[Brooks]

I like that they made him all chunky

[CubaLibre]

Yeah "uncontrollably" would be an overstatement but it seems pretty cool. I mean Bryan Cranston right?
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[evnvnv]

I watched the original Godzilla for the first time last night on a huge screen, hype levels at max

really hope the Oxygen Destroyer appears in the new version

also has there ever been a band called Oxygen Destroyer
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[Ronk]

it honestly still looks pretty bland to me, but everyone seems to be excited about it so i'm cautiously optimistic.

i do really like the idea of an astoundingly gigantic Godzilla where soldiers have to parachute on top of the back in an attempt to take him down.
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i will say that the one thing i am skeptical about is that they had the benefit of the actual u.s. defense department's involvement, seemingly bringing a kind of pro-military sentiment to the film out of obligation. the horror/subtext might be more effective if there's some sense of "oh geez maybe our military force needs a lesson in humility" or something. that said, all signs point to them being very faithful to the idea of this working as a Godzilla movie and not a lame departure like emmerich's version (and the toho movies have a varying attitude toward japanese military power, anyway). some folks on letterboxd have written that it's pretty much a new Jurassic Park and they kept wanting to turn to others in the audience and be like, "isn't this fucking awesome?!" so we'll see, but yeah, i am hype hype hype
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[Shiren the Launderer]

[Lasakon]

I still want Godzilla vs. Hedorah 2:Out of Africa.
Ideally, the success of this new film would lead to another Toho series that consists of all the proposed Godzilla films that were never made.
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[parker]

the deleted scenes from fire walk with me are finally getting a release with the bluray
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[Vikram Ray]

BUYING

[8128]

fuckin twin peaks fuck me


i want to see godzilla p bad but i'm afraid juliette binoche is only gonna be in it for like ten seconds or something
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[Shiren the Launderer]

http://www.bkmag.com/2014/05/22/woody-allens-films-ranked-by-age-disparity/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=woody_l

spoiler alert: gross

[Winona Ghost Ryder]

[parker]

weapons grade meth damon
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[Winona Ghost Ryder]

Director whose sole feature credit is an indie coming of age comedy-drama is attached to direct Metal Gear Solid movie: http://www.deadline.com/2014/06/sony-in-talks-with-jordan-vogt-roberts-to-helm-metal-gear-solid/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kings_of_Summer

Will probably get released just like John Woo's Metroid, Gore Verbinski's Bioshock, John Trank's Shadow of the Colossus, David O. Russel's Uncharted, George Romero's Resident Evil, Paul W.S. Anderson's Castlevania, Neill Blomkamp's Halo, Brian Taylor's (no Neveldine) Twisted Metal, Some dude's Kane & Lynch

[Ronnoc]

I still want Twisted Metal

[Ronk]

well even if those movies never get made, we'll at least have a documentary that finally makes us understand why we really like videogames so much:


thanks Cliffy B and J.D. from Scrubs
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[Kabbage]

Godzilla was weird.

I was pretty consistently entertained the whole way through, but there was very little about it that was memorable. Oddly enough, it was great at all the things Godzilla movies are terrible at, and it was terrible at all the things Godzilla movies are great at. The result was a decent movie that is kind of the opposite of what you're probably looking for going into a Godzilla movie.

The first quarter of the movie is awesome. Brain Cranston really really should have been the one and only main character. His story is the most interesting and the most grounded, and they follow it right up until the monster appears. Then they jump ahead 15 years. We're now in America with Cranston's generic army-guy son and his generic army-guy family. The movie then becomes about the military trying to contain or kill the monsters, which I suppose is fine for a Godzilla movie, but they just spent all the time building up a vastly more interesting plot.

I hear tell this was one of those movies like Transformers 2 where the director was allowed to use real military planes and vehicles, so long as he depicts the military in a positive light. That feel about right with what goes down for the last three quarters of the movie, where Godzilla is all but besties with the military and would never dare hurt these little bug things shooting him with fire. At one point, the general orders a nuclear bomb to destroy all of San Fransico, hoping to kill all three monsters at once, and he's painted as this sympathetic military figure making The Hard Call When Things Get Tough. Ken Watanabe's character briefly tells the general his grandfather was in the Hiroshima bombing, and the general is just totally understanding while doing absolutely nothing differently. It's really weird and kind of terrible.

The army guy son spends the movie dicking around with his bomb-squad buddies in the woods. I could not tell you his name or a thing about his personality if you held a gun to my head.

Ken Watanabe's Dr. Serizawa is cool, but he doesn't do anything the whole movie. He just sort of stands around and makes that face he made in the trailer at various things. Why this movie isn't just Ken Watanabe and Cranston is beyond me.

For all the buildup to the final battle, it's short and pretty bland. Godzilla bites and shoves, then uses two other, slightly sexier moves. The muto's fly around and grab at his back. It's strangely dull.

I honestly wonder if it was always planned this way, or if there was a much better movie in place, then it was changed dramatically by the studio or by money.
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[Kabbage]

I remember "three birds, one stone" being thrown around, but you're probably right.

Although, if that's so, the assumption that the military can safely and tactically use a nuclear weapon kind of contradicts the Godzilla series' driving theme that nuclear power is one that man is arrogant to think he can control.

I mean the way the movie plays it, it is by no fault of the military that thier plan goes horribly awry.
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[Winona Ghost Ryder]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ron-paul-make-acting-debut-712922

[evnvnv]

[shrugtheironteacup]

Turns out Expendables 3 is a documentary about how Wesley Snipes got out of prison.
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[CubaLibre]

How Wesley Got His Snipes Back, or We Really Should Have Got Gina Carano Instead
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[shrugtheironteacup]

If that bit of simultaneous knife throwing isn't immediately followed by a kiss I
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[shrugtheironteacup]

http://www.thewrap.com/iron-man-3s-shane-black-to-direct-predator-reboot-for-fox/
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[Winona Ghost Ryder]

cameo from rick hawkins identical twin brother

[parker]

what is this

is this the rumored ache of feeling
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[Ronnoc]

In which Ronnoc has to sit through generic war movie bullshit just to get mad that the tank scenes are inaccurate.

[evnvnv]

All I want to know is: Is Brad Pitt's haircut accurate?
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[CubaLibre]

You don't even see enough of the tanks to decide if they're inaccurate.
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[Winona Ghost Ryder]

https://twitter.com/davidehrlich/status/482012144079081472

[Ronnoc]

[shrugtheironteacup]

David Ayer's thing is kind of combining authentic-feeling violent dude characters/culture w/ totally implausible/inauthentic combat/training/whatevercraft
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[CubaLibre]

Who is David Ayer.
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[Dracko]

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[CubaLibre]

Huh.

End of Watch was some exploitative, adrealine-pumping garbage.
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[parker]

I have to constantly deal with christian bale's character in harsh times in real life
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[Ronk]