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Movie News & Trailers: the sequel
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As long as they bring back Ronny Cox, Judge Reinhold and John Ashton too. All these guys should be retired, though.
I knew a retired Beverly Hills cop, though. He was incredibly wealthy compared to most cops. He eventually became chief of Culver City police which is a neighborhood/city kinda between Beverly Hills and Santa Monica. He told lots of stories about being a cop at that time that were definitely not politically correct.
It would be funny if Axel Foley went to visit his old friends and they all had mansions. Except for Taggert who bought a defunct nuclear missile silo that he stocked with guns and supplies in preparation for the collapse of civilization.
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It would be funny if Axel Foley went to visit his old friends and they all had mansions.
Let’s not forget Serge (Branson Pinchot) who made a fortune opening a chain of espresso restaurants throughout Southern California before anyone outside of Seattle ever heard of Starbucks!
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It would be funny if Axel Foley went to visit his old friends and they all had mansions.
Let’s not forget Serge (Branson Pinchot) who made a fortune opening a chain of espresso restaurants throughout Southern California before anyone outside of Seattle ever heard of Starbucks!
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Remaking Barbarella isn’t a great idea. She’s too much of her time. And updating her will just make her be not-Barbarella. Just leave her alone, would be my advice if anyone was asking.
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‘Spawn’ Movie Finds New Writers With ‘Joker,’ ‘Captain America 4’ Scribes (Exclusive)
I don’t think they will ever make this damn movie. Honestly, it doesn’t need to be a good movie. It wasn’t really a good comic book. Quality is not what people look for in Spawn!
Just embrace the guadiness and crap it onto the screen. Like they did with Venom. That was crap but it was fun crap.
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Did anybody watch Terminator or Titanic or Avatar because of the stellar character work involved?
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It’s okay but I do think these guys are rather shortsighted in that cinema is not a battle to get what you like on screens. Superhero films are often flawed but they are keeping the business afloat in a rather shitty scenario. Spider-Man being a hit keeps cinemas open and gives Cameron a better chance of making Avatar 2 a hit as well.
30+ years ago I used to send numbers off to the BFI and in truth most films lost money for the cinema or at best broke even. Crocodile Dundee allowed us to show The Mission. If the commerciality of Crocodile Dundee wasn’t there, and we relied only on The Mission the cinema closes and sells no tickets for the latter.
It’s not new, it is a reality of the business that a handful of films each year make the profit, the industry always needs those hits to sustain everything else. However shit they may be. Transformers enables Tarantino, it’s just a fact.
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James Cameron Says Marvel and DC Characters “Act Like They’re in College”
He may be right, but I’m still way more likely to watch Marvel’s upcoming movies than any of the Avatar sequels. Because if the first one is any indication they’ll be very technically impressive, over long snooze-fests. I’m sure there’s a very sizable audience for them, but I’m not among that set of demographics.
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Aye, but it will be a real boon to the porn industry.
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Maybe it will get an Academy Award nomination…for Best Animated Feature.
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I thought the first one was “meh” and this one seems “meh” to me, too. I’ll be giving it a pass.
I think the visuals look incredible. It looks like a movie that will be a really vivid fantastical experience to let wash over you, regardless of how great the story is.
Clearly you’re also talking about the porn version.
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I think the visuals look incredible. It looks like a movie that will be a really vivid fantastical experience to let wash over you, regardless of how great the story is.
Absolutely.
And while Avatar was one of his weaker stories (not movies, necessarily, but stories) overall, I just generally have great respect for James Cameron as a craftsman when it comes to telling stories. He is just very, very good at the dynamics of plot and character. His movie plots are always a little too predictable, but they just work so well.
So yeah, if I can, I want to watch that in a movie theatre. Totally.
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‘Streets Of Rage’: Lionsgate Picks Up Feature Take Of Sega Videogame From ‘John Wick’s Derek Kolstad
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‘Streets Of Rage’: Lionsgate Picks Up Feature Take Of Sega Videogame From ‘John Wick’s Derek Kolstad
I loved the SoR games but it feels a bit like Uncharted to me – the games were pastiches of a movie stereotype in the first place, so making a movie based on them feels like a photocopy of a photocopy.
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I think it depends on the game. If you have a game where there’s a lot of originality in terms of characters and visuals then I think it lends itself better to a film adaptation – the Sonic movies have been successful, for example, and I imagine the Mario film will do OK.
