TychoCelchuuu

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  1. Spiderman already had the "with great power comes great responsibility" thing when he was introduced in Captain America: Civil War, so I think the idea was "let's not make every Spiderman story literally the same thing."


  2. I use Criticker which means my rating scale is customizable. You can find all my rankings here. I use a 1 to 100 scaled divided into 8 tiers:

     

    100 / Perfect: I like this movie so much! Examples: Blade Runner, Dr. Strangelove, Okja, Pulp Fiction, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Swiss Army Man, The Empire Strikes Back

    90-99 / Amazing: Tremendous movies! Examples: All About Eve, In a Lonely Place, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension!, Ratatouille, American Graffiti, A Separation, The Seventh Seal, Stop Making Sense, Adaptation, Last Year at Marienbad, Spring Breakers, Annie Hall, F for Fake, Dunkirk

    85-89 / Great: Great movies! Love 'em! Examples: The Hateful Eight, High Noon, Iphigenia, Paterson, Dead Man, Colossal, Das Boot, Happy Together, Eternity and a Day, The Draughtsman's Contract, Fresh, Tangerine, M, Real Life

    80-84 / Very Good: Quite good movies! Like 'em a lot! Examples: Groundhog Day, Inception, The Social Network, Sonatine, The Young Girls of Rochefort, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Clueless, Point Break, eXistenZ, Days of Being Wild, Turtles Can Fly, Everybody Wants Some!!

    70-79 / Good: I like these movies! Examples: Bullitt, Diner, Don't Think Twice, Iron Man, The Road to El Dorado, The Asphalt Jungle, Unbreakable, Brooklyn, Ant-Man, The Devil Wears Prada, Gone With the Wind

    60-69 / OK: I don't hate these movies! Examples: Elysium, Avatar, Donnie Darko, 25th Hour, Forgeting Sarah Marshall, A Few Good Men, War Horse, The Men Who Stare at Goats

    50-59 / Bad: Not a fan of these movies! Examples: Westworld, Independence Day, Blank Check, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, GoldenEye, The Shawshank Redemption, Star Trek: Nemesis, Superbad

    0-49 / Terrible: Really don't like these movies! Examples: It Happened One Night, Revenge of the Nerds, Slumdog Millionaire, Wedding Crashers, Kick-Ass, The Boondock Saints, Religulous, Wing Commander, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Lucky Number Slevin

     

    Here's how many movies I have in each tier (approximately - there are some TV rankings in there):

     

    Perfect: 8

    Amazing: 154

    Great: 250

    Very Good: 225

    Good: 306

    OK: 128

    Bad: 57

    Terrible: 65

     


  3. If you don't like movie logic you may wish to refrain from watching movies, because that is the main sort of logic that operates in them. The original Blade Runner is chock full of just as much (if not more) movie logic, for instance. Some examples:

     

    Why are they running a V-K test on all the new employees of Tyrell Corp. when they have the names and faces of the escaped replicants? How the fuck does the Esper Machine work? Why are there serial numbers on every single part of every single artificial animal but Deckard doesn't know this nor have any way to tell what the serial number is? Why does the club owner deny that he had ever seen Zhora when she's about to be performing in five minutes for everyone to see, thus making it obvious that he is lying? Why do the police standing around not react at all when Deckard pulls out his gun and starts firing wildly into a crowd, despite the fact that they clearly don't know he's a blade runner because he only later identifies himself to them? Why does Tyrell's automatic robot lady voice, which tells him who is in his elevator, not tell him that there are two people in the elevator, one of whom is a murderous replicant? Why, when Pris has Deckard right where she wants him, does she let him go so that she can run away and do six backflips towards him? How does Gaff have Deckard's gun at the end?

     

    I can totally understand how this sort of thing can bug someone, but if it bugs you then movies might not really be for you, because it's extremely rare to find a movie that isn't full of stuff like this.


  4. 6 hours ago, brkl said:

     

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    Rachel gives birth to a girl. They need to insert her into the system, but she can't have replicant DNA obviously, so they copy the DNA data from some boy into her fabricated records. 

     


     

    But it doesn't make any sense, because they then make her records look like she died, which defeats the whole purpose of fabricating records. What records is she using as ID?

     

     

    Presumably the records are not the ID on her driver's license or whatever. The purpose of fabricating the records is to obstruct eventual investigation. Making it look like she died obfuscates things because it means the investigators will be looking for a boy. This is one reason K became convinced that he was the child - he was looking for a boy.


  5. 1 hour ago, Roderick said:

    Well...

     

     

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    Now I feel as if I might be dumb and didn't get some obvious thing. But K discovers that Rachael had two kids, a boy and a girl. And he suspects that he is that boy. Later it turns out that his memories were of the girl and that she's the chosen one or whatever. But I didn't understand why there was even a boy, I was thinking there might've been twins or something? Or if it's a ruse, I still don't get it. Why conjure up a genetically identical boy just to have the girl pretend to be a boy and claim she died? Because this was rather unfathomable, both during the movie and now, I kept thinking there was this major plot thread unresolved. About the boy.

     

    I think it's pretty straightforward. They tried to throw people off the tracks of the girl by pretending there was no girl alive, only a boy, so people would look for a boy. They didn't have the girl pretend to be a boy at all (in fact that would defeat the point). The girl was a girl, and hopefully the chances of someone looking for her would be low, because among the various obfuscations, one of them was designed to make people think the child was a boy.


