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CharlieFoxtrot posted:"Hollywood accounting" has less to do with tax avoidance and more to do with minimizing the payment to profit participants (star actors, producers) and any person or company involved who receives extra payment or bonuses based on net profit milestones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHL91HQzhuc Didn't Universal put out a thing claiming they lost money on every single Harry Potter movie? Because after you lose a bunch of money on a film the smart thing is to make 7 more of them.
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I think they made the Harry Potter movies to get into jk Rowling’s pants because they made it up with the theme parks liscence.
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Skwirl posted:Didn't Universal put out a thing claiming they lost money on every single Harry Potter movie? Because after you lose a bunch of money on a film the smart thing is to make 7 more of them. Lord of the Rings sunk New Line!
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Thanks for the suggestions! I’ll definitely check em out!!
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Aug 14, 2018 23:31
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Quick question, watching Legend (1985) for the first time. Should I see the director's cut or the theatrical cut? Usually I'd just go with the former, but I saw that the latter had a Tangerine Dream soundtrack.
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Almost Blue posted:Quick question, watching Legend (1985) for the first time. Should I see the director's cut or the theatrical cut? Usually I'd just go with the former, but I saw that the latter had a Tangerine Dream soundtrack. It's been forever since I've seen it and I don't remember which version I saw, but I think you gotta go with the Tangerine Dream.
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Aug 18, 2018 19:27
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Are there other Ridley Scott movies as optimistic as The Martian?
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Aug 19, 2018 05:46
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No. I can't really remember A Good Year though, so maybe that.
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Coaaab posted:Are there other Ridley Scott movies as optimistic as The Martian? Gladiator posits a world where an expert murderer can guide a bloodthirsty mob to social progress. Also, where an afterlife exists, and mass murderers who really miss their families are allowed in.
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Aug 19, 2018 07:58
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The cat lives in Alien, that's nice.
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The happy ending of blade runner?
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Almost Blue posted:Quick question, watching Legend (1985) for the first time. Should I see the director's cut or the theatrical cut? Usually I'd just go with the former, but I saw that the latter had a Tangerine Dream soundtrack. Don’t waste your time with either. If you must watch it, just ff through any scene without tits, Danny Devito, or Tim Curry. There are no tits or Danny Devito in this movie.
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Skwirl posted:It's been forever since I've seen it and I don't remember which version I saw, but I think you gotta go with the Tangerine Dream. Remulak posted:Don’t waste your time with either. If you must watch it, just ff through any scene without tits, Danny Devito, or Tim Curry.
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I did end up going with the theatrical cut due to Skwirl's suggestion. I thought it was fun, but not great. Tim Curry is fantastic though. I'll have to check out the director's cut eventually but I think Tangerine Dream was a huge reason why I enjoyed it. I will say that if Danny DeVito played one of the dwarves or whatever with zero makeup, it would've been an enormous improvement.
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Read the Wikipedia article for further entertainment:quote:Scott's first cut of Legend ran 125 minutes long and was intended to be a very unpleasant horror film. He then believed there were minor plot points that could be trimmed and cut the film down to 113 minutes, so he tested this version for an audience in Orange County. However, it was decided that the audience had to work too much to be entertained, and another 20 minutes was cut. The 95-minute version was shown in Great Britain and then the film was cut down even further to 89 minutes for North America. * Of additional interest is that Goldsmith put a ton of work into the score, and even worked with the lyricist from the Carpenters to write several adorable little ballads that tied into the story and were sung by Mia Sara. They got cut from even the Director's Cut, I believe.
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Shoot, double post. Well, here's a question: what are some kids' movies that have sad endings and/or have the hero(es) die at the end? I can think of Iron Giant and Charlotte's Web right off the bat, and The Last Unicorn is bittersweet as hell. Others?
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Aug 20, 2018 15:33
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Any adaptation of The Little Prince. And if you're counting The Iron Giant, about half a dozen Disney films where the hero ostensibly dies in the final confrontation would qualify as well.
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Aug 20, 2018 15:50
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The best thing about Legend is that Link from The Legend of Zelda is actually based on Tom Cruise. So just think about that anytime you play a Zelda game.
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The Macaroni posted:Shoot, double post. Well, here's a question: what are some kids' movies that have sad endings and/or have the hero(es) die at the end? The ending of Time Bandits made me physically ill as a child
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The Macaroni posted:Shoot, double post. Well, here's a question: what are some kids' movies that have sad endings and/or have the hero(es) die at the end? Pay It Forward. Here's what you need to do: find a list of books that won the Newbery Medal, then check which ones were made into movies. 
