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Post by Mutant 77 on Jul 15, 2020 20:06:17 GMT
i am with Supperhero on this, not his attempt to insert his deluded "definitive" timeline bollocks, but Magneto's fears being real, you can say oh he had superpowers and yeah but that wasn't in this movie all you want but it's a bullshit excuse, at the end of the movie they have Magneto locked up in a plastic prison specifically designed for him, that doesn't happen over night, by registering their powers it gives the government their names, their faces and intel on their powers, everything you would need to cull them from the population, and Magneto's fears aren't just based in the reality of his present but the reality of his past, he's a holocaust survivor and he is traumatised by that, same way people who are victims of sexual assault are traumatised by their ordeal, now just because you may not believe the validity to Magneto's fears, though they are proven true later, how do you argue his perception doesn't make sense when he has the backstory he has, just like if a woman who was violently sexually assaulted flinches or recoils at a man getting to close to them though the mans intentions maybe 100% innocent, you understand her reaction, you should understand Magneto's also...ok not the turning everyone into mutants things, that's supervillain chicanery right there, but the fears of what an overwhelming force of numbers fuelled on hate and fear could do makes perfect sense. Well put. |
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Post by Mutant 77 on Jul 15, 2020 13:30:31 GMT
Just because it's "trendy". LMAO.
So ridiculous.
Season 2 is dead.
Americans are funny.
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Post by Mutant 77 on Jul 15, 2020 13:12:00 GMT
Superpowers don't matter. Sentinels were created in the seventies, as pointed out by DOFP. There were Sentinels in the Danger Room, at the beginning of "The Last Stand" (year 2000). You cannot spend your life escaping or fighting people with superpowers. You're a normal citizen, despite your DNA. But that wasn't in the movie. In the movie, only registration was discussed. This is what Ebert was talking about.
The movie made it sound like Magneto had something to worry about with a piece of paper. Not with his powers he didn't. He could destroy a police department in a few seconds.
Magneto comes from the concentration camps. The movie made it sound like Magneto had something to worry about what FOLLOWS a piece of paper, not the piece of paper itself. Sentinels, experiments on mutants, ways to suppress mutant powers... and much more. Stryker was out there. Ebert was seriously wrong. |
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Post by Mutant 77 on Jul 15, 2020 12:38:23 GMT
Registration can be the very first step to something MUCH WORSE following that, like concentration camps. You never know. But they have super powers. That's the Ebert point. They aren't defenseless. Nightcrawler was able to evade all the president's secret service.
Superpowers don't matter. Sentinels were created in the seventies, as pointed out by DOFP. There were Sentinels in the Danger Room, at the beginning of "The Last Stand" (year 2000). You cannot spend your life escaping or fighting people with superpowers. You're a normal citizen, despite your DNA. |
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Post by Mutant 77 on Jul 15, 2020 12:21:23 GMT
Ask that to Azazel, Nightcrawler, Beast, Caliban, Artie or even Cyclops... There's no need for registration in their cases--they can't hide it. The point of registration is to keep track of those who look outwardly normal.
Registration can be the very first step to something MUCH WORSE following that, like concentration camps. You never know. |
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Post by Mutant 77 on Jul 15, 2020 11:41:55 GMT
Ebert said in his review it seemed strange the mutants would be upset about registration when they could easily avoid being registered with the powers they have. Ask that to Azazel, Nightcrawler, Beast, Caliban, Artie or even Cyclops... |
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Post by Mutant 77 on Jul 14, 2020 22:23:21 GMT
Actually, this was the only time we got the "Blue Strike Force Team/Gold Strike Force Team" type in the X-Men movies.
Blue Strike Force Team:
Professor X
Magneto
Storm
Wolverine
Rogue (in the Rogue Cut)
Gold Strike Force Team:
Shadowcat
Bishop
Iceman
Colossus
Blink
Sunspot
Warpath
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Post by Mutant 77 on Jul 14, 2020 20:10:20 GMT
It's a very predictable screenplay, but the movie was intense and had superb direction, great acting from everyone involved, wonderful set-pieces, astonishing action sequences, impressive FX for its time and... HUGH JACKMAN.
It's not a masterpiece, but it was ONE STEP or even TWO STEPS ahead of Tim Burton and the superhero movies of the nineties, and it just ignited the modern superhero genre for the following generations.
HUGH JACKMAN was magnificent. He totally recreated Wolverine from scratch and made the character a big GLOBAL MOVIE ICON, beyond comic books. He will always be the Real Wolverine.
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Post by Mutant 77 on Jul 13, 2020 21:51:47 GMT
Interesting.