  6. 3 hours ago, plasticflesh said:

    Started Tacoma last night.

     

    I really like the Minny AI in Amy's space car. I wish that was the main AI character. (but what the heck is up with the plywood in Amy's space car enclosing ambiguous AI hardware? Will this be explained later?)

     

    Otherwise, as I get into the game, both in story content and audio-log-interaction, I get vibes of SOMA. Good vibes. 

    You're there to download the station AI, the plywood is around the AI hardware that you'll download the station AI to.


  7. For reasons mostly unknown to me, I'm watching this, I guess because one episode a week does not take too much time out of my schedule. I can't honestly say I'm enjoying it, with the exception of the latest episode, which despite a few missteps mostly was cool. Thinking back to how shitty most Star Treks were when they were starting off, I don't think it would be crazy to hold out hope that this turns into a pretty good show some time down the line. It's not there yet, though.


  8. I think FPS games should just have all guns operate on a cooldown system - once you fire them enough, they're out of ammo until they recharge passively on their own. That way you can use whatever gun you want whenever you want without worrying about running out of ammo when you need it, but you still have limited ammo in the sense that you can't just fire a gun forever. So you'd have to swap weapons and also you'd be fine with swapping weapons.


  9. 6 hours ago, Gwardinen said:

    In principle I like the idea of telling different kinds of stories in that universe... but that trailer was awful. Is it just that all trailers are bad now? I'm genuinely asking for the opinion of someone who might watch more than me, because in the rare cases I actually watch a film trailer now I'm almost always disappointed and vaguely grossed out by it.

    The number of good trailers I've seen can probably be counted on one hand. This one is my favorite:

     

     


  10. It's pretty rare for me to be really excited by action in an action movie. So much of it these days is just a bunch of CGI whizbangery and it's tough for that to get my blood pumping. I actually honestly don't mind CGI whizbangery - it's fun to watch all this chaos onscreen, especially when it looks pretty - but again, it doesn't really excite me. To be fair, lots of action scenes before it was all CGI whizbangery also didn't get my blood pumping. I just think it's tough to make exciting movies so it's rare that someone pulls that off, doubly so when the stakes are people fighting rather than other stuff that I find more affecting in the first place, like emotions or injustice or whatever. My favorite Marvel action scenes are generally the ones with humor, either physical or sarcastic quipping. I don't remember a lot of the specifics, but I think the big superhero vs. superhero airport fight in Civil War had some funny stuff, for instance (like with Ant-Man or Spiderman), so I liked that one.


  11. I liked it a lot! Really good performances from all the leads, and I think it did a great job of nailing the zeitgeist for the sorts of people who feel these sorts of ways and have these sorts of issues, right now at this point in time in America and especially California, etc. It felt nice and straightforward and clear about what it wanted to say.


  12. I'm not a huge trailer watching guy, so I might not have the knowledge to talk about this, especially because I've skipped the Episode 8 trailers, but I feel like it's really hard to judge lots of movies from their trailers. I just watched Colossal last night and my impression is that the trailers basically completely misrepresented the movie and left out all the good stuff. This is not necessarily because they're bad trailers. Rather, putting any of the good stuff or explaining what the film was really about would have spoiled the entire film, so it's probably a good thing the trailers were so misleading. But even if the trailers aren't holding back the good stuff, they're cut together by people other than the director and the editor of the film, they don't have the same score that the film will have over the moments, they're obviously way more compact than the film, they're designed to sell it rather than tell a narrative, etc. I just can't really see how a trailer can tell me anything about the film except that it has a goofy premise or something. Like:

     

    2 hours ago, brkl said:

    So, I went ahead and actually watched the trailer we are supposed to be talking about. *cough* I'm not feeling it. I think I've seen all these scenes before.

    If I saw a trailer like this, I'd probably assume they put all the familiar stuff in there because they think that's what audiences want. The last movie made a zillion dollars by reiterating the first films so they put the familiar stuff in the trailer. Chances are the full film subverts all those scenes in the trailer. How would I know? I haven't seen it! Perhaps if I had some reason to think the trailer had no choice, because all the scenes it had to choose from were familiar scenes, then I'd think differently, but I don't see why that would be the case. How would I know that? If I were forced to guess, knowing Rian Johnson, I'd probably assume the movie does subvert a lot of that stuff, because that's the sort of guy he seems like. But honestly I have no idea!


  13. I may have an accelerated cultural metabolism or something but I don't really get tired of stuff. One movie a year on a topic is a drop in the bucket for me, since I typically watch between 100 and 200 movies a year, I'd estimate. So it would take way more than a Marvel movie every year or so to tire me out.


  14. I'm looking forward to episode 8 to an extreme degree. Rian Johnson is one of my favorite contemporary filmmakers so I'm hoping it's going to be amazing. I haven't watched any of the trailers because I'm already going to see the movie so I don't need to see what's going to happen in it. I'll find that out when I watch the movie! Episode 7 was crummy though.


  15. Blade Runner is my favorite movie, so this definitely had a lot to live up. I watched a double feature - the theater showed the original Blade Runner (Final Cut) first, then this movie. I loved this movie, and upon further reflection I realized I was focusing too much on comparing it to the first movie, which doesn't do any favors, so I reappraised it in my head by thinking of it as its own film and it grew in my estimation. So what I'm saying is, now I really love this movie. We don't get enough blockbusters that are this slow and ponderous.