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lmao if they did retcon it as another reality that Dr. Strange saw. It's either going to be that or they will continue the plotline through a movie of a superhero people know.
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 18:36 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 13:39 |
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god man i was looking at the release schedule is things are really grim. these giant whales that are comic book movies are now all year round because of the pandemic. no window for smaller movies to make good money without these behemoths
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 18:48 |
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quote:Wouldn’t the Eternals be better off engaging in more down-to-Earth pursuits? If Zhao’s film has any saving graces, it’s that there are some interesting snatches of characterisation amid the common or garden superhero mulch. The idea of a standalone movie starring Kumail Nanjiani’s Bollywood A-lister Kingo or even Henry’s gay dad Phastos (certainly in the hands of a genuine visionary such as Waititi) somehow seems a lot more palatable than Eternals 2: Let’s Meet Some More Blimmin Eternals. This is very tiring to me.
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 18:50 |
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[Pop Culture] a genuine visionary such as Waititi
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 18:52 |
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Waititi is good but he's going to be stuck with Disney forever because it makes the big money and Disney is trying to get good grace by keeping around a well-liked director.
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 19:02 |
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josh04 posted:This is very tiring to me. this sounds like they want Bewitched to come back to television. "what if kingo just had regular problems like you and me that he couldn't fix with magical finger guns?"
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 19:07 |
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Judakel posted:god man i was looking at the release schedule is things are really grim. these giant whales that are comic book movies are now all year round because of the pandemic. no window for smaller movies to make good money without these behemoths however, thanks to the likes of A24/annapurna, small budget movies have had a fantastic resurgence the past couple of years, and hopefully that continues. just absolute bangers made on budgets of like $1mill to $20 mill and doing extremely well because they dont have the expectation of BILLIONS of epsteinbucks profits to produce. it's also viable because in this age, really cheap stabilizers and cameras can look as good as the big whales and editting software and such has become so good and cheap. and then on the advertising side: word of mouth, streaming services, and other specific online targetting lets them get out the word without a $5000 million buckaroo marketing blitz that Disney et. al poo poo out. a24 is going to singlehandedly save cinema lol Xaris has issued a correction as of 19:14 on Nov 9, 2021 |
# ? Nov 9, 2021 19:11 |
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I love my gay dad, Phastos
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 19:11 |
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Xaris posted:yearly marvel giant whale movies, even multiple-per-year, have been a thing for past several years now. the age of the sort of 80s/90s small/mid-budget flicks largely died out by 2005 Blumhouse is hit and miss but I support movies with a budget in the single digit millions. The new Invisible Man was very good.
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 19:13 |
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DesertIslandHermit posted:Waititi is good but he's going to be stuck with Disney forever because it makes the big money and Disney is trying to get good grace by keeping around a well-liked director. Waititi is good but I've never seen anything by him that made me think "visionary".
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 19:15 |
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josh04 posted:Waititi is good but I've never seen anything by him that made me think "visionary". He just seems like someone who likes to make goofy out there movies. I really liked both the series and the movie "what we did in the shadows".
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 19:19 |
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DesertIslandHermit posted:Blumhouse is hit and miss but I support movies with a budget in the single digit millions. The new Invisible Man was very good. i hope the future is death of the mega-billion hollywoo disney universal poo poo and more small-budget flicks where directors are handed a few million and told to go film whatever their vision is. instead of design-by-commitee/design-by-algo digital entertainment equivalent of soylent poo poo slurries that have been pumped out.
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 19:19 |
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Xaris posted:yearly marvel giant whale movies, even multiple-per-year, have been a thing for past several years now. the age of the sort of 80s/90s small/mid-budget flicks largely died out by 2005 i wasn't talking about yearly, i was talking about all year round. lower budget movies are doing really poorly now
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 19:20 |
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wattiti is going to poo poo all over The Incal and I am already super mad about it
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 19:25 |
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Judakel posted:i wasn't talking about yearly, i was talking about all year round. lower budget movies are doing really poorly now oh, well yeah pandemic is making most all movies do really poorly. i think they have more leeway and future on streaming services because of demand for content and being cheap enough that they aren't expected to make back $2 billion bucks. and theaters themselves are dying. one of my favorite movies of this year (surprise, a small-budget A24 flick), The Green Knight, managed to release during a pandemic in theaters and still made 25% profit which seems pretty good all things considered
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 19:25 |
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DesertIslandHermit posted:MCU doing another mega-arc would be stupid. Thanos is done and Endgame was the peak. i say swears online posted:remember how every movie until like 1963 was a western, until all of a sudden they weren't
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 19:41 |
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Xaris posted:oops, my bad. i am surprised to learn about the green knight making a profit. that is very encouraging. i dont think arthouse stuff ends up straight to streaming at the end of this, it just ends up dying. their cheap offerings are entirely aimed at general audiences
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 19:43 |
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netflix made a western with cgi blood instead of squibs. grim poo poo.
