What Are Your Must-See Films For 2019?
POSTED BY: JEWELSTAITEFAN
UPDATED: Monday, January 13, 2020 07:38
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:I don't know from pokeman.
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Pika Pika , anyone ?
Never a fan of Pokémon, but after seeing Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse, and with Ryan Reynolds as Pika, I think I'm in.
*** ETA ***
So, post viewing, and it was decent. A few jokes were a bit too on the nose, but it was still cleverly done.
Sorry, but some of Pika's lines were damn near Deadpool , minus the profanity. Could have been me though, as I've seen Deadpool and DP2 so many times.
The movie is obviously loaded w/ Pokémon references and gags, most of which went right over my head.
Reporter girl reminded me of a young Mary Elizabeth Winstead,
Was the reporter Lucy Stevens? She was in 3 Billboards.
I had heard about this, but now you got me interested. Might see it next week after John Wick.
Yeah, Lucy is the April O'Neil of Pokémon, I assume. ( April if the female reporter who is friends w/ the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.) TMNJ is another franchise which was after my time, and I couldn't care less about, but I find it funny the ' plucky female reporter ' type character appears in both. Any excuse to get a independent , hottish female in the mix for young boys , I guess.
John Wick sounds good, from all accounts, but I've yet to see it. Seems real similar to The Punisher, so I guess that's why I've not gotten around to watching any of those movies.
Next up for me - Godzilla:KOTM
** Tickets already purchased **
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.
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Quote:The John Wick films have both Keanu Reeves and Lawrence Fishburne, so many people find a parallel to Matrix.
Originally posted by AURaptor:Quote:Yeah, Lucy is the April O'Neil of Pokémon, I assume. ( April if the female reporter who is friends w/ the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.) TMNJ is another franchise which was after my time, and I couldn't care less about, but I find it funny the ' plucky female reporter ' type character appears in both. Any excuse to get a independent , hottish female in the mix for young boys , I guess.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:I don't know from pokeman.
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Pika Pika , anyone ?
Never a fan of Pokémon, but after seeing Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse, and with Ryan Reynolds as Pika, I think I'm in.
*** ETA ***
So, post viewing, and it was decent. A few jokes were a bit too on the nose, but it was still cleverly done.
Sorry, but some of Pika's lines were damn near Deadpool , minus the profanity. Could have been me though, as I've seen Deadpool and DP2 so many times.
The movie is obviously loaded w/ Pokémon references and gags, most of which went right over my head.
Reporter girl reminded me of a young Mary Elizabeth Winstead,
Was the reporter Lucy Stevens? She was in 3 Billboards.
I had heard about this, but now you got me interested. Might see it next week after John Wick.
John Wick sounds good, from all accounts, but I've yet to see it. Seems real similar to The Punisher, so I guess that's why I've not gotten around to watching any of those movies.
It might be similar to Payback, from Mel Gibson. Or some Eastwood revenge flicks, with more guns and fighting. Maybe some Mad Max, but not in an apocalypse.
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Interesting note about Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT). In Europe, they are the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (TMHT).
During that time in children's programming and video games, many European countries, especially Germany, had a ban on most types of violence in shows and games, particularly a ban on anything referring to Ninjas.
What's funny is that I've heard that the shows and the games saw very little editing themselves, which had a good deal of references to Ninjas, but made it past the censors by changing the titles alone.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I didn't know Laurence Fishburn, the former Mr. Gina Torres, was in John Wick.
Also, I'm guessing the ' Ninja ' in Europe was seen as 'racist' ? Weirdos.
Ticket for G:KOTM already purchased.
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Quote:I think they were still married for the first JW, maybe second.
Originally posted by AURaptor:
I didn't know Laurence Fishburn, the former Mr. Gina Torres, was in John Wick.
Also, I'm guessing the ' Ninja ' in Europe was seen as 'racist' ? Weirdos.
Ticket for G:KOTM already purchased.