I also think that games with a richer narrative will give adaptations a bit more to get their teeth into – so I expect the HBO adaptation of The Last Of Us to be pretty good, as there’s lots to explore there in terms of drama and character.
But as far as the games go, Streets of Rage is just a generic “last few good cops in a city gone bad” setup for lots of punching and kicking. Who knows, maybe that will give them a blank slate to do something interesting with it, but I’m not holding my breath.
(As long as they have a scene where the battered hero is near death at the hands of his enemies, then eats an entire roast chicken and instantly recovers, I’ll be happy.)
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Outside of the material made for kids cartoons we are still waiting really for a big commercial and critical hit in the way comics adaptations have managed a fair amount.
Yeah Uncharted ended up not really making much of an impact despite being a popular gaming franchise with a big-name cast.
I think TLoU might turn things around, but we’ll see.
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In the end I think the two strongest elements in people loving a film are character and plot. Many great games, by design, don’t have much of either, the lead character is intentionally a cypher for you to inhabit as the player. Game dynamics invite repetition for you to get into the gameplay which isn’t ideal for an exciting plot. They borrow a lot from film and literature because official license or not a lot of what they are selling is “you loved Star Wars/Goodfellas/Dawn of the Dead – we’ll let you play in that world”.
There are a few games where they are more story lead like TLoU or most of the Final Fantasy series where I’d happily watch something pretty faithful to the game but for most it doesn’t apply. Like I loved playing Skyrim, 100+ hours attests to that, but I have no interest in seeing a film of it really.
So for me that’s why after so many attempts with IP people love they struggle to deliver. Whereas comics, not just superhero ones, with a fraction of the audience and brand identity, have a string of successes because they also need character and plot.
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Disney Shocker! Bob Iger Back As CEO, Bob Chapek Out
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Takes a two year sabbatical while the other guy has to contend with the impact of the pandemic on Disney’s core business, not to mention the streaming service money pit and the Fox debt, then gets to swoop back in as the returning hero (even though he caused most of the non-pandemic issues the company is still dealing with)? That’s some Lex Luthor level moves right there.
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They woke Harrison Ford up from his nap for that?
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(peers over sheepishly) I think it looks quite good, I’m going to go and see it anyway.
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a moon landing celebration
There are set photos of banners saying “welcome home Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins” so a moon landing parade is a good shout.
Anyway, bear + cocaine =…
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Anyway, bear + cocaine =
I thought you were still talking about Harrison Ford for a minute.
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Anyway, bear + cocaine =…
Well, the trailer looks kind of awesome. Most impressive thing about it all is that they somehow got a budget to properly animate a bear and everything with that idea. This is probably due to the success of Blumhouse, isn’t it? Suddenly you can do the kind of movie that would have used to be a Troma film and have Elizabeth Banks directing it, starring Ray Liotta and Alden Ehrenreich.
Anyway, I will certainly see this in some form, but my hopes aren’t too high because the script is by the guy who wrote the sequel to the Babysitter (which was alright, but not half as good as the first one, which was a pleasant surprise).
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Today I learned that there is a SEVENTH live-action Transformers movie coming out. What in the blue hell is going on here…
When movies one through six all made a profit, why would you not make a seventh?
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When movies one through six all made a profit, why would you not make a seventh?
Are you suggesting that the Transformers movies are about profit, not about Art?
Wait until Martin Scorsese hears about this!
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Hang on, let me pull up the Transformers Wiki page about art:
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/To_sell_toys
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Today I learned that there is a SEVENTH live-action Transformers movie coming out. What in the blue hell is going on here…
Are you saying there are more than meets the eye?
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I assume they’re still profitable, although going by the last couple it is getting borderline, but, geez, come on people.
Who knows, maybe the dialogue in the non-English releases is incredibly well written and elevates them into incredible works of art. Really finding the nuance in the scene with the giant robot testicles.
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Really finding the nuance in the scene with the giant robot testicles
It was a clever meta-commentary on the films being enormous bollocks.
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The fact that nobody is talking about the Millennium Falcon cockpit leads me to believe I imagined it
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Avatar 2: The Secret of the Ooze makes $1 billion at the box office… and is only halfway to breaking even.
Pretty messed up.
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Avatar 2: The Secret of the Ooze makes $1 billion at the box office… and is only halfway to breaking even.
Pretty messed up.
