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Asterite34 posted:Yeah, and like 2 and a half of those are good! Yeah, the Dune books are notorious for their decline in quality. There's disagreement about when it stops being good, but there's agreement that after than point, it never gets significantly better again. There are people who defend God Emperor of Dune, but I'm not aware of anyone who thinks highly of the Herbert books after that, let alone the Kevin J. Anderson prequels.
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I once considered The Courtship of Princess Leia to be my favorite book, so Kevin J. Anderson can do no wrong in my eyes.
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feedmyleg posted:I once considered The Courtship of Princess Leia to be my favorite book, so Kevin J. Anderson can do no wrong in my eyes. Were you 12?
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Silver2195 posted:Yeah, the Dune books are notorious for their decline in quality. There's disagreement about when it stops being good, but there's agreement that after than point, it never gets significantly better again. There are people who defend God Emperor of Dune, but I'm not aware of anyone who thinks highly of the Herbert books after that, let alone the Kevin J. Anderson prequels. There's an episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy that basically adapts the plot of God Emperor of Dune wholesale so I guess someone out there really liked it.
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Iron Crowned posted:Were you 12? Thankfully, yes.
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feedmyleg posted:I once considered The Courtship of Princess Leia to be my favorite book, so Kevin J. Anderson can do no wrong in my eyes. That was by Dave Wolverton, not KJA! I can see how you got confused though - Courtship of Princess Leia has the planet of redhead dominatrices, but KJA only wrote about the one redhead dominatrix admiral. Fun fact about Wolverton, he taught writing at BYU and one of his students was Brandon Sanderson.
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Matrix 4 will show a repeat of the cave rave "orgy" sequence in reloaded, except this time it will be a warner IP orgy.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I've called it corporate senility, you see it sometimes in cases like Konami, Games Workshop and Capcom for a whole when the management is a mix of dysfunctional, out of touch and literally senile that reality can't effectively penetrate, and you get bizarre, unpredictable decisions that seem actively spiteful towards their fans and the public. Especially since a lot of them clearly don't understand what products they actually make and why people like them. None of those examples even compare, all three of those companies have increased their revenues since they made the decision you're probably disagreeing with. Konami alone has increased revenue by something like 30% since dropping video games to focus on slot and pachinko machines. Macdeo Lurjtux fucked around with this message at 16:21 on Apr 5, 2021 |
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Is Michael Jordan going to have a cameo in Space Jam 2? That would be wild.
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Gatts posted:Is Michael Jordan going to have a cameo in Space Jam 2? That would be wild. They should include him, but only in the form of the sprite from Chaos in the Windy City.
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Is Jordan even still alive because the last thing I remember him in was the hitlerstache Hanes commercial
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X-Ray Pecs posted:This person must have cummed buckets when they negotiated splitting The Hobbit into three movies. In the Lindsay Ellis Hobbit video it was explained that the financing structure gave WB a much bigger share of the profits for a second and third movie. Movie financing is so fascinating in Hollywood and accounts for a lot of the decisions behind the scenes. It's the reason the Halo movie never got made. Microsoft tried to force a bidding war for the rights, but studio executives basically colluded over lunch, realized what MS was asking would make the movie impossible to finance, and collectively told MS to fuk off.
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I really wonder what the quality of the first film would've been if Jackson made the choice to make the second two films bridge films. I think we all would have been much happier with the outcome.
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What's a bridge film, please?
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:None of those examples even compare, all three of those companies have increased their revenues since they made the decision you're probably disagreeing with. Konami alone has increased revenue by something like 30% since dropping video games to focus on slot and pachinko machines. Capcom and GW are cases I consider to have passed that phase, mind, I'm referring to more GW before they had the CEO changeup and suddenly found themselves literally the most profitable company in the UK.
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Jack B Nimble posted:What's a bridge film, please? The Bridge Over the River Kwai
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FlamingLiberal posted:(see also: Sony's leaked emails) Ah the good old days 
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Jack B Nimble posted:What's a bridge film, please? Alternative version of Casino Royale.
