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END ME SCOOB posted:The most interesting thing about it was the is-this-real post from some dude who claimed to have worked on a terrifying version of the film that got one of its release dates scrapped. Otherwise, it was the same as a bazillion forgettable live action children's flicks. Coulda slapped a Nickelodeon logo on it in the 90s and never known the difference.  Holy poo poo the imdb page for the movie lists at least 20 concept artists/illustrators, they really fuckin' struggled to nail it down. Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 11:35 on Jan 2, 2018 |
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That is exactly why I was curious to see it. Just watching a silly movie kids movie and imagining what it used to be like before. Alas, it was not meant to be... but it'll probably pop up on a streaming platform eventually (does Netflix have it?)
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Mierenneuker posted:Here are some quality movies that I saw in 2017 that haven't been mentioned yet: Wait, how many movies now have been called 2:22/222 https://willowsoul.com/blogs/numbers/3-reasons-why-you-are-seeing-222-the-meaning-of-222 For starters we have Room 222 the sitcom from back in the last century 221b Baker Street (missed it by that much, 222 must have been across the street) And several movies; some pretty recent. Numerologists or whatever are weird.
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syscall girl posted:Wait, how many movies now have been called 2:22/222 Plus when you say 222 out loud it makes you sound like a choo choo train  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf-hh3Vhr1U&t=270s
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Plus when you say 222 out loud it makes you sound like a choo choo train Dang I need to watch old Batman, this is some good stuff. I recently watched the entire older series with the Rifftrax https://www.rifftrax.com/collection/batman But I think the camp value of this series is worth more than pure the Wisconsin cheese of the former
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Len posted:Yeah I'm not sure why people keep bringing up Cloverfield Lane was a bad sequel when it wasn't a sequel. A quick Google search would tell you the only connection is Cloverfield is a sci-fi anthology series. One of the best things about 10 Cloverfield is the other movies on the 2012 Hitlist that also were made (10 Cloverfield is listed as The Cellar on it). http://www.tracking-board.com/the-hit-list-2012-full-list/
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syscall girl posted:Wait, how many movies now have been called 2:22/222 I believe it's also the title the little known direct-to-dvd prequel to the Jim Carrey movie The Number 23.
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I still think they should have called 300: Rise of an Empire 302.
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Tars Tarkas posted:I mostly left out direct to video stuff (except for Bright because it's basically a big budget film with a weird distribution model) because otherwise I'd have to list 20 Lifetime movies and like 100 Hallmark Christmas movies. There's also the horrible Woody Woodpecker film which will be released direct-to-DVD in the US later this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAbXxiLrDIs Yeah it's never a good sign when the trailer for your big screen adaptation of a 1940s cartoon character starts with the character shouting "Remember me??" at the audience. Weirdly enough the film was originally filmed in English up in Canada but it was dubbed into Portuguese for the world premier in Brazil last year where I guess the character is apparently still pretty popular (which is why the lead actress is a Brazilian actress who is virtually unknown in the US).
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any old cartoon character who does "remember me?" has to sing that coco song drat near broke my heart when the protagonist sang it to his great grandma
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Oddly enough 2017 was the movie I went to the cinemas the most. 12 times by my count. The biggest disappointment for me was Valerian in that case which had such gaping plotholes that I noticed them, and I tend to be the person that overlooks them completely. I think the only things I might watch this year is Dinosaurs & Chris Pratt vs A volcano and this years Marvel offerings. Haven't really seen anything else that piques my interest yet.
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Desperado Bones posted:Condorito was released at the same time as Coco in my country I saw the trailer and only Doña Treme had a Chilean accent that I could hear but I didn’t see any culturally insensitive depictions of tribespeople or rampant rear end and tiddies like the comic strip had. It did have at least one exijo una explicación though
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, so no matter how beloved the main character is it got obliterated in the Mexican box office. I haven't seen it, by the way. So I'm not sure how faithful is to the old as gently caress comics (that are still releasing).
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The Saddest Rhino posted:was resident evil the LAST chapter a raging success? I think it performed better than any other?
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Shageletic posted:I think it performed better than any other? It only made $26 million domestic and absolutely bombed at home but it made over $300m worldwide, with more than half of that coming from China alone. Cooked Auto posted:Oddly enough 2017 was the movie I went to the cinemas the most. 12 times by my count. The biggest disappointment for me was Valerian in that case which had such gaping plotholes that I noticed them, and I tend to be the person that overlooks them completely. Pacific Rim Uprising and Mortal Engines should be fun romps. The Predator reboot and Rampage (starring The Rock and based on the old videogame) could go either way but I'm not getting my hopes up. Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Jan 2, 2018 |
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Wheat Loaf posted:I believe it's also the title the little known direct-to-dvd prequel to the Jim Carrey movie The Number 23. I liked that movie. *cough* the little known prequel i mean ofc
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I don't know what movies I'm looking forward to this year. I go to the cinema maybe twice a year (I went three times in 2017, but two of those times were to see the same movie) and don't imagine I'll be adjusting that habit in 2018. Looking at the list of things coming out, I think it's going to depend entirely on whether advertising piques my interest or not.
