LesterGroans posted:

Not really. He started out as fine, but if you go down the list from John Adams to The Danish Girl he gets exponentially worse.

Sure, the script and production design is important, but if he directs it for poo poo then it's a wash. Hugh Jackman for Jean Valjean seemed like a slam dunk too.

lelandjs posted:

Les Mis' major problem was Russell Crowe, other than that I thought it was fine. The Danish Girl I didn't see, but from what I've read the issues with the film are that it's sanitized and kind of boring.

We already know that HDM isn't going to be sanitized (that was one of Philip Pullman's demands when preproduction started) and I guess it's possible to make the series boring but you'd have to actively TRY to make it boring.

Wheat Loaf posted:

What was the last musical before Chicago to win Best Picture? Was there anything between that and Cabaret?

Thundercracker posted:

I'm completely unsurprised RP1 might flop. Other than Resident Evil, video game movies almost always flop. And make no doubt about it, this is a video game movie. Adapted from a book half the targeted nerd audience ridicules

Samuel Clemens posted:

Amadeus

Also, while Cabaret got a ton of awards, it missed out on Best Picture, which went to The Godfather instead.

joe football posted:

Video game adjacent movies seem to do better than video game movies themselves, ie Wreck it Ralph and the new Jumanji

Wheat Loaf posted:

Oh, I see. I knew Fosse won Best Director and must have assumed it got Best Picture as well. Of course in the preceding decade, you had West Side Story (which won far more Oscars than I'd realised), My Fair Lady and The Sound of Music all winning, so you wouldn't need to go back much further.

I'm not sure if I necessarily think of Amadeus as a musical so much as a film with music in it, though. I haven't seen Amadeus since I watched it in school, though.

Thundercracker posted:

I'll be honest. I had no idea the new Jumanji was a video game until people started talking about it. However, I will grant RP1 could do well... if it had The Rock and Kevin Hart in it. Instead an unknown pasty nerd.

lelandjs posted:

Heh. Like most things in RP1, it’s actually worse: Ernest’s self-insert is super excited to meet Art3mis IRL because her avatar is super hot, so therefore she must be too! But nope, she’s kinda dumpy and chubby but then he doesn’t actually care because Ernest suddenly realizes appearances don’t matter!

Though from checking IMDB it looks like they changed that for the movie because the actress playing Art3mis isn’t even Hollywood fat.

...Also, Ernest’s IMDB profile pic is him cosplaying as a Ghostbuster with Harry “I sexually harassed several of my female employees” Knowles lurking in the background.

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"I got to see [it] a couple of weeks ago. I don't think I've ever seen a movie like this, where so many of the actors play two different roles. One in their own body and then in The Oasis where they're operating another photorealistic body with facial motion capture," he says.

A central aspect to the story is an infatuation with 1980s pop culture, which is not only prominent throughout Cline’s novel, but readily apparent in the film’s trailers. In the context of the story, it’s a byproduct of the characters’ exhaustive research to help them understand the clues to solving Anorak’s Game.

Given the reference-heavy nature of the story, it seemed like an obvious choice to have Steven Spielberg — the man who had a hand in creating many of those films — helm Ready Player One.

However, Cline explains that Spielberg took a more cautious approach when putting the film together. "He was so loath to reference anything of his own. It's not that he's overly humble, but he's just not a fan of being a self-referential or playing tribute to [his] stuff."

Cline attributes Spielberg’s thinking to the director's 1979 comedy, 1941. "That movie opens with a re-creation of the scene from Jaws, with the same actress getting lifted up by the submarine, then later on there's a little tribute to Duel. He was having fun and riffing, and the critics just really laid into him for that. So, I think after 1941 he was just like, 'I'm never referencing my own movies ever again.’"

As a result, Cline, along with others working on the film, had to coerce him into including many of the novel’s elements that pay homage to Spielberg's films.

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To help ready audiences for the film’s release while acknowledging its adoration of films from the ‘80s, the Alamo Drafthouse chain recruited Cline to put together a special programming slate in March leading up to Ready Player One's release at the end of the month.

"They wanted me to select films that had inspired both the novel and the film, and that was a pretty short list," Cline explains. "Most of them are some of my favorite movies, but I also wanted movies that were already in the trailers. You can see visual references to most of those films. So that was kind of my criteria: stuff that had informed or was referenced in the novel, and also ended up making it into the movie in some form."

