Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I could actually see a Faces of Death movie being interesting if it were to be a story about the myth of the original films leading to some fantastical horror type stuff.
I don’t want to see real people dying on screen though.
I could actually see a Faces of Death movie being interesting if it were to be a story about the myth of the original films leading to some fantastical horror type stuff.
It's going to be this
The new plot revolves around a female moderator of a YouTube-like website, whose job is to weed out offensive and violent content and who herself is recovering from a serious trauma, that stumbles across a group that is recreating the murders from the original film. But in the story primed for the digital age and age of online misinformation, the question faced is are the murders real or fake?
"Faces of Death was one of the first viral video tapes, and we are so lucky to be able to use it as a jumping off point for this exploration of cycles of violence and the way they perpetuate themselves online."
Costarring Barbie Ferreira
Director is Daniel Goldhaber and he'll be writing with Isa Mazzei, so I'm excited. They made Cam which was really good
I could actually see a Faces of Death movie being interesting if it were to be a story about the myth of the original films leading to some fantastical horror type stuff.
It's going to be this
The new plot revolves around a female moderator of a YouTube-like website, whose job is to weed out offensive and violent content and who herself is recovering from a serious trauma, that stumbles across a group that is recreating the murders from the original film. But in the story primed for the digital age and age of online misinformation, the question faced is are the murders real or fake?
"Faces of Death was one of the first viral video tapes, and we are so lucky to be able to use it as a jumping off point for this exploration of cycles of violence and the way they perpetuate themselves online."
Costarring Barbie Ferreira
Director is Daniel Goldhaber and he'll be writing with Isa Mazzei, so I'm excited. They made Cam which was really good
The problem is there’s already like dozens of horror films that have kind of done the same thing, ie someone investigating whether some ghastly footage is real or not. I mean it can work if it’s done well but it seems like the faces of death link is the only thing that really stands out about the plot.
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reVerseAttack and Dethrone GodRegistered Userregular
A pretty good one is Butterfly Kisses, in which a man stumbles upon videos that belonged to some people who presumably went missing, and he hires a documentary crew to follow him around as he investigates the tapes and their origins.
Actually does Faces of Death even still have any cultural relevance? I remember hearing about it as a young person, but it's pretty obsolete with 15 years of widespread internet video.
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Actually does Faces of Death even still have any cultural relevance? I remember hearing about it as a young person, but it's pretty obsolete with 15 years of widespread internet video.
Unless you’re around my age (42) I don’t think most people have heard anything about Faces of Death. It’s kind of tame compared to what you can find online these days.
Bloods EndBlade of TyshallePunch dimensionRegistered Userregular
"Faces of Death III featured real footage of the German Autobahn, drug smugglers getting blown away by the Coast Guard, a parachutist landing in a crocodile pit, a videotaped rape/murder (that is uncertain to be real or not), a car thief getting ripped apart by two junkyard dogs, and footage of the last public execution by guillotine in France featuring a very young Christopher Lee."
I'm of the perfect age and a fan of horror videos, so of course I heard the stories in school. By the time I finally saw it in my teens I was disappointed, as it's a strange mix of gross and boring.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
"Disappointed, a strange mixture of gross and boring" is the only feedback card I got last time I tried speed dating.
it is weird to me to hear all this shock towards faces of death when there were literally entire ass websites dedicated to just this kinda shit by the time i hit high school. direct to video compliations padded out with clearly staged stuff just don't hit the same. like, i ain't defending either, but it is just like faces of death feels quaint when you been to a rotten dot com.
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BlackDragon480Bluster KerfuffleMaster of Windy ImportRegistered Userregular
Just finished a screening of Honor Among Thieves/Dude Where's my D&D and while it's not perfect, it's a damn sight better than Warcraft and easily the best film done of ye Olde gather a party and hit the road tabletop romp.
Some of the comedy falls flat and needed some more time to breath, but everyone is loving what they're doing and there's an earnest joy in what they are doing on screen.
To compare with other wizard crap:
Owls: old and busted
Owlbears: new hotness
No matter where you go...there you are. ~ Buckaroo Banzai
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
I used to visit rotten.com a lot but I mainly remember it being photos. If there was video I assume it was such shit quality my memory didn't bother holding onto it.
