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  • JragghenJragghen Registered User regular
    Drez wrote: »
    shryke wrote: »
    Absalon wrote: »
    Also, ensures no dog has to do anything even minimally dangerous, which is always a good thing.

    It's mostly a good thing from an insurance perspective I imagine.

    Same reason you avoid using horses if you can.

    And demons. Real demons are difficult to control.

    Only because insurance doesn't cover the virgin sacrifices necessary to properly bind them.

  • TenzytileTenzytile Registered User regular
    In the industry they always say to beware the ABC's: Animals, Boats, and Children. They all present practical and logistical challenges that can just stop your shoot in its tracks. CGI is a way to avoid having to deal with a lot of problems, including the ABC's, but I think the main reason is time. CGI just allows you to move more quickly through the most expensive part of production: the shoot. You can have people working on it while you shoot, you can fix things that you fuck up along the way, you can underpay the workers because fuck them---it's a producer's dream. It looks like shit because CGI has always looked bad, but audience members have never seemed to be that put off by it.

  • Smaug6Smaug6 Registered User regular
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    Thirith wrote: »
    With respect to the Cruella spoiler, I think it entirely depends on how it's played in the film. I can imagine a version of this that is self-aware and hilarious and/or darkly funny. If it's played straight, it pretty much sounds like bullshit, but without that bit of context I'm not going to judge the film for that piece of information.



    I suppose we could still want more context than that... but I don't know how it could possibly make it better

    This is clearly the funniest movie this year.

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  • XeddicusXeddicus Registered User regular
    edited June 2021
    Preacher wrote: »


    I was not aware Jamie Lee Curtis was involved with this at all.

    She shouldn't be, but that goes for 99% of the cast. Think it may be the most miscast movie in decades...

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  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    edited June 2021
    Tenzytile wrote: »
    In the industry they always say to beware the ABC's: Animals, Boats, and Children. They all present practical and logistical challenges that can just stop your shoot in its tracks. CGI is a way to avoid having to deal with a lot of problems, including the ABC's, but I think the main reason is time. CGI just allows you to move more quickly through the most expensive part of production: the shoot. You can have people working on it while you shoot, you can fix things that you fuck up along the way, you can underpay the workers because fuck them---it's a producer's dream. It looks like shit because CGI has always looked bad, but audience members have never seemed to be that put off by it.

    It's more then just the stuff you mention. Practical effects take setup and clean up. You blow a squib to show a gun shot wound and now if you wanna take another shot you gotta go reset the thing, clean up/replace the clothes, etc, etc. If it's CGI everyone just goes back to their original positions and you do it again.

    CGI after the fact just makes the logistics of filmmaking a lot easier.

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  • zagdrobzagdrob Registered User regular
    Not sure I need to Spoiler Cruella at this point but...
    Omg is _J_ Cruellas mom?

    She was just squaring up because she thought she could take them. Too bad she was by a cliff.

  • TicaldfjamTicaldfjam Snoqualmie, WARegistered User regular
    edited June 2021
    zagdrob wrote: »
    Not sure I need to Spoiler Cruella at this point but...
    Omg is _J_ Cruellas mom?

    She was just squaring up because she thought she could take them. Too bad she was by a cliff.

    Are we sure "Cruella" wasn't half ghost written by Snyder? Cuz that sounds like something out of Zack's brain.

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  • MalReynoldsMalReynolds The Hunter S Thompson of incredibly mild medicines Registered User regular
    edited June 2021
    Edited to remove complete dickishness:

    Cruella is a very campy movie and the movie leans into it; the clip isn't a good indication of this.

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  • SleepSleep Registered User regular
    Holy shit I just found a movie with Nicholas Cage and Tony Jaa called jiujitsu where they fight aliens I guess. I dunno but I'm sure as fuck watching it

  • Harry DresdenHarry Dresden Registered User regular
    edited June 2021
    Sleep wrote: »
    Holy shit I just found a movie with Nicholas Cage and Tony Jaa called jiujitsu where they fight aliens I guess. I dunno but I'm sure as fuck watching it

    The movie which asks the question: "what if the Predator was in Mortal Kombat?"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhIxOqv5Cs0

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  • PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    I heard and this will shock you so sit down, it was a really bad movie.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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  • Harry DresdenHarry Dresden Registered User regular
    Speaking of, Predator got into Mortal Kombat - for Alien vs Predator promotion.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3xkYDm9An8

  • see317see317 Registered User regular
    Jragghen wrote: »
    Drez wrote: »
    shryke wrote: »
    Absalon wrote: »
    Also, ensures no dog has to do anything even minimally dangerous, which is always a good thing.

    It's mostly a good thing from an insurance perspective I imagine.

    Same reason you avoid using horses if you can.

