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Someone please adapt My Immortal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdv6Q68EutU&t=7s
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50 shades of grey was originally a twilight fanfiction with the same title as the he-man show.
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ChainsawCharlie posted:It would be boring as hell,stephenson has some cool ideas but he cant write dialogue or a functional story for poo poo,his stories feel like loose conections of stuff hapening with bonus mathematics. I assume they would do the second thing though. They definitely wouldn't use his dialogue untouched, it's all philosophical essays. A bunch of cloistered monks identify an orbiting spacecraft and realize the secret nuclear cache from past civilization is their target, so they must go on a great circle Mad Max voyage to the monk Entmoot before going into space where a series of Gravity-like disasters occur, and all the monks have shapeshifting globe tools and controllable ropes could totally be a non boring movie, just skip the theory bits.
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Jul 25, 2017 00:41
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The MSJ posted:Someone please adapt My Immortal. This...this is magnificent.
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Jul 25, 2017 02:29
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It's amazing how for a fanfic full of horny people, most of the dialogue is describing the outfits. Back to movie news, the California Film Commission announced that Marvel's Captain Marvel and Roland Emmerich's Midway will be fully filmed in California and thus will receive massive tax credits. This joins the Bumblebee movie which probably received the biggest Californian tax credit this year at $22 million (for comparison the movie's budget is $70 million).
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Jul 25, 2017 02:48
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Appropriate bumblebee is finally getting his own movie. When I was a kid you could go to the movies for a nickel, and nickels had pictures of bumblebees on em.
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Jul 25, 2017 02:50
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ernest cline makes me furious. I want to be cool-headed and detached but whenever I think of that talentless nerd getting his big break over the next coen bros or coppola or kaufman I just want to give him a wedgie and steal his lunch money ernest cline is tarantino for 80s pop culture nerds kalel fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Jul 25, 2017 |
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Jul 25, 2017 03:11
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SciFiDownBeat posted:ernest cline makes me furious. I want to be cool-headed and detached but whenever I think of that talentless nerd getting his big break over the next coen bros or coppola or kaufman I just want to give him a wedgie and steal his lunch money The worst thing is this is a huge insult to Tarantino because he can write a scene. Cline is like............    It's just that, forever. Also his thoughts on Ladyhawke and The Alan Parsons Project makes me legit question if he actually even knows what half the stuff he references is about. And his second book, Armada, is easily 10,000 times worse in every way. Anyway I know I'm not like the greatest poster ever but even I want to preemptively beg forgiveness for posting this because, like, oh my God: http://www.ernestcline.com/spokenword/npa.htm Neo Rasa fucked around with this message at 03:49 on Jul 25, 2017 |
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Jul 25, 2017 03:26
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The REAL Goobusters posted:Reminder that ernest cline's claim to fame was the screenplay for that loving godawful Fanboys movie that was only a thing because of websites like aint it cool news or whatever the gently caress. And even that wasn't original.
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SciFiDownBeat posted:ernest cline makes me furious. I want to be cool-headed and detached but whenever I think of that talentless nerd getting his big break over the next coen bros or coppola or kaufman I just want to give him a wedgie and steal his lunch money Tarantino has actual talent though.
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Jul 25, 2017 03:58
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I will never read Ready Player One, but the basic (basic) concept is actually solid. Every single thing points to the characters using their postmodern detachment as a shield to protect them from the reality of their situation. Like, for example, when the characters see a reference to Monty Python And The Holy Grail, they say "I get that reference!" - but they don't get that they actually are in a feudal hellscape where they worship a dead CEO as an (anti)christ figure. A quick glance at the full list of references reveals an ideological uniformity identical to that of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Libertarian ghostbusters, liberal star trekkers, and feudal knights unite against a vaguely-defined totalitarianism. "The red star symbolizes any collectivist mentality." - that's the reference Cline makes to Rush's 2112 dystopian concept album, which was made in tribute to Ayn Rand. Do you remember Rush? Lol? Take comfort in the fact that the characters are going to burn to death.
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At the end of the Ready Player One book, the main character, because he won the challenge, is given the equivalent of a big red button that if pushed would delete the entire virtual world forever. Crossing my fingers that Spielberg ends the movie with him pushing the button.
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This was tweeted and deleted and I didn't post it earlier because I had to verify that it was real, but it is
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Tars Tarkas posted:This was tweeted and deleted and I didn't post it earlier because I had to verify that it was real, but it is loving misguided. Also, I'd love the RP1 film to address what is "modern" pop culture to compare against the '80s nostalgia.
