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CharlestheHammer posted:Gladiator is a movie that was a very very big deal at its time but looking back on it I don’t know why
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Paper Tiger posted:My first thought was that Gladiator was a big deal in part because of its Super Bowl ad, but I looked it up to refresh my memory and, well: The first teaser trailer for The Matrix aired during the 1999 Super Bowl, and they hosed up the timing on the commercial break to the point that when they cut back from the trailer it was the middle of a touchdown play.
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Apr 12, 2022 02:15
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Alaois posted:they were trying to get him to recast Gene Wilder in Blazing Saddles. he told them he would do that and then didn't and the producer who told him to do it never said anything. Lucasfilm fired the comedy directors they hired to make solo because they made it too funny. Producers are weird and not all the same.
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Apr 12, 2022 02:24
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CelticPredator posted:Lucasfilm fired the comedy directors they hired to make solo because they made it too funny. We could have had Space Ventura: Fett Detective.
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Apr 12, 2022 02:30
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CJacobs posted:Oh, man! This just unlocked a memory that my brain had totally eclipsed because of the unfairness of being a child associated! When I was younger I actually managed to spot a forged map in a school textbook, the way real encyclopedias used to be made plagarism-proof by intentionally containing false information. The idea being that the incorrect information also will be there, as the plagiarist won't know it's incorrect. I remember the textbook was new and this was before the internet really had taken off in learning spaces so my kid theory was that the people who put it together took a PHOTO of a forged map to avoid paying. I pointed it out to my teacher because I was legitimately curious as to why it was wrong, and she said it was right and that I shouldn't question textbooks because they're proofread or something like that. I remember I wanted to come back with something like yeah but do they check the illustrations but I did not want to get in trouble so I went back to my desk and accepted that some island off of Africa or something isn't where every other map says it is. Counterpoint: teachers who argue from authority, and especially authority delegated to textbooks supplied by the lowest bidder who can conform to the most conservative content panels in Texas, suck a lot, and ruin children's relationship to knowledge and the world around them.
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Apr 12, 2022 02:57
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christmas boots posted:We could have had Space Ventura: Fett Detective. I don’t buy that hit piece at all. They threw their lead actor under the bus for no reason.
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Apr 12, 2022 03:33
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CJacobs posted:Oh, man! This just unlocked a memory that my brain had totally eclipsed because of the unfairness of being a child associated! When I was younger I actually managed to spot a forged map in a school textbook, the way real encyclopedias used to be made plagarism-proof by intentionally containing false information. The idea being that the incorrect information also will be there, as the plagiarist won't know it's incorrect. I remember the textbook was new and this was before the internet really had taken off in learning spaces so my kid theory was that the people who put it together took a PHOTO of a forged map to avoid paying. I pointed it out to my teacher because I was legitimately curious as to why it was wrong, and she said it was right and that I shouldn't question textbooks because they're proofread or something like that. I remember I wanted to come back with something like yeah but do they check the illustrations but I did not want to get in trouble so I went back to my desk and accepted that some island off of Africa or something isn't where every other map says it is. The good teachers are the ones who get excited about stuff like that and want to help solve the puzzle.
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Apr 12, 2022 03:35
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marshmallow creep posted:This reminds me of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck shopping Good Will Hunting around and they put a really out of place blowjob scene in the middle to see which producers actually read the script. The attentive and well-rounded producer who actually caught it? Harvey Weinstein
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Apr 12, 2022 03:35
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Oh I don't think he's making schlock for the cash, I think occasionally he just completely misses the mark. Prometheus/Alien Covenant and Exodus are his exact kind of movie, and had a lot of effort and creativity put into them, they were just bad. And then there's A Good Year, which is so bizarrely outside his oeuvre, and from what I can tell was just because he thought it would be fun to try and make a rom-com. Can't blame a guy for wanting to branch out. Cleretic posted:Semi-famously, this was also the way that Team America handled the censors. The 'dummy sketch' was the sex scene; they made the first cut of the sex scene as bad as they could, and every time it got rejected, they'd only cut from the sex scene. I'm told with the South Park movie, every time the censors complained about something, they made it twice as bad and ten times as long, and that got approved. Possibly because the censors were afraid of what they'd do next. Also Unclefucker was originally Motherfucker, but the former both got censor approval and flows much better.
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Apr 12, 2022 03:44
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I really adore his alien prequels a lot.