    And demons. Real demons are difficult to control.

    Only because insurance doesn't cover the virgin sacrifices necessary to properly bind them.

    Do you know how hard it is to find someone that hasn't gotten screwed in Hollywood?

  • DiannaoChongDiannaoChong Registered User regular
    edited June 2021
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    Xeddicus wrote: »
    Preacher wrote: »


    I was not aware Jamie Lee Curtis was involved with this at all.

    She shouldn't be, but that goes for 99% of the cast. Think it may be the most miscast movie in decades...

    She got really into fighting games and cosplaying the characters when her son started going to tournaments, it wouldn't surprise me if she was a borderlands fan.

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  • KetarKetar Registered User regular
    Sleep wrote: »
    Holy shit I just found a movie with Nicholas Cage and Tony Jaa called jiujitsu where they fight aliens I guess. I dunno but I'm sure as fuck watching it

    Wait until you can watch it for free. It was a huge disappointment, especially since the lead and director were the lead and director for Kickboxer: Retaliation - a movie that was far better than I ever would have expected.

    There's a particularly bad section where they film it like an fps game, only it's from the perspective of a very acrobatic martial artist so the camera's doing flips and spins and...just ugh.

    I was very excited for Jiu Jitsu and had been waiting for months for it to come out. What a letdown.

  • SleepSleep Registered User regular
    Yeah this film took a lot of risks on the cinematography front that totally do not pay off.

  • SleepSleep Registered User regular
    It felt like it was trying to be so bad its good, and Cage at least gets it, but it just doesn't come together and it just ends up bad. A good movie to uncomfortably doze through in a chair when you should definitely be in bed sleeping instead.

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
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    Xeddicus wrote: »
    Preacher wrote: »


    I was not aware Jamie Lee Curtis was involved with this at all.

    She shouldn't be, but that goes for 99% of the cast. Think it may be the most miscast movie in decades...

    She got really into fighting games and cosplaying the characters when her son started going to tournaments, it wouldn't surprise me if she was a borderlands fan.

    Didn't she go somewhere as Vega relatively recently?

  • KetarKetar Registered User regular
    Orca wrote: »
    Preacher wrote: »
    I heard and this will shock you so sit down, it was a really bad movie.

    But did it have fun stunt-work and fight choreography? I can forgive many sins if it has those two.

    Nicholas Cage being involved is a pretty big indicator it's going to be a shit movie though

    Not really, no. Watch Kickboxer: Vengeance and Kickboxer: Retaliation for rather similar movies that actually do what they want in an entertaining way.

  • ArchangleArchangle Registered User regular
    shryke wrote: »
    Absalon wrote: »
    Also, ensures no dog has to do anything even minimally dangerous, which is always a good thing.

    It's mostly a good thing from an insurance perspective I imagine.

    Same reason you avoid using horses if you can.
    Yeah, The Hobbit shoot got into trouble with their horses - and it wasn't even during the actual scene!

    Apparently the horses were just grazing in an area next to the shoot while they weren't needed, and there happened to be a ditch that wasn't fenced off. A couple of horses managed to wander over and fall into the ditch - so the film copped a couple of negligence charges.

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  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    The Alexander director’s cut is on Netflix and I made it eight whole minutes

    It is astoundingly bad. I’ve seen student films that were more skillfully made.

  • cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    Fencingsax wrote: »
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    Xeddicus wrote: »
    Preacher wrote: »


    I was not aware Jamie Lee Curtis was involved with this at all.

    She shouldn't be, but that goes for 99% of the cast. Think it may be the most miscast movie in decades...

    She got really into fighting games and cosplaying the characters when her son started going to tournaments, it wouldn't surprise me if she was a borderlands fan.

    Didn't she go somewhere as Vega relatively recently?

    It was at Evo a few years back.

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  • M-VickersM-Vickers Registered User regular
    Sleep wrote: »
    Holy shit I just found a movie with Nicholas Cage and Tony Jaa called jiujitsu where they fight aliens I guess. I dunno but I'm sure as fuck watching it

    I lasted 15 mins before switching it off.

    I wish you better luck.

  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    Archangle wrote: »
    shryke wrote: »
    Absalon wrote: »
    Also, ensures no dog has to do anything even minimally dangerous, which is always a good thing.

    It's mostly a good thing from an insurance perspective I imagine.

    Same reason you avoid using horses if you can.
    Yeah, The Hobbit shoot got into trouble with their horses - and it wasn't even during the actual scene!

    Apparently the horses were just grazing in an area next to the shoot while they weren't needed, and there happened to be a ditch that wasn't fenced off. A couple of horses managed to wander over and fall into the ditch - so the film copped a couple of negligence charges.

    Horses just don't want to live, I swear.

