Last year, Big West and HG finally came to an understanding (more like Big West hemming in HG worldwide until it brought them to their knees via a series of lawsuits outside North America). With that in mind, we might actually see Macross in the US again.
Things you're tired of seeing in movies
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Riceball
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Yeah, I'd heard about that. Big West has been releasing some of the stuff that came out after SDF Macross into the US. First was an official release of Flashback 2012 on YouTube and most recently they released one of the more/most recent Macross sequel movies in the theaters.
Riceball
Master Member
Not sure, it might have been remastered in HD, but I haven't heard anything about it one way or the other.
Seeing someone throw away a gun because it is empty. I don't think a real soldier would be able to get away with doing something like that. I was watching the James Bond movie Skyfall and there is a scene where he is shooting his gun, empties the mag, reloads, empties that mag and then tosses the gun away. I guess its one thing to toss a gun you just picked up but to do that with your assigned weapon just doesn't make sense.
Yes! The only time when that is acceptable is when they do it like John Wick where he's just taking each bad guy out and getting a new gun each time.
somerset fox
Sr Member
Am just finishing off the last few eps of The Walking Dead and am tired that after years (in story time), of living with dealing with the walkers, these noisy killing machines that move at the speed of tortoises can still creep up and surprise attack anyone! People with guns only need to shoot them once in the head to kill them, still don’t shoot until they can smell them, and still a rando one manages to creep around the camera and attack them from the rear!
ScourgiousJinx
Master Member
Exactly. One of the main reasons I stopped watching this series after a few seasons was it was clear "rinse and repeat" with everything was going to be their approach to storytelling.
Iskelderon
Sr Member
Same way I stopped watching it shortly after they left that research facility (think that was season one and two), really didn't give a damn about a show that's more of a soap opera with the rare zombie scene mixed in to give it a twist.
Cephus
Master Member
We stopped watching after the first episode in season 4 when we realized we didn't care about any of the human characters and just wanted them all to die. If you don't give your characters any redeeming characteristics, what's the point?
Iskelderon
Sr Member
I think the zombie thing has boomed because our attitudes about fictional enemies have changed.
In the 1950s they made cowboy movies. The heroes killed cartoonish evil versions of native americans. Same with war movies, whether it was evil Nazis or Imperial Japan or whatever. But now we consider ourselves too grown-up for that kind of one-dimensional attitude towards an enemy army. We expect our heroes to be troubled about it and take no pleasure in slaughtering other humans.
Even as late as 1980s/90s action movies, there were still drug dealers & Bond villians who had whole armies of henchmen. They acted like cartoons and lined up in front of the heroes to die stupidly. But now that isn't nearly as common either. Today the heroes fight more fleshed-out evil henchmen who are usually more formidable.
Enter zombie movies: They provide armies of stupid evil henchmen for the heroes to slaughter. It's okay to cheer or laugh when zombies get ripped to shreds. And nobody gets offended when zombies are protrayed as bumbling idiots.
In the 1950s they made cowboy movies. The heroes killed cartoonish evil versions of native americans. Same with war movies, whether it was evil Nazis or Imperial Japan or whatever. But now we consider ourselves too grown-up for that kind of one-dimensional attitude towards an enemy army. We expect our heroes to be troubled about it and take no pleasure in slaughtering other humans.
Even as late as 1980s/90s action movies, there were still drug dealers & Bond villians who had whole armies of henchmen. They acted like cartoons and lined up in front of the heroes to die stupidly. But now that isn't nearly as common either. Today the heroes fight more fleshed-out evil henchmen who are usually more formidable.
Enter zombie movies: They provide armies of stupid evil henchmen for the heroes to slaughter. It's okay to cheer or laugh when zombies get ripped to shreds. And nobody gets offended when zombies are protrayed as bumbling idiots.
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Paul Andrew
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Well written but entirely unmemorable scores can just go. Hans Zimmer and Man of Steel, I'm looking at you.
Riceball
Master Member
What always got me in The Walking Dead was how incredibly accurate all of the hero characters were, perfect headshot every time. Not only that, they would get a headshot off every time no matter the circumstances, These people were consistently more accurate than ever the best spec ops trooper from any branch of service in any country, and these guys spend hours every day doing nothing but practicing shooting while TWD heroes, in many cases, only learned how to shoot after everything went to hell.
What really got me though, was how every time our heroes found a place to call home it would be overrun, either by zombies or other humans, and they'd be forced to leave in a hurry. That, in itself, I have no big problem with, stuff happens, but what always annoyed me is that they never learned to have an evacuation plan after the first time or two that it happened to them. You'd think that after the first couple of times that this happened that they'd come up with some sort of evacuation plan that says that if they all have to get the hell out of Dodge in a hurry they'll meet up at X and wait at X for Y amount of time before either writing them off as dead or go looking for them. Instead, every season they get kicked out of their home and they spend the better part of the season running around looking for each other.
I could actually have overlooked almost all of that stuff if they had just killed Negan. That, to me, is THE most glaring out of character writing for the ENTIRE cast of the show. Not one of those people would have let Negan live. They were adamant about taking out The Governor, and he wasn't anywhere near as bad. He is a downright nice guy next to Negan! But they made the mistake of getting a great actor to play Negan and didn't want to let him go. That's when I stopped watching.
CB2001
Master Member
Isn't Negan alive in the comics too? If so, then it means it wasn't just getting a great actor for Negan, it was the writing of the character also.
They could always give him a cigar and a smiley face button.
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