Film References In Insufficient Context

Gribnit

No, Stella, the radiation will burn your skin off.

dangeRuss

@Gribnit no, you're a towel!

Gribnit

I expect comic actors to rip off comic actors, but when this guy went straight for Chris Elliot I was still pretty surprised.

Gribnit

This cockfight sucks.

blek

Swigert didn't give you the clap, you're just dehydrated.

blek

Ideas might be bulletproof, but you sure as shit aren't, even if you wear some kind of a homemade armor and noone thinks to shoot you in the head.

Gribnit

@blek said in Film References In Insufficient Context:

Ideas might be bulletproof, but you sure as shit aren't, even if you wear some kind of a homemade armor and noone thinks to shoot you in the head.

Bullets are birds of destiny with wings of justice. If they are not for you, they cannot harm you.

blek

@Gribnit They were definitely for him.

Gribnit

This Mikey kid really reminds me of the QA guy from $OLD_COMPANY, but mostly in appearance. Slightly in test to destruction approach. Not much in actual murderousness, qua murder.

Gribnit

Haircuts are upstaging the actors. In the case of the bald guy, this is still the case.

Gribnit

I suspect that saying this film has the worst title so far is an overstatement, but, not consistently.

Gribnit

I wonder if they'll remake this as 28.

Gribnit

This has to have been written by Twitch Plays - but why?

loopback0

@Gribnit said in Film References In Insufficient Context:

This has to have been written by Twitch Plays - but why?

If Gribnit's posts turned out to just be "Twitch Plays Forums" it'd make a lot of sense...

Gribnit

@loopback0 said in Film References In Insufficient Context:

@Gribnit said in Film References In Insufficient Context:

This has to have been written by Twitch Plays - but why?

If Gribnit's posts turned out to just be "Twitch Plays Forums" it'd make a lot of sense...

Now you're on the trolley! But, even the appearance of statefulness could be an illusion of statistics.

loopback0

@Gribnit Duh

Gribnit

Many misspellings I can tolerate - fairytail in a non-porn context is not among them.

PleegWat

@Gribnit said in Film References In Insufficient Context:

Many misspellings I can tolerate - fairytail in a non-porn context is not among them.

Maybe the fairies in their fictional context have tails?

I know a such webcomic but you'd probably classify it as porn.

Gribnit

@PleegWat said in Film References In Insufficient Context:

@Gribnit said in Film References In Insufficient Context:

Many misspellings I can tolerate - fairytail in a non-porn context is not among them.

Maybe the fairies in their fictional context have tails?

I know a such webcomic but you'd probably classify it as porn.

Anything with visible eyebrows, yeah.

Gribnit

Once again, the subtitle fidelity to the script is inversely related to the quality of the script or acting. I balk at the thought that Madhouse can emote trivalently.

Gribnit

So I guess this is supposed to be like two worse than a hex. Maybe more.

Gribnit

When your makeup concept is already used by the bad guys on MST3K, it is time for quiet reflection.

Gribnit

All things considered, "the weigh station of refusal" is a pretty good turn of phrase. And it's not hard to establish as the best thing in this movie, even though I haven't seen the rest. Stunning effort.

ed. this will surely kill him, i said

Yeah Ed! Didn't know I could make you fucking watch, did you?! Take it!

ed. it's an essay on atrocity. a classic grotesque.

No Ed. It's not.

Hahaha! Doubling down? Stockholm syndrome won't save you. Nothing will save you.

Gribnit

Wow this is really, really Japanese. Setting a win condition of figuring out why the third syllabogram in the title is red.

If you fail to avoid any film mentioned here, fail to avoid this one. This mise en scene is impeccable.

Fuckit. Probably death or evil or some shit. If any cognate from chess, probably death.

Victory! Will look it up to confirm sometime, maybe.

Gribnit

I did not expect that to be Kaufman & Herz. I still am confused as to why it was Kaufman & Herz. Also how, and then why crops up again repeatedly.

As a film, effective and even poignant.

But no kidding, Kaufman and Herz.

boomzilla

https://youtu.be/s2FXfFeRtJo

Gribnit

Wow, Space Governor Billy Dee Williams got around more than I thought. Maybe he really is the Space Governor.

Walking into a whorehouse with the lights off doesn't sound that bad. Not sure it's an existing expression anywhere else, or what it might mean.

Your mission - be in this movie again, for probably at least another scene. You can act if you want.

Haha, take That, Captain Marvelous! Who do you think you are, Suprosoman?

Gribnit

The science exposition in this movie seems to have taken great pains with accuracy to have avoided it so completely. This may be a plot to wipe out rogue physicists. If I had known any more how wrong it was who knows what might have happened.

Gribnit

I suspect this is the direct antecedent of The Crow. And golly does it suck, but since the title is a total albatross it might be doing okay.

Although, when the voice actor can't quite suppress their confusion because the script as written makes no fucking sense, could indeed be more than just a bad title.

H'mm, motivation swap. Weird one, too. Really made me think about the nature of vendetta, until I realized they'd just fucked up the script again.

I wonder if this ever saw theatrical release - if it went direct-to-video, is it still film

But, the violence has started, all is well.

All is not well. A nut punch doesn't constitute a complete value proposition.

Ah, his paraplegic wheelchair-bound teacher has really tightened up that low-horse for him.

Showing the effect of these combos on a heavy bag, in retrospect, was counterproductive.

