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*walks through saloon doors with my hands on my hips* There's a new Bob in town.
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Did Motherless Brooklyn turn out as bad as it seemed to? I loved, loved, loved the book and author when I was in high school and I was so excited to see the movie, but the reviews weren't great and the closest theater was a couple hours away so I didn't see it.
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Feb 25, 2020 23:19
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Ariza posted:Did Motherless Brooklyn turn out as bad as it seemed to? I loved, loved, loved the book and author when I was in high school and I was so excited to see the movie, but the reviews weren't great and the closest theater was a couple hours away so I didn't see it. I liked it, but it changed a lot and that wasn't taken well by people who enjoyed the book.
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Feb 25, 2020 23:21
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Feb 26, 2020 00:00
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Folks, he's running.
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Feb 26, 2020 01:10
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Folks, he's running. America finally achieves its Disney Destiny
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Feb 26, 2020 01:17
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Coffee And Pie posted:I think that’s it! I really enjoyed the time/narrative fuckery in that book, like how there’s another protagonist you find out about at the end who never gets mentioned because the monsters erase him from existence It was my favorite book in high school. Probably read it half a dozen times but dunno how well it's aged.
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Feb 26, 2020 01:17
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Folks, he's running. For what?
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Feb 26, 2020 01:22
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Is he the guy who ran Disney parks like a cheapskate
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Feb 26, 2020 01:43
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Watched Car Wash. Yo, this poo poo is fire. You can see the clear influence on everyone from Spike Lee to frickin' Richard Linklater, but the main thing that stuck out to me was Antonio Fargas's character Lindy. It's shocking what a progressive depiction of not just a queer character this is, but a black trans woman (although given the time it was made, it's likely she's just meant to be a "cross-dresser"). And not just her representation as a character, but the way everyone else in the movie treats her. They use her pronouns, they crack wise with her just like everyone else, the only character who is bigoted towards her ends up being Abdullah, Bill Duke's character - and even there she gets the upper hand on him just using her wit, and the point is clearly supposed to be that this is part of his tragic arc as a young black man in the '70s going through heavy poo poo in his life, that it's not a function of how she expresses herself. Need to see more of Michael Schultz's stuff. I've only seen Cooley High otherwise.
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Feb 26, 2020 01:50
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Good point keep talkin posted:It was my favorite book in high school. Probably read it half a dozen times but dunno how well it's aged. Definitely better than the movie, and I remember enjoying the sequel as well!
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Feb 26, 2020 01:55
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K. Waste posted:Watched Car Wash. I've been meaning to give this one a rewatch for a while now, and this post just pushed me off the fence, so thanks!
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Feb 26, 2020 03:21
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K. Waste posted:Watched Car Wash. Krush Groove is surprisingly deep and has a really great storyline considering it was made as a promotional vehicle for the Fat Boys. I’m surprised you haven’t seen the Last Dragon yet either. And not to take away anything from Michael Schultz, but the writer from Cooley High, Eric Monte, went on to write for the Jeffersons, Good Times, and What’s Happening!, which was a spiritual successor to Cooley High.
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Feb 26, 2020 03:32
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Good point keep talkin posted:Sounds like John Dies at the End. Haven't seen the movie but read the book. I haven't seen the movie because the book was so bad. I think I gave up after 5 pages, the writing was insufferable. But I do like the concept of a low rent The Matrix, so maybe the film version is worth checking out. Paul Giamatti is always fun
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Feb 26, 2020 03:52
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Setting the Lost In Space remake show in the Prometheus universe is a goddamned masterstroke. Best thing on TV.
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Feb 26, 2020 04:20
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Setting the Lost In Space remake show in the Prometheus universe is a goddamned masterstroke. Best thing on TV. Whoa hey what now
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Feb 26, 2020 04:29
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ruddiger posted:Whoa hey what now Strictly on an aesthetic level, it's exactly Prometheus. It feels like the show raided Ridley Scott's garage. There are also thematic similarities but it's been a long-rear end time since I've watched it.
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Feb 26, 2020 04:32
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Is this guy going to not be a dildo about people actually seeing Fox movies?
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Feb 26, 2020 05:54
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CPL593H posted:Is this guy going to not be a dildo about people actually seeing Fox movies? All CEOs are dildoes.
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Feb 26, 2020 06:08
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caligulamprey posted:Look in your heart and know I mean yeah, but sometimes they make decisions like that so people will give them more money.
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Feb 26, 2020 06:29
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CPL593H posted:Is this guy going to not be a dildo about people actually seeing Fox movies? No, Chapek is the guy currently in charge of the parks, where his reign has essentially resulted in absurd corner-cutting to save costs at all... uh, costs. The Disneyworld ~*experience*~ has gotten way worse under his rule, the workers are treated and paid like dogshit and frequently live in their cars in the park's parking lots, and even the products they sell have become second-rate. The make-your-own-lightsabers in the big new Star Wars park are brittle pieces of crap and they're, like, a main thing there. If his philosophy carries over to the film division, you can probably expect a lot more lesser-known actors, writers, directors, etc. they can get for megacheap and surviving on the sheer strength of the brands, or even "introducing" new stars they can wrangle the cheapest possible contracts out of. Iger has been talking about wanting to step down for a while now, the surprise here is that he did it a year earlier than he said he would. I don't think there's any big drama, he just wants to retire. (gently caress him anyways though)
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Feb 26, 2020 06:34
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I think CPL was wondering about the fate of older movies in the Fox library getting repertory screenings at arthouse theaters, which the new Bob being a complete loving cheapskate might work to theaters advantage, since it's basically free money.
