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Cooked Auto posted:I would like to believe they're doing this just so they can force the thread to continue and talk about upcoming movies in perpetuity. They’re doing it because they’re an irritating transphobic piece of poo poo.
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# ? Aug 6, 2023 14:23 |
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Pope Corky the IX posted:They’re doing it because they’re an irritating transphobic piece of poo poo.
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# ? Aug 6, 2023 14:26 |
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Pope Corky the IX posted:They’re doing it because they’re an irritating transphobic piece of poo poo. That also works.
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# ? Aug 6, 2023 18:47 |
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Looks like William Friedkin passed on... https://twitter.com/THR/status/1688592504705196032?s=20 Looking at Wikipedia, man had so many unrealized projects that eventually ended up getting made into movies by other people: An adaptation of Blatty's "Legion", which Blatty himself made as Exorcist III; a Desperate Hours remake that eventually got made with Mickey Rourke and Anthony Hopkins; an adaptation of Shooter with Tommy Lee Jones, which did get made by Antonie Fuqua and Mark Wahlberg, and probably led to Friedkin's own The Hunted with Jones in 2003; and was the original director attached to I Am Wrath, which was to star Nick Cage, but both got replaced by Chuck Russell and John Travolta.
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# ? Aug 7, 2023 18:04 |
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Everyone should watch Sorcerer.
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# ? Aug 7, 2023 19:31 |
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Casimir Radon posted:Everyone should watch Sorcerer.
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# ? Aug 7, 2023 22:35 |
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It was funny to hear him on Joe Dante’s podcast a few years ago absolutely making GBS threads on a bunch of beloved classics. Not from any reasonable angle you usually hear either, like he was making GBS threads on those big panoramic scenes in Lawrence of Arabia because he thought camels are boring iirc. Drunkboxer fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Aug 8, 2023 |
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To be honest I had never heard of Sorcerer before and I guess that's because it was a major commercial failure but has been rediscovered more recently?
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 00:48 |
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Infamously it came out a month after Star Wars.
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 00:51 |
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I like this quote from Robert Mitchum, who was approached for the lead role after Friedkin couldn't get Steve McQueen as originally intended-quote:After the disagreement with McQueen, Friedkin approached Robert Mitchum who, despite appreciating the script, sternly declined, asking Friedkin "Why would I want to go to Ecuador for two or three months to fall out of a truck? I can do that outside my house.
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 00:52 |
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Sorceror is such a loving good movie. I love how it opens with four vignettes of these people who could all be the protagonists of their own movie genres, but instead they're just thrown together into this insane mission. My favorite Friedkin movie is To Live and Die in LA, though. A wonderful neo-noir with a great Wang Chung soundtrack, one of the greatest car chases of all time. They had a bunch of counterfeit money made for the movie and got visited by the Secret Service because some of it got out into the money supply, and as soon as the statue of limitations ran out Friedkin said, "Yeah, it was me, I was spending it all over town."
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 01:12 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Infamously it came out a month after Star Wars. Also the critics were down on it because it was a remake of a very highly regarded French thriller (or another adaptation of the source novel if you want to split hairs)(in addition to Sorceror also watch Wages of Fear which is equally great) High Warlord Zog fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Aug 8, 2023 |
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High Warlord Zog posted:also watch Wages of Fear Personally I think Wages should be paid in money not fear. What a terrible employer.
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 02:19 |
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Drunkboxer posted:It was funny to hear him on Joe Dante’s podcast a few years ago absolutely making GBS threads on a bunch of beloved classics. Not from any reasonable angle you usually hear either, like he was making GBS threads on those big panoramic scenes in Lawrence of Arabia because he thought camels are boring iirc. I forget if it was that or Marc Maron's podcast where he was going on and on about why the protagonist using a bunch of racial slurs in French Connection was really vital and it was just showing the gritty truth. I know on the Dante podcast he was going on about Trump being pretty great and a smart guy and also denigrating Jackson Pollock with "anybody could do that." dr_rat posted:Personally I think Wages should be paid in money not fear. Bad news for you about Friedkin's money... Rochallor posted:They had a bunch of counterfeit money made for the movie and got visited by the Secret Service because some of it got out into the money supply, and as soon as the statue of limitations ran out Friedkin said, "Yeah, it was me, I was spending it all over town."
