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trapstar posted:I've heard mixed things. The new Star Wars series always seem hit or miss. Some are panned while some are acclaimed and it seems to switch in quality up and down with each new series. Inconsistency, with some being great and some awful, is much better than everything just being a semi-decent mediocre. There's enough mediocre poo poo out there, I don't mind if there's a bit more outright bad stuff if it means there's some legit good stuff as well.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Been said a lot that the quality of a season is pretty much inversely proportional to how much attention it got from Disney's c-suite. It's funny how often you hear about that sort of thing happening. So many interviews with creatives from a few different fields "yeah the first one we were just this small side project no one cared about so just left alone, then the first one became incredibly successful, and they immediately upper management wanted us to so a sequel and from the very start they just overloaded with notes". C-suites your ideas suck. That's why you're management not creatives. stop giving them! Let the people who just made a super successful thing do there thing, and make another one.
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CelticPredator posted:Spielberg, Scorsese I'd say even those aren't quite as well defined. Maybe Cronenberg? Not across medium, but pretty identifiable thematically and visually.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Ok so do a roadtrip movie but every time Lovecraft starts to mention having a cat all the other actors get visibly uncomfortable in a fourth-wall sort of way and start like looking at the camera, signaling to the director etc. They arrive in a random town and Lovecraft starts going on about how he doesn't like the look of "these people" in the town. Everyone else immediately starts going off at him to stop being a racist prick, then a very fishy innsmouth'eq person woddles past the car.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Robert E Howard committed suicide the day after his mother died. His mom had his bit coin private key.
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CPL593H posted:It's also likely that the novelty of Peter Dinklage being in this kind of movie will itself be a selling point for some. As well as Peter Dinklage, Elijah Wood, and Kevin Bacon. It actually has a hell of a cast for this kinda movie. I guess because the original somehow got such a cult status -I still have no loving idea how it managed to get a kids cartoon made of it- the remake isn't consider to be the normal Troma z-grade film fair, while still trying to capture all the good aspects of those films that make a lot of them so fondly remembered.
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Jan 22, 2025 11:38
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CPL593H posted:There's no goddamn way they spent or even would have been able to get a Disney sized budget for that. I'll be shocked if it's actually as much as or higher than ten million and even that's a lot. Unless some of the big names worked for scale, at least two of them would of cost a fair bit, and the few make up and effects seen in the trailer and what not look quite decent. Of course very good make up and practical effects are fortunately quite a lot cheaper then the use to be. But yeah I would still guess somewhere around the $5-15 Million range.
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Jan 22, 2025 11:50
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CPL593H posted:At this point I think Peter Dinklage is a bigger name than either of them. Yeah probably. Wood's seem to be using his lord of the rings fortune to just do fun indie roles, which is great, but yeah means he's probably not that big a name any more. Kevin Bacon if obviously notorious for being in everything, so I'm guessing doesn't get near as much as the other two. But yeah all three three are great, and the type of actors who I reckon would know the exact type of performance to give in this sort of film. Wood's apparently made up very Devito's Penguin'esq, which sounds fun as hell.
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trapstar posted:How likely do you guys think it is the new D&D movie gets a sequel? It unfortunately lost money only making $200 mil world wide off $150 mil budget. Which is a shame as it's a great movie. There were plans for a TV show, but paramount being in the financial shape their in passed on it, and I don't think anyone else is considering it. Hasbro apparently put in quite a bit of money financing the first one -so possibly the studio did make a tiny bit of money back- and reportedly were obviously very happy with the reception, so they might try and fund something else in the future mostly just for advertising. Between that movie, Baldur's gate 3, and Stranger things, D&D seems like it's becoming a lot more popular again or at least more culturally relevant? No idea if that's affected sales at all.
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Martman posted:Tim Wilson's a comedian, you must mean Tim Allen Tim Allens an unfunny snitch, you must mean Tim Minchin
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Gripweed posted:In one of the Turbulence sequels the bad guy's plot is to highjack the plane so he can crash it into a cursed church and tear open a portal to hell. The Turbulence series could've gone to really wild places if the bad guys had succeeded in that one.
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Jay Rust posted:man, you would think a church would be the one place a portal to hell wouldnt be. They're always in the last place you look!
