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Only part of the movie that got a chuckle out of me was Patty being followed by the mannequin. And then I thought, "drat I have to give them that one," but then it occurred to me that the joke to second ratio was so high and the laugh to joke ratio was so low that it really didn't matter. So much of the movie is spent waiting for failed jokes to end that they could probably edit the movie down by 45 minutes.
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My favorite part about the 2016 Ghostbusters movie is when Dan Akyroyd said that Paul Fieg will never be allowed on the Sony Pictures lot ever again
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like seriously though why did Sony hand the keys of the movie version of a Lamborghini Gallardo to Paul fuckin Feig and go "hmmm yeah we can definitely trust this guy not to crash our movie into a guard rail" how does Sony keep loving up
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Monkey Fracas posted:like seriously though why did Sony hand the keys of the movie version of a Lamborghini Gallardo to Paul fuckin Feig and go "hmmm yeah we can definitely trust this guy not to crash our movie into a guard rail" Cause he had some success with small, low budget movies making a profit and Sony thought he was ready for the big time.
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Sony gonna throw coke and dunkin donut ads all over funimation now that their film division is on a lifeline.
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It was also really cool how Sony said that everyone who didn't like the new Ghostbusters was a misogynistic basement dweller. That really made me want to go see it. Trying to shame people into the theater doesn't really work. At least it's convenient to think that your critics are the scum of the earth when they don't like the smell of your farts so you never have to do any self-reflection These been some rumblings about CBS trying to use the same excuse for Star Trek Discovery but that one isn't going to fool anyone because Star Trek has always been diverse, we've had a black captain and a woman captain before, and the show with the black guy was in fact the best one. No, I just don't like it how Star Trek Discovery looks like a dark and gritty Mass Effect and how the main character is Spock's adopted human sister who we have never heard of until now and that's super dumb Fabricated posted:Ghostbusters 2016 is only really worth talking about in reference to how insanely mad people got online about it for whatever reasons. Yeah honestly the movie itself just isn't worth talking about and just isn't really all that interesting. Now the huge shitstorm surrounding the movie, that I find really fascinating. It will be remembered for that and not for the movie itself which is just forgettable GET IN THE ROBOT fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Aug 9, 2017 |
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What the deal with Michelle Yeoh in STD? She is barely in the trailer while the black chick looks like she is being groomed to take the captain's chair then they kill Yeoh in some sort of half done stunt casting.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Sony gonna throw coke and dunkin donut ads all over funimation now that their film division is on a lifeline. the most sobering part of the plinkett review was that more intent and delicacy was awarded to managing competing corporate interests in the film's product placement than what was given to the actual content of the film
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oohhboy posted:What the deal with Michelle Yeoh in STD? She is barely in the trailer while the black chick looks like she is being groomed to take the captain's chair then they kill Yeoh in some sort of half done stunt casting. the original showrunner's idea was to kill the captain and focus on a side character as the stealth protagonist so this may be what they're going for. I think making a big deal about getting a diverse cast just to kill some of them off would be a bad idea but I'm not one of the top minds that gave us the CSI franchise.
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oohhboy posted:What the deal with Michelle Yeoh in STD? She is barely in the trailer while the black chick looks like she is being groomed to take the captain's chair then they kill Yeoh in some sort of half done stunt casting. I dunno. I'm guessing Michelle Yeoh is the Captain, then she gets killed, then Sonequa Martin who is Spock's adopted sister becomes captain and then she flies off the handle and fucks up and starts a war with the Klingons. That's what the trailer looks like to me. I could forgive them just inventing a human stepsister for Spock even though it screams fanfic poo poo, but the whole tone of the thing is just so.... off. Star Trek is fun and goofy and while tackling social issues is literally what the show is all about, it does it in a way that's optimistic and not depressing. Discovery just looks like it takes itself completely seriously and is all dark and gritty. Rumor has it that it's going to have plenty of gore, death and naughty swear words and while I'm no prude and I in fact love all of those things, seeing them in Star Trek is just like... wrong Star Trek Generations was a lovely movie but the scene where Data says "oh poo poo" is funny and played for laughs precisely because nobody ever swears in Star Trek
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No Mods No Masters posted:Paul Feig is the role Jack was born to play
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i could never get into STar Trek. I've watched some episodes of the original tv show with William SHatner and enjoyed a few of them, but a lot of them are boring. And when I tried to get into the other Star Treks, they were too boring too.
