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mind the walrus posted:Was the Christmas one any good? you know it never even occurred to me that Harold and Kumar was pushing any kind of hollywood representation barriers. it just seemed like good movie maybe thats how the feminists should push their agenda? they could just make good movies then people will like their ideas without even knowing it
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Code Jockey posted:triggering remains the dumbest loving concept it gives it a very "spanish inquisition" feel to it. twitter won't just delete the tweet themselves. he has to log in and delete it himself, he has to confess his sins before he can be forgiven
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WeaponGradeSadness posted:I'll probably end up watching Ben-Hur because I'm just so desperate for another good Roman-era film that I'll give any old poo poo a watch. I want to believe... this was the attitude that lead me to watching Pompeii (2014) in theaters. don't make the same mistake i did. the Roman Cinematic Universe desperately needs a reboot
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Drunken Baker posted:Not seen the film but how the hell does that work anyway? Ok, so I take it they go and visit without their parents and they haven't seen their grandad in a while. But surely they must have seen some pictures of them or something. There's a lot of contrivances there to set up that "twist". Their mom is off on vacation with her new boyfriend and sent her kids off to stay with her parents who she'd had a falling out with and hadn't spoken to for decades. Which is a huge stretch, yeah, because why would you do that without talking to them first  Rutibex posted:you know it never even occurred to me that Harold and Kumar was pushing any kind of hollywood representation barriers. it just seemed like good movie There is a sizeable contingent doing exactly that, they're just not the ones behind GB2016's online marketing campaign
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social vegan posted:Remak e hollo man but have the hollow man respect everyone's pronouns Get it done, Hollywood
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the tv shows in the roman cinematic universe are pretty good.
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Germstore posted:the tv shows in the roman cinematic universe are pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knDKSmQXJjA
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MeatwadIsGod posted:Just watch The Eagle on Netflix. It's not great but pretty good. Don't subject yourself to new Ben-Hur. I added that to my Netflix list like 2 years ago and never actually got around to watching it, I'll have to finally check that out. Thanks for the heads-up. Rutibex posted:this was the attitude that lead me to watching Pompeii (2014) in theaters. don't make the same mistake i did. I almost did the same thing for the same reason  Luckily my friends outvoted me
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Ah poo poo, Batiatus gonna be pissed.
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social vegan posted:Remak e hollo man but have the hollow man respect everyone's pronouns hollow man is a trans and xes going to break the cotton ceiling by any means necessary
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But first xi's gonna grab some hot tittay whilst invisible.
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I'm sort of surprised that the Electra Woman and Dyna Girl remake didn't even barely show up as a blip on anyone's radar this year. I think I only found out about it around the start of the year and I just assumed I missed its theatrical release or it was waiting for a Fall theatrical release, only to discover it was released via smaller webisodes and on digital.
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Nerds on Facebook are getting upset about the new Pennywise in the "IT" remake because he looks sinister and scary. It's just a promo picture, so of course they made him look like an evil clown. Also the Ben Hurr remake is flopping HARD... Good!
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I was actually a little annoyed by that too because the article I read about it made a point of saying poo poo like "obviously this version of Pennywise prefers to strike quickly at children rather than lure them in with balloons" and I'm pretty sure luring children with balloons and poo poo like that is literally the reason he makes himself look like a clown at all
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Oh drat, I didn't read that. Well yeah, complaints are valid then. Why dress like a clown and lure kids in with balloons if you're just going to Xenomorph them. Dude scaring kids to make them taste nicer was the whole drat point.
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Gutcruncher posted:Wouldn't it be cheaper to just release the old films in those places but call them new? I would pay to see good and old movies in a theatre. Some movies just aren't the same otherwise.
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Certain theaters show them all the time. Cinemark theaters show older movies on Sundays and Wednesdays. Yesterday and last Sunday was Animal House, the week before was the '88 Batman. I think this year alone I've watch The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Blazing Saddlers, and Ghostbusters.
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If you make Pennywise look like a friendly, fun clown, I'm sure today you'd be getting all sorts of complaints about how horrible Hollywood is for making such a beloved and approachable children and family icon into a murdering monster and asking, "Why couldn't they have made him more 'scary' to disassociate him from the Bozo-styled clowns that kids know and love?" Also, are clowns still a thing with kids? Pennywise should look like a Cirque du Soleil clown, a superhero or Lady Gaga.
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Someone said it earlier, Pennywise should just be Pewdiepie screaming about rape. It draws in kids by the thousands!
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Pennywise needs to be one of the Youtube personalities who criticize social justice culture.
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if there's one thing 10 year olds can't resist it's debate about social justice culture on youtube
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Internaut! posted:I hear 10 year olds find that irresistible According to the internet, they're a favorite of manchildren.
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They should have changed the character from "Pennywise" to "The Rock". And then hired Dwayne Johnson.
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Black leather trenchcoat and mime make-up: He's Pennywise the Crow. It would work, too, because now-adult heroes would have been way into The Crow in the 90s and modern kids are all about retro stuff.
