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I have little faith in the project in its current form but to be fair it was never going to live up to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc7_KpPRyBs
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muscles like this! posted:I was interested in Solo when it was a Lord & Miller movie. Not so much as a Ron Howard film.  The cast (minus Emilia Clarke) is the only thing keeping me even barely interested
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so Marvel (probably) getting the FF rights back inspired me to finally watch the Josh Trank Fantastic Four out of morbid curiosity and Jesus Christ it's so bad. Well, the overlong first act is at least halfway competent, but it rapidly goes downhill after the One Year Later title card, culminating in what feels like a deadpan parody of generic superhero movie climaxes, literally just the heroes and villain throwing CG and spouting terrible dialogue at each other for ten minutes, with no stakes or weight to any of it. and forget fidelity to the source, this version of Doom is a loving travesty on a basic level of characterization. He's introduced as a douchey, but not particularly evil guy, stays that way throughout the first act, disappears for half an hour, and then returns as a generic MANKIND MUST BE DESTROYED supervillain with no real explanation. thank god we'll finally get a decent adaptation in 2021 or so
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It's a Fantastic Four movie where the four aren't on screen together at any point until the last fifteen minutes. Also there's a scene where Miles Teller uses his stretching superpowers to make himself look Latino. That's pretty much all anyone needs to know about Fant4stic.
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Arist posted:It's a Fantastic Four movie where the four aren't on screen together at any point until the last fifteen minutes. I’m sorry, could you repeat that please?
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He stretches and contorts his face around to look like someone else, played by a different actor.
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fruit on the bottom posted:I’m sorry, could you repeat that please? Miles Teller has stretching super powers. It's how he did all his own stunts in Whiplash.
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Fant4stic also has the dubious distinction of being a superhero film where there are zero proper action sequences until the climax. Before that, the closest things in the movie are just the pre-powers Planet Zero escape and one brief scene where Reed fights a handful of military grunts. I'd love to know what Trank's version would have been like. I'm sure it wouldn't have been particularly good, but I can't imagine it could have been much worse than what we got.
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Arist posted:Also there's a scene where Miles Teller uses his stretching superpowers to make himself look Latino. They were trying to balance out the director of the 2 previous FF films trying to make Jessica Alba as white as possible.
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I have watched Last Jedi and I would probably have preferred a re-release of Rogue One with Williams scoring. It's OK.
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This is the comic movie thread.
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Aphrodite posted:This is the comic movie thread. There are Star Wars comics. Lots of them.
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There’s enough threads with bad opinions from Star Wars Trekkies already.
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Lurdiak posted:I have little faith in the project in its current form but to be fair it was never going to live up to this: But for real though, it'd be way more interesting movie if Lando was the main character. After Atlanta, Donald Glover can do no wrong.
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Rhyno posted:There are Star Wars comics. Lots of them. The title indicates that this is thread for discussing movies in BSS. CD threads get weird fast.
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catlord posted:Admittedly I was down to see it anyway, but it sounds like if anyone would be able to, it was that combo. I have no idea what he meant when he said he wanted to make "a modern James Whale movie" but he directed a movie about James Whale so I'd hope he'd understand how to do so. Plus Javier Bardem was supposed to play the monster, and frank(enstein)ly, it seemed like the perfect choice. Wasn't there some revelation after the whole thing basically fell through that Bardem had never actually been officially signed on to it and was actually photoshopped into that cast photo they released? quote:I'm actually real disappointed about the Dark Universe, I'd love a good horror cinematic universe. The best opportunity to do it would've been 15 years ago when it could've been about Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz and John Hannah monster-hunting around the world.
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I remember hearing that the cast photo was mostly photoshopped and that they were not in the same room
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Sgt. Politeness posted:But for real though, it'd be way more interesting movie if Lando was the main character. After Atlanta, Donald Glover can do no wrong. Why Billy Dee Williams isn't involved in Star Wars currently, even for a gratuitous cameo, is mind boggling. He clearly loves the character of Lando and it is interesting that for a franchise that has bent over backwards for diversity since The Force Awakens hasn't even mentioned the first black character in the franchise in any notable way.
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notthegoatseguy posted:Why Billy Dee Williams isn't involved in Star Wars currently, even for a gratuitous cameo, is mind boggling. He clearly loves the character of Lando and it is interesting that for a franchise that has bent over backwards for diversity since The Force Awakens hasn't even mentioned the first black character in the franchise in any notable way. It’s probably by his choice. He likes the franchise but he’s got bad hip and joint problems. He may not be chomping at the bit to sit on a soundstage for several weeks.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:It’s probably by his choice. He likes the franchise but he’s got bad hip and joint problems. He may not be chomping at the bit to sit on a soundstage for several weeks. Put him in a captains chair then, god drat, he don't gotta do stunts.
