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Some Guy TT posted:the whole discourse about sex work these days is genuinely baffling because theyre basically trying to make modern sex work sound like people in the gigi era made courtesan work sound but since so much sex work discourse is based around presentist condescension about how awful people in the old days were any similarities make these educated lib typs super defensive since the only way to resolve that particular contradiction is by analyzing the materialist circumstances any given sex worker in any time period labors under rather than just assuming every sex worker is a part of a uniform class with fundamentally identically motivations No, sometimes we still get stories about pious types trying to redeem sex workers so they get into literal heaven and this is treated as progressive because it's a singing cartoon.
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skooma512 posted:I'm actually happy for Universal they didn't make any movies with those retro monster characters. To argue back against this: a long time ago in one of the movie greenlight threads, people were trashing the latest movie adaptation of a videogame. But one poster argued that wasn't the problem - the videogame (or 50s monster in this case) is just a property to hang a set of movies on, a central idea that needn't matter at all. It's not like videogames have deep plots and intricate storytelling, and so you're just taking a small idea and building 90% of a movie around it. And so, maybe Universal could have started from a pulpy set of 50s monsters and created a franchise almost despite the base property. In practice, Universal just seemed to think calling it a cinematic universe was job done, and waited for the viewers to show up.
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there are probably thousands of decent scrips starring the classic monsters lining the ol circular file because they don't leave room for them to all meet each other and team up to fight whatever super monster
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also horror audiences are by far the most tolerant of short run times and basic effects. no reason universal couldn't pump out a dozen monster movies for the cost of one marvel shitheap
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Speaking of Tom Bombadil, the Andy Serkis narrated audiobooks for LotR are great and he really sells how loving annoying it would be to listen to Bombadil
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Even if they did want to go a more action way they could of tried to do a remake of the much beloved 1999 The Mummy. A fun slightly campy adventure thing with slight horror tones. Even gives you the start of a hero team with an ex military adventure guy with a slightly shady past and a librarian for research, and it's even set in the 1920's. Slightly late for some of the universal monsters but a period that could work pretty well.
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Dracula Untold and The Mummy makes it seem like they were intent on turning them into conventional superheroes. Which feels like it really miss the appeal of the characters and their genre.
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the milk machine posted:dwight yoakam hollering "gently caress it, i'm gettin the band back together!" Was Yoakam in SlingPlayer? Lost the thread of conversation. Liked him in the Crank movies anyway as a hosed up doctor E: lol leaving the autocorrect
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Some Guy TT posted:now dont take this the wrong way frosted flake because i love you and youre my pal but when i saw this post i kindof just assumed this was the one that got you the daylong probe and the one you did get the probe for really wrecks the pattern on your rap sheet Frosted Flake should be posting that in the Succession thread anyways
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I saw nothing creepy in that long long post
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the milk machine posted:________/ Rincewind doesn't gently caress OR do magic
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loquacius posted:Wait there's always room in asceticism for a monk so holy he's allowed to be horny
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Some Guy TT posted:having appreciation for any part of a show slash movie that isnt just bougie affectations like leo is a good actor because hes hot isnt cringe my friend its a sign that youre comprehending a work as a whole and not as if it was a jangling set of keys so what im hearing is that its Very Cool that i demand the Succession theme plays during coitus.
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loquacius posted:Rincewind doesn't gently caress OR do magic Did the Wizards in Pratchett not gently caress because it messes with their magic, or did they not gently caress because thats how you get Sourcerers? I haven't read the early books in a very long time and can't remember.
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One More Fat Nerd posted:Did the Wizards in Pratchett not gently caress because it messes with their magic, or did they not gently caress because thats how you get Sourcerers? I think they all think it's the first one but it's secretly the second one
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indigi posted:well Lalo's extremely sexy. if he wasn't smoking hot he'd come off a lot more like Fring. Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman, Tyler Durden, basically any Sharon Stone role. yeah they're likable, as in I'd likable to gently caress them indigi posted:also no elves don't gently caress except to have a child and the conception rate is 100%. so Celeborn and Galadriel haven't hosed since the year 300 of the Second Age (6k years prior to the events of Lord of the Rings)
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A Buttery Pastry posted:that's what likable means. Galadriel just has a big crowd of dwarves lined up outside her bedroom Celeborn is a regular at lorien's secret orc bordello
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The LOTR books are like 70% fantasy genealogies so presumably someone hosed at some point.
