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Tars Tarkas posted:The Skylanders have nice sculpts, I can see why they would attract adult collectors. The problem is they look like they don't have articulation, but I've not bothered to look at one outside of the package and I don't have any game systems to use them on (nor any desire to play the games) Oh, man, you this as well from Cartoon Brew: Petition asks artists to stop creating Zootopia furry porn. Disney, reap what you have sown.
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Luigi Thirty posted:The same reason the studio cared what came up when you typed ponies into GIS (they didn't but the artists did) Zootopia isn't even out yet and there's an overabundance of porn for it. It would be concerning to Disney if all the buzz regarding an upcoming film project is almost entirely porn, because that would likely cut into the family audiences that the film needs to be profitable. IShallRiseAgain posted:Its just some random person who acts as though furries are a persecuted minority that need positive representation lol. Yeah, but at the same time I would have a hard time believing that Disney is happy with this development. If I was a furry artist, I'd avoid Zootopia like the plague for a few years just because Disney has been know to be litigious.
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Judge Ito Boxing posted:How long has RFP had a drone? 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.
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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. 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 |
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anatomi posted:Here in Sweden the biggest movie theater company (SF, who owns and operates the vast majority of theaters) hired security guards to handle the tickets. The main reasons being 1) that the film might attract "certain people" who weren't used to going to the movies (lol) and 2) because the movie had a "hip-hop message" and was critical of the po-po. So much stupid. All that for the 5 black people that live in Sweden?
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FreudianSlippers posted:
I was actually curious about the demographics of immigrants in Sweden, so I looked it up and there's a sizable community of Somalian and Eritrean immigrants, but I was more aware that they had more Middle Eastern immigrants (especially with all the talk of Syrian refugees, since Sweden is the top destination after Germany). What surprised me was the number of Eastern Europeans.
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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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ZakAce posted:I tried to read the book, but I legitimately couldn't do it. I got confused with the perspective changes and when I read reviews on Amazon, it didn't look like it was worth finishing. What about "How I Live Now"?
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computer parts posted:Apparently her younger brother has been kidnapped. Oh man, I knew that it was going to be a twist like that. Except I thought she would be one of the alien doppelgangers they're talking about.
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Groovelord Neato posted:the second movie there's an army of minorities fighting against the rich whites. i was bummed they didn't show them slaughtering the rich folks after they stormed that arena tho. I guess this will have to do... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j9x_vPefn8
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raditts posted:It wasn't just that though, was it? Adam Sandler was still putting him in his lovely movies, and I thought I remember reading that Schneider did something to destroy his gravy train like demanding more money or something. No, it was Schneider. He must have come crawling back after his absence from Grown Ups 2.
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the_american_dream posted:Yea I think I remember reading he demanded more money for Grown Ups 2. Theyve made up since then im fairly positive thats what happened Also remember that Schneider had a TV show on the air at the time, so it's likely Schneider demanding more money because he would have had to do more work to fit in filming the movie.
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computer parts posted:Reducing the number of showings also reduces the number of unique customers (assuming shows are roughly equally filled), which can reduce revenue. At the same time, 15 minute intermission isn't going to hurt if the movie is already 3 hours long. In a standard day. With an opening showing at 9:00am and last showing starting 12:00am, that's going to be 6 showings regardless if it's a 3 hour movie with a 15-minute intermission or a 2 hour and 45 minute long movie. I'm not even accounting for cleanup times, seating, and trailers. It'll probably be about 4 times a day equally if I put that in.
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Bad news: Terminator 2 got cancelled Good news: It just was the sequel to Terminator: Genisys http://deadline.com/2016/01/terminator-2-pulled-off-schedule-paramount-1201687034/ quote:Paramount Pictures said today it has yanked the sequel known as Terminator 2 from its release schedule. It had been slated for May 19, 2017, but that spot now has been taken by Baywatch.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Just a couple months after James Cameron finally came out with a release date for his three Avatar sequels (December 2017/18/19) the first is now already delayed into 2018. Obviously they weren't going to have it compete with Star Wars VIII but it hasn't even started production yet. What the gently caress is the man doing? He should have pumped out a sequel 3 years ago when people (myself included) still gave a gently caress. Part of me wonders what'll happen if Cameron releases Avatar 2: Pandora Boogaloo and it bombs, either because lack of interest or an oversaturated market. What's he going to do, continue with it? Wait until 2020 and push out an unwanted Terminator reboot or sequel?
