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Post by Bo Rida on Nov 29, 2023 17:11:10 GMT -5
I'm not sure what's going on but this movie sounds too much like njpw.
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Post by TOK Is the Target Demo on Nov 29, 2023 17:28:44 GMT -5
Madlibs why
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Post by TOK Is the Target Demo on Nov 29, 2023 17:50:15 GMT -5
Can we talk about the fact that Shrek exists in this continuity and the wealth of implications that brings to the universe. If nothing else this is like if in the real world in 2001 there were an animated kids' movie about a guy who is a reclusive loner because he's not white, a woman is hiding the shameful secret that she is also sometimes not white, and ultimately she has to choose to stay that way to be with him because they can't possibly be an interracial couple. In the original Shrek story, being an ogre is an allegory for Judaism. And even then, it's much less heavyhanded than whatever the 5% of Kneelift's brain that wasn't fixated on Kelly Kelly wrote in this mess
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Post by City Duck on Nov 29, 2023 18:18:55 GMT -5
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Nov 29, 2023 20:10:25 GMT -5
It wasn't a great movie, but it was a great IDEA for a movie.
This is the kind of film that actually should get remade. Good bones, but maybe they made some mistakes the first time around.
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Nov 29, 2023 20:30:26 GMT -5
It wasn't a great movie, but it was a great IDEA for a movie. This is the kind of film that actually should get remade. Good bones, but maybe they made some mistakes the first time around. Shadowrun already came up with the idea of a high fantasy setting in the modern day, and did it better.
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Post by chazraps on Dec 1, 2023 13:19:31 GMT -5
Anyway here's the exact moment I knew I was in hell I WAS NOT READY AND JUST ABSOLUTELY CACKLED!
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Dec 1, 2023 13:28:31 GMT -5
Watching is movie is an act of self harm, are you okay?
I hope you at least pirated it
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Dec 1, 2023 13:43:50 GMT -5
Can we talk about the fact that Shrek exists in this continuity and the wealth of implications that brings to the universe. If nothing else this is like if in the real world in 2001 there were an animated kids' movie about a guy who is a reclusive loner because he's not white, a woman is hiding the shameful secret that she is also sometimes not white, and ultimately she has to choose to stay that way to be with him because they can't possibly be an interracial couple. It raises so many question and when I watched the movie when it came out I couldn't stop asking them. Was Shrek a historical drama in this universe? Was it animated or was the Ogre live action? Is Mike Myers an Ogre/Orc in this universe? If not did he get in trouble for playing a character in greenface? Was the dragon considered a sex symbol in the Dragon community? Was Donkey based on a real talking Donkey or is that the only fantastical thing in the movie?
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Post by City Duck on Dec 1, 2023 13:48:15 GMT -5
I barely even touched on it here while I was watching the movie but shoutouts to the female characters in this movie.
There's like 4 of them in total and 3 of them are 😈 badass femme fatales 😈 with almost 0 lines while the friendly elf that rides with Will Smith and Orc Cop is a 😳 vulnerable lost girl whose kinda badass 🥺 and there's a f***ing dumbass scene near the end where very cool femme fatale #1 teases a kiss with the friendly elf underwater for no reason.
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Post by Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster on Dec 1, 2023 20:14:08 GMT -5
Honestly, I don't remember much about the movie itself.
However, I do remember this baffling UFC tie in....
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Post by Gunhaver on Dec 1, 2023 21:59:23 GMT -5
It wasn't a great movie, but it was a great IDEA for a movie. This is the kind of film that actually should get remade. Good bones, but maybe they made some mistakes the first time around. Shadowrun already came up with the idea of a high fantasy setting in the modern day, and did it better. I played a single session of shadow run like 15 years ago and remember it note for note. I watched this entire movie when it was released, twice, and forgot nearly every plot point until stumbling into the grimdark future that is this thread.
