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Tars Tarkas posted:Saudi Arabia's first movie to screen in 35 years was The Emoji Movie
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FreudianSlippers posted:If anything E.T. was too ambitious. Spielberg suggested they make something nice and simple like Pacman but the developer, Howard Scott Warshaw, had big ideas about making the biggest most complex game Atari had ever made even with the insanely tight schedule. I remember the BBC did a feature on the E.T. game which included an interview with the developer and he said he was quite gratified to have developed both a game many people considered the worst (E.T.) and one that has been described as one of the best (Yars' Revenge).
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Jan 16, 2018 00:37
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Wheat Loaf posted:I remember the BBC did a feature on the E.T. game which included an interview with the developer and he said he was quite gratified to have developed both a game many people considered the worst (E.T.) and one that has been described as one of the best (Yars' Revenge). I have never heard of Yars' Revenge and I am pretty sure that it is significantly lesser-known than the E.T. game. 
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Jan 16, 2018 00:42
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21 Muns posted:I have never heard of Yars' Revenge and I am pretty sure that it is significantly lesser-known than the E.T. game. Me neither, but it was apparently the best-selling original title on the Atari 2600.
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Jan 16, 2018 00:44
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Neo Rasa posted:Speaking of horrifically bad 00s western films, I had the "pleasure" of getting roped into seeing this in theaters. Was this caught in some kind of production hell? I swear I saw its preview in theaters for like a year.
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Jan 16, 2018 00:47
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Yars Revenge sold a ton on account of its cover art being 100% dope as poo poo
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Jan 16, 2018 00:49
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Yars Revenge sold a ton on account of its cover art being 100% dope as poo poo Yes. 
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Jan 16, 2018 00:58
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Maybe that explains where title/cover art came from.  Saw that the first time we went into the school library in 1st grade and checked it out.
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Jan 16, 2018 01:02
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Look at these nubs who don't know what Yars' Revenge was. Yars' Revenge even came with a comic book. It was the best Atari 2600 game, even stuff like Adventure, the Empire Strikes Back game, or Kaboom! don't stack up.
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Jan 16, 2018 01:02
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Yar's Revenge had both a tie in comic book and this record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYHZKPc0z30
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Tars Tarkas posted:Look at these nubs who don't know what Yars' Revenge was. Yars' Revenge even came with a comic book. It was the best Atari 2600 game, even stuff like Adventure, the Empire Strikes Back game, or Kaboom! don't stack up. In my experience the best Atari game was DragonStomper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonstomper I think y'all should read about it because it fuckin' melted my mind that somebody put a full-on RPG (with stats, inventory, an overworld, traps, and hiring soldiers) on the Atari in 1982. It also has dope box art (not Yars Revenge calibur tho). 
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Jan 16, 2018 01:08
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Yars' Revenge ruled and I played the poo poo out of it as a kid
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Jan 16, 2018 01:26
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Who wouldn't want to be a Yar? Fuckin' nobody, that's who.
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Jan 16, 2018 01:29
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Dragonstomper looks like a blast, will have to check it out. Sadly it's not on archive.org so I'll see if I have it through other means. There was a rare game sold only door to door in Canada discovered a few years back that uses the ET sprite, they eventually made new copies of it after located a working copy (donated by the programmer) The museum site put up the rom http://www.pcmuseum.ca/story_etfollowup.asp
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Jan 16, 2018 04:58
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IIRC, Star Wars doesn't go over great in China pretty much because the nostalgia empire from the original movies just doesn't exist there, people often can't tell the difference between Star Wars and Star Trek. So not surprising that they like the most standalone and unusual of the movies and have trouble getting into the latest series of sequels that they have little to no context for. Apparently Transformers is/was quite popular in China, enough that they had a lot of coproduction with some of the Bayformers movies, and somewhere in there there is/was an unauthorised huge Optimus Prime statue.
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Jan 16, 2018 09:04
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Monster Hunt 2 will probably knock Wolf Warrior 2 out of the top spot in Chinese box office unless it turns out to be really bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zDXxWPQd7M There is also Detective Chinatown 2, The Monkey King 3, and Operation Red Sea dropping this New Year, with all of them being sequels (Red Sea is a sequel to Operation Mekong, another prior highest grossing film) I know my local theater will get Monster Hunt 2 as they are already selling tickets but I'm not sure which of the others will show up, usually I don't find out until like the day before they open, and occasionally they open two Chinese films at a time in the same theater so one only plays in the afternoon while the other at the evenings.
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Jan 16, 2018 17:18
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The solution to Something Awful money problem is find a way to get Doomhouse to premire in China, as it a new property to them and they would love it.
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Jan 16, 2018 17:57
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Rirse posted:The solution to Something Awful money problem is find a way to get Doomhouse to premire in China, as it a new property to them and they would love it. Tony Tango got a starring role in a Chinese blockbuster because he was a fat white guy with scuba experience so he got the last laugh in the end.
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Jan 16, 2018 19:35
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None of these China box office records are remotely reliable, they're all fake and pointless.
