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Yeah, I was surprised to find Syndicated and Videology on there, but there's no way Film Noir or Spectacle would ever get involved.
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Chicago's indies are mostly onboard too, but even if it'd save me money I'm already at critical mass with monthly subscriptions
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May 10, 2018 19:56
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MoviePass and all those other services just read off of Fandango. So my two little local theatres aren’t o it :/ I cancelled my subscription today though
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May 10, 2018 19:57
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Empress Brosephine posted:MoviePass and all those other services just read off of Fandango. So my two little local theatres aren’t o it :/ I cancelled my subscription today though You fool.
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May 10, 2018 20:16
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In the movie "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowships of The Rings", why did Frod have to continue the trip to Mort on his own? And why was the mandate that he has to continue the trip to mortar so lax that the movie instantly breaks that rule by sending Sam as well? And if they could send Sam, why couldn't they also send the Ranger formerly and confusingly known as Strider, Aracorn as well?
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May 10, 2018 21:08
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The Scientist posted:In the movie "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowships of The Rings", why did Frod have to continue the trip to Mort on his own? And why was the mandate that he has to continue the trip to mortar so lax that the movie instantly breaks that rule by sending Sam as well? And if they could send Sam, why couldn't they also send the Ranger formerly and confusingly known as Strider, Aracorn as well? Have you seen the first film? Boromir was the reason since if he wasn't alone other dudes would just get seduced/possessed by the ring then steal it and the whole mission is hosed. Sam is just retarded or wayy too inlove with Frodo to care. He realized this after it almost happened to him at the end of the movie.
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May 10, 2018 21:14
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Oh, ok. Thanks. But then they choose known ring fetishist Smeagol and Gollum to come along? Here's how I see it: List of creatures that never show even the slightest interest in the ring beyond destroying it: 1. Gimli 2. Legolast 3. Strider and Agracorn 4. Merryn 5. Pipen List of creatures motivated by repressed crypto-homosexual lust, who eventually become overcome by the ring's power even though that was supposed to be the sole reason they were chosen: 1. Froto 2. Sam List of creatures that are the reason for the ring wraiths attacking the Shire, nearly killing Froto, drawing the attention of Sauronoman and the eyeball Suriname on Froto, known to murder for the ring, and also motivated by repressed crypto-homosexual lust: 1. Smeagol and Gollum
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May 10, 2018 21:39
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Agracorn
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May 10, 2018 21:53
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Toebone posted:You could try, but the moviepass terms and service agreement says they can do pretty much whatever they want with the service. Go see those movies now. wouldn't it be more the CC company's call?
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May 10, 2018 23:12
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Jesus was a Agracorn he hate organist feuds
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May 10, 2018 23:16
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Alan Smithee posted:wouldn't it be more the CC company's call? Your CC company will have certain terms and conditions for doing a charge back; if moviepass hasn't broken the rules you agreed to when you signed up they're probably not going to do diddly.
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May 11, 2018 00:04
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Toebone posted:One of the nicer perks of MoviePass is that it works at all the little NYC indie and arthouse theaters, in addition to the big chains. And Drafthouse! Makes me feel a lot better about spending 9 bucks on middle of the road queso.
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May 11, 2018 00:28
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Is there any way to watch the Hobbit trilogy in 48 FPS or should I just turn on motion interpolation on my TV and watch the Blu Rays?
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May 11, 2018 00:40
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Probably just watch som'n else, Boinks
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Unmature posted:And Drafthouse! Makes me feel a lot better about spending 9 bucks on middle of the road queso. This was the Moviepass pitch to the theater chains: if you partner with us, people will be willing to buy more concessions when they're seeing a movie for "free". But the theater chains are wary as hell of anyone loving with their racket and will not negotiate on any innovation they can't control root and branch.
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In the theatrical version of LOTR at least, I think Sam was the only character in possession of the ring who ever gave it back without hesitatation. He was never tempted by its power.
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May 11, 2018 10:38
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Isn't that because Sam only wanted to have a kickass garden, and the ring couldn't help with that?
