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Young Freud posted:You know he's filming his Secret Service actioner, Olympus Has Fallen, with a release date of 2014, right? Also, he's got Hunter Killer, with Navy SEALs trying to rescue the Russian president, and Thunder Run, about the capture of Baghdad, in pre-production. Wasn't he just in Coriolanus, too? So he has literally done Shakespeare very recently.
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It's pretty adorable when Gerard Butler has to hide his accent for a role. He tries his best but he's just so darned bad at it.
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Corin Tucker's Stalker posted:Uma Thurman's got a Lisa Kudrow look going on there. Holy poo poo, I thought it WAS Lisa Kudrow. What the hell.
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Aug 9, 2012 20:33
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Hewlett posted:Wasn't he just in Coriolanus, too? So he has literally done Shakespeare very recently. Yes, he was. It hadn't slipped my mind either, it just he did that and Machine Gun Preacher that year, so those were likely projects personal to him.
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Young Freud posted:You know he's filming his Secret Service actioner, Olympus Has Fallen, with a release date of 2014, right? Also, he's got Hunter Killer, with Navy SEALs trying to rescue the Russian president, and Thunder Run, about the capture of Baghdad, in pre-production. More importantly, he was just in Coriolanus which was one of the most spectacular films I've seen in a long time. But to answer dude's question: Gerard Butler is in a ton of Rom-Coms because they're generally 4-6 weeks of effortless work in exchange for a $10-15 million paycheck. Chick flicks and Japanese commercials are the quickest, easiest way to buy a new gold plated yacht.
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Gerard Butler is so drat good in Coriolanus.
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:Chick flicks and Japanese commercials are the quickest, easiest way to buy a new gold plated yacht.
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Aug 9, 2012 21:39
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Yodzilla posted:It's pretty adorable when Gerard Butler has to hide his accent for a role. He tries his best but he's just so darned bad at it. Solomon Kane is the best one for that, because he really didn't try. "Oi must foight evil whoile speaking in a thick Devon aaccent. It is a proice oi will glaadly pay!" Dave Prowse speaks the same way. Oh, to have been a fly on the wall of the Star Wars set. "You 'ave failed me for the laast toime."
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Jedit posted:Solomon Kane is the best one for that, because he really didn't try. "Oi must foight evil whoile speaking in a thick Devon aaccent. It is a proice oi will glaadly pay!" It was terrible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSm9DDxQv8E
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Aug 9, 2012 21:57
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That long-shelved "Red Dawn" remake has a poster (and a distributor other than MGM strangely enough): What a generic poster. Wonder what the original movie had as its poster? 
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Aug 9, 2012 22:02
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Robert Denby posted:That long-shelved "Red Dawn" remake has a poster (and a distributor other than MGM strangely enough): Oh come on. The original had the coolest loving poster, and that poster for the remake is the definition of lazy 
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Aug 9, 2012 22:28
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Painted posters, no matter how bad, are always better than pictures of actors. Especially the goose flying V and the floating head.
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Aug 9, 2012 22:39
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Nice product placement on the original one.
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Aug 9, 2012 22:43
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Robert Denby posted:That long-shelved "Red Dawn" remake has a poster (and a distributor other than MGM strangely enough): The guy on the right looks stoned out of his mind, and the Hunger Games dude looks like he just poo poo his pants. And now I want the original Red Dawn poster on my wall.
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Aug 9, 2012 22:47
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Coffee And Pie posted:The guy on the right looks stoned out of his mind, and the Hunger Games dude looks like he just poo poo his pants. And now I want the original Red Dawn poster on my wall. The guy on the right is Josh from the Nickelodeon show, Drake and Josh. I had no idea he decided to actually try real acting. Looking through his IMDB, he actually has been in a few things. Huh.
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Aug 9, 2012 22:50
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God the color in the Red Dawn poster is like an orgy for my eyeballs.
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Coffee And Pie posted:The guy on the right looks stoned out of his mind, and the Hunger Games dude looks like he just poo poo his pants. And now I want the original Red Dawn poster on my wall. That's Chris, not Liam. VVV Edit: Oh, right. The other Hunger Games guy. VVV The MSJ fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Aug 9, 2012 |
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Aug 9, 2012 22:55
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The MSJ posted:That's Chris, not Liam. I think he means Josh Hutcherson.
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Wow, I watched Drake & Josh a lot when it was on, and it took me a while to recognize Peck. Dude's lost a lot of weight.
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Aug 9, 2012 23:12
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Hahah, the McDonalds arches in the original poster. The new Red Dawn is the movie that was originally about a Chinese invasion, but after the movie was finished the producers realized that plot would alienate a huge potential market, so it was delayed for a year while they applied extensive CGI to change the invading for to North Korea, correct?
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Bugblatter posted:The new Red Dawn is the movie that was originally about a Chinese invasion, but after the movie was finished the producers realized that plot would alienate a huge potential market, so it was delayed for a year while they applied extensive CGI to change the invading for to North Korea, correct? Isn't that what happened to the game Homefront? Unless it also happened with the new Red Dawn, in which case it's sorta funny that two groups made the same mistake and slapped on the same terrible band aid. Wonder how Red Dawn will justify North Korea having, uh, anything. As an added bonus, here is Homefront's backstory, courtesy of Wiki: quote:The game's backstory begins during the early 21st century, with tensions between North Korea and global powers running high due to North Korea's military aggression, including its successful tests of nuclear weapons and the sinking of a South Korean ship.
