dr_rat posted:lol. That's great. This is fully tinfoil hat territory but I fully believe it was cancelled out of spite, taking a movie that was very likely to result in big residuals for WGA and SAG members but was not a big tentpole and dunking it directly into the trash as a big gently caress you to the unions in retaliation for winning
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Professor Shark posted:Someone explain the angel thing again I think the idea was going back to the biblical description of angels (well Ophanim a type of angel) that have been described as: "The four wheels had rims and they had spokes, and their rims were full of eyes round". Although the poster said they wanted to seem like their was an angel captured in the center powering it, it does still fit.
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dr_rat posted:I think the idea was going back to the biblical description of angels (well Ophanim a type of angel) that have been described as: "The four wheels had rims and they had spokes, and their rims were full of eyes round". Yeah, what I read was that the artist who created the drive core based it on the Biblical description of an Ophanim, then imagined one imprisoned by modern technology to serve as the ship's core, creating that.
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Cythereal posted:Yeah, what I read was that the artist who created the drive core based it on the Biblical description of an Ophanim, then imagined one imprisoned by modern technology to serve as the ship's core, creating that. Sometimes when you here artists talking about inspirations like that and you look at the end result, it just like, I don't see/get it. But yeah in this case yeah can 100% see it and it just fits the movie so well. Good job awesome artist person!
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muscles like this! posted:https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/coyote-vs-acme-wb-warners-canceled-reversal-shop-film-1235645372/
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dr_rat posted:Do we just need to assume they were going to start canceling anything that they thought wasn't going to be a massive hit? Knowing the minds of executives is impossible, but that at least sounds like a probable reason.
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The Coyote movie write-off is hilarious because the Looney Toons are amazingly iconic and intrinsically linked to WB. Also, John Cena is a pretty big name and is working on other projects for them. It's like they are actively trying to bury their own company.
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Nov 13, 2023 23:27
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 “Where we’re going, we won’t need eyes to see.”
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FlamingLiberal posted:That makes sense. This is now the third project to get axed like this for tax reasons, and it's a major problem for the people who spent years working on it that now have nothing to show for it. It's absolutely going to make people think twice before they sign up to work on a major WBD project. Because if the entire project gets thrown in a vault, how are you supposed to use that in any way to further your career? It's an approach that makes perfect sense for reality TV. There's skill to making reality TV, but it doesn't require emotional investment. You still need to be able to come up with a good concept, select a good cast, put interesting things into the mix, edit skillfully to create drama. All that stuff, but it's a mercenary skill. You do season 20 of Big Brother then move on to season 17 of Ice Road Truckers. The skills transfer but you never needed to actually care about the show you were working on beyond doing your job well in that moment. By contrast, even to create a mediocre scripted show takes so much work from so many people who do need to care about what they're doing.
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dr_rat posted:The production design on event horizon was just great. Incredibly over the top and a better movie for it. I could be wrong, but I seem to recall the hallway ‘o blades having something to do with protecting the rest of the ship/umbilicus from gravitational distortions created by the core.
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RevKrule posted:https://twitter.com/GarfieldMovie/status/1724064572078690325 Pizza? Jesus christ who wrote this drat movie, Nathen Mazri?
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Gonz posted:I could be wrong, but I seem to recall the hallway ‘o blades having something to do with protecting the rest of the ship/umbilicus from gravitational distortions created by the core. See, a perfectly sound engineering rationale that, nonetheless, creates something satanic-looking in practice. In attempting to construct something that subverted the laws of normal Euclidian 3D space, they didn't realize they were literally building a ship powered by blasphemy against the word of God. e: RevKrule posted:https://twitter.com/GarfieldMovie/status/1724064572078690325 Speaking of things that seemed like a good idea to someone somewhere that in practice obviously subverts the will of God
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I don’t know, the Garfield trailer wasn’t as bad as I expected Samuel L Jackson feels more out of place than Chris Pratt to me though
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You want the hallway of blades in case the angel breaks out, clearly.
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dr_rat posted:lol. That's great. a lot of CEOs do not give a gently caress about projects they did not greenlight, because they can't claim credit for it. If they cancel a film though, they can say they are saving the company money.
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Cythereal posted:Also, the FTL core is - by the artists' admitted intention - an imprisoned angel. A ball of fire surrounded by wheels covered in eyes. Wasn't this how the original colony ships in the anime Trigun worked? Or rather stopped working when Vash and his brother came out of their "light bulbs."