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feedmyleg posted:I really wonder what the quality of the first film would've been if Jackson made the choice to make the second two films bridge films. I think we all would have been much happier with the outcome. When the Hobbit was originally going to be two films only, and written and directed by Guillermo Del Toro, that was the idea. The first one was going to adapt The Hobbit, and the second film was going to link Hobbit and LOTR. Then when the Del Toro left, Jackson took over, and the decision was made to make it a trilogy, that's when they decided to chop it up. IIRC, the decision to expand it from two to three movies was only done after filming was completed, too. Which also explains a lot.
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And to boot, according to the Lindsay Ellis video, there was a studio mandate that they weren't allowed to give the dwarves scenes to flesh out their personalities.
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That big fight scene on the hill with the orc leader exactly in the middle of the second movie certainly feels like the end of the first movie in a two part movie series.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I'm still amazed Warner Bros had enough faith in Denis Villeneuve's Dune to split it in two. Are they filming part two at the same time as one, or is it likely we'll only get half of Dune adapted? From what I understand, they only filmed part 1. So any sequel would be a new production. Why? idk seems like it would have made more sense to film both back to back.
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:From what I understand, they only filmed part 1. So any sequel would be a new production. Why? idk seems like it would have made more sense to film both back to back. Shooting two films at once is a bit of a risk and from what I understand, this was the only way Villeneuve could get the studio to commit, and though it risks leaving the story unfinished, he's enough of a Dune fan that he thought it was worth the risk. I also feel that at the time there was a certain "Well this is like sci-fi Game of Thrones" mentality which made it seem like a safer bet.
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Is there anything else big coming out that will be able to compete with it at the box office? Aka is there any chance that the pandemic will end up boosting its numbers? Or are they still doing the day-and-date with HBO? Kong's numbers may not be great for normal times, but I can't imagine they're not thrilled to have as much of a hit on their hands as possible at the moment.
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feedmyleg posted:Is there anything else big coming out that will be able to compete with it at the box office? Aka is there any chance that the pandemic will end up boosting its numbers? Or are they still doing the day-and-date with HBO? I think Dune's going to be delayed as a theater-only release to preserve its franchise potential.
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Dune's set for October by which point things will probably be better but probably not like the before times. Like if nothing else the numbers do seem to indicate there is an interest in going back to theaters, it's a question more of when people are more comfortable (which still requires way more vaccinations than we've got now, so, y'know, patience.)
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Gatts posted:Is Michael Jordan going to have a cameo in Space Jam 2? That would be wild. I have a standing bet with a friend of mine that this film will include a scene where Lebron James and a deepfake "in his prime" Jordan will play one-on-one. So, I'm thinking yes.
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make michael jordan the villain cuz he's an rear end in a top hat
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I can’t see Jordan agreeing to that. It would make a good stinger, though. e: For the one-on-one, I mean.
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Boxman posted:This is very astute. I feel like trying to get that sort of brand identification for a big tent brand is just chasing the impossible, because there is no WB other than "makes movies." Always Sunny is on Disney+ Star in Canada and I’m sure will end up on Disney + when they fold all the IP into it.
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Lebron gets an important call that helps him realize the true way to win his son back & stop Virtua Cheadle: in the voting booths
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Alan Smithee posted:make michael jordan the villain He loses, but in the post-credits you found he was betting against himself. Robust villain laughter.
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Lebron gets an inspirational call. It is President Xi and Lebron explains to Jordan he is mistaken about Hong Kong.
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Fox News has concerns about g v k https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1379199368662822914?s=19
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Fox News has concerns about g v k https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1379199368662822914?s=19 sombody's gotta look out for omni consumer products https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/1379125453462601734
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"Why is the Hollywood Left turning on America's billionaire plutocrats?" loving hell.
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“8 dead, dozens injured” is a pretty hilarious chyron considering the damage done in those scenes.
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Stink Billyums posted:sombody's gotta look out for omni consumer products  that they're treating it like a new development, but go back 34 years to Robocop
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Shoulda gone for the new Robocop where one of the villains is literally a Fox News anchor.
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Stink Billyums posted:sombody's gotta look out for omni consumer products Is that the Pointy Haired Boss from Dilbert in the upper left?
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