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Elvin
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posted June 18, 2015 02:44 PM

OmegaDestroyer said:
I liked it.  It set out to be a love-letter to ridiculous 80s movies and succeeded.  

Pretty much Kung fuhrer lol.
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Corribus
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posted June 21, 2015 08:39 PM

I just got back from Inside Out, and found it to be magnificent, certainly Pixar's best film in a while. The themes and even plot are fairly abstract for a children's animated film (indeed, it could probably be shown as part of a segment on Existentialism in a college philosophy class), but it still has enough physical humor and dazzling visuals to keep children entertained (as mine was). In that sense, the closest movie comparison is probably Pixar's own "Up", which similarly combined adult themes with a child's presentation.

Highly recommended.

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posted June 21, 2015 08:47 PM

Corribus said:
I just got back from Inside Out, [...]Highly recommended.

Good to hear that. When it releases in Poland I'm certainly going to watch it.

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OmegaDestroyer
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posted June 22, 2015 02:18 AM

I saw Jurassic World today.  It was even dumber than I thought it would be.
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posted June 22, 2015 06:37 AM

You almost sound surprised. I mean Chris Pratt is a velociraptor whisperer
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posted June 22, 2015 04:39 PM

Elvin said:
You almost sound surprised. I mean Chris Pratt is a velociraptor whisperer


Oh yea I think I read that on his wiki. I had my doubts about this movie and they were confirmed when I saw a trailer, where Pratt is showing the kids his pack of raptors, and one kid asks "but who's the alpha?" And Pratt goes "your lookin at him".

I had no clue what his role was suppose to be in that movie but I would have never guessed it was raptor master.

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Corribus
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posted June 28, 2015 07:38 AM

Mad Max Fury Road: a bloody good time. Despite being essentially the same god damn thing for 120 minutes, the directing was so tight and pace so unrelenting that I didn't even notice.
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posted July 03, 2015 05:11 PM
Edited by blizzardboy at 17:16, 03 Jul 2015.

I'm so friggin' behind on movies this summer. Haven't watched any of them yet. Why can't there be 30 hours in a day instead of 24? Earth's rotation rate needs to chill out and drink a beer or something.

I have enough of a soft spot for Mad Max that I'm still excited to watch the reboot even though I already know it's probably going to be 2 hours of IQ-killing special effects porn. Post-Apocalypse is probably my favorite sub-genre of Sci Fi/Fantasy. Dat foreboding atmosphere. Dat primeval vibe.  
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posted July 03, 2015 05:15 PM

practical effects and very intelligent writing, so not really

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Corribus
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posted July 03, 2015 06:42 PM
Edited by Corribus at 18:42, 03 Jul 2015.

blizzardboy said:
I already know it's probably going to be 2 hours of IQ-killing special effects porn.

Actually I think one of the reasons I liked it so much - and critics seem to generally agree - is because there was hardly very little green screen digital effect at all. And what there was, was done selectively. The presentation has a very realistic feel to it.  Compare that to the new Terminator movie, which just looks like another in the long trend of making action movies indistinguishable from animated features.
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posted July 03, 2015 06:48 PM

I might be able to catch it this evening before I commence the festivities and mass consumption of red meat. Mad Max is a good 4th of July primer.
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artu
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posted July 03, 2015 06:53 PM
Edited by artu at 18:54, 03 Jul 2015.

blizzardboy said:
I already know it's probably going to be 2 hours of IQ-killing special effects porn.

kiryu133 said:
practical effects and very intelligent writing, so not really

I wouldn't call it special effects porn but it wasn't very intelligent writing either, nor was it pretending to be.
It was gathered up well, it didn't explain every little detail like explaining it to a moron, these were the pluses. However, it sacrificed logic a lot for the sake of grotesque atmosphere. For example, in a world where people kill for fuel and where all electricity comes from fuel, no one will waste gas on such a thing as this:





I think one of the most realistic and intelligent post-apocalyptic  film regarding how people would behave under such conditions and with very limited resource is Viggo Mortensen's the Road.
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posted July 03, 2015 07:11 PM
Edited by blizzardboy at 19:25, 03 Jul 2015.