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Wolfsheim posted:Prince of Darkness scientifically disproves this And that movie had so many scientists in it, so you know it's scientifically accurate! Science didn't help them much 
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Van Damme has a shockingly high batting average, i watched around 30 of his movies a couple years ago and only two of them were skippers. That said, his best is Sudden Death, hands down Yeah, unlike Segal, Van Damme has talent as an action star, and has been in quite a few good movies. But yeah third of forthing Hard Target. Time Cops also good though, Universal solider as well. Double impact is just insane. If you enjoy super stupid b movies that can be fun. Segal only good movie is Under Siege. Well executive descion as well, but as he dies super early in that one, not really a Segal movie. I just checked IMDB to see if there was any Van drat movies I was forgetting. Apparently he just voiced Johnny cage in a 2023 Mortal kombat game. lol. I thought there was some french action film where Van Damme at the end accidentally walks into a Dojo full of bad guys -cops maybe?- training, and then just takes them all on before continuing on his way. I think I must be mis-remembering though as don't see it looking through IMDB. Maybe it starred someone else? Bah, fuzzy memories.
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Halloween Jack posted:The best thing about Seagal's career is that he did so many movies that you can watch his physical deterioration in real time. His fight scenes just get more and more limited and heavily edited until he's no longer standing up. Does he have any fight scenes where he's just sitting on a chair? I assume not, but I really want there to be at least one as that would be hilarious.
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CelticPredator posted:wtf is going on is that dude a monkey man or what Haha, I swear the dude was just randomly floating at one stage. Ah that was great! Monkey man you deserved a far better opponent and film!
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CPL593H posted:How did we get this far into a discussion about Steve Seengal and we all collectively forgot this happened: Or this: 
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Which one has "I'm gonna take you to the bank....the blood bank"? Google says Hard to kill. Not impossible to kill though. Bad guys in that should of just tried a little harder.
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Not sure that movie would really fly today. Pretty sure since then we've all collectively decided dragons are our friends, and dragon hunters are just utter pricks. The dragonborn in skyrim was a right wanker.
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CelticPredator posted:He saves Dakota fanning and everyone else by pulling the pin out of a grenade belt and shoving it into the tripod anus. I feel like this is not the only movie where an alien has been killed via explosives shoved up it's anus. Think it may just be a thing that's taught in hollywood film schools, on how can your hero's kill a large evil alien, or something. I assume that's just the type of thing the spend all day discussing at hollywood film schools
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CelticPredator posted:I at least like every alien movie. But I love most of them. I am a true fan Does this include the AVP ones? As if not, same. First two are obviously classics, but 3 and 4 are while still janky at least interesting in their own way. That goes for the last two as well. David is by far the most interesting part of them though and Scott knows it.
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CPL593H posted:However, as a piece of big dumb 90s schlock it's great. There's a certain flavor to 90s schlock sci-if that I feel is very unique... It belongs to poo poo like Johnny Mnemonic, Tank Girl, Waterworld, Fortress, and Super Mario Brothers. Movies with wild visions of varying quality that just didn't hit with the public. Yeah, early to mid 90s has some movies with wild vision, which while not always the best, made the world better by their insane existence. While those type of movies are still made, they don't get anywhere near the budget or wide release it seems. So no crazy large and bizarre sets alas. Seems most big budget movies these days if their set in the future, go with like one of the three popular future aesthetics. Just do a out of nowhere Super Mario Brother'esq, lets go wild with this poo poo, future, you cowards!!!
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Martman posted:Umm I don't think mummification is part of the natural process of decomposition Article says a space heater was found by her head. ...that's also not part of the natural process of decomposition.
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huh posted:(Do you know what this particular one is from?) Maybe Casino. And cuts are usually just done by the editor -although directors have varying amounts of input- but a match cut, the director would really of had to of had that in mind when they were shooting for them to match well, unless the editor just got a real like find when they were looking through the footage. Which like if there was a lot of b-roll shot, could happen.
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huh posted:I'm trying to understand how a movie decides what to show the audience. So that's sometimes called Audience superior position, and Audience inferior position https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audience_superior_position And that's normally up to the writer, and there's pros and cons to each. A lot of it also has to do with how your telling your narrative. Here's an easy primer on that: https://beverlyboy.com/filmmaking/the-difference-between-restricted-and-unrestricted-narration-in-film/ When I had to give a class on the topic, I went through Memento with my class, as that does both at different points in the movie and really is just a masterclass on how to use who has what information in any given scene. I'd post up my notes preparing for that lesson, but it was like a decade and a half ago now, so they're long gone alas
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Title has to many u's in it, and I feel like who ever named it that knew it, and did it anyway. I wouldn't trust em.
