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Movie Time 2.0: TT mini reviews

Purple

(She/Her)
So, I just realized that a friend, like so many other poor miserable damned souls for some reason, had never even heard of Shoot'em Up and promptly sat her down to fix this.

And then, having been reminded just how absolutely wonderful it is, set off to IMDB to collect a list of all the many wonderful things the writer/director has gone on to make since.
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(I mean, technically he made a very short pilot for an Indie Gogo funded animated series which failed to be funded, and really it's for the best, but otherwise nothing.)

This is an absolute travesty. Someone please immediately go rough up a big Hollywood producer and insist they let Michael Davis make another absurd action movie.
 

Octopus Prime

Mysterious Contraption
(He/Him)
Disney’s 1940s output ends with a bang, not a whimper, with The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. It’s another collection of shorts, but they’re actually both solid this time. The Wind in the Willows section feels like an extended Chuck Jones cartoon, and finally explains where half the characters in Mickeys Christmas Carol came from. Also, it had a proto Toon Patrol in it, so that’s something! And it had Basil Rathbone too! Classy!

The other short prominently featured a monstrous, violent ghoul. And Besides Bing Crosby, it also has the Headless Horseman. This was one of the cartoons I was looking forward to when I started this project since... well... a headless murder-ghost is in it, and im Paying attention to a thing like that. And it too featured a prototype for a later, much better, Disney Villain as Brom was basically Gaston with a dumber hat. Ichabod himself sure reacts badly to a very jaunty song about a homicidal ghost. Granted, aforesaid ghost is needlessly terrifying, but There’s nothing about the song itself To suggest that. Also, Ichabod himself is kind of a hole. Perhaps not enough to warrant pumpkincide, but still
 

Lokii

(He/Him)
Staff member
Moderator
I enjoy Ichabod. It's a good adaptation of the story and has fun animation and the music's catchy. Mr. Toad not so much. Rankin Bass did it much better IMO.
 

Büge

Arm Candy
(she/her)
So, I just realized that a friend, like so many other poor miserable damned souls for some reason, had never even heard of Shoot'em Up and promptly sat her down to fix this.
I understand that the film was literally inspired by Bugs Bunny cartoons, with Paul Giamattti in the role of Elmer Fudd.
 

Paul le Fou

24/7 lofi hip hop man to study/relax to
(He)
So, I just realized that a friend, like so many other poor miserable damned souls for some reason, had never even heard of Shoot'em Up and promptly sat her down to fix this.

And then, having been reminded just how absolutely wonderful it is, set off to IMDB to collect a list of all the many wonderful things the writer/director has gone on to make since.
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(I mean, technically he made a very short pilot for an Indie Gogo funded animated series which failed to be funded, and really it's for the best, but otherwise nothing.)

This is an absolute travesty. Someone please immediately go rough up a big Hollywood producer and insist they let Michael Davis make another absurd action movie.
That really is tragic. Shoot'em Up was pretty great, and the creator clearly had promise to make more movies like it. What the hell!
I understand that the film was literally inspired by Bugs Bunny cartoons, with Paul Giamattti in the role of Elmer Fudd.
This makes... so much sense.
 

Paul le Fou

24/7 lofi hip hop man to study/relax to
(He)
Yeah, but a lot of movies don't make money yet don't immediately end their creator's career.
 

jpfriction

(He, Him)
Premium Rush is a similar “Action movie except it’s Looney Tunes”. That one isn’t nearly as good, but has its moments.
 

Purple

(She/Her)
It didn't make any money
Based on the AMA I was reading while posting this, it's not even like it bombed, it just wasn't a huge return.

And really the fact that it wasn't can only be blamed on it not being marketed with just a trailer of that carousel scene in full with no other context.
 

Sarcasmorator

Same as I ever was
(He/him)
We're watching through the Hobbit trilogy; we only saw the first one in theaters, and never the other two, so after watching LOTR over the last couple weeks the kids were interested in more, so we picked up the extended version. I am enjoying it a lot so far (we're through the first one), more than I did our original watch, when it seemed overlong and drawn out. It still is, but watching at home in smaller chunks, and pausing now and again, makes it a different experience.

