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Jan 8, 2018 04:46
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I don't remember this scene from The Abyss, but yeah, it's pretty boss.
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Jan 8, 2018 04:55
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That just reminds me of a line of his from a New Yorker profile while he was making Avatar, where he said something like, anybody can be a husband or father but there's only five guys who can do what I do
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Jan 8, 2018 05:00
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:That just reminds me of a line of his from a New Yorker profile while he was making Avatar, where he said something like, anybody can be a husband or father but there's only five guys who can do what I do He's not wrong. Also I'm pretty sure he's a terrible husband so it's odd he'd set that as a baseline of competency.
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Jan 8, 2018 15:25
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Krispy Wafer posted:He's not wrong. Also I'm pretty sure he's a terrible husband so it's odd he'd set that as a baseline of competency. Linda Hamilton has absolutely said that he was emotionally abusive and manipulative during their marriage, and I think Gale Ann Hurd has said similar things.
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Jan 8, 2018 16:58
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Timby posted:Linda Hamilton has absolutely said that he was emotionally abusive and manipulative during their marriage, and I think Gale Ann Hurd has said similar things. I'm pretty sure Kathryn Bigelow isn't a huge fan of him either.
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Jan 8, 2018 22:57
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Skwirl posted:I'm pretty sure Kathryn Bigelow isn't a huge fan of him either. Ah, so she's seen Avatar...
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Jan 9, 2018 23:32
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Ah, so she's seen Avatar...
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Jan 9, 2018 23:47
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Raxivace posted:OTOH she filmed his terrible script for Strange Days. I like Strange Days!
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Jan 10, 2018 01:30
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Raxivace posted:OTOH she filmed his terrible script for Strange Days. Pretty sure Boogeystein will be here soon to smack you around for talking poo poo on Strange Days. Anyway, Jay Cocks wrote the actual script; by the time it was in actual development Cameron was busy with Titanic.
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Jan 10, 2018 02:53
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I did not expect the villain in Strange Days to be so horrifyingly disgusting and evil but otherwise I really liked it. Just saw it for the first time on Netflix a couple months ago.
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Jan 10, 2018 03:38
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Yeah it’s totally a cult classic, not really one deserving a swipe.
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Jan 10, 2018 04:10
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I didn’t like Strange Days that much either. Somehow it was in the same bucket as eXistenZ in my mind (wasn’t there also some Denzel Washington time-travel movie released in the late 90’s?). Let’s just say that the “Strange” part felt a tad underwhelming compared to eXistenZ. I thought it was too drat long also; that part is certainly Cameron-esque.
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Jan 10, 2018 04:18
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EL BROMANCE posted:For those either older than me (36) or with cooler parents, and you saw Terminator first and saw T2 in the cinema... was it a big ‘oh poo poo’ moment when Arnie turns out to be a good guy? Or did the marketing completely ruin that? I don’t remember the trailer, but I know the teaser is in the factory and doesn’t give anything away. I dont remember the movie hype, but I remember being disappointed with the computer game version of it. And they hyped it as full on fighting robots and time travel. Alas with most computer games at the time it was just lovely minigames.
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Jan 10, 2018 04:21
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david_a posted:I didn’t like Strange Days that much either. Somehow it was in the same bucket as eXistenZ in my mind (wasn’t there also some Denzel Washington time-travel movie released in the late 90’s?). Let’s just say that the “Strange” part felt a tad underwhelming compared to eXistenZ. I thought it was too drat long also; that part is certainly Cameron-esque. It didn't have any time-travel, but Virtuosity had some terrible computer ideas and effects.
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Jan 10, 2018 04:26
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Hockles posted:It didn't have any time-travel, but Virtuosity had some terrible computer ideas and effects.
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Jan 10, 2018 04:37
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Denzel Washington was in the time-travel movie Deja Vu by Tony Scott (rip) but that was 2006
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Jan 10, 2018 04:40
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Lobok posted:I did not expect the villain in Strange Days to be so horrifyingly disgusting and evil but otherwise I really liked it. Just saw it for the first time on Netflix a couple months ago. Yeah the whole linking the headsets while raping someone so she feels what it's like to rape someone at the same time as she feels what it's like to be raped thing is pretty horrifying Also Angela Basset is so good in that movie. And Juliette Lewis' covers of PJ Harvey songs are somehow good. Ralph Fiennes is wonderfully sleazy. Tom Sizemore hadn't completely lost his mind. gently caress, I love Strange Days.
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Jan 12, 2018 16:00
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Quote-Unquote posted:Yeah the whole linking the headsets while raping someone so she feels what it's like to rape someone at the same time as she feels what it's like to be raped thing is pretty horrifying Yeah, it's really excellent. That headset idea is so terrifying but also awfully plausible.
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Jan 13, 2018 10:55
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Holy poo poo there are people who don't like Strange Days?
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Jan 14, 2018 19:40
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The headset stuff never at all landed for me because no matter how unique they described it, it never felt like more than just fairly standard POV footage I was watching. Like it almost should have just been about cameras directly, like Peeping Tom or something Idk. david_a posted:I thought it was too drat long also; that part is certainly Cameron-esque.
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Jan 14, 2018 20:45
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What's the difference between a remake and a reboot? Don't they both kickstart a new universe/timeline/whatever for that property?
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Jan 14, 2018 22:18
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I think the only difference is that a remake isn’t necessarily trying to become a long running series of any kind.
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Jan 14, 2018 22:21
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Leavemywife posted:What's the difference between a remake and a reboot? Don't they both kickstart a new universe/timeline/whatever for that property? Remakes are typically just that... remakes. The tone and story usually stay the same. Just maybe updated. Reboots are generally a reimagining or rethinking of a story. And if it's a series of movies, then typically the reboot erases all other movies and says "we're not beholden to the other stories or continuities - it's anything goes from here on out." That's a gross over generalization, but you get the idea.