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Blue Star posted:i could never get into STar Trek. I've watched some episodes of the original tv show with William SHatner and enjoyed a few of them, but a lot of them are boring. And when I tried to get into the other Star Treks, they were too boring too. Sometimes liking something comes down to whether or not you can tolerate being bored. Fishing's boring. Nascar is boring. Star Trek is boring entertainment and that's not always a bad thing if that's your bag. 2001 is a great movie but it's also boring as hell.
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Blue Star posted:i could never get into STar Trek. I've watched some episodes of the original tv show with William SHatner and enjoyed a few of them, but a lot of them are boring. And when I tried to get into the other Star Treks, they were too boring too. It's super not for everyone. My favorite movies from the past 10 years or so are science fiction movies that aren't sequels or remakes of anything and don't have any action or anything exploding in them at all. Arrival is a movie that's just about Amy Adams trying to talk to these weird rear end aliens and there's no fight scenes at all and it's great and I loved it It's also why Star Trek doesn't really work well as a big budget Hollywood movie because some of the best episodes are just the crew sitting around a table trying to figure out how to solve an ethical problem
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I want to see Jack dressed as Paul Feig trying to get onto the Sony lot.
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why does the main character have to be Sarek's daughter? why can't she be the daughter of another Vulcan?Gammatron 64 posted:It's super not for everyone. Wow, watching Arrival is reallyyyy intellectual If a movie is a well-acclaimed intellectual drama like 2046 I'll sit through it but I don't know what makes Star Trek worth sitting through. Explain?
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Wiig/McCarthy: cat bag bag cat cat cat bag bag cat Plinkett: [monotone] Hilaaaarious That could have been the whole review. That was so perfect.
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NutritiousSnack posted:i think if you're reading this thread you are at the very least paying money to see movies made by hollywood nah
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gently caress arrival. It's the pilot of deep space nine only done much worse
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corn in the bible posted:gently caress arrival. It's the pilot of deep space nine only done much worse Someone should've told Avery Brooks they weren't rehearsing and that the camera was rolling.
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HIJK posted:the original showrunner's idea was to kill the captain and focus on a side character as the stealth protagonist so this may be what they're going for. Oh CSI doing Trek? Yeah this poo poo is doomed. First contact is a pretty good movie. The answer to the conflict wasn't how many people we have to shoot, it was about making the decision past the rage and finding something positive out of a bleak situation. The shooting was also good and so were the jokes. I find the best episodes are the "Crew below" episodes where you get to see the gears at work and the same for the dark episodes of DS9 where they just can't fly away into a happy ending. Things sometimes don't work out, you got to put your hand in the filth, crack open that access panel. Also seeing O'Brian suffering never gets old. Nirvikalpa posted:why does the main character have to be Sarek's daughter? why can't she be the daughter of another Vulcan? Because they are poo poo hack frauds that insist on connecting everything so they can spin off the show from something established so they can later make another spin off to spin off of; see JAG/NCIS/NCIS LA/NCIS RED/Hawaii 5-0?? Endless CSI omni lab techs. You get the idea.
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corn in the bible posted:gently caress arrival. It's the pilot of deep space nine only done much worse Wait so is there rad cardassians in arrival?
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vermin posted:Someone should've told Avery Brooks they weren't rehearsing and that the camera was rolling. He gets better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjvYiSDJujA
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vermin posted:Only part of the movie that got a chuckle out of me was Patty being followed by the mannequin. And then I thought, "drat I have to give them that one," but then it occurred to me that the joke to second ratio was so high and the laugh to joke ratio was so low that it really didn't matter. The living mannequins was done better in Doctor Who and that's not saying much.
