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Feb 15, 2020 17:53
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Probably going to make better money than Detective Pikachu, considering it's not trying to compete with freaking Endgame.
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Feb 15, 2020 17:59
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I'm sure all those overworked CG artists will be seeing a nice bonus from that.
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Feb 15, 2020 18:09
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feedmyleg posted:I'm sure all those overworked CG artists will be seeing a nice bonus from that. The VFX studio that did the redesign closed down around christmas. lomzus fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Feb 15, 2020 |
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Feb 15, 2020 18:32
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lomzus posted:The VFX studio that did the resign closed down around christmas. I'm pretty sure that's the joke. I still want to hear what was going on with the original design and who thought that was a good idea. Maybe they got the idea from the Werehog.
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Feb 15, 2020 18:33
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Yup. They need a union loving stat.
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Feb 15, 2020 19:52
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I'm pretty sure that's the joke. I'm guessing some exec forced them to make the design "realistic" over their screaming protests about how terrible it would look, and then that same exec ordered them to "fix" the mistake he forced them to make.
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Feb 15, 2020 20:30
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tfw sonic makes more money than godzilla
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Feb 15, 2020 22:56
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Is it gonna make more money than Birds of Prey?
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Feb 15, 2020 22:59
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^its opening day did 60% better
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Feb 15, 2020 23:02
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The Peccadillo posted:Who did they recast as Villechaize? Michael Pena is both Mr. Rourke and Tattoo.
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Feb 15, 2020 23:26
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Gatts posted:Is it gonna make more money than Birds of Prey? I saw a double feature last night: Sonic and Birds of Prey. I know there's no way I can alter the numbers, but when you compare them can you please mentally remove the cost of one ticket from BoP and add it to Sonic? I don't want my money counted towards the BoP numbers, but I got some genuine laughs out of Sonic. BoP? Bad movie. Not even a fun bad. Just bad bad.
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Feb 16, 2020 00:03
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Young Freud posted:Michael Pena is both Mr. Rourke and Tattoo. Should have cast Benedict Cumberbatch.
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Feb 16, 2020 00:07
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Sonic can suck the poo poo out of my rear end in a top hat (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Feb 16, 2020 00:14
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IshmaelZarkov posted:BoP? Bad movie. Not even a fun bad. Just bad bad. I just got out of seeing it for the second time and you're an insane person Like, unless you just utterly cannot stand Robbie as Harley or get thrown off by the anachronic order (which admittedly did make it a little hard to follow the first time), I can't think of anything to dislike
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Feb 16, 2020 00:19
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I just got out of seeing it for the second time and you're an insane person It’s unfocused and self-consciously zany. Most of the first act could have been excised from the movie without losing anything. I like the actors involved and the movie has its individual moments but BoP is “okay” at best.
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Feb 16, 2020 01:14
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I just got out of seeing it for the second time and you're an insane person
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Feb 16, 2020 01:43
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I just got out of seeing it for the second time and you're an insane person It's not the anachronic order that's hard to follow, it's that it's papering over lazy writing. Like, Harley will say, "Oh, wait, I forgot to tell you how Dinah is now working with Renee, let me re-wind to show you how that happened." And then we're shown how it happened, and it's just Renee saying, "You need to help me," and Dinah is all like "Nah, cops suck," and Renee is like, "Yeah, but not me," and then somewhere along the line in a way that still isn't actually portrayed, Dinah is like, "Yeah, sure, why not?" In a certain light, yes, these turns of events are hard to follow, but it's not a function of structure. It's a function of what's already there in the film not actually being substantial in and of itself in terms of making the convergence of these five distinct narratives feel motivated. What we get is all primarily expository, and even then, the expositional justification for how characters behave is (deliberately) thin. It's a tale as old as time: How the crazy clown lady gets into this clusterfuck situation isn't something that requires a "background" on literally everyone in the supporting cast. Having Harley be there to literally mute the chaotic spectacle by explaining what's going on is a lot less interesting than, like, having Harley being caught up in a bunch of chaos, and being like, "Who the gently caress are all these people?"
