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Dinosaurmageddon
Jul 7, 2007

by zen death robot
Hell Gem
Imagine a sexy spy catsuit lady with a red haired ponytail and a sniper rifle, but then turn her into a psychic bug lady, so like, she still has hair but now it's made out of segmented bug tentacles, or she still has the shape of boobs but it's actually a chitinous chestplate of xenobug exoskeleton designed to look like her old boobs.

There's your movie.

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Ork of Fiction
Jul 22, 2013
They should stop messing around and make that mint they always talk about.

Nut to Butt
Apr 13, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
i'd cut their balls off

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
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I think it's really unrealistic how you go through a whole 2 hour movie, sometimes epic poo poo, and nobody farts. Not casually, not interjectionally. There statistically needs to be a few farts in every film to make it seem realistic. People just don't believe in the poo poo, not because of the lovely actors, not because of the bad scripts and shitcunt directors, but because the suspension of disbelief is broken by a distinct lack of realistic farts in a film.

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost
Start taking chances on unprofitable movies. How many of the best movies you've ever seen have IMDB pages like "although a huge flop when initially released, has since become critically acclaimed" or something. Let artists make movies again.

Ork of Fiction
Jul 22, 2013

Applewhite posted:

Start taking chances on unprofitable movies. How many of the best movies you've ever seen have IMDB pages like "although a huge flop when initially released, has since become critically acclaimed" or something. Let artists make movies again.

Ten years from now Batman v Superman: DoJ will finally get the recognition it deserves...

buglord
Jul 31, 2010

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!

Buglord

Applewhite posted:

Start taking chances on unprofitable movies. How many of the best movies you've ever seen have IMDB pages like "although a huge flop when initially released, has since become critically acclaimed" or something. Let artists make movies again.
Is the public even ready for it though? If it isn't some straightforward overly-safe formula, won't people just dislike it? Do people like things the way it is, aside from the minority that is the something awful forums?

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
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Applewhite posted:

Start taking chances on unprofitable movies. How many of the best movies you've ever seen have IMDB pages like "although a huge flop when initially released, has since become critically acclaimed" or something. Let artists make movies again.

Aside from film festivals, which are arguably as incestous and pretentious as the holy guild, there really isn't much of a venue for independent films. There's not a lot of breakthrough production houses that see the cinema outside of niche metropolitan artsy fartsy poo poo.

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost

ClamdestineBoyster posted:

Aside from film festivals, which are arguably as incestous and pretentious as the holy guild, there really isn't much of a venue for independent films. There's not a lot of breakthrough production houses that see the cinema outside of niche metropolitan artsy fartsy poo poo.

I don't mean weirdo experimental films, I mean films that are as much a labor of love as they are a major production. Directors like Terry Gilliam, Quentin Tarantino or Orson Welles. We need more people like them.

Also please bring Paul Verhoven back to Hollywood.

Vegetable
Oct 22, 2010

illumination entertainment should die a painful death. minions and the secret life of pets are the worst

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost

Vegetable posted:

illumination entertainment should die a painful death. minions and the secret life of pets are the worst

Aww, Secret Life of Pets was bad? I haven't seen it yet but I wanted to.

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
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Applewhite posted:

I don't mean weirdo experimental films, I mean films that are as much a labor of love as they are a major production. Directors like Terry Gilliam, Quentin Tarantino or Orson Welles. We need more people like them.

Also please bring Paul Verhoven back to Hollywood.

The world is out of stories though. We've traversed the frontier of thought and staked all claims. The postmodern bubble has burst, and there are no more combinations of plot elements to be exploited. :smith:

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost

ClamdestineBoyster posted:

The world is out of stories though. We've traversed the frontier of thought and staked all claims. The postmodern bubble has burst, and there are no more combinations of plot elements to be exploited. :smith:

People have been saying that for a hundred years I'm sure.

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
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Applewhite posted:

People have been saying that for a hundred years I'm sure.

Like draculas? :drac:

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

ClamdestineBoyster posted:

The world is out of stories though. We've traversed the frontier of thought and staked all claims. The postmodern bubble has burst, and there are no more combinations of plot elements to be exploited. :smith:

It's not what you say it's how you say it, otherwise we would all just read wikipedia articles instead of seeing movies

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

The Coen Bros. now oversee an entire cinematic universe of esoteric throwbacks to Golden Age Hollywood

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
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Quick Draw McGraw posted:

It's not what you say it's how you say it, otherwise we would all just read wikipedia articles instead of seeing movies

Yeah, actors need to act harder. Like act really hard bitch. Own that poo poo. Acty rear end actin.

gary oldmans diary
Sep 26, 2005

Applewhite posted:

Start taking chances on unprofitable movies. How many of the best movies you've ever seen have IMDB pages like "although a huge flop when initially released, has since become critically acclaimed" or something. Let artists make movies again.
If Ebert is still alive, kill him. His review of Predator basically criticized it just for being an action movie which means only dumb dumbs would like it and he's so smart, so. When it's actually a clever action movie with overtones "The Most Dangerous Game" and a premise for an alien that is entirely unconventional in cinema, masterfully presented. The macho action which the protagonists are masters of is ultimately turned on them and leads directly to their deaths, which from the alien's point of view is exactly the point and what he finds satisfying.
You can tell that dude mentally turns off before he even enters the theater if he doesn't think it'll stroke his ego, because he could've written everything found in his review from just looking at the movie poster instead of watching it.

DoctorStrangelove
Jun 7, 2012

IT WOULD NOT BE DIFFICULT MEIN FUHRER!

Roylicious posted:

Full penetration.

NihilismNow
Aug 31, 2003

Applewhite posted:

Also please bring Paul Verhoven back to Hollywood.

He tried to make make Elle in Hollywood but actresses weren't game and he couldn't get funding, so off to France it was.

The Dennis System
Aug 4, 2014

Nothing in Jurassic World is natural, we have always filled gaps in the genome with the DNA of other animals. And if the genetic code was pure, many of them would look quite different. But you didn't ask for reality, you asked for more teeth.

Neutrino posted:

The fundamental concept of cinema and films in general is not that is a depiction of reality but that it tells a story using its own symbolic language. Even the most realistic documentary cannot give an accurate representation of reality once it's assembled onto celluloid. The problem isn't so necessarily the way that film-makers present the didactic story or film, but the way the uneducated audience perceives it. Because it is a language it needs to be learned as a language. Individuals can't learn a language simply by watching people speak it, they must engage in speaking, writing, and listening. The same goes for the cinematic. The visual syntax is not a literal representation but means something more complex than its two-dimensional projection implies.

Dude, what?

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
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He is mad that people don't get his films because he's a pretentious snooty doot. It's not that they are bad films, it's just everyone in the world is too stupid to understand them but him.

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Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
maybe they should make a movie based on a comic book property

you could even do a sequel or two if it did well

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