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Jul 25, 2017 05:34
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Young Freud posted:loving misguided. I was hoping WB would fully leverage 00s "nostalgia" and have Harry Potter/Lord of the Rings/etc. 00s stuff only in it to maximally anger people who like the book while still making a billion dollars anyway because it's a movie with those characters in it.
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Neo Rasa posted:I was hoping WB would fully leverage 00s "nostalgia" and have Harry Potter/Lord of the Rings/etc. 00s stuff only in it to maximally anger people who like the book while still making a billion dollars anyway because it's a movie with those characters in it. There is some post-80s stuff in the book. I'm pretty sure Harry Potter and LOTR get a few mentions, and the main character flies around in the ship from Firefly. Funnily enough he also mentions there being additional Indiana Jones movies after Crystal Skull, but only the six Star Warses. Reading the RP1 wiki page just now, apparently Cline based the African-American lesbian character on Harry Knowles, which is just hilariously ridiculous.
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Neo Rasa posted:I was hoping WB would fully leverage 00s "nostalgia" and have Harry Potter/Lord of the Rings/etc. 00s stuff only in it to maximally anger people who like the book while still making a billion dollars anyway because it's a movie with those characters in it. Actually, when I meant "modern", I meant within the 20XX timeline of the book/film. Like, what are people forty years after the events of the film obsessing over, like Cline obsessing over '80s pop culture? Of course, that would be hilarious self-aware and we know that he isn't.
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Chairman Capone posted:Reading the RP1 wiki page just now, apparently Cline based the African-American lesbian character on Harry Knowles, which is just hilariously ridiculous.
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Young Freud posted:Actually, when I meant "modern", I meant within the 20XX timeline of the book/film. Like, what are people forty years after the events of the film obsessing over, like Cline obsessing over '80s pop culture? Of course, that would be hilarious self-aware and we know that he isn't. I was just thinking about exactly this. You could describe an entire future pop culture through how the teen protagonist draws on it to understand the 80s poo poo that's being thrust on him.
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ChainsawCharlie posted:It would be boring as hell,stephenson has some cool ideas but he cant write dialogue or a functional story for poo poo,his stories feel like loose conections of stuff hapening with bonus mathematics. I went through a list of books published under the SF Masterworks shingle and there's so many great ideas in there for movies that are just sitting, waiting to be turned into movies. And I bet most of the authors are dead and/or old so they couldn't bitch about anything!
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Jul 25, 2017 06:32
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Neo Rasa posted:I was hoping WB would fully leverage 00s "nostalgia" and have Harry Potter/Lord of the Rings/etc. 00s stuff only in it to maximally anger people who like the book while still making a billion dollars anyway because it's a movie with those characters in it. They already do that with the Lego movies, which have Gandalf and Dumbledore hang out.
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Let's skip 00's nostalgia, it was a pretty rotten decade. Post 9/11 paranoia and nu-Metal, loving kill me.
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Timby posted:A show that was such a mess in its first season that when NBC renewed it for another year, they fired the showrunner and six of the eight regular cast members. Why would you do that, did they just really like the lead or something?
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Casimir Radon posted:Let's skip 00's nostalgia, it was a pretty rotten decade. Post 9/11 paranoia and nu-Metal, loving kill me. Crawling in my skin These wounds they will not heal
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Inescapable Duck posted:They already do that with the Lego movies, which have Gandalf and Dumbledore hang out. It's kind of funny that the Lego movies do the whole enormous crossover thing to appeal to child audiences and directly evoke the tone of children playing with toys, and then Ernest Cline does the same thing in a book for grown men. DC Murderverse posted:I went through a list of books published under the SF Masterworks shingle and there's so many great ideas in there for movies that are just sitting, waiting to be turned into movies. And I bet most of the authors are dead and/or old so they couldn't bitch about anything! Asimov's short stories about the robot psychologist would be a good fit for a Netflix/HBO original show.
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So RP1 is like at the end of Lego Batman, where Sauron, Voldemort and the Joker are all in play? Except serious?
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Red Bones posted:Asimov's short stories about the robot psychologist would be a good fit for a Netflix/HBO original show. The only reason I'm against that idea is if people seem open to "Psychologist for bizarre clients" concept show then someone might try and get the movie adaptation of Rob Liefeld's lovely Shrink! comic strip going again, especially since he's the guy who created Deadpool so he's hot property right now. The comic strip is genuinely awful:   The rights originally got picked up back in '02 and J-Lo was set to star in the film but it fell through.
