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It’s just weird the people who don’t like barbenheimer are like “they tried to get me with doom and animal crossing!” Like baby who hurt you
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Jul 25, 2023 22:18
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joylessdivision posted:Andrei Tarkovsky would beg to differ. What does the Powerpuff girls guy have to download with it?
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Jul 25, 2023 22:44
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https://twitter.com/VTStatePolice/status/1682446149150466049
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RBA Starblade posted:I probably would have done the double feature thing if Oppenheimer weren't three hours long That’s why you make a day of it with breaks. We did: - lunch & edibles - Barbie - hour and a half break with drinks and pie - Oppenheimer Perfect day at the movies.
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Jul 26, 2023 01:02
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There was a new Beetlejuice?!?
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marshmallow creep posted:What does the Powerpuff girls guy have to download with it? not much what's download with you
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Jul 26, 2023 03:11
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Shageletic posted:There was a new Beetlejuice?!? It was in the middle of filming and IIRC has everybody back with Jenna Ortega playing Lydia's daughter.
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Jul 26, 2023 03:12
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Oh looks like Keatons back for it which is most good! Looks like Burtons back for it which is, hmmm, I'm going to go with, not the greatest sign.
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Jul 26, 2023 03:18
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Has there been another director who lost as much cred as Burton? Like, in 2005, he was still highly regarded, picking interesting, well received projects, and now it's perfectly understandable to see him joining a project with dismay.
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Jul 26, 2023 03:19
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Steven Spielberg e: ok I didn't see the fabelmans yet but still I think the sentiment was there at least until that movie
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Jul 26, 2023 03:22
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Ok ok that's harsh, looking at his later movies, it's more like he has a few fuckups that made people more suspicious of him. But also he was probably starting from a position of way higher acclaim than Burton in the first place. Also uhh George Lucas lol
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Jul 26, 2023 03:27
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Jul 26, 2023 03:28
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Enos Cabell posted:Robert Zemeckis Going from the Back to the Future trilogy and the Academy Award Winning Forrest Gump to having his version of The Witches yanked off HBO Max in the first round of purges. Woof.
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Jul 26, 2023 03:32
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I mean there's Bryan singer. Not sure if that counts. M. Night Shyamalan maybe? Although I'd say now he's sort of settled into the, okay he does weird small budget horror movies thing and has regained some respect that. Like at least he's films usually have something interesting about them.
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Jul 26, 2023 03:32
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Spielberg having a couple duds in between fantastic movies isn't close to Burton's deal
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Jul 26, 2023 03:33
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:Spielberg having a couple duds in between fantastic movies isn't close to Burton's deal Spielberg is a wild answer. Sure, he’s not making grand slams like Jaws, Jurassic Park, or Schindler’s List any more, but he still turns out decent movies, not total poo poo like Alice in Wonderland.
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Jul 26, 2023 03:37
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Taika Waititi? After Thor 4 it seems like a lot of people have had their fill of Taika for now.
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Jul 26, 2023 03:38
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:Spielberg having a couple duds in between fantastic movies isn't close to Burton's deal Are any of his dud's -outside the indy movies depending on your point of view- even actually that bad films. Seems mostly his failures are just, you know pretty bland, not unwatchably terrible like Burtons.
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Jul 26, 2023 03:39
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Martman posted:Steven Spielberg Looking at his recent filmography, no, not at all. dr_rat posted:I mean there's Bryan singer. Not sure if that counts. He didn't have the steady, noticeable professional decline that Burton had. Singer's output just ended really. Bohemian Rhapsody was five years ago and he's unlikely to get another gig. It was a poo poo film but more because he barely showed up and everyone else had to staple the film together from what existed. Then it turned out he was a serial predator. Before that, he was still capable of knocking out a decent X-Men film like 'Days of Future Past' as much as a deeply mediocre X-Men film like Apocalypse.
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Jul 26, 2023 03:41
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Martman posted:Ok ok that's harsh, looking at his later movies, it's more like he has a few fuckups that made people more suspicious of him. But also he was probably starting from a position of way higher acclaim than Burton in the first place. John Carpenter Although I wouldn’t mind him back
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Jul 26, 2023 03:46
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Tim Burton has never directed a good movie.
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CelticPredator posted:John Carpenter Yeah Carpenter or, as painful as it is to say, George Romero would be my picks.
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dr_rat posted:Are any of his dud's -outside the indy movies depending on your point of view- even actually that bad films. Seems mostly his failures are just, you know pretty bland, not unwatchably terrible like Burtons.
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Jul 26, 2023 03:51
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CelticPredator posted:John Carpenter I miss 80's- early 90's Carpenter. Although apparently he's having a pretty chill time getting stoned, making music, and playing video games, so you know good for him.
