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DeimosRising posted:You realize you're writing a fantasy about the Islamization/Arabization of the U.K., right? Even granting that the ancient Egyptians weren't Arab or Islamic, the implications of a story where Britain's colonial past has brought in an unstoppable alien presence from the Orient that spreads and conquers her from the inside are...unmistakable and unfortunate.
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Fair enough - definitely similar anxieties at work, hence the Universal Mummy being almost identical to the Universal Dracula and both closely resembling the then current depictions of East Asians as lusty womanizers. The exotic power of the foreign accent and the brown dick haunts the nightmares of white guys everywhere.
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DeimosRising posted:Fair enough - definitely similar anxieties at work, hence the Universal Mummy being almost identical to the Universal Dracula and both closely resembling the then current depictions of East Asians as lusty womanizers. The exotic power of the foreign accent and the brown dick haunts the nightmares of white guys everywhere. While The Creature From The Black Lagoon is about miscegenation.
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Maybe racism good? asks posters in The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Cinema Discusso > Who Greenlighted 2016: Egypt's Not Dead 2: Resurgence: Next Generation
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DeimosRising posted:You realize you're writing a fantasy about the Islamization/Arabization of the U.K., right? Even granting that the ancient Egyptians weren't Arab or Islamic ...? Byzantine fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Dec 11, 2016 |
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Turning London into some goon's orientalist vision of ancient Egypt would probably do Britain good, to be honest. It'd certainly do wonders for the weather.
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From the Universe of Harry Potter Fantastic Beasts and loving Mummies. Take back the EU
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Casimir Radon posted:Do people really dislike Schumer that much? She's maybe not exactly what
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I'm so depressed I don't remember that at all
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Sinners Sandwich posted:I'm so depressed I don't remember that at all All the shootings by crazy white guys blend together after awhile
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Iron Crowned posted:I dunno, I'd love a Vice City 2 or San Andreas 2 
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Sinners Sandwich posted:I'm so depressed I don't remember that at all It wasn't a great film, especially compared to her show.
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PSP, but I think that was a prequel
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It was ported to the ps2 and then that version to the ps3, though you are right about it being a prequel.
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So apparently the reason for that unnecessary cover of "Do You Realize??" in the new Transformers movie is because even Wayne Coyne has standards.
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precision posted:So apparently the reason for that unnecessary cover of "Do You Realize??" in the new Transformers movie is because even Wayne Coyne has standards. the writer & director of Christmas on Mars is a musician????
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im just kidding, but i do assume that movie sucks poo poo e: Christmas on Mars
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It's actually not bad at all, though it's a mess. I still have the postcard they were mailing out in 1998 that claimed Christmas On Mars was gonna be out in 1999. It's a miracle it ever got released, let alone that it was as good as it was.
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Snooze Cruise posted:It was ported to the ps2 and then that version to the ps3, though you are right about it being a prequel. It also had Phil Collins in it as himself.  
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Guy Mann posted:It also had Phil Collins in it as himself. Did miss Cleo reprise her character from the original Vice City?
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" KILL THE HAITIANS" Yeah, that will go over well. Jacked is a good book but it suffers in comparison to Masters of Doom. Mostly because apparently almost nobody who works at Rockstar is particularly likable. Yes, John Carmack at peak cat-death-sentence autism is more likable and relatable than 90% of the people at Rockstar.
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To be expected of people famous for rodent death games.
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Casimir Radon posted:peak cat-death-sentence autism Please explain this term, it sounds great but it means nothing to me.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Please explain this term, it sounds great but it means nothing to me.
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Alhazred posted:The sixth GTA game is called GTA IV. GTA's a little weird about this since the games, 3/Vice City/San Andreas and 4/5 aside, don't have any continuity with each other. I think Vice City and San Andreas are considered side stories to GTA3 rather than full entries, even though they're huge.
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GTA and AssCreed are numbered like the version numbers of software. And they are software so it fits.
