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The Pirates movies have thousands of CG shots, even for minor stuff like adjusting camera angles.
The reason Eternals looks bad is because most current directors barely engage with their VFX teams until AFTER they’ve shot the footage, so everything just looks pasted on top.
2006 CGI tech used judiciously and with restraint vs 2021 CGI tech used to replace literally everything that does not strictly require real footage
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Glazer getting around the lack of money for a conveyor belt by just building the walls on wheels and physically dragging the room around... peak director brain.
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Literally every single labor horror story you've heard about American VFX houses is, like, hundred times worse in Japan. lol
That's it, that's their secret.
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tbh- this is one of the funnier parts of the whole Marvel-Sony custody split.
Sony makes cameras and TVs so they have an investment in making sure their movies at least look consistently good enough to be played on a TV Display at the mall, while the MCU... well
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The X-Files’ many different weird horny promo shoots fucking rocked.
(Also, yes. That other guy in the first pic IS tv’s Chris Carter)
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In a funny way, this is a great example of why Disney can't make the Muppets work and how franchising kills concepts in general.
The Muppets didn't used to be just a single set group of characters who always said/did things a certain way.
Now they are. See also; Looney Tunes.
my brain is broken after reading this. i have never felt like the mandela effect is real until right now.
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Lame: Addressing Sherlock Holmes' rampant heroin and cocaine use in a respectful and frank way, showcasing the horror and pain of such a terrible addition.
Cool: This Shit.
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James Gray has a great rant about this very thing.
Glen Powell on choosing a theatrical release for
#AnyoneButYou
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This has always been streaming's dirty little secret.
It doesn't make money, has never made money, and cannot ever make money.
Its only purpose was to lose money long enough so that it could destroy all other forms of media consumption and then dominate the market.
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lol,
people demand all these legacy sequels where all their old heroes come back and are still fighting the exact same battles they were when they were decades younger-
and then get mad when the results are inevitably kind of sad.
Like, how do you think it would come across?
I need Lucasfilm to understand. Not everyone grows up to be a miserable old man with a failed personal life. Please find other conflicts for our beloved characters.
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Cheering myself up after watching Lynch's Elephant Man by looking at photos of Bradley Cooper's vanity project version where he decided to play it half-naked and without prosthetics.
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Ironically, this is exactly the kind of attitude that produces blockbusters with terrible VFX.
Verbinski loves the tech so much he spent years learning every single fine detail of it and shot hours of test footage to make sure it looked just right.
All before shooting.
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It's like how people wonder what Dune's secret was to keeping the budget down, when the answer is obviously just "shoot in an Eastern European country with effectively no labor laws".
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Also, CGI is not cheaper than practical effects.
That’s why Hollywood is so desperate that they don’t unionize.
Movies are so green screen/CG heavy now because it makes it easier for the studio to replace stuff in post.
Which isn’t a good thing, but it’s a different issue.
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Fun Fact: Every single film Scorsese has made in the last two decades have had hundreds to thousands of CG shots in them.
Many of them straight up replacing almost all the onset footage.
He’s gone on record about always learning as much about the tech as possible and it shows.
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Realizing Sy Abelman was based on Francis Ford Coppola was a real game changer for me, ngl.
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This is also why they don’t really make 2D films anymore.
Toy Story 2 and Frozen were totally overhauled and rewritten less than a year before release.
You can do that when everything is a 3D asset, not when it’s paper/pen/ink.
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@GemOfAmara
I know I keep banging on about this, but the original movies that have made bank in America over the last few years have been the ones most directly tied to the cultural moment we're in.
For better or worse.
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Between this and Glass Onion, it's become clear Netflix is willing to shell out any amount of money to kneecap as much theatrical competition as they can.
I'm like, maybe a couple steps away from thinking it should be made illegal. lol
Richard Linklater’s ‘HIT MAN’ has been acquired by Netflix for $20M. The film will also have some form of theatrical release.
Read our review:
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John Lee Hancock is one of our most evil directors.
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Heading off some capeshit criticisms before I mute this
1) Lighting is a thing
2) as is shot composition and blocking
And 3) having to CGI the entire background gives you more creative options for visuals, not fewer
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The sheer amount of "Baz Luhrmann is straight!!!?!?" tweets makes me think that being a Golden-Age studio fixer must've been way easier than it seemed.
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Most important scoop in Empire Magazine's Indiana Jones 5 article.
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Very baffled at the large amount of people I’ve seen not grasping that the smash cut reveal of little choir boys somberly singing Day-O is… a gag??
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This is also why it mildly ticks me off how the Muppets have been molded into this weird group of conflict-free pals for the last few decades.