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Jan 16, 2018 19:39
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Guy Mann posted:Tony Tango got a starring role in a Chinese blockbuster because he was a fat white guy with scuba experience so he got the last laugh in the end. That film still hasn't been released lol
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Jan 16, 2018 19:52
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Phanatic posted:Who wouldn't want to be a Yar? Explore the galaxy. Eat pipes. Shoot lasers. Be your best you.
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Vegetable posted:None of these China box office records are remotely reliable, they're all fake and pointless. Was there ever an actual article or reserch or something that established this or is it still fallout from people refusing to believe Warcraft did well there? Because any time I see a credible source talking about this it's along the lines of Chinese theaters/etc. underreporting their box office so they can keep some more money from Hollywood.
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Neo Rasa posted:Was there ever an actual article or reserch or something that established this or is it still fallout from people refusing to believe Warcraft did well there? Because any time I see a credible source talking about this it's along the lines of Chinese theaters/etc. underreporting their box office so they can keep some more money from Hollywood. That's right http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-mpaa-audit-china-box-office20171003-story.html There was actually an audit which found that US films released there were underreported by about 9%. I have to assume any talk about the numbers being 100% fake and pointless is from someone talking 100% out of their rear end
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Jan 16, 2018 22:56
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Wheat Loaf posted:Best original superhero movie: Darkman. The Incredibles
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Jan 16, 2018 23:09
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Tars Tarkas posted:Monster Hunt 2 will probably knock Wolf Warrior 2 out of the top spot in Chinese box office unless it turns out to be really bad. Operation Mekong is my surprise legit good movie of 2017. it's absolutely chinese propoganda but the action is really well done (and almost F&F ridiculous), i've shown it to at least 5 skeptical people and they were hooked as soon as the first action setpiece was done
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21 Muns posted:I have never heard of Yars' Revenge and I am pretty sure that it is significantly lesser-known than the E.T. game. Well everyone knows about ET because of the landfill thing (and probably also because of Seanbaby who I think really started the "ET worst game" trope). But Yars Revenge did indeed own a lot and was one of my favorite 2600 games, and honestly I could think of quite a few games that were worse than ET. raditts fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Jan 17, 2018 |
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Wandle Cax posted:That's right Also I'm not surprised if they underreport the box office of Hollywood films, but it's well known that distributors inflate the ticket sales of Chinese films to create the impression of a hit movie: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/china-punishes-326-cinemas-box-office-fraud-988205 http://www.indiewire.com/2017/06/china-box-office-fraud-mpaa-phony-ticket-sales-film-industry-1201847763/ http://www.scmp.com/news/china/money-wealth/article/1937434/blockbuster-monster-hunts-box-office-takings-more-reel-real
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literally no statistics that come out of china are credible.
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TetsuoTW posted:literally no statistics are credible.
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Vegetable posted:Are you reading what you're writing? In the same breath you've given an example of blatant box-office fraud and dismissed its existence. Underreporting and overreporting are both number-rigging, you know. I did not dismiss the existence of fraud, only the claim it's all 100% made up which you have helpfully provided some additional evidence that that's not the case. It seems that inflation or under reporting (which is now well known to occur by the authorities and action is being taken against it) can affect a film's gross by roughly about 10%. Maybe you have some other proof that the numbers are all 100% made up but I doubt that's what happens.
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Shageletic posted:There's been some great sci literature coming out of there recently, I've heard great things about the Three Body Problem. man...u gotta get some1 to help pick avatars for you or somethin smh always a mess
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Jan 17, 2018 06:37
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Wandle Cax posted:I did not dismiss the existence of fraud, only the claim it's all 100% made up which you have helpfully provided some additional evidence that that's not the case. It seems that inflation or under reporting (which is now well known to occur by the authorities and action is being taken against it) can affect a film's gross by roughly about 10%. Maybe you have some other proof that the numbers are all 100% made up but I doubt that's what happens.
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Jan 17, 2018 06:41
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All numbers are lies. Think about it, have you ever actually seen a number? Touched a number? Didn't think so.
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Hat Thoughts posted:man...u gotta get some1 to help pick avatars for you or somethin smh always a mess haha I think that's the point
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feedmyleg posted:All numbers are lies. Think about it, have you ever actually seen a number? Touched a number? Didn't think so.
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feedmyleg posted:All numbers are lies. Think about it, have you ever actually seen a number? Touched a number? Didn't think so. 
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[jazz sax intensifies]
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TetsuoTW posted:literally no statistics that come out of china are credible. What else do we really have to go on, though? It's either assume those statistics have at least a grain of truth, or just completely take wild guesses at what's going on.
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I saw that movie on an aeroplane. I don't know if it's the first time I watched a movie and thought "This is a bad movie" (ordinarily, I enjoy most movies when I see them, then come to dislike them after the fact) but only because I don't remember if I saw it before or after The Golden Compass.
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Remember that new Kickboxer sequel that no one saw, let alone barely heard about? It's got a sequel! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5208950...e&ref_=hm_cs_t4
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