Chula Vista

I'd watched the original a few times and finally bought the DVD. One of the bonus features allowed you to watch it in linear time.

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on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

The Batlord

Obviously, but it still sounds like fun to watch it like that at least once, if for no other reason than the novelty.

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prisoner437x3y0

What did you think?

I'll have to give that a go.

Anybody else think there has been a decided lack in original films recently?

I'm really excited for Revenant

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haha, Iunno if it was decided but yeah...lack of originality has been trending for a minute now.

I was pretty pleased with Fury, last year. I think Lone Survivor came out last year too...both of those were really good, in my opinion. The Cap' America sequel was pretty good.

This year hasn't been all that great in terms of quality productions tho...for what it's worth there's a mirrored lull in creativity for video games also.

Everybody is copying everybody else's formula for success 'cause financiers want a recipe to get rich...lost sight of how to cross the finish line first 'cause they're all lost, lookin' for shortcuts.

The Batlord

Yeah, Fury was pretty sweet, even if it was copying a lot off of Saving Private Ryan, but that tank battle sequence was one of the best war movie sequences of all time. And Lone Survivor was some brilliant food for thought for anyone who ever thought anything about the current "war on terror".

And the second Captain America movie was just ****ing awesome.

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prisoner437x3y0

What I meant by decided.

Video game developers are going to keep pumping out the same game every year until the market decides it doesn't want to buy it anymore. Game development is expensive and consumers are usually only going to buy a couple games a year so there is pressure for each game to have matched content which has kind-off diluted the market in terms of copying each other. The rampant increase in casual gaming and bigger market has also made games sort-of self-playing, common denominator gameplay. When I play assassins creed I feel as if I'm barely doing anything myself sometimes.

Call of Duty handicaps bad players and limits skill play, the game is designed so you can't consistently do good like you could previously.

The comic book film balloon doesn't seem to burst anytime soon and they can remake the same franchises every few years (spiderman, superman, batman) and audiences enjoy it.

I didn't understand what Fury was. It was a quasi-historical action movie that seemed to have been made because of its resemblance to inglurious bastards, but presented itself as realistic.

Rampant sequelization, remaking may just be here to stay, which I have no problem with but think the increased profitability should allow some-risk taking stil, which I think will come.

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As far as Revenant, Tom Hardy is a strong actor and I like his work so I'm sure it'll come out to be quite entertaining...leo tho is hit or miss for me.

Dude, the comic book-to-movie thing is wearing on me fast. Iron Man 3 is a joke...I wanna see some comic crap, not some quasi-introspective psychological commentary on PTSD...stay in your lane, Marvel! X-Men: First Class was freakin' brilliant! But the sequel...uhm, yeah.

Michael Fassbender stole the show from the first one tho, speaking of which--can't wait for Prometheus followup.

I don't think Fury was really a copy of Saving Private Ryan. I get why you would think that due to the setting and part of the plotline (following a group of soldiers) being the same. They're really different in many ways tho...but of course the similarities are very stark due to the limited way to develop characters through their social interactions with each other. I mean, it's like looking at two different portraits...both black & white, different people, different time. Different stories to tell, you know...but yeah, they're similar on the surface.

I think Avengers 2 really sucked. I think Thor 2 was good but didn't satisfy like it could have by demonstrating the havoc Thor is capable of wreaking like the introduction of the first (when they're on the frostgiant world).

With that said however...Civil War looks freakin' awesome! I'm totally Team Captain America too.

I think Ant Man was just about as wack as it gets. Michael Douglas and ol' girl from Lost were the saving graces. Paul Rudd can be funny at times but he doesn't have the charisma to carry a whole film as the lead character.

I think it's funny that Matt Damon has landed a role that is very similar to his part in Interstellar with that of Martian. I was like...how are people not connecting these two dots.

I did love 2013's Elysium tho...that was a freakin' awesome update to a classic Western-type story with the high-tech showdown, damsel in distress, and everything.

Chappy was cool but the South African accents really start to get annoying. It's almost unintelligible for me and I listen to hip-hop primarily.

I think that pretty much catches us up as far as notewory movies.

Yo', didju guys ever see Act Of Valor (with the active-duty S.E.A.L.s starring)?? Batlord, you seem to have a similar taste to me as far as sci-fi/action...if you haven't seen AoV--it's totally worth buying. It's sick as hell!!!

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oh and the Force Awakens hadda Gerard Butler trailer (Gods of Egypt)...this movie looks effing A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!

And I think Gerard Butler is an awesome anchor for a casting lead...(300, Law-Abiding Citizen).

I wonder if the trailer's up on youtube yet...

I gotchur back!!

The Batlord

Whoa, Age of Ultron sucked? Them's fighting words, bruh. Honestly, the first movie was fun but overrated, but the second movie had much more character development, and was much more interesting as a movie.

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I agree with you having more character development but that was really with the intro of scarlet witch and her brother but the rest of the on-screen time with the actors was hum drum. I guess the Hulk taking off at the end was kinda interesting as you'd prolly expect the positive outcome of black widow & bruce banner hitting it off.

The trailer for Apocalypse is out too...

I think the whole plot and ultron character were pretty unimaginative and "starkly" (pun intended) similar to the action we saw in Iron Man 2. Stark's robots turned on him there too...like seriously? So it didn't offer the innovation I was expecting. The story just seemed stale to me. And to be honest, robert downey jr. gets on my nerves and his arrogance playing just a much a part as the antagonist just doesn't make for good story telling to me (hence my Team Captain America endorsement, haha)

Fightin' words? Really?

I felt like we bonded earlier... =(

But it's cool...come at me, bro!