Located 2859 results from search term 'film'
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Commented in LG just rolled out a $1,000 briefcase TV, and it's weirdly compelling
I don't find anything compelling about a TV with a 3-hour battery.
I guess I could watch most of one LOTR film on a camping trip, then close the briefcase for the rest of the week.
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Commented in Jane Birkin, actor and singer, dies aged 76
She was such a talented artist and it's a loss for the music and film industry. My thoughts go out to her family and friends during this difficult time.
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Commented in Alec Baldwin fatally shoots woman with prop gun on movie set
On the film set of a movie about an accidental shooting!
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Commented in How product placements may soon be added to classic films
the product placement is targeted at individuals, and changes depending on who is watching.
Surprise, that smart TV was going to be used against you at some point... it's creepy but not surprising as more and more people try to avoid commercials by switching to Netflix or other streaming sites. It just sucks they are doing it.
Also they mention TV show Modern Family trying it out but I believe How I Met Your Mother also does this on reruns.
can do this if you are watching a film on a laptop, smartphone or smart TV, by tracking what you previously bought or looked at online.
Even more reason to get that adblocker and block third party cookies!
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Commented in Netflix raises prices on standard and premium plans
What is there to pay more for? They have cancelled a ton of stuff all on cliffhangers because they don't have the balls to tell producers and writers not to write them that way, they are losing content from Marvel/Lucas Film/Disney (Hulu and Disney+), Time Warner/WB/HBO (HBO Max) and NBC Comcast/Universal (Peacock)... at this point only the Netflix originals will be left and if almost none of their original TV shows have endings, why should or would I bother. I don't see much in the way of "if we produce more original content you should pay for it" that they told the investors when the bread and butter that is other peoples content is being pulled constantly.
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Commented in Netflix Indicted in Texas Over "Cuties" movie's "prurient interest in sex"
moral panic hysteria
people who play LPs backward and find Satanism in Chris De Burgh's "Lady in Red" or Harry Potter clearly have too much time on their hands to be outraged by what is clearly, in this case, nothing more than fiction inspired by contemporary culture
Cuties is clearly a film about widespread cultural nymphomania driving little girls into being sexualized from a young age in the same way it pressurizes women into being oversexualized past the age of consent. which is to say that film is every bit about pedophilia by way of societal norms as it is about gender biased chauvinism by way of societal norms; societal norms laid bare and discovered by young people who merely mimic behavior in order to seek attention and find acceptance in a continuing and self-perpetuated cycle
and the movie is hardly subtle on this topic. it really hammers the audience over the head with the theme. to the point where it becomes utterly unenjoyable as a drama about a character. i struggled to finish it; i only didn't assume presentation morality lesson déjà vu because of controversy surrounding it so i watched till the bitter fucking Hollywood end - where the protagonist inexplicably abandons all behavioral momentum, and, for reasons yet to be determined, mid Act III climax, does a complete 180 reversal and gives the audience the proverbial "happy ending"
the movie is more akin to an after-school TV special; a moral lesson with clear-cut, black/white message. there's virtually no theatrical nuance, no sub-themes, no character development, no suspense or drama to speak of all reflected in the film's cinematographic style, ham-fistedly made to look to be documentary-like; observational, not dramatic
it is a single-perspective film, with all other characters made to look as either 2-dimensional cardboard cutouts or, in the case of father figure, absent altogether (the protagonist's father, a major plot device is spoken of frequently but is only ever spoken of and makes an appearance as a phone voice for a sum total of 10 seconds of "screen-time")
on a personal note - compromising the material in order to have moral alibi on the publicity tour is not an approach i particularly value artistically. im more inclined to applaud thematic subtlety and direct, confrontational publicity rather than the other way around (it is in my view, if nothing else, braver to chose to defend oneself from accusations of sensationalizing a topic over offending the religiously extreme but that's just me)
in spite the production team's effort to make their case that this movie should and could never be interpreted pornographically even more obvious than it could possibly be by hit-you-over-the-head plot constructs, those who are most guilty of sexualizing minors with actual sex abuse, deliberately chose to ignore these material compromises (presumably made in order to avoid the very politicizing of media to fabricate public concern by feigning it) and the filmmakers now appear to be in the midst of discovering that, as the saying goes, those who trade liberty in exchange for a little bit of security receive, in kind, ample amounts of neither of those; a most unfortunate and foreseeable set of circumstances
be that as it may, to set aside the interpretation of Cuties as something other than a critique of the very hypocrites whose scrutiny it was inevitably to fall under and to interpret the backlash against it by deliberately ignoring the painstaking effort ...
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Commented in You've Been Conditioned for War
Starship Troopers. One of Verhoeven's best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSLZQcx_mN0
Based on a book that is on every military reading list
Why?
https://libcom.org/library/starship-stormtroopers-michael-moorcock
The future is now. Yay. Let's talk about kittens
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Commented in 'We're cosseting our kids' – the war against today's dangerously dull playgrounds
And it's so very true. I feel sorry for today's kids.
“Children are needlessly overprotected by adults,” she says in a film from the 1970s. “They’re never given any freedom to explore and experiment and find out what the world is all about.”
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Commented in 'Green Book' Wins Best Picture Oscar, and Critics Aren't Happy
My wife and I saw the movie together. We are from different cultures, and we both cried and found beauty in the message (ok I cried more (don't tell her)) but we both found beauty in the message. I loved this film...and I was reluctant to go see it, my out of the ordinary wife asked me to go. She is so much smarter than me.
