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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
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DJExile posted:It's North Korea in the remake They originally filmed it as China but then changed stuff around in post to make it North Korea.
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# ? Nov 12, 2012 12:56 |
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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!"
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# ? Nov 12, 2012 13:19 |
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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?” drat.
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# ? Nov 12, 2012 15:41 |
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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.
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# ? Nov 12, 2012 16:54 |
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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
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# ? Nov 12, 2012 17:43 |
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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.
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# ? Nov 12, 2012 21:27 |
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drat you apples to apples and drat your sexy Abe Lincoln and drat that glamorous big foot.
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# ? Nov 12, 2012 21:34 |
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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.
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# ? Nov 12, 2012 21:40 |
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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.
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# ? Nov 12, 2012 21:50 |
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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?
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# ? Nov 12, 2012 22:18 |
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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.
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# ? Nov 12, 2012 22:30 |
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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.
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# ? Nov 12, 2012 22:38 |
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Either you or I have to adjust our settings because her hair looked plenty red to me.
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# ? Nov 12, 2012 23:04 |
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"Yes, yes grounded to the ground!!" God, shut up.
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# ? Nov 13, 2012 04:03 |
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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.
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# ? Nov 13, 2012 05:04 |
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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.
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# ? Nov 13, 2012 05:26 |
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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.
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# ? Nov 13, 2012 06:05 |
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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. Commercials usually don't bother me that much, but this one is excruciating for me.
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# ? Nov 13, 2012 06:12 |
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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.
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# ? Nov 14, 2012 00:31 |
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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.
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# ? Nov 14, 2012 00:36 |
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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.
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# ? Nov 14, 2012 01:09 |
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Gonna give a preemptive gently caress you to Lexus for their giant bow Christmas car commercials
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# ? Nov 14, 2012 01:26 |
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ElwoodCuse posted:Gonna give a preemptive gently caress you to Lexus for their giant bow Christmas car commercials And the Gap girls:
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# ? Nov 14, 2012 02:07 |
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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.
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# ? Nov 14, 2012 02:50 |
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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"?
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# ? Nov 14, 2012 03:00 |
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Mister Kingdom posted:And the Gap girls: Why would you do this?
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# ? Nov 14, 2012 03:02 |
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Rhyno posted:Why would you do this? I think it was on a dare.
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# ? Nov 14, 2012 03:08 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:"Yes, yes grounded to the ground!!" 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
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# ? Nov 14, 2012 03:15 |
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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."
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# ? Nov 14, 2012 04:07 |
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DrBouvenstein posted:Don't play Apples to Apples, play Cards Against Humanity instead. 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.
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# ? Nov 14, 2012 11:18 |
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RaspberryCommie posted:But cards against humanity takes all the fun out of the game. 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.
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# ? Nov 14, 2012 15:12 |
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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." The Mandarin is such a ridiculous holdover from when poo poo like that was totally acceptable in comics.
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# ? Nov 14, 2012 15:24 |
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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!
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# ? Nov 14, 2012 16:57 |
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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!!
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# ? Nov 14, 2012 19:28 |
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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!! God they're grating.
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# ? Nov 14, 2012 21:10 |
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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.
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# ? Nov 14, 2012 21:28 |
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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.
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# ? Nov 14, 2012 23:42 |
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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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# ? Nov 15, 2012 03:01 |
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QuickbreathFinisher posted:"One, Two, Kalamazoo. Three, Four, Jersey Shore. Five, Six, West Phoenix." The commercial flat out lies. There's no cell towers at the Jersey Shore.
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