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  1. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    This reminds me how much just gets lost to time. I remember those discussions, and it was actually a big box office success. I saw that film in theaters, enjoyed it, I even watched it prior to...

    This reminds me how much just gets lost to time. I remember those discussions, and it was actually a big box office success. I saw that film in theaters, enjoyed it, I even watched it prior to watching the other oceans films. I also forget about it when discussing the franchise

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  2. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    I think the film is too overt in its political substance for it to not be considered political. The main characters are revolutionaries and the antagonist is a Nazi who’s attempting to join a...

    I think the film is too overt in its political substance for it to not be considered political. The main characters are revolutionaries and the antagonist is a Nazi who’s attempting to join a powerful club of other Nazi’s. The basis of the film is political, the inciting incident is based on the film’s politics, its humor comes from satirizing the political beliefs of the characters (there’s even a ribbing of people who are too woke).

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  3. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    Spider-Man 4 was planned to release in 2011 and would have featured John Malkovich as Vulture and Bruce Campbell would have played Mysterio. Raimi and Sony couldn’t see eye to eye after he was...

    Maybe they were planning to make more movie(s) in the series, but stopped for some reason?

    Spider-Man 4 was planned to release in 2011 and would have featured John Malkovich as Vulture and Bruce Campbell would have played Mysterio. Raimi and Sony couldn’t see eye to eye after he was disillusioned with how much control he lost on Spider-Man 3. Plans for the fourth film were scrapped and they decided to reboot the franchise to keep the rights, which led to The Amazing Spider-Man releasing in 2012.

    In terms of your OBAA thoughts, I’ll try to keep it vague since I don’t want to do the whole spoiler tag thing. I think the daughter’s character is just a teenager, and teenagers tend to do unlikable things. DiCaprio’s character is a love letter to the burnout generation that is GenX. Penn’s character is a satirical character of American fascists. He’s inspired by The Great Dictator, Duck Soup, and The Producers to some extent which is why he’s more comedic.

    I think it’s a beautifully made film with a lot of technically impressive sequences.

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  4. Comment on Warner Bros. Discovery has received interest from multiple parties for all or part of company in ~movies

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    Well one's a telecommunication company and the other is a company that was built by artists and has important art-history attached to it. It's why MGM as a name still mattered even through it's...

    That's like pining for the days Comcast was Ma Bell.

    Well one's a telecommunication company and the other is a company that was built by artists and has important art-history attached to it. It's why MGM as a name still mattered even through it's troubles.

    The only way to make way for the new studios is to let the old ones die. Not to let tech companies also become movie production companies.

    New major studios aren't just going to pop up. These companies have been around for over a century at this point. If a studio dies, it's gone, nothing is replacing it.

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  5. Comment on Warner Bros. Discovery has received interest from multiple parties for all or part of company in ~movies

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    This is low-key worse. There's a high barrier of entry to filmmaking at this level, which means other studios will snap up it's parts for cheap. We lose the WarnerBros name, and we lose another...

    throw every bit of their IP to the public domain and auction off their physical holdings.

    This is low-key worse. There's a high barrier of entry to filmmaking at this level, which means other studios will snap up it's parts for cheap. We lose the WarnerBros name, and we lose another studio which means less movies get made, which means there's less jobs in the industry all around.

    I think an entity like Apple purchasing it is fine. It keeps the studio alive and it doesn't consolidate competition.

    4 votes

  6. Comment on Warner Bros. Discovery has received interest from multiple parties for all or part of company in ~movies

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    Netflix buying WB means we don’t get any more theatrical releases from them. So that’s why it’s near the bottom for me. Amazon owning MGM isn’t really that big of a deal to me. MGM was basically...

    Netflix buying WB means we don’t get any more theatrical releases from them. So that’s why it’s near the bottom for me.

    Amazon owning MGM isn’t really that big of a deal to me. MGM was basically dead before they bought it, prior to its Amazon acquisition it was being propt up by Megan Ellison’s (yes from that family) Annapurna. And Amazon seems committed to theaters and auteur films.

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  7. Comment on Warner Bros. Discovery has received interest from multiple parties for all or part of company in ~movies

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    Speculated interested parties: Comcast, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and of course Paramount Out of these options, in order of what I would prefer: Apple Amazon Comcast Netflix Paramount

    Speculated interested parties: Comcast, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and of course Paramount

    Out of these options, in order of what I would prefer:

    1. Apple
    2. Amazon
    3. Comcast
    4. Netflix
    5. Paramount
    6 votes

  9. Comment on Small production team/amateur documentaries? in ~movies

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    There’s a documentary that just released on Netflix called The Perfect Neighbor, you should watch it. Some that I really like that I think have smaller crews (I’m not entirely sure I’m not big on...

