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Kylaer posted:It's an honor to have you posting with us, governor. My political career is over before its even started.
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Hasselblad posted:What are your views on Blazing Saddles? Tropic Thunder? Blazing Saddles is obviously a classic. I remember Tropic Thunder being fairly entertaining for what it was, although I never really have a desire to revisit it and imagine it has aged pretty badly.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Imagine thinking you're making a good point by comparing Blazing Saddles, a movie that constantly punches up, to a Sandler movie.
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TK-42-1 posted:tropic thunder is still pretty great I love Tropic Thunder, though I can see how people have problems with it. It's definitely trying to ride that line of "making fun of people doing the thing by doing the thing".
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latinotwink1997 posted:My political career is over before its even started. At least you got to be the prime minister of Canada.
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Alhazred posted:At least you got to be the prime minister of Canada. Amazing how the guy who did black face and offensive cultural cosplay MULTIPLE TIMES was somehow not the most horrifyingly racist candidate running in that election 
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Hasselblad posted:What are your views on Blazing Saddles? Tropic Thunder? That it would be a bad year to release either of those movies.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:I think it was actually leaked details about Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix that brought Hollywood Accounting into the public light. That was before the Sony hack. My point was that Sony would pay a large amount of money to prevent sensitive financial data that could be used against them.
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TK-42-1 posted:tropic thunder is still pretty great  better off with The Cable Guy imo
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Punkin Spunkin posted:i didn't really think it was really that funny when it came out so I watched it again last week at it made me laugh even harder than it did the first time. You could not film it today.
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Tropic Thunder was one of those movies that was immensely clever, well-constructed, and I agree that it's funny, but I never actually laughed once. I think "Hollywood doing Hollywood" just stopped being funny to me a long time ago.
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I love these stupid clickbait sites. But honestly this sounds like the normal musk/star citizen/etc mentality
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When was the GRRM is not your bitch quote originally said? 2008?
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:When was the GRRM is not your bitch quote originally said? 2008? Close, 2009. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5vw9RTVky4 Which eventually brought us this.
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GRRM is not your bitch. HBO is GRRM's though.
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gurm is def a bitch tho
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Are we sure GRRM doesnt get physically stimulated by making his fans sad?
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Apr 5, 2021 04:23
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N. Gaiman, whose TV adaptation dragged on and on and finally was never finished, and now you have to read the book to know how the story ends. Makes u think.
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Kuiperdolin posted:N. Gaiman, whose TV adaptation dragged on and on and finally was never finished, and now you have to read the book to know how the story ends. First time I ever read American Gods was the graphic novel adaptation which was pretty good, I feel. I am somewhat dreading the Sandman TV adaptation. There's no way they can fit that thing into a satisfactory season format.
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If Robert Smith doesn't have a cameo in Sandman then I hmm won't be happy. 
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Wow I just read about the production of American Gods, sounds like a nightmare. They went through so many showrunners and the experience caused Gaiman to cut his deal with Freemantle and go to Amazon.
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TeaJay posted:I am somewhat dreading the Sandman TV adaptation. There's no way they can fit that thing into a satisfactory season format. I'm baffled at how popular the audiobook adaptation is. A lot is missing when you don't have the visuals.
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Yeah a Sandman audiobook sounded really cool to me until I remembered "wait that one was a comic..." Did he rewrite what's happening in the panels as scene description? Or literally just all the imagery is gone?
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Ccs posted:Wow I just read about the production of American Gods, sounds like a nightmare. They went through so many showrunners and the experience caused Gaiman to cut his deal with Freemantle and go to Amazon. Got a link? I loved the first season of American Gods but everything that went down after the initial showrunner left just wasted so much potential.
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Mat Cauthon posted:Got a link? I loved the first season of American Gods but everything that went down after the initial showrunner left just wasted so much potential. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/american-gods-canceled-at-starz
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Ccs posted:Wow I just read about the production of American Gods, sounds like a nightmare. They went through so many showrunners and the experience caused Gaiman to cut his deal with Freemantle and go to Amazon. The season 1 to season 2 drop in quality of that show was amazing and heartbreaking.
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It probably weird to be a creator and have one show running fairly smoothly at Amazon (Good Omens) and one show tripping over itself and falling down the stairs at Starz. I can completely understand being like "maybe I'll go change my deal over to these folks who seem to know what they're doing..."
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TeaJay posted:I am somewhat dreading the Sandman TV adaptation. There's no way they can fit that thing into a satisfactory season format. Having limited familiarity with Sandman, I'm looking forward to it just for Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer
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Ccs posted:Yeah a Sandman audiobook sounded really cool to me until I remembered "wait that one was a comic..." It's done more like an audio drama than an audiobook. Some of it is re-written for clarity's sake and Gaiman does some new narration, but it's mostly the same dialogue with sound effects. I'd say if you're going through the story for the first time to definitely read the comics, but the audiobook isn't bad for a re-read/listen. It's actually really soothing to listen to while going to sleep.
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Sandman is going to turn out fine enough, it's beloved and old enough that people on the production side will definitely "get it" and give it their all. The problem is that the main narrative throughline is honestly kind-of weak and the strengths come from the anthology format which teased out the background of the main narrative and made it feel more substantial. I'm sure everyone involved will do their best, but even "gently caress You" money isn't going to be able to bounce between the height of Augustus' Rome to fae England in the 16th Century to Revolution-era Paris to 19th Century San Fransisco to a fairytale Bagdhad-alike without some serious production shortchanges. In other words I'm willing to bet everyone involved is banking on making a really good "Sound of Wings" and "Season of Mists" episodes, hoping that viral content carries them even though the whole is going to be rather weak.
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They can honestly skip a lot of the early DC comics character exposition, set the scene for a bit and then show the audience what Sandman is about with "24 hours". Sound of her wings will probably be good TV and then move onto "Collectors" from there.
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Ccs posted:It probably weird to be a creator and have one show running fairly smoothly at Amazon (Good Omens) and one show tripping over itself and falling down the stairs at Starz. I can completely understand being like "maybe I'll go change my deal over to these folks who seem to know what they're doing..." Good Omens is so drat good
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TK-42-1 posted:Good Omens is so drat good book yes, series no
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ChubbyChecker posted:book yes, series no the series has its faults but its still very enjoyable for what it is
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Thanks! I've never read Good Omens but if the ubiquity of gifs, fanart, etc on Tumblr from that show is any indication people really ate that poo poo up.
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Good Omens the series was just OK. Given the source material and the actors, I expected a little more. David Tennant is good but never quite gets to go wild. The child actor scenes and the witch hunter scenes are a snooze.
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Mat Cauthon posted:I've never read Good Omens but if the ubiquity of gifs, fanart, etc on Tumblr from that show is any indication people really ate that poo poo up.
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