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Guy Mann posted:You can dislike the general trend of movies being too long while still wanting individual films to be appropriately epic. Hell yes, Sally Hawkins!
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If that is the ending I think Spielberg, a human being with empathy and the capacity to care about things other than 80's pop culture, will probably do something different with it. I'm kind of interested to see what direction he takes it all in.Guy Mann posted:Also, the new Del Toro movie looks pretty interesting. I'm not sure if it's officially a Hellboy spinoff or if it's just a movie that happens to star Doug Jones as a merman kept in a government research facility but it looks pretty. Plus the cast is awesome and after the recent Planet of the Apes movies I think it's cool to see more sign language in movies. This looks really cool and I heard Del Toro had a pitch for the Creature from the Black Lagoon that got rejected at one point. Maybe this is what he would have made? I'm glad he's making it, it looks like a really good small scale sci-fi/horror/drama story.
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Red Bones posted:This looks really cool and I heard Del Toro had a pitch for the Creature from the Black Lagoon that got rejected at one point. Maybe this is what he would have made? I'm glad he's making it, it looks like a really good small scale sci-fi/horror/drama story. The hand drawn poster looks extremely Creature-from-the-Black-Lagoon-ish:  I'm pretty sure that the new Universal monster shared universe thing which kicked off with Tom Cruise in The Mummy is also going to include the Creature from the Black Lagoon, I'll laugh my rear end off if The Shape of Water does better than The Mummy.
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Is that a mermaid? Is this a love story between the worlds of the deeps and the shallows? (oddly enough, it's the creature who's the shallow part of this equation) I'd give them props for making what starts out as a horror movie and turns into a romance with a bunch of dopey holidaymakers playing matchmaker. Note: I do not know anything at all about The Creature From The Black Lagoon.
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isn't it abe sapien from hellboy.
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Guy Mann posted:I really hope one scene just has Robert Pattinson walking by in the background with no emphasis or fanfare. This would be sick as hell.
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Groovelord Neato posted:isn't it abe sapien from hellboy. It is definitely not Abe Sapien©™ licenced property of Columbia Pictures, nosiree. It is clearly a significantly different, legally distinct character as determined by Fox Searchlight's legal counsel. Tooootally not Abe Sapien©™!
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Jul 23, 2017 16:49
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Something something, 9/11 shared universe.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:It is definitely not Abe Sapien©™ licenced property of Columbia Pictures, nosiree. It is clearly a significantly different, legally distinct character as determined by Fox Searchlight's legal counsel. Tooootally not Abe Sapien©™! Played by the same guy who was Abe Sapien in the Hellboy movies.
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muscles like this! posted:Played by the same guy who was Abe Sapien in the Hellboy movies. Totally a coincidence, we swear!!
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and like smash mouth he eats the eggs
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sethsez posted:95 minutes is pretty drat short for the first entry in a fantasy series that's incredibly dense and took seven books written over a few decades to tell. Most movies are bloated these days, but for what The Dark Tower is that feels fairly anemic. This is one nice thing about Ready Player One being adapted. A relatively simple story from a one-and-done novel of average length. No worries about having to excise huge parts or having to create tons of filler.
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muscles like this! posted:Cline destroyed any benefit of doubt you could give him by putting out a second novel which was basically the same thing except somehow shittier. Lobok posted:This is one nice thing about Ready Player One being adapted. A relatively simple story from a one-and-done novel of average length. No worries about having to excise huge parts or having to create tons of filler. 
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Lobok posted:This is one nice thing about Ready Player One being adapted. A relatively simple story from a one-and-done novel of average length. No worries about having to excise huge parts or having to create tons of filler. Sometimes doesn't stop studios from doing so anyway. I'm reminded of a Little Engine That Could animated movie I fondly remembered from my childhood, and rewatching as an adult, what struck me the most was the drat thing was only half an hour long. I'm pretty sure the Little Golden Book Land failed cartoon pilot that had said Engine as a character was longer. (I watched some weird and random poo poo as a kid, the more I look back on it. The Fleischer Superman cartoons were at least among them) Pacing is a weird thing. Bladders aside, I think people can easily lose track of how much time they've spent watching a movie, especially since cinemas (and often the malls they're built into) are specifically designed to filter out the outside world so you have no way of keeping track, and people SHOULD have their phones off. Length becomes more of an issue with home viewing; setting aside sometime to go see a movie is one thing, but when you have control of when it starts and ends, something short and sweet may feel like the better investment.
