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54 minutes ago, IronJimbo said:
Oh wow! I'm sorry that I'm partly responsible for inducing this feeling of rage. I can't help but feel David Duke and Ted are more abhorent though, perhaps it's because he's super obnoxious and talks really fast?
No, it's because Ben Shapiro got James Gunn fired.
(Well, probably not for Cmasterclay, but for me. Not even joking a little bit about this. )
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3 hours ago, salvador-232 said:
I mean, the movie just isn't that good. For once I think the audience score on RT is genuine. It isn't very funny and the emotion is fairly average. More importantly, my little brother was very bored during most of it save for the Princess Part. I'm not surprised it isn't leggin that well.
A major part of Ralph 1's appeal was nostalgia for old video games, but no one is nostalgic for the Internet. ("How can I miss you when you won't go away?") In fact, I'd say that most people don't even like the Internet very much, even though they use it all the time. It's more like the feelings that commuters have toward the freeway system.
The princesses did have nostalgia in their favor, but the way that scene was done put a really creepy spin on Ralph and Vanellope's relationship. When they said Vanellope was a princess because people thought she needed a man to rescue her, it made it sound like Ralph was her love interest.
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1 hour ago, That One Guy said:
It's probably fake.
Agreed. The alt-right have a strong motivation to be targeting this movie, and amazing enough, it's not "girl cooties":
http://thefederalist.com/2018/12/14/lin-manuel-miranda-enthusiastically-support-domestic-terrorist
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3 hours ago, dXairdryZid said:
Does anyone else have any rankings on the narcotic use in the movie/music business?
Good luck getting anyone to talk about this, because it's the kind of thing that actors with too much time on their hands can and do sue anonymous Internet randos for libel over:
https://www.popehat.com/2015/07/31/james-woods-punches-the-muppet/
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161020/23574335850/actor-james-woods-gloats-over-death-random-twitter-troll-he-sued-to-unmask.shtml
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1 hour ago, dX airdry zid said:
well there is one thing Winnie the Pooh thinks that connects him with everyone else in the world.
….and that is..... hunger.
Well, yes. That's why if Marvel ever made a Swarm movie with Winnie the Pooh as a supporting character -- Don't laugh, it could happen! Theoretically. -- they wouldn't say that the character's name was Winnie the Pooh, because everyone would immediately be able to see where that was going.
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2 hours ago, dX airdry zid said:
fascinating. is Mar-Vell in the MCU? any integration for that answer?
The integration is mainly, who else would he be? The main argument I've heard against that is, why wouldn't Marvel just say so if he's Mar-Vell? (I think they're not saying he's Mar-Vell because it would make it too obvious what the plot was, especially once they revealed Starforce is involved.)But Carol got her powers from having her DNA fused with Mar-Vell's. If they changed that, it would change her origin more drastically than any other major hero so far has had their origin changed, and Marvel's big thing is being broadly faithful to the source material.
At most, they might not call him Mar-Vell, but he would still effectively be Mar-Vell. Jude Law talks about the character without naming him in this article:
https://ew.com/movies/2018/09/06/jude-law-teases-character-captain-marvel/
A devout warrior with a special relationship to Carol? Learning to control emotions and use powers wisely? That's Mar-Vell.
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Never mind Piccolo, where's the Mekon?
No, seriously, where is the Mekon? Because Jude Law looks a lot more like Dan Dare here than he does Mar-Vell:
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On 8/24/2018 at 9:33 AM, Captain Craig said:
The cinephiles were up in arms when Edgar Wright was dismissed. Making claims of how Ant-Man would suffer.
Disney isn't going to miss Gunn and neither will GotG.
Edgar Wright wasn't "dismissed", he left the project of his own choice over long-running creative differences. James Gunn was summarily fired one single day after a wingnut rape advocate pizza conspiracist dug up some tasteless jokes that had been apologized for years ago, because he needed new outrage material to sell his brain pills. The first situation happens all the time in Hollywood, the second situation is something that will make anyone working for Disney, and anyone thinking of working for Disney, have serious doubts about how secure their job could ever be.
As for comparing the fan reactions, cinephiles are about as far from being Marvel's base as it's possible to get, and no comics forum has ever needed to create a special "Cinephile Wars" thread to keep all their other threads from being wrecked by endless poisonous arguments over whose auteur is bigger.
