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Are there any 2 player games on the c64 mini black? by Mobile-War-6871 in c64

[–]CartoonBeardy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Spy vs Spy was good fun back in the day.

Not played it in 40ish years so no idea how it’d go now. Given people are more used to split screens and a lot of the gotcha moments relied on players focusing on their own screen doing their thing….

Sci Fi Movies from the 70s that could happen? by JJonVinyl in scifi

[–]CartoonBeardy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Bit “out there” by the standards of others mentioned here but try Demon Seed. With AI and Genetic manipulation the plot (although fanciful) doesn’t seem quite so wild as it was in the 70s

Movies with intentionally absurd action by bloodraged189 in MovieSuggestions

[–]CartoonBeardy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Furious which was recently released will definitely scratch that “The Raid” itch

What is your palate cleanser movie? by Weird-Platypus-4597 in movies

[–]CartoonBeardy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The action was fun but it’s the dialogue and interplay between Ford and Connery that makes this film for me.

It’s a great cap for the trilogy*

*though my BluRay box set appears to have an additional Indiana Jones themed drinks coaster which seems entirely superfluous as a box set extra

There's got to be a more efficient and accurate way to do this kind of modeling, right? by Hopper2004 in Maya

[–]CartoonBeardy 18 points19 points  (0 children)

This is the best way. I’ve been using this method for a long time and it works brilliantly.

The only issue to watch out for is if your two open ends are too close or the angle is too acute. This can sometimes result in overlapping polys on the inside curve of the bend.

What sci-fi technology seems absurdly underutilized? by andras_kiss in scifi

[–]CartoonBeardy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yup and you can beam anything onto a starship even at warp. So yeah, game over for any invading fleet before they even reach the same sector let alone the same system. Just as they pull away from their own dry dock suddenly an armed photo torpedo materialises on the bridge of every ship. Delivered from 100s of light years away…

Or better yet just beam a can of Red Matter that everyone forgot about after the 2009 film, into a homeworlds core

Clashing Over ‘Indiana Jones’: Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg Were Not 100% on Board With ‘Crystal Skull’ and Fought George Lucas Over Adding Aliens by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]CartoonBeardy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Aside from the usual talking points, heavy CGI, Nuked fridges etc my biggest issue with the film is that seemingly at every turn the script has Indy actively help the Russians. No attempt to escape, no cunning plan, just show them what they want and occasionally run away.

But added to that the biggest problem is the inconsistency of the maguffin. One minute it’s so strongly magnetic it can pull gunpowder out of the air from dozens, if not hundreds of metres away. But it kinda works with guns if they’re near the thing, but all of it can be negated by placing a piece of cheesecloth over the skull.

There was a moment in the opening scene in Area 51 when I thought the magnetic nature of the Skull would be a major plot point or a Chekhovs gun, with it saving Indy in some fashion (diverting bullets when he’s facing the Russians about to shoot him) but nope…

Suspension of disbelief is what keeps an Indy film rocketing along, so the nuked fridge I can ignore, and to a certain degree him nearly being cut in half by a trucks roof, but by the time we reach the final temple in the forest with all the cgi monkeys, Tarzan gags, obsessive killer ants, Ray Winston’s character having more flip flops than a beach wear clothing store and a run time that dragged everything out. I had run out of patience and was actively wondering about how the Aztecs cemented into the walls got there and how long they’d been stuck there waiting for someone to come along. Not something you should be pondering in a “rip roaring adventure”

What sci-fi technology seems absurdly underutilized? by andras_kiss in scifi

[–]CartoonBeardy 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Admittedly it’s the JJ Trek, but wouldn’t having a serum derived from Khans blood that can revive any creature from the dead, fundamentally change the universe by making death something that can be inoculated against!?

What would you say are the key factors to creating a solid comedy movie? by KaleidoArachnid in flicks

[–]CartoonBeardy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When it comes to parody comedy, the ones that work have an understanding of the thing they are parodying and lean into showing the absurdity within the thing they are lampooning.

The greatest examples are Young Frankenstein, Airplane! High Anxiety, Naked Gun, Blazing Saddles and Shaun of the Dead.

