our friendly pig monster faerie dude rips some monks into bloody parts then grabs a chest out of an alcove and it simmers and he throws it down and yells
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOW IRON!
I FOOKIN’ 'ATE IRON!
which is exactly the kind of reference that I–a hellfan–am looking for in my hellboy product!
no it’s not 
the monk won’t break his vow of silence and speak THE FOOKIN’ WORDS over THE FOOKIN’ BOX to open it (there is a seal over it which says it needs a Holy Man to Speak The Fookin’ Words before it will open) so the pigman gets around this by ripping out his tongue and putting it in his mouth and speaking the THE FOOKIN’ WORDS with the voice of the Holy Man
I kind of like this idea but the extreme level of gore (close-ups on the ragged tongue stump, sketchy ruined/jaw mouth computerface) is tonally weird and doesn’t feel appropriate to the property!
EDIT:
look I can’t make any more posts in this thread until someone else posts so I was going to just stop but now they’ve gone and actually done the “BABIES LIKE IRON” scene as a flashback but
BUT
Hellboy doesn’t actually say
“Babies like iron.”
He’s just like “I’ve got just the thing!” then he takes out the horseshoe and the baby starts fussing and he says “Yeah they hate this stuff! Iron! They hate it!” just the worst brick expository dialog they don’t even try to punch it up. The change is just a flattening, a removal of all character and charm.
No “Where’s that baby?” either!
Everything about the execution of this scene is worse than how it’s done in the source material what are they even trying to do what is the fucp-&))$)y)@}g*frjod:k
I watched the three Cs of Cinema: Cobra, Commando, and Colossal.
Cobra’s first 30 minutes are a slasher film! It also has way to much style and garish.
Commando. I liked looking at 80s malls and fashion. Then a grenade hurts Arnold’s belly. I am glad John Wick exists because that is the realization of this 8bit garbage.
Colossal was great! I heard it was great it was on J-Prime and it was great. That ending! I want to directly compare it to a different ending but it would be a spoiler.
biker boyz is amazing. all the fashion is incredible, big masculine coming of age lessons for everyone, dad hating, early-00’s biker aesthetics, laurence fishburne dadbod
“burn rubber, not your soul”
laurence fishburne has this racing manga-esque ability to block out everything in his vision except the road and the finish line
The original Lion King is still great. The cloud ghost is the one giant mistake of the movie. And well pretty much everything Mathew Brodrick says lands with a thunk and everyone in the room stops what they are doing and stares. I’m saying Gurren Lagan is a better version of this same story. And hey it actually is.
Man gurren laggan rules.
Oh yeah Lion King. I noticed the kung fu bit at the end is 3d for…some reason because the gorgeous animation done everywhere else doesn’t count? Computers I guess. Also computers: they use zoom in and zoom out on the animation stills so you can see the brush strokes. This is really obvious in one scene with Timon and Pumba who were clearly animated by different people seperately and layered. They even interact in the same way 3d models hug. What’s weird is it should be the opposite but Timon is zoomed in and you can see all the brush strokes and Pumba is solid clean lines.
I watched Alladin a while back and was shocked how cheap it looked but I guess they were spending all their fucking money on Lion King.
Disney had been a computer kick for a while (it was either Great Mouse Detective or Oliver and Company where they started; if not CGI, they had CAD-assisted backgrounds that were then printed out for filming) but that sounds like some Hanna-Barbera shit (H-B were also on a computer kick since the mid-80s and they fucking loved scaling shit).
with that said, I could see that happening because Disney usually divides labor by character and effects instead of by cut (though I would be shocked if they separated out Timon and Pumba to different teams)
rudie did your version have that weird new song “the morning report” they added in from the broadway musical
similarly i watched the lion king 1 1⁄2 yesterday which apparently has now been renamed “the lion king 3: hakuna matata” (i assume to not make people think it’s like a special edition of the original or something). i’d watched it when it came out, but all i remembered was the basic rozencrantz and guildenstern are dead concept. weirdly it gave me the feeling of an mcu movie: mostly snark and empty spectacle, jokes about how it ties in to the rest of the universe, po-faced maudlin heart-string tugging interrupted by more snark. much better animation than most of the cheapo disney sequels they were cranking out back then.
all i could think is how i want to edit these scenes into the lion king to make an unwatchable 2 hour disaster
The Japanese Bluray did not!
I will probably pass on LK3 buf I do want to revisit the Timon and Pumba TV show which I only saw as a VHS and have very powerful memories of.
Also watching this with English-fluent Lady Rude and Lion King is filled with HS/College words which was apparently a complaint with Frozen but Frozen doesn’t use Contention to lead into Succession.
The spoken Morning Report is this string of high level animal puns spoken in the background that ends with a gopher saying “news from the underground” and that’s like 4 things happening at once.
The cloud scene fucking sucks. I hate it. I hate it so much now. Simba realizes his father lives on in him and then his father immediately materializes in the sky to give him orders denying the self-actualization he just achieved.
I think being a native speaker breaks my brain with this but, uh
huh
I guess?
I read it around the time of release and saw it spread around but after seeing Frozen I definitely didn’t think so. Lion King’s Scar and Zazuu work overtime to be completely incoherent to children.
dumb follow up: just how many people are trying to watch these movies in English without some language ability
in the current tv show simba’s son can channel the anime power of super-roaring with the help of his ancestors lion ghosts that physically show up
In the sample of Japanese Audiences they always phase out the Sub from theaters and the Dub will stick around for 1-2 weeks more.
this just makes me think of the cool older guy in Oh! Lucy that tells the main character that he’s learning English so he can watch movies without subtitles
but, you know, weirder. because of the singing and stuff.
(oh god is what they think of me when I watch subbed stuff)
i tried to watch a bosnian movie about loneliness but it was about 9 people behind their laptops with different opinions on whether a girl should kill herself or not. like oh god i dont want to watch a movie where a young kid called loverboy is obnoxiously asking WHAT KIND OF GUN IS IT
i had to stop because it was annoying and boring me, but now i’ve woke up and im like ‘i wonder what chats up to’ but i was thinking about the movie. i’m probably going to get distracted by something i actually like, but maybe ill finish this movie
Well, Totoro and Ponyo are pretty useful for Japanese so…!
anything I have to say about Far From Home was completely obliterated by the first post-credits scene
JK SIMMONS AS J JONAH JAMESON AS ALEX JONES
This is my second Matsuda film and I think most of his films suck? This one he drugs a woman then there is a gratutitous sex scene. So I guess it worked out I guess.
