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[BrawlMan]

"Hey, we're attracting the fans of the original movie while trying to appeal to modern audience!"

Uuuuugggggghhhhhhhhh!!!!

Sometimes this method works, but most of the time, it doesn't. At that point just make a new movie. That has nothing to do with the franchise and start a new IP.

 

[BrawlMan]

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[BrawlMan]

Beautiful
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[Cicada 5]

Hey, look, the Weeknd is teaming up with Wednesday.

I'll see myself out.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Beautiful
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Wow, Thing looks really, really Thing. I was curious how they were going to do Thing in this new live-action version - it is hard to do a rock guy (in live-action) and not have him look like a generic realistc rock guy. But it looks like they just made him look like a guy in a Thing suit, which for a CG character is actually kinda refreshing.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Wow, Thing looks really, really Thing. I was curious how they were going to do Thing in this new live-action version - it is hard to do a rock guy (in live-action) and not have him look like a generic realistc rock guy. But it looks like they just made him look like a guy in a Thing suit, which for a CG character is actually kinda refreshing.

I've seen some criticisms that he just has a human voice, but I have no idea if that's comic accurate or what. I can't remember if Chiklis put on a voice or if that was just his actual voice.

 

[FakeSympathy]

Wow, Thing looks really, really Thing. I was curious how they were going to do Thing in this new live-action version - it is hard to do a rock guy (in live-action) and not have him look like a generic realistc rock guy. But it looks like they just made him look like a guy in a Thing suit, which for a CG character is actually kinda refreshing.

Also love how they gave the thing some sense of humor. Normally whenever there is a "rock" guy, they usually make him this stoic, quiet, brooding, tough af tank. And while the original movies from 2000s had the thing w/ humor, I remember being more of slapsticks + johnny messing with him.

This time, they are givng him a geniune character who can be funny.

I also love the very sliver age theme I am getting. I mean their origin story is exactly the one from Silver Age; a space mission that gives them power. I want to see more of Mr. Fantastic's powers!

We're also getting actual Galatcus, not the purple cloud of dark energy. Awesome!

 

[Gordon_4]

Also love how they gave the thing some sense of humor. Normally whenever there is a "rock" guy, they usually make him this stoic, quiet, brooding, tough af tank. And while the original movies from 2000s had the thing w/ humor, I remember being more of slapsticks + johnny messing with him.

This time, they are givng him a geniune character who can be funny.

I also love the very sliver age theme I am getting. I mean their origin story is exactly the one from Silver Age; a space mission that gives them power. I want to see more of Mr. Fantastic's powers!

We're also getting actual Galatcus, not the purple cloud of dark energy. Awesome!

Ben Grimm is a character from which much pathos can be mined since his situation is tragic. He’s also the guy who says “It’s clobberin’ time!” before kicking ass. A sense of humour is a must.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I've seen some criticisms that he just has a human voice, but I have no idea if that's comic accurate or what. I can't remember if Chiklis put on a voice or if that was just his actual voice.

You could argue that it's a little weird that his entire body changed but that his vocal cords remained untouched, but then Sue shouldn't technically be able to see either when she turns invisible.

I don't know much about The Fantastic Four though.

 

[Cicada 5]

 

[FakeSympathy]

Not sure what type of animation this is, but it at least it's not 100% live-action CGI fest.

We're really gonna have influencer smurf now. Good lord.

SMURFS features an all-star voice cast including Rihanna, James Corden, Nick Offerman, JP Karliak, Daniel Levy, Amy Sedaris, Natasha Lyonne, Sandra Oh, Octavia Spencer, Nick Kroll, Hannah Waddingham, Alex Winter, Maya Erskine, Billie Lourd, Xolo Maridueña with Kurt Russell and John Goodman.

Honestly, not a bad line-up, although i don't think some of them has ever done a voice acting. Not sure why anyone would ever work with James Corden, but I hope the rest of the crew can make me forget about his involvement

 

[Cicada 5]

https://www.stereogum.com/2296070/prince-estate-announces-controversial-netflix-documentary-is-not-coming-out-plans-its-own-doc-instead/news/

Back in September, it was revealed that the release of Ezra Edelmen’s nine-hour documentary about Prince for Netflix was being blocked by the late icon’s estate due to its accusations of physical and mental abuse against Prince. The estate announced today that the film, which the Oscar-winning documentarian spent five years making, is not coming out and they are making their own instead.

 

[XsjadoBlaydette]

The cyberpunk model now updated

‘The Whole World Feels Really Dystopian’: Award-Winning Director Asif Kapadia on the Inspiration Behind His New Film, ‘2073’

Filmmaker Asif Kapadia talks to Mehdi about the rising threats of climate change, authoritarianism, and the broligarchy – and how everyday people can begin to fight back.



Do you ever wonder where the world will be in 50 years?

This is the key question that award-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia – best known for his films ‘Diego Maradona’, ‘Amy’ and ‘Senna’ – seeks to answer in his newest work, ‘2073.’ And the answer is a lot scarier than perhaps the flying cars we imagined for the future.

‘2073’ gives us a look at just one of the possibilities if the world continues to devolve at its current pace. A world almost unrecognizable as citizens of ‘New San Francisco’ face the fall of democracy and the harrowing effects of climate change.

“I thought the whole world feels really dystopian – everything that happens every day that I read, everything I see happening around me – and I thought, how do I express this feeling, this fear about where we're heading?” Kapadia tells Mehdi.

He continues, “My main aim with this film was to kind of almost have a God's eye view of the whole world. Because my background is from India, I've worked in Brazil, I've worked in Europe, I live in the UK, I've worked in the US. I just saw the same kind of elements, the same playbook happening everywhere.”

Thus, ‘2073’ depicts the confluence of climate change and the rise of authoritarianism in the dystopian city of New San Francisco, where there’s no privacy, no freedom, no democracy. The film is a warning of what is to come if we let oligarchs go unchecked.

But it’s not all doom and gloom, because as much as ‘2073’ serves as a warning, it also is a call to action.

“The film is there to create a dialogue for us to be talking now, for you, for me, for everyone to be saying, what can we individually do? I don't think it's as simple as putting a neat little moment at the end of the film and saying, if you do this, everything will be great. I mean, the struggle is much more complex and the fight for freedom and democracy is much more layered than me just saying go out and vote. There's something else going on here and we're going to have to talk about it,” Kapadia explains.

He concludes, “I think partly it starts at home. It starts with you, starts with your kids, it starts with your family, your parents, your aunties and uncles, but then also a kind of wider community about what are we going to do to protect ourselves from what is happening. We're not crazy. This stuff is happening. And I think the film, part of the process of showing it, has been almost therapy for people.”​

It’s the year 2073, and the worst fears of modern life have been realized. Surveillance drones fill the burnt orange skies and militarized police roam the wrecked streets, while survivors hide away underground, struggling to remember a free and hopeful existence. In this ingenious mixture of visionary science fiction and speculative nonfiction, Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia (Amy) transports us to a future foreshadowed by the terrifying realities of our present moment. Two-time Academy Award® nominee Samantha Morton (In America, Sweet and Lowdown, Minority Report) plays a survivor besieged by nightmare visions of the past—a past that happens to be our present, visualized through contemporary footage interconnecting today’s global crises of authoritarianism, unchecked big tech, inequality, and global climate change. 2073 is an urgent, unshakable vision of a dystopic future that could very well be our own.

Why did I look at the comments? I shouldn't have looked at the comments. We're so fucking cooked.

 

[Cicada 5]

Amanda Waller vs Homelander