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Grendels Dad posted:Event Horizon chat has been over for some pages now but I just started re-watching it thanks to that... and lol, of course the airlock the rescue ship uses to dock to the EH is number XIII. Whenever I recognize that a film or series uses the same stock sound effects as Doom, it takes me out of it... ...except for Event Horizon, because that ship was clearly made by the United Aerospace Corporation.
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Nightmare Cinema posted:Napoleon theatrical reviews are out and... no surprise... it's uneven as poo poo because it's a Scott theatrical cut. "That gibberish he talked was Parleville, gutter talk, a mishmash of Corsican, Spanish, German, what have you. I didn’t really need a translator. I knew the lingo, every good general did. But I wasn’t going to make it easier for him"
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Nov 15, 2023 22:24
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The annoying thing about the Hobbit movies is that there's a good 2 hour movie in there *somewhere*. But it's buried under a mound of horseshit like a love triangle between a dwarf, Logolas, and another elf they invented for the sole purpose of having a love triangle.
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Nov 15, 2023 22:35
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They should have just adapted the relatively short book "The Hobbit" into a single movie
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Nov 16, 2023 00:07
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They did, it was dope. Gollum was a big frog.
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Nov 16, 2023 00:12
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We need something to pad out the run time... I know! We'll have a big production of our main characters, who happen to be Jewish analogs, throw gold at their problem and make it go away.
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There is so much insanity in the Hobbit movies that have been mindwiped. Remember when giant CGI worms showed up and then hosed off in the span of 30 seconds? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW-IgJHM3cY&t=18s I actually forgot about the Random Elf Name Generator elf until now.
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https://x.com/MadameWeb/status/1724789357482033458?s=20 this uh does not look great
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Nov 16, 2023 00:20
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AI is back to narrate biopicsquote:Edith Piaf AI-Generated Biopic in the Works at Warner Music https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/edith-piaf-ai-biopic-warner-music-1235790327/
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Alan Smithee posted:https://x.com/MadameWeb/status/1724789357482033458?s=20 he was in the amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died
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Tars Tarkas posted:AI is back to narrate biopics we should AI the role of CEO
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Tars Tarkas posted:AI is back to narrate biopics
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Nov 16, 2023 01:06
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Zero One posted:The stock is down more than half since the merger. What an incredible article. Its hard for me to pick my favorite quote but it might be this one: "There’s an ironclad, if unwritten, rule among Hollywood executives to never personally hype a movie before its release. It’s partly just superstition, but it’s also an acknowledgment of the intrinsically unpredictable nature of the business — “nobody knows anything,” as the screenwriter William Goldman once put it. Only the audience could make a hit. But Zaslav was determined to try anyway. “It’s a wow,” he said of “The Flash” on an otherwise undazzling earnings call in February. “I’ve seen it three times,” he told a room full of movie-theater owners at the CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas in April. “To me, it’s the best superhero movie I’ve ever seen.” In fact the early buzz on the movie was pretty good, but Zaslav had seemingly put a Hollywood curse on it: Why was this studio chief talking up one of his own movies like that? It must be worse than everyone thought. “The Flash” bombed. Having been expected at one point to earn at least $85 million on opening weekend, it cleared just $55 million."
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Nov 16, 2023 03:33
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Presto posted:The annoying thing about the Hobbit movies is that there's a good 2 hour movie in there *somewhere*. But it's buried under a mound of horseshit like a love triangle between a dwarf, Logolas, and another elf they invented for the sole purpose of having a love triangle. That one extra sucked because I think the story is that Evangeline Lilly specifically made them promise not to put her in another love triangle after she got burned out by Lost and then they sneaked it in, in scenes she wasn't in.
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Ccs posted:What an incredible article. Its hard for me to pick my favorite quote but it might be this one: I'm partial to "I want to be where the content is made."
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Casimir Radon posted:So much pedo reality tv for one company too. The Duggars, Honey Boo Boo’s mom shacking back up with a guy who molested one of her daughters, the Sons of Guns idiot is serving 3 life sentences for child rape, and I think someone who was on Cake Boss went to prison too. I don't know about the Cake Boss thing but I recall a finalist in Top Chef: Just Desserts was post-show arrested for possessing child pornography
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Fuckin hell shut all reality tv down
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Alan Smithee posted:Fuckin hell shut all reality tv down Is The Rehearsal reality TV? If so, save that one.
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Nathan Fielder shows are Unreality TV
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A Worrying Warlock posted:Whenever I recognize that a film or series uses the same stock sound effects as Doom, it takes me out of it... I do like how a lot of stuff probably independently came up with 'What if hyperspace actually took you through Hell?' Hellraiser has also been considered a spiritual prequel.
