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the best 3D thing I ever saw was this https://weirdal.fandom.com/wiki/Al%27s_Brain it's weird that this fan wiki doesn't mention that it's full of cameos. off the top of my head I remember it had Thomas Lennon and Patton Oswalt in it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%27s_Brain it's got Tim and Eric in it too. wish I could find a copy. DR FRASIER KRANG has issued a correction as of 19:55 on Jan 23, 2023 |
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Substandard posted:If you have a VR headset 3d movies look pretty good on those. I watched a couple of things on it when I first got mine. I remember Hugo in particular looking great. how's that work? do you need inserts or does the 3d just function automatically?
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as far as rich child movies go I liked Blank Check more than Richie Rich because he made his money righteously and I had the hots for Duff
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StashAugustine posted:Death of Stalin is technically a comic book movie So is A history of violence! Both movies are way better than the comics too
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indigi posted:as far as rich child movies go I liked Blank Check more than Richie Rich because he made his money righteously and I had the hots for Duff yeah same. i also like the 90s moral of "a million bucks isn't actually a lot of money". that'd barely buy a downtown condo now lol
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indigi posted:as far as rich child movies go I liked Blank Check more than Richie Rich because he made his money righteously and I had the hots for Duff loved that movie as a kid but nowadays its hard to ignore the pedo subplot wasnt there some weirdo poster with the name Preston Waters?
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blank check is cool because the bad guys are Tone Loc and Miguel Ferrer. the best part is the giant wall of CRTs he built to play Afterburner on.
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mawarannahr posted:i saw fury road in 3D and I really hated the experience and the movie, probably somewhat as a result. I’m glad they’re not a thing anymore. remember 3D tvs? lol I saw one of those dogshit hobbit movies in 3d and after that I was like nope not gonna do that again but Avatar 2 really made it immersive. Like fish were swimming right in front of your face Avatar 2 finally delivers on the promise of cool screensavers from the 90's. The future is now
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i say swears online posted:how's that work? do you need inserts or does the 3d just function automatically? It just works. You just load up a 3d movie file on one of the normal movie theater apps. I think I was using Big Screen. I don't really know how it does it, but I think because it's already got high frequency displays for both eyes it can just simulate the 3d effect.
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indigi posted:as far as rich child movies go I liked Blank Check more than Richie Rich because he made his money righteously and I had the hots for Duff I was also a Blank Check boy, not a Richie Rich one, and I bet it turns out it wasn't the amazing movie I thought it was when my brain wasn't developed
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Nichael posted:https://twitter.com/mmschocolate/status/1617518785686274052?s=20&t=Ly2iXmoHsjGIvccm48oe4g cancel culture has gone too far
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I was also a Blank Check boy, not a Richie Rich one, and I bet it turns out it wasn't the amazing movie I thought it was when my brain wasn't developed I mean, the undercover fbi agent goes on a date with an 11 year old child and dances in a fountain with him. there's a lot going on.
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:I mean, the undercover fbi agent goes on a date with an 11 year old child and dances in a fountain with him. quote:11-year-old Preston Waters laments his relative lack of money compared to his entrepreneurial older brothers and his working class father, an investor. i can't even make it past the first sentence in the plot synopsis without recoiling
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another blank check fact: the mansion is in austin and robert rodriguez lives there now
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ScootsMcSkirt posted:loved that movie as a kid but nowadays its hard to ignore the pedo subplot I thought the subplot was the stinking pig lies to the kid to gain his trust rather than that she wanted to actually be his girlfriend. but I haven't seen it since the 90s so maybe I’m wrong
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the guy who wrote blank check became the hollywood script guy. Every wannabe screenwriter read his book, Save The Cat, and script readers basically judge you on if you followed what he said. He also wrote Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot! which has a 4.3 on IMDB (Blank Check has a 5.2) edit: his only other IMDB credit is Save the Cat! Goes Anime lmao Antonymous has issued a correction as of 20:48 on Jan 23, 2023 |
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Antonymous posted:He also wrote Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot! which has a 4.3 on IMDB (Blank Check has a 5.2) sold for $500,000 in 1989 lol it's amazing that those are the only two screenplays he sold
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oh drat he died right after he put that book out he spent the end of his days trying to prove Memento is a bad script btw. obsessively
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Antonymous posted:oh drat he died right after he put that book out seems like he reached the end of his arc
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i say swears online posted:sold for $500,000 in 1989 lol it's possible he sold or optioned many more which simply didn't get made. it's amazing those are the ones that did!
