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Hat Thoughts posted:The Big Short by way of Bernie Oh yeah! Those were the real people in Bernie right? Not like BULLSHIT When Harry Met Sally or whatever. Not that When Harry Met Sally purported to be a true story or anything.
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Detective No. 27 posted:Andre Braugher voiced Darkseid in one of the earlier DC animated movies. I'd be down for him to be the live action one. That would be great. Braugher's perfect at looking like everything is beneath him.
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porfiria posted:Oh yeah! Those were the real people in Bernie right? Not like BULLSHIT When Harry Met Sally or whatever. Not that When Harry Met Sally purported to be a true story or anything. Ya it mixes the two, very neat
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May 21, 2017 12:00
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I am surprised Aliens only made $36m , I thought it was a more popular franchise.
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May 21, 2017 18:14
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Considering most people think the first 2 are good and the rest is total garbage (not my opinion), that's not too bad for an R Rated franchise that most people dislike.
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CelticPredator posted:Considering most people think the first 2 are good and the rest is total garbage (not my opinion), that's not too bad for an R Rated franchise that most people dislike. If it's 36mil in the black by hollywood standards that should be pretty good. I guess. Haven't seen it.
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I guess people are seeing Alien: Covenant as a sequel to Prometheus rather than a continuation of the original Aliens movies and they weren't so keen on seeing another Prometheus.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I guess people are seeing Alien: Covenant as a sequel to Prometheus rather than a continuation of the original Aliens movies and they weren't so keen on seeing another Prometheus. Yeah it might be this.
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Femur posted:I am surprised Aliens only made $36m , I thought it was a more popular franchise. $15 million less than Prometheus' opening weekend. Fox can't be happy about that.
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May 21, 2017 19:37
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Inflation adjusted its the third best opening in the series.
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CelticPredator posted:Considering most people think the first 2 are good and the rest is total garbage (not my opinion), that's not too bad for an R Rated franchise that most people dislike. Alien 3 is pretty divisive but I think there was a re-release a few years back that a lot of people liked. Alien 4 is really loving dumb.
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Speaking of "horror" franchises: http://variety.com/2017/film/news/resident-evil-reboot-cannes-film-festival-1202439086/
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May 21, 2017 20:10
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Big surprise.
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I went and saw Alien: Covenant last night and didn't hate it. It tries really really hard to build a bridge between the wanky bullshit from Prometheus and the early Aliens films so there's a lot to like in there but people who loved Prometheus will probably hate it for dumping all the stuff from the first film so ruthlessly and fans of the original films might not find much to like either. The start is really loving slow, a guy I know walked out halfway through and has a hateboner for it now. CopywrightMMXI posted:Inflation adjusted its the third best opening in the series. Fourth best, Alien 3's adjusted opening weekend take is over $40 million (unless my math is off) Alien and Aliens did 'comparatively' better since their budgets were way smaller (even after adjusting for inflation) but we're really starting to split hairs there. Plus it's not like Alien: Covenant has a huge budget by modern standards, $97 million is practically chump change for a sci-fi heavy genre franchise film these days. They gave it a bigger budget than Pixels but smaller than Ghost In The Shell and the Robocop remake, and nearly half as much as Edge of Tomorrow and Independence Day: Resurgence. Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 20:18 on May 21, 2017 |
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May 21, 2017 20:14
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CopywrightMMXI posted:Inflation adjusted its the third best opening in the series. This is such a bad way to quantify modern films. A lot of stuff besides inflation has changed since those movies came out. The entire industry and the concept of film releases is vastly different. Not that any of it really matters because who cares about how much a movie makes but still.
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May 21, 2017 20:16
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I do because I want to see more Alien films.
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May 21, 2017 20:33
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They will always make more. Scott might not get to and they might reboot it or do sequels to different parts but Fox isn't going to stop making Alien movies. They're trying to pimp stupid loving Alien day like the poo poo is Star Wars now. Alien isn't going anywhere.
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May 21, 2017 20:48
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CelticPredator posted:I do because I want to see more Alien films. I doubt Fox will ever close the door on the franchise entirely. They're kinda dedicated to continuing to do something with it one way or another.
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got dragged into seeing king arthur; i agree w/people earlier saying it was pretty fun when it was doing its own thing but man the last third of the film feels real abrupt and not in a good way, it just bounces from scene to scene in a vaguely connected way one of those movies where it's pretty easy to imagine they expected a longer runtime than what they got
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FishBulb posted:They will always make more. Scott might not get to and they might reboot it or do sequels to different parts but Fox isn't going to stop making Alien movies. They're trying to pimp stupid loving Alien day like the poo poo is Star Wars now. Alien isn't going anywhere. Yeah Covenant is pretty much a bridging movie that connects it to the other films and opens the way for more sequels. It also falls prey to 'middle child syndrome' pretty hard. "Okay, we established a whole bunch of stuff in the earlier films but uhhhh how about the characters just argue about poo poo and change their minds about stuff in this one. Don't worry, there'll be some pretty tableaux in this film and some fights and explosions and there's cool stuff coming next time!! Next time is really gonna be awesome after we get past all the poo poo that we threw at the wall which didn't quite stick!"