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Post by El Cokehead del Knife Fight on Dec 2, 2023 2:54:44 GMT -5
The thing that took me out completely is the Mexican cop saying that people still blame Mexicans for the Alamo. So the Mexican-Texas war took place but with random orcs and centaurs and shit?
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Dec 2, 2023 5:03:45 GMT -5
The thing that took me out completely is the Mexican cop saying that people still blame Mexicans for the Alamo. So the Mexican-Texas war took place but with random orcs and centaurs and shit? It's one of the big problems with the movie doing like an Alternate history and throwing in fantasy races like they've always been there... like you can't do that. History would not be exactly the god damned same if fantasy races were running around at the same time, the only difference wouldn't be like Jesus got attacked by Sauron and his orcs... but everything else exactly the same! So pop culture is almost entirely the same, Shrek, Mexico and the Alamo happened, hell even things like the Orc's fashion and Will Smith telling them to Crip walk away... so all of that stayed exactly the same but shifted on to orcs now? Or did Orcs coopt that style of dress and stuff? It's why in cases like Shadowrun fantasy races weren't always around and they just sorta appeared in the future at some point... through magic/mutations... you don't need to write an entire history as to how George Washington the elf had to fight King George who was actually a dragon... edit: I do wonder how much of hte mess that we're in blamed on Ayer, how much is blamed on old Knee, and how much is studio meddling... I have a feeling there's enough blame to go around. Not thinking of the implications of what he's writing (or doing!) seems right out of Lando's playbook.
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Dec 2, 2023 12:07:30 GMT -5
For those interested, Lindsay Ellis did a really good breakdown of everything wrong with this movie awhile back and it's worth a watch for SWEET GANGSTA FLAVAH.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Dec 2, 2023 13:13:52 GMT -5
For those interested, Lindsay Ellis did a really good breakdown of everything wrong with this movie awhile back and it's worth a watch for SWEET GANGSTA FLAVAH. Yeah, she basically breaks down everything I said in my post better than I did. with that sweet gangsta flavah!
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Post by Gunhaver on Dec 2, 2023 15:49:42 GMT -5
Was this the movie Knee described as his Star Wars, or did my guy churn out another epic I missed?
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Post by TOK Is the Target Demo on Dec 2, 2023 16:44:24 GMT -5
Was this the movie Knee described as his Star Wars, or did my guy churn out another epic I missed? Nope, this is it.
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Post by El Cokehead del Knife Fight on Dec 2, 2023 20:35:46 GMT -5
Was this the movie Knee described as his Star Wars, or did my guy churn out another epic I missed? Might have been Chronicle?
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Dec 2, 2023 23:04:51 GMT -5
The thing that took me out completely is the Mexican cop saying that people still blame Mexicans for the Alamo. So the Mexican-Texas war took place but with random orcs and centaurs and shit? It's one of the big problems with the movie doing like an Alternate history and throwing in fantasy races like they've always been there... like you can't do that. History would not be exactly the god damned same if fantasy races were running around at the same time, the only difference wouldn't be like Jesus got attacked by Sauron and his orcs... but everything else exactly the same! So pop culture is almost entirely the same, Shrek, Mexico and the Alamo happened, hell even things like the Orc's fashion and Will Smith telling them to Crip walk away... so all of that stayed exactly the same but shifted on to orcs now? Or did Orcs coopt that style of dress and stuff? It's why in cases like Shadowrun fantasy races weren't always around and they just sorta appeared in the future at some point... through magic/mutations... you don't need to write an entire history as to how George Washington the elf had to fight King George who was actually a dragon... edit: I do wonder how much of hte mess that we're in blamed on Ayer, how much is blamed on old Knee, and how much is studio meddling... I have a feeling there's enough blame to go around. Not thinking of the implications of what he's writing (or doing!) seems right out of Lando's playbook. I mean, that would be a cool concept, but Max Landis sure as shit wasn't the one to make such a thing happen.
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