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Antonymous posted:he spent the end of his days trying to prove Memento is a bad script btw. obsessively DON'T BELIEVE HIS LIES
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Antonymous posted:it's possible he sold or optioned many more which simply didn't get made an actual good counterpart to Save The Cat is "Writing Movies For Fun and Profit" by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant which is a guidebook on how to write the kind of lovely comedy scripts that get passed around for years before actually getting made
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I'm not a screenwriter but I read Mckee's "Story" and I basically 100% agree with everything in it but it's kinda so basic and obvious that you also might not learn anything from it if you have any other background in storytelling. He seems to be the main guy who talks about unconscious desire driving character action, if you wanna write something like that Save The Cat is a set-by-step guide to writing a screenplay that can sell and I think is by far the most restrictive of any of the 'story structure' books, which might be why it was popular, it's as close to fill in the blank as you can get. His book is the only one that really breaks down the second half of act 2 which is cool I guess. Movies are actually usually four acts but because we don't have two words for 'the middle' we have the beginning, the middle part A, the middle part B, and the end - 3 'acts' lol
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indigi posted:I thought the subplot was the stinking pig lies to the kid to gain his trust rather than that she wanted to actually be his girlfriend. but I haven't seen it since the 90s so maybe I’m wrong thats a good point. Havent seen the movie since i was a kid so i will go with this interpretation for now i think their romantic subplot ended with the hot agent saying that she will wait for him to grow up tho...
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why do i like first acts way more than third? i feel like movies drop the ball in the third act like 80% of the time
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i say swears online posted:why do i like first acts way more than third? i feel like movies drop the ball in the third act like 80% of the time you seem to have answered your question
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Antonymous posted:Save The Cat is a set-by-step guide to writing a screenplay that can sell and I think is by far the most restrictive of any of the 'story structure' books, which might be why it was popular, it's as close to fill in the blank as you can get. His book is the only one that really breaks down the second half of act 2 which is cool I guess. it's not bad as a gift for a teenager or like a middle-aged parent who needs a hobby but if you've put any thought into writing a screenplay already, you're probably already past the point where you'll glean anything useful from it. as far as big picture story insights, "Power of Myth" by Joseph Campbell is an easy read because it's just a transcript of a conversation and probably has bigger, better ideas to kick around in your head for awhile. but yeah, very much the opposite of Save The Cat - not a workbook, no exercises, no fill in the blanks, just two guys having a conversation about why we tell stories the way we do. also my first introduction to the 4-Act structure was Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg posting their whiteboard they used to plan out the screenplays of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz Pepe Silvia Browne has issued a correction as of 21:05 on Jan 23, 2023 |
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i say swears online posted:i can't even make it past the first sentence in the plot synopsis without recoiling the movie is obsessed with money, the kid constantly complains that he can't do anything fun without money, he only has fun when he spends money, and once the money is out the good times stop it's the most American movie ever made
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WampaLord posted:the movie is obsessed with money, the kid constantly complains that he can't do anything fun without money, he only has fun when he spends money, and once the money is out the good times stop you forgot about the part where he's surrounded by all the stuff he bought but he's completely alone and unhappy anyway.
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wow you guys figured out the moral of the movie for children. good job
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Endings are the most important part of the film, and also the hardest. It's what's going to give the feeling the audience walks away from. You have to satisfyingly tie up everything and do it bigger than anything that came before. Ideally I think a writer should come up with endings and work backwards, but usually people think of a character or premise and go forward. I can imagine someone says "this new film I watched, the beginning was amazing, the middle ok, and the ending sucked!" - no way I'm going to see it "this new film I watched, the beginning was awful, the middle ok, and the ending incredible!" - ok I kinda want to see it now the beginning you get to teach people stuff, mystery, cool lore, cool characters, people like that the ending you have to work with what you already set up in a way the audience doesn't predict, but believes, and feels strong emotion from, and doesn't leave any big loose ends Fox Searchlight executives said they buy endings. if your script doesn't have a good ending they don't want it. and then they develop from there. They said TV is hard for them because the idea of TV is there is no ending. I see a lot of films cop out with ambiguous endings, cutting just before a big reveal, or a sudden surreal ending, to try to get out of it and basically say "I leave the ending as an exercise for the viewer" Ambiguity is an unclear answer, no one wants that. Mystery is good but mystery is like a well posed, deep question. But they seem to be conflated a lot.
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indigi posted:wow you guys figured out the moral of the movie for children. good job there's no moral you absolute moron.
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Antonymous posted:
Baz Luhrmann's Elvis
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Hot take: but as Charles Kane got richer he actually got lonelier, not happier.
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:there's no moral you absolute moron. yeah that's the best part, you would think that the movie ends on a note of "well, i can have fun and live a good life even without money" but instead it ends on the weird FBI lady agreeing to date him when he turns older and they negotiate on the terms of when exactly is "old enough" 
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:there's no moral you absolute moron. oh nevermind. you didn’t
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:I mean, the undercover fbi agent goes on a date with an 11 year old child and dances in a fountain with him. it was a different time 
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:Baz Luhrmann's Elvis really? i felt it dragging and stopped halfway through
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i say swears online posted:really? i felt it dragging and stopped halfway through Just one man's opinion but I think it really turned itself around right around the scene where Elvis was trying to reinvent himself with the Live special and by the ending I had come around on what Baz was trying to do with the beginning.
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