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Tars Tarkas posted:Ready Player One posted a bunch of horrific monstrosities of posters which fits in with the horrific monstrosity that is the book Hmm yes good job reminding people of much better movies they could be watching instead Also like how the original characters the main guy's replacing conveyed more personality and emotion in the posters than everything we've seen him in so far
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Tars Tarkas posted:Ready Player One posted a bunch of horrific monstrosities of posters which fits in with the horrific monstrosity that is the book The execution on these is poor but more importantly those characters suck. I mean I get what they're going for but these feel like they're all from a sheet with a bunch of iterative designs and these are the lamest ones out of like thirty. Put 'em back in the oven they're not done yet.
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Mar 6, 2018 23:51
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porfiria posted:The execution on these is poor but more importantly those characters suck. I mean I get what they're going for but these feel like they're all from a sheet with a bunch of iterative designs and these are the lamest ones out of like thirty. Put 'em back in the oven they're not done yet. The “characters” in the posters are actually the main characters’ cyberspace avatars. The main characters are high schoolers. Therefore, their mediocre designs might be intentionally kind of terrible. Think about what your AIM avatar was in high school.
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Mar 6, 2018 23:54
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lelandjs posted:The “characters” in the posters are actually the main characters’ cyberspace avatars. The main characters are high schoolers. Therefore, their mediocre designs might be intentionally kind of terrible. Think about what your AIM avatar was in high school. true, but that still doesn't make for a good poster to catch the attention of people who don't already know that about rp1
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Mar 6, 2018 23:57
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Bullitt sticks out a bit in that line-up. RPO is a love letter to the pop culture of the 80s (and, of course, Kevin Smith) so the movie from 1968 is the oddball homage.
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Mar 7, 2018 00:00
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Wheat Loaf posted:Bullitt sticks out a bit in that line-up. RPO is a love letter to the pop culture of the 80s (and, of course, Kevin Smith) so the movie from 1968 is the oddball homage. The Matrix, classic 80s movie? (The Iron Giant too.)
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Mar 7, 2018 00:03
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Wheat Loaf posted:Bullitt sticks out a bit in that line-up. RPO is a love letter to the pop culture of the 80s (and, of course, Kevin Smith) so the movie from 1968 is the oddball homage. I’m almost certain it’ll just be the Bullitt mustang showing up in that race sequence. Having read the book, I’m not sure I’ve ever wanted a movie to fail more than RP1.
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Mar 7, 2018 00:03
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Shaft v Bullitt: Birth of the Cool (1972) probably would've been a fun movie.
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Mar 7, 2018 00:11
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lelandjs posted:The “characters” in the posters are actually the main characters’ cyberspace avatars. The main characters are high schoolers. Therefore, their mediocre designs might be intentionally kind of terrible. Think about what your AIM avatar was in high school. My problem with that is that teen-designed characters are usually wonderfully, bombastically absurd. They're the kind of people who unironically create sparkledog fursonas and snarling mega-badasses that hold a billion gunswords. What kind of kid would be "I can be anything at all you say? Thank god, now I can be the lumpy bored-looking grey man I've always wanted to be". Those designs suck because they're not even bad, they're boring as sin.
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Mar 7, 2018 00:20
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Jesus Christ is that what the main characters are going to look like for the entire movie? Jesus gently caress they are awful, they're loving awful holy moly, Jesus Christ
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Mar 7, 2018 00:57
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A good movie can be made out of a bad book
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Mar 7, 2018 01:09
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Wandle Cax posted:A good movie can be made out of a bad book Sure, but the trailer so far looks like garbage and the posters aren't changing my opinion on that.
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Mar 7, 2018 01:19
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Al Borland Corp. posted:He seems to often do a Rock bottom in movies and tweaks the eyebrow in a lot of them. Yeah I'm pretty sure that this shot was in every Jumanji 2 trailer: 
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Mar 7, 2018 01:21
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Wheat Loaf posted:Bullitt sticks out a bit in that line-up. RPO is a love letter to the pop culture of the 80s (and, of course, Kevin Smith) so the movie from 1968 is the oddball homage. The climax of the novel is the main character reciting 1975's Monty Python and the Holy Grail word for word from memory after beating up Mechagodzilla from 1974's Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla, even Cline couldn't give a poo poo about sticking to 80s pop culture.
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Mar 7, 2018 01:21
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it wouldn't be the first time speilberg made a good movie out of a bad book and you honestly wouldn't need to change that much of the story to change it to the obvious to everyone but ernest cline conclusion that a future with everyone obsessed about long gone pop culture no one was even alive for because it's what one dead rich guy was into is terrible i'm still not exactly getting my hopes up that it'll be any good, but it's not an impossibility
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Mar 7, 2018 01:25
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lelandjs posted:The “characters” in the posters are actually the main characters’ cyberspace avatars. The main characters are high schoolers. Therefore, their mediocre designs might be intentionally kind of terrible. Think about what your AIM avatar was in high school. Bro Badass Buddy was the poo poo. You shut your dirty whore mouth. Len is away
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Mar 7, 2018 01:27
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ynohtna posted:Does The Rock have any iconic lines or catchphrases? Yes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6JzC8RGecw
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Mar 7, 2018 01:28
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Brother Entropy posted:it wouldn't be the first time speilberg made a good movie out of a bad book and you honestly wouldn't need to change that much of the story to change it to the obvious to everyone but ernest cline conclusion that a future with everyone obsessed about long gone pop culture no one was even alive for because it's what one dead rich guy was into is terrible I agree, Paul Verhoeven's Ready Player One is good.