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Feb 16, 2020 02:39
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I just got out of seeing it for the second time and you're an insane person Legit, if you liked it, I am happy for you. Robbie was... fine? The storytelling order I kinda liked? Ewan McGregor was fun? But everything else? The whole 'Canary doesn't user her powers' thing needed to be dropped or given more than a line of 'My mum worked with the cops and then died'. Mary Elizabeth Winstead could have filmed all her stuff over two days, and wasting MEW in a film should be an executable offence. Cassandra Cain as a boppy pickpocket was not exactly what I was hoping to see from a character who's usualy best described as being composed entirely out of murder. The action had a couple of bits that were fun, but was otherwise nothing we haven't seen done before and better. Zsasz dropping his 'I saved a space for you' thing on Harley, rather than that being his whole Bats thing. Also, cmon, just shave Zsasz. We all love Anthony Carrigan, so at least pretend to be a bit more like that. The third act team up where they had guns on each other one moment then thirty seconds later they're working as a well-oiled machine just felt rushed, which given how much the film dragged was a surprise. But the reall kicker for me? The Birds of Prey not really being in the movie. They show the team up practically as a post-credits thing. The BoP aren't a thing in their own film. It's a Harley vehicle, and if they replaced Canary, Montoya, and Huntress with any three other characters it wouldn't have made a drat bit of difference to the plot. Just call it the Fantabumous Emancipation of Harley Quinn! That's all it is, and that's such a goddamn waste of potential. I'm glad you got something out of it, cause I love loving movies, but I genuinely hated this film.
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Feb 16, 2020 03:36
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So is Sonic actually good or is there just nothing out for kids movies on a long weekend?
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Feb 16, 2020 04:14
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Most reviews seems to indicate that Sonic is the 'okay' movie, that is mostly a vehicle for Jim Carrey to be gloriously Riddler/Ace Ventura zany again. One review I heard says that it's the kind of movie you will love as a kid but probably more meh about it later as an adult. And probably love again after that once it gets mined for memes.
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Feb 16, 2020 04:23
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HannibalBarca posted:tfw sonic makes more money than godzilla Avatar/post combo. Also cue the arguments that Sonic is a kaiju
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Feb 16, 2020 04:39
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I liked Birds of Prey, but the whole time watching it, it felt like a DC takeoff of Deadpool with a charming lead, but without the writing to really make use of her talents.
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Feb 16, 2020 05:12
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Leavemywife posted:I liked Birds of Prey, but the whole time watching it, it felt like a DC takeoff of Deadpool with a charming lead, but without the writing to really make use of her talents. this post kinda got me thinking and... honestly, BoP doesn't really feel that similar to Deadpool to me. if anything, it reminds me a lot more of Punisher: War Zone. the way the movie handles Harley herself is pretty clearly riffing on Deadpool, but everything else about the tone and aesthetics of the movie feels way more inspired by P:WZ, just with a more overtly goofy protagonist swapped in. you've got the incredibly neon-heavy visuals coupled with over-the-top violence (though not quite so much as in War Zone), the villains who are simultaneously grimy as gently caress and over-the-top hammy enough to be successfully comedic, the tone that constantly bounces across the spectrum between po-faced grit and complete absurdity... if Yan wasn't heavily inspired by Alexander's work I'd be tempted to eat a hat. Winstead's performance as Huntress even kind of feels like a slightly more jokey genderswap of Stevenson's performance as Castle at times. and that's probably a lot of why I liked it as much as I did, because Punisher: War Zone is probably one of the greatest comic book movies of all time, and i can't possibly get mad at a movie that's giving me "Punisher: War Zone, But DC" even if it's got some janky elements and weird politics. e: and honestly, i can't really disagree that a lot of the movie's plotting is kind of janky. it kind of feels like a movie that's primarily focused on being entertaining at any particular moment, without a lot of thought given to how those moments gel into a cohesive whole. but that also kind of works for it, i feel like. it's structured as Harley telling the audience the story- not just in the sense that it has narration, but in how it orders and depicts its events- and consequently it feels like a slightly meandering and unfocused story being told to you by someone who's not quite all there. i didn't mind that. WeedlordGoku69 fucked around with this message at 08:32 on Feb 16, 2020 |
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Feb 16, 2020 08:23
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Len posted:So is Sonic actually good or is there just nothing out for kids movies on a long weekend? It's fine. If you like super speed jokes or Jim Carrey doing his comedy for the back row stuff you'll get a few laughs, but it's a pretty standard kids movie.