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MH Knights posted:Wasn't this how the original colony ships in the anime Trigun worked? Or rather stopped working when Vash and his brother came out of their "light bulbs." mmm, sorta, i think? i don't think it's ever spelled out what, exactly, they are- aliens, or angels, or modified humans- but you're correct that the light bulbs have -things- inside them, and that Vash & Knives are the same kind of -thing-, albeit V&K are male whereas the bulbs (which are still being used as power sources by cities & towns) are female. mind you, i only ever watched the anime, and it was several years ago, so maybe take my recollection with a grain of salt. Argus Zant fucked around with this message at 04:18 on Nov 14, 2023 |
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I didn't know that about Event Horizon but that fits and is cool as hell. I also appreciate the movie for having a smart captain. As soon as he sees that tape he's getting everyone off the ship and blowing it up. No hesitation, no arguing.
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Codependent Poster posted:I didn't know that about Event Horizon but that fits and is cool as hell. 
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WB seems like it's pulling Unity levels of self sabotage. I just wish it wasn't taking down hbo max in the process.
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Thanks to a random 'change the soundtrack' thread from 20 years ago I can't watch that scene and not hear 'Little Spanish Tree'.
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Thanks to a random 'change the soundtrack' thread from 20 years ago I can't watch that scene and not hear 'Little Spanish Tree'. Little Spanish Flea?
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Thanks to a random 'change the soundtrack' thread from 20 years ago I can't watch that scene and not hear 'Little Spanish Tree'. never forget https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBxsCI4hif8
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Taika Waititi announced that his Star Wars movie is still go, but he has yet to finish the script for it (he's been working on this since at least January 2020) and he's going to finish his next four (!) movies before getting to Star Wars. So yeah, it's definitely for sure still going to happen. Also Next Goal Wins has been getting some pretty bad reviews so far.
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Chairman Capone posted:Taika Waititi announced that his Star Wars movie is still go, but he has yet to finish the script for it (he's been working on this since at least January 2020) and he's going to finish his next four (!) movies before getting to Star Wars. While I feel pretty confident that his treatment of The Incal is going to suck, I really want to know how he's planning on condensing 5 books into two hours while being even close to semi-coherent.
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A Taika movie that's bad?? Who could've seen that coming.
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Chairman Capone posted:Taika Waititi announced that his Star Wars movie is still go, but quote:Also Next Goal Wins has been getting some pretty bad reviews so far.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:A Taika movie that's bad?? Who could've seen that coming.
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In ten years I’m definitely releasing that movie
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DarkSol posted:I really want to know how he's planning on condensing 5 books into two hours while being even close to semi-coherent. I don't recall him promising that last part
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Oh I was more alluding to how taika having an incoming bomb doesn’t speak well to his chances of continuing to have a star wars movie on his plate, given licasfilm’s previous history
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:Oh I was more alluding to how taika having an incoming bomb doesn’t speak well to his chances of continuing to have a star wars movie on his plate, given licasfilm’s previous history I think Book of Henry was a real once in a lifetime bomb.
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Hes probably a time traveler because he made the shittiest ww2 movie from 1994
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DarkSol posted:While I feel pretty confident that his treatment of The Incal is going to suck, I really want to know how he's planning on condensing 5 books into two hours while being even close to semi-coherent. My fear is that John Difool will be too competent and likable, besides the obvious coherency question.
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GrandpaPants posted:I think Book of Henry was a real once in a lifetime bomb. There was also Wonder Woman 1984, mind you e: also josh trank’s solo boba fett movie, the GoT guys getting a trilogy and then immediately having it nuked as soon as the final season came out, etc. disney-lucasfilm has an extremely obvious track record of getting cold feet and burning directors the moment they aren’t a known, set, guaranteed hot commodity Babysitter Super Sleuth fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Nov 14, 2023 |
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Yeah, the Solo guys getting fired was pretty unique in that it wasn’t because they had a giant bomb.
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It's pretty cool that there have been more directors fired from or attached to nonexistent Star Wars movies than there are actual Star Wars movies.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:Hes probably a time traveler because he made the shittiest ww2 movie from 1994 I can't think of a better illustration of a director slamming into their limits while also showcasing enough scenes from the exact film they should have made that the final result is as frustrating as it is bad. Punkin Spunkin posted:A Taika movie that's bad?? Who could've seen that coming. The sad part is that just a few years ago, yeah, that would have seemed genuinely unlikely. There was a tweet that said 'the lesson from Taika's career is that Hollywood cocaine is a lot stronger than New Zealand cocaine' and that sums it up.
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Robot Style posted:It's pretty cool that there have been more directors fired from or attached to nonexistent Star Wars movies than there are actual Star Wars movies. What's Lucas been doing?
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