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Is anyone else looking forward to WB's Attack on Titan live-action adaptation? Odds are real high they gently caress it up lol, but if by some miracle they don't and approach the source material with the same care and passion as they did the Harry Potter films, I really feel like Attack on Titan could be their next big franchise IP. I know it's anime  but I'm being honest when I say it's one of the most topically poignant and stronger narrative works of the past decade that I've invested myself in. It's a surprisingly weighty political drama/mystery thriller that comments on racial oppression, military superpowers/militarism, and extremism wrapped up in a hyper violent horror actioner that's embellished with some Weird rear end Crazy Anime poo poo™. There are no fillers either, which is crazy to me since the show is nearly 70 episodes in—each and every one is absolutely integral to plot and character.Last I checked, Andy Muschietti (director of the It remake) is attached to helm the adaptation. Good choice I think (even if I didn't like It Chapter 2), considering how well he worked with a group of characters as kids and continued their stories as they got older; parallels the core group of characters in AoT. But I feel like as with most WB projects, he's gonna end up leaving it lmao. I also hope WB considers shying away from adapting AoT into movies—the material is primed to be a "prestige" miniseries for HBO Max imo. [edit] LOL, talkin' bout ANIME on the page snipe [edit 2] If I somehow managed to pique your interest, AoT seasons 1 through 3 are available to stream on Hulu, and is up to date with season 4 which is currently ongoing (new episodes drop every Sunday). teagone fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Feb 2, 2021 |
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At the very least it will create a situation where the big budget Hollywood adaptation of a manga is more faithful to the racial representation in the manga than the Japanese movie adaptation was, and I will find that pretty funny.
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Fuuuuuck those Japanese live-action adaptations. They were absolutely terrible, yeah. So many questionable changes to the source material. [edit] I was just reminded of the attempted rape scene in the Japanese live-action version (which is NOT in the manga/anime). Seriously, gently caress those movies. teagone fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Feb 2, 2021 |
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Feb 2, 2021 16:35
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I had some edibles when I saw pikachu and it was a joy. I cried when he was fighting mewtwo with the parade balloons. He was so small but he wouldn't give up!
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Judas and the Black Messiah is really good. My only complaint is they made Martin Sheen look like Big Boy from Dick Tracy so it was hard to take him seriously whenever he was on screen.
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ruddiger posted:Judas and the Black Messiah is really good. My only complaint is they made Martin Sheen look like Big Boy from Dick Tracy so it was hard to take him seriously whenever he was on screen. How'd you see it?
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I really liked Detective Pikachu, and I wasn’t on edibles! But I’m a sucker for any kind of noir and I also still regularly play Pokemon, so it was firmly in my wheelhouse. Also absolutely wild it was one of the only recent blockbusters to shoot on film instead of digital.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:How'd you see it? Academy screener.
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Isn't everything technically an Academy Screener these days??
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El Gallinero Gros posted:How'd you see it? It'll be available on HBO Max on the 12th.
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I'm excited for it. I listened to Dollop's episode about Fred. Dave and Gareth didn't exactly beat around the bush about Fred's death and who was responsible
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ruddiger posted:Judas and the Black Messiah is really good. My only complaint is they made Martin Sheen look like Big Boy from Dick Tracy so it was hard to take him seriously whenever he was on screen. Never heard of this till now but I looked it up and I'm making big emoji eyes at that cast. I need to get hbo max
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That wasn't the original title was it? I remember watching the trailer last year and it didn't have that name.
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ruddiger posted:Judas and the Black Messiah is really good Review embargo's up btw https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/judas_and_the_black_messiah 99% after 71 reviews edit: Vincent posted:That wasn't the original title was it? I remember watching the trailer last year and it didn't have that name. Correct, the original title was Jesus Was My Homeboy https://filmschoolrejects.com/jesus-was-my-homeboy-movie/ Chris James 2 fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Feb 3, 2021 |
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Huh. The drive in in Glendale is playing the Monster Hunter movie. I had no idea it even had a US release in any form yet.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:Detective Pikachu should have leaned into the weird poo poo harder. Give me more Mewtwo-as-Pokemon-Moses, Dittos that pass for human, more of the "oh by the way this entire area is inhabited by pokemon the size of tectonic plates," etc. It feels like a weird movie in that I think it's clearly trying to play it safe as a big-budget video game adaptation when it comes to structure, complete with the whole forest sequence being basically a shoehorned in action scene. Though it's funny given pretty much all the crazy poo poo in the movies has at least some basis in the anime, which even has a full on kaiju fight between massive ancient tattooed Pokemon contained in what look like ancient equivalents of Pokeballs (but they wuss out and have everyone get knocked out and think it was a dream) and Ditto being able to do crazy poo poo. (Also one episode with a Ditto who's able to change form but not size, and so when it turns into a much larger Pokemon it ends up just being an adorable tiny version of it)
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The Detective Pikachu movie was good because it starts with the main character's friend trying to help him get over his dead mother by getting him to capture a pokemon who wears the skull of its dead mother.
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https://twitter.com/adam_piron/status/1356400058573361153?s=20 This is such a blast, god drat Orson was the man.
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Good idea to pay him in cash instead of wine. Paul Masson didn't have that idea. I mean he's still clearly pretty drunk but not Paul Masson wine drunk.
