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  • 28/04/2024 at 19:04 #197815
    Avatar photoAndrew Beasley
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    Just come across this two part (4+hour) film and been very impressed.
    The bad guys technology reminds me a bit of the Riddick universe with the good guys being Serenity and Viking saga mixed in.
    There is even a wonderful 40K Imperial Guard moment complete with banner waving foot on rock!

    Effects are great though focus was a bit hit and miss in part one during some of the CGI clips.

    Different enough to enjoy even if the sound has you grabbing the remote sometimes.

    28/04/2024 at 19:07 #197816
    Avatar photoMike
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    I tried to watch it on 3 occasions…

    Horses for courses I think.

    29/04/2024 at 01:02 #197828
    Avatar photoFrank Ryan
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    Saw both the movies. B-grade sci-fi. Nice effects, plot a tad contrived and a mish-mash of proven ideas, acting alright, technology a mix of fantasy, feudal, modern and futuristic … Plan is for 2 movies each year for the next couple of years. I’ll keep watching it for now.

    Have a great day, Frank

    Have a great day, Foxtrot

    29/04/2024 at 05:50 #197832
    Avatar photoKonstantinos Travlos
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    I cannot say I liked it. In a way it would had just been better if GW and Netflix let him make a 40k film. I will probably watch the Snyder cut, just to see what execs throw there money at…

    29/04/2024 at 06:53 #197834
    Avatar photoSteve Johnson
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    My wife who normally likes this sort of stuff, didn’t really enjoy it at all and can’t be bothered to watch the second movie, which speaks volumes…

    29/04/2024 at 12:07 #197847
    Avatar photoGeneral Slade
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    I haven’t watched it but I did see Ryan George’s Pitch Meeting for it on YouTube, which is entertaining, contains major spoilers, and has persuaded me that I don’t need to renew my Netflix subscription just yet:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzczijDtnFY&ab_channel=PitchMeeting

     

    29/04/2024 at 12:14 #197848
    Avatar photoMike
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    Ha Ha, yeah that sounded fair.

    29/04/2024 at 12:55 #197849
    Avatar photoAndrew Beasley
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    Did not realise this was such a marmite film – read some of the reviews after watching it and glad we saw it first!

    It’s not the highest writing quality but maybe being brought up with cheap sci-fi books (E Doc Smith anyone) this well covered the monthly fee 🙂

    29/04/2024 at 18:32 #197877
    Avatar photoMcKinstry
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    Haven’t watched the second part yet but it is perfectly fine brain Novocain.  It may not be high art but it is a pleasant distraction for an hour or two.

    The tree of Life is self pruning.

    30/04/2024 at 04:42 #197885
    Avatar photomark leslie
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    Slow mo farming is tight!

    Fossilizing nicely.

    30/04/2024 at 14:06 #197898
    Avatar photoSane Max
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    Watching Ryan George is always super easy – barely an inconvenience 🙂

    30/04/2024 at 20:04 #197910
    Avatar photoThuseld
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    Everything I have heard about it makes me believe I will hate it. As I am not time rich I can’t say I am in a rush to test that theory. I hear it has some great slow motion grain cutting.

    Experiments here: http://inexperiencedmodelmaker.blogspot.co.uk/

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    01/05/2024 at 12:41 #197939
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    <p style=”text-align: left;”>We watched part 2 last night hoping for an improvement on part 1. Disappointed.</p>
    I actually laughed out loud at some parts ( the coal fired boiler room on the massive spaceship and using wheels to aim the massive laser cannons).

    I seemed to me like a poor retelling of The Seven Samurai.

    Am I correct in thinking that this is the script that was turned down for the last three Star Wars films?

     

    01/05/2024 at 13:23 #197940
    Avatar photoSane Max
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    🙂 it does seem awfully like ‘300’ and ‘Watchmen’ were just lucky hits.

    01/05/2024 at 13:49 #197941
    Avatar photoMike
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    In those he just directed, but on RM he wrote and directed and produced and…

     

    Maybe stick to directing?

    01/05/2024 at 14:34 #197942
    Avatar photoGuy Farrish
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    Good point – maybe not up to Herodotus or Alan Moore?

    [edit – but I don’t remember the Rhinos in the Herodotus version]

    01/05/2024 at 16:37 #197949
    Avatar photoAndrew Beasley
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    miniaturemen wrote:

    …the coal fired boiler room on the massive spaceship and using wheels to aim the massive laser cannons…

    You missed the ‘only two main guns on the whole ship’ – I think they launched nuclear shells rather than be lasers.

    These bits reminded me of 40K and Steampunk ships – the use of the wheels are an obvious plot device to take up time for the good guys to reach the objective before the village was blown away – worse story point than slowly coming around a moon – would have been way quicker to move the ship…

    I think the characters have some similarity to the 7 but need to watch both again before feeling there is a good match. Was not surprised there was 7 hero figures though 🙂

    Sane Max wrote:

    🙂 it does seem awfully like ‘300’ and ‘Watchmen’ were just lucky hits.

    Never liked the Watchmen – seen it three or four times trying to enjoy it but I struggle part way through and been known to fall asleep… Maybe it’s the Doctor Manhattan powers that unbalance it for me – no idea.

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