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Departments => Movies and TV => Topic started by: Gemm: Rock & Roll Star; Born to Rock on January 21, 2005, 12:41:27 AM
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Ok, is this movie based on that game I've heard of?
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Yep. The scary computer game I played many years ago that was so scary because of the jerky low-polygon 3-d animation.
SCARY.
I'm not just making fun of it either. Take a rabid scary monster with lots of teeth. Then render it badly on a slow processor. Twice as scary.
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Let's see:
* based on a video game
* Christian Slater (you're better than this, man!)
* Tara Reid
* looke like an Aliens knock-off
Looks like definate rental material.
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I agree with Dex on this one. . .
If I even want to waste... I mean spend the money to rent it.
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oh come on Nicadymus, this coming from you who House of the Dead in the theater?!! I'm definately going to see this in the theater...well, the dollar theater that is.
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Who is paying Uwe Boll to make movies? And why do big name stars agree to be in any of his movies. Sir Ben Kingsley is in Bloodrayne, for crying out loud. I don't understand it. Boll's movies are horrible! Just inept in every way I can think of.
And that was me being nice.
I guess I'm just sad, because he's got the rights to the Far Cry movie, a game I worked on, and I have absolutely no hope at all that any movie he makes will be even moderately watchable.
I don't even know if I'll get around to renting this one.
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I may have seen House of the Dead in the theatres Rican, but I never said that it was a good flick, and I haven't rented it since.
And besides, House of the Dead was a zombie movie and that is entirely diffent than a cheap knock off of Aliens.
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I think you mean Moredew not Rican
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even so, since when does a horrible, b-rated SCI-FI movie knock-off keep you from seeing it in the theater? And I thought you were a true sci-fi addict! ;D
I would have gone and seen House of the Dead in the theaters, but some butt-darts (who shall remain nameless) went and saw it without me. >:(
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You have a point MoreDew.
I will probably go see it, but I think that it will be in the shallow end of the B rated movie gene pool.
The only reason I think it is even being put out now is because AVP is now out on DVD/Video. Were it still in the theatres Alone in the Dark wouldn't have a chance.
P.S. Sorry for the insult MoreDew.
P.P.S. J/K Rican
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Heck if you survived the Street Fighter movie then you'll probaly live through this.
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Poor, poor Raul Julia....
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I remember seeing an interview with Raul Julia right before he died, and he was talking about Street Fighter. He said the reason he took the role was because his son was such a huge fan of the game, and his son thought it was really cool his dad had a chance to be in the movie. So while you will never hear me say anything along the lines of "This is a great movie" I personally can think of no better role to take as a final role than one that was done to please a member of your family.
That being said, you couldn't strap me down and force me to sit through that movie again. The only reason I saw it the first time was back when I was living in Salt Lake, my AC went out in my top-floor apartment. In order to escape the heat of a brutal summer, I would walk over to Trolley Square and sit through a movie, ANY movie, just to sit in the AC for a couple hours. In retrospect, though, I think I should have suffered through the heat.
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the only comfort I have in having seen Street Fighter the Movie is knowing that I didn't pay money to see it in the theater. Thanks Sprig!!
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I can quote the entirity of Guile's speach from that movie.
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I am forced to remember the movie almost any time I watch ER. Thankfully I have only suffered through it once and have managed to block most of it out.
I think I would rather sit through the SW Holiday Special...and that is saying quite a bit.
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the thing I thought was so lame about Street Fighter the Movie (aside from the horrible acting, lame story, and crappy special effects) was how the movie tried to incorporate every Street Fighter character from the game into the movie, even when there was no point for the character to be there. It was really lame that there would be introduced a new character in the last ten minutes of the movie. Why, why I ask you, why?
Other horrible movies that stemmed from video games that need to be condemned is Mortal Kombat: Annihlation. That movie was worthless. I never felt so robbed of my money at a movie (aside from seeing Spice World, the Spice Girls movie, but that's a whole different story). I almost got up and left the theater after the first five minutes when Johnny Cage got whacked. I should have left because the rest of the movie didn't get any better.
Of course my opinion of Video game movies changed with the Resident Evil series, and House of the Dead. Those were great movies, which I might add I own with great happiness! :D
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I went and saw Alone in the Dark on Wed and what a waste of time. The good thing about the whole film is it gave me a few moment of peace without having to deal with all the crap that is going on in my life. Other than that the film was crap.
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the only comfort I have in having seen Street Fighter the Movie is knowing that I didn't pay money to see it in the theater. Thanks Sprig!!
Don't thank me, thank my parents for buying us tickets.
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Oh yeah! MK: Annihilation was baaad. I did actually like the first one though. It was a decent popcorn flick and represented the game fairly well.
Except for Christopher Lambert. How the heck did he get in there, much less as Raiden?!?!
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The first MK was great. I loved it and I do agree that I thought Christopher Lambert was an unusal choice for the part of Raiden. I was half expecting for him to pull out a sword, cut someone's head off, and say, "there can be only one!"
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Dude, Jonney Cage punching Goro in the groin is still a film classic.
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Mortal men and women defeding their homeworld. Mortal Kombat. It's not about death, but life.
I loved it, but it annoyed me that Sub Zero was made into a mindless zombie working with Scorpian.
In the game, Sub Zero was a Living, Liu Kang ninja (Though he quit the order) who was a mortal enemy of the undead Scorpian.
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Well there were actualy 2 different sub zero's, the first was the evil brother of the first one (in MK1 and 2) and the real sub zero didn't make his appearence until MK3. It could easly be argued that they both could have been working for the bad guys even thought they hated each other.
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i just want to point out that arguing MK history is nerdier than arguing about feminism in Disney movies.
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arguing about feminism in Disney movies is stupid and a waste of time (who care's they're just movies, get married and move on with your life), however arguing about MK is potental Nobel prize stuff, it's is civilization.
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I think my point still stands.
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What about in comparison to say..I don't know...cool Transformer names?
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oo. that's a tough one. Disney princesses aren't really on my Geek Hierarchy chart, but I'm thinking that the princess argument can be put in the "People who studied folklore and myth" category, and Transformers in the "SF TV fans." However, arguing about feminism may be boring to many, but it's not really "Geeky," whereas arguing about any "coolness" in SF is inherently geeky. So I'm thinking the Transformer argument was more nerdy.
Of course, I participated in both.
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The irony of Spriggan telling SE to get married and move on with his life is so delicious I need to brush my teeth.
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Spriggan...telling people to get married?
What?!
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It's funny, isn't it?