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Tars Tarkas posted:Movie news is now theater implosion news That sucks, I wish I lived in a place where the only AMC wasn't a 30 minute drive away because A-list seems like a better deal overall than Cinemark's thing.
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END ME SCOOB posted:Hilariously, New Mutants conspicuously absent from all their rescheduling today unless I missed something Disney wasn't the one who delayed it so much. Fox kept saying they wanted reshoots, but the actors were always busy and eventually aged up. When Disney got it they told the director they'll release it just as he originally wanted it to be released. I figure it isn't on the schedule because they'll either rush it out when theaters open up again or put it on Disney Plus.
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Alan Smithee posted:wasn't there a bunch of places converting to drive in Oh poo poo that's a thing that might get to open this month. Not sure if Dewine considers a movie theater where you don't leave your car a risk or not Edit: still closed Len fucked around with this message at 12:28 on Apr 4, 2020 |
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END ME SCOOB posted:Hilariously, New Mutants conspicuously absent from all their rescheduling today unless I missed something I'm certain that they want to make New Mutants to be an establishing film for incorporating the X-Men into the MCU, so it has to come out in theaters and not get dumped onto Disney +.
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Crowetron posted:X-Force will come out before New Mutants. Fixed for you.
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IUG posted:Fixed for you. Didn't that already happen? 
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Crowetron posted:New Mutants 2 will come out before New Mutants. Just like Missing in Action! Good flicks
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Casimir Radon posted:I was referring to YA franchises that turned into abortive attempts at film series. The early 2000s was full of YA attempting to follow the Harry Potter formula. Alex Rider, one movie. A Series of Unfortunate Events, died after one film, redone on Netflix, don't know how that went. Percy Jackson, two movies then dead. The Golden Compass, toned down to try and appease dumb fundies, died after one film, ended on a cliffhanger, wasted an amazing cast, rebooted very well on the BBC. Divergent, three movies that kept getting worse and worse critical and commercial results before dying. There were really two waves of failed book series movie adaptations, one after Harry Potter and LotR, and one after Twilight and Hunger Games. The first wave had movies like Inkheart, Eragon, and The Dark is Rising. The second wave had Beautiful Creatures, The 5th Wave, and I Am Number Four. The Spiderwick Chronicles had only one movie in the first wave but I don't know if you'd call it a failure because it actually adapted the entire book series.
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Crowetron posted:New Mutants 2 will come out before New Mutants. and it will feature no mutants
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Young Freud posted:Didn't that already happen? Deadpool 2 was supposed to lead into a separate X-Force movie. I'm not sure if the X-Force team from DP2 was going to somehow come back, or if it was going to be the end-of-movie "X-Force" team consisting of Deadpool, Cable, Colossus, Negasonic, Yukio, and Dopinder, but either way I would've been alright with it. (I am a little sad about Shatterstar, though. He was one of the earliest explicitly gay characters in Marvel, is tied into some really wild X-Men stuff, and is generally a fun character.)
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Mark my words. Disney+ marvel Saturday morning cartoons coming
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Alan Smithee posted:and it will feature no mutants Are you trying to tell us they mutated?
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Alan Smithee posted:Mark my words. Disney+ marvel Saturday morning cartoons coming X-men is already on there, at least in Canada.
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MechanicalTomPetty posted:The Ender series really goes off the rails after a while. I guess you could still adapt it, but you would probably have to take some, uh, "creative" liberties with the stuff OSC stuffed into the more recent novels. Children of the Mind was the biggest, wettest fart completely independent of the awful socio-political content, which also made it bad. Mywhatacleanturtle fucked around with this message at 03:13 on Apr 5, 2020 |
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MechanicalTomPetty posted:The Ender series really goes off the rails after a while. I guess you could still adapt it, but you would probably have to take some, uh, "creative" liberties with the stuff OSC stuffed into the more recent novels. Also Card is a homophobic whackjob who got his brain further screwed around by 9/11.
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Smirking_Serpent posted:iirc, Card said that if the US legalized gay marriage it would be his duty to launch an armed insurrection Yeah, card’s questionable understanding of politics and people started cropping up at the beginning of Ender’s game when he has a mouthpiece state that women are too fragile to be in positions of power and pursues that idea further when Petra is the first to crack. What’s depressing is that in spite of that he’s still considerably less misogynistic than a lot of genre writers. Mywhatacleanturtle fucked around with this message at 04:44 on Apr 5, 2020 |
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Mywhatacleanturtle posted:Children of the Mind was the biggest, wettest fart completely independent of the awful socio-political content, which also made it bad. I was also including the Shadow novels in that statement, which are set in the same universe with the same characters shown from different viewpoints. IIRC, the last novel reveals that the aliens from Enders Game were evil after all because they turned all the males of their race into zombie drones or something along those lines. Casimir Radon posted:Also Card is a homophobic whackjob who got his brain further screwed around by 9/11. OSC just makes me sad because I legit like Enders Game and Speaker for the Dead, but so much of what he's said and done over the years just makes my skin crawl. He's like the novelist equivalent of Frank Miller at this point.
