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Post by Whizzo on May 20, 2024 19:18:28 GMT
Very close but that's "If..."
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Post by Lizard on May 20, 2024 21:40:28 GMT
Nothing quite beats the audacity and imagination of TSCC having a T-1000 (played by Shirley Manson) disguising themselves as a urinal. Making Arnie a curtain man in Dark Fate comes close It could go either way, but I am hanging out for this Netflix anime series.
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Post by britesparc on May 20, 2024 21:53:15 GMT
My controversial Terminator opinion is that Genysis is a potentially very interesting idea utterly botched, whereas Dark Fate is a boring retread of T2 that was at least competently produced.
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Post by Jambowayoh on May 20, 2024 22:08:48 GMT
No I'd go with that I think they're both not great and tbh for me terminator ends at T2
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Post by Bongo Heracles on May 20, 2024 22:29:51 GMT
It is funny that it was Dark Fate that seemingly killed the franchise (until the rebootquel) when it’s probably the most competent of the Bad Sequels.
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Post by damagedinc on May 20, 2024 22:39:20 GMT
My controversial Terminator opinion is that Genysis is a potentially very interesting idea utterly botched, whereas Dark Fate is a boring retread of T2 that was at least competently produced. I don't think this is controversial at all. Pretty spot on
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 21, 2024 1:20:15 GMT
It is funny that it was Dark Fate that seemingly killed the franchise (until the rebootquel) when it’s probably the most competent of the Bad Sequels. It's cos it was all woke* and had to be boycotted! *had girls in it. Terminator movies shouldn't have tough girls in them! Well, it made it as far as Tokyo. I'm not sure I get the re-recording bit.
It's great as nostalgia, but the original cartoon isn't half as good as I remember it being on saturday mornings.
I had the original Transformers series on DVD. Well, probably still do in a box somewhere. The 1st season is pretty bad and highly inconsistent. Both in terms of animation and writing. it's very much a cartoon made to sell toys, everything else was a secondary thought. Things started to get a bit better during season 2.
Well nuts. I bought the entire DVD set a long time ago in a fit of nostalgia. Watched half the first season and it wasn't as good as I remembered (and I was older of course) and then sold it. Not terrible of course, and with some really great nostalgia moments, but as you said, very much a toy commercial.
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Post by zisssou on May 21, 2024 7:53:37 GMT
My controversial Terminator opinion is that Genysis is a potentially very interesting idea utterly botched, whereas Dark Fate is a boring retread of T2 that was at least competently produced.I haven't seen T3 in forever.. so I could be wrong, but wasn't T3 a boring retread of T2? So basically they've remade T2.. twice?
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Post by drhickman1983 on May 21, 2024 8:01:12 GMT
I still think T3 is the nadir of the whole series in a way. Whilst Genesys is objectively worse, T3 lowered the bar to the point where subsequent films could be shit but I didn't really care.
Genesys wasn't great, but I actually enjoyed the scenes where they recreated scenes from earlier films. It got less and less interesting as the film went on.
I liked Dark Fate, essentially just a big action sequence handled well. I appreciated how stripped back it was.
Salvation was just boring.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on May 21, 2024 8:04:13 GMT
I think the thing Dark Fate realised that the other post T2 sequels didn't, is the value of Linda Hamilton. She's the thing that makes it work imo, maybe even moreso than Arnie.
(not that Dark Fate is perfect or anything, but it's definitely the best of the sequels)
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on May 21, 2024 8:24:09 GMT
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
More like, Baby Cart to Tubi (because it's on Tubi).
I actually slightly prefer the Japanese title, translated as "Wolf with Child in Tow: Perambulator Against the Winds of Death". But the English title probably flows a bit better.
Anyway. It's a 70s action samurai thing, part of the larger Lone Wolf and Cub adaptations. This one is a local story about bandits, Yakuza, prostitutes and assassins, set against the main character's larger beef with the Yagyu clan. It's number 4 in the series (I think), but you don't really need to have watched the other ones to get it.
I love these movies btw. The action is great, the plots are interesting enough to keep your attention, and the whole thing usually comes together at a svelte 90 minutes or so.
Fair warning that this one is quite rapey in a couple of scenes. It's always the bad guys doing it, but it's got a bit of exploitation to it, as was the style at the time.
9/10
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Post by zisssou on May 21, 2024 8:25:40 GMT
What was the explanation for the T-800 getting old?
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Post by drhickman1983 on May 21, 2024 8:30:20 GMT
I can't remember exactly but I think it was to do with the bio-flesh being organic, or partly organic, so it's subject to the same, or similar, aging processes of human skin. eventually the skin would die and drop off I guess.
