Well, when you are trying new stuff, some are going to land and some are going to be duds. Not necessarily an indictment of their quality. Fans can be a very conservative bunch as well.
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Yeah, hasn’t this been obvious since day one?
Yay! Let’s make the Terminator into a Chinese franchise instead. Have Sarah and Arnold show up in Hong Kong, and ShangHai next movie. Add lots of native actors. Good for them! Good for China!
Yes! That’s my Captain Marvel. She was there for Secret Wars and she was a main player and a bad ass. I’ll take Monica and her fro over any vanilla blonde chick any day, ever!
I really like that there are a few oil paintings in there. Makes the art feels so much better and more tangible... Despite all the skill and effort, digital painting has an air of being disposable and vapid, which is unfair, but still....
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Frank Langella is majestic as Skeletor. It’s way over the top, but I love him!
Maybe DOA: Extreme VolleyBall fans are not the coolest crowd in gaming...
That’s a wonderful version! :)
It’s a nice enough Chun Li, but she aint got them trademark monster thighs that are made for kicking! Miss Li is a body type, just not a blue outfit. :)
So that was a spoiler.
Overall it’s not a strong period in Japanese film right now.... Compared to the Koreans who seem to deliver one triumph after another at the annual film festivals.
There are plenty of things I find highly annoying with the treatment of this adaptation. Jem & The Holograms were basically a superhero rockband complete with powers and multiple personalities. A superhero rockband with powers that turn any battle into a hyper stylish glam music video is a really fun and innovative…
I’m still angry at you! :)
That’s a great special effect. Stop motion and animatronics will always hold a special charm to me. I’ll take this over any morphing face, ever.
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Deer sequence from the Ring is up there.
How about that little cgi monkey from the 90s lost in space? Maybe the worst visual effect committed on film and a hyper frantic gremlin on speed. I’d throw it out the airlock.
Dropped the ball, eh? Just one of the most celebrated sci-fi movies of all time and considered a masterpiece of Russian cinema.
Or BladeRunner.... The list is endless.
The driving sequence is fine. It sets the tone and atmosphere of the movie. It’s visually interesting. I think we as an audience is just not used to longer shots and slower sequences anymore. Especially compared to the Russian intellectuals the movie was aimed towards.
Nah, that’s more a point of the book. Our inability to understand Solaris. Both Tarkovsky and Soderbergh were interested in other facets of that story or wanted to explore something different within that same plot. A movie is always an adaptation. If you were always forced to be an absolute slave to the source…