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The Jaunt by Stephen King is thematically similar
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GrandpaPants posted:Is The Rehearsal reality TV? If so, save that one. no because it's rehearsed
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Tars Tarkas posted:AI is back to narrate biopics It's cool, living in a season of Black Mirror.
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:That one extra sucked because I think the story is that Evangeline Lilly specifically made them promise not to put her in another love triangle after she got burned out by Lost and then they sneaked it in, in scenes she wasn't in. Yeah nobody wanted it including Peter Jackson but some boneheaded exec insisted on it, or at least that is the story
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The MSJ posted:The Jaunt by Stephen King is thematically similar Also William Gibson’s Hinterlands. Larry Niven’s hyperspace also drives you mad if you look at it. As far back as Lovecraft’s Dreams in the Witch House, where the Salem witches’ magic was actually them using spells to open hyperspace portals to alien planets.
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Tars Tarkas posted:AI is back to narrate biopics
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Alan Smithee posted:Fuckin hell shut all reality tv down It's been bad ever since The Dating Game had that one serial killer contestant
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Most hyperspace/other dimension travel is made to madden the (human) observer, especially in recent space opera. At least in the majority I've read. Especially those that have god-like ai, who do all the driving and were mostly created for that purpose, before they then took over. I don't think The Culture has this though.
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VH1 had a reality show where one of the contestants murdered another one.
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muscles like this! posted:VH1 had a reality show where one of the contestants murdered another one. It was more than just that. They company they had doing background checks didn't bother with Ryan Jenkins because he was Canadian, so they didn't see his history of domestic violence arrests. He was a runner-up on Megan Wants a Millionaire, which was cancelled mid-way through the season when he was named a suspect in the murder of Jasmine Fiore. Then he killed himself and VH1 never aired the third season of I Love Money which he won.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:It was more than just that. They company they had doing background checks didn't bother with Ryan Jenkins because he was Canadian, so they didn't see his history of domestic violence arrests. He was a runner-up on Megan Wants a Millionaire, which was cancelled mid-way through the season when he was named a suspect in the murder of Jasmine Fiore. Then he killed himself and VH1 never aired the third season of I Love Money which he won. This is in insane on multiple levels, especially since it apparently could have been stopped if they hadn't thought that Canadians don't need background checks.
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I vaguely remember that, though I thought it was Who Wants To Marry A Millionaire? Figures as much that actual millionaires who feel the need to start on reality TV shows to get someone to marry them are the extra hosed up ones.
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Chairman Capone posted:This is in insane on multiple levels, especially since it apparently could have been stopped if they hadn't thought that Canadians don't need background checks. Who ever heard of evil Canadians? "Now introducing our new Bachelor, give it up for Paul Bernardo!"
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Being on Reality TV appeals to people who want to be famous more than anything, which means you're going to get that combination of narcissism and megalomania that makes them think they are above the law and justified in domestic/sexual abuse. This is in contrast to scripted television, which appeals to people who want to be famous more than anything, which means you're going to get that combination of narcissism and megalomania that makes them think they are above the law and justified in domestic/sexual abuse. Though on a serious note, I think the real connection between Reality TV stars and predation scandals is that these people are really just nobodies with no future in Hollywood, so nobody is trying to cover for them the way they might for traditional TV stars. They don't have the clout to stop would-be whistleblowers from getting hired from future productions and, in many cases, they're not even essential to the show's future, so they can get fired without everyone else losing their job. They might be tyrants on set, but they have zero reach beyond their show, and even then, it's got a limit—if a dating show contestant has a history of abuse coming to light, the studio can dump him and still make another season. Can't do that as easily with figures like Jonathan Majors or Justin Roiland.
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This was also in the 00s when they wouldn't do psychiatric evaluations and then put a dozen people in a house in Malibu with unlimited alcohol.
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Collateral posted:Most hyperspace/other dimension travel is made to madden the (human) observer, especially in recent space opera. At least in the majority I've read. Especially those that have god-like ai, who do all the driving and were mostly created for that purpose, before they then took over. IIRC Slipspace in Halo is mostly fine if a little unsettling. I don't think you even need god AI to do the piloting, though it certainly helps.
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Precambrian posted:Being on Reality TV appeals to people who want to be famous more than anything, which means you're going to get that combination of narcissism and megalomania that makes them think they are above the law and justified in domestic/sexual abuse. This is in contrast to scripted television, which appeals to people who want to be famous more than anything, which means you're going to get that combination of narcissism and megalomania that makes them think they are above the law and justified in domestic/sexual abuse. Reality producers also select for the most BPD personalities they can find, to guarantee Drama
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