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Bring back Frasier, add him to a comic book movie universe. Maybe DC so we can have a connection with Jonathan Crane.
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SciFiDownBeat posted:ernest cline makes me furious. I want to be cool-headed and detached but whenever I think of that talentless nerd getting his big break over the next coen bros or coppola or kaufman I just want to give him a wedgie and steal his lunch money Yeah stuff like Superhero Movie #150350 or grown adults going mad for Harry Potter or Dr Who or whatever is like, tiresome but I guess if it makes them happy then fine. Ernie Cline make me want to kick him in the teeth, he's such a loving greasy talentless poo poo.
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That 9/11 trailer with Luis and Sheen falling and floating....good lord. I can't stop watching that scene. Why Luis, why?
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Tato posted:Why Luis, why? I'm not sure what you expected from a graduate of Greendale.
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Corrode posted:Ernie Cline make me want to kick him in the teeth, he's such a loving greasy talentless poo poo. quote:Yeah stuff like Superhero Movie #150350 or grown adults going mad for Harry Potter or Dr Who or whatever is like, tiresome but I guess if it makes them happy then fine. I dunno, seems like a weird thing to hate on. You could point at the teenification of adulthood as a reason people dont, like, talk about scotch or cigars or whatever weird smoking jacket conception of adulthood was before, but its also a byproduct of being in a culture where the vast majority of entertainment is readily available for consumption.
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FilthyImp posted:I guess i should read RP1 but drat, theres Twilight level hate for the author going on here. It's more insidious because the fanbase of Twilight is young girls or bored housewives or whatever and the fanbase of RP1 are quizzing the girl trying to ring them up at Gamestop to figure out if she's a "fake gamer girl" because of their reinforced superiority for remembering the plot of Wargames.
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weekly font posted:It's more insidious because the fanbase of Twilight is young girls or bored housewives or whatever and the fanbase of RP1 are quizzing the girl trying to ring them up at Gamestop to figure out if she's a "fake gamer girl" because of their reinforced superiority for remembering the plot of Wargames. There's nearly a palpable sigh of relief I can see in GameStop cashier's faces when I go in there with my kid and wearing a wedding ring because they know I'm somewhat less likely to awkwardly hit on them. Though I've seen married dudes do it.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:The only reason I'm against that idea is if people seem open to "Psychologist for bizarre clients" concept show then someone might try and get the movie adaptation of Rob Liefeld's lovely Shrink! comic strip going again, especially since he's the guy who created Deadpool so he's hot property right now. I dunno man,psycologist for bizarre clients gave us the sopranos,Hannibal and the analyse this movies.its not a perfect bating average but its pretty good
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ChainsawCharlie posted:I dunno man,psycologist for bizarre clients gave us the sopranos,Hannibal and the analyse this movies.its not a perfect bating average but its pretty good I think perfect 'bating average is what Liefeld was hoping for.
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Neo Rasa posted:The worst thing is this is a huge insult to Tarantino because he can write a scene. Cline is like............ Sweet baby Jesus Christ. I honestly thought people were exaggerating how awful the prose in the book was, but nope, it's really that awful. Also his creepy poem about porn was posted over in the r/incels thread and I had no idea it was written by Cline. Somehow, I shouldn't be surprised by this.
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joylessdivision posted:Sweet baby Jesus Christ. https://mobile.twitter.com/donniemnemonic/status/889215615717605376 edit: I'd actually be interested in generating a copy of Ready Player One that has all the references replaced with other fictional properties. Like instead of Raiders of the Lost Ark, he talks about knowing everything from Defenders of the Mystical Tomb while listening to Dango Dang's seminal 1985 album "Put it on the Roof." There's no way that anyone, even the most vociferous defenders of "no it's actually just a really cool story, maaan, the references are just icing" could make it through ALFbrot fucked around with this message at 18:22 on Jul 25, 2017 |
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it really says it all when he lists Stephenson ahead of Gibson. I say that as an unironic fan of Snow Crash.
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well why not posted:it really says it all when he lists Stephenson ahead of Gibson. I say that as an unironic fan of Snow Crash. Should've done a Snow Crash movie instead, but that wouldn't get the nostalgia moneys also Speilberg was supposed to make a Robopocalypse movie starring Chris Hemsworth and Anne Hathaway Fried Watermelon fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Jul 25, 2017 |
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