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[Urist McScoopbeard]

Sonic watchers, would your opinion be any different if they used old abomination sonic instead of the redesign?

The CGI is disturbing now. I can only imagine the sweet sweet nightmare-fuel that might have been.

[Kagus]

Oh right, got to see 1917 last night.

It's... I mean, it's a good film. It's quite pretty (despite also giving a much grimier, grittier look at the state of WW1 than most media likes to portray, something I was also very appreciative of), and the cinematography of being mock-single shot is very exciting from a conceptual point of view (although this did make a few of the clip breaks fairly obvious when they happened, despite being disguised)... But good heavens, there were a lot of stupid decisions being made by the main character(s), and survival was basically only granted by virtue of the fact that the entire German army had apparently trained at the Imperial Stormtrooper Academy of Sharpshooting, whereas our main man could snapshot an enemy sniper behind a window at 100 paces with an unscoped Lee-Enfield.

The single-shot aspect was also... Well... While very interesting and also quite engrossing, it kinda gave the movie the odd quality of seeming like the film equivalent of a walking simulator.


All in all, a very lovely experiment in camerawork and scene composition/transition! Also a far more brutal and ghastly depiction of The War to End All Wars, despite still toning it down a bit for the silver screen. Beyond that, it's just a bit... Odd.

[Iduno]

Sonic watchers, would your opinion be any different if they used old abomination sonic instead of the redesign?

Do you think there would be any if they hadn't created controversy by forcing the artists to make a bad movie and then redo it with unpaid overtime?

[Urist McScoopbeard]

@Kagus,

it does feel a bit off doesnt? Despite all its achievements (and I also LOVED the film). To me, it seems a bit like The Odyssey with no return to Ithaca. That's probably kind of the point, but the story felt like its missing something.

[Iduno]

@Kagus,

it does feel a bit off doesnt? Despite all its achievements (and I also LOVED the film). To me, it seems a bit like The Odyssey with no return to Ithaca. That's probably kind of the point, but the story felt like its missing something.

The Illiad?

[Urist McScoopbeard]

The Illiad covers the (last bit of the) Trojan War, The Odyssey is Odysseus' long-foiled attempt to return to Ithaca (the island he is King of).

[scriver]

Greek names languages represent

[Iduno]

The Illiad covers the (last bit of the) Trojan War, The Odyssey is Odysseus' long-foiled attempt to return to Ithaca (the island he is King of).

I'd offer an explanation, defense, or apology if I could remember what the joke I was going for was. I've slept since then, and ?

[TD1]

I mean, it looks like you were saying "duh, of course the story is missing something. Its prequel!" *cue canned laughter*

[Kagus]

I'M THE DIRECTOR OF THE POOP TRAIN! CHOO CHOO!

[Iduno]

I'M THE DIRECTOR OF THE POOP TRAIN! CHOO CHOO!

I hope that when the author of that article wrote that a video game was massively popular, they immediately got a wedgie.

Something doesn't need to be popular.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Considering that even Borderlands' original game story was awful, my hopes for an adaptation are p low--I imagine just a big, flashy action gore-fest with LOTS of guns.

[Iduno]

Considering that even Borderlands' original game story was awful, my hopes for an adaptation are p low--I imagine just a big, flashy action gore-fest with LOTS of guns.

I hope that 75% of the movie is the characters repeatedly shooting the same people, looking bored, going through the loot, looking disappointed, then doing a loop again.


Edit: like most/all of the MCU movies, Iron Man 3 was disappointing. At least it would have been better if Disney wasn't too sexist to allow for a female villain in an Iron Man movie. They thought "Tony Stark said he'd meet me then didn't" was a better backstory for a villain.

[Kagus]

Considering that even Borderlands' original game story was awful, my hopes for an adaptation are p low--I imagine just a big, flashy action gore-fest with LOTS of guns.

That's what we're hoping for here, really.

[scriver]

Ya'll seen that Smokin Aces movie? The redneck brothers? I imagine a Borderlands movie to be basically that. For two hours.