Part of their appeal was that they were often quite aggressive and mean towards each other! They weren't even friends, just co-workers!
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@bornposting
The crazy thing is that Yates' work on those last four movies is actually pretty solid.
Then Fantastic Beasts happens, and suddenly, it's the worst-looking garbage ever made for three solid movies in a row.
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Few will believe this now, but for a good chunk of the 2010s, a sizable cottage industry built up around comparing him negatively to beloved progressive icons Joss Whedon, JK Rowling, and Damon Lindelof.
🚨 Steven Moffat returns to
#DoctorWho
! The former showrunner makes an explosive return as he writes an episode of Ncuti Gatwa’s first season as the Doctor
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I know this story obviously isn’t true, but the idea that an actor should have to know and care about a franchise to be cast in it, still pisses me off so much. lol
Batshit idea. They’re actors, their job is to pretend!
Fede Alvarez says during the audition process for ‘ALIEN: ROMULUS’, he asked if they had seen any other Alien movies.
“The actor said ‘Yeah the first two, Prometheus and Covenant’ and I said in my head ‘Yeah, you’re not getting this role’”
#SDCC
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Why Hans Zimmer is responsible for movie scores sounding shittier now.
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When she asks me to give 'em a bit of the 'ol Razzle Dazzle
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Insane that Community nailed every single hurriedly drafted-in replacement character for the 3 (!) separate lead actors who vanished from the show in its final two seasons.
happy birthday Keith David - who in addition to being in some of the greatest genre films ever made, gave perhaps my favorite Community line read in the entire show
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As silly as many of the complaints in the article are, and as much as I love Coppola/look forward to Megalopolis, it's shocking how many smart folks refuse to see the obvious with this guy.
Like, I think people really do underestimate just how horrific the Victor Salva stuff is.
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You see, in the past, the Muppets could do things like straight-up invent an entirely new leading character while the show was being made.
Consistently altering and exaggerating her voice/appearance personality for years.
Could you ever see them doing anything like that now?
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It must suck to be one of the surviving Columbine students, spending most of your life getting blamed for what happened by the media just because you didn't want to hang out with a couple of little Nazi murder freaks.
Ted kaczynski got whitewashed of his white supremacist beliefs in the exact same way, and for the exact same reasons, that the columbine shooters were.
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We've overcorrected too far now.
He literally wrote the story, designed the characters and was heavily involved in the production at every step.
To the degree that Danny Elfman even refused to work with him on Ed Wood because of his constant pestering and notes on Nightmare.
annual reminder that this movie was entirely carried by henry selick, danny elfman, and caroline thompson while burton fucked off and made batman
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Part of the reason why stuff like Meet the Feebles and Happytime Murders doesn't work IMO is that the Muppets' central joke was already that their cartoony puppet exteriors hid deep violence and resentment.
Just making it R-rated adds nothing.
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@DanHF
No, they do this because it makes it easier to change things in post.
This is actually way more expensive than just making practical costumes.
Studios have this horrifying attitude now where everything is just an asset that can be replaced if the suits feel like it.
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Completely baffling camera/actor blocking.
Like, it's superficially great if you want an Oscar because there's nowhere to hide.
But it doesn't matter how you act if you shoot the scene at a fucking blunt flat comedy angle. lol
Bradley Cooper shared his concerns about filming the scene featuring Leonard Bernstein conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. He mentioned, "That scene I was so worried about because we did it live... I was recorded live. I had to conduct them. And I spent six years learning
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lol
You'd need to do a LOT more than just doubling the budget to get VFX workers actual fair pay.
Both there and in the US.
@TerwillikerInst
you could double the budget, use the extra 15m to exclusively pay the vfx workers and the crew, and it still wouldn’t explain why modern blockbusters cost so much more
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I feel bad because while Bottoms has a funny script and a great cast, it's kind of insanely badly directed?
Like, it's supposed to be this Heathers/But I'm a Cheerleader-type dark comedy live-action cartoon, but it's shot, lit, and blocked like a TV sitcom.
It's got no vibe.
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Streaming worked great when it was just an adjunct to a disc rental service and a free ad-supported site for old tv episodes like Netflix/Hulu were.
But now, not only have they killed the golden goose, but they've done so right after training everyone to only ever eat gold eggs.
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@DanHF
This is why these movies look so crappy despite having huge budgets. They blow so much dough on doing and redoing shit like 500 times in post.
And that's *with* the extensive pre-viz work they already do before shooting starts.
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@kept_simple
Well, to be fair, it makes more sense that 16 and 17-year-old girls would be using Tiktok.
