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I caught Morbius on Twitch and the Super Mario Bros movie on Twitter both due to stumbling on uploads that didn't last long. I feel like I have a much more positive opinion of both movies because of the novelty of that, even though those studios werent able to get money from me. However I think Sony and Comcast would much prefer I have a lingering positive opinion than my actual money, soooo you're welcome, movie execs
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The Mario movie was pretty good all in all.
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MarcusSA posted:The Mario movie was pretty good all in all. 
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Gripweed posted:Venom and Venom 2 were good on their own terms. Morbius was fuckin terrible. Granted I would be pissed if I paid money to see Morbius expecting it to be good only for it to turn out to be Morbius, but that assumes there's a kind of person that would pay money to see Morbius
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Jan 31, 2024 03:21
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Froghammer posted:I didn't say it was good, I asked if you had fun It was more baffling than funny. Like, it has the scene where our nascent superhero stops some street crime, you know the scene, most superheroes have it. But in Morbius, the crime he stops is counterfeiting. Or when child Morbius goes to the hospital for children with Morbius disease and meets evil Morbius. So you assume they grew up together, that’s why they’re such close friends. But then it turns out Morbius moved out after like a week to go to regular school. So they didn’t grow up together, they met briefly as kids and the I guess met up again as adults and became friends then. Just so many baffling choices in the script.
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dark universe is back, in theme park form https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1752324380821008524
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Stink Billyums posted:dark universe is back, in theme park form Global warming and rising seas have some upsides, I suppose.
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Jan 31, 2024 03:39
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The leaked Frankenstein dark ride in that area seems pretty neat actually. Not sure why they are calling it Dark Universe when it has nothing to do with that aborted shared universe.
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priznat posted:Global warming and rising seas have some upsides, I suppose. lol
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Listening to some of Weird Al's rap parodies from the 00s and our guy had bars more then I remember
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Jan 31, 2024 04:10
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Dark Universe? More like DORK Universe, am I right?
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Jan 31, 2024 04:37
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American Fiction is great. I like it better than any of the other Best Picture nominees. Very funny, but also much more of a drama than the trailers make it seem.
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Jan 31, 2024 05:01
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Saw American Fiction, and while it had good performances from Jeffrey Wright and Sterling K. Brown, it felt messy and unfocused. Now that I've seen all 10 Best Picture nominees, here's how I would rank them: Past Lives > The Zone of Interest > The Holdovers > Poor Things > Anatomy of a Fall > Barbie > Oppenheimer > Killers of the Flower Moon > American Fiction > Maestro I had Zone of Interest, Holdovers, Poor Things, Anatomy of a Fall and Barbie all rated 4 and a half stars on Letterboxd, so those are kinda interchangeable for me.
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Rageaholic posted:it felt messy and unfocused. This is part of the point. Monk's life is a reasonable mess in realistic ways that make him a non-flat character and in the end he realizes he's been flattrning everyone in his life. His mother is the just a poor victim of her condition and his dad's infidelity, his brother is a fuckup having a midlife crisis, his girlfriend doesn't get him, his rival author is just another sellout. None of it is true because he's not really engaging with them, just shadowboxing with versions of them he's cooked up. PostNouveau fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Jan 31, 2024 |
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PostNouveau posted:This is part of the point
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Jose Oquendo posted:The leaked Frankenstein dark ride in that area seems pretty neat actually. Not sure why they are calling it Dark Universe when it has nothing to do with that aborted shared universe. They probably spent a ton of money developing branding and what not for it, may as get something out of it I guess? But yeah not a theme park person -last one I went to would of been two decades ago now- so probably not the best person to wage in on this, but a theme park area built around the old universal monsters actually seems like a pretty cool idea to me. kitchy fun for the adults, scary for the younger kids, around Halloween you could do a lot of stuff with it. Honestly far better idea than the whole "cinematic universe" idea was. Although as someone -I think a page or two ago- mentioned, dark universe could of worked too if they weren't trying to make it all 300 million dollar marvel'esq action type poo poo. Series of vaguely connected smaller budget horror films by writers/directors who like the old movies/genre, could of worked well. They just got greedy.
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just watched featured on hitb catchup video film the kid detective and i do heartily recommend it! great fun little indie dark comedy, and asks only 99 minutes of your life
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Get rid of all of that except Isle of Berk but not Berk form the dragon film but rather from Trap Door. Basically I am asking for a Trap Door themepark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldlCD7GR2JI
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dr_rat posted:Although as someone -I think a page or two ago- mentioned, dark universe could of worked too if they weren't trying to make it all 300 million dollar marvel'esq action type poo poo. Series of vaguely connected smaller budget horror films by writers/directors who like the old movies/genre, could of worked well. They just got greedy. Yeah, the Invisible Man was the only good one and it had just a $7 million budget
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PostNouveau posted:Yeah, the Invisible Man was the only good one and it had just a $7 million budget The problem is that a <$10 million R-rated horror movie is probably gonna top out at maybe $250 million (which is what Get Out made). A $200 million PG-13 action-adventure movie could end up pulling in $1 billion (or more). Studios are way too set in the mindset of "tentpole" movies, so they're always gonna find something to spend 9 figures on.
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Stink Billyums posted:dark universe is back, in theme park form thank god
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dr_rat posted:Although as someone -I think a page or two ago- mentioned, dark universe could of worked too if they weren't trying to make it all 300 million dollar marvel'esq action type poo poo. Series of vaguely connected smaller budget horror films by writers/directors who like the old movies/genre, could of worked well. They just got greedy. Make Dark Universe, but every single movie has to hide the monster part of it behind some more mundane story. 80s Wall Street movie, but Dracula's bankrupting the savings and loans. 70s buddy cop movie, but it's one cop: Detective Jeckyl and Lt. Hyde. 60s anti-war movie, but werewolves are hiding out in a hippie commune by blending in.
