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wyoming posted:Continue to give Gore Verbinski all of the money I say. Agreed. I even enjoyed The Lone Ranger. I went in with insanely low expectations but was surprised at how bleak and gruesome it was at time and was pleasantly surprised. Its got issues but it at least tried to have a style and tone you wouldnt expect from a Disney reboot. A Cure for Wellness also owns.
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AccountSupervisor posted:Agreed. He managed to make Dane Dehaan interesting!
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AccountSupervisor posted:Agreed. I keep jumbling up that title and The Road to Wellville
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Maxwell Lord posted:I keep jumbling up that title and The Road to Wellville Same. I haven't seen Wellville in ages but they seem to make a nice double feature for approaching the obsession with welness from two different sides.
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MrBling posted:Nah. Disney commissioned a script based on the ride in 2001 which was just a straight forward pirate story (I think Disney wanted Matthew McConaughey as Jack Sparrow) but when they got Jerry Bruckheimer on board he didn't like the script because it was "just a pirate movie", so they had some other guys rewrite it to add the supernatural stuff. Wasn't the other part of the story, or at least the version I've read before, that Disney had a dream of a whole universe of movies based on theme park rides. They also had ones for Haunted Mansion and Country Bear Jamboree. The whole thing turned out to be a mix of failures and clusterfucks so they basically wrote off Pirates and let them do their own thing, which is why it ended up good.
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:Wasn't the other part of the story, or at least the version I've read before, that Disney had a dream of a whole universe of movies based on theme park rides. They also had ones for Haunted Mansion and Country Bear Jamboree. The whole thing turned out to be a mix of failures and clusterfucks so they basically wrote off Pirates and let them do their own thing, which is why it ended up good. Technically Jungle Cruise is still waiting on release.
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AccountSupervisor posted:Agreed. The decision to do a version of magic mountain but also make it a corman and price poe movie was inspired
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Nov 29, 2020 00:58
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:Wasn't the other part of the story, or at least the version I've read before, that Disney had a dream of a whole universe of movies based on theme park rides. They also had ones for Haunted Mansion and Country Bear Jamboree. The whole thing turned out to be a mix of failures and clusterfucks so they basically wrote off Pirates and let them do their own thing, which is why it ended up good. There was a also a Monkey Island script that never got made that was worked on by the script writer who later went on to write the Pirates of the Caribbean script. From the sound of things, the original Jack Sparrow character was also more of a Guybrush Threepwood character.
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Tomorrowland, Mission to Mars, and Tower of Terror are all based on Disney park stuff too.
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Vandar posted:Tomorrowland, Mission to Mars, and Tower of Terror are all based on Disney park stuff too. Man, mission to Mars really sucked but I somehow ended up seeing it in theaters 4 times.
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Nov 29, 2020 01:39
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Mission to Mars had some neat scenes and concepts. And Ennio Morricone did the drat soundtrack.
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.....there was a Tower of Terror movie?
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Gonz posted:Mission to Mars had some neat scenes and concepts. And Ennio Morricone did the drat soundtrack. It was the last pg-13 movie I can remember that had a particularly gruesome on screen death.
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Hedrigall posted:.....there was a Tower of Terror movie? 
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I’m honestly surprised they haven’t forced the Mandalorian to do an episode or two set on Batuu.
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I'm also unfamiliar with the Tower of Terror movie. I found what appears to be a trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln1LVfUSa2U), but it really looks more like a commercial for the ride or a fan film or something. Those exterior shots of the hotel look like they came from someone's home video. Was this just shown as you're waiting to get on the ride?
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DorianGravy posted:I'm also unfamiliar with the Tower of Terror movie. I found what appears to be a trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln1LVfUSa2U), but it really looks more like a commercial for the ride or a fan film or something. Those exterior shots of the hotel look like they came from someone's home video. Was this just shown as you're waiting to get on the ride? I had to look it up and it’s a TV movie which would explain why it looks bad. The ride is based off the Twilight Zone IP, which is not in the movie at all.
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Gonz posted:Mission to Mars had some neat scenes and concepts. And Ennio Morricone did the drat soundtrack. I remember that there's a standard "Astronaut BBQ" scene at the start that had Dr Pepper in these containers that I thought were really cool at the time, and I thought about often because they just seemed extremely "futuristic" to me, but were basically just these 
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Good to see The Asylum has found somewhere else to dump their poo poo besides Syfy Channel on Saturday nights.
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Tubi actually has some good stuff, weirdly, it’s just drowning in an ocean of poo poo
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joylessdivision posted:Good to see The Asylum has found somewhere else to dump their poo poo besides Syfy Channel on Saturday nights. Asylum has it's own block on Peacock, the NBC Universal streaming service. I think any free streaming service has their movies. They get around.
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It's disappointing how bad all of the sequels to Pirates of the Caribbean were, because the first movie is legitimately good. It definitely feels a lot like the Matrix trilogy, where you have a good initial concept but when you try to expand it out beyond the first movie it just falls apart under too much bloat.
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The thing is, I don't think you need to expand it very much. Just make a series of fun supernatural swashbuckling movies. Center the movies on different nautical folklore. There's no need for epic two-parters about the fate of the world. Towards the end of the first movie, Jack Sparrow is listening to all of his crimes/adventures as he's about to be executed. I'd like more stories like that.
