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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #1120 on: July 19, 2013, 03:19:06 PM »

Yes, except replace "crying teenager" with "grown man with a heart hardened by tragedy", "unconscious girl" with "badass fighting woman with something to prove" and "jerking off" with "quarterstaff sparring session with sexual undertones".
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #1121 on: July 19, 2013, 06:30:46 PM »

But is it a buck-and-a-quarter quarterstaff? :suave:
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #1122 on: July 21, 2013, 12:01:14 PM »

Whenever I see ads for "The Wolverine", all I can think of is deadly premonition.

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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #1123 on: July 27, 2013, 09:56:41 AM »

Coming home after two weeks in a country where it won't be released until August, I finally saw Pacific Rim! It was great. Robots! Monsters! Stupid names! Punching! Best movie.

...but anyone that compares it to Evangelion obviously knows nothing about mecha. It's more like chaste Godanner.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #1124 on: July 27, 2013, 04:42:50 PM »

If you don't think Stacker Pentecost or Hercules Hansen are great names I don't want to be your friend anymore ;(
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #1125 on: July 27, 2013, 05:16:14 PM »

We live in a universe where a movie that good has a character named Hercules Hansen played by an actor named Max Martini.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #1126 on: July 27, 2013, 05:25:32 PM »

If you don't think Stacker Pentecost or Hercules Hansen are great names I don't want to be your friend anymore ;(

They're great stupid names. You understand.

It's like South Burning.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #1127 on: July 27, 2013, 07:18:53 PM »

Also got around to seeing it.  Reminded me really of the robot fight scenes in Power Rangers with a much bigger budget and without all the bullshit involving the Power Rangers.

Whatever limited edition thing is coming out on Blu-Ray, I will day one preorder it.

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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #1128 on: July 28, 2013, 04:24:05 AM »

PFFLOL:

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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #1130 on: August 09, 2013, 12:53:44 PM »

Finally saw Pacific Rim.

Not too much to add. Good fun and Idris Elba is good in anything.

Would have maybe liked one more Big Battal (or two small ones), perhaps a more "ordinary" one, where the Russians or the Chinese got to show off a bit. Maybe some fifth Jaeger to get killed.

I figure if my main complaint was "Well, I wanted even more smashy!" they're doing pretty good.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #1132 on: August 14, 2013, 10:01:35 AM »

I think he's looking at it from a perspective of merchandising, where he might actually be right about that.  Outside of E.T. the studio hasn't had many heavy hitters in the toy market the way that Disney regularly does.

Of course, it's hard to make a statement like that without drawing up a massive flowchart-slash-Venn-diagram outlining who owns what in Hollywood.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #1133 on: August 14, 2013, 11:25:31 AM »

I think he means actual profit. I don't know who they fucked over (probably the animators) but they made a computer animated movie for about 75 million dollars. It's hard to make a live action movie for that much. Now tack on all the stuff you're talking about and you can easily see why what he said might be true.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #1134 on: August 14, 2013, 11:54:02 AM »

The comments also make the relevant point that there are at least a few past Universal films that have had crazy profit margins (ET, Jurassic Park etc.).

Which was followed by some funny replies from people not understanding what "inflation-adjusted" means. 
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #1135 on: August 14, 2013, 12:19:52 PM »

I think he means actual profit. I don't know who they fucked over (probably the animators) but they made a computer animated movie for about 75 million dollars. It's hard to make a live action movie for that much. Now tack on all the stuff you're talking about and you can easily see why what he said might be true.

Heck, they probably kept all the models, textures and basic animation cycles on a zip disk somewhere.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #1136 on: August 14, 2013, 12:48:18 PM »

Limited animation techniques in CG are improving.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #1137 on: August 14, 2013, 12:55:57 PM »

Great, it's the He-Man of CG features.

Honestly though, CG movies are bound to get cheaper as time goes on, shortcuts or no.  20 years ago there was no such thing as a computer animation "lifer", or a game console that you can just daisy chain a bunch of to get a military grade supercomputer.  A senior animator at this point probably cranks out in an afternoon what it used to take a whole team of former architects three months to achieve.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #1138 on: August 14, 2013, 03:49:58 PM »

Hell, I remember playing Doom 3 and realizing that it was doing Blade 3's burning-away-from-the-center effect in realtime.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #1139 on: August 27, 2013, 05:56:34 AM »

The World's End is probably either one of the funniest or one of the saddest movies I've seen all year.  Probably both.
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