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Honestly I’m not sure we needed a new thread but okay. I thought Three Thousand Years of Longing was quite good actually.
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ruddiger posted:Is it just a home invasion movie with hundred acre wood masks? Typical slasher from what I hear. And they’re not masks in-story, they’re weird unexplained human animal things.
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CelticPredator posted:I don’t think Harry Potter fans want a remake Yeah, I think it's legit gonna be hard to replace the original cast in folks' minds (never mind all the other baggage this has.) And the thing is, whatever bits of the plot were changed, Hogwarts and environs *looked* pretty much as Rowling wrote them so it's not like the show's going to have a new and different aesthetic that'll be interesting to see.
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Not okay, dude
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Looking forward to a Dracula movie where I can't see a goddamn thing
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Apr 25, 2023 00:32
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Lord of War didn’t do very well, right? It’s a good film and all but I’m surprised someone thinks there’s an audience for a sequel.
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May 9, 2023 04:27
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Yeah that's the thing, who looks at this bleak nihilistic portrait of the arms trade and says "I see a franchise here"?
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May 9, 2023 08:22
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Vicky Christina Bird Box Barcelona
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May 9, 2023 18:49
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I’m sure there are still some people who are way into the imagery/lore but whether that’ll be enough, who knows.
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May 17, 2023 21:26
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What? No. Deadpool's a snarky weirdo who's aware he's in a comic book, Hellboy is a gruff but generally good-hearted guy who punches monsters.
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May 20, 2023 01:10
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Oh did they screw that up, I hadn't heard. Like I'd heard the movie in general was not very good but nothing about the main character in specific.
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May 20, 2023 01:18
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The heart attack scene still kinda puzzles me, I get the initial idea is to stop Macready blowing everything up but why then eat someone in front of everyone else? (Also who did get into the blood if neither guy who had the key was the Thing?)
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Jun 5, 2023 02:20
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Tea is not a drug
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Jun 30, 2023 04:08
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It definitely leaves a hole in the lineup.
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Jul 5, 2023 09:09
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Amazon Prime's set up is not so much cynical as incredibly lazy.
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Jul 6, 2023 09:01
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Outbreak was almost in one of these, because there was also a film being developed based on The Hot Zone, focusing on the discovery of an ebola-adjacent virus in a primate lab in Virginia- that one never got made but the original story was pretty big.
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Jul 22, 2023 19:38
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I'm pretty sure I started to hear chat from film Twitter-adjacent types about doing a Barbie/Oppenheimer double feature as soon as it was announced the two movies would open on the same date. Hell I recall tweeting something like that myself. I'm sure the studios probably did some work to pump this up but it seems like there was also a base of genuine enthusiasm. (Like it helped that movie buffs were probably interested in Oppenheimer bc Nolan, but were probably also interested in Barbie because there was so much acclaim for Greta Gerwig's last film.) I mean marketing is part of it in that Barbie was genuinely well marketed, more so than a LOT of movies these days. Like sure it has a brand people recognize but it doesn't feel like they fell back on that as readily as, say, "here's Michael Keaton saying 'I'm Batman'!"
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Jul 25, 2023 08:02
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John McTiernan went from making Predator and Die Hard and The Hunt for Red October to serving time for trying to spy on his producer for Rollerball. Action directors seem to get hit pretty hard, must be how styles change and how blockbuster filmmaking has evolved.
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Jul 26, 2023 04:39
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Shageletic posted:According to a quick google, directors can't claim a writing credit unless there are no other writers in the production. It definitely seems likely Villeneuve had a strong hand over the writing over the first one. The WGA rules are that while someone who’s just credited as a writer gets credit if they’ve written 33% or more of the “final script”, but directors need 55% or more and producers need 65% or more, presumably on the logic that they’re getting a bigger chunk of residuals anyway and they don’t need to horn in on our cut. So yeah if a director’s not credited as a writer they still can have written quite a bit of it. And yeah often times if a director is there from early on the writer(s) will be taking them into consideration, like Evan Hunter wrote for Hitchcock and was very clear that Hitch was part of the writing process.
