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well why not posted:http://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/mom-dad-review-1202553484/ I saw this at TIFF and it's a fun theatre movie. It's tonally all over the place and Nic Cage is a parody of himself but it's very self-aware, short, and a great time if the audience is in on it. Also Selma Blair absolutely kills it.
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Heck yeah! Tars Tarkas posted:We are Freed now Heck no! Also, some stuff: https://twitter.com/davidehrlich/status/906861275686223872 https://twitter.com/intothecrevasse/status/906862789498687488 https://twitter.com/HG_Hohbes/status/906244091985395712 https://twitter.com/HG_Hohbes/status/906244450933985280 https://twitter.com/HG_Hohbes/status/906245580715954176
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https://www.facebook.com/NicolasCageFP/videos/1865629306785697/quote:On being 'over-the-top': "You show me where the top is and I'll let you know whether I'm over it or not, alright? I design what the top is." well why not fucked around with this message at 14:32 on Sep 12, 2017 |
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quote:I don't even like the word acting anymore, because it implies lying in some way. I don't act, I feel and I imagine and I channel. I believe him. If it was anyone else, I'd roll my eyes. But, this man speaks true.
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Liam Neeson has announced that he is officially too old for this poo poo and won't be doing any more action movies. He has one more that is already completed but that's it.
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Also JJ Abrams is official on Star Wars IX, as we continue to become a bizarre world where I care less and less about Star Wars
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Just saw a trailer for Murder on the Orient Express and drat did they choose the worst track for this who dunn it thing. Believer by Imagine Dragons?
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Tars Tarkas posted:Also JJ Abrams is official on Star Wars IX, as we continue to become a bizarre world where I care less and less about Star Wars
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Tars Tarkas posted:where I care less and less about Star Wars That's been me over the last fifteen years. Realizing that I liked the original trilogy well enough but was never super into them. It was the videogames I had had the most fun with that made me think I was this big fan.
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Lobok posted:That's been me over the last fifteen years. Realizing that I liked the original trilogy well enough but was never super into them. It was the videogames I had had the most fun with that made me think I was this big fan.  and the last Star Wars video game I even bothered to play was Knights of the Old Republic 2
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Technically it wasn't so much a gangbang as it was running a train. I thought running a train was more rape-y. Strange how Star Wars went from being A Thing to just a thing.
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Isn't Star Wars IX still in pre-production? Surely they have time to bring in a new director instead of returning to their safe pair of hands.
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Vincent posted:I thought running a train was more rape-y. Maybe here but Star Wars is still very much A Thing at the moment. Almost every Star Wars thing is massively successful and TFA and RO did gangbusters at the box office and pretty much every Star Wars related thing is doing very well. It's got plenty of time to burn out with yearly releases but hasn't yet.
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Vegetable posted:Isn't Star Wars IX still in pre-production? Surely they have time to bring in a new director instead of returning to their safe pair of hands. I think they're coming up on 2 year, start to finish, so it makes sense that they'd retreat to Abrams. I was worried they'd shift Ron Howard over to Episode IX and just filter the whims of the producers through him, so this is a slight step up from that.
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Vincent posted:Strange how Star Wars went from being A Thing to just a thing. For most people it's just a consequence of getting old. e: plus a sprinkle of "SA is very jaded and cynical to begin with"
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:I'm very excited for this because I loved Force Awakens, but I can absolutely see why you wouldn't be. Still, though, it's not Colin Trevorrow, so that's a big win for everyone. The Force Awakens was perfectly adequate, which is pretty much high praise these days for a tentpole release. Electromax posted:e: plus a sprinkle of "SA is very jaded and cynical to begin with" We are the hipsters of nerds.
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sbaldrick posted:The best modern sex comedy is "the to do list" You're actually spot on. I keep forgetting that movie exists until a song from the soundtrack pops up on Pandora and I say "Oh hey, that movie was really good". If you haven't seen "The To Do List" it's really good, and has a pretty great soundtrack.
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VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:Just imagine Joss Whedon fleshing out Rey's tragic backstory. Haha, anal sex
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VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:Just imagine Joss Whedon fleshing out Rey's tragic backstory. She'd have been slowly washing her feet in that trough when she met Finn
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Drive Angry (Shot in 3-D) is also one of my favorite movies in the last ten years, Nic Cage.
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Nicholas Cage calmly drinking from the bad guy's skull at the end, because he promised to is one of the under-celebrated film endings of the last few years.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:She'd have been slowly washing her feet in that trough when she met Finn Quentin Tarantino, nice
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Honestly I'm a bit worried about Abrams not because I dislike his directing style, but because the guy cannot resist the temptation to put a "mystery box" in his works and then gently caress off leaving someone else to come up with a satisfying answer. Inevitably when he is forced to explain the mystery himself it's not that great, but sometimes he ends up with someone else who is able to pick up the pieces and make a great story. I was completely okay with the Rey mystery because I knew that Abrams would not be coming back and giving a ham-fisted answer. But now... At least it's not Whedon.
