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Casimir Radon posted:and poo poo new footage. That's a helleva party trick!
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Young Freud posted:(or fey, I forget what Landis calls them) I live my dead fey son
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MonsieurChoc posted:No way was Aliens better than Alien in any way. It wasn't a better film, but I enjoy it way more and would watch it several times over before watching Alien, or any other film from the franchise again. Pulse rifles, smart guns, flame throwers, boomsticks, loader mechs, the Sulaco, Hudson, Drake, Hicks, Vasquez... colonial marines in general, and Ripley's escalating characterization all hit the right notes for me. As an aside, Ferro's line "We're in the pipe, 5 by 5" oozes so much cool to me for some reason. One of my favorite little moments from the movie. Also "Assholes and elbows" Apone  [edit] lol, I responded to a post from last week. Whatever, Aliens is great. teagone fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Sep 26, 2017 |
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Sep 26, 2017 23:25
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If you have fond childhood memories of the book House With A Clock In Its Walls, it's getting a 2018 film adaptation...directed by Eli Roth.Tars Tarkas posted:Also boycott the Drafthouse Just reading Harry Knowles' Blade 2 review made me feel violated, I can't imagine how much worse it would be to actually get groped by the dude. https://twitter.com/NakatomiTim/status/912517434363584512
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Im not gonna boycott the drafthouse. But I hope they do better and stop sticking up for their Gross friends.
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Harry Knowles was showing up there on my PBS for a while and it was the worst poo poo ever and it made me boycott PBS.
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teagone posted:It wasn't a better film, but I enjoy it way more and would watch it several times over before watching Alien, or any other film from the franchise again. Pulse rifles, smart guns, flame throwers, boomsticks, loader mechs, the Sulaco, Hudson, Drake, Hicks, Vasquez... colonial marines in general, and Ripley's escalating characterization all hit the right notes for me. As an aside, Ferro's line "We're in the pipe, 5 by 5" oozes so much cool to me for some reason. One of my favorite little moments from the movie. Also "Assholes and elbows" Apone That's fine! I was merely speaking about the moviemaking anyway, not the entertainment. Look at, say, Schindler's List. Great movie, won't watch it for fun all the time.
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For the record I want a Jumanji movie with Dwayne Johnson and Jack Black, and was looking forward to it. But then they stuck Kevin Hart in there, and he sucks. Still hoping it might be fun.
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Guy Mann posted:Just reading Harry Knowles' Blade 2 review made me feel violated, I can't imagine how much worse it would be to actually get groped by the dude. I remember back when Heroes started in 2006 a big chunk of his review was him talking about how because Claire was a virgin when she developed her powers she would always have a hymen no matter how many times she had sex and how excited that thought made him.
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Chairman Capone posted:I remember back when Heroes started in 2006 a big chunk of his review was him talking about how because Claire was a virgin when she developed her powers she would always have a hymen no matter how many times she had sex and how excited that thought made him. Harry is like if a wizard thought "lets personified vomit, see what that is like!"
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Chairman Capone posted:I remember back when Heroes started in 2006 a big chunk of his review was him talking about how because Claire was a virgin when she developed her powers she would always have a hymen no matter how many times she had sex and how excited that thought made him. I decided to look that up since I thought you were exaggerating but jfc what the hell is wrong with him
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WOW. You know my wife and I already cancelled future tickets we got when the (more recent) Faraci/Tim League situation came to light and didn't plan on going back anyway because League (and therefore his company) consistently puts bros before victims, but what the gently caress. Like how loving hard is this. There are so many awesome awesome awesome women who do amazing work for the Drafthouse all day.
