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At a party last night we were spitballing a hypothetical movie we wished would get made and a drunk girl blurted out "Melissa McCarthy should be in it!" apropos of nothing so obviously the Ghostbusters remake is leaving its mark on culture
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Remakes can be good if the original is far enough from the public consciousness that you're (a) not constantly being compared to it and (b) not obviously cashing in on nostalgia, and if the remake is good enough to stand on its own If either of those conditions does not apply the remake will probably be bad
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Jul 15, 2016 16:05
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Basically if your remake is a movie, rather than a sign that says "hahaha look it's that thing you like, do you still like it, give us some more money because we made more of that thing you like, please, thank you" it can be good
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Jul 15, 2016 16:10
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Remember when all the cashins used to be sequels Well what if -- *leans forward at conference room table conspiratorially* What if I told you you could make a sequel without having to deal with the plot issues of discrete chapters within a larger narrative that make sense both individually and as a whole? What if you didn't have to write a new plot at all? *clicks forward in PowerPoint presentation*
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Jul 15, 2016 17:04
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JoshVanValkenburg posted:They are not remaking Buckaroo Banzai But I am, in my head and my heart every time I load up the VHS
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Jul 15, 2016 17:06
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notZaar posted:The plans for what? In the final scene of Rogue One a young Bothan spy pushes PLAY on a holograph projector and in midair appear the words "STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE, Scene 1: Leia Organa's blockade-runner hurtles through space, pursued by an Imperial Star Destroyer..."
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Jul 15, 2016 17:14
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I'm theoretically ok with a Gremlins reboot, because I have never seen Gremlins and so a new Gremlins movie would basically just be a new movie to me 
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Jul 15, 2016 22:21
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Nanomashoes posted:It's interesting to me that the director of the new Ghostbusters is a big fan of I'm p much over talking about this movie but wow is this guy ever a tool I especially like how he says men like lowbrow humor while putting out a really slapsticky physical-comedy-y movie "for women", although come to think of it maybe that part was supposed to be self-deprecating and that just wasn't clear because he's pretentious as hell
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Jul 15, 2016 22:24
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:Remake The Big Lebowski with Seth Rogan as the Dude We fully cast a genderswapped Lebowski in the last thread as a joke and now I'm really invested in it it's the only potential Lebowski reboot I'm into at all
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Jul 16, 2016 15:09
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I think a Seth Rogen stoner Ghostbusters movie could possibly be good if it were at least self-aware, but I am a huge Rogen apologist in general I also think this same movie again could also be good if it distanced itself as far as possible from Feig, got a better writer, and tried to be a movie instead of a social statement Like, they should pull a Hulk and reboot it again with a similar premise to last time without the toxic people attached to it, and they could even keep the same cast because they weren't the problem
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Jul 17, 2016 01:04
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PassTheRemote posted:I will need to catch Danger 5. Question, though, why did that eagle steal Number 6's look from The Prisoner? Season 1 of Danger 5 is a spoof of 60s spy shows, like for example The Prisoner, so it's very intentional I liked Season 1's 60s spoofs more than Season 2's 80s spoofs, in part because the characters were less depressing in it and in part because 80s spoofs are kind of played out
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Aug 5, 2016 18:33
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I really want to believe WB can start making good DC movies again the second it wises the gently caress up and decides to fire Zack Snyder Much like GB2016 could possibly have been good if it weren't for Paul Feig being both a hack and insufferable
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Aug 7, 2016 13:39
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what was the last good movie Sony Pictures has made, their Wikipedia page doesn't have a list and I'm curiousCharlestonJew posted:ghostbusters fighting Ghost Aliens sounds like a more interesting idea than what we got I mean, on the one hand the ghost-aliens plot didn't work so great in Indiana Jones 4, but on the other hand 80s reboots all inexplicably having the ghost-alien plot thread in common would be a fun detail
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Aug 9, 2016 13:19
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mind the walrus posted:I think the Shallows was a really good RoI considering how no one ever expects a dumb shark movie to be good and rate well with audiences. Other than that their last 2 years have looked like middling and mediocre box office successes, save maybe Spectre. I have to go all the way back to 22 Jump Street before I find a movie I would say is good without any reservations, and before that Django Unchained. I actually quite liked American Hustle because I am a blatant 70s fetishist, and I'd give This Is The End a solid 7/10, but yeah the rest of those are pretty terrible AFAIK (I haven't seen Captain Phillips but it is Supposed To Be Good) Even with those, the Jump Streets, and Django we're looking at a pretty miserable batting average
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Aug 9, 2016 15:44
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ghostbusters-heading-70m-loss-sequel-918515 jeez guys I had no idea this movie was losing this much money I actually thought it was breaking even, $70M is ridiculous. Hell, I've never even lost ONE million on a business venture.
