My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Live Reactions & Discussion)

Hey Scott, since I know your a Postal fan, did you ever hear of the Postal movie made back in 2007? It's pretty damn bad. One of the biggest problems is The Dude himself. You know how in the games he's a wisecracking, snarky badass who doesn't take shit from no one and is a bit of a Villain Protagonist? In the movie he's a whiny doormat who gets abused by other people, and while he gets better near the end he doesn't go into his full character and, worst of all, he never puts on the iconic outfit that he has in the games. The movie itself is pretty much the poor man's South Park, trying to be political and funny but instead winds up being unfunny and stupid.

edited 4th Nov '15 6:07:51 PM by marston

Technically, any character that was created by a person is an OC.

So really, we've been enjoying other people's OCs for as long as art has been around.

Please don't talk about that Portal movie or (puts cup of sauce beside you) I'll ask if the sauce is going bad.

I've heard about it. Can't say I'm that interested in it. Just sounds like it tries way too hard to the kind of pitch black humor Postal 2 had going for it. And hell, say what you will about the Postal games, at least Postal Dude or anyone ain't killing kids in those games. Well, besides the end of the first game but that Postal Dude didn't get to kill them.

Not even seeing Boll's ass get beaten is enough to convince me to watch that movie.

BTW, you see Brad Jone's latest Midnight Screening video? It's on this Dance movie called "Dancin-It's on". I shit you not that is it's actual name. It sounds gloriously bad. Like, Saving Christmas or Birdemic bad. Brad even compared to how people must of felt when they first found Birdemic before the internet made it popular.

It's Postal, not Portal. Besides, I don't think Valve would be dumb enough to let Uwe Boll make an adaptation of any of their games.

Neither will Blizzard.

I heard Dancing It's on...I heard legends...

I wanna see it. That and Saving Christmas. Make a great bad movie double feature.

@Scott: Yeah that sums up the movie pretty well. Sadly it's actually one of his better films. No, really, compared to his other schlock it's at least somewhat tolerable. And I haven't seen that Midnight Screenings video. I did watch the one for Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas though. That movie sounds insanely glorious for all the wrong reasons.

@Scott and Mars

Does the movie have Christian overtones?

I don't really know how Postal could really be considered one of Boll's better films. From what I've seen of Phelous's review of the "funny" version of House of the Dead and Blubberella, I think he does a better job at bad horror/action movies. At least in stuff like Alone in the Dark and the Bloodrayne movies theirs some funny stupid stuff.

Which movie?

edited 4th Nov '15 6:08:39 PM by ScottPilgrim2013

House Of The Dead was hilariously bad, yes. Everything else is just plain awful unless your watching a TGWTG review of the film {Which is the only way you should ever watch his Alone In The Dark movie}.

Does Dancing It's On have Christian overtones?

No. It's just a really weird, bad movie.

He said it's like Birdemic if their was no Birds invading at any point.

I don't think we have that movie here in Canada...shame.

Somehow Dancin is playing at some of the Regals near me.

Here's the real kicker, this movie somehow has a better score on Rotten Tomatoes then that Jem movie(Which is sounds like an awful movie) and Rock the Kasbah(Which isn't supposedly that bad.). I'm guessing Dancin is just that obscure to the public before Brad reviewed it.

Granted, a lot of movies Brad has reviewed in his Midnight Screening vidoes are films I never would've known about if it wasn't for him.

@Ed: That reminds me, I once heard that Hideo Kajima {Or whatever the guy's name is} went on a rant about how he will {Rightfully} never ever let Uwe Boll touch the Metal Gear franchise in any way, and that said rant is one of the very few times people have seen him so angry.

The Jem movie is worse because it turns the colorful eccentric fashion of the 80s and turns it into a boring, cliched, rise to fame movie. When I heard of the Jem movie, I knew about the show and was REALLY hoping that it would be like Scott Pilgrim vs the world. But it was just dull...

I've never really watched the Jem cartoon, but I've heard people say that Rainbow Rocks is pretty much a far better Jem Movie then the actual Jem movie we got.

edited 4th Nov '15 6:22:48 PM by marston

@Mars That's because it was colorful and creative at least...or and personality. It was more personality than the Jem movie.

Speaking of Video Game movie adaptations, I heard Borderlands is getting one. Which has me torn.

On one hand, VG movies are known to do a pour job of both representing the source as well as being a straight up bad movie. A game like borderlands might look weird getting translated to live action. Plus theirs the fact that they could just be trying to cash in on the success of Fury Road and just try ripping off Mad Max.

On the other hand, Borderlands 1 is such a bare bones game in terms of writing in general. Theirs barely any thing to it, at least in the base game. The DL Cs did give some sort of life to the writing(both in terms of drama and comedy), but it was just baby steps. Maybe they could learn from the sequels and add more substance to the original. Or maybe throw in stuff from the DL Cs. Even if they don't take influence from the sequels, they could probably do a better job handling the writing then 1 did.

If theirs anything I really wish the movie to have, keep Claptrap's voice actor, keep the Psycho's and Bandit's voice actors(We never see their faces under their masks), keep the classic Psycho mask, try to incorporate a skag getting ran over, and keep the Boss Subtitles for the characters.

@Jem movie Something that I was amazed to hear about the Jem movie was the fact that when the movie would have them fly out to somewhere, it's so obviously done in Google Maps. You can even see the Google Maps HUD on it. I want to see that movie if only because of how incompetent it sounds.

edited 4th Nov '15 6:27:38 PM by ScottPilgrim2013

It would be awesome if instead they made a CGI Borderlands movie that actually takes place in the games universe and has the same animation and voice actors in it. Kind of like those two CGI Resident Evil films, which are far better then the crappy live action ones.

I stopped caring about video game movies after the second resident evil movie...I think it was the second one, I don't know because the movies only have the subtitle of the movie, not the number.

If you want a good Video Game movie, make sure it's not an adaptation. Resident Evil and Dead Space both have excellant animated films that arn't adaptations and instead take place in the same universe as the game series.

OK, about any Christian overtones in Saving Christmas: the only ones there are exist in Kirk Cameron's diseased mind. He tries to say that the Bible justifies the greed and gluttony of commercialized Christmas holiday time...you know, the kind of stuff that Jesus was kind of against because it's pretty fucking hard for a rich man to go to heaven and because we should try to help others, not judge, be generous and kind, and love everyone like we love ourselves and turn the other cheek?

Yeah, the thing is that Kirk Cameron tries to act like none of the traditions of Pagan cultures that were absorbed into Christmas traditions were really Pagan. He says some BS about the Cross being made from Christmas trees, I think (which I'm pretty sure even some of the most fundamentalist people will tell you is BS...seriously, have you ever seen a goddamn pine tree in fucking Israel?), and compared presents to the "body of Christ" (even though I'm pretty sure that goes against Catholic doctrine).

I've only seen the first 10 or so minutes of the Midnight Screenings review, mainly because the movie sounded so damn painful to laugh at. I can barely understand some of the things people say are in the film because they sound so batshit insane that I can't tell if they're an exaggeration or what.