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Casimir Radon posted:He's writing a sequel Ah, whoops! Well, my point still stands. The novel doesn't end on a cliffhanger or sequel setup and the movie isn't trying to fit several books into one movie.
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I know that image has been floating around for a few years but it's never not funny
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ready player one and armada are the worst novels ever written by anyone ever.
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RP1 is pretty bad but at least in the ending the main character decides to start spending time in the real world and not as much in the virtual world. There's a decent message there, I think, but sadly it'll probably get overlooked with the movie. I also hate to admit that it bothers me that Tom Sawyer is used in the trailer because 2112 was the Rush album that was the huge plot point, not Moving Pictures. This lovely book's movie shouldn't be annoying me like this and I hate myself for it. 
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Jul 23, 2017 17:48
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Valerian's final weekend total was $17 mil, which is not even 10% of its $180 mil budget (which probably doesn't include ad costs)
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FlamingLiberal posted:Valerian's final weekend total was $17 mil, which is not even 10% of its $180 mil budget (which probably doesn't include ad costs) Ouch. It's been a bad year for sci-fi. 
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My local cinema isn't playing Valerian. I called and asked the front desk, but the guy didn't have an answer. Any idea why? They've got about 15 screens and normally play everything, including IMAX and 3D.
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Groovelord Neato posted:ready player one and armada are the worst novels ever written by anyone ever. I almost stopped reading Armada because of how thick it was with gaming pop culture references in the first third of the book (I recall thinking to myself that I finally understood what people were saying about RP1), but I stuck through it and I found it overall decent enough. MisterBibs fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Jul 23, 2017 |
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Jul 23, 2017 20:56
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Yeah, I don't get this.
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It's a short film/commercial but still, Siri....
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The best thing about RP1 is people younger than ne telling me I just don't remember the 80s. No I don't (Born at the end of '88) and neither do you.
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I barely remember the 90s. Early 2000s is where it's at.
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MisterBibs posted:I almost stopped reading Armada because of how thick it was with gaming pop culture references in the first third of the book (I recall thinking to myself that I finally understood what people were saying about RP1), but I stuck through it and I found it overall decent enough. it's a total ripoff of the last starfighter. except worse due to the minutiae about what movie ships everyone flies and every goddamn song on his playlist when he shoots enemies.
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Having a mount anyone can get if they complete a quest is the signature of my online avatar...FlamingLiberal posted:Valerian's final weekend total was $17 mil, which is not even 10% of its $180 mil budget (which probably doesn't include ad costs) It's me, I'm the guy who was going to see this but was busy and might not make it until next week, I killed Valerian
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Hollismason posted:Yeah, I don't get this. Ready Player One is literally just that special, awkward post with the barest semblance of story added, stretched into the length of a novel. Just a bunch of your favorite 80s characters getting together for
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I think I've finally had enough of The Rock.
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The Rock sucks. The Rock is still amazing.
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It feels like instead of having all the nostalgic things randomly in your wish-fulfillment fantasy, instead write a story inspired by all these nostalgic stories. Crazy, I know.
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It's way easier to do lazy pop culture mashups for retweets/likes/probably illegal t-shirt sales than to create your own thing, and will go farther on social media Donate to my Patreon to get exclusive prints of Female Megatron turning into a TARDIS
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SleepCousinDeath posted:I barely remember the 90s.
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Strontosaurus posted:My local cinema isn't playing Valerian. I called and asked the front desk, but the guy didn't have an answer. Any idea why? It's French. You can't trust those cowards!
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Samuel Clemens posted:It's French. You can't trust those cowards! If anything, i'd think that the French would want to collaborate with as many theaters as humanly possible.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Valerian's final weekend total was $17 mil, which is not even 10% of its $180 mil budget (which probably doesn't include ad costs) Apparently none of that matters. https://qz.com/1033865/valerian-luc-bessons-sci-fi-epic-is-the-most-expensive-non-american-film-ever-made/
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