The D&D movie is a fun little action adventure movie with no real ambitions other than to be an entertaining little movie (and also convince you to play D&D and consume D&D products). It works mostly because nobody involved at any point was like, "we can build a franchise out of this!" and everyone involved plays it pretty straight. There's nothing really surprising in the story, but it's got inventive use of magic, it uses the camera for things other than to put the cast in center frame and react to CG offscreen. The fight scenes, especially Michelle Rodriguez's, were really fun.
The best thing this movie did was cast Chris Pine, because I don't think he's capable of not engaging with the material sincerely. You can imagine a world where Chris Pratt is the lead in this and it's insufferable. He doesn't turn it into Shakespeare, mind, but he's never winking at the audience ironically, and the movie's never really like "can you believe this wacky shit we're saying? weird, right?" Someone goes, "my name is Killgore" and everyone just moves on with the scene as normal. The second best thing this movie does is cast Rege Jean-Page as the paladin, because the closest the movie comes to, "can you believe this shit," is about how good of a guy he is and then the rest of the movie is like, "oh, no, we're playing it straight. this guy rules and is incredibly kind and moral," and the only reason that works is because Jean-Page sells the shit out of it.
It's definitely not perfect, though, like...when I say it feels like it should have come out in 2005 I meant that this is the kind of movie my buddies and I would go to see at the theater on a whim and come out saying "that was pretty good!" and then forget about, but it also has two women in the central cast who don't really get a story arc and mostly exist for the sake Chris Pine and Justice Smith's (who really struggles with his accent in a way that sabotages his whole performance. I assume that's it, the only other thing I've seen him in was Detective Pikachu and I thought he was really good in that) stories. Michelle Rodriguez at least gets cool action scenes, but Sophia Lillis's character primarily exists as "someone who Justice Smith wants to date," and his arc is "believing in himself (so she'll date him)." She gets cool action moments, too, but we get hardly anything else for her.
Anyway, the big chunky dragon ruled
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Olivawgood name, isn't it?the foot of mt fujiRegistered Userregular
I’m so in on the D&D movie based on these impressions
Although I will admit I was pulling for a swerve like the Lego Movie had
Wait, people went to rotten.com on purpose and not because your friend disguised a hyperlink in AIM?
when I was like, 13, my friend and I would bike to his neglectful divorced father's house and spend hours just absorbing the most heinous shit the internet had to offer
rotten.com is a strong contender in the "what fucked me up, like, emotionally?" race
Something I hate, and I'm still trying to figure out exactly why I hate it, is the way enthusiast press and industry press have gotten so thoroughly intermingled in recent years
Like I just saw enthusiast reportage about movie release dates for December of 2024. Nobody outside the industry should care about anything that far out. If you're in the field and would like to know what productions to aim for crewing on, that info could be useful. But there's nothing for anyone outside the bubble to do with that information this far out. People cannot sustain excitement for that long, there's nothing tangible to learn this far out. There's already more media out there than one can consume in several lifetimes, and yet it's newsworthy that in almost two years there will be more of it.
I feel like it has this knock-on effect (or maybe the intended effect?) of shifting when and what we're talking about when we're talking about media. With this much lead time, with nothing concrete to talk about, people can only discuss the Brand Generally, or make/fight about Predictions, and the actual content of the actual movies is relegated to a secondary concern. People can become exhausted by works they have not even seen yet, because the window of "interacting with the work" has moved to a period before the work exists.
Something I hate, and I'm still trying to figure out exactly why I hate it, is the way enthusiast press and industry press have gotten so thoroughly intermingled in recent years
Like I just saw enthusiast reportage about movie release dates for December of 2024. Nobody outside the industry should care about anything that far out. If you're in the field and would like to know what productions to aim for crewing on, that info could be useful. But there's nothing for anyone outside the bubble to do with that information this far out. People cannot sustain excitement for that long, there's nothing tangible to learn this far out. There's already more media out there than one can consume in several lifetimes, and yet it's newsworthy that in almost two years there will be more of it.
