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RC and Moon Pie posted:I'm trying to remember all the trailers before Cats. you know what, i really don't care one way or another about how this movie is gonna be, but after a decade when 60% of the top rock songs were by either Imagine Dragons or Twenty-One Pilots it seems like rubbing it in to cast the rock people as the ones trying to rule the world. Like the plot feels like it should have happened circa 1995 when hip-hop was still genuinely new and rock was still genuinely on top of the world. Seriously when the sad emo guitar people are the only ones left standing and even they are working with taylor swift, it's kinda hard to buy Hard Rock as a thing that desires dominance. Memento posted:Is there some kind of Hollywood Ritual for an action leading man where you have to make a movie where you look after little kids? The Rock had that Tooth Fairy movie, Vin Diesel had that babysitter one, and now Big Dave Bautista is (probably, I haven't looked into it at all) going to find his heart again after spending too many years as a hardened assassin or whatever. don't forget that lovely movie from literally like 2 months ago where John Cena played a big manly fireman who ended up in temporary possession of some children. it's a subgenre unto itself.
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# ¿ Jan 2, 2020 04:40 |
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# ¿ Apr 19, 2024 08:56 |
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I’m in Disney World this week and did the other Resistance ride at Galaxy’s Edge and it’s incredible. If they had just waited and opened the land when everything was done you’d be seeing universal acclaim. This place is seriously incredible to just walk around in. I went on RotR yesterday and I can confirm that it’s dope as gently caress. It punches back at the trend of rides as vehicles that transport you from one screen to another with some truly spectacular environments and the physicality of everything really sells it. I haven’t seen Episode IX yet but I’d be willing to be money there isn’t a moment as thrilling as staring a life-size AT-AT in the face as it prepares to blast your face off. There are still some screen moments but they aren’t the whole show and serve to enhance the whole experience. Pandora is cool and all but I like the lame boat ride more than the Flight of Passage because even in world you’re just doing a virtual experience (which is what the whole avatar project is in the movies), but the boat ride has these beautiful crafted flora and fauna and one incredibly lifelike Animatronic. The world is really well built though. Those floating rocks are cool as hell.
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# ¿ Jan 7, 2020 18:17 |
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i don't know if Margot Robbie can sing but if you tell her to do her Harley Quinn voice but about 50 IQ points lower that would probably be the ideal Audrey. Or you could reunite the best Spider-Man with his best girl and cast Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone. Stone can definitely sing and I have to imagine that Garfield can too. edit: ooh, Kristen Schaal! She'd be a wonderful Audrey.
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# ¿ Feb 26, 2020 07:28 |
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:The Stainless Steel Rat is kind of a comedy series. hey man, have some respect, he just dropped out of the race today.
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# ¿ Mar 2, 2020 02:08 |
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Possibly, there was a homeless man that hung out around my college since a lot of students had a habit of giving him a few bucks or buying him a sandwich when they saw him. There was also a rumor that he was secretly wealthy and either insane or just had nothing better to do. Everyone I knew that perpetuated the rumor also attended objectivist or libertarian meetings. I always assumed the rumor was their way soothing a guilty conscience about never doing anything to help him. yeah it's a pretty common belief that, even if they're not secretly wealthy, most homeless people who are asking people for money are making like, mid-to-high 5 figures a year and have a home and are just lazy which is why you shouldn't give them money, and i'd be willing to bet that 95% of the people who believe that are also big fans of destroying the social safety net. it's definitely a belief you hold to justify your actions.
