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Timby posted:Some believe the casting of Tilda Swinton in Doctor Strange was because China will flat-out ban anything referencing Tibet, and both Stark and Cap use Vivo phones (a lovely low-end Chinese brand) in Civil War. It's not a "some believe," the screenwriter of Dr. Strange literally openly said this TetsuoTW posted:So it's OK for all those Michael Bay movies and whatnot to give sloppy blowjobs to the US government and military, but it's a travesty the moment it's another country instead? yes because these things can't both be bad, one being bad necessitates the other being cool and good, I am a huge loving moron
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Timby posted:Some believe the casting of Tilda Swinton in Doctor Strange was because China will flat-out ban anything referencing Tibet, and both Stark and Cap use Vivo phones (a lovely low-end Chinese brand) in Civil War. LORD OF BOOTY posted:It's not a "some believe," the screenwriter of Dr. Strange literally openly said this The director said this before the movie came out to brush aside complaints about it, but later on in other interviews revealed that they whitewashed the roll because they were incapable of writing a Chinese character that wouldn't be a dragon lady because obviously they have a female Chinese person in charge of something she *HAS* to be a scheming domineering person full of treachery. The director basically said this outright and it was pretty hosed up. People realized he was full of poo poo at first though because the Ancient One's place is no longer in Tibet in the movie, but in Nepal. So it was still mega bullshit that they couldn't cast a Nepal or Chinese person in the role.
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Timby posted:Some believe the casting of Tilda Swinton in Doctor Strange was because China will flat-out ban anything referencing Tibet, and both Stark and Cap use Vivo phones (a lovely low-end Chinese brand) in Civil War. I don't think that's why they cast Tilda Swinton, but it is why they moved the beginning to Nepal from Tibet
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Beachcomber posted:The worst thing about China Pandaring is that it sticks out like a Wilhelm scream. Totally breaks immersion every time, and I wish I didn't know about either. Independence Day 2 is just funny how out of place it is though. It's almost parody.
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Peanut President posted:Independence Day 2 is just funny how out of place it is though. It's almost parody. and yet... 
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kiimo posted:and yet... Loving that Canada doesn't get separated out but Bolivia gets its own line.
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kiimo posted:and yet... It makes that country look thirsty af though.
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IDR is especially obvious since the original was made in 1995 so China isn't even mentioned.
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New trailer for Aliens: Bad Haircut - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svnAD0TApb8 Okja teaser - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-wBI7Mh6H4 quote:From visionary Director Bong Joon Ho, this grand global adventure follows a friendship too big to ignore. Meet Mija, a young girl who risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend – a massive animal named Okja. Following her across continents, the coming-of-age comedy drama sees Mija’s horizons expand in a way one never would want for one’s children, coming up against the harsh realities of genetically modified food experimentation, globalization, eco-terrorism, and humanity’s obsession with image, brand and self-promotion. Trailer for War Machine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMJDf8IZ8qU test audiences were not impressed quote:Netflix is f**ked.
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Tars Tarkas posted:
So it's a good depiction of America and the war on terror? Also, I liked the Brad Pitt delivery of the phone line.
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Mar 1, 2017 21:12
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People are more than likely put off that it's not more jingoistic war porn where competent white people must deal with incompetent white people getting in the way of THEIR JOB, instead of admitting their own incompetence for participating in the first place.
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Mar 1, 2017 21:35
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There is no possible way that is a career worst performance from Ben Kingsley.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:There is no possible way that is a career worst performance from Ben Kingsley. I'm interested to see how this is somehow worse than A Sound of Thunder.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:There is no possible way that is a career worst performance from Ben Kingsley. I can accept it if it means the person who wrote that review was smart enough to avoid Uwe Boll's BloodRayne.
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Gonz posted:I'm interested to see how this is somehow worse than A Sound of Thunder. That was the one that immediately leapt to mind, but there's like five others. Ben Kingsley has been in hundreds of lovely movies.
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I've only ever walked out of a handful of movies in my life. One of them was A Sound of Thunder. EDIT: Oh poo poo, I had totally forgotten about Suspect Zero and War, Inc.. Jesus, you're right. He really has been in some stinkers.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:That was the one that immediately leapt to mind, but there's like five others. Ben Kingsley has been in hundreds of lovely movies. But was he lovely in them? Honest question, I haven't seen them. Were they lovely movies in which he still acted well, or was his performance equally poo poo?
