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Ghost Leviathan posted:It's still stock 'jungle' sound effect to have kookaburras. kookaburra sits in the old gum tree wrong wrong continent says of he
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Autisanal Cheese posted:absolute classic Would be very hard pressed to find anyone doing it before the early 70s. Love NG, there's some regrettable stuff in there but it's meant to be at the expense of the character I guess? Even Zappa played along: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mUQ00i9rH4
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May 22, 2023 09:02
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Autisanal Cheese posted:absolute classic He started doing the character back in '73 when Sacha Baron Cohen was only 2 years old  Apparently it was a parody of some late night talk show presenter called Tommy Leonetti who had a show in Australia in 1969-70 which wasn't great.Fun fact: in that video I posted where he interviews Sally Struthers and she can't stop laughing he tells her all about the Australian version of the Emmy Awards which are called The Logies. It was a running gag in his show that he was desperate to win the Gold Logie for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television and he used to run a regular segment where he went over the show's TV ratings and harangued the audience for not trying hard enough to make him more popular. That gag was ruined in 1976 when he actually did win the Gold Logie and it was the only time it was ever awarded in a character's name and not the performer's real name. The made Lee fuckin' Marvin read out his name and hand him the award live on national TV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbvWhCHa_IU
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May 22, 2023 11:08
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It is heartening to think that such a subversive, ironic meta-comedy became one of the most popular things ever in this stupid country. And we're still talking about him 50 years later. (just don't mention his Stevie Wonder joke, that did NOT age well)
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Nieuw Amsterdam posted:“White soldier transported to distant world marries the princess and helps the (oddly incompetent) natives fight off the colonizers to liberate the planet.” There actually is a movie. I liked it ok but it was a mega flop, probably because no one cares about a movie titled "John Carter". Also, everyone was clothed. Fuckin' disney...
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May 23, 2023 00:32
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They also wrapped the expenses of a few decades worth of failed adaptations of the property into its budget, so it was kind of impossible for it to ever actually make money. I mean it was also loving garbage and calling "John Carter" was an incredibly stupid marketing decision.
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May 23, 2023 00:49
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The Moon Monster posted:There actually is a movie. I liked it ok but it was a mega flop, probably because no one cares about a movie titled "John Carter". Also, everyone was clothed. Fuckin' disney... That film was supposed to come out in 2006 and got delayed so long that the inevitable mockbuster ripoff from The Asylum got released way before the real movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC83KX3IQfs The wikipedia page for the big budget John Carter movie has a very large segment on the film's marketing which goes into a lot of detail about how the film's promotion was botched. There's always a huge amount of dumb bullshit that goes on behind the scenes but they really went overboard on this turkey Poor Willem Dafoe performed his Thark character in a stop motion suit (with a multi-camera rig strapped to his head to capture his facial expressions) on location speaking an invented alien language on stilts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lDdy_h-s_w&t=166s Such a massive commitment for a role in a terrible, terrible film 
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May 23, 2023 01:01
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Reading the Wikipedia article for that Tarzan movie and Roger Ebert unsurprisingly gave a movie where Bo Derek shows her tits a semi-positive review:Roger Ebert posted:The Tarzan-Jane scenes strike a blow for noble savages, for innocent lust, for animal magnetism, and, indeed, for soft-core porn, which is ever so much sexier than the hard-core variety." Good ol’ Rog
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The Moon Monster posted:There actually is a movie. I liked it ok but it was a mega flop, probably because no one cares about a movie titled "John Carter". Also, everyone was clothed. Fuckin' disney... I remember the trailers made the film look awful, despite it being a decent enough film.
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May 23, 2023 06:07
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Nieuw Amsterdam posted:“White soldier transported to distant world marries the princess and helps the (oddly incompetent) natives fight off the colonizers to liberate the planet.” The Rock's character in Jumanji is pretty much Doc Savage with the serial numbers filed off, rather fitting given how the movie pretty well nails the late 90s video game aesthetic. And supposedly there's been a Doc Savage movie starring him in development hell forever.
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Alexander Hamilton posted:Good ol’ Rog Ghost Leviathan posted:The Rock's character in Jumanji is pretty much Doc Savage with the serial numbers filed off, rather fitting given how the movie pretty well nails the late 90s video game aesthetic. And supposedly there's been a Doc Savage movie starring him in development hell forever.
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The phantom could easily be made into a slasher movie
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What about Sgt. Rock? There ain't nothin easy about Easy Company o poo poo tanks!! -- every. single. one.
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endocriminologist posted:The phantom could easily be made into a slasher movie Surprised there isn't a version in development "Its like Black Panther with white protagonist!"
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May 23, 2023 14:18
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MuscaDomestica posted:Surprised there isn't a version in development "Its like Black Panther with white protagonist!" They should make a Phantom movie but swap the main character out for a black person just to watch angry online racists suddenly feel very concerned about the Phantom lore.
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May 23, 2023 14:38
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You're all reminding me that my first exposure to these terrible public domain characters was the short lived 80's cartoon, "Defenders of the Earth." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nblpob8gyzs
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May 23, 2023 16:10
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DrBouvenstein posted:You're all reminding me that my first exposure to these terrible public domain characters was the short lived 80's cartoon, "Defenders of the Earth." Those characters aren't public domain, but the rights to them were probably super cheap.
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May 23, 2023 16:15
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DrBouvenstein posted:You're all reminding me that my first exposure to these terrible public domain characters was the short lived 80's cartoon, "Defenders of the Earth." Stan Lee wrote that theme song.
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May 23, 2023 16:15
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All I remember from the Phantom is that scifi 2040 cartoon which was pretty heavy for my kidbrain.
