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PostPosted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 9:53 am 
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Thought it was pretty good.

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 10:05 am 
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this movie was genetically engineered to be anything but unlikeable. the visual effects people did a great job of setting up an immerse universe that felt like it had a bit more scale than, say, chronicles of riddick or even firefly/serenity (which had to be the underlying example of why this "thing" would work).

everyone/everything was pretty, there was the USDA mandated daily dose of humor, and they didnt harp on the inevitable dead parent/s of the main characters too much. oh and of course they're setting up the infinity gauntlet in the bigger picture so heyyyyy now. jolly good show.

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 6:34 pm 
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I can't wait for Thanos to cross paths w/ the Avengers. That's going to be so fucking epic!


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 07, 2014 6:48 pm 
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Colonel Angus wrote:
I can't wait for Thanos to cross paths w/ the Avengers. That's going to be so fucking epic!



This was the lead in for it.


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 9:19 pm 
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The only problem with the movie is that it made the Avengers (the group, not the movie) look like uninteresting losers you couldn't care less about compared to the main cast of this. Heck Yandu doesn't even have much screen time but he's more fun and entertaining than most of the Avengers.


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PostPosted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 9:32 pm 
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Erotic Lawyer wrote:
Colonel Angus wrote:
I can't wait for Thanos to cross paths w/ the Avengers. That's going to be so fucking epic!



This was the lead in for it.


Not sure about that. Doesn't sound like Thanos is in Ultron. Rumors of an Avenger possibly ending up in GotG2. That may be when the movies cross. Or that leading to Avengers 3.


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 6:12 am 
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How late is the place open? The one we go to occasionally plays a double, and its usually 1am when we leave.


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 8:27 am 
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Q.Bovifs wrote:
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How late is the place open? The one we go to occasionally plays a double, and its usually 1am when we leave.

They just had a triple feature for this past Friday and Sat. I think we pulled out for home at about 1:30 or so.

Cascade Drive In in West Chicago - basically the only one left in the whole Chicago Area.

http://www.cascadedrivein.com/

I live about 5 minutes from there, but haven't gone for about 12 years. The owner of that place is a massive penis. Even though he is operating one of the last drive-in's in the state, I still want to root for his failure.

Even on the website you link, he's taking shots at Scooby's next door. Total knob...

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 1:33 pm 
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Q.Bovifs wrote:
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Q.Bovifs wrote:
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How late is the place open? The one we go to occasionally plays a double, and its usually 1am when we leave.

They just had a triple feature for this past Friday and Sat. I think we pulled out for home at about 1:30 or so.

Cascade Drive In in West Chicago - basically the only one left in the whole Chicago Area.

http://www.cascadedrivein.com/

I live about 5 minutes from there, but haven't gone for about 12 years. The owner of that place is a massive penis. Even though he is operating one of the last drive-in's in the state, I still want to root for his failure.

Even on the website you link, he's taking shots at Scooby's next door. Total knob...

If you know the history, that whole feud is because the owner of Scooby's refused to dim their lights after they close for the evening, which fucks up the view for the outdoor theater.

Build a fence.

Stop being dicks to your customers because you are in a pissing match with a neighboring business.

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Bucky Chris wrote:
Erotic Lawyer wrote:
Colonel Angus wrote:
I can't wait for Thanos to cross paths w/ the Avengers. That's going to be so fucking epic!



This was the lead in for it.


Not sure about that. Doesn't sound like Thanos is in Ultron. Rumors of an Avenger possibly ending up in GotG2. That may be when the movies cross. Or that leading to Avengers 3.

My theory is that Thanos will headline Avengers 3, where he'll kill Captain America, leading Bucky to take over as the new Cap.


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 11:20 pm 
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When I originally saw the commercials for this movie it didn't really appeal to me, but my interest was piqued when it started getting great reviews. I watched it earlier this afternoon and enjoyed it. Instead of saying what I liked about it I'll just quote Don Tiny's review since it's better than anything I'd say:

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I think a number of us spoke highly of Capt America 2 as a really good movie that even people not into cape movies could, imo likely would, enjoy.

THIS movie, however, .... well, if you go see it and don't walk away having been fairly well entertained, it's because you're (a) a real honest-to-God dullard, and (b) kind of a piece of shit as a human being.

Seriously. There's no sensible reason not to enjoy what this film is ... and perhaps what this mini-franchise could turn into. It's the kind of thing where I'd be surprised to not see some degree of clamoring for cameos from both the acting and music communities to be part of the next one.

You don't have to have the first idea about who anyone is, was, or will be. Just accept what you're seeing and go with it. This is all you have to keep in mind from start to finish. "Just take it."

It makes Dave Bautista fucking funny. Your curiosity should be piqued enough at that prospect alone to go plink your money down on the counter.

Vin Diesel is a fucking tree ... an entertaining, endearing CGI tree with a vocabulary that literally does not need the full compliment of digits on one normal human hand to count yet communicates more emotion than half of Hollywood's roster.

There's got to be at least a half-dozen times (maybe closer to a full dozen) where you just have to laugh and say "what they fuck am I seeing/hearing". Even if you can make it through the full movie without doing so, you cannot possibly stay for the post credits scene and still resist the urge to do so.

I will say that I saw kids there at a 9pm showing (for a 2hr film) that imo had no business being at this movie. Will they have emotional scarring from watching it in a movie theater? No, but really ... I mean ... I don't know. Just use your heads people. It's not Saw, but it's also not the fuckin' Muppets Take Manhattan either. Never mind that the fucks wanted to play Q&A with their idiot kid all night through the movie ... I mean, black people would've been ashamed at how much talking this outfit did throughout the film. STILL, a most pleasant time was had in spite of that nonsense.

If you have something important to do with your time, do attend to it of course. If you don't have anything better to do or don't know what to go see, don't be a fucking idiot and not see this. It'll be nice as a home release of course, but there's enough to this thing to deserve to be seen in an actual, proper theater. I don't know that IMAX and/or 3D would be worth the extra shekels; maybe to you they would be ... I don't happen to think so.

It's hard for me to grasp a person not at least liking the movie ... you don't have to love it ... I don't know that I loved it ... but it was just damned entertaining, which is all movies are supposed to be last time I checked.


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