The Evil Dead - 9.5 - still the most frightening movie ever filmed
Evil Dead II - 10 - pure genius
Army of Darkness - 8
Evil Dead - 6.5
AvED Season 1 - 9 - our Evil Dead 4
AvED Season 2 - 9 - the final time travel is pure gold
AvED Season 3 - 9 - the last episodes were incredible
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Post by Mutant 77 on Jul 13, 2020 0:11:27 GMT
Better than what we got in that Wolverine movie. Not at all. Taylor Kitsch was perfect in the role, and all Gambit scenes were great. |
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Post by Mutant 77 on Jul 13, 2020 0:05:24 GMT
I'm mapping all birthdays and ages of the X-Men and the other characters.
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Post by Mutant 77 on Jul 12, 2020 23:52:45 GMT
I don't remember:
Was Weapon XI referred as "The Dead Pool" or "Deadpool"?
Blob looked great.
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Post by Mutant 77 on Jul 12, 2020 23:39:46 GMT
Well, we got:
James "Jimmy" Logan
Victor Creed
Wade Wilson - superhuman agility and kinesthesis
Frederick Dukes - The Blob
Chris Bradley - technopathy and radio waves manipulation
John Wraith - teleportation
Agent Zero (not David North/Maverick) - superhuman physical abilities and sight accuracy
I loved their characterization and power display.
Also, the movie version of "Weapon XI" aka "The Dead Pool" was creepy and brutal. We got the real Deadpool in the standalone Deadpool saga, but this counterpart was very frightening and I liked it a lot. Plus, he had Cyclops' power and that was the chance to see more optical blast action!
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Post by Mutant 77 on Jul 12, 2020 23:05:33 GMT
So no "Logan".
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Post by Mutant 77 on Jul 12, 2020 23:04:28 GMT
This one for me. Both Magnet and Wheels, you're pretty much unstoppable Hahah yeah. Xavier and Lehnsherr can beat everyone and everything. |
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Post by Mutant 77 on Jul 11, 2020 21:10:00 GMT
Asking if Ash would have become a cult icon without the sequels is like asking if Freddy would have become a cult icon if Craven just made a movie about a local child killer in a boiler room. The chainsaw hand, oneliners, and playing into Bruce's personality are what made Ash so memorable. Ash basically had the traditional final girl role in the first ED only gender swapped. I think at best he'd be looked at like an Alice Hardy. I kinda agree, but Bruce's actor performance was 100% excellent and intense anyway, and Ash already had some "unusual quality", in the way the character gradually evolved from the beginning of the movie until the end. He also stole the lead character's "crown" from Scott, and that was another unprecedented aspect in "The Evil Dead". |
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Post by Mutant 77 on Jul 11, 2020 19:56:50 GMT
Most likely not. At best he would be in the Johnny category. "They're coming to get you Barbara." Johnny? He didn't fight any zombie/Living Dead. ED1 Ash is like Ben. |
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Post by Mutant 77 on Jul 11, 2020 18:31:47 GMT
Yesterday I was thinking that, while it was still an immature and slightly underdeveloped character, the main traits of Ash were already on there anyway, in the first Evil Dead movie.
He already "interacted" with the Deadites like they would be human beings (unprecedented aspect for an horror movie IMHO)... talking with them in a serious way. He was brave enough to fight Evil Linda, Evil Cheryl and Evil Scott. Granted, he wasn't still the character we loved in ED2, Army and AvED... but the core within him was still intact and recognizable.
If you pretend that ED2 and the sequels were never made, and Ash was just the lead character of a standalone horror movie like "The Evil Dead", do you think the character would have become "cultish" or at least well-known the same? |
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Post by Mutant 77 on Jul 7, 2020 22:36:10 GMT
No new 2K transfer or 4K transfer. "Darkman" is just the most overlooked and underrated cult flick out there. Thank you, Universal.
"Darkman" was my first introduction to Sam Raimi and its cinema. I became a super-fan when I was 13 years old, just after watching the fantastic trailer over and over. I started to buy the comic book adaptation, play the Commodore 64/Amiga videogame and collect dozens and dozens of articles about the movie... until I watched it for the very first time on a rented VHS, in total awe. It was my very first cinematic obsession. I also owned a gigantic "cardboard figure" (is that the right way to call it?) reproducing the Darkman from the official poster.
To me, DARKMAN is a brilliant movie and a masterpiece. Part sci-fi, part comic book, part horror, part thriller, part drama, part action, all genius. Raimi's direction was cosmic. Liam Neeson was superb and deserved an Oscar. Darkman's appearance and costume were absolutely astonishing, and the make-up was 100% impressive.
The helicopter chase/raid in the city is still a CLASSIC of the Nineties action genre, that's for sure.
I've been dreamed a proper and real theatrical sequel for the following years... but Raimi declined.
I would be thrilled to know about a reimagining/remake of some sort, or even a "Darman Returns" starring an aged Liam Neeson. That would made my day.
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Post by Mutant 77 on Jul 1, 2020 0:18:10 GMT
RIP DAN HICKS (JAKE from ED2). You will never be forgotten!  |
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