Looks like John Wick opens tomorrow. Might be midnight showings tonight.
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Also, I'm guessing the ' Ninja ' in Europe was seen as 'racist' ? Weirdos.
Actually, no. This was the mid 90's though. I could see that happening today.
It was all about "muh violence" back then. It was mostly because of German laws. Video games back then were released in the PAL format instead of the NTSC format that was used in the US and Japan because of the differences in electric to the home in Europe. So the games actually had to have a bit of re-coding done anyhow to make it fit that format, so basically whatever the most oppressive censorship laws were was usually the only version of the game Europe saw. (Oddly enough, the games were rarely ever coded to match the actual speed of the game. Seems Nintendo couldn't be bothered with that since the NES was a very poor seller in Europe. So their games were quite a bit slower and easier than the US and Japan versions).
Don't know if you remember Contra? Nobody in Europe did. Thanks to Germany's law banning all "human" violence in video games, they got "Probotector" instead.
Same game. Same violence. But all the humanoid characters were replaced with robots.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Those look like Transformers.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Also, I'm guessing the ' Ninja ' in Europe was seen as 'racist' ? Weirdos.
Actually, no. This was the mid 90's though. I could see that happening today.
It was all about "muh violence" back then. It was mostly because of German laws. Video games back then were released in the PAL format instead of the NTSC format that was used in the US and Japan because of the differences in electric to the home in Europe. So the games actually had to have a bit of re-coding done anyhow to make it fit that format, so basically whatever the most oppressive censorship laws were was usually the only version of the game Europe saw. (Oddly enough, the games were rarely ever coded to match the actual speed of the game. Seems Nintendo couldn't be bothered with that since the NES was a very poor seller in Europe. So their games were quite a bit slower and easier than the US and Japan versions).
Don't know if you remember Contra? Nobody in Europe did. Thanks to Germany's law banning all "human" violence in video games, they got "Probotector" instead.
Same game. Same violence. But all the humanoid characters were replaced with robots.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Yeah. Or Go-Bots, or Voltron, or Gundam, or [enter any other generic Mecha here].
Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto.
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Quote:I agree that Kathryn Newton from 3 Billboards was the standout star of Pikachu.
Originally posted by AURaptor:Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:I don't know from pokeman.
Originally posted by AURaptor:
Pika Pika , anyone ?
Never a fan of Pokémon, but after seeing Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse, and with Ryan Reynolds as Pika, I think I'm in.
*** ETA ***
So, post viewing, and it was decent. A few jokes were a bit too on the nose, but it was still cleverly done.
Sorry, but some of Pika's lines were damn near Deadpool , minus the profanity. Could have been me though, as I've seen Deadpool and DP2 so many times.
The movie is obviously loaded w/ Pokémon references and gags, most of which went right over my head.
Reporter girl reminded me of a young Mary Elizabeth Winstead,
Was the reporter Lucy Stevens? She was in 3 Billboards.
I had heard about this, but now you got me interested. Might see it next week after John Wick.
Yeah, Lucy is the April O'Neil of Pokémon, I assume. ( April if the female reporter who is friends w/ the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.) TMNJ is another franchise which was after my time, and I couldn't care less about, but I find it funny the ' plucky female reporter ' type character appears in both. Any excuse to get a independent , hottish female in the mix for young boys , I guess.
John Wick sounds good, from all accounts, but I've yet to see it. Seems real similar to The Punisher, so I guess that's why I've not gotten around to watching any of those movies.
Next up for me - Godzilla:KOTM
** Tickets already purchased **
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.
" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall
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Weird... I saw something last night about the original Ninja Turtles movie and all scenes of Michelangelo welding nunchucks had to be removed from the movie for the UK release. The staff, sais and swords were okay I guess.
I also thought it was really everybody in Europe getting the watered down versions of entertainment for the lowest common denominator of censorship at the time (Germany), but it seems that quite a few of the European countries in my childhood had strict laws about what entertainment was legal.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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