While some of the selections are obvious, like The Iron Giant, some of the cinematic inspirations proved to be a bit more subversive. One such example is Cameron Crowe’s Say Anything

Shageletic posted:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/ready-player-two-ernest-cline-talks-ready-player-one-sequel-1088676

I can't believe I'm saying it, but this feels like Twilight all over again.

Thundercracker posted:

I'm completely unsurprised RP1 might flop. Other than Resident Evil, video game movies almost always flop. And make no doubt about it, this is a video game movie. Adapted from a book half the targeted nerd audience ridicules

raditts posted:

It was kind of hilarious how the movie tried so hard to convince you that Valerian was some kind of strapping ladykiller when he looked and acted like a teenager who was skipping class to play spaceman.

Al Borland Corp. posted:

Well she pulls up a collage displaying the dozens of women partners he's hosed

lelandjs posted:

We already know that HDM isn't going to be sanitized (that was one of Philip Pullman's demands when preproduction started) and I guess it's possible to make the series boring but you'd have to actively TRY to make it boring.

Dexie posted:

It's been a long time since I've read the book. What Simpsons joke are we referring to?

NoNotTheMindProbe posted:

I hope they keep his visual style with all the hosed up proportions and women who manage to show off their tits and rear end simultaneously in every shot.

Shageletic posted:

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While some of the selections are obvious, like The Iron Giant, some of the cinematic inspirations proved to be a bit more subversive. One such example is Cameron Crowe’s Say Anything

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

You're misremembering, it's a gag about school uniforms sapping all the kid's free will. There's an better punchline on top of the reference: LUNCHLADY DORIS: "They've even begun blinking in unison." (disgusting wet noise) SKINNER: "I love that sound."

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

You're misremembering, it's a gag about school uniforms sapping all the kid's free will. There's an better punchline on top of the reference: LUNCHLADY DORIS: "They've even begun blinking in unison." (disgusting wet noise) SKINNER: "I love that sound."

Schwarzwald posted:

Ah, there you have it then. I over-conflated it with a scene from the book.

I'm still maintain that it's a reference.

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Movie (and other) references
~ Cinnaburst commercials {jl}
- "Those magazines cause a disturbing amount of laughter."
+ "The Jazz Singer" {rl}
- "I have no son!" line
+ Styx's song "Mr. Roboto"
- Homer says "Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto", some lyrics from the song
+ "The Killing Fields" {ddg}
- Homer has somehow acquired Dr. Haing S. Ngor's Oscar for his role
in the movie
+ the Nancy Kerrigan incident {th}
- masked person tries to disable a sports figure by bashing their
leg
+ "A Wrinkle in Time" {rt}
- children bouncing balls in unison similar to scene in the movie
+ "Caddyshack" {ddg}
- the end of the bowling match is similar to the end of the movie's
golf match

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

Not in spoilers cause to be fair, this is in every trailer of the film.

Guy Mann posted:

Netflix is creating a Rob Liefeld cinematic universe, just in case you were getting sick of hearing about their Marvel shows.

Leavemywife posted:

Honestly, with all the weird mitochondria stuff in Wrinkle in Time, it should just be the first movie of the Parasite Eve cinematic universe.

Neo Rasa posted:

Al Borland Corp. posted:

Well she pulls up a collage displaying the dozens of women partners he's hosed

Dark_Tzitzimine posted:

I just found today about this animated movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlgD7JEwAME

I love my country

SciFiDownBeat posted:

That's a lotta words just to say that Valerian's a dick

K. Waste posted:

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

For sure it is, alt.tv.simpsons didn't miss a trick back then in 95 or whenever this episode was:


Not in spoilers cause to be fair, this is in every trailer of the film.

Wheat Loaf posted:

Oh, I see. I knew Fosse won Best Director and must have assumed it got Best Picture as well. Of course in the preceding decade, you had West Side Story (which won far more Oscars than I'd realised), My Fair Lady and The Sound of Music all winning, so you wouldn't need to go back much further.

I'm not sure if I necessarily think of Amadeus as a musical so much as a film with music in it, though. I haven't seen Amadeus since I watched it in school, though.