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[LUVGAMZ23]

Instead to pick the movie, dub it and sponsor it, American producers have this obsession with remaking them with some low cost director and scriptwriter who doesn't understand why that particular movie had success or why it was a good movie. Maybe only 1 on every 100 remakes has commercial success. I wonder if they even try sometimes just to put an international movie in the American theaters. Maybe American users can answer to that: Are foreign movies present in American theaters? Does the American audience reject them or is it a bias from the producers? Why do you think it happens that often a foreign movie is remade?

I'm not American, but I had an American co-worker a whole while back. Brace yourself... It's a story within a story.
Skip to the end if you don't like my blabla.

Hopefully, I didn't already tell the story on this board and forgot.

So, this guy was like, 10-20 years younger than me, but he felt older than me. An "old soul" so to speak.
Surprisingly, he had an passionate defense of remakes, no matter how bad. He told HIS story:

He was from a farm town. They did plays for entertainment. Drapes were used as robes. Farm tools were used as medieval weapons.
As as a kid, he found it magical... until...
..."some mother fucking city slicker" (his words) had arrived in town or been stuck there and saw the play.

The city dude then proceeded to shit all over the play, talking about how it was so much better in Broadway, or some such.
He really, REALLY crushed the spirits of the farmer / actors.
To prevent the, you know, likely death of the city boy, the mayor expedited the repairs on the car, or whatever, and he was sent on his way.
This stuck with my co-worker.

He said "I feel just as protective about movies and movie remakes as my farm plays. I don't care if worse. I don't care if it's OBJECTIVELY worse.
I wanna see THAT story, with MY actors, with TODAY'S tech, and I don't really fucking care how shitty it is. Me and my friends will see it."

Presumably, he meant actors of his age / contemporaries, not, you know, the actual 'actors' from his farm.
Still, that stuck with me. He also was the guy that I spoke of that said:
"What? If Shakespeare had made movies instead of plays, and it was recorded, no-one could ever, Ever, EVER remake Romeo and Juliet?"

Now, unfortunately, there's not enough people like him that see those movies to stop bomb after bomb at the box office, but at least he got something out of the remakes. I hope that explains something, or, at least, gives HIS opinion on remakes.

TLDR = Some people WANT remakes with THEIR actors. That's it. No more. No less. But there's not enough people like that for the movie to make money.

 

[PsychicJohn]

Spoiler: PsychicJohn

Yes, Katara is a cutie too.
Yes, Toph is a cutie too.
Yes, Suki is a cutie too.
Yes, Azula is a hottie.
I LIKE ALL OF THEM OKAY?!

Nothing against that

 

[Noci]

There is nothing to access in the VIP room as far as I can tell.

excuse me sir, are thou mayhaps forgetting this gorgeous thread?

 

[Coin_Gaming]

With P1, you got m+ benefits too.

if games weren't locked behind m+ sure that seems logical to grind for...

 

[PsychicJohn]

Only real advantage of P1 is that there is no cool down time to reacting to posts etc. I see little benefit beyond that. I'm just saving now until I can buy P4. Should only take about a year of collecting interest daily!!!
There is nothing to access in the VIP room as far as I can tell.
M+ is a necessity, P1 is ok to speed up posting comments and earning LC. P2, P3 probably don't offer anything of interest that P1 doesn't have. I won't be wasting LC on them anyway.

excuse me sir, are thou mayhaps forgetting this gorgeous thread?

if games weren't locked behind m+ sure that seems logical to grind for...

For me personally i got p1 right after m+ so i can have a bit more customizations and also no cooldown on likes, which allows me to give back to the community to the best of my ability.

Im kind of a slacking backreader. If its about 30 pages tops (in this thread), i will try to read it back to the current page, but if it's double than that or even more...

...I will try the most i can do and then go to the latest page to get up to speed on current discussions

 

[CozeeBeaver]

excuse me sir, are thou mayhaps forgetting this gorgeous thread?

I'm not sure this thread is only accessible to P1 and above. It looks like M+ can access it too. That is unless you are referring to a different thread......

 

[PsychicJohn]

I'm not sure this thread is only accessible to P1 and above. It looks like M+ can access it too. That is unless you are referring to a different thread......

Well its in the comics section which is inside the vip zone, so i assume its only vip (p1) upwards

Edit: the other section is called Comics & Stills which is for normal members and also features an m+ section

 

[User_114997]

Good morning everyone. Hope than everyone have a nice day

 

[SeveredRealms]

Fuck I woke up to dipshits in the thread and pain from fucking storms around my area... day already started like shit..... I just want one morning without needing fucking pain meds or anti nausea meds....

 

[Coin_Gaming]

Fuck I woke up to dipshits in the thread and pain from fucking storms around my area... day already started like shit..... I just want one morning without needing fucking pain meds or anti nausea meds....

Sucks man.. Hope your day gets better

 

[scdev]

Good morning everyone. Hope than everyone have a nice day

 

[MattShizzle]

That was derived from the book - Tolkien actually wrote it. Was one of the few semi-accurate things in the movie.

It was so long from when I read it until the movie came out, I didn't remember.

 

[kurgan]

"What? If Shakespeare had made movies instead of plays, and it was recorded, no-one could ever, Ever, EVER remake Romeo and Juliet?"

Thank you for anecdote. I has been quite entertaining to read it.
Here he has a point, at the end movies like West Side Story are a modernization of Romeo and Juliet, and probably every few years we have a new Romeo and Juliet. But we are talking of movies 1 or 2 years old that are being remade.

The average american

TLDR = Some people WANT remakes with THEIR actors. That's it. No more. No less.

Same happens in my country, many people are afraid to leave the comfort zone and watch a movie from another culture. In my country that means mostly a national movie or an American one.

But there's not enough people like that for the movie to make money.

That's the real point. Why to make the effort to remade something that's mostly non commercial profitable. How so the industry has not yet realized it.

In the same way there is people who will not watch a foreign movie, the question mostly is if there is enough niche to play a foreign movie. It's so much cheaper to dub or even just sub a movie, than make a whole remake. In my country, we have a large number of indie theaters were only foreign movies in their original language and/or alternative cinema is played. Of course you will not find such theaters in the countryside, but they should be present in large cosmopolitan cities. Prestigious cinema festivals like Cannes or the Berlin one should create enough expectation to that cinephile niche. A city like NYC, doesn't have these kind of theaters? Doesn't happen that movies with huge success like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", despite to be foreigner, to be in all the theaters? Or are they so rare exceptions that we don't need to count them?

 

[whoisit]

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This is the graduation of the character Minato Aqua, the last stream the streamer behind her does as her. I wasn't planning making a post about it but while watching almost 650.000 people are tuning in and the number still rising. Grown up men are crying over this sounds stupid but it also even she, her colleagues and friends are crying about it and they know her in real life. This is why I fell into the rabbit hole because even if it's fake anime girls everybody cares and puts their passion behind it.

 

[Underlord]

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This is the graduation of the character Minato Aqua, the last stream the streamer behind her does as her. I wasn't planning making a post about it but while watching almost 650.000 people are tuning in and the number still rising. Grown up men are crying over this sounds stupid but it also even she, her colleagues and friends are crying about it and they know her in real life. This is why I fell into the rabbit hole because even it's fake anime girls everybody cares and puts their passion behind it.

Waiting for AI Vtuber that never graduates from big corporations that is indistinguishable from real vtuber.
One day I hope a vtuber that is secretly fully AI comes that is so good people think there is a human behind it.

 

[kikomascado]

I never knew about the numerical ID for hashes. I usually just use 2 tags like the character and