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muscles like this! posted:I believe it had the opposite issue where the production was incredibly rushed because they wanted it out in less than a year. From all accounts Ratner spent most of the time with his hands down his pants while the A.D.s and other on-set keys directed 90% of the film. He would show up on set, clap his hands and ask "Alright! What are we shooting today?".
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ruddiger posted:Maybe they'll tastefully change it to two giant Michael Keaton's squeezing a lone WTC Tower. I would like that.
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Dillbag posted:From all accounts Ratner spent most of the time with his hands down his pants while the A.D.s and other on-set keys directed 90% of the film. He would show up on set, clap his hands and ask "Alright! What are we shooting today?". It's wild that the X-Men series is dogged with directors who either don't do anything when they're on set or won't show up to set. I feel like journeyman directors who will just do work shouldn't be too hard to find.
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ruddiger posted:Maybe they'll tastefully change it to two giant Michael Keaton's squeezing a lone WTC Tower. Do this for the Multiplicity cover.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Logan is proof that the silliness of a premise doesn't actually matter, as long as you execute it well. Dredd 2012 is another example of this. Also, Blade; specifically the world building in the first one. They're both shot like stylized, hard-R dystopia movies way more than comic book ones.
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IMHO the first 10 minutes of Blade is still the best 10 minutes of any superhero movie to date. It's a shame Wesley turned out to be such a fuckin' tool. He could have had a huge career resurgence when Marvel reacquired the rights in 2013, but he was too busy being blacklisted for lovely behaviour and sitting in jail for tax evasion. A friend of mine worked in post on one of his eastern European shitters a long time ago and told me that when the production contractually obligated him to do some reshoots he did all his lines in a Jerry Lewis impression so that the dailies were unusable. A good egg all around.
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Dillbag posted:IMHO the first 10 minutes of Blade is still the best 10 minutes of any superhero movie to date. It's a shame Wesley turned out to be such a fuckin' tool. He could have had a huge career resurgence when Marvel reacquired the rights in 2013, but he was too busy being blacklisted for lovely behaviour and sitting in jail for tax evasion. You're fooling yourself if you think they would have made an R Blade with Snipes 5 years into the MCU. Dillbag posted:A friend of mine worked in post on one of his eastern European shitters a long time ago and told me that when the production contractually obligated him to do some reshoots he did all his lines in a Jerry Lewis impression so that the dailies were unusable. A good egg all around. What is even more hosed up is how Marvel shamelessly pretended The Blade films didn't exist when they were marketing Black Panther as the first comic book movie with a black lead because he had a falling out with David Goyer during Blade: Trinity. They probably also didn't want to remind people that Marvel once made good movies.
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Slutitution posted:You're fooling yourself if you think they would have made an R Blade with Snipes 5 years into the MCU. Oh for sure, I have no expectation that Marvel would have ever released an R rated anything, but he certainly could have shown up in any number of the MCU movies or TV series.
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Dillbag posted:From all accounts Ratner spent most of the time with his hands down his pants while the A.D.s and other on-set keys directed 90% of the film. He would show up on set, clap his hands and ask "Alright! What are we shooting today?". quote:(at around 1h 15 mins) Time of day during the final battle sequence. The first pan over the bridge from southeast looking north, is clearly midday as the shadow of the bridge is almost directly underneath it. When Magneto first walks onto the Golden Gate bridge it is close to sunset, and the shadowing is very inconsistent, sometimes sharp from direct sunlight, sometimes not. By the time they move the bridge and drops it onto the island, and lowers himself to the bridge, and all the mutants move forward, it is suddenly dark. In the DVD commentary, everyone acknowledges it, but says "Hopefully you're into the movie enough..." The whole battle is then shown as taking place in the dark.