  • daveNYCdaveNYC Why universe hate Waspinator? Registered User regular
    Are we saying Cate Blanchett bad casting as Lilith? I mean she's Cate freaking Blanchett and was a towering figure of attitude and violence in Ragnarok.

    Shut up, Mr. Burton! You were not brought upon this world to get it!
  • RedTideRedTide Registered User regular
    Ms. Blanchett may or may not be your cup of tea but it's hard to deny that if you asked her to step on you that she wouldn't be able to do the task adequately if she so desired

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  • MegaMan001MegaMan001 CRNA Rochester, MNRegistered User regular
    I'm not nearly as concerned with Blanchett as I am Kevin fucking Hart as Roland.

    I am in the business of saving lives.
  • SleepSleep Registered User regular
    M-Vickers wrote: »
    Sleep wrote: »
    Holy shit I just found a movie with Nicholas Cage and Tony Jaa called jiujitsu where they fight aliens I guess. I dunno but I'm sure as fuck watching it

    I lasted 15 mins before switching it off.

    I wish you better luck.

    Oh it was total garbage, like syfy original movie levels of bad except unlike syfy originals they didn't realize that's what they were doing so no one's really batting for the fences and half the characters don't really have lines. I build better bullshit connective tissues between fights and throwaway dead but don't know it NPCs in my improv d&d sessions.

  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    MegaMan001 wrote: »
    I'm not nearly as concerned with Blanchett as I am Kevin fucking Hart as Roland.

    Oh jesus.

  • DanHibikiDanHibiki Registered User regular
    shryke wrote: »
    Archangle wrote: »
    shryke wrote: »
    Absalon wrote: »
    Also, ensures no dog has to do anything even minimally dangerous, which is always a good thing.

    It's mostly a good thing from an insurance perspective I imagine.

    Same reason you avoid using horses if you can.
    Yeah, The Hobbit shoot got into trouble with their horses - and it wasn't even during the actual scene!

    Apparently the horses were just grazing in an area next to the shoot while they weren't needed, and there happened to be a ditch that wasn't fenced off. A couple of horses managed to wander over and fall into the ditch - so the film copped a couple of negligence charges.

    Horses just don't want to live, I swear.

    I've played enough Red Dead Redemption to know that's true.

  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    MegaMan001 wrote: »
    I'm not nearly as concerned with Blanchett as I am Kevin fucking Hart as Roland.

    They cast someone who is 5'2" as Roland?

    Uh... camera angles I guess?

  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    MegaMan001 wrote: »
    I'm not nearly as concerned with Blanchett as I am Kevin fucking Hart as Roland.

    They cast someone who is 5'2" as Roland?

    Uh... camera angles I guess?

    Won't work. Roland's automated turrets will be bigger than he is.

  • MegaMan001MegaMan001 CRNA Rochester, MNRegistered User regular
    edited June 2021
    I have no idea how big Roland was supposed to be, other than smaller than Brick, I guess. But when I think of this character as an imposing, strong, stoic war veteran who's seen it all I do not think of Kevin "Let me just start screaming my lines" Hart

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  • BloodySlothBloodySloth Registered User regular
    Yeah his casting only makes sense to me if they're just going to totally make him a different character. A kind of audience stand-in maybe, who freaks out about how insane everything is.

  • Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    Roland's not a tall guy. But not short either. About average, I'd say.

  • zagdrobzagdrob Registered User regular
    RedTide wrote: »
    Ms. Blanchett may or may not be your cup of tea but it's hard to deny that if you asked her to step on you that she wouldn't be able to do the task adequately if she so desired

    When they eventually make a Hades movie she damn well better be Meg.

  • jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    zagdrob wrote: »
    RedTide wrote: »
    Ms. Blanchett may or may not be your cup of tea but it's hard to deny that if you asked her to step on you that she wouldn't be able to do the task adequately if she so desired

    When they eventually make a Hades movie she damn well better be Meg.

    I’ve been stanning her a lot but Samara Weaving as Meg?

  • WearingGlassesWearingGlasses Of the friendly neighborhood variety Registered User regular
    * I want to watch Cate Blanchett shoot bad guys and be badass
    * I want to watch Jamie Lee Curtis shoot bad guys and be badass
    * I don't mind Kevin Hart being Kevin Hart in a shooty film
    * I... I guess I like to see a Borderlands movie involving the Borderlands characters?
    * All of the above together sounds like a very weird combination

    I mainly just don't see Cate Blanchett as Lilith as she is circa Borderlands 2. But once I've abandoned the idea that the movie will reflect the video game, I'm now just interested in seeing Cate Blanchett kill stuff with looted guns. The lowest point of the "video-game-versimillitude barometer" is the Mario movie, this surely can't be worse.

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