I haven't seen the first one yet, but that certainly does seem entertaining.

Have we got a release date? Thanks for bringing this to my attention OP.

>>20575
Not until 2017.

There's another trailer if you're interested but it's not as good.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBJyp2LFHgk

>>20572
It was probably the most intense film I've ever seen. I really liked all the little bits in that film, using the flame lego block for flames when they could've just done shitty CGI fire as movies like this tend to. I see they've made water actual water in this trailer when it was blue blocks in the original, don't know if that's a full scale design change or just a partial one.

>>20574
Do so.

I enjoyed the Lego Movie, but it's no A Town Called Panic.

>>20577

They dubbed some of the TV show, the voice acting is disappointing, steven doesn't yell nearly enough.

>>20371
This has become my new favourite thread.

This British Leyland film on "quality" has a certain tragicomic charm.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTCfJKNE2hg

>>20556

I thought I recognised him somewhere.

>>20563

Your embed didn't work.

>>20564
Bloody awful.
I blame the wine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH-uwNsyzf0I

>>20535

On a related note, the rest of this movie might be terrible but this is one of my favorite lines in cinema.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVzAMmpMra8

>>20533
Yet another adaptation that made me wonder why it was so thoroughly mediocre. Granted it wasn't has horrible as Max Payne, which came out around the same time and really was unwatchable shite. Both of them seem like they should be easy given the source material, though - one's Aladdin and the other's a gritty detective noir, it's not like this is unexplored territory for Hollywood. I wasn't expecting that much, but they failed anyway, and that's just slightly pathetic, somehow.

>>20535
I have a soft spot for the first Mortal Kombat, it wasn't that great as kung fu movies go but I've watched plenty worse.

>>20536
All good points. It's a bit like the Hitchhiker's Guide movie, in that both films would likewise be doomed to failure, but I'd still be curious to see what Abrams would do with either, with a decent budget.

>>20538
Never mind the line. Raul Julia's Bison is the most ridiculously megalomaniacal character in cinema. I love him.

>>20536

>If you look at Half Life and it's storyline out of context, it's total schlock. Military base gets invaded by aliens, unassuming everyman turned action badass saves the day, while a mysterious and intriguing interloper looks on... It's far from groundbreaking originality, right? It's just a big soup of 90s sci-fi and pop-conspiracy tropes.

You've just removed everything special about it and said 'Look, it's not special'.

>>20560

What made half life special was it's storytelling, and not being afraid to slow right the fuck down for the odd puzzle.

Storytelling isn't groundbreaking in film, and you don't have the interactive quality to do puzzles.

What else is it that you think makes it 'special'?

>>20462
I guess the only way to minimise the damage is to buy a ticket but not actually sit through it.

>>20459
What has me confused about all of this is what the hell Sony thinks it is doing. It wasn't even a year ago that they did Fantastic Four and well...remember this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P60yFdE3io

The film bombed and so will Ghostbusters. Next one to bomb is looking like a reboot and sequel of Girl with a Dragon Tattoo without Daniel Craig and allegedly without Rooney Mara either (if another spiderman movie doesn't get released first: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/spider-man-spinoff-venom-revived-872844).

Does Sony not like money or is this just a cynical game of keeping the rights to franchises while at the same time changing around parts to address the criticism they got for rebooting Spiderman franchise so soon?

>>20464
To be fair, the Fantastic Four reboot being shit was due to trying too hard. The writer/director wanted to do a body-horror relatively serious sci-fi movie based on Fantastic Four, making a big deal about the weirdness of going into space and coming back elastic or invisible or capable of bursting into flames or being made of rock. Sony wanted to do a more marketable family movie with the familiar elements of the Fantastic Four, with the jumpsuits and saving New York from Doctor Doom with their wacky powers.

The result was a cast that wasn't close enough to classic FF due to being too young or having slightly different backgrounds, but the action was done in such a way that was too comic book movie-ish to be a gritty sci-fi horror, and the writing was too dry and SFish for a successful comic book blockbuster, but the comic's "Mr Fantastic and The Invisible Woman fight Viktor Von Doom" plot meant it couldn't be taken seriously as a proper work of SF.

Ghostbusters reboot looks bad because of how lazy it is. Cast popular female comic actors whose characters appear to be analogues of the original Ghostbusters crew, and just stick to the established formula the originals had.