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Aug 10, 2016 17:13
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also wasn't an all-female Ocean's Eleven a joke idea from the last thread or something because I guess it's a real thing now
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Aug 10, 2016 17:15
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Yeah Sony is really trying new things w/r/t Internet-age marketing, they tried exploiting international relations for The Interview and they tried carefully tending and curating an outrage garden for GB2016, and honestly both marketing campaigns worked really well, they just forgot to make the movies actually worth seeing I'm gonna be honest, for all this movie's guerrilla marketing pissed me off, if it turned out good, I'd have seen it
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Aug 10, 2016 17:22
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Internaut! posted:those campaigns generated a lot of buzz that translated into big losses, so I'm not sure they could be considered to have "worked really well" The buzz is all you need from a marketing campaign. The big losses came from the movies themselves sucking. Marketing did their job just fine. 
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Aug 10, 2016 17:29
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I dunno who Awkwafina is but she is not an actress, and neither is Rihanna. And I'm gonna be honest here guys I have absolutely no idea what Mindy Kaling could contribute to a heist. Is she gonna be the hacker or what? I guess she's kind of similar to Eddie Jemison. also, point of order, why could they not just call it "ocean's eight"
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Aug 10, 2016 18:15
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Troy Queef posted:Rihanna sucked when she was a voice actress, Mindy Kaling is a hack who is literally writing a wish-fulfillment show for herself, HBC's been stuck in too many Tim Burton productions for me to remember if she was ever good at all, and what the gently caress is an Awkwafina? Helena Bonham Carter was pretty good in Fight Club and The King's Speech and also I had a crush on her when I was 17 and I've half-paid attention to a couple Mindy Project episodes (my fiancee watches it on Hulu sometimes) and she at least made her self-insert into a neurotic bumbling klutz a la Tina Fey's self-insert in 30 Rock, but other than that yeah it's kind of wish-fulfillmenty But let's be honest, the original O11 worked despite also having some no-names and some hacks balanced out by some great actors, OO could easily do likewise e: so wait is the evil casino owner they're ripping off also gonna be a woman
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Aug 10, 2016 18:42
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I guess you mean Clem Harvey and Richard Benedict? The rest seemed to be fairly well known. I actually meant Jemison and Qin Shaobo under "no-names" and Bernie Mac and Casey Affleck under "hacks", because I forgot that the Clooney remake wasn't the original 
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Aug 10, 2016 19:09
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Mordja posted:I've always found it weird that "all-girl version of 'X' team" is somehow considered more progressive than "team made up of both genders working together as professionals" but whatever. I've noticed that the kind of people who pay attention to this stuff seem to care more about whether there aren't any good male roles than whether there are good female roles because the kind of lowest-common-denominator feminism that thinks big-budget Hollywood blockbusters are the be-all end-all of cultural discourse also tends to think "is it feminist" and "do men dislike it" are the same question
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Aug 10, 2016 20:15
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My Vag is basically a genderswapped version of My Dick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNgWQfOd-1M (in other words it is a ripoff of a subpar joke rap song) (an inferior ripoff)
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Aug 11, 2016 13:51
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ElGroucho posted:If this is a parody of "My Neck, My Back" it really sucks Again it is a direct response to an obscure lovely joke-rap song wherein Mickey Avalon and some other guy argue about which of their dicks is awesome and which of their dicks is horrible but it doesn't work as well due to the jokes not being as good and there only being one of her
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Aug 11, 2016 15:13
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Ork of Fiction posted:Overselling a bad product erodes consumer confidence and is therefore Bad Marketing. This doesn't seem to be the conventional wisdom of the movie industry in general
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Aug 11, 2016 21:34
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alsoSnowglobe of Doom posted:Goddamn, go through the list of the top films this year and see how many of them are original ideas and not a sequel/remake/adaptation. Out of the current top 20 films there's only three: Zootopia, Secret Life of Pets and Central Intelligence. Including adaptations in this makes it a little unfair IMHO, plenty of movies start off as books and I don't think there's really anything wrong with that  The generally-accepted Best Movie Ever (among non-movie-nerds anyway) was a book adaptation e: when you think about it every movie is an adaptation of a screenplay loquacius fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Aug 11, 2016 |