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Tars Tarkas posted:Did Fast and the Furious have no cultural footprint until movie 4? We have a  smiley. We don't have an Avatar smiley.
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ImpAtom posted:That is, in fact, the argument people are making. The movie made a tremendous amount of money and yet vanished from the public consciousness. Yep, anytime anyone makes a reference to Titanic, it's either those two things or that shot of the guy falling as the ship sinks, hitting and bouncing off the railing and superstructure. Or the ending with elderly Rose throwing away the diamond. Or "draw me as one of your French girls". Or Model T sex. Or... Young Freud fucked around with this message at 01:52 on Jan 23, 2016 |
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Safety Factor posted:No conversation about Avatar is complete without this guy I thought it was this guy... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REeg4LW14Sk
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The other thing is has it inspired anything. Let's take something else that Cameron's made: Aliens. From the James Cameron-built, Ron Cobb-fleshed-out dropship; to the look of the Colonial Marines and their smartguns and pulse rifles; to the Power Loader and the Alien queen, all of these elements have been consumed and digested in the public consciousness and remaded into hundreds of variations. You can look at other movies like Starship Troopers or video games like Killzone and see the design elements cribbed from Aliens. Without Aliens, Doom wouldn't exist. Halo wouldn't exist. Warhammer 40K largely wouldn't exist because Space Hulk was essentially Aliens the board game (ignoring the fact there actually is an Aliens board game). The cartoon Exo-Squad would not exist without Aliens because are essentially weaponized Power-Loaders. We have soldiers today running around in gear because some body armor designer or some military tactician watched Aliens and went "I think that's a neat idea" and modeled their body armor to Colonial Marine standards or added networked cameras to helmets. Even the terminology has changed. Do you know what a "dropship" was used before in science fiction before Aliens? It was the the flying wing that carried and picked up spice harvesters in "Dune". When you hear the word "space marine", you're likely going to be thinking of Corporal Hicks. Has Avatar done anything like that? Can you watch a movie or TV show or play a video game or consume any media and look at it and go "oh, they were inspired/ripped off Avatar"? Young Freud fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Jan 23, 2016 |
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ookiimarukochan posted:I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest you've never read Starship Troopers. They didn't use dropships in the novel "Starship Troopers". The Mobile Infantry used individual drop pods to get to target zone. They called shuttles that collected the marines after the battle "retrieval boats". They're nothing like the space-shuttle-cum-helicopter-gunship that's been used in Aliens and military science fiction after it. MrBling posted:Those were imaginatively called Carryalls, not dropships. I forget where I heard the Carryall from "Dune" called a dropship. I think it had to be Dune Encyclopedia.
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LORD OF BUTT posted:To dredge this back up, since I was at work and have an answer: while everyone knows what Avatar is, people aren't talking about it anymore, and kind of quickly stopped after it came out. I remember when this Mountain Dew commercial came out. It has no direct connection to the first Fast & Furious movie, but the whole ad is based off a single stunt from the first film. Also, I never knew Channing Tatum was weirdly pan-ethnic-looking actor in this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzL0ddo06o8 This is what people are talking about when "cultural footprint" and such. It's a stupid ad that that has no previous tie-in to a film but you can totally know what film and what moment in that film they're referencing just by seeing it. I had never even seen the first F&F film at the time I saw it or this...  ...but I know what it inspired after it.
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JediTalentAgent posted:I watched about 10 minutes of RIPD on TV and didn't hate what I saw, but I get the feeling that if it had been an identical Japanese/Korean supernatural action-comedy it'd have some cult following going on. There's been at least two popular anime that have the premise of "recently deceased souls guarding the real world against evil spectral invasion", although they don't use ghost guns and instead either use wicked supernatural martial arts or giant-rear end gently caress-off swords.
