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Tars Tarkas posted:Another cancelled movie victim of WB/Discovery tax shenanigans, the Scooby-Doo direct to video movie Haunted High Rise is no more. It is a sequel to Trick or Treat, Scooby-Doo!, which was from 2022 and was the one where Velma was a lesbian. Haunted High Rise would have also featured the Hex Girls, who first showed up in Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost and became a cult favorite My son had a BIG TIME Scooby Phase and I assure you the Hex Girls own and Witch's Ghost is a banger (for Scooby Doo...which means it's often barely tolerable but somehow gets by on charm and wholesomeness).
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GrandpaPants posted:Hellboy is the most boring part of the Hellboy comics. What they need to do is make a BPRD TV series, because that's where all the actually interesting characters were. Yeah. I mean Hellboy isn't boring to me but his whole shtick is that he's nonplussed and competent, so it's low energy by design. Gotta bring in characters to shake it up. The way the comic is structured, it honestly shouldn't be a movie. ' edit: SHOULDN'T be a movie. jeez Megaman's Jockstrap fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Feb 17, 2023 |
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Feb 17, 2023 19:52
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Yeah that show is a completely different show at this point. It's moved from situational comedy to character heartwarming hijinks.
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Apr 10, 2023 21:10
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Grendels Dad posted:I know that boring humans and their boring plot are kind of a staple of the Godzilla franchise, but yeah. If you get Charles Dance to be a bad guy in your movie and I don't remember a single loving line he said, you done hosed up. Yeah. I love, love, love the Kaiju poo poo but the human stuff just doesn't land. Serizawa was the only grounded character but he wasn't in there much and he ain't around anymore.
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Apr 20, 2023 15:45
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Of course he is.
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Apr 24, 2023 19:18
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Maybe they're already doing the effects. They might have shot the effect stuff first and moved onto location photography, although as I understand it - and as a total idiot layperson - that would be unusual.
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Apr 24, 2023 23:18
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Piell posted:Afterlife was an entire movie jerking off over the originals, with barely any jokes and no funny jokes Exactly how I felt. Nobody holds Ghostbusters in higher esteem than me, but I don't need to be jacked off and told how wonderful it was and then fed a slop of updated greatest hits.
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Apr 25, 2023 23:51
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Pope Corky the IX posted:How does one become a digital dog dick painter? Same way as a regular dog dick painter, I imagine. Just with computers.
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Apr 27, 2023 19:28
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duz posted:On the Terminator 2 commentary James Cameron is upset that you can see Robert Patrick's dick because he has a bill from a company for "Dick Removal" yet it's still clearly there. My day is better for knowing this. Thank you.
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Apr 27, 2023 21:03
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Alan Smithee posted:Did they put dredd in a MK game sounds like he belongs He does. Excellent point.
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May 5, 2023 19:35
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Cage posted:Thats Gareth Evans the guy from the Raid films. It's ok, I made the same mistake.
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May 17, 2023 18:58
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FlamingLiberal posted:RIP Absolutely terrible news. Classic "this guy rules no matter what he's in" kind of actor.
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May 22, 2023 18:37
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I know I already posted but 58 is just too young.
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May 22, 2023 20:10
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The Hollywood SAG actors I know are 5/5 for vaccine skeptism, 2 of them pretty seriously. You may want to consider that some of this poo poo is definitely Hollywood sub-culture.
