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CelticPredator posted:Nope! I loving hate it! I would rather watch the first one 10 times than see the second one ever again
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May 16, 2017 18:47
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I like AVP:R mainly for how loving Badass the Wolf is and because being a mexican archeologist, I was very bothered for all the bullshit the first movie had.
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May 16, 2017 18:54
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Going back a few pages but:Casimir Radon posted:One of the best things about The Legend of Tarzan is that it doesn't do a franchise push at all. There could be sequels but at no point are they ever explicitly pushed, and the movie wraps up well and feels complete. I watched The Lost City of Z over the weekend, and it strongly reminded me of The Legend of Tarzan in how it tried to blend fiction and historical characters to invert the typical white savior/exploration-as-imperialism tropes.* John Carter and Free State of Jones also kind of fit that trope of recent movies that try to subvert those old racial cliches, if imperfectly in each case. *It's especially funny in Lost City of Z, because Percy Fawcett in the movie explicitly says that by discovering Z, it will prove the Amazonian peoples have the capacity for civilization and deserve to be treated as equals and will help lead to the abolition of slavery in the Amazon, while in reality, at least by the end of his life, Fawcett actually thought that Z was some kind of portal built by Atlantis that would lead to some Theosophy-based alternate dimension where death didn't exist.
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May 16, 2017 19:08
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Since we're talking about Predator fantasy scripts and fanfic, I want a Predator movie where the first fifteen minutes take place on the Predator home world, where it's Office Space, complete with white shirts, suspenders, glasses, and ties, except with Predators. All the fishnets, knife gauntlets, and plasma casters are like them cosplaying their primitive past. Also, there's a fat Ned Beatty Predator.
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May 16, 2017 19:42
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Young Freud posted:Since we're talking about Predator fantasy scripts and fanfic, I want a Predator movie where the first fifteen minutes take place on the Predator home world, where it's Office Space, complete with white shirts, suspenders, glasses, and ties, except with Predators. All the fishnets, knife gauntlets, and plasma casters are like them cosplaying their primitive past. Also, there's a fat Ned Beatty Predator. Sealab 2021 is as close as you can currently get to this. e: have a hot take on Adam Reed courtesy of google and SA 2k11 https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3427747 syscall girl fucked around with this message at 19:47 on May 16, 2017 |
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May 16, 2017 19:43
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I want a predator who isn't into hunting humans at all but is trying to win the approval of his fiance's dad so he'll approve of the marriage. And the guy being hunted is Simon Pegg.
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May 16, 2017 19:47
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Power Rangers made just $3.3 million dollars opening weekend in China, RIP the six Power Rangers sequels
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May 16, 2017 20:02
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I want a Predator equivalent of this guy. I'm not talking about Karl either.
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May 16, 2017 20:02
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ruddiger posted:I want a Predator equivalent of this guy. So Lenny then? *checks hands for the code to tell Karl and Lenny apart*
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May 16, 2017 20:11
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:I like AVP:R mainly for how loving Badass the Wolf is and because being a mexican archeologist, I was very bothered for all the bullshit the first movie had. The aliens in avpr are so so dumb. They're barely a threat to anyone. They just kinda flop around and get dunked on by the Wolf with such ease that's it's not even fun to watch.
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May 16, 2017 20:20
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Tars Tarkas posted:Power Rangers made just $3.3 million dollars opening weekend in China, RIP the six Power Rangers sequels Would I be correct in postulating the poor performance is largely from releasing in that country so late? Like anyone who was interested probably already bootlegged it. Or is this bad compared to even other movies released months later?
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May 16, 2017 20:22
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Proposal: Aliens X Gremlins
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May 16, 2017 20:27
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Tars Tarkas posted:I guess this was a video game? Now it is an inferior Them! Some people should not be allowed to perform color grading.
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May 16, 2017 20:29
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CelticPredator posted:The aliens in avpr are so so dumb. They're barely a threat to anyone. They just kinda flop around and get dunked on by the Wolf with such ease that's it's not even fun to watch. I thought it was pretty liberating when the Wolf hosed them up in the sewer because I was still mad that the Predators got chumped out in the first one. You've got this prowrestler-shaped Predator losing against one (1!) alien, how weak is that. The aliens in AvP R mainly prey on kids, hobos and pregnant ladies. They are pretty appalling, but the movie doesn't quite go far enough to make it as funny as it could be.
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May 16, 2017 20:29
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Both movies suck due to lack of budget. 5 Predators vs a bunch of Aliens is fair enough.
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May 16, 2017 20:32
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Tars Tarkas posted:Power Rangers made just $3.3 million dollars opening weekend in China, RIP the six Power Rangers sequels  On a $100 million budget. Yikes.
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May 16, 2017 20:42
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Neo Rasa posted:S In Predator 2 the predator goes to a meat locker to eat, so probably not.
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May 16, 2017 20:45
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Once you take marketing tie ins and merchandising into account I'm sure it wasn't a loss. Lessons learned: Next time have them morph within the first ten minutes, have more than one morphed fight scene that lasts longer than two minutes and features more than just the generic minions. Let the characterization inform the action and vice versa rather than having a lot of characterization, even good characterization, that had hardly anything to do with the action. Make designs recognizable and appealing to children.
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May 16, 2017 20:49
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:
That still makes no sense to me. It made back it's entire budget and an extra 38%. That seems successful to me. Does that $100 million include marketing and stuff, too?
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May 16, 2017 20:53
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Marketing was probably about $50 million. The general rule is another %50. But they also probably made a ton of money from Krispy Kreme and toys and junk. Saban probably came out on top with the studio probably breaking even.
