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Biplane posted:Its not weird at all, to a huge group of terrible people two women kissing is good and maybe even straight while two men kissing is an affront to god. Does god even exist in a galaxy far far away?
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beanieson posted:Does god even exist in a galaxy far far away? Let me tell you about a little something called the Force...
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beanieson posted:Does god even exist in a galaxy far far away? Wookieepedia posted:God was a deity recognized by some Humans. He or she (if in fact having a gender) was omniscient and possibly omnipotent. lol
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3PO is God, got it.
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Was there a big discussion of Uncut Gems in this thread a little while ago? Just watched it, loved it, and was wondering what I might've missed wrt neat, subtle things.
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Not a movie moment, but in the series a moment that relates to the movie. In Tangled: Before Ever After when Rapunzel is given her hair back by the black rocks, the first lock to regrow is the first lock that was cut when she was a baby.
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I don't know if it came up here or one of the other movie threads, but Tangled is the 12th most expensive film ever made. It's more expensive than Star Wars episode 7, any Transformers movie, and every non-Avengers Marvel film. Apparently they finished the movie and then had to redo the entire film. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_films
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Krispy Wafer posted:I don't know if it came up here or one of the other movie threads, but Tangled is the 12th most expensive film ever made. God I love this stuff. It's a nice looking movie, but it just boggles the mind that its budget could balloon so much. It's Slightly more than crazy photorealistic Lion King, it's 100 million more than HtTYD, which came out the same year and I'd say is far more visually impressive. It's three times the budget of Spider-Verse! Reminds me of Toy Story 2,where they accidentally deleted 90% of the movie and assets, and discovered that the backups had failed. After much panicking, they realised that one of the leads had been on maternity leave, and had a mostly complete copy of the movie at home. So they wrapped her computer in blankets, strapped it down, and drove it very nervously and carefully back to the office, and had an all-hands-on-deck crunch for like a week to pick through it and reassemble everything. Then six months later they decided the movie was poo poo and started again.
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It's very possible the budget has factored in the cost of switching the entire animation department to computer animation as this was right after Princess and the Frog which is the last traditionally animated movie (no, I don't count Winnie the pooh in 2011)
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that Tangled budget probably includes the expense of having to slap a new logo on top of all the existing toys and dolls that had been made but not shipped prior to them changing the title at the last second because they were worried boys wouldn't go to a movie about princesses
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I think they created new software for hair and stuff for Tangled
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I don't know if it counts, but I've noticed that they never show both ends of Rapunzel's hair without the middle being in a pile, probably so movie nerds can't work out how long her hair is.
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Related, but the lowest box office return was the Tom Sizemore/Katherine Heigl film Zyzzyx Road, with around $36. It opened in one theatre for one week or something. Edit: apparently it was intentionally limited: Wikipedia posted:Zyzzyx Road was shown once a day, at noon, for six days (February 25 – March 2, 2006) at Highland Park Village Theater in Dallas, Texas,[4] a movie theater rented by the producers for $1,000.[1] The limited release was deliberate: Grillo was uninterested in releasing the film domestically until it underwent foreign distribution, but needed to fulfill the U.S. release obligation required by the Screen Actors Guild for low-budget films[1][5] (films with budgets less than $2.5 million that are not for the direct-to-video market).[6] Rupert Buttermilk has a new favorite as of 18:32 on Feb 5, 2020 |
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$30 is the official number, but they jokingly say $20 because the director refunded his makeup artist who bought 2 tickets.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:
I think you're conflating 2 stories and the total redo was for Toy Story 1.
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There was also the story that Toy Story 3 was originally going to be a cheap direct-to-video sequel when Disney's relationship with Pixar was souring in the mid-00s.
