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People know they can just go back and watch the original, right?
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Jul 28, 2021 03:31
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Lamb in the basket shot is giving me some strong Eraserhead vibes
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Jul 28, 2021 03:40
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Gresh posted:what makes anyone think that people want to see an animated cartoon Blade Runner? loving stupid. The animated cartoon LOTR Rohirrim movie is gonna look just as dumb I bet. Now Shinichiro Watanabe Blade Runner I would very much watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGdrlVShkmg
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Jul 28, 2021 05:34
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Looks like that black sheep of the family's going to be made a scapegoat! This actually looks really interesting.
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Jul 28, 2021 10:23
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What's more wild to me than the Ghostbusters trailer itself is since it dropped how many people I've seen arguing that the original was not a comedy.
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Jul 28, 2021 13:16
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Lobok posted:What's more wild to me than the Ghostbusters trailer itself is since it dropped how many people I've seen arguing that the original was not a comedy. I saw a tweet where the guy said it wasn't the comedy that made him like it but "the lore".
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Jul 28, 2021 13:32
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Groovelord Neato posted:I saw a tweet where the guy said it wasn't the comedy that made him like it but "the lore". Was it Dan Ackroyd? Because that man had a pseudo-scientific explanation for every single thing in the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4um1Ag2A03A (actually a really cool video series about the in-world rules, they do Beetlejuice too)
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Jul 28, 2021 13:36
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Ghostbusters was primarily a comedy but it also took the paranormal seriously. That’s part of what made the comedy work!
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Jul 28, 2021 13:59
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGdrlVShkmg gently caress yes. gently caress me up, Phil.
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Jul 28, 2021 14:45
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feedmyleg posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGdrlVShkmg Haha yes this looks so amazing. 30 years in the making!
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Jul 28, 2021 15:24
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Am I supposed to know what the hell is going on in Lamb
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Jul 28, 2021 17:15
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kiimo posted:Am I supposed to know what the hell is going on in Lamb
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Jul 28, 2021 17:31
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feedmyleg posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGdrlVShkmg Holy poo poo. There's a nightmare I'm ready for.
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Jul 28, 2021 17:38
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feedmyleg posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGdrlVShkmg New Fromsoft game looks great!
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Jul 28, 2021 21:23
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100% flocking for Noomi bows1 posted:New Paul Schrader 100% all in for Oscar
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Jul 29, 2021 00:24
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Jerkface posted:Yea the vibe they are pushing with these trailers is pure nostalgia, ghostbusters is your treasured past by way of Field of Dreams. The ghostbuster movies are loving funny!!! They should be funny and irreverent but I mean most of the cast of this is like 12 year olds and they arent funny so are they going to depend on paul rudd to hard carry the humor??? nah that's straight Ghost Busters: Stranger Things edition. With their very own Stranger Things Kid. Stranger Busters Ghost Things
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Jul 29, 2021 03:25
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whydirt posted:Ghostbusters was primarily a comedy but it also took the paranormal seriously. That’s part of what made the comedy work! What made Ghostbusters work was the mashup between blue collar garbagemen and the paranormal. Its such a great irreverent tone, and some pretty hilarious commentary. This is so sincere, in a Force Awakens way, that it makes my teeth hurt.
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Shageletic posted:nah that's straight Ghost Busters: Stranger Things edition. With their very own Stranger Things Kid. Something Strange
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Jul 29, 2021 04:03
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Lobok posted:Something Strange I aint afraid of no things.
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Jul 29, 2021 05:57
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the movie nobody asked for
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Jul 30, 2021 01:53
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Ridley Scott asked for it, therefore it exists. Look at how Fox/Disney denied him his Prometheus sequels, and thus Raised by Wolves happened.
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Jul 30, 2021 02:26
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Groovelord Neato posted:You know that was all awful and embarrassing and they still managed to outdo it all in the closing seconds. Maybe he’s playing himself and they’re calling to get help from the OSIR.
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Jul 30, 2021 02:27
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With this and The Last Duel, it’s a big year for Ridley. The MSJ posted:Ridley Scott asked for it, therefore it exists. Look at how Fox/Disney denied him his Prometheus sequels, and thus Raised by Wolves happened. Maybe we’ll get the Covenant sequel after these two and Kitbag.
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Jul 30, 2021 03:36
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MLSM posted:With this and The Last Duel, it’s a big year for Ridley. They’re also releasing like a month apart.
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Jul 30, 2021 04:12
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As a former employee of MGM I am shocked they are still making movies.