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May 11, 2018 11:51
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It's because Sam is the only one in the Fellowship who isn't bougie as gently caress. He's the everyman who isn't tempted by power because he's too busy earning slave wages from Mr. Frodo.
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May 11, 2018 11:57
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In the book, while Sam is carrying the ring it tries to tempt him with visions of the greatest, most powerful garden of all time.
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May 11, 2018 12:38
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feedmyleg posted:Yeah, I was surprised to find Syndicated and Videology on there, but there's no way Film Noir or Spectacle would ever get involved. Is Videology a theater now? When I lived in W’burg it was a video store
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May 11, 2018 15:33
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It's been various degrees of microcinema for about 5 or 6 years. The back room started out as a space for comedy shows and movies playing in the background while people hung out and drank and talked, then moved into specialty events screening popular movies with drinking games or comedy commentary or whatever, then into (illegal) regular curated screenings of repertory cinema. About two years ago they occasionally started playing first-run indie movies. So they're a bit of a mix of all of that, these days. Definitely not the sort of place I would assume would accept Moviepass. I think they still have video rental but it's barely visible. I feel like that's only for film nerd street cred these days.
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May 11, 2018 16:50
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Weird, I moved away in 2011 so I missed all that
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I apologize if this has already been asked and answered: but why do some movies have extended opening credits while others just go right into the movie without credits until the end? Is that something that is negotiated for every film and/or production company?
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May 11, 2018 22:39
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Caustic posted:I apologize if this has already been asked and answered: but why do some movies have extended opening credits while others just go right into the movie without credits until the end? Is that something that is negotiated for every film and/or production company? Purely a matter of taste on the part of the producers and/or director.
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The Peccadillo posted:Probably just watch som'n else, Boinks My wife's friend came to visit and for some reason they wanted to watch The Hobbit. All of it. To be fair, I was only there for for of An Unexpected Journey, but I still find a lot to like. Part of me views a lot of it through a "Good stories deserve a little embellishment" lens, with Bilbo as an unreliable narrator exaggerating the events that he witnesses, which is basically just a defense mechanism to counter the ridiculousness. But I also love Ian McKellan, so I enjoy how they took the parts where Gandalf was absent in the book and used it to fill in the backstory leading up to The Fellowship of the Ring. I just feel like they didn't do a great job mashing these two things together. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot they hosed up. But there's still a lot to enjoy, too, and it still looks fantastic. Speaking of which, they also watched The Fellowship of the Ring, and it still looks gorgeous too. I think it might be my favorite one, because it had the least amount of action-hero Legolas but still showed how otherworldly he is (like walking on top of the snow while the other trudge through it), and Gimli isn't just played for laughs.
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The third one is one of the dullest films I've ever seen.
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therattle posted:Purely a matter of taste on the part of the producers and/or director. Isn't the thing about the DGA fining Star Wars' 77 for not having credits at the beginning just apocryphal? That doesn't exactly make sense considering the Citizen Kane, '56 Around the World in 80 Days, West Side Story, and 2001: A Space Odyssey all have credits at the end (80 Days doesn't even have the title at the beginning). William Dieterle seemed to like eschewing specific credits entirely on his 40s films - The Devil and Daniel Webster simply has a list of names in alphabetical order covering the cast and crew.
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Egbert Souse posted:Isn't the thing about the DGA fining Star Wars' 77 for not having credits at the beginning just apocryphal? That doesn't exactly make sense considering the Citizen Kane, '56 Around the World in 80 Days, West Side Story, and 2001: A Space Odyssey all have credits at the end (80 Days doesn't even have the title at the beginning). William Dieterle seemed to like eschewing specific credits entirely on his 40s films - The Devil and Daniel Webster simply has a list of names in alphabetical order covering the cast and crew.
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May 12, 2018 05:33
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Magic Hate Ball posted:The third one is one of the dullest films I've ever seen. It made me laugh that the huge cliffhanger from 2 is solved in like 10 minutes and then it's just a new movie. The rest of it is mostly just dull rear end white noise.