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Krispy Wafer posted:I don't know if it came up here or one of the other movie threads, but Tangled is the 12th most expensive film ever made. Jeez they should just release the Shrek-esque version they made now.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:There was also the story that Toy Story 3 was originally going to be a cheap direct-to-video sequel when Disney's relationship with Pixar was souring in the mid-00s. That was Toy Story 2. Disney wanted a direct to video release and if I’m remembering correctly Pixar took on additional risk to convince Disney to distribute a theatrical version (this being back when Pixar financed most of its own production). By Toy Story 3 even stupid Disney execs could see it worked better as a full fledge movie. jojoinnit posted:Jeez they should just release the Shrek-esque version they made now. A Chris Farley version storyboard with audio was floating around somewhere. Mike Myers’ was better. Krispy Wafer has a new favorite as of 19:51 on Feb 5, 2020 |
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Krispy Wafer posted:That was Toy Story 2. Disney wanted a direct to video release and if I’m remembering correctly Pixar took on additional risk to convince Disney to distribute a theatrical version (this being back when Pixar financed most of its own production). Why do you want to be wrong in so many threads today? Wikipedia - Toy Story 3: Production It was put into production at Circle 7, the CG studio Eisner created in order to make sequels to Pixar films once their original seven-film deal was done and Disney owned the characters. There was a script written and character designs had begun by the time of the January 2006 purchase of Pixar by Disney, at which point Circle 7 was shut down and the original Toy Story 3 was cancelled.
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You know, the more I hear about this Michael Eisner fellow the more I wish I could have been there when he found out about Shrek. Imagine being such a monumental bastard that the people you drive away get together to form their own studio and make one of the most famous animated films of all time, heavily featuring a caricature of you named "Lord Fuckwad"
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BiggerBoat posted:I think you're conflating 2 stories and the total redo was for Toy Story 1. Turns out it was both! https://thenextweb.com/media/2012/05/21/how-pixars-toy-story-2-was-deleted-twice-once-by-technology-and-again-for-its-own-good/ I darent look up 3.
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RandomFerret posted:You know, the more I hear about this Michael Eisner fellow the more I wish I could have been there when he found out about Shrek. Don't pretend like Katzenberg is any better.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Why do you want to be wrong in so many threads today? Disney wanted Toy Story 2 to be direct-to-video. The Wikipedia article you linked says the director Disney tapped for Toy Story 3 had done direct-to-video productions, but that were looking at a theatrical release in 2008. Maybe they were looking at direct-to-video for Toy Story 3 also, but I've never seen that.
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couldcareless posted:Don't pretend like Katzenberg is any better. Imagine being such a monumental bastard that you drive people back to Jeffry Katzenberg
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Was there a big discussion of Uncut Gems in this thread a little while ago? Just watched it, loved it, and was wondering what I might've missed wrt neat, subtle things. I don’t have much off the top of my head but I recommend listening to the Dec 17 2019 episode of the Bill Simmons podcast. He interviews KG and Sandler. If you’re not familiar with Simmons he’s a founder of The Ringer sports network and a Boston homer. Still worth listening to though
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Putting my effort post from CD here because people may appreciate itJestery posted:I recently watched Vanilla ice's "Cool as ice" and was pleasently suprised by the camera work and general vibe the film had going on. Far from being a slapped together star vehicle , it is plain to see that effort and talent went into the creation of this film. This juxtaposition between incredibley competent camerawork and staging and vanilla ice's "b-kool" attitude is an enjoyable one.
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Krispy Wafer posted:I don't know if it came up here or one of the other movie threads, but Tangled is the 12th most expensive film ever made. The original concept for Tangled’s visuals involved traditional animation enhanced by computers so the movie would look like a moving oil painting (the main source of inspiration being “The Swing”). Developing software to do that and/or running tests on something that elaborate was probably expensive as poo poo, and then it was all scrapped. Most of the budget probably went to Disney’s conversion of its animation department into the trajectory they’ve been on ever since with CG animation, Tangled just happened to be in production when that happened so it got the bill for it.
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Krispy Wafer posted:I don't know if it came up here or one of the other movie threads, but Tangled is the 12th most expensive film ever made. I was surprised the LOTR movies weren't higher on the lists, but I guess they saved a lot of money by filming them close together, reusing assets etc.
