maegul
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- Comment on What would you think about the Alien franchise doing a stand alone movie about the engineers and the xenomorphs? 2 months ago:
You have my axe on this one! I saw it twice in the cinema when it came out.
While there are few things to find disappointing about covenant, for it was the attempt to put Prometheus aside and give the fans the Xeno they always want.
- Comment on Apple TV+ Just Quietly Upgraded Its Most Underrated War Epic 2 months ago:
I didn’t know Scott teased about the directors cut, but watching it I could quickly tell there would be one and Scott also knew there’d be one while he was editing the main release. The feel of the film had a “fine, well cut it short“ vibe all over it.
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- Comment on The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim | Official Trailer 2 months ago:
Ha.
It’s funny, I like wheel of time. The show got me to read the books … and I noped out of them half way through book 4 … but will happily continue to watch the show.
- Comment on The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim | Official Trailer 2 months ago:
Yea … probably more hyped for this than I ever was for rings of power.
- Comment on Vote on a film for Fedi FIlm Club - "Fringe Theatre" (August) 2 months ago:
Hermit: Monster Killer (2016) IMDB
A hilarious monster flick made on Sweden. With incredible special effects and a great performance by Borje Lundberg.
It’s in Swedish, so you need to find the subtitles in English.
- Comment on Vote on a film for Fedi FIlm Club - "Fringe Theatre" (August) 2 months ago:
Haven’t watched it in years but it’s a classic everyone should watch, absolutely gut wrenching. Some of it was later used in a Metallica music video bringing it back to notoriety somewhat.
- Comment on Vote on a film for Fedi FIlm Club - "Fringe Theatre" (August) 2 months ago:
La Grande Bouffe (1973) wikipedia
The film tells the story of four friends who gather in a villa for the weekend, with the express purpose of eating themselves to death.
- Comment on Vote on a film for Fedi FIlm Club - "Fringe Theatre" (August) 2 months ago:
Lost Highway (1997) wikipedia
A David Lynch film. I’ve not seen his 90s films but always meant to. After hearing of his illness, I figure now is as good a time as any
- Comment on Vote on a film for Fedi FIlm Club - "Fringe Theatre" (August) 2 months ago:
The Cremaster Cycle (wikipedia)
This is probably as pretentiously art house as you can get … I’ve never seen it but always meant to. It’s probably hard to get a hold of … but I’m putting it here anyway
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- Comment on Vote on a film for Fedi FIlm Club - "Popcorn Theatre" (August) 2 months ago:
Blade (1998)
Various things have reminded me of this … it came up in a community episode, the MCU version in development hell etc … thought it might be interesting to revisit as a flavour that the MCU has definitely not explored
- Comment on Vote on a film for Fedi FIlm Club - "Popcorn Theatre" (August) 2 months ago:
Dredd (2012)
“One of my favorite action movies”
- Comment on Vote on a film for Fedi FIlm Club - "Popcorn Theatre" (August) 2 months ago:
Sneakers
A ‘hacking’ movie that holds up brilliantly despite outdated technology. Excellent cast, characters, story, and pacing IMO.
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- Comment on In 2019, Microsoft tried a 4-day workweek in Japan. Productivity jumped 40% 3 months ago:
And what about the people that suck at working at the office? And those that don’t get any or are not interested in a work based social life?
Reality is that there’s diversity and lots of in betweens. Thus diversity and flexibility and the value of managers in bringing it all together (like maybe they were always supposed to?)
- Comment on Nominate a Film for Fedi Film Club - "Popcorn Theater"! (August) 3 months ago:
Excellent suggestion!!
- Comment on Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’ 10th Anniversary Re-Release Moves to December (EXCLUSIVE) 3 months ago:
Yea I realised a while ago that time just stopped passing for me around 2018 … everything’s just a blur since then.
- Comment on Nominate a Film for Fedi Film Club - "Fringe Theater"! (August) 3 months ago:
Thanks so much for the suggestions! I was worried no one would be into this “fringe” idea!!
- Comment on Nominate a Film for Fedi Film Club - "Fringe Theater"! (August) 3 months ago:
Thanks for the suggestion! I was worried no one would be into this “fringe” idea!!
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- Comment on Big Trouble in Little China - Fedi Film Club (July) 4 months ago:
It appears to be on Disney+ AFAICT (I’m not subscribed).
- Comment on Do quicker digital releases hurt a movie's chances at the box office? 4 months ago:
and lacks subtitles.
This I suspect is an underappreciated aspect of the dynamics at the moment. More broadly, it’s about the personalisation of the watching experience. Screen size, seating/lying position, noise and brightness, subtitles and their language, audio configuration (where you can optimise your home set up to help with dialogue clarity or “epicness”)
- Comment on Hollywood’s still relying on sequels at the box office 4 months ago:
2013 and 2017 seemed particularly bad …
From box office mojo, the listings were (www.boxofficemojo.com/year/2013/?grossesOption=ca…)
2017
- Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
- Beauty and the Beast
- Wonder Woman
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
- Spider-Man: Homecoming
- It
- Thor: Ragnarok
- Despicable Me 3
- Logan
- The Fate of the Furious
2013
- Iron Man 3
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
- Despicable Me 2
- Man of Steel
- Monsters University
- Frozen
- Gravity
- Fast & Furious 6
- Oz the Great and Powerful
- Star Trek Into Darkness
- Comment on Hollywood’s still relying on sequels at the box office 4 months ago:
Each column is the top 10 films of a single year. They seem to increase in box office takings as you go up the column.
entering data is beautiful mode …
It’s not a basic 2D graph. And honestly it generally works, especially as the bubble size gives a clear enough sense of the actual box office takings.
It could be 2D though, with the vertical axis representing box office, and that’d probably work too, but it wouldn’t be as aesthetically pleasing.
- Comment on Hollywood’s still relying on sequels at the box office 4 months ago:
It would be more damning if they said “part of a franchise”.
For sure, but part of what the MCU “unlocked” was a non-linear franchise, where it’s not just sequels or prequels but an arbitrary network of films that connect in some way or another. Thus all of the MCU films.
The thing though, I suspect, is that a sense of linearity in the overall story was actually pivotal to the Ironman-Endgame era of the MCU. There was always a sense of the whole thing pushing in a single general direction. And post Endgame, that sense disappeared and Marvel frankly kinda shat the bed on recreating it in some way.
So given that, and the way IronMan/RDJ was the single linear thread through the whole thing, along with the rest of the “the band”, I think it makes a lot of sense to treat that sprawl of films as a giant series of sequels.
