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« Reply #690 on: December 11, 2019, 08:50:42 am »

I just watched The Gamers: Dorkness Rising for the first time.
That was wonderful. I'm not sure I know anyone in meatspace who would appreciate it, so I'm just gonna gush about it here. :))

The full movie is on YT by the way, if anyone else hasn't seen it or is keen for a re-watch.
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« Reply #691 on: December 11, 2019, 10:17:38 pm »

Oh boy, I wonder if Tim Burton's "The Corpse Bride" will feature a spooky yet whimsical setting, forbidden love between two little goth claymation people, and an adorable undead dog.

Man, Tim Burton sure did make one good movie several times in a row.
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« Reply #692 on: December 12, 2019, 01:30:22 am »

I just watched The Gamers: Dorkness Rising for the first time.
That was wonderful. I'm not sure I know anyone in meatspace who would appreciate it, so I'm just gonna gush about it here. :))

The full movie is on YT by the way, if anyone else hasn't seen it or is keen for a re-watch.

The movie after that is unfortunately more based on cringetacular TCG nonsense than real gaming, but I went back and watched the first one.
It's... very clunky, very low budget (even moreso than Dorkness!) and some of the acting was rather wooden, but they did a good job with what they had.

Some of the spoofing of RPG logic is even better than the other film, haha.
Now I'm not sure what I'm supposed to watch next, chronologically. Probably one of the related TV shows, like Households and Humans. *shrug*   
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« Reply #693 on: December 12, 2019, 03:54:23 am »

Oh boy, I wonder if Tim Burton's "The Corpse Bride" will feature a spooky yet whimsical setting, forbidden love between two little goth claymation people, and an adorable undead dog.

Man, Tim Burton sure did make one good movie several times in a row.

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« Reply #694 on: December 12, 2019, 09:00:23 am »

Oh boy, I wonder if Tim Burton's "The Corpse Bride" will feature a spooky yet whimsical setting, forbidden love between two little goth claymation people, and an adorable undead dog.

Will it star Helena Bonham Carter?


Man, Tim Burton sure did make one good movie several times in a row.




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« Reply #695 on: December 12, 2019, 09:41:19 am »

And then there's Big Fish.

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« Reply #696 on: December 12, 2019, 09:42:43 am »

Y'all need to wash your mouths out with soap.   
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Re: The Movie Discussion Thread!
« Reply #697 on: December 15, 2019, 09:28:42 pm »

Hrm. Ghostbusters: Afterlife  Trailer is interesting, although it seems way too serious compared to the original subject matter.
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« Reply #698 on: December 16, 2019, 04:59:19 am »

Hrm. Ghostbusters: Afterlife  Trailer is interesting, although it seems way too serious compared to the original subject matter.
Yeah, I was a bit... I dunno, maybe the trailer was kind of a spoof in its own right? That they specifically clipped together something extra-serious for the sake of contrasting the actual content?

And not a single doot from the ghostbusters theme either. Makes a man wonder.

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« Reply #699 on: December 16, 2019, 08:57:13 am »

And not a single doot from the ghostbusters theme either. Makes a man wonder.

This one?

Also, I think the Lady Ghostbusters got cancelled because it was too good. They want Ghostbusters to be brainless schlock.
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« Reply #701 on: December 16, 2019, 09:33:48 am »

And not a single doot from the ghostbusters theme either. Makes a man wonder.
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« Reply #702 on: December 16, 2019, 09:38:22 am »

And not a single doot from the ghostbusters theme either. Makes a man wonder.

This one?

Also, I think the Lady Ghostbusters got cancelled because it was too good. They want Ghostbusters to be brainless schlock.

Nah, it got canned for a very basic reason: lack of any sort of conceivable mass audience.
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To the point: I'll bet bottom-dollar that even with everything else going on, more than half of the viewers for Lady Ghostbusters were men. They were basically betting the studio's future on the say-so of a crowd who were pretty much never going to actually show up for a movie like that. The studio made a loss of $125 million dollars on the movie. It's as simple as that. Cancelled because it's a money-black-hole.

As for the new ones, they're probably going to be cleverer with the demographics. To be clever and not dumb, they look at the profile of people who actually go to see movies like that and they build the main cast around that. A couple of geeky young guys and girls is a better plan than whatever it was they were going for in GB 2016.
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« Reply #703 on: December 16, 2019, 10:03:43 am »

Listen; there's a perfectly valid reason to see the Robocop reboot even for fans of the original, and that reason is Samuel L. Jackson playing a conservative media pundit.

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« Reply #704 on: December 16, 2019, 10:34:18 am »

Nah, it got canned for a very basic reason: lack of any sort of conceivable mass audience.

The original is the story of a few dudes who got kicked out of their professorship for experimenting on students, get arrested by the EPA, then fight a ghost in a painting and a lady who lives in a refrigerator to save New York. The audience (also certainly not mass) is people who watch MST3K or are heavily intoxicated/children. That's not a series you do clever things with, or try to make a point with. It's the Expendables but dumber, and with ghosts instead of explosions.
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