The Unholy Dragon
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Incredible Hulk (drinks Banner blood tainted soda), Guardians of the Galaxy (with two hot alien women to Rocket's "Who you tryig to fool?" comment), and Thor (trying to move the hammer with the pickup) for best Stan cameos imo.
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There's at least a couple good ideas and visuals in there. The 'mouth stitched shut' motif is creepy and 'Hi friend' gets kinda unnerving after a while. It's not a masterpiece but it's at least semi-competant. 10-20% range surely.
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Also Deathstroke in the comics is super protected. He nearly beats the Justice League single handedly, routinely hands the Teen Titans their ass, and beat Batman solidly in their first hand to hand encounter. Even top martial artists like Black Canary and Cassandra Cain could only fight him to a standstill at best. Green Arrow beat him once after literally a year of prep including setting a meticulously planned trap and retraining himself under one of Deathstroke's mentors. He was SUPER protected as far as villains go.
Hell, even in Arrow he hands Ollie his ass repeatedly until Ollie finds the one way to beat him. Stuff like the Arkham games just chump him because he's usually brought in as a hired gun and the lead character has to beat the bad guy. But those usually also remove or downplay the powers in favour of him being evil Batman.
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Ouija is the deformed mutant bastard child of Insidious and the 90s. Complete with Lin Shaye.
It's not good. But 7% on RT is some clear anti-horror bias as it's also not *that* bad.
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On an Anime note, Paprika has some amazing visuals.
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See, Apocalypse looks fine in those other photos. I just can't fathom who thought the Ivan Ooze look would be our best intro to him.
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It's the modern horror problem. They feel the need to foreshadow blatantly then immediately deliver before you forget. And they need to show everything. They also have a stupid shitty twist into a jumpscare planned for the ending.
And I'm the rare guy who still digs found footage films but my god, using found footage style made no sense here.
My problem was that if you cut out the ending and one or two bits, it's a good movie as is. I propose this:
Cut out the scene where it shows you what happened to the douchebag. Change ending to prop working correctly, Charlie satisfied by closed loop. Guy gets girl, no stupid twist.
Two changes total that would have at least made it decent rather than infuriating. Because the concept is great, the setting is great, there's strong tension early on, and the scene where
douchebag is in the small crawlspace and looks up to see the shadowed outline of a hanging body
are all great. The potential was there. Just...squandered.
And where the fuck was the awesome locker scene from the trailers? Coulda used that scale.
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It's bizarre. I ragequit the Excavator after dying like 20 times. Get up the next day? Beat it with minimal difficulty, one death only and after the second checkpoint.
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For all its flaws, Silent Hill had some beautiful and/or terrifying visuals. Had the look of the franchise if not the rest.
Also Scott Pilgrim while we're on the adaptation trail.
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Bless this franchise for giving us the true superhero comic experience.
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Beware the Batman got seriously slept on. It got great.
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I think Jingus basically beat me to my argument. But yeah, I think aside from Freddy vs. Jason and Jason X (which isn't GOOD but I love) the remake is my favourite of them. The acting and delivery all just hits in a way the original series doesn't. I'm actually disappointed the sequel plans died.
But that Nightmare remake...yeesh. Very much a case of trying to make something scarier doing the opposite by taking itself too seriously. It's not even terribly made so much as grotesquely lifeless.
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and y'all are still crazy for voting anything named "Thor" over anything containing the words "Iron Man". Loki ain't THAT cool to save those goofy garish self-important movies by himself.
I don't think any of those movies outside of the first Iron Man are anything I'd consider "good" so for me it's like arguing the Nightmare remake vs. the Friday the 13th remake.
Wait. But the Friday the 13th remake was awesome and maybe the best in the franchise on balance.
This is way more a sidebar for the horror thread though.
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I mean...it's tied into the Sharknado and Predator franchises. I feel like that should give a pretty good indication what to expect on that front.
At least it's genre appropriate.
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So it's going around Tumblr that Pixels has a worse RT score than The Room. But the real takeaway is that The Room has a RT score of 35% which feels inexplicably high given how many totally decent movies end up in that range for one reason or another.
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Found a pretty thorough Riddler puzzle guide, so I'm getting through those fairly quickly now. Have about half of them. Is the
flower in front of Ivy's plant
a timed deal? Because it's not there right now.
Has the be after a story event takes place so it depends where you are in the game. A lot of them won't unlock until around when you beat the main story.
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Just destroyed the
Cloudburts
and I hope I never see a gd cobra drone again.
I feel that and I'm sorry. There's at least one more Cobra drone thing but it's such a wayeree down version of that one as to be easy in comparison.EDIT: That was supposed to say watered down but I like it and I'm keeping it.
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Kimmy Schmidt compares much more favourably in humour than DD does in drama. The superhero bias alone.
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The Joker/Harley plus goons fight was great. Also we finally got classic costume Harley in this series.
Beat Riddler today and got the firsthand full ending. Liked it better the second time but still felt rushed relative to the scope they wanted. Hopefully the rumoured "Season of Infamy" DLC improves that.
Also hoping they add some AR challenges for all the characters. Definitely find it a step down from the previous challenge system.
Any word on when the Red Hood DLC gets wide released?
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I mean, it shouldn't be a huge shock really. The whole plot revolves around it being a 'last' Batman story. Arkham City's Joker death felt like a forced attempt to add gravitas to the ending. It failed in many ways because of the ridiculous death orgy beforehand as well as the bizarre Clayface fight but I thought the ending was the weakest part of City. So it should be no surprise then, that
Batman being unmasked and 'retired'
Is the least interesting part of *this* story which weirdly seems more like a final Joker story than Arkham City despite Joker already being dead. It was the depth City needed. Only there's no more games to develop this ending into.
Kinda glad for the Riddler break actually.
Hearing goons on the street's reactions to Bruce's unmasking is better than the unmasking itself.
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Personally I'm hoping he grows 20 feet tall and they fight him in the X-Megazord. But I'd be unreasonably down with the whole thing turning into a mutant Super Sentai.
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It's got a good combination of humour and heart. Lots of really emotionally involving episodes. Also the gems all being genderfluid with some outright lesbian relationships has made it pop with the LGBT community. What since...
Pearl was in love with Steven's mom and Garnet is a fusion of Ruby and Sapphire, that form being the ultimate expression of their love.
It is maybe the gayest US kids show ever and that's connecting. But beyond that it's also just got really great character work once it hits its stride.
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I'd probably go...
1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2. Guardians of the Galaxy
3. Avengers: Age of Ultron
4. Iron Man
5. Thor: The Dark World
6. Ant Man
7. Thor
8. Captain America: The First Avenger
9. Iron Man 3
10. Avengers
11. Incredible Hulk
12. Iron Man 2
It's not 100%. I've soured on some and grown on others. Notably the bubble popped on the first Avengers, Incredible Hulk, and Thor while some sequels have done better for me. Also as much as I hate the Iron Man 3 twist, the first stretch and big action scene are awesome enough to land it in the mid-list.
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Honestly the mid-film fight is top 5 in the MCU for me along with Iron Man vs. Hulk in AoU and basically the three big fights in Winter Soldier. And the end film showdown was terrific as well. I'd definitely rank this as the second beat action choreography in the MU behind Winter Soldier.
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase II Discussion
in "COMIC BOOK" MOVIES & TV
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I'm enjoying them while I can because I can't imagine there will be that many more.