Jump to content

MOVIEGUY

Free Account+
  • Posts

    1,090
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by MOVIEGUY

  1. Too bad this isn't doing that well at the box office cause it's pretty good. It's a pretty formulaic action revenge flick, right down to the training montage (which I used to take a bathroom break) but Dev Patel really directs the hell out of it which elevates the whole thing. The fight scenes are great and there's some other really electric sequences in this.

  2. On 3/28/2024 at 8:26 PM, SaltyPistola said:

    Movie fucking flaps.

     

    1. Ridiculous world building 
    2. Atrocious dialogue 
    3. So many stupid looking monkeys 
    4. Whole scenes of huge Kaiju just grunting at each other like it's normal dialogue 
    5. Badass fights 
    6. Destroyed like 3 wonders of the world

    I've never booked round 2 tickets so quickly. Pump this shit out every 4 years and I will be there. 

     

    ^This guy gets it

  3. 16 minutes ago, MightyDargon said:

    Very, very few horror films are actually scary once you're past a certain age. The last scary one I actually remember was The Lighthouse. Eli Roth's Thanksgiving had some imaginative gross out work but was about as scary as a He-Man episode.

     

    I just judge horror movies based on how fun they are now. I'm not looking to be scared because films rarely do that for me, just keep me entertained. Malignant was my favorite horror of the last few years because it was a god damn blast, not because it was frightening in the least.

    • Like 3
  4. On 3/19/2024 at 1:17 PM, ZackM said:

     

    To be clear, Paul is not omniscient.  He can not see everything.  The book explicitly states that just as our eyes can not see beyond a mountain when you stand in a valley, prescient sight is also not absolute.  He also can't see other prescient beings, like guild navigators.

     

     

     

    Paul is a product of his environment.  He believes he has a legitimate claim to the throne and he's willing to use the power of the Fremen to make that claim and destroy those that have betrayed him.  In his mind, the Jihad is an unfortunate byproduct that he reluctantly accepts because any path that prevents the Jihad also prevents him from claiming the throne.  This is why he's an anti-hero and not a villain.  In a vacuum, his actions against those who betrayed him are justified, and those people are more traditional villains that deserve to be destroyed.  But, he has prescience and knows the results will be catastrophic, thus he is not a hero.

     

    But what do his justifications matter if he knows his actions are going to lead to a genocide? I just can't see him as anything other than evil.

  5. I get the criticism of Alien: Isolation being too long / weirdly paced, but I enjoyed the fuck out of pretty much every second of it and probably still would've even if it were twice as long. That was the ideal game for me. I love Alien. I love horror and feeling frightened, but horror movies rarely if ever scare me anymore. That game probably made me feel the most genuine terror and fright from any piece of media I've ever consumed.

    • Like 6
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Guidelines. Feel free to read our Privacy Policy as well.