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May 29, 2023 21:02
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The Thing is alien. It knows enough to imitate shock when seeing a spider-head but it also does weird stuff in stressful situations. I like that about it. "Sure, I'm a dog in a dog kennel and I'm really hungry, what if I *high pitched screaming, face splits open*"
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Jun 5, 2023 16:30
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dr_rat posted:Honestly pretty relatable. Like who at work while hungry and confused has felt like doing that? The thing is, just the thing, we in our heart of hearts want to be. "When you're hungry, you're not yourself. Grab a Snickers!" *Thing turns back into Lily from Accounting*
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Jun 5, 2023 17:33
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AceOfFlames posted:How the gently caress is this even possible? The CGI in that movie looks like utter GARBAGE. Is Hollywood just a massive embezzlement scam now? How can more and more money be spent on movies that keep looking worse and worse? Well I have a theory just based on some observations and conversations with people who did this work: The VFX industry is horrible to work in now (it was always "bad" but you got paid a lot and could take big chunks of time off occasionally) but now there's garbage pay, unreasonable deadlines, and poo poo working conditions. So what happens is that these companies can charge a lot and then use their bumper crop of new VFX employees to do the work badly. Then most of their employees quit. Hire new employees, churn 'em and burn 'em because it's a cool job and people want to do it. Disney has nobody else to work with because they dug their own grave with their working conditions and demands - only the desperate or amoral bid for them now. (or if they use a big effect house, the senior employees are not as subject to this treatement) I know 3 VFX people who have all left the industry in the past 5 years. Two of them were around 20 year vets. All of them are a lot happier and healthier now. It's why movies from 2013 had better VFX than now. The people doing them were actually better artistically. The computers and tools may have improved but the actual hands guiding them are substantially worse or just not given enough time to excel.
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Jun 8, 2023 19:31
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Snowman_McK posted:This is a phenomenon in a lot of industries, it's called 'institutional amnesia.' When a lot of people quit or leave a business or industry in a short space of time (it's hit hospitality over the last couple of years, the Australian public service inflicted it on itself) a lot of knowledge is lost, especially knowledge that is acquired, rather than learned. It would not surprise me that, even outside of the increasingly awful conditions, the new people simply haven't had time to learn their craft and there may be no one to teach them. That's very interesting, thank you for posting! I had seen this first hand when I worked adjacent to the manufacturing industry and watched everything go overseas and all the plant managers get new jobs in different industries and now America has great difficulty making things, but I did not know there was an actual term for that. Should have suspected their was. Anyway, thanks again for the info!
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Jun 8, 2023 23:58
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Things I liked about Treat Williams: 1) Name should have absolutely been stolen for porno use (Treat Millions) 2) Is absolutely wonderful as a smarmy hero in Deep Rising 3) Hateable but fun smarmy rear end in a top hat in The Phantom RIP...this sucks.
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Jun 13, 2023 16:28
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AI is just going to become another artist's tool or, when sufficiently advanced, a budget-cutting measure. Doing it for real will still have prestige and be the preferred approach. Historically, all the artists thought that the camera was going to kill them but it turns out it did not. There's also ways to ethically use the technology (alas, they did not go that route to start). I think that intro is a mixed bag. Some of it looks pretty good. Some of it just flat out looks like a bad gen that I would toss in the delete pile. Bad AI has a very particular "look" and it's all over that intro.
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Jun 22, 2023 16:40
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Imagine being hired to produce art that you then feed into a machine which will replace you once it has been fed enough. What a distopian world we unfortunately exist in. You're describing what happened in the last century, but with industrialization. When it happened to people in the past it's called "progress", unfortunately.
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Jun 22, 2023 17:56
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Just so you guys know, there's a ton of firms right now that are repackaging bog-standard analytics as "AI-driven strategies", lot of hucksterism and snake oil going on right now. As somebody who actually understands LLMs and diffusion-based image creation, the things that AI can do are being massively oversold right now to generate headlines and get business. It's possible we'll get there but we are so very very very far away, on the order of decades IMO. IShallRiseAgain posted:NFTs are a completely worthless technology that never has and never will have value. AI might be production ready a few years down the road (I think its first use case will be SFX and not image generation from scratch), but its absolutely not the case now. It has already happened, they used Deepfaking for Mando Season 2 and Book of Boba.
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How did that happen btw? Are there any theories on why "African-American Superhero Has Electrical Powers" became a thing?
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Jun 28, 2023 16:49
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Another longstanding mystery solved. Thanks y'all!
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Jun 28, 2023 17:23
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I AM GRANDO posted:I remember reading a quote from Stan Lee when Miles Morales became ultimate Spiderman, and he said something like, “I think it’s great that they’re doing a black Spiderman. I wouldn’t have killed the other Spiderman. I’d have made the new Spiderman one of his friends, and I’d have given him a name like ‘the Black Spider’ and they would fight crime together before he got his own comic!” This is exactly what Sony did with their Spider-Man games only they just called him "Spider-Man" as well.