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how about frodo climbing intotom bombadils rear end and riding him like a gundam into mordor
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A Buttery Pastry posted:that's what likable means. are half elves a playable race in any licensed video games or TTRPG?
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A Buttery Pastry posted:no evidence they didn't gently caress other non-elf people There are enough half-elven characters in the mythos that you kinda have to assume that they did screw around.
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skooma512 posted:I'm actually happy for Universal they didn't make any movies with those retro monster characters. Good monster movies are amazing. Those original classics from Hollywood's golden age (like Dracula and Frankenstein) are pretty solid. The problem is that big Hollywood studios seem to find it impossible to make one now. That reminds me that I should check out the original Lon Chaney Wolfman movie.
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AnimeIsTrash posted:how about frodo climbing intotom bombadils rear end and riding him like a gundam into mordor Frodo absolutely does not gently caress Frodo fucks less than Saruman even
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I suppose there's a whole argument about how making an effective horror movie while trying to hit the PG-13 sweetspot is incredibly difficult, but I really don't think it's impossible as long as stuff isn't super gory and you manage to avoid using the f-word. I personally liked the first US remake of the Ring, though. Maybe I'm the nutso one.
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One More Fat Nerd posted:Did the Wizards in Pratchett not gently caress because it messes with their magic, or did they not gently caress because thats how you get Sourcerers? It’s the second one. Sourcerers are so powerful they are a danger to themselves and everyone around them. Magic is also pretty much has the same properties as radioactive material, so you don’t want too much of it floating around in an area because it will start contaminating an area like a magic Chernobyl.
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Frodo didn't realize that when Galadriel showed him her mirror she was trying to gently caress, because he doesn't gently caress
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indigi posted:you can't make movies centered on Frankenstein or Mummy or Jeckyll or Count Chocula on a $300m budget hoping fat Russel Crowe will open your movie to a summer blockbuster take. it's just not gonna happen. but if they made them proper horror/monster movies with a <$50m budget, and took the concepts seriously without a bunch of winky "hmm? hmm? like how you remember from being a kid, yeah?!" asides or overloading them with CG, I bet it could work How was that? It looked like it might be okay but then they used that horrible Smashing Pumpkins cover in the trailer and that really undermined my faith that the movie was made by competent people.
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fraudo "fumble the" baggins
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:fraudo "fumble the" baggins
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In Training posted:Didn't people like that recent invisible man. I looked this up. $7 million production budget(!) and $140+ million in ticket revenues. I know Hollywood accounting is smoke and mirrors in large part, but that has to be considered a success, right? It got really good reviews. I'm not sure how this makes a "universe" with all the other weird slop they made, like that Mummy remake.
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In Training posted:Didn't people like that recent invisible man. yeah but I think that one was specifically not made with the intention of making it part of the Universal Scary Times Cinematic Universe. or at the very least, it was after The Mummy (2017) bombed so they knew better than to try and make it that at that point.
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the real problem is that the name "frankenstein" has too much baggage nowadays. you've gotta reboot the whole concept, make it like Dr. Aaron's Monster.
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:the real problem is that the name "frankenstein" has too much baggage nowadays. you've gotta reboot the whole concept, make it like Dr. Aaron's Monster. Is it the name? I feel the biggest challenge would be making a compelling looking monster. And there's probably a Terminator-style problem of how you depict the main compelling parts of the character (hubristic scientist goes too far and makes a miserable monster) without it just being the same drat story over and over again. EDIT: The original 1931 movie is still pretty good. Eric Cantonese has issued a correction as of 17:16 on Jan 31, 2024 |
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In Training posted:Didn't people like that recent invisible man. It was p good. Turns out that doing a low budget horror movie with a competent director who's used to working with low budgets can pay off, who woulda guessed.
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Eric Cantonese posted:How was that? It looked like it might be okay but then they used that horrible Smashing Pumpkins cover in the trailer and that really undermined my faith that the movie was made by competent people.
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:yeah but I think that one was specifically not made with the intention of making it part of the Universal Scary Times Cinematic Universe. or at the very least, it was after The Mummy (2017) bombed so they knew better than to try and make it that at that point. Yea it wound up being a Blumhouse production instead which was a good fit for that kinda movie
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Knight posted:It was crap. Empty characters, bad jump scares, insulting script. Everything in the plot is justified by the crew wanting a bonus for arriving at their destination early, so they progressively go from finding a stowaway, having all their livestock slaughtered, crew seeing Dracula, crew being murdered or surviving with bite wounds, etc and going "no, we can't stop at a port, we need that bonus!"
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