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Jewmanji posted:That’s a bit silly. Nolan can’t be blamed for the pandemic, and WB and Nolan were presumably hand-in-hand in the release strategy. Nolan is a uniquely reliable and bankable talent. One critical /box office misfire isn’t going to affect his trajectory at all. The studio surely would have gone for the cash grab if it weren't a Nolan movie.
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Jewmanji posted:That’s a bit silly. Nolan can’t be blamed for the pandemic, and WB and Nolan were presumably hand-in-hand in the release strategy. Nolan is a uniquely reliable and bankable talent. One critical /box office misfire isn’t going to affect his trajectory at all. It was a massively bad call on his part to insist the film come to theaters only. That is at least on him.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Maybe WB are thinking long-term with Dune as a series with a cult following they can milk for years instead of a big box office. I think this is the case, studios have been hunting for the next legacy franchise ever since Marvel went big. It does seem to be roughly coloring in the same lines as Marvel's success, in that it's a big budget all-star adaptation that stays faithful to the source material. That might mean less now that it's the norm these days. They may also be looking to siphon off some of the Star Wars money now that that franchise has hit oversaturation.
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Disney couldn't possibly do Dune dirtier than Brian Herbert, so whatever.
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bawfuls posted:If they'd released it on VOD for like $20 back in May it would have made a ton of money. The only reason this didn't happen is because Nolan is a purist who wanted his movie seen on the big screen, and he had the influence to ensure that happened. Nolan also gets a huge cut, like 20%, of the box office revenue.
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Halloween Jack posted:Disney couldn't possibly do Dune dirtier than Brian Herbert, so whatever. He'd never do it but I'd love an interview with him asking why he turned the Jihad into a generic robot war when it obviously wasn't.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Maybe WB are thinking haha good one
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They’re already making DUNC costumes wow
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Groovelord Neato posted:Got middling reviews which makes it even dumber than they pushed it out instead of either sitting on it or putting it on VOD. makes me sad... going back and watching nolan's earlier stuff and it's not even close.
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CelticPredator posted:They’re already making DUNC costumes wow “The Imperium runs on the spice melange. America runs on Dunkin.”
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Halloween Jack posted:Disney couldn't possibly do Dune dirtier than Brian Herbert, so whatever. ehh if anyone can, it's Disney
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Jewmanji posted:That’s a bit silly. Nolan can’t be blamed for the pandemic, and WB and Nolan were presumably hand-in-hand in the release strategy. Nolan is a uniquely reliable and bankable talent. One critical /box office misfire isn’t going to affect his trajectory at all. I didn’t know Nolan had an account here
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Jewmanji posted:That’s a bit silly. Nolan can’t be blamed for the pandemic, and WB and Nolan were presumably hand-in-hand in the release strategy. Nolan is a uniquely reliable and bankable talent. One critical /box office misfire isn’t going to affect his trajectory at all. The real problem is not waiting until loving next year. The amount of PR and mystery that comes out of simmering in the pot a little longer. It's why Dune better break some goddamn records.
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Or else ... what? Why would it break records? Edit: like it's pretty rare for SciFi/Fantasy movies to actually 'bust the block' as it were, but as long as it's a good film who cares! Blood Boils fucked around with this message at 07:18 on Sep 19, 2020 |
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Blood Boils posted:Or else ... what? 
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:ehh They'd hire the failson probably. Disney's The Butlerian Crusade, written and directed by Brian Herbert.
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Last King posted:makes me sad... going back and watching nolan's earlier stuff and it's not even close. I rewatched The Prestige not too long ago and that's just an incredible movie, superbly acted, engaging from the very first scene. I feel like Nolan kind of peaked there and every film since has gradually become sloppier and more self-indulgent. The tight and economical pacing that defined his earlier work like Memento has totally vanished.
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Zartosht posted:They'd hire the failson probably. Pretty sure they hired him for this one.
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I had to handle an unsocialized parakeet yesterday, move it from a big cage to a smaller cage, for transport. It got away from us, and I had to corner it and oh-so-gently encompass it in my hands, and slowly and gently carry it to the smaller cage. It was biting the webbing between my fingers the entire time, as hard as it could. I could feel as it clenched its jaw muscles over and over, trying to get a piece. But I had to stay steady and smooth and not hurt the poor, scared little birdie until I got it to the new cage. I know what was in the Reverend Mother's pain box, when she tested Paul Atreides. It was an unsocialized parakeet, biting his fingers.
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Zartosht posted:They'd hire the failson probably. I think their MO these days is to shortlist a dozen or so indie feature directors from festival circuits, pick the one that's most useful for virtue-signaling on a given project, then strong-arm that person into creating the exact product they wanted to make in the first place as they offload all the action scenes to an in-house second-unit. Brian Herbert would get like a Producer credit, I guess.
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Do format codes work in thread titles? It might be nice to have D U N Or maybe D U N €, it looks less dungy.
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The latter is more appropriate because the movie is only going to make any money overseas.
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https://twitter.com/Toyark/status/1308034203511140352?s=20
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GORDON posted:I had to handle an unsocialized parakeet yesterday, move it from a big cage to a smaller cage, for transport. It got away from us, and I had to corner it and oh-so-gently encompass it in my hands, and slowly and gently carry it to the smaller cage. And how can this be? For he is the Kwisatz Parrotsnack!  (Good on you, btw, you're good people.)
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maybe it's just me, but these look horrible.
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They all look like roasted marshmallows at various levels of doneness/char
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I think it's the lighting - the sculpts look much closer to the actors when there are shadows. Although that double chin on toy Bautista is really unsettling.
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I don't think he has for a while, but I haven't kept up with action figures. Here's a better picture of that chin I was talking about :
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phasmid posted:Does Todd not do the sculpts anymore? He’s never done the actual sculpting work. But McF Toys has been in an odd place for years. Recently they’re coming back a bit. I got one of their newest Spawn figures and it was really well made and well articulated, but not as well sculpted as it used to be. Also I think all the best sculpture left for NECA and other companies. So it’s a totally different team.
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I really wish that Linda Hunt had been asked back to reprise her role as the Shadout Mapes.
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CelticPredator posted:He’s never done the actual sculpting work. when you compare this crap with stuff that recently came out for kojima for example, it's completely night and day.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnySQ4I4kyE just feels like a terrible cash grab and doesn't really give me any comfort regarding the film.
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You’re judging the film nobody has seen yet by some lovely toys for dweebs?
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imagine buying plastic toys for a movie about a book based on ecology, the environment, and resource extraction
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Michelangelo had a "storage shell" with nunchukus, grappling hook, and room for pizzas back in '91. It's a bad sign that Gurney Halleck doesn't even come with one ninja star.
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Last King posted:when you compare this crap with stuff that recently came out for kojima for example, it's completely night and day. McFarlane figures are 20 dollars and mass marketed.
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CelticPredator posted:McFarlane figures are 20 dollars and mass marketed. Yea hard to compare a 20 dollar figure to a 275 dollar figure.
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Maybe Hot Toys will do some DUNC. They’re expensive but you can’t get much better when it comes to toys.
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This movie sucks, it doesn't even come with a bunch of ugly, overpriced plastic garbage I can jack off on in my basement.
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Action figures of the main characters is dumb baby poo poo for babies. Give me a 1/12 scale 3rd Stage Guild Navigator floating in a tank of spice gas to mount over my fireplace or a life-sized Little Maker I can drown in the bathtub to make my own Water of Life.
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