The Motion Picture Arts Thread

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Post by Khaos » Sat Jun 26, 2021 2:04 am

that scene will blow baby-juice's mind, and then when baby-juice grows up and becomes jaded it can complain bitterly about raya and the last dragon 7; for real this time though

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Post by haplo » Sat Jun 26, 2021 2:14 am

Khaos wrote: Sat Jun 26, 2021 2:00 am it is a kids movie juice! they cant subvert expectations, they have to set them for the next generation
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Post by the_zoomies » Sat Jun 26, 2021 5:30 am

Khaos wrote: Sat Jun 26, 2021 2:00 am it is a kids movie juice! they cant subvert expectations, they have to set them for the next generation
Thankfully I recognized this joke before launching into a 10 million word response.

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Post by the_zoomies » Sat Jun 26, 2021 5:32 am

haplo wrote: Sat Jun 26, 2021 2:14 am
Khaos wrote: Sat Jun 26, 2021 2:00 am it is a kids movie juice! they cant subvert expectations, they have to set them for the next generation
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Has any other recent animated sequel bothered to advance the plot/have time pass? Incredibles 2 was just embarrassing when compared with HTTYD3

Also, best villain/hero opposition since princess and the frog.

The writers forgetting that Astrid is rad is the only glaring flaw.

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Post by Dantes » Sun Jun 27, 2021 6:44 pm

I watched Nobody last night.

It was a lot of fun in a John Wick kind of way (coincidentally written by the same person).
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Post by Khaos » Mon Jun 28, 2021 3:51 pm

the_zoomies wrote:
Khaos wrote: Sat Jun 26, 2021 2:00 am it is a kids movie juice! they cant subvert expectations, they have to set them for the next generation
Thankfully I recognized this joke before launching into a 10 million word response.
this wasn't a joke :wangdangle:

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Post by Shiny Days » Mon Jun 28, 2021 10:15 pm

Dantes wrote:I watched Nobody last night.

It was a lot of fun in a John Wick kind of way (coincidentally written by the same person).
i was kind of on the fence re recommending it because i think the last bit kind of didnt mesh with the first bit, but like, it's fine. it's amazing as that like dad action genre thing that's apparently become a thing, but then recommending it for that, like, i don't know that we have many people into that genre. but, then like, it's bob odenkirk and it's all competently made at the very worst. at the worst! so, like, you're not going to have a bad time watching it, obviously

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Post by Dantes » Tue Jun 29, 2021 1:13 pm

Shiny Days wrote: Mon Jun 28, 2021 10:15 pm
Dantes wrote:I watched Nobody last night.

It was a lot of fun in a John Wick kind of way (coincidentally written by the same person).
i was kind of on the fence re recommending it because i think the last bit kind of didnt mesh with the first bit, but like, it's fine. it's amazing as that like dad action genre thing that's apparently become a thing, but then recommending it for that, like, i don't know that we have many people into that genre. but, then like, it's bob odenkirk and it's all competently made at the very worst. at the worst! so, like, you're not going to have a bad time watching it, obviously
It turned a little campy in the final showdown scene, and you're right it didn't quite mesh with the earlier parts of the movie. It was still an enjoyable entertainment.
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Post by Doug » Sat Jul 17, 2021 4:09 pm

Doug wrote: Thu Nov 19, 2020 9:13 pm When the theaters around here opened for Tenet, the AMC was charging $15 a matinee, $18 standard

Ridiculous

I know a lot of people who are like, screw 'em
I notice today that the matinee price is back down to $9.50

This is much more reasonable. I think I'll see Black Widow
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Post by Doug » Sat Jul 17, 2021 8:25 pm

k I saw it, it was really good
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Post by Faceless » Sun Jul 18, 2021 6:21 pm

We've been watching the whole MCU, since Jack hasn't seen any of it yet and I got D+

Jon Favreau looks like an absolute baby in Iron Man
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Post by Faceless » Sun Jul 18, 2021 6:52 pm

I also didn't notice before that Rhodes got recast lol
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Post by Faceless » Sun Jul 18, 2021 7:40 pm

Tony and Pepper walked so that Varrick and Julie could run
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Post by Doug » Sun Jul 18, 2021 9:16 pm

Faceless wrote: Sun Jul 18, 2021 6:21 pm We've been watching the whole MCU, since Jack hasn't seen any of it yet and I got D+
They place Loki immediately after Endgame, which also makes sense for obvious reasons
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Post by Faceless » Sun Jul 18, 2021 9:24 pm

