GMT
I still can't work out how you can make a movie with optimus prime in it, with the original voice actor no less, and make it shit.
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Post by aubergine on Dec 29, 2022 5:20:04 GMT
Never underestimate Michael Bay I guess.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Dec 29, 2022 5:26:14 GMT
I mean, he mainly did it by giving Optimus and the cool robots as little screen time as possible and filling the rest of the screen time with shite.
But you'd have to be actively trying to fuck it up to get it that badly wrong.
The Rock is still a good movie though, right? I remember that one being great. Then everything he did after that getting worse and worse.
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Post by geefe on Dec 29, 2022 8:13:35 GMT
I was never really into transformers. Had some of the toys and saw the first movie at the cinema. I think I remember the robots being cool but that was about it.
I do not understand how Bay movies make so much money and how he keeps getting funding.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2022 9:02:12 GMT
I don't understand why he took a colourful cartoon and made everything so bland. Every fight is just a shiny blur andyou can't see who is who. Having big red robot punch big blue robot would have been so much more visually coherent.
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Post by Rich on Dec 29, 2022 10:17:17 GMT
I still think Bay was bullied by Transformers fans as a kid and the movies were his way of getting back at them.
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Post by zephro on Dec 29, 2022 11:06:56 GMT
So it's not exactly a shit movie, well it is but in an enjoyable way, but GDT's Pacific Rim knew how to do giant fucking robot fights properly. No shakey cam out of focus bollocks in there.
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Post by Whizzo on Dec 29, 2022 11:27:39 GMT
I still think Bay was bullied by Transformers fans as a kid and the movies were his way of getting back at them. Michael Bay was an adult when Transformers came out, I've got no idea why he's so invested in them. |
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Post by retro74 on Dec 29, 2022 12:31:38 GMT
Pacific Rim is ok, not too bad
They might be small robots but Real Steel is the best robot fighting movie. It’s an absolute classic
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2022 13:16:32 GMT
Better than Robot Jox?
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Post by Jambowayoh on Dec 29, 2022 13:27:14 GMT
Pacific Rim is ok, not too bad They might be small robots but Real Steel is the best robot fighting movie. It’s an absolute classic I think we need to have an intervention of sorts with user Retro. |
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Post by retro74 on Dec 29, 2022 13:48:10 GMT
Whaaaat?
It’s awesome Jambo
Reminds me a bit of ‘Over the Top’ but with fighting robots instead of arm wrestling
But much better
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Post by Jambowayoh on Dec 29, 2022 13:55:25 GMT
Hahaha, Over the Top. Man that film was something else. I read that Stallone was paid some stupid money by Cannon Films because he kinda thought no one was going to see it so let's get that pay day.
Just checked: 12 million dollars which is insane for the 80s.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Dec 29, 2022 14:32:31 GMT
Suddenly everyone in my primary school was injuring themselves trying to arm wrestle.  |
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Post by britesparc on Dec 29, 2022 20:06:24 GMT
I still think Bay was bullied by Transformers fans as a kid and the movies were his way of getting back at them. Michael Bay was an adult when Transformers came out, I've got no idea why he's so invested in them. He's not really, he was hired - and paid loads of money - to make a big blockbuster. I think he quite enjoyed making them, at least at first, and they made tons of cash and he was raking it in. So it's more like he took a job that he enjoyed and paid well so he stuck at it until well after driving it into the ground critically and commercially. |
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Post by Blue_Mike on Dec 29, 2022 22:56:47 GMT
I can't watch Casablanca the same way after having had the gigantic, story destroying plot hole pointed out to me.
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Post by rawshark on Dec 29, 2022 23:23:46 GMT
I can't watch Casablanca the same way after having had the gigantic, story destroying plot hole pointed out to me. Don’t think I’ve heard that - mind repeating it? |
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Post by Blue_Mike on Dec 29, 2022 23:48:06 GMT
I can't watch Casablanca the same way after having had the gigantic, story destroying plot hole pointed out to me. Don’t think I’ve heard that - mind repeating it?
The letters of transit would be worthless if signed by Charles de Gaulle, as Ugarte said.
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Post by kilters on Dec 30, 2022 2:29:47 GMT
Prometheus
What a fuck up. Ridley hired the worst writers imaginable and continued his descent having not made a good film since black hawk down. Think of a more unlikeable group of characters written into a film who also happen to make the most ridiculous decisions at every given opportunity. An insult to the viewers intelligence.
Fucking brain dead nonsense and unfortunately spawned an equally shit sequel.
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