I bet it involves a mermaid of some kind!
[Movies] Talk about the last movie you saw 2: Electric Threadaloo
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I thought it was funnier than Journey to the West, but not nearly as funny as Kung Fu Hustle or Shaolin Soccer.
You're 80% correct.
Tonight's movie was Four Lions.
UHHHHHHhhhhhh.... man I liked this movie but I almost feel bad about it?
Ok so it's about a group of British jihadist but it's also a comedy. It's actually pretty funny for the subject matter, mostly as the terrorists group is so inept at what they're trying to do. I mean one of their plans is to strap explosives to crows and use them as suicide bombers.
Biggest downside is that the audio is kind of low, and mixed with Pakistani-but-also-British accent makes it hard to understand people at times.
Pretty great movie all around though. 8.5/10. Plus points cause I kind of cared about these guys by the end, and minus points for the exact same reason.
UHHHHHHhhhhhh.... man I liked this movie but I almost feel bad about it?
Ok so it's about a group of British jihadist but it's also a comedy. It's actually pretty funny for the subject matter, mostly as the terrorists group is so inept at what they're trying to do. I mean one of their plans is to strap explosives to crows and use them as suicide bombers.
Biggest downside is that the audio is kind of low, and mixed with Pakistani-but-also-British accent makes it hard to understand people at times.
Pretty great movie all around though. 8.5/10. Plus points cause I kind of cared about these guys by the end, and minus points for the exact same reason.
Saw it Monday, it's wonderful. The theaters local to me only have one theater set aside for it though (and a handful of 3d showings a do in another shared theater), so I'm guessing it's not going to do well at all.
Yep, box office mojo states that it's made $14m worldwide its first four days. This on a $60m dollar film means it's a flop. Reminds me of Secret of Kells. Beautiful in many ways, but just not drawing crowds, and may not make back its production cost.
Hail, Caesar!
Loosely based on real Hollywood fixer Eddie Mannix's life, this Coen Brothers comedy is a bizarre but entertaining homage to golden-age studio Hollywood, with all the ups and downs that entails. If you've seen a lot of old movies, you'll get the references. If not, you'll probably be confused and annoyed by a lot of the seemingly unconnected, overlong gag scenes. I rather liked it.
Loosely based on real Hollywood fixer Eddie Mannix's life, this Coen Brothers comedy is a bizarre but entertaining homage to golden-age studio Hollywood, with all the ups and downs that entails. If you've seen a lot of old movies, you'll get the references. If not, you'll probably be confused and annoyed by a lot of the seemingly unconnected, overlong gag scenes. I rather liked it.
This has been a problem for Laika for awhile.
ParaNorman: 56 DOM + 51 FOR = 107 million take on a 60 million film.
Corpse Bride: 53 + 63 = 118 million take.
Boxtrolls: 50 + 58 = 108 million take.
But here's what you need to remember: Laika gets millions a year in government subsidies to bring film-making opportunities to Oregon. For instance, they got 5.2 mill THIS YEAR. This is what helps keep the studio in profitability. In fact, the company is going to be expanding this year, so they can keep up production.
Huh. So they get artistic license because the government funds their flops?
On he one hand, yay, we get content we wouldn't otherwise get and people get jobs in a low cost of living state that are usually only available in high cost of living states.
On the other hand this smells an awful lot like a pork barrel project. I can't imagine that the state gets much benefit from the investment. I wonder how many college students they could fund with that same investment - seems like it might make a better long term investment.
On he one hand, yay, we get content we wouldn't otherwise get and people get jobs in a low cost of living state that are usually only available in high cost of living states.
On the other hand this smells an awful lot like a pork barrel project. I can't imagine that the state gets much benefit from the investment. I wonder how many college students they could fund with that same investment - seems like it might make a better long term investment.
Are they flops? They might not be raking in the dough like blockbusters but 107 return on a 60 million dollar budget seems like it keeps the paychecks rolling. Also, do those numbers include video sales and merchandise?
yeah, that thought crossed my mind.
Well, they get funding from more than the government too. The have licensing deals, as well make money from each time their movies are aired on TV (Corpse Bride gets TONS of play on Freeform and other movie channels, with ParaNorman getting play soon), as well outside patrons who support their works. They also do the art film circuit, which gets them more revenue as well. ParaNorman won 14 awards by itself.
It's also not that much different than say... Toronto or New Zealand giving tax breaks on works filmed there to keep them profitable. You do it because ether the prestige draws other businesses to your area or you're making up more than your spending. Remember, that was money from Oregon, not DC.[DOUBLEPOST=1472070756,1472070622][/DOUBLEPOST]
They are only getting about half of the domestic take and maybe a 1/3rd of the foreign.
True, but Laika doesn't do a whole ton of advertising ether. It gets TV spots, movie trailers, and MAYBE the odd print add. I can't imagine they spend nearly as much on advertising as a Triple A movie would.
Now You See Me 1/2 are way better than Avengers/Ultron, even though I'm still devastated the sequel wasn't "Now You Don't"
The problem with Big Hero 6 is that you have no reason to guess the villain's motivations until they get thrown in your face 3/4ths into the movie.
How did they not do that? Those fools.
