That is what I thought when I saw that trailer. I know there were a lot of law suits due to accusations of them stealing graphic asset stuff from battlefield LA to make skyline and it did not do great in the theaters so I am pretty baffled how this got a sequel.
That is what I thought when I saw that trailer. I know there were a lot of law suits due to accusations of them stealing graphic asset stuff from battlefield LA to make skyline and it did not do great in the theaters so I am pretty baffled how this got a sequel.
Saved money by stealing more assets?
Also, I had just assumed that I had misremembered the title for Battlefield LA
That is what I thought when I saw that trailer. I know there were a lot of law suits due to accusations of them stealing graphic asset stuff from battlefield LA to make skyline and it did not do great in the theaters so I am pretty baffled how this got a sequel.
Saved money by stealing more assets?
Also, I had just assumed that I had misremembered the title for Battlefield LA
I think the guys who did the effects for skyline were working on battlefield LA at the time and a lot of the effects were pretty similar so if I recall correctly there were some lawsuits flying back and forth about it.
That is what I thought when I saw that trailer. I know there were a lot of law suits due to accusations of them stealing graphic asset stuff from battlefield LA to make skyline and it did not do great in the theaters so I am pretty baffled how this got a sequel.
Saved money by stealing more assets?
Also, I had just assumed that I had misremembered the title for Battlefield LA
I think the guys who did the effects for skyline were working on battlefield LA at the time and a lot of the effects were pretty similar so if I recall correctly there were some lawsuits flying back and forth about it.
I kind of like Mighty Tho Battle Royaru title better.
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I can't believe that skyline 2 trailer.
I mean the original was indeed directed and made by two special effects people who basically stockpiled cash and assets from Battlefield LA to tuck aside for their own movie. It wasn't so much "stolen assets" but "using studio equipment to make their own shit instead of the movie they got paid to make"
Also skyline's plot was ridiculous. A special effects designer living on the top floor of a skyrise penthouse and basically being a hollywood celebrity.
I feel like I'm running the risk of getting overhyped for Thor: Ragnarok as every single trailer they've put out for the movie has been pitch perfect for me. :P
Channel Zero was fantastic. I'm super jazzed for No-End House, even though the short story it's based off of was a lot less interesting than the one they adapted for the first season. The trailer doesn't really say anything about how it's going to be elaborated into an actual season-long plot, but it's even more freaky than I was hoping for.
The actual story was like sub-basement level 13 year-old writing their first horror story that's basically just a linked list of scary-sounding phrases, but I can see the concept of like it is a sequence of doors that starts literally and kind of silly and ends up metaphorical and the creepy part isn't so much oh dang there's a bad thing in this room as it is oh dang is this how the world works? What makes me certain I'm in a real world? How not-freaky do I expect the actual world to be and will I know it when I see it?
Like kind of a horror Sliders I guess?
Also why is Channel Zero like specifically internet stories? Is it because they're cheap to license or is it them trying to appeal to an audience used to Creepypasta stuff?
The actual story was like sub-basement level 13 year-old writing their first horror story that's basically just a linked list of scary-sounding phrases, but I can see the concept of like it is a sequence of doors that starts literally and kind of silly and ends up metaphorical and the creepy part isn't so much oh dang there's a bad thing in this room as it is oh dang is this how the world works? What makes me certain I'm in a real world? How not-freaky do I expect the actual world to be and will I know it when I see it?
Like kind of a horror Sliders I guess?
Also why is Channel Zero like specifically internet stories? Is it because they're cheap to license or is it them trying to appeal to an audience used to Creepypasta stuff?
I believe "Creepypasta: the TV Series" was the original pitch. It's not a bad idea. Creepypasta stories are generally at least possessed of a kernel of potential, have already proven themselves to have appeal in that they've been spread around the internet, and have a small-but-non-zero built-in audience.
Based on the first season, though, it seems like they might be better suited to shorter arcs in an anthology series instead of full-season ones. Candle Cove spent a lot of time padding itself.