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Dillbag posted:From all accounts Ratner spent most of the time with his hands down his pants while the A.D.s and other on-set keys directed 90% of the film. He would show up on set, clap his hands and ask "Alright! What are we shooting today?". That, plus abusing Erin Page, like outing her in front of the entire cast and crew because she had the utter temerity to exist while being a closeted lesbian, while sexually harassing and assaulting every woman within 50 paces of him. Dillbag posted:IMHO the first 10 minutes of Blade is still the best 10 minutes of any superhero movie to date. It's a shame Wesley turned out to be such a fuckin' tool. He could have had a huge career resurgence when Marvel reacquired the rights in 2013, but he was too busy being blacklisted for lovely behaviour and sitting in jail for tax evasion. He was more than just a tool, he actively went out of his way to sabotage the film. I remember hearing about how Goyer had to CGI Wesley Snipes' eyes at the end because he... just wouldn't open them. Even if he hadn't been arrested and imprisoned for tax evasion, his lovely behaviour probably would've seen him booted anyway. Dillbag posted:A friend of mine worked in post on one of his eastern European shitters a long time ago and told me that when the production contractually obligated him to do some reshoots he did all his lines in a Jerry Lewis impression so that the dailies were unusable. A good egg all around. As if you don't want to see that. edogawa rando fucked around with this message at 07:10 on Mar 2, 2019 |
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Dillbag posted:Oh for sure, I have no expectation that Marvel would have ever released an R rated anything, but he certainly could have shown up in any number of the MCU movies or TV series. The tone and style of the first Blade is pretty consistent with the Netflix shows, or at least with Daredevil S1. But seeing as those shows took a nosedive in quality before being shuttered entirely, Marvel clearly wasn’t committed to expanding that scope. But they definitely veered R-rated on occasion. It’s not impossible, just unlikely.
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Slutitution posted:You're fooling yourself if you think they would have made an R Blade with Snipes 5 years into the MCU. I mean, they let the Netflix shows be hosed up as hell, and Deadpool's staying R after the Fox buyout. I think, if they decided to use Blade at all, they'd make it R, for the same reasons as Deadpool (everyone knows the R version and it would be really obvious bad PR to tone it down). Snipes is more of an unknown quantity; ordinarily, there's no way they'd cast him, but he's closely associated enough with the character that he literally refers to himself in the third person as Blade on Twitter to raucous applause, and he's probably cheap.
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Nobody is ever gonna put serious money into a production where Snipes is the star again, I really just don't see it happening. The legend of his behavior on Blade III has only grown as the years have gone by. It would be cool if they remade Blade with him as like a Whistler character though.
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Patton Oswalt has talked about Blade Trinity in interviews. It's hilarious stuff ranging from Snipes only communicating with Goyer via post-it notes, to Snipes and his crew hiding in their trailers after Goyer showed up on set one morning with a bunch of Hells Angels they had met at a strip bar the night before acting as Goyer's "bodyguards" (which was apparently after Snipes had become physical with Goyer and was trying to get him to quit). I totally forgot about Ratner outing Ellen Page in front of the crew, what a piece of poo poo. It bothers me that he's still able to make a killing with his RatPac production group when he should be working in an Amazon warehouse or pumping gas for a living.
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muscles like this! posted:I believe it had the opposite issue where the production was incredibly rushed because they wanted it out in less than a year. It was this. When Singer left to go make a Superman movie, Tom Rothman basically made it his life's purpose to get X-Men 3 done and out before Superman Returns in an attempt to, I guess, prove that they didn't need him (as it turns out, they didn't, when you consider all the better X-Men movies are from other people), and so to hell with working out scheduling and finding locations to shoot within a reasonable budget, they just threw money at everything to get it done. Which, when you're basically just rolling up on a property owner and saying "we need this place in a month, how much would it cost", meant a lot of people cashed in on this. It's why like, Return of the Jedi was BLUE HARVEST during production or why The Dark Knight was RORY'S FIRST KISS - obscuring that you're making a Star Wars movie or a Batman movie, even a little bit, might mean you get a reasonable price since no one's going to recognize a location scout and the accompanying folks who are going to work the negotiation out, and the director/producers aren't going to be making the deal directly with the owner. And then add in money to hire like thirty FX houses to try to get all the digital work - which was as varied as de-aging Stewart and McKellan to doing a few dozen different mutant powers ranging from wings to... face spikes?... to moving the Golden Gate Bridge so it connected to Alcatraz through magnetism - done in a ridiculously tight post schedule, and, well, you get what we got. Meanwhile, Singer still had an office on the Fox lot and both before and after SR was there to exec produce House. Rothman was basically pissed at a guy who was actively making the studio a lot of money, just in the other format. There's a story that when Singer went to Rothman and said "so I'm backing out of X3 to go to make a Superman movie", Rothman had security escort him off the lot. Singer went and got a coffee nearby, and came back for his scheduled meeting to continue developing House. It's one of the dumbest Hollywood things I remember seeing play out in real time last decade. Both movies ended up getting destroyed that summer anyway by Gigantic Piece of poo poo Movie, Dead Man's Chest, which I think was Disney's first non-inflation-adjusted billion grosser? And then two years later the MCU started with Iron Man and The Batman Movie That's Like Heat came out and the X-Men movies that had come out up to that point (minus a good 75% of X2) all looked really, really dumb and cheesy. In the end, Rothman won, since now he's at Sony with a big contract as head of production with the sole goal to straighten the ship out after the Pascal/Lynton era, and hey - Sony just got a statue for Spider-Verse (plus a billion grosser in Jumanji 2... as counter-programming to a Star Wars movie! Which is a little ironic since Rothman was first President and then Chairman/CEO at Fox while the prequels were in production, although Lucas made those 100% independently like he did Empire and Jedi and all Fox did was go "thank you, George" and paid for prints and advertising), while Singer is now persona non grata and I wouldn't be surprised if he leaves the country to avoid getting viciously hammered by the law for the amount of underage rape he did.
