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God yes, let those monkeys fingers curl, I was getting worried that nerds wouldn't get to behold the glory of the true flaying of Star Wars 
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Feb 6, 2018 22:02
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Get Ernest Cline to write official Star Wars novels, and Star Wars will be a beacon for poo poo nerd culture (and Rian Johnson).
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Feb 6, 2018 22:06
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GrandpaPants posted:Get Ernest Cline to write official Star Wars novels, and Star Wars will be a beacon for poo poo nerd culture (and Rian Johnson). Lobok posted:So not Bond, Fast & Furious, Star Wars, Godzilla, Indiana Jones, Spider-Man, Batman... Basebf555 posted:All of those have had either very long hiatus', or they did at least a "soft" reboot. In the case of Bond and Batman they've had both.
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Feb 6, 2018 22:22
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This is the directorial version of stunt casting and I really hope it flops. I couldn’t stand GoT after the first 3 seasons and I can’t wait for its popularity to fade away.
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Feb 6, 2018 22:23
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I just hope at least one of these billion Star Warses is going to have a good main alien character because so far the new films have kinda disappointed on that front. It's my favorite part of the setting and the only new speaking alien we've got is Maz.
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Feb 6, 2018 22:24
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Jar Jar was simply too traumatic.
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Feb 6, 2018 22:27
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Al Borland Corp. posted:I'd say if they are going to do a ton of start Wars they should really let Lucas make a couple but I don't think he would actually want to He has no ability to collaborate anymore, at least within the system that he'd have to work in. He'd demand full creative control and there's no way Disney would ever give that to him. That said, I'd love to see this thing come full circle and have fans beg for the return of Lucas after they get sick of the standard formula, whenever that is. Lucas isn't getting any younger of course, so chances are it won't happen.
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Feb 6, 2018 22:28
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Game of Thrones looked pretty great for its budget, I'll give it that. And, uh, Charlie Chaplin's granddaughter is cute. Dinklage is good. That's all I got.
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Feb 6, 2018 22:33
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Big Mean Jerk posted:
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Feb 6, 2018 22:41
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So, you like Star Wars eh? Have all the Star Wars in the world! *4000 hours of Star Wars media later I'm still watching happily.* I don't understand it. Porg Boy went mad in twenty minutes.
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Feb 6, 2018 22:44
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I really doubt George Lucas would even make a Star Wars movie if you offered it to him. He doesn't seem like someone who is all that interested in actually directing anything and would rather be in charge while someone else does the heavy lifting.
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Feb 6, 2018 22:45
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Wheat Loaf posted:One thing I was somewhat amazed to learn a short while ago is that In the Heat of the Night had a really successful TV revival in the late 80s which ran for about 10 seasons and won a bunch of Emmys. I grew up with re-runs of In the Heat of the Night and had no idea that this was based on a movie until today. Weird! Classic intro theme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bebgBmf14TE
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Feb 6, 2018 22:46
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Lucas hadn't really done much of anything in terms of film-making after he finished the prequel trilogy, had he? I know he was still active doing behind-the-scenes stuff, but he produced Crystal Skull, he produced Red Tails, and what else did he do? (I'm genuinely curious.)
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Feb 6, 2018 22:48
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Not only is it based on a movie, the movie has two Tibbs-focused sequels
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Feb 6, 2018 22:48
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Wheat Loaf posted:Lucas hadn't really done much of anything in terms of film-making after he finished the prequel trilogy, had he? He produced Crystal Skull, he produced Red Tails, what else? He wrote a largely-panned kid's film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Magic_(film)
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Feb 6, 2018 22:49
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muscles like this! posted:I really doubt George Lucas would even make a Star Wars movie if you offered it to him. He doesn't seem like someone who is all that interested in actually directing anything and would rather be in charge while someone else does the heavy lifting. https://twitter.com/craigkoenewho/status/960709967878565888
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Feb 6, 2018 22:50
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Tars Tarkas posted:Not only is it based on a movie, the movie has two Tibbs-focused sequels They Call Me Mister Tibbs! is pretty good. The Organization is forgettable; Poitier is good in it but that's about it. They're a bit of a shift into more of a Blaxploitation style than In the Heat of the Night was. There's a couple of scenes I remember from the first one where Tibbs interacts with his son: first he catches him smoking and says, "If you're gonna smoke, at least do it right," and then they share a joint; and later on he learns his son has been fighting his sister so he smacks him in the face until he says he's sorry, which is somewhat less cool.
