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bartok posted:Pee Wee's Big Holiday was really fun. It's no Big Adventure but it's certainly better than Big Top Pee Wee. I'd also recommend the HBO special of Pee Wee's Broadway show from several years ago. I think the key difference was, Willard is an adult comedy mainstay for a niche audience, whereas Rubens was a children's entertainment icon for a generation. The former doesn't impact that man people, and those who do understand that Porno Theater busts are bullshit. Whereas the latter, it was a trifecta of 'shattering the illusion' of Pee-Wee's wholesomeness, the fact that people get really weird when anything relates to sex is adjacent to anything relating to children, and the fact that it looks bad to have a convicted criminal working in Children's Television. Though considering the severity and effects of the actual criminal action, and the result from getting caught, it is still pretty much bullshit.
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The MSJ posted:Are we going to see an insane amount of new animated movies announced this year? Most of 2016's biggest movies were animated, and you can probably include Jungle Book. I'm not surprised if Lego Batman will outperform every Marvel, DC and Fox movies this year too. I imagine that they're going the way of the Physical Movie markets. Why watch 'Story Toys 3' on Netflix when Disney, Pixar, etc seem to be on top of their Netflix releases? Asylum, as far as I know, seem to have been kept afloat by the fact that Syfy's highest ratings seem to come from Sharknado premiers.
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Jan 3, 2017 07:52
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I mean, Jesus Christ. First off, why the hell are they charging a teacher for showing an R-Rated movie? Porn I can get, but goddamn horror movies are made for high school kids. Second, goddamn ABCs of Death? Why the gently caress would you ever show some kids that poo poo? I like it, I'll admit it's not always a great film, but jesus if you're showing kids a horror movie at least pull out the 2016 Evil Dead. It ain't 10/10 but it's quality film making beginning to end. Alternatively, if you want to teach your kids the ABCs, the best way to go about it with books. Specifically Edward Gorey's The Gashlycrumb Tinies. Also, love that shade with This Article posted:Jurors watched the movie, which rates 4.7 out of 10 stars on the IMDb website, before convicting Kearns.
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Jan 9, 2017 21:36
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Improbable Lobster posted:Didn't Cameron like Genisys? I think Paramount or whoever basically gave him enough money/pulled enough favors to get him to say something non-critical of the film before it was released. I imagine once 2019 comes around, we'll be hearing stuff like 'We're going back to what made 2 good (cause the rest is poo poo).
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Jan 21, 2017 03:17
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I feel like there was a time and place for the Resident Evil movies, and that was before total ubiquity of Netflix, and a guaranteed watchable movie coming Disney/Marvel every 4 months.
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Jan 23, 2017 10:36
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Chairman Capone posted:My big problem with the Dr. Strange ending was, why didn't the villain just set Dr. Strange aside in some prison and say, "All right, I won't kill you, you'll just sit here for the next ten billion years while I get back to work"? Well, if you mean before the time loop, I just assume that Strange wasn't even a blip on the guy's radar, like The Ancient One. If you mean after, well magic allows you to make up a lot of bullshit, so I imagine Strange's thing allowed him to do the mystical cosmic version of 'I totally trap you and you can't get out of it, no take backs-ies'.
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Jan 25, 2017 03:12
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I thought it connected amazingly to the Hot Topic crowd, holding just as much cultural relevence as Funko Pop figures and Five Nights at Freddies.
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Feb 2, 2017 21:33
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Also, gives Turing a female partner that is coded as his love interest, and the only thing keeping them from being together is Turing's pesky little habit of being gay.
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Feb 5, 2017 23:39
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Now I want Highlander to be scored to Queen, mashed up and remixed ala that Beatles album that was made for the Cirque Du Solei show in Vegas.
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Feb 12, 2017 07:44
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What if we take Johnny Mnemonic and just make it about cyber criminals from a cyberpunk future jacking into a Matrix. Turns out their cyberpunk reality is a Matrix in and of itself, and their escapades are a ruse to distract them from that fact.