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raditts posted:Did miss Cleo reprise her character from the original Vice City? Yeah ^^ rear end Creed abandoned its software version number scheme after IV
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Alrighty folks, time to see what poo poo is going to be green lighted in years ahead: It's the 2016 Blacklist! This year's highlights include: LIFE ITSELF Dan Fogelman A multigenerational love story that weaves together a number of characters whose lives intersect over the course of decades from the streets of New York to the Spanish countryside and back. Alternate Title: Definitely Not "This Is Us" THE OLYMPIAN Tony Tost The true story of an underdog rower trying to make it into the 1984 Olympics, told through the story of his relationships with his coach, his father, his fiancée, and with competition itself. Alternate Title: Generic Sports Movie THE POST Liz Hannah Before Watergate, there was The Pentagon Papers. This is the true story of how Washington Post scion Katharine Graham and legendary editor Ben Bradlee overcame their di erences to publish the story that would change their lives. Alternate Title: All The President's Men: Episode 1 IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE Colby Day Explores the entire history of the universe and our species through three interwoven storylines that question the very nature of life, love, mortality, where we’ve been, and where we’re going; the past, present, and future of the human race. Alternate Title: Definitely Not "The Tree of Life" UNTITLED LAX MANDIS PROJECT Seth Spector A frustrated film exec at odds with the state of his industry is forced to work with the one person who is making him question everything. Alternate Title: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People 2 DARK MONEY Matt Fruchtman The true story of a young stock trader who goes to work for billionaire tycoon Steve Cohen and gets involved in the biggest insider trading scandal in history. Alternate Title: Definitely Not "The Wolf of Wall Street" or "The Big Short" LINDA AND MONICA Flint Wainess The absolutely crazy true story of the relationship between Monica Lewinsky and Linda Tripp, the woman who nearly destroyed the Clinton presidency - and herself in the process. Alternate Title: A Lot Less Relevant Now THE BUILDER Tom Cartier A look inside the tortuous drama of Donald Trump’s first Manhattan real estate deal, his relationships with troubled older brother Freddy and famed fixer Roy Cohn, and how they all created the Trump of today. Alternate Title: A Lot More Relevant Now There are also biopics on the list about Madonna (this was #1), Carl Sagan (a love story probably written about 5 minutes after someone watched The Theory of Everything), Rosemary Kennedy (this will be depressing as gently caress), two movies about Stephen King, two movies about people who hosed and/or wanted to gently caress George Harrison (including Eric Clapton), a bunch of scripts about AI becoming sentient and post-apocalyptic sci-fi, two movies involving fairy godmothers, a dystopian Hunchback of Notre Dame, and a whole lot of female led/powered scripts, none of which will actually get made because Hollywood is risk-adverse as gently caress. My three favorite ideas, without snark: JAMES CAMERON’S TITANIC Jen D’Angel A Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead take on Titanic. An overprotective mother attempts to keep her teenage daughter, young son, and rowdy sister together while sailing on the doomed voyage of the Titanic in 1912. SAVING CHARLIE CHAPLIN Justin Shady With Nazi agents attempting to stop the production of a lm that is poking fun at Hitler, an FBI agent and an LAPD detective must team up to protect a drunk and angry Charlie Chaplin from being kidnapped. CONTINGENCY PROTOCOL Mark Townend When futuristic technology renders the Federal Witness Protection Program obsolete, the U.S. Government begins using Time Travel to hide high-pro le witnesses in the Past. When a security breach occurs, a U.S. Marshal and her witness struggle to nd their way back to the Present Day while evading assassins.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:GTA's a little weird about this since the games, 3/Vice City/San Andreas and 4/5 aside, don't have any continuity with each other. I think Vice City and San Andreas are considered side stories to GTA3 rather than full entries, even though they're huge. This is correct. GTA 1's three levels are Liberty City, Vice City, and San Andreas. That's why the the Vice City and San Andreas were made as spinoffs to GTA3 instead of getting a number. But it was kind of silly in retrospect since San Andreas is like such a massively improved game in scope from the previous 2, but each one kept some stuff unique to it so I guess that's cool. GTA4 was so lame in some ways, I think they realized the next game was going to have to be way improved tonally and such which is why they went with making it a numbered sequel. But also GTA4 was in a weird place because DLC was becoming a thing, and it came out at the right time on 360/PS3 that it just. Kept. Selling especially with the two expansions. I remember reading some articles that GTA4 sales alone pushed the needle on the US economy. Like very very very little because it's a single video game of course but that there was even this noticeable massive explosion of sales of it in such a short time was unheard of. There were some interesting rumors about GTA4 before details of it were officially revealed that were all way more interesting than the reality. The two big ones were that it was going to take place in NYC NYC with very accurate terrain instead of "Liberty City" or another parody type city. Or that it was that it was going to be in Hong Kong. The other was that it was going to be in a near future vaguely cyberpunk kind of Liberty City like Anywhere, USA in Grand Theft Auto 2. Instead it was Rockstar's attempt at "serious" storytelling and holy poo poo LMAO. Neo Rasa fucked around with this message at 06:49 on Dec 13, 2016 |
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DC Murderverse posted:SAVING CHARLIE CHAPLIN I didn't read this carefully and thought this was about the FBI and LAPD trying to stop Chaplin from making an anti-Hitler movie because the US was not at war with Germany yet and the authorities were afraid of a diplomatic incident.
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Wait, isn't Stephen King still alive?
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MonsieurChoc posted:Wait, isn't Stephen King still alive? 2016 ain't over yet.
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DC Murderverse posted:UNTITLED LAX MANDIS PROJECT
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TetsuoTW posted:So Max Landis has retreated into writing fanfic about his own life now? Max Landis is the villain in this one. I actually read the script, it's not very good, but as a cathartic work making fun of Max Landis, it's pretty great. In the script Lax Mandis has written a script called DARK, which is like Panic Room set in a closet, and also there are orcs. The orc thing is a recurring joke, which is hilarious to me and probably a very small subset of people and no one else.
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DC Murderverse posted:Max Landis is the villain in this one. I actually read the script, it's not very good, but as a cathartic work making fun of Max Landis, it's pretty great. In the script Lax Mandis has written a script called DARK, which is like Panic Room set in a closet, and also there are orcs. I love the idea that this screenplay even exists. gently caress Max Landis. 
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As someone who doesn't follow the movie industry all that closely, why is Max Landis so hated?
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Olympic Mathlete posted:As someone who doesn't follow the movie industry all that closely, why is Max Landis so hated? Annoying style personality & nepotism little too blatant
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Olympic Mathlete posted:As someone who doesn't follow the movie industry all that closely, why is Max Landis so hated? C'mon, look at the guy.  Do you even need to ask?
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Olympic Mathlete posted:As someone who doesn't follow the movie industry all that closely, why is Max Landis so hated?
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