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computer parts posted:Although the funny thing is that if they had gotten characters from ~5-7 years later they could've gotten the most iconic figures in video games today ("The Call of Duty guy" is not iconic). I imagine the licensing rights to Nintendo characters is an absolute creative nightmare (Nintendo has historically kept a very tight fist on what third parties can/can't do with their properties) and costly as gently caress compared to Namco/Atari stuff (and O.G. Donkey Kong is clearly in his own rights field that Nintendo doesn't have full control over). The very fact that Disney got Bowser to show up and do anything at all in Wreck-It Ralph even as a background character was a deceptively big deal. I get why they aren't using later properties, both in-story (the transmission to the aliens was from the early 80s), and outside the story (after the early 90s and outside of Nintendo most video game properties are either too obscure or too generic to work as iconography), but it still feels like it's been made for aging farts who want to show their kids some video game archaeology lessons.
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Hat Thoughts posted:I don't know if our new mod is doing toxx's but if they are Oof, bold move. preemptive  I foresee a 15% in its future.
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Adam Sandler's garbage looking video game movie will receive over 50% on Rotten Tomatoes, a true rarity for the man. But I believe
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Yeah this movie is going to profitable as motherfucking hell for Sony, but critically it's going to get prison-raped solely because it's another sign of video games solidifying their foundation on the cultural landscape and a lot of film critics loving hate to be reminded of that, using Adam Sandler as a convenient lightning rod for all of their frustration.
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There's plenty of distinctive and recognizable recent video game characters. There's going to be an Angry Birds movie next year. Josh Gad is going to be in that too.
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Name around ten properties from the last 5-10 years that could easily replace the characters from this movie. I'm not saying this as a snarky dick, I can genuinely only think of like two that would play well in an all-ages movie, and I want to imagine if it's feasible to do a more recent version of the same plot.
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Deakul posted:Oof, bold move. preemptive Chris Colombus, Adam Sandler, they're finally gonna pull it off. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
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mind the walrus posted:critically it's going to get prison-raped solely because it's another sign of video games solidifying their foundation on the cultural landscape and a lot of film critics loving hate to be reminded of that I feel like if a critic wanted to criticize this movie "because I'm jealous of video games" would be low on the list
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mind the walrus posted:I imagine the licensing rights to Nintendo characters is an absolute creative nightmare (Nintendo has historically kept a very tight fist on what third parties can/can't do with their properties) and costly as gently caress compared to Namco/Atari stuff (and O.G. Donkey Kong is clearly in his own rights field that Nintendo doesn't have full control over). The very fact that Disney got Bowser to show up and do anything at all in Wreck-It Ralph even as a background character was a deceptively big deal. I still want that movie about that time Universal sued Nintendo over the King Kong/Donkey Kong thing.
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mind the walrus posted:Name around ten properties from the last 5-10 years that could easily replace the characters from this movie. I'm not saying this as a snarky dick, I can genuinely only think of like two that would play well in an all-ages movie, and I want to imagine if it's feasible to do a more recent version of the same plot. I'm guessing you're thinking of Angry Birds (the birds) and Minecraft (creepers, etc.). Maybe the Miis from Wii Sports. I don't know that there's a lot more that could cleanly replace Pacman and such, but I think the bigger issue is that most of them have too much characterization and don't fit the mold of mute, wandering disasters, not that they're too obscure or generic. I'm not claiming that Master Chief, Kratos, Lara Croft, etc. are great characters, but they're not really generic.
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Sir Kodiak posted:I'm guessing you're thinking of Angry Birds (the birds) and Minecraft (creepers, etc.). Maybe the Miis from Wii Sports. I don't know that there's a lot more that could cleanly replace Pacman and such, but I think the bigger issue is that most of them have too much characterization and don't fit the mold of mute, wandering disasters, not that they're too obscure or generic. I'm not claiming that Master Chief, Kratos, Lara Croft, etc. are great characters, but they're not really generic. You forgot...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slRsexrhbG8
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Sir Kodiak posted:I'm guessing you're thinking of Angry Birds (the birds) and Minecraft (creepers, etc.). Maybe the Miis from Wii Sports. I don't know that there's a lot more that could cleanly replace Pacman and such, but I think the bigger issue is that most of them have too much characterization and don't fit the mold of mute, wandering disasters, not that they're too obscure or generic. I'm not claiming that Master Chief, Kratos, Lara Croft, etc. are great characters, but they're not really generic. Compared to the early 80s/Nintendo stables Master Chief/Lara Croft/Kratos etc. seem pretty generic to middle-aged farts. And good point on the mute, wandering disasters angle, I definitely hadn't considered that. Weird blind spot. morestuff posted:I feel like if a critic wanted to criticize this movie "because I'm jealous of video games" would be low on the list Jealous? I never said nor implied that. I said that they hate to be reminded that video games exist and have taken up major cultural real estate that movies used to occupy near-exclusively and they're too old/set in their ways to really understand why. It's like how I'm (legally speaking) an adult who grew up on 90s video games but now feel too set in my ways to really go for mobile/tablet games and I get frustrated/confused/angry at how much market share those games have taken up of the video game market, getting big Superbowl ads and such. mind the walrus fucked around with this message at 05:29 on Mar 18, 2015 |
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I'm downgrading from "really loving funny" to "surprisingly entertaining" a night of sleep removed from St. Patricks Day. Also if you haven't guessed the demo is dads who played Atari games and Sony makes all kinds of questionable decisions these days, you may have heard.
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mind the walrus posted:Getting Iwatani was a very nice touch That was not Toru Iwatani.