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Mar 18, 2017 02:19
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So we have a trailer for Netflix's Death Note adaptation. It looks a little silly and notably more expensive than I was expecting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS9UW2xjdqE
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Mar 22, 2017 17:55
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I want to see Sean Bean and Michelle Rodriguez play two immortals. Just scene after scene of death after brutal death, only for them to get up right afterwards. Maybe it'll help get it out of their systems.
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Mar 26, 2017 18:05
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Edit: Well we moved past that. Though on the topic of whitewashing in film, when I went to go see Deadpool in a theatre they played a trailer for Gods of Egypt. And these two dudes in front of me commented on it as, 'That racist movie'. And these dudes seemed fairly typical dudes, mid 20-something, a bit bro-y, the typical market for those types of big budget hollywood films. That should be really troubling to studios that the young male audience, generally the one that Roger Corman guaranteed to be the money makers (trying to find a quote on that but having the hardest time finding it), has finally discovered that this isn't a world of white people. And year after year they hold onto this increasingly antiquated notion that stars sell films. Yet Scarlett failed to sell GitS, McConaughey failed to sell Gold, Brad Pitt failed to sell Allied. And I can say that, for the most part, Ryan Reynolds didn't sell a single goddamn film, and that includes Deadpool. And Amy Adams nor Jeremy Renner sold Arrival. And so, taking an audience that is increasingly aware of the world, and the most likely to recognize the original anime, and cut a notable chunk of that audience by making a racially motivated decision just seems so backwards.
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Apr 3, 2017 20:27
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I've never seen the show, but the one thing I do know is that as the show went along, the daughter on the show became progressively more goth. To the extent that she had a poster of Death from Neil Gaiman's Sandman, which I think is pretty cool for a show I never saw.
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Apr 8, 2017 07:33
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To be fair, it's probably going to be 4 hours long. And they'll get away with it because 3 hour long movies always break $1 billion world wide. That extra hour will guarantee another 1/3 of a billion.
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May 23, 2017 02:23
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Skwirl posted:That's not how time works. 
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May 23, 2017 03:21
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"I'd-a like-a to talk to you about-a the Smash Bros. Initiative-a."
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May 29, 2017 05:52
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Beast Wars: Transformers 6 This summer, Truck is Monkey.
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Jun 23, 2017 23:34
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Antti posted:I only know the premise and have never read the manga or watched the anime but this actually intrigues me because the idea is applied on a global scope. I always thought it was some silly horror movie, and they could've absolutely gone that way, but they're looking at the bigger picture and it's neat. I read it as a teen, and that's what the series always was. It was a kid who came across this power to kill someone, and used it in a way that was altruistically. Or at least he thought was altruistic. Mostly he targeted corrupt politicians and (I think) high profile con men. With a lot of plans inside plans to keep his identity a secret. Pretty much you read it because it's a high concept thriller where each chapter is about 'How will he get out of this situation?' And the answer is always, 'In an impossibly super smart way/he wanted to be put in the situation because it's all part of his plan.' Then higher and higher levels of international police force, until they get the a super Autistic guy after him, and it becomes a game of cat and mouse, and then at some point the dude behind it either runs out of stream or forgets what the end goal of it was but point being, according to deviantart it was about four autistic dudes boning each other.
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Jun 30, 2017 19:37
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Detective No. 27 posted:Actually, James Bond was written to have orange frizzy hair, an eye patch, broken nose, with very few teeth, about two at most. He also had a scar on his cheek in the shape of a banana. Well, both cheeks, they sort of met in the middle. Really, the producers hosed up casting Bond when they didn't pick up a random Football Hooligan. Racist, Sexist piece of garbage that just wants to drink and punch the poo poo out of anyone within a half kilometre of him. At that point, it's barely even acting.
