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I totally forgot about My Bigger, Fatter Greeker Wedding. Has a sequel to a comedy classic that came out way too long after the fact ever actually lived up to the expectations? Zoolander 2, Bad Santa 2, Anchorman 2, the aforementioned Greek tragedy, all blow.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:I'm calling it now, the twist is that the 3 girls are also personalities of the guy. Actually, (and I only know this because there was a brief period where articles were written before the studio told them to get the gently caress off the internet until the movie was released) the twist is that James McAvoy's character was created for a sequel to Unbreakable and this movie is in the same continuity.
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Jan 12, 2017 16:39
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:FMA 2003 is especially weird because it turns into its own bizarre thing way before the ending, and has themes and subtext that are pretty much the literal polar opposite of the manga and Brotherhood. But it's also a drastic exception rather than the rule, which is why Brotherhood exists. Can you explain this more? It sounds really interesting, and I love the idea of two things coming from the same source that interpret it completely differently.
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Jan 19, 2017 00:15
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Read that Jezebel article. Pretty much everything recounted in it is my problem. That company needs to loving die yesterday. this sounds way more interesting IMO, even if I don't agree with the thesis. that's dark as gently caress
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Jan 19, 2017 06:50
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I would say check out some of Sho Aikawa's other stuff for the same themes as 2003, just done better, but... they're kind of not done better. Dude's kind of a poo poo writer, honestly. That said, however, Genocyber, Angel Cop, and Violence Jack all have a pretty similar worldview to FMA 2003, and all three are a loving hoot (though be warned that Genocyber and Violence Jack have some seriously oh my god this man wrote the Urotsukidoji OVA for those not in the know it is the OG Tentacle Porn
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gore in them- they're basically anime Fulci, whereas FMA 2003 is kinda like anime Von Trier).
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Oh my loving god I know right? I thought whoever originally mentioned that scene was kidding he also wrote for Love Hina and a couple Kamen Rider series, according to Wikipedia. dude gets around.
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Jan 19, 2017 10:18
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I mean, it pretty much bombed, but God only knows how much of that was due to the lead actor. I think people are forgetting how hyped that movie was coming out of Sundance. It was right during the #OscarsSoWhite stuff and everyone was looking for a big black movie to get some awards and Birth of a Nation fit the bill, to the point where it sold for more money than any other movie out of Sundance, ever. I think it would have been in the awards pictures if not for its rapist actor/director/writer. My secret (completely not true) theory is that Mel Gibson, who advised the BoaN director during the filming of the movie, set him up for a big fall so that when Hacksaw Ridge came out everyone would think "well, Mel's really terrible but at least he's not a full on rapist" and they'd let him back into the Oscars.
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Jan 20, 2017 07:41
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Hat Thoughts posted:Hmm, well I lived somewhere for a year and a half where these were the monthly options I grew up and currently live out in the country, about 2 miles from the city limit of a 80k population college town, and I've resigned myself to the fact that as long as I live here I will never have internet that is both fast and without data caps. We had dial-up for much longer than most people, and when we switched to satellite internet, it was still slow, had a 750MB per day limit before it throttled itself to sub-dialup speeds, and the customer service was the worst I've ever experienced. We now just tether our phones to our laptops and have the highest possible data limit for our phone plan, but it's still only 100 GB for a month (and this includes 6 phones, two iPads, and two personal hotspots for my family, along with my grandparents, and my aunt and uncle who live across the state. Netflix and other streaming services are a pipe dream for me. which is why this slow trend toward everything being released through streaming is the literal worst thing and i hate it
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Jan 30, 2017 06:36
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Somewhere in an alternate universe there is a 50 Shades of Grey movie directed by Steve McQueen and starring Michael Fassbender and it's shot and written as a thematic sequel to Shame and I'm really bummed that we don't have that.
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couldcareless posted:http://www.theonion.com/article/man-always-gets-little-rush-out-telling-people-joh-53190 Just one more reason McCartney is better. You know, aside from the songs and the personalities and the "not getting shot".
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Feb 8, 2017 07:30
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Cacator posted:So Jack Nicholson and Kristen Wiig have been cast in the American remake of Toni Erdmann, which I can already tell you will be inferior to the original because there's no way they are keeping it a 3 hour film and preserve the minutiae of the protagonists' work life, let alone the considerable full frontal nudity. Also because Jack Nicholson hasn't been good in a movie for over a decade.
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Feb 8, 2017 10:26
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Josh Lyman posted:Spidey thought to be fair to Mr Rando Thoughts, while the first one is the dumbest loving thing I've ever heard, the second actually led to one of the best parts of ASM2, and Spider-Man with a Snapchat is a genuinely good advertising idea that should be recycled when Homecoming comes out.
