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My Lovely Horse posted:I just realized they're breaking lent for it. I don't remember if the movie gave a year but in 2015 International Women's Day was on a Sunday
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but hey, I don't know all this religious dates stuff off hand.
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mycot posted:Isn't Iron Man 3 one of those films that really blew up in China?
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3 DONG HORSE posted:I don't remember if the movie gave a year but in 2015 International Women's Day was on a Sunday That doesn't matter, since Lent starts on Ash Wednesday and lasts until Easter Sunday. I don't remember Sunday being an "exempt" day growing up in a Catholic household.
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flosofl posted:That doesn't matter, since Lent starts on Ash Wednesday and lasts until Easter Sunday. I don't remember Sunday being an "exempt" day growing up in a Catholic household. Sunday is an exempt day because it's a day of celebration. Sundays are skipped when you count the 40 days. e: I grew up Catholic, too, and I always thought that was lame. 3 DONG HORSE fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Mar 13, 2016 |
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Dang Iron Man 3 only big in China cos of the Chinese shoe ins that even ppl in HK didn't get to see
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3 DONG HORSE posted:Sunday is an exempt day because it's a day of celebration. Sundays are skipped when you count the 40 days. e: I grew up Catholic, too, and I always thought that was lame.  I think I just stumbled upon a perfidious plot that was perpetrated by my parents to stop us from having candy/cookies. EDIT: Can't. Stop. The. Alliteration. Proteus Jones fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Mar 13, 2016 |
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flosofl posted:
Haha, mine did that too until my brothers and I figured out the loophole around the early teen years.
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I think me and my family are worst Catholics. All I remember is not eating beef and pork during Fridays and going to church on the last Sunday. I'm currently still the worst Catholic. 
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:Also, that graph doesn't have 1989 Batman on it and that was twice as much of a return as Dead Pool. Batman 1989's production budget was $35m and it's worldwide box office gross was $411m, Deadpool's budget was $58m and it's current worldwide cume is $708. Using the graph's formula for calculating studio revenue (55% of North American + 40% gross international) then Deadpool currently has a multiplier of 5.7 and Batman 1989 had a multiplier of 5.77. Of course Deadpool is still in theatres so it's going to overtake Batman 1989 at some point in the next few weeks. (Note that if you adjust Batman 1989's worldwide box office of $411 for inflation and ticket prices you get $896m. It got the 4th highest domestic box office (adjusted for inflation) after Spider-Man '02, The Dark Knight and The Avengers.) Edit: holy hell, the 1990 TMNT film had a budget of $13.5m and a worldwide box office of $201m so it had a multiplier of 7.49. 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Edit: holy hell, the 1990 TMNT film had a budget of $13.5m and a worldwide box office of $201m so it had a multiplier of 7.49. And yet they keep going further away from what made that one good! 
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Light Gun Man posted:And yet they keep going further away from what made that one good! I've done big effortposts in the past about the 90s Turtles films, it turns out that their efforts to repeat the winning formula of "Just hire a bunch of unknown actors, writers and director, it's a dumb kids movie who gives a poo poo" from the first film and then adding a bunch of studio interference on top of that didn't work out so well. Seriously, go through the imdb.com cast & crew list and click on the names and see what everyone did before they all came together to create one of the most financially successful films of all times, it's loving crazy. The guy inside the Donatello suit had never worked in film or TV before and his official imdb.com profile photo is a squirrel in a park somewhere.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I've done big effortposts in the past about the 90s Turtles films, it turns out that their efforts to repeat the winning formula of "Just hire a bunch of unknown actors, writers and director, it's a dumb kids movie who gives a poo poo" from the first film and then adding a bunch of studio interference on top of that didn't work out so well. As a TMNT fan I like to claim a large part of it's success is actually being pretty close to the comics
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I've done big effortposts in the past about the 90s Turtles films, it turns out that their efforts to repeat the winning formula of "Just hire a bunch of unknown actors, writers and director, it's a dumb kids movie who gives a poo poo" from the first film and then adding a bunch of studio interference on top of that didn't work out so well. Are you suggesting that a squirrel couldn't operate the Donatello suit?
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duz posted:Are you suggesting that a squirrel couldn't operate the Donatello suit? Squirrels are actually fairly competent martial artists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai6yQvlZRvY
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kiimo posted:and why Sony keeps desperately trying to keep Spiderman relevant. Gwenpool movie incoming. God, I'd love to see the lawyer slapfight over that character.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Squirrels are actually fairly competent martial artists Squirrel Girl movie confirmed. Also, there's almost no reason why the first TMNT should be so good, but there it is.