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Jul 26, 2023 03:52
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He directed a movie or something from the comfort of his living room so lol
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Snowman_McK posted:Has there been another director who lost as much cred as Burton? Like, in 2005, he was still highly regarded, picking interesting, well received projects, and now it's perfectly understandable to see him joining a project with dismay. Terrence Malick. I don’t know if his post-2011 films are any good, but there sure are a lot of them for a guy who used to be famous for having directed four movies over 30 years. I never hear anyone talk about them at all. Tobe Hooper, probably. From auteur to directing tv pilots is not a great trajectory, although I think the pilot to UPN’s Nowhere Man looks very good.
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Jul 26, 2023 04:17
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John McTiernan went from making Predator and Die Hard and The Hunt for Red October to serving time for trying to spy on his producer for Rollerball. Action directors seem to get hit pretty hard, must be how styles change and how blockbuster filmmaking has evolved.
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I AM GRANDO posted:Terrence Malick. I don’t know if his post-2011 films are any good, but there sure are a lot of them for a guy who used to be famous for having directed four movies over 30 years. I never hear anyone talk about them at all. Malick's modern stuff is all fine to great, even if it's lower profile. Hooper though, yeah, that's a real hard dropoff after 2000.
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:Yeah Carpenter or, as painful as it is to say, George Romero would be my picks. I used to hate Land of the Dead but I’ve come around in a big way on that movie. Wish I could say the same about Diary and Survival.
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MH Knights posted:Taika Waititi? After Thor 4 it seems like a lot of people have had their fill of Taika for now. Taika’s issue seems more like a combination of oversaturation and spreading himself too thin between dozens of projects than any real decline in talent. Give him a few years for his various Disney projects to stall out and return to mid-budget comedies and he’ll be fine. CelticPredator posted:John Carpenter Carpenter’s a weird one because you can assume Memoirs of an Invisible Man was a result of Chevy Chase being impossible plus studio poo poo, then he bounces back with In The Mouth of Madness. Village of the Damned is a forgettable gun-for-hire job, Escape from LA is dogshit that he clearly just made so he and Kurt could hang out and get paid, and Vampires is bad but it’s mostly fun bad. Ghosts of Mars is back to dogshit and then he takes almost a decade off to do two episodes of Masters of Horror and The Ward, all of which are mediocre and forgettable. But I don’t think it’s because he declined or anything, he’s pretty clearly a guy who got continually hosed over by suits and just had his fill. I’d be willing to bet money that if he got a script he was super passionate about today he could probably still turn in a really solid movie. But he won’t because it’s not worth the hassle to him when he can just play video games, smoke, and do the occasional album with his son.
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muscles like this! posted:It was in the middle of filming and IIRC has everybody back with Jenna Ortega playing Lydia's daughter. is b-juice gonna lech on her this time
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Snowman_McK posted:Has there been another director who lost as much cred as Burton? Like, in 2005, he was still highly regarded, picking interesting, well received projects, and now it's perfectly understandable to see him joining a project with dismay. Looking at his filmography to see where it all went wrong:  2005 was kind of a bad year. Charlie was awful and Corpse Bride didn't hit for me like it did for other people. I think Sweeney Todd is the last movie he did that I genuinely enjoyed.
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Jul 26, 2023 07:06
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The bigger budget you give Tim Burton the more you’ll regret what he does with that money.
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I think Dario Argento can definitely go on a list of folks whose movie quality fell off a cliff after certain point and never recovered. Went from that to having some failed IIRC Kickstarter with Garetta Garetta for some Demons-adhacent flick and a few years ago had a failed Kickstarter for a low budget horror game.
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Enos Cabell posted:Robert Zemeckis I'd love to know what his career would have looked like had he not made Roger Rabbit. The drive to pull off a comparable cinematic magic trick again gives you his pretty solid 90s flicks but then rapidly eats away at whatever talent he had after that
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Enos Cabell posted:Robert Zemeckis Yeah, everything else he did pales in comparison to Beowulf
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I never saw Frankenweenie but I remember it getting good reviews. Came out roughly the same time as ParaNorman, another stop motion kids' horror (which owns btw?
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Big Mean Jerk posted:But I don’t think it’s because he declined or anything, he’s pretty clearly a guy who got continually hosed over by suits and just had his fill. I’d be willing to bet money that if he got a script he was super passionate about today he could probably still turn in a really solid movie. But he won’t because it’s not worth the hassle to him when he can just play video games, smoke, and do the occasional album with his son. As ehhhhhh as The Ward is, he did a good job directing it, but there was only so much he could do to salvage that boring script.
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