Threads is very good. My favorite post apocalypse movie because it avoids the libertarian wish fulfillment fantasy endemic to the genre.
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Iām going to have to mention Peter Watkinsā The War Game too.
Very clear after last weekās Question Time that these films should be aired on repeat daily.
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My local library had The War Game, and on the same disc was Culloden. I was impressed with both, though I couldnāt decide whether there were intentional moments of dark comedy in at least the first half of Culloden, or whether that was unintentional.
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this power rangers reboot is a nightmare
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So like do you reccomend it on those grounds?
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I watched Thailandās Suddenly Twenty on a plane. Then I watched Vietnamās Suddenly Twenty and went woah these are identical films.
Thailands was better I guess because the actress looked a whole lot like Audrey Hepburn.
Interesting to see two films tell the same story the same way with the exact same structural problems. The internet was slim on details on what is the original source for this story or how many other countries version of the same movie i can continue to watch.
I just finished reading HELLBOY IN HELL and HELLBOY THE MOTION PICTURE is on netflix and Iām sick so I rewatched it.
Itās pretty bad!
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i really want to see the second one again because i remember it being better than the first, but it will never avail itself to me on netflix and that makes me pissād
i saw both before i read any actual hellboy, and have had a chance to see how bad the first movie is in comparison to the books but havenāt been able to revisit part 2.
iām not exactly hopeful for the new one coming out, either. but the books still exist so oh well.
I donāt remember 2 very well but I donāt recall it fixing the fundamental problem of āletās make Hellboy act like a generic smarmy action jerk and about 14ā.
Also both movies just being a place for del toro to stick his āpretty ladies want to make out with angsty monster menā fetish to a point that it overwhelms the stories.
I might watch it today because I luv 2 suffer!!!
I watched it today because I luv 2 suffer!!!
It is better than that first movie but itās still tonally really weird and gives way too much of its running time to sitcom level interpersonal shit. Sometimes feels like a really high budget CW supernatural show with great art direction.
hey though, itās got that guy thatās totally not Elric of Melnibone in it though
He even wants to fuck his sister!
Elric was also known for his wushu spear stylings
Hellboy 2 is ālook at this character you love!ā for an audience not familiar with the source material it felt like.
Iāve never read Hellboy! Actually, I refuse to read Hellboy but I love Mignolaās art. One time I met him at a convention and got a bunch of his old stuff heād done on Phantom Stranger for DC in the 80ās. He was a big dick about the whole thing but something told me I had to have mad respect for this dude who illustrates hunks in shadows.
Why do you refuse, itās not like you have to actively avoid accidentally reading hell boy
I refuse to read Hellboy because the time I would have been genuinely interested in reading it has passed. The people that originally recommended it to me made a point of drumming me over the head with what a No Good Bad Dude I was for not reading Hellboy. Everyone since has made it out to be the Biggest thing andā¦Itās too a point where stupid nerds revere Hellboy to a point I donāt think Iād actually revere it.
One time at a comics panel I asked a bunch of modern comic artists if they read any comics that were didnāt have superheroes and they all went silent. Meekly, from the side of the auditorium Greg Capullo asked if Hellboy counted.
Sorry for bringing back memories of that trying time
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Hellboy was super popular during that time, and itās very ripe for canonization as being very Mall Goth. Mall Gothās loved that shit. All of the goofiest parts of it were the parts the Hellboy Fandom hung unto and all of the worst characters are the ones these dumb ass kids love. I sure as hell donāt give a heck hoot about any guy who would ever be voiced by Seth Mcfarlane.
Mignolaās done like everything for every comic with his art and hereās what Iāll say: you can experience that due a whole hell of a lot better as just an artist to appreciate and not some fuckin fake occult book about Red Demon Man
Hellboyās good tho
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Helllboy is a good dude
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