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Aug 16, 2023 05:23
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Haven’t watched the trailer yet myself but you guys describing it as a cheesy pastiche makes me hyped honestly
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Aug 24, 2023 01:44
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Space Opera is built on ripoffs. Star Wars ripped off Flash Gordon which ripped off John Carter which ripped off, I dunno, Hercules or some poo poo but on Mars
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Aug 24, 2023 02:25
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The Keep is like seeing the daily rushes of a really neat movie, like the material is clearly there but it’s just fragments. Also the one time I saw it the sound mix was really weird, the dialogue was hard to hear.
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Sep 9, 2023 04:15
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The thing is, if you do "Superman but evil", you have something like the story that inspired the character in the first place. Siegel and Shuster (or just one of them, I forget) read a story called Gladiator, which was a then-not-atypical pulp sci-fi thing about a man getting godlike powers and becoming a dangerous megalomaniac. They were the ones who thought, "Well wait, what if someone had this power and used it for good?" Obviously stories about super-powerful bad guys still work but it's not necessarily made more interesting by giving them a cape and saying "doesn't this remind you of a certain someone we don't have the rights to"?
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Sep 14, 2023 10:10
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I mean let's be clear, it's hard to say whether any of the flaws of David Ayer's Suicide Squad can be blamed on him since the entire film was taken out of his hands and redone by the people who made the trailer. There are still parts of it that are interesting enough that you wonder what might have been.
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Oct 5, 2023 22:12
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Momoa just dresses like that normally
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Oct 10, 2023 23:28
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Yeah it sadly wouldn’t be the first time someone kicks the habit but the habit has already done its damage.
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Oct 29, 2023 04:37
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davidspackage posted:I wondered about the success of a concert movie, then read about a mom taking her young daughter and friends to see it, and realized it's a far more viable option than taking your kids to an actual concert. Not to mention tickets for the Eras tour are very expensive, and sold out INCREDIBLY early (with one presale being so botched by Ticketmaster that Congress almost got involved), so for millions of people this is the next best thing.
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Casimir Radon posted:I have nothing against Swift but I don’t care for personality cults. That was Living Colour
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Oct 31, 2023 18:28
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If it's upcoming how can it underperform? Just revise your expectations appropriately!
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Nov 2, 2023 00:44
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Have the Jim Henson workshop create animatronic muscle suits
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Nov 2, 2023 23:41
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dr_rat posted:Where does always sunny air in the US? As that is far edgier than anything ever on the office and no one ever seems to say anything about that when talking about "pc culture" and what not. It's on cable, and specifically a channel which has looser standards than the networks. (Cable channels aren't subject to FCC indecency guidelines so it's more what advertisers will accept, so they set their own internal S&P based on that.)
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Nov 10, 2023 10:34
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Hannibal also aired a lesbian sex scene but got it past the censors via a surreal kaleidoscope effect.
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FlamingLiberal posted:The Hunger Games prequel took in a pretty underwhelming $44 million at the box office this weekend domestically. That's less than half the opening weekend of the final film that game out in 2015. Honestly I didn’t see a lot of promotion for this. Like I don’t think I saw a single trailer or TV spot.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:The term for a Star Wars movie based on Seven Samurai is a Battle Beyond The Stars. A Message From Space you mean
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PotC 2 is enjoyable in the way a lot of the old serials are in that the plot is going all over the goddamn place and throwing out all sorts of things just to keep the story moving, whereas PotC 3 has to tie all that up and that's a tall loving order. and why the gently caress is it only two ships fighting at the end is this where Disney drew the budget lines or what
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It was being discussed as a merger, but I seem to recall when this first was floated both company's stock dropped, which is not the reaction Wall Street normally has to corporate mergers.
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FlamingLiberal posted:I have zero expectation that another Trek movie will get made Paramount could go back to the old (post-TMP but before JJ) ways and make a really cheap Trek movie with recycled FX footage and reused sets!
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Jan 13, 2024 03:37
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Alan Smithee posted:the war face didn't do favors for this either My God there was an ad on Roku for this forever. (Not that it's necessarily improved since then, now it's mostly ads for "BYU TV" which is Brigham Young University doing something)
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Jan 19, 2024 01:18
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GrandpaPants posted:I think the only other time I've seen Dakota Johnson is in Peanut Butter Falcon, but is she always this low energy or is it just her really not wanting to do/promote this movie? She's got a certain vibe. I do recommend the very short-lived sitcom Ben and Kate she was in, but I don't know if that's streaming anywhere. Also the Suspiria remake was good.
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Well my decision to cancel Prime is paying off
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