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Aphrodite posted:Usually about double the budget. The budget is generally bullshit in the first place, and on top of that doesn't include marketing and other costs. The premise is that Adam Sandler is an ad executive so they filled the movie with real products that he could advertise and the main plot is that he's trying to get Al Pacino to do an ad for Dunkin Donuts.
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EmmyOk posted:I haven't watched an Adam Sandler film since Mr. Deeds. It's mad how much money they spend making films Deeds was the last Sandler film I enjoyed. I just read a list of all his recent works and they end up stopping on 50 first dates as his last good movie, but I thought that one was garbage too. Its actually incredible how many terrible movies he's shat out recently, you kinda blank them from your memory: Spanglish, The Longest Yard, Click, Reign over Me, I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry, You don't mess with the Zohan, Bedtime Stories, Funny People, Grown ups, Just go with It, Zookeeper, Jack and Jill, That's my Boy, Grown ups 2, and Blended.  15 completely unwatchable films in a row.Also I just saw a trailer where Sandler says the only games he's ever played are the ones in the film. Qbert, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders. He hasn't played a single video game since, and he wasn't even particularly good to begin with. But yeah, sure, you're the right guy to make a movie about videogames.
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Jul 27, 2015 21:09
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Pixels will play in Peoria, and Gen Xers and Millennials love retro videogame stuff, so there are plenty of mouths to shove the poo poo sandwich into
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Jul 27, 2015 21:09
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Pixels will play in Peoria, and Gen Xers and Millennials love retro videogame stuff, so there are plenty of mouths to shove the poo poo sandwich into Eh, its PG-13 and I see a bunch of parents saying they'll see some of the many PG movies with their kids instead, its also horribly misogynist. And what is the target demo anyways? If its adults who played space invaders, this movie looks boring as hell. If its kids... they've never played space invaders! They might recognize pac-man but that's it. How the gently caress are they going to know who Qbert is? Pick some modern references instead. Pixels is just like the vastly shittier Wreck it Ralph starring Adam Sandler, but not as Ralph, instead he's just playing Adam Sandler, inexplicably in the middle of a videogame movie, just as confused as you are. Some great reviews though quote:"Pixels in an unmitigated piece of godawful dog s--t. It's existence feels ultimately like poison or a general infection. It is cinematic strychnine, celluloid chlamydia. Pixels isn't a movie, it's a mother--king active crime scene, and the crime is cultural vandalism…Pixels is bad enough to make you hate the things you love, and watching it made me want to take a blowtorch to every scrap of video game memorabilia in my home."—MovieBob
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Jul 27, 2015 21:11
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Every time I read about Pixels it just sounds like the Tales of Interest segment from Futurama. Which pretty much exhausted the available jokes in 7 minutes.
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Jul 27, 2015 21:31
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Vulpes posted:Every time I read about Pixels it just sounds like the Tales of Interest segment from Futurama. Which pretty much exhausted the available jokes in 7 minutes. That's the other side of it, its a movie literally coping a futurama episode.
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Jul 27, 2015 21:41
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Zaphod42 posted:Eh, its PG-13 and I see a bunch of parents saying they'll see some of the many PG movies with their kids instead, its also horribly misogynist. I read someone describe it as "like that one episode of Futurama but stretched out to a whole movie." I'd much rather have that instead (and so would probably everyone except the people who are in that movie, and maybe even some of them). "Instead of shooting at where I was, you should have been shooting at where I was going to be!" e: drat you, faster-typing goons!
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Jul 27, 2015 21:44
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Zaphod42 posted:Also I just saw a trailer where Sandler says the only games he's ever played are the ones in the film. Qbert, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders. He hasn't played a single video game since, and he wasn't even particularly good to begin with. But yeah, sure, you're the right guy to make a movie about videogames. I'd say a guy who is only familiar with the classic arcade games is exactly the kind of person to make a movie about a nerd whose gaming tastes stalled in 1982. Also kids are going to know who Q*Bert is because they've seen Wreck-It Ralph.
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Jul 27, 2015 21:47
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Zaphod42 posted:Spanglish, The Longest Yard, Click, Reign over Me, I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry, You don't mess with the Zohan, Bedtime Stories, Funny People, Grown ups, Just go with It, Zookeeper, Jack and Jill, That's my Boy, Grown ups 2, and Blended. Reign Over Me was enjoyable enough.
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Jul 27, 2015 21:52
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WeAreTheRomans posted:Reign Over Me was enjoyable enough. Also it and Funny People were just movies that Sandler was in, not Adam Sandler movies.