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May 12, 2018 05:45
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tetrapyloctomy posted:My wife's friend came to visit and for some reason they wanted to watch The Hobbit. I agree with all of this. I can't hate the Hobbit trilogy and I genuinely enjoyed Justice League: Middle Earth.
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May 12, 2018 05:51
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There’s a good 2-3 hour movie in the Hobbit trilogy somewhere
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I watched the first Hobbit movie on a plane and I disliked it enough to not want to watch the rest. Hell, I watched the lovely Robocop remake on that same flight and I think I enjoyed it more lol
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Magic Hate Ball posted:The third one is one of the dullest films I've ever seen. The first one physically hurt my butt. I started getting angry at a theater chair.
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Pablo Nergigante posted:I watched the first Hobbit movie on a plane and I disliked it enough to not want to watch the rest. Hell, I watched the lovely Robocop remake on that same flight and I think I enjoyed it more lol got talk about an actively mediocre movie. Unnecessary and not even bad movie night material it was basically a Fox tv show that got cancelled after season 1
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May 12, 2018 10:55
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Magic Hate Ball posted:The third one is one of the dullest films I've ever seen. It's an impossible situation. Huge, prolonged battles just aren't exciting, but they couldn't skip it. Everyone makes fun of Tolkien knocking out Bilbo for the duration, but it's BETTER that way. Anyway, yeah, I agree. The huge action scenes drag the film down. I'd love to see the Bilbo story as a separate cut. The wackiness would be consistent and you'd avoid the tonal whiplash the film has as currently cut, and you could keep the extra songs and stuff from the extended version. The introduction to Smaug remains great, by the way. (And yes, they watched the extended cuts of all four films. Lotta loving moviewatching, that is.)
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Egbert Souse posted:Isn't the thing about the DGA fining Star Wars' 77 for not having credits at the beginning just apocryphal? That doesn't exactly make sense considering the Citizen Kane, '56 Around the World in 80 Days, West Side Story, and 2001: A Space Odyssey all have credits at the end (80 Days doesn't even have the title at the beginning). William Dieterle seemed to like eschewing specific credits entirely on his 40s films - The Devil and Daniel Webster simply has a list of names in alphabetical order covering the cast and crew. I've always heard that Lucas got fined and rage quit the Director's Guide as a result. It's entirely possible directors like Kubrick and Wells just paid their fine or got away with it because the governing body liked them more. It may have also mattered that Star Wars was the biggest film ever, so there was more attention paid to Lucas.
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Steve Yun posted:There’s a good 2-3 hour movie in the Hobbit trilogy somewhere There was a Tolkien Edit that took all three movies and cut it down to a 4 hour movie. Never watched it, but it sounded like a better way to consume the trilogy.
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I'm sure it's better than the theatrical, yeah, but those movies are rotten to their core. Their wrongheaded tone, piss-poor humor, and lack of character development are impossible to salvage. You can't fan-edit-away the fact that 12/14 of your main cast members are pieces of cardboard or that your source fantastical children's story with talking animals has been written and shot as a gritty fantasy war epic.
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May 12, 2018 15:40
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A good half of both the second and third film was added in reshoots since they were meant to be one film. I think the original plan was to end the first film with Smaug going out to attack Laketown. I know the love triangle is entirely a reshoots thing so even the first film has a bit of it.
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feedmyleg posted:I'm sure it's better than the theatrical, yeah, but those movies are rotten to their core. Their wrongheaded tone, piss-poor humor, and lack of character development are impossible to salvage. You can't fan-edit-away the fact that 12/14 of your main cast members are pieces of cardboard or that your source fantastical children's story with talking animals has been written and shot as a gritty fantasy war epic. We were talking about this in another thread recently, and I think it was HUNDU who pointed out just how soulless and mercenary they are. That Jackson really, really, really didn't want to do them is transparent on the screen, he just did not give a poo poo.
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