Yeah I like the idea of internet stories the show, because a lot of internet horror stories are unsettling and interesting, and I love the idea of showing a new medium.
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No end house the short story was really kind of shit. I'd much rather have a Ted the caver season.
The first basic idea wasn't terrible.
get through this haunted house, win 100 bucks or whatever. No one's ever done it! There's a myth about "that" haunted house in like every city. And the part where they realize they're still in the room could be interesting, especially in a slow build TV show. The part where the short story went on for 10 more chapters was overdoing it.
But I really enjoyed Candle Cove and found it incredibly suspenseful and unsettling, so I'm looking forward to the next one for sure.
edit: Huh, they actually did make a Ted the Caver movie!
I hope they edit it down to the really unnerving parts on No End House.
I keep reading this title and was hoping it was a shift from the Dionaea House story I read like a decade ago and had heard was being optioned for a movie or show or something, but apparently it's something else entirely, and a cursory Google'ing makes it look like DH hasn't gotten anywhere. It wasn't high art, and I haven't read it in ages, but there were some nicely unsettling moments in its presentation.
Which reminds me that I still need to read the House of Leaves.
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That is what I thought when I saw that trailer. I know there were a lot of law suits due to accusations of them stealing graphic asset stuff from battlefield LA to make skyline and it did not do great in the theaters so I am pretty baffled how this got a sequel.
Everything has done well enough to make a sequel/stealth reboot. It's the age were living in.
Saved money by stealing more assets?
Also, I had just assumed that I had misremembered the title for Battlefield LA
And White Famous looks hilarious, then again I'm a sucker for Jamie Foxx in a dress.
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I think the guys who did the effects for skyline were working on battlefield LA at the time and a lot of the effects were pretty similar so if I recall correctly there were some lawsuits flying back and forth about it.
Sounds more interesting than the movie was.
I mean the original was indeed directed and made by two special effects people who basically stockpiled cash and assets from Battlefield LA to tuck aside for their own movie. It wasn't so much "stolen assets" but "using studio equipment to make their own shit instead of the movie they got paid to make"
Also skyline's plot was ridiculous. A special effects designer living on the top floor of a skyrise penthouse and basically being a hollywood celebrity.
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Like kind of a horror Sliders I guess?
Also why is Channel Zero like specifically internet stories? Is it because they're cheap to license or is it them trying to appeal to an audience used to Creepypasta stuff?
I believe "Creepypasta: the TV Series" was the original pitch. It's not a bad idea. Creepypasta stories are generally at least possessed of a kernel of potential, have already proven themselves to have appeal in that they've been spread around the internet, and have a small-but-non-zero built-in audience.
Based on the first season, though, it seems like they might be better suited to shorter arcs in an anthology series instead of full-season ones. Candle Cove spent a lot of time padding itself.
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The first basic idea wasn't terrible.
But I really enjoyed Candle Cove and found it incredibly suspenseful and unsettling, so I'm looking forward to the next one for sure.
edit: Huh, they actually did make a Ted the Caver movie!
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I keep reading this title and was hoping it was a shift from the Dionaea House story I read like a decade ago and had heard was being optioned for a movie or show or something, but apparently it's something else entirely, and a cursory Google'ing makes it look like DH hasn't gotten anywhere. It wasn't high art, and I haven't read it in ages, but there were some nicely unsettling moments in its presentation.
Which reminds me that I still need to read the House of Leaves.
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Penny Dreadful was awesome.
From the same guy that wrote and directed Tucker and Dale v Evil. I'm totally in.
He took a break for a while after turning down Batman Begins
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/apr/17/josh-hartnett-i-regret-turning-down-batman-role-christopher-nolan
SOLD!
That movie was fucking brilliant.
My entire decision to see the movie will be based on someone telling me if the doge lives or dies.
wow.
So much yellow everywhere. You'd think this was a Guillermo del Toro movie.
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