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Commented in 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Negative Buzz Amplified by Russian Trolls, Study Finds
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Commented in How
I used to think the best film ever was "Les Enfants du Paradis" with Jean-Louis Barrault. I haven't seen it for years. It's on youtube now. If only I can find a version with English subtitles I'll watch it again.
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Commented in Dumbo Official Teaser Trailer
Disney on a roll remaking their classics into live action film.
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Commented in Every Culture Appropriates
Looking at mainstream film’s culture of laziness and flogging of counterculture, they’ve coopted third wave feminism and campus-style “social justice” to give a new audience for their lazy remakes and reboots; “What if we re-make this movie, but this time with an all-female cast?” They’re actually re-booting the Rocketeer, but with a black female actor. I’m not saying that a black female couldn’t be a jetpack flying heroine, rather pointing out that at some studio meeting, they basically said, “how do we sell another needless remake to the pubic? I guess make it seem fresh with, instead of a white dude, a black lady. KACHING KACHING KACHING $$$$$$$$$.” They’re doing it for profit, not for social advancement, and even if it does cause social advancement, it is only because they’ve deemed that advancement to be profitable.
This was my favorite paragraph because it's the truest thing in the world if so-called appropriation didn't happen, where would they get their money? Even the outrage given to those that cry out on the news is for the news' own profit, they aren't covering because it's news but because they believe in this current outrage social media culture it will draw more eyes and thus more revenue.
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Commented in ‘Black Panther’ Co-Writer Says ‘Douchey and Disrespectful to Women’ Tony Stark Might Not Sit Well Today
As opposed to a film where only men got to be monarch of Wakanda and they had to have a really butch fight in order to do it.
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Commented in Steven Spielberg and George Lucas predict ‘massive implosion’ in film industry
They all have been growing steadily. But maybe Spielberg & Lucas are right -- it's got to be more about quality if movies want to succeed.
This from the auteurs behind such blockbusters as Howard the Duck and last year's The BFG.
u/8mm, you might want to include in the title that it's an old article
Just because this article's from four years ago doesn't mean u/8mm's had time to read it yet, or that u/hiihii will read it before oddly re-posting it tomorrow.
"predict" doesn't really work if it's 4 years ago.
Sounds like the germ of an idea for making perfect predictions all the time to me.
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Commented in Steven Spielberg and George Lucas predict ‘massive implosion’ in film industry
It looks to me like their arguments mostly hold for big-budget films, blockbusters, and standard hollywood things (anyone psyched for marvel's 23rd avengers film?).
"There's going to be eventually day and date with movies" — when films are available on demand at home the same day they hit theaters
Already exists here in the netherlands, albeit with a pay-per movie scheme.
You're going to have to pay $25 to see the next Iron Man. And you're probably only going to have to pay $7 to see Lincoln.
Do they ever go to smaller, independent cinemas? Those are already cheaper, but often won't have blockbusters. Again, already happening.
Meanwhile, as far as I can see, there's interest in going to the cinema more (For the Netherlands: subscription service one, cineville;, subscription service two, pathé unlimited; subscription service three, America's Moviepass -- which only allows one movie a day, as opposed to the other two where you can go back-to-back [I've only managed two in a day, but I know people who've gone to three movies in a day!]). They all have been growing steadily. But maybe Spielberg & Lucas are right -- it's got to be more about quality if movies want to succeed. And frankly, big budget does not correlate with quality, imo. Popularity, certainly. But there's some fantastic smaller budget films.
edit: /u/8mm, you might want to include in the title that it's an old article. "predict" doesn't really work if it's 4 years ago.
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Commented in Teen’s plastic surgery to look like Angelina Jolie.
She's a shoo in for a lead role in a Tim Burton live action film.
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Commented in Justice League's Amazon Costumes Show Way More Skin Than Those From Wonder Woman - and People Aren't Happy
The rough trade softcore porn film by this same director, Zack Snyder?
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Commented in The first Polaroid instant camera in a decade is adorable
Well, it has the full-size polaroid size picture going for it instead of those stupid mini ones... but 8 pictures for $16 is a bit much for my blood, guess I don't hate digital pictures enough for it, although film pictures I do think better.
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Commented in Death Wish | Official Trailer
Not a fan of this incessant rebooting but it's a Bruce Willis film so I'll give it a break. Probably one I'm going to go see.
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Commented in Macedonia Rejects Suggested Name Change, Says Sounds Like 'Klingon'
I'm pretty sure that picture isn't from a Star Trek film. That looks like Worf's brother, Kurn, from a TNG episode.
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Commented in The outrage over Gal Gadot’s $300,000 paycheck for Wonder Woman, explained
Social media managed to kill my interest in the film. I was quite looking forward to it, and I imagine I'd enjoy watching, but the drama and politicisation that came in the wake of its release was just too much for me to be bothered any more.
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Commented in Lebanon wants to ban ‘Wonder Woman’ because of its Israeli star
Not sure what they think they'll achieve. This is going to make Hollywood lose what, 0.01% of the earnings from the film?
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Commented in Shot For Shot: Blade Runner vs Blade Runner 2049
I like the original cinematography more. The new film has some fuzzy tint to it.
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Commented in Donald Trump says North Korea is 'looking for trouble'
Projecting so hard you can see a film in the Kuiper Belt...