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duz posted:The Detective Pikachu movie was good because it starts with the main character's friend trying to help him get over his dead mother by getting him to capture a pokemon who wears the skull of its dead mother. He doesn't get enough credit for carrying the movie. I do like that you have someone who's introduced to the dynamics of the Pokemon world and shown participating in it, but ultimately turns it down to lead a normal (by audience standards) life, though not without regrets, and ultimately comes to engage with the world and with Pokemon on his own terms and in his own way. Enough that the morose, bad-tempered genetically engineered bioweapon with justified grudges against humanity likes him.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It feels like a weird movie in that I think it's clearly trying to play it safe as a big-budget video game adaptation when it comes to structure, complete with the whole forest sequence being basically a shoehorned in action scene. Though it's funny given pretty much all the crazy poo poo in the movies has at least some basis in the anime, which even has a full on kaiju fight between massive ancient tattooed Pokemon contained in what look like ancient equivalents of Pokeballs (but they wuss out and have everyone get knocked out and think it was a dream) and Ditto being able to do crazy poo poo. (Also one episode with a Ditto who's able to change form but not size, and so when it turns into a much larger Pokemon it ends up just being an adorable tiny version of it) The video games get wild; in the post-game of the remake of Ruby and Sapphire, they lay out that when an asteroid hit the world, two different timelines developed, hence why there are two Generation 3 games. You also fight a Pokemon that's the embodiment of DNA.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:https://twitter.com/adam_piron/status/1356400058573361153?s=20 Yeah, this is terrific. Just so charming and cozy. Now I just want to live in a world where Welles owned a casino and walked the floor watching random games, making pithy comments, and giving reminders that the buffet is half off for the next hour. The man may not have had the career he wanted, but he sure gave the rest of us boundless riches.
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BEHOLD! Your February Movie of the Month thread! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3958062
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:https://twitter.com/adam_piron/status/1356400058573361153?s=20 This isn't what I expected, based on the title.
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TrixRabbi posted:BEHOLD! Your February Movie of the Month thread! I love “Behold!” I recently sent out a work email to a bunch of people with a transaction summary sheet for a film which started like that.
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therattle posted:I love “Behold!” I recently sent out a work email to a bunch of people with a transaction summary sheet for a film which started like that. 
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feedmyleg posted:Yeah, this is terrific. Just so charming and cozy. Now I just want to live in a world where Welles owned a casino and walked the floor watching random games, making pithy comments, and giving reminders that the buffet is half off for the next hour. You want him to run a casino really more than anything.
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Nice If anyone is interested I can post a template transaction summary sheet. It gives an overview of the whole film financing structure and the various elements that go into it.
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That’d be neat!
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Might watch the Gerard Butler estranged family disaster movie Greenland, I feel like it's been a bit since there was a comet one
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X-Ray Pecs posted:The video games get wild; in the post-game of the remake of Ruby and Sapphire, they lay out that when an asteroid hit the world, two different timelines developed, hence why there are two Generation 3 games. You also fight a Pokemon that's the embodiment of DNA. Multiverse/split timeline theory makes a shitload of sense with the way the Pokemon games work. Funny thing is, Torterra as a choice for your gigantification experiments makes sense, since as a hybrid Grass type, you don't have to worry as much about feeding them since they're self-sustaining ecosystems, and as demonstrated you can hide them in the scenery.
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Huh. I guess it shouldn't be a surprise, but Black Rain rules? I mean, it has no story and barely had any characters but what a gorgeous film with a chill vibe and way less racism than I was expecting.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:https://twitter.com/adam_piron/status/1356400058573361153?s=20 Yeah, I feel like I somehow understand Baccarat and Craps less now than I did before, but am nevertheless happy to just let his dulcet tones wash over me and take me to a place that smells faintly of cigar smoke in shag carpet and sounds like quiet murmuring and the tinkling of ice cubes in rock glasses.
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feedmyleg posted:Huh. I guess it shouldn't be a surprise, but Black Rain rules? I mean, it has no story and barely had any characters but what a gorgeous film with a chill vibe and way less racism than I was expecting. The soundtrack is just  It shouldn't be a huge surprise given who directed it and when, but yeah it's basically got the same chill vibes as blade runner
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I'm watching this pretty ok Poverty Row-ish movie called Scared To Death (1947), and I can see how people found Bela Lugosi's decline sad, they barely wrote a character for him in this. It's the most "say the line, Bart!" poo poo ever. Did these people see those great Lugosi/Karloff movies? He wasn't playing the same character in all of those!Simiain posted:Yeah, I feel like I somehow understand Baccarat and Craps less now than I did before, but am nevertheless happy to just let his dulcet tones wash over me and take me to a place that smells faintly of cigar smoke in shag carpet and sounds like quiet murmuring and the tinkling of ice cubes in rock glasses. I want him to give the craps lecture but it's just in an alley in Spanish Harlem or something. HUNDU THE BEAST GOD fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Feb 5, 2021 |
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The real treasure in that video is the youtube comments with people recounting their stories of Orson at Caesar's Palace.
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Anyone know any good docs about the toy industry of the 80’s? The asinine proliferation of stuff like He-Man, the government regulations surrounding children’s’ TV, the satanic panic, the importation and westernization of Japanese properties, subjects like that?
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I have posted a link to a blank transaction summary sheet. This was an initiative led by the British Film Institute, which also provides equity funding to films. It's applicable to pretty much any independent film, and a very useful tool for outlining an entire film financing transaction, including the interplay between financing and production. My job is pretty much everything leading up to here, populating this document (with some help from producers), and then resolving the various issues that it raises, moving into closing the financing. The TSS is not usually completed 100% with everything resolved - it gets advanced far enough so that everyone understands the transaction sufficiently well to draft their own agreements, to help resolve initial issues, and highlight those that are still open. Feel free to ask questions. https://www.dropbox.com/s/k51oy3gz6kw3vyi/Transaction%20Summary%20Sheet.doc?dl=0 therattle fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Feb 5, 2021 |
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Christopher Plummer has died. After losing Max von Sydow last year we're rapidly running out of actors who have played old men for half their careers 😔
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