Madame Web: it's really fucking bleak

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Grendels Dad: Mar 5, 2011; Popular culture has passed you by.

That sounds amazing and I need to see it

# ¿ Mar 1, 2024 19:52

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 01:37

Grendels Dad: Mar 5, 2011; Popular culture has passed you by.

Lid posted:

https://twitter.com/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN/status/1763913498382487913

Sonner or later he's just gonna post the initials of movies he saw and did not like.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2024 08:37

Grendels Dad: Mar 5, 2011; Popular culture has passed you by.

FreudianSlippers posted:

Why would actors need to know about the intricacies of which studio holds the right to which parts of which IP?

Their job is to:
a) Show up on time
b) Remember their lines
c) Act (preferably well)
d) Plug the film on talkshows and the like

Anything more than that is beyond their ken

There are a number of reasons. Like, do they want to maintain a certain image, or avoid getting typecasted? Are they interested in a multi-film deal? Are they interested in a multi-film deal that isn't, like, the Sharknado franchise?

Nobody is going to ask for a sequel to Madame Web. If you agree to star in Madame Web because you were led to believe you're getting more roles, you have been hosed over.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2024 12:23

Grendels Dad: Mar 5, 2011; Popular culture has passed you by.

Lid posted:

Also literally the week the trailer dropped Johnson fired her agent and jumped agencies.

Halloween Jack posted:

That's true. However, that's not what happened here.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2024 15:14

Grendels Dad: Mar 5, 2011; Popular culture has passed you by.

Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

There's no guarantees, yeah, but not caring about the movie/treating it as a product makes it near-certain it's going to fail.

The idea that someone could get a script with a "fun character and solid story" that they absolutely didn't give a poo poo about and make a good movie out of it...well that doesn't pass the smell test, to me personally. The "One for the Studio, One for Myself" movies are a great study on this.

But then you get someone like The Rock at Max Carelevels doing his best to push a movie that is, dedpite all his apparent efforts, a giant turd.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2024 19:23

Grendels Dad: Mar 5, 2011; Popular culture has passed you by.

CelticPredator posted:

im gonna rip my hair out.

just replace my post with whatever word or phrase you want that just means “they really wanted to make it good and enthusiastically worked hard to make it work”

So does Neil Breen.

What's being argued is how much Dakota Johnson is to blame for taking the role in Madame Web when she appears to be very pissed off about it afterwards. Some say she just needs to shut up and take her money, some seem to say her care levels weren't high enough to either make the movie good or to suss out that the movie will be poo poo before taking the role. And some say she's been screwed over by her agent or the studio or both.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2024 06:21

Grendels Dad: Mar 5, 2011; Popular culture has passed you by.

CelticPredator posted:

Niel breen is a bad example because he owns. His art is stupid and weird and unique. No one makes anything like him

But I think she had a bad agent who said this gig would do well for her career. And what happened is the studio at some point cared more about making money and decided to committee the hell out of it during production which made the film miserable to make.

Yeah I agree with all of this. There was really no need for this topic to take up five pages.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2024 06:48

Grendels Dad: Mar 5, 2011; Popular culture has passed you by.

That DICK! posted:

Her grandfather mauled the population of a small town for ten years with his own personal pride of lions without consequence, she had the clout necessary to hire an agent that would know that a sony madame web film would be a big stinker

drat, Sony created some brand synergy between Madame Web and Kraven The Raven.

# ¿ Mar 9, 2024 12:59

Grendels Dad: Mar 5, 2011; Popular culture has passed you by.

GateOfD posted:

why did the old comic book movie thread get closed anyway

New forums policy of fewer megathreads.

# ¿ Mar 17, 2024 01:01

Grendels Dad: Mar 5, 2011; Popular culture has passed you by.

Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

I would hope that nobody lets anyone's online opinion stop them from doing something in reality.

*stops typing a response about how it's important to sometimes let someone's online opinion stop them from doing som

# ¿ Mar 27, 2024 22:56

Grendels Dad: Mar 5, 2011; Popular culture has passed you by.

I hope Sydney Sweeny's career goes well and she finds a lot of success, it will make coming back to this much more interesting knowing she was ready and willing to go all in on her character and THAT is what they made of it.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2024 04:13

Grendels Dad: Mar 5, 2011; Popular culture has passed you by.

Yeah, just one 093000681 is devastating, let alone several!

# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 21:44

Grendels Dad: Mar 5, 2011; Popular culture has passed you by.

Wait wait wait

Warner Bros.

has a LOTR spin-off

about the horse vikings

as an animated feature

for a theatrical release?

lmbo

# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 01:37

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# ¿ May 12, 2024 01:37

Grendels Dad: Mar 5, 2011; Popular culture has passed you by.

I'm mostly just :psyduck:

at the concept of a theatrically released animated LotR-spin-off about the Rohanians, but it's cool thattalented people are involved.

I guess with animation it's more difficult for WB to meddle and gently caress things up.

# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 08:56

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