I haven't seen the film, but artu, I would bet you ten million fish facos that yes, in a world where people are desperate enough to kill for fuel, they would very much conceivably still use it on a mobile rock station or even something more wasteful than that. Spend some time with blue collar 20-some-year-olds that barely made it out of high school that have two kids and use the "F" word twice in every sentence and you'll agree with me pretty fast. They don't think. They just don't. Or to put it more objectively: their set of values (what concerns them) are radically different from your values.
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artu
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posted July 03, 2015 07:24 PM
Edited by artu at 19:27, 03 Jul 2015.

Uneducated people can be very street-smart and this, like any post-apocalyptic world, is one where only the smart ones can survive. Besides, the blue collar wont have the authority to confirm such a vehicle, it's the big boss who decides such things. That guy is just a puppet under a tyrant who is not stupid at all.

The guitarist is meant as a scarecrow/military trumpeter but I don't think it's a one that makes much sense.
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posted July 03, 2015 07:28 PM
Edited by blizzardboy at 19:29, 03 Jul 2015.

No. People that think irrationally can still manage to flourish. They make up for it with audacity and an unrelenting work ethic, not to mention their aggression: they can feed off of others to prosper. I really don't think you understand humanity as well as you could. Pragmatism is a good survival attribute but it is one among several.
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artu
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posted July 03, 2015 07:35 PM

What has that guitarist got anything to do with audacity or unrelenting work ethics, blizz? It's just a waste of crucial resources. Even in war time, which is like a haven of resources compared to this post-apocalyptic desert in which our hero feeds on lizards, people watch like a hawk on what they have. During WW2, women under occupied towns used to have sex with the soldiers for a bar of chocolate.
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posted July 03, 2015 07:38 PM
Edited by blizzardboy at 19:40, 03 Jul 2015.

Just look at pretty much any post-war/catastrophe scenario in history. You'll find wolfpacks of males (either exclusively males or with a smaller number of harlots that accompany them) that roam around and take advantage of other people. There isn't some clerkish thinker that's in charge of them because the group would just kill or abandon somebody that acts like that. These people think and behave in terms of ego and image: they crave to look and act powerful and unentangled by sentiment. Is their lifestyle sustainable? Usually no, hence why they're highwaymen. They feed off of the sustainable lifestyle of others in order to sustain themselves.
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artu
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posted July 03, 2015 07:45 PM

A)Those wolfpacks (which fit better to the bike rider packs in the movie, who risk everything for a truck of gasoline) don't waste what's crucial to them, that's rule number one.
B)The bad guy in the photo is rather part of a group that lives in a town, they have hierarchy and social casts. The fighters are like soldier ants, they are literally fed other people's blood with serums and they are indoctrinated with the promise of "Valhalla" if they die for their leader and can not decide anything on their own.
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Corribus
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posted July 03, 2015 07:46 PM
Edited by Corribus at 19:47, 03 Jul 2015.

artu said:
However, it sacrificed logic a lot for the sake of grotesque atmosphere. For example, in a world where people kill for fuel and where all electricity comes from fuel, no one will waste gas on such a thing as this:

I disagree. History is rich with examples of tyrants, oligarchs, and other men of hubris who squander precious resources just to show how powerful they are. What better way to exercise power, after all, than to show your ability to waste without pause what the powerless don't have?

There are also plenty of examples in the history of war where resources have been expended to have psychological or emotional effects on the enemy. This isn't necessarily a waste of resources.

Beyond that, it's a movie, and a well-made one at that. Anyone who is going to see Mad Max expecting to see a story that makes complete sense on every possible level probably needs to have their head examined. Aside from which, the movie doesn't establish how much fuel the overlords actually have. Just because it's scarce in general doesn't mean the people who have it don't have a practically endless supply.
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