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# ¿ Mar 7, 2020 01:57 |
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hemale in pain posted:oh wow, so someone got doxxed for tweeting this to the point where all her workers quit and she attempted suicide and then the director of guns akimbo tries to defend her, in a pretty dumb way tbh, and twitter warriors get all defensive over it because bullying people on the internet is only okay when they do it. he accused some of her former writers, who weren't even online when the whole thing went down, of pushing her to commit suicide, and then when people tried to explain that to him, he like, quadrupled down and called them all murderers. When someone who is a big enough deal to make movies with Harry Potter goes on a twitter campaign against random black internet film writers who are expressing their displeasure at people using the n-word and calls them all murderers, that someone should probably get the gently caress off of twitter, whether by hook or by crook. It should be noted that most of the people who resigned did so before the suicide attempts, and after she posted those videos actively worked to find her and keep her from actually succeeding, thus possibly saving her life. (it should also be noted that within a few days the director created a burner twitter account to continue complaining about this and people found it almost immediately because he was absolutely unsubtle about it) edit: honestly that Stranger article is kinda lovely and solely coming from the "Everyone On Twitter Is Terrible" perspective and throwing the baby out with the bathwater. A writer on RogerEbert.com wrote about it and did a much better job of talking about the experience of being a black critic online and the inability on the part of some (like the writer of the article you posted) to discriminate between actual Twitter trolls and people who are trying to say something. Robert Daniels posted:“While young critics dream of being pull-quoted, I asked for mine not to be used. Here’s why.” DC Murderverse fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Mar 9, 2020 |
# ¿ Mar 9, 2020 01:16 |
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Barudak posted:I really didn't like Wall-E or Up so for me the decline starts there. Unless Cars came out before those in which case motherfucking Cars You are an insane person, WALL-E and Up are the two best Pixar movies. Cars 2 was the start of the decline IMO. The first one could be written off as Lasseter being a boomer and turning his nostalgia into a film, but Cars 2 was after the Disney acquisition and made fully for the toys. edit to be more specific: Disney purchased Pixar in 2006, the year Cars came out. After that we got Ratatouille, WALL-E, and Up, all of which are fantastic and wonderful, despite what this dummy i quoted says. They were all in the works prior to that purchase, and Toy Story 3, which came out the year after Up, was almost certainly not in the works when the purchase happened (because Disney was trying to make it on their own since they owned the property), but probably got started about 30 seconds after all the papers were signed because Disney wanted sequels to be made and they didn't want their half-rear end C-team animation studios to do it if they could help it. Cars 2 came out the year after Toy Story 3, meaning that it was almost certainly put in production around the same time for the same reason, but it was made not because it was the conclusion to a beloved trilogy that everyone loved, but because it made stupid money from merchandising. I'm not going to say that Pixar had never made decisions based on merchandising before because I know how capitalism works, but the toyetic-ness of their films was definitely second to the actual craft themselves, which is something that Disney bemoaned on the reg and was one of the reasons Pixar didn't want to continue working with an Eisner-led Disney. Once Eisner got the boot, Pixar gave themselves over fully to the machine (which hadn't quite become the machine we think of it as today, although this was arguably the first step in that process) and started making the movie they wanted to make (Toy Story 3) and the movie Disney wanted them to make (Cars 2). They've made good movies since then (Inside Out and Incredibles 2 being the only ones that stand alongside their previous work) but Cars 2 represents the first movie made with Disney's interests superceding Pixar's (the ol' "one for you, one for them" thing that Hollywood does), and also it's definitely a step down in quality even from Cars 1. DC Murderverse fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Mar 9, 2020 |
# ¿ Mar 9, 2020 19:01 |
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I can’t wait for the touching backstory of the racist caricature Siamese cats
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# ¿ Mar 10, 2020 19:33 |
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Soul feels the most like a Pixar movie made in that era where they were just making whatever the gently caress they wanted and Disney got mad because they couldn't sell toys of it (turns out no one wants stuffed old people or weird little robots or rats???), i would totally buy that Disney just doesn't know how to market it.
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# ¿ Mar 10, 2020 22:43 |
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Casimir Radon posted:Soul really depends on whether or not it subverts expectations. If it's two hours of preachy poo poo about following your passion and not letting anything get in the way, as told by artists with massive blind spots because they're successful in their field, then it's probably going to suck. If the outcome is that he doesn't get his big break but realizes that his role as a teacher is worthwhile and fulfilling, then it will probably be good. I'm leaning towards it being the latter. i have faith that the guy behind Up and Monster's Inc and Inside Out is gonna make it good.
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# ¿ Mar 12, 2020 00:58 |
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i think it would be absolutely hilarious if New Mutants got delayed again
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# ¿ Mar 12, 2020 17:49 |
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Mierenneuker posted:They are delaying New Mutants?! at this rate we're going to pass the 2 year anniversary of it's original release before it comes out
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# ¿ Mar 12, 2020 23:28 |
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muscles like this! posted:Next major release (until it gets delayed) is Trolls World Tour on April 10th. After that is Black Widow on May 1st. Saint Maud is scheduled for the 10th as well as Charm City Kings the following week, and Bad Trip and Antebellum the week after that. They aren't major major but they are wide releases. We'll see if those hold.
