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Not animation but they did 21 & 22 Jump Street which are both hilarious, full of tons of meta humour about reboots and sequels
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They dirrcted the pilot for The Last Man On Earth, and Will Forte named his character Phil Miller to gently caress with them. 21 and 22 Jump Street are both hilarious buddy cop action films, and the two seasons of How I Met Your Mother they were head writers on are the best two. Basically, animation, live action, tv, or film, they really can't do any wrong. They have one of the most solid records out there. [Edit: I don't know if Extreme Movie is any good but it appears to be a Lonely Island/Lord & Miller collab so ...] asecondduck fucked around with this message at 06:13 on Feb 26, 2019 |
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LeJackal posted:Are you talking about his suit? What are you trying to get at 🤔
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one of the guys involved in 22 Jump Street's screenplay (Rodney Rothman) is also the one of Spiderverse's three directors directly involved with its screenplay
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Feb 26, 2019 06:17
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Digamma-F-Wau posted:one of the guys involved in 22 Jump Street's screenplay (Rodney Rothman) is also the one of Spiderverse's three directors directly involved with its screenplay Having multiple directors sounds like a recipe for a clusterfuck, but then again with a big budget animated movie maybe that's actually a good idea compared to outsourcing scenes.
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Hedrigall posted:What are you trying to get at 🤔 Miles Morales is bi-racial, and it seems kind of weird to just completely ignore his Latino heritage as if that doesn't matter.
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Feb 26, 2019 13:30
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I forgot.
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Feb 26, 2019 13:31
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Just imagine how marginally watchable Solo would have been if Lucasfilm had some goddamn faith in their directors.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Just imagine how marginally watchable Solo would have been if Lucasfilm had some goddamn faith in their directors. I was literally thinking about that this morning. I’d love to see their cut of it.
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Feb 26, 2019 14:37
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asecondduck posted:the two seasons of How I Met Your Mother they were head writers on are the best two. They only worked on parts of the first season, and I'd hesitate to call them head writers when Bays and Thomas had the writing credits on all the "big" episodes of that season, like the pilot and the finale. The two episodes they are the credited writers on are pretty good though.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Just imagine how marginally watchable Solo would have been if Lucasfilm had some goddamn faith in their directors. I honestly think Solo is a perfectly solid, watchable movie as is, but I agree that it could have used a more personal stamp and it would have been nice to see Lord and Miller's vision for it.
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Macaluso posted:They also made Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which is basically a perfect movie Seriously, that movie had no right to be as good as it was. I was really surprised by it.
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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-mn-emma-thompson-john-lasseter-skydance-20190226-story.html Rather then working with Lasseter, Emma Thompson stepped down from a movie.
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howe_sam posted:They only worked on parts of the first season, and I'd hesitate to call them head writers when Bays and Thomas had the writing credits on all the "big" episodes of that season, like the pilot and the finale. The two episodes they are the credited writers on are pretty good though. Huh, I could have sworn they were listed as co-exec producers for the second and third season. My mistake!
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Finally got around to seeing Ralph Breaks the Internet. Woof.
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ALFbrot posted:Finally got around to seeing Ralph Breaks the Internet. Yeah, my kids watched it last weekend and checked out pretty quickly. The dialogue felt like a bunch of slogans from PSA posters chained together
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The version of WBTI I watched had some... interesting subtitles https://twitter.com/asecondduck/status/1080287582276210688 The movie was better for it I think
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ALFbrot posted:Finally got around to seeing Ralph Breaks the Internet. Yeah it's loving bad.
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Came back from How to Train Your Dragon 3 tonight. It is mostly going to be what you expect. These people create jaw-droppingly beautiful animations. They are masters at wringing emotions. They got cute dragons and they know how to use 'em. And I'm feeling as mixed about it as you'd expect as well. The incredible strength of the original HTTYD lay in the symmetry and simplicity of its themes: Prejudices can be overcome. Toxicity can be overcome. Cycles of hatred and violence can be overcome with education and empathy. But the overall theme of this final installment seems to be that...nah, they can't? Or that only some people can overcome those things? For the rest of this shithole of a planet, though, the best we can hope for is to try to get away from their bullshit? So because we fundamentally cannot make the primo assholes of the world stop destroying all the good creatures in it, we're just gonna hide those creatures away and then...maybe, someday, not now but in some potential future if we work really hard at it or if we're really lucky I guess...the world might be ready to live peaceably with them in a way that it isn't ready for now. ...yeah like. It almost feels like the original HTTYD was a film that encapsulated 2010, while this film is one that encapsulates 2019.
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BrianWilly posted:...yeah like. It almost feels like the original HTTYD was a film that encapsulated 2010, while this film is one that encapsulates 2019. I think this is more apt than you intended. The original HTTYD is about how killing the right monster will make everyone get along in a happy cross-species paradise. So yeah, it's very much a movie from the Obama years, a period that left us burdened with dumb concepts like "toxicity".
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:They also made the Lego movie! Dudes are doing great.
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starkebn posted:Yeah, my kids watched it last weekend and checked out pretty quickly. The dialogue felt like a bunch of slogans from PSA posters chained together Yeah, remember when the movie became about cyberbullying for one scene, and then never again? Great stuff.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:dumb concepts like "toxicity". What?
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I really enjoyed HTTYD3. It's not perfect. Ruffnut acts incredibly stupid in a scene solely for the purposes of moving the plot along, Hiccup's mom doesn't get to be nearly as badass as she was in part 2, and I don't think it quite hits the emotional highs of the first movie. But if you aren't getting misty eyed at the ending I don't know what to tell you. There's also from downright beautiful animation from a lot of the dragons and some really nice quiet scenes where you can just enjoy the music and the cool dragons.
