Movies/TV/Video Games Subforum General Discussion Thread 7 7

[ashsaytr]

just went and checked... picked a random game (mike tyson punch) had a 1 min advert then the game popped up... no account that i can see... came across it on stumble upon

[Bosco685]

just went and checked... picked a random game (mike tyson punch) had a 1 min advert then the game popped up... no account that i can see... came across it on stumble upon

 

I figured it out.

 

Firefox is blocking Shockwave from that site, but IE allows the games to come up.

[ashsaytr]

cool!

[Bosco685]

Ghostbusters official reviews are starting to pop up. And not all paint this is horrible.

 

All reboots are haunted by the specter of the movie that inspired them, but Sony’s new gender-swapped “Ghostbusters” — which substitutes comediennes Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones for the previously all-male paranormal exterminator squad — suffers from a disappointingly strong case of déjà vu. While both funnier and scarier than Ivan Reitman’s 1984 original, this otherwise over-familiar remake from “Bridesmaids” director Paul Feig doesn’t do nearly enough to innovate on what has come before, even going so far as to conjure most of the earlier film’s cast (including Slimer and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man) in cameos that undercut the new film’s chemistry.

 

The new Ghostbusters is a fresh take on the franchise, with four strong leads and an interesting new entrypoint into the series. The problems with the film come down to the movie itself, as the pacing and editing don't hold up what otherwise could have been a sharp, quick-witted reentry into a world fans hold dear. It doesn't help that this new Ghostbusters tries too hard to pay homage to the previous Ghostbusters movies instead of fully standing on its own. While there is plenty to enjoy about Paul Feig's new comedy, it's not going to be enough to stick it to the haters who spewed vitriol against the all-lady Ghostbusters on premise alone. [6.9/10]

 

Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters is, above all else, a real Ghostbusters movie. If you’re a fan of the 1984 original (as most comedy fans are), one of the things that’s interesting as you watch this one is the way it echoes off of that film. It is no simple remake, but neither is it a radical reinvention of the core idea. It’s simply a different riff on the same idea, with a solid dose of fan service thrown in to help make the transition from the old to the new. The -script, by Feig and Katie Dippold, does some big things different, and the choices they make are intriguing. First and foremost, though, Ghostbusters is a big fat slice of silly summer entertainment, confident and sometimes quite beautiful. It is the biggest stretch Feig’s made so far as a filmmaker, embracing the technical side of things in a way he never has so far, and stuffed chock full of affection for everything that makes Ghostbusters such an enduring favorite.

 

Rejoice! The new Ghostbusters is good. Very good, in fact. It had to be. No comedy has faced more advance scrutiny - even hostility – than Paul Feig’s reboot of Ivan Reitman’s beloved 1980s hit. It didn’t seem to matter Feig’s track record with mainstream comedy is peerless. Since hitting his big screen stride with Bridesmaids (2011), the sitcom veteran has consistently delivered: his two subsequent two female-led comedies, The Heat (2013) and Spy (2015), were spry and hilarious; both fronted by his muse, the venerable Melissa McCarthy, who he corralled into this Ghostbusters re-imagining. If ever there was a duo to bring the series into the 21st century, surely this was it.

 

Ghostbusters is neither the great comedy of its age, nor an “Everything you are doing is bad. I want you to know this” disaster. Its mere adequacy may become the most important part of its legacy, especially if it’s a hit. Ghostbusters makes the case for the conventionality of a female-fronted blockbuster while also arguing that such a thing can be just as “Eh, it’s okay” as any male-fronted one.

 

Ghostbusters die-hards might disagree, but the remake is conceived with more complex aims than the first two films. The greatest upside is a new generation of youngsters now have a Ghostbusters movie of their own, with a disparate team of adult women to idolize, that holds dear the rules and tone and sweet core of the original films. Ghostbusters is remake as homage, swapping the gender of its heroes while keeping the bones of the plot and signatures of the first film.

 

So why does Ghostbusters feel so restrained? For starters, it’s too slavish when it nods to the original (although its throw-back cameos are fun), and too flailing and flat when it strays from it (Feig and co-writer Katie Dippold introduce a ghost-unleashing villain, then don’t know what to do with him). Even the spectral f/x are oddly shlocky (seeing it in 3-D is pointless aside from one comin’-at-ya slime gag). McCarthy, of course, gets off some lunatic one-liners; McKinnon, the group’s loose cannon, can crack you up just by widening her wildcard eyes; Jones mixes her signature bluster with an air of gung-ho joy; and Wiig’s timing is as Swiss-precise as ever (that is, when she’s not being saddled as the film’s straight-woman). Even Chris Hemsworth, as the Ghostbusters’ dim, beefcake receptionist, is funny — for a while. But with a cast as daring and quick as this one, Ghostbusters is too mild and plays it too safe. Somewhere, I bet, there’s an R-rated director’s cut of the movie where these women really let it rip. I want to see that movie. C+

[Bosco685]

Idris Elba's Roland Deschain Finally Sees Some Action On The Set Of THE DARK TOWER

 

 

 

The latest photos from the set of The Dark Tower show Roland (Idris Elba) taking out a bad guy clad entirely in black after seemingly stabbing him in the back as he shoots at persons unknown below. Just Jared indicates that this was a fight scene though, so it may not be that Roland throws the knife from a distance; perhaps they get into some sort of scuffle before The Gunslinger manages to take him out.

 

Interestingly, the weapon of the guy Roland takes out looks quite futuristic, but many of the people he and his ka-tet encounter along the way do sport sci-fi style swords and guns from alternate Earths. However, is he just a goon serving The Man in Black, a vampire, or (and this is unlikely given his appearance) a Can-toi? We'll have to wait and see, but this movie just keeps looking better and better.

 

Directed by Nikolaj Arcel, The Dark Tower is currently set to be released on February 17th, next year.

[ashsaytr]

[techtre2003]

just went and checked... picked a random game (mike tyson punch) had a 1 min advert then the game popped up... no account that i can see... came across it on stumble upon

 

I figured it out.

 

Firefox is blocking Shockwave from that site, but IE allows the games to come up.

 

If you use AdBlocker it blocks the games too. I had to allow the site and it worked.

[Bosco685]

[Bosco685]

Kiss that China assistance goodbye from China.

 

[MetalPSI]

Not hard to believe about Ghostbusters. China is a very superstitious place. Heck, back when the wall went up it was to keep all the ghosts and vampires out. And mongols.

[Bosco685]

[Bosco685]

[Bosco685]

‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ Trailer: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again

 

Fox’s two-hour rendition of The Rocky Horror Picture Show will debut this October, and Laverne Cox is already shivering with antici….pation! The Orange Is the New Black actress features as the new Frank-N-Furter, a.k.a. the “sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania,” and she snags the spotlight again in a new trailer for the television event.

 

In the footage, we see the cast — including a special appearance from the original Frank-N-Furter, Tim Curry — performing the iconic musical as a film within a film. The audience watches along in a theater while reciting the lines and interacting with the scenes and songs, like the catchy “Time Warp.”

 

[Bosco685]

2016 Comic Con Highlight Reel - HBO's Silicon Valley

 

[Bosco685]

 

[Bosco685]

Conan Suits Up For Comic-Con.

 

 

[Catwomancomics]

 

 

 

That's hilarious, thanks for posting it.

[Bosco685]

[Bosco685]

From Christophe Gans (SILENT HILL, BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF).

 

[Bosco685]