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Amazon review posted:PLEASE DO NOT BUY THIS. PLEASE!, January 28, 2010 THE ONLY WAY TO PROPERLY REVIEW A STEVEN SEAGAL DVD IS IN ALL CAPS. twistedmentat posted:Finally, I really want to get a blu ray player, and they're fairly cheap now. I used to buy a lot of DVDs, but i've put a hold on that due to BRs. Though I discovered that I have to get a HD tv first because of the connections. Which sucks because if I have an HD tv I need to get an HD box from my cable company which is more money, on top of the TV. You can get BR players that use composite video but I'd suggest that you save your money for an HDTV first. You're not really getting your money's worth from a BR player if you're using a regular TV and a composite output. It's not really an upgrade at all, since your TV won't even support the higher resolutions that BluRay uses. InfiniteZero fucked around with this message at 22:27 on May 11, 2010 |
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Well, it's more that the TV is the most expensive part of it, and it will take me much longer to save up for it. Though I've been looking at the 40" ones are a lot more affordable than they were. I guess the TV does make sense because I do already have a 360, which has native HD support for the games. It's my summer saving project. Though everyone is confused by I want to get a 40". It's pretty easy, I don't have that much room in my apartment and I don't want t have some giant rear end TV to move around, again. I have a 37" wega and they are insanely huge.
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May 11, 2010 22:43
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twistedmentat posted:Also, what the gently caress MGM not having any money so it stops its cash cow Bond films? It doesn't make any sense. I don't think you understand what dire straights MGM is in. If you go to MGM and walk in the front door there's no longer a receptionist. There's just a phone so you can call whoever you're meeting with so they can come down and get you. As for a Bond film... They've had to shut down even that because even if it is the most successful Bond film of all time the profits made would only cover one month's interest on what they owe.
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twistedmentat posted:What's going on with the Dark Crystal sequel? I remember reading about it ages ago, but is it dead? Dark Crystal 2 is now being put back into production with the brothers who directed Daybreakers in the director(s) spot. Not sure how to feel about that, since Genndy Tartakovsky was supposed to be doing it. and MGM didn't stop James Bond. ION Productions did. They co-produce the movie with MGM, and since MGM has no money, they felt they wouldn't be able to fund the movie properly, so they called it off until MGM gets a new home or what-not.
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:Dark Crystal 2 is now being put back into production with the brothers who directed Daybreakers in the director(s) spot. Not sure how to feel about that, since Genndy Tartakovsky was supposed to be doing it. Well, Daybreakers had a lot of good concepts mixed up with a lot of goofy stuff. quote:and MGM didn't stop James Bond. ION Productions did. They co-produce the movie with MGM, and since MGM has no money, they felt they wouldn't be able to fund the movie properly, so they called it off until MGM gets a new home or what-not. Okay, what I heard sounded a lot less dire than that. How I heard made it sound like stop buying a bus pass to save money, but now you can't get to work. I'm probably safe in assuming MGM's problems are runaway production costs, lack of successful movies and general financial mismanagement?
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twistedmentat posted:Okay, what I heard sounded a lot less dire than that. How I heard made it sound like stop buying a bus pass to save money, but now you can't get to work. I'm probably safe in assuming MGM's problems are runaway production costs, lack of successful movies and general financial mismanagement? Not quite. Basically MGM went on a huge buying spree buying up back catalogs of movies. They leveraged this against future DVD sales, and for a while everything was fine. Then DVD sales completely fell out and now, things are tough.
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NeuroticErotica posted:Not quite. Basically MGM went on a huge buying spree buying up back catalogs of movies. They leveraged this against future DVD sales, and for a while everything was fine. Then DVD sales completely fell out and now, things are tough. Ah, that would explain why in my store we have tons of old movies for 6-15 bux that are MGM titles. They all have giant MGM logos at the top of the box. EDIT: Where can I find the Machete trailer, google only gives me links to the Grindhouse one. twistedmentat fucked around with this message at 04:45 on May 12, 2010 |
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It's funny that Clifford and Mannequin 2 helped bring down the studio that made 2001: A Space Odyssey and Ben-Hur.
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twistedmentat posted:Ah, that would explain why in my store we have tons of old movies for 6-15 bux that are MGM titles. They all have giant MGM logos at the top of the box. Search "Machete trailer illegal" and it should come up. The opening is Trejo talking directly to the audience if that helps.
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Is Starship Troopers on Hulu censored? Like a TV edited version? I use Hulu all the time for TV, but never for movies.
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cheerfullydrab posted:Is Starship Troopers on Hulu censored? Like a TV edited version? I use Hulu all the time for TV, but never for movies.
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RussianGuyovich posted:Search "Machete trailer illegal" and it should come up. The opening is Trejo talking directly to the audience if that helps. Ew, I feel dirty I had to go to Ebaums to see it as all the Youtube videos are down.
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Egbert Souse posted:It's funny that Clifford and Mannequin 2 helped bring down the studio that made 2001: A Space Odyssey and Ben-Hur. Their lobby is filled with all these Oscars from classic movies, but only up until a certain point. It's kinda heartbreaking. You can tell when a new regime came in.
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On the subject of Starship Troopers, does the Starship Captain say "random or light" or "Randomer Light"? For some reason, this has bothered me for over a decade. I don't know why she'd say "Randomer Light" but for some reason the idea won't go away without any closure.
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cheerfullydrab posted:On the subject of Starship Troopers, does the Starship Captain say "random or light" or "Randomer Light"? For some reason, this has bothered me for over a decade. I don't know why she'd say "Randomer Light" but for some reason the idea won't go away without any closure. Random and light.