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aware of dog posted:Tubi actually has some good stuff, weirdly, it’s just drowning in an ocean of poo poo maybe they can snatch up Quibi and broadcast their content on something besides a phone
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Julius CSAR posted:I remember that there's a standard "Astronaut BBQ" scene at the start that had Dr Pepper in these containers that I thought were really cool at the time, and I thought about often because they just seemed extremely "futuristic" to me, but were basically just these I will always defend Mission to Mars because I think it's in the category of "bland sci-fi". Totally great, nobody's phoning it in, but it's just something you could fall asleep to. 2010: The Year We Make Contact is another example. Also I'm obsessed with the astronaut bbq trope.
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Pirates 3 had a great soundtrack, and for that I can't completely hate it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzsqAjJnMdA
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DorianGravy posted:I'm also unfamiliar with the Tower of Terror movie. I found what appears to be a trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln1LVfUSa2U), but it really looks more like a commercial for the ride or a fan film or something. Those exterior shots of the hotel look like they came from someone's home video. Was this just shown as you're waiting to get on the ride? They showed it on Disney fairly frequently around Halloween. I believe it was made for the channel. I remember liking it as a kid.
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DorianGravy posted:The thing is, I don't think you need to expand it very much. Just make a series of fun supernatural swashbuckling movies. Center the movies on different nautical folklore. There's no need for epic two-parters about the fate of the world. Towards the end of the first movie, Jack Sparrow is listening to all of his crimes/adventures as he's about to be executed. I'd like more stories like that. Gotta love the grin when 'impersonating a member of the clergy' comes up.
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DorianGravy posted:The thing is, I don't think you need to expand it very much. Just make a series of fun supernatural swashbuckling movies. Center the movies on different nautical folklore. There's no need for epic two-parters about the fate of the world. Towards the end of the first movie, Jack Sparrow is listening to all of his crimes/adventures as he's about to be executed. I'd like more stories like that. There's a neat ps2 game called The Legend of Jack Sparrow that's entirely that last part - Jack and will are at their public hangings, and Jack is pulling a Scheherazade by making up ludicrous adventures to buy them time by entertaining their audience (some based on the first movie, some about things that were MENTIONED in the movies like how Jack took that one port town without firing a single shot, and some completely made up whole cloth weirdness involving a deal with the chinese that goes south and results in a fight with a dragon.) That game owned.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I will always defend Mission to Mars because I think it's in the category of "bland sci-fi". Totally great, nobody's phoning it in, but it's just something you could fall asleep to. 2010: The Year We Make Contact is another example. I’ve been to astronaut bbqs and I adore that Mission to Mars included one. It’s not a great movie, but it’s a fun 50s-60s space disaster flick that somehow got made 40 years too late. It’s a serious guilty pleasure of mine, to the point where I imported the German blu-ray just because it’ll never see a stateside release. The Morricone soundtrack is worth the price of admission alone, too.
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BioEnchanted posted:There's a neat ps2 game called The Legend of Jack Sparrow that's entirely that last part - Jack and will are at their public hangings, and Jack is pulling a Scheherazade by making up ludicrous adventures to buy them time by entertaining their audience (some based on the first movie, some about things that were MENTIONED in the movies like how Jack took that one port town without firing a single shot, and some completely made up whole cloth weirdness involving a deal with the chinese that goes south and results in a fight with a dragon.) We need more games that do things like this.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I will always defend Mission to Mars because I think it's in the category of "bland sci-fi". Totally great, nobody's phoning it in, but it's just something you could fall asleep to. 2010: The Year We Make Contact is another example. I unironically love 2010 and I think it'd be much better regarded if it didn't have to follow one of the all-time legends.
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aware of dog posted:Tubi actually has some good stuff, weirdly, it’s just drowning in an ocean of poo poo Everyone needs to watch Halloween at Old Aunt Ethels
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I will always defend Mission to Mars because I think it's in the category of "bland sci-fi". Totally great, nobody's phoning it in, but it's just something you could fall asleep to. 2010: The Year We Make Contact is another example.
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DorianGravy posted:I'm also unfamiliar with the Tower of Terror movie. I found what appears to be a trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln1LVfUSa2U), but it really looks more like a commercial for the ride or a fan film or something. Those exterior shots of the hotel look like they came from someone's home video. Was this just shown as you're waiting to get on the ride? This is a fan trailer.
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Snowman_McK posted:i feel like there's a good movie about the destruction of bruce willis' career to be made. In retrospect he never should have left moonlighting.
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Speaking of nice bland science fiction here is the tiniest spoiler for the very excellent show For All Mankind: There is an astronaut bbq.
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Aren't astronaut backyard cookouts pretty standard for the genre? There's one in The Right Stuff, Apollo 13,.. I feel like if you're showing astronauts bonding on Earth, you're showing them at a bbq.
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Young Freud posted:Asylum has it's own block on Peacock, the NBC Universal streaming service. I think any free streaming service has their movies. They get around. I mean, on the one hand good on em, I remember when they had maybe 2 or 3 movies out period, then while working in video stores I got to see the mockbuster thing really start to pick up. On the other, 99% of what they produce is utterly poo poo. Occasionally they stumbled on a semi-decent knock off horror movie.
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