I'll have to figure out a thread for posting about it, but it really wore me down before long.
― clemenza, Sunday, 14 May 2023 20:12 (eleven months ago) link
Lol dog Latin
After the great cultural achievement that is Minecraft: The Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs
I am just gonna hold out for Candy Crush III: the Crushening
― coolgnoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 14 May 2023 21:04 (eleven months ago) link
Minecraft, Minesweeper, whatever
Frogger 2: The Froggening was pretty good tho
― coolgnoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 14 May 2023 21:05 (eleven months ago) link
That Minesweeper thing is great
― Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? (dog latin), Sunday, 14 May 2023 23:27 (eleven months ago) link
Remember: Mine is money.
― Cosmo’s Hacienda (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 May 2023 23:57 (eleven months ago) link
In the tradition of "Air" and "Blackberry," I just saw a trailer for "Flamin' Hot," a movie about Cheetos.
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 07:01 (eleven months ago) link
Can’t tell if serious
― michel goindry (wins), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 07:54 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it7sNRloq-A
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 11:25 (eleven months ago) link
when there's a movie about Flamin' Hot Monster Munch, I'll allow it in this thread
― kinder, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 11:52 (eleven months ago) link
I completely forgot that I saw a David O. Russell movie about a mop.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 17 May 2023 12:00 (eleven months ago) link
can't wait for the Swiss Cheese origin story
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 17 May 2023 13:12 (eleven months ago) link
there are two different kinds of pastry known as nun farts: pets de nonne from france, and pets de sœurs from canada
there are probably many documentary films online about nun farts but i expect they are unrelated
― (like scratching an inch) (cat), Friday, 19 May 2023 04:36 (eleven months ago) link
The great thing about the Flamin' Hot movie is that the story it's based on is, of course, wrong
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-05-16/flamin-hot-cheetos-richard-montanez
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 May 2023 04:46 (eleven months ago) link
Flamin’ Hots were created by a team of hotshot snack food professionals starting in 1989
they should make a movie about this, too, and just have sooooo much cocaine in it
― (like scratching an inch) (cat), Friday, 19 May 2023 04:53 (eleven months ago) link
o snap i guess they already did:
An internal promotional video for the Cheetos brand from the first quarter of 1991 serves as further proof that Flamin’ Hots were already out in the world.The nearly nine-minute video, which Lukaska shared with The Times, is a Day-Glo green-and-pink time capsule, with Frito-Lay execs in fashionably baggy suits touting the latest and greatest snack aimed at kids, Cheetos Paws. At one point, two DDB Needham advertising executives perform a “New Jack City”-era rap about the coolness of Chester himself. Flamin’ Hots appear in the video for less than a second, in a rapid-fire slideshow set to MC Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This,” alongside two other minor brands of the day, Cheetos Curls and Cheetos Light.
The nearly nine-minute video, which Lukaska shared with The Times, is a Day-Glo green-and-pink time capsule, with Frito-Lay execs in fashionably baggy suits touting the latest and greatest snack aimed at kids, Cheetos Paws. At one point, two DDB Needham advertising executives perform a “New Jack City”-era rap about the coolness of Chester himself. Flamin’ Hots appear in the video for less than a second, in a rapid-fire slideshow set to MC Hammer’s “U Can’t Touch This,” alongside two other minor brands of the day, Cheetos Curls and Cheetos Light.
― (like scratching an inch) (cat), Friday, 19 May 2023 06:40 (eleven months ago) link
Every once in a while, my career puts me in touch with people who do things like that (devise and market snack foods, novelty ice cream products, energy beverages, etc.).
I do kind of wonder what their inner lives are like, and whether they laugh or cry when they reflect on the sheer silliness of it.
A few examples:
I worked for the person who came up with the slogan "soup is good food." Research indicated that mothers had underlying anxiety about feeding children meals that had not been prepared from scratch; Campbell's play was to alleviate this using the simplest, most direct possible language. The underlying lesson, I think, was that sometimes a lack of cleverness is a type of cleverness.
Much later I worked with the people who came up with the Taki's box-with-one-chip-in-it campaign. Ordinarily, companies want to communicate value, bounty, abundance. This was an instance where a manufacturer decided to go the opposite direction and sell scarcity.