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The second time I saw Rogue One was with my Dad. Prior to that, we talked about what it was like for him to see the original Star Wars (Star Wars - A New Hope to you 30-somethings like me) in cinema, and he talked a little bit about how it *was* as awesome and that, really, history hadn't embellished how awesome it was all that much. Groundbreaking special effects, etc. Anyway, we watched Rogue One, and afterward on the bus ride home, I tried to talk about it. He kind of shrugged, and didn't seem that interested in talking about the film. Soon after I gave up trying to talk about the film, he just told me it was a movie, it was okay, and he enjoyed it. The way I felt instantly reminded me of that George Lucas story: They died.
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muscles like this! posted:Apparently the Rock has not been returning Tyrese's calls.
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Vincent posted:Strange how Star Wars went from being A Thing to just a thing. Shrimp or Shrimps posted:The second time I saw Rogue One was with my Dad. Prior to that, we talked about what it was like for him to see the original Star Wars (Star Wars - A New Hope to you 30-somethings like me) in cinema, and he talked a little bit about how it *was* as awesome and that, really, history hadn't embellished how awesome it was all that much. Groundbreaking special effects, etc. We had a derail about the popularity of the Prequel trilogy vs the popularity of Star Wars in general over in the Godzilla thread of all places and I noticed something odd when I went and pulled up the graph of tickets sales of the PT versus the Disney Star Wars: Wizchine posted:The Phaontom Menace's high numbers are easily explained: there was much pent-up excitement and demand for a new Star Wars movie so that everyone wanted to see it, even when reviews didn't come back stellar. The performance of the subsequent two prequels more accurately reflect the deflated expectations people had for the story Lucas had embarked upon. Snowglobe of Doom posted:That's half correct. People kept going to see The Phantom Menace and were still turning out in the cinema 3 months later (just like a regular popular blockbuster) but with Attack Of The Clones and Revenge Of The Sith the number sharply dropped off after the third weekend, which is exactly the same pattern as The Force Awakens and Rogue One. That means that the performance of the subsequent two prequels more accurately reflect modern audiences' reaction towards Star Wars in general. Edit: there's a similar thing happening in the DCEU. A whole ton of people turned out for Man of Steel and BvS in the first few weeks but then the ticket sales plateaued pretty dramatically. Suicide Squad had a smaller opening than BvS but word of mouth kept sales up to the point where it almost caught up. Wonder Woman's opening weekend was even smaller than all the others but people just kept turning up and watching it so it gradually overtook all the others and kept going. It's been in cinemas for three and a half months and hasn't plateaued yet.  Superman and Batman are just a thing as far as audiences were concerned but Wonder Woman turned out to be A Thing. Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Sep 13, 2017 |
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Most wide release films have the same pattern I think. I don't think it's anything unusual or noteworthy.
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Vegetable posted:Most wide release films have the same pattern I think. I don't think it's anything unusual or noteworthy. The graph of ticket sales for most wide release films usually have a fairly smooth curve, here's the top 6 films of 2017 (so far), 2016 and 2015 for comparison. The Star Wars movies have a noticeable boomerang-like bend rather than a gradual easing off. That's not to say that The Force Awakens and Rogue One were box office failures in any way, just that the hype was massively front loaded and after 3 or 4 weeks it dropped off from "crazy high" to just "regular" pretty sharply.
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Shrimp or Shrimps posted:The second time I saw Rogue One was with my Dad. Prior to that, we talked about what it was like for him to see the original Star Wars (Star Wars - A New Hope to you 30-somethings like me) in cinema, and he talked a little bit about how it *was* as awesome and that, really, history hadn't embellished how awesome it was all that much. Groundbreaking special effects, etc. You're dad isn't wrong. The majority of us here, myself included, grew up in a post Star Wars world. Star Wars was groundbreaking in it's treatment of science fiction, and as a result revolutionized the genre, as well as special effects as a whole. You have to admit that the story itself is average at best, but the handling of everything else around it elevated it to classic status. I'm not even sure that there is possibly an analog to Star Wars for us, maybe Terminator 2 or Jurassic Park??
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Iron Crowned posted:You're dad isn't wrong. The majority of us here, myself included, grew up in a post Star Wars world. Star Wars was groundbreaking in it's treatment of science fiction, and as a result revolutionized the genre, as well as special effects as a whole. You have to admit that the story itself is average at best, but the handling of everything else around it elevated it to classic status. In terms of box office popularity if you look at a list of best selling films of all time (adjusted for inflation) then the original Star Wars is the second biggest film of all time with some numbers that are pretty much unfathomable these days. It's ridiculous how popular it was especially considering that Jaws is generally credited with creating the 'summer tentpole blockbuster' genre and that was only two years earlier. The only films that have come anywhere close to that level of success since Star Wars premiered were ET and Titanic and they still fell significantly short, and Avatar and Jurassic Park fell way way behind. Remember how everyone seemed to go crazy for The Avengers in 2012 and it was apparently breaking all sorts of box office records? Comparatively speaking it did less than half the domestic business of the original Star Wars. If you take all the hype and word of mouth and repeat screenings of The Avengers and double it then you're approaching the amount of hype that people had for Star Wars and it somehow managed to achieve that without the gigantic promotional campaign that was behind The Avengers.
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