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MrBling posted:https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1735011740675436599 I was hoping their enxt project would be their Uncut Gems in the world of Trading Cards thing they pitched. Everyone fighting over a black lotus lol.
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MonsieurChoc posted:I was hoping their enxt project would be their Uncut Gems in the world of Trading Cards thing they pitched. "This is how I win" *plays time walk*
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Drunkboxer posted:I think it’s his only good movie.
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Basebf555 posted:I think that was like a game of telephone where there was a bit of truth to it and then the story morphed into something that wasn't true. I'm pretty sure what did actually happen was that he specifically wanted Hobbs to be on equal footing with Vin Diesel's Dom in the F&F movies. It was a specific issue that he and Diesel had that was a part of that relationship becoming a problem, not a general clause that he put into every contract. Yeah, and Hobbs & Shaw has an opening scene where they're each fighting through a bunch of dudes simultaneously in two different locations in split-screen, matching each other blow for blow, so I buy that part of the story. Just got exaggerated, as you say.
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MonsieurChoc posted:I was hoping their enxt project would be their Uncut Gems in the world of Trading Cards thing they pitched. All about an uncut sheet of moxen.
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Ain't no grift like stealing from QAnon grift https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/sound-of-freedom-angel-studios-audience-business-practices-1234928374/ Lots of highlights here but this part rules, the "Pay it forward" donations for tickets was really just them collection half a billion dollars in extra box office that they don't have to use for anything quote:...
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Drunkboxer posted:I think it’s his only good movie. I enjoyed The Rundown quite a bit, and also Southland Tales, thought I don't know that I'd call it "good".
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One More Fat Nerd posted:I enjoyed The Rundown quite a bit, and also Southland Tales, thought I don't know that I'd call it "good". It's unique among films for sure
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One More Fat Nerd posted:I enjoyed The Rundown quite a bit, and also Southland Tales, thought I don't know that I'd call it "good". The Rundown was where I was like "ok he can actually be a leading man and anchor a decent movie, let's see how far he can go with this", and then he never went a whole lot further with it than that. Never had a true breakout outside of the F&F movies where he jumped onto a train that was already halfway down the tracks. I guess the closest he came was Jumanji, where yea he's definitely a major part of why that movie is entertaining, and he's putting a fun twist on his usual persona in that. And obviously that movie made huge money at the box office.
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I like The Rundown a lot. Now Walking Tall is pretty dumb in a lot of ways but if it popped up on tv I’d probably sit down and watch the whole thing. I’d also give it credit for depicting his parent as a mixed race couple, which is not something you expect to see in a mainstream movie from 2004. I watched Southland Tales just this year and kind of hate of it. There’s a few bright spots but it’s mostly Richard Kelly jerking off to how clever he thinks he is. If you’ve ever read anything about his completely bizarre screenplay for a Holes adaptation then you need to do yourself favor and seek out a summary.
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Tars Tarkas posted:Ain't no grift like stealing from QAnon grift Grift aside, there's something darkly humorous/sinister about the mindset where you help fund a movie not because you have any interest in it yourself, but because you want to expose other people to it.
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Sir Kodiak posted:That reporting turned out to be false. The movie it was about (Hobbs & Shaw) had The Rock lose multiple fights to the villain. I do wonder if he got the idea for it in later movies, though. In Black Adam not only does he never lose a fight, he barely gets hurt. Only time he "loses" is when he willingly gives up his powers for plot reasons and that ends up leading to a literal One Punch Man moment where the entire rest of the cast literally stalls the big demon villain until The Rock gets his powers back.
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Tars Tarkas posted:Ain't no grift like stealing from QAnon grift The people behind that spent a long time on the right wing media circuit promoting the movie and dropping a lot of Q references, because they knew who they wanted to give them money
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It’s a self identified griftable community.
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MonsieurChoc posted:I was hoping their enxt project would be their Uncut Gems in the world of Trading Cards thing they pitched. South Park already made that one.
