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5 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Tuesday 6/20/17 - 6:16:49 PM EST (GMT-5)
I wonder how many films would get released if they only made films based on new ideas only
And also, not based on something that "happened irl" or based on a book/comic/graphic novel/video game or is a sequel/prequel
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5 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Tuesday 6/20/17 - 7:37:08 PM EST (GMT-5)
Zero
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5 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Tuesday 6/20/17 - 7:37:42 PM EST (GMT-5)
If that was your point.
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5 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Wednesday 6/21/17 - 12:07:32 AM EST (GMT-5)
On Tuesday 6/20/17 - 9:42:59 AM slinky0 wrote:
The ugly ducking who is suddenly beautiful and popular after a makeover. |
That's the part that bugged me in Breakfast Club. |
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5 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Wednesday 6/21/17 - 1:23:35 AM EST (GMT-5)
I have to be honest, The Breakfast Club is just alright to me.
Sixteen Candles is where it's at for me as far as John Hughes 80s teen movies go.
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5 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Wednesday 6/21/17 - 1:32:17 AM EST (GMT-5)
The Breakfast Club
Pretty In Pink
St Elmo's Fire
Sixteen Candles
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5 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Wednesday 6/21/17 - 1:34:00 AM EST (GMT-5)
Even though SEF isn't John Hughes
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5 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Wednesday 6/21/17 - 2:25:14 PM EST (GMT-5)
On Tuesday 6/20/17 - 6:16:49 PM redreine wrote:
I wonder how many films would get released if they only made films based on new ideas only |
Maybe 1.
Humans have been telling the same stories for thousands of years. |
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5 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Thursday 6/22/17 - 11:09:46 AM EST (GMT-5)
I'd like a moratorium on "reboots" for franchises where the originals are <25-30 years old to start with.
Plot devices: this happens more in sitcoms than movies, but anything where the major players could solve the disagreement/misunderstanding/whatever just by having a simple, short conversation with each other (but they don't).
Also I won't say this should NEVER happen again, but any (new) thing with a "Gift of the Magi" type plot device is on very thin ice as far as I'm concerned.
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5 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Thursday 6/22/17 - 10:03:53 PM EST (GMT-5)
On Tuesday 6/20/17 - 9:42:59 AM slinky0 wrote:
The ugly ducking who is suddenly beautiful and popular after a makeover. |
If it weren't for this Freddie Prinze Jr. would never have had a career. |
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5 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Thursday 6/22/17 - 10:37:09 PM EST (GMT-5)
they even did it in scooby doo
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5 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Saturday 7/1/17 - 12:46:13 AM EST (GMT-5)
On Thursday 6/22/17 - 11:09:46 AM birdsong4j wrote:
<snip> Plot devices: this happens more in sitcoms than movies, but anything where the major players could solve the disagreement/misunderstanding/whatever just by having a simple, short conversation with each other (but they don't). <snip> |
Gosh, that would have eliminated Burns and Allen completely, both from radio and later from TV.
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5 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Wednesday 7/5/17 - 7:53:19 PM EST (GMT-5)
I had a dream last night where I was in a movie where everything that often happens in movies had to happen which was so annoying and reminded me of this thread.
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5 yrs ago, 1 mos ago - Wednesday 7/5/17 - 7:55:54 PM EST (GMT-5)
On Monday 5/29/17 - 4:00:19 AM Noldor wrote:
The plot twist I hate the most is: it was all just a dream! |
lol and then I woke up and turns out it was just a dream |
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4 yrs ago, 4 mos ago - Sunday 4/8/18 - 11:55:27 AM EST (GMT-5)
On Monday 5/29/17 - 4:00:19 AM Noldor wrote:
The plot twist I hate the most is: it was all just a dream! |
This.
It automatically cheapens any movie to soap opera level. I guess it was okay for wizard of oz but not for anything past then. |
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4 yrs ago, 3 mos ago - Sunday 4/15/18 - 10:07:25 PM EST (GMT-5)
This is not a plot twist. But what I've noticed a lot in movies lately is this scene: Someone is sleeping, the camera slowly zooms in to their face, then their eyes open wide and they wake up all startled. I see this so many times, it's becoming annoying.
What I don't see is someone waking up normally. It takes about 2 minutes for someone to wake up fully from a deep sleep. It takes all of 2 seconds in a movie.
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4 yrs ago, 3 mos ago - Sunday 4/15/18 - 10:42:49 PM EST (GMT-5)
watch a rom com
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