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Dillbag posted:Awesome (loving retarded) video game derail, bros! At first glance I thought the train was giant communist robot and that that dude was standing on its chest.
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I don't know what that movie is about either, but I know I want to see it.
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Mar 19, 2012 04:49
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I don't think you're that far off, actually. As I understand it, it's going to be a dark comedy/thriller/action film set in post-war Siberia, with people exiled by Stalin trying to survive on a train they've commandeered, or something along those lines. The trailer's pretty cryptic, but what I've read about it makes it sound pretty interesting.
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Mar 19, 2012 04:52
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What's the name of the movie in English? Because I don't know any Russian.
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Mar 19, 2012 05:06
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Desperado Bones posted:What's the name of the movie in English? Because I don't know any Russian. The Cyrillic is "Krai," but I don't know if that means anything or if it's a proper noun. The bit above the title just says "in theaters September 23"
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Mar 19, 2012 05:07
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It means "edge" or "border".
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Mar 19, 2012 05:15
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Thank you! That kinda explains the poster, and I love the slightly propagandist style.
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Mar 19, 2012 05:43
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The Triumphant posted:The Cyrillic is "Krai," but I don't know if that means anything or if it's a proper noun. The bit above the title just says "in theaters September 23"
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Mar 19, 2012 05:59
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It is a great poster. Sadly, the summary on IMDb makes no mention of soviet supermen or atomic powered locomotives.
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Mar 19, 2012 06:05
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Red posted:Well, I'm on Letterboxd.com, and it's awesome - but it's apparent I'd have to create such a wallpaper myself, unless... ? Yeah I used my films list, and just cropped a bunch of screenshots together in paint.net. Like I said, I had time to kill  E: Oh, and I need more people to follow, so if you're on the site, add me (Same username as here). victorious fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Mar 19, 2012 |
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Mar 19, 2012 07:43
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I was hoping it was the Russian version of Atlas Shrugged. I am kind of sad that it isn't.
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Lizard Combatant posted:It is a great poster. I saw it and all I could think of was this: 
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The badly translated synopsis at imdb makes me want to see this even more than the poster does.IMDB posted:The action takes place shortly after the end of the Second World War in the Siberian hinterland, among Russians and Germans with damaged personal stories and a strange transformation: the victors seem to be crawling into the skins of the defeated, and vice versa. Ignat, is the embodiment of the larger-than-life image of the Soviet victorious warrior who, in fact, proves to be shell-shocked, sick and broken, although not completely destroyed. Trains become fetish for the heroes of the film, and speed becomes a mania; they virtually become one with their steam engines, while the machines take on human names. The heroes set up an almost fatal race in the Siberian forest, risking their own lives and those of others.
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Mar 19, 2012 10:24
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Wow, that sounds kinda good actually.
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Holy poo poo, that sounds so completely absurd that it becomes awesome in its own right.
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Mar 19, 2012 15:17
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The Fast and the Furious: Siberian Drift.
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victorious posted:Yeah I used my films list, and just cropped a bunch of screenshots together in paint.net. Like I said, I had time to kill Done! Once the site goes full-on, you should make a thread for the site.
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victorious posted:Yeah I used my films list, and just cropped a bunch of screenshots together in paint.net. Like I said, I had time to kill 
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Wolfsheim posted:It was in the early teasers, actually. quote:if spider man was only real and couldve saved all those people inside the world trade center
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Mar 19, 2012 17:45
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But then why would Doctor Doom cry?
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bobkatt013 posted:But then why would Doctor Doom cry? Because of RICHAAAAAAAAARDS!...?
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TheJoker138 posted:Because of RICHAAAAAAAAARDS!...? Richards cause him to raise his fist in the air. The Twin Towers being destroyed makes him cry
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bobkatt013 posted:Richards cause him to raise his fist in the air. The Twin Towers being destroyed makes him cry What if Richards destroyed the Twin Towers? Possibly by launching it into space, just to add insult to injury?
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TheJoker138 posted:What if Richards destroyed the Twin Towers? Possibly by launching it into space, just to add insult to injury? Cry first raise fist second, also on one knee
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It wouldn't really have mattered if Spider-Man saved people from the World Trade Center. J. Jonah Jameson would still hate the guy.
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So there's this. From IMDB: “After losing his son to a tragic accident, Clayton Elie’s [Diamond Dallas Page] life was destroyed by alcohol abuse and violence that ended his marriage. When he moves to the small Midwestern town of Black River in an attempt to begin again, he finds himself at the center of a series of murders that echo a long dormant secret from the town’s past. After several sleepless nights that lead to a long night of heavy drinking and a subsequent blackout, Clayton awakens the next morning to find his neighbor and her small child brutally murdered and the murder weapon inside his apartment. When he is forced to hide the evidence by the untimely arrival of an FBI profiler, Clayton’s life rapidly deteriorates into a storm of violence, murder and small town intrigue. Is Clayton a cold-blooded killer, or the victim of a malevolent force that has descended upon the town of Black River?” I don't....I don't know. It took me a little bit to realize Hulk Hogan is holding a gun and its not a shadow from off poster. Also, I'm still not 100% sure it is a gun and not a shadow from off poster.