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If you don't love Avery Brooks chewing up scenery, then hey, I don't even wanna know ya. 
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Evil Canadian posted:Wait so is there rad cardassians in arrival? yes except they weren't aliens, they were just weirdly antagonistic chinese
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oohhboy posted:He gets better. Sisko is so dreamy  ISN'T. IT. POSSIBLE.
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Evil Canadian posted:Wait so is there rad cardassians in arrival? There's a lovely backwards military dictatorship that loves to occupy and genocide other cultures for their own good and who doesn't understand the aliens so wants to destroy/control them in the arrival, so yes.
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lmao I didn't know the dark tower movie was sony goddamn do they keep slinging garbage
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oohhboy posted:He gets better. Well this is the best Youtube video ever.
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Overacting is a longstanding Star Trek tradition and Avery Brooks arguably chews the scenery more than Willam Shatner himself, and Bill Shatner practically invented chewing the scenery One of my favorite scenes in DS9 is when Sisko was like "IT WAS REAL! I INVENTED IT! IN MY MIND! AND IT WAS REAAAALLL" It's supposed to be a really dramatic scene but I can't help but find it hilarious. DS9 was the darkest Star Trek show and had the darkest subject matter, but it handled it in such a way that it still felt very much like Star Trek. And when she show actually did humor on purpose it was genuinely funny. It's all about tone.
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Evil Canadian posted:Wait so is there rad cardassians in arrival? There's an equivalent but they're much less rad because like I said it's much worsw
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corn in the bible posted:There's an equivalent but they're much less rad because like I said it's much worsw The wormhole alien gods and the pahwraiths are the worst aspects of DS9 and the pilot is very poo poo mate. DS9 as a whole is amazing obviously, but Arrival is much more interesting than talking to monotone autistic people in heart-beat-sound-land
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Gammatron 64 posted:Overacting is a longstanding Star Trek tradition and Avery Brooks arguably chews the scenery more than Willam Shatner himself, and Bill Shatner practically invented chewing the scenery DS9 and TNG are consistently entertaining for me because even when they strike out (TNG had a higher ratio of strikeouts than DS9) I still find the result entertaining either because of the aforementioned overacting or simply the glorious spectacle of corny scifi I have a soft spot for corny scifi stuff
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Paul Feig won't be allowed back on the Sony Pictures lot.....because Sony Pictures may not exist in 6 months Remember from the leaked emails that they bet a bunch on The Emoji Movie which was a flop. That was their summer tentpole this year.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Paul Feig won't be allowed back on the Sony Pictures lot.....because Sony Pictures may not exist in 6 months What the hell. I get making an Emoji movie for kids. Keep the cost reasonable. Sell some lunch boxes. You've made some money. Betting the farm on it? That's a whole other level of insanity.
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Gammatron 64 posted:Overacting is a longstanding Star Trek tradition and Avery Brooks arguably chews the scenery more than Willam Shatner himself, and Bill Shatner practically invented chewing the scenery Sisko steal scenes from scenes he's not even in. When he's off screen you're thinking, "I bet Sisko's doing something crazy right now." And then it cuts to him and he's in a holosuite doing something mundane like playing catch with his son but he somehow makes it intense and kind of threatening. But yeah, DS9 is best trek.
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Jose Oquendo posted:What the hell. Kids love the smartphones right? They love text people and tweet
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Sony pictures could make money hand over fist if they hired just one movie obsessed fatass who looked at their potential films and told them no. A four hundred million dollar Ghostbuster remake? No. A two hundred million dollar Ghostbuster remake but the ghosts are video games? No. A partnership with the Bond franchise and Marvel studios? Yes. Sony. I'm available for 6 figures. Call me. Save your stupid film division.
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Nirvikalpa posted:If a movie is a well-acclaimed intellectual drama like 2046 I'll sit through it but I don't know what makes Star Trek worth sitting through. Explain? Star Trek has 2 appeals: interesting characters and asking moral questions that examine our society. You have be in for one of those two things at least and if you're not then you probably won't enjoy the show.
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