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# ¿ Mar 13, 2020 00:51 |
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Tars Tarkas posted:I think Troll World Tour is the only big studio film not being delayed yet (outside of The Hunt, which was delayed but now might be the Last Movie Ever) i was talking to one of my coworkers at the theater i work at today and i told him i think that Trolls is gonna be a bellwether for movie theaters, they'll stay open as long as Trolls stays put but if it moves, chain theaters will probably close until Black Widow (unless Black Widow also moves, which has been rumored pretty heavily). it's not impossible that if worst comes to, theaters will be closed for almost 2 months. it would absolutely suck poo poo and put lots of people out of work and i have absolutely no faith in the chains to keep their employees from starving if they can help it.
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# ¿ Mar 13, 2020 07:04 |
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muscles like this! posted:Also AMC has announced a new policy where they are going to cut maximum attendance for their theaters by half. what a coincidence, the customers of my theater announced a new policy where they cut our total attendance by half, all on their own!
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# ¿ Mar 14, 2020 03:07 |
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So, if the initial predictions come to pass, this will be the lowest grossing weekend total for the entire theatrical box office since September 11-13, 1998 (that is not a typo, i do not mean 2001, the weekend after 9/11 still grossed more than this weekend). For reference, this is what the box office looked like that weekend:
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2020 05:20 |
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Rageaholic posted:Yikes. I read an article earlier that said the film industry stands to lose $20 billion because of coronavirus, and I guess that's accurate if we're already doing worse than 9/11 weekend. I mean, this is just phase one. There are basically no movies coming out now, and the movies that are supposed to come out now will probably not get the same money they would have had they come out without a giant pandemic and then all of the stuff currently in production is shut down. and that's not just like, LA, that's everywhere, from LA to Vancouver to Atlanta to New York to China.
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2020 08:44 |
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Casimir Radon posted:Marcus announced that they were going to only sell half the seats and encourage distancing, but maybe now they'll just close. as a marcus employee we weren't selling up to 50% capacity without this loving virus. i'm still not convinced they'll do the right thing a second before being forced to; last year during the cold-snap in the midwest that shut down every other theater, chain or otherwise, Marcus kept open and offered people free Hot Chocolate, which was just infuriating
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# ¿ Mar 16, 2020 22:49 |
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DC Murderverse posted:as a marcus employee we weren't selling up to 50% capacity without this loving virus. i'm still not convinced they'll do the right thing a second before being forced to; last year during the cold-snap in the midwest that shut down every other theater, chain or otherwise, Marcus kept open and offered people free Hot Chocolate, which was just infuriating the latest word out of Marcus-World is that we aren't gonna close theaters unless forced to by a government, federal, state or local. there may be something in the works for helping employees of theaters closed but they really really don't want to.
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# ¿ Mar 17, 2020 01:59 |
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Iowa's governor has ordered movie theaters (and pretty much everything else) to shut down starting at noon today, which is in an hour and a half from now. We're scrambling because that's really really short notice, but we'll see if AMC/Regal/multiple state governments push Marcus to close everything. I honestly don't have the highest hopes for that@
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# ¿ Mar 17, 2020 16:53 |
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Enos Cabell posted:Local paper says that Marcus theaters in Nebraska are closed now as of an hour ago. yeah Marcus is closing their locations now. i'm surprised they went before Cinemark honestly. they're offering some money to employees who work more than 15 hours a week, but not a whole lot. The warning we got said they expected to be open in 14 days but i'm thinking it will be longer than that, especially with Black Widow dropping out. there's nothing for a while.
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# ¿ Mar 17, 2020 20:17 |
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disney of all companies can weather this storm, especially because whenever the market fully reinflates it's going to be their movies that everyone goes to. I can imagine Mulan's release sort of signalling the "all-clear" and getting a lot of people assuming they wait until people are actually safe, and they have so many release dates cordoned out that shifting everything back 6 months is gonna be easier than other places which will have to totally reorganize around the movies that are already scheduled.
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# ¿ Mar 17, 2020 20:52 |
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my last theater movies were the last 5 minutes of Sonic the Hedgehog and the last hour of Birds of Prey.
