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Sagebrush posted:no, spielberg says "she had better be older than 22" (if their relationship was ten years ago) and lucas says that it's "not interesting" if she was 16 or older. lol, either i hadn't heard this before or totally forgot about it ![]()
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SmokaDustbowl posted:indiana jones in the opium wars would be fuckin awesome poo poo I just rebooted big trouble in little china https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXsBBqPb5YE
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lol
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anybody can write good story outlines though. the details are the hard part. making it into a movie script is harder, and making that into a real honest to goodness decent movie is harder still.
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what you really want is a good editorial team to do all the hard work while you take all the credit
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Achmed Jones posted:anybody can write good story outlines though. the details are the hard part. making it into a movie script is harder, and making that into a real honest to goodness decent movie is harder still. true, imo lawrence kasdan doesn't get enough credit for his effort in polishing 80s-era lucas turds lol (he also wrote or co-wrote the empire strikes back, return of the jedi and the force awakens) re: lucas, the WGA has pretty strict rules about crediting though. if someone has seriously minimal involvement in a production it's still possible to argue for (and win) a "story by" credit, it happens pretty frequently. lucas didn't actually direct or write most of "his" best films
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Lucas always has been and always will be a loving hack. Star wars blows.
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idk, it's fine for what it was, a fun space adventure movie. it just has this massively outsize cultural cachet for what it was, a fun space adventure movie. i have no goddamn idea why people are so slavishly devoted to it as a franchise beyond really effective marketing
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very simple and straightforward story, lucas just reused bits of stories that we already knew, recognizable and not too weird characters, and yeah, good marketing
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it probably had a pretty big impact on special effects and what types of movies got made after it at least
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the effects probably seemed groundbreaking to anyone that hadn't seen 2001 before or maybe even if they had, they are more elaborate looking in star wars because it's an action film. there's a lot to like about it if you don't think about it too deeply, but because of that it's also a bit baffling to me that there's a massive fan base still. i loved that poo poo when i was a kid, but today it's just kinda there. i'm not a massive fan but it's not like, offensive to me either
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we rightly make fun of poo poo like the character names, but the world building in the original trilogy is genuinely impressive. you really do feel like you’re watching an adventure set in a sprawling, familiar and yet alien universe full of people living out their own stories. and they’re fun movies, and there’s a cohesive narrative over the trilogy. and yeah, a lot of the effects were very good, especially the alien puppetry
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rotor posted:still not sure what was so wrong with the kythera mechanism there's an island off the coast of mainland Greece called Kythera, then there's another island on the opposite side, so the lazy Greeks just called it opposite Kythera - Antikythera.
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axolotl farmer posted:there's an island off the coast of mainland Greece called Kythera, then there's another island on the opposite side, so the lazy Greeks just called it opposite Kythera - Antikythera.
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axolotl farmer posted:there's an island off the coast of mainland Greece called Kythera, then there's another island on the opposite side, so the lazy Greeks just called it opposite Kythera - Antikythera. drat ![]()
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Wait until you hear about Bizarrokythera.
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there's also the cytherea mechanism, but you can look her up on your own time
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I just finished Hummingbird Salamander. interesting thriller, has some climate change doomerism that got to me but I enjoyed how the central mystery unfolded and connected together.
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Star Wars also has ridiculously good editing.
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Jonny 290 posted:very simple and straightforward story, lucas just reused bits of stories that we already knew, recognizable and not too weird characters, and yeah, good marketing it follows the hero's journey to a T
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Doom Mathematic posted:Star Wars also has ridiculously good editing.
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lol they have strayed pretty far from that![]()
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Kenny Logins posted:the part where chewie stacks them on a funerary pyre i guess Burning dead Jawa smoke gets you hella high, they are an endangered species except out on the galactic rim
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Truman Peyote posted:lol they have strayed pretty far from that i will lol forever that rian johnson made a movie that basically said its ok to be a nobody you can still help make the world a better place and we ended up with that
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:its ok to be a nobody you can still help make the world a better place science fiction is one thing but that's just downright silly
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:i will lol forever that rian johnson made a movie that basically said its ok to be a nobody you can still help make the world a better place and we ended up with that rian johnson's one took a lot of risks and even though they didn't really pay off that makes it by far the most interesting of the new ones imo. the last one is so bloated and incoherent that it's kind of hard to talk about. it's like they created the plot outline by listening to a kid play with some star wars action figures for a couple of hours.
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wow I did not know![]() the T1000 bullet impacts were practical FX, not CG. https://hackaday.com/2021/11/14/those-bullet-effects-in-terminator-2-werent-cgi/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhkv2sL2Uxw&t=56s
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NoneMoreNegative posted:wow I did not know didn't know that either! that owns
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for Halloween one year I did a half-assed T2 cop costume and used foil muffin tin bottoms to make those bullet damage fx spots
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:i will lol forever that rian johnson made a movie that basically said its ok to be a nobody you can still help make the world a better place and we ended up with that there’s this thing in popular media [especially disney stuff] where franchises for kids are all about who your parents were and stuff for adults is more about family of choice and figuring out who you are beyond your family, I think disney can’t decide who the mainline movies should be for
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qirex posted:there’s this thing in popular media [especially disney stuff] where franchises for kids are all about who your parents were that's really hosed up
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Truman Peyote posted:lol they have strayed pretty far from that In the recent stars war shows I often found myself enjoying the closing credits concept art more than the actual episodes.
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https://twitter.com/tkelce/status/17065752852?s=61&t=RbXZMCgxsrDmnqH0V5aXJw
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all quiet is prettttty good
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Neeat- new episode of Last of Us is already out.
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yeah they didn’t want to compete with some other popular thing that’s happening on sunday
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polyester concept posted:yeah they didn’t want to compete with some other popular thing that’s happening on sunday oh yeah puppy bowl this weekend
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qirex posted:oh yeah puppy bowl this weekend psyched as heck for the puppy bowl
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