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Just got back from seeing this and it was pretty hilarious and fun. Like many in this thread, I thought the trailer made it look formulaic and horrible and was not interested in seeing it at all until virtually everyone I know told me it was really good and I should see it. I have no idea how studios generate such pedestrian trailers out of movies that really have a lot of great jokes and action in them.
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SaviourX posted:Squirrel Girl movie confirmed. The original? The filmmakers aimed at the audience of the underground comics, IE nerdy weird adults. When it became a big hit with kids they changed a lot to make the sequel more kid-friendly. The same thing happened with ghostbusters - in between movies they all (mostly) quit smoking, for example. In TMNT the violence and tone got turned way down for the second movie. I remember thinking the original was actually kind of scary when I was a kid.
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Full Battle Rattle posted:In TMNT the violence and tone got turned way down for the second movie "So hey, we want you guys to make another TMNT movie ...." "Great!!" "Except the studio isn't keen on the whole 'ninja' aspect. Is there some way we can ditch all the violent weaponry?" "Well what do you want them to fight with, yoyos and deli meats??" "Eyyyyy, that's the ticket!!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jaIBUQ-ds4 Edit: what the gently caress happened in the background at 1:10 with the three thugs chasing Michelangelo? It looks like they dogpile themselves while Mikey just stands there and watches.
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The old (first) cartoon is the same way. Europe demanded Mikey lose his weapon, so he switched to a grappling hook. Raphael and Leonardo start off (what at least seems like) almost every goddamn fight by immediately throwing their weapons at something, like some barrels or such, to knock some foot solider over or whatever. They then proceed to do the rest of the fight with gymnastics and found objects. Donatello uses his bo primarily for non-combat actions. Repeat for most of the show. There's a good joke about it in Turtles Forever, where they need to get stronger weapons and the old cartoon TMNT respond by getting garbage cans because those are the biggest things they can lift and throw! 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Edit: what the gently caress happened in the background at 1:10 with the three thugs chasing Michelangelo? It looks like they dogpile themselves while Mikey just stands there and watches. That'a exactly what happens and I love it.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:"So hey, we want you guys to make another TMNT movie ...."
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Donatello looks like something out of Fast Nights At Freddy's there. e: pop culture mixup invents an interesting concept.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:"So hey, we want you guys to make another TMNT movie ...." I expected to re-watch this and hate it, but I didn't.
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Actually rewatched deadpool with a buddy who hadn't seen it. It's not as good the second time around obviously. The origin story does sorta drag a bit. But the rest is still grade A good. Buddy loved it. Surprisingly there were like twenty people in the theater. It's been more then a month.
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If you feel like rewatching the title sequence Art of the Title has you covered: http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/deadpool/ Also features an interview with Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Mar 22, 2016 |
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Affi posted:Actually rewatched deadpool with a buddy who hadn't seen it. It's not as good the second time around obviously. The origin story does sorta drag a bit. But the rest is still grade A good. I thought it was better the second time 
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Mierenneuker posted:If you feel like rewatching the title sequence Art of the Title has you covered: I want to see the opening "Marvel" title because as it flips through 5 comic book pages in a second, you can see a flash of a dialogue bubble, and it isn't in the other Marvel tags in the other movies. i think. Anyway, i want to know what the dialogue bubble says. I think it may be Deadpool talking to us.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I've done big effortposts in the past about the 90s Turtles films, it turns out that their efforts to repeat the winning formula of "Just hire a bunch of unknown actors, writers and director, it's a dumb kids movie who gives a poo poo" from the first film and then adding a bunch of studio interference on top of that didn't work out so well. Holy poo poo, Kevin Clash (Elmo) voiced Splinter?! 
