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Brother Entropy posted:yeah there's a reason every big name game these days has to be a 'live service' with constant updates or DLCs or the like in order to keep the game in the news cycle for years The only exception is when the fanbase is passionate enough to do that for free - Skyrim, Minecraft, Fallout New Vegas, etc etc
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:we had a singing cowboy movie last year Technically the singing cowboy was just the opener, the movie is an anthology.
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Aug 2, 2019 22:19
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Peanut President posted:bring back westerns hell yea
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Aug 3, 2019 01:12
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westerns only got good after the italians got a hold of them and fixed them for us. before that it was nothing but full blast racism and misogyny OR the impossibly lame Gene Autry/Roy Rogers musicals. e: and they made literally hundreds of them a year. the saturation dwarfed the superhero poo poo we have now though back then there were actually c- d- list studios just to pump them out
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Aug 3, 2019 01:18
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there was that Christian Bale western too.l, and the Sisters Brothers. are there more revisionist westerns than normal ones now?
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Logan was a western
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got any sevens posted:there was that Christian Bale western too.l, and the Sisters Brothers. hell im trying to think of a single one that came out after the 60s. everyone was tired of John Fords corny poo poo and had moved on to Peckinpah and Eastwood and that was that.
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WampaLord posted:Logan was a western super hero movies are westerns lowtax is a western, just needs to get back on the horse
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and by that I mean heroin
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A Big Fuckin Hornet posted:hell im trying to think of a single one that came out after the 60s. everyone was tired of John Fords corny poo poo and had moved on to Peckinpah and Eastwood and that was that. yeah even something like Silverado seems quaint now, but the sheriff is the bad guy and the heroes are multicultural
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got any sevens posted:yeah even something like Silverado seems quaint now, but the sheriff is the bad guy and the heroes are multicultural the best part of the shift was how mad it made John Wayne lol
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Aug 3, 2019 01:36
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Civilized Fishbot posted:The only exception is when the fanbase is passionate enough to do that for free - Skyrim, Minecraft, Fallout New Vegas, etc etc I'm pretty sure 99.99% of Skyrim players never used a mod, which makes its enduring popularity all that much stranger.
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Aug 3, 2019 01:39
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A Big Fuckin Hornet posted:westerns only got good after the italians got a hold of them and fixed them for us. before that it was nothing but full blast racism and misogyny OR the impossibly lame Gene Autry/Roy Rogers musicals. THe western craze was vastly superior to the superhero mania, because even though most westerns were trash, it still produced a non-zero amount of classic movies, which is more than the superhero genre can say for itself.
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Aug 3, 2019 01:41
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steinrokkan posted:I'm pretty sure 99.99% of Skyrim players never used a mod, which makes its enduring popularity all that much stranger. it helps that skyrim has been re-released every 2 years since it came out on every single available platform to ensure as many people played it as possible
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Aug 3, 2019 01:52
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the bitcoin of weed posted:it helps that skyrim has been re-released every 2 years since it came out on every single available platform to ensure as many people played it as possible except mac 
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Aug 3, 2019 01:53
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cant game on a mac
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I ran modded skyrim (at lowest settings) on a Mac through the wine client but I don’t recommend it, was a huge pain
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Notice how people always bring up the point that "100s of western movies were being made each year" while overlooking the fact that the number of theatrically released movies has gone down drastically over the past few decades. Most places would probably only show about 50-75 movies in a year.
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Aug 3, 2019 02:14
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an actual dog posted:it owns how everyone has completely forgotten about red dead redemption 2 in the same way they immediately forgot about avatar Nick Mullen hasn't an much like the people who couldn't get over avatar wanted to be Navi he wishes he was born in the 19th century
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Aug 3, 2019 02:24
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RDR2 sucked. Technically it was a beautiful, immersive game, but the story was half baked and pointless. Rockstar could really use some better writers.
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Aug 3, 2019 02:32
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got any sevens posted:there was that Christian Bale western too.l, and the Sisters Brothers. You pretty much can't do 'normal' Westerns anymore, there's not really anywhere left to go with them. That and any Western that tackles interesting themes is probably gonna be called revisionist anyway. WampaLord posted:Logan was a western There's also a shitload of media that borrows from Western filmmaking language too.
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MizPiz posted:Notice how people always bring up the point that "100s of western movies were being made each year" while overlooking the fact that the number of theatrically released movies has gone down drastically over the past few decades. Most places would probably only show about 50-75 movies in a year. it was also in the newsreel/doublefeature era, those 100s of movies were only about an hour long. plus it was before US v Paramount and long before nationwide releases were a thing. so not every small mid-sized town even saw the same movies. hollywood has always been like this wrt saturating popular trends and theres always only a tiny percentage that ever get remembered anyway, but the western craze really was bonkers. that Simpsons joke about being Gabby Hayes Big was on point lol
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Toplowtech posted:No the really terrifying thing is how loving seriously we were supposed to welcome a loving GHOSTBUSTER remake with a snl cast. no self-respecting ghostbusters movie would cast performers from saturday night live!
