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The Lounge => Media and Inspiration => Topic started by: two_fishes on April 13, 2011, 04:31:03 PM

Poll
Question: Priest: super-cool or super-stupid?
Option 1: uper-cool votes: 2
Option 2: uper-stupid votes: 4
Option 3: oth votes: 4
Option 4: either votes: 0
Option 5: hat? votes: 5
Title: Priest
Post by: two_fishes on April 13, 2011, 04:31:03 PM
I just saw a trailer for this and I can't decide. Super-cool or super-stupid. Leaning toward the latter.

EDIT
I saw this trailer for an upcoming fantasy movie called Priest (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stAfEDSosXc). On the one hand, it has lots of exaggerated super-cool imagery that could be fun to swipe for the gaming table. On the other hand, the imagery is so exaggerated and derivative that it may just be super-stupid. Where is the line to be drawn?

It's a western/martial arts film about a rogue Catholic priests fighting mutated vampires in a post-apocalyptic theocratic dystopia.
Title: Priest
Post by: danbuter on April 13, 2011, 04:37:40 PM
Looks like a video game (which I'm betting it's based on).
Title: Priest
Post by: two_fishes on April 13, 2011, 04:40:51 PM
Comic-book, apparently.
Title: Priest
Post by: Tahmoh on April 13, 2011, 04:45:00 PM
Korean Manwha comic so expect it to be very actioney but abit weak in the plot department(like 90% of korean comic stories).
Title: Priest
Post by: danbuter on April 13, 2011, 05:51:27 PM
So turn off your brain and get some popcorn and it will probably be good. :)
Title: Priest
Post by: two_fishes on April 13, 2011, 06:17:18 PM
I'd rather not make a habit of that.
Title: Priest
Post by: RPGPundit on April 13, 2011, 07:11:24 PM
I have no fucking clue what you're talking about, and doing a search for the word "priest" by itself is unlikely to provide any useful clarification.  So either post more information explaining what the fuck you're on about, or I'll be closing this thread as irrelevant to the Pundit's Forum.

RPGpundit
Title: Priest
Post by: two_fishes on April 13, 2011, 07:14:19 PM
It's this. (http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810133225/info)

I don't know why it's in Pundit's Forum. I thought I put it in Media & Inspiration.
Title: Priest
Post by: Benoist on April 13, 2011, 08:53:04 PM
Total crap.
Title: Priest
Post by: brettmb on April 13, 2011, 08:58:01 PM
This thread was moved to Pundit's forum, because it was not relevant to the media/inspiration forum, because no one has a clue what the thread is even about. Thus Pundit gets the pleasure to decide what to do with it instead of me simply deleting it, giving the original poster the benefit of the doubt that it has some relevance to this site.
Title: Priest
Post by: danbuter on April 13, 2011, 09:45:26 PM
It's about an upcoming movie, so I'd think moving it back to Media would make sense. I think the word "trailer" should have tipped you off. ;)
Title: Priest
Post by: brettmb on April 13, 2011, 09:55:26 PM
Quote from: danbuter;451643It's about an upcoming movie, so I'd think moving it back to Media would make sense. I think the word "trailer" should have tipped you off. ;)
The first post consists of no actual content to qualify for a new thread, so it would first have to be edited to meet the standards of an actual post.
Title: Priest
Post by: two_fishes on April 13, 2011, 10:36:10 PM
Edited. It wasn't my intention to create a mystery.
Title: Priest
Post by: brettmb on April 13, 2011, 10:48:30 PM
Sorry. Still not good enough as it requires clicking on the link to know what you're talking about. Please describe the movie and/or trailer.
Title: Priest
Post by: J Arcane on April 13, 2011, 11:05:17 PM
It's a western/martial arts film about a rogue Catholic priests fighting mutated vampires in a post-apocalyptic theocratic dystopia.  

Seems right up RPG nerd alleys to me.
Title: Priest
Post by: brettmb on April 13, 2011, 11:07:39 PM
OK. So that at least should be in the first post.
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Post by: Koltar on April 14, 2011, 12:35:04 AM
Around 8 to 10 years ago, "Priest" was the cool-trendy comic that many comic-book obssesives thought was really edgy, 'hip' or had good writing.

 I haven't seen a new issue in quite a while.

The trailer almost looks too similiar in set-up to the Stallone "Judge Dread" movie in some ways, just done a bit more realistic and with a different and moodier filter on the camera lense.


- Ed C.
Title: Priest
Post by: Ian Warner on April 14, 2011, 03:22:40 AM
Awwwwwwwww man Ian McKellen as an evil Bishop!

He must have had fun with that!
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Post by: jibbajibba on April 14, 2011, 04:04:43 AM
You are supposed to be geeky nerds and you haven't heard of Priest .... I bow my head in shame and turn my face from you all.

It's like me saying forthcoming Preacher (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/107951-Preacher-Movie-Nabs-Director-of-I-Am-Number-Four) movie ...good thing or bad thing? and you all not knowing what I was talking about ...

I weep for the state of geekdom.
Title: Priest
Post by: Tahmoh on April 14, 2011, 09:05:53 AM
The reason theres not been a new issue for awhile is its finished(though tokyopop are supposedly reissuing it as multi volume editions) unlike american comics your avarage korean, japanese or chinese comic tends to have an actual ending though it may take years and multiple dosens of volumes to reach that point(i think priest has about 16 volumes which is about right for your usual korean manwha).
Title: Priest
Post by: IMLegend on April 14, 2011, 10:01:18 AM
Quote from: Ian Warner;451660Awwwwwwwww man Ian McKellen as an evil Bishop!

He must have had fun with that!

Actually that's not Ian McKellen, it's Christopher Plummer.

It looks utterly horrible. Which means I'll probably enjoy it.

And, once again, Brett wins the "biggest stick up the ass" award. Pundit finished a close second in the voting. Oh wait, that's his head up his ass, not a stick....
Title: Priest
Post by: Bradford C. Walker on April 18, 2011, 03:53:46 PM
All it needs is Super-Soakers as viable anti-vampire weapons and you have a perfect RIFTS movie.
Title: Priest
Post by: J Arcane on April 18, 2011, 03:57:40 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit;451626I have no fucking clue what you're talking about, and doing a search for the word "priest" by itself is unlikely to provide any useful clarification.  So either post more information explaining what the fuck you're on about, or I'll be closing this thread as irrelevant to the Pundit's Forum.

RPGpundit

The IMDB page for the film is the first thing that comes up in a Google search for "priest".

Not exactly hard to find.