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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 8, 2023 7:28:45 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 7, 2023 8:13:25 GMT -5
Re-reading Unity right now, and wow is it different than I remember. Unity had tight continuity and beautifully explained things like Turok living alongside dinosaurs or Magnus's origins, but it suffered badly from comic-booky nonsense. Mothergod should not have needed a machine to rebuild reality, and even if she did she shouldn't have needed slaves to build it. The entire "resistance" aspect is ridiculous (and a cliché, too); if our time-displaced heroes were such a problem to Pierce, she could have isolated her city with a force-field of some sort (she's as close to a god as can be, after all), changed all the oxygen in the planet's atmosphere to argon for ten minutes, then changed it back. Or she could have burned everything down to the bedrock and later re-imported a new ecosystem from other time points. I mean, she's basically omnipotent... why waste time sending goons to trade blows with pestering gnats? Just nuke 'em from orbit, it's the only way to be sure. I understand that the plot required our heroes having a fighting chance, but the series' premise should have been set accordingly.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 7, 2023 7:55:58 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 7, 2023 7:35:23 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 6, 2023 6:34:43 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 5, 2023 20:42:44 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 5, 2023 17:09:46 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 5, 2023 17:09:00 GMT -5
Well said. While not particularly original (I fully agree about the John Wick vibe), this movie was pretty satisfying for what it was. I went in not expecting much and got a lot more silly enjoyment out of it than the premise suggested. Another cartoonishly violent film in that vein was Shoot them up, in which even a carrot becomes a lethal weapon. (...) Yeah, I really liked Shoot 'Em Up as well - although I'll readily acknowledge that a big part of its appeal for me is Monica Bellucci. Me too. Don't tell my wife.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 5, 2023 9:51:29 GMT -5
Well said. While not particularly original (I fully agree about the John Wick vibe), this movie was pretty satisfying for what it was. I went in not expecting much and got a lot more silly enjoyment out of it than the premise suggested. Another cartoonishly violent film in that vein was Shoot them up, in which even a carrot becomes a lethal weapon.
A sequel to this movie is an unfortunate cash grab. Highlander, Pirates of the Caribbean, Starship Troopers... they're all surprisingly good films that did not need a sequel. (Neither did Alien and Terminator, for that matter, but sometimes an inspired director manages to do something magical).
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 5, 2023 9:40:01 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 4, 2023 18:51:27 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 4, 2023 18:49:15 GMT -5
Despite the initial setback, it remains a good dream!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 4, 2023 8:12:26 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 4, 2023 6:27:51 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 3, 2023 20:35:05 GMT -5
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