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Jul 27, 2015 22:12
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WeAreTheRomans posted:Reign Over Me was enjoyable enough. It was depressing as hell, but I assumed it was a way for the people who made the movie to deal with losing someone in the WTC attacks, so I gave it a bit of leeway as far as "fun enjoyable entertainment time." Also, Sandler played a bunch of Shadow of the Colossus in it (or someone off-screen played it for him).
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Jul 27, 2015 22:14
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beats for junkies posted:Also, Sandler played a bunch of Shadow of the Colossus in it (or someone off-screen played it for him). Yeah even though that symbolism was super obvious it kinda worked.
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Jul 27, 2015 22:22
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I saw Antman over the weekend and when Rudd and Lily were working out/training montage there was a quick frame where Lily was pretty ripped and I was surprised they would have a female lead be that muscular but quickly realized that it was just that quick scene and must have been a stunt double.
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Jul 28, 2015 01:19
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KoB posted:I saw Antman over the weekend and when Rudd and Lily were working out/training montage there was a quick frame where Lily was pretty ripped and I was surprised they would have a female lead be that muscular but quickly realized that it was just that quick scene and must have been a stunt double. Well it's not unheard of - check out Emily Blunt in Edge of Tomorrow or Jessica Biel in pretty much anything. But yeah, probably a stuntwoman in this case.
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Jul 28, 2015 02:42
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Zaphod42 posted:This is a joke post right? No, I heard it wrong and figured wrong, but I guess I wasn't the only one. Shai-Hulud posted:
We're idiots together! Man, I'm doing a lot of backpedaling after having it pointed out that I'm wrong today.
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Jul 28, 2015 04:18
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I had to look it up because i heard "Black Tongue" as well.
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Jul 28, 2015 04:42
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KoB posted:I saw Antman over the weekend and when Rudd and Lily were working out/training montage there was a quick frame where Lily was pretty ripped and I was surprised they would have a female lead be that muscular but quickly realized that it was just that quick scene and must have been a stunt double. Haven't seen Ant Man so I cannot comment on her rippedness there, but wasn't Lily a fitness model before she became an actress? She's pretty buff in most of Lost, anyway.
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Jul 28, 2015 10:14
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Vulpes posted:Well it's not unheard of - check out Emily Blunt in Edge of Tomorrow or Jessica Biel in pretty much anything. But yeah, probably a stuntwoman in this case. Would legit buy any workout book or video by Jessica Biel, she is pretty loving fit for an actress, she's in the wrong biz
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Jul 28, 2015 17:03
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Grendels Dad posted:Haven't seen Ant Man so I cannot comment on her rippedness there, but wasn't Lily a fitness model before she became an actress? She's pretty buff in most of Lost, anyway. The proceeding scenes werent anywhere close.
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Jul 28, 2015 17:18
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KoB posted:The proceeding scenes werent anywhere close. Well she's wearing some kind of business suit in pretty much every other scene in the movie so it's possible, but I've seen her in other things and yeah I think they probably just caught her double.
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Jul 28, 2015 17:32
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Pixels will probably reign supreme in international markets
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Aphrodite posted:Well she's wearing some kind of business suit in pretty much every other scene in the movie so it's possible, but I've seen her in other things and yeah I think they probably just caught her double. I will admit that I was surprised at how ripped she was during that montage but I don't remember seeing an obvious stunt double. What bugged me was Rudd dressing some of his wounds in an overly model pose fashion. Flexed, posed and tilted toward the camera to slim his profile. He got pretty drat fit for the role so it seemed weird and unessisary. It wasn't even goofy like he was trying to show off.
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Jul 28, 2015 19:28
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I think that was just to give a chance for the chick to check him out. It cuts to a close up of her face watching him while that scene is happening.
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Boofchicken posted:I think that was just to give a chance for the chick to check him out. It cuts to a close up of her face watching him while that scene is happening. Some camera-as-female-gaze for once?
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Jul 28, 2015 20:14
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 Dude's got a pretty loving weird physique if we're being picky though. No chest and prominent abs is not exactly the Clark Kent superhero ideal.
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Jul 28, 2015 20:14
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The biggest disappointment about Pixels is that it's actually a great idea and could be a very fun movie if it weren't for Sandler. Had Pixar or the guys from Lego movie gotten a hold it of the story, I'm sure it would have been fantastic.
