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Hollismason posted:There's a new Ben-Hur? Yeah, it has Morgan Freeman as the Sheik and Jack Huston (Richard Harrow in Boardwalk Empire) as the titular character.
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So this Finnish heavy metal dinosaur themed band called Hevisaurus had a movie come out in November: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2eXICPPBdQ
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Hollismason posted:There's a new Ben-Hur? Directed by Timur Bekmambetov
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LORD OF BUTT posted:On a PG-13 zombie movie? I'm not buying it. https://letterboxd.com/film/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/reviews/by/added/
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Tars Tarkas posted:So this Finnish heavy metal dinosaur themed band called Hevisaurus had a movie come out in November: I look at that thumbnail and keep hearing "yee".
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The MSJ posted:Directed by Timur Bekmambetov Who saw his work and gave him the funding to do a new Ben-Hur?
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:The Night Watch guy? ...he's made a grand total of one not-great movie and it's not even his most recent one (Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter was a lot of fun).
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LORD OF BUTT posted:...he's made a grand total of one not-great movie and it's not even his most recent one (Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter was a lot of fun).
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Wasn't ALVH a complete box office failure though? It made about double its budget, so even with whatever screwy numbers you want to factor in there isn't absolutely terrible.
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computer parts posted:It made about double its budget, so even with whatever screwy numbers you want to factor in there isn't absolutely terrible.
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If you took all the worst aspects of Neveldine/Taylor, Michael Bay, and Joseph Khan, and none of the good parts, you'd get Bekmambetov. The notion that someone said 'Ya, this is the guy who should remake Ben Hur' is incredibly depressing.
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Saw The Revenant today and thought it was pretty great, though definitely not going to be everyone's cup of tea. This is a movie that deserves large-format viewing, which you're probably not going to get because of Star Wars: The IMAX Awakens. The plot and backstory are extremely standard and involve one of those Gladiator-style dead floaty fridge wives, there's no character development to speak of, and no humor or anything to break up the 2.5+ hour runtime. It's all in the visuals and if you don't like oldtime snowy hellscapes you may be out of luck. Domnhall Gleeson, who was in Ex Machina and Star Wars, was also in this movie.  Another thing to determine how eligible you are to watch this film is how long you think you can stand listening to Leo gasping and squealing in pain. How does 45+ minutes sound? Tom Hardy grunts. There's really good animal cgi.Some old guy next to me got up and left about 45 minutes in. The cheapskate idiot parents with the two five-year-olds in front of me never found any reason to remove them from the screening, even when one of them started crying in the aftermath of the rape scene. 
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Wasn't ALVH a complete box office failure though? I don't give a poo poo about the box office, but the carriage scene from ABLVH makes me super hype for his version of the chariot race.
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bullet3 posted:If you took all the worst aspects of Neveldine/Taylor, Michael Bay, and Joseph Khan, and none of the good parts, you'd get Bekmambetov. Well, the problem with N/T is that their sense of humor is legitimately really loving offensive sometimes, and that's a very large chunk of Bay's problem too. Bekmambetov's movies are pretty light on horrible misogyny and racism, from what I've seen. Joseph Kahn is actually a pretty comparable director. e: and yeah, AL:VH underperformed, but so did Dredd. Doesn't mean they aren't both sick as hell.
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tanglewood1420 posted:I watched the second half of the 1959 Ben-Hur over the holidays as it came up on a classic movie channel. I hadn't seen it in ages and had forgotten that even though it is horribly sanctimonious and dreadfully, painfully slow, Charlton Heston was a bonafide movie star and of course the chariot race sequence is really well done. The '59 movie pretty much exactly copied the 20's chariot race, because it was already perfect. Watch the silent version!
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effectual posted:The '59 movie pretty much exactly copied the 20's chariot race, because it was already perfect. Watch the silent version! The 1925 version also has one of the coolest effects tricks ever to create the scope of the circus. Basically the entire 3/4 of the arena is a miniature with little figurines in it rigged up so that someone to the side can make them rise and sit, and that whole thing is close to the camera while the actual chariots and lower three rows or so of the arena are quite a distance away. It lines up really well and the same technique has been employed in plenty of relatively recent stuff like Terminator 2 (much of the fire during the Cyberdine police shootout is on a smaller plate directly in front of the camera) and Lord of the Rings. Basically when you see the horses line up, anything you see above the lip of the wall above their heads in the whole scene is a perspective miniature trick, so awesome. Here we go, there was an actual making of clip on Youtube but I can'd find it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXoma6r6fUo Neo Rasa fucked around with this message at 05:04 on Jan 11, 2016 |
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turtlecrunch posted:Saw The Revenant today and thought it was pretty great, though definitely not going to be everyone's cup of tea. This is a movie that deserves large-format viewing, which you're probably not going to get because of Star Wars: The IMAX Awakens. The plot and backstory are extremely standard and involve one of those Gladiator-style dead floaty fridge wives, there's no character development to speak of, and no humor or anything to break up the 2.5+ hour runtime. It's all in the visuals and if you don't like oldtime snowy hellscapes you may be out of luck. Domnhall Gleeson, who was in Ex Machina and Star Wars, was also in this movie. Yeah, I enjoyed it as well, but I like movies about survival and I liked Gleeson Jr. (Didn't know he was in it, was pleasantly surprised). That said, it is a very Marmite movie (a.k.a love it or hate it). Also: of course some idiots brought kids to an R16 movie. This sort of thing makes me happy that I live in a country which enforces the movie ratings.
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effectual posted:The '59 movie pretty much exactly copied the 20's chariot race, because it was already perfect. Watch the silent version! Which one of those is the one where people died? Or is that just an urban legend?