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Aug 9, 2012 23:41
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I know what all of those people look like, and still couldn't recognize half of them without the cast list.
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GrandpaPants posted:Isn't that what happened to the game Homefront? Unless it also happened with the new Red Dawn, in which case it's sorta funny that two groups made the same mistake and slapped on the same terrible band aid. Wonder how Red Dawn will justify North Korea having, uh, anything. One of the writers of the original Red Dawn also wrote Homefront. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0587518/
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GrandpaPants posted:As an added bonus, here is Homefront's backstory, courtesy of Wiki: My favorite part of Homefront's backstory is Kim Jong-Un managing to reunite the Korean Peninsula within almost a year of taking office and annexing Japan in less than six. Then Russia, China and the EU suddenly stop existing. QuoProQuid fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Aug 10, 2012 |
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I see no reason to be skeptical that the economic powerhouse of South Korea which is backed by a large US Military presence would happily join forced with the dramatically poorer dictatorship to their North, and I'm sure that their union would have no trouble dealing with the surrounding powers of Japan and China and why wouldn't they be able to even occupy Japan after a few years and from there it would be easy to cross the Pacific and... Jesus Christ.
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Aug 10, 2012 00:04
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The Homefront timeline if anyone is curious at a "plausible" scenario in which we get invaded.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:The Homefront timeline if anyone is curious at a "plausible" scenario in which we get invaded. Haha, "2015: China's influence diminishes." No reason, it just does. Not that the explanations for any of the other events make any sense, but they couldn't even be bothered to bullshit an excuse for getting China out of the picture?
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Bugblatter posted:Hahah, the McDonalds arches in the original poster. That and then MGM kind of imploded which shelved it. Also how Hemsworth filmed this before Thor and its still not out yet.
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Bugblatter posted:The new Red Dawn is the movie that was originally about a Chinese invasion, but after the movie was finished the producers realized that plot would alienate a huge potential market, so it was delayed for a year while they applied extensive CGI to change the invading for to North Korea, correct? If I remember rightly it only cost $1million and 15 minutes of re-shot footage to make the change. They must have been the most generic "East Asian" baddies ever.
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Is it not a problem that Koreans don't look that much like the Chinese? I mean, maybe they do to midwestern Americans, but if the change was made to regain the Chinese market, I would think that would be an issue?
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I suspect they originally casted for generically "Asian" people.
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Xandu posted:I suspect they originally casted for generically "Asian" people. Yeah, Hollywood is terrible at stuff like this. I once asked my Egyptian boss at the time if he had seen True Lies when it premiered on cable a few nights earlier (this was a while ago). He rolled his eyes and went on a rant about how all the arab actors were obviously from different countries, some of them were mexican, and they were speaking mostly gibberish and not even farsi or tajik or whatever. He then postfaced that with "Of course, all these movies are made by the jews, anyways".  (Sorry, I couldn't NOT use that emote...)
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I don't get the "oh no we alienated china" story. Is the PRC really gonna go see a movie where communists are the bad guys?
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I don't know if they will but Hollywood's new thing is to try to bring in chinese investors/interest so that they're movies get pick for a foreign release (apparently only so many movies get brought there? I'm sure someone can go into better details about how it works) I think Total Recall and Iron Man 3 made slight changes here and there to get better odds at being picked. EDIT: Here's a not-too-recent article about it
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:I think Total Recall and Iron Man 3 made slight changes here and there to get better odds at being picked. Yeah, I've been reading that thread and going "Weren't the two factions called Euromerica and New Shanghai?", which was changed roughly into the United Federation of Britain (  ) and The Colony.
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Young Freud posted:Yeah, I've been reading that thread and going "Weren't the two factions called Euromerica and New Shanghai?", which was changed roughly into the United Federation of Britain ( Which is kind of weird that they changed it because while the "New Shanghai" group might not have been the good guys, they were the ones who were being attacked with no provocation.
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Young Freud posted:Yeah, I've been reading that thread and going "Weren't the two factions called Euromerica and New Shanghai?", which was changed roughly into the United Federation of Britain ( I wondered why, if "The Colony" was supposed to be Australia, everything looked like Janet Jackson's "If" music video.
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Peanut President posted:I don't get the "oh no we alienated china" story. Is the PRC really gonna go see a movie where communists are the bad guys? China is the fifth largest box office outside of the United States. Even though the government only allows a handful of foreign films to be released each year, it is not an opportunity that MGM would want to miss. Potential distributors were also nervous about associating themselves with the film. There were fears that it would tar their reputation with Chinese investors on future projects. I also seem to remember there being a bit of a stir when the first drafts of the script were leaked. Chinese government newspapers had headlines like, "U.S. reshoots Cold War movie to demonize China” and “American movie plants hostile seeds against China". QuoProQuid fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Aug 10, 2012 |
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Bugblatter posted:Is it not a problem that Koreans don't look that much like the Chinese? I mean, maybe they do to midwestern Americans, but if the change was made to regain the Chinese market, I would think that would be an issue? Well, the movie seems to use a mix of Chinese and Korean actors anyway. I doubt it would be a big deal. Red Cliff was massive in China and it had Japanese actors playing Chinese historical figures. That kind of crossover doesn't seem uncommon in Asian cinema, or at least it's mostly accepted. Nice crack about midwesterners though. I hate those ignorant dumbasses in Iowa or whatever, they probably can't even tell the difference between Zhuang and Dong facial structures.
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