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Officer Farva posted:They should have changed the character from "Pennywise" to "The Rock". And then hired Dwayne Johnson. Down here they all smell it, Georgie. They all smell what Pennywise is cooking.
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NihilismNow posted:At least Ben Hur 2016 has a sane aspect ratio. 2.76:1 is really obnoxious and basically unwatcheable on a 16:9 set. Hey look I don't have anything for this thread but what the gently caress kind of aspect ratio is 2.76:1? Why are there decimals in a ratio representation? I guess when you call it 69:25 it just sounds silly???
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RyokoTK posted:Hey look I don't have anything for this thread but what the gently caress kind of aspect ratio is 2.76:1? Never ask about film aspect ratios unless you want a film nerd to lecture you for three hours. Here's a relatively brief Wikipedia article on the specific cameras and lenses and film stock used on the 1959 Ben Hur: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_Panavision_70
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I found the article I was thinking of http://www.ew.com/article/2016/08/16/pennywise-costume-stephen-king-it-movie Some of the aesthetic decisions made sense -- this one actually made it sound kinda cool quote:For Pennywise, there’s no need to stay faithful to any era’s fashions. He is a manifestation of what an immortal, supernatural being thinks of as a clown, amalgamating various styles it finds appealing. …Or maybe he’s just thinking of a toy that once belonged to a child he devoured. but I still didn't like it and this quote sums up why quote:While this isn’t the bright and cheery Pennywise, Bryant’s version of the character prefers to camouflage himself and strike rather than lure children with lively plumage. In other words he's just kind of a generic-type monster who chose clown-form for ICP Hot Topic reasons
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If you are ambush predator why would you dress like a clown
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Deceptive markings and mannerisms give a predator a greater window of opportunity in which to strike, and saves it the trouble of wasting 30 minutes tying loving balloon animals and risking exposing the charade through close, prolonged interaction. Todd McFarlane clown is a less convincing disguise, but is enough camouflage to create a much wider field of opportunity than just always appearing as some nightmarish hellbeast would allow, by far. With as unsettling as some people find normal clowns, the "twisted carnival" variety might actually find good success hunting in that clown-phobic demographic as they are typically ok with weird Juggalo/Cirque de Solei style clowns, as far as I know. If Shaggy 2 Dope, some tiny gymnast in clown white and a leotard covered with purple glitter and a full-blown, honest to god children's party/circus/rodeo clown all needed my help at the same time, the traditional clown would probably be dead last priority for me. I don't know why. I don't even dislike clowns.
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Uncle Wemus posted:If you are ambush predator why would you dress like a clown I'm pretty sure the entire line of reasoning for the pennywise thing was "What haven't we remade? IT? IT was the clown movie right. We need a clown. Make sure it's a badass looking clown like all evil and stuff" It's a loud statement declaring the movie is going to be loving stupid because they are already marketing dumb poo poo that was 5% of the story but people remember it.
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I haven't seen or read It, so all I know is that it has a clown that kills people or something? E: which is probably true for most of the people making big decisions on the reboot.
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it's a being from beyond space and time that crash landed in a meteor when the earth was new and awoke once humans started inhabiting the area. it wakes every so often to feed - fear makes us taste better and children are easiest to scare. it takes the form of a clown to lure children, it can shapeshift into anything.
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Command Ant posted:Paul Feig's problem is that he's a man in his 50s who still hasn't gotten over how he was treated in high school, and it's hard to feel sympathy for someone like that. hahahahaha holy fuckin poo poo
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Groovelord Neato posted:it's a being from beyond space and time that crash landed in a meteor when the earth was new and awoke once humans started inhabiting the area. it wakes every so often to feed - fear makes us taste better and children are easiest to scare. it takes the form of a clown to lure children, it can shapeshift into anything. Excuse you but it's the clown movie. Did you not see how badass and scary and grimdark the clown looks? Do we need to market it more? Pennywise merchandise months before the movie is even done? Maybe entire trailers based around the clown. IT was the clown movie, we gotta remake it with the clown. I don't want to hear none of this shapeshift or from beyond billions of years bullshit. That clown is badass. No way is our focus on small details because they are memorable going to make the entire thing terrible. - Hollywood Executive I've been trying to think what catchphrases IT has and it's mostly "We all float down here" so expect that to some sick music while the clown is leading a demon army or something equally as idiotic.
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Also the kids have a weird orgy
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Fat Shat Sings posted:Excuse you but it's the clown movie. Did you not see how badass and scary and grimdark the clown looks? Do we need to market it more? Pennywise merchandise months before the movie is even done? Maybe entire trailers based around the clown. they could take AND YOU ARE NEXT from “I am eternal, child. I am the eater of worlds, and of children. And you are next!”
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Uncle Wemus posted:Also the kids have a weird orgy ugh yeah, I read it as a kid and remembered thinking wtf is this also the original book was set in the early 50s iirc when howdy doody and poo poo was popular on tv so baiting kids with a clown made sense the modern day equivalent would be a guy in a pikachu costume I guess
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