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[scriver]

But Idris Elba is cancelling the apocalypse

[Kagus]

But Idris Elba is cancelling the apocalypse

Look, I love Tackle-Me Elba as much as the next guy, but his mildly invigorating impromptu speech in that very concerning accent does not excuse the sins of "Solid iron core, no alloy" somehow being a good thing, and a nuclear-powered mech somehow venting/leaking flammable liquid fuel. And also being analog, somehow, so it's not affected by the EMP burst. Unlike the... diesel-powered mechs.

And I'm not even going to get into why bipedal punchbots maybe weren't the best choice for fighting primarily melee armor-plated monsters in aquatic or amphibian environments.


Or the point that irritates my friend the most: y no sord?

[Jopax]

Kagus it's called a bloody B movie :V

Same for Spectral, it's dumb and earnest in its dumbness but that's what makes it fun. You're watching a dumb movie about an army fighting ghosts, it doesn't have to make any sense, only be entertaining.

[Iduno]

But Idris Elba is cancelling the apocalypse

I think they just airbrushed it out, to annoy the fans and make the censors happy.

[IronyOwl]

Or the point that irritates my friend the most: y no sord?

I can tolerate/embrace a lot of the movie's dumb, but this one's hard to get around even for me. I don't know that it made the movie worse, but it clearly made it 'weaker' in terms of the world making less (internal) sense.

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Now killing off all the interesting side mechs, that pissed me off and made the movie dumber.

it doesn't have to make any sense, only be entertaining.

I mean, it has to make some sense or it severely compromises its ability to be entertaining. I think you could argue quite convincingly that dumb techno-babble can do the opposite, however, and make the movie better by making so little sense you get to laugh at it.

[scriver]

I don't want to be the one who is the one but I think Cancelopaclypse is way to well produced to be a b-movie

Also what's this about a sword? I don't remember anything about a sword.

[Iduno]

I don't remember anything about a sword.

Yes, but they're saying there should have been one.

[Reelya]

Kagus it's called a bloody B movie :V

Same for Spectral, it's dumb and earnest in its dumbness but that's what makes it fun. You're watching a dumb movie about an army fighting ghosts, it doesn't have to make any sense, only be entertaining.

That's not what a b-movie means. What you're describing there is what's called a "Summer blockbuster": huge budget, dumb, easy-to-follow plot. EDIT: the giveaway here is that Pacific Rim was released in early July, which is prime summer blockbuster time.

B movie either means the original meaning of a movie made as the supporting feature of a double-bill or a low-budget commercial movie. Calling Pacific Rim a b-movie would broaden the term way too much to include things like Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, Wild Wild West, Men in Black, Tron, Transformers etc etc etc. All the Marvel movies would have to count as B Movies if we're going there.

[IronyOwl]

I don't remember anything about a sword.

Yes, but they're saying there should have been one.

Arm-sword at the very end. It's super effective! Maybe you should have been using that instead of punching things repeatedly. Or hitting them with a ship-bat.

[Cthulhu]

Pacific Rim was okay.  You can tell Guillermo Del Toro had a lot of fun making it, beyond just a b-movie it's basically an asylum movie on a blockbuster budget.  It's even got the submarine set.

[Yoink]

I just watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Holy heck, that's a good movie.   
From what I remember I stopped watching it as a kid (in my teens sometime, presumably) because the whole concept of having memories erased freaked me out too much, this time 'round it distressed me almost as much but for mostly very different reasons, haha.   

Can't believe it only came out in 2004. For some reason I figured it was a '90s film. It looks like a '90s film, somehow. I dunno.   
I just know it feels like it's been considered a classic for as long as I can remember.   

[scriver]

It's a great movie. One of my favourites.

[Kagus]

Just started watching "Alien Warfare" (2019) on Netflix.

Oh my god.

Oh my god.

This is a $20 budget crashing-this-cliche-with-no-survivors train wreck that keeps desperately trying to turn into gay porn. I'm barely 15 minutes in. It is physically painful to watch this film.


I can't wait to see what happens next!

EDIT: Also I'm pretty sure the main character's facial hair is made out of cardboard.

[Reelya]

A 2.5 puts it within striking distance of the bottom ~20 films on all of IMDB. It's not listed there yet because there's a cut-off for the number of users who rated it, 10K I think.

[Iduno]

Just started watching "Alien Warfare" (2019) on Netflix.

Oh my god.

Oh my god.

This is a $20 budget crashing-this-cliche-with-no-survivors train wreck that keeps desperately trying to turn into gay porn. I'm barely 15 minutes in. It is physically painful to watch this film.


I can't wait to see what happens next!

EDIT: Also I'm pretty sure the main character's facial hair is made out of cardboard.

You keep describing this movie like it's great, and saying it's bad. I'm confuse.