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Feb 16, 2020 08:34
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also the complaint about it not really being a Birds of Prey movie is dumb as hell. it's an origin story for the team. it's primarily Harley's movie, but one of the consequences of everything she does is that she ends up gluing the BoP together, and they're all individually pretty important parts of the movie. it makes sense for the movie to be called that. and while i thought it was kind of odd that Cassandra Cain wasn't anything like the comics character, i also didn't really mind because i thought the Cassandra Cain in the movie was a really fun character. Huntress is kind of already in comics-Cass' territory anyways. 
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Feb 16, 2020 08:38
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Cassandra Cain's whole backstory and thing might be considered way too gimmicky for movies, possibly accurately. Still could just make up a character if you want an asian artful dodger type.
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Feb 16, 2020 09:03
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It smells a bit like someone went "we need a young female Asian character" and picked the first character on the list.
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Feb 16, 2020 12:41
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I wonder if Sonic might be like the Smurfs where the 'wacky adventures in the REAL world' adventure is to get execs to sign off on a sequel actually set in Sonic's world.
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Feb 16, 2020 17:19
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That would be expensive. They set these things in the real world because that's cheap. The genre is basically reverse isekai. And it's nothing new. See Masters of the Universe.
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Feb 16, 2020 17:34
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i always assumed those stories were to enable an easy entry point for the audience. like, it allows the writers to jettison the more complicated or esoteric aspects of the mythology that might narrow the movie's general appeal. the smurfs movie only requires you to know that smurfs exist. same thing with sonic, peter rabbit, and everything in between. QuoProQuid fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Feb 16, 2020 |
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Feb 16, 2020 17:43
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QuoProQuid posted:i always assumed those stories were to enable an easy entry point for the audience. like, it allows the writers to jettison the more complicated or esoteric aspects of the mythology that might narrow the movie's general appeal. Shouldn't those sequels be successful, then? I mean, I won't dismiss that this might be the logic that some execs follow, but it also seems demonstrably false.
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Feb 16, 2020 20:52
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If anyone is actually a big Fantasy Island fan, you should watch the HBO movie My Dinner with Herve. Peter Dinklage plays Herve Villechaize and there are a number of segments with them recreating Fantasy Island with Andy Garcia as Ricardo Montalban. It also recreates some scenes from The Man with the Golden Gun but the guy who plays Roger Moore isn't really as big a standout. Pope Corky the IX posted:While at the same time everyone loves Lucy Lawless. Back when BSG was on I remember a few of the regular cast making comments that seemed to be, in a very polite way, saying she was a bit standoffish. I think she's as much said that at least at first she really wasn't into the role. I know Dean Stockwell was also pretty dismissive of the show when he first showed up but then got super on-board after actually watching it.
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Feb 16, 2020 21:13
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Rageaholic posted:lol Thanks to this i discovered the entirety of the critic is in youtube. Thanks and dammit.
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Feb 17, 2020 02:21
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From the man who gave us Night Watch and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 3D,
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Feb 17, 2020 02:30
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This truly is hellworld.
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Feb 17, 2020 02:35
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Remember that Jurassic Park sequel with armed dinosaurs? The people who brought us Tsunambee decided to make their own version of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb9LyzLE9E4 The MSJ posted:From the man who gave us Night Watch and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 3D, Ugh this could be the best movie ever and I'm just going to get mad it isn't in landscape mode
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Feb 17, 2020 02:36
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A vertical sort of movie makes sense in that an ascent from hell, visually it could be done very well. I don't know how that works on a widescreen theater but welp.
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Feb 17, 2020 02:37
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Kinda surprised that Quibi didn't make everything vertical format, tbh.
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Gatts posted:A vertical sort of movie makes sense in that an ascent from hell, visually it could be done very well. I don't know how that works on a widescreen theater but welp. I hope you have to tilt your head 90 degrees for the whole movie to watch it. Would be a fun experiment.
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