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The Shadow series is weird because it takes an incredibly minor character from Ender's Game and makes him the most important character who actually was behind Ender's success.
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MechanicalTomPetty posted:I was also including the Shadow novels in that statement, which are set in the same universe with the same characters shown from different viewpoints. IIRC, the last novel reveals that the aliens from Enders Game were evil after all because they turned all the males of their race into zombie drones or something along those lines. Oh yeah. I forgot about the shadow series. I only read halfway through Ender’s Shadow and the most vivid thing I remember about it was that I saw a commercial for it on the si-fi channel and realized it was the only time I had ever seen a novel advertised on tv. Oh, and the early message that geniuses are born everywhere, most of them just don’t have the opportunity to make anything of it. That was kind of cool. I also used to love Enders Game and Speaker for the Dead. It was the first sci-fi series I read that went with relativistic space travel rather than ftl and that kind of blew my mind as a ten year old. A lot of the world building in Speaker for the Dead is still really good. However, the comparison to Frank Miller is especially apt because there were still kernels of the lovely things sprinkled throughout even their best work, they just weren’t significant enough to notice without hindsight. Mywhatacleanturtle fucked around with this message at 07:36 on Apr 5, 2020 |
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They got Mark Hamill to do voice over for a commercial for the first NJO book. Only example I can think of of a book having a commercial.
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You could make an argument that Twilight or Harry Potter or really any movie(s) based on an existing novel are glorified book commercials.
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Casimir Radon posted:They got Mark Hamill to do voice over for a commercial for the first NJO book. Only example I can think of of a book having a commercial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqMhP1_I-6o Also I remember a bunch of commercials for a Stephen King book club which always would lead off with whatever his newest was.
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The classic book commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N595TpC1-Fg
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Mywhatacleanturtle posted:Oh yeah. I forgot about the shadow series. I only read halfway through Ender’s Shadow and the most vivid thing I remember about it was that I saw a commercial for it on the si-fi channel and realized it was the only time I had ever seen a novel advertised on tv. Oh, and the early message that geniuses are born everywhere, most of them just don’t have the opportunity to make anything of it. That was kind of cool. The Speaker stuff went over my head as a kid, but I loved the Shadow series, especially after it ditched any comparison to the original and turned into dumb geopolitical thrillers where basically all the world's nations end up led by Battle School graduates.
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This is the best book commercial.
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Mywhatacleanturtle posted:YouTube has been trying really hard to get me to watch this for some reason. The algorithm works in mysterious ways.
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Casimir Radon posted:Also Card is a homophobic whackjob who got his brain further screwed around by 9/11. I don't think 9/11 is even the reason, Ender’s Shadow came out a few years before 9/11 and it was full on nuts. That entire series was such a weird premise, it was like OSC deciding he was now going to become Tom Clancy.
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Mywhatacleanturtle posted:YouTube has been trying really hard to get me to watch this for some reason. Same. I see this every time I open YouTube and I actively avoided it until now.
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Chairman Capone posted:I don't think 9/11 is even the reason, Ender’s Shadow came out a few years before 9/11 and it was full on nuts. That entire series was such a weird premise, it was like OSC deciding he was now going to become Tom Clancy. After 9-11 is when he wrote the red vs blue civil war book(s?) that were incredibly dumb and there are really old threads trashing it (them? can't remember if it was a series or a one-of) We had all the Zoobooks growing up but almost all of them were the old cover style not the new one.
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He ended up writing two books in that series. The first book was so bad that I never tried the second.
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Chairman Capone posted:I don't think 9/11 is even the reason, Ender’s Shadow came out a few years before 9/11 and it was full on nuts. That entire series was such a weird premise, it was like OSC deciding he was now going to become Tom Clancy. Card is ... strange. He's got beliefs all over the map. You start unpacking all the stuff in his books - from the early torture porn, through all the young naked boys in danger, the Catholic guilt (for a Mormon), liberal guilt (The Redemption of Christopher Columbus), arguments about aliens as humans, forgiveness, homophobia. I'd swear he's had several breakdowns, there's just angst about everything.
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got any sevens posted:"Inhumans"? God i adored paul jenkins Inhumans and their position at the time in the 90s, Karnak having one of the most interesting powers... then they made everyone inhumans because of copyright over mutants in movies and god it suuuuuucked. I miss Black Bolt being this mysterious silent atomic bomb peripheral.
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nonathlon posted:(The Redemption of Christopher Columbus), It's like if kim stanley robinson had to headbutt harry turtledove 8000 times and then immediately write down plot ideas without any concussion protocol
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