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They're letting Hollywood movies be shot on cool weird *deliberately* fake-looking sets again.
Thank God.
New look at the Barbie Dreamhouse from Greta Gerwig’s ‘BARBIE’
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@bornposting
I think it's very telling that most people's favourite late Simpsons gags come almost exclusively from the Halloween episodes.
By this point, there's no reason to have rules about what's too crazy for the show and what isn't; they should just make every episode a gimmick one.
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A not insignificant portion of people still, after all these years, insist that this was a totally serious show somehow gone wrong.
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We need the Linklater’s who worked on an oil rig, or the James Cameron’s who were truck drivers. Not these musical theater boys with their quirky meta humor stuff. We need real salt of the earth pictures
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Yeah, 99% of the “this movie is too dark” films are just this but the color grade was darkened in-post to make them look ‘cinematic’.
Which, because they weren’t designed and lit with specific lighting choices designed to complement the darkness, makes them look muddy as hell.
The movies are too dark thing always dumbfounds me. Basically every single movie is shot digital with so much light that no one has any natural shadows. Always sunny made fun of this on their Emmy parody episode like 6 years ago
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@JacobSHall
Sonnenfeld hasd said before that the purpose of prep time for comedies should be to create a clockwork machine that runs no longer than 100 minutes.
And my god, he's right.
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I'd much rather hear MI:2 defences from people who love the 110 or so minutes where it's just a dumb 2000s remake of Notorious than those who pretend it's all like this.
Anybody saying that MISSION IMPOSSIBLE II is bottom-tier just hates shamelessly cool shit.
The repeated arm movement just before he unloads on the car?
CLASSIC Woo-ism, and so fucking awesome!!!
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@PetreRaleigh
It’s weird how offended people get that directors have recurring elements which interest them, in their movies.
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The greatest part of Tár is just how accurately it understands and depicts the mindset of the American expat in Berlin.
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It's very funny (and telling) that of all the celebrity endorsements WB has gotten for The Flash, Tim Burton has remained dead silent.
Edgar Wright had a blast watching The Flash and stated this film will leave a big grin on audiences faces!
#TheFlashMovie
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Seeing some of the replies here...
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Also, for the record, this was never intended to be a dunk on OP, who seems very nice.
Just a very frustrated VFX-adjacent person trying to explain part of the discrepancy.
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Like with AI now, it was impossible for streaming to ever fully replace what it's trying to replace.
Instead, it just mortally wounded all the existing support systems in place that helped some art emerge out of the studio machine, while also making creatives poorer/art worse.
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Young people will never know the horror of the immediate post-Avatar 3D boom.
You'd see a trailer that looked like this and then the final movie would come out and suddenly have the lighting and frame smearing of a soap opera.
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@GentleDoofus
Well, in fairness, it's not like the concept has ever proved itself a single time at the box office.
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And like, I do agree this is not the only factor for why they cost less.
To use Dune, one of my major complaints has always been that it's silly to pay actors like Timothée Chalamet or Oscar Isaac movie star money when they are just well-known actors.
But there IS a difference.
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If you've ever wanted to see Martin Short as Tim Burton dancing to fake Danny Elfman music- today's your lucky day.
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@RobertSecundus
Yeah, that's fair, I guess I was more talking about the industry in general.
Though you could argue it still applies because Feige is ultimately the real director on all of these.
He's infamous for basically throwing out all the stuff after it's been pre-visualized and shot.
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And yes, I am aware that the play usually skips the makeup.
But the play is also not usually performed with the actor holding one extremely goofy facial expression for the entire runtime.
The reason you go without makeup is to SEE the subtleties in the actor's face.
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@Jokeb0i
I think it's three shots stitched together, with the tilts up and down, hiding the joins.
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From a now deleted Twitter thread from Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation Composer Joe Kraemer.
Why Hans Zimmer is responsible for movie scores sounding shittier now.
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@JacobSHall
Also, when you read up about how he spent like 2 years shaping the movie before filming, it puts the quality of all the movies rushed into production now, into context.
Like it wasn't set in New York, there was no D'Onofrio character and Chris O'Donnell played Smith's part.
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@limitlessjest
There are few feelings better than laughing at gags that were making people laugh decades ago.
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This movie presents a pretty cogent case for shooting all exteriors on soundstages again.
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The fact that people are outraged about the fact that a tv show could film for nearly ten months for an 18-episode count...
Streaming shows that are basically movies in 6 parts have done so much damage to people's perception of tv.
‘DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN’ will shoot on location in New York City, starting in February 2023 until December.