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Feb 21, 2017 00:35
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:I guess all I took away from that movie was Marky Mark's daughter dating a card-carrying statutory rapist and forgot all about the actual Transformers stuff I love how seriously everyone takes this, as if the phrase "card-carrying statutory rapist" isn't goofy af enough to trigger the "oh its a joke" sensor. I laughed my rear end off at that, what's funnier than a skeezy 20-something carrying around the law that allows him to gently caress his teenage girlfriend and presenting that to the girls dad?
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Mar 30, 2017 06:33
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FishBulb posted:It just proves forever that anime isn't popular or marketable on the bright side, this should stick the sixth and (god willing) final knife in the back of American Akira
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Apr 3, 2017 08:13
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The one that always comes to mind there for me is Mayum Balik. She was just before all the super successful teen mogul Disney clones and then she came back and is probably richer than Nancy Cartwright now. she can also fall back on her intelligence and doctorate in neuroscience, she wouldn't have to work if she didn't want to.
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Apr 20, 2017 01:55
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Yeah, that's true. What the hell does Frankie Muniz have to fall back on? His... mediocre racing career?
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Apr 20, 2017 02:46
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FishBulb posted:He was on Dexter and just finished up some season of some show on NBC so it's not like he isn't working it's called Trial and Error and it's real funny.
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Apr 20, 2017 05:34
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Pigbuster posted:He was just playing the classic role of the bored king. Frankie Muniz is so method (i want to point out that autocorrect wanted to change Muniz to "Money" which is totally Muniz)
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Apr 21, 2017 05:32
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yeah, of all of the many, many comic book properties that would benefit from an R-rating, Hellboy is probably not one of them. Which is ironic given the idea is a helldemon that investigates paranormal crime, which sounds like it could make a very cool R-rated movie, but when I think of Hellboy I don't think of excess violence or swearing or "adult themes" in the R-rated sense. Now, if you take that exact press release, just replacing the word "Hellboy" with "Spawn" (and Mike Mignola with Todd McFarlane) you'd have a dopeass idea. Maybe that's what happened; some idiot producer thought he was buying Spawn but bought Hellboy instead because "they're both hell thingies from comics that my kid liked when he was 15".
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May 9, 2017 06:59
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kiimo posted:Cliff Curtis can be anything he wants. he is, in that way, the dramatic version of Fred Armisen (a Venezuelan/Japanese/German man who, until SNL actually hired a non-Kenan black man, played Barack Obama as well as literally all of the Arabic dictators/rulers SNL ever needed)
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May 11, 2017 05:19
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raditts posted:It was a casualty of that "what the gently caress are they doing with their programming schedule" era of NBC. I am very glad that Munsters reboot failed because from its ashes we got Hannibal which is way better in every way
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Timby posted:
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The MSJ posted:Looks like Wonder Woman debut at over 200 million dollars worldwide. Pirates 5 is at half a billion after two weekends but fell to third place behind Captain Underpants. I went to Box Office Mojo just to see how Wonder Woman was doing and I forgot just how much loving money Beauty and the Beast made. Like, imagine if Wonder Woman made an extra $25m each day of this weekend.
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PriorMarcus posted:Hahahahahaha. You joke but Jake Johnson is said to be insufferable pro-Scientology on the New Girl set. i would like proof of this because i did a very superficial google of "Jake Johnson Scientology" and got nothing. He's from Chicago, so it's not like he grew up around LA. I went through this a few months ago with Michael Pena, I'm not gonna be bummed about another actor I really like.
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FilthyImp posted:Norton was also apparently a huge cockwad during Incredible Hulk and drove the Director crazy with his need for control of the film. to be fair to Norton, I think it's in his contract that he was allowed a certain amount of control (probably also allowed to be a cockwad I dunno) and then Marvel kinda hosed him over Also, Paul Rudd is probably the biggest name lead that Marvel has ever cast (since Scarlett Johansson was never a title character). Norton and Downey were persona non grata for the most part, Hemsworth was a complete unknown, Evans was a bit player, Cumberbatch was a nerd favorite, Pratt was a TV star, Boseman was an underrated actor and Larson was an Oscar winner who most people didn't know a year before she won it.
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:http://variety.com/2017/film/news/the-mummy-meltdown-tom-cruise-1202465742/ they might as well give this article the headline "Universal Throws Tom Cruise Under Bus Because Everyone Is One Bad Movie Away From Hating Him Anyways" edit: Tom Cruise did not hire Kurtzman to direct, nor did he decide to turn a standard-issue Universal Horror Reboot into the loving Dark Universe. Tom Cruise is a big loving movie star who does this sort of thing with basically every movie he is in, and that is known right when you hire him, and Universal is pissed that unlike with something like Edge of Tomorrow or Jack Reacher it backfired on them. gently caress Universal. DC Murderverse fucked around with this message at 06:13 on Jun 19, 2017 |
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Everyone in the general public is going to forget about how lame The Mummy was in a few months when that movie starring Cruise as a drug smuggler in the 80's comes out and everyone remembers that Tom Cruise is a stellar loving actor in addition to being a world-class movie star.