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May 23, 2023 16:57
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I remember the 90s Phantom movie as being good cheesy fun, but I'm pretty sure the only reason it broke 8 figures at the box office was that it came out at a time when superhero movies were few and far between (and also generally dire.)
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May 23, 2023 17:36
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DeafNote posted:All I remember from the Phantom is that scifi 2040 cartoon which was pretty heavy for my kidbrain. This made me look up a summary and holy poo poo this show was way ahead of its time. "Wikipedia posted:It is the year 2040, all environmental disasters and the economic Resource Wars from the early 21st century have decimated the fragile ecosystem balance of an Earth once teeming with life. Everywhere, the privileged and wealthy continue to thrive in expensive real estate developments that tower above the suffering masses. The victims of Earth's misfortune have been forced to subsist on scavenged refuse from the past on the mangled streets of forlorn city-states. It's only 35 episodes and there's a YouTube channel that has the whole series up: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgkKj2n1LjA_VzcrpMQ8l_NszGmxAA1d0. I'm gonna have to do a binge in the near future.
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May 23, 2023 18:19
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Lemniscate Blue posted:It's only 35 episodes and there's a YouTube channel that has the whole series up: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgkKj2n1LjA_VzcrpMQ8l_NszGmxAA1d0. I'm gonna have to do a binge in the near future. Here I am watching Phantom a half hour before work just like thirty years ago I was watching Phantom a half hour before school 
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May 23, 2023 18:55
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Aaaaand saved to library.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:This made me look up a summary and holy poo poo this show was way ahead of its time. Yooooo thanks for this!
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the_steve posted:They should make a Phantom movie but swap the main character out for a black person just to watch angry online racists suddenly feel very concerned about the Phantom lore. I'm in favor of this idea
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May 23, 2023 21:33
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For a franchise that’s all about a mantle being passed across generations, The Phantom stories very rarely get into that. I think it’s been the same guy in the newspaper strip since the Lee Falk days.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It's still stock 'jungle' sound effect to have kookaburras. huh did not know that was a bird. Also all deserts have cactus.
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also a stock bird is the loon. jungles, deserts, there's always that loon wailing in the distance. the normal cries, not the insane laughing cry. 8 minute thing about the misplaced loon call. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVFBUIGfcJk
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Those characters aren't public domain, but the rights to them were probably super cheap. This includes the Defenders of the Earth characters (Flash Gordon, Mandrake the Magician, the Phantom) but also Betty Boop (at least until 2021), Prince Valiant, Popeye, Mary Worth, Mark Trail, Krazy Kat, Dennis the Menace, Family Circus, Beetle Bailey, etc. etc. By some definition of famous/successful, King's biggest current output is the comic strip Spider-Man and Mallard Fillmore.
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the_steve posted:They should make a Phantom movie but swap the main character out for a black person just to watch angry online racists suddenly feel very concerned about the Phantom lore.  I AM GRANDO posted:For a franchise that’s all about a mantle being passed across generations, The Phantom stories very rarely get into that. I think it’s been the same guy in the newspaper strip since the Lee Falk days. DrBouvenstein posted:You're all reminding me that my first exposure to these terrible public domain characters was the short lived 80's cartoon, "Defenders of the Earth." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMJ252v1n7k
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Sudsygoat posted:also a stock bird is the loon. jungles, deserts, there's always that loon wailing in the distance. the normal cries, not the insane laughing cry. cant not mention https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PibLEinJws
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Speaking of stock sounds, I've always wondered if the average British hear the foxes as much as Midsommar Murders likes using the foxes scream in the show.
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I AM GRANDO posted:For a franchise that’s all about a mantle being passed across generations, The Phantom stories very rarely get into that. I think it’s been the same guy in the newspaper strip since the Lee Falk days. Yep. Early on he aged, got married, had kids, etc. but ever since those kids reached their teenage years they've been stuck there.
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That70sHeidi posted:Speaking of stock sounds, I've always wondered if the average British hear the foxes as much as Midsommar Murders likes using the foxes scream in the show. Oh, that's very real. Or at least it is in the cities, I assume you hear them all the time in the countryside as well but there's probably more urban than rural foxes these days. I'm listening to two have a screaming fight in the neighbours garden as we speak.
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small ghost posted:Oh, that's very real. Or at least it is in the cities, I assume you hear them all the time in the countryside as well but there's probably more urban than rural foxes these days. I'm listening to two have a screaming fight in the neighbours garden as we speak. Beautiful. Like two gammons in the pub having it out over a spilled pint 
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small ghost posted:Oh, that's very real. Or at least it is in the cities, I assume you hear them all the time in the countryside as well but there's probably more urban than rural foxes these days. I'm listening to two have a screaming fight in the neighbours garden as we speak. yeah i guess it's probably the same thing with me and loons, i can believe they get misused as samples but living in Ontario, Canada I'm used to hearing them all over so it just sounds normal
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if you live in Canada (and Minnesota) and near a lake or even a large enough pond, you've likely heard loon calls your entire life. Watching that video, I don't think I noticed the wail in some of the examples given but now I fear it will stick out like whenever you hear a Wilhelm scream (or those annoying canned applause sfx)
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Loons yes. But loving Geese honking is more common. It is the harbinger of danger. More than once I have had to protect the neighbour's kids from the cobra chickens that descend on our complex pool when they return in the spring. While they are Canada Geese, they are not our stereotype of friendly kind and polite. They are a vicious, colonizing force who take and claim land through violence and aggression. So you know, the name is loving accurate.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:This made me look up a summary and holy poo poo this show was way ahead of its time. That's got some really deep Aeon Flux influences. I also see its DNA in Tron: Insurrection, which more people should watch. Thanks for the link!
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Loons are angry, stabby, and dramatic. They strand here a fair bit and we have to move them back to the water sometimes, and they’re always beyond pissed about it and screaming bloody murder the entire time.
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