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raditts posted:Which one of those is the one where people died? Or is that just an urban legend? 20's.
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Well, bad news to anyone that ever wanted a Labyrinth remake.
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computer parts posted:Well, bad news to anyone that ever wanted a Labyrinth remake. Who on Earth was calling for a Labyrinth remake? There's no way to go but down for that.
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piratepilates posted:Who on Earth was calling for a Labyrinth remake? There's no way to go but down for that. I thought they should have made one like 5 years ago with Bieber in the Connely part and Lady Gaga in the Bowie one. Now Bieber is too old for it to work.
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I don't think they should remake the labyrinth and fuuuuuuuuuck anyone rear end in a top hat in Hollywood capable of such a thing who even thinks of trying
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piratepilates posted:Who on Earth was calling for a Labyrinth remake? There's no way to go but down for that. HE CHOSE DOOOOOOWWNNNNNNN!!!!!! 
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computer parts posted:Well, bad news to anyone that ever wanted a Labyrinth remake. Isn't it good news or no news? I'm not familiar with a law that says remakes have to use the original cast. In fact, it seems they often use new actors. Can you elaborate?
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Mustached5thGrader posted:Isn't it good news or no news? I'm not familiar with a law that says remakes have to use the original cast. In fact, it seems they often use new actors. Can you elaborate? R.I.P. David Bowie.
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It would have been a Labyrinth sequel instead of a remake. You could probably still do it with the afore-mentioned Lady Gaga in his place, with the focus on Connelly's now-grown brother maybe becoming the new Goblin King or not (brother played by Zac Efron), and maybe cast an actress as Jennifer Connelly's daughter or something, though Connelly looks young enough they could be fluid with the time between the films if they wanted to. Whatever gets me more Sir Didymus is fine with me, plot is unimportant! The closest we got to a sequel was MirrorMask. There is a manga sequel that I haven't read because it is manga and I haven't bothered to track it down, and also an episode of Muppet Babies is sort of a sequel in that it uses the same plot and clips from the show. I thought there was a comic book sequel but I don't think that ever got published. Muppet Babies also has an episode with Stan Lee, which means you can argue it is part of the Marvel Universe, especially since now Disney owns the Muppets. So Kermit better help defeat Thanos in 2019.
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Tars Tarkas posted:There is a manga sequel that I haven't read because it is manga and I haven't bothered to track it down Do not do this, because holy poo poo it was bad. The short version is that Jareth's going to die soon and so he a) Voldemorted his power into some other beings a while back to b) reclaim those somehow-not-dying splinters to get revenge on Sarah who c) doesn't remember any of the movie at all while d) he uses a now-teenaged Toby to be his pawn and not lose his crown the whole time. Spoilers: he fails and the art is atrocious.
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ZakAce posted:Yeah, I enjoyed it as well, but I like movies about survival and I liked Gleeson Jr. (Didn't know he was in it, was pleasantly surprised). That said, it is a very Marmite movie (a.k.a love it or hate it). I didn't know this when I saw it, but Revenant was the actual nickname they gave to the guy irl.
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Around ten years or so back, wasn't there an actual Labyrinth sequel that was in pre-production, but got cancelled? I remember hearing that Genndy Tartakovsky was involved. Or maybe I'm thinking of a Dark Crystal sequel instead. In any case, I was hoping Bowie would be in Zoolander 2.
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So, Ridley Scott may be directing/Producing a movie version of The Prisoner. I think Christopher Nolan wanted to direct one years ago, which actually would have been a good fit.
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Tars Tarkas posted:It would have been a Labyrinth sequel instead of a remake. All remakes should be required to star their original cast in the same roles. Chairman Capone posted:Around ten years or so back, wasn't there an actual Labyrinth sequel that was in pre-production, but got cancelled? I remember hearing that Genndy Tartakovsky was involved. Or maybe I'm thinking of a Dark Crystal sequel instead. Dark Crystal. It was supposed to be from the Samurai Jack/Clone Wars 2D/Dexter's Lab guy. But now he's giving us multiple Hotel Transylvania movies instead. I remember reading that they'd done effects tests of puppets in CGI environments, so they must have gotten close to production. Would love to see those someday, I'm guessing they're awful.
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Chairman Capone posted:Around ten years or so back, wasn't there an actual Labyrinth sequel that was in pre-production, but got cancelled? I remember hearing that Genndy Tartakovsky was involved. Or maybe I'm thinking of a Dark Crystal sequel instead. The Labyrinth sequel turned into MirrorMask, which was a sequel in tone only. The Dark Crystal sequel got stuck in production hell as well and last I heard the director baled and was badmouthing the producers. I think that one got a comic book sequel at some point recently, too.
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feedmyleg posted:Dark Crystal. It was supposed to be from the Samurai Jack/Clone Wars 2D/Dexter's Lab guy. But now he's giving us multiple Hotel Transylvania movies instead. Christ, that's depressing.
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He's headed back to TV as he's doing a Samurai Jack sequel series.
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muscles like this? posted:He's headed back to TV as he's doing a Samurai Jack sequel series. But who will be Aku?
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Len posted:But who will be Aku? Rob Schneider obviously. Happy Madison Productions will be Tartakovsky's muse.
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Tars Tarkas posted:So Kermit better help defeat Thanos in 2019. If they take down Thanos by getting help from heroes throughout the multiverse and characters from everything that Disney owns appear to dog pile on him, I will be be there opening night.
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Random Stranger posted:If they take down Thanos by getting help from heroes throughout the multiverse and characters from everything that Disney owns appear to dog pile on him, I will be be there opening night. Patton Oswalt already pitched this!
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Codependent Poster posted:Patton Oswalt already pitched this! Sounds like the film version of Final Crisis.
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