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Jul 11, 2017 06:05
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Okay Hollywood, here's the movie you've been waiting for. 3 friends get really loving high, and they spend the night in a kiddy pool. Mainly because they're too paranoid to leave the safety of the pool. Except one of them rolls over and is too lazy to not drown. So he drowns, and his two friends are stuck in this kiddy pool with the body of their dead friend. Now they have to wait out the night and manage not to drown in this terrifying thriller. Also a side plot of a quote unquote friend who uses this opportunity to rob them. He gets high and drowns in the pool as well. Less than Two Feet of Water
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Jul 13, 2017 06:33
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I've seen enough advertising for it that I've actually gotten kinda sick of it. It's in a weird space where 10-15 years ago it would have done well with traditional advertising, but now... Eh. Best it will probably hope for is okay returns and decent word of mouth, and the sequel will hopefully get the John Wick 2 treatment (first grossed $88 mil, second $170 mil).
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Jul 19, 2017 18:03
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Inescapable Duck posted:Curb Your Enthusiasm with samurai. Now, a cowboy eating his revolver makes me think of two plots. One, he accidentally takes a bullet to the mouth at the start of the film. He survives, but he's trying to go about his day while his mouth is haemorrhaging blood. Say there's a scene where he's talking to someone, sprays blood all over them. Eventually there's so much blood they both start slipping in it. There's even a scene where he's trying to prevent talking and keeps his mouth shut. Eventually enough prodding forces him to open his mouth, and it is a literal geyser. Two, dude literally eats his revolver, and every time he speaks he shoots his gun. So every time he tries to explain his predicament he ends up shooting someone in the face.
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Aug 11, 2017 19:33
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The reason for Nut Job 2 is that animated movies make bank. They thought since the first one did okay, the second was a trojan horse into Dispicable Me types of money. But they aren't Illumination, they're Laika at best. Laika, except without the money, critical acclaim, and cult following. There is not going to be a Nut Job 3. And it will be glorious.
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Aug 13, 2017 06:46
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The brand name is Dollby but the evil doll is named Thomas. End credits music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FIMvSp01C8
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Aug 14, 2017 00:26
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Get Jordan Peele. Full creative control. I want White America to squirm. For real, get some more creative representation. I want Jordan to become bonafide AAA.
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Sep 6, 2017 00:24
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He's going to play, in highly comedic fashion, Genie's boss who sends the Genie, and thus Aladdin, on a quest for a MacGuffin across Agrabah. It will be entirely pointless, pretty much adding only 2/3 set pieces and unnecessary friction between Aladdin and Genie, and remind us how Robin Williams would have done so much better to make it entertaining.
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Sep 6, 2017 03:19
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It would require an intricate series of transparent duct works suspended above the audience, but god drat I would I like to see that done.
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Sep 6, 2017 07:45
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Cut the cast, cut the plot, increase the roles of the hedgehog and the hairless cat, cast David Attenborough to narrate. You've got filmic gold right there, son.
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Sep 9, 2017 02:20
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The first couple of minutes involve the Dude-in-a-girl's-body groping his own breasts incredulously. The girl whose body is swapped keeps having to leave notes saying 'Stop molesting my own body when I'm not in it.' (though in less crass terms) The dude gropes this girl's breasts so much that her little sister takes notice of it 'when she starts acting weird.'
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Sep 28, 2017 19:49
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Y'all are forgetting one thing, the Disney Peter Pan will have one thing going for it that no other Peter Pan could ever have. Tinkerbell. Specifically, the Disney Tinkerbell. The character that was a marketing juggernaut, well before they made spinoff movies with her. You know that they're going to get Emma Stone or somebody, give them that bun with the bangs, put them in the tiny green dress, and some unknowable force is going to drive every mom in the country to go see it (I call it the Tinkerbell effect). And even if I'm wrong, I'm sure the film would have the same effect as the Cars franchise. Relatively okay-but-not-great box office, super loving huge juggernaut based off of the merchandise alone. Tinkerbell merchandise specifically.
