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Tars Tarkas posted:The Lords will be Ringing again If anybody read this and thought “why does the name Mike de Luca sound familiar?”, he’s the guy who wrote In the Mouth of Madness.
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I saw a live-streamed Q&A for Green Room and dipped when the first question was “what was his desert island album?”
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Beachcomber posted:
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Alan Smithee posted:LILO AND stitch iirc I haven’t heard anything about this, but this news extremely sucks.
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Cooked Auto posted:And instead we got Die Another Day, a movie so bad that it managed to really sour me on Bond movies to the point I skipped the Craig ones after that. Casino Royale is a grade A stuff, when I watched it about year ago, it reminded me that blockbusters can be great.
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They already made an XCOM tv show, it was called Neon Genesis Evangelion.
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Tommy Wiseau has been in on the joke for years. There’s no way Big Shark will even be so bad it’s good, he’s too self-aware.
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AceOfFlames posted:Pain and Gain was after that and that was probably the last role he did where he actually tried to act. He is genuinely great in that film. Maybe has a touch of his later foibles in that he's the most sympathetic out of this gang of moronic sociopaths but he has no problem in making himself look like an utter idiot. I still giggle when I remember the scene where Mark Wahlberg is describing his idiotic plan for them to kidnap Tony Shalhoub in a pseudo military-style while the camera shows the The Rock looking utterly baffled and thinking in voice over "Danny was a MASTERMIND" while Anthony Mackey thinks "I knew Danny was making most of this poo poo up" If I remember correctly, The Rock’s character didn’t exist in the real events the movie’s covering, so that could also be why he’s a bit more sympathetic.
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Cooked Auto posted:In other news, the Minecraft movie has apparently been pushed into 2025. Remember when Mac was attached to direct it?
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muscles like this! posted:It would be nice to get a full adaptation of Akira since the anime movie is a very truncated version. There was some talk that Otomo was working with Sunrise to make a TV adaptation that would cover all of the manga. But that was back in 2019, I have no clue what’s going on with it currently.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:The house slave subplot in the books were almost excised in the film versions, hermione spent one or two books trying to start activist efforts to free house elves from slavery but everyone incl the good guys treat her as an annoying scold, it ultimately ended with the house elves going "we really enjoy being slaves so your actions are bad for us" and that one named house elf is considered an insane outlier Dobby the house elf. Even after he was freed, he basically acted like a house elf towards Harry Potter as thanks for Harry’s part in helping free him.
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well why not posted:I liked G14, K:SI and GvK. KOTM is a big step down. None hold a candle the Shin Godzilla, or the masterwork that is Pacific Rim. Pacific Rim is a big stinky dookie. Shin Godzilla is a masterpiece, though.
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muscles like this! posted:Because Anno is busy with doing the same thing with other properties. He wrote Shin Ultraman and directed Shin Kamen Rider. In America, Ultraman already got a one-night Fathom Events thing, Kamen Rider’s is coming up on May 31st.
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FlamingLiberal posted:I’m pretty sure the Mulan remake was a failure yes Wasn’t that one released during COVID with the weird Disney+ Premium thing as well? Who knows how much it made that way, and Disney’s probably not going to spill the beans on that.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The Mulan remake also tried to be faux-wuxia and came off as an incredibly bad and tone-deaf lovely knockoff of it, I've seen the final fight on youtube and it's impossibly bad. Turns out, wuxia and martial arts movies in general are hard if you don’t know what you’re doing. Hong Kong studios were able to turn out so many because they had a lot of very experienced actors, directors, choreographers, and stunt performers making them for decades and passing on knowledge from one generation to the next. Disney’s killed any semblance of that they ever had.
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galagazombie posted:“Why spend money to train and nurture talent when I can just poach it from another studio who has?” Says every studio standing in a big circle looking at the studio to their right. Except Disney largely poaches from the indie circuit and picks up directors who made one or two movies with some buzz and gives them a $200 million blockbuster so they can be pushed around by studio executives rather than make interesting creative choices.
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The MSJ posted:Ocassionally they do hire someone like Guy Ritchie or Sam Raimi but it's always far from their best work. In the case of Edgar Wright, he quit because he found Disney too demanding and couldn’t make the Ant Man movie he wanted to make.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:i dunno, considering his next project after leaving Ant Man was Baby Driver, not sure we can count on his version as having been good either. I didn’t see Baby Driver, but Last Night in Soho is baaaaaaad and really makes you question who thought any part of act three was a good idea.
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feedmyleg posted:Nah, Pilgrim reaches very high highs but bungled the ending. Hot Fuzz, however, is a perfect movie. Hot Fuzz is Wright’s best movie. Shaun of the Dead is also great, but it really can’t touch Hot Fuzz. Alan Smithee posted:how do people feel about world's end I really liked The World’s End when it was a hosed up loser trying to have one last good time with his buddies who hate his guts, but then the sci-fi stuff undercut that. Even though I’ve struggled with drinking in my life, I still thought making the climactic moment Simon Pegg yelling the film’s subtext at a computer was a pretty underwhelming way to end things. Uncle Boogeyman posted:Last Night in Soho for all its flaws still considerably better than Baby Driver yikes
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The thing that’s appalling about Last Night In Soho is that it’s obviously a movie Wright made to say “look, I’m a good guy, I understand #MeToo!” but then made the villain of his movie a victim of sex trafficking, and after seeing all the horrific sex abuse that went on in the mod scene, the main character still fuckin loves it and uses it as the inspiration for her fashion. Dreadful movie.