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muscles like this! posted:Pretty sure there's a line about Offerman being a three term president. Ahhh so this is a stealth prequel to Escape from New York
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Professor Shark posted:It’s a self identified griftable community. I'm just shocked that there was that much money available. I know religious groups and churches often buy blocks of tickets, but if those numbers are real then they really cleaned up. MonsieurChoc posted:I was hoping their enxt project would be their Uncut Gems in the world of Trading Cards thing they pitched. There was a documentary, Jack of All Trades, that I watched that covered the baseball trading card scandals. The actual documentary kind of sucked because it was more about a dude exploring his strained relationship with his father in a not interesting way, but the stuff going on at the height of the trading card was amazing. The best part of it was just listening to the guy's father talk about loading up a box truck full of unwanted hockey trading card packs on the east coast and driving them up into Michigan and Canada to flip them for 3 or 4 times profit. Then loading up on unwanted basketball and baseball card packs in Canada and running them back hustling at shows and card shops along the way. Also stuff alleged about trading card company employees/executives showing up early to conventions and just walking around with full boxes of rare cards offering them to the dealers, which would have come from secret extra runs of the cards. In one case just a guy walking around with a full box of Ken Griffey Jr trading cards that would have been worth about half a million at market rate (until people found out there were boxes full of them circulating), laundering it through the dealers at a big discount. Worth looking up a few articles on the scandals if you're interested in it. Could make for a good movie.
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Did they talk about the famous Honus Wagner T206 card that later turned out to have been altered?
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:I'm just shocked that there was that much money available. I know religious groups and churches often buy blocks of tickets, but if those numbers are real then they really cleaned up. A big part of televangelism (and radio evangelism before it) has been cultivating an audience where every family is willing and eager to tithe. A handful of extra movie tickets per person is nothing to this crowd.
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Remember how much Passion of the Christ made. Same circuit.
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Shageletic posted:Remember how much Passion of the Christ made. Same circuit. Mel Gibson had a hand in the Australian distribution
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FlamingLiberal posted:Did they talk about the famous Honus Wagner T206 card that later turned out to have been altered? No, one of the big issues with the documentary was that they skipped so much juicy stuff. A lot of the reviews I saw mentioned that you'd be better off just spending an hour reading articles about the scandals. Lots of interesting stuff going on around that time.
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I hope this hasn't been asked yet, but has anyone seen the movie Poolman? It's the movie directed by Chris Pine and it's supposed to be awful. I really want to see it now.
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https://twitter.com/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN/status/1735301845776744611?t=UgP2lOgg9ybKT32CUW9X_Q&s=19 Pretty weird!
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Bob Hoskins super Mario bros could have been A24
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Chairman Capone posted:People are comparing Civil War to the DMZ comic, but it’s giving me Russel T Davies’ Years and Years vibes in its “progressive British guy has an extremely surface level understanding of US politics” depiction. Yeah, I think my initial reaction to the trailer was that it shouldn't matter that Garland is English, but Alex Garland being English seems the most important aspect of the movie.
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Simplex posted:Yeah, I think my initial reaction to the trailer was that it shouldn't matter that Garland is English, but Alex Garland being English seems the most important aspect of the movie. A foreigner making a big budget film set in a facially American conflict which just uses it as a vehicle for the story he wants to tell would actually be extremely funny and I hope he does it.
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The Peccadillo posted:https://twitter.com/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN/status/1735301845776744611?t=UgP2lOgg9ybKT32CUW9X_Q&s=19
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FlamingLiberal posted:Looking forward to Norman Reedus throwing grenades of his blood and piss on people, but in live action And in the movie
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One of the best "British guy understands American politics" bits is how in watchmen, Dr. Manhattan lets the US win so hard in Vietnam that Nixon decides to make Vietnam the 51st state
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One of my favorites is Russell T. Davies in some Doctor Who episode having the US President say "I am the President-Elect of the United States!" I also always think back to one of his last episodes (I guess before he came back now) where everyone in the UK was glued to their TVs because Obama was going to be making a speech about "the economy."
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Schwarzwald posted:A big part of televangelism (and radio evangelism before it) has been cultivating an audience where every family is willing and eager to tithe. A handful of extra movie tickets per person is nothing to this crowd. It’s wild how much they give, I think the article says the average pay it forward donation was upwards of $600.
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How much is that from church funds and right wing billionaires trying to astroturf things I wonder. It seems like a very well organized network
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This looks much less satirical than it should be given the premise, but also Cary from *The Other Two* playing straight just feels wrong https://youtu.be/gizIbhk5Eu4?si=AiZa4-J6b2Fi8Pkm
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https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1735674132820369722?t=BGNgXcuayKPOTa4YLsB1xQ&s=19 Going to enjoy insane people pretend it is a masterpiece lol
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fatherboxx posted:https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1735674132820369722?t=BGNgXcuayKPOTa4YLsB1xQ&s=19 It's already happening (even around here) and it's hilarious.
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fatherboxx posted:https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1735674132820369722?t=BGNgXcuayKPOTa4YLsB1xQ&s=19 I see only 9% of critics have taste huh
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