(via:
@The_Illuminerdi
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@BenjaminCrew1
It would also be shot so terribly on digital so crappy, it would look worse than a youtube fan film.
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RTD vs Moffat cancellation discourse is a nice reminder that Buzzfeed brain never truly dies.
Love or hate their work all you want; only one of them ran a set so notoriously unsafe and rife with sexual harassment that the lead actor walked out and became their enemy for life.
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@EvelKneidel
@rasmansa
@sullydish
There's also the fact that historically, most European Jews were covertly and overtly banned from nearly every other career path apart from the sciences and banking, if they could get hired at all.
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Comparing this to, like, those Batman scenes in The Flash really sums up what's wrong with modern capeshit.
This is also basically all CGI with no realistic physics/camera moves, but it's a well-composed and dynamic sequence that actually communicates rather than just records.
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@EPM106
Thought they were making him a Tom Holland-ish British waif in this.
Doing a Gene Wilder copy is a terrible idea.
Do something different. Literally anything will do.
Even the Depp performance has some fans, this is basically guaranteed to have none.
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@Douggernaut_2
If a beautiful WASP in her 20s with actual anime eyes still can't appeal to the 4Chan demographic, then what are they even doing at this point? lol
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I love Michael Mann's movies more than I love most of my friends and family but literally what about this is shocking?
90% of all Michael Mann anecdotes are the people who worked under him talking about what a needlessly cruel spiteful dick he is.
lol
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lol, the episode 4 thing makes me think someone finally showed Feige the Surf Dracula tweet
Born Again! Marvel has let go of writers and directors of its
#Daredevil
show after being less than enthused by what had been shot so far. (The hero doesn’t even show up in costume until the episode 4!) The show will now undergo a creative reboot:
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There are Bret Easton Ellis characters everywhere for those with the eyes to see
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This is why we don’t have a sustainable film industry anymore.
Studios have trained audiences to focus on the 6 most insanely expensive IP projects they release every year and everything else is disposable.
And once you squeeze those IPs dry, what do you have left to sell?
#Cannes2022
‘Armageddon Time’ Director James Gray On Why Studios Should Be Able To Lose Money On Art Specialty Divisions
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Hey, I remember this. Back when it was 2012 and it was called Hulu.
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John Landis is so fascinating to me because he's clearly a massive cinephile/has stunt cast multiple directors and cinematographers and yet his movies still look like... that
The creative whiplash in lighting and cinematography between Beverly Hills Cop II and III is insane. Part 3 looks like an episode of Saved by the Bell.
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@GentleDoofus
No worries, if I had some of the replies your post had, I'd take an equally jaundiced view.
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Amazing how this kind of tedious studio executive mindset has not only filtered into the popular consciousness-
but also totally become the dominant mode of interacting with a movie for the audiences Hollywood has been increasingly trying to court for the past two decades.
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@Jacob_deNobel
@Srirachachau
Also, this movie was entirely shot on location in Rhode Island, which suggests a level of tax credit fraud so byzantine, the mind can scarcely comprehend it.
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Sadly, I think that Hollywood has nearly killed the Golden Goose.
As with news sites pivoting to video in the 2010s, the pivot to streaming basically threw out long-fought-for systems of earning money while also teaching the consumer to expect more for less.
Fuck, this is depressing. Has the art house theatrical audience died for good? Do they just need more time, safety, and persuasion to come back to theaters? Or would they rather just stay home and binge an 8 episode true crime show on Netflix?
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I've always been amazed that even one of the Netflix shows I had a soft spot for, made it to a Season 3.
Until I realized it was 99% because they did the dick streaming thing of splitting one season into two.
See, even when they do a good thing it's still secretly shitty.
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@catholicdad420
It’s the exact same thing with the discourse around those shitty MCU movies.
It’s not a fucking CIA propaganda op, it doesn’t need to be.
They’re pro US military because almost every single aspect of mainstream US culture is.
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@RaceplayShawty
Everything about Bale from the costume to the voice is the result of people trying so hard to remove anything silly that they accidentally made the goofiest Batman yet,
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Legacy sequels are trapped by their inherent fanboyism.
Their characters can't change/grow that much, but also they have to taken way more seriously than they ever were in their original movies.
Thus you have to legit explain their arrested development.
@FredRichardz
Like, if you did a Ghostbusters 3 that was truly in the spirit of the original, the movie wouldn't have to dwell on these guys being fuckups because they always were and that was part of the fun.
But because now they are "important" and "serious" characters, you do.
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I do think that if one wants to make a case for Britain having a consistently great area of filmmaking it would probably be the cheapo genre stuff and basically none of the historical/kitchen sink dramas that are its main focus.
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