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I remember kind of enjoying Pattern Recognition, but then I bought Spook Country and I never got around to reading it. Then I ended up buying, and re-reading, the Neuromancer trilogy and Idoru. In the latters case the beginning and middle was good but the ending was a bit of a washout and made me realise some flaws with how Gibson writes at times.
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I liked Zero History a lot, but I'm also a sucker for "bringing an old character back for a cameo just to check in on their life" schtick. Also the ugly T-shirt that breaks security cameras, and hiding the tracking device in the Russian mob lady's baby stroller so the poo poo tier fashion mercs get their poo poo kicked in. Also I kinda lol about both the latter two bridge and blue ant books having a secondary character that's "hosed up neurotic guy in recovery that can do some crazy magic brain analysis you need" that you just kinda assume would be played by Jeremy Davies.
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One more reason to hate RT and online review aggregators in general https://twitter.com/discussingfilm/status/1783229675516395524?s=46&t=YuqSROOCXrcRx1gn_5vV7Q
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Big Mean Jerk posted:One more reason to hate RT and online review aggregators in general
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Wouldn't box office of past movies be more relevant? Unless you're going for a prestige thing, I though the studios didn't care too much about if a film had people "liking" it or not.
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Alan Smithee posted:if that were true Colin Treverrow would never work in this town again I was gonna say "good", but honestly I've gotten more enjoyment out of Book Of Henry than a lot of other movies that I've actually seen.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:One more reason to hate RT and online review aggregators in general Seems like nonsense, I’m pretty sure they look up previous budget and box office first. Otherwise things would look Very different.
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Owen Wilson is in the news for turning down a multi million dollar payday to be in a movie saying that OJ wasn't the killer. Details are light but I'm assuming it will be based on the debunked theory that a serial killer was responsible.
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muscles like this! posted:Owen Wilson is in the news for turning down a multi million dollar payday to be in a movie saying that OJ wasn't the killer. Details are light but I'm assuming it will be based on the debunked theory that a serial killer was responsible. Hey, we don't have all the details, maybe the multi million dollar film was somehow worse? Unfortunately there can always be worse. 
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muscles like this! posted:Owen Wilson is in the news for turning down a multi million dollar payday to be in a movie saying that OJ wasn't the killer. Details are light but I'm assuming it will be based on the debunked theory that a serial killer was responsible. Well, everyone knows OJ Simpson killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. What this film presupposes is... maybe he didn't.
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dr_rat posted:Wouldn't box office of past movies be more relevant? Unless you're going for a prestige thing, I though the studios didn't care too much about if a film had people "liking" it or not. It is or used to be. But because of streaming it's harder to gauge an actual number so they need some arbitrary thing to gate keep the industry with,
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Alan Smithee posted:if that were true Colin Treverrow would never work in this town again The article actually mentions him, though not in that context: quote:Elsewhere, up-and-coming directors, those who have a festival movie or two under their belts and are looking for the next step up, are getting boxed out. Long gone are the days of Colin Trevorrow making the jump from Sundance darling (Safety Not Guaranteed) to Jurassic World.
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CelticPredator posted:It is or used to be. But because of streaming it's harder to gauge an actual number so they need some arbitrary thing to gate keep the industry with, I know streaming services keep their numbers pretty tight often, but does anyone know if produces -at least the well established ones- or what not see those numbers officially or unofficially? Feels like that something that might get emailed around that lot quite a bit.
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Anyone who's ever worked for a corporation can tell you "decision makers" love metrics, no matter how asinine or senseless.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Anyone who's ever worked for a corporation can tell you "decision makers" love metrics, no matter how asinine or senseless. This
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The one thing about numbers is that it's so easy to say one is bigger than another.
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muscles like this! posted:Owen Wilson is in the news for turning down a multi million dollar payday to be in a movie saying that OJ wasn't the killer. Details are light but I'm assuming it will be based on the debunked theory that a serial killer was responsible.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:One more reason to hate RT and online review aggregators in general In my field we call this the “Rate My Professors” effect.
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One More Fat Nerd posted:I was gonna say "good", but honestly I've gotten more enjoyment out of Book Of Henry than a lot of other movies that I've actually seen. And Duel Of The Fates would have been a better bookend for the new trilogy than Rise Of Skywalker.
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The one where rey is revealed to be a cyborg? hosed but legitimately more interesting than what we got
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Jose Oquendo posted:The novel nor the movie indicate it's unreliable narrator poo poo. It's almost as if Bruce's behavior was different based on who he was interacting with and the context of those interactions. Wait there's a book?