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It's loving insane to think he used to have so much nerd clout in the late 90s / early 2000s comic book movies and tentpole genre films could live or die on how much access they gave him which equaled how much he fawned over the film
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Al Borland Corp. posted:It's loving insane to think he used to have so much nerd clout in the late 90s / early 2000s comic book movies and tentpole genre films could live or die on how much access they gave him which equaled how much he fawned over the film Especially since he was utterly reviled then, it's not like this is some phenomenon where you look back and go "oh yeah that guy was a creep". Even at the time he was an embarassment and a mouthbreathing weirdo.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Especially since he was utterly reviled then, it's not like this is some phenomenon where you look back and go "oh yeah that guy was a creep". Even at the time he was an embarassment and a mouthbreathing weirdo. I just found out that apparently he makes people watch him open his birthday gifts for like an hour at those BNATs? He's such a weirdo sleaze and I'm glad some of these fuckers are getting flushed. CelticPredator posted:Im not gonna boycott the drafthouse. I am. It helps that there isn't one in my country. (Seriously though, Tim League is a huge piece of poo poo too)
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He just cares about his friends, and failed to see the big picture. I don't think they'll ever let Harry Knowels of Faraci ever work with them again.
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I get caring about your friends and better-late-than-never damage control, but he also told victims to keep quiet, so he's absolutely a huge piece of poo poo, too.
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I can't wait for Tim League to hire Hadrian Belove to work for Alamo Drafthouse. 
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LesterGroans posted:I get caring about your friends and better-late-than-never damage control, but he also told victims to keep quiet, so he's absolutely a huge piece of poo poo, too. Oh yeah. I forgot about that. Yeesh. I still love the theater though.
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https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/09/james-cameron-begins-production-on-four-avatar-sequels-with-budget-in-excess-of-1-billion The production budget for all the Avatar sequels combined is over $1 billion 
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LesterGroans posted:I get caring about your friends and better-late-than-never damage control, but he also told victims to keep quiet, so he's absolutely a huge piece of poo poo, too. He asked her, not told her. How could he tell her, he isn't her boss or drill sergeant or something. Edit: If you talk about the email that was published.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/09/james-cameron-begins-production-on-four-avatar-sequels-with-budget-in-excess-of-1-billion I half wonder if this is going to end up like the Halo movie imploding because of lack of real interest/Microsoft being a big baby and the scraps resulting in District 9.
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At this point, any new Avatar movies should go under the category of "I'll believe it when I see it". The "Duke Nukem Forever" of film franchises. Especially now that Jim Cameron is working on a new Terminator movie.
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CelticPredator posted:He's just producing. I stand corrected. Still, Avatar was almost 10 years ago. Are people truly clamoring for two or three or four or five more movies in the series? I doubt it. The original was a wonderful visual achievement in 3-D filmmaking, but it I don't think it was a particularly good movie, and I have doubts that Hollywood can capture that lightning in a bottle again.
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Imagine a world in which Duke Nukem got a ride at Disney World.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Imagine a world in which Duke Nukem got a ride at Disney World. Or, alternatively: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asNcneOxjYg
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Gonz posted:I stand corrected. Still, Avatar was almost 10 years ago. The last movie will be coming out in 2025, sixteen years after Avatar. 
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Al Borland Corp. posted:It's loving insane to think he used to have so much nerd clout in the late 90s / early 2000s comic book movies and tentpole genre films could live or die on how much access they gave him which equaled how much he fawned over the film HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Especially since he was utterly reviled then, it's not like this is some phenomenon where you look back and go "oh yeah that guy was a creep". Even at the time he was an embarassment and a mouthbreathing weirdo. The desperation of nerds to be vindicated and accepted knows no bounds. Someone who loves movies? OH MY GOD A TRUE RARITY! I mean you see that in every nerd circle. poo poo like that recent anecdote of that Drafthouse regular who would attempt to sexually assault female theatergoers, but the staff couldn't just ban him, I mean movies were his life! If you're a dude you get infinite chances. Harry got that reputation as the guy you could trust 100% about movies because he told it like it was and would never ever dream of giving a movie a great review just because of its incredible press package/swag/studio visits. I remember when it happened in the late 90s. He got that royal treatment kind of visit/viewing of an early work print/etc. to McTiernan's Rollerball remake and completely blasted it and like every decision McTiernan made about it on his site, and that made him super legitimate in everyone's eyes. Then Rollerball came out and like, yeah, only a tell it like it is no holds barred genius could tell that that movie was bad.  