DominicCobb

“The Land After Time: We’re Back! A Dinotopia Movie”

“Fallen Kingdom” is fine and all, but I definitely feel like it was a missed opportunity to not call it “The Lost Park: Jurassic World.”

SilverWook said:

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/06/21/star-wars-fans-launch-very-realistic-crowdfunder-to-remake-the-last-jedi/

Remember when we were considered the fan fringe just for asking if we could get a restored OOT? My how times have changed!

The amount of dragging I’ve seen on twitter over this is next level. Absolutely hilarious. I also love the totally real and not at all fake $16.9mil that they have already raised for it.

Just saw JP5:JW2:FK1. Thought it wasn’t bad actually. On the high end of the sequels.

TV’s Frink said:

Moving somewhere else just because you can’t find a date seems pretty extreme to me. And I dated before computers existed so it seems even more extreme now.

That wasn’t really what I was suggesting though. Handman has been saying that he doesn’t have friends largely because of where he lives. So I presented a possible option. The biggest reasons for or against that option are largely things that I don’t know.

Handman said:

DominicCobb said:

Move somewhere else. Take better pictures of yourself.

This isn’t an option unless I uproot everything I’ve done this past year.

Fair enough. But it is an option.

Also, there’s nothing worse for online dating than a selfie. The damn word is just so stupid.

I didn’t say take a selfie. That would be a worse picture.

SilverWook said:

DominicCobb said:

SilverWook said:

Six months after TLJ was pushing it. I just hope the window of opportunity to bring Ewan back as Obi Wan isn’t lost in the process. He seems to be a busy fellow.

He’s aging pretty well. I think he’s still far off enough from Guinness that we shouldn’t worry.

I’m sure he’s fine, I meant scheduling wise. Solo had to replace an actor for the reshoots since they were committed to another project after the initial shoot. Actors can be tied up for years that way.

That’s probably less of an issue. With reshoots it can be a problem because of last minute scheduling. One would imagine if a Kenobi movie came to pass there’d be enough lead in time to make sure he could fit it in.

TV’s Frink said:

I like one movie a year but I like movies and like SW. One movie a year really doesn’t seem that overwhelming.

I don’t mind it either but for general audiences it’s possibly too much. Most franchises usually have at least a couple years in between installments. Hype for new Star Wars used to be built long waits.

By “his son’s” do you mean “his brother-in-law’s”?

SilverWook said:

Six months after TLJ was pushing it. I just hope the window of opportunity to bring Ewan back as Obi Wan isn’t lost in the process. He seems to be a busy fellow.

He’s aging pretty well. I think he’s still far off enough from Guinness that we shouldn’t worry.

Collipso said:

definitely for the better, imo.

Glad it was this that got put on hold and not the Johnson/Benioff+Weiss stuff. That stuff is actually (supposedly) taking SW to new places.

Seems like they’ve hit pause on this and Kenobi after Solo’s underperformance:
http://collider.com/star-wars-spinoffs-on-hold/

Which is probably smart. The truth is probably that movies based on single characters were always going to be something of a tough bet, because there isn’t much of a precedence for this (whereas with superhero solo films those characters already have built in solo recognition). At the very least they need to adjust their expectations going forward - not every movie with the SW name on it will make a billion just because - and scale down these productions if they want to go forward with them at some point.

My wild prediction is that, if we do see these spin-offs resume, they’ll be on Disney’s streaming platform. I think part of the problem is that people just aren’t crazy about one SW theatrical film a year, which probably shouldn’t be a surprise, considering everyone got mad about that when it was announced in 2012/13. Again, the only precedent is really Marvel, and I guess the lesson is that SW is not Marvel, for better or worse.

pittrek said:

DominicCobb said:

Weird to say someone is “no Feige” when Feige is one of the few who’s even attempted it so far and had done nothing prior to it that would’ve suggested he could.

That being said, Kurtzman did kill the “Dark Universe,” so maybe there is a point there.