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Shageletic posted:Wait there's a book? Quentin wrote it himself, after the movie
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The Saddest Rhino posted:The one where rey is revealed to be a cyborg? hosed but legitimately more interesting than what we got Synopsis for DOTF: quote:The First Order rules the galaxy with General Hux as its chancellor and has blocked communications across the galaxy. Still free from the First Order's control, Rey, Finn, Poe Dameron, Rose Tico and BB-8 steal a Star Dreadnought from the occupied planet of Kuat and take it to Korilev, where surviving members of the Resistance, led by General Leia Organa, have established a new base.
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ahh centrism is the way
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Rey starts a new Jedi order where every life you save gives you permission to kill someone else, because that's what balance means apparently.
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Non Compos Mentis posted:ahh centrism is the way No, centrism would be the lame "grey jedi" thing that was never made explicitly canon. But there's always a sense in the main Lucas-related Star Wars stories (first six movies, The Clone Wars and Rebels) that Light vs Dark is not analogous to Good vs Evil.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:The one where rey is revealed to be a cyborg? hosed but legitimately more interesting than what we got No that’s from that famous writer who is a chud Alan dean foster Allen peen poopster imo
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Young Freud posted:And Duel Of The Fates would have been a better bookend for the new trilogy than Rise Of Skywalker. People who say this haven’t seen The Book of Henry. Gonz posted:Synopsis for DOTF: fwiw the source for this has never been more than a random unvetted Reddit post and should be taken with a grain of salt. Grey Jedi poo poo is so loving lame.
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Gonz posted:Synopsis for DOTF: I think Disney made the right call going with Baby Yoda instead of Dark Yoda.
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The MSJ posted:No, centrism would be the lame "grey jedi" thing that was never made explicitly canon. But there's always a sense in the main Lucas-related Star Wars stories (first six movies, The Clone Wars and Rebels) that Light vs Dark is not analogous to Good vs Evil. Lucas had nothing to do with Rebels. Also none of the Lucas materials talk about a “light side” of the Force, only “the Force” and the “dark side.” Pirate Jet posted:fwiw the source for this has never been more than a random unvetted Reddit post and should be taken with a grain of salt. Treverrow has acknowledged it.
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Chairman Capone posted:Lucas had nothing to do with Rebels. Also none of the Lucas materials talk about a “light side” of the Force, only “the Force” and the “dark side.” While Rebels isn't Lucas directly, it is by Dave Filoni who basically the Vader to Lucas's Palpatine. A lot of the things he said have lined up with those Lucas himself said on the past. And the Light vs Dark dichotomy did get covered in The Clone Wars (although maybe it wasn't called that).
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The MSJ posted:While Rebels isn't Lucas directly, it is by Dave Filoni who basically the Vader to Lucas's Palpatine. A lot of the things he said have lined up with those Lucas himself said on the past. Filoni definitely thinks of himself like that, but if you look at the things that Filoni and Lucas have actually said, there's quite a lot of difference. Apologies for the formats but these are two lengthy posts by people who put their actual words side by side on things like Luke, Anakin, and the state of the prequel Jedi: https://www.tumblr.com/jedi-order-apologist/698124259656155136/yeah-exactly-theres-a-world-of-difference https://www.reddit.com/r/MawInstallation/comments/v52kq6/are_we_making_a_mistake_thinking_that_dave_filoni/
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George is the font and Filoni is basically Roy Thomas.
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Chairman Capone posted:Treverrow has acknowledged it. Also there was a full leaked script with concept art.
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CelticPredator posted:No that’s from that famous writer who is a chud Alan dean foster
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Darthemed posted:What is this claim based on? Just did a quick search and couldn’t turn up any interviews or events focused on his political beliefs. I think it entirely comes from the fact that he didn’t like Last Jedi, and he also started a lawsuit against Disney on behalf of a lot of authors they just decided to stop paying. All the anti-Foster stuff suddenly started getting circulated right when that lawsuit was announced.
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Yeah, I’ve never heard anything about Foster having lovely politics. Disney trying to gently caress him out of the royalties on the ANH novelization, and Splinter of the Mind’s Eye was bad and he wasn’t in the wrong for suing. I can’t imagine they sell that many copies of the latter nowadays, but they still printing it with a “Legends” banner on the cover. So he should be getting paid for it.
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