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Jul 28, 2015 20:17
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MindlessHavok posted:The biggest disappointment about Pixels is that it's actually a great idea and could be a very fun movie if it weren't for Sandler. Had Pixar or the guys from Lego movie gotten a hold it of the story, I'm sure it would have been fantastic. I think it would have been fantastic if the writers from Futurama had been able to take a crack at it.
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Jul 28, 2015 21:04
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Don't worry, Pixar will have their shot at it in 15 years with the PIXELS reboot.
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MindlessHavok posted:The biggest disappointment about Pixels is that it's actually a great idea and could be a very fun movie if it weren't for Sandler. Had Pixar or the guys from Lego movie gotten a hold it of the story, I'm sure it would have been fantastic. Really it's lovely that they get a bunch of unrelated game companies to agree to go in on a project and then it's just a lovely comedy. They could have made a cool video game instead, for example.
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Jul 28, 2015 23:05
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Any scene with a car sliding around a corner. In any film. Ever. You've had to do more than one take, the skid marks are already there, your dramatic sweeping pan shot of the overall scene does not remove them. I don't know how to solve this problem, but it has become a recent IIMM for me and I cant stop seeing it in almost everything now. Similarly, foot prints in sand, or basically anything where I can tell where it's not the first take of a scene.
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Grendels Dad posted:Haven't seen Ant Man so I cannot comment on her rippedness there, but wasn't Lily a fitness model before she became an actress? She's pretty buff in most of Lost, anyway. Evangeline Lilly was a model showing off nerd poo poo on The Electric Playground before being an actress.
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Jul 29, 2015 02:47
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Something that bugs me about the tv show Graceland is how last season and part of this had a fairly large story arc take place in Mexico and for some reason every time they did a scene there they had this yellow filter on everything.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:My irrational moment is the opposite direction for that show. He gets radioactive chemicals spilled on his eyes and gets heightened senses / powers. They never even say what the chemicals were and every other character who learns about his powers seems to be perfectly okay with the idea that radioactive waste on your eyes gives you powers, but extremely surprised about other things. They are living in the MCU where aliens invade every other year and a 1000+ year old pagan space God regularly makes trips to earth to take part in military action against techo-Nazis and go to cocktail parties. Getting superpowers from radioactive gunk getting in your eyes is practically mundane.
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FreudianSlippers posted:They are living in the MCU where aliens invade every other year and a 1000+ year old pagan space God regularly makes trips to earth to take part in military action against techo-Nazis and go to cocktail parties. I thought the implication was that he was going to develop the enhanced senses and reflexes anyways during puberty, possibly less traumatically, but the chemicals just made him blind and were enough stress on his body to trigger the changes early, as opposed to just mutating him, like in the comics.
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kizudarake posted:I thought the implication was that he was going to develop the enhanced senses and reflexes anyways during puberty, possibly less traumatically, but the chemicals just made him blind and were enough stress on his body to trigger the changes early, as opposed to just mutating him, like in the comics. The explication in basically the one bit of daredevil origin story that I read was that after being blinded he trained up his absurd senses and reflexes the old-fashioned way. That's no less nuts than being a mutant, I guess, but seems a lot more impressive.
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Yeah, in comic book universes sometimes people aren't officially mutants or super-powered or whatever but are just ubermensch enough to be The Best at doing things. Batman, Daredevil, Green Arrow, I think technically Taskmaster counts as one of those too? But literally the only piece of media I've ever actually consumed with Taskmaster in it is Marvel vs Capcom 3, so for all I know he might actually be properly Super. Although I bet you could get a pretty fun movie off of Taskmaster, a superhero movie about a guy who can learn anything from seeing it done pretty much writes itself.
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Does the TV show actually say the chemicals gave him powers of any kind? Did they not just make him blind, and his powers all come from being blinded young / lose one sense improve others effect + boxer dad + Stick training?
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Light Gun Man posted:Does the TV show actually say the chemicals gave him powers of any kind? Did they not just make him blind, and his powers all come from being blinded young / lose one sense improve others effect + boxer dad + Stick training? No Chemicals definately helped. Stick can almost do as well as Matt but mat has the whole world on fire radar sense thing. Basically the chemicals Augmentented the whole lose one sense improve others thing into a legit superpower. Also the chemical made the ninja turtles.
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Inco posted:Evangeline Lilly was a model showing off nerd poo poo on The Electric Playground before being an actress. I imagine having to fend off nerds after these presentation demands a lot of fitness, I stand by my assumption.
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Elfgames posted:Also the chemical made the ninja turtles. This is the important part, really. If Disney ever buys Nickelodeon they can finally make it canon.
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