precision posted:

Suicide Squad was much better than it had any right to be.

MacheteZombie posted:

Suicide Squad is more worthy of an Oscar nomination than most of the comic book movies last year.

precision posted:

Why did Kubo flop so hard anyway? We watched it the other night and it's absolutely fantastic, it seems like something that should have been a massive hit

Chairman Capone posted:

If I remember right, one of Lovecraft's deities is actually described as being a black guy. I think Nyarlathotep.

Skwirl posted:

Nah, Bay is probably Hollywood liberal, but also realizes fascism pays better. His most humanist film (The Island) was also his only commercial failure, and then he re-used clips from it in Transformers 3, his most right wing film, there's gotta be at least some self-awareness going on there.

Robot Style posted:

There was an interview he did when 13 Hours came out where he was asked about his politics, and the only answer he would give was that he was raised in a Democrat household.

Edit: found it

Skwirl posted:

The Transformers movies don't have any good guys.

Timby posted:

Uh ... what?

Phylodox posted:

What it means in the short term, though, is that everyone and their brother wants their own streaming service with exclusive rights. So here in Canada, for example, you end up with cable-company owned poo poo like Crave and Shomi buying up the exclusive streaming rights to stuff so Netflix can't. So, if you want to be able to watch all the stuff you want, you either need to sign up for, like, five streaming services or wait for all the others to go under so Netflix can finally just buy up the rights to everything. Because everyone knows that's how it's gonna go down in the end, the cable companies just can't help being lovely about it in the meantime.

Lobok posted:

They tried to copy what Netflix was and now you're seeing them try to copy what Netflix has become. Amazon got into creating exclusive content for itself and not content with being a rental service, Apple/iTunes is producing its own content now as well. The landscape for "television" (whatever that will mean in a decade) is really changing.

Beachcomber posted:

kiimo posted:

At first I thought he was gonna fellate him.

Groovelord Neato posted:

you know gigabit should be the norm right. and at like half the price people pay for say 70 down.

google fiber should literally be the baseline in this country.

DeimosRising posted:

Sure but unrelated and irrelevant.

21 Muns posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films#Highest-grossing_franchises_and_film_series

Franchises on this list that are having new entries in 2017:

1. MCU (Guardians Of The Galaxy Volume 2, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Thor: Ragnarok)
3. Star Wars (Star Wars: The Last Jedi)
6. Batman (The Lego Batman Movie)
7. X-Men (Logan)
8. Spider-Man (Spider-Man: Homecoming)
9. The Fast And The Furious (The Fate Of The Furious)
10. Transformers (Transformers: The Last Knight)
11. Pirates Of The Carribean (Pirates Of The Carribean: Dead Men Tell No Tales)
19. Despicable Me (Despicable Me 3)
22. DC Extended Universe (Wonder Woman, Justice League)

So, how do you think this list is going to change over the course of the year?

Unless The Last Jedi severely underwhelms, Star Wars will definitely overtake Harry Potter. It's clear that nothing is surpassing Middle Earth; that's simply not within even the most optimistic projection for anything beneath it. Entries 6-11 are basically getting scrambled; I suspect Batman will stay ahead of X-Men because I find it overwhelmingly likely that Lego Batman won't fall $304 million behind Logan. I also suspect that Spider-Man will surpass X-Men and perhaps Batman, though I'm less sure of that; Spider-Man: Homecoming is definitely one of my picks to make over a billion dollars this year. Despicable Me and the DCEU will both obviously jump many places whether their entries this year succeed or fail; we'll just have to see whether it's a little or a lot.

