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The cool thing about Kevin Smith is that he's the first one to say that Kevin Smith 'gets up his own ass' He's made bank from it, and hope he continues on doing it...

Dogma 2 here we come!

If I watch it, I'll be counting down the minutes until he makes a reference about how awful it was working with Bruce Willis because he hasn't stopped talking about it since 2010.

fangblackbone wrote:

Dogma 2 here we come!

Harvey Weinstein owns that property. Smith has a story about Weinstein dangling the prospect of a sequel in front of him a week before the articles about him started coming out.

I'm just a barrel of laughs today. Geez.

Grenn wrote:

If I watch it, I'll be counting down the minutes until he makes a reference about how awful it was working with Bruce Willis because he hasn't stopped talking about it since 2010.

To his credit, he apologized when news of Willis' aphasia diagnosis arrived. Smith seems like a very decent, self-effacing sort, I just wish he'd sit back on his podcasting empire, solid Arrowverse efforts, and easily ignorable larks written through a weed haze (I actually thought Red State was interesting, though) instead of dredging up Askewniverse stuff.

PaladinTom wrote:

It can be called meta to the characters in the film to make a movie about their own lives. It's also autobiographical on the part of Kevin Smith. Not sure about the "up his ass" quip but the dude made a name for himself shooting a low budget black and white film about his life, then almost died from a heart attack.

Callbacks, references, reminders, they're pretty low bars for meta, and the autobiographical stuff are just things that happened to him. Creatives have been mining their own experiences since the dawn of time. And the callbacks were fairly embarrassing back in 2006, I have no clue what they'll be now.

Meta specifically is when you use a medium to examine the medium. This looks like it's doing the movie within a movie thing as narrative device, like how The Princess Bride film is framed as a novel within a film. Since it's not examining the medium of film, I don't think Clerks III fits the "meta" criteria.

That looks fantastic!

I don't know what to think of that and I don't mind a rob zombie movie here and there.

Spin Me Round

House of the Dragon | Official Trailer | HBO Max

ranalin wrote:

I kind of like what Rob Zombie is doing with the flat cinematography, but it seems like the big problem is that the talent level isn't there.

I mean, Fred Gwynne was the head of the Harvard Lampoon. The talent level on the original show was way out of proportion to the underlying concept.

That looks way better than I was expecting but I feel like the DM is letting them rely on their daily powers too much.

Against my better judgement, they got me in casting Hugh Grant as a villain.

Looks far better than any other D&D movie….. Which is an incredibly low bar but it still looks fun

It has actual D&D monsters in it!

Owlbears, Displacer Beasts and Gelatinous Cubes, oh my!

Don't forget the mimic.

That looks wild(e).

ruhk wrote:

That looks way better than I was expecting but I feel like the DM is letting them rely on their daily powers too much.

I just want to know if Chris Pine's dual-classing as thief and bard, otherwise the full title's a little deceptive.

There's no "thief" class anymore, just "rogue". Therefore, any class can be a thief!

ruhk wrote:

That looks way better than I was expecting but I feel like the DM is letting them rely on their daily powers too much.

4th Ed. much? Pshhhaaawww...

Owlbear on you!

The D&D trailer made me realize something that I probably should have realized sooner: Led Zeppelin has been licensing their music out way more than they used to. They used to charge so much for the license that basically nobody could afford to use their music. There is a story from the Almost Famous production about how they filmed a scene set to Stairway to Heaven and had to cut it because it would have destroyed their music licensing budget (the scene is on one of the behind the scenes bits of the DVD minus the music). They apparently also demand having creative input on how their music is used going so far as to require one scene in Argo to be digitally altered so that Ben Affleck's character would be putting the needle down in the right spot for the song that was being used.

Makes me wonder if they have eased up in recent years or if producers have been more willing to dig deeper and give up some control.

Rykin wrote:

The D&D trailer made me realize something that I probably should have realized sooner: Led Zeppelin has been licensing their music out way more than they used to. They used to charge so much for the license that basically nobody could afford to use their music. There is a story from the Almost Famous production about how they filmed a scene set to Stairway to Heaven and had to cut it because it would have destroyed their music licensing budget (the scene is on one of the behind the scenes bits of the DVD minus the music). They apparently also demand having creative input on how their music is used going so far as to require one scene in Argo to be digitally altered so that Ben Affleck's character would be putting the needle down in the right spot for the song that was being used.

Makes me wonder if they have eased up in recent years or if producers have been more willing to dig deeper and give up some control.

I think they sold off their catalog 10 years or so ago. So not surprised they're being used more

Best use of nunchuks ever.

Nevin73 wrote:

Best use of nunchuks ever.

f*ck. Yes. I've not seen a movie in the theater since 1/1/2020. Wick will pull me back.

MikeSands wrote:

Against my better judgement, they got me in casting Hugh Grant as a villain.

Someone clearly needs to see Paddington 2.

That trailer looks great.