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Y-Hat posted:people saw angry birds? Well, yeah, 337.7 million USD in box office. I've watched all of it for free, however. It's a really bad cartoon full of inappropriate jokes about pregnant women and thinly veiled xenophobia. Like, I'm far from being a superwoke turbolefty who would over-analyse children's cartoons, but it's really, really hard not to read it that way. The writer for it used to work on Simpsons, too, so it's not a big reach to see him simply testing what he would get away with, but no one at Rovio or whoever was responsible for approving the script picked up on obvious parallels due to being extremely Finnish. I don't know. The point is it's a really bad cartoon.
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I was taking a look at upcoming films on Rotten Tomatoes and here's one I'm actually interested in (and is relevant to the thread)Can We Take A Joke? posted:In the age of social media, nearly every day brings a new eruption of outrage. While people have always found something to be offended by, their ability to organize a groundswell of opposition to-and public censure of-their offender has never been more powerful. Today we're all one clumsy joke away from public ruin. Can We Take A Joke? offers a thought-provoking and wry exploration of outrage culture through the lens of stand-up comedy, with notables like Gilbert Gottfried, Penn Jillette, Lisa Lampanelli, and Adam Carolla detailing its stifling impact on comedy and the exchange of ideas. What will future will be like if we can't learn how to take a joke? Sounds neat and I hope it's good.
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Cowman posted:I was taking a look at upcoming films on Rotten Tomatoes and here's one I'm actually interested in (and is relevant to the thread) I'm a giant goon and I think fat jokes are great. My undulating rotundness is inherently absurd. So, I guess some people can take a joke.
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gilbert gottfried has a great podcast, every other episode he talks about the rumor that cesar romero liked to pull down his pants and have boy toys throw orange wedges at his bare rear end
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can we be done with the culture war or are sites built on clickbait too invested in keeping it going
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Been reading the CineD thread (lol, why?) and people describing the scenes in the film make it sound exactly how I'd imagine a Paul Fieg Ghostbusters film to be like. An extended sequence where Wiig is trying to hide her monitor from someone and it just keeps going and going as she ad-libs more and more wacky ways to obscure the screen? Sure. He's just let the camera roll and said, "Just go for it, Wiig." Like in SPY where you have the scene with Miranda Hart and someone else ad-libbing and doing a bit about working in this spy centre and they just get into generic office jokes, "The walls are full of rats!" etc. You think this is going to mean something, like this spy centre, which until that point has looked and operated like the most slick nasa poo poo you could imagine, is actually a facade and it's falling down around them... But no. Fieg just said, "Have fun!" And then you get a scene about rats in the walls that amounts to nothing. I'd love to read the actual script. Not the retro-scripted, finished script. The one he had on location. "Says here we're filming the scene where we discuss the ghost the threw up on Wiig. The page is blank, Paul." "Just go for it. Have fun!" Then Wiig talks about slime in her rear end.
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Paladinus posted:inappropriate jokes about pregnant women and thinly veiled xenophobia were they funny though or are you incapable of processing transgressive humour as a rule
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natetimm posted:If you want to watch something compelling with a female lead go watch the Netflix series Stranger Things because goddamn it is so good. drat good show its like speilberg made a a stephen king tv series with fantastic child actors
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I'd like to see a remake of Knight Rider, only it's set after the ice caps have melted and the whole planet is flooded except for one small island. KITT is now an electric golf buggy, and the only other car left is also a golf buggy. Each week the plot is that a villain steals the normal golf buggy, so Michael and KITT have to very slowly chase him for 45 minutes before using Turbo Boost to jump across a small crack in the island's one road.
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Sony's president of marketing and distribution Josh Greenstein has gone on record saying that they're "ecstatic" with Feig's Ghostbusters and they're planning on making a whole bunch of sequelsquote:“There absolutely will be more [films],” said Josh Greenstein, Sony’s marketing and distribution chief. “This is a restart of one of our most important brands.” quote:But ticket sales for “Ghostbusters” were strong enough to merit revelry nonetheless. “We’re totally ecstatic,” Josh Greenstein, Sony’s president of marketing and distribution, said by phone. quote:Mr. Greenstein said he expected the generously reviewed reboot to perform well in the weeks ahead. “Paul’s movies have big, huge, high multiples, and there are no big comedies on the horizon,” he said. Amid more straightforward summer remakes and sequels, “the movie is both new and nostalgic, which makes it stand out,” he added.
