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- Comment on Original 'Star Wars' Cut Will Be Shown at a Theater for First Time in Decades 4 days ago:
As the article says, there are still original distribution prints from 1977 out there, squirreled away in private print collections.
So they might be dragging one of those out for this showing.
As for the original negatives… only Lucas knows.
- Comment on Original 'Star Wars' Cut Will Be Shown at a Theater for First Time in Decades 4 days ago:
But who’s going to believe that this will be the original original?
London only. Fuck.
- Comment on Is there a way to get a massive dump of memory stuff off my laptop by uploading it to a torrent? If so how and can I make it private just for my access? 6 days ago:
Depending on what you define as “massive”…
The networked storage services: Google Drive, Dropbox, and Microsoft OneDrive offer free storage on virtual hard drives after you install their respective programs.
The amount that’s free is limited: OneDrive 5GB, Dropbox 2GB, Google Drive is weird 15GB across all of Gmail, Photos, Drive, and device backup. You can see your Google storage here one.google.com/storage
- Comment on Amazon's Tomb Raider series reportedly 'dead' after tens of millions in development costs resulted in no script 1 week ago:
Get a good writer, and you can make a good movie or TV show out of anything.
The caveat being that there are very few good writers out there.
And even less who would be willing to work on something like this.
- Comment on Name some latest top Public Domain Movies 1 week ago:
Apparently all works from 1929 entered the public domain starting in January 1st 2025:
- Comment on Name some latest top Public Domain Movies 1 week ago:
Wikipedia to the rescue!
en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_films_in_the_public_do…
You can sort the table by release year.
Apparently Debbie Does Dallas is now public domain!
- Comment on Walter Emanuel Jones reacts to Black and Yellow Power Rangers casting comments 1 week ago:
As an aside, Thuy Trang, the actress who played Yellow Ranger Trini Kwan, passed away in 2001.
- Comment on ‘Snow White’, Poisoned By Controversy At Box Office, Won’t Have A Happy Ending With $115M Loss: What Went Wrong 2 weeks ago:
There’s a school of acting where you’re supposed to more-or-less keep a blank face, and let the audience project emotions onto your protagonist. Richard Gere was famous for it. I thought it was Method Acting, but that’s not it.
It doesn’t work if the writing doesn’t work.
- Comment on ‘Snow White’, Poisoned By Controversy At Box Office, Won’t Have A Happy Ending With $115M Loss: What Went Wrong 2 weeks ago:
Upon reflection, one of the concept mistakes was slavishly following the original plot.
The embellishments like the happy citizens, Evil Queen’s love for cheap plastic jewels, apple pies, etc. just felt unnecessary and tacked on.
Disney already made Maleficent relatively recently in 2014 as a meta take on the original, so where could they go from there?
- Comment on ‘Snow White’, Poisoned By Controversy At Box Office, Won’t Have A Happy Ending With $115M Loss: What Went Wrong 2 weeks ago:
I think in this case, Godot was miscast.
I understand any actress wanting to expand their range, particularly her wanting to be known anything else other than Wonder Woman.
Sometimes, you just gotta own it tho: See Leonard Nimoy and his “I’m not Spock” phase.
A friend who watched Snow White with me thought she was okay, but I didn’t think she sold being EVIL enough.
- Comment on Official Discussion - Me and My Waifu (SPOILERS) 2 weeks ago:
But the sakuga fight scene against the freaky ninja inmates made up for it.
You’d think they could have done better than the bad CG dragon though.
- Comment on ‘Snow White’, Poisoned By Controversy At Box Office, Won’t Have A Happy Ending With $115M Loss: What Went Wrong 2 weeks ago:
None of this would be a problem if Disney had made a good movie.
But Disney didn’t.
Zegler is a talented young actress and singer, has had notable roles already, and will continue to have a great career.
Gal Godot has been a great Wonder Woman.
Both are good, regardless of what they post on social media.
The script, production and whole concept of this movie had far worse problems than Zegler and Godot.
- Comment on What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend? 2 weeks ago:
Children Of The Stones, 1977 British childrens’ horror show. A historian and his young son visit a small village whose residents hold secrets about an ancient stone monument.
Like most 70s British TV, there’s no production budget, and entirely dependent on script writing and actors to create atmosphere.
- Comment on What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend? 2 weeks ago:
Survivors was a great show! Post-apocalyptic drama at its best.
- Comment on Jon Lovitz Wants A Reboot Of ‘The Critic’ 2 weeks ago:
Lovitz has long been MAGA conservative after his career fell apart.
