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This is why you always carry a bottle of pink champagne when going on a road trip. It's like trucker kryptonite. Edit: Jesus Christ, what a loving way to start a new page.
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DoctorWhat posted:A trucker once drove into the phone booth I was using to call for help after terrorizing me on the road for hours after I cut him off. Eventually I had to lure him into driving off a cliff. Next time replace the radiator hose.
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duz posted:The point is that it falls under the minimum video length to require paying guild minimum wage. Doesn't matter that it would've been a normal half hour show if you hadn't stuck credits in every ad break. Plus most of their scripts were written for tv format and they spent as little time as possible making them fit the quibi format. Lol ofc the silicon valley venture hinges entirely on minimizing labor wages
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DoctorWhat posted:A trucker once drove into the phone booth I was using to call for help after terrorizing me on the road for hours after I cut him off. Eventually I had to lure him into driving off a cliff. Wild how often that happens. Buddy of mine once had a truck drive into the phone booth she was using, though fortunately she had just finished her call.
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Sir Kodiak posted:Wild how often that happens. Buddy of mine once had a truck drive into the phone booth she was using, though fortunately she had just finished her call. She killed a bunch of cops
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aware of dog posted:AMC CEO: sorry, sorry, im trying to remove it Dude looks like he could only take 2 days of COVID before his chest bursts Alien-style, so smart rethink. Let's be honest tho, the mask policy gets erased as soon as people leave the concession stand.
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MasqueradeOverture posted:Let's be honest tho, the mask policy gets erased as soon as people enter the building.
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Jun 20, 2020 22:58
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Alan Smithee posted:She killed a bunch of cops ...she single?
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Alan Smithee posted:She killed a bunch of cops Man that sentence has a different energy in TYOOL2020.
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*watches Matrix 4*IshmaelZarkov posted:Man that sentence has a different energy in TYOOL2022.
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In a similar vein someone on this forum once posited that 9/11 and the resulting military/cop worship had the effect of taking the teeth out of the Matrix sequels. The Matrix had this whole thing about the machines being "The Man" and guys like the Cops who worked for them being willing slaves worthy of derision. The Agents were even expressly meant to resemble the Government. And the misery of Capitalist wage slavery is presented as an integral aspect of what makes the Matrix simulation a prison. Then Rebooted and Revolutions come out and killing cops is verboten, and instead of being coded as Capitalism/The Government the bad guys are fantastical.
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I mean school shooters did that to matrix 1
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Alan Smithee posted:I mean school shooters did that to matrix 1 It turned out the solution to school shooters was to cancel schools
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galagazombie posted:In a similar vein someone on this forum once posited that 9/11 and the resulting military/cop worship had the effect of taking the teeth out of the Matrix sequels. The Matrix had this whole thing about the machines being "The Man" and guys like the Cops who worked for them being willing slaves worthy of derision. The Agents were even expressly meant to resemble the Government. And the misery of Capitalist wage slavery is presented as an integral aspect of what makes the Matrix simulation a prison. Then Rebooted and Revolutions come out and killing cops is verboten, and instead of being coded as Capitalism/The Government the bad guys are fantastical. Not sure if this happens, largely because the threat escalation in the sequels means human cops can't do poo poo, really.
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I was thinking about Cameron's choice of making T1000 a cop and how much of it was "cops are generally considered helpful and trustworthy so this is the perfect form to take to fool people" and how much "aren't cops loving scary monsters?" I guess stumbling on this maybe implies more the latter quote:“Cops think of all noncops as less than they are: stupid, weak, and evil,” he observed years later on the movie’s DVD commentary.
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Youtube just pushed an ad for Christopher Nolan's Tenet onto me. It seems a bit... not very interesting? Admittedly i'm someone who didnt care for Inception either and it seems to be covering the same ground. Loved Dunkirk with all my heart though.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:I was thinking about Cameron's choice of making T1000 a cop and how much of it was "cops are generally considered helpful and trustworthy so this is the perfect form to take to fool people" and how much "aren't cops loving scary monsters?" Also Blade, where cops are agents of the literal vampires who rule society and give immunity to the police in return for them literally bleeding the public. Alan Smithee posted:I mean school shooters did that to matrix 1 Brian Raftery's book "Best.Movie.Year.Ever" about the movies that came out in 1999 and how it was a major turning point for cinema talks a lot about how school shootings changed not only action movies and how they were perceived, but also the genre of teen/high school movies as well. He also talks about how Keanu Reeves made some studio people nervous about The Matrix because they thought it was going to be Johnny Mnemonic 2.
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galagazombie posted:In a similar vein someone on this forum once posited that 9/11 and the resulting military/cop worship had the effect of taking the teeth out of the Matrix sequels. The Matrix had this whole thing about the machines being "The Man" and guys like the Cops who worked for them being willing slaves worthy of derision. The Agents were even expressly meant to resemble the Government. And the misery of Capitalist wage slavery is presented as an integral aspect of what makes the Matrix simulation a prison. Then Rebooted and Revolutions come out and killing cops is verboten, and instead of being coded as Capitalism/The Government the bad guys are fantastical. I remember reading a few pearl clutching posts decrying the slaughter of the armed and armoured SWAT team that guards a military building who were just doing their jobs. Not that many, but more than one, which is too many
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Jun 21, 2020 23:36
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Joel Schumaker died. He was 80.
