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I don't remember how much racism was in there but you might as well watch "End of Watch" since you've seen Bright and Training Day. The three movies are basically a David Ayer trilogy but they're all the exact same movie.
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There was that Fox series Almost Human, if you consider an android close enough
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:There was that Fox series Almost Human, if you consider an android close enough Was that the one where someone invented a gun that fired bullets that would find your location by searching your social media posts
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I liked the remake of Ocean's Eleven (the George Clooney one) but never watched Ocean's Twelve or Thirteen. I've put them on my list now so I'll get to them eventually. But I'm curious about another sequel I haven't seen to a movie I really like: is there anything in it to make Be Cool worth watching?
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Wheat Loaf posted:I liked the remake of Ocean's Eleven (the George Clooney one) but never watched Ocean's Twelve or Thirteen. I've put them on my list now so I'll get to them eventually. But I'm curious about another sequel I haven't seen to a movie I really like: is there anything in it to make Be Cool worth watching? The Rock is amazing in it, but that's about it. Ocean's Twelve is hot garbage (one of the few movies that I've ever been actively angry about when leaving the theater) but Thirteen is pretty good.
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I ask because I watched Get Shorty again recently and had a lot of fun with it, and it's got me keen to go after similar crime movies with a kind of irreverent tone to them. The trouble is, I feel like I've watched most of them already.
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Have you done the whole Elmore Leonard crime catalog
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Wheat Loaf posted:I ask because I watched Get Shorty again recently and had a lot of fun with it, and it's got me keen to go after similar crime movies with a kind of irreverent tone to them. The trouble is, I feel like I've watched most of them already. Oh, Ocean's Twelve is irreverent and I think is worth seeing just for the jaw-dropping audacity of ... well, you'll see. There's a direction one of the subplots goes that makes some people mad, some roll their eyes, some laugh. I wish I could have been in the writer's room when it came up. I can't say it's a *good* movie but if you want something fun, silly, and generally entertaining then it's worth a watch.
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Steve Yun posted:Have you done the whole Elmore Leonard crime catalog Everyone watch all of Justified immediately
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regulargonzalez posted:Oh, Ocean's Twelve is irreverent and I think is worth seeing just for the jaw-dropping audacity of ... well, you'll see. There's a direction one of the subplots goes that makes some people mad, some roll their eyes, some laugh. I wish I could have been in the writer's room when it came up. I enjoyed Twelve primarily because when I first watched it I had the "oh this is going to piss off so many people but it's so funny " reaction. Easily the least good of the trilogy but not bad.
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The issue with Twelve is that the last ten minutes render the previous hour and a half pointless, because Danny did a wallhack.
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Steve Yun posted:Have you done the whole Elmore Leonard crime catalog I've seen Get Shorty, Jackie Brown and Out of Sight.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I've seen Get Shorty, Jackie Brown and Out of Sight. Did you see Inherent Vice? Based on Pynchon of all things, not Leonard but pretty good. Not sure if irreverent or just weird.
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syscall girl posted:Did you see Inherent Vice? I haven't seen it, no, but I've been meaning to. I've only seen two Paul Thomas Anderson movies (Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood), both of which I thought were very good and lead me to assume that his other movies must also be very good, but for the most part the descriptions of their stories don't really interest me much.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I liked the remake of Ocean's Eleven (the George Clooney one) but never watched Ocean's Twelve or Thirteen. I've put them on my list now so I'll get to them eventually. But I'm curious about another sequel I haven't seen to a movie I really like: is there anything in it to make Be Cool worth watching? Besides The Rock it is worth it for Steven Tyler being terrible at playing Steven Tyler. Especially the part where John Travolta's character explains to him what he meant with a specific Aerosmith song, you know, one that he wrote. Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 10:50 on May 28, 2018 |
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I will say that Be Cool is a real piece of poo poo that relies on extremely tired *NOTICE HOW WE'RE BEING CLEVER HERE* dialogue and obvious, artless stereotypes for humor. What if a gangsta rapper... was a silly goofball! What if a big scary bodyguard... was just a big gay softy! What if Vince Vaughn... dressed like a cartoon pimp and said things like "man you trippin" "c'mon playa, stop hatin". Just really dumb, and not in a fun way.
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Is it true that Spielberg was interested in directing the Harry Potter movies (or at least the first one) but he wanted Haley Joel Osment to play Harry and Rowling said no, he had to be British? I feel like that would've been around the time he made A.I. so I feel like it sort of fits.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I haven't seen it, no, but I've been meaning to. I've only seen two Paul Thomas Anderson movies (Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood), both of which I thought were very good and lead me to assume that his other movies must also be very good, but for the most part the descriptions of their stories don't really interest me much. you should watch punch drunk love imo
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Wheat Loaf posted:Is it true that Spielberg was interested in directing the Harry Potter movies (or at least the first one) but he wanted Haley Joel Osment to play Harry and Rowling said no, he had to be British? Spielberg wasn't interested in doing a 1:1 adaptation and wanted to combine some of the books into a single animated movie.
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Parachute posted:you should watch punch drunk love imo its the best movie of all time
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bows1 posted:its the best movie of all time I wouldn't go that far, but then again I haven't watched it since it was in the theater. I'd agree that it's Sandlers best movie though.
