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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. 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.
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What was the last musical before Chicago to win Best Picture? Was there anything between that and Cabaret?
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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. Well I saw The Danish Girl, and the direction sucked. And the direction of Les Mis was the major problem, not Russell Crowe. So again, not that optimistic. I remember reading the Golden Compass books as a kid and enjoying them, so I'd definitely enjoy a solid adaptation. I hope Hooper surprises me. I also wouldn't be surprised if he did actively try to make it boring.
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Wheat Loaf posted:What was the last musical before Chicago to win Best Picture? Was there anything between that and Cabaret? Amadeus Also, while Cabaret got a ton of awards, it missed out on Best Picture, which went to The Godfather instead.
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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
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I liked John Adams (the miniseries), the only problem with it was the cinematography. It's Dutch angles and shaky cam all the way down
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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 Video game adjacent movies seem to do better than video game movies themselves, ie Wreck it Ralph and the new Jumanji
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Samuel Clemens posted:Amadeus 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.
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joe football posted:Video game adjacent movies seem to do better than video game movies themselves, ie Wreck it Ralph and the new Jumanji 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.
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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. No, Amadeus is 100% NOT a musical in any sense of the genre.
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Apart from the "Rock Me Amadeus" dance scene the middle of the second act
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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. Jumanji ironically does a better job of building a coherent videogame universe than RPO does. Jumanji establishes rules and context, whereas RPO just concerns itself with bolting from pop culture reference to pop culture reference in a vain hope of keeping its nostalgia boner up.
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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! quote:"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. quote: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. 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.
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Shageletic posted:https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/ready-player-two-ernest-cline-talks-ready-player-one-sequel-1088676 that makes sense because ready player one is twilight for incels
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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 Well when movies are adapted from things the nerd audience loves it bombs horribly (remember Scott Pilgrim's insane pre-release hype versus how nobody actually saw it in theaters?) so making something the broad casual readership liked but the grognards hated is probably a better business decision for them.
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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. Does it? His first few lines are him being a prick that Laureline barely tolerates, right off the bat.
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Well she pulls up a collage displaying the dozens of women partners he's hosed
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I just found today about this animated movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlgD7JEwAME I love my country
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In regards to RP1, I enjoyed the novel way of writing a poo poo book. (I can't believe it took me this long to realise that was the perfect joke and it's one of my favourites too)
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Al Borland Corp. posted:Well she pulls up a collage displaying the dozens of women partners he's hosed As we all know, a guy who has slept with tons of women and will say literally anything to bed yet another couldn't possibly be an rear end in a top hat, he must be the coolest guy in the world.
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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.
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Dexie posted:It's been a long time since I've read the book. What Simpsons joke are we referring to? It was kind of a low key gag, and I couldn't tell you what episode it was in and I don't quite remember the context, but this is what it was (spoiled because I assume the scene is in the film): there's a row of identical suburban houses, each with nearly identical children playing in identical fashion, complete with a set of children each bouncing an identical red ball in perfect synchronicity with one-another. There may have been a shot of Bart or Lisa looking worried or Marge disapproving. It's a blink-and-you-miss-it gag, and the only reason I remember it was because when I saw it I thought, "oh, they got that from A Wrinkle in Time."
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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."
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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. They need to go all out and not be subdued like their Marvel shows. I mean, there better be a guy with a dozen mag pouches for guns that the guy isn't carrying; ribbed, padded shoulder pads; skintight bodysuits that are practically painted on; giant caliber guns; and blades that are just sharped steel.
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Shageletic posted:
And, of course, Kevin Smith.
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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." As someone who went to a school that required uniforms, that gag just baffled me as a kid. Worst thing that did to me was having a deep impatience for picking out clothes to buy that i only got over recently.
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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." 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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Schwarzwald posted:Ah, there you have it then. I over-conflated it with a scene from the book. For sure it is, alt.tv.simpsons didn't miss a trick back then in 95 or whenever this episode was: quote:Movie (and other) references Not in spoilers cause to be fair, this is in every trailer of the film.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Not in spoilers cause to be fair, this is in every trailer of the film. Ha! Shows how much I've been paying attention.
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Guy Mann posted:Netflix is creating a Rob Liefeld cinematic universe, just in case you were getting sick of hearing about their Marvel shows. the gently caress this article is just one :headexplosion: in text form. Liefeld universe? Subversive? Run by Akiva Goldman? Wow. Here's a little bit of an antidote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmLFGWAyajU&t=3s e: 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. lol I read this book when I was 10 and remember nothing about it other than something about wormholes and missing fathers, but you mentioning mitochondria got the hair at the back of my neck going. What the hell was that about again. Shageletic fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Mar 9, 2018 |
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I like how I’ve only ever seen a handful of Shrink comics, but roughly half of them boil down to “what if man too small?” And alternatively, “what if man too big?” It’s like Liefeld came up with the “small dude gotta big dick” comic first, and then “ohhhh fuuuuck”’d his way into a series when it got positive feedback.
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Al Borland Corp. posted:Well she pulls up a collage displaying the dozens of women partners he's hosed Right, but the characterization there is not that Valerian is a strapping ladykiller. He doesn't do anything, the space-police periodically assign him "partners," the implication is that platonic sexual relationships are unofficially encouraged as a way to instill intimacy and loyalty between officers. In this context, the point is not that Valerian gives up or leaves his partners, but that he loses them. The subtle joke is that Valerian is too attached physically (and probably a bad lay). His practice is to try to use sex to the letter of rhetoric, to turn two people into a single, inseparable unit. This is conveyed metaphorically when he bonds with Bubble, the two of them literally proceeding together as one person. The inevitable consequence of this is illustrated: Bubble is not truly equal in her 'partnership' with Valerian, but becomes a human shield. Laureline's point by invoking all of Valerian's failed partnerships is that in order to be truly together, they must remain completely separate. This thematic opposition is dramatized at a cosmic level with the inherent opposition between the United Human Federation/Alpha and the Pearls: the former's stated program of unification and peace leads directly to the near-total genocide of the latter.
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:I just found today about this animated movie This looks awesome. It's like a threeway between 'Independence Day,' a Dreamworks animated comedy, and Mexico. I mean, I just saw a dude force-feed an alien a burrito, and the alien rocketed into the air and exploded. In Mexico we trust indeed.
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# ? Mar 9, 2018 21:01 |
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That's a lotta words just to say that Valerian's a dick
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SciFiDownBeat posted:That's a lotta words just to say that Valerian's a dick Valerian is cool and rad and also pretty funny.
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# ? Mar 9, 2018 23:05 |
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It had some cool bits to be sure but overall the movie is garbage, sadly.
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# ? Mar 9, 2018 23:17 |
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Should have won a hundred costuming awards.
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Makes me realize, what if a tweak to the movie where Valerian is accidentally the hero because the women protect our push him out of the way. Bubble gets him inside a fortress and he's powerless through the process, Laureline gets stuff done and rolls her eyes at him. And he gets the credit. The former partners didn't leave because he slept with them but rather they hated him being a magnet for credit. Would even make the title work better. Would even solve the chemistry problem.
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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: Was on a Simpsons clip binge on YT the other day and saw that scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8uRO3D12vs
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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. There's also Tom Jones and Oliver! from that decade as well. In other news... https://twitter.com/IndieWire/status/972192800283373568
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