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DeathSandwich
Apr 24, 2008

I fucking hate puzzles.

achillesforever6 posted:

Now I'm reminded of how rough Tim Curry looks right now :smith:

To be fair, the guy is almost 70. He can't be Frank-N-Furter forever.

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computer parts
Nov 18, 2010

PLEASE CLAP

DeathSandwich posted:

To be fair, the guy is almost 70. He can't be Frank-N-Furter forever.

His role on Criminal Minds is legitimately one of the most disgusting antagonists I've ever seen.

achillesforever6
Apr 23, 2012

psst you wanna do a communism?

DeathSandwich posted:

To be fair, the guy is almost 70. He can't be Frank-N-Furter forever.
No its more he had a stroke and is in a wheelchair

hemale in pain
Jun 5, 2010




Aw thanks guys, now I know Tim curry had a stroke :(

General Ironicus
Aug 21, 2008

Something about this feels kinda hinky

hemale in pain posted:

Aw thanks guys, now I know Tim curry had a stroke :(

The news hit him harder than it did you.

Tars Tarkas
Apr 13, 2003

Rock the Mok



A nasty woman, I think you should try is, Jess.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYD5japaxsg

rejutka
May 28, 2004

by zen death robot
That looks fantastic.

Judge Ito Boxing
Oct 29, 2011

There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.
How long has RFP had a drone? :holy:

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

Judge Ito Boxing posted:

How long has RFP had a drone? :holy:

Haha, you noticed that too! I was trying to figure out if they were shooting from the rooftops but some of those shots panned up too smooth to be done by a bunch of guys on a roof or a jury-rigged crane, but drones have gotten ridiculously cheap that I'd believe that Ramon Film Productions could probably afford a $100 drone.

MechanicalTomPetty
Oct 30, 2011

Runnin' down a dream
That never would come to me
I've never even thought about using drones in film productions before, but yeah it shouldn't be to hard at all to set one up these days.

You could probably save a lot of money on aerial shots that way.

MechanicalTomPetty fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Jan 6, 2016

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

MechanicalTomPetty posted:

I've never even thought about using drones in film productions before, but yeah it shouldn't be to hard at all to set one up these days.

You could probably save a lot of money on aerial shots that way.

I hate to say this, but I was turned on (no pun intended) to this fact when I was watching a relatively-recent porno and they shot some of the photo model prologue bits with a drone: there was a couple high angle shots of the pornstar lounging at the pool and I was wondering if they actually got a crane or a helicopter until I saw the shadow of a quadrotor hovering at the edge of the frame.

If they're employing quadrotors in porn, then it's likely a lot of people are using them for aerial or crane shots nowadays, especially since they're cheap enough for independent filmmakers now.

For instance, here's a drone operator replicating the famous shot of the ECTO-1 crossing the Brooklyn Bridge in Ghostbusters...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3NDPBwQGJs

Young Freud fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Jan 6, 2016

DeathSandwich
Apr 24, 2008

I fucking hate puzzles.

achillesforever6 posted:

No its more he had a stroke and is in a wheelchair

Well I learned something new today. :smith:

Tars Tarkas
Apr 13, 2003

Rock the Mok



A nasty woman, I think you should try is, Jess.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w7V0RErX4U

quote:

The journey of a professional wrestler who becomes a small town pastor and moonlights as a masked vigilante fighting injustice. While facing crises at home and at the church, the Pastor must evade the police and somehow reconcile his violent secret identity with his calling as a pastor.

Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009




Supa Bastard!



Young Freud posted:

If they're employing quadrotors in porn, then it's likely a lot of people are using them for aerial or crane shots nowadays, especially since they're cheap enough for independent filmmakers now.

I've heard that drone use for filmmaking has actually become a navigational hazard in LA.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Young Freud posted:

I hate to say this, but I was turned on (no pun intended) to this fact when I was watching a relatively-recent porno and they shot some of the photo model prologue bits with a drone: there was a couple high angle shots of the pornstar lounging at the pool and I was wondering if they actually got a crane or a helicopter until I saw the shadow of a quadrotor hovering at the edge of the frame.

If they're employing quadrotors in porn, then it's likely a lot of people are using them for aerial or crane shots nowadays, especially since they're cheap enough for independent filmmakers now.

For instance, here's a drone operator replicating the famous shot of the ECTO-1 crossing the Brooklyn Bridge in Ghostbusters...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3NDPBwQGJs
Cool but probably at least a couple different kinds of illegal.