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Baron von Eevl posted:I forget if it was that or Marc Maron's podcast where he was going on and on about why the protagonist using a bunch of racial slurs in French Connection was really vital and it was just showing the gritty truth. I know on the Dante podcast he was going on about Trump being pretty great and a smart guy and also denigrating Jackson Pollock with "anybody could do that." Yeah he definitely was defensive about Trump in the Dante ep. The thing I remember most about the Maron ep was him going on about how real and moving the shroud of Turin was even though he said he wasn’t Catholic and was born into a Jewish family.
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 03:37 |
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High Warlord Zog posted:Also the critics were down on it because it was a remake of a very highly regarded French thriller (or another adaptation of the source novel if you want to split hairs)(in addition to Sorceror also watch Wages of Fear which is equally great) I saw Sorceror before Wages Of Fear and really found Wages lacking. The character introductions really add to the story and I found Porvenir a far more desperate place than Las Piedras: there's only one woman in Porvenir, an elderly cleaning woman, in comparison to the main characters in Wages flirting with showering girls and even have girlfriends.
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https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1688989252762103813?t=j091mO1cSn6komc2B70E5A&s=19 Yes I'm sure that will go well.
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 20:28 |
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drat I didn't realize Sonic the Hedgehog is a scab.
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 20:35 |
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Gotta go fash
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 20:36 |
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Something about ethical consumption under capitalism
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 20:43 |
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Could just be the mocap work, that's not a union gig.
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 20:56 |
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They should just re-do that story where Garfield wakes up and he's house is abandoned in obviously no ones lived there for years, and than the narrator is like "You've never been so alone Garfield". But you know with sonic. No actors needed!
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 20:59 |
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Gotta go fash
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# ? Aug 8, 2023 23:35 |
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Wouldn't be surprised if large amounts of Sonic 3 are entirely the CG critters. I suppose maybe it means the CG studios might not be crunched to pieces?
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# ? Aug 9, 2023 04:35 |
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Unfortunately, that's probably not going to be the case. The stuff that requires actors and a completed script (which are usually simpler conversation scenes) are vital to the way current VFX are done. For one thing, they're basically used as extra time/money that can be allotted to the harder stuff when it comes in. For example, say you have a shot of Sonic talking to James Marsden that you tell the studio will take a week, but you know that if you give it to the right artists, they'll be able to do it in half that time. So you're able to take the unused 2.5 days from that shot and allocate it to something that's going to take much longer. And shows like Sonic are massively underbid in order for the vendors to actually get the work, so stealing days from easy shots to give them to hard ones is a necessity. Then once you actually get into shot work, those simple, low-hanging fruit shots can be sent along to the clients at a regular pace, so that they're seeing constant progress on the movie while the big sequences are being slowly developed in the background. So taking those easy shots away from the front of the schedule not only means that the clients are going to want to see the more complex shots earlier and more often (burning out the artists early), but the vendors are also going to run out of money/crew because they don't have the easy stuff to siphon from. And that's not even getting into the actual creative stuff. Big full-CG sequences are usually also the ones that take the longest to edit, which means that the VFX artists won't be working with a locked edit, and might find that any given shot is suddenly cut from the movie (which means they just did a bunch of wasted work), or maybe new shots are added that the vendor can't afford to do because they spent all the money on stuff that was omitted. And all this is going to be exacerbated by vendors starting to lay off artists due to the strike delaying incoming work. It's a really common practice for VFX vendors to borrow artists from one show in order to throw them onto a show that's in crunch, but if Sonic is the only show in the building, there will be nobody to borrow artists from. Crunch is also just expected on most shows nowadays, regardless of how smoothly they go. I've been on projects where artists asked for a couple of hours of overtime in order to finish what they were doing and put it on the farm to render overnight, but were denied because overtime needed to be saved for crunch. Never mind that having an artist come in the next morning to do two hours of work and then sit idle for the entire rest of the day while they waited for the farm was what was going to cause the crunch in the first place...
