Yeah, I went and watched all the stuff made by the director(s). Timo’s non-action flicks suck. There’s one horror film where he manages to rip off both The Evil Dead and The Conjuring in one scene alone.
I love this guy lol. Didn’t post the clip originally because there were no subs. Btw, just for fun since you’ve watched the movie, the curse words they keep yelling all the time are inaccurate in the subs. “Anjing” means “dog” in Bahasa Indonesia and “Chee Bye” means “cunt” in Hokkien. I don’t think I’ve ever heard the latter constantly being used in a movie before because it’s one of the most vulgar terms in the region. Not even in Taiwanese flicks where Hokkien is their main language. Add the word “chow” to it and it’s “rancid cunt” lol. And this was supposed to be some weird tribute to HK flicks.
It’s so silly and over-the-top but they take it seriously and the gore is pretty realistic. That’s what I love about this movie even though it makes absolutely no sense. Like, why the fuck is an entire gang attacking a single guy one at a time when they have enough space to flank or circle him lol? I was fucking lol-ing in the scene above when that one guy out of the entire gang enters the house and gets his neck half cut off while the others are just waiting their turn to go in as if there’s some invisible force field that only allows one to enter at a time.
It’s like the guy was thinking, “Uh need a little help here, guys! Stop yelling and waving your *machetes around like you’re doing something and actually do something!”
I’m imagining the directors telling the other guys, “Come on, continue yelling! Ok, next guy! Go!”.
*it’s actually called a “parang” which has a slightly different shape than a machete. Gangs really use that IRL all the time in fights in S.E Asia. You have to provide your ID and other details for record purposes when you buy one in some countries. I actually have a couple in my storeroom because I used them as props for a short film long ago and it was cheaper than a fake one lol.
Is it acceptable to post violent clips like these on the forums?
I’ve recently started watching a series called “invincible” on Amazon. Seems like you’re average Saturday morning, family orientated superhero cartoon at first… But Jesus Christ, it’s something else. I won’t spoil anything, but if you like gore; you’ll like this. Also has a good story and it’s very entertaining for what it is.
Extremely graphic though, if you have kids (or even young teenagers) or a wife/SO it’s best to watch this in private, out of eyeview.
Give it a watch sometime if you have the time
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Watched this one on Netflix with the family. Based on a true story. Very predictable and heartwarming. Great job from the lead actors. 7/10
Book is better, my son tells me.
I’m not really into gore for gore’s sake. It’s just that over-the-top shit that borders on slapstick played with deadpan seriousness normally goes hand in hand with it. That’s the stuff I love. It’s why I dig HK movies. E.g there’s a movie called Eastern Condors starring Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao and the now famous Hollywood martial arts choreographers Yuen Woo Ping and Corey Yuen(none of them are related. They graduated from the same batch in the same opera school as Jackie Chan and took on the surname “Yuen” for some reason) where the entire movie is the 3rd act of the Dirty Dozen set in the Vietnam War and everyone knows kungfu and the main Vietcong bad guy, played by Yuen Wah, somehow knows Eagle Kungfu.
Sammo Hung somehow manages to slit a guys throat by intricately hurling a blade of grass really fast but it’s executed with such a serious manner and tone that it almost manages to convince you that it could be possible lol.
The John Wick movies managed to do all this without the gore. But a pencil can’t beat a fucking blade of grass.
There’s hope for us old guys:
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Godzilla vs Kong
I think this is the kind of movie that appeals to fans of the original Godzilla movies and people who just want to watch 2 big monsters punching each other while buildings get crushed and lots of CGI spectacle. For others, it has nothing much to offer. Don’t get me wrong. It’s very well made unlike the previous movie. The CGI is top notch. It’s just that the plot is so unoriginal Roland Emmerich would have turned it down and the human characters suck. They’re just fillers between the monster fights. They could have cut out one subplot in it’s entirety, reduced the running time to 1.5hrs, and there would be no difference in the narrative but the pacing would have been better and I would probably have liked it a lot more.
Which is a pity because this could have been a really good B movie if they had written just a little more stuff for them to do and this filmmaker is capable of making it interesting. I was really hoping for something really silly like The Core at the start when they were planning to travel to a Jules Verne version of the center of the earth.
I can’t rate this shit. Hell, I can’t justify my own love for Transformers 3 and The Core lol. I think most people will either love it or be bored by it.
It’s not like the first new Godzilla movie where technically it was very well made but it took itself too seriously and all the human characters were so bland except for Mr White and even the fights either were boring or too darkly lit and confusing, or broadcast ON A FUCKING TV SCREEN within the movie, except for one really nice EMP scene.
It doesn’t try to be clever like the previous movie where they show most of the fighting from the POV of the humans that we never gave a shit about with all the pointless allusions to climate change and dumbass characters spouting all kinds of woo woo shit.
Here they just show all out monster brawls in the day where you can see all the action and let them play out without resorting to any gimmicks or “artistic” angles and shit obscuring or distorting the view of the full carnage. If you’re a Godzilla fan or a fan of big monster brawls, you’ll get more than what you came for.
