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Uncle Boogeyman posted:I mean, I don't think he got great ever, but Insidious and The Conjuring are pretty good. meh, I guess his stuff is just more my poo poo than it is yours and that's totally fair
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Beachcomber posted:I had it kind of sideways. In a bad economy, supposedly, vampire movies take off. In a good economy, hordes of unwashed zombies come to take everything away. I remember a review of DotD that the first 10 minutes felt cathartic following 9/11, like it felt the other shoe dropping and watching everything fall apart. Meanwhile, with 28 Days Later, the shots of abandoned London and the billboard posted with missing people and contact numbers were remenscient of the aftermath of WTC collapse, despite being entirely coincidence (28 Days Later filmed months before 9/11).
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:i mean it's not a bad movie but its aesthetic is already really really dated and it pretty much lives and dies on said aesthetic Eh, I think there's a difference between being noticeably of a time, as 300 is, and having aged badly. And the action is still fantastic.
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Leavemywife posted:Where do you guys get your movie news? Hollywood Reporter and Deadline are the only real games left in town, sometimes AVClub or The Wrap but usually not. Browsing r/movies will generally be up to date, but there is a lot of clickbait or people linking to a random youtube clip of a film from 10 years ago. I follow enough movie people on Twitter (fans and actors/directors more than reporters) that they are usually talking about news before the bigger sites have copy/pasted it from whoever first reported it and it's probably the most consistent way to get new news. Other B movie stuff is from all over the place including directly from the people making the films, though I've been too busy the past 1 1/2 years to keep up with that as much as I like.
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Femur posted:This is crazy, I had no idea that they made a group named similar to a real group to legitimize themselves so brazenly. It's amazing hollywood is seen as progressive. wow. Do people see Hollywood as progressive? Actual progressives I know world laugh at the notion. Personally, I see Hollywood as a collection of high risk venture capitalist who incidentally make movies. Sony got into the business solely to gain a monopoly with bluray.
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Neo Rasa posted:The Raid: Redemption, Dredd, and Mad Max: Fury Road were all delivered under the Obama administration so I can't believe anyone would say that with a straight face. The Raid is indonesian and Mad Max is Australian and filmed in Africa, they don't really count.
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Thundercracker posted:Do people see Hollywood as progressive? Actual progressives I know world laugh at the notion. Personally, I see Hollywood as a collection of high risk venture capitalist who incidentally make movies. Their unions are strong
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A lot of the actors, writers, directors and such are progressive. The people actually running the show aren't.
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FreudianSlippers posted:A lot of the actors, writers, directors and such are progressive. The people actually running the show aren't. Yeah, the people with power are super conservative but every once in a while a movie comes out where a homosexual isn't demonic or a black person isn't a violent thug so hollywood obviously has a liberal bias.
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You also get odd cases who are just progressive because it's hip in the circles they run in. There's nothing progressive about Lena Dunham but that's the image she's chosen for herself. You could make a pretty effective Al Qaeda recruitment film out of following her around and documenting her privileged lifestyle. See also: People who see John Lennon as hippie Jesus. A rich rear end in a top hat who beat both his wives, was a deadbeat father, and only participated in any sort of activism when it enhanced his image. See also also: Apple's progressive image, and beatification of absolute rear end in a top hat Steve Jobs. When Jobs returned to the company in 1997 he cancelled all corporate charitable giving. But boy do those commercials make you feel like you're making a difference.
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People like Dunham or Lennon are/were progressive in some areas, but not in others. Much like Hollywood, really.
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Samuel Clemens posted:People like Dunham or Lennon are/were progressive in some areas, but not in others. Much like Hollywood, really.
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Thundercracker posted:You should read up on the AHA. They are full on shills for Hollywood. A bunch of animals died making Lord of the Rings and they claimed it wasn't animal abuse.
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Thank you for looking that up and setting me free.
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Shageletic posted:Their unions are strong Among the strongest in the nation, in fact, maybe owing to the fact that their activity is so visible.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Among the strongest in the nation, in fact, maybe owing to the fact that their activity is so visible. It's funny to think that Ronald Reagan and Charlton Heston were both president of one of the most prominent unions in the country.
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Chairman Capone posted:It's funny to think that Ronald Reagan and Charlton Heston were both president of one of the most prominent unions in the country. It sort of makes sense considering acting is one of the most FYGM industries there is.
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Chairman Capone posted:It's funny to think that Ronald Reagan and Charlton Heston were both president of one of the most prominent unions in the country. It put Reagan in a great position to snitch so that's not too surprising.
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The only jobs in America that still have decent unions are the entertainment industry and cops. The latter because they have guns and are quite literally the law so busting their unions is a bit tricky.