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I went to the cinemas 48 times last year, which is on the low side.
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Jurassic World 2 is going to suck, you can tell because the trailer is just like the Mummy trailer, it’s all focused on one big setpiece and very little else.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Jurassic World 2 is going to suck, you can tell because the trailer is just like the Mummy trailer, it’s all focused on one big setpiece and very little else. I find it interesting that the trailer implies Pratt's character is going to die.
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MacheteZombie posted:I find it interesting that the trailer implies Pratt's character is going to die. He’s totally not going to but a man can dream, can’t he?
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Tars Tarkas posted:Yeah I just plumb forgot it, I'll add it later tonight. Anyone see it, does it reference the other Lego movies or is it just the story from the tv series like I thought I heard? My son has watched it about 30 times in the last week. It’s a stand-alone film, has nothing to do with the first too. Very forgettable.
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Cheapsteaks posted:What were the weird lessons in the first and second? I never saw them, but I'm curious. #2 has the really odd one where it presents the moral that you're supposed to accept your gay children as who they are, then immediately negates itself when the baby turns out to be straight all along Also yeah Lego Batman was not great. Though the setpieces themselves were entertaining as gently caress.
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Lego batman was great for all the hidden jokes everywhere, plus the main story was mostly good. Didnt really need the gay sex jokes in a movie ostensibly for kids though
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Jurassic World 2 is going to suck, you can tell because the trailer is just like the Mummy trailer, it’s all focused on one big setpiece and very little else. I’m wondering how much Jeff Goldblum is even in this.
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got any sevens posted:Lego batman was great for all the hidden jokes everywhere, plus the main story was mostly good. Didnt really need the gay sex jokes in a movie ostensibly for kids though I kind of tuned out when Sauron showed up, though. It didn't need to be the Lego Movie 2.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Yeah there are a lot of red flags in that trailer. You also have to love that they are also mirroring the first three Jurassic Park movies, since just like The Lost World, the upcoming movie also has the characters on the abandoned island. Jeff Goldblum himself said just that courtroom scene. Probably two minutes tops.
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Renoistic posted:I kind of tuned out when Sauron showed up, though. It didn't need to be the Lego Movie 2. Yep. Was more interesting when it seemed like the meta-ness would just be across various iterations of Batmen, not everything WB can make a claim to.
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The in production for years Cleopatrais getting a makeover, Game of Thrones-style. David Scarpa is scripting and Denis Villeneuve is directing. quote:"Dirty, bloody, lots of people swearing and having sex and all of that other stuff and just treat it as a two-hour, lean, mean political thriller, full of assassinations. Just going the opposite direction from the way we think that movie is going to go." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2018/01/02/dirty-bloody-lots-sex-denis-villeneuves-cleopatra-will-rip-hollywoods/
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Fun fact about the original Cleopatra (with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton): it's the only movie that was the highest-grossing release of its year which ran at a loss.
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:302 Dalmatians Croatia is nowhere near Sparta though?
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Tars Tarkas posted:The in production for years Cleopatrais getting a makeover, Game of Thrones-style. David Scarpa is scripting and Denis Villeneuve is directing. "The entire history of that period is framed through the eyes of men, ... we’re gonna approach it through her point of view." Says a bunch of men.
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That means they're gonna pass the bechdel test and then pat themselves on the back with a lesbian sex scene.
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Al Borland Corp. posted:That means they're gonna pass the bechdel test and then pat themselves on the back with a lesbian sex scene. The dialogue during the lesbian sex scene is what passes the bechdel test.
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It means they’re gonna market it towards that particular audience and pat themselves for being progressive or something which will be lapped up and paraded as some kind of landmark event in cinema history and make -a billion. And the lesbian sex scene. Though if I could get something like 300 2 and Eva Green vamping it up and being hardcore boss I’d enjoy that. Go ham. Eva Green and Cate Blanchett hamming up villainy.
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lol Angelina Jolie has been trying to get this made for years, thank god the women positive movie can now go ahead under the helms of a buncha dudes.
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Casimir Radon posted:They should cast Lena Dunham for that authentic product of incest look. Please do not confuse products and producers.
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Al Borland Corp. posted:Don't studios just claim whatever they want ran at a loss? Yes, but it's more complicated than that. The way film production works is that the producers make a new company specifically to make that film. All of the production, but nothing else about the movie are handled by that company. Because it is a corporation, it has to make public filings and this is why we know all the production budgets of films. This company through studio accounting shenanigans never makes money. But obviously movies still actually fail to make money (the gross is never the actual studio take and that goes double for the international gross which has even more people taking cuts of the pie). So a very expensive movie may gross hundreds of millions of dollars and still lose a shitton of cash for the studio. Cleopatra is particularly infamous in that regard because it was so absurdly expensive that it effectively bankrupted Fox.
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