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Krazyface posted:Hey I'm getting every single YT video showing up as a black box, that happening to anyone else? Nope.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Same I've adored A24 these last 5 years but they can't stay great forever. Word is the founders are looking to offload that poo poo for a sum.
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CelticPredator posted:They’re for the digital versions of the film I think And they are bad.
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Jerkface posted:What is A24 and why does everyone like them A specialty distributor. They distribute small movies that are usually good.
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:So James Franco can still have a career after all the recent sexual abuse allegations against him, huh? Alright, buddy. 
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The legendary 20th Century novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, written by Eric Arthur Blair, already received the best movie adaptation possible on this planet, it's called Nineteen Eighty-Four and it was released in 1984. I assert this because when my theater did a special screening of it last year for 500+ people, no fewer than 3 middle-aged women walked out and scolded us for screening 'torture porn'. 
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:What, am I supposed to just ignore the fact that he sexually abuses women for the rest of my life and keep seeing his movies just because he's a movie star? I dunno, man, like who gives a gently caress? I absolutely believe in following your own personal code, and if boycotting Franco is the centerpiece of that code then more power to you. But the world is full of tragedy...and to address said in even the most minute ways requires more than grandstanding. To be honest, I thought he was pretty drat good in The Deuce, a show that does its best to chronicle the moral complexity of exploitation (and collective complicity therein), and considering that show wouldn't exist without his contribution I'm willing to open myself up to the possibility that human interactions are often complex, messy, and morally ambiguous...which in turn reflects on media spectacle and commodity culture. I just don't see hashtag activism serving as a solution to systemic issues of exploitation. 
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Krankenstyle posted:sorry, had to cut this up because uh Yeah, I totally agree about his terrible directorial work. I think he's a decent actor here and there and he seems to want to be involved in interesting projects (Howl, Milk, 127 Hours, Spring Breakers etc)...but just as often or more I don't think it works out. I think his contribution to The Deuce is significant, both in terms of money and performance. Gyllenhaal is absolutely unbeatable in that show, and she is also involved in production but to a lesser degree. Krankenstyle posted:
Entrenchment of corporate-flavored feminism to satisfy elites is a smokescreen, a media-event boondoggle that kicks the stone further down the road. Nothing short of economic redistribution will fix it. BeanpolePeckerwood fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Apr 7, 2018 |
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Krankenstyle posted:
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Each one a milquetoast Ron Howard joint, on-time and under-budget, stomping on your face. Forever.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I wish it was competing with a Fast & Furious spin-off called Han: A Solo Story. We're a family https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg_FoEy8T_A
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I'm sorry, but it doesn't matter how good The Meg ends up being... there can only be one Shark Attack: Megalodon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1XOfHax6Q8 NWS BeanpolePeckerwood fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Apr 10, 2018 |
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Deeper, bluer, my hand is like a shark's fin
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I remembered the lyric wrong but I stand by my version
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The MSJ posted:It's partly a Chinese studio production. The director also made National Treasure. Figured this because of Li Bing Bing casting
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Shageletic posted:Was she in Pacific Rim 2? I liked that actress there. In that movie there's Rinko Kikuchi from Japan. She was in the first one but gets killed early on here. She's great tho. And then a newer chinese actress named Jing Tian.
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Jewmanji posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5ROSS9ReUY Looks real good to me, much better than the 4 other teen dramas A24 is pushing simultaneously. (I think it's gonna be a slower year for them)
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:yeah, I got on the A24 train because they kept pumping out loving amazing genre movies like Green Room and Free Fire and High Rise, I'm a little disappointed that they've apparently decided that teen dramas = Well, it goes in waves. They had such an amazing 2016-2017 that there's absolutely going to be some downtime while they wrangle more prestige projects.
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feedmyleg posted:Trailer for Overdose of bad exposition.