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Jul 30, 2021 04:20
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MLSM posted:With this and The Last Duel, it’s a big year for Ridley. Ridley Scott has had an absolutely bonkers output since 2000. There have only been seven different years since then where he hasn't released a movie (although that's including 2020) and 2021, 2017 and 2001 all had two releases.
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Jul 30, 2021 05:05
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LesterGroans posted:Ridley Scott has had an absolutely bonkers output since 2000. There have only been seven different years since then where he hasn't released a movie (although that's including 2020) and 2021, 2017 and 2001 all had two releases. The dude is a loving workaholic, but he also has an incredible sense of economy for time. He's like Soderbergh in that way, only Soderbergh is more obsessed with independence and Scott just up and deals with studio bullshit while getting angrier every year. 
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Jul 30, 2021 06:01
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kiimo posted:As a former employee of MGM I am shocked they are still making movies. Aren't they soon to be part of the Amazon?
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Jul 30, 2021 06:03
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:The dude is a loving workaholic, but he also has an incredible sense of economy for time. He's like Soderbergh in that way, only Soderbergh is more obsessed with independence and Scott just up and deals with studio bullshit while getting angrier every year. Yeah, you're absolutely right. I was gonna compare him to Soderbergh.
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Jul 30, 2021 06:07
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Parkingtigers posted:A valid complaint about that film (and there were so many bad faith ones) is that no comedy should have a budget that big. Another valid complaint is that comedies should be funny.
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Jul 30, 2021 11:04
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Parkingtigers posted:A valid complaint about that film (and there were so many bad faith ones) is that no comedy should have a budget that big. Which is utterly ludicrous because the reason why comedy films are such garbage now is because they decided to all follow the Apatow model of giving a bunch of comedians a general vague plot outline and have them improvise all their dialog to not pay writers.
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Jul 30, 2021 11:11
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Letting actors riff on their lines in a comedy to see which version works best isn't a bad thing tbh. The end result is all that matters. Bill Murray famously ad-libbed pretty much his entire role in Ghostbusters 1984. It's not new by any means, although the extent of it has increased (for some films, from some directors). It's not even restricted to comedies, Ken Loach uses improvisation extensively to get a more natural performance in films that are often as serious as film gets. Mike Leigh goes way further and starts with the actors and lengthy improv before even starting the screenplay. His films have the actors go away and figure out their characters and then come back and tell him who they are. I dunno, this whole mythology we've built up about the sanctity of a rock solid screenplay written well in advance, of a vision fully formed before production. Yet so many films we love were all semi-improv or were written the day of shooting, everyone was winging it to some extent. Sometimes that's a factor in why some films sucked (especially trilogies, because it always fails when spread across multiple films), but sometimes it's why those films turned out to be great. I'd highly recommend the Netflix show "The Movies That Made Us" for some prime examples of great and popular films that, when you hear how they were made, seem like minor miracles of happenstance. In conclusion: film is a land of contrasts
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Jul 30, 2021 13:19
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Outside of a few rare exceptions, a comedy has to have a solid foundational screenplay to work. Yes, actors can improvise on top of that and play with the language and lines, or even improvise entire new moments or sequences if they understand their character and their function within the scene well—but if the words on the page don't work, the actor isn't going to have a launchpad into good improv. Perhaps funny lines, but good improv informs character, moves the scene forward, or serves some other storytelling purpose. People seem to conflate "improv" and "making up jokes," but improv is a theatrical form that has far more to it than just being funny. Working from "[insert joke here]" means that you're just filling an empty comedy beat, but good improvised jokes need to be part of a larger canvas. Bad improv is just like a bad action sequence or a bad musical number: if it's not serving a storytelling purpose, it's just wasting time.
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Jul 30, 2021 14:56
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feedmyleg posted:Bad improv is just like a bad action sequence or a bad musical number: if it's not serving a storytelling purpose, it's just wasting time. Someone please tattoo this on the inside of Ryan Reynold's eyelids
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Jul 30, 2021 15:48
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Capital "I" Improv is the least funny of the comedy disciplines.
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Jul 30, 2021 16:53
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The highs are higher but the lows are much lower. I couldn't fault anyone for not getting into improv enough to experience the incredible stuff. At its best it's definitely more a school of theatre than a school of comedy, but the vast majority of shows you could go catch on a Friday night don't reflect that even in NYC or LA.
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feedmyleg posted:good improv informs character good points, but re this specifically, i would think in a film context that it would lean more towards the character informing the improv like in a live setting the character can evolve freely with the scene, but for a film you need a strong core to remain on target whether you get the strong core from doing leigh-style improv before the script or having a strong script to start with
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