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greatn posted:If YuYu Hakusho is one of the ones you mean isn't his signature move where he makes his fingers into a gun? I was wondering if anyone would actually catch that. The other one is, of course, Bleach. I was actually figuring someone would mention that first. Yeah, but, as other people pointed out, as that series progresses, it turns more into Dragon Ball Z in terms of superpowered martial arts extravaganza where punches can hit people a mile away.
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Calaveron posted:An entire episode deals with Filburt wanting to go gently caress at Galapagos Island. All this and someone doesn't remember the time Rocko was working a phone sex line? 
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/\/\/\ Exactly my pointSnowman_McK posted:Along with Ari Gold, the Dad from Modern Family, Mr Fantastic, Legolas, Hugh Dancy...It's kind of a 'who's going to be' of the new millenium. Isn't this like A Thin Red Line, where you had Tim Blake Nelson, Jared Leto, Adrien Brody, John C. Reilly, and Thomas Jane? Or Saving Private Ryan with Vin Diesel, Paul Giamatti, Bryan Cranston, and Nathan Fillion? It's like when you have these giant war epics that a whole bunch of people are eventually going to find success afterward. Also,"Dad from Modern Family"'s best role prior to that has to be the douchebag with the yacht in the Gunn-Snyder remake of Dawn Of The Dead.
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Groovelord Neato posted:the real tragedy of black hawk down is 800,000 rwandans wouldn't have died if the incident never happened. And Boko Haram and Lords Resistance Army probably would have never been formed.
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Cacator posted:More Hollywood whitewashing Or the Blue Ranger gay? Tars Tarkas posted:
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Anonymous Zebra posted:I'm going to continue to be a nerd here, but if I recall correctly, The Laughing Man is actually a name used by copy-cat hacktivists who are trying to mimic the actions of a single hacker who tried to blow the lid open on a corporation and who then gave up years before the series started. The big reveal of the season was that it was actually a bunch of different individuals each acting on their own towards a common purpose without communicating with each other and each claiming to be the Laughing Man, but none of who were the actual original hacker...hence the title of the series "Standalone Complex". Don't forget there's also a faction in the Japanese police force that is in bed with the corporate execs but also using the Laughing Man case to justify their increasing surveillance powers and budget. Also, I find it hard to believe it's been 14 years now since Stand Alone Complex came out. Spatula City posted:Laughing Man is a meme that transcends any one individual. I liked them in the first series, but they got kinda overblown in the second series. I really just like them when they're mass-produced robot tanks, not some borderline sentient special snowflakes. TBH, I was going to give this a benefit of a doubt, but it sounds like they can't just take one bit from the whole franchise and expand on that like in the previous film adaptations, with the first film being just the Puppeteer plotline from the manga, and the second Oshii film being the "Robot Rondo" chapter almost pulled fully intact, or come up with a new plot like the SAC and 2nd GIG TV series that would be relevant to the setting. Instead, it's going to be this hodgepodge of ideas from the franchise thrown together and it's going to turn out horrible like Aeon Flux movie, where it didn't have a cohesive plot because they pulled from everywhere in that franchise. Really, in my mind, the best would be to adapt the poorly-executed GITS2: Man-Machine Interface and have different women play Motoko fighting against themselves. It's unknown material that's ripe for expansion. That would also eliminate some of the whitewashing aspects of the live-action adaptation because ScarJo could be the 11th copy of Motoko and meet and fight the real Motoko Kusanagi, played by an Asian actress.
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greatn posted:It's a movie you go to cause the thing you wanted to see was sold out, and you don't hate it, but immediately forget it and don't really enjoy. Do people actually do this? I know I've heard about the whole cross-programming tactics of movie distributors, but it seems, in this day and age, you can simply wait a hour getting drunk in a bar until the next showing at the multiplex or buy tickets ahead of time. And, if the multiplex theaters sold out, there's another multiplex down the road and I can get the times for that. I don't think I've ever run into a sold-out theater, at least for a popular, newly-released movie. That said, I saw Now You See Me on cable.
