What was the last movie you've seen?
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plus if you count the comic crossovers then Batman and Superman and WildCATS are part of the Alien/Predator universe so they're part of the Soldier/Blade Runner universe. And if we count Batman, then the Ninja Turtles are in that universe as well. So yeah. EDIT: And if you count Ninja Turtles then Ghostbusters and X-Files are part of that universe also. Wow.
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Y'all ever want a rabbit hole to go down, look up the "Tommyverse."
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I started reading Revolution recently... the IDW series that officially establishes The Hasbroverse. I think my mind is on a weird retrocon crossover kick thing because of it.
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No, what should genuinely bother you is that all of reality exists within the Tommyverse.TSTR wrote:Y'all ever want a rabbit hole to go down, look up the "Tommyverse."
St. Elsewhere directly crosses over with Homicide: Life on the Street
Homicide: Life on the Street had a crossover with X-Files
X-Files had a crossover with Cops
Cops is a reality program
All of reality is in the Tommyverse
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I never said it was an un-terrifying rabbit hole. 
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Is Solider legit? Are we talking Universal Soldier?
I wish Total Recall 2 happened, sequel to the 1990 one. I think a script was floating around or something. Even though the ending is fine. Total Recall kind of feels like the end of that era of action movies.
I wish Total Recall 2 happened, sequel to the 1990 one. I think a script was floating around or something. Even though the ending is fine. Total Recall kind of feels like the end of that era of action movies.
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The fith element was 7 years later and feels like a total recall era kind of movie but I get what you're saying.Xeogred wrote:Is Solider legit? Are we talking Universal Soldier?
I wish Total Recall 2 happened, sequel to the 1990 one. I think a script was floating around or something. Even though the ending is fine. Total Recall kind of feels like the end of that era of action movies.
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Die Hard 2
Lets take a great film, put it in an airport. Had a few decent setups, but overall it felt like a "me to" film. I can forgive the silly plotholes, and some of the dialogue about having a normal Christmas, but overall the movie did nothing new or rememberable.
Die Hard with a Vengeance
As relevant today as it was the day it was made. This is the sequel that Die Hard 2 should have been. It has ties to the original, a good buddy element, and a solid enemy. The concept is a bit over the top, but this is easily my second favorite in the series.
Live Free or Die Hard
A solid twelve year later sequel. Sure the hacking is stupidly over the top (how was c4 planted in all these master hacker houses and somehow wired up to the delete key), but the action was spot on. It is also the best role Justin "I'm a Mac" Long had since Galaxy Quest.
A Good Day to Die Hard
We saved the daughter, time to save the son...Absolutely skipabble. Nothing redeemable, way to over the top, and the cgi aged poorly since 2013. I paused it halfway through to cook dinner and had to force myself to finish it. I had high hopes at the end when John moved the truck in the helicopter, but then the stupid meter was dialed in again.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
To cleanse my pallet from Die Hard 5, Guy Ritchies vision of a favored 60s Spy series. Being a pretty big fan of Ritchies work and the original UNCLE, I was apprehensive. Ritchie is known for hardhitting scenes with interesting camera angles and fast dialogue. Luckily UNCLE is a perfect set for his style. Sadly the movie is kinda flat. Cavill is excellent as Napoleon Solo and I will be looking into his filmography in the near future, but this was more Revolver, less Snatch. It starts off very 90s Avengers like, then quickly transitions into being very similar to the original series. Sadly, it starts getting its pieces together then quickly falls into a style like the 2000s Get Smart film. That said, it is an enjoyable romp but falls in a weird middle ground between Ritchies other works and the amazing original series. While I would love to see Ritchie get another swing at it, I think Man From UNCLE will probably go back on the shelf and we will probably not see it again.
Lets take a great film, put it in an airport. Had a few decent setups, but overall it felt like a "me to" film. I can forgive the silly plotholes, and some of the dialogue about having a normal Christmas, but overall the movie did nothing new or rememberable.
Die Hard with a Vengeance
As relevant today as it was the day it was made. This is the sequel that Die Hard 2 should have been. It has ties to the original, a good buddy element, and a solid enemy. The concept is a bit over the top, but this is easily my second favorite in the series.
Live Free or Die Hard
A solid twelve year later sequel. Sure the hacking is stupidly over the top (how was c4 planted in all these master hacker houses and somehow wired up to the delete key), but the action was spot on. It is also the best role Justin "I'm a Mac" Long had since Galaxy Quest.
A Good Day to Die Hard
We saved the daughter, time to save the son...Absolutely skipabble. Nothing redeemable, way to over the top, and the cgi aged poorly since 2013. I paused it halfway through to cook dinner and had to force myself to finish it. I had high hopes at the end when John moved the truck in the helicopter, but then the stupid meter was dialed in again.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
To cleanse my pallet from Die Hard 5, Guy Ritchies vision of a favored 60s Spy series. Being a pretty big fan of Ritchies work and the original UNCLE, I was apprehensive. Ritchie is known for hardhitting scenes with interesting camera angles and fast dialogue. Luckily UNCLE is a perfect set for his style. Sadly the movie is kinda flat. Cavill is excellent as Napoleon Solo and I will be looking into his filmography in the near future, but this was more Revolver, less Snatch. It starts off very 90s Avengers like, then quickly transitions into being very similar to the original series. Sadly, it starts getting its pieces together then quickly falls into a style like the 2000s Get Smart film. That said, it is an enjoyable romp but falls in a weird middle ground between Ritchies other works and the amazing original series. While I would love to see Ritchie get another swing at it, I think Man From UNCLE will probably go back on the shelf and we will probably not see it again.