There is a nice poem by Stephen Dunn with a line about how helping National Biscuit sell biscuits is wildly comic. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=36748
― sane clown posse (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 19 May 2023 11:45 (eleven months ago) link
this all just reminds me when they made a big-budget movie based on the battleship board game and everybody was like "a movie based on a BOARD GAME god movies really have sunk to a new low", and all i could think of was how people said the same thing when the movie based on the board game clue came out in 1985. plus it had three different endings depending on which print you saw. total gimmick film.
except of course that film is fucking AMAZING.
if you make a good film on a stupid premise it will probably take longer for it to get appreciated but it will probably eventually become a cult classic. see also for instance the wachowskis making a film on the pretty bad '60s anime "speed racer" or rian johnson inexplicably deciding to make a movie in the trashy "star wars" series of films
I worked for the person who came up with the slogan "soup is good food." Research indicated that mothers had underlying anxiety about feeding children meals that had not been prepared from scratch; Campbell's play was to alleviate this using the simplest, most direct possible language. The underlying lesson, I think, was that sometimes a lack of cleverness is a type of cleverness.― sane clown posse (Ye Mad Puffin)
― sane clown posse (Ye Mad Puffin)
a classic counterexample, someone who came up with ideas too clever for their own good, is stan freberg. he came up with this extremely elaborate busby berkeley extravaganza to promote a line of soups called the "great american soup" intended to compete with campbell's... people saw the ad and thought it was for campbell's soup. also see his ad campaign for the airline company that had just had some high-profile crashes... sophistication and irony are maybe not the best qualities for an ad campaign... it was nice to see daniel clowes getting work mind you.
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 19 May 2023 14:26 (eleven months ago) link
Good post Kate.
Now I feel like maybe we have enough material to make a musical about canned food, which will be called...
Wait for it...
SOUP OPERA.
― sane clown posse (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 19 May 2023 14:39 (eleven months ago) link
that made me think Ouija Boards were originally a board "game" made by Parker Brothers and imdb lists
1. Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016) 2. Ouija (II) (2014) 3. Ouija House (2018) 4. Ouija Seance: The Final Game (2018 TV Movie)
so we are back on topic 8)
― koogs, Friday, 19 May 2023 14:42 (eleven months ago) link
the second Ouija was actually really fucking good.
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Friday, 19 May 2023 14:47 (eleven months ago) link
Elvis (2022) & Priscilla (2023)
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 22 June 2023 14:08 (ten months ago) link
Oh no, but he’s not a hero
― Holly Godarkbloom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 June 2023 19:35 (ten months ago) link
Indies about three dopey dudes who thieves and pull off a big heist after some enept smaller robberies: Bottle Rocket and Palookaville, both 1996
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 02:43 (nine months ago) link
"who become thieves and try to pull off a major heist" & "inept smaller robberies "
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 02:46 (nine months ago) link
The two O.J. projects (F/X series + 8-hour ESPN documentary). O.J.: Made in America screened at Sundance on Jan. 22, 2016; The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story debuted on Feb. 2, 2016, 11 days later.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 03:18 (nine months ago) link
https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=41
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 22 August 2023 23:22 (eight months ago) link
lol
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 00:16 (eight months ago) link
Hah
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 00:46 (eight months ago) link
I thought this was going to be about
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BODBhZTFiOGItNjk4ZS00Y2VkLWJkNGQtNTk5NzZlNThlM2I4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMzQwMTY2Nzk@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTM2NTU1ZTktNjc4YS00NjNhLWE4NmYtOTM2YjFjOGUzNmYzXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyODE5NzE3OTE@._V1_.jpg
― Stomp Jomperson (dog latin), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 00:50 (eight months ago) link
From 2011:
“La Guerre des Boutons” (“The War of the Buttons”) is a comedic remake of a 1962 blockbuster about spirited boys fighting with catapults and wooden swords. It was released Wednesday in French theaters.But in an unprecedented development here, a more melodramatic film of the same story, with the similar title “La Nouvelle Guerre des Boutons” (“The New War of the Buttons”), comes out just a week later.Both scripts are based on the same book, “La Guerre des Boutons,” written in 1912 by Louis Pergaud. Both have the same co-producer, the privately owned television channel TF1, and the same budget, about 13 million euros, or nearly $18 million.
But in an unprecedented development here, a more melodramatic film of the same story, with the similar title “La Nouvelle Guerre des Boutons” (“The New War of the Buttons”), comes out just a week later.
