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Offline watsisname

Best premise since snakes on a plane?

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I dunno, this looks pretty good too
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RUBBER is not IN SPAAAAACE, it's about a tire that kills people by making their heads explode.  With telekinetic powers.

It's ****ing brilliant I tell ya!


Actually I'm rather interested in seeing Lock Out.  If it's by the folks who did Taken then it must be awesome.
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Offline MR_T3D

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Best premise since snakes on a plane?

NOPE



I dunno, this looks pretty good too
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He's the best there is....but he's a loose cannon

Youtube comments tell the truth.  It's just Arkham Asylum IN SPAAAAACE!

Just like Avatar is just Pocahontas IN SPAAAAACE!

RUBBER is not IN SPAAAAACE, it's about a tire that kills people by making their heads explode.  With telekinetic powers.

It's ****ing brilliant I tell ya!


Actually I'm rather interested in seeing Lock Out.  If it's by the folks who did Taken then it must be awesome.
That trailer doesn't do it as much justice for Guy Pearce I guess
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVbmDsJk9ug

But rubber was actally quite good, I did a double feature alongside hobo with a shotgun a little while back, enjoyed them both

 

Offline Nuke

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they have actually stay on schedule. they are actually coming out when they said they were coming out. imdb is your friend. ive know this was coming out for a couple years now. ive seen outher movies flop about and die, like the latest attempt to make yet another dune film.
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Offline newman

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Haha this showed up on Homebuilt Airplanes. I thought you worked on it a bit, didn't you LtC?

Yes he did, just like I said a few posts above.
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Star wrecks for.anyone.who's not seen em.

I just love that Wrath of the Romuclans one. So lovely juvenile :D.

 

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There needs to be a sequel with Space Soviets on Mars ;)
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Offline Nuke

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not as good as space confederates on ceres.
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Offline Colonol Dekker

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- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

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Offline Lt.Cannonfodder

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The first five minutes of the movie: http://youtu.be/uX2cS8wvQHI

 

Offline Colonol Dekker

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-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

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Secret bomb God.
That one time I got permabanned and got to read who was being bitxhy about me :p....
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Offline Unknown Target

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Haha awesome, I can't wait to see the full thing! :)

 

Offline General Battuta

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Wow, uh, that looks a lot less promising than I thought. Are we going to be saddled with a racist black guy caricature for the whole movie?

 

Offline Lt.Cannonfodder

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Most of the characters in the movie are caricatures, but not in the way you would think. Do not expect basic Hollywood political correctness though.

 

Offline General Battuta

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I am looking forward to a funny movie but I don't really want a bunch of 'ha ha black people' jokes in the same way I don't want a bunch of 'ha ha poop' jokes. It's lower-level humor than what usually works for me.

 

Offline FireSpawn

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I am looking forward to a funny movie but I don't really want a bunch of 'ha ha black people' jokes in the same way I don't want a bunch of 'ha ha poop' jokes. It's lower-level humor than what usually works for me.

Poop jokes make the world go around.

But I see where you're coming from, it's one of the reasons that I've only watched this once or twice. Yeah it's funny, but I could watch better.

Still, it's got to be better than 'Star Wreck' and that is something at least. I'll watch it just so that I can overwrite the part of my memory that remembers the crappy thing.
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On the other hand, you couldn't get away with the two black guys who only speak Jive from Airplane these days. And the movie would be poorer for it.
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Offline General Battuta

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that **** was indeed pretty great

 

Offline Herra Tohtori

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I have seen the film and I liked it. I'll try to keep this little evaluation spoiler free as much as possible, but proceed at your own caution.





The film was good, in my view. It had a few weak points, but overall I liked it. The pacing was pretty good, acting was good as far as primary characters were concerned (some of the minor characters I didn't like quite as much, but worked reasonably well in the film), and the plotline itself managed to carry itself through the movie without any significant failures.

The weak points were certain characters, which were a bit over the top considering their motivation and characterization, but they ended up as side characters in the film rather than central piece of it - even if some of them had important role in driving the plot, their limited screen time meant they didn't become too much of an annoyance.

Also, one particular character was (in my opinion) somewhat underused in the film, as I didn't really get much of a feel for that character.

As far as character development goes, there was some, mainly on the female lead character, but it was handled somewhat abruptly and suddenly, and I think it missed some of its potential, but it actually ended up working quite well.


Visuals were mostly excellent, as expected. The only thing that I would have preferred would have been more realistic depiction of the stars on the background sky on space shots, but that's just my preference on the side of realism in these things. Although I have to say I would have preferred to see recognizeable constellations instead of randomly generated starfield backgrounds. Also, as you might expect, distances in space were not exactly realistically handled, BUT to the credit of the creators I have to say the film was cut in a manner that minimized the unbelievably short travel times and distances between space ships, Earth and Moon, and in the end it didn't feel like I was looking at ships flying in a miniature Solar System.


I also thought the ending was quite appropriate considering (what I think was) the theme of the film.


The end result, overall, was a film that is thoroughly enjoyable, a little bit thought-provoking, occasionally very funny film that misses some of its potential - but not much.
« Last Edit: April 04, 2012, 04:08:51 pm by Herra Tohtori »
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