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Lobok posted:It wouldn't really have mattered if Spider-Man saved people from the World Trade Center. Because he's black.
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oldpainless posted:From IMDB: This sounds interesting but then you have Hulk Hogan and a guy named Diamond Dallas Page as the lead actors and there's probably a screenwriter somewhere who's really upset about this situation.
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1stGear posted:This sounds interesting but then you have Hulk Hogan and a guy named Diamond Dallas Page as the lead actors and there's probably a screenwriter somewhere who's really upset about this situation. DDP is also a pro wrestler from the WCW days.
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Red posted:Done! Once the site goes full-on, you should make a thread for the site. Thanks, yeah I was going to do one already but the creators don't want screenshots posted before the site comes out of beta. It's getting pretty popular though, I shouldn't think it'll be too long before it opens fully.
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I think all of you are familiar with "Die Hard", and you probably know that Bruce Willis was on a sitcom called "Moonlighting" around the time that "Die Hard" came out in 1988. Now imagine you're a marketing guy at Fox that same year. This trailer plays in theaters a few months before "Die Hard"'s coveted summer release date and it gets a lot of bad laughs, because suddenly the goofy guy from that sitcom is a wisecracking action hero. The poster draws similar responses. Not only is it exacerbating the problem by prominently featuring Willis, it's also really, really dull. A cop, a skyline. That's it. How exciting.:  Time for some damage control. The movie is coming out soon. It cost a lot of goddamn money, and your marketing department needs to work overtime to make the public want to see this movie. You've got a poster with less emphasis on the star, an indication that not only is this an action movie, it's a big action movie:  Better. Much better. But that's still not quite enough, so the marketing department decides to run one of the film's TV ads -an ad with no dialogue and a lot of fast cuts, explosions, and a promise that the movie will 'blow you through the back wall of the theater' (cribbed from a review "Aliens" got just two years ago)- as a trailer just weeks before the opening. It worked! You've got the attention of the moviegoing public. But… they're still not crazy about Willis. So you run this visually-striking ad without Willis' name in newspapers for the first two weeks of release:  Additionally, you do a limited 70mm engagement of the film five days before it's release date to build up word-of-mouth. And guess what, it works!
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Origami Dali posted:The badly translated synopsis at imdb makes me want to see this even more than the poster does. This synopsis is probably mostly metaphor and analysis, but I want to believe that it's literally about transhumanist Russian supermen melding with their trains and battling against body-snatchers.
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Robert Denby posted:Die Hard goodness I wonder what people thought of the title "Die Hard" as well. It came out when I was a kid so I don't know a time when Die Hard didn't exist, but the title has always seemed ridiculous to me on its own. Like someone trying to do a parody of the most bad-rear end, 70/80s vigilante or cop flicks.
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Even as a young 'un, I thought Die Hard was a silly title when I saw it at the library so I was surprised when it was loving awesome. I also thought an anthology action movie sounded really dumb. I was an idiot and the library had the '40 STORIES OF SHEER ADVENTURE!' cover.
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Lobok posted:I wonder what people thought of the title "Die Hard" as well. It came out when I was a kid so I don't know a time when Die Hard didn't exist, but the title has always seemed ridiculous to me on its own. Like someone trying to do a parody of the most bad-rear end, 70/80s vigilante or cop flicks. The phrase "Die Hard" existed long before the film came out. I think it dates back at least a couple hundred years.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:The phrase "Die Hard" existed long before the film came out. I think it dates back at least a couple hundred years. I remember being entirely confused why they would name a film after a car battery. When I first saw it I kept waiting for the battery part, I mean until it started to get awesome and I forgot about it.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:The phrase "Die Hard" existed long before the film came out. I think it dates back at least a couple hundred years. It's an old phrase (I know it more from "old habits...") but in the context it seems silly. It doesn't seem any different than the row upon row of cheesy action movies you'd see in a rental store, or any of a million of the potboiler novels in a book store.
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Lobok posted:It's an old phrase (I know it more from "old habits...") but in the context it seems silly. It doesn't seem any different than the row upon row of cheesy action movies you'd see in a rental store, or any of a million of the potboiler novels in a book store. Once something is popular (and good, mind), the stupidity of it's name no longer matters.
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That's why I was wondering what people thought of the title before they knew the movie was good.
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Lobok posted:That's why I was wondering what people thought of the title before they knew the movie was good. He was very typecast in the Dave-and-Maddie role. But Die Hard turned out to kick all kinds of rear end, and now people have a hard time thinking of Bruce Willis as anything but an action hero. [Edit] I imagine far more people thought "Live Free or Die Hard" was a stupid name. And that was after it was an established franchise.
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