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clown shoes posted:More Hereditary Not watching that but the movie is apparently THE poo poo
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Vintersorg posted:You perhaps need theaters that are improving then to make it worth your time. One of mine just converted every single room into ones with reserved seating, recliner seats for all, like 5 feet of leg room and all upgraded screens. Unless you're rocking a home theater in the basement with a 80" OLED screen I feel nothing compares. Gotta be honest, I prefer the traditional theater experience. La-Z-Boy theaters seem to cater to a specific theatrical experience that I find mildly repulsive. feedmyleg posted:So the new Jurassic World trailer is out. It looks embarrassing. I mean, if JW was a reboot of JP, then JW:FK is basically a reboot of The Lost World. All the familiar pieces are there, and it's using the clownish Star Wars reboot/remix structure to sell a new generation on the same poo poo with worse writing than we had 25 years ago.
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Wandle Cax posted:Wtf. It's just more comfortable seats dude. It's a lot more than that, actually.
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uPen posted:They're good seats peckerwood. okay
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Why don't you expound on that thought? It's not obvious to me and I'd like to hear it. Sure, but the post will be hyper goon pedantry, so be forewarned
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kiimo posted:Relax in your plush seats, capitalist pigs. Meanwhile we will bide our time on sacks of bolts and butter our popcorn with elbow grease. You could at least wait for my bad post... Dillbag posted:I'm guessing beep boop bourgeoisie reasons Prolly, yes
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kiimo posted:I like my seats to be so cush I end up making GBS threads my pants. Props, too, if there's a sewage reclamation unit in the seat so I don't have to get up after making GBS threads. Vintersorg posted:Can you please go into why? I find it to be an infinitely better experience than the previous seats that were standard. I'm not saying anyone has to feel this way, I'm just picky as hell. I like my seats low-backed and squeaky, and unless I'm watching something that originally released pre-surround (which is sometimes better in the balcony), I normally like to be sitting somewhere with the feeling of looking up at a screen that dwarfs me, so stadium seating kind of sucks in my book. Stadium seating is the mark of a bad multiplex, where screens are too small and you're still paying above first-run prices for second-run experiences. La-Z-Boy theaters and reserved seating, among other things, run contrary to just about everything I love about the theater experience, and I didn't really start to appreciate the particulars of that experience until I was watching movies in India where the reserved seating model is standard. Disparities of wealth in India are extreme, to say the least, especially since the new economic models of the 90s gained a foothold and essentially bulldozed the culture and public infrastructure. Nevertheless, those economic trends are a depressingly warped mirror of the kinds of inequality we have developed and fostered in the states. There are enough transparent income barriers in India that I can confidently state that movies there are usually only seen by families of a certain wealth status, and the more one pays for the service the more one is 'feted' with luxury and convenience. In essence there is no public in this model, no communal experience. It is a highly stratified environment, the worst parts of religious/racial/income caste systems all in one room. There's the legless man sitting on a plastic bucket outside the gate to the mall asking for a few rupees, there are the metal detectors in the doorway separating the dust of the street from the clinical white tile of the interior, the guards with wands and machine pistols, and at the top of 5 or 6 glass escalators there is the banality of The Avengers. Balls-deep cupholders, adjustable headrests, footrests, vibrators, food tables, table service, 3D glasses, etc ...are people more concerned with the circumstantial luxury of their experience than with the film itself, and why might that be the case? This luxury model works fine with films that nullify and pacify the audience using intensified continuity and vfx overstimulation. So, huge blockbusters essentially, 90% of the take. Are ticket prices so high because everyone wants/needs new luxury in order to withstand the mediocrity of a Marvel film with poo poo-tier writing and cinematography? Would ticket prices be lower if people were more interested in novel film rather than the spa experience with bad tv playing in the background? Very few works of provocative cinema make me want to relax or recline at all, and many involve a certain innate stress. Movies like Loveless, Phantom Thread, Moonlight, 12 Years a Slave, Mulholland Drive, There Will Be Blood, Blue is the Warmest Color, A Separation, mother!, In the Mood for Love, Zodiac, Irreversible...don't seek to coddle and comfort you through the boredom of the scripted cgi action scenes and superman-matrix laser battles with zero actual choreography. Wall-E had it right, you only need a recliner if you're already a physical/mental blob.  I go to the theater to witness novelty, for sure, but I also go to be with the crowd and experience collective sensation, not be walled off from it. Otherwise, I'd stay home, and I don't see the point in remaking the theater experience in the image of the home-theater experience. I enjoy the tension of trying to find seats early in a crowd of 400 people, actually talking to and negotiating with strangers over minutia, and the sense that everyone is doing their best to respect and respond to the the film in a way that's both communal and personal. A huge, dark rear end room with a bunch of strangers all ping-ponging off of each other, that type of nervous tension only serves to enhance the ride of something like Fury Road, where everyone is going out of their way to be excited while being stuffed into a room on opening night. That being said, the real magic to me is that while individuality is somewhat suspended in a crowd of strangers, the idiosyncrasies, the random quips, the push-pull of crowd behavior are part of the fun and humanity of the theater experience. That experience is collective, but also somewhat random and chaotic, it's the same price for almost everyone, and it's anathema to a system that seeks to stratify and overindulge. So to me general seating actually represents a lot. BeanpolePeckerwood fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Apr 19, 2018 |
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kiimo posted:I mean, I get the nostalgia and camaraderie of the movie-going experience of yesteryear but you can't blame them for trying to re-create your living room experience when people are increasingly preferring their living room to waiting in line and sitting on gum. True enough. RIP my dead gay cinema Vintersorg posted:I have no idea how to respond to that. But ok.