So any reboot will be on Fox.
- Comment on Was a TV show you like ever ruined by the addition of a particular character to the point that you had to quit, or nearly quit? 3 weeks ago:
Cheers wasn’t the same after Kirstie Alley’s Rebecca replaced Diane…
- Comment on Online Wars Aside, 'Snow White' Simply Isn't Getting Moviegoers to Buy In 3 weeks ago:
Disney doesn’t even care to make a movie that is good enough to make money.
It’s about exercising their IP of “Snow White movie” so that their copyright doesn’t expire, so that others can’t make their own “Snow White movie” even though the German fairytale Snow White by the Brothers Grimm is in the public domain.
Well, they can but they can’t use Disney Snow White’s iconic dress, and anything resembling the dwarves, for example, or anything that could possibly resemble anything that happens in the Disney movies.
- Comment on Official Discussion - Snow White [SPOILERS] 3 weeks ago:
I was completely bored, shifting restlessly in my seat from about 20 minutes in.
There’s no emotional depth to the characters and the happy little kingdom setting. They’re supposed to be who they are because that’s who they say they are.
The apple pie thing…
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seemed a bit Marie Antoinette “let them eat cake”
There’s no wordplay around “fair” having separate meanings of both “beautiful” and “just”, but both meanings are used in a jumble. As if the writers started to put some wordplay in, but abandoned the project halfway through.
The dwarves looked creepy, particularly Dopey who doesn’t look like the other dwarves at all, and also falls into that uncanny valley who is not quite unbelievable enough looking to avoid looking creepy, if that makes sense.
There is a cool subplot that I did like…
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…around Dopey being revealed as the narrator.
Gal Godot hamming it up as the Evil Queen didn’t quite work for me. Some actors just can’t do evil. A friend who watched this with me thought that she was okay though.
I did notice a long list of “greens” credits, i.e. plant handling. Maybe Disney should have spent some of that money on writers instead.
- Comment on Question: 2 hiphop groups in the 90s that came up with almost the same song? 4 weeks ago:
YES! THAT’S IT!!! THANK YOU!!!
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- Comment on Dunning-Kruger 4 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t that be a logic probe?
- Comment on ‘This Is Spinal Tap’ Sequel Lands at Bleecker Street for September Release 5 weeks ago:
This feels like one of those half hearted productions just to renew the copyright, i.e. to prevent Spinal Tap from going into the public domain, the rights-owning entity has to use the IP every few decades in order to maintain private ownership.
- Comment on Amazon paid more than $1bn to take creative control of James Bond 1 month ago:
Dr. Evil: “One billion dollars!”
Everyone else: “Haha, nobody’s going to pay that much for… Oh wait…”
- Comment on Best version of Pandemic boardgame on Android? 1 month ago:
As a follow up, possible Iranian malware be damned, this turned out to be the smoothest running version of the game that I tried.
BitDefender didn’t find anything, but of course that doesn’t mean anything after you have the app installed.
Others that I tried had Chinese stuff on bootup, and stuttered when running.
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 2 months ago:
The most recent James Bond movie No Time To Die (2021).
The plot was like a Bond fanfic. Okay, great you got to do all the stuff to Bond that wouldn’t fly in previous runs:
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Bond finally spawns a kid after all that sex, actually loves some gal instead of using her, makes a mistake in judgement, and he maybe even dies, although no body is offered as proof.
Now what? That pretty much ends the franchise, and there’s pretty much nowhere to go without a reboot.
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 2 months ago:
Re: Nosferatu
I also liked the Transylvania bits, the crumbling castle especially.
I enjoyed the physicality of Lily-Rose Depp’s performance as not-Mina, although her overacting got on my nerves a bit.
- Comment on What’s gone wrong with James Bond? No star, no script, no plan 2 months ago:
Basically none of the parties with any power: Bezos, the Broccoli family, are desperate to make another Bond movie
- Hundreds gather at (Bob's Big Boy in Burbank, CA) to honor legendary filmmaker David Lynchwww.sfgate.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to movies@lemm.ee | 0 comments
- Comment on Leonardo DiCaprio To Star In 'Devil In White City' For Martin Scorsese 2 months ago:
Does anyone else think that DiCaprio, and De Niro for that matter, were the worst things in Killers Of The Flower Moon?
- Comment on Best version of Pandemic boardgame on Android? 2 months ago:
I did find an APK, and installed it, but it had something something about Iran, so I probably now have Iranian malware on my phone. 😓