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About a week ago, the Discover Kong Island AR website was given a reticle that flashes orange when something of interest is found. When it lands over the eye of the hurricane, it prompts users to toggle thermal scanning. Of course, results are deemed "inconclusive" when this happens.
Also, Morse code plays in the background, along with an ambient track. The message translated is "Follow Monarch Sciences," which refers to this Twitter page.
It's late news, but I completely forgot to share it for some reason.
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7 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:
I guess I'll be seeing it opening night, then.
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This looks like it won't be very good.
I'll probably still end up seeing it, though.
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I didn't want it at first, but with the talent they're hiring, I'm interested in seeing how this will go.
But I do agree with many people. If there's a movie that didn't need a sequel, it's Pacific Rim, and I for one enjoyed it.
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Pacific Rim 2 will be filmed in China's soon to be built Qingdao Movie Metropolis (at least, that's what the article makes it sound like). The same is being done for the yet-to-be-developed Godzilla 2. Not that surprising to me. I saw something like this coming not long ago.
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A viral website for the movie is now online:
http://www.discoverskullisland.com/
It reminds me of December of 2013 when that viral website for Godzilla popped up and was littered with numerous goodies pertaining to the franchise. This cryptic stuff is what I love most about the marketing for these movies.
I bet that when the "TERRASEARCH/LANDSAT INTERCEPT" meter reaches 100%, we'll get a new trailer. That's what they had for Godzilla.
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17 hours ago, trifle said:
Power Rangers movies are not expected to be remembered in five years. If they cater to nostalgia to pay for themselves and if they sell toys, they have done their job.
My statement was actually a tongue-in-cheek way of saying that this will not make nearly as much as the Transformers movies do, but your statement is probably true too.
I just don't see this leading to anything, considering the studio that's behind it.
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7 minutes ago, grey ghost said:
Lionsgate needs this to be their Transformers really badly.
Good luck with that.
I can see it doing notable numbers in its opening weekend and drop like a rock after that. But this isn't going to be remembered in five years.
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There's new promotional material at NYCC for Kong: Skull Island. No trailer, but a map of Skull Island with mysterious messages that can only be seen under a black light.
Some information reveals:
Spoiler- The Monarch logo, with a serpentine creature's skeleton hidden behind it.
- The skeleton of an impossibly colossal, marine reptile that appears to be buried under Skull Island.
- References to a "hypervore" (PROTIP: DON'T LOOK IT UP ONLINE) in the boneyard (probably the location in the trailer that was littered with giant animal remains). Also mentions a "florafauna harvest site."
- Information regarding Kong himself, notably that he is referred to as an "Apex Primate," and is suggested to be an "adolescent superspecies." So he's a younger version of his predecessor(s) and probably has a lot of time to grow between the 1970s and 2020.
I love this secrecy stuff in the promotional materials. Reminds me of 2013 and 2014 when I waited for Godzilla.
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8 hours ago, antovolk said:
FB link down, Twitter mirror
Despite the shit talk, I really wanted to care about this. Now I'll only be seeing Logan and Kong: Skull Island in March. This looks like a rental. Like Chronicle. Because that is what this feels like.
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31 minutes ago, Arlborn said:
You're getting it from a couple of pictures? Come on, at least wait until you get a trailer before writing its obituary.
Lionsgate is the one distributing it. It may not end up sucking in the end, but by now, my anticipation for this movie is in its death throes. It's believed that a trailer will be put out tomorrow. However, it could make or break what little hope I have for it.
My assumption may be premature, but their track record for marketing their films is amazingly bad.
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This movie is going to suck. I'm not getting any good vibes so far.
If it doesn't suck, it will at least disappoint at the box office.
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On 10/2/2016 at 0:58 AM, grim22 said:
I really don't get the love or hate most composers get. I barely even notice the background score in most movies, especially now that movies have just decided not to have any memorable themes anymore. So any composer providing the music for any movie is fine by me.
This is how I feel entirely. As long as it isn't distracting, I'll be fine. I was fine with Desplat's score for Godzilla, yet so many people complained that it didn't fit the "mold" for the movie it was in. I thought it worked just fine. Not every movie needs a John Williams score, or Junkie XL.
Granted, I probably don't care as much because a lot of movie soundtracks these days sound identical and I expected nothing different for this one.
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On 9/24/2016 at 11:03 AM, DAR said:
Finally watched the trailer. I can't imagine why this has been delayed
The Facebook and Twitter pages for this movie have yet to acknowledge the date switch. Very few people know about it, apparently.
This is the worst thing Paramount could have allowed to happen. They just released a trailer for this movie, and they decided to push it back to February. This could cause confusion for those who would have seen it.
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30 minutes ago, Cookson said:
I was 10 when TBWP came out and could tell the witch was doing more than just loring them to the house. Them following their compass and ending in the same area is a give away. Then they follow the river and somehow end up in the same area. It's there, but you get the definite answers in this new movie... Heather did know how to use the map/compass, it was the witch playing mind games. You get answers to the first, while they definitely add more to what the witch can do.. like the time fuckery.