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On 8/23/2018 at 7:19 PM, dX airdry zid said:
Is it usually big budget blockbuster that announce the current filming state and the rest of films keep it hidden?
It doesn't seem to be. I got my information from Wikipedia, only considered blockbusters because that's what the tweet specified, and didn't think to look at IMDB. Doing a spot-check of all the films scheduled for September 2019, either Wikipedia lists a start of filming or IMDB gives an undated status:
Angry Birds 2 - Wikipedia lists no start date, IMDB says filming
Untitled Danny Boyle/Richard Curtis - filming began April 21, 2018
Spies in Disguise - IMDB says pre-production
The Kitchen - principal production began May 7, 2018
Little - no Wikipedia article, IMDB says filming
Charlie's Angels - IMDB says pre-production
Abominable - IMDB says post-production
The Hunt - IMDB say pre-productionFor the blockbusters I wasn't sure about in the previous post, IMDB says Frozen is pre-production, and The Lion King is filming.
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1 hour ago, Valonqar said:
So cryptic rumors suggest that Whedon is coming back to direct GOTG3.
Probably the best thing that could happen for the movie at this point. I just wish my gut didn't keep telling me, "You should be so lucky."
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11 hours ago, ZeeSoh said:
What blockbusters are filming right now?
Top Gun, Terminator, WW84, SM:FFH, Dark Phoenix, Avatar, EP9. Did I miss any?
I think its most likely Dark Phoenix if it is at all true
They're probably talking about MIB (the Men in Black reboot). It's had bad buzz as the sequel that nobody demanded, and remakes in general tend fail a lot more often than they succeed.
Other movies that haven't been mentioned yet, from most to least likely:
It: Chapter 2 or Maleficent II - Both have been filming for a few months, but I haven't heard reports of any problems.
Mulan - Started filming little over a week ago, way too soon to call "shaping up" to be anything.
Lion King - Not sure if this is still filming.
Frozen 2 - Not sure if this has started filming, and does it count as "filming" since it's animated?
Hobbs & Shaw (Fast & Furious spinoff): Doesn't start filming until September, and it's the other Fast & Furious sequel that has the bad buzz.
Avengers 4 - Reshoots don't start until September, and although I think firing James Gunn will be a mistake for Disney in the long run, it's both too late and too soon for this movie to feel the effects. Unless Drax was going to have a much larger role than anyone's been letting on ...
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7 hours ago, dudalb said:
I think the twiter campaign to force Disney to rehire Gunn might have backfired. Now DInsey management is thinking it basic power to make decisions is being challenged and that will just make them dig in their heels. They do not want to be put into the positions of being blackmailed by actors every time they make a production decision,and if that means maybe sacrificing a film or two so be it No studio wants to be seen as ceding basic production decisions to a mob of actors making a lot of angry tweets. I think behind the scenes, quite pressure would have worked a lot better.
Disney could have worse problems than pushy Marvel fans if the alt-right decides to go after Lin-Manuel Miranda during the mid-term elections. They'd be attacking him for his support of President Obama's commutation of Oscar Lopez Rivera's sentence. Rivera was one of the leaders of FALN, a group of communist Puerto Rican separatists who went on a bombing spree in the continental US in the late seventies, causing the deaths of five people.
This sounds like a conspiracy theory, but it was an actual news story about a year and half ago:
https://www.newsweek.com/oscar-lopez-rivera-terrorist-some-hero-others-621949
It just got overshadowed by the fact that Obama had commuted Chelsea Manning's sentence at the same time, and his opponents prefered to focus on that. I don't see the Republicans not bringing it up again now, though. It's too good a way to paint the Democrats as weak on border security, soft on communism, and generally anti-American.
After the success the alt-right had with Gunn, they'd definitely try to involve Disney through the Mary Poppins movie, and they wouldn't want to settle for anything less than a firing. The thing is, I don't think Disney could fire Miranda even if they wanted to. He finished shooting months ago, his part sounds too big to cut, and as for reshooting his scenes, who could they find both able and willing to take the job?
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I thought it had some. Racist stereotypes of black people (the mutant clone family climb things and leap around on all fours like you-know-whats, and are murderously violent) following real black people around and trying to kill them (in the real world, through police perception of black people as being more dangerous in confrontations, among other things)? Black people having been the unwitting subjects of unethical medical experiments (Tuskegee, Henrietta Lacks)?