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You guys need more crappy movies in your life.
The Ninja Mission
You all know I love a good ninja movie. I love it even better when its existence is really weird. The Ninja Mission is a Swedish movie directed by Mats Helge Olsson in which the Americans use ninjas to try and secure a scientist and his daughter from the KGB who are after the scientist's revolutionary energy source resource...which he keeps encoded in a romance novel he wrote. This was Mats Helge's most successful movie due to its international release and achieving cult status in some Asian countries. Unfortunately Mats got screwed a bit by the producers and hardly made any money off the picture.
This is also one of those examples where the movie poster is quite accurate: ninjas and Russians use a ton of Swedish K SMGs, there are helicopters, there are a lot of stealth kills, and guards wearing outfits to protect themselves from nerve gas and other deadly agents that the ninjas use. In truth, the movie actually has a ton of shooting and violence, which I'll get into in a bit. In the meantime, it's betrayal and backstabbing as characters are revealed to be spies and double agents, civilians are murdered in the street, and the lead scientist is tricked into working for the Russians in a false fortress made to look like its neutral territory for the UN.
But despite all of its killing and never reloading(seriously, I think only one guy ever reloads in the entire movie, and he was actually the director playing a henchman), things don't really get going until the final twenty minutes. You can tell when it starts: a ninja ziplines down to the floor of a Russian facility and uses his sword to partially decapitate a guy. I say partially, because he hits him in the mouth and keeps going. Some other henchmen find him, and then the ninjas reveal they have special poison dart weapons that make internal organs explode and nerve gas: from that point on, heads and chest cavities explode, one guy drowns on his own vomit, people get shot in the face, Russians get literally mowed down by the bushel complete with massive squibs, ninjas wearing claws slash the living crap out of people's faces...it's a freaking bloodbath. An awesome freaking bloodbath.
And don't think it's limited to the villains either: only one of the hero ninjas makes it out alive. Everyone else gets gunned down, shot in the back, left for dead, etc. In short, nearly everybody dies.
It's not a bad movie, but The Ninja Mission is surprisingly watchable due to its ridiculous amounts of 1980s violence and the surprising gore that accompanies it. Unfortunately it's never gotten a DVD or Blu-Ray release(the director is likely blocking it due to how those producers screwed him over), so you're either gonna have to track down the VHS or find it online. But if you love seeing white European guys be ninjas...this is a great way to go.
The Ninja Mission
You all know I love a good ninja movie. I love it even better when its existence is really weird. The Ninja Mission is a Swedish movie directed by Mats Helge Olsson in which the Americans use ninjas to try and secure a scientist and his daughter from the KGB who are after the scientist's revolutionary energy source resource...which he keeps encoded in a romance novel he wrote. This was Mats Helge's most successful movie due to its international release and achieving cult status in some Asian countries. Unfortunately Mats got screwed a bit by the producers and hardly made any money off the picture.
This is also one of those examples where the movie poster is quite accurate: ninjas and Russians use a ton of Swedish K SMGs, there are helicopters, there are a lot of stealth kills, and guards wearing outfits to protect themselves from nerve gas and other deadly agents that the ninjas use. In truth, the movie actually has a ton of shooting and violence, which I'll get into in a bit. In the meantime, it's betrayal and backstabbing as characters are revealed to be spies and double agents, civilians are murdered in the street, and the lead scientist is tricked into working for the Russians in a false fortress made to look like its neutral territory for the UN.
But despite all of its killing and never reloading(seriously, I think only one guy ever reloads in the entire movie, and he was actually the director playing a henchman), things don't really get going until the final twenty minutes. You can tell when it starts: a ninja ziplines down to the floor of a Russian facility and uses his sword to partially decapitate a guy. I say partially, because he hits him in the mouth and keeps going. Some other henchmen find him, and then the ninjas reveal they have special poison dart weapons that make internal organs explode and nerve gas: from that point on, heads and chest cavities explode, one guy drowns on his own vomit, people get shot in the face, Russians get literally mowed down by the bushel complete with massive squibs, ninjas wearing claws slash the living crap out of people's faces...it's a freaking bloodbath. An awesome freaking bloodbath.
And don't think it's limited to the villains either: only one of the hero ninjas makes it out alive. Everyone else gets gunned down, shot in the back, left for dead, etc. In short, nearly everybody dies.
It's not a bad movie, but The Ninja Mission is surprisingly watchable due to its ridiculous amounts of 1980s violence and the surprising gore that accompanies it. Unfortunately it's never gotten a DVD or Blu-Ray release(the director is likely blocking it due to how those producers screwed him over), so you're either gonna have to track down the VHS or find it online. But if you love seeing white European guys be ninjas...this is a great way to go.