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mind the walrus posted:Jealous? I never said nor implied that. I said that they hate to be reminded that video games exist and have taken up major cultural real estate that movies used to occupy near-exclusively and they're too old/set in their ways to really understand why. It's like how I'm (legally speaking) an adult who grew up on 90s video games but now feel too set in my ways to really go for mobile/tablet games and I get frustrated/confused/angry at how much market share those games have taken up of the video game market, getting big Superbowl ads and such. Jealous is a simplification of what you're talking about, but A) I don't think this ever actually happens and B) movies about and touching on video games tend to be well-reviewed if they're actually any good
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Alehkhs posted:Adam Sandler's Pixels: There's something visible for a fraction of a second around 1:36, but I can't pause at the right time 
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Proof of Concept Trailer for something called The Leviathan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-45NTlgp-o I don't know looks like a cool idea, though I bet the movie would be about how man is the real monster for driving the giant sky monster to extinction
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Seedge posted:There's something visible for a fraction of a second around 1:36, but I can't pause at the right time 
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achillesforever6 posted:Proof of Concept Trailer for something called The Leviathan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60BjkUtqxPE Feeling such a Futurama theme today.
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my problem is it's the third movie in three years called Leviathan
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Kinda cute, there is a tie-in old school video game for phones. http://www.dojoquest.com/
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Sir Kodiak posted:I'm guessing you're thinking of Angry Birds (the birds) and Minecraft (creepers, etc.). Maybe the Miis from Wii Sports. I don't know that there's a lot more that could cleanly replace Pacman and such, but I think the bigger issue is that most of them have too much characterization and don't fit the mold of mute, wandering disasters, not that they're too obscure or generic. I'm not claiming that Master Chief, Kratos, Lara Croft, etc. are great characters, but they're not really generic.
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kiimo posted:I'm downgrading from "really loving funny" to "surprisingly entertaining" a night of sleep removed from St. Patricks Day. Bad news for me
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achillesforever6 posted:Proof of Concept Trailer for something called The Leviathan I hope the guy falls in to the "uncharted depths," then meets natives that ride Shai Hulud. The visuals were nice and all but it was mega-predictable and generic. Like I could learn just as much about the setting/story from a single concept painting as I did from the short.
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achillesforever6 posted:Proof of Concept Trailer for something called The Leviathan It's going to be far future version of Moby Dick.
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Why does it look like they're hunting the space whale when they just need its eggs for the spice melange? Like I imagine it would be pissed at people trying to steal or harvest or mine its eggs, but why just straight up start attacking and antagonizing it? I don't get space whaling
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Are you mad yet? Mad Max: Fury Road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu1coohd-6M
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Not sure if anyone is interested but the trailer for Paper Towns just came out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFGiHm5WMLk I know John Green and his books/movies are now usually just associated with teenage girls (perhaps correctly to an extent, especially after Fault in Our Stars) but Paper Towns was the first book I read of his in high school before I ever knew who he was and it was sort of mentality-changing, in a great way. I know this is probably gonna go down the girl-ish route Fault in Our Stars did but I'm still excited to see it.
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TV Spot for Avengers: Age of Ultron with lots of new footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WM915QsOyI
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JoeyTrez posted:Not sure if anyone is interested but the trailer for Paper Towns just came out. Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Road-trip Edition.
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Timby posted:That was not Toru Iwatani. This annoyed me more than it should have. Like I dunno if the real Iwatani is a goony shut in who can't act and would have ruined the scene, but I think it would have been more entertaining for old-school arcade gamers if they'd gotten the real guy.
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Xenomrph posted:This annoyed me more than it should have. Like I dunno if the real Iwatani is a goony shut in who can't act and would have ruined the scene, but I think it would have been more entertaining for old-school arcade gamers if they'd gotten the real guy. And worse for everyone else.
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bows1 posted:And worse for everyone else.
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I wasn't expecting the Stan Lee cameo in Big Hero 6 and I didn't know there was more to it than the portrait until weeks later when I found out it had a post-credits sequence.
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Xenomrph posted:This annoyed me more than it should have. Like I dunno if the real Iwatani is a goony shut in who can't act and would have ruined the scene, but I think it would have been more entertaining for old-school arcade gamers if they'd gotten the real guy. This annoyed me at first too but look not everyone can just get up in front of a camera and act. In fact you really never know if you can until you try and when you fail miserably (like me) you gain an appreciation for those that can do it. I realize that all Stan Lee's appearances are cameos but the guy can really deliver lines well and not everyone can.
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kiimo posted:This annoyed me at first too but look not everyone can just get up in front of a camera and act. In fact you really never know if you can until you try and when you fail miserably (like me) you gain an appreciation for those that can do it. I realize that all Stan Lee's appearances are cameos but the guy can really deliver lines well and not everyone can. Yeah, that's why I clarified that it annoyed me more than it should have. Like if the real guy posted on Twitter that he can't act but he endorses the guy playing him, it'd soothe the more irrational part of my brain. Maybe I'm just used to seeing entertaining nerd-bait cameos in stuff, so when a movie "fakes" a cameo like this my gut reaction is "wow that's lazy" even if there's probably a very good reason why they didn't use the real guy.
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Stan Lee cannot act and every time he shows up it's like someone who did Radio Plays for years and then this is his one acting gig ever. It's always hokey.
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Ror posted:Stan Lee is like a goddamn Laurence Olivier next to that old guy who played the butler in the Raimi Spider-Mans. You shut the gently caress up, sir. That butler was loving hilarious "Oh yeah, your father was all of those horrible things. Not sure why I waited 2 movies to tell you that but there you go. Well, see ya later"
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Hat Thoughts posted:Hell, why not. Because you know drat well that even if he makes a movie that looks surprisingly good, or clever, or whatever, Adam Sandler always returns to form and produces awful poo poo. Like this movie will be.
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