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FreudianSlippers posted:The only jobs in America that still have decent unions are the entertainment industry and cops. The latter because they have guns and are quite literally the law so busting their unions is a bit tricky. That's okay we don't want unions in this country. They're all awful organizations just out to pad their wallets by taking my money and giving me nothing back.
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FreudianSlippers posted:The only jobs in America that still have decent unions are the entertainment industry and cops. The latter because they have guns and are quite literally the law so busting their unions is a bit tricky. And more importantly, because they support republicans.
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FreudianSlippers posted:The only jobs in America that still have decent unions are the entertainment industry and cops. The latter because they have guns and are quite literally the law so busting their unions is a bit tricky. This is the second time I've talked about Air Traffic Control today. Their unions are great and wildly necessary.
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kiimo posted:This is the second time I've talked about Air Traffic Control today. Their unions are great and wildly necessary. Saint reagan didnt think so. Piss On Reagan's Grave
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kiimo posted:This is the second time I've talked about Air Traffic Control today. Their unions are great and wildly necessary. i mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Controllers_Organization_(1968)
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Casimir Radon posted:You also get odd cases who are just progressive because it's hip in the circles they run in. There's nothing progressive about Lena Dunham but that's the image she's chosen for herself. You could make a pretty effective Al Qaeda recruitment film out of following her around and documenting her privileged lifestyle. http://www.theonion.com/article/man-always-gets-little-rush-out-telling-people-joh-53190
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Casimir Radon posted:You also get odd cases who are just progressive because it's hip in the circles they run in. There's nothing progressive about Lena Dunham but that's the image she's chosen for herself. You could make a pretty effective Al Qaeda recruitment film out of following her around and documenting her privileged lifestyle. I think nobody would deny Jobs was an rear end in a top hat and that's part of the reason of his success. And I haven't seen any Apple ads promoting charities or anything like that? The only difference making they promote is making your life cooler and easier by using iphones to take cool photos
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couldcareless posted:http://www.theonion.com/article/man-always-gets-little-rush-out-telling-people-joh-53190 The Saddest Rhino posted:Think Different feat Gandhi Casimir Radon fucked around with this message at 06:46 on Feb 8, 2017 |
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Casimir Radon posted:Yeah, mainly in lip service. My point is that the term 'progressive' is already a simplification when applied to a single person because most people's beliefs don't align on a single axis. Hollywood is a huge and comparatively diverse industry, which makes trying to find a cohesive viewpoint something of a fool's exercise. It tends to be seen as progressive because that's the aspect both its supporters and detractors focus on.
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couldcareless posted:http://www.theonion.com/article/man-always-gets-little-rush-out-telling-people-joh-53190 Just one more reason McCartney is better. You know, aside from the songs and the personalities and the "not getting shot".
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So Jack Nicholson and Kristen Wiig have been cast in the American remake of Toni Erdmann, which I can already tell you will be inferior to the original because there's no way they are keeping it a 3 hour film and preserve the minutiae of the protagonists' work life, let alone the considerable full frontal nudity.
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Cacator posted:So Jack Nicholson and Kristen Wiig have been cast in the American remake of Toni Erdmann, which I can already tell you will be inferior to the original because there's no way they are keeping it a 3 hour film and preserve the minutiae of the protagonists' work life, let alone the considerable full frontal nudity. Also because Jack Nicholson hasn't been good in a movie for over a decade.
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I'd pay money to see Nicholson's wizened old whiskey dong.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I'd pay money to see Nicholson's wizened old whiskey dong. New thread title
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DC Murderverse posted:Also because Jack Nicholson hasn't been good in a movie for over a decade. Well he hasn't been in any movies in like 8 years so really that's only 2 years of bad movie
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Cacator posted:So Jack Nicholson and Kristen Wiig have been cast in the American remake of Toni Erdmann, which I can already tell you will be inferior to the original because there's no way they are keeping it a 3 hour film and preserve the minutiae of the protagonists' work life, let alone the considerable full frontal nudity.
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couldcareless posted:http://www.theonion.com/article/man-always-gets-little-rush-out-telling-people-joh-53190 Man, that's nothing; Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) had an affair while his wife (who also wrote children's books) was dying of cancer. She committed suicide when she found out. When you hear about his widow, that's his mistress, who he married less than a year afterwards. Incidentally, she was also married at the time of the affair. 
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Thundercracker posted:Do people see Hollywood as progressive? Actual progressives I know world laugh at the notion. Personally, I see Hollywood as a collection of high risk venture capitalist who incidentally make movies. Uh, sure, Sony bought a film studio in 1989 solely to monopolize high definition home video formats seventeen years later.
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Ninjago Ninjago Ninjago! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZSYYiATFTI
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A movie is coming direct to video that features Ice T as a vampire bootlegger in the 1920s, that alone sounds awesome and then they went and released this ridiculous poster!
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