The way through this is to accept: always, always, kick to the head in a real fight.

Gribnit

Not sure why the scumbag biker dudes have icthyos as their eye makeup, vs say, thoth. I like to think the makeup artist had the stupidest crisis of conscience ever.

Gribnit

Brad Dourif headlining. Alrighty then.

This death gauntlet is flashy, but nothing like the kind of barrier a fully entrenched DBA group can set up. Too much tools-focus maybe.

Penn Jilllette mode activated. Go Penn go!

Gribnit

Okay, leading with a solid fuck you right in the logic. Strong start.

Somebody should check on the choir, they've been moaning wordlessly for way too long.

Goddammit! There were tanks, then no tanks!

Alright. Here we go. Jets engaging ground targets below 100m within visual range. And for some reason, it's Christmas?

I think somehow, this obviously the villain dude might not be the villain, maybe?

I wish I could remember this doucherod's catchphrase.

Special guest harbinger, a lucky, lucky hobo. Well, forget it. Yo, home to Bel-Air!

"Some shirt, Chloe. Why not wear a pigeon on your head?"... This guy must be the hero.

Still no tanks. But, at least getting a bit eschatological finally. And resolving a slight doubt about whether this was really gonna leadfoot the antisemitism or kinda cruise along with less blatant theming.

I mean sure you want to stay on the source material but, this seems a bit unoriginal. What's next, speaking in tongues?

Although, the handling of space lasers in the World War Z game was reasonably tasteful. In retrospect. And glaring relief.

"Okay, so they meet on the plane" "Classic!" "And they've met before." "Uh, okay.."

"Should we edit this scene down, or" "Shut up! More scales! Louder scales! It's a tense moment as long as we keep playing scales!"

I think this is the same lady looking for their baby from 5 minutes ago?

If I have to see that everblessed stuffed rabbit again but there's no more tanks, well, the next three appear to be more pure revenge-fantasy than worldbuilding.

Did Marvel gank this script?

Well, at least this music-hall vampire is on top of things. Also, why do all these people have porn names oh.... no, it's not in fact porn.

Alrighty, tutorial storyline break. Irrelevant Douche, is, yes, he's sad. Very sad. Still has no role in the plot. Oh shit. Oh shit. He broke a mirror. I think that makes him a warlock now.

Okay, back to Booster Cartwright's nonjournalistic adventures in journalism. Will he catch the ?? in ??

Villain check, still evil.

Was Booster cleaning chimneys in a deleted scene? And how much pussy can one lad turn down?

Oh I get it, it's an anthology movie, but without the inherent honesty.

Primary Intermittent Plot Resume, why are they dosing? Shaky and... oh it's a minidisc.

Villain check, hubris stated. It's on now.

Well of course nobody ever read that chapter now. But what happened to all the physicists? "Blah, the radiation, it eats you, blah"

I think this speech is a mashup of 2 Pink Floyd and two Beatles songs' lyrics. Maybe 3 Beatles songs. AgH, fuck this scene.

I wonder if Jesus is in this.

Huh? All is not as it seems? So THAT'S how the Jewbird ties in!

At least they didn't portray Vlad Tepes as some kind of monster. Maybe this is when Booster got his face dirty for the previous scene.

Okay, it's gotta be the radiation, what else could it be.

Ladies and gentlemen, please tuck your limbs and descend the waterslide in an orderly fashion. And remember, when converting one another, take turns.

"Blah. He is great man. Blah."

Uh... when did all the other land stop being arable? Fuckit, fine. And then, no-one was murdered? OHH, bigger stakes.

Is even a single character in this scene not the Antichrist?

"I wish I'd do something..." "Have faith. Doing nothing will see us through"

Shittiest music yet, is this the credits? Nope. Believe you need you need you won't you, turn out that light with shitty music reprise.

Villain check, preening.

The real cosmic atrocity here is that map projection.

Holy shit, Dracula is the bad guy? I don't really buy this, tho, a spike would be more appropriate.

Booster is perhaps forming some doubts at this point. But fuck, that's the last gun I guess, whadda ya gonna do.

Villain check, animated. Alrighty, magic powers of the caliber only achievable without special effects are in play, as well.

Blah. Radiation is eat you, blah.

Wow, that sounded like denouement. Fucking finally. I wish everyone involved in this film were dead.

Blah.

Oh shit. Is it rolling into the damn sequel? No. No not like this.

Gribnit

This one's in English? Well this is an unexpected treat.

Gribnit

Some bloody images and brief strong language.

Thanks for the warning, mate.

Gribnit

Well, yes, I see the expression of malignant ego distortion but the absence of other salients leads me to believe that this would be present regardless of the plotline, which goes a good way to explain the absence thereof.

Gribnit

Rarely if ever has a film so clearly evoked the essential theme and story braids of a second-season Power Rangers episode. From the cinematography to the pacing to the clearly-read lines, this is sure to delight children from 8 to 8 and a half.

Update - it gets worse

Gribnit

This dwarf's vertical leap is amazing.

Gribnit

Northern Star and Southern Cross should always fight.

Gribnit

All things considered, this Thor is much better. Unless he ends up killing Lance Henrikson.

Nope, still better.

I hope the idea is bacon.

So far, though, doesn't seem to be bacon.

Yeah, not bacon.

In a world without axes or other similar mauls, bludgeons, or choppers, and a practically endless further series of increasingly artificial constraints...

Lances, it has those.