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Al Borland Corp. posted:Put him in a captains chair then, god drat, he don't gotta do stunts.  It’s still a pain in the rear end (literally) to sit on a stage all day for weeks at a time and he’d probably rather not do it. It’s not like the Disney stuff is erasing Lando, they had Billy Dee come back and voice him on Rebels several times. Maybe seeing Donald Glover in Solo will motivate him to appear in IX since he was so hesitant about someone else playing the role.
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Ship a green couch to his house, put up a green screen behind him and send a 2nd unit director to get his scenes in a day. He don't even have to come to the set do some computer bullshit.
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They said they couldn't think of a place for him. Which is dumb because he easily could have been the code breaker. Even just the first one if he didn't want to do more than a cameo.
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Aphrodite posted:They said they couldn't think of a place for him.
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I really think JJ hosed this up by not having him in TFA. Instead of wasting Lupita on that terrible cg character you could have had them stop at some outpost/base run by Lando. Now if he appears in IX you have to address why Lando, a former Rebellion general, hasn’t been helping his closest friends. I mean Nien loving Nunb has been in more sequel trilogy films than Lando Calrissian.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I really think JJ hosed this up by not having him in TFA. Instead of wasting Lupita on that terrible cg character you could have had them stop at some outpost/base run by Lando. Now if he appears in IX you have to address why Lando, a former Rebellion general, hasn’t been helping his closest friends. Lando has been at the same continuous party that started as a celebration of the battle of Endor and finally finishes up about three days after Luke’s death. christmas boots fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Dec 19, 2017 |
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fruit on the bottom posted:Lando has been at the same continuous party that started as a celebration of the battle of Endor and finally finishes up about three days after Luke’s death. Oh, hey, thanks for that spoiler. Really enjoyed it.
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Aphrodite posted:They said they couldn't think of a place for him. I believe it because Rian straight up said he wrote it without knowledge of TFA and you can tell by the way he sidelined Finn and had no idea what the gently caress to really do with him. He and JJ have really bad track records with characters of color and I'm really bummed I was ever excited for Finn's arc. I still stan John Boyega though.
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Phylodox posted:Oh, hey, thanks for that spoiler. Really enjoyed it. Sorry. I don’t know why that didn’t even occur to me.
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Koalas March posted:I believe it because Rian straight up said he wrote it without knowledge of TFA and you can tell by the way he sidelined Finn and had no idea what the gently caress to really do with him. Neither Poe or Finn were supposed to be important after TFA. They were rewritten because of fan reactions, there was no real significant plan for them originally.
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Aphrodite posted:Neither Poe or Finn were supposed to be important after TFA. They were rewritten because of fan reactions, there was no real significant plan for them originally. If we're just supposed to follow Rey, why didn't they make any toys of her? I guess there's always Darth Whiny... I just realized who he reminds me of. Ross, from Friends.
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Aphrodite posted:They said they couldn't think of a place for him. Except it's very important the codebreaker be an rear end in a top hat. Even the one that served as a red herring hobknobbed with war profiteers and slavedrivers. Both of those would basically undo Lando's character development from the OT.
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TFRazorsaw posted:Except it's very important the codebreaker be an rear end in a top hat. It's important in the current incarnation. It didn't have to be that way when they were writing it.
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Well by all means, let's undermine an important contribution to the movie's themes for the sake of fanservice, then.
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Beachcomber posted:If we're just supposed to follow Rey, why didn't they make any toys of her? I guess there's always Darth Whiny.... Because she's a girl and everyone knows only girls buy toys of girls and girls don't buy toys. This is why you don't work for marketing or sales.
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They DID make toys of Rey, it's just that the first waves were based on preliminary information and planned to preserve the plot twist that she was actually the main character, so most of her merch hit in waves afterward.
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Aphrodite posted:Neither Poe or Finn were supposed to be important after TFA. They were rewritten because of fan reactions, there was no real significant plan for them originally. This seems insane to me.
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Yeah remember the whole thing where someone got a toy early that has her with s lightsaber on the cover and Disney freaked out and DMCA"d a bunch of Facebook pages that were sharing it?
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Aphrodite posted:Neither Poe or Finn were supposed to be important after TFA. They were rewritten because of fan reactions, there was no real significant plan for them originally. My brain, it hurts so much.
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