I'm not sure if we should watch Infinity War / Endgame back to back, or if we should throw some others (ant2, captain marvel) in between to break them up. IDEK if they work better as a single piece or if you want it to sit and marinate for a while (the matrix sequels work best watched as a single piece, apparently)
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Post by Doug » Sun Jul 18, 2021 9:25 pm

For the best effect, watch Infinity War, then watch the Endgame intro, and then wait 5 years and watch the rest of Endgame
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Post by Faceless » Sun Jul 18, 2021 9:47 pm

could watch Endgame up until the NYC scene, then watch Loki, then go back and finish Endgame.

or splice that scene into the middle of Avengers, maybe.
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Shiny Days wrote:

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Post by Shiny Days » Mon Jul 19, 2021 12:45 am

"It used to be that shitty movies won by getting you to buy the ticket, and would just accept the critical pounding to follow. That was the trade, and it was a fair one:

We got to call garbage garbage, and from time to time we would admit to ourselves that sometimes this or that hunk of garbage was our particular flavor of garbage. But now, I think, in the era of online, an unredeemably beshitted movie industry wins by getting us suckers to dig and fortify rhetorical battle trenches around some new derivative horror show, out of pure tribal loyalty and near-religious sentimentality.

My hating this movie and writing about it is the prize, because I am providing it with a vector into some fresh corner of The Discourse. I haven’t worked out the more intricate mechanisms whereby this improves the Q Score or whatever of quite literally the most famous basketball player on the planet, but I know in my ruined soul that ticket sales are no longer the point.

The long con is to get you to believe as deeply as possible that attaching your one infinitely precious self to these endlessly mass-produced mockeries of art and forming up a human shield around them is in fact a moral act."

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Post by haplo » Mon Jul 19, 2021 12:50 am

I know basically nothing about the movie other than that clip you posted and I'll confidently say that the movie is ruined because they're treating it as an advertisement where they try to fit in as many cameos as humanly possible.

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Post by Shiny Days » Mon Jul 19, 2021 1:16 am

haplo wrote:I know basically nothing about the movie other than that clip you posted and I'll confidently say that the movie is ruined because they're treating it as an advertisement where they try to fit in as many cameos as humanly possible.
it's not an advertisement. it's an extended universe

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Post by Doug » Mon Jul 19, 2021 1:35 am

omg what a nightmare
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Post by Doug » Mon Jul 19, 2021 2:11 am

I'm going to do a cutaway into Casablanca. Instead of Sam it'll be Yosemite Sam

Are you going to add jokes

No, no jokes
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Post by haplo » Mon Jul 19, 2021 2:15 am

Doug wrote:I'm going to do a cutaway into Casablanca. Instead of Sam it'll be Yosemite Sam

Are you going to add jokes

No, no jokes
even worse is that millenials never even watched casablanca so it just doesn't make any sense to kids or their parents

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Post by haplo » Mon Jul 19, 2021 2:15 am

proof: me, I didn't understand why it was black and white for that scene until you explained it

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Post by Doug » Mon Jul 19, 2021 2:20 am

You need to watch Casablanca
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Post by Ashenai » Mon Jul 19, 2021 5:48 am

Shiny Days wrote: Mon Jul 19, 2021 12:45 am "It used to be that shitty movies won by getting you to buy the ticket, and would just accept the critical pounding to follow. That was the trade, and it was a fair one:

We got to call garbage garbage, and from time to time we would admit to ourselves that sometimes this or that hunk of garbage was our particular flavor of garbage. But now, I think, in the era of online, an unredeemably beshitted movie industry wins by getting us suckers to dig and fortify rhetorical battle trenches around some new derivative horror show, out of pure tribal loyalty and near-religious sentimentality.

My hating this movie and writing about it is the prize, because I am providing it with a vector into some fresh corner of The Discourse. I haven’t worked out the more intricate mechanisms whereby this improves the Q Score or whatever of quite literally the most famous basketball player on the planet, but I know in my ruined soul that ticket sales are no longer the point.

The long con is to get you to believe as deeply as possible that attaching your one infinitely precious self to these endlessly mass-produced mockeries of art and forming up a human shield around them is in fact a moral act."
tbh I think that guy is going to be okay as long as he manages to believe that none of this is his fault, and he was once again tricked by the dastardly Capitalism.

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Post by Dantes » Mon Jul 19, 2021 11:47 am

Shiny Days wrote: Mon Jul 19, 2021 12:14 am
No.

An algorithm would have been funnier.
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Post by Dantes » Mon Jul 19, 2021 11:50 am

Doug wrote: Mon Jul 19, 2021 2:20 am You need to watch Casablanca
You need to watch Casablanca
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