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DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


4000 Dollar Suit posted:

The trailer for the Red Dawn remake is fuckin awful, you got this movie about soviets invading the US and a bunch of ppl grabbing guns and wasting them, and the music they pick is like the most pussy, least hardcore song in existence. It's like they don't want the proper demographic watching their movie.

It's North Korea in the remake :eng101:

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muscles like this!
Jan 17, 2005


DJExile posted:

It's North Korea in the remake :eng101:

They originally filmed it as China but then changed stuff around in post to make it North Korea.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


muscles like this? posted:

They originally filmed it as China but then changed stuff around in post to make it North Korea.

Ha, did they really? That's ballsy of them. "poo poo OK let's not piss off the Chinese... Wait! I've got it!"

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


This is really worth reading. Business Insider had an article about a famed advertising art director out of New Zealand (Linds Redding) who passed away in October from inoperable esophageal cancer. When he was diagnosed, he kept a blog reflecting on his business, putting life in perspective, etc.

quote:

It turns out I didn’t actually like my old life nearly as much as I thought I did. I know this now because I occasionally catch up with my old colleagues and work-mates. They fall over each other to enthusiastically show me the latest project they’re working on. Ask my opinion. Proudly show off their technical prowess (which is not inconsiderable.) I find myself glazing over but politely listen as they brag about who’s had the least sleep and the most takeaway food. “I haven’t seen my wife since January, I can’t feel my legs any more and I think I have scurvy but another three weeks and we’ll be done. It’s got to be done by then The client’s going on holiday. What do I think?”

What do I think?

I think you’re all loving mad. Deranged. So disengaged from reality it’s not even funny. It’s a loving TV commercial. Nobody gives a poo poo.

This has come as quite a shock I can tell you. I think, I’ve come to the conclusion that the whole thing was a bit of a con. A scam. An elaborate hoax.

Countless late nights and weekends, holidays, birthdays, school recitals and anniversary dinners were willingly sacrificed at the altar of some intangible but infinitely worthy higher cause. It would all be worth it in the long run…

This was the con. Convincing myself that there was nowhere I’d rather be was just a coping mechanism. I can see that now. It wasn't really important. Or of any consequence at all really. How could it be. We were just shifting product. Our product, and the clients. Just meeting the quota. Feeding the beast as I called it on my more cynical days.

So was it worth it?

Well of course not. It turns out it was just advertising. There was no higher calling.

drat.

Vicas
Dec 9, 2009

Sweet tricks, mom.

DJExile posted:

Ha, did they really? That's ballsy of them. "poo poo OK let's not piss off the Chinese... Wait! I've got it!"

I may be misremembering, but I believe a Chinese company bought the rights to the movie after the original backers went belly up in production. Making it even better. This movie gonna own.

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


Vicas posted:

I may be misremembering, but I believe a Chinese company bought the rights to the movie after the original backers went belly up in production. Making it even better. This movie gonna own.

ahahaha please be true

piratepilates
Mar 28, 2004

So I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it.



If you want a movie to do well in the Chinese market (you very much do, there's a lot of people in China and they're quickly getting money to spend) then you generally have to make your movie not piss off the Chinese government or give them a reason to bury it in China, such as basing your movie off of a scenario where evil Chinese reds are invading the wholesome United States, or probably anything involving Tiananmen Square/Student Revolution.

Darth Freddy
Feb 6, 2007

An Emperor's slightest dislike is transmitted to those who serve him, and there it is amplified into rage.
drat you apples to apples and drat your sexy Abe Lincoln and drat that glamorous big foot.

Vicas
Dec 9, 2009

Sweet tricks, mom.

DJExile posted:

ahahaha please be true

wikipedia posted:

In March 2011, the Los Angeles Times reported that MGM changed the villains in its Red Dawn remake from Chinese to North Korean in order to maintain access to China's lucrative box office. The changes reportedly cost less than $1 million and involve changing an opening sequence summarizing the story's fictional backdrop, re-editing two scenes and using digital technology to transform many Chinese symbols to Korean. The film's producer Trip Vinson stated, "We were initially very reluctant to make any changes, but after careful consideration we constructed a way to make a scarier, smarter and more dangerous Red Dawn that we believe improves the movie".[16]

Okay so I was a little off since MGM didn't sell it but they seriously changed the whole antagonist after the movie was shot, so it will still own.

muscles like this!
Jan 17, 2005


The really crazy thing about movie studios kowtowing to the Chinese is that even if you don't have anything in the movie that the Chinese government would find offense you still might not get released there. As they only allow something like a dozen foreign movies to officially come out there each year. So the whole thing is a crapshoot.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

muscles like this? posted:

Apparently Wendy's commercials do a pretty good job of opening doors as the Wendy's girl had a small part in the latest episode of Boardwalk Empire.