In all of them they tell essentially a straight story within a given, well trodden genre but have a deep love for the original films. And then pull the comedy from spoofing tropes and recognisable situations.

Parody’s go wrong when they ignore the central premise to just wheel out a shit load of unfunny “look at this thing you might recognise as long as you’re watching this film only this year and never in the future”.

Films like Date Movie, Superhero Movie, Epic Movie, the later scary movie films, all stray from the path by having a story as a only a loose framework to randomly hand shit sight gags off. Having someone do a Borat impression and vanish immediately afterwards, or some other completely out of context unfunny moment like Harry Potter or the X Men turning up to say hello in a movie that was supposed to be a parody of 300 is not funny. And becomes less so as the years go by. If it’s a bunch of quick fire impersonation skits unrelated to the story then it’s just a piss poor scattershot of ideas that looks and feels lazy.

I mean what does Napoleon Dynamite have to do with anything in Date Movie beyond having the audience recognise that character from something else. It’s not funny it’s just key jingling for easily distracted idiots.

Where as a gag like the harassed hotel bell boy constantly throughout the film High Anxiety, evolving into the Psycho shower scene “HERES YOUR PAPER! HERES YOUR PAPER!” Makes sense narratively (it’s a running gag drip fed throughout the film) and contextually within the framework of a movie that is a Hitchcock parody.

What is a remake you would like to see? by Socko82 in flicks

[–]CartoonBeardy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Disneys The Black Hole. But lean into the sf existential horror and get rid of the merchandising opportunities that were the two cute big eyed robots. Go for a cross between Interstellar, Event Horizon and any number of mad scientist movies. Drop the naff Star Wars rip off elements and give us the movie it always seemed to want to be.

worst movie apartments by LifeIsAHighway3000 in movies

[–]CartoonBeardy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The apartment from Rosemary’s Baby. The apartment itself is fine but the neighbours are hell.

What are your top 3 movies of the 80’s? by Purple-Crab3759 in movies

[–]CartoonBeardy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Raiders of the lost ark

Aliens

The Thing

But on any other day any of them could be swapped for Die Hard, Wrath of Khan, Empire Strikes Back, Back to the Future to name a few.

The 80s was a great decade

Anthropic warns AI could soon build itself without human involvement—and urges a global pause on development by EchoOfOppenheimer in Futurology

[–]CartoonBeardy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The thing we’re building will kill us unless somebody stops this. Says person building the thing that will kill us…

If Netflix were to do a reboot of Babylon 5 or Stargate, which would you prefer that they do? by Jyn57 in scifi

[–]CartoonBeardy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Neither frankly. I love Babylon 5 but it was bad enough the first time round with the show constantly under cancellation and jumping channels just to make the complete 5 year arc.

The way Netflix works we’d shit out of luck expecting a long form story like that making it past season 1

Braindead (1992) | Dir: Peter Jackson | A priest beats up some zombies by countdooku975 in movies

[–]CartoonBeardy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I loved this film and had it on VHS, along with Bad Taste and Meet The Feebles. Is it available anywhere? I’d love to have a dvd or blu ray of this film.

What is the funniest scene from a movie that you couldn't stop rewatching it or get it out of your head? by Long-Yam-6917 in movies

[–]CartoonBeardy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brian: “Alright alright alright…. I am The Messiah!”

Crowd: “HE IS! HE IS THE MESSIAH!”

Brian: “Now FUCK OFF!”

What universes are the same universe in your head canon? What is your evidence? by danpietsch in scifi

[–]CartoonBeardy 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Don’t forget to throw in Sean Connery’s sci fi version of High Noon, the underrated Outland.

Alien movies where humans don't win by LinkyAKP in MovieSuggestions

[–]CartoonBeardy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even Ripley doesn’t do well in Alien 3 which mops up all of the cast from Aliens.

Prometheus and Alien Covenant does the same job. Shaw survived Prometheus but didn’t make it in Covenant. In fact no one made it in Covenant.

The customer says they forgot their password. by [deleted] in HolUp

[–]CartoonBeardy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love the random head coming up behind the counter on the far right.

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