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Aug 11, 2016 21:35
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Can we please stop talking about Kung Fury ITT, I think there have been more posts about Kung Fury than there were about Ghostbusters by now also the first time I heard someone talk about Kung Fury I thought he said "Kung Furry" and I side-eyed at him for a good ten seconds, ok that's the sum total of my contribution to the Kung Fury derail
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Aug 12, 2016 15:30
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Pvt.Scott posted:The female cast Ocean's Whatever remake had better be dykes all the way down. Not a single man or hint of heterosexuality in the film. I don't live in the Progressive Future Wonderland just to see tepid half-measures. what if you had a few men but depicted them exclusively as dumb, dishonest, morally wrong, really hot, and dressed like they're in a fetish video and have the women condescend to them while patting them on the butt or something
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Aug 12, 2016 17:09
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No but seriously fire Zack Snyder Paul Feig appears to be facing some fallout now and his career is hurt if not crippled, and that's great, but Snyder needs to follow suit and fast
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Aug 14, 2016 18:55
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The best Snyder movie is Watchmen, and even that one feels like they should have picked someone else to direct it Like, it's a decent movie because the source material was so good and Snyder wasn't quite able to gently caress it up, but not for lack of trying
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Aug 14, 2016 18:58
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Germstore posted:Sucker Punch is good. You just have to mute it and put on music. Well I know what I'm doing next time I smoke weed Don Tacorleone posted:Looks like a sega Genesis era videogame cover I would play this game
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Aug 14, 2016 22:36
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Gammatron 64 posted:I think they should make a Biblical Cinematic Universe where Ben-Hur teams up with Jesus, Moses and Saint Peter to fight the Devil. They constantly mention Mohammad but he's always just conveniently off-screen like Niles' ex-wife Maris on Frasier. Mohammed is played by Wilson from Home Improvement
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Aug 15, 2016 18:47
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Drunken Baker posted:Not seen the film but how the hell does that work anyway? Ok, so I take it they go and visit without their parents and they haven't seen their grandad in a while. But surely they must have seen some pictures of them or something. There's a lot of contrivances there to set up that "twist". Their mom is off on vacation with her new boyfriend and sent her kids off to stay with her parents who she'd had a falling out with and hadn't spoken to for decades. Which is a huge stretch, yeah, because why would you do that without talking to them first  Rutibex posted:you know it never even occurred to me that Harold and Kumar was pushing any kind of hollywood representation barriers. it just seemed like good movie There is a sizeable contingent doing exactly that, they're just not the ones behind GB2016's online marketing campaign
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Aug 16, 2016 12:59
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I was actually a little annoyed by that too because the article I read about it made a point of saying poo poo like "obviously this version of Pennywise prefers to strike quickly at children rather than lure them in with balloons" and I'm pretty sure luring children with balloons and poo poo like that is literally the reason he makes himself look like a clown at all
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Aug 18, 2016 13:59
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I found the article I was thinking of http://www.ew.com/article/2016/08/16/pennywise-costume-stephen-king-it-movie Some of the aesthetic decisions made sense -- this one actually made it sound kinda cool quote:For Pennywise, there’s no need to stay faithful to any era’s fashions. He is a manifestation of what an immortal, supernatural being thinks of as a clown, amalgamating various styles it finds appealing. …Or maybe he’s just thinking of a toy that once belonged to a child he devoured. but I still didn't like it and this quote sums up why quote:While this isn’t the bright and cheery Pennywise, Bryant’s version of the character prefers to camouflage himself and strike rather than lure children with lively plumage. In other words he's just kind of a generic-type monster who chose clown-form for ICP Hot Topic reasons
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RE new Pennywise I just now bothered wondering why a creature who was around for Elizabethan-era clowns or whatever, and kept around their ruffles and poo poo because it liked them, would live in Maine Did Pennywise used to live in England and come over to America on the Mayflower or something?
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