Yeah, but a number of people who were leaving the theater when I attended a showing had questions such as "Who is
SpoilerRustin Parr
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SpoilerRustin Parr was responsible for the deaths of seven children ("the Burkittsville Seven") while one other child he had abducted (Kyle Brody) was forced to face a corner as each child was killed. It's an important element of the story that I'm not sure many knew, and that's because it was explained in a couple of companion movies, explored in some books, and explained in the first Blair Witch Project video game. The character Lane mentions him in Blair Witch (notably in the climax), but the crimes that Parr committed and the Witch's involvement are never explored.
This not only would have given people an insight into what the Blair Witch was said to be doing throughout the history of the myth, but it also clarifies the ending of The Blair Witch Project, when
SpoilerMichael is facing a corner while Heather is screaming and drops the camera---she is murdered, just like the "Burkittsville Seven" were and the cycle had resumed.
But because this chunk of story wasn't included in the movies, some were left scratching their heads about it. Not everyone goes out of their way to look up spin off titles or look this stuff up on the Internet unless they care enough to do so.
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22 minutes ago, Cookson said:
The movie isn't THAT bad. It really expands on the mythology..
I thought the same, but then I remembered that a lot of the mythology was not explored in The Blair Witch Project or Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2. Much of the meat about the legend was explored in spin-off material such as books and a few video games---things that aren't as readily available anymore as they were 16 years ago. -
So yeah, if anybody had confidence in Rings before, I'm sorry. Paramount just shifted its release date again, this time to February 3, 2017. Paramount's 2017 release schedule looks even worse now.
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33 minutes ago, Krissykins said:
Not really whitewashing if she's a robot.
This looks interesting. Director very influenced by Under the Skin, clearly.
For me, it's not about whitewashing. I just don't think that animated characters translate well when transferred to a live-action format. I once had similar issues with superhero movies, though this isn't the case anymore.
Whether I like it or not is due to personal reasons, rather than siding with the ones making it a race issue.
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I want to like it, but when I look at Scarlet Johansson, I don't see Motoko Kusanagi. I see Scarlet Johansson in a black wig.
It's not appealing to me so far. Maybe when we see a full trailer that will change, but I'm not excited at all right now.
But I am somewhat curious to know what the deal with the Buddhist monks is.
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I'm getting some serious Pacific Rim vibes from these posters.
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51 minutes ago, Mockingjay Raphael said:
I have a question to you guys: Do you think this movie would have been better received by both critics and public if it was released as "Woods"? I mean, it's clear that the brand did nothing for the movie, and, it seems that the movie only got raves at the beginning because of the surprise factor. Don't you guys think it would have worked way more than releasing it as a Blair Witch movie?
It's hard to say. Other than Sully, it's been a slow September. This isn't a good month to release movies in, so I am not sure if keeping it as The Woods would have helped it.
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Henry Jackman (Monsters vs. Aliens, Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Captain America: The Winter Soldier) will score Kong: Skull Island.
http://filmmusicreporter.com/2016/09/19/henry-jackman-to-score-kong-skull-island/
Lol @ the comments.
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I had a free movie ticket. That's the only reason why I saw it. I don't feel that it was wasted, but there were more well received movies I could have seen instead. It also isn't at good as The Conjuring 2, Lights Out, or Don't Breathe. It's nothing unique, and like most horror movies it didn't scare me in any way.
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46 minutes ago, Kevin Bacon said:
As the biggest fan of Wingard and Barrett on here (I made the thread when the movie was still called The Woods, and I never post threads in this forum), this isn't horribly surprising to me. The original film was one of the most divisive horror movies of all-time, and it's a very specific film that making a sequel that's true to the first movie, scary, and completely original is a tall, tall order. Now, I would've preferred if the movie just wasn't a Blair Witch Project sequel and was rather just scary and original, rather than worrying about faithfulness, and that movie would probably have been better received than this one. But as long as it's been known that it is in fact a Blair Witch sequel, this was the reception it was bound to get. And it's not even poor reception. It's just mixed. Which isn't bad. When was the last found-footage horror film to get universally glowing reviews? Even the first Paranormal Activity had plenty of detractors. The recent trend in critically-acclaimed horror is a result of a much higher standard of filmmaking in movies like It Follows and The Babadook. Unless they completely reinvent the wheel, you aren't getting that in a shaky-cam movie that takes place in the woods.
Contrary to what the trailers for Blair Witch have failed to do, the initial trailer for The Woods actually gave me goosebumps. I was looking forward to it.
But after discovering that it was really a sequel to The Blair Witch Project, I felt like a balloon that had a hole punched in it. Not as creepy, not as exciting. That sense of mystery is gone now.
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OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL | 10.21.16 | Universal | final domestic gross: $34,992,970
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Saw most of it yesterday. I got bored and fell asleep. Woke up during the "climax," if you can even call it that. It didn't help that I was the only person in the room. I won't go into detail because I found that it wasn't too different from its predecessor, which sucked royally. It did have some minor improvements, but it wasn't enough to make it worth the ticket price. Flanagan certainly isn't one of the best horror directors today, and this only proves it. He should stick to creating original content.
Rating: 1.5 out of 5
I liked Blair Witch more than this horseshit...