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I’ve never liked the design of the dragons except toothless. They never seemed to fit right with the rest of the world design. There I said it.
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Nikaer Drekin posted:Yeah, remember when the movie became about cyberbullying for one scene, and then never again? Great stuff. Remember when even that was only the barest, barest attempt to address any ills the internet has to offer? Setting aside the convoluted plotting, hollow emotional underpinning, complete breakdown of established rules, and obnoxious "brand leveraging," I was struck by just how much the movie primes the audience of children to be internet consumers. Ralph and Vanellope are besieged by pop-ups promising lonely housewives, weight loss, and get-rich-quick schemes, which almost plays like a "haha wow, isn't the internet full of garbage?" except that they then follow Spamley into his seedy venture, only to be given a legitimate avenue to get $40,000 very quickly playing video games. There's no catch! He even helps Ralph again later at no personal benefit, and then attempts to save his life in the climax. What a nice, helpful man! Click away, children! Then they head to BuzzTube, headed by an extremely busy media mogul who rightly dismisses them until she recognizes viral potential. Completely inexplicably, she decides to abandon all her work and help Ralph reach his goal for ten hours. She is obviously exploiting him and making him completely sell out and whore himself onto every vapid meme trend of the moment, regardless of consequence. What's the fallout from this? Nothing! Ralph gets popular, and is handed $30,000. And then she tries to help save them in the climax. What a benevolent force for good this medium is. Content is king, children! Meanwhile, Vanellope is sent out as part of a pop-up army, trying their best to get Ralph the engagement he needs. In this way, clicking on ads and consuming content is framed as a noble act: doing your part to help the humble Content Creators get what they need to survive. There's about 20 seconds spent in the "dark web", but it's barely explored. There's another 10 seconds of failed and old website wasteland, but this is played for laughs instead of as a grim reminder that all this new and shiny stuff will similarly be ground into dust and forgotten when the next thing comes along. The only downside portrayed is the aforementioned comments section, but even that is sanitized and just encouraging kids that they can consume whatever garbage is out there, as long as they don't engage with the comments. Keep watching, kids! Buy away! I wasn't expecting them to have avatars making GBS threads everywhere and shouting racial slurs, or for Ralph and Vanellope to stumble into 4chan or gamergate or anything, but I was hoping there would be SOMETHING there to teach kids how to safely view the internet. Instead, it's presented as a safe and fun playground where everyone is actually very friendly and helpful. Without this extremely gross-feeling coating around it, I MAYBE could've looked past some of RBTI's other issues, but instead they were magnified.
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Plus they give a totally false depiction of how ebay(or any kind of real world) bidding works. I bet that really irked some people there despite the brand partnership. Was there any innuendo towards internet porn because lol if they did and I missed it.
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Shaocaholica posted:Plus they give a totally false depiction of how ebay(or any kind of real world) bidding works. I bet that really irked some people there despite the brand partnership. As far as I remember, only the housewives pop-up ad.
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See I would have just had an 'adult-hub' billboard out of focus in the background somewhere in the dark web zone or at the end hidden in the chaos of the action because I'm edgy like that.
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the adult hub is just people complaining about doing their taxes
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Wendell posted:What? ignore that guy, he's a twit who can't grasp the concept of 'stop making GBS threads up threads of things you don't like'
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Wow, I was not expecting Pirates! Band of Misfits! to end with [spoiler] 19th century pizza gate being real. [spoiler]
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HTTYD3's ending seems tacked on. Or rather, seems like the rest of the movie was tacked onto it. (and I assume given the monologue that it was taken directly from the books)
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Ghost Leviathan posted:HTTYD3's ending seems tacked on. Or rather, seems like the rest of the movie was tacked onto it. (and I assume given the monologue that it was taken directly from the books) Oh just wait till you see the new Holiday special 
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Most of it was fine, but I really didn't like the ending of HTTYD3; it didn't seem earned. Okay, Toothless leaving, that was foreshadowed enough. But why did everyone else suddenly decide to tell their dragons to go at the same time? There was no indication at all that anyone else was going through the same struggle Toothless was, and as far as I could tell, by the beginning of the movie, they were already doing a pretty bang-up job treating the dragons as equals rather than as pets or slaves. And the conclusion Hiccup seemed to have drawn, that the world wasn't ready for dragons, was based on a sample size of one person (given that they'd been fighting off all the others for years and never given it a second thought). Not to mention that historically, I don't think there has ever been any occasion where segregating two communities resulted in them liking each other more.
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Not to mention it seemed like New Berk would be a difficult place to live for a population suddenly deprived of flying steeds, where it was specifically pointed out as perfectly sustainable and defensible for their community as it was. Thing is, the ending could have worked if they'd actually made an effort to earn it; that most of the world views dragons as dangerous monsters at worst, living weapons at best, and that a dragon-riding community is such a target for powerful empires that they're better off hiding the dragons until more of humanity outside one village learns to respect nature. But that doesn't gel with how Berk's dragon riders were indicated to be both a strong community and a military superpower, and under Hiccup's leadership able to be both fierce and kind when necessary, enough to win the trust of a wild dragon who understandably fears and distrusts humans. Of course, that'd probably mean their victory in the end would have to be more bittersweet than optimistic, and can't have that tone for a Hollywood movie.
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This is super funny, but I totally understand why it got cut. From what I've seen of the deleted scenes I really respect how the creators of Into the Spiderverse were willing to sacrifice some really good stuff in order to preserve the overall tone and flow of the movie.
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