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Lol there's definitely not going to be another ghost busters. Sony is a trash company being kept on life support by the ps4.
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Uncle Wemus posted:can we be done with the culture war or are sites built on clickbait too invested in keeping it going The Hulkster took down gawker. Now, he's comin' for vice and clickhole, brother!
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Dreddout posted:The Hulkster took down gawker. Now, he's comin' for vice and clickhole, brother! not clickhole 
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Vince MechMahon posted:The best thing about the IMDB ratings is that if you remove all the ratings from men it actually lines up almost exactly with it's Rotten Tomatoes percentage at about a 7.7. lmao cined is a great sub forums
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Do it ironically posted:lmao cined is a great sub forums LOL who the gently caress rates anything on a 1-8 scale?
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eric posted:LOL who the gently caress rates anything on a 1-8 scale? Base eight, so what?
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Sony's president of marketing and distribution Josh Greenstein has gone on record saying that they're "ecstatic" with Feig's Ghostbusters and they're planning on making a whole bunch of sequels lol. greenstein sounds like such a lying whore its not even funny.
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Whoever does the marketing at Sony is a loving genius for spinning this whole thing as controversial. If everybody just shrugged their shoulders at the female cast this would be forgotten as quickly as the Total Recall or RoboCop remakes.
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Watership Down but with rabbit sized human women instead
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1500quidporsche posted:Whoever does the marketing at Sony is a loving genius for spinning this whole thing as controversial. If everybody just shrugged their shoulders at the female cast this would be forgotten as quickly as the Total Recall or RoboCop remakes. I saw the Total Recall remake and I literally only remembered it existed because someone mentioned it earlier in this thread. A good movie, I assume.
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eric posted:LOL who the gently caress rates anything on a 1-8 scale? He's saying he's torn between giving it a 7.5 or an 8.
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1500quidporsche posted:Whoever does the marketing at Sony is a loving genius for spinning this whole thing as controversial. If everybody just shrugged their shoulders at the female cast this would be forgotten as quickly as the Total Recall or RoboCop remakes. Robocop should have had feminists complaining. The original had Lewis as a tough cop and Murphy's partner with no romantic interest. The remake turned Lewis into a man. Disgraceful.
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Internaut! posted:were they funny though or are you incapable of processing transgressive humour as a rule It's a loving Angry Birds movie. What do you think?
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Drunken Baker posted:Been reading the CineD thread (lol, why?) and people describing the scenes in the film make it sound exactly how I'd imagine a Paul Fieg Ghostbusters film to be like. An extended sequence where Wiig is trying to hide her monitor from someone and it just keeps going and going as she ad-libs more and more wacky ways to obscure the screen? Sure. He's just let the camera roll and said, "Just go for it, Wiig." Like in SPY where you have the scene with Miranda Hart and someone else ad-libbing and doing a bit about working in this spy centre and they just get into generic office jokes, "The walls are full of rats!" etc. You think this is going to mean something, like this spy centre, which until that point has looked and operated like the most slick nasa poo poo you could imagine, is actually a facade and it's falling down around them... But no. Fieg just said, "Have fun!" And then you get a scene about rats in the walls that amounts to nothing. Thst scene with the covering the monitor lasts about 40 seconds and most of that is Charles Dance telling her she needs a better reference than Princeton and giving her poo poo about her clothes. Saw the movie yesterday it's alright apart from if there's anything to dislike then it's that it seems to trying to riff on the Marvel formula complete with a weak third act, also it seems not to be I interested in the main plot with the antagonist which to be fair so we're both the other Ghostbusters movies. Everything else is pretty good the scenes with the ghosts are fairly creepy in a horror comic way (they do the dumb 3D thing with the ghosts rushing at you which my kid loved), it's pretty funny and the characters are pretty interesting and three dimensional (even the kooky one that I thought I was going to hate was ok) It,s what you would expect from a reboot/late squeal and it's much better than Jurassic World was last year. But I dunno buddy you talking some real whiney poo poo there maybe don't do the goofy thing of trying to piece together a movie by reading people's comments maybe just go and see it if your that interested or forget about it.