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Feb 26, 2020 06:45
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Skwirl posted:I think CPL was wondering about the fate of older movies in the Fox library getting repertory screenings at arthouse theaters, which the new Bob being a complete loving cheapskate might work to theaters advantage, since it's basically free money. Yes it's this. And also the Freaked blu-ray.
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ruddiger posted:Whoa hey what now LesterGroans posted:Strictly on an aesthetic level, it's exactly Prometheus. It feels like the show raided Ridley Scott's garage. There are also thematic similarities but it's been a long-rear end time since I've watched it. Beyond even the themes and aesthetics, the first season (at least) is a solid narrative bridge between Prometheus and Alien Covenant. I don’t believe anything even contradicts the plot of those films. It enhances them. It literally is somebody using the Lost In Space license to do an epic Prometheus fan-film on a Netflix budget (God bless ‘em). It’s not “officially canon”, but the show maintains an atmosphere where a black goo could plausibly (and arguably does) overwhelm anyone at any moment. Still, it’s mostly about the kind of bullshit that the space colonists have to deal with then there aren’t any xenomorphs around. The protagonists are flying around in the Weyland-Yutani equivalent of a high-end RV. As a result of the relative mundanity, there’s even a good amount of similarity to The Martian - though it’s thankfully not nearly as aggressively upbeat. The sometimes-standard wholesome character drama is constantly butting up against the crushing meaninglessness of the universe. It’s the real drama. Besides the obvious Scott influence, the first season is basically an extremely loose, long-form remake of Planeta Bur. And, like Alien Covenant, there are numerous unexpected references to Spielberg’s The Lost World. So it’s the good poo poo. Five stars. SuperMechagodzilla fucked around with this message at 09:42 on Feb 26, 2020 |
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I don't think Iger leaving will affect Disney's attitude towards repertory since they've always been tight-gripped on their films, but we'll see. Though, the Comcast/Universal and AT&T/Warner buyouts seemed to be good for preservation and licensing. There's a lot of projects that were on hold for the longest time that only got approval after the buyouts.
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Feb 26, 2020 15:38
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Iger wasn't even anything special. Buying poo poo isn't hard when you got loads of capital.
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https://twitter.com/DolphinGarage/status/1232335318923214849?s=20
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Feb 26, 2020 16:03
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Maybe a Coronavirus quarantine will finally get me to watch The Irishman.
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Feb 26, 2020 16:11
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I sincerely hope James Marsden gets to chauffeur a CGI Ed, Edd and Eddy in like 10 years.
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Feb 26, 2020 16:17
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This bit is funny when done right though, and imitation in art predates capitalism by a couple of millennia.
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Feb 26, 2020 16:47
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CAR WASH is great, gently caress Pauline Kael.
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Feb 26, 2020 17:40
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Is there some list of notable film critics that notes which directors they championed and/or denounced?
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Feb 26, 2020 17:54
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I don't think I've ever hated two human beings more than I hate the parents in The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez. Seriously, watch the show but be prepared for an absolute nuclear level of rage at two of the most awful humans of all time.
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Feb 26, 2020 18:48
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I can't watch too many documentaries unless it's about silly poo poo like Darkon or Winnebago Man because I'm just pissed off about the world too much already.
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Feb 26, 2020 19:36
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CPL593H posted:I can't watch too many documentaries unless it's about silly poo poo like Darkon or Winnebago Man because I'm just pissed off about the world too much already. Watch American Movie and have your faith restored in the beauty of creativity.
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Feb 26, 2020 19:41
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CPL593H posted:I can't watch too many documentaries unless it's about silly poo poo like Darkon or Winnebago Man because I'm just pissed off about the world too much already. Watch High Score and Rockafire Explosion.
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Feb 26, 2020 20:27
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I wanted to like the new Lost in Space series, but I just can't. There's the boy-and-his-dog aspect, and the family sitcom aspect, and the interesting stuff happens around the margins of that.
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Feb 26, 2020 21:00
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Anonymous Robot posted:Maybe a Coronavirus quarantine will finally get me to watch The Irishman. Watch it you schlub
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Feb 26, 2020 21:02
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Birds of Prey (and the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb), is pretty alright. Some of the action is pretty good, there's a handful of genuinely funny jokes, and it's not boring. It's very try-hard, a bit too long, relies way too heavily on exposition via voice over, has no faith in its audience, and could've trimmed a few of the titular birds to give the others more room to breathe but it's by far the best of the recent DC films (that I've seen).
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FreudianSlippers posted:Birds of Prey (and the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb), I loled
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