I feel like it has this knock-on effect (or maybe the intended effect?) of shifting when and what we're talking about when we're talking about media. With this much lead time, with nothing concrete to talk about, people can only discuss the Brand Generally, or make/fight about Predictions, and the actual content of the actual movies is relegated to a secondary concern. People can become exhausted by works they have not even seen yet, because the window of "interacting with the work" has moved to a period before the work exists.
I fuckin' hate it.
It's another symptom of people being fans of brands and not liking a specific movie. The whole Marvel guidebook for the next four years of releases is so fucking stupid to look at. I'm glad there's a Daredevil season in the works, but I don't really need to know about it until you're ready to release it. Not that it will be worked on and done three years from now.
You need to tell your dumb family now you won't be making it to Christmas 2024 because you'll be watching Jordan Peele's unannounced movie so they won't get mad.
Ideally, I should only know about a movie 3-4 months before it releases. Anything more than is just fluffing someone's ego or marketing's pocketbook without a damn good reason.
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As a parent of little kids it would be great if there was literally *any* movie in theaters right now I could take them to.
I guess dipshits are dunking on this, but one of the undersung bad things about Disney consolidating the market is that they've moved all their kids movies to their streaming service and now there's a three month gap at movie theaters between kids movies like Puss in Boots and the Mario movie. I don't know exactly why people are dunking on this aside from I guess people assume that six year-olds love big loud superhero movies and are mad about it?
As a parent of little kids it would be great if there was literally *any* movie in theaters right now I could take them to.
I guess dipshits are dunking on this, but one of the undersung bad things about Disney consolidating the market is that they've moved all their kids movies to their streaming service and now there's a three month gap at movie theaters between kids movies like Puss in Boots and the Mario movie. I don't know exactly why people are dunking on this aside from I guess people assume that six year-olds love big loud superhero movies and are mad about it?
I didn't read all of the responses obviously, but the one telling him to wait a month for Mario is very funny to me.
minor incidentexpert in a dying fieldnjRegistered Userregular
Our local theatre does a pretty cool thing where they always keep one of their 4 screens set aside to have an all-ages kid's movie showing. Whether that's a new release in its first run like Puss in Boots, or like now when there's nothing out, they'll just have a few weeks of showing random stuff like Mitchells vs. the Machines, the How to Train Your Dragon movies, Monsters vs Aliens, or Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
It's not a total solve for extended gaps in new movie releases, but it's still pretty cool, I think.
Everything looks beautiful when you're young and pretty
Our local theatre does a pretty cool thing where they always keep one of their 4 screens set aside to have an all-ages kid's movie showing. Whether that's a new release in its first run like Puss in Boots, or like now when there's nothing out, they'll just have a few weeks of showing random stuff like Mitchells vs. the Machines, the How to Train Your Dragon movies, Monsters vs Aliens, or Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
It's not a total solve for extended gaps in new movie releases, but it's still pretty cool, I think.
That stuff is good, but it's less easy to do when every screen is locked down by Ant-Man 3 or whatever and if you don't have every screen locked down by Ant-Man 3, you're not getting any screens for Avengers 5
And it's been there for three months. There are no other movies that are young kid movies and we used to get kids movies much more regularly than quartlerly.
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And yet we still don’t have a reboot of Ishtar
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I don’t want to see real people dying on screen though.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/1JI9WWSRW1YJI
It's going to be this
Costarring Barbie Ferreira
Director is Daniel Goldhaber and he'll be writing with Isa Mazzei, so I'm excited. They made Cam which was really good
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Ok yeah. That sounds hella interesting.
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that's an 8mm remake
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Unless you’re around my age (42) I don’t think most people have heard anything about Faces of Death. It’s kind of tame compared to what you can find online these days.
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What the hell
I'm of the perfect age and a fan of horror videos, so of course I heard the stories in school. By the time I finally saw it in my teens I was disappointed, as it's a strange mix of gross and boring.
Some of the comedy falls flat and needed some more time to breath, but everyone is loving what they're doing and there's an earnest joy in what they are doing on screen.