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Leavemywife posted:I'd like to nominate Blade to join the Dark Universe. just cast wesley snipes as van helsing, retcon him into being half-vampire, give him a leather jacket and sunglasses and dare Marvel to stop them.
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Hat Thoughts posted:plus like even if u take it as 100% true the article's excuse for Universal is that, "Universal knew that if it wanted “The Mummy” to compete against the likes of “Wonder Woman” and “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” it needed every ounce of Cruise’s waning star power" . Releasing it then was a bad attempt at a power play working off of the assumption that Wonder Woman wasn't going to perform very well. If this movie had come out in, say, April (in that dead period between Fast 8 and Guardians 2, it might have made the same amount opening weekend, and probably wouldn't have been quite so disappointing. Instead it's just another June blockbuster in a month with Wonder Woman, a new Transformers, Cars 3 and at the very end, Despicable Me 3 which is going to make more money than god.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Valerian is bombing hard as expected and is going to earn less than $20 mil this weekend domestically. i have been saying this since I saw the first trailer and it is nice to be vindicated sometimes you just know a movie is going to bomb like in a couple weeks when Dark Tower comes out. That movie is going to be a glorified TV pilot and every single person I tell the actual runtime of the movie (95 minutes) gets this really confused, annoyed look on their face. Like in that moment, any hope of Dark Tower being good just floats away.
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Hollismason posted:Yeah, I don't get this. Ready Player One is literally just that special, awkward post with the barest semblance of story added, stretched into the length of a novel. Just a bunch of your favorite 80s characters getting together for
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ChainsawCharlie posted:It would be boring as hell,stephenson has some cool ideas but he cant write dialogue or a functional story for poo poo,his stories feel like loose conections of stuff hapening with bonus mathematics. I went through a list of books published under the SF Masterworks shingle and there's so many great ideas in there for movies that are just sitting, waiting to be turned into movies. And I bet most of the authors are dead and/or old so they couldn't bitch about anything!
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Leavemywife posted:According to Box Office Mojo, the budget was $50mil, so that seems pretty much bad. if you make half of your budget on opening weekend that's generally not too bad. Obviously it depends on how much of the total gross the opening weekend is, but animated movies tend to have slightly better legs than others, so this will probably make a small profit, especially if it plays internationally. So just hope that the tracking is aiming too high and that it has terrible word of mouth (like it should)
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You guys remember 12 Feet Deep? I just saw a commercial for it, and it is premiering under the title Trapped Sisters on the loving Lifetime Network. My props to Lifetime to spreading their wings a bit. Between this and letting James Franco do whatever the gently caress he wants for a couple movies, clearly the people at the top of Lifetime have gained a sense of humor.
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CelticPredator posted:I thought Tobin Bell was the night janitor? Or did that person call Tobin Bell a her? Tobin Bell shows up as a cameo for like 10 minutes. The villain of the piece is a woman.
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feedmyleg posted:Oh great, the new Shaft is confirmed to be a comedy. Just what we need right now. Can't we just all agree to watch Black Dynamite a couple times so this doesn't have to happen?
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well why not posted:my local is still playing Apes, Dunkirk, Baby Driver, Despicable Me 3 and Spider-Man. Feels like it's been the same lineup forever. The theater I work at has no poo poo had The Big Sick for a solid two months and people keep going to it. It's a really good movie and all, but I would not have expected that one bit. Like, we literally opened 5 movies this weekend and we still have Big Sick. And it's not going anywhere this weekend I'm sure because nothing good is opening, and at the very least if we get rid of something it will be Good Time or Ingrid Goes West because no one is going to see either of those movies. But starting on the 9th we're getting something either interesting or popular every week or so. It comes on the 9th, mother! is the 16th a week after that is Kingsman, then American Made, then Blade Runner, then The Foreigner, then The Snowman, then Suburbicon (i hope this is a wide release). Honestly, September/October probably has a higher number of good-looking wide releases than November/December considering the latter is running entirely on the quartet of Thor/Justice League/Star Wars/Pixar. Everything else looks either sad or underwhelming (Daddy's Home 2? A Bad Moms Christmas? Pitch Perfect 3? That lovely looking Death Wish remake? Bastards, a movie so bad that it got pushed back an entire year?)
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Beachcomber posted:They would do that at a major chain theatre? (It was a Century). my theater, owned by a regional chain, showed The Goonies this weekend, all weekend, and the no poo poo, genuine, standard definition DVD that they sent us started skipping by the time Monday rolled around. We were loving pissed, and so were the customers.
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ALFbrot posted:Are you referring to anyone other than John Goodman? Laurie Metcalf literally just won a Tony for Best Actress in a Play.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Method Acting is great, what are you talking about That's not Method Acting, this is Method Acting.
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