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Sep 29, 2017 19:28
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I imagine the message they're taking away is "Cussin and Titties are getting people in seats". Rather than strong creative visions, that are given room to breath, produce interesting movies. And things audiences respond to is something that is both entertaining as well as something new.
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Oct 6, 2017 19:12
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got any sevens posted:Not exactly greenlit but my local AMC has been replaying a different disney animated movie eqch week for over a month now. This week it's Brave. It's a cool idea but there are only showings at 2 and 6 pm, no morning time, plus they're full price tickets (11 bucks!). I could see why. Disney is notoriously for their fuckery to keep their IP as established 'Premium Brands'. And they know that most of their stuff is guaranteed money makers that most studios could only dream of. So if a theatre wants to show a classic Disney movie, or even a recent hit, they have to pretty much bend backwards to their demands, pay bank, or both. As for the weird scheduling, gently caress if I know. Figure it'd be best to blame Disney. As for Lego and MLP, they both opened to pitiful weekend gross. Ninjago both is the least established Lego brand, and made the least of the series thus far. As for Ponies, they made less than $10 mill opening weekend. Both studios probably want to recoup costs as much as they can, and are probably willing to take a hit on the tickets to get more butts in seats. As for Rocky Horror vs Princess Bride, I dunno. I guess the 'prestige' and the wider potential audience of the latter means that whoever holds it feels more willing to ask for a better price to show it. And to be frank, Rocky Horror was always kinda a slut to the almighty dollar.
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Considering how the audiences have wised up to the Snyder films, I'm guess his name is poison at WB now. Though considering that earlier this year Wonder Woman did gang busters, I wonder if they'll just ignore the whole extended JL property and ride that cash cow. Or do a soft reboot with Patty Jenkins at the helm instead. SomeJazzyRat fucked around with this message at 07:19 on Nov 19, 2017 |
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I liked what Tarentino said about how he'd do an Elvis biopic. Don't do cradle to the grave, as it's both fairly limiting as a format and way too expansive in content. Instead, pick a specific moment, like the day leading up into him walking into the Sun Records studio. Explore their character though that experience. Personally, if I was to do a Queen biopic, I'd do a fictionalised account of backstage at a Live Aid type event. Feature all four members interacting with various celebrities, occasional flashbacks to important points in the band's history, intersperse interpersonal Drama, Freddy's AIDs, and end with the performance, featuring interlude of Queen's most famous songs. Then we get a weird, ethereal, high concept exit of Freddy from the stage (representing his passing), and in come the actual band along side the actors representing them, with a performance of Bohemian Rhapsody with a number of the guest performances they've had over the years. Conceptually exactly what they want in a format that is actually satisfactory and filmable.
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I do hope that Disney is seeing what Fox was doing with Logan/Deadpool/probably New Mutants, and just let a corner of the MCU factory not be the same homogenized superhero BS that the Avengers are. And this is coming from a guy that mostly doesn't mind what Disney's MCU films are, but diversity is something that's needed in the genre. And as of late Fox was pulling off in spades. Basically, I hope New Mutants is phenomenal and they don't gently caress with that roadmap.
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Alhazred posted:To be even more fair it still meant that you had to debase yourself, often for very little money. P. T. Barnum also purchases a blind and paralyzed slave which make it even more laughable to portray him in any positive light. Beat me to it, but yeah. Do they get into the fact that he purchased a disable black woman as a slave, and then put her on display? And that, even though she was quite elderly, lied and said she was over 100 years old as well as George Washington's wet nurse? And when abolitionists were picking up steam he lied and said she was a freed woman, trying to raise money to free her (nonexistent) family? And that people just threw money in support of helping her family? And when she died he sold tickets to her autopsy (so the medical world could learn her secrets of long life)? And when the newspapers reported the autopsy's findings (that she was no more than 80 at best), he paid off competing newspapers to report that the autopsy was a sham and that the 100+ year woman was still alive? gently caress Barnum and gently caress that movie.
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