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Chas McGill posted:I was surprised the LOTR movies weren't higher on the lists, but I guess they saved a lot of money by filming them close together, reusing assets etc. Totally. Iirc New Zealand gave $200M in tax breaks and labor/union casting subsidies, too, as well as donated land on which to build the actual functioning still-there Shire (which is a big tourist place now). They knew it would be huuuuge and really took great pains to sell the locations by offsetting expense for their boy Pete's pitch.
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The Shire originaly didn't last. They had to rebuild it for the Hobbit trilogy, and that time they built it for real (that is, real building instead of facades of building), because they knew that time it would be a tourist area. They didn't know after the first trilogy, and let it go to ruin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DEKkcJHWMw&t=715s
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So I'm watching the Netflix Dracula miniseries and it's pretty entertaining. Never read the original novel and Dracula never really interested me, so I'm sure there's enough to complain about (especially the third episode) but one thing I absolutely love is and respect is how good Sister Agatha's Dutch accent is. It's pretty much spot on, nearly perfectly done, which is a nice change because usually they just use a random vaguely European sounding accent (or worse, just use a German accent or have them speak German outright and call it Dutch.) Her accent is really stealing the show for me, oddly enough. (Being Dutch but having studied English and phonetics and stuff at a pretty high level, normally I find a strong Dutch accent really grating, but it just works here.)
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IUG posted:The Shire originaly didn't last. They had to rebuild it for the Hobbit trilogy, and that time they built it for real (that is, real building instead of facades of building), because they knew that time it would be a tourist area. They didn't know after the first trilogy, and let it go to ruin. Ah! I was a bit off and that's cool to know, thanks.
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Not a lot of examples of Dutch accents I can remember, beyond the obvious other Van Helsing. Which is top tier in contrast of what Keanu was going for  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V67ozonzKRQ
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Mierenneuker posted:Not a lot of examples of Dutch accents I can remember, beyond the obvious other Van Helsing. Which is top tier in contrast of what Keanu was going for Yeah, but while I can tell what he's going for, and there's certain aspects of it he does kinda right, it's still just a vaguely western European accent, not specifically a Dutch one, and even then not great. And I absolutely love Anthony Hopkins. I literally looked up the actress playing Sister Agatha to see if she was in any way Dutch. (She isn't.) Her imperfections are seriously minor (certain vowel sounds, mostly, that a true Dutch speaker would pronounce only slightly differently) and I'll just chalk that up to her living in Romania for a while. It's just such a delight for someone to actually put serious effort into it. It must've taken a whole lot of training with a seriously skilled vocal coach (and a whole lot of talent as well) to get it this right.e: The only other instance of well done Dutch in American/British TV/Movies is that scene in Friends where the bartender that always has a crush on Rachel (I think) at one point blurts out "Jij bent een ezel." (You're a donkey). I remember it striking me that his pronunciation was pretty much spot on, but the writing wasn't. ('Jij' instead of 'Je', which would've been what a native speaker would've used in that instance since there was no emphasis on the subject.) e2: I remembered wrong (but it was like 15-20 years ago, so whatever) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIbVYFjaPVQ Rewatching it now it's only the last sentence that's pretty good, only the 'jij' is off, the rest of his Dutch isn't great but they made a decent effort. Also Gunther? That's not a Dutch name at all. Taeke has a new favorite as of 00:05 on Feb 9, 2020 |
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Mierenneuker posted:Not a lot of examples of Dutch accents I can remember, beyond the obvious other Van Helsing. Which is top tier in contrast of what Keanu was going for Dracula was such a trash rear end movie, on par with Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom and Fifth Element.
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oldpainless posted:Dracula was such a trash rear end movie, on par with Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom and Fifth Element. More like oldtasteless
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I'm sure I saw someone say exactly that about Fifth Element in a thread within the last week or so.
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HopperUK posted:I'm sure I saw someone say exactly that about Fifth Element in a thread within the last week or so. Well whoever said was assuredly very smart and certainly very handsome
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HopperUK posted:I'm sure I saw someone say exactly that about Fifth Element in a thread within the last week or so. I'm fairly sure it was him.
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