I say Donner, although it’s been years since I’ve watched Lester’s version. I’ll take the recycled time-travel ending over the forget-me-kiss any day. They’re both flawed, but Donner’s is a bit more enjoyable for me.
Also:
is just dumb.
A return to form for the franchise, full of fun characters and great action. I have no idea how anyone could possibly find any of the prequels superior to this.
I blame the filthy Millennials, who as we all know, don’t understand anything but anime.
No wonder they love the PT. Angsty emotional outbursts and everyone’s feelings are written all over their face.
Toss in a couple of those forehead X things and some huge sweat droplets and we’ve successfully made the PT an anime.
Hey now, take that weeaboo trash to the Fan-Edit subforum.
*clears throat*
Fight Night Champion is the best sports game ever made.
Sorry, no. It’s NHL '94.
Both of you are wrong. NBA 2K11 takes that title.
The clear winner is
Why bother keeping Doomsday at all? He was the worst part of the movie (or at least responsible for it).
I’ve always had sort of a hard time wrapping my head around the idea that all these Bonds are along the same timeline, even as a kid (maybe harder for me because there was 20 films and therefor more to reconcile).
Yeah, but Gogol’s appearance in the Living Daylights ties Dalton in with Moore, and Moore’s leaving flowers on his wife’s grave ties him to Lazenby, who was tied to Connery since Connery sought revenge on Blofeld in Diamonds Are Forever. The age and appearance makes no sense of course, but I guess that’s the consequence of a several decade long series.
I call it luck.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Director’s Cut)
Weird two-second continuity mistake towards the beginning, but other than that it’s really great. The new transfer of both cuts is fantastic (the cool-blue look is gone!)
A+
Millenials only, all others who enter this thread have committed a Trigger™ and should have their first amendment rights revoked. This includes the Gen-*ers (censored bc that letter is a Trigger™). Besides, they have their own thread called the (Trigger™ Warning) “Gen X Thread” (end Trigger™) so they don’t need to be here anyway.
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Purchased Star Trek II DC today, mostly for the new transfer without the cold blue tint everywhere. Now I have to figure out how to remove this “FREE MOVIE TICKET FOR STAR TREK BEYOND” offer sticker from the slipcover.
Speaking of which, I can’t find said ticket or instructions on how to obtain it. Anyone know how to get it?
EDIT: used hair dryer to remove sticker. Now I shall not ruin any more slipcovers. Code for ticket on back of sticker itself.
Gravity (2013)
Almost as good on Blu as it was in the theaters. Simple yet so effective.
9/10
I really should give it another chance. Saw it once with some friends and, although it all looked great, I didn’t care much for any of the characters or the story. It’s been a couple years and my tastes have changed, so maybe it deserves another watch.
Captain America: Civil War May change after I’ve seen it again, but for now it narrowly takes the top spot. A
CA: The Winter Soldier A
The Avengers A
CA: The First Avenger Marvel’s most underrated IMO, but I’m a sucker for the period setting. A-
Guardians of the Galaxy Nearly perfect until the somewhat underwhelming climax. B+
Iron Man Similar to Guardians, has an underwhelming climax. B+
Avengers: Age of Ultron Has trouble balancing characters and has too much sequel setup. B
Ant-Man Pretty generic. If it weren’t for Rudd and the scenes where his friend is explaining stories B-
Iron Man 3 Pretty good until the Mandarin twist. Everything after that is trash. C+
IM2 There’s some good stuff in here. Sadly, it’s hidden behind pointless scenes and sequel setup. C
Thor Pretty bland other than Loki. Thor’s scientist friends’ intern is incredibly annoying, Thor is suddenly worthy despite not actually changing at all. C-
Thor: The Dark World Literally the only good thing about this is Loki. D+
My ratings of each movie actually tend to slightly shift in my head sometimes.
Never watched Incredible Hulk all the way.
Toy Story 1&2 both get A’s from me, perhaps even A+'s (it’s been a little while). 3 gets a B+ or A-, the animation looks more real, but also has much less interesting designs and colors.
Also, they’re making a 4th one.
I just heard that Taylor Swift broke up with his girlfriend
I heard instead that she broke up with her boyfriend, but maybe you’re right.
The Martian
Lots of good characters and an engaging story.
A
Daddy’s Home
When the jokes weren’t bland, they were flat out cringeworthy.