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Wow, couldn't even tell it was Ally Sheedy underneath all that dog make up. Also they should just hire dogs for dog roles!!!
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Mordiceius posted:Well, you see, since Starship Troopers didn't directly make fun of the "supposed" fascists during the film by having a character call them out and be proven right, this means the film fails if it is trying to critique fascism. The main characters were all very traditionally attractive, so obviously they could only do good things, and the audience would always agree with everything they do!
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Mordiceius posted:Robocop is about how cool cops are. And corporations are great too! Corporations make cool robotic cops! How cool is that! Vote 1# Corporations!!!!!
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It's also funny when subtitles clean up the langue a lot. Particular funny when they put English subtitles on some Scottish independent films, and it's like, um, I can literally hear what they're saying contains far more graphic swearing then the subtitles, like who are you trying to fool here?
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Detective No. 27 posted:Also amusingly were the auto generated closed captioning capitalizing “Among Us” in the middle of a sentence spoken by one of the anchors during the Queen’s funeral a few years ago. Why were they bringing up among us? I really didn't follow the queens passing. She got, got by an alien imposter or something? Lol, shouldn't of been wandering Buckingham palace by yourself idiot!
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Are we 100% sure teletubbies just didn't do an episode homaging the Sopranos?
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I'm not sure there was a single action movie with more recognisable 80's one lines as commando. "did you leave anything for us?""just dead bodies" "I eat Green Berets for breakfast. And right now, I'm very hungry!" "Don't disturb my friend, he's dead tired." "I let him go" Half the loving script seemed to be one liners, and they were all 80's brilliance!
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CPL593H posted:Commando is everything Arnold Schwarzenegger movies were recognized for cranked up to eleven. It's basically just McBain. Yeah, he did far better films in the 80's -hard to top Terminator and Predator- but he didn't do any that were more quintessentially 80s action than Commando. It wouldn't even be possible too. It knew what it wanted to be and just went all in.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Does Col. John Matrix even have a line of dialogue that isn't quotable/memeable Occasionally he has a line that's setting up someone else with a great line! The movie doesn't give arnie all of them! Cindy: Can you tell me what this is all about? John Matrix: Yeah, a guy I trusted for years wants me dead. Cindy: That's understandable. I've only known you for five minutes and I want you dead, too. John Matrix: Bennett! I thought you were... Bennett: Dead? You thought wrong. Ever since you had me thrown out of your unit, I've waited to pay you back. Bennett: Do you know what today is Matrix? Pay day!
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Ghost Leviathan posted:That tracks. I wonder how many movies can be readily pointed to as rewriting the rules of a genre. Halloween Changed a lot, Scream did as well. Jaws changed how you make a summer movie. Star wars changed Sci-fi obviously, Aliens and Blade Runner were very influential but they weren't rule changing I'd say. Not as familiar with other genres. Here's a piece on westerns and some of the big movies then that changed things. https://screenrant.com/most-influential-western-movies-ever/ I think a bit of a problem is saying what's just being quite influential, and what's being rule changing.
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Last Action Hero is a bit annoying, as it's got these great cheesy comedy scenes in it, and it's like a decent movie, but like with just a few changes it could've been a classic. I feel like this was one of those movies that probably started out with a really great script, that got progressively worse pretty much every time someone made a change to it.
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Yeah it's by design, it works thematically, it just doesn't really work with the movie as a whole. Like by design the movie is split from crappy reality, hyper fun movie world, but like all the enjoyable stuff is in the movie world, and like I just didn't really relate at all to the kid, and felt we spent wayyy to much time with him. I understand why they did that, but like it's trying to be this fun satire of action movies, and then it's putting this really depressing reality section in with a really boring kid? The movie was trying to be two very different movies and suffered for it. A movie that tried to do very similar and succeed. Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Character interactions are obviously very different, but if they'd look to copy the tone more, only alterted to be 80's action -which pretty much was cartoon, they even make a joke of it at one point- I think it would of worked better. I do love in the real world part though Benedict: I wonder if you'd help me test a theory? Mechanic: Sure, what can I do for ya? Benedict: Well... [Benedict shoots him. He listens for a while, looks at his wristwatch, then shouts] Benedict: Hello? I've just shot somebody, I did it on purpose! [listens some more, still nothing] Benedict: I said, I have murdered a man and I want to confess! [listens some more] Off screen random: Hey, shut up, down there! Charles dances was so loving great in that role. Again so many good performances!
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I keep wanting to watch Better Man and then remembering it's a robbie williams movie
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