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Apr 12, 2022 04:07
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Counterpoint: teachers who argue from authority, and especially authority delegated to textbooks supplied by the lowest bidder who can conform to the most conservative content panels in Texas, suck a lot, and ruin children's relationship to knowledge and the world around them. I AM GRANDO posted:The good teachers are the ones who get excited about stuff like that and want to help solve the puzzle. Well yeah no poo poo, I wasn't saying the teacher was correct to be dismissive of me
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Apr 12, 2022 06:07
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Wait so which is the "good" cut of blade runner. I only saw the original.
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Apr 12, 2022 07:59
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The Final Cut is the best imo.
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Apr 12, 2022 08:22
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Volcott posted:Wait so which is the "good" cut of blade runner. 2049
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Apr 12, 2022 08:28
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Paper Tiger posted:My first thought was that Gladiator was a big deal in part because of its Super Bowl ad, but I looked it up to refresh my memory and, well: The audio encoding on this clip is pure waiting for RealPlayer to buffer over 56k.  (On the awful off-peak hours plan that your parents signed up to because it was cheap and then weren't very impressed with this "internet" thing)
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Apr 12, 2022 09:25
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CJacobs posted:Looking at a map of Africa reminded me of exactly what the mistake was- Zanzibar was labeled wrong, which I knew was a real place because I'd played Metal Gear which features Zanzibar Island and its very real poisonous hamsters child you was right for the wrong reasons 
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Apr 12, 2022 11:53
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DACK FAYDEN posted:No no no, Zanzibarland. Which is located in "Central Asia, located between the former Soviet Union, China, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.[3]" acording to the Metal Gear wiki. Iirc MGS3 is set in what will become Zanzibarland.
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Apr 12, 2022 12:19
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pentyne posted:I'll say this, for anyone and everyone who's ever made their money from working in media production like that, Micheal Caine had the best line about the quality of the final product. counterpoint: pain & gain is one of the best movies ever made. it's like Michael Bay made a Coen brothers movie but he has real affection for the idiots doing the heist instead of "writing a character for Brad pitt"
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Apr 12, 2022 13:55
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Can't blame a guy for wanting to branch out. Originally they wanted to call the South Park movie "All Hell Breaks Loose" but were told they couldn't have hell in the name. So they changed it to a dick joke and that was somehow okay.
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Apr 12, 2022 15:05
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Counterpoint: teachers who argue from authority, and especially authority delegated to textbooks supplied by the lowest bidder who can conform to the most conservative content panels in Texas, suck a lot, and ruin children's relationship to knowledge and the world around them. Counter-counterpoint: A lot of public education isn't really about knowledge. Curious, intelligent people make bad wage slaves who ask too many questions and get in management's way. The problem of lovely working-class education will never be solved because being lovely is the entire point. 
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Apr 12, 2022 15:39
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Vitruvian Manic posted:counterpoint: pain & gain is one of the best movies ever made. it's like Michael Bay made a Coen brothers movie but he has real affection for the idiots doing the heist instead of "writing a character for Brad pitt" Counterpoint: It's not even Bay's best movie and every character is completely unsympathetic, even the victim who pretty much deserved every bad thing that happened to him according to the movie. The Rock seems like he's having a fun time though.
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Apr 12, 2022 18:26
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Alhazred posted:Counterpoint: It's not even Bay's best movie and every character is completely unsympathetic, even the victim who pretty much deserved every bad thing that happened to him according to the movie. The Rock seems like he's having a fun time though. IIRC the numerous people involved in the story or related to victims IRL were very upset at the movie for turning the murders, kidnappings, and other criminal behavior of a full-out gang into the comedic shenanigans of a few bumbling idiots, all while portraying many of the victims as less sympathetic than the gang.
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Apr 12, 2022 18:46
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Counterpoint: giving children wrong information is funny and cool, and should be done at every opportunity to the great expense of society at large
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Apr 12, 2022 19:20
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You can tell a world map is fake when it has the fictional country of "New Zealand" on it
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Nottherealaborn posted:IIRC the numerous people involved in the story or related to victims IRL were very upset at the movie for turning the murders, kidnappings, and other criminal behavior of a full-out gang into the comedic shenanigans of a few bumbling idiots, all while portraying many of the victims as less sympathetic than the gang. Also, if your movie is going to have a lot of dick jokes they should at least be funny.