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Neo Rasa posted:She's made some great original music, but I think it's important people understand that literally every single person composing music for video games or anime in Japan in the 90s ripped off a lot of stuff wholesale. Even super renowned ones like Nobu Uematsu, Harumi Fujita or Yoko Kanno. One of the guys I know from the anime scene was surprised to find that Ennio Morricone song used in The Hateful Eight is the same score used in Gundam 0083: Stardust Memories, and not hidden away, it's in a rather important scene: Cima's betrayal and execution of Admiral Delaz in front of Gato. He had not know that it was pulled from one of Morricone's earlier scores. While I don't want to really weigh in on the whole plagarism deal, I know for a fact that Kanno has sampled works without attribution: "The Real Man" off of the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack is essentially a remix of "Threnody For The Victims Of Hiroshima" and JediTalentAgent posted:Does to me, if they make it a plot point that they have to cover his face with about 10 lbs of make-up for him to appear 'visible' in scenes. Depp has probably enough experience working with makeup that he could pull it off... 
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muscles like this? posted:That video is a lot of fun. I especially like the ending where Ron Howard admits the whole thing was a huge mistake and he regrets everything he's ever done. "I sorry, Jenny". I literally gasped when 2016 Trump said he went back in time and killed Christopher Lloyd. Not Doc Brown. 
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Jose Oquendo posted:Danny McBride is Kenny Powers in Alien. I want to see gifs of McBride doing the Powers' victory dance in a xenomorph hive so bad now.
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Sleeveless posted:In the mid-00s this was actually the plan for the scrapped Warriors remake, being "true to the novel" and grounded by having a mostly black/Hispanic cast, setting it in LA, and having massive brawls. Walter Hill had intended to have an all-black cast and the other gangs ethnically segregated originally, but was informed by the producers that it would be considered a "black film" and would limit its marketability. Hill himself also wanted to do the '90s/2000s South Central remake as well. The funny thing is that, last time I checked last year, that mized-race- ethnicity street gangs are actually the majority of gangs now by the FBI and law enforcement, thanks to migration into the Mid-West and cross-cultural interactions. The mixed make up of the Warriors has become culturally relevant again.
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Looks like Deadpool broke a record for highest grossing R-rated Thursday night preview at $12.7 million dollars, beating out Hangover II and Fifty Shades Of Grey. And no movie that has made $10 million on it's preview release has yet to make under $85 million at the box office. Box Office Mojo is now reconsidering it's initial opening weekend estimate of $72 million 4-day weekend and may surpass Fifty Shades' record for it's $85 million opening for a February weekend. Welcome our new R-rated comic book movie overlords.
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The MSJ posted:Nowadays, Harley Quinn is DC's answer to Deadpool. She's both violent and 'wacky' and while she does not actually break the 4th wall she does that thing where she provides commentary for own comics. Somebody has never heard of Ambush Bug, who predates them all.
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American Ninja Apprentice better have Michael Dudikoff dressed as Donald Trump, roundhouse kicking failed apprentices while saying "You're kicked from the team". Just sayin'.
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turtlecrunch posted:Disney presents The Last Guardian As someone who saw the original live-action/animation hybrid, that's sure is something  Also, when are we going to see a movie where Jessica Chastain and Bryce Dallas Howard are sisters? Because, come on.
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syscall girl posted:That actually sounds awesome. That's pretty much what came up in my head when all this talk about a Mary Poppins remake during WW2 with Emily Blunt started happening. I was thinking, "Man, is this supposed to be a remake of Mary Poppins or Bedknobs And Broomsticks?"
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Nice to see that Hollywood is now in a rush to prove James Gunn right about getting the wrong message from Deadpool's success. Instead of concentrating on characters and story and audience connection, nope, forget all that, just make it more grittier. Also, isn't most of Deadpool jerk off jokes? I really want to see Henry Cavill tackle the problems of being both Superman and a sexual being in Man Of Steel, Woman Of Kleenex.
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The MSJ posted:BvS was filmed as an R movie long before Deadpool's release.  are you serious? Sir Kodiak posted:Seriously. Part of the whole gimmick of Transformers is doing things to robots – ripping faces and limbs off, with fountains of "blood" – that you could never show happening to a human being without an R rating. They gibbed a human being in the last Transformers movie.
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