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Red Bones posted:I think Harry Potter ended up working quite well in this respect because the first three books are very standalone (and thus allow for more liberal editing), but you can see the same issues appear as the series go on and the films get longer and longer until the last one got split in two to fit everything in. And even the early ones feel a bit odd at times because each 2 hour film is based on a book that spans an entire school year. It's really evident with Order of the Phoenix, where they turned the (by-far) longest book into the second-shortest movie. And even with that they still added some original scenes. I remember after watching the movie feeling like it had been edited down from a cut at least twice as long and anyone who hadn't read the book would be completely lost. I don't think Alan Rickman even had any dialogue in it.
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I think another problem with YA adaptations in general is that a lot of them basically end up telling the exact same story with just enough parts changed or shifted around to give the illusion of originality, so a lot of people hear the premise and go "oh, its another Hunger Games/Harry Potter/Twilight knock-off, pass".
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It would be heroic if they'd used it to make anything interesting.
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Bautista's kid spy movie, My Spy, got sold to Amazon and will just show up on Prime at the end of the month.
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I know I saw a preview for My Spy before CATS, but am I hallucinating or didn't a few ads for it run on TV earlier this year?
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It was supposed to come out early this year but got delayed. They apparently decided not to wait any longer.
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It was supposed to come out right when the pandemic hit. The closed theater near me still has a ton of posters for it up.
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Tato posted:The Josh Gad extreme amount of voice over starts as soon as the movie begins and rarely lets up. I can’t believe they thought that voice was anything but awful. Real “Little Nicky” levels of “who the gently caress told him to speak that way and why in the world did you make him do it the entire film?” And then Judi Dench does the same voice, lol.
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This probably isnt news to most of you, but I was thinking this morning "what ever happened to uwe boll" Which brought me to his final movie https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampage:_President_Down quote:Three years after his second killing spree at a TV station in Washington D.C. (following which he was presumed dead in a massive explosion), Bill Williamson returns from hiding and, using a sniper rifle, assassinates the President of the United States, as well as the Vice-President and the Secretary of Defense (which happens off-camera). I havent seen the first two uhh Rampages (or any uwe boll now that i really think about it) but this poo poo is to die for. Elements of Neil Breen and Birdemic, with an over the top hilariously cheaply made Christopher Dorner type story.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:This probably isnt news to most of you, but I was thinking this morning "what ever happened to uwe boll" Related to this, a few days ago I was listening to his interview on The Movies That Made me, and he came across as a lot more interesting and eloquent than you'd expect. Way more substantive than any conversation Breen or Tommy Wiseau could generate: https://podtail.com/en/podcast/the-movies-that-made-me/uwe-boll/ Also it's a shame his restaurant closed because it got pretty good reviews: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/lif...rticle26235933/
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IShallRiseAgain posted:Josh Gad is the one who won the contest to be in the Artemis Fowl movie, when he was a kid. You either die a hero, yadda yadda yadda https://twitter.com/Saberspark/status/1272206600246353924
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Quibi is the Ouya of streaming services.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:This probably isnt news to most of you, but I was thinking this morning "what ever happened to uwe boll" Boll now runs a restaurant. Seriously. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bauhaus-uwe-boll-50-best-1.4068136
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How in the hell did Quibi raise 17.5 billion dollars.
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The book on Theranos was fun disaster reading and I'm sure there'll be some goofy stories about Quibi. That's it's real contribution.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:How in the hell did Quibi raise 17.5 billion dollars. If you've ever wondered where all the rich people's money goes now that they don't pay any taxes, it's on things like this.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:How in the hell did Quibi raise 17.5 billion dollars. 1.75 b which is still a lot of hedgefund writeoffs
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Quibi was almost certainly doomed from inception, but having a streaming service for people on the go launch during the biggest lockdown in recent history is ironic in the Alanis Morrisette way.
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I'm reminded of how Nintendo's release of Animal Crossing New Horizons is so very suspiciously apropos.
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Alan Smithee posted:1.75 b Oh, phew, thank god I read that wrong.