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Poor Joel seemed to spend his last years apologizing for his last movies
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Hopefully he was able to at least absorb some of the reappraisal of his camp.
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So what’s the story with You Should Have Left, because the House of Leaves influence is so blatant I’m starting to wonder if it started life as an adapted screenplay.
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Pirate Jet posted:So what’s the story with You Should Have Left, because the House of Leaves influence is so blatant I’m starting to wonder if it started life as an adapted screenplay. I think it's like a Slender Man meme -> The Tall Man situation where it was unrelated from the beginning but they intentionally went very close.
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Neo Rasa posted:I think it's like a Slender Man meme -> The Tall Man situation where it was unrelated from the beginning but they intentionally went very close. Yeah, the author didn’t seem to be aware. https://twitter.com/markdanielewski/status/1272940289653534721
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Panic Room But it wasn't a man and she wasn't technically measuring, more like eyeballing it. 
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Iron Crowned posted:Why? Grandma needs movies too.
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feedmyleg posted:Grandma needs movies too. Grandma will be dead from COVID by the time it comes out
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Are we going to reach a point where there's no new entertainment for a little while because of the pandemic related production showdowns?
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Probably. There will still be new stuff coming out, whether it's content that was in the can but needed post work, or new acquisitions of content that's been seeking distribution for a while, or garbage that can be churned out with a quick turnaround time as soon as productions are able to start up again. So while there won't be no new entertainment, I'd image that we'll all be feeling it to some degree or another. There will be a quality drop with what's out there and the pace at which new stuff comes is going to be much slower than we're used to. Depending on how long productions remain shut down for, I can see Hollywood creating more panel shows ala the UK, more shows about people reacting to other content, more reality shows that are basically YouTube content, etc. Maybe we'll get a few more things like the Snyder Cut which wouldn't have been greenlit if not for the pandemic where effects artist are just waiting for something to do. Probably an increase in animated shows and movies due to their workflows already having adapted, too. feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Jun 23, 2020 |
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Pirate Jet posted:So what’s the story with You Should Have Left, because the House of Leaves influence is so blatant I’m starting to wonder if it started life as an adapted screenplay. I've rarely been so distracted by how ugly a movie's backdrop is. God drat. Those bare brick walls and plywood panels. It's a relief when the house goes all leaky mouldy basement.
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feedmyleg posted:Probably. There will still be new stuff coming out, whether it's content that was in the can but needed post work, or new acquisitions of content that's been seeking distribution for a while, or garbage that can be churned out with a quick turnaround time as soon as productions are able to start up again. So while there won't be no new entertainment, I'd image that we'll all be feeling it to some degree or another. There will be a quality drop with what's out there and the pace at which new stuff comes is going to be much slower than we're used to. I'll be honest, I'm surprised that the US networks like ABC, NBC, CBS, or Fox haven't been airing shows from the UK or Australia. It's poo poo that's already in the can, we have no issues remaking them, and if they really are that hard up, could always be overdubbed (  )I'm sure that's going to be in the pike somewhere down the line, after they run out of everything else. Weirdly the CW has been running Bulletproof which I think is from the UK, but they started that last summer, so it only half counts.
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If anything is going to finally get Wellington Paranormal on the air in the US, it's this.
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Pirate Jet posted:Yeah, the author didn’t seem to be aware. https://twitter.com/markdanielewski/status/1272940289653534721 I think more people associate "bigger on the inside" with Doctor Who than that book.
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The MSJ posted:I think more people associate "bigger on the inside" with Doctor Who than that book. The author is singling out that scene but there’s a lot going on, both properties are focused on a man with a wife and kids with a weird house that does creepy things (including that specific one) that acts as more of an excuse to explore his relationship with his family. I guess we’ll really know if in the movie, he finds a door that logically should lead outside but doesn’t exist on the siding.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Are we going to reach a point where there's no new entertainment for a little while because of the pandemic related production showdowns? it's all going to be awful zoom mosaics all the way down. actors doing zoom reunions long thought impossible because they're bored, but the reunion is stilted and terrible and nobody looks good because nobody knows how to light a shot and Alec Baldwin is using a USB mic from Guitar Hero World Tour or something
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Iron Crowned posted:Why? Because God is dead and everything is permitted.
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Pirate Jet posted:The author is singling out that scene but there’s a lot going on, both properties are focused on a man with a wife and kids with a weird house that does creepy things (including that specific one) that acts as more of an excuse to explore his relationship with his family. I guess we’ll really know if in the movie, he finds a door that logically should lead outside but doesn’t exist on the siding. What if that scene was in the actual source novel?
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