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Feb 6, 2018 22:52
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Wheat Loaf posted:Lucas hadn't really done much of anything in terms of film-making after he finished the prequel trilogy, had he? I know he was still active doing behind-the-scenes stuff, but he produced Crystal Skull, he produced Red Tails, and what else did he do? OutlawVern has your answers! http://outlawvern.com/2016/02/19/lucas-minus-star-wars-what-have-we-learned/ At the bottom is a list of all the non-Star Wars Lucas projects with Vern's reviews.
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Feb 6, 2018 22:53
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Wheat Loaf posted:Lucas hadn't really done much of anything in terms of film-making after he finished the prequel trilogy, had he? I know he was still active doing behind-the-scenes stuff, but he produced Crystal Skull, he produced Red Tails, and what else did he do? He didn't really do anything before the prequel trilogy either.
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Feb 6, 2018 22:53
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Wheat Loaf posted:first he catches him smoking and says, "If you're gonna smoke, at least do it right," and then they share a joint I think I need to watch In the Heat of the Night. That's remarkably progressive for the protagonist of a non-"hippie" 60s movie, to the point where I don't think you'd ever see it today, even.
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Feb 6, 2018 22:54
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I think I need to watch In the Heat of the Night. That's remarkably progressive for the protagonist of a non-"hippie" 60s movie, to the point where I don't think you'd ever see it today, even. No, that scene's from They Call Me Mister Tibbs! which was from 1970 or so, a few years after In the Heat of the Night. It's a pretty different movie and Poitier is pretty much the only connection, but it's pretty good on its own merits. You should absolutely watch In the Heat of the Night if you haven't, though, because it's a very good movie: it's one of the movies profiled in Pictures at a Revolution because it was one of the movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967 which was like year zero for New Hollywood (alongside Bonnie & Clyde, The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner and odd-one-out Doctor Doolittle). Martin Landau is in it as a kind of left-wing preacher who I feel like is possibly meant to be an allusion to Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple from when he enjoyed the support of left-wing figures in San Francisco (Harvey Milk, Angela Davis etc.). Wheat Loaf fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Feb 6, 2018 |
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Feb 6, 2018 23:10
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muscles like this! posted:He didn't really do anything before the prequel trilogy either. You mean between 1983 and 1999? It's true he didn't direct anything (it's kind of crazy to me that Lucas is credited as a director on a grand total of six movies out of a 40-plus year career) but he was always pretty active in moviemaking.
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Feb 6, 2018 23:14
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"What if slavery was continued after the Empire fell?"
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Feb 6, 2018 23:29
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Taintrunner posted:I grew up with re-runs of In the Heat of the Night and had no idea that this was based on a movie until today. Weird! Anne-Marie Johnson shows up in Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later and looks barely a day older than she did on Heat of the Night. It's surreal.
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Feb 6, 2018 23:37
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I feel like if Lucas had decided to make some more Star Wars but decided he didn't want to direct them, he probably would've gotten someone like Ron Howard to have a crack at it, because those guys go back a long way. 
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Feb 6, 2018 23:38
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:OutlawVern has your answers! I had completely forgotten that Lucas had involvement in Mishima. Which if you haven't seen is loving amazing.
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Feb 6, 2018 23:49
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Can't wait for Star Wars to have incest and nudity. Wait a second...
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Feb 6, 2018 23:51
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https://twitter.com/pixelatedboat/status/961008122255978496
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Feb 7, 2018 00:06
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Mission Impossible, which has been suffering sever diminishing returns Not really http://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=missionimpossible.htm Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Do you adjust for inflation in these sorts of comparisons? MI and MI2 made close to $400Mil adjusted, almost twice what the last two did. You didn't say 'if you account for inflation, the first and second film were the peak of the series domestically, while the fourth and fifth were on a par world wide, even accounting for inflation.' You said 'severely diminishing returns,' which isn't true. The series has been up and down. It's presently up. Its lowest point was MI3, while 4 and 5 were within spitting distance of each other, suggesting that it can consistently do 600 million at the box office. And that's not even accounting for the massive changes the entertainment industry has seen in 22 years, and the repeated overhaul of the series. Big Mean Jerk posted:This is the directorial version of stunt casting and I really hope it flops. I couldn’t stand GoT after the first 3 seasons and I can’t wait for its popularity to fade away. Season 4 was alright. Coincidentally, it was the last season based on a book with a clear beginning, middle and end. It still never got any better than 'good genre fiction' Spartacus was the better Game of Thrones show anyway. porfiria posted:Game of Thrones looked pretty great for its budget, I'll give it that. And, uh, Charlie Chaplin's granddaughter is cute. Dinklage is good. That's all I got. They spent (and continue to spend) a fortune on it, so you'd hope so.