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May 16, 2017 20:58
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I always figured the studio has to make a substantial profit to consider a movie a success. Breaking even would be a failure for them. The other day I found out Pirates of the Caribbean 4 was the most expensive film ever made with a budget of over $400 million, but it also made like over $1 billion at the box office, so it was considered a success and now there's a 5th one about to come out.
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May 16, 2017 21:29
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:I always figured the studio has to make a substantial profit to consider a movie a success. Breaking even would be a failure for them. Isn't the next Avengers movie supposed to have a budget of a billion dollars? That's utterly mind boggling to me. But I guess they do have like 67 characters in it so I imagine the actors' pay is a big chunk of that.
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May 16, 2017 21:34
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Leavemywife posted:That still makes no sense to me. It made back it's entire budget and an extra 38%. That seems successful to me. Studios only collect about 50% of the box office receipts, on average (more in the USA, less in China, blah blah blah it usually averages out to about 50%).
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May 16, 2017 21:38
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Coming soon to Cannes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8pJt4dK_s4
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May 16, 2017 21:44
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Chairman Capone posted:Isn't the next Avengers movie supposed to have a budget of a billion dollars? That's utterly mind boggling to me. But I guess they do have like 67 characters in it so I imagine the actors' pay is a big chunk of that.   gently caress me.Although from the way it's worded on the Wiki, that's the budget for both Avengers 3 and Avengers 4. They were shot back-to-back and had a combined budget of $1 billion. So I guess roughly $500 million each? That still makes them the most expensive movies ever made. Although Avengers 2 cleared over a billion at the box office, so it'll turn a profit for them I'm sure. Superhero movies are like guaranteed moneymakers nowadays. Also I just looked up the highest-grossing movies ever and Avatar is #1 with $2.8 billion? Ahahahahaha, HOW? 
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Also I just looked up the highest-grossing movies ever and Avatar is #1 with $2.8 billion? Ahahahahaha, HOW? Being a real "3D" theater experience before the industry once again abused it. Those premium 3D sales helped it. Having an uncomplicated story that anyone could understand and relate to and most people enjoyed a lot.
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May 16, 2017 21:53
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Being a real "3D" theater experience before the industry once again abused it. Those premium 3D sales helped it. Jesus, I guess that explains why they have a million sequels planned for it even though the original came out 8 years ago and the first sequel has yet to come out.
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May 16, 2017 21:55
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Also I just looked up the highest-grossing movies ever and Avatar is #1 with $2.8 billion? Ahahahahaha, HOW? It did Avengers caliber ticket sales but more of those sales was a were for more expensive 3D ticket because seeing the 3D was half the reason to see the movie. Those not actual IMAX screens that are able to call themselves IMAX because they license the name did huge business with it too because of that. So it would make sense that it actually kind of makes sense for it to be the highest grossing movie ever.
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BTW, I saw Avatar in a real IMAX theater in 3D. It was 20 dollars a ticket and looked absolutely great. I regret nothing.
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May 16, 2017 22:12
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Yeah, Avatar was absolutely worth seeing in the theatre in 3D. But that's about it.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:BTW, I saw Avatar in a real IMAX theater in 3D. It was 20 dollars a ticket and looked absolutely great. I regret nothing.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:BTW, I saw Avatar in a real IMAX theater in 3D. It was 20 dollars a ticket and looked absolutely great. I regret nothing. I saw it twice in 3D at a real IMAX. I still really like the movie too.
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May 16, 2017 22:41
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I never saw it in theaters so I never bothered watching it. Also what if the pirates leak is just a scapegoat for when the movie bombs?
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dentist toy box posted:I never saw it in theaters so I never bothered watching it.  that was actually my first thought
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May 16, 2017 23:42
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Is Marvel's Secret Empire a false flag that Disney can blame for Infinity War bombing?
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May 16, 2017 23:47
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dentist toy box posted:Also what if the pirates leak is just a scapegoat for when the movie bombs? Executives don't like business risks. Leaking the movie is hugely, gigantically, amazingly risky. So, this is very unlikely. The movie is on track for a 100 million dollar opening, we're not talking King Arthur here. The risk vs consequence is way out of wack to be trying anything that insane. Megaman's Jockstrap fucked around with this message at 23:52 on May 16, 2017 |
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May 16, 2017 23:49
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Oh are we back to false flags? I remember someone in the 2014(15?) thread saying the Sony hack was a flash flag to blame for Annie being awful. Pretty sure it's just someone stole Pirates because that makes a lot more sense
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I thought Annie was pretty good, and a nice, sweet, film? Certainly not awful. Maybe it went off the rails at the end, I left 2/3 through because our 2 year old has sat still about as much as he could. (This was an empty am matinee showing, no theater goers were harmed in the taking of this child to a children's movie)
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Danny McBride made Stand By Me 2!quote:One of our friends happened to have a video camera in the sixth grade. So that was when we started to make our first film. And it was called Stand By Me 2. It was a sequel. And Ray Brower, the kid who's dead in the first one, comes back as a zombie to kill all the kids that saw his dead body. [Laughs] To get revenge. It was great. It was really fun. We got pretty wild with it. Everyone played a character. I was Gordy. We were shooting my death scene, and one of my older brothers had a car. And I was like, 'Just come at me with the car. Not at a fast speed. I'll jump onto the hood, and it will be fine. Just go slow.' I literally got hit by a car, rolled off the hood, and just limped home for dinner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2HxgpAZtjk
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