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Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Thu July 27, 2023 2:35 pm
by tree_
VinylGuy wrote:Daniel Kaluuya’s big purple Barney movie (“more of like a Being John Malkovich or an Adaptation”)
that actually could be interesting because I happen to love both of those movies.. but I'm sure they'll fuck it up somehow
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Thu July 27, 2023 2:55 pm
by Farmer John
This one sounds interesting:
Werner Herzog's UNO movie ("A bittersweet tale of isolation that turns into a vital but scattershot meditation on his fears for a future without him in it.")
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Thu July 27, 2023 2:56 pm
by tree_
oh man that's funny
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Thu July 27, 2023 3:00 pm
by BurtReynolds
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Thu July 27, 2023 3:03 pm
by wease
Isn’t there already a Hot Wheels movie coming?
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Thu July 27, 2023 3:12 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Thu July 27, 2023 3:27 pm
by Ello Sailor
epilogue wrote:
Every single one of those projects sounds interesting. I'm excited.
Is this a cry for help?
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Thu July 27, 2023 3:55 pm
by VinylGuy
It’s probably a cry yes
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Thu July 27, 2023 4:01 pm
by epilogue
Ello Sailor wrote:epilogue wrote:
Every single one of those projects sounds interesting. I'm excited.
Is this a cry for help?
These companies are gonna keep churning out IP-driven content. At least Mattel seems interested in different takes and expanding ideas. It all sounds weird and exciting. I'm here for it. Of course I'd prefer "new" ideas, not just recycled cartoons and nostalgic toy properties. But this is where we are. And I'm sorry but a version of Being John Malkovich with Daniel Kaluuya as John Cusack and fucking BARNEY as John Malkovich sounds way more exciting to me than "plushy purple dinosaur from your childhood sings about his friends and teaches lessons to a new generation of kids."
Also, if Barbie is a true indication, Mattel is letting their talent have creative freedom. After years of directors and writers leaving things like Star Wars because they won't "play ball" I think this is refreshing. Maybe these movies will be terrible. But it's exciting that a company is willing to try something a little outside the box.
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Thu July 27, 2023 4:01 pm
by Ello Sailor
Lena Dunkin' is possibly the worst person in the world. She and her Polly Pocket movie can get in the sea.
As can Joe for being excited about it.
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Thu July 27, 2023 4:02 pm
by epilogue
Yeah yeah yeah
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Thu July 27, 2023 4:04 pm
by tree_
joey's convinced me; I can't wait for the frickin' Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots motion picture franchise
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Thu July 27, 2023 4:05 pm
by Ello Sailor
The Barney thing does sound wild though.
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Thu July 27, 2023 4:07 pm
by epilogue
tree_ wrote:joey's convinced me; I can't wait for the frickin' Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots motion picture franchise
The best part of that AV article is "Vin is excited."
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Thu July 27, 2023 4:20 pm
by tree_
oh man this is making my day.. fantastic
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Thu July 27, 2023 4:43 pm
by The Argonaut
the idea of Mattel cinematic universe of movies geared to adults is the most cringe thing I've ever heard of. These articles read like fucking April fool's day prank articles
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Thu July 27, 2023 5:04 pm
by tree_
The Argonaut wrote:the idea of Mattel cinematic universe of movies geared to adults is the most cringe thing I've ever heard of. These articles read like fucking April fool's day prank articles
but it's so exciting!!!
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Thu July 27, 2023 5:19 pm
by blueviper
Gen X needs to grow up.
It's so weird to catch a video of an adult my age with shelves full of kid crap in the background
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Thu July 27, 2023 5:40 pm
by The Argonaut
I know I was defending the idea of IP movies very recently.
But this is something else. This has irony baked right into it and it's gross.
Greta Gerwig and Barbie could interesting because Barbie is an iconic character with decades of history and meanings and a lot to play with. But a Barney movie about millennial angst? A Polly Pocket movie by Lena Dunham? It's just gross, I don't know
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Thu July 27, 2023 5:42 pm
by tree_
maybe some of these will be more of the biopic/how-it-was-made sort.. you know, like AIR and BLACKBERRY