So apparently this isn’t entirely true – it seems the 2 billion quoted covers the costs of the three planned sequels as opposed to just Avatar 2. The budget for Avatar 2 alone is somewhere between 200 and 400 million so it’s probably either making a profit on its own merits or close to it at this point.
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Yeah, some franchises have made good use of the Christmas release. Harry Potter, and before that LotR I think.
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And the more recent Star Wars movies too. It’s become as much a fixture as the big May or July releases.
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Yeah Star Wars has used Christmas and Lord of the Rings.
Potter used the November slot (mostly, they went on an 18 month cycle for a while so some were summer films) that’s also become popular in the last 20 years and where Disney put Wakanda Forever this year.
The useful thing with a Christmas slot is January is a bit of a dead period for that kind of film (Oscar bait is common) so leaves you a long run in until maybe a Valentine’s release – where the likes of Deadpool and Kingsman were placed.
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Sounds like Jeremy Renner is in a bad way.
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No connection to the original three movies or the 2013 remake but this looks like it could be a decent wee nasty movie.
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Man, Eli Roth is at least a decade too late on that Thanksgiving feature. It’s been over 15 years since that gag trailer. Way to strike while the iron is hot…
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Oscar nominations are out:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/oscar-nominations-2023-nominees-list-1235307974/
Feels like a pretty decent year this year in terms of there being a nice varied selection of good-quality movies.
Best Picture nominees, ranked by me:
- The Banshees of Inisherin
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Tár
- Top Gun: Maverick
- The Fabelmans
- Triangle of Sadness
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Elvis
- All Quiet on the Western Front
Haven’t seen Women Talking, it’s not out here for a few weeks.
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So Avatar: The Way of Water has cracked $2 billion. I saw some different people talking about this and the fact that it doesn’t seem to be a huge topic of discussion about the film itself, outside of its box office take. Furthermore, I saw some people on Facebook saying that while they saw, they really don’t don’t remember much about it.
To be honest, I really haven’t seen much discussion in the media or in socail media regarding the movie.
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Yeah, I think stuff like this shows that social media (and media more broadly) isn’t always a 1:1 match for what’s happening in the real world. Clearly a lot of people have been interested enough to go and see the movie regardless of the social media buzz.
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Avatar has always reminded me a bit of ‘granny’ hit records in the 80s and 90s. Like that Bryan Adams ‘Robin Hood’ song. Nobody I know ever admitted to liking it or buying it but by fuck it kept selling by the truckload.
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The thing is, most people just go to the movies, watch something for a couple of hours and go home. They don’t talk about it on social media, they don’t delve into the deeper meaning of the symbolism or the political undertones, or even think about how it fits into a broader media franchise.
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The thing is, most people just go to the movies, watch something for a couple of hours and go home. They don’t talk about it
Fight Club really shot itself in the foot on this. Virtually zero word of mouth.
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The thing is, most people just go to the movies, watch something for a couple of hours and go home. They don’t talk about it
Fight Club really shot itself in the foot on this. Virtually zero word of mouth.
Oddly successful though.
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The thing is, most people just go to the movies, watch something for a couple of hours and go home. They don’t talk about it on social media, they don’t delve into the deeper meaning of the symbolism or the political undertones, or even think about how it fits into a broader media franchise.
100%. I have said it before I know, but when I worked at a cinema a good percentage just wanted an evening out and asked at the box office which film to watch and we replied whatever was the most popular at the time.
Of course that doesn’t answer huge box office, it clearly isn’t just people all wandering up or we’d get the same returns every week. It is an indicator though of how the vast majority are pretty casual viewers. We’ve had endless debate here about Zach Snyder in the DCU but I would be making a generous estimate that 5% of those who saw any of those films knew who directed them.
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My dad used to run a sports clothes distribution company, I used to work there as a holiday job for my last few years of school and through college. The year Titanic came out, he had to hire some guys to help out with sorting out a big mess up from one of his suppliers. For the month or so they were with us they went to see Titanic at least once a week, it was just what they wanted to see at the cinema I guess. And like, I went to see Titanic and thought it was a great movie but I was fine with going to see other movies.
Also when it was their turn to choose the music in the warehouse it was invariably a pirate radio station that played a techno remix of My Heart Will Go On at least once each hour and had a tendency to do shout outs to people going into or back to prison…
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Willem Dafoe And Robert Eggers Eye Reunion On The Director’s ‘Nosferatu’
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