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# ? Aug 9, 2023 05:38 |
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Robot Style posted:Unfortunately, that's probably not going to be the case. The stuff that requires actors and a completed script (which are usually simpler conversation scenes) are vital to the way current VFX are done. But hey, at least all that blood, sweat, and tears is worth it in the end, right? Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to take a big sip of coffee and watch Avengers Endgame.
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# ? Aug 9, 2023 15:00 |
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Here's another of my biannual "thank you Robot Style for the knowledgeable peek behind the curtain" posts.
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# ? Aug 9, 2023 16:26 |
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The strike might kill the live-action How To Train Your Dragon remakequote:How To Train Your Dragon, the live-action retelling of 2010's animated film of the same name, has put a halt to production in the United Kingdom. According to Screen Daily, How To Train Your Dragon was due to start filming in Belfast’s Titanic Studios in August, originally set for a March 2025 release date. Also obligatory there was a the live-action How To Train Your Dragon remake???
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# ? Aug 9, 2023 19:29 |
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I’m guessing this is Dreamworks trying to copy what Disney has been doing, but the last of these films came out what, 5 years ago?
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# ? Aug 9, 2023 19:40 |
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What's (not) next, live-action Wreck-it Ralph?
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# ? Aug 9, 2023 19:41 |
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Tars Tarkas posted:The strike might kill the live-action How To Train Your Dragon remake
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# ? Aug 9, 2023 19:45 |
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The Gran Turismo movie is getting some bad press due to their reworking of an actual accident to better fit their narrative. In 2015 the guy the movie is based off of crashed during a race and ended up injuring several spectators with one dying. The film moves the accident to a previous race earlier in his career to make it seem like it was a setback he needed to overcome.
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muscles like this! posted:The Gran Turismo movie is getting some bad press due to their reworking of an actual accident to better fit their narrative. In 2015 the guy the movie is based off of crashed during a race and ended up injuring several spectators with one dying. The film moves the accident to a previous race earlier in his career to make it seem like it was a setback he needed to overcome. I thought this movie was a stretch to begin with but that’s hosed
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# ? Aug 9, 2023 20:23 |
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I really liked Rush and it was based on some hosed up accidents too
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# ? Aug 9, 2023 20:24 |
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What is this https://twitter.com/LeCinephiles/status/1689396909163872256?t=rhFEEAR8WFmLUfqYJtrXzg&s=19
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# ? Aug 10, 2023 05:17 |
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Expensive Spider-Man fan film that has controversial poo poo bc the main actor was racist as a teenager and the director was also racist(?) or lovely. And they didn’t pay people or something. Basically children making movies with high budgets and no real assistance
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# ? Aug 10, 2023 05:21 |
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Grendels Dad posted:What's (not) next, live-action Wreck-it Ralph? Finally, my chance to make it big!
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# ? Aug 10, 2023 12:14 |
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muscles like this! posted:The Gran Turismo movie is getting some bad press due to their reworking of an actual accident to better fit their narrative. In 2015 the guy the movie is based off of crashed during a race and ended up injuring several spectators with one dying. The film moves the accident to a previous race earlier in his career to make it seem like it was a setback he needed to overcome. That's pretty gross.
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# ? Aug 10, 2023 16:20 |
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Yeah, that's not, like, making it seem like Motley Crue's slump was shorter than it was.
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There's an R-rated talking dog comedy starring? Will Ferrell coming out soon. I keep seeing ads for it on YouTube, but since the commercials are sooo long and I can skip after 5 seconds I have no clue what it's actually called. It looks terrible, though.
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