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Relentlessboredomm posted:idk, ive always loved batman and spiderman but im tired. neither of those characters deserved 100s of hrs of new video over doing something new. Can I interest you in an Ip Man soft reboot?
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I'm unreasonably excited for the Daniels new movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxN1T1uxQ2g
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Leperflesh posted:I'd guess that first hump corresponds to movies with a built-in intermission so theaters could sell more snacks, and the current one corresponds to directors getting better noninterference clauses in their contracts that prevent studios from forcing them to cut down to a particular length. But I'm speculating right out my rear end on both counts. I can’t prove it, but I’d suspect the dip in length in the 80s directly corresponds in part to what could fit on a single VHS tape for home release, and the accompanying rise of direct-to-video stuff. The return to longer run times in the 90s probably came as tape costs came down/tapes getting slightly longer run times, and then DVDs making that mostly not an issue later that decade.
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I'm excited as hell for the new Batman so 3 hours doesn't bother me at all. I watched like 4 episodes of chuck yesterday afternoon because it was raining and I was bored.Kalli posted:My city restarted an indoor mask mandate yesterday, yay. Eh, marvel stuff is becoming a little tired. All of their good writers left and haven't really been replaced with anyone of quality and the good ones that stuck around have basically been on spiderman/s since and lo and behold they're the only good things Marvel has produced since endgame rolled credits. Batman has at least some depth they can plumb and the idea of launching this IP with some very solid supporting villains and actually showing gotham as a shithole for a change is a solid move. DC has pretty firmly positioned itself as something aimed at more mature audiences - which I think is kind of a good move. DC started with some miss steps but if you're going to run down the list of Suicide Squad 2 Peacemaker Joker DC has had better releases than Eternals, shang chi, and every single marvel TV show over that span. DC tried to go a more marvel route when they made Birds of Prey and Wonder Woman 2 and both of those movies sucked pretty loving hard. Leperflesh posted:I'd guess that first hump corresponds to movies with a built-in intermission so theaters could sell more snacks, and the current one corresponds to directors getting better noninterference clauses in their contracts that prevent studios from forcing them to cut down to a particular length. But I'm speculating right out my rear end on both counts. It would make sense when just about every other DC movie that got panned Batman vs Superman, the first Suicide Squad and Justice League all had far superior directors cuts than their theatrical releases and audiences pushed for their release. A good movie that goes for 3 hours is going to do more for the director and the studio than an average one that's had to be cut down to a run time that focus groups decided in the 90s was the right length.
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General Dog posted:Can I interest you in an Ip Man soft reboot? lmao well played
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Ip Man Legacy- Ip Man’s granddaughter, Ip Jan, participates in a martial arts tournament that could reunite Taiwan and the mainland.
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Yeah I watched Venom the other night at like 6:00 and then I was like oh poo poo that was short and sweet, it’s like 7:40 and Venom: Let There Be Carnage is also short and like $6, so I crushed both movies in one go, had fun, and then went to bed on time. 2+ hour movies have their place for sure, and I think the new Batman looks pretty cool so I’ll have no problem sitting through 3 hours of it, but yeah short movies are great too.
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The biggest movie sin, imo, was Peter Jackson taking a short childrens book, whipping up a bunch of nonsense with the silmarillion and then turning it into a ridiculous, overwrought trilogy. Pure heresy. Like, that is true to the spirit of LoR, just make the hobbit a 120min romp and be done with it.
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I really wish we’d gotten Guillermo Del Toro’s version instead.
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Richard Armitage is also not a leading man, and casting him as the main dwarf was dumb
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The movies aren’t good, but Martin Freeman as Bilbo was an inspired casting choice.
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fartknocker posted:I can’t prove it, but I’d suspect the dip in length in the 80s directly corresponds in part to what could fit on a single VHS tape for home release, and the accompanying rise of direct-to-video stuff. The return to longer run times in the 90s probably came as tape costs came down/tapes getting slightly longer run times, and then DVDs making that mostly not an issue later that decade. That is a really good point, yeah. I remember some movies had to be cut down for home release just so they'd fit onto VHS.
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Then how did I have both Jaws and Braveheart on the same VHS  . Oh no please ignore the garbage video quality.
