Tyrphanax said:
Aw, the movie is awesome in a "campy, tongue-in-cheek, propaganda-laden satire-of-militarism" way. Less so in a "true-to-the-source" way.
It's a fine Paul Verhoeven flick but does not deserve the title.
Tyrphanax said:
The sequels lose all the "deeper" satire and parody and actually do suck, though.
It's all shallower than a dried up puddle compared to the book. =P
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
A while ago I found myself somewhat fascinated by the Military Scifi subgenre. Turns out there's quite a bit of it out there. Luckily, I happen to have a friend who is into it. So he gave me a list of books to check out and Starship Troopers was at the top of the list. I was already curious because I've seen the film and the aforementioned friend HATED it. It was pretty good. Far bigger in scope than the film and why in the world would they leave out the mech suits!?! Those would be amazing on the big screen! Ah well, maybe someday they'll actually try to make a faithful adaption.
I am beyond excited. If they bring back Kurtz my heart might stop.
DuracellEnergizer said:
I did see Blues Brothers 2000, once, back in 2001, and I recall liking it a lot. Suffice it to say, though, that means absolutely nothing...
Current evidence suggests otherwise.
This is all I can think of when I look at that Kenobi:
greenpenguino said:
Easy A also has references to 80s John Hughes films, of which I have never seen before
(I dig 80s movies.).
Does not compute. John Hughes is the 80's.
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SilverWook said:
The prequels unfortunately set up the obvious question, why not take Luke or Leia to Dagobah and train them for the next twenty years?
Would you trust this to raise two newborns in a swamp?
The etc. is in reference to video sites. We have the General Random Star Wars Thoughts thread for non-video related StarWarsiness.
Played a good bit of Spartan Ops now. It's okay. The pre-rendered cutscenes are neat but the gameplay bits aren't anything to write home about. We'll see where the story goes.
Also, I'll just post this here as I have no idea where else it should go. =P
There's also no video...
doubleofive said:
SomeBODY! I always get that wrong!
You got what was said right. The captions differ.
I was thinking about it but I didn't have the time to devote to a proper photoshop job. =P
WHAT HAPPEN?
SpilkaBilka said:
I hope it's an adventure movie, like Star Wars.
This.
bkev said:
One movie every 2-3 years? Try 2-3 movies produced EVERY YEAR.
Yeah but you have to remember Kathleen is not a Star Wars nut. She's a respected and legitimate producer. When they very first announced that George was stepping down back in June, Kathleen expressed then that she wanted to make movies. None of us assumed then that she meant Star Wars movies and likewise now, I doubt that's what she means here. I think we're going to start to see Lucasfilm branch out and become more diverse in their film catalog.
First ‘Prometheus’ Writer Admits the Film Was Originally ‘Alien: Engineers’
Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
Wonderful film. It has a lot of easter eggs and shout outs to arcade history. It even has a character based on Walter Day! I also loved the animated short Paperman before the film as well.
Quantum of Solace (2008)
Not bad. Not brilliant but it had a nice pace to it. Still the most ridiculous title.
Skyfall (2012)
Now that's what I'm talking about! Took them three films but they're finally regaining their stride.
Mithrandir said:
There's one questionsurprisingly no one asked about all this huge news... which is who the villain/antihero would be.
This is the guy who gets my vote:
Dude even had his own awesome troops. I always felt bad for him because his first appearance was never finished and he was then forgotten for decades.
xhonzi said:
Why for Sans Wars*? I really liked it and C3PX played at least 10 minutes of it before he gave up.
I tried the demo, it was okay. I've never been an RTS person. So I watched all of the cutscenes on Youtube. =P
Halo 4 is awesome! Graphically it was far and above the pretty cartoony 3. I've always thought there was a bit of relation between Halo and Mass Effect. Mostly creature design wise. These new graphics bring them a lot closer together. The main villain in this is CREEPY.
Story was pretty interesting. I'm glad to see it fits in with all of the pre-established canon perfectly. The dialog was okay, it seemed to be lacking the wit that was common in the others. But then again this was a bit of a darker story.
Gameplay was good. The new default control scheme is pants though. I'm glad you can get pretty close to 3's controls with the Recon layout. Multiplayer is great and pretty addictive. Haven't tried Spartan Ops yet, waiting for when my friend is available.
Overall 343 did a fantastic job and I'm looking forward to the rest of the new trilogy.
Casino Royale (2006)
I have to say, it was better than I expected. I saw it when it first came out but I only had the vaguest of recollections of it. Though I will say that after the first 20 minutes or so I was ready to write it off as a good action flick but not what I'd call a Bond film. Then it got better. It's interesting, Craig's Bond. Lots of anger there but there are still glimmers of the Bond we know.
I'm kind of dreading watching Quantum of Solace, it like Royale I barely recall but I do remember being bored to tears. But Skyfall is tomorrow night so looks like I'll have to bite the bullet.