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Jun 25, 2015, 09:31 PM
 
Originally Posted by The Final Dakar View Post
Photoshopped head on?
Was this photoshopped, or did something go wrong with her turn which they excised with a jump cut and a flash?

I see the editor saying "people will totally think it's edgy... no, really".
     
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Jun 29, 2015, 08:48 PM
 
Hey could be worse, you could be watching #Sharknado3. Definitely no Photoshopping there...
     
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Jun 30, 2015, 02:42 PM
 
They put the twist in the teaser.

Look. I'm not kidding. You've been warned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaIJ0mitWqI
     
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Jun 30, 2015, 02:48 PM
 
That's ok because there are like, three twists in the movie.
     
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Jun 30, 2015, 02:55 PM
 
In bowling it's a hook, not a twist.
     
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Jul 1, 2015, 01:59 AM
 
Originally Posted by subego View Post
They put the twist in the teaser.
Oh come on.
     
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She just needs a new twitter pic:
     
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Jul 2, 2015, 12:20 PM
 
Studios don't want to risk it so they stick it safe with remakes and sequels. Gets a little tiring like the whole superhero franchise thing going on. I mean something called "Ant man" is coming out. What???
     
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Jul 2, 2015, 01:08 PM
 
But this looks like what would happen if you let the guys I used to buy weed from make a movie.
     
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Jul 5, 2015, 06:13 PM
 
Shared universes are the big thing now. Marvel/Disney makes massive profits on theirs, because it means that they can make movies about people like Guardians of the Galaxy or indeed Antman and a decent percentage will watch them. It's like sequels, except with stars and directors getting tired of it and wanting out. Terminator has been determined to be a good choice for a possible shared universe, so they're pushing it.
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Jul 5, 2015, 11:50 PM
 
Isn't everyone getting close to Marvel overload? I felt GotG was the peak before people started getting sick of it.

I've certainly heard the comment this is why Jurassic World was so popular. People want properties which have been fallow for awhile.
     
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Jul 6, 2015, 04:23 AM
 
I think people want new but Hollywood doesn't have much. And doesn't have the balls to try much.
I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
     
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Jul 6, 2015, 05:09 AM
 
Sequels are safe. Everyone will see a great movie and skip a terrible one, but a middling movie will do much better as a sequel than as a new property. Edge of Tomorrow is the perfect example of this: Original story, good reviews from critics, and underwhelming box office. They barely made their money back.
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Jul 6, 2015, 10:16 AM
 
Originally Posted by Waragainstsleep View Post
I think people want new but Hollywood doesn't have much. And doesn't have the balls to try much.
Everybody wants new, but nobody want to try new. They'll go see it when everyone else says its ok. And then they'll want a sequel, but they won't want it to be obvious that the studio set it up for a sequel.
     
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Jul 6, 2015, 07:37 PM
 
We need more Dredd.

I would love to see a movie of Armoured Gideon.
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Jul 8, 2015, 08:01 AM
 
Originally Posted by P View Post
Sequels are safe. Everyone will see a great movie and skip a terrible one, but a middling movie will do much better as a sequel than as a new property. Edge of Tomorrow is the perfect example of this: Original story, good reviews from critics, and underwhelming box office. They barely made their money back.
A few of the recent ones are 'soft reboots': a similar story to the original but doing something different (Jurassic World?), or a new film where events bring a timey-wimey rewrite of the previous films (Genisys), or a story in somewhere in the timeline of a known universe that hasn't been in the previous films (Fury Road). That way its a new film with a known title.

Anyways, I went to see Genisys lastnight, and IMO it's better than I thought it would be. It isn't T1 or T2 good (and I would have been surprised if it was), but its better than T3 or Salvation. Yes there's timey-wimey timeline stuff, yes it leaves things open and doesn't explain a few things, but they came over as questions that the next films will answer.

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Jul 8, 2015, 11:59 AM
 
Saw it this morning. It didn't suck, was an entertaining popcorn flick. I'd rank it in the middle of the Terminator franchise.
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Jul 8, 2015, 12:02 PM
 
These reviews make me think they were deliberately lowering expectations.
     
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Jul 8, 2015, 03:15 PM
 
Terminator Genisys: The Spoilyr FAQ

 
     
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Originally Posted by Cap'n Tightpants View Post
Saw it this morning. It didn't suck, was an entertaining popcorn flick. I'd rank it in the middle of the Terminator franchise.
Was it just me or was Matt Smith only in it for about 30 seconds or so?
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Jul 8, 2015, 05:49 PM
 
Originally Posted by The Final Dakar View Post
Terminator Genisys: The Spoilyr FAQ

 
This is so unbelievable dumb that it actually makes me want to see it now.

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This is so unbelievable dumb that it actually makes me want to see it now.
Oh yeah. Very much want to see this now. But I ain't payin'.
     
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Jul 9, 2015, 10:30 AM
 
I thought Godzilla was proof that Hollywood has run out of ideas.
     
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Jul 9, 2015, 12:20 PM
 
Just because I like it when people get mad at me, here is where I remind everyone I thought the 90's Godzilla rocked.

Funny, clever, no love story, excellent use of CGI, and Godzilla was cast as the good guy.

     
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Sep 10, 2015, 09:25 PM
 
Originally Posted by The Final Dakar View Post
Oh yeah. Very much want to see this now. But I ain't payin'.
Just watched it on an airplane today. Liked it. No ragrets.
     
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Sep 11, 2015, 04:24 AM
 
So, she bowled a strike?
     
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Sep 11, 2015, 09:37 AM
 
Looking forward to watching this when it hits my movie channels. The new Mad Max as well.
     
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Sep 12, 2015, 02:16 PM
 
Plot holes and terrible decisions galore. The way Arnold said "Kyle Resse" sounded like the first part of "khaleesi" which was really confusing.

Naked CGI Young Arnold was uncanny-valley-creepy as fuuuuuck.
     
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Sep 14, 2015, 08:49 AM
 
uncanny-valley-creepy

What does valley have to do with it?
     
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Sep 14, 2015, 09:16 AM
 
If you start from something that is a mere representation of a human, like a stick figure, and start moving towards more realistic, by way of a cartoon, an oil painting, 3D rendering etc, a human being will start to feel more familiar with the image and show a greater emotional attachment to it - up to a certain point. When you get fairly close but still clearly a construct, a human starts to get a feeling that something is wrong. If you plot this on a graph, the emotional attachment goes down sharply at this point, only to rise again when you get even closer to realistic. This is called the uncanny valley, because it looks like a valley on the graph.
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Sep 14, 2015, 01:39 PM
 
Here's the graph:




The pic on the bottom does a good job showing a normal face, which is out of the valley, and one which is very close, but because it's so close but not quite there, it looks "off".

     
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Sep 15, 2015, 03:36 PM
 
Thankyou both.

I know, I should have Googled. I was thinking that it may have something to do with some American TV show that I'd never seen.
     
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Sep 15, 2015, 03:41 PM
 
Uncanny Silicon Valley
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