But if you looked at the comments on his site (anyone remember the guy who's name was DANNYGLOVERSDICKBLOOD? Was that someone here?) you could see the very very slow realization over the years about how he was useless and all of their hot news scoops were already released on other sites hours/a day earlier. You could see that arc of how he got massive nerd clout and so made a ton of actual inside connections, then after two years he wasn't actually getting any hot new information I'm assuming because said connections would interact with him at all and and then stop interacting with him forever.The best thing he ever did was when AICN got a porn spam email and it was a template "Oh hi I just love [WEBSITE].com because I love [SITE SUBJECT] and you [EMAIL RECIPIENT] so much I have a website myself you can check out..." with a photo from a porn shoot attached and he thought it was a real live human who genuinely loved his site and posted the entire email and picture as an update to brag about how a hot woman likes his site. When an Alamo actually opened here last October I was excited and my wife and I started going basically every week because it's like 20 minutes from our house, and we even got a group of like 15-ish people to do the same almost every week for Terror Tuesday and/or Weird Wednesday, but now it's like, League is so super brazenly a person that only pays lip service to not treating his people like poo poo. We were thinking of maybe only going to shows where someone who isn't a guy is the curator (we can see newer AAA movies/touring obscure stuff anywhere since we're in NYC) since obviously I appreciate the work that goes into getting decent prints of some of these movies there and I want to support cool people being able to do something they love, but especially after the more recent Faraci situation, how can I ever trust anything Tim League says about any topic? I mean sure, yeah he believes in the power of redemption or whatever, but if he did he wouldn't have had to low key never actually separate Faraci from his company because if he wasn't full of poo poo he'd have come up with some actual method of education or "redemption" or whatever for the guy instead of his solution being that he would literally act as if he did the right thing and just not let anyone know that he still works with him. But that's two major times in a row where he only took action on an extremely easy to resolve thing when people were calling for an Alamo boycott. So that's the only thing to do. And his initial words about how about Faraci was like the only and perfect person to do his job? Yeah totally there's a huge shortage of copywriters and film enthusiasts in the world.  gently caress Tim League.Rageaholic Monkey posted:Imagine a world in which Duke Nukem got a ride at Disney World. I don't have to.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rRvfOf8idc I can't believe that much money is getting dropped on Avatar. Does that include like ALL marketing, all action figures/toys/everything ever that's getting made in relation to every sequel also or something?
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If it's four movies it's a bargain. They should make it back by the first two, by the first three if it's really bad.
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Neo Rasa posted:I can't believe that much money is getting dropped on Avatar. Does that include like ALL marketing, all action figures/toys/everything ever that's getting made in relation to every sequel also or something? Was anyone even wanting Avatar merchandise 10 years ago?
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People don't believe that the multiple sequels to a movie that made almost $3 billion would be able to pull that sort of budget? And if it's four movies, it's basically $250 million a movie, which is... almost the standard for big tentpole summer blockbusters every year now. If it's five, he's actually ahead of the curve.
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Iron Crowned posted:Was anyone even wanting Avatar merchandise 10 years ago? I imagine quite a number of people would have been down for Avatar realdolls.
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GrandpaPants posted:I imagine quite a number of people would have been down for Avatar realdolls. Like I can't remember much other than blue cat man, blue cat lady, pterodactyl, and crazy tree. That would be the most boring lot of action figures ever
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I don't know how you'd remember that over the most memorable guy in the movie, angry crazy general in mech suit who thinks breathing air is for pussies.
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The marketing for Avatar briefly tried to heavily heavily heavily push the video games as huge big deal breakthroughs in game design but that went away once the movie/games actually came out. But I actually got to see James Cameron speak at a GameStop conference (and Stephen Lang was there too) about how amazing the games would be, and they pulled them away to do that while the movie was still in post production so they were hard selling it for real. One thing they were right about was that Stephen Lang was the only one who would actually stand out in the movie. He went on to play the exact same character in the awful Terra Nova series.
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Iron Crowned posted:Was anyone even wanting Avatar merchandise 10 years ago? I just checked and apparently they released a full line of action figures and vehicles/mounts:   I guess someone bought them??  Edit: there's a poo poo ton more merch coming out right now because of the new Disneyland attraction just in case you really wanted a mug in the shape of a floating mountain or a hexapede plush toy Edit: whoa, forgot the best of the action figures 
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