>>20464
>Does Sony not like money

Aren't they the ones who keep making Adam Sandler films?

>>20463
How about if I see it but don't pay for a ticket?

It's looking quite good from the teasers and trailers so far.

So did anyone else watch it? Or just me?

>>20448
I watched the first two episodes, I remember bits from the first. It had Jeff from Community playing some sort of billionaire version of that angry fat radio DJ.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGbjSKURMwo

Fair warning: I found this is pretty hard to watch. It follow homeless Romanian street kids, many of whom are addicted to huffing solvents. It gets pretty Lord of the Flies at times.

>>20408

Here's a more recent film about Romanian street kids. The orphans of Ceausescu have had children of their own and they are even more dysfunctional. Some have taken to living in abandoned tunnels under the streets of Bucharest. Truly the stuff of nightmares.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwadpGdskCM

>>20410
Cheers. Is there an extended version of that second one?
I found these two series about Japan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIYgssj0j1o


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Moiq6Wrpd8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7TKBFJMbi0

Health and safety gone mad.

They've really got just how annoying, bumbling and naive Pierre should be down to a tee, which is something I quite like. That 10hr Soviet film version of it featuring Sergei Bondarchuk as Pierre and directing etc. honestly made him come across as a monumental ham.

They've gotten the understated charm and humour of Denisov spot on too.

>>20306
>I have a distinct feeling that most if not all of the music in this series was composed and recorded for purpose

This is what I have been fearing. You can find the theme on youtube but this might be one of those tracks I'm never going to have.

>What are you thinking of the series so far?

I've not read the book but I'm loving it so far. That Dolokhov is an absolute scoundrel and the cast have all done a great job in my mind which is helped by having so many experienced actors on hand.

>period dramas

I enjoyed The Scandalous Lady W, which was on over Christmas and should still be on iPlayer, although I've been driving my other half up the wall since because I can't stop saying 'quim' now. I think it's the first time I've heard the word since I was about 14.

The whole thing was excellent. It's been years since I read it, but from what I remember, everyone seems to have done their research in terms of characters, very accurate portrayals all around.

I was hoping they'd stretch it out longer, to be honest, but I don't suppose the Beeb could justify a 20 odd episode stretch.

Also, I'm fully in love with Lily James. Christ alive.

War and Peace was great. There was a turkey episode (can't remember if it was 3 or 4) that was just Russians flouncing around being spoilt twats, but most of them were very good.

The ending definitely tailed off disappointingly, though. I presume the serialised novel did also, when Tolstoy decided he'd got enough roubles per word.

>>20309
I just can't stand that woman's face and voice.

>>19946

Can we rename /zoo/ to Dildo factory?

>>20122
That was great, I wonder how much he charged for that commission, because that looked like a lot of work. A lot more then you would think without seeing that video.

This channel, has loads of videos of various fantasy weapons being made, this is one of the more impressive ones due to using completely traditional materials. Down to smelting the iron ore to make steel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNuEDtnVdeM

>>20124
I don't know about that particular sword, but in a Q&A video he mentioned that generally it's somewhere between $1000-$2000.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv-Y0-ruzi8

Maybe this might be of interest.

>>20298
THIRTEEN

>>20297

How do I get his job? Well, the real life version of the fiction he portrayed.

>>20300
There's no such thing as Time Lords lad.

>>20300
French Foreign Legion perhaps?

>>20300

Join the civil service would be a good start.

>>20128
>It's great to finally see some legitimately good sci-fi after all these years.
How badly do you think the new Star Trek is going to suck?

Even though I know it's going to be terrible I'm still looking forward to it.

>>20116

Posting videos without a talking point is borderline spam on /iq/, never mind on /v/. Use your words, m8.

>>20116
Okay mate.

Well it is a short video of Sam Keen (an American philosopher lad who keeps talking about boring things like religion, who we are and understanding our emtions) discussing how we portray enemies, how we portray ourselves, and the steps we take to reach a final decision that killing millions of people is okay because they are rats, etc.

In light of recent events, I think it is a good watch over a late night snack.

>>20118
I value myself and my countrymen much higher than others.

All I need.

>>20119
Seems to be working then.