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Post by BackinBlack on Mar 10, 2017 22:37:50 GMT -5
Saw Kong: Skull Island tonight. I was very surprised. How surprised? I thought it was even better than Godzilla. It starts off slow, but when it goes from 0 to 60 and stays there for most of the film. It got pretty scary at times too. Kong was absolutely savage; it's gonna be a hell of a fight when he and Godzilla face off in a few years. There was good acting all around too; John C. Reilly was the stand out star believe it or not. Apparently I was the only one in my audience that knew there was a post-credits scene. Losers missed out. What was shown was definitely worth waiting for. Overall, definitely recommend seeing it.
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Post by brotherandbassist on Mar 11, 2017 0:19:11 GMT -5
I'm going to go see it at some point. I'm actually going to be in in Tennessee Sunday through Thursday, I may go see it the Friday I get back. Is it too frightening to go see with my 11 year old nephew? His mom let him watched the Friday the 13th movies, so it shouldn't be too intense for him.
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Post by BackinBlack on Mar 11, 2017 10:11:58 GMT -5
Well it's more intense than frightening and nothing real gory compared to slasher flicks. It's just scary in terms of a giant monster movie.
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Post by brotherandbassist on Mar 11, 2017 13:23:30 GMT -5
He'll be fine then. He's a big boy, he can handle it I got bored hanging out with my pastor at the mall the other day and he took this picture of me with Deadpool haha. Idk why, but I love it Attachments:
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Post by mr. excellent on Mar 12, 2017 15:26:18 GMT -5
Tell you what BIB, you may have convinced me to check this film out. I dunno if I'll get around to it, but I may have a day at the movies just going from film to film. I'd still like to see "Get Out", since it's the highest rated movie of the year. A friend of mine saw it and said it was really good too. Myself, personally, I didn't like the trailers for the movie, but I definitely saw something in it. To be honest, I'm surprised that a movie that's being received as well as it is had trailers that were just... I dunno. The trailers felt "meh" to me. It's about the movie though, not the promo, so I'm excited for that as well.
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Post by brotherandbassist on Mar 18, 2017 20:00:37 GMT -5
About to watch Hacksaw Ridge. Will let you guys know how I like it
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Post by BackinBlack on Mar 18, 2017 21:44:49 GMT -5
I've been wanting to see that too. Garfield looks great in it.
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Post by Webber3000 on Mar 19, 2017 12:38:32 GMT -5
He is! It's a very good film. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts about it, lopli.
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Post by brotherandbassist on Mar 19, 2017 20:01:54 GMT -5
9.5/10 Great story, very well executed. Garfield's acting was spot on and a very moving performance from Vince Vaughn's drill sergeant character as well. I loved how Garfield's character stuck to his true moral values and proved just how much of a hero be really was. The faith of Desmond Doss is very inspiring. "Let me save one more!"
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Post by mr. excellent on Apr 5, 2017 23:07:18 GMT -5
Just finished reading Ultimate Fantastic Four volume 10 (issue #'s 42-46). The more I read of this, the more it feels like Star Gate with a super powered family. It's just fun. This arc is simply titled "Silver Surfer", and it's quite fun. I've not read a single issue of the original series, I don't know if that one is still ongoing. That said, this series is very entertaining and I'm happy to have gotten started on it.
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Post by brotherandbassist on Apr 5, 2017 23:36:44 GMT -5
Speaking of Ultimate comics, I really love the story of Venom in Ultimate Spider-Man. I need to go back and read that arc
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Post by mr. excellent on Apr 6, 2017 19:52:56 GMT -5
Oh yeah, that was the first complete USM story arc I read. It's some of Bendis's best work from his entire USM run. It was so good it got its own video game. I quite liked that game actually. When Sam Raimi's Spider-man came out on dvd, I remember stumbling across USM #1, but not really liking the art style. It was a different time, before I actually got into reading comics. I later (probably around 2 years later) read the first arc and completely changed my mind.
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Post by BackinBlack on Apr 7, 2017 6:24:44 GMT -5
I don't know if it's just me, but something that usually irked me during Bendis' run was when he didn't have Peter in costume during some of the arcs' final battles. This happened in Venom, Carnage, and the Clone Saga. I mean, it's a superhero book so I would have liked to see him as Spider-Man during these fights, especially since that's what was shown on the covers. Is there anyone else who felt this way?
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Post by brotherandbassist on Apr 10, 2017 8:26:22 GMT -5
I have a copy of Ultimate Spider-Man #1, but I'm not sure if it's worth anything. They made more than one printing and one is worth 50 to 100 dollars and the other one is probably only work 1 to 5. Pretty sure mine is the latter, unfortunately. I did figure out I have a few comics worth at least a small amount of money, one being Bloodshot #1, which is worth ten bucks, which doesn't seem like much ,but I bought it for like ten dollars, so that's eight more than I spent on it. As far as Blacky's comments about Peter out of costume, it's honestly been so long since I've read the Ultimate comics that I don't remember.
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Post by mr. excellent on Apr 10, 2017 16:41:37 GMT -5
I kind of remember what you're talking about BIB. It didn't bother me though. Also, around that time I was going through this phase where I liked seeing them fight in their civies. It made them look more badass to me, like when Daredevil fights in his black sweat pants and long sleeve shirt or when Peter Parker pretends he knows karate or is extremely clumsy. It's not something I want to see all the time, but there was a short period of time where they fought out of costume, I tended to enjoy it. If we cross over into the movie realm, I really liked seeing Cap fight in plain old t-shirt and jeans in Winter Soldier because it lent to the authenticity of the scenes and made it feel a lot dirtier, more at ground level. Same with Bucky in Civil War, just before that awesome chase scene with Black Panther, or even the T'Challa vs. Bucky fight when Winter Soldier escapes containment.
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