Both scripts are based on the same book, “La Guerre des Boutons,” written in 1912 by Louis Pergaud. Both have the same co-producer, the privately owned television channel TF1, and the same budget, about 13 million euros, or nearly $18 million.
https://www.critique-film.fr/la-guerres-des-boutons-2-films-differents/
https://archive.is/IIjHG
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 28 December 2023 00:05 (four months ago) link
I suppose this sort of thing is going to keep happening as books fall out of copyright
a 1912 book by someone who died in 1915 would've been public domain for a while though
― koogs, Thursday, 28 December 2023 05:26 (four months ago) link
for some reason it didn’t enter the public domain until 2010, not sure why
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 28 December 2023 09:16 (four months ago) link
Once upon a time there were two Jean Harlow biopics released five weeks apart:
Harlow (1965)Harlow (1965)
― henry s, Sunday, 28 January 2024 17:18 (three months ago) link
came on here to post this but emil.y beat me to it 8 years ago lolemil.y at 3:42 26 Mar 16The Double (2013, adapted from Dostoevsky's The Double)Enemy (2013, adapted from Saramago's The Double)Both deal with doppelgängers and identity.
― kinder, Saturday, 3 February 2024 20:56 (two months ago) link
RIP Christopher Priest, without whom there would have only been one magician movie.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Saturday, 3 February 2024 21:28 (two months ago) link
RIP. He wrote a lot of great stuff.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 February 2024 22:36 (two months ago) link
I have yet to watch the movie or read the book, been saving it up.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 February 2024 22:45 (two months ago) link
Still need to finish Nina Allan’s The Rift as well, which starts out grebt.
― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 February 2024 22:46 (two months ago) link
ImmaculateThe First Omen
― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 7 April 2024 15:57 (three weeks ago) link
Haha I just said the same thing to my friend.
Bizarre how similar they are
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Sunday, 7 April 2024 16:17 (three weeks ago) link
Not just in "nun" premise but the first half hour of movie too
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Sunday, 7 April 2024 16:18 (three weeks ago) link
Two films based on the story of Bernard Jordan, escaping from his care home to attend D-Day anniversary.
The Great Escaper with Michael Caine, 6th October 2023.The Last Rifleman with Piers Brosnan, 5th November 2023.
I’d seen the cover for The Last Rifleman and with Brosnan in it assumed it was a thriller of some sort.
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 21 April 2024 19:42 (one week ago) link
"Roller Boogie" and "Skatetown U.S.A.", both 1979
― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 21 April 2024 21:22 (one week ago) link
This is a pretty loose one, but in the early '70s there were several movies about or involving on on some important level radio personalities/DJs:
WUSA, 1970Vanishing Point, 1971Play Misty For Me, 1971The King of Marvin Gardens, 1972American Graffiti, 1973
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 25 April 2024 14:12 (one week ago) link
in that vein, i did see Vanishing Point and The Warriors closely together recent and thought the dj aspect was similar (Warriors was a bit later - '79)
― koogs, Thursday, 25 April 2024 14:32 (one week ago) link
whoa i remember being told that i went to college with the offspring of the person who invented this slogan but i have no recollection who that person was. what a strange intersection!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 25 April 2024 14:56 (one week ago) link
I think that a lot of that work was done by Molly M. at Porter Novelli.
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 25 April 2024 15:53 (one week ago) link
The Warriors maybe pairs up better with The Fog (1980).
Might be stating the obvious, but I think radio DJs were just a bigger part of life back then, with a stronger presence as individuals, and (correct me if I'm wrong) more actual time of their voice on the air saying stuff. They were surely more prominent as local figures, and the intimacy of them being in everybody's cars and ears can't be discounted. So it makes sense that there'd be a lot of them in movies, just like having a lot of newspaper reporters, or politicians, or local business owners.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 25 April 2024 15:54 (one week ago) link
This is a pretty loose one, but in the early '70s there were several movies about or involving on on some important level radio personalities/DJs:WUSA, 1970Vanishing Point, 1971Play Misty For Me, 1971The King of Marvin Gardens, 1972American Graffiti, 1973― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain
There's also a low-budget Canadian entry in that same vein and timeframe: "Slipstream", starring Luke Askew as the DJ
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipstream_(1973_film)
― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 25 April 2024 16:50 (one week ago) link