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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Apr 23, 2023 12:59:42 GMT -5
I watched The Purge: Election Year last month and Laney Rucker isn’t that bad of a character. However, when she declares, “Pequena muerte is back bitches” it just comes off lame as hell.
I think they wanted to build out The Purge world with more returning characters since Frank Grillo’s character in the previous movie had a great fan reaction and even returned for this one. But that moment just came off as so forced, cliche, and above all LAME.
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Post by ace on Apr 23, 2023 13:10:10 GMT -5
There’s a moment at the end of Evil Dead Rise that rang as hollow as that one reads to me. The rest of the movie is great…and it’s just one line and not a deal breaker of any kind…just a moment of unearned fan service that didn’t work for me at all. The other couple call back lines in the movie did though…one in particular was a highlight of the movie for me. Just this one in the climax where I was like…ehhh…that’s a miss.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Apr 23, 2023 13:12:35 GMT -5
Neat, but would be the blanket term for desperation
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Apr 23, 2023 13:12:42 GMT -5
When the "Dark Universe" logo appeared on the screen before "The Mummy", people laughed.
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Post by Paul on Apr 23, 2023 14:10:15 GMT -5
Zero Cook and Acid Burn battling it out over the TV station's S-VHS (?) tape machine in the movie "Hackers".
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Apr 23, 2023 15:46:11 GMT -5
"You know what happens to a toad when it gets struck by lightning?"
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Apr 23, 2023 15:54:29 GMT -5
Look I'm as much of a feminist ally as can be but that "girl power" scene in Avengers: Endgame was just so hokey and pandering.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2023 16:12:44 GMT -5
Zero Cook and Acid Burn battling it out over the TV station's S-VHS (?) tape machine in the movie "Hackers". I believe you mean the greatest moment in tech history thank you very much!
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Apr 23, 2023 16:22:04 GMT -5
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Apr 23, 2023 16:37:43 GMT -5
"You know what happens to a toad when it gets struck by lightning?" Apparently, Toad was supposed to boast about his abilities through the movie, which would lead to the Storm scene. But since they cut that, it just seems weird.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Apr 23, 2023 16:44:28 GMT -5
Look I'm as much of a feminist ally as can be but that "girl power" scene in Avengers: Endgame was just so hokey and pandering. On the topic of movies that came out in the last five years or so, A Quiet Place. When the father screams. The rest of the movie I thought was solid, but that part was so cheesy it made me laugh in the theater.
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Post by Burst on Apr 23, 2023 16:49:27 GMT -5
Good Lord, there's so many moments in Rise of Skywalker I'll be here all day if I start complaining about them again. Pretty much 80% of the final battle, whether it's the literal cavalry on Star Destroyers, the figurative cavalry of fanservice that was the Deus Ex Armada, and Kylo Ren's ham-fisted and rushed redemption-equals-death... Palpatine himself was probably the *least* cringeworthy out of everything going on. Probably the sole highlight was Richard E Grant as General Pryde, who at least got as good of a death scene as a secondary Imperial was going to get.
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Apr 23, 2023 17:09:30 GMT -5
May I direct your attention to a confrontation between four heavily breathing wrestlers in WWE.
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Post by BorneAgain on Apr 23, 2023 19:39:36 GMT -5
Honestly take your pick from most of latter era Game of Thrones; many of them fit.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Apr 23, 2023 19:48:37 GMT -5
Video game moment, but there's this bit in Xenoblade 3 where hated but respected rivals Cammuravi and Ethel have been forced to work together to kill the party and then instead opt to kill each other as this glorious act of defiance that I just completely f***ing hated and thought was totally stupid and lame because, 1), their rivalry and Cammuravi as a character have both only been established in like one cutscene at that point, 2), every second of Ethel's screentime leading up to it is a flashing neon sign telling you she's going to die, and 3), it's yet another case (of MANY in the game) of the party winning a boss fight then getting their asses kicked in the subsequent cutscene and having to be bailed out by outside factors.
And even if I did feel anything from it they both stupidly come back to life later anyway.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Apr 23, 2023 20:01:15 GMT -5
In House of Cards (Netflix) when I forget which season, but the season ends with the First Lady saying she was leaving Underwood.
It came just after Underwood gave her one hell of heel promo telling her to do what she is told because their is jack shit she can do about it. It could have been a great way to end that season, with Claire getting her vengeance the following season.
But no, they had do that lame “YOU GO GIRL!” moment.
But of course Kevin Spacey turned out to be a horrible creep and never got to see his comeuppence.
Watch the Original UK version... Much better,
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Post by ERON on Apr 23, 2023 21:04:50 GMT -5
One of the few times I've ever yelled something out loud while watching a movie was when I shouted "Oh, come on!" at the end of Sorority Row when they gave the surviving characters a cheesy, undeserved "walking away from a burning building in slow motion while dramatic music plays" moment.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 23, 2023 21:32:23 GMT -5
Never Back Down isn't a movie that was going to be especially awesome, anyway, but there's a part of the movie where the antagonist and the lead give each other this nod of mutual respect and acknowledgment in a parking lot at the end of the movie, in what in a lot of media could be somewhat satisfying.
However, this comes after the antagonist has hospitalized the main character's friend by beating him half to death and leaving him on the main character's doorstep to pressure him into participating in an MMA fight with him. The main character defeats him, and that's what leads to this mutual respect moment... while his friend is STILL in the hospital. I guess it's just okay now that this happened to his buddy.
It just seems like they were trying so hard to lean into a ton of cliches that they didn't realize that some of them are incompatible.
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Apr 23, 2023 21:58:36 GMT -5
No amount of Snyder defenses will ever made this not silly.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2023 22:13:13 GMT -5
Never Back Down isn't a movie that was going to be especially awesome, anyway, but there's a part of the movie where the antagonist and the lead give each other this nod of mutual respect and acknowledgment in a parking lot at the end of the movie, in what in a lot of media could be somewhat satisfying. However, this comes after the antagonist has hospitalized the main character's friend by beating him half to death and leaving him on the main character's doorstep to pressure him into participating in an MMA fight with him. The main character defeats him, and that's what leads to this mutual respect moment... while his friend is STILL in the hospital. I guess it's just okay now that this happened to his buddy. It just seems like they were trying so hard to lean into a ton of cliches that they didn't realize that some of them are incompatible. This would be like if at the end of Bloodsport Chong Li and Dux hugged it out with Jackson still laid up in the hospital and after kicking Chong Li in the face 4 times and getting temp blinded by him minutes earlier.
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