It is... noticeable, though, how the Bombur in Peter Jackson's Hobbit is nothing more than a fat-dwarf punchline (not sure he speaks a line) in at least the first film, and the specific manner in which the great goblin is portrayed as grotesque, after Jackson lost all that weight. "Fat things, gross!" wasn't really a part of the LOTR movies.
 
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Bongo

excused from moderation duty
(he/him)
Staff member
The Hobbit film trilogy is a brilliant example of how it's possible for a bad movie to be made out of good scenes.
 
Outside of money, there is no reason the Hobbit should be 3 films. The last film in the trilogy, for me, is an unbearably long battle sequence. Its boring to sit through.
 

Octopus Prime

Mysterious Contraption
(He/Him)
Speaking of the last movie in a trilogy that is about half Long Battle Scene, I just researched Return of the Jedi.

Ive noticed that every third Star Wars movie has a huge amount of Ian McDermit.

Everybody is quick to assume that storm troopers are terrible because of how easily Ewoks defeat them in the finale, nobody stops to consider that Ewoks are terrifying killing machines

ive decided that the explosion from the Emperor being thrown down a big hole was his own power leaving his body and flowing into the Skeletor clone he made, and not just the Death Star exploding a little bit because he was blasting it with lightning on his way down; since it’s blue wind and doesn't do any last damage

Except for the jazz number, I didn’t think the special edition weakened this version in any way. Hayden as a Ghost was kinda weird, but I’ve been watching a lot of Clone Wars, so that’s how I picture him anyway
 

Phantoon

I cuss you bad
We're watching through the Hobbit trilogy; we only saw the first one in theaters, and never the other two, so after watching LOTR over the last couple weeks the kids were interested in more, so we picked up the extended version. I am enjoying it a lot so far (we're through the first one), more than I did our original watch, when it seemed overlong and drawn out. It still is, but watching at home in smaller chunks, and pausing now and again, makes it a different experience.

It is... noticeable, though, how the Bombur in Peter Jackson's Hobbit is nothing more than a fat-dwarf punchline (not sure he speaks a line) in at least the first film, and the specific manner in which the great goblin is portrayed as grotesque, after Jackson lost all that weight. "Fat things, gross!" wasn't really a part of the LOTR movies.
I really like the first Hobbit movie. It had missteps more visible on later viewings, but I contend it's a good film. Unfortunately 2, not so much, and 3 is pants. It's a real shame.
 

Bongo

excused from moderation duty
(he/him)
Staff member
There's a point in the middle of the second Hobbit movie where you can tell that it was the original break when they were planning it to just be two movies. I think it's when some randos are sailing across the lake.
 

Rascally Badger

El Capitan de la outro espacio
(He/Him)
Yeah, I really liked the first Hobbit movie, though you could see the seeds of the problems the latter movies had in it. The only one I have a real problem with is the third; the middle one is like half delight and half slog. Bilbo tangling with Smaug is fun, as is some of the stuff in Lake-town.
 
I think I like middle one the most. Smaug is cool and I like Ed Sheeran's song. I didn't see the third until... a few months ago.
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Lokii

(He/Him)
Staff member
Moderator
I bowed out after Smaug. I was pretty disappointed with how they actualized his and Bilbo's interaction. I'm not one to insist an adaptation be faithful to its source but I can't say I was happy to see they replaced all of the meat of the book with inconsequential action.
 

Rascally Badger

El Capitan de la outro espacio
(He/Him)
To be clear, I liked Bilbo and Smaug's interaction, I did not like the action scene that followed it, which changed things from the book in a way I didn't like (like the dwarves going into the mountain before Smaug leaves).
 

FelixSH

(He/Him)
Today, I watched the 1988 movie Hobgoblins. As far as I know, it is a poor-mans Gremlins. The budget was 1500 dollar, which should tell you everything you need to know. The hobgoblins are there, but also kind of not, stuff happens kind of arbitrarily (me and my friend had some trouble following what was happening). There is also an appearance of a band in the middle of the movie, whose name I forgot, but who created music until 2013, so that's something.

