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Post by Tic-Tac on Jul 20, 2009 23:01:14 GMT -5
I am the only one who find it weird that Optimus Prime kills basically in cold blood in the opening scene. I mean, yeah Scavenger or whoever the big excavator was is a Decepticon but he just shots him point blank in the head and kills him when he can no longer defend himself. That doesn't seem very Optimus-like. Yeah neither does being brought back to life by some million year old peice of crap some worthless kid found in a old tomb, but hey, Micheal Bay's just pitching darts at a board when comin up with plot these days.
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Post by Trey_Vore on Jul 20, 2009 23:52:20 GMT -5
I am the only one who find it weird that Optimus Prime kills basically in cold blood in the opening scene. I mean, yeah Scavenger or whoever the big excavator was is a Decepticon but he just shots him point blank in the head and kills him when he can no longer defend himself. That doesn't seem very Optimus-like. Megatron had no problems ripping Jazz in half. You could see that as payback.
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Post by Trey_Vore on Mar 29, 2010 3:35:44 GMT -5
I read through the 2009 Razzie Awards and it turns out this movie won the Razzie Award for Worst Picture. It beat:
All About Steve G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra Land of the Lost Old Dogs
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Post by Drake on Mar 29, 2010 4:02:42 GMT -5
Never seen G.I Joe, but that movie seemed terrible just from the previews. Don't know how this movie could actually win a razzie myself.....I found it to be a rather good movie, one the better movies around, then again, I guess people just can't see a plot in it O.o
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Post by Trey_Vore on Mar 29, 2010 4:58:37 GMT -5
I did too Drake. I also read on DVD Verdict where the critic had this to say about G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra: As stupid as it is, I'd be willing to get on board with this hullabaloo, if the whole enterprise didn't feel like a soulless exercise in visual effects run amok. There is big action, but it's all so dependent on CGI and reality-jarring impossibility after impossibility (Duke and Ripcord, despite being brand new to the unit, can operate advanced combat suits and fly experimental prototype super-planes like experts) that connecting with the action on a gut level is impossible. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is guilty of similar brain-melting displays of detached action, but I'm willing to cut that overblown warhead a little more slack because: a) all the mayhem involved large robots and not real people b) the quality of the effects was much better c) I like Transformers more than G.I. Joe. In Joe everything is so synthetic-looking and computer-powered it's no stretch to claim that (technically) we're still dealing with animation. www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/gijoeriseofcobra.php
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Post by Belchic on Mar 29, 2010 13:58:08 GMT -5
I wonder what other 80's fads we're gonna see make a comeback. I mean, lately, we've had Inspector Gadget, TMNT, Transformers, Alvin and the Chipmunks and G.I. Joe make a comeback. We've also seen new Rocky, Rambo, Die Hard, Terminator and Indiana Jones movies. I know we've got Thundercats coming up. I'm pretty sure that we'll have a He-Man movie to look forward to (and there'll probably be a sequel with She-Ra). There have been rumors about a new Ghostbusters movie, and we could also get a new Karate Kid and Back to the Future. Who knows?
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Post by RaceFanX on Mar 29, 2010 15:24:09 GMT -5
The Karate Kid has already been remade, it comes out this year and stars Jackie Chan and Will Smith's son Jayden. The name also no longer fits as Chan teaches him Kung Fu not Karate (in production they were even going to call it "The Kung Fu Kid" then decided instead to go with the original name. *facepalm*)
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Post by Drake on Mar 29, 2010 16:09:06 GMT -5
Smurfs are coming up believe it or not, as well as Yogi Bear.
And for games in general, apparantly a Battleship game that, from what I read last, has aliens in it for some strange and odd reason O.o
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Post by babclayman on Mar 29, 2010 16:22:51 GMT -5
What on Earth!? How can you make a game out of "Battleship"!? And then add Aliens into the mix!? A board game turned into a movie which has nothing to do with the original game! Is Ewe Boll directing this movie? We all know how inaccurate his game film adaptations are!
Also, i saw the trailer for that Karate Kid remake. If there is no Karate in it, then it is NOT Karate Kid, and then instead of catching Flies with a chopstick, Jackie just whacked the flies.