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i hate myself because covenant is not a good movie (there's parts of a great movie in there) but i still wanna see what comes next.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Yeah Covenant is pretty much a bridging movie that connects it to the other films and opens the way for more sequels. I have trouble believing that the people who made Prometheus as their alien prequel are all that concerned with making a bridging movie if they want to move onto something different. Alien Covenant still contains a camp robot with fingers in everyone's pies, elaborate tableaus of the dead, pontifications about the relationship between creator and created, etc. People are fooling themselves into thinking Prometheus has been rejected, somehow, just because a specific group of Engineers died and some of the aliens are black again. If all they cared about was making whatever this sets up, they would have just done so. They clearly don't give a poo poo about continuity. To their credit. Sir Kodiak fucked around with this message at 21:21 on May 21, 2017 |
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Sir Kodiak posted:People are fooling themselves into thinking Prometheus has been rejected, somehow, just because a specific group of Engineers died and some of the aliens are black again. If all they cared about was making whatever this sets up, they would have just done so. They clearly don't give a poo poo about continuity. Every non-flora lifeform on the Engineers' homeworld has been wiped out. The only other surviving character from Prometheus was killed offscreen between movies. The black goo has been contained to a planet that will kill anyone who visits and can only be discovered by accident anyway due to the ion storms. David only took classic Xenomorph foetuses offworld. They never explained why the Engineers were trying to wipe out humanity and now there's probably no way to find out.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Every non-flora lifeform on the Engineers' homeworld has been wiped out. The only other surviving character from Prometheus was killed offscreen between movies. The black goo has been contained to a planet that will kill anyone who visits and can only be discovered by accident anyway due to the ion storms. David only took classic Xenomorph foetuses offworld. They never explained why the Engineers were trying to wipe out humanity and now there's probably no way to find out. Right, that's all plot poo poo. That's not what Prometheus was about. And if they had just wanted to make a movie where all the plot poo poo was done away with, they would have just done that, instead of having to create a bridge to it, as shown by how tenuously related Prometheus was to Alien.
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I hope you guys are ready for more Resident EvilVariety posted:The “Resident Evil” movie franchise has not ended after all. http://variety.com/2017/film/global/resident-evil-reboot-cannes-film-festival-1202439086/
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If the games are any indication, they might make it more horror than action, but still have the protagonist punch the monsters through a wall or two. They better find another actress who can carry these movies like Mila Jovovich did.
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The MSJ posted:If the games are any indication, they might make it more horror than action, but still have the protagonist punch the monsters through a wall or two. They better find another actress who can carry these movies like Mila Jovovich did. It should be Julia Noth.
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The MSJ posted:If the games are any indication, they might make it more horror than action, but still have the protagonist punch the monsters through a wall or two. They better find another actress who can carry these movies like Mila Jovovich did. Chloë Grace Moretz
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Chloë Grace Moretz All due respect to Ms. Jovavich, I'd rather Chloë Grace Moretz be in good movies.
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Would be nice is Chloe Moretz is back to doing action movies again, though. Hit-Girl was John Wick before John Wick. In other news, the best performance at Cannes is..... Adam Sandler? https://twitter.com/robbiereviews/status/866260450744422400
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The MSJ posted:Would be nice is Chloe Moretz is back to doing action movies again, though. Hit-Girl was John Wick before John Wick. Did....did he pull out another Punch Drunk Love performance?
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Did the Resident evil movies ever do resident evil 4? I'd love to see a adaptation of that, complete with Midget Napoleon, dumb one-liners about Bingo, the totally unexplained Merchant and all.
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May 22, 2017 02:36
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The resident Evil movies never adapted the games.
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Spalec posted:Did the Resident evil movies ever do resident evil 4? I'd love to see a adaptation of that, complete with Midget Napoleon, dumb one-liners about Bingo, the totally unexplained Merchant and all.  
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Spalec posted:Did the Resident evil movies ever do resident evil 4? I'd love to see a adaptation of that, complete with Midget Napoleon, dumb one-liners about Bingo, the totally unexplained Merchant and all.
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Skwirl posted:All due respect to Ms. Jovavich, I'd rather Chloë Grace Moretz be in good movies. The Resident Evil movies are good though?
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Sounds like there might be a Johnny English 3 in the works. It might not be greatest movie franchise in the world, but I'm a sucker for the charms of the first two.
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It is in fact a bad movie franchise. The second one was insufferable
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You'll have to elaborate on that because I remember the second film being much better than the first.
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I didn't watch the first one
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