Who was she in BE?

muscles like this!
Jan 17, 2005


zoux posted:

Who was she in BE?

She had a tiny part in the scene at the Legion Hall. She was the girl telling her date that he was mean for teasing Harrow about dancing.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

muscles like this? posted:

She had a tiny part in the scene at the Legion Hall. She was the girl telling her date that he was mean for teasing Harrow about dancing.

Ah. The lack of red hair threw me off.

Tree Dude
May 26, 2012

AND MY SONG IS...
Either you or I have to adjust our settings because her hair looked plenty red to me.

DrBouvenstein
Feb 28, 2007

I think I'm a doctor, but that doesn't make me a doctor. This fancy avatar does.
"Yes, yes grounded to the ground!!"

God, shut up.

Alaois
Feb 7, 2012

Vicas posted:

I may be misremembering, but I believe a Chinese company bought the rights to the movie after the original backers went belly up in production. Making it even better. This movie gonna own.

Drawing yet more parallels to the game Homefront, which also changed its Asian-Communist bad guys from China to North Korea to not offend the Chinese market. It's also plainly obvious because all the flags are still solid red, instead of blue and red like the North Korean flag should be.

Ape Has Killed Ape
Sep 15, 2005

When I saw the trailer before Looper, I could have sworn that it was China invading. Bright red flag and everything. Incidentally, why is the movie still called Red Dawn, North Korea isn't communist anymore. The movie should be Juche Dawn.

Farbtoner
May 17, 2011

by Y Kant Ozma Post

Ape Has Killed Ape posted:

When I saw the trailer before Looper, I could have sworn that it was China invading. Bright red flag and everything. Incidentally, why is the movie still called Red Dawn, North Korea isn't communist anymore. The movie should be Juche Dawn.

Funny you mention Looper, because the entire reason that China is the lone super-power in the movie's future is because it was one of the conditions of the film's Chinese backers. The entire joke about him learning French was a reference to the fact that before that he was going to flee to France instead.

40-Degree Day
Sep 24, 2012


keevo posted:

Has anyone posted the T-Mobile commercial with the girl riding the motorcycle? I hate that jingle/song, I hate the effects they put on her voice, and I hate how often I keep hearing this on TV.

fake edit: here it is - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0eML7aphSc

Commercials usually don't bother me that much, but this one is excruciating for me.

Parachute
May 18, 2003
raditts (I think it was you), it looks like they updated that "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" Hershey's kiss/Christmas tree commercial they have been playing for the past 30 years.

raditts
Feb 21, 2001

The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.


Did they? I saw that commercial just the other day and I couldn't tell whether it was the original or an accurate remake.

Darth Freddy posted:

drat you apples to apples and drat your sexy Abe Lincoln and drat that glamorous big foot.

That commercial makes me wish I had friends that lived nearby to play Apples to Apples with, so I feel like it serves its purpose.

DrBouvenstein
Feb 28, 2007

I think I'm a doctor, but that doesn't make me a doctor. This fancy avatar does.

raditts posted:

That commercial makes me wish I had friends that lived nearby to play Apples to Apples with, so I feel like it serves its purpose.

Don't play Apples to Apples, play Cards Against Humanity instead.


Actually, play Apples to Apples once, then switch to CAH for comparison purposes.

ElwoodCuse
Jan 11, 2004

we're puttin' the band back together
Gonna give a preemptive gently caress you to Lexus for their giant bow Christmas car commercials

Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

ElwoodCuse posted:

Gonna give a preemptive gently caress you to Lexus for their giant bow Christmas car commercials

And the Gap girls:



Beeb
Jun 29, 2003

Good hunter, free us from this waking nightmare

Hey Jimmy and Ronny. Could you do me a big favor and jump up your own asses and die?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mREXE2JxQo

That'd be fantastic.

Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmx4twCK3_I

How many parts do you think they found that woman in after her date with the "French model"?

Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

Mister Kingdom posted:

And the Gap girls:





Why would you do this?

Mister Kingdom
Dec 14, 2005

And the tears that fall
On the city wall
Will fade away
With the rays of morning light

Rhyno posted:

Why would you do this?

I think it was on a dare.

B-Rock452
Jan 6, 2005
:justflu:

DrBouvenstein posted:

"Yes, yes grounded to the ground!!"

God, shut up.

I hate that commercial so much. Is that Penn from Penn and Teller who screams that part? Because my eye starts twitching everytime I hear that

Timby
Dec 23, 2006

Your mother!

muscles like this? posted:

The really crazy thing about movie studios kowtowing to the Chinese is that even if you don't have anything in the movie that the Chinese government would find offense you still might not get released there. As they only allow something like a dozen foreign movies to officially come out there each year. So the whole thing is a crapshoot.

I'm still amazed that Iron Man 3, which had a considerable amount of its financing provided from China, is starring Ben Kingsley as a villain named "Mandarin." :stare:

RaspberryCommie
May 3, 2008

Stop! My penis can only get so erect.

DrBouvenstein posted:

Don't play Apples to Apples, play Cards Against Humanity instead.


Actually, play Apples to Apples once, then switch to CAH for comparison purposes.

But cards against humanity takes all the fun out of the game.

90% of the fun is taking the more innocent Apples to Apples cards and making something raunchy or bad out of them. If the cards already have that stuff on them, then it's not as fun.

Thwomp
Apr 10, 2003

BA-DUHHH

Grimey Drawer

RaspberryCommie posted:

But cards against humanity takes all the fun out of the game.

90% of the fun is taking the more innocent Apples to Apples cards and making something raunchy or bad out of them. If the cards already have that stuff on them, then it's not as fun.

I find that there's not enough opportunity to really turn Apples to Apples into something raunchy. It does happen (and when it does, its amazing) but Cards Against Humanity just takes it to a whole other level.

Buzkashi
Feb 4, 2003
College Slice

Timby posted:

I'm still amazed that Iron Man 3, which had a considerable amount of its financing provided from China, is starring Ben Kingsley as a villain named "Mandarin." :stare:

The Mandarin is such a ridiculous holdover from when poo poo like that was totally acceptable in comics.

404GoonNotFound
Aug 6, 2006

The McRib is back!?!?

Buzkashi posted:

The Mandarin is such a ridiculous holdover from when poo poo like that was totally acceptable in comics.

This is why I want to see a Wonder Woman movie. Egg Fu on the big screen!

mwells_cubed
Aug 7, 2003

WOW
Subway continues to expand their wacky and hilarious "office workers talking like children" campaign. Boy, I dunno about you guys, but I really want a steak melt now!! :downs:

DJExile
Jun 28, 2007


mwells_cubed posted:

Subway continues to expand their wacky and hilarious "office workers talking like children" campaign. Boy, I dunno about you guys, but I really want a steak melt now!! :downs:

God they're grating.

Tree Dude
May 26, 2012

AND MY SONG IS...
One thing I find amusing about those Subway commercials is that I've heard one or two of them on the radio which have the same dialogue but without the children's voices.

...!
Oct 5, 2003


Eldarion'd again!
The newest commercial to grate on me is the Special K Popcorn Chips. The visuals are stupid, the song's grating... argh. And then at the end they say, "Find them in the cracker aisle!" OK, so a product that you're calling "popcorn chips" are neither popcorn nor chips; they're crackers? Ugh.

QuickbreathFinisher
Sep 28, 2008

by reading this post you have agreed to form a gay socialist micronation.
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"One, Two, Kalamazoo. Three, Four, Jersey Shore. Five, Six, West Phoenix."

I hate everything about you, T-mobile. I hate you. Stupid commercial. Your coverage sucks.

Why do you only cover the west part of Phoenix.

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Rhyno
Mar 22, 2003
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

QuickbreathFinisher posted:

"One, Two, Kalamazoo. Three, Four, Jersey Shore. Five, Six, West Phoenix."

I hate everything about you, T-mobile. I hate you. Stupid commercial. Your coverage sucks.

Why do you only cover the west part of Phoenix.

The commercial flat out lies. There's no cell towers at the Jersey Shore. :v:

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