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  12. Transformers 5 and Beyond

    in Comic Book Adaptations

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    He has said each one would be his last since ROTF.  All they have to do is keep backing up dump trucks of money to his house and he'll keep making them.  Also, churning out one of these per year is going to make them even more awful, if that is even possible.  ROTF was on a whole other plane of shittiness because they rushed it out in a stupidly short amount of time.  Why would 6 and 7 be any different?

  14. Every film you've watched in 2016

    in General Discussion

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    Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

    I really liked this.  Michael Keaton has this intrinsic, subtle charisma about him even when he's being awkward and unsure; let alone when he's being intense.  I honestly don't think I've ever seen a performance of his that I disliked.  The cinematography was terrific (which is to be expected since it won an Oscar for that.)  I am a big fan of extended one-shot sequences because I understand how difficult it is to film such scenes without a single screw-up.  

    The way they tied the ending back to lines said very early on was cool, too.  Example: "He couldn't even shoot himself in the head properly!"

     

    The only criticism I have is Ed Norton's character is just kind of forgotten about in the last twenty minutes when he was such a prominent part of the first hour and a half.  Still, I would readily watch this again.

    ***1/2

  17. Every film you've watched in 2016

    in General Discussion

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    Mad Max: Fury Road

    What a disappointment.  I'd heard nothing but good things about this movie, but it was a huge letdown.  I had no emotional investment in any of these characters because they just throw you headlong into this frenetic insanity with no introduction to any of them.  There's only so much "overly long car chase, break down, fix the rig, resume chase" and "okay, that person never should have survived that horrific crash" that I can take before I get really bored with the whole idea.  And how the fuck were these vehicles still driving through hundreds of miles of desert with no refueling???  Also, having every single one of Tom Hardy's lines dubbed in post-production was really off-putting. *1/2

  20. RIP Alan Rickman

    in Banter

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    It's been a while since I've seen it, but how much screen time does he have in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves?

    A lot. He was the Sheriff of Nottingham. It's funny because he has the exact same death scene as he did from Die Hard.

    Wait, what? He fell out of a building in Die Hard. He was stabbed in the heart in RH:POT.