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# ¿ Mar 21, 2020 01:15 |
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Pirate Jet posted:AMC is refusing to show Universal movies because they shared that news, lmao. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/amc-theatres-refuses-play-universal-films-wake-trolls-world-tour-1292327 if AMC refuses to show one of the biggest studio's movies they won't be showing anything soon after because they're already teetering on the edge of bankruptcy
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# ¿ Apr 29, 2020 01:43 |
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Groovelord Neato posted:Godzilla 2014 had one of the greatest trailers of all time and they tried to scrub it from the internet (it contains the body of a monster that isn't the MUTOs is probably the reason). Not sure any movie could've lived up to that teaser. frankly, despite the fact that I love love love that teaser trailer (it's really well done considering it was made before a single frame of the actual movie was shot) and have nostalgic feelings for it because I was in the room at Comic-Con when they unveiled it (and then showed it again because it got such a positive reception, the room went absolutely batshit for it, deservedly so), I think that the first real teaser that starts by building up to the HALO jump is a better trailer. The HALO dive is such an iconic shot in a movie full of iconic shots (so much so that they made reference to it in KotM) and the music they have for it (especially in the second half with very limited noise leading up to the roar) is really the perfect way to build tension. Probably one of my all-time favorite movie trailers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjKO10hKtYw I also love G14 and think it's on par with Shin so I'm fairly biased.
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# ¿ May 1, 2020 22:03 |
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muscles like this! posted:So Disney has ditched their previous theatrical release plan for... Hamilton. Moving up from the previous release date of October '21 to this July 3rd. I can't believe that they had this movie scheduled for literally 17 months from now and were literally just gonna sit on a completed film for all that time or at least one that they actually had a hand in producing and was not just thrust on them ala New Mutants
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# ¿ May 12, 2020 21:44 |
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PeterCat posted:Though the girl who pays Mattie Ross in the original is terrible. and I bet her Billboard Top 30 single about masturbation wasn't as good as Hailee Steinfeld's either. man she's had a weird career. nominated for an Oscar at 14 years old (and fuckin' robbed if you ask me, she should have been in the lead category) for her first role in a feature film ever, going from that to a bunch of absolute bombs, starting a singing career, swinging back into film through Pitch Perfect 2 and is now splitting time between being a pop star and an actress, both of which she's really pretty good at but neither of which she's really become an A-lister because she's not full-time in either. seriously it could be legitimately argued that four best movies that she's been in are True Grit, Enter the Spiderverse, Edge of Seventeen and loving Bumblebee, which was showered with praise solely because everyone was just so sick of Michael Bay that a movie directed by someone else was like an oasis in the middle of the Sahara.
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# ¿ May 16, 2020 10:33 |
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QuoProQuid posted:I assume he's talking about the scene where a dude gets kidnapped, stripped, and covered in a resin before having his flesh sewn into a tapestry of other dead, plastic-covered bodies. The dude then wakes up and tries to rip his body out of the tapestry of corpses before running headlong into a ravine. I mean I think the first moment everyone was like "wait what the gently caress was that" was the "angels" with wings cut from their skin and held up with wire, which was definitely nightmare fuel. You're right about the face-eating being the worst part though.
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# ¿ May 26, 2020 17:36 |
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AceOfFlames posted:I'm guessing it has to do with Fuller's perfectionism and attention to detail. I don't know a lot about American Gods but I do know Hannibal employed a "food stylist" whose entire job was not only making the meals shown in the show look incredible but also like they probably also contained human flesh. Put a bunch of incredibly niche stuff like that, especially in something as fantastical as AG, and you got a ballooning budget and Fuller demanding $9 million per episode for Season 2 (for reference, the first season of Game of Thrones cost $6 million per ep.) I mean literally any show that has food in it employs a food stylist, I dunno why you'd frame it as some weird niche thing. They just hired someone who is very good at it, and made it a regular part of the show to display Hannibal's proclivities.
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# ¿ May 28, 2020 02:15 |
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The MSJ posted:while in other video game movie news Cate Blanchett is playing Lilith in Eli Roth's Borderlands movie. how much loving money did they pay her, if I were cate blanchett I would not go anywhere near either Borderlands or Eli Roth
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# ¿ May 29, 2020 02:53 |
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Alan Smithee posted:https://twitter.com/cnni/status/1268913237610901508?s=20 reminder that Ms. Blanchett has just been cast in Eli Roth's Borderlands no I don't know why she'd want to do that either
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# ¿ Jun 7, 2020 00:58 |
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Tars Tarkas posted:The seats in the theaters are probably nice and clean, but it is the air in the theater especially with a bunch of rando patrons who are chowing down on dry popcorn just waiting to cough everywhere that is the big nope as a movie theater employee, I'll set this straight: if the seats are leather, you're gonna be fine, especially immediately after reopening. Theaters are gonna have extra hands on deck to be cleaning constantly. My boss told me we'd probably have 2-3 people on theater duty (when we'd normally have 1, 2 on very busy nights) armed with lots of sanitizer, plus an extra person cleaning just the bathrooms. They're super paranoid because people (rightfully) assume that theaters are gonna be a place where people could very easily transmit. If the seats are cloth, you might not be so lucky, it's harder to clean them. you're not wrong about the air though, that's something theaters can't really control. They'll all be forcing people to wear masks (especially after AMC tried to say they wouldn't and everyone yelled at them, and I dont' know about everyone else, but I'm gonna be a huge rear end in a top hat to anyone who thinks they can get in without a mask. There's not really a way to enforce wearing them in the theaters themselves though. I wouldn't recommend you go see movies in theaters at least through this year, possibly longer depending on how long this pandemic lasts. I'm not optimistic.