The twist to the formular is, that (aside from the hobgoblins being aliens) they can make your deep desires come true. If you are curious, the deepest desires of the men is to have sex or be violent, and the women just want sex. There is a weird scene, where the protagonist and his friend take up brooms and use them like bat'leths, for a pretty long fight scene. The protagonist loses, and is critizised for his weakness by his girlfriend, while the friend and his girlfriend have sex in the van of said friend (the van is shaking, you see).

I dunno, it's a very bad movie, but also pretty entertaining. It's actually used in an episode of MST3K, so I guess some people here have already seen it.
 

Jeanie

(Fem or Gender Neutral)
Everybody is quick to assume that storm troopers are terrible because of how easily Ewoks defeat them in the finale, nobody stops to consider that Ewoks are terrifying killing machines
There was a Dark Horse comic series that was basically Star Wars What If?. The third story they told had Threepio get destroyed at Jabba's Palace and without him the Ewoks killed the Rebel force sent down to the forest moon. Also:
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Today, I watched the 1988 movie Hobgoblins. As far as I know, it is a poor-mans Gremlins. The budget was 1500 dollar, which should tell you everything you need to know. The hobgoblins are there, but also kind of not, stuff happens kind of arbitrarily (me and my friend had some trouble following what was happening). There is also an appearance of a band in the middle of the movie, whose name I forgot, but who created music until 2013, so that's something.

The twist to the formular is, that (aside from the hobgoblins being aliens) they can make your deep desires come true. If you are curious, the deepest desires of the men is to have sex or be violent, and the women just want sex. There is a weird scene, where the protagonist and his friend take up brooms and use them like bat'leths, for a pretty long fight scene. The protagonist loses, and is critizised for his weakness by his girlfriend, while the friend and his girlfriend have sex in the van of said friend (the van is shaking, you see).

I dunno, it's a very bad movie, but also pretty entertaining. It's actually used in an episode of MST3K, so I guess some people here have already seen it.
There was and what's worse is apparently the MST3k did so well, it inspired the sequel.
 
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Zef

Find Your Reason
(He/Him)
There was a Dark Horse comic series that was basically Star Wars What If?. The third story they told had Threepio get destroyed at Jabba's Palace and without him the Ewoks killed the Rebel force sent down to the forest moon. Also:
20201116_3489.jpg

I've been horrified since I first saw the Ewoks create swinging, crushing log traps, rolling log traps, and catapults, and I'll keep mentioning it every time it comes up.

And it's neither small logs, nor just a few logs--its whole tree trunks! Exactly WHAT do Ewoks fight on the regular to be able to rig those?
 

Phantoon

I cuss you bad
The implication to me is that they were getting ready to fight the Empire already. The Rebels appearing just started their plan early. They're bloody terrifying, and I love the deliberate Vietnam parallels - they're hugely technologically inferior, but it's their turf.
 

Felicia

Power is fleeting, love is eternal
(She/Her)
I've been horrified since I first saw the Ewoks create swinging, crushing log traps, rolling log traps, and catapults, and I'll keep mentioning it every time it comes up.

And it's neither small logs, nor just a few logs--its whole tree trunks! Exactly WHAT do Ewoks fight on the regular to be able to rig those?
Obviously you have not seen the greatest of all Star Wars movies, Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure, which answers that very question.
 
Yeah, I really liked the first Hobbit movie, though you could see the seeds of the problems the latter movies had in it. The only one I have a real problem with is the third; the middle one is like half delight and half slog. Bilbo tangling with Smaug is fun, as is some of the stuff in Lake-town.
I really liked the first Hobbit movie as well. That movie made the Mirkwood, Necromancer, and Suaron relationship clear to me. I read the Hobbit and LOTR in middle school and that relationship slipped my radar when I was reading it. I liked that aspect of the Hobbit a lot.

I also think the Spiders in Mirkwood give Jackson a chance to flex his horror directing muscles again. I enjoyed the Mirkwood sequences a lot.

I think the first Hobbit Movie is very propulsive. I don't recall being bored by it. I can't help but think how much better the Jackson movies would be if the Hobbit was two parts instead of three.
 
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