Correct. We know he tried and failed. The only question is if the failure of the Mummy and therefore of Dark Universe is ONLY his fault or if the studio interfered too much

Well Kurtzman directed the film in addition to producing, so there was a level of quality control there that Feige has never had. Anyone who’s seen the film will tell you the reason the Dark Universe failed was because the movie just plain sucked. There are elements there that could potentially come down to interference, but I think it was going to be bad regardless.

Weird to say someone is “no Feige” when Feige is one of the few who’s even attempted it so far and had done nothing prior to it that would’ve suggested he could.

That being said, Kurtzman did kill the “Dark Universe,” so maybe there is a point there.

Move somewhere else. Take better pictures of yourself.

moviefreakedmind said:

chyron8472 said:

Warbler said:

How did we get into a video game discussion in the politics thread?

Anyway, I think there should be some WWII games that do it accurately and some that do imaginary WWII stuff.

MFM’s problem is the ones inbetween. The ones that are just kinda sorta maybe somewhat accurate.

I don’t agree though that adherence to historical accuracy need be binary. I do agree that people are stupid, and that corporations market to stupid people because stupid people have money, but it’s the stupid people who are ruining society not the entertainment made for them.

It’s cyclical since the video game market apparently has shifted to desire ahistorical crap so obviously the entertainment will reflect that, but I blame the entertainment too. I think it’s done in this case for PC points. The reception to the trailer was largely negative.

My point is, if you want to make a game about a weird awesome lady with a cybernetic arm and blue face paint that fights Nazis, then make an Inglourious Basterds type game that throws historical accuracy out the window. That would be great and I’d probably buy it, but don’t do a WWII setting that’s just faithful enough to the time period to make it somewhat grounded in reality and then add shit that makes it totally ahistorical. It’s stupid. It’s lazy.

It’s a fucking fictional game. Get over yourself. Why does it have to be one thing or the other? Why can’t it just be?

moviefreakedmind said:

DominicCobb said:

Respawning is historically inaccurate.

I don’t play online multiplayer. In the games I’m talking about you’d have to just restart the level when you got killed. I know that games aren’t reality, but I prefer them to at least make an honest attempt at resembling the historical period that they’re attempting to portray. If they aren’t going to try, then make a game that doesn’t need to be historically accurate, like a Wolfenstein.

That’s silly. Games are silly. Who cares. Don’t play it if it bothers you so much.

Respawning is historically inaccurate.

If I remember correctly, the estimate was 6% of priests.

TV’s Frink said:

It better be good, I’m agreeing to see it tomorrow so I can have beer and popcorn at the movies.

It’s very good.

LuckyGungan2001 said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

My favorite sex position is quantum superposition.

My least favourite sex position is when you’re in the awkward position of talking to a transsexual and accidentally refer to straight people as “normal.”

Lot to unpack here.

Collipso said:

are you, mr. cobb, aware that the pigmen in rotj were actually put to sleep by luke rather than choked?

Choked? Who would have ever thought that? They were clearly in need of a good long nap.

Collipso said:

well i thought that the skb fired and charged through the same hole until now. weird.

Are you also aware that the trench with the exhaust port in ANH is not the equatorial trench where ships enter and leave?

DuracellEnergizer said:

Possessed said:

Online dating is a real hit or miss type thing and it largely comes down to luck and location. It’s also basically useless if you don’t live near a big city, unless you get really lucky

It’s probably a lot less hit and a lot more miss when you have social anxiety and rely on someone messaging you first to break the ice.

Bumble isn’t the only dating app.

Tobar said:

Treasure Island (1950)

Been playing a lot of Sea of Thieves of late. It got me in a very piratey mood. So what better way to indulge than to partake in a classic? This was Disney’s first ever live action film and it’s a great one. If you’ve never seen it, I recommend it!

Just started watching that actually (got halfway through before I had to do something, will finish soon).