JediTalentAgent
Jun 5, 2005
Hey, look. Look, if- if you screw me on this, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine, you rat bastard!
The mention of replicating a shot from Ghostbusters made me think of this: Someone apparently driving through the long-closed The Dixie Square Mall from Blues Brothers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHJNr81kAVY

I wished they'd done a better job of trying to frame shots to look like the original, though.
(Apparently from a documentary called "Return to Chicago")

Tars Tarkas
Apr 13, 2003

Rock the Mok



A nasty woman, I think you should try is, Jess.


quote:

The Ridiculous Six racked up more views during its first 30 days of availability than any other movie in Netflix's history, a designation that includes both the service's burgeoning original films and its licensed properties. "The Ridiculous Six, by way of example, in the first 30 days on Netflix it's been the most-watched movie in the history of Netflix," said Sarandos. "It's also enjoyed a spot at #1 in every territory we operate in, and in many of them it's still #1."


http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/6/10724288/netflix-ces-2016-the-ridiculous-six-most-watched-movie

Sleeveless
Dec 25, 2014

by Pragmatica

Nacho Libre already exists.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

Young Freud posted:

drones have gotten ridiculously cheap that I'd believe that Ramon Film Productions could probably afford a $100 drone.

They had a Kickstarter campaign last March asking for a modest $160 towards a new film and pulled in $13,181
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wakaliwood/help-build-a-ugandan-action-movie-studio-wakaliwoo

They also have a Patreon page which pulls in $230.24 per month:
https://www.patreon.com/wakaliwood

Someone should get a copy of their DVDs and send them to the Red Letter Media guys, that'd be a hell of a signal boost

Len
Jan 21, 2008

Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!



That makes me sad.

Zero One
Dec 30, 2004

HAIL TO THE VICTORS!

Seems like if you have a Netflix sub already and people are talking about how bad something is you might take a look because it doesn't cost you any extra.

Sleeveless
Dec 25, 2014

by Pragmatica
I wonder how many of those views came from ironic hatewatching, and if any of the people doing it stopped to think that Netflix's algorithm doesn't measure irony.

MechanicalTomPetty
Oct 30, 2011

Runnin' down a dream
That never would come to me
Does that list only count people who watched the whole thing?

MechanicalTomPetty fucked around with this message at 07:57 on Jan 7, 2016

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

Put it all together.
Solve the world.
One conversation at a time.



tbf a lot of people probably turned it on during parties and people watched/didn't watch while drunk

Josh Lyman
May 24, 2009


Zero One posted:

Seems like if you have a Netflix sub already and people are talking about how bad something is you might take a look because it doesn't cost you any extra.
Yeah, as depressing as it ostensibly is, you can't conclude too much without the actual data. It's the first widely-publicized movie that release on Netflix and also covered the holiday season, so course it's going to get a lot of initial 30-day viewers.

wyoming
Jun 7, 2010

Like a television
tuned to a dead channel.
Netflix now has a Sharknado of it's own.

Grendels Dad
Mar 5, 2011

Popular culture has passed you by.

Maybe it's because I watched this without sound and half-distracted by work, but this looks good. Was expecting Kevin Sorbo, though.

MrBling
Aug 21, 2003

Oozing machismo

Grendels Dad posted:

Maybe it's because I watched this without sound and half-distracted by work, but this looks good. Was expecting Kevin Sorbo, though.

For a low budget movie populated by nobodies (and Roddy Piper) they at least had the common sense to have the bad guy be a trained pro wrestler, to make the in-ring stuff look decent.

Skeezy
Jul 3, 2007

computer parts posted:

His role on Criminal Minds is legitimately one of the most disgusting antagonists I've ever seen.

Those two episodes are great. He's really loving good at playing disgusting creepy bad guy.

VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE
Aug 1, 2004

whoa, what just happened here?







College Slice

Skeezy posted:

Those two episodes are great. He's really loving good at playing disgusting creepy bad guy.

Pennywise? Say it ain't so!

Hostile V
May 31, 2013

Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

broken clock opsec posted:

Pennywise? Say it ain't so!
Different breed of creep. His character in Criminal Minds is an insomniac who abuses meth to stay awake and lives in a filthy RV. He travels around the US breaking into houses to terrorize families. The drug abuse, his insomnia and lovely lifestyle make him look like a pathetic wreck but he's still a dangerous monster, like a Richard Ramirez who never got caught for 20 years.

Sir Kodiak
May 14, 2007


Isn't an insomniac precisely who wouldn't need drugs to stay awake?

Hostile V
May 31, 2013

Solving all of life's problems through enhanced casting of Occam's Razor. Reward yourself with an imaginary chalice.