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Zophar posted:Random and light.
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Come to think of it, I'm surprised the Racebending thread hasn't had anything about the fact that Johnny Rico was Filipino in the book but was somewhat whitewashed (as an Argentinian) for the film.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Come to think of it, I'm surprised the Racebending thread hasn't had anything about the fact that Johnny Rico was Filipino in the book but was somewhat whitewashed (as an Argentinian) for the film. Probably because his whiteness is done intentionally as part of the satirical nature of the film.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:Racebending thread Is this specifically a thread about yellow-face black-face actors? Is it here at SA?
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kapalama posted:Is this specifically a thread about yellow-face black-face actors? Is it here at SA? Yes. Also I read Starship Troopers (twice!) and I don't remember Rico being Filipino, I always kind of assumed he was Argentinian because of the BA thing. I'll take your word for it though.
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quote:Also I read Starship Troopers (twice!) and I don't remember Rico being Filipino, I always kind of assumed he was Argentinian because of the BA thing. I'll take your word for it though. From near the end of the book: code:
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The humans in Starship Troopers are supposed to be Nazis.
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School Bully posted:From near the end of the book: His name was also Juan Rico so it can be assumed that he wasn't only Filipino. Heinlein was big on multiculturalism.
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muscles like this? posted:His name was also Juan Rico so it can be assumed that he wasn't only Filipino. Heinlein was big on multiculturalism. "Juan Rico" can be a Filipino name. It was a Spanish Colony for like 300 years.
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Barometer posted:I think the leader even says that they can't be sure if he is one of the gang that is surrounding them or not. For all they know, he was in on killing them (dude dies, so Max's story is only his own word) and "any deal you had with him died with him" or somesuch. This makes no sense, what do you mean he looked "pretty much the same"? Could those people not see the striking, ruggedly good looks and piercing eyes of Max and immediately tell he's the good guy? Now if he looked like that freaky dude with the mohawk and assless chaps (and had an androgynous boyfriend), THEN I could understand if they were a bit suspicious of Max.
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kapalama posted:Bugs look like plastic lawn furniture made into a Disney animatronic machine. Denise Richards keeps showing me her nostrils. The other chick looks like she is forty, but sitting in a high school classroom hitting on a high school kid. (Wait, that's 90210 in a nutshell: Ugly 40 year old chicks pretending to be in high school.) Teacher has a fake looking stump. I always thought Dina Meyer was the best part of Starship Troopers. She was actually a dude in the book; thankfully Denise Richards wasn't hogging up all of the female screen time because, yeah...I can't stand her nose either. I loved Sunshine -- up until the third act when Pinbacker, who's somehow survived seven years with a realllly bad sunburn has developed supernatural strength and goes on a killing spree. I mean WTF. Great sci-fi turned lovely slasher with no rhyme nor reason.
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Philip J Fry posted:I loved Sunshine -- up until the third act when Pinbacker, who's somehow survived seven years with a realllly bad sunburn has developed supernatural strength and goes on a killing spree. I mean WTF. Great sci-fi turned lovely slasher with no rhyme nor reason. That was definitely the weirdest left turn in a movie I have seen in a while. The movie, ignoring that, was an amazing atmospheric piece (music is such a big part of that for me, and that music is amazing). Until you mentioned that I had sort of just blocked that bit out in my head. I always wonder, was that spoilered bit a thing where a producer just said "you have to do something Hollywood to sell tickets", and so it was thrown in? Or was it in the filmmaker's head from the beginning? I am almost tempting to say 'unspoiler it' so that people will know to ignore that section of the plot and just enjoy the rest. I was lucky enough to konow about that part from reading a review, and so I knew to ignore it, and concentrate on the other excellent parts. It's amazing what sort of things I can overlook/surpress. I mean I only saw "Sunshine" 2 months ago, and I had blocked that part out until you mentioned it. If you liked that movie, I wonder, did you like "Moon"? That was a very nice movie that (for me) could have been great, with some more memorable (again, for me) music. Even without it, it was very good.
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I don't think music has to be memorable to be effective. Clint Mansell did the score for Moon and I don't think he's done a bad score yet. His music for Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain were absolutely perfect for the films and I think his Moon score was almost equal in terms of setting and enhancing the mood. Edit: I just realized how many bad movies Clint Mansell has worked on. Doom? Really?
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I've been watching my digital copy of Sherlock Holmes on the bus to and from work, and the painting above Holmes's desk, who is that? It looks so familiar.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Edit: I just realized how many bad movies Clint Mansell has worked on. Doom? Really? Bad movies cheques clear.
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One of his songs from Smokin Aces is a total ripoff of his Lux Aeterna song, too.
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NeuroticErotica posted:Bad movies cheques clear.
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I was surprised to see Jerry Goldsmith's name on the music for Chinatown.
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To everyone who debated Tarantino's film awareness, there's a great thematic analysis of Pulp Fiction's Butch storyline here which I'd say proves that Tarantino is one of the most technical directors out there.
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People do it to be edgy because Pulp Fiction is really popular with  college kids or something.
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Ravel posted:To everyone who debated Tarantino's film awareness, there's a great thematic analysis of Pulp Fiction's Butch storyline here which I'd say proves that Tarantino is one of the most technical directors out there.
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cheerfullydrab posted:Is the analysis in that Youtube video the kind of stuff you learn to do in "film school"? No idea, since I'm a Physics Major, but I have a few undergraduate film texts and most of them have decent detailed writeups of the same sort of thing.
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cheerfullydrab posted:Is the analysis in that Youtube video the kind of stuff you learn to do in "film school"? depends on the school. I didn't.
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