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Hockles posted:So, he wanted the movie to end like Return of the Jedi and Happy Gilmore? Between this and the "Gladiator II is resurrected Russell Crowe as a god of war fighting through all of history's wars" I'd love to see all the crazy ideas that Hollywood could come up with.
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It watch the poo poo out of that
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Nov 20, 2018 03:48
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It's a shame Nick Cave's Gladiator II will never happen. Though he did write the screenplay for the remake of The Crow coming out next year, which has made me actually interested in it again after so many terrible sequels.
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MichiganCubbie posted:Between this and the "Gladiator II is resurrected Russell Crowe as a god of war fighting through all of history's wars" I'd love to see all the crazy ideas that Hollywood could come up with. This is good but not as good as Ridley Scott’s “Jesus Christ was actually an Engineer” take for Prometheus
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:This is good but not as good as Ridley Scott’s “Jesus Christ was actually an Engineer” take for Prometheus Well he was a 30 year old virgin.
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MichiganCubbie posted:Between this and the "Gladiator II is resurrected Russell Crowe as a god of war fighting through all of history's wars" I'd love to see all the crazy ideas that Hollywood could come up with. I just watched a youtube that went over the Avengers movie we almost got in the 70s - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGKPu8_38uo To shortcut it, Dazzler, leading the (then) Avengers (plus Spider-man) in a three way battle in Fantasy Apocalypse New York against Donna Summer and the Village people against Cher and KISS. Rodney Dangerfield was being tossed around to play the villain - Evil Triplet Lawyers and Robin Williams was going to be playing basically Hoggle from Labyrinth, tricking Dazzler into fighting this war, but turning against his masters out of love for her.
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CzarChasm posted:I just watched a youtube that went over the Avengers movie we almost got in the 70s - Please don’t tease me like that.
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Quote-Unquote posted:It's a shame Nick Cave's Gladiator II will never happen. Though he did write the screenplay for the remake of The Crow coming out next year, which has made me actually interested in it again after so many terrible sequels. There's no way that Crow movie is coming out. It has been in production hell for years and every time they get somebody they eventually leave because there's no movement on the production.
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Nov 20, 2018 22:52
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Yeah this is some Jodorowsky's Dune stuff
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Just got around to watching I Kill Giants on Netflix. I like that they don't skimp on the effects when she is shown dealing with them, and finally seeing the Warhammer when fighting the Titan is awesome. It has a very strong sense of mythology as well, although it's vague whether her behaviour is being shown literally or whether she's just seeking out storms to be self destructive/help her forget about her mother's condition. It seems like kind of both. I particularly like this early scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuDxcgbtV6U
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Nov 24, 2018 14:51
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Watching The Expanse, and I really love the designs and art direction for the show. One example, there's a tattoo that a bunch of spacers have on their neck, that in one of the later episodes the guy mentions that particular pattern is how the old space helmets used to burn you. It's a toss away detail about a scar and a tattoo but I love that they thought enough to include it.
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I like how characters like Naomi and MIller change their native accents to fit in
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I love how everything is oriented vertically on ships so they don't need magic future gravity generators and use thrust for weight.
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Dec 2, 2018 16:02
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Bohemian Rhapsody is a great, fun movie that critics are kinda "meh" about but audiences love, a perfect reflection of how pretty much everything Queen did was received.
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Bohemian Rhapsody was loving amazing what the hell are critics thinking?! loving wankers.
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Queen Combat posted:Bohemian Rhapsody was loving amazing what the hell are critics thinking?! loving wankers. Your name...
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Queen Combat posted:Bohemian Rhapsody was loving amazing what the hell are critics thinking?! loving wankers. calm down dude
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They did cut out the AIDS stuff.
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Anything that wasn't a musical performance or a scene about the creation of music in Bohemian Rhapsody was extremely boring.
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CzarChasm posted:I just watched a youtube that went over the Avengers movie we almost got in the 70s - I believe he even says it in this video, but I was already thinking it by the time he laid out the pitch: cocaine is a hell of a drug.
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It also completely made up Mercury breaking the band up and having to grovel to Brian May and Roger Taylor to go perform Live Aid, none of which happened. I'm sure Brian May and Roger Taylor being executive producers on the movie and coming out of it smelling like a rose is purely coincidence.
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packetmantis posted:They did cut out the AIDS stuff. So realistically Compton is the better movie. It usually is.
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packetmantis posted:They did cut out the AIDS stuff. 1) No they didn't. 2) If you want to get really accurate about it, they should have cut the AIDS stuff given Freddie wasn't diagnosed til two years after the film ended.
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But they did cast Mike Myers as the record exec who tries to argue against releasing Bohemian Rhapsody as a single, because they want a single that kids will play in their car driving down the freeway, and Bohemian Rhapsody can't be that.