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So star trek is this friday which will probably be no 1. Then what, suicide squad which could go either way
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Krypt-OOO-Nite!! posted:Saw the movie yesterday it's alright apart from if there's anything to dislike then it's that it seems to trying to riff on the Marvel formula complete with a weak third act yeah you can't blame a studio for trying to cargo cult marvel's success, it's like 10 years ago when World of Warcraft became a monster and every game studio shat out an MMO in response of course they all failed but DC/Sony/et al will learn this lesson the hard way
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Uncle Wemus posted:Then what, suicide squad which could go either way I hope it fails, hard, if only because Harley Quinn casually carrying a baseball bat over her shoulders fills me with rage every time I see it now. Based on the previews it looks like she does that A LOT in the movie, and the concept art for the movie has her in the same pose. It's like they built her character around her carrying a baseball bat over her shoulders.
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Pvt.Scott posted:I saw the Total Recall remake and I literally only remembered it existed because someone mentioned it earlier in this thread. A good movie, I assume. Bryan Cranston, one of my favorite actors, is in that, and it completely evaporated from my memory.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:lol. greenstein sounds like such a lying whore its not even funny. To put it mildly, yeah. It seems like this is code speak for "We're doing more Ghostbusters related properties" Pvt.Scott posted:I saw the Total Recall remake and I literally only remembered it existed because someone mentioned it earlier in this thread. A good movie, I assume. I remember it was bad, but i can't remember any particular scene in it that made me go "this is dumb" or that got me angry/annoyed. NutritiousSnack fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Jul 18, 2016 |
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eric posted:LOL who the gently caress rates anything on a 1-8 scale? there's a lot to poo poo on cined about but the guy's obviously just torn between a 7.5 and 8. No need to be dumb about it.
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Cowman posted:not clickhole ANIME IS BLOOD posted:I'm sure Dreddout just misspoke and meant Buzzfeed I don't know what the gently caress I'm talking about, honestly. 
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Professor Shark posted:I hope it fails, hard, if only because Harley Quinn casually carrying a baseball bat over her shoulders fills me with rage every time I see it now. Based on the previews it looks like she does that A LOT in the movie, and the concept art for the movie has her in the same pose. It's like they built her character around her carrying a baseball bat over her shoulders. I want to like it, but the joker looks so dumb its not even funny.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:I want to like it, but the joker looks so dumb its not even funny. that, plus while casting Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn was a good move, it looks like she didn't even try to replicate the Harley Quinn voice, which is one of the things people remember most about the character
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Troy Queef posted:that, plus while casting Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn was a good move, it looks like she didn't even try to replicate the Harley Quinn voice, which is one of the things people remember most about the character well. i dont think she can even do the voice. they hired her because she can play it "physically" wonder how will smith will do in it? he looks good in the deadshot outfit.
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NutritiousSnack posted:http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-analysis-why-ghostbusters-911836?utm_source=twitter lol. the "social progressives" wont go see the movie, just like they wont buy your games, trying to dovetail your ad campain and articles exclusively to them directly and making GBS threads on everyone else will only backfire. its the same with the right and trying to get voters.
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Command Ant posted:"generously reviewed" Troy Queef posted:that, plus while casting Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn was a good move, it looks like she didn't even try to replicate the Harley Quinn voice, which is one of the things people remember most about the character i'll never vote for donald trump, but if he brings up how many american movie roles are played by aussies, brits etc. and how that should stop, i'll agree with him. bonus points if he brings up Rebel Wilson and points to the fact that there's no shortage of fat blond American women who can do the same thing she does
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