    There’s a documentary that just released on Netflix called The Perfect Neighbor, you should watch it.

    Some that I really like that I think have smaller crews (I’m not entirely sure I’m not big on docs):

    My Octopus Teacher (2021/Netflix)

    A diver documents the life of an Octopus and philosophizes life through the actions of the Octopus. Won the Oscar for Documentary Feature.

    The Wolfpack (2015)

    These Native American kids grew up with an abusive father who wouldn’t let them out of their apartment. They didn’t go to school and were maybe allowed out into the real world once a year. The kids turned to movies to experience the world through them.

    Catfish (2010)

    You’ve probably heard of the TV show that this film inspired. That show is sensationalized and highly produced. This is raw. It is so effective emotionally. And it coined the term catfishing.

    Jesus Camp (2006)

    This might have a bigger crew but it’s about an evangelical Christian church during the Bush administration.

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  10. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    The Black Phone 2 I really liked The Black Phone in 2022. I thought it was a nice, tight, contained thriller with a supernatural twist. It was simple and effective, with good child performances...

    The Black Phone 2

    I really liked The Black Phone in 2022. I thought it was a nice, tight, contained thriller with a supernatural twist. It was simple and effective, with good child performances and a great Ethan Hawke performance to anchor it. This is not very good. It's still well made, I think Derrickson is a strong technical hand; I even enjoyed his work on The Gorge earlier this year.

    This is so convoluted. Needlessly so. It feels too long; a lot of it feels silly. The original had allusions to spirituality and vague concepts of an afterlife. But this is super Christian. There are some interesting ideas here and some effective moments, but not nearly as good or as memorable as the original. In a way, it's very old school with the way it tries to expand the limited lore of the first.

    Here's where we start trailing off: Mason Thames is in this. He was the kid in the first. He was also Hiccup in the live-action How to Train Your Dragon film that was released this summer. He also has a Colleen Hoover adaptation, Regretting You, where he stars alongside Grace McKenna (who's also another rising star). So he's having a pretty banner year with three studio films that are likely to be financial successes. He's also only 18 years old, which is insanely impressive.

    So at work recently, a co-worker of mine came back from maternity leave, where she said she watched a show, and the main guy looked like me. She was referring to Noah Centineo. For those of you who don't know, Centineo got extremely famous and had a big moment in 2018 after the release of To All The Boys I've Loved Before. He plays the main love interest, Peter Kavinsky, who's a popular kid but who has emotional depth and intelligence. The film is based on a series of books written by the woman who also wrote the novel series The Summer I Turned Pretty. Something Centineo and I have in common is that we're often compared to Mark Ruffalo. Which is why we look alike ourselves, and all three of us sound the same and even have the same mannerisms.

    So, it got me thinking about some alternate world where I was an actor and started acting as a child (or teenager or whatever), and in this alternate world, I don't gain over 100 pounds and stay over 300 lbs for seven years, and instead I'm just fit the entire time. And what if I got cast as Kavinsky in To All The Boys instead of Centineo? Because Centineo had this moment. And he squandered it by continuing to do Netflix bullshit like Sierra Bourgeoss is a Loser and The Perfect Date.

    I would still do some of the stuff Centineo did, which was the Calvin Klein ad campaign (because I both would like the money and I'm incredibly vain). I also wouldn't have a problem playing up the whole "internet's boyfriend" thing.

    But instead of saying yes to more teen romcoms, I would try to immediately pivot into more serious stuff. The only indie in 2019 that I could find that I could have had a role in would be Waves (2019) in place of Lucas Hedges. But I would also do an off-Broadway drama to earn both credibility and hone the craft. Also, at the time, in real life, I had this script titled "Graduation." It was written to be one shot (like Birdman or 1917), but it took place during a high school graduation ceremony. I wrote it to be about 80 minutes long, and it follows three distinct characters and how their high school world basically crumbles as they transition into adulthood (they lose friends, break up with their boyfriend, etc). So at the time I was about 18/19, so I would also use that newfound capital to try to get that funded (probably by Netflix), it wouldn't have been more than like a million dollars. I would leverage that newfound fame and good looks to get the project I actually cared about off the ground (not that To All The Boys isn't good, it is, you should watch it if you haven't, it's cute).

    And I thought all that because Centineo's career isn't good, at least not what you would expect from that explosive moment. He's not taken seriously, and he's not even a big blockbuster star either. I feel like there was a lot of potential there for him to be something more. Part of that is the projection of my own inadequacies. But you see what Thames is doing with this year alone: a big franchise film, a horror film, and a romantic drama. That's setting him up to be a versatile actor and to have a more sustained career than just being a flash in the pan.