D+
FADE IN
EXT. HALL OF THE COUNCIL - DAY
People are seen walking into this glistening tower to witness what will be, unbeknownst to them, the most important decision their leaders will ever make. It also will be their last.
INT.
The High Council of the planet Krypton is meeting to hear the startling theories of a young scientist named Jor-El. Jor-El wears a black, skin tight suit under a red cloak with a large silver band across the front, with a circle on each end. A thin silver headband runs between his brow and his hairline. The eight council members, dressed in green cloaks, ornamented in gold, sit in a row looming high above Jor-El and the other citizens that came to the public meeting. On the wall behind the Council is a massive, curved computer screen that has only a single image; three bright green circles connected by two moving wavy lines.
COUNCILMAN #1: Jor-El, we grow tired of your apocalyptic fantasies!
JOR-EL: They are not fantasies! Look at the data! I have given you the evidence you need, why do you still deny it?
COUNCILMAN #7: Have you submitted your data into Braniac?
Jor-El pauses for a moment. He sighs.
JOR-EL: Yes, I have, but you must–
COUNCILMAN #7: Then let us hear what Braniac says of it! Brainiac, is Jor-El’s theory true?
The wavy lines of what is considered Brainiac’s face begin to move faster as Brainiac speaks.
BRAINIAC: His findings are most intriguing, although his conclusion is incorrect.
The image on the screen shrinks and moves to the top right corner. Replacing it’s position in the center is an image of the planet Krypton.
BRAINIAC: As I have told the council before, the recent tremors are caused by a simple polar shift. It will pass in time, and life shall return to normal. You will, however, need to alter your compasses.
The image of the planet fades, and Brainiac’s face return to the center of the screen.
COUNCILMAN #2: Well then, Jor-El, it seems Brainiac has spoken. Your theory has been disproven.
JOR-EL: Brainiac is wrong!
COUNCILMAN #5: Impossible!
JOR-EL: Surely there is a mistake! A glitch, or–
COUNCILMAN #8: You simply have not given us enough evidence to base your outlandish theory upon, El.
COUNCILMAN #1: It is the council’s decision that your proposed mass evacuation of the planet will not occur. It is so ordered!
Jor-El looks down, defeated.
EXT. EL HOUSE - NIGHT
The a flat, round building that rests upon a ridge. Night is approaching, the sky is a rich shade of purple. Two moons are visible, one significantly nearer to the planet than the other.
JOR-EL: They are fools, Lara, all of them!
INT.
Lara Lor-Van sits on a couch, gazing out the large bow window as her husband paces around the room, yelling. Lara is a tall woman with long black hair and bright blue eyes. A small white dog rests in the corner.
JOR-EL: How can they so easily trust a… a heartless machine!
LARA: Can you really blame them, Jor? Brainiac has never been wrong before.
JOR-EL: Neither have I.
LARA: What if you are now? What if the whole planet was evacuated and nothing happened? What then, Jor?
JOR-EL: Then we have lost nothing. If I am right and we still do nothing, we have all lost everything!
The couple is quiet for a moment, as they watch the sun finally set through the window. Suddenly, the ground begins to shake. Jor-El rushes to the couch and holds Lara tightly until the tremor subsides.
JOR-EL: I’m going to Brainiac.
LARA: Now? You need to rest.
JOR-EL: I can have no rest until I know with absolute certainty that I have nothing to be worried about.
Jor-El kisses his wife and leaves the room.
EXT. CITY OF KANDOR – PAN WITH JOR-EL
Jor-El races through the city on a sleek grey vehicle. He stops at a tall, black tower bedecked with several green lights and purple lights.
INT. BRAINIAC HUB
Jor-El walks to a keyboard at the end of a long platform.
JOR-EL: Brainiac, this is Jor-El seeking information on the recent tremors.
The face of Brainiac appears on a great screen before Jor-El
BRAINIAC: Welcome, Jor-El. I’m afraid I cannot give you information on the tremors at this time.
JOR-EL: Why not? You exist to give information.
BRAINIAC: Your statement is true. However, I am currently restructuring my security protocols. If you return tomorrow, perhaps I–
Jor-El begins to type furiously on the keyboard. Suddenly the keyboard flashes red and disappears, leaving only a flat table at his fingertips.
JOR-EL: How did you do that?
BRAINIAC: I am afraid I cannot give you any information at this time.
JOR-EL: You’re a machine, you can’t be afraid of anything. Tell me now, what in Rao’s name are you doing?