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Mar 1, 2017 21:53
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Phylodox posted:But was he lovely in them? Oh, they were definitely lovely movies, and he was definitely lovely in them.
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Mar 1, 2017 21:56
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Most of the time he's a blast even when he's turning in subpar work but he comes from a proud tradition of English actors not giving a gently caress - Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Malcom McDowell. He's definitely been bad in plenty of movies.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Most of the time he's a blast even when he's turning in subpar work but he comes from a proud tradition of English actors not giving a gently caress - Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Malcom McDowell. He's definitely been bad in plenty of movies. When you take acting as a job literally, it's just like any other job. Sometimes you're there getting a paycheck you might as well be stealing
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Most of the time he's a blast even when he's turning in subpar work but he comes from a proud tradition of English actors not giving a gently caress - Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Malcom McDowell. He's definitely been bad in plenty of movies.
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I mean...let's be fair, I'd rather see a lot of those actors in their worst performances than some actors' best. Jeremy Irons in Dungeons & Dragons is just fabulous.
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DeimosRising posted:When you take acting as a job literally, it's just like any other job. Sometimes you're there getting a paycheck you might as well be stealing I've always appreciated that Richard Burton or whomever was just a big drunk ham. I can imagine some American actor just being bowled over by an accent and thinking they're legitimate because they were in the Royal Shakespeare company then coming to realize they think that acting is a way to make a living.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I've always appreciated that Richard Burton or whomever was just a big drunk ham. I can imagine some American actor just being bowled over by an accent and thinking they're legitimate because they were in the Royal Shakespeare company then coming to realize they think that acting is a way to make a living. Some of those old school British guys still have a bit of the ancient actors are basically hookers perspective going on. We worship them now but for most of recorded history an actor was something like a cross between a carnie, a prostitute, and a beggar. It's not a noble artistic calling, it's the poo poo you do cause you're too much of a lush and a fuckup to make something of yourself.
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Yep. It was something you did because you didn't want to break your back working in a factory.
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Gonz posted:I've only ever walked out of a handful of movies in my life. One of them was A Sound of Thunder. Thunderbirds. But he still was still the best thing in that. DeimosRising posted:Some of those old school British guys still have a bit of the ancient actors are basically hookers perspective going on. We worship them now but for most of recorded history an actor was something like a cross between a carnie, a prostitute, and a beggar. It's not a noble artistic calling, it's the poo poo you do cause you're too much of a lush and a fuckup to make something of yourself. Sounds like being musician.
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I'll definitely watch Brad Pitt doing his best "George Clooney in a Coen Brothers movie" impression.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Yep. It was something you did because you didn't want to break your back working in a factory. Yeah. If Rule Britannia doesn't get you chubby and you don't wanna become your dad, you can either become a crook or an actor. The shift away from that in the US and subsequently everywhere else is definitely attributable to movies and their much greater economic potential compared to plays, but also to the existence of a "middle class" that are neither producers nor aristocrats with rigid expectations. Shageletic posted:Sounds like being musician. Exactly.
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Tars Tarkas posted:New trailer for Aliens: Bad Haircut - Yeah, Alien:Covenant went to one of those films this year I will now actively avoid. I mean, that comment about everything being completely quiet when it shouldn't should provoke a Rick & Morty "cob planet" reaction and everyone scrambling back into the ship. I can already see it's going to be the worst elements of Prometheus on display.
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All these people and no mention of Billy Zane. From Titanic to Ansem the Seeker of Darkness.
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Hey, sometimes a dick-bug rapemonster is just a dick-bug rapemonster.
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Oh, War Machine is by David Michod. Yeah, sorry "test audiences", it will probably be good.
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Just wanted to say Get Out is the most viscerally satisfying and "right" movie of 2017
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I wish I had the stomach for horror movies, maybe I saw too many as a kid
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LesterGroans posted:I'll definitely watch Brad Pitt doing his best "George Clooney in a Coen Brothers movie" impression. my sentiments exactly
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I'm like 99% sure test audiences aren't actual people but obtuse trash golems created with dark magic for the sole purpose of being wrong. So I think I'll give this a chance.
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I'm also stepping back the enthusiasm for Beauty and the Beast because I know a test audience went gaga for it but from what I've seen I don't buy Emma Watson in it. I just don't think she's very good frankly.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I'm like 99% sure test audiences aren't actual people but obtuse trash golems created with dark magic for the sole purpose of being wrong. They were 100% correct about Deep Blue Sea.
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