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You are receiving this broadcast as a dream...We are transmitting from the year one nine... nine nine ...You are receiving this broadcast in order t
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They literally made thinner tape, so they could wind more onto the spindle in extra-long-play cassettes. There was a time where you went to the store and paid extra for BASF GOLD ULTRA LONG PLAY 240 tape because it had four hours of space on it (if you recorded in normal mode). VHS got really weird towards the end. S-VHS, multi-head players, component audio, S-Video connectors... My stepdad had a special audio recorder thing that used the whole width of a VHS tape to record multitrack audio in ultra high quality, for example. e. ADAT and V-Eight! Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Jan 20, 2022 |
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General Dog posted:I really wish we’d gotten Guillermo Del Toro’s version instead. Same He quit because the studio was demanding that he go from the planned 2 movies and turn it into a trilogy, and when he quit, the studio told Jackson either he could direct it as a trilogy or they would find their own director who would. I'm sure there is a fan edit out there somewhere that cuts it down to 2 good movies
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Even if the Hobbit HAD to be a trilogy the CGI orcs and goblins really took me out of it.
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Ghislaine Maxwell is going to get a retrial. I am shocked! shocked! something procedural has come up after the fact to give her another shot at getting off. Comes as less of a shock as Epsteins suicide one a night when 2 guards fall asleep and 3 cameras all malfunction at once.
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Democrats are lame rear end nerds who can't do a drat thing right.
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Yeah they just had a lot of poo poo in it that didn’t need to be there and which wasn’t in the book. ~~~~BuT iT hAs To Be A tRiLoGy~~~ General Dog posted:The movies aren’t good, but Martin Freeman as Bilbo was an inspired casting choice. Yeah he’s pretty great.
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As soon as they announced the hobbit as a trilogy I lost all interest. I think I did end up watching them once they came to hbo. God they were so bad. I’m sure there’s a good 4 hours of total footage though, if someone went and cut it down.
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3 DONG HORSE posted:Democrats are lame rear end nerds who can't do a drat thing right. I’m convinced it’s kayfabe to do nothing. No one would self-own that hard over and over again outside of Ben Shapiro.
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Bird in a Blender posted:As soon as they announced the hobbit as a trilogy I lost all interest. I think I did end up watching them once they came to hbo. God they were so bad. I’m sure there’s a good 4 hours of total footage though, if someone went and cut it down. We just watched them like...last week. I can't remember any of their names outside of Bilbo.
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Hot Diggity! posted:We just watched them like...last week. I can't remember any of their names outside of Bilbo. They’re hard enough to keep straight in the book too. That’s probably the point.
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Think I mentioned before but we had similar problems with WFH and know plenty of people who had similar here - few people have the space for dedicated offices, never mind two if both in a couple are working from home. Meant I was working from a kitchen table for a long time, which grated more than I expected. Even in the place we bought just under a year ago, eventually there’s going to be some space issues, but that’s future problems. Bird in a Blender posted:Work informed me I'm going in as the senior PM for a huge job in Cleveland. We're interviewing for the project next month. Time to go make sure my suit still fits! Ooh, good luck. I have no idea when my dress stuff will be brought out for a business trip next, and that’s kind of a blessing.
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I barely remember anything in the Peter Jackson Hobbit trilogy except they shot some stuff in 60fps and it looked like it was filmed with a GoPro.The Puppy Bowl posted:I'm unreasonably excited for the Daniels new movie. This on the other hand looks insane and I'm looking forward to this. I should probably see which local theaters are showing The Tragedy of MacBeth while I'm at it too.
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The Puppy Bowl posted:I'm unreasonably excited for the Daniels new movie. I'm pretty excited for this because it looks like an interesting and creative concept, and Michelle Yeoh kicks rear end.
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Yeah, that looks fantastic.
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A non-Steven Kingafied version of The Talisman which seems like it would also make a decent movie/mini-series .
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brands brands BRANDS https://twitter.com/nathanallebach/status/1484170441824555009
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This obvious peanut butter M&M erasure is why I no longer follow the M&M cinematic universe. That and it's hard to watch almond knowing how many kids he has that he refuses to pay support. Like goddamn dude do you need to nut in everything?
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Melts in your mouth indeed.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Melts in your mouth indeed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJJdLNwKDe8
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Game Night tonight at the normal time, 7:30 CST https://discord.gg/9f2tvzRj
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Please don’t degrade yourself in this way Tom 
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Found an updated concert lineup
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movies should be 90 minutes long
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Finished episode 3 of Station 11 tonight. It's a very interesting program. Highly recommend.
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