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I didn't mind the reveal of his motivations. I thought it was rather stupid that his daughter was somehow still alive. It must have been really cold in there or something. So why did Hero and Betamax not freeze? The villain was super obvious the whole time. He was essentially the only other character in the film and the one they tried to pin as the bad guy was too obvious. I'd have liked it to been the guy who was wearing the funky helmet the professor was checking out before Hero took to the stage. Now THAT would have been a motivation! Hero's own invention shown to be used in crimes, putting him on the defensive.
But that, of course, is too complex for Disney audiences. Disney is always so black & white with their motivations.
I think the implication of the hyperspace dimension they access was that time didn't pass there like it normally did there or something. You'll note that the daughter was also the same age as when she went in, despite years having passed in the meantime.
In the movie Baymax reports that the life form was in hyper sleep.
But then, this is a world where all the elements on the periodic table can fit into a purse and be mixed on command and deliver vastly more volume of material than the purse is capable of holding, and "magnetic bearings" exist that are strong enough to support the weight of a human while maintaining their gap and being easily removed by a human, and light saber blade like weapons exist, and little black objects consisting of three pieces held together by magnetic bearings have enough internal energy to last for weeks while supporting buildings and moving people and pieces around, and doing so incredibly quickly. Oh, and devices are able to read minds well enough to describe the actions the tiny robots should take. Not to mention the perfect santa clause machine - the rapid prototyping machines that can make literally everything, but instead of food they're using them for stupid little toys.
So, you know, it's not really trying to explain the magic.
Kubo and the two strings
Damn good film - with a REALLY good emphasis on "Memory".
Damn good film - with a REALLY good emphasis on "Memory".
Seriously, you remember at the end when Kubo's grandpa lost his memory, and everyone "lied" about who he was? Well...what if THAT was actually true, and the entire movie before-hand was Kubo's imaganitive retelling of the events. And on the topic of Kubo's parents forgetting themselves...and then dying...yeah we know what this is a metaphor for, a more poignant Alzheimer's message than Ice King.
Went to Kubo and the Two Strings tonight. My wife meant for us to see it tomorrow ... and we probably should have. Two reasons.
1. the kids in the theater were not having this movie. They laughed at the shitty trailers for trash like The Wild Life and Trolls, but 10 minutes into the movie they were going apeshit about not being there. Several parents were taking their kids out and not coming back.
and 2. I can't even give a full proper opinion of the movie because moments before what I later learned was the biggest scene in the movie, I got an intense stomach cramp all of a sudden and had to rush to the restroom. When I came back, the climax was well underway. My wife gave me a two-sentence version of events so I was able to understand the end, and I will find the scene online at some point so I can at least view that, but I'm really pissed that what was a pretty great movie all around, I fucking missed one of the most important pieces.
1. the kids in the theater were not having this movie. They laughed at the shitty trailers for trash like The Wild Life and Trolls, but 10 minutes into the movie they were going apeshit about not being there. Several parents were taking their kids out and not coming back.
and 2. I can't even give a full proper opinion of the movie because moments before what I later learned was the biggest scene in the movie, I got an intense stomach cramp all of a sudden and had to rush to the restroom. When I came back, the climax was well underway. My wife gave me a two-sentence version of events so I was able to understand the end, and I will find the scene online at some point so I can at least view that, but I'm really pissed that what was a pretty great movie all around, I fucking missed one of the most important pieces.
Most times that would've helped, but I missed a good 10 minutes of the movie. It was one of those.
My sea-faring skills are awful. I can't find a place to see what I missed without it wanting things from me. My wife will tell me the scene in detail if I want, but I'd really rather watch it. I guess I'm going to have to wait for rental.
Unless someone here knows a thing or two, arr.
Unless someone here knows a thing or two, arr.
Unless it has a digital release somewhere, all you'll be able to find of it right now would be cams, and the quality there is about as good as your wife acting out the scene.
That makes me wonder how these Tumblr kids make gifs of movie spoilers the day of release. It's not stuff from trailers or clips; I've had to unfollow people because of it.
But if it's that rare, there's no way I'm finding it, so I'll just have to wait. Thanks.
Big movies are more likely to get leaked digital releases. Someone somewhere that has access to the data just let's it slip online. A movie like this isn't as much a target, so most sources of acquirement are going to be digital streams from on demand, usually from other countries where the movie is released digitally rather than in theaters. But if no digital source is available, then the salty dogs have to resort to more crude means, like using a camcorder to video a movie screen.
Yoga Hosers
This movie has retroactively made me enjoy Tusk a lot more. I still think it's perfectly fine that Kevin Smith is making movies only because he likes to, and wants to be able to work with his friends and family on a project without caring about how it will be received, and he's in a position now where he can do that, so more power to him. It's great that he can enjoy making this movie, because no one will enjoy watching it.
This movie has retroactively made me enjoy Tusk a lot more. I still think it's perfectly fine that Kevin Smith is making movies only because he likes to, and wants to be able to work with his friends and family on a project without caring about how it will be received, and he's in a position now where he can do that, so more power to him. It's great that he can enjoy making this movie, because no one will enjoy watching it.
Granted there's not much competition in Hollywood-BUT STILL!
I'm gonna toss in of all time.
They've taken the artform to entirely new levels.
As someone who's watched stop-motion my whole life, from barely-functional Rankin-Bass to all the Ray Harryhausen movies, Laika has really escalated what can be done.
Still wish I could see that big scene
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Still wish I could see that big scene
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