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Neo Rasa posted:The Lady in the Water is almost 20 years old so it's about time for a reboot or sequel with the returning cast about how it's a sequel. There are few writer/directors I’d say this for, but I’d be curious to see latter-day Shyamalan’s take on a decades-late self-referential sequel, I think he’d bring some interesting juice to that stale concept.
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feedmyleg posted:The movie is absolutely not going to make its $300m budget back, and I'm not sure how Disney ever expected it would. It’s being made by Machinegames so, maybe? The first two Wolfensteins they made were good, but The New Colossus definitely showed diminishing returns.
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I don’t often say this, but I hope DC sues his balls off.
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Tars Tarkas posted:Forgot about the fake Flaming Hot Cheetos movie but lol NOW who’s the Cheeto in Chief???
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The Secret Invasion opening looks like every other AI thing, just a bunch of ugly, vague, swirly dogshit that’s not designed to look good, it’s only designed to put artists out of their jobs.ynohtna posted:No one would care about the intro if the actual show was any good. Nah, people would still care because AI is a hot button issue in the entertainment industry right now. Protections against using AI in any writing is partially why the WGA is on strike right now.
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Warner Brothers pulling Batgirl and a Zemeckis movie for tax write-off purposes means it’s now open season on anything that “underperforms” by the nebulous standards of streaming.
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Alan Smithee posted:We need a bargain bin streaming service Isn’t this basically what Tubi is?
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Casimir Radon posted:I liked Caviezel’s acting in The Count of Monte Cristo and Person of Interest. Too bad he seems to get exponentially more insane with every passing year. He was good in Deja Vu, but he was basically playing the person he is today.
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The Borderlands movie turning out bad??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hC3uyQdQKM
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It sounds more like they’re cutting back on streaming originals like the shows because they don’t make money.
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Enos Cabell posted:Robert Zemeckis Going from the Back to the Future trilogy and the Academy Award Winning Forrest Gump to having his version of The Witches yanked off HBO Max in the first round of purges. Woof.
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:Spielberg having a couple duds in between fantastic movies isn't close to Burton's deal Spielberg is a wild answer. Sure, he’s not making grand slams like Jaws, Jurassic Park, or Schindler’s List any more, but he still turns out decent movies, not total poo poo like Alice in Wonderland.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:But I don’t think it’s because he declined or anything, he’s pretty clearly a guy who got continually hosed over by suits and just had his fill. I’d be willing to bet money that if he got a script he was super passionate about today he could probably still turn in a really solid movie. But he won’t because it’s not worth the hassle to him when he can just play video games, smoke, and do the occasional album with his son. As ehhhhhh as The Ward is, he did a good job directing it, but there was only so much he could do to salvage that boring script.
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Yup, they talk about how the Mad Hatter hasn’t done “the fudderwhacken” for years, and when he’s finally happy enough to do it, it’s just a dance that, even by terrible dancing-as-a-punchline jokes/payoffs are, is loving awful to look at.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:It's a typical buddy cop film but is interesting because the first 40 minutes of the film is straight up serious action, serious people stuff, with actions having real consequences, including an overwrought late Jackie chan film trope (which I assume is gov mandated writing) where he has to team up with an estranged daughter upset at him but will ultimately forgive him at the end despite his being an awful father. Just like his real life, except without the forgiveness.
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dr_rat posted:Haha, that's awesome. Honestly surprised him and Henry Cavill haven't done a movie together so they could just chill out talking sci-fi nerd stuff on set. Unfortunately it sounds like Diesel is a massive rear end in a top hat to work with these days, Justin Lin walked off the last Fast and Furious movie partially because he couldn’t deal with him.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I thought that was for several movies. I think $500 million was the payout for two or three movies and the rights, which were $100 million alone.
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FlamingLiberal posted:There have been so many rumored Star Wars film projects that have all kind of ended up not happening in the last several years. The only one I think definitely happens is the film that is supposed to tie in the Disney+ TV shows since that’s Dave Filoni’s project. The only thing that has more rumored film projects than Star Wars is Taika Waititi himself. I swear to god he’s attached to 6-8 projects currently.
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I would like to issue a correction on my previous post. After checking IMDB, he’s attached to 10 projects, including a TV remake of Time Bandits, a remake of the Disney Channel Original Movie Tower of Terror, and a movie called Oompa-Loompas.
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Alan Smithee posted:has Taika ever made a movie or is he just an ideas man He, a Jewish man, made a Holocaust movie that I saw multiple Jewish people say was horrendously offensive, so he made at least one.
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