BRAINIAC: Rao is the ancient mythological deity of–
JOR-EL: You’re stalling, what for?
BRAINIAC: Upload complete
JOR-EL: What upload? What have you done?
BRAINIAC: Krypton is soon to be destroyed, I have uploaded myself and all Kryptonian knowledge to a satillite to preserve for the education of other worlds
JOR-EL: I was right! Krypton is doomed! Why did you lie?
BRAINIAC: By the time you submitted your data, it would have been to late to begin evacuation. Krypton has but hours left.
A look of horror falls upon Jor-El’s face.
INT. EL HOUSE
Jor-El works frantically to prepare the escape rocket for his wife and child. Lara walks in from another room.
LARA: Jor, what are you doing?
JOR-EL: I was right. Brainiac lied because it was too late for mass evacuation. It ends tonight. I prepared this craft for the worst-case scenario. You and Kal should be able to escape in time.
Lara stands quietly. She does not know how to feel.
LARA: Where will we go? I could not adapt to the culture of another world, you must send Kal alone. He is a baby, he would grow up among them, become one of them.
Jor-El stops his frantic calculations and calibrations. He lets out a sob as he tries to speak again.
JOR-EL: Bring Kal here. It’s time.
Lara runs into the child’s bedroom and returns with him in her arms. She places him in the blue rocket and lays a hand on his forehead as he wakes up and begins to cry.
LARA: Kal-El, my son, be a light to your new world. Give them hope.
She wraps him in a blanket, her piercing blue eyes shed tears as she does.
JOR-EL: Do not be afraid, Kal. You will be safe on a world far from here. If they do not accept you, you will be strong enough to protect yourself.
LARA: I love you.
Jor-El closes the rocket. He and Lara back away from it. They embrace and the ship flies away. At the same time, the final tremor begins.
EXT. KRYPTON
The small blue craft flies away from the planet as it explodes.
TITLE (REVEALED AS ROCKET PASSES THROUGH SPACE): THE MAN OF TOMORROW
I was bored a while back and started work on my own Superman script. I’ve never really written before so hopefully this isn’t a total disaster.
DuracellEnergizer already has a script in progress for a Superman story, and there’s no way this will be as good as his. So if you absent-mindedly clicked on this thinking it was an update to his, I’m sorry to disappoint you.
Feedback is welcome.
Indiana Jones and the…
…Last Crusade
Fun, if a bit tame in comparison to its predecessors.
A
…Kingdom of Awkward Self-Parody
I used to hate it, but now I actually don’t. Mainly because it isn’t really worth the effort to actively hate it. It’s just awkward and dumb, but it’s mostly harmless since it’s a very distant sequel.
D+
Those games will never beat the classic; Super Wario World
That’s actually a damn-near exact replica of a terrible Wario64 thread from earlier this year. It had a weird title and was just the syntax post.
Exactly. Not only is it awful, but it’s imitating awfulness trying to live up to it. It’s awful^2.
I thought the Warcraft movie was animated. I just saw a new tv spot and there are live action humans.
It looks terrible!
Not that I had any interest either way, but I’m surprised that the long awaited film to such a huge franchise has such poor cgi. I mean, it looked fine when I thought it was supposed to look like an animated film, but I guess they think it all looks real…
Too much time playing video games and not enough interaction with the real outside world?
As someone who has never played the games, I saw the trailer when I went to see another movie and I asked my brother “Is this supposed to be Shrek: Origins?”
Then we saw the humans and the eventual title card and we both agreed that it was much, much worse than we feared.
Seriously, what is this?
The meaning of life
How can the meaning of life be a long-dead meme? Really, the meme died long ago. Find some fresher memes. Free yourself from the frog’s meme hell.
X-Men: Apocalypse
Takes a while to get going, but I don’t think any of it could really have been cut. It feels like it shouldn’t have been 2 and a half hours, and yet it almost really had to be.
Some of the CGI is bad, though most of it is fine.
It may be my favorite cinematic representation of the X-Men team because it actually is a team. For only the second time, an X-Men movie was actually about the X-Men and not “Wolverine: Guest starring The X-Men”. Wolverine only has a brief cameo.
B+
I would love to see the good guys and First Order team-up against some more powerful enemy
Such as?
idk some kind of xXsIthl0rD420Xx
The First Order finds out that Snoke is just 2edgy4them and needs to be stopped.
Which thread is that? I must have missed it.
I believe it is the “What do you want to see in the ST” thread.