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whydirt posted:Quibi was almost certainly doomed from inception, but having a streaming service for people on the go launch during the biggest lockdown in recent history is ironic in the Alanis Morrisette way. I’m probably on my phone now more than I’ve ever been since lockdown. They massively hosed up this operation not only because all the content seemed like complete crap, but part of the model is that the app has no way of sharing the content across social media, therefore nobody gets poo poo for free, nor do they have any way of hearing about it, which is just so backwards in the 2020 ad landscape.
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I'm watching more right now content than I have in a very long time. The only thing that vaguely interested me in their lineup was 50 States of Fright, but even then the format doesn't appeal to me. I don't want to watch a bunch of short form content, regardless of quality. Most of the stuff I watch on YouTube is 20-30 minutes, and most of the stuff I watch on Instagram is 15 seconds and made by my friends. Like, nobody watches short films to begin with. Oates Studios is probably the most ambitious short film push in years and that has a super limited fan base. Why build an entire service around shorts to compete with free throwaway content that already has social networking features built around it?
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:How in the hell did Quibi raise 17.5 billion dollars. I assume once a few big names dropped enough money on it, a feedback loop started where potential investors saw how much was being invested, thought to themselves “wow, something with this much money behind it can’t possibly fail!” and invested themselves, perpetuating the cycle until funding ballooned to an impossible size that was then promptly pissed away by producing expensive, embarrassing content nobody actually wants to watch, delivered in the most backwards way possible. I am thoroughly convinced that the people who have the most money are the very last people who should have it, for these reasons and many others.
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I mean, if I were incredibly wealthy I'd also produce a bunch of stupid garbage. But mine would be cool stupid garbage.
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feedmyleg posted:I mean, if I were incredibly wealthy I'd also produce a bunch of stupid garbage. But mine would be cool stupid garbage. Isn’t that basically the entire mission statement of Annapurna Pictures? Mywhatacleanturtle fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Jun 15, 2020 |
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feedmyleg posted:I mean, if I were incredibly wealthy I'd also produce a bunch of stupid garbage. But mine would be cool stupid garbage. 
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SunshineDanceParty posted:The book on Theranos was fun disaster reading and I'm sure there'll be some goofy stories about Quibi. That's it's real contribution. Bad Blood was a masterpiece of non-fiction writing, just an utterly ridiculous roller coaster
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:How in the hell did Quibi raise 17.5 billion dollars. Alibaba and saudis is everyone's go to, but money is unlimited now. But if it makes you feel better, they got 1b first run and could only do half 2nd round.
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Yeah, I totally misread. 1.75 billion isn't great but thank christ it's not 17.5 billion.
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Mywhatacleanturtle posted:I assume once a few big names dropped enough money on it, a feedback loop started where potential investors saw how much was being invested, thought to themselves “wow, something with this much money behind it can’t possibly fail!” and invested themselves, perpetuating the cycle until funding ballooned to an impossible size that was then promptly pissed away by producing expensive, embarrassing content nobody actually wants to watch, delivered in the most backwards way possible. That is literally how Theranos got funded. Taintrunner posted:Bad Blood was a masterpiece of non-fiction writing, just an utterly ridiculous roller coaster 
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The best thing about Theranos was one of the early investors showing up for his interview in the HBO documentary wearing a bitcoin tie.
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feedmyleg posted:The only thing that vaguely interested me in their lineup was 50 States of Fright, but even then the format doesn't appeal to me. Any excuse to post this again. https://twitter.com/zachraffio/status/1250273191810875392
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Groovelord Neato posted:The best thing about Theranos was one of the early investors showing up for his interview in the HBO documentary wearing a bitcoin tie. I have seen a person in the wild wearing Bitcoin T-Shirt. I actually had to double take that one.
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I must see the golden armed woman, goddamn.
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Like does quibi even have a desktop option gently caress watching on s phone I’d look it up but I’m on a phone
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Nope, it's phone only because you have to be able to rotate your phone to see the alternate view.
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Aha haha loving amateur hour
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