I’ve gotta give props to the filmmaker for knowing what the audience came for and just wanting to entertain them without any self-consciousness or any heavy handed messages and artistic pretensions.
For people who don’t really care, I’ll just tell you who wins:
Of course Godzilla wins. Duh. The fucker gets energy from a fucking NUCLEAR BOMB detonating right beside him ffs while Kong gets knocked out by human tranquilizers and can’t even break through a couple of steel restraints. What were they made of? Adamantium? Vibranium? He’s a wuss. The only advantage he has is that he’s supposedly a lot smarter but it’s still not a fair fight.
The real villain is Mechagodzilla. He emerges and almost kicks Godzilla’s ass just after Godzilla is already tired from kicking Kong’s ass but refrains from killing Kong after mortally wounding him. Kong almost dies anyway but gets his heart restarted by someone detonating a silly looking flying vehicle powered by some scientific shit like the flux capacitor, gets up and helps him Godzilla beat him.
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I refused to go watch this. I’ve seen the old monster films and various schlocky low budget variants. Not interested in these films, reading the premise alone killed off a large amount of my valuable brain cells
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Actually going to a theater for the first time since December 2019 to see this today. Just happy to be back at the movies.
Edit: Now that I’ve seen it, where do I begin? It was a fun movie. It was fantastic to be back in the theater. The volume was a bit high throughout the movie. Almost painful at times. The fights were what I had hoped for and the reason I went at all. The thing is, the script…you know how some movies will have a plot point where something WAY too coincidental happens or where a character just happens to know a piece of information pivotal to moving the story along? That is EVERY THING in this movie. I swear they sat down to make the most ludicrous script they could and worked their ever loving asses off to accomplish it. Have to respect the effort.
Two Titans fighting in the middle of the ocean was the MOST believable thing in the movie. But it was fun.
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As a hardcore unapologetic fan of the complete Toho series … I had a few issues . Which ill mention later.
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Would you watch this?
I’m really digging The Falcon and the Winer Soldier now. The chick who may or may not be the original Captain America’s daughter does a John Wick on a couple of assassins and it was awesome.
This is how I felt about the first Pacific Rim (not the second one. It was just hot garbage.). It was either the worst best film I’d ever seen, or the best worst film. Either way, I’ve watched it, like, three times.
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You obviously haven’t watched The Core lol. It’ll drive any science major crazy.
The characters are so stupid Harvey Dent has to resort to doing this to explain very simple concepts:
This isn’t even taking the ridiculous science and dialogue in the movie into account. That can take several posts. Fucking laughed non-stop throughout the movie.
To fully appreciate how absurd this movie was, the science in Battlefield Earth was more believable than in this movie. BATTLEFIELD EARTH. That movie about Scientology starring John Travolta.
Pacific Rim is the second greatest film of all time.
The first is a tie between Godzilla KOTM and Godzilla vs Kong.
If you don’t bother with the garbage narrative and focus entirely on the giant monsters/machines fighting one another.
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I dunno man. I was kinda bored lol. Never got into this Kaiju stuff. That’s why I said this kind of mindless shit is subjective. As long as it’s competently made and doesn’t aspire to be anything more than something to entertain the audience, I can’t rate it and I won’t judge other people’s tastes.
Transformers 3 ftw! It’s loud, it’s overbloated, it’s dumb and juvenile, and the dialogue is beyond stupid.
“This is code Pink, as in Pink Floyd, as in Dark Side of the Moon!”
LMAO.
But Optimus Prime kicks ass in the grandest, most magnificent way a CGI character has ever kicked ass!
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Seriously? I hated Godzilla KOTM. All the action takes place in the dark and I couldn’t see shit when they were focussing on the characters doing stuff while the fighting was going on and when they did focus on monsters, I also couldn’t see shit because of all the rain and smoke and shit constantly obscuring the scenes. I fucking hated it just for that. I’m not even taking into consideration the amount of woo woo shit that almost made me tear my hair out.
The only good thing about the movie was how cute Zhang Ziyi(the chick from Rush Hour 2 and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Hack Job) looked with a bob cut and wearing an oversized hoodie IMHO.
For Godzilla vs Kong, I’ll only accept that if Kong went, “Save Mothra!” while he’s just laying there defeated and Godzilla is deciding whether to nuclear blast him or not and Godzilla goes," Why did you say that name?!!". I’ll accept subtitles if they chose to make them just growl with the relevant facial expressions and tenor.
Would you watch this?
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Yeah, I just couldn’t get around Pacific Rim’s storyline. All that technology and we have to build robots to fist fight the aliens, and it takes almost losing to pull out a really effective sword, and it takes losing altogether to use a giant cannon, which could just be mounted right in front of the portal along with 30 other cannons and controlled from a safe enough distance that nobody gets hurt?
I also can’t stop laughing every time I see Charlie Hunnam’s facial expressions.
I usually just let ridiculous sci fi movies get away with this stuff, I honestly don’t know what rubbed me wrong about PR.
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The director is a a “visionary, oscar winning filmmaker”?
FWIW I think he’s not bad, but vastly overrated. He shines with B movies like Blade 2.
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