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 19:43 |
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people give a24 a lot of poo poo, some of it deserved, but what other studio is doing similarly high quality low/mid budget original/non-IP movies?
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 19:47 |
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:people give a24 a lot of poo poo, some of it deserved, but what other studio is doing similarly high quality low/mid budget original/non-IP movies? My only complaint about them is that the Midsommar: Director's Cut 4k Blu-Ray doesn't have any other features or the theatrical cut of the film. The packaging and art was really cool tho.
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 19:52 |
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:people give a24 a lot of poo poo, some of it deserved, but what other studio is doing similarly high quality low/mid budget original/non-IP movies? disney plus op
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 19:53 |
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Judakel posted:netflix made a western with cgi blood instead of squibs. grim poo poo. what are you, matt christman
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 19:56 |
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Judakel posted:netflix made a western with cgi blood instead of squibs. Judakel posted:grim poo poo.
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 20:06 |
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:My only complaint about them is that the Midsommar: Director's Cut 4k Blu-Ray doesn't have any other features or the theatrical cut of the film. The packaging and art was really cool tho. although i absolutely loved midsommar, easily one of my favorites of it's type and year, I didn't like the midsommar director's cut much. it kinda hosed up pacing and seemed to unneedlessly beat you over the head with CHRISTIAN IS BAD, GET IT? *bonk* HOW ABOUT NOW? no? *bonk* there was maybe 1 valuable scene in it
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 20:08 |
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josh04 posted:what are you, matt christman you don't think it looks awful?
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 20:09 |
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Xaris posted:you still buy blu-rays? lol for stuff I've seen and already like, yeah Xaris posted:although i absolutely loved midsommar, easily one of my favorites of it's type and year, I didn't like the midsommar director's cut much. it kinda hosed up pacing and seemed to unneedlessly beat you over the head with CHRISTIAN IS BAD, GET IT? *bonk* HOW ABOUT NOW? no? *bonk* Yeah I agree, the theatrical cut is superior. Christian works better as a character when he's not as overtly lovely, and his decisions seem to be coming from a place of never considering how his actions/lack thereof might affect the people around him. I looked it up afterwards and basically every scene that was added was in the first act of the movie, and mostly Dani and Christian being a couple whose relationship is falling apart.
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 20:15 |
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man that movie stressed me out so much I should watch it again.
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 20:17 |
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God gay, so what
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 20:17 |
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Judakel posted:you don't think it looks awful? if it looks bad it's because the director has no taste, not because it was done in post
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 20:18 |
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josh04 posted:if it looks bad it's because the director has no taste, not because it was done in post i've never seen cgi blood look good
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 20:55 |
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Judakel posted:i've never seen cgi blood look good The best it can possibly look is unnoticeable - it doesn't take you out of the movie by looking like fake, cgi blood. Conversely, the best practical effects/squibs can possibly look is very noticeable and, even knowing that it is fake, fooling your mind into going "WHOA HOLY poo poo THAT GUY'S LEG GOT BLOWN OFF!!!"
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 21:05 |
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DesertIslandHermit posted:Waititi is good but he's going to be stuck with Disney forever because it makes the big money and Disney is trying to get good grace by keeping around a well-liked director. Well his next big project is gonna be... Frog Act posted:wattiti is going to poo poo all over The Incal and I am already super mad about it ...yeah.
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 21:09 |
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I don't think the Incal movie is getting made
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 21:21 |
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I hope not. I hope instead we get a Metabaron tv series or something that isn’t quite as likely to be completely gutted and rendered monochromatic, at least that would kinda fit the Metabaron sagas
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 21:22 |
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cgi blood rules (timestamp'd) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS8I9H07wKw&t=95s
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 21:35 |
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 21:54 |
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Judakel posted:i've never seen cgi blood look good I thought it looked pretty good in Too Old to Die Young, and even Only God Forgives, but they're also heavily Refn-stylized movies so it's okay. likewise, John Wick uses it and it's in an over-the-top sort of graphic way that's alright but not great. but yes, nominally its usually very bad.
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 22:01 |
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Xaris posted:I thought it looked pretty good in Too Old to Die Young, and even Only God Forgives, but they're also heavily Refn-stylized movies so it's okay. likewise, John Wick uses it and it's in an over-the-top sort of graphic way that's alright but not great. from just looking at screencaps of too old, i can see it is doing enough with lighting to make that possible. same with only god. it doesn't work when you can actually see it.
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 22:02 |
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The last real action movies are coming out of Southeast Asia. E: did you just use "nominally" to mean normally?
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 22:04 |
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it has been one movie that has been out for like four days this is the f-35 modernization program of pop culture
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# ? Nov 9, 2021 22:13 |