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  12. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    Oh yeah Crash is definitely worse. It’s so weird because Paul Haggis (who wrote and directed Crash) also wrote the screenplay for Million Dollar Baby and Casino Royale. So I don’t know what...

    Oh yeah Crash is definitely worse. It’s so weird because Paul Haggis (who wrote and directed Crash) also wrote the screenplay for Million Dollar Baby and Casino Royale. So I don’t know what happened there.

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  13. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    There was a huge meltdown in the film community when it won Picture over Roma (which was at one point the front-runner). All the criticisms you give are the criticisms the film critic community at...

    There was a huge meltdown in the film community when it won Picture over Roma (which was at one point the front-runner). All the criticisms you give are the criticisms the film critic community at large had for it. It played very well with audiences though, won TIFF People’s Choice and made 300M at the worldwide box office (something a movie of this type can’t make today).

    I quite like it. I think it’s a great piece of entertainment with in the pocket performances. It’s also very memorable with a lot of lines that I can still recall today. A lot of people consider it one of the worst Best Picture winners ever but I disagree. It’s better than the film that inspired it: Driving Miss Daisy.

    It’s also an interesting film because it’s Peter Farrelly’s first film without his brother. And it’s the follow up to what many people consider one of the worst movies of all time Movie 43. It’s also his first dramatic film after doing pure comedies like Dumb and Dumber and Shallow Hal. So he went from being derided to being an Oscar winner in five years.

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  14. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    Some highlights from the NYFF: House of Dynamite, which received raves from it's Venice Film Festival premiere, got more muted reactions here. In fact it seems like people laughed at the ending....

    Some highlights from the NYFF: House of Dynamite, which received raves from it's Venice Film Festival premiere, got more muted reactions here. In fact it seems like people laughed at the ending. The hype for it really deflated for Netflix. I think this positions Frankenstein to be their priority for the season considering it got good reception at Venice and better reception here stateside.

    Is This Thing On? Received positive reception. Consensus seems to think it's a more minor work and not enough to be a contender. I disagree with this mentality. But it's Searchlight, and they have a guaranteed spot every year. They did purchase The Testament of Ann Lee, months after it's premiere at Venice, but that's a polarizing film. I'm probably wrong but I think they'll push Is This Thing On? At the very least they can get Screenplay and Picture.

    That seems to be the big changes throughout NYFF.

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  15. Comment on This site is fast in ~tildes

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    The internet connection at my work is unstable, but I always use this website to see if there's something wrong with the internet completely of it's just slow. If this website doesn't load on my...

    The internet connection at my work is unstable, but I always use this website to see if there's something wrong with the internet completely of it's just slow. If this website doesn't load on my phone then I know the whole system's down.

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  16. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    Yeah Relay really suffered from the ending. I dont even think it’s the content so much as the way is shot and blocked dissipated any tension. I really loved Caught Stealing, it’s like a darker...

    Yeah Relay really suffered from the ending. I dont even think it’s the content so much as the way is shot and blocked dissipated any tension. I really loved Caught Stealing, it’s like a darker version of After Hours

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  17. Comment on “No one asked for this reboot”: ‘Tron’ may mark end of Jared Leto’s franchise-leading days in ~movies

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    Not really. He was cast in Suicide Squad, and Haunted Mansion but his total screen time in each is like 5 minutes. You wouldn’t even be able to tell he did Haunted Mansion. He got cast in House of...

    Not really. He was cast in Suicide Squad, and Haunted Mansion but his total screen time in each is like 5 minutes. You wouldn’t even be able to tell he did Haunted Mansion. He got cast in House of Gucci as well and nearly got an Oscar nom for it.

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  19. Comment on Financial collapse? in ~finance

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    I think the rationale is. Economy bad means there's more job layoffs, meaning you have a greater risk of losing the income you're relying on and don't know when you'll be able to secure employment...

    I think the rationale is. Economy bad means there's more job layoffs, meaning you have a greater risk of losing the income you're relying on and don't know when you'll be able to secure employment again.

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  20. Comment on Financial collapse? in ~finance

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    I feel like we’ve seen constant waves of “the economy is about to crash” pretty steadily since 2016 after Trump was first elected. Even during Biden’s presidency. We actually even entered a...

    I feel like we’ve seen constant waves of “the economy is about to crash” pretty steadily since 2016 after Trump was first elected. Even during Biden’s presidency. We actually even entered a recession in 2022. Did you feel it?

    I’m not going to say we’re not about to see a crash happen. But I’ve always seen “experts” predict it and it never coming to fruition. Obviously you should save money when you can, just normally try to build up some cash reserves in case things go south for you. But this isn’t something you have to keep worrying about.

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