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Quick thing:   I am not going to be around for a bit. Non-Board Personal issues, and I need some time. I will get the emojis up for next weekend, and run the Cas of the Cas Games (Sign Up For Them! Play the Change). If you need anything big, PM me. Otherwise @XXR You Ok Annie and @ZeeSoh and @Eric Crowe got this covered. 
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MODERATION:   Since we have like 3500 MCU threads, I’m just gonna post this here in hopes that everyone sees it, so that I don’t have to post it like 3500 times individually and spam all the threads:   When you’re talking about the MCU, please make sure that you’re talking specifically about that title in that thread. I.e; Dr Strange Thread is for Dr Strange.    And if you want to reference any other property, especially if it isn’t out yet, please use the spoiler t

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2 hours ago, dmatrixfilmdx said:

do a group of people have creative control over the slate of films?  Say there are 3 ideas stuck on a wall and there is an NFL draft like scenario with 300 movies going to those 3 ideas w/ creative control over it.  Is that something that happens year-to-year in the history of cinema?

 

where do these 3 main ideas come from that movies are written around?  How do they get controlled?  How far do these questions go?  and why the hell would people sign up to play the same shit?  dirty money?

 

I'm not really sure, but I know that Hollywood isn't wanting to take many storytelling risks... that's for sure.

 

I don't believe that an oligarchy decides the slate. However, I do believe that it's young, careless marketing teams that are appealing to the clueless producers.

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I'm not really sure, but I know that Hollywood isn't wanting to take many storytelling risks... that's for sure.

 

I don't believe that an oligarchy decides the slate. However, I do believe that it's young, careless marketing teams that are appealing to the clueless producers.

wasn't that film in the 80s and 90s before they could tell lucid real stories with VFX.

Im not sure, but the 8s and 90s seemed to be different story after different story.  Maybe the Academy Awards ended on the same note each year with similar roles pointing at a similar theme each year,...…. hence not many storytelling risks??  i'm confused.

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30 minutes ago, dmatrixfilmdx said:

wasn't that film in the 80s and 90s before they could tell lucid real stories with VFX.

Im not sure, but the 8s and 90s seemed to be different story after different story.  Maybe the Academy Awards ended on the same note each year with similar roles pointing at a similar theme each year,...…. hence not many storytelling risks??  i'm confused.

 

I don't think the decisions on which films are made can be entirely known to common folk in this day and age. By reading a website article, I caught a glimpse of a producer chat room for the movie Pixels, and they were excited, not for the video game references and things like that, but for the underlying context of the film and the relationships between certain characters - things that the filmmakers completely fumbled on.

 

I'm sure producers aren't completely idiotic. But the fact still stands that, for some reason, the only projects that seem to be getting through the door are retreads. But I'm hoping to be different from the filmmakers that accept it.

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4 minutes ago, Slambros said:

 

I don't think the decisions on which films are made can be entirely known to common folk in this day and age. By reading a website article, I caught a glimpse of a producer chat room for the movie Pixels, and they were excited, not for the video game references and things like that, but for the underlying context of the film and the relationships between certain characters - things that the filmmakers completely fumbled on.

 

I'm sure producers aren't completely idiotic. But the fact still stands that, for some reason, the only projects that seem to be getting through the door are retreads. But I'm hoping to be different from the filmmakers that accept it.

Maybe they take a school of kids on a bus and field trip to local filming sites where random people are filming scenes.

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7 minutes ago, dmatrixfilmdx said:

Maybe they take a school of kids on a bus and field trip to local filming sites where random people are filming scenes.

 

Perhaps. Because five-sixths of the Hollywood films we're getting right now seem to have had their ideas provided by children themselves.

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I took the GRE today, when it got to the point to send scores to schools, I sent three to economics schools I knew I’d apply to (as planned) and then instead of a fourth economics school I impulsed a bit and sent one to a seminary school?

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I took the GRE today, when it got to the point to send scores to schools, I sent three to economics schools I knew I’d apply to (as planned) and then instead of a fourth economics school I impulsed a bit and sent one to a seminary school?

 

How was your score 🤔

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How was your score 🤔

I don’t know the written portions score yet but I had a 155V/160Q.  I should have done more than the minimal 2-3 weeksish of studying I did (I think Magoosh recommends 3 months, yikes), but the scores good enough where I don’t feel like I need to take it again.

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11 minutes ago, dmatrixfilmdx said:

not sure if I should erase todays posts on the basis of guilt.  If I don't, I will feel very guilty.  Is there any reason I should intentionally block out this guilt, ignore it, and move progress forward without changing anything?  If so, maybe I could take a sedative to block out or contain my feeling.

 

am I being held liable for anything right now?  or being charged for something?

I went to a police station 6 months ago, gave them my license, and asked them to run my record, and they said I am fine.

 

No one's gonna punish you for posts on the forum, and you shouldn't feel too bad about it. You haven't done anything malicious.

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