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#6961 User is offline   worry 

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Posted 23 November 2014 - 09:17 PM

Can't believe the cups song is even worse without the cups. But yah I'll see it.
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Posted 24 November 2014 - 12:23 AM

Time travel movie called Predestination. It stars Ethan Hawke and is pretty good.

Watch the trailer and if you not convinced.... then check spoilers to the movie that might make you want to watch it just to because how ridiculous it is.


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Posted 24 November 2014 - 08:47 PM

Not usually overly violent but man I want to punch Dolores Umbridge right in her face.
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Posted 24 November 2014 - 08:59 PM

View PostTiste Simeon, on 24 November 2014 - 08:47 PM, said:

Not usually overly violent but man I want to punch Dolores Umbridge right in her face.


You should check out the backstory about her that JK just wrote at Halloween this year.

ENJOY
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Posted 25 November 2014 - 06:17 PM

Two trailers dropped this aft. Both worth a look.

JURASSIC WORLD (looks great!)



And Joe Wright's Peter Pan & Hook film PAN (which also looks good)


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Posted 25 November 2014 - 07:45 PM

Aw Yiss. Perfect choice.Posted Image

Christoph Waltz tipped to play Blofeld in new James Bond movie
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Posted 25 November 2014 - 07:46 PM

Hugh Jackman? I'm in! He is definitely my man crush...
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Posted 25 November 2014 - 08:31 PM

Funny that the Jurassic World youtube ends with a bunch of Dumb and Dumber To links, cuz that's like exactly the big fear. But the trailer still made me a little giddy.

Pan has a lot of baggage (the Tiger Lily debacle chief among them) but seems like an interesting take on the story. Very iffy on that one.
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Posted 25 November 2014 - 08:35 PM

Also sounds like they were using Godzilla roar effects in the JW trailer which was weird.
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Posted 25 November 2014 - 08:57 PM

View Postworry, on 25 November 2014 - 08:31 PM, said:

Pan has a lot of baggage (the Tiger Lily debacle chief among them) but seems like an interesting take on the story. Very iffy on that one.


Joe Wright mentioned he was trying to push boundaries with the source material Peter Pan story by casting against type...

...which explains why Adeel Akhtar (middle eastern heritage) will play Smee, Leni Zieglmeier (Black) is playing Wendy Darling, Jack Charles (Australian aboriginal) is playing the Chief, Na Tae-joo (korean) is playing Kwahu, Nonso Anozie (Nigerian) is playing Bishop.

That's more than half the main cast diversely cast.

I think people immediately freaked out over Mara being cast as Tiger Lily and didn't bother to look at the rest of the cast changes.

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Posted 25 November 2014 - 09:10 PM

I'm not greatly interested in Jurassic World, but the fact that they appear to have introduced an Alien-ish element rather than just going bigger scale has piqued my interest. I hope they show nothing of the new dinosaur in any of the marketing.
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Posted 25 November 2014 - 09:15 PM

View Postpolishgenius, on 25 November 2014 - 09:10 PM, said:

I'm not greatly interested in Jurassic World, but the fact that they appear to have introduced an Alien-ish element rather than just going bigger scale has piqued my interest. I hope they show nothing of the new dinosaur in any of the marketing.


Agreed. I'd love for it to be an in-theatre reveal.
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Posted 25 November 2014 - 09:18 PM

I think people understand the legacy of depictions of Native Americans in western fiction, particularly Hollywood's redface output over its entire existence (up to and including The Lone Ranger), and -- rightly -- chalked this up as another slap in the face. Nobody freaked out, they recognize the continuum.
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Posted 26 November 2014 - 12:21 AM

View Postworry, on 25 November 2014 - 09:18 PM, said:

I think people understand the legacy of depictions of Native Americans in western fiction, particularly Hollywood's redface output over its entire existence (up to and including The Lone Ranger), and -- rightly -- chalked this up as another slap in the face. Nobody freaked out, they recognize the continuum.


I believe as well according to Joe Wright that the tribe is multinational on purpose, with all nationalities present in it. I think that's why it's not using traditional specifically native American gear, but takes aspects and styles from of a mix of many different tribal looks globally to make up something new. Pause the trailer on the tribal scenes and I think you'll find it is very much a made up tribal "look" that isn't anything specific from any place we know of IRL. If the tribe consists of many different nationalities and skin colours (the ones we know of so far are white, asian, and aboriginal) it's entirely possible that they are conscripts in the lost land that is Neverland.

All of which AVOIDS the inherant racism involved in the stereotypical view of the tribe in the book and previous adaptations (like the super racist Disney one) by making it be somehting entirely else.

I mean only seeing the film will confirm it, but as far as I can see in the trailer the tribe appears to be as fantastical as the flying ship and Neverland itself would be.

My two cents.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 26 November 2014 - 12:23 AM

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Posted 26 November 2014 - 12:31 AM

For the Jurassic World hybrid thing, there's not much need for suspense, as it's clearly a raptor/rex cross.
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Posted 26 November 2014 - 12:43 AM

View PostIlluyankas, on 26 November 2014 - 12:31 AM, said:

For the Jurassic World hybrid thing, there's not much need for suspense, as it's clearly a raptor/rex cross.


Agreed. And the best bit about that will be the suspense of seeing what it can do.
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Posted 26 November 2014 - 01:51 AM

I do understand the reasoning, I just think it avoids one trap (whitewashing) by falling into a few others (premature rainbow post-racialism, failing to hire Native actors). I'm certainly not saying it's on the level of that new Ridley Scott disaster, and I'll probably see it when it's on DVD. I like the Pan story in general and actually quite liked the Jason Isaacs movie. It's been a while and it certainly wasn't perfect, but it handled the casting better IMO.
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Posted 26 November 2014 - 07:57 AM

I'm just hoping Rufio will be in it #neverforget
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Posted 26 November 2014 - 07:59 AM

View PostIlluyankas, on 26 November 2014 - 12:31 AM, said:

For the Jurassic World hybrid thing, there's not much need for suspense, as it's clearly a raptor/rex cross.


Gah! WTF were they thinking? Haven't they seen the previous 3 movies? :(

Do you think the dominant moral of the story is going to be the semi-religious "we shouldn't attempt to play God", or the more humanist "just because we can do something doesn't mean we should"?

Actually, which of those is more prevalent through the entire series? Then it makes me wonder about the original Crichton book ... :)

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Posted 26 November 2014 - 06:36 PM

I like most Ridley Scott films prior to and including GLADIATOR...but jeebus he's saying some cringe-worthy and racist and elitist shit these days.

http://variety.com/2...ale-1201363668/

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Like most high-profile religious pictures since Martin Scorsese’s 1988 “The Last Temptation of Christ,” “Exodus” became the subject of intense media scrutiny before Scott had ever exposed a frame of (digital) film on stages at London’s Pinewood Studios and on location in Spain. Much of the outcry online stemmed from his decision to cast white American, European and Australian actors in most of the key roles, no matter that the same could be said of “The Passion of the Christ,” “Noah,” “The Ten Commandments” and virtually any other big-budget Bible movies. “I can’t mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely on tax rebates in Spain, and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such,” Scott says. “I’m just not going to get it financed. So the question doesn’t even come up.”

I mean YIKES.

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