Sir Kodiak posted:

Isn't an insomniac precisely who wouldn't need drugs to stay awake?
He lives in a RV and kills people and isn't a multiplayer FPS character or tabletop RPG character, he clearly isn't the bastion of good choices.

Sirotan
Oct 17, 2006

Sirotan is a seal.


Young Freud posted:

I hate to say this, but I was turned on (no pun intended) to this fact when I was watching a relatively-recent porno and they shot some of the photo model prologue bits with a drone: there was a couple high angle shots of the pornstar lounging at the pool and I was wondering if they actually got a crane or a helicopter until I saw the shadow of a quadrotor hovering at the edge of the frame.

If they're employing quadrotors in porn, then it's likely a lot of people are using them for aerial or crane shots nowadays, especially since they're cheap enough for independent filmmakers now.

For instance, here's a drone operator replicating the famous shot of the ECTO-1 crossing the Brooklyn Bridge in Ghostbusters...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3NDPBwQGJs

lol, of course Boomerjinks is somehow involved with this.

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.


Roddy Piper's last movie :smith:

I saw him as a bad guy in this 1995 Die Hard knockoff No Contest (Die Hard at a beauty pageant with Shannon Tweed and Andrew Dice Clay) and he went full ham, it was the best.

Uncle Wemus
Mar 4, 2004

Wow a fresh new thread! Feels warm.

Im wondering if gods of egypt will be the next battlefield LA and will be highly praised by smg and the like. Not sure why i just get that vibe.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

sucks to be right

Luigi Thirty posted:

Roddy Piper's last movie :smith:

His imdb.com page shows that he's got roles in a few more films that are still in post production, including a movie about the history of absinthe where he plays Oscar Wilde.

ChickenMedium
Sep 2, 2001
Forum Veteran And Professor Emeritus of Condiment Studies

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

His imdb.com page shows that he's got roles in a few more films that are still in post production, including a movie about the history of absinthe where he plays Oscar Wilde.

There is entirely too much cocaine available in Hollywood.

kalel
Jun 19, 2012

New thread looks good, pumped for another year of hopeless disasters!

Question: how come neither of the Jungle Book movies have been listed yet?

edit: my bad, I didn't look hard enough :downs:

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computer parts
Nov 18, 2010

PLEASE CLAP
Crossposting from the Netflix thread:

So I was bored today and I saw Lee Daniels' The Butler was on Netflix so I decided to watch it.

Overall I'd say it's a pretty good movie. I remember a lot of people criticizing it for trying to downplay the Civil Rights movement, but what it's really about is the Civil Rights experience from a middle class black perspective. Cecil Gaines grew up as an Alabama sharecropper and saw his father murdered right in front of him. This instilled in him a sense of caution about directly opposing the white man. At the same time, he fights to get his children a better life, and by the time the film really kicks off he has a comfortable middle class house in DC (his wife is Oprah).

While he's generally the perspective character, we're clearly not meant to sympathize with him. He is set in his ways, and this leads him to fight regularly with his son, Louis (David Oyelowo, who is MLK in Selma ). Louis is the character that we most often identify with throughout the film. Early on, he questions why there's not a single white student at his high school graduation. He eventually joins up with the Freedom Riders (and is attacked there), is jailed multiple times, and eventually joins the Black Panthers. Comparisons can be drawn to Jenny from Forrest Gump, but he takes a very different track. While he does leave the Black Panthers because he finds them too extreme, he never really gives up his rebellious spirit, eventually being jailed again in the 80s for protesting apartheid.

Being that this is set in the White House, there must be some discussion of the Presidents. In general I would say they're trying to get the tone of the Presidents off first, and then make them not look too bad. Robin Williams as Eisenhower is the only one that kind of breaks this trend, but James Marsden as JFK and Lieb Schreiber as LBJ definitely get their personalities across. A special mention to John Cusack as Richard Nixon, who gets his scumminess across early on as Eisenhower's VP, and then later on as he's drunk on the couch during Watergate. Last but not least, it's really interesting how the right haircut can make Alan Rickman seem like Ronald Reagan from a distance (although the accent kind of poked through).

If I had criticisms about this film, it's primarily at the beginning. We get this extended look at Cecil's past, including his father getting shot and his mother getting raped, which later leads her to be "sick in the head" (as he put it). This is accompanied by a voice over which is basically Cecil telling you how he felt. I get that it was kind of hard to get the point across, but it felt very lazy, even though other voiceovers in the film weren't nearly as jarring. We kind of know who Cecil is by the time he gets tapped for the Butler position, at least as much as any of the other black butlers.

In summary: The Butler is a story about a conservative black man struggling with his fears of the past and experiencing the tumultuous change that occurred in our nation 50 years ago. 8/10

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