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Rabelais D posted:Halfway through reading peckerwood's screed against comfy seating I had to rush out and put on a chef's hat, just so that I could kiss my fingers with the requisite gusto when I got to the end. Delicious truth there. I mean, I warned you that it would be pedantic 
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Shageletic posted:Um...have you been to India my man? Something something marvel. Peeps were associating traditional auditorium style seating with third world countries, so I thought I'd just throw in my experience of theaters in third world countries. hth The MSJ posted:
Loved Gattaca when I was younger. Niccol can be hit or miss but this looks right up my alley.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:yeah, i was just throwing out there that the US theater experience, even with recliner seats, has basically nothing in common with that Fair enough. I'm not one for blockbusters much at all, and I guess it feels like the 2+ hour cgi blockbuster market is moving more in the direction of luxury experience, most of which seems a bit incompatible with cinema as I want it. How many recliners fit into your local regal theater? I can't imagine it's over 75. That's just a different experience in my book. The screen is going to be smaller, the average content is going to be more conservative, they're going to tailor the experience around the luxury of the distinct viewer on opening weekend presales. I guess that's all you get in some places, like my dad lives in the middle of nowhere and chain multiplex blockbusters are the only game in town. All the more reason to support indie theaters if you can, and I guess I'm a bit spoiled where I live. I want that 50ft screen!
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Eezee posted:I get the idea of moviepass for filling seats that would otherwise be unoccupied, but not having reserved seating is honestly super weird. I don't watch movies with more than 2-3 people if I can help it. Organizing gangs of 7-10 people to all sit together and watch something in the dark is super weird to me, not to mention the wasted effort involved in corralling individual humans with individual cars to all be in one place at one time. The best theater experiences I've had are alone or with 1 other friend. morestuff posted:Giant screens at indie theaters seem more like the exception than the rule Yeah, I guess so. PDX has an abnormally healthy indie scene. Multiplexes have been closing up shop for years now.
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thrawn527 posted:You consider Blue Moon a "Texas beer"? It started in Colorado and is owned by MillerCoors, so that's a weird position to take. Is this like how Oregonians consider Rainier an Oregon beer? I mean, that's just the way sometimes. buddhanc posted:Pretty sure this thread is the highest concentration of autism on these forums with the pecker person leading the way You confuse autism with goober pretension :bigtran:
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The MSJ posted:Asians, and fans of inter-class romance, is what I figure. I’ve seen Asian-Americans thinking of this like it’s Black Panther. So a cynical, surface-level spectacle concession to minorities trapped amid the abstraction of a corporate neoliberal hellscape?
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The MSJ posted:It’s a Hollywood movie, so yes. Sweet.
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clown shoes posted:Full Venom trailer Looks sort of idiosyncratic in the way comic book movies like Blade used to be. Doesn't mean it will be any good, but it at least looks more interesting and performance oriented than the mainline MCU movies which are complete sewage. Tom Hardy making the most of a paycheck to practice his weird rear end twitchy voices. Love that man.
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GrandpaPants posted:I have come to realize that I have no idea what Tom Hardy actually sounds like normally. Yeah, that trailer doesn't really end all that well.
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