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Jun 29, 2023 16:17
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Anonymous Zebra posted:None of my daughters had even heard of it. I only know about it because people in this thread posted about it a few weeks ago. I'm not even sure where it advertised, but those places didn't hit my family at all. Hollywood had a relatively stable model that lasted for decades and produced good movies and within 10 years the private equity/vertical integration/ip management crowd managed to largely destroy it. The only guys consistently making money are old 80s holdouts who do things their way. They killed The Movies. Incredible!
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Alan Smithee posted:Surprise they didn’t announce an Uno movie In a shocking reverse, they just did!
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Streaming continues its decline. Buy physical media.
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Jose Oquendo posted:Yuppp. Unfortunately, there's a growing number of things that have no physical release of any sort. That leaves only one option Agreed, but the reason I say to buy it is because if there's strong physical media sales this actually encourages these dummies to release stuff on it. I know, I know. Me telling a handful of people on a dead old forum isn't going to make any difference. But I'm pretty evangelical about it IRL, and unlike in the last 5 years I'm actually getting some traction now. Encouraging!
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Jul 5, 2023 16:37
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Crazy that we're just moving back into network TV from the 80s, where either you somebody with specialized equipment who recorded it or you watched it in the small window that it was available. They could bring this stuff back to the service, though, and call it "reruns".
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Jul 5, 2023 20:34
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Hollywood probably needs to realize that middle-aged (mostly male, because of how they're socialized) creatives who find success later in life but never got any play when they were younger have the potential to turn into real creeps.
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Jul 18, 2023 21:18
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I mean, that's a fun accusation but when you look at the actual facts there's only one cool thing about the guy, that he tried to escape from prison. Everything else is really circumstantial.
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I'm 100% willing to discuss any director's influence and I'm just not seeing it. Nolan made the first two Batman movies, Following, The Prestige, and had Inception in the can before any of the murder stuff, any of the prison break stuff. Post murder accusation and escape conviction he's made Dark Knight Rises, Interstellar, Dunkirk, Tenet, and Oppenheimer. This seems like another internet meme trying to take root. edit: I reworded something because it sounded insulting. Megaman's Jockstrap fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Jul 20, 2023 |
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Here's another of my biannual "thank you Robot Style for the knowledgeable peek behind the curtain" posts.
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Alan Smithee posted:Gal Gadot Cleopatra vs Jada Pinkett Cleopatra in the Hellenistic Cinematic Universe Wait until Will Smith Mark Antony gets involved!
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Chronicles of a Riddick is an unabashed love letter to the sort of Earl Norem/Frank Frazetta sandals and lasers poo poo from a very particular moment in the mid 80s (Krull, Yor: Hunter From The Future, He-Man) with a bit of Space Religion Inquisition thrown in for flavor. Snyder has repeatedly professed his love for that period via Heavy Metal magazine, Frazetta, and Vallejo so it's not surprising he ended up on similar ground.
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RevKrule posted:As for Rebel Moon, the whole trailer looks overstuffed and needing way more support materials for the world building it looks to be doing. I'll still watch it tho... It's really, really, really depressing to see that corporate branding synergy bullshit has infected your brain to this degree.
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Aug 24, 2023 17:13
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The budget for both movies combined is $166 million, $83 million per movie. Triple Frontier was 115 million. The budget for Red Notice was 200 million. The budget for Grey Man was 200 million. On a per movie basis, Rebel Moon is far closer to Extraction 2 (70 million). They aren't "very expensive" movies by anyone's standards, Tars.
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fatherboxx posted:Extraction movies actually look great, at least something from that insane netflix spending spree on action movies turned out to be enjoyable Eh, to each it's own. I find a lot of the very fake digital set-pieces and the fake one take scene-stitching to be quite distracting and to hurt the movie's overall look, although overall the movies are enjoyeable. For reference, John Wick 3 cost 5 million more than Extraction 2 and looked much better.
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Some VHS tapes were priced for sale, but 99% of the initial wave was priced for rental (the famous $89 tapes). Source: video store clerk in the mid to late 90s. It's really weird to me now that digital versions come out to own before they come out to rent! That seems exactly backwards.
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