Fifty Shades Of Grey will make it to the highest-grossing franchises list if Fifty Shades Darker makes a little over 1.5 billion dollars, three times as much as its predecessor. This is exceedingly unlikely. King Kong will likewise make it to the highest-grossing franchises list if Kong: Skull Island makes 1.5 billion dollars - three times as much as the 2005 remake. Kong: Skull Island will also take Universal's "MonsterVerse" () to the highest-grossing franchises list if it makes 1.7 billion dollars. Thankfully this is all also exceedingly unlikely. Smurfs will make it to the highest-grossing franchises list if Smurfs: The Lost Village makes 1.3 billion dollars (about four times the revenue of The Smurfs 2) but this will almost certainly not happen - for one thing, Sony doesn't seem very intent on promoting it. Guardians Of The Galaxy will make it to the highest-grossing franchises list if it makes 1.5 billion dollars, about double the original - this is at least vaguely realistic, as it now has a built-in audience that didn't exist the first time around. Alien will make it to the highest-grossing franchises list if Alien: Covenant makes 1 billion dollars, two and a half times what Prometheus made. Unlikely. Diary Of A Wimpy Kid will make it to the highest-grossing franchises list if The Long Haul makes 2 billion dollars, twenty six times the revenue of Dog Days. This is basically guaranteed to happen. The Mummy will make it to the highest-grossing franchises list if The Mummy (2017) makes 800 million dollars, a little under double the most profitable movie, The Mummy Returns. This is vaguely realistic (because of inflation) but unlikely. Cars will make it to the highest-grossing franchises list if Cars 3 makes 1.2 billion dollars, more than double 2011's Cars 2. I would definitely not bet on that one. Amityville will make it to the highest-grossing franchises list if Amityville: The Awakening makes 2.1 billion dollars. Uh huh. Planet Of The Apes will make it to the highest-grossing franchises list if War For The Legend Of The Ape Planet's Gold makes 600 million dollars; this is strikingly likely as 2014's entry, Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes, made 710 trillion dollars. Lego will make it to the highest-grossing franchises list if The Lego Batman Movie and The Lego Ninjago Movie make more than 1.8 billion dollars in sum. Supremely unlikely, but I'm not going to rule it out. Annabelle will make it to the highest-grossing franchises list if Annabelle 2 makes 2 billion dollars, less than eight times the original! No. The Nut Job will make it to the highest-grossing franchises list if The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature makes 2.1 billion dollars. Kill me. Flatliners will make it to the highest-grossing franchises list if Flatliners 2 makes 2.2 billion dollars. Kill me. Blade Runner will make it to the highest-grossing franchises list if Blade Runner 2049 makes 2.2 billion dollars. Kill me. My Little Pony will make it to the highest-grossing franchises list if My Little Pony: The Movie makes 2.2 billion dollars. Kill me. Kingsman will make it to the highest-grossing franchises list if Kingsman 2: Kingsman Queensman makes 1.8 billion dollars, or four and a half times its predecessor's revenue. Kill. Me. Friday The 13th will make it to the highest-grossing franchises list if Friday The 13th (2009) (2017) makes 1.9 billion dollars, or more than ten times what any movie in the franchise has made. Insidious will make it to the highest-grossing franchises list if Insidious Chapter 4 makes 1.9 billion dollars, or more than ten times what any movie in the franchise has made. The Franchise Between Us will make it to the highest-grossing franchises list if The Space Between Us and The Mountain between us make more than 2.2 billion dollars in sum. Jumanji will make it to the highest-grossing franchises list if Jumanji (Are They Going To Add A Subtitle To That) makes 2 billion dollars. Pitch Perfect will make it to the highest-grossing franchises list if Pitch Perfect 3 makes 1.8 billion dollars. The Ring will make it to the highest-grossing franchises list if Rings makes 1.8 billion dollars. John Wick will make it to the highest-grossing franchises list if John Wick: Chapter Two makes 2.2 billion dollars. Trainspotting will make it to the highest-grossing franchises list if Terminator 2: Judgment Day makes 2.2 billion dollars. Table will make it to the highest-grossing franchises list if Table 19 makes 2.2 billion dollars.

Dr Monkeysee posted:

At this point I just feel bad for DC.

ruddiger posted:

He did. It was called Terminator 2.

MonsieurChoc posted:

Alien 3 is better than Aliens. Well, Assembly cut anyway.

Guy Mann posted:

To be fair you could say the same thing about the actual hypothetical Jodorowsky Dune movie if it were actually made. Super crazy and extravagant conceptual work almost never survives unscathed once it's gone through the realities of production.

FreudianSlippers posted:

Jodorowsky made insane elaborate stuff like the Holy Mountain and El Topo on small budgets. Imagine what he could've done with a big budget sci-fi film.

DarkSol posted:

You wouldn't have wanted Orson Welles to play the Baron???

As an aside, you should really check out Jodorowsky and Moebius's "The Incal". Supposedly it uses a lot of concepts and ideas from Jodorowsky's Dune fever dream.

Uncle Boogeyman posted:

Now that some time has passed, nobody cares

precision posted:

e: holy poo poo though, Crash kept Brokeback Mountain from winning? That's really awful. Didn't know that.

Humbug Scoolbus posted:

I'll give you Ledger but Ang Lee is awful.

Detective No. 27 posted:

Hulk rules.

Gatts posted:

Ang Lee is a good director and his Hulk was, maybe still is, top tier superhero movie.

DeimosRising posted:

Haven't seen A Beautiful Mind but who cares? Why does this matter?

got any sevens posted:

I just didn't think much of that movie, didn't even look up how true to life it was.

Beachcomber posted:

If I remember correctly, traditional wisdom is that when Democrats are in charge, people are afraid of hordes of filthy Poors taking over everything. When Republicans are in charge the zeitgeist changes to cold, omnipotent, bloodsucking Aristos.

FreudianSlippers posted:

A lot of the actors, writers, directors and such are progressive. The people actually running the show aren't.

The Saddest Rhino posted:

Wouldn't he have made vaults of money from suicide squad?

feedmyleg posted:

Highlanders cannot fight on holy ground. Ramirez kneels to pray as he is beheaded. The quickening comes from the heavens. Connor is thrust into a Christ pose when he receives "the prize", also from the heavens, which manifests as winged demons. The prize is a way to bring peace to mankind. Methuselah is a 900 year old human being who is known for carrying the Sword of Methuselah which vanquishes evil and comes from pre-history, just as the Highlanders do.

But yeah there were some rad swordfights and songs. I think the John Wick guy could def hit it out of the park.

feedmyleg posted:

But Ramirez specifically states that Highlanders go back that far. I'm not saying Connor was Methuselah, but that Methuselah was a Highlander.

FreudianSlippers posted:

Or just start swimming. Sure you'd drown at least a couple dozen times but eventually you'd wash up somewhere closer to civilization and come back to life. You'd just have to hope a shark doesn't eat your head while you're being whisked around the oceans for months by the currents.