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Feb 7, 2018 00:08
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Snowman_McK posted:They spent (and continue to spend) a fortune on it, so you'd hope so. It was expensive as hell, but even so the first seasons were like $80 million a pop or something for like 12 hours which is chump change compared to King Arthur or whatever.
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Feb 7, 2018 00:43
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porfiria posted:It was expensive as hell, but even so the first seasons were like $80 million a pop or something for like 12 hours which is chump change compared to King Arthur or whatever. In terms of sets and costumes, though, they probably used about the same number as a given movie. 90% of season 1 takes place in a room in winterfell, a room in kings landing, the throne room, or a tent. There's economies of scale to this stuff, which even applies to movies. The costuming is crazy impressive, though. Snowman_McK fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Feb 7, 2018 |
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Feb 7, 2018 01:05
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Netflix apparently paid $50 million for the rights to the Cloverfield Paradox http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/02/07/how-much-netflix-reportedly-paid-for-the-cloverfield-paradox
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Feb 7, 2018 03:33
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FlamingLiberal posted:Netflix apparently paid $50 million for the rights to the Cloverfield Paradox I mean, they have a shitton of money so it's not like it matters to them, but still. There are much better things they could've chosen to invest in.
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Feb 7, 2018 03:35
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:They overpaid. Yeah, they could have paid for 2/3 of another Adam Sandler movie with that money.
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Feb 7, 2018 03:38
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$50M for a two-part episode of The Outer Limits? Holy gently caress.
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Feb 7, 2018 04:07
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I think a big part of the $50 million obviously has to do with the fact that they wanted to pull off this big post-Super Bowl surprise. Establishing the idea that Netflix can just drop a big release on you at any moment was probably worth a lot to them on it's own.
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Feb 7, 2018 04:15
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FlamingLiberal posted:Netflix apparently paid $50 million for the rights to the Cloverfield Paradox Paramount made the right decision. It probably wouldn’t have made $50 mil from a theatrical release and they’d have to have spent at least a couple million in marketing it for said release. I think Netflix made the right decision too—The Cloverfield Paradox is probably their best non-documentary exclusive film, and plenty of people are going to watch it despite the (unfair) critical drubbing it’s received because gently caress it, they’re already paying for the subscription.
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Feb 7, 2018 04:16
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Basebf555 posted:I think a big part of the $50 million obviously has to do with the fact that they wanted to pull of this big post-Super Bowl surprise. Establishing the idea that Netflix can just drop a big release on you at any moment was probably worth a lot to them on it's own. The 30-second spot cost $5 million and NBC neutered the commercial by making it say "coming soon," because they didn't want to take viewership away from This Is Us. Netflix overpaid.
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Feb 7, 2018 04:18
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Timby posted:The 30-second spot cost $5 million and NBC neutered the commercial by making it say "coming soon," because they didn't want to take viewership away from This Is Us. Doesn't matter. A new Cloverfield movie released on Netflix with almost zero notice, who's to say when that will happen again and what it'll be? All the more reason to always have a subscription and not worry about what the month to month selection might be.
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Feb 7, 2018 04:20
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Basebf555 posted:Doesn't matter. A new Cloverfield movie released on Netflix with almost zero notice, who's to say when that will happen again and what it'll be? All the more reason to always have a subscription and not worry about what the month to month selection might be. Exactly this. The past few months I’ve toyed with the idea of cancelling Netflix until the new series of Bojack Horseman comes around, but then they drop The Cloverfield Paradox outta nowhere. I open Netflix for the first time in ages and find that they’ve also got a biopic about the guy from National Lampoon and a movie about Jack Black playing a criminal polka singer and, yeah, ok, I’ll keep the Netflix sub for now. By the way, I knew nothing about Doug Kenny before I watched A Futile And Stupid Gesture and hooooly poo poo the fake old version of him that pops up across the film THAT NEVER EXISTED BECAUSE HE DIED IN HIS THIRTIES was a brilliant subversion. I can see why the critics didn’t love the movie, because if you know anything about him (and I’m sure most film critics do) the gag is ruined, but I didn’t and I thought it was great. Overall I thought it was great fun—I especially loved the disclaimers section that played halfway through pointing out all the changes and fabrications they made to the film from real life to make a better film. It was a delicious meta cherry on top of a film that went out of its way to subvert and even mock biopics while still managing to be a good biopic. asecondduck fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Feb 7, 2018 |
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