To compare with other wizard crap:
Owls: old and busted
Owlbears: new hotness
~ Buckaroo Banzai
The D&D movie is a fun little action adventure movie with no real ambitions other than to be an entertaining little movie (and also convince you to play D&D and consume D&D products). It works mostly because nobody involved at any point was like, "we can build a franchise out of this!" and everyone involved plays it pretty straight. There's nothing really surprising in the story, but it's got inventive use of magic, it uses the camera for things other than to put the cast in center frame and react to CG offscreen. The fight scenes, especially Michelle Rodriguez's, were really fun.
The best thing this movie did was cast Chris Pine, because I don't think he's capable of not engaging with the material sincerely. You can imagine a world where Chris Pratt is the lead in this and it's insufferable. He doesn't turn it into Shakespeare, mind, but he's never winking at the audience ironically, and the movie's never really like "can you believe this wacky shit we're saying? weird, right?" Someone goes, "my name is Killgore" and everyone just moves on with the scene as normal. The second best thing this movie does is cast Rege Jean-Page as the paladin, because the closest the movie comes to, "can you believe this shit," is about how good of a guy he is and then the rest of the movie is like, "oh, no, we're playing it straight. this guy rules and is incredibly kind and moral," and the only reason that works is because Jean-Page sells the shit out of it.
It's definitely not perfect, though, like...when I say it feels like it should have come out in 2005 I meant that this is the kind of movie my buddies and I would go to see at the theater on a whim and come out saying "that was pretty good!" and then forget about, but it also has two women in the central cast who don't really get a story arc and mostly exist for the sake Chris Pine and Justice Smith's (who really struggles with his accent in a way that sabotages his whole performance. I assume that's it, the only other thing I've seen him in was Detective Pikachu and I thought he was really good in that) stories. Michelle Rodriguez at least gets cool action scenes, but Sophia Lillis's character primarily exists as "someone who Justice Smith wants to date," and his arc is "believing in himself (so she'll date him)." She gets cool action moments, too, but we get hardly anything else for her.
Anyway, the big chunky dragon ruled
Although I will admit I was pulling for a swerve like the Lego Movie had
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when I was like, 13, my friend and I would bike to his neglectful divorced father's house and spend hours just absorbing the most heinous shit the internet had to offer
rotten.com is a strong contender in the "what fucked me up, like, emotionally?" race
Like I just saw enthusiast reportage about movie release dates for December of 2024. Nobody outside the industry should care about anything that far out. If you're in the field and would like to know what productions to aim for crewing on, that info could be useful. But there's nothing for anyone outside the bubble to do with that information this far out. People cannot sustain excitement for that long, there's nothing tangible to learn this far out. There's already more media out there than one can consume in several lifetimes, and yet it's newsworthy that in almost two years there will be more of it.
I feel like it has this knock-on effect (or maybe the intended effect?) of shifting when and what we're talking about when we're talking about media. With this much lead time, with nothing concrete to talk about, people can only discuss the Brand Generally, or make/fight about Predictions, and the actual content of the actual movies is relegated to a secondary concern. People can become exhausted by works they have not even seen yet, because the window of "interacting with the work" has moved to a period before the work exists.
I fuckin' hate it.
It's another symptom of people being fans of brands and not liking a specific movie. The whole Marvel guidebook for the next four years of releases is so fucking stupid to look at. I'm glad there's a Daredevil season in the works, but I don't really need to know about it until you're ready to release it. Not that it will be worked on and done three years from now.
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I guess dipshits are dunking on this, but one of the undersung bad things about Disney consolidating the market is that they've moved all their kids movies to their streaming service and now there's a three month gap at movie theaters between kids movies like Puss in Boots and the Mario movie. I don't know exactly why people are dunking on this aside from I guess people assume that six year-olds love big loud superhero movies and are mad about it?
I didn't read all of the responses obviously, but the one telling him to wait a month for Mario is very funny to me.
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It's not a total solve for extended gaps in new movie releases, but it's still pretty cool, I think.
That stuff is good, but it's less easy to do when every screen is locked down by Ant-Man 3 or whatever and if you don't have every screen locked down by Ant-Man 3, you're not getting any screens for Avengers 5
And it's been there for three months. There are no other movies that are young kid movies and we used to get kids movies much more regularly than quartlerly.
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