Is this the depths, Hollywood are willing to sink to!? x.x
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Post by Drake on Mar 29, 2010 16:24:46 GMT -5
Remember, with Hollywood, now a days, everything needs aliens in the movie somewhere
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Post by Belchic on Mar 29, 2010 19:27:19 GMT -5
The Karate Kid has already been remade, it comes out this year and stars Jackie Chan and Will Smith's son Jayden. The name also no longer fits as Chan teaches him Kung Fu not Karate (in production they were even going to call it "The Kung Fu Kid" then decided instead to go with the original name. *facepalm*) Well, Jackie Chan is Chinese. It makes sense since Kung Fu is the Chinese martial art, while Karate is the Japanese one. It may interest you to know that Jackie Chan voiced one of the main characters in "Kung Fu Panda", but his character didn't have very many lines.
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Post by RaceFanX on Mar 29, 2010 20:55:31 GMT -5
"Remember, with Hollywood, now a days, everything needs aliens in the movie somewhere"- Drake
That's probably because the alternative isn't as appealing for international box office. The use of aliens as bad guys is probably just to "make it more interesting." It's a Hollywood movie so likely the majority of the heroes will be Americans. That produces several problems...
1. America has the largest and most powerful Navy on Earth, there isn't a county that has a Navy big enough to pick a fight and stand a legit chance of beating the USA. With aliens you can just write them to be way more powerful and make it interesting.
2. Hollywood is usually reluctant to use real foreign countries, even ones who don't like the US, as "the bad guys" in fastasy/action films like that because you anger the people of that country. G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra and Die Hard used generic terrorists and Top Gun used a generic Communist country as bad guys for that reason. Aliens can serve as that generic "threat" while not ticking anyone off.
3. Using a real country or real political alliances can backfire. Rambo III is basically unwatchable in the US now because while it's mostly our hero Rambo killing "evil Soviets" left and right he does so while helping a bunch of guys from the now very anti-American country of Afghanistan.
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Post by Trey_Vore on Mar 30, 2010 1:49:14 GMT -5
I wonder what other 80's fads we're gonna see make a comeback. I mean, lately, we've had Inspector Gadget, TMNT, Transformers, Alvin and the Chipmunks and G.I. Joe make a comeback. We've also seen new Rocky, Rambo, Die Hard, Terminator and Indiana Jones movies. I know we've got Thundercats coming up. I'm pretty sure that we'll have a He-Man movie to look forward to (and there'll probably be a sequel with She-Ra). There have been rumors about a new Ghostbusters movie, and we could also get a new Karate Kid and Back to the Future. Who knows? In all honesty I don't think the 80s are going to go anywhere anytime soon. A lot of the best...everything really came from that decade. It would be cool if Disney did something else with Gummi Bears, DuckTales and Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers but I don't know about that. I remember reading that Don Bluth is supposed to be making an animated movie about his 1983 FMV game Dragon's Lair. Hopefully it'll be better than the game itself.
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Post by Belchic on Mar 30, 2010 2:11:43 GMT -5
I wonder what other 80's fads we're gonna see make a comeback. I mean, lately, we've had Inspector Gadget, TMNT, Transformers, Alvin and the Chipmunks and G.I. Joe make a comeback. We've also seen new Rocky, Rambo, Die Hard, Terminator and Indiana Jones movies. I know we've got Thundercats coming up. I'm pretty sure that we'll have a He-Man movie to look forward to (and there'll probably be a sequel with She-Ra). There have been rumors about a new Ghostbusters movie, and we could also get a new Karate Kid and Back to the Future. Who knows? In all honesty I don't think the 80s are going to go anywhere anytime soon. A lot of the best...everything really came from that decade. It would be cool if Disney did something else with Gummi Bears, DuckTales and Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers but I don't know about that. I remember reading that Don Bluth is supposed to be making an animated movie about his 1983 FMV game Dragon's Lair. Hopefully it'll be better than the game itself. That's not going to happen, Trey. Don Bluth retired years ago.
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Post by Trey_Vore on Apr 1, 2010 2:56:03 GMT -5
I read that it's been approved and it will be cel-animated; the movie is just right now in development limbo.
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