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https://deadline.com/2022/09/constantin … 235121127/

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Roland Emmerich's Surrogates.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d3/Moonfall_film_poster.jpg

If you're not familiar with Roland's films, just watch this one - it's his "greatest hits" album. Moonfall has nothing, and I mean ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, that has not appeared in his previous movies. The guy is stuck in a time loop. The autoplagiaristic aspect makes it hard to enjoy Moonfall even as a throwback to silly 1990s (and early 2000s) movies à la Twister or The Core.

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https://variety.com/2022/film/news/star … 235021307/

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Whoah. Tony Stark's "I will be reinstituting prima nocta" line sounds much creepier right now.

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A teaser for Season 2 of Picard:
https://www.facebook.com/ParamountPlus/ … 391097437/

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Today's find. Guess what this movie is called in ItalY?

https://media-cache.cinematerial.com/p/ … 1456507996

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Its origin and purpose - still a total mystery...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 … rt-of-utah

You're the doc, Doc!

Ah, Prince Of Egypt. I haven't seen that one in a long time. A good opportunity to revisit it.

Oddly enough, there is a DreamWorks remake of The Last Temptation Of Christ. It's called Shrek Forever After.

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Yeah, we used to have a very strong movie poster tradition (a custom film poster was an opportunity to make a covert political statement during the communist era). It died out in the 1990s when theaters started using generic posters (I guess they were supplied alongside film prints). Nowadays only a few arthouse theaters  bother paying local artists.

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti … -suggests/
Nothing definitive yet (unless we believe George Adamski wink ), but we might be one step closer...

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It just occurred to me that our forum is in a divergent timeline already. The GoDaddy explosion has created a black hole that sucked Holden back to Nov 9, 2017 and a tangent universe was created. Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey...

http://i.stack.imgur.com/Q3Su5.jpg

We're gonna need a Crisis On Infinite DiFs to clean up these timelines.

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I tawt I taw a puddy tat!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Josie-pussycats-2001-movie.jpg

5 years after its demise, DiF continues to change my life - I learned about this movie from one of the commentaries during my re-listen. It turned out to be a very enjoyable satire, a Zoolander for the music industry (released months before the real Zoolander). Like dozens of cult movies, it was appreciated too late.

As of now, my solution is: "Keep calm and listen to DiF commentaries." smile

Holy carp. Sounds like a great project, I hope they won't get in trouble. Selling fan restorations has always been considered risky - the Star Wars restorations have been ignored by lawyers, but they're always distributed for free (the fan community actually polices that).

Boter wrote:

Don't mind me as I get Drunken Master pronto. (Part of its enjoyment for me has always been the awful, awful dub - it's how I first saw it with some stoner friends - but that being included as well makes me perversely happy.)

I saw The Legend of Drunken Master with the English dub a few months ago and it felt like a Ken Jeong shtick.

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Beeg wrote:

The cat effect was so poorly executed.

I thought Taylor Swift looked better with it than without it.

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Abbie wrote:

Imagine a culture that grew up on those final fifteen minutes of musical communication instead of the trench run.

I almost did wink

I saw Close Encounters early in my childhood (towards the end of the '80s) soon after Star Wars and Forbidden Planet and those aliens freaked me out. That's the funny thing about Greys - minor changes to the design can make them look cute (Stargate SG-1) or creepy (Communion). The "uncanny valley" effect works very strongly in that particular distortion of the human form.

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Tomahawk wrote:

My point being it's no wonder it makes a lot of money. Kids will see it over and over again.

OK, fair enough. That could explain the box office gross. Many people went to see the Transformers sequels too.

But

Walt Disney wrote:

You're dead if you aim only for kids.

and his company usually tried to respect that sentiment (the first Frozen was even made fun of in Zootopia).

DiF gave Michael Bay a lot of shit for his "movies for teenage boys" and rightly so. I think we shouldn't be too easy on a Disney movie just because t's supposed to "be for kids" (it was Uncle George's silly excuse for the SW prequels too).

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4f/Frozen_2_poster.jpg
Frozen II feels almost like a satire on the first Frozen. Every flaw of the original movie is amped up to nearly comical proportions - there's very little plot and everything revolves around emotional bullshit that could nauseate even Deanna Troi.

SPOILER Show
Elsa turns out to be The Fifth Element. Anna claims to love Olaf (or maybe she's just attracted to his large carrot). Olaf ventures pretty far into Jar Jar territory - he's constantly quoting random "fun facts" and promotes some New Age water memory theory (he should go on Oprah with it). Oh, and there's a cute Pokémon lizard for no reason other than kid appeal.

The only thing that works is Kristoff's power ballad made to resemble a kitschy '80s music video.


To sum it up simply,

Morgan H. Stark wrote:

This is a howwible stowy

and it still made over $1,200,000,000 (as of now).

Seriously though, it's one of 2019's worst productions. It's up there with Zombieland: Double Tap, MIB International, Jumanji: The Next Level and Cats.

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I didn't hate the movie, but its attempts to please everyone felt a little desperate at times. Rey's "And I am Iron Man" line and the "Avengers, assemble!" moment with the Rebel fleet came off as somewhat weird just 8 months after Endgame.

The Rise Of Skywalker is inoffensive almost to a fault. Sure, I would have preferred something more auteurish instead of this apology for TLJ (that was probably forced by the studio), but that was just impossible to do for the grand finale of the new trilogy with a budget over $250 million. It could have been better even with these restrictions, but I think it also could have been a lot worse.

The entire sequel trilogy mostly works OK for me. Mostly.

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You're tearing me apart, Leia!

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As I mentioned here, DiF commentaries have helped me get through some tough times.
https://humorside.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/thank-you-meme-01.jpg

avatar wrote:

capturing lightning in a bottle

DiF had a secret ingredient that other film commentary podcasts didn't have: filmmakers. Most commentary podcast that were available through Zarban's old site were made by "ordinary people". There's nothing wrong with "ordinary people", but to make an awesome movie podcast you need intimate knowledge of the industry that most "ordinary people" simply don't have.

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Star Wars movies have just appeared on Disney+ in UHD (at least in the US) and guess what? The "Han shooting Greedo" scene was changed again... by George Lucas himself back in 2012.

https://twitter.com/starwarsviscomp/sta … 84097?s=21

Uncle George had to have the last laugh.

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I just listened to the commentary again. The "Galaxy Quest equivalent for Westerns" you were looking for is Three Amigos by John Landis. It's literally the same premise as Galaxy Quest.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092086/