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Apr 12, 2022 20:16
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Alhazred posted:Counterpoint: It's not even Bay's best movie and every character is completely unsympathetic, even the victim who pretty much deserved every bad thing that happened to him according to the movie. The Rock seems like he's having a fun time though. I do often worry that the rock is not having enough fun times.
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Apr 12, 2022 20:52
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:I do often worry that the rock is not having enough fun times. Funny enough, The Rock is also Michael Bay's best movie.
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:You can tell a world map is fake when it has the fictional country of "New Zealand" on it It's such an obvious trap I'm surprised so many people fall for it. I mean, you know there's not a Zealand, why would you accept the existence of a New Zealand?
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Apr 13, 2022 00:23
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pentyne posted:Micheal Bay I think can be agreed is a trash director who's movies aged immediately and also the awareness he was gross as gently caress to all the hot young actresses he would hire to dress in super revealing casual outfits. I don't there's a single Micheal Bay movie post 90s that wasn't either just repeating the same poo poo he started with or a shameless franchise cash in with no effort or care. Bay is horrible and Pearl Harbor was a massive stealth remake of Wings that managed to make a weak story even worse. And yet, I loving love Pain & Gain. Bay's hyperbolic, ubermacho poo poo becomes hilarious when it is used to show how these losers with their inflated ego's see the world.
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Apr 13, 2022 02:02
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Cleretic posted:It's such an obvious trap I'm surprised so many people fall for it. I mean, you know there's not a Zealand, why would you accept the existence of a New Zealand? Zealand is in the Netherlands. Tasmania is the fake island.
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Apr 13, 2022 11:24
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Makes sense, like, am I really supposed to believe The Devil lives there?
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It's actually Newsie-Land
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Well that's extra!
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Ridley Scott is great and Legend is extremely underrated imo
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Brawnfire posted:Makes sense, like, am I really supposed to believe The Devil lives there? Well, obviously the Tasmanian Devil does. I'm not sure how temptation and sin works in the US, but here it's clearly a function of state government.
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Apr 13, 2022 18:57
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Sobatchja Morda posted:Bay is horrible and Pearl Harbor was a massive stealth remake of Wings And it didn't even have Tony Shalhoub in it.
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Apr 13, 2022 19:12
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DACK FAYDEN posted:No no no, Zanzibarland. Which is located in "Central Asia, located between the former Soviet Union, China, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.[3]" acording to the Metal Gear wiki. Holy poo poo the ingame Zanzibar land isn't in Africa?? I knew those poisonous hamsters couldn't be native. Man I'm a huge fan of the series and I don't know how I missed that, cool correction. I guess I just assumed the older games took place in real locations because the latter games do! I was like ah yes, MGS takes place in Alaska, therefore the old 2d game must take place in the only place on earth also called zanzibar! Uh but nope. I got Kojima'd. CJacobs has a new favorite as of 20:55 on Apr 13, 2022 |
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Paper Tiger posted:My first thought was that Gladiator was a big deal in part because of its Super Bowl ad, but I looked it up to refresh my memory and, well: man, this is so weird.. not for the obvious reasons. what i mean is, everything about it seems to encapsulate the late 90s style of movie trailers and yet at the same time somehow still feels out of place. it seems simultaneously fake AND authentic. CJacobs posted:edit: See all the folks re-examining Xena to find even more homoerotic subtext only to discover that oh don't worry it was there the whole time and they did it on purpose, but it'd ruin the television historical reason for doing so for the showrunners to say so. this actually reminded me of the very first scene that showed really overt signs of lesbianism. in one episode xena is dead (this would be the first of many instances), and she takes over autolycus' body so that she could relay the message to gabrielle. when this happens, the two are speaking, xena appears as she was, and she gives gabrielle instructions on how to bring her back to life. they have a heartfelt moment and xena leans in to kiss gabby and right before their lips lock, it cuts back to the real word and autolycus is kissing gabby because of course you can't show that kind of stuff on a family show! so three things: 1. yeah the lesbian stuff was pretty loving overt. and quite early on too! 2. autolycus making out with gabby, who was like 18/19 during that time creeped me out as a kid and moreso now (and maybe technically would be just as bad if xena kissed her) 3. sadly i heard gabby went the way of jerkules and is a major MAGA chuddette now 
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There is no funnier term to me in the comic book world than Gal Pal purely for the massive swinging wrecking ball weight that phrase carries
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