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# ¿ Jun 27, 2020 05:34 |
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the fast and furious franchise cannot go into the past because then they'd have to explain why they're not picking up Paul Walker on the way and that will just be a huge bummer
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# ¿ Jul 11, 2020 10:53 |
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FilthyImp posted:drat. A24 pairing up with Landmark Theatres and just having one or two screens always play one of their films would be choice. Landmark is already owned by the same people who own Magnolia.
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# ¿ Jul 19, 2020 20:29 |
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obviously she was too early, if she had released that after 50 Shades got popular she would have had a niche to market to.
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# ¿ Jul 26, 2020 07:24 |
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I waffle back and forth about whether a Metroid movie would be a good idea. Obviously the right people behind it would make it sing (and brie would be a very good choice to play Samus, behind pretty much just Charlize Theron if she still wants the role) but I wonder if they'll just turn it into an action movie. I'd love to see like, the scenes within the alien tomb in Prometheus but stretched out to an entire movie for Metroid.
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# ¿ Jul 28, 2020 21:36 |
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AccountSupervisor posted:I dont understand why they didnt just update the decree or work on a replacement law. Its so stupid they think the DoJ and existing antitrust laws are going to be vigilant enough to basically prevent Disney from strong arming theater owners harder than they already do. Its so insane. everyone jokes about Disney buying AMC (which still could totally happen) but the actual first thing that Disney is going to start doing is block-booking, which is where you don't get The Big Movies unless you carry their entire slate. it's already something they kinda do back-handedly but now they can just do it out in the open! Disney is already crazy strict about this poo poo, at my theater we can't schedule anything less than a full day of shows for Disney movies even if it's a Thursday and we've got new movies opening in the evening and no one is going to see the Disney movie because it's been around for like, 3 months.
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# ¿ Aug 7, 2020 23:28 |
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Groovelord Neato posted:It did because it was very bad. It and Dexter ended at roughly the same time and it’s like the show runners were having a “piss off the fans” competition
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# ¿ Aug 14, 2020 00:48 |
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END ME SCOOB posted:So the entire show they'd been cutting to shots of "the kids" he was telling this story to, and they filmed all of these ahead of time because otherwise the kids were going to age up. This meant that they stuck with the ending they'd planned way back when, ahead of all the development or changes the cast went through. Also they built up to this woman for 7 years and teased all sorts of really cool women as potential mothers and so finding a woman who could actually live up to all that was such a tall task and they found her and still hosed it up. It cannot be overstated how perfect Cristin Milioti is (in that role and generally) and how they threaded the needle of finding someone that was lovable enough that she could hang with characters who fans had followed for years and totally believable as someone you could fall in love with the first time you meet her and pretty seamlessly integrated into the timeline of the show. You see her sing La Vie en Rose on a ukulele, which should be impossibly twee but instead it completely melts your heart because of how good their casting was, and by the time you’ve spent the season watching her and Ted’s love story blossom and everyone was ready to watch them ride into the sunset and then they put a cap in her rear end and siked everyone out. It’s like catching a potentially game-winning pick-six after you let a massive comeback happen and then at the one yard-line you drop the ball before the endzone because you want to flex and end up losing the game. Everyone go watch Palm Springs, she’s also perfect in that movie even if she doesn’t get to sing.
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# ¿ Aug 14, 2020 04:25 |
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# ¿ Apr 19, 2024 08:56 |
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reminder that a couple months ago she dropped some tweets sort of implying that she buys into QAnon
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# ¿ Aug 25, 2020 07:49 |