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There are really a ton of great movies all the time now. Honest! The big budget, heavily promoted stuff is almost all garbage. But there is no shortage of original, interesting, moving, funny stuff every year. A couple hours of research every few months goes a very long way.
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Antioch posted:Trap sprung and all, but man I'd watch an Urza movie so hard. Big climactic battle in the forest at the end, Mishra gets blasted, and you have an inbuilt sequel hook in the Phyrexian stuff. That would be great in the right hands. MTG is a good IP for a movie, but I read one of the tie-in books once and it was very bad. It seemed more concerned with worming the cards for the set into the story than actually creating a story around the setting and characters. Maybe the books are better now, as this was the Ice Age one and that was like 16 years ago.
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Mar 5, 2019 16:52
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Remakes/reboots have nothing to do with Hollywood's lack of creativity and everything to do with retaining property rights. Here's a weird/funny pic. 
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Mar 5, 2019 17:09
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Besesoth posted:There are 139 movies currently scheduled for theatrical release in 2019 (including those already released in Jan/Feb). Of those, nine (9) are remakes, and I'm including as many films as I can justify in that number (for example, I don't know what the animated Addams Family movie will be about, but I'm counting it as a remake). 21 are sequels or part of a shared cinematic universe. Of the rest, 14, as far as I can tell, are based on existing properties. This, and plenty of examples from 70's, 80's and 90's of movie studios grenading themselves with hugely expensive box office flops, and people keep wondering why the "big money" movies are almost always sequels or remakes. Unless you are laundering money for Pablo loving Escobar it would be foolish to burn all your resources on vanity/Oscar bait/experimental projects. Its not art for art's sake, its entertainment business. Make money with the cash cows and sometimes try out new ideas.
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Mar 5, 2019 17:26
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Also, heaven forbid people in this hellish timeline enjoy things
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I'd only put it at 50-50 odds, at best. Wizards of the Coast are actually pretty good at managing the MtG brand, and they're quite probably smart enough to not let the writers resort to that damnable cliche if they have any influence on the production at all. Lol no they're loving not. They almost destroyed the game over the last few years to the point of needing emergency bans in Standard (their flagship format for competitive play, something really drastic which had previously happened all of 2 or 3 times across 25 years of the game....now they had to do it 3 times inside of a year). But since then they've been scrambling to sustain the incredible growth the game had from about 2011 through 2015, resulting in some abysmal marketing decisions. Look up the most recent nonsense with their new digital game, Arena, and you'll see nothing but a series of bad decisions, including another emergency ban to avoid major embarrassment over their inability to write competent software in their big first event with this product (they're trying so hard to force "we're an e-sport now!" but have no idea what that means.....to the point where in the same announcement saying that, they also mentioned there would be no video coverage of Grand Prix events until further notice (now renamed "Magic Fest" because why not rebrand something 20+ years old suddenly for no reason)). Iron Crowned posted:MTG is a good IP for a movie, but I read one of the tie-in books once and it was very bad. It seemed more concerned with worming the cards for the set into the story than actually creating a story around the setting and characters. Maybe the books are better now, as this was the Ice Age one and that was like 16 years ago. I've been slowly reading through the whole catalog since my gf has all of them, and it varies. Mirrodin was hands down the worst, with absolutely zero depth to characters, zero plot, etc. Currently on Kamigawa, and it's not amazing, but there are actually some characters, lots of stuff that would translate well to action on screen, and a much better plot than "Memnarch wants to kill everyone and that is bad". Johnny Aztec posted:I would hesitantly say that the Brothers War would make a pretty good film. Exactly this. They really need to stick with the old, old stories and avoid the whole love affair with the Gatewatch characters. Sadly someone else had it right, and they'll stick to Jace as their poster-boy, as that's their target demographic's perfect little Mary Sue character....scrawny nerd who was bullied and thinks he's smarter than everyone else in the room at all times, somehow slept with every other female character. You know they'd never risk a woman as a protagonist. The winner of the first rebranded Pro Tour event ("Mythic Championship") was Autumn Burchett, who identifies as non-binary. The reaction is exactly what you'd expect.
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Mar 5, 2019 17:44
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The Bloop posted:Also, heaven forbid people in this hellish timeline enjoy things A newspaper cartoon of two guys chained to a wall with flames leaping all around, a devil in the background with a pitchfork. One guy is wearing a Hawaiian shirt, he turns to the other and says "yeah but it's a dry heat!"
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Phy posted:A newspaper cartoon of two guys chained to a wall with flames leaping all around, a devil in the background with a pitchfork. One guy is wearing a Hawaiian shirt, he turns to the other and says "yeah but it's a dry heat!" haha that's a good one!
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https://twitter.com/CatrionaBlack/status/1102239174709657600 (It's one of those sequined shirts where the sequins flip up or down to reveal different designs)
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Mar 5, 2019 17:57
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Is it just me or does the one side look more like it says 'SHATE' anyway?
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Mar 5, 2019 18:04
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thespaceinvader posted:Is it just me or does the one side look more like it says 'SHATE' anyway? your monitor is a piece of poo poo
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Mar 5, 2019 18:19
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Krankenstyle posted:your monitor is a piece of shite
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Mar 5, 2019 18:20
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Krankenstyle posted:your monitor is a piece of shate
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Mar 5, 2019 18:22
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Krankenstyle posted:Your monitor lizard is a large lizard in the genus Varanus. It are native to Africa, Asia and Oceania, but are now found also in the Americas as an invasive species. A total of 79 species are currently recognized.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Considering how popular YT D&D groups are that could feasibly work. Critical Role put up a Kickstarter yesterday for an animated special and have already broken $4.2 million. There's 44 days left to go and the number is still slowly rising, making it one of the most funded entertainment projects in Kickstarter history.
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biracial bear for uncut posted:I think that's a stock photo model, but yeah, I don't get it either. i don't get this post ???????
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Mar 5, 2019 19:27
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:There's been a ton of films based on toys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_based_on_toys So many direct to video. The true winner here has to be "Action Man: The Gangrene Code. Direct to video, Mexico only"
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Mar 5, 2019 19:36
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Besesoth posted:There are 139 movies currently scheduled for theatrical release in 2019 (including those already released in Jan/Feb). Of those, nine (9) are remakes, and I'm including as many films as I can justify in that number (for example, I don't know what the animated Addams Family movie will be about, but I'm counting it as a remake). 21 are sequels or part of a shared cinematic universe. Of the rest, 14, as far as I can tell, are based on existing properties. Yeah, what's funny about those complaints of originality is that they're always focused on big blockbusters. So either they don't really pay attention to movies coming out and only notice the big franchise movies because they have a fuckton of ads, or they just really want more original popcorn schlock.
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Mar 5, 2019 19:40
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the mtg film might get r-rated because of all the bare arses
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Hogge Wild posted:the mtg film might get r-rated because of all the bare arses 
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He was the hero this game needed, and he ate a massive ban for our sins.
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Is that guy in the background sweating around his neck? Is taht sweat??
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Yeah, probably. High summer, un-air-conditioned venue, at a guess.
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Why do these nerds subject themselves to these situations. Why would they want to be stuck inside a warehouse full of moist dorks sweating through their clothes and letting their asses hang out
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Mar 5, 2019 20:31
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Those venues are usually loving freezing, speaking as someone who's almost never cold. That said, yeah it's probably sweat anyway, you have neckbeards that never walk more than a mile a month trudging around with 30+ lb bags of cards on their backs. According to my fitbit thing I walk several miles a day at GPs, since you're going to the vendor booths, bathrooms at the end of the hall, where they post the pairing lists, finding your table that changes every round, etc.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I'd say there's a pretty high chance that's exactly what they're going to do. The most recent high fantasy live action film was Warcraft which absolutely bombed domestically (but mysteriously performed super well internationally) Wait, why is this mysterious? It's not a secret at all that major movies are made with foreign movies in mind. If you're a millennial this has been the case nearly your entire adult life. It's not a conspiracy and never had been.
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That relationship is not daseined to last.
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Since when is a drain a toilet?! Different pipes go to different places, you’re gonna mix them up!
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Mar 5, 2019 22:51
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You can save even more water if you just pee outside. I mean, it's legal to let my dog pee outside, why can't I?
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Mar 5, 2019 22:51
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Ak Gara posted:You can save even more water if you just pee outside. You're my old neighbor, aren't you.
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What recommendations will you provide me with this week, oh personalized Spotify Discovery playlist? I guess it must have noticed I have been listening to Aphex Twin - ""ΔMi−1 = −αΣn=1NDi[n][Σj∈C[i]Fji[n − 1] + Fexti[n−1]]" a lot lately.
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It's not legal to pee outside in america?
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