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Mar 7, 2018 01:38
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The real answer is that Bullitt is also a Warner Bros film and they're desperately trying to mine every recognizable pop culture image they can from their own back catalogue rather than pay to license other studios' iconography.
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Mar 7, 2018 01:53
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ynohtna posted:Does The Rock have any iconic lines or catchphrases? https://youtu.be/_0IexZXHyCE
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Guy Mann posted:The real answer is that Bullitt is also a Warner Bros film and they're desperately trying to mine every recognizable pop culture image they can from their own back catalogue rather than pay to license other studios' iconography. Yeah there's a ton, a loving ton of star wars imagery and concepts in the book and the mouse ain't letting that go for cheap
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Mar 7, 2018 02:01
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A lot of Joss Whedon stuff in the book too which they're probably glad right now they (apparently) didn't try to stick into the movie.
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Mar 7, 2018 02:05
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I always think to like, the scene on the beach where he's super anxious/nervous...just a fun man to watch
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Mar 7, 2018 02:18
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Al Borland Corp. posted:He seems to often do a Rock bottom in movies and tweaks the eyebrow in a lot of them. Snowglobe of Doom posted:Yeah I'm pretty sure that this shot was in every Jumanji 2 trailer: I got confused and now i can't help but look at this image thinking of the Rock as a power bottom being encouraging to his top
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Mar 7, 2018 02:44
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Also it was a thing where Ernest Cline and his stupid friends all had lovely avatars that looked like them minus a few differences because they were all dirt poor
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Mar 7, 2018 02:56
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Chairman Capone posted:A lot of Joss Whedon stuff in the book too which they're probably glad right now they (apparently) didn't try to stick into the movie. Was he involved in something recently? Or is this just general Joss sucks rear end?
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Mar 7, 2018 03:03
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Leavemywife posted:Was he involved in something recently? Or is this just general Joss sucks rear end? Coercing young actresses into sex with promises of prominent roles in his movies.
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Mar 7, 2018 03:07
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Calaveron posted:Coercing young actresses into sex with promises of prominent roles in his movies. And then bragging about it to his wife blaming those irresistible young harlots.
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Mar 7, 2018 03:12
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I'm honestly not that surprised to hear that.
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Mar 7, 2018 03:26
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Calaveron posted:Coercing young actresses into sex with promises of prominent roles in his movies. Not sure where you got this. What came out was that he had cheated on his wife many times over the years. If there was claims of coercion I missed that. The worst part was he claimed to his wife that he was surrounded by aggressive women throwing themselves at him and he succumbed, which is an eye rolling defense for his infidelity. Terrible behavior but not exactly a Polanski is it.
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Mar 7, 2018 03:36
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Wandle Cax posted:Not sure where you got this. What came out was that he had cheated on his wife many times over the years. If there was claims of coercion I missed that. The worst part was he claimed to his wife that he was surrounded by aggressive women throwing themselves at him and he succumbed, which is an eye rolling defense for his infidelity. Terrible behavior but not exactly a Polanski is it. Motherfucker looks like a Conehead Ron Howard, you think he'd be pulling tail with the crowd he stuffs his projects with if he wasn't running said shows
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Mar 7, 2018 03:49
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Tars Tarkas posted:Embarrassing bullshit Spielberg... can still make good stuff, right? Because with the possible exception of Lincoln, his output over the past ten years has been outright dire. And really Lincoln was just really decent-to-good, bolstered by some truly great performances. Edit: I mean, don't get me wrong, Spielberg is... Spielberg. But between this and the BFG, his big effects movies have been really rough lately. Tin-Tin was... okay? Tart Kitty fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Mar 7, 2018 |
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Mar 7, 2018 04:06
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Tin-tin was fantastic and so was Lincoln.
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Mar 7, 2018 05:00
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Lincoln was good, but again I think a lot of that had to do with the performances. I actually don't remember much about Tin-Tin, which is kind of of notable for me when it comes to Spielberg. Maybe I'll have to give it a rewatch sometime in the next couple of months.
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Mar 7, 2018 05:04
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I liked Tintin, but I also went in with zero expectations. It drags a little in the middle but it’s a decent flick.
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Mar 7, 2018 05:06
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GrandpaPants posted:I agree, Paul Verhoeven's Ready Player One is good. gently caress you for making me imagine how great that movie would be.
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Mar 7, 2018 05:07
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Fart City posted:Lincoln was good, but again I think a lot of that had to do with the performances. I actually don't remember much about Tin-Tin, which is kind of of notable for me when it comes to Spielberg. Maybe I'll have to give it a rewatch sometime in the next couple of months. Bridge of Spies is good, and I like War Horse but I get why people don't. I think Lincoln is the only great movie he's made this decade, but he's also someone who has made all-timers in every decade going back to the '70s. I don't mind him dropping off a bit, quality-wise.
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https://twitter.com/electrolemon/status/971208968323280896
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Mar 7, 2018 05:09
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gently caress you for not going with this theme song, Spielberg.
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In the book the girl character Art3mis is described as having an avatar with a "rubenesque" figure so they somehow managed to find a way to make those character designs even more generic by slimming her down for the movie.
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