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Are there now friends/family members who won't watch movies with you because they just want to enjoy a movie without thinking?

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MASH is one of those movies that was heavily restructured in editing, which you can get away with in an episodic movie. If you guys are looking for themes to look into that might be one (it's also one of those cases where they took a pro-military book and made an anti-military movie). Another film that had major post-production changes that worked is Meatballs- it originally was all about camp councilor high jinks and romances, but when screenings bombed they cut half of that out and quickly filmed scenes of Bill Murray and the kid at a new set of Murray's cabin and a bus stop. Gave the movie a new emotional core and became a hit.

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Can't consider Buckaroo Banzai "bad". Not the same way a film that tried to be like that and failed would be.

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Too many of this type of thing has been "ruined" by Rifftrax or iRiffs so I can't enjoy the badness on its own anymore, but....

Odin: Photon Sailer Starlight. This 1985 anime movie is both way too long and feels like it was edited down from a 26 episode TV series. Every choice is wrong, adding up to an incredible experience. Avoid the cut dub, and watch the subtitled 135 minute original!

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My Bodyguard, from 1980: Chris Makepeace, Adam Baldwin, Matt Dillon, Joan Cusack, Martin Mull, Ruth Gordon. I saw this at age 11 with my younger sister as part of some double feature, which pissed my mom off when she discovered that was the second movie smile

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Teague tag teams her in during the second Twilight commentary, which a) could be considered practice for Lord of the Rings and b) probably required her to get some shots afterwards smile

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Ah, the lack of video makes sense now...

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People like ST IV because it's a) all about the characters and not space battles, and b) not really Star Trek. It's like when that band you like for being hard core does a ballad that gets massive radio play smile

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Assuming everyone involved has sobered up, how was the turnout?

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no link yet. should I panic? smile

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This thread has gone quiet smile I do have one question though, before the big event. Given the time difference it won't be starting for me till 11 PM, and given I have to be at work by 4 AM watching this will require some re-arranging of my sleeping pattern. Factoring in a probable late start and the Q&A, are we looking at about 3 hours? Longer?

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When Dorkman was talking about pulp comics, he may have been thinking about the magazines which printed short stories and serialized novels and probably had some illustrations. Fiction magazines are so rare nowadays if you see a stack of those old mags it's easy to assume they're comics.

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If nothing else it'll give you a chance to talk about how you turn a 5 page story into a 2 hour film smile

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It probably depends on the time frame of your film, and the number of characters. If you're dealing with a dozen people over the course of two or three days, not only isn't the audience going to be able to focus on any one character enough to notice a change but there probably wouldn't be much to change. At best, an aspect of their personality others hadn't seen might come out. On the other hand, if you're dealing with a small cast over a few months then if the events of the movie aren't changing the characters in some way there's no reason to be making a movie about those events smile

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I'm curious as to what they'll say. I love the film, but am under no illusion that it is "good" smile

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(47 replies, posted in Episodes)

It's called old school promotion smile

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Although even Teague fell back to going "Movie we like had X, this movie also has X, so why do you not like it now?" For me at least that's making things a bit too simplistic, as usually how a movie does something is more important to the viewer then what is being done. Unless it's the first time, in which case we often just go "Wow, they did that!" and leave quality judgements for later films.

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There just wasn't too much common ground between "it's stupid and great" and "it's stupid and bad". When someone doesn't see the "stupid" part as being a problem, there's no where to go from there smile