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sharknado slashfic posted:Listening to some of Weird Al's rap parodies from the 00s and our guy had bars more then I remember Weird Al is unironically one of the best musicians alive
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dr_rat posted:Although as someone -I think a page or two ago- mentioned, dark universe could of worked too if they weren't trying to make it all 300 million dollar marvel'esq action type poo poo. Series of vaguely connected smaller budget horror films by writers/directors who like the old movies/genre, could of worked well. They just got greedy. Yeah. The Invisible Man was excellent and a big financial success. You could do the whole dark universe for less than the cost of the Mummy. Not that I think they should. Shared universes are small universes. Plus you get tone inconsistencies; a Jekyll film could be great in the same style as Invisible Man, but a Frankenstein with no camp elements sounds unappealing. Let things stand alone.
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Cubone posted:it's based on a book how is it? 
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Meat Wagon posted:how is it? 
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a few days after seeing the holdovers, I started to think about american fiction, and the fact that da'vine joy randolph's character in the former is the kind of character the latter's jeffrey wright would bemoan. her role in the plot is to suffer sufficiently enough that paul giamatti's character can look good for defending her, while also befriending him and praising his virtue (in contrast with how the white students and white faculty engage with him). it seems like the movie is intending to set up a tripartite drama but her relationship with dominic sessa is pretty underdeveloped. as a result the movie becomes mostly about giamatti and sessa in the final act while her story is self-contained and feels superfluous. her character is basically giamatti's character's magical negro. giamatti was nommed for best actor and randolph for best supporting actress.
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JediTalentAgent posted:Make Dark Universe, but every single movie has to hide the monster part of it behind some more mundane story. What could be really cool is one of those Eyes Wide Shut/Under the Silver Lake movies about a rich people sex and murder cult that plays the whole thing totally straight, nothing supernatural, just a normal conspiracy, but at the end it turns out the leader is literally Dracula.
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You really think you could secure the rights to Jared Leto’s life?
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what if dracula was president????
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Nefarious 2.0 posted:what if dracula was president???? Try right now! Or if you like the current guy, try four years ago!
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kalel posted:a few days after seeing the holdovers, I started to think about american fiction, and the fact that da'vine joy randolph's character in the former is the kind of character the latter's jeffrey wright would bemoan. her role in the plot is to suffer sufficiently enough that paul giamatti's character can look good for defending her, while also befriending him and praising his virtue (in contrast with how the white students and white faculty engage with him). it seems like the movie is intending to set up a tripartite drama but her relationship with dominic sessa is pretty underdeveloped. as a result the movie becomes mostly about giamatti and sessa in the final act while her story is self-contained and feels superfluous. her character is basically giamatti's character's magical negro. giamatti was nommed for best actor and randolph for best supporting actress. they probably shouldve given her something more to do/say than just hold the kids hand while he almost gets expelled
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In the original Mummy film the mummy successfully resurrects the woman he pined over and then she goes, uh, I was a high priestess of a god and you were punished for sacrilege and this seems like a whole bunch of sacrilege and just wipes him out. Did the failed Tom Cruise one have a scene where mummy mommy gets exploded or is it less fun than a film from 1932
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kalel posted:a few days after seeing the holdovers, I started to think about american fiction, and the fact that da'vine joy randolph's character in the former is the kind of character the latter's jeffrey wright would bemoan. her role in the plot is to suffer sufficiently enough that paul giamatti's character can look good for defending her, while also befriending him and praising his virtue (in contrast with how the white students and white faculty engage with him). it seems like the movie is intending to set up a tripartite drama but her relationship with dominic sessa is pretty underdeveloped. as a result the movie becomes mostly about giamatti and sessa in the final act while her story is self-contained and feels superfluous. her character is basically giamatti's character's magical negro. giamatti was nommed for best actor and randolph for best supporting actress. Oh, 100%. Randolph's performance is quite good with the material she's given though. She's much more grounded than a lot of actors would have played it, which makes her breakdown and the scenes with her sister pay off well. I think the Holdovers would have been a Christmas classic if it was made in the '90s. Make that soundtrack christmasier and make Giamatti more of a big softie at the end and it would be the subject of clickbait articles today about how problematic your favorite childhood Christmas movie is.
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Barudak posted:In the original Mummy film the mummy successfully resurrects the woman he pined over and then she goes, uh, I was a high priestess of a god and you were punished for sacrilege and this seems like a whole bunch of sacrilege and just wipes him out. The Tom Cruise Mummy is significantly less fun than the Brendan Frazier Mummy
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I regret to inform everyone that a plane carrying Josh the Wizard spun into the pacific ocean this morning at 5:22 am PT. He was the only survivor.
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Stink Billyums posted:all about the pentiums had some great insults It's also aged shockingly well, overall, considering how much technology it mentions. The line that aged the worst is one he couldn't possibly have predicted: "posting 'me too" like some brain-dead AOL'er"
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The boys were correct in their Ghostbusters 2 commentary that the only way a sequel could've worked is if it was a decade or two later. GB2 was too soon and these movies are way too late especially since one of them has been dead for a decade.
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Groovelord Neato posted:The boys were correct in their Ghostbusters 2 commentary that the only way a sequel could've worked is if it was a decade or two later. GB2 was too soon and these movies are way too late especially since one of them has been dead for a decade. I still think the best idea for a sequel is that it takes place at a Ghostbusters franchise location. The only time you see any of the old guys is Bill Murray in an anti-union video they have to watch as part of employee training.
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