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Just saw Greta (which is a lot of fun), took another look at the poster and realized what a hilarious job it's doing at age-washing Isabelle Huppert. Huppert in the movie:  Lower face in the poster: 
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Teenage Fansub posted:Just saw Greta (which is a lot of fun), took another look at the poster and realized what a hilarious job it's doing at age-washing Isabelle Huppert. It’s clearly going for a painted look. Look at the rest of the poster and the other actress.
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Sure, but it's still very deliberate. You have to put work in to shave off thirty years.
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I don't like his face. It's all scrunched and inexpressive and it feels too obvious that it's not real.
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Waffleman_ posted:I don't like his face. It's all scrunched and inexpressive and it feels too obvious that it's not real. It's taken me a while to come around on it. Perlman, of course, was great but I think this version has its merits. After all, if you want something exactly like the old movies, just go watch those, blah blah.
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He looks like tommy wiseau. The hair ruins it. If he had the tied back hairdo it might be aight
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The new Hellboy is almost at Lady Ghostbusters levels of pre-release anti-hype
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What else is there to Mignola beyond Hellboy and that Amazing Screw-On Head pilot?
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Inspector Gesicht posted:What else is there to Mignola beyond Hellboy and that Amazing Screw-On Head pilot? Hellboy is a pretty big comic book universe. Which makes the new Hellboy movie an even worse choice. They should've done a BPRD or Lobster Johnson movie, and done a Hellboy cameo at the end. People would've gone crazy
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BPRD would be a great TV series. Monster of the week stuff with the Plague of Frogs/Hell on Earth meta-arc.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:What else is there to Mignola beyond Hellboy and that Amazing Screw-On Head pilot? He actually has done a lot of animation work doing character designs and such.
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muscles like this! posted:He actually has done a lot of animation work doing character designs and such. Most notably Disney’s Atlantis, iirc
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FoneBone posted:Most notably Disney’s Atlantis, iirc Now that's a movie those guys should be remaking. Give it a second chance for success.
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Waffleman_ posted:I don't like his face. It's all scrunched and inexpressive and it feels too obvious that it's not real. The thing that really sucks about it is that they've robbed Harbour of all of his emotive capabilities, and he's a great physical actor.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:What else is there to Mignola beyond Hellboy and that Amazing Screw-On Head pilot?
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Inspector Gesicht posted:What else is there to Mignola beyond Hellboy and that Amazing Screw-On Head pilot? Batman: Gotham by Gaslight and How Doom Came to Gotham among other things.
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Amazing Screw-On Head is just the greatest if only for this bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHLw2lyLnA8
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TheManWithNoName posted:BPRD would be a great TV series. Monster of the week stuff with the Plague of Frogs/Hell on Earth meta-arc. I would looove that, BPRD is more fun than Hellboy because it has a lot more character interplay. The way this movie is shaping up though, fat chance.
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Wait, whoa, what the gently caress, Hellboy's a Neil Marshall joint!? Okay, I'm in day loving one, even if there's no Perlman
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CelticPredator posted:That was the only thing that gave it hope, but the trailers killed that really hard. I dunno, I wasn't on board with the greenband trailers but the redband kinda turned it around for me. It definitely has the same tone going on as something like Dog Soldiers or Doomsday; Marshall's pretty clearly in his wheelhouse with this.
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