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feedmyleg posted:The production was hosed by the producer stealing literally half the budget at the last second. Also by being incompetent and wrong-headed, but those are different problems. I think, and if I'm wrong I'll eat a bug, but I think the production is leaning a lot into "Bad Sci-Fi magazine cover illustration" territory, which seems both like the correct way to adapt this yet an absurd thing to make on this scale. Did not know about the money
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I mean, how much do you know about Hubbard's bibliography? He's the pulp sci-fi king. His work is associated more with that sort of illustration than any other (because he was broke and took a poo poo ton of meth and wrote so many sci-fi stories that he filled many many magazines all on his own under innumerable pseudonyms and won a Guinness World Record) e: please, everyone, listen to Andy Daly play Hubbard on The Dead Author's Podcast, an incredibly illuminating journey and one of the funniest episodes of a podcast ever recorded. feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 05:22 on Jun 22, 2025 |
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Jun 22, 2025 05:02
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feedmyleg posted:I mean, how much do you know about Hubbard's bibliography? He's the pulp sci-fi king. His work is associated more with that sort of illustration than any other (because he was broke and took a poo poo ton of meth and wrote so many sci-fi stories that he filled many many magazines all on his own under innumerable pseudonyms and won a Guinness World Record) I know the broad strokes but ive never sat down and read a hubbard. I did attempt a copy of dianetics but the style put me off a lot. I think its an accurate presentation of pulp is my point, they drink bright green liquids and live in bright green matte painting cities
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Bogus Adventure posted:It should boost your Thetan levels at the very least. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU1wk2HWtwA
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Jun 22, 2025 05:31
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Bad sci-fi magazine illustrations rule, though. Especially when things were still allowed to be chunky, like in '70s and '80s sci-fi.   That movie gets close to The Room levels of hilarity.
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feedmyleg posted:The production was hosed by the producer stealing literally half the budget at the last second. Also by being incompetent and wrong-headed, but those are different problems. That feels like a story in itself and also explains so much.
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Jun 22, 2025 10:06
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I found the Star Wars Werner Herzog toy on sale and have decided to purchase him.
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I would like to see ze toy
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Gnome de plume posted:I would like to see ze toy Pretty good likeness for a retail figure.     I have not watched The Mandalorian so I don't know what his accessories are. Here he is conversing with KITT and being buddies with Optimus Prime (or Optimus is helping him home when he's drunk).  
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Jun 24, 2025 12:29
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The MSJ posted:I have not watched The Mandalorian so I don't know what his accessories are. surely you remember the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnJ981c22zQ
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Jun 24, 2025 14:20
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The MSJ posted:Pretty good likeness for a retail figure. Oh yeah, the Black Series are great for that Actually saw a Dedra Meero figure in the wild yesterday but money had already gone toward not dying of heatstroke Also Ahsoka and the Third Sister
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Gnome de plume posted:I would like to see ze toy 
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I am sad to report Battlefield Earth is actually just a little too boring to be some kind of subversive goofball masterpiece. It has its moments but does not really rise to the heights of true pulp. I'm sorry, I thought there might have been something there.
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It's a movie of laughable moments, but it's not like The Room or Cats 2019. It's not so bad that it's good. It's a lot like Wing Commander. You get some comedy gold when that pilot crashes on the runway, can't get saved, and then get's space-plowed off the ship.
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Watching Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker dress like a goth klingon and say poo poo like man-animal and other atrocious dialog is well worth the 2 hour run time.
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Sadly, manimal was taken
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banned from Starbucks posted:Watching Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker dress like a goth klingon and say poo poo like man-animal and other atrocious dialog is well worth the 2 hour run time. I agree, Rogue One is good and Andor is great.
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Bogus Adventure posted:It's a movie of laughable moments, but it's not like The Room or Cats 2019. It's not so bad that it's good. It's a lot like Wing Commander. You get some comedy gold when that pilot crashes on the runway, can't get saved, and then get's space-plowed off the ship. The beginning has good Intentional Jokes like the auto repair statue being mistaken for a god and the food being green slop, or the protagonist reading the Declaration of Independence in a perfectly generic library atrium. But it can't keep up the camp, the action and story are too Studio Competent and therefore flat. banned from Starbucks posted:Watching Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker dress like a goth klingon and say poo poo like man-animal and other atrocious dialog is well worth the 2 hour run time. Much like when he reprises this role in Rogue One a Star Wars Story E: ayy
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FunkyAl posted:I am sad to report Battlefield Earth is actually just a little too boring to be some kind of subversive goofball masterpiece. It has its moments but does not really rise to the heights of true pulp. I'm sorry, I thought there might have been something there. you're looking for Actually Good Movie, Zardoz
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Fuligin posted:you're looking for Actually Good Movie, Zardoz You've got that right, I can't find it for less than $100.
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Battlefield Earth is fantastic wtf viewing with friends but I can't imagine watching it alone lol
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Came across this guy's illustrations which is like what if Sam Raimi or Peter Jackson at the time of Dead Alive had directed Star Wars. https://www.instagram.com/p/DJAoTJtT_M1/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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https://variety.com/2025/film/news/rian-johnson-star-wars-trilogy-very-conceptual-knives-out-1236459163/quote:“Nothing really happened with it,” Johnson said. “We had a great time working together, and they said, ‘Let’s keep doing it.’ I said, ‘Great!’ I would kick ideas around with Kathy. The short version is ‘Knives Out’ happened. I went off and made ‘Knives Out,’ and was off to the races, busy making murder mysteries. It’s the sort of thing if, down the line, there’s an opportunity to do it, or do something else in ‘Star Wars,’ I would be thrilled. But right now I’m just doing my own stuff, and pretty happy.” Wonder what a Knives Out murder mystery set in Star Wars would've looked like Is that what The Acolyte is in another universe?
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quote:Johnson added that his trilogy was “all very conceptual” and that he never developed an “outline or a treatment or anything” for the project. Sounds exactly like what we got before, perfect!
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The real news out of that interview was that rian was a prequel hater. As if the posters needed further reason to leave him in the dustbin of history
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No Mods No Masters posted:The real news out of that interview was that rian was a prequel hater. As if the posters needed further reason to leave him in the dustbin of history or leave him to make incredibly successful murder mysteries. You know, whichever comes first
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Knives Out is really good
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Glass Onion though
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Sequels can be bad. Attack of the clones for instance
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Glass Onion was more mid than bad.
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I would watch glass onion over attack of the clones
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CelticPredator posted:I would watch glass onion over attack of the clones 
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I’m being rude and combative I’m sorry. It’s been a bad day
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I rewatched both Knives Out and Glass Onion maybe last month and Glass Onion is perfectly fine. It's not as tight as the first one, but then, what is?
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They're both p bad actually, as were brothers bloom and looper Brick was good tho, somehow
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Bloom is so good. I mean, I completely get why it didn't hit for many and it's a bit clumsy at times. But the brother relationship super resonates with me and I think it's a movie with a really beautiful heart.
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