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Wheat Loaf posted:Pay It Forward. Oh wow, here's a film I haven't thought about in nearly fifteen years. I think that and Simon Birch (which incidentally also ends with the death of its protagonist) were our pastor's favourite films.
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loving My Girl. morestuff posted:The ending of Time Bandits made me physically ill as a child I can’t remember the exact ending but the concentrated evil killing his parents, however awful they may have been, always screwed with me. Also the macabre game show where the old lady couldn’t answer the question and her husband drowned upside down in quicksand.
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Krispy Wafer posted:I can’t remember the exact ending but the concentrated evil killing his parents, however awful they may have been, always screwed with me. Yeah, this bit. I haven't seen it since then so if they deserved it, I've forgotten that part
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Samuel Clemens posted:Oh wow, here's a film I haven't thought about in nearly fifteen years. Kevin Spacey was more ubiquitous in the late 90s than I'd realised and it's already weird looking back at it.
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morestuff posted:The ending of Time Bandits made me physically ill as a child  To this day I still can't definitely state that this is a film actually intended for kids, but back in the 80s parents were just like "It has a kid and midgets, let's go see it!"
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Bridge to Terabithia
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morestuff posted:Yeah, this bit. I haven't seen it since then so if they deserved it, I've forgotten that part Did you really spoiler me on Time Bandits? They were endemic of what was wrong in that world in that they liked watching game shows where people died, fought all the time, and ignored their son. But they didn’t deserve that fate and it’s obvious their son loved them, which made the ending that much worse. The movie had great visuals though. For years I really thought Napoleon had a gold hand.
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One of the visuals that really struck me in Legend is that apart from a very few wide shots, the forest is 100% fabricated. They didn't go out into the woods and dress up an acre of land to look more fantastical, they just built a giant forest wholesale inside the studio. I believe the DVD special features had a whole section about the construction of it, with some gorgeous walk and flythroughs of it.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Pay It Forward. Pay it Forward is one of the worst loving films, watched it with family and the ending was so calculated to be emotionally manipulative I got angry.
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I had to watch it recently and it's insanely bad.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:One of the visuals that really struck me in Legend is that apart from a very few wide shots, the forest is 100% fabricated. They didn't go out into the woods and dress up an acre of land to look more fantastical, they just built a giant forest wholesale inside the studio.  The special features include a rough test version of it which is probably on YouTube somewhere but I couldn’t find it.
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Skwirl posted:Pay it Forward is one of the worst loving films, watched it with family and the ending was so calculated to be emotionally manipulative I got angry. Oh, yes, it's not very good at all, it was just the first thing that occurred to me when I thought "kids' movie where the protagonist dies". What was the name of that one where Macaulay Culkin gets stung to death by bees?
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Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder might be married: https://ew.com/movies/2018/08/18/wi...m_medium=social
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Wheat Loaf posted:What was the name of that one where Macaulay Culkin gets stung to death by bees? Came up already - My Girl.
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Alhazred posted:Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder might be married: Yeah but I am pretty sure her flipping him over to New Path is grounds for divorce.
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feedmyleg posted:The best thing about Legend is that Link from The Legend of Zelda is actually based on Tom Cruise. So just think about that anytime you play a Zelda game. Yeah, there's actually a number of elements that feel like they inspired the Zelda games. Some of the stuff I noticed were the appearance of fairies is a lot like Navi, there's a bit where they reflect light off of a bunch of different shields that reminds me of the mirror temple, and Darkness looks pretty similar to monster Ganon at the end of Ocarina of Time.
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In Yi Yi, why does the young Yang Yang jump into the swimming pool? Is he trying to win the attention of the swimming girl? Or trying to see things from her perspective?
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Almost Blue posted:Yeah, there's actually a number of elements that feel like they inspired the Zelda games. Some of the stuff I noticed were the appearance of fairies is a lot like Navi, there's a bit where they reflect light off of a bunch of different shields that reminds me of the mirror temple, and Darkness looks pretty similar to monster Ganon at the end of Ocarina of Time. Navi was supposedly inspired by Tinkerbell from Peter Pan, alongside Link's costume and ears. But I'm sure like many things there were multiple inspirations at play.
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morestuff posted:The ending of Time Bandits made me physically ill as a child I didn't make me ill but it was definitely my first  film ending, particularly with how firefighter Sean Connery just winks at the kid and drives off after his parents blow up.
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