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bows1 posted:its the best movie of all time Let's not get carried away here that it is the best of all time. May be poll the community to get some insight perhaps?
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Does anyone know anything about modern film distribution? I know some cats in the forum work on the biz but not knowing their specific fields I don't want to assume. I'm just wondering why Blumhouse Tilt isn't being Upgrade to Canada. would Cineplex have been asking too much money for distribution, and considering it's small budget they distributor declined? I know literally nothing about how distribution deals are made, and that's kind of my blanket question.
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Enos Cabell posted:I wouldn't go that far, but then again I haven't watched it since it was in the theater. I'd agree that it's Sandlers best movie though. It’s subjectively my favorite is all.
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How dare you!
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Human Tornada posted:I will say that Be Cool is a real piece of poo poo that relies on extremely tired *NOTICE HOW WE'RE BEING CLEVER HERE* dialogue and obvious, artless stereotypes for humor. What if a gangsta rapper... was a silly goofball! What if a big scary bodyguard... was just a big gay softy! What if Vince Vaughn... dressed like a cartoon pimp and said things like "man you trippin" "c'mon playa, stop hatin". Yeah it’s bad, but Christina Milan deserves credit for making the octogenarians of Aerosmith tolerable.
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This is more a marketing question I guess. When Blade Runner 2049 came out last year it underperformed a bit compared to expectations. I remember a point maybe a few weeks after it came out and I started seeing ads for it A LOT online/social media. The ads were all very specifically saying to seen it to "FIND OUT WHY BLADE RUNNER IS THE WORLD'S #1 MOVIE!" Anyway now I'm seeing the same thing with Solo, ads with like the exact same wording and everything like they just dropped Solo stuff into the "WORLD'S #1 MOVIE" template. I guess my question is just, like, is that really so effective? Is it a common type of ad online now and I just happened to only notice it regardong these two flicks?
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It was probably the best selling movie the first weekend it came out. Since almost no movie sells as many tickets the second weekend as the first it's not hard to be the number one film and still underperform depending what else came out.
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Yeah, the schedule is usually set so you don't get big budget films colliding too much. You can be the number 1 movie and still easily do disappointing box office business. I hope 2049 eventually clawed back after worldwide release and home formats, because drat if that wasn't a great movie that deserved to make some cash.
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Neo Rasa posted:This is more a marketing question I guess. When Blade Runner 2049 came out last year it underperformed a bit compared to expectations. I remember a point maybe a few weeks after it came out and I started seeing ads for it A LOT online/social media. The ads were all very specifically saying to seen it to "FIND OUT WHY BLADE RUNNER IS THE WORLD'S #1 MOVIE!" It's absolutely effective, that's why it's a popular tactic. Movie advertising isn't nearly as regulated as, say, financial services, which wound up getting hit with a ton of truth-in-advertising regulations after the savings & loan scandals in the '80s (so any bank, credit union, or other financial services company basically has to have a full-time compliance staff in order to make sure the marketing people don't get out of line with puffery or statements that can't be proven).
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Facebook marketing and such is the top marketing because ya stupidly easy to hide that it’s a Ad.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Yeah, the schedule is usually set so you don't get big budget films colliding too much. You can be the number 1 movie and still easily do disappointing box office business. To be fair, there's never been a Blade Runner that performed to expectations, so it's not like they were surprised. Dystopian sci-fi films just don't sell unless they include 8 foot tall blue people or Sigourney Weaver. Include both and you really break some records.
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I remember talking to my dad about Blade Runner when the sequel came out (the original one is one of his all-time favourite movies) and he said he was very surprised that it got made at all, much less that it had apparently had so much money thrown behind it, because in his recollection the original wasn't a Star Wars level blockbuster by any means and was always more of a cult film.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I remember talking to my dad about Blade Runner when the sequel came out (the original one is one of his all-time favourite movies) and he said he was very surprised that it got made at all, much less that it had apparently had so much money thrown behind it, because in his recollection the original wasn't a Star Wars level blockbuster by any means and was always more of a cult film. His recollection wasn't wrong; Blade Runner made about $34 million at the box office and had hugely mixed reviews when it came out, largely praised for its design and visual effects but not much else. It started to get reassessed when the Director's Cut hit first laserdisc and then DVD, which is when it really began to be seen as a classic.
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This show was pure anti-comedy in that unique hanna barbara way
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Penpal posted:Does anyone know anything about modern film distribution? I know some cats in the forum work on the biz but not knowing their specific fields I don't want to assume. Yes, a bit. Each territory has a distributor.(With studios it's the same distributor, ie the studio, worldwide). Sometimes Canada and the US are the same territory, sometimes different. The distributor licenses the film to a theatre like Cineplex. Mounting a theatrical run is expensive; you have to pay what's called P&A - prints and advertising. That includes costs of physically getting the film to theatres (what used to be film but is now digital drives) and, more so, advertising it. Advertising can cost hundreds of thousands even for small films, and millions and millions for big ones. They probably decided that the cost of spending P&A was not worth the benefit that a theatrical run in Canada would bring.
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