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Affi posted:Actually rewatched deadpool with a buddy who hadn't seen it. It's not as good the second time around obviously. The origin story does sorta drag a bit. But the rest is still grade A good. Saw it today at 5:30 and there were a solid 12-20 people in the only theater in a moderately sized town (20k people). I'd certainly call that more staying power than most movies. Still some big laughs from the audience too. Edit: There was definitely a couple sitting in front of me too, so Deadpool remains a good date movie a month+ in. kiimo posted:That graph tells you all you need to know if you ask why WB keeps making Batman movies and why Sony keeps desperately trying to keep Spiderman relevant. Yeah, if I had a franchise that could consistently get me a 50% ROI or better I would want to milk the hell out of it. We're pretty lucky that Marvel and Sony were able to work out a deal to allow Spider-man in the "main" MCU considering Sony could keep cranking out Spider-man movies and making virtually guaranteed profits, I think only the broader spin-off movies in the spider-universe they were hoping to build stood a real chance of losing money, it'd take a spectacularly bad Spider-man movie on Sony's part to get down to even money or worse. NowonSA fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Mar 23, 2016 |
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True, but Sony also knows that a Spiderman movie from the Marvel juggernaut in the Avengers universe could stand to shoot profits up to Spiderman 1 levels, which is presumably why they approved it. Even after Marvel's cut of the profits, it's a good deal.
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Yeah, Amazing Spider-Man 2 had a reported budget of $255 million but only got a domestic box office of $203 million so ASP3 got cancelled, Andrew Garfield got dumped and the planned spinoff movies Venom, Sinister Six and 'Untitled female-led Spider-Man project' got shelved. It turns out that the IP wasn't a licence to print money after all. Of course in the wake of the MCU Spider-man deal and the generally positive reaction to the appearance of the new Spider-man in the latest MCU trailer Sony have announced that the Venom film is back in production, except now it's a standalone film which won't feature Spider-man at all.
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MikeJF posted:And after the latest calamity... have there been any rumours about Fox reaching out to Marvel for the same deal on Fantastic Four? It seems like it'd be the smartest thing to do with that property.
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It's sad that ASP2 was so badly done that it killed that train as I thought Garfield did a real solid Ultimate Spidey/Peter Parker and the suit in ASP2 was the best spidey suit we've gotten. I'd buy that thing to wear as a halloween costume it looked so good. But I was glad to see that they added the moving eyes from Deadpool's effects to the new spidey costume. That was easily my favorite thing visually they developed that I love. It really makes it feel even more like the comics. The Notorious ZSB fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Mar 23, 2016 |
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The Notorious ZSB posted:It's sad that ASP2 was so badly done that it killed that train as I thought Garfield did a real solid Ultimate Spidey/Peter Parker and the suit in ASP2 was the best spidey suit we've gotten. I'd buy that thing to wear as a halloween costume it looked so good. Oh yeah, for all of the flaws that Amazing Spiderman 2 had Andrew Garfield wasn't one of them. I really hope he doesn't have much trouble finding work in the future because he's a legit good actor. Maybe he could play a mutant in Deadpool 2 and hang out with Colossus and NTW?
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GORDON posted:I want to see the opening "Marvel" title because as it flips through 5 comic book pages in a second, you can see a flash of a dialogue bubble, and it isn't in the other Marvel tags in the other movies. Unless I'm mistaken, I remember that in the older Marvel movies (when they were made by Universal,Fox and Sony only) the flipping pages would be related with the leading character(s). Nowadays it seems to be the same art. :/ It's a shame, it used to be a nice easter egg.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Oh yeah, for all of the flaws that Amazing Spiderman 2 had Andrew Garfield wasn't one of them. I really hope he doesn't have much trouble finding work in the future because he's a legit good actor. He's landed on his feet, he's got starring roles in two films coming out this year: Silence (directed by Martin Scorsese, co-starring Adam Driver and Liam Neeson) and Hacksaw Ridge (directed by Mel Gibson) about "the first Conscientious Objector in American history to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor" which is the Oscar-buzziest thing I've heard of in a while. On the other hand Marc Webb (director of Amazing Spider-Man and Amazing Spider-Man 2) went back to producing/directing TV shows these last few years and has only just gotten back into film direction. He's got a film called Gifted about a man fighting for custody of his niece starring Chris Evans coming out later this year, I'd be surprised if the budget was a tenth of either of the Amazing Spider-Man films.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:He's landed on his feet, he's got starring roles in two films coming out this year: Silence (directed by Martin Scorsese, co-starring Adam Driver and Liam Neeson) and Hacksaw Ridge (directed by Mel Gibson) about "the first Conscientious Objector in American history to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor" which is the Oscar-buzziest thing I've heard of in a while. Hacksaw Ridge is also Mel Gibson directing a movie in which people are killed. He seems to be really good at that.
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