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Post by wunty on May 21, 2024 8:52:51 GMT
Honestly, all of you go and just watch T1, T2 then T:DF in a row and DF works a lot better. It fails because a lot of it's ideas Cameron basically gave to the other three films in some respect or other so by the time DF got done none of it was new. If you can somehow wipe 3, Salvation and Genisys from your mind before watching the "trilogy" like that... It all works rather well.
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Post by wunty on May 21, 2024 8:53:28 GMT
I can't remember exactly but I think it was to do with the bio-flesh being organic, or partly organic, so it's subject to the same, or similar, aging processes of human skin. eventually the skin would die and drop off I guess. Yeah that, basically. Living tissue. It's how Skynet got them to look so real.
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Post by wunty on May 21, 2024 8:54:28 GMT
I'm not going to lie, out of all the big 80s franchises like Predator, Alien, Robocop etc etc etc. Terminator is my favourite by a mile. So I'm probably a LOT more forgiving than some people.
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Post by mrpon on May 21, 2024 9:03:51 GMT
Watching the RoboDoc on Prime atm, it's great, so much detail/interviews etc..
Recomemondd.
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Post by gamingdave on May 21, 2024 9:19:35 GMT
Watching the RoboDoc on Prime atm, it's great, so much detail/interviews etc.. Recomemondd. I've nearly finished that, and it's been brilliant - and that's having watched all the extras on more than one home release
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 21, 2024 9:23:38 GMT
I think the thing Dark Fate realised that the other post T2 sequels didn't, is the value of Linda Hamilton. She's the thing that makes it work imo, maybe even moreso than Arnie. (not that Dark Fate is perfect or anything, but it's definitely the best of the sequels) I love Linda Hamilton, but I seem to remember thinking her and arnie were the weakest things in Dark Fate. I'd much rather have spent more time with the future lady and the scary terminator.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on May 21, 2024 21:29:15 GMT
Banshees of Inisherin - Its such a good movie but, and this probably one for the woke thread, how is this actually thought of in Ireland? It occurred to me when I watched it again just now that they are very wacky paddys.
9/10
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Post by brokenkey on May 21, 2024 21:36:51 GMT
28 Days Later, at the cinema. 8/10.
A really ropey print, like 720p or something. Film is great, all your expected zombie film tropes, with a reasonably happy ending.
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Post by retro74 on May 21, 2024 21:36:56 GMT
The Fall Guy (Odeon)
Very enjoyable, got a bit messy towards the end but overall a bit of a gem
8 out of 10
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Post by Whizzo on May 21, 2024 23:22:27 GMT
Unless Sony spends a bunch of money on AI upscaling 28 Days Later, which is possibly something they'll do before the new trilogy comes out, it'll not look great as it was shot in SD on early digital cameras.
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Post by britesparc on May 22, 2024 5:51:26 GMT
My fun 28 Days Later fact is I once worked with the woman who opens the monkey's cage at the beginning of the film.
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Post by simple on May 22, 2024 6:24:18 GMT
I bet HR loved her for that
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Post by britesparc on May 22, 2024 6:38:52 GMT
It was supposed to be some low-fi comedy about David Schneider as a put-upon assistant technician in a research laboratory, then she came along, infected everyone with rage, and Danny Boyle just rolled with it.
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Post by clemfandango on May 22, 2024 7:24:45 GMT
Cyborg - 5/10
Jean Claude does mad max not very well. It’s probably the cheapest movie I’ve seen in my action movie rewatch. Has its moments but this one is for the purists only. Shame as I watched it loads as a kid and I was really looking forward to it.
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Post by Bill in the rain on May 22, 2024 7:48:33 GMT
I remember thinking Cyborg was amazing as a kid. It probably helped that it was seen at a friends house when we were too young to actually be allowed to watch it. It was this forbidden thing with violence and nudity!
But yeah, it's not as good as I remembered.
It's also by Albert Pyun who has this weird obsession with Cyborgs and every movie he makes has some kind of Cyborg in it, although in this case (where it's in the title and the most famous big budget one) the actual cyborg is kinda irrelevant to most of the movie.
What was that other cheaper one he did with lance henriksen? Knights? I also thought that was great as a kid. We didn't know better.
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Post by clemfandango on May 22, 2024 7:54:19 GMT
Never heard of knights, I’ll put it on the list 👍
Yeah cyborg was one of my favourites as a kid too, it’s funny how a young mind can’t differentiate between big budget and cheap as chips as I thought it was up there with terminator and robocop as a kid 😊
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Post by zisssou on May 22, 2024 8:31:13 GMT
One of my favourite openings is in 28 Weeks Later, which Boyle filmed.
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