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Cleretic posted:But they did cast Mike Myers as the record exec who tries to argue against releasing Bohemian Rhapsody as a single, because they want a single that kids will play in their car driving down the freeway, and Bohemian Rhapsody can't be that. Yeah,they created a role for that joke, and to make an antagonist, because EMI's chief actually loved Queen and felt bad about Bohemian Rhapsody being too long for a single, but he was trying to be realistic about it.
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Best scene in Bohemian Rhapsody was Freddy playing an emotional ballad on the piano and Paul asking what it was called, but I had seen Spinal Tap only the day before. Second best was "without us you'd still be a baggage handler" "yeah well without me you'd be an astrophysicist, a dentist and an engineer"
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I loved the unintentional joke that seemed to indicate that Live Aid was failing to raise $1 Million, until Queen took the stage. It's like a bad teen sitcom where they have to save the rec plex with the Talent Show and the last act to go on wins all the money.
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I really have a hard time putting my finger on why the retroactive millennial Freddie Mercury worship bugs me. You see lots of teenagers online tripping over themselves to proclaim how much their peers' music sucks and how Queen was "real music". Freddie was a fabulous frontman and a very entertaining and supremely talented singer. Queen were a fun band. But they were neither particularly original nor substantive. There's a place for that, but the kids who worship them don't seem to also appreciate any other classic music. Just Queen. The criteria that would rate Queen the best band ever seem to dovetail significantly with the values of a generation who grew up on American Idol, X-Factor, America's Got Talent, etc. Showmanship and virtuosity and entertainment. Bread and circuses. A mile wide and an inch deep. I dunno, I like "Don't Stop Me Now" and "Show Must Go On". They've got some great songs. But they're not in any way better, to me, than T. Rex, David Bowie, Elton John, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles, Talking Heads, or the Clash, or any number of other 60s-70s bands that aren't the subject of a million memes by the youths.
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I dunno man, that scene is Wayne's World is just so "iconic".
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Its mostly trickle down nostalgia with things like Waynes World and the recent biopic and the fact freddie is a hot swarthy bi dude who died young thus being a good fit for this generations preferred icon of the past.
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Kramdar posted:I dunno man, that scene is Wayne's World is just so "iconic". Honestly it's really more about Highlander
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Imagined posted:I really have a hard time putting my finger on why the retroactive millennial Freddie Mercury worship bugs me. You see lots of teenagers online tripping over themselves to proclaim how much their peers' music sucks and how Queen was "real music". Freddie was a fabulous frontman and a very entertaining and supremely talented singer. Queen were a fun band. But they were neither particularly original nor substantive. There's a place for that, but the kids who worship them don't seem to also appreciate any other classic music. Just Queen. Great choices btw. I don't get the Queen worship either but whatever. Someone somewhere commented about how their trick was doing songs the audience could chant/sing. I think part of it has to do with the more modern acceptance of homosexuality and a better understanding of AIDS so certain historical figures are seen in a fresh and more celebrated light. Also there's an Elton John biopic being made too but the trailer didn't look too good. As an old, I'm just encouraged whenever I see good music transcending generations like this. Gives me hope. I'm at the stage where I hate anything new that isn't Buckethead and worry about what "the kids" are listening to so when I see a 21 year old wearing a Purple Rain t-shirt I feel good.
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They were actually really good, hth. They weren't alone in that, I agree. But every musician I know says they're good.
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I mean, a lot of people like Queen, tho. Im a Pink Floyd fan and consider them the greatest band that ever existed, even though I was born just a year before The Division Bell, so what do I know.
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I think it's Freddie's serous eyebrows. Eyebrows are in right now, just look at Emilia Clarke and whoever's playing devil-worshipping Sabrina.
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Queen’s just fun. They had a good two decade run with Boomers, a 90’s revival with Gen-X, and now Millennials almost 30 years after that.
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I can't think of a single modern song that has subject matter anywhere near as unusual as Bohemian Rhapsody. I think there needs to be more songs that aren't just about the here and now.
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Beachcomber posted:I can't think of a single modern song that has subject matter anywhere near as unusual as Bohemian Rhapsody. Disco Duck was #1 song in 1976 and its about turning into a duck and deciding that shouldnt stop you from picking up chicks. Pop music is and has always been weird.
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Beachcomber posted:I can't think of a single modern song that has subject matter anywhere near as unusual as Bohemian Rhapsody. I assume you mean fairly recent and popular? Otherwise you need to diversify your interests before filing this kind of complaint.
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Beachcomber posted:I can't think of a single modern song that has subject matter anywhere near as unusual as Bohemian Rhapsody. Bohemian Rhapsody is about a murderer, his judgement and subsequent 'gently caress it'-ism. It's not actually that complicated a story and it's not really beloved because of it, it's much more about the instrumentation, spectacle, and some of the weird poo poo they did in recording it (they literally couldn't play it live in full, they usually did part of another song instead of the 'let him go' part). I think part of it is also, honestly, hype and momentum. I love the song, and it deserves the praise it gets, but it gets its podium in large part because it already has that podium. It's a lot harder to score that spot in the first place even if you do just write something that huge and crazy.
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