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Jan 14, 2018 22:25
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Thanks for the quick replies. I hadn't really thought about it before. I suppose that's how Star Trek could bring Spock in; they were a reboot of the series.
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Jan 14, 2018 22:29
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Raxivace posted:The headset stuff never at all landed for me because no matter how unique they described it, it never felt like more than just fairly standard POV footage I was watching At the bit where Lenny's playing the clip of "just an 18 year old girl taking a shower" and you just see the customer's reaction, where he's practically jizzing himself. My girlfriend (at the time) said "wait, I thought this machine made you feel like the person being recorded felt? What the gently caress do men think we do in the shower?" To this day we have never agreed if it was supposed to be porn or, as she thought, literally "just an 18 year old girl taking a shower". It's been 17 years.
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Jan 15, 2018 00:05
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Quote-Unquote posted:At the bit where Lenny's playing the clip of "just an 18 year old girl taking a shower" and you just see the customer's reaction, where he's practically jizzing himself. My girlfriend (at the time) said "wait, I thought this machine made you feel like the person being recorded felt? What the gently caress do men think we do in the shower?" Seems like the playback is overlaid on top of your normal consciousness. The user's senses and thought and experience isn't completely wiped out or taken over or else we wouldn't see the users react or they wouldn't be able to choose to open their eyes and ruin the effect (which is specifically mentioned). So it could be the guy is just wilding out from the sensation and excitement of feeling her up, as her, even though she didn't make anything sexual out of it. Though she would have known what she was doing either way because she had to record it.
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Jan 15, 2018 01:28
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Also: Remake became a dirty word, so reboot was used as it sounds more favorable. I thought Creed was a pretty good example of reboot done right. Didn’t wipe out any of the history, kept a major character in from the older movies but told a new story about a new lead. You could jump in having never seen a Rocky film, or be a longtime fan and both get the same level of enjoyment.
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Jan 15, 2018 16:04
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Strange Days is the best film. It took me a long time to understand the extreme, visceral hate of it by my old flatmate's gf because of that scene, but I'll always love it for the sheer elation the whole NYE sequence inspires. Also the soundtrack, but was sad that Me Phi Me didn't appear to ever do anything as good as that one (I guess novelty) track.
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Jan 15, 2018 16:30
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EL BROMANCE posted:I thought Creed was a pretty good example of reboot done right. Didn’t wipe out any of the history, kept a major character in from the older movies but told a new story about a new lead. You could jump in having never seen a Rocky film, or be a longtime fan and both get the same level of enjoyment. Creed's greatest accomplishment is that despite Rocky being in it quite a bit more than you might expect, at no point whatsoever does the movie stop feeling like Donnie's story, through and through.
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Jan 15, 2018 17:57
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Shape of Water question (spoilering just in case) Why doesn't Sally Hawkins' character use her bed, instead opting for the couch? You can see it in the background in a few shots. Is there some significance to this that I missed?
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Jan 24, 2018 06:40
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Restlessness.
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Jan 24, 2018 16:35
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As Kyle Kinane once said "Y'ever sleep on the couch instead of your bed so it feels like someone's with you?"
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Jan 24, 2018 20:07
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That makes a lot of sense. I never considered that angle (mostly because I actual relish having the whole bed to myself when my wife is away)
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Jan 24, 2018 23:29
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Do actors get paid for movies where previously filmed footage of them is used? For example footage of Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne from the original Insidious appears in the newest installment of that franchise. Do Wilson and Byrne get any sort of compensation for technically appearing in Insidious 4?
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Jan 25, 2018 02:58
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CopywrightMMXI posted:Do actors get paid for movies where previously filmed footage of them is used? For example footage of Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne from the original Insidious appears in the newest installment of that franchise. Do Wilson and Byrne get any sort of compensation for technically appearing in Insidious 4? I think if there's lines spoken they usually do, if it's just silent images it's a lot more dicey. Although after Peter Cushing in Rogue One I think we will see a film starring a cgi likeness of a young up and comer who signed the wrong contract and will get no compensation within our lifetime.
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Jan 25, 2018 03:12
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Crispin Glover got $750,000k when Back to the Future II used his likeness without his permission. I think they used footage from the first film (okay) and they had an actor play Glover's rendition of McFly while hanging upside down so you couldn't tell it wasn't him (not okay). So a lot depends on how good your lawyer is.
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Jan 25, 2018 03:53
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It's weirdly hard to track down how it works in practice now franchises are so much the norm, but the answer is almost certainly yes. Studios retain the rights to the characters and dialogue, but not the actor's voice or image. SAG policy is that actors are always owed money for re-use of their performance in anything but a trailer - even promotional features for a film count as a separate usage.
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Jan 25, 2018 03:59
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Rights issues are so weird in Hollywood. Like how Disney owns everything Star Wars.... except the actual original three Star Wars movies. EDIT: Oh wait, poo poo. I just looked this up and Disney just bought Fox like a month ago, so they finally do own everything Star Wars. One more small step to hopefully getting Blu-Rays of the untouched originals. Bloody Hedgehog fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Jan 25, 2018 |
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Jan 25, 2018 04:11
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CopywrightMMXI posted:Do actors get paid for movies where previously filmed footage of them is used? For example footage of Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne from the original Insidious appears in the newest installment of that franchise. Do Wilson and Byrne get any sort of compensation for technically appearing in Insidious 4?
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Jan 25, 2018 04:21
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