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Aug 3, 2019 11:57
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Lol that has to be a joke post
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Aug 3, 2019 14:37
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an actual dog posted:it owns how everyone has completely forgotten about red dead redemption 2 in the same way they immediately forgot about avatar I haven't, I just have nobody to talk about it with
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sitchensis posted:RDR2 sucked. Technically it was a beautiful, immersive game, but the story was half baked and pointless. Rockstar could really use some better writers. Wrong
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Aug 3, 2019 15:25
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the true grit remake was a good western
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The world would be a much better place if we got a ergio Leone expanded universe instead of Marvel / Star Wars expanded universe. I mean, Ennio Morricone is still active to infuse those movies with atmosphere, and producing better art as a 100 year old corpse than all of Hollywood combined.
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Dreylad posted:the true grit remake was a good western I strongly agree with you
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steinrokkan posted:The world would be a much better place if we got a ergio Leone expanded universe instead of Marvel / Star Wars expanded universe. I mean, Ennio Morricone is still active to infuse those movies with atmosphere, and producing better art as a 100 year old corpse than all of Hollywood combined. I've just watched highlights of Once Upon he Time in The West, and it's amazing how it thoroughly owns current movies on every single level. Death to Hollywood.
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steinrokkan posted:I've just watched highlights of Once Upon he Time in The West, and it's amazing how it thoroughly owns current movies on every single level. Death to Hollywood. Hell, I just bought Batman on iTunes the other week and the filmmaking in that feels like Oscar-caliber level stuff on all fronts these days, Once Upon A Time In The West looks like it was delivered from a planet where all the aliens thought about was "how do I make a really, really, really great movie" And then you consider how each generation gets worse and worse about not wanting to watch something older than a certain age (usually older than whatever decade is the in vogue "retro" one) and it's like "oh boy, can't wait until every loving filmmaker in Hollywood's biggest cited influence is loving Joss Whedon's The Avengers". It's also fascinating to watch as Hollywood continues to squat down on only ever having movies take place in New York or San Francisco or suburbs of coastal megalopolises and be about rich people, and middle America, unsurprisingly, stops going to more and more of them.
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in the year 2040 every movie will either take place in manhattan or elizabethan england
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if clint eastwood had been a hollywood liberal and not a chud would hollywood recall TGTBTU more
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steinrokkan posted:I'm pretty sure 99.99% of Skyrim players never used a mod, which makes its enduring popularity all that much stranger. holy poo poo, I thought all that effort had a way wider audience.
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Civilized Fishbot posted:holy poo poo, I thought all that effort had a way wider audience. The number is actually 69.420%. The most popular Skyrim mod at Skyrim Nexus has 5 million unique downloads so I would bet Skyrim modding is way more popular than 0.01% of players or whatever, especially since the console version get mods now too. Tiny Timbs has issued a correction as of 02:06 on Aug 5, 2019 |
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an actual dog posted:market research for movie goers is increasingly showing that people aren't going to movies anymore just to go to the movies, like if they just want something to watch they're streaming something. the thing that gets people into theaters are big events, and that means remakes and sequels and this movie is so important. its really pushed out comedies, and if your drama isn't an oscar play it's not getting made. might help if taking ur family to the movies wasn't a $100+ excursion!
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fabergay egg posted:might help if taking ur family to the movies wasn't a $100+ excursion! well it's always been expensive to buy food at the movies but wages used to be keep pace with inflation at the very least.
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you fuckin idiots lol. just buy candy and drinks at Walgreens and have your mom put them in her purse...
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The Cameo posted:Hell, I just bought Batman on iTunes the other week and the filmmaking in that feels like Oscar-caliber level stuff on all fronts these days, Once Upon A Time In The West looks like it was delivered from a planet where all the aliens thought about was "how do I make a really, really, really great movie" the nuttiest part about this is that youd never know this from reading film critics the one group of people youd expect to be knowledgable about this stuff like the rest of the media its a field blatantly dominated by patronage and its legit difficult to tell whether theyre just pretending like they cant see subtext or if they really are that stupid even negative film reviews arent any fun anymore because its all about nitpicking plot holes and using generic negative superlatives that could be applied to literally any movie where are my thinkpieces calling captain marvel the ultimate modern evolution of top gun where even the homoeroticism is half assed
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Some Guy TT posted:the nuttiest part about this is that youd never know this from reading film critics the one group of people youd expect to be knowledgable about this stuff like the rest of the media its a field blatantly dominated by patronage and its legit difficult to tell whether theyre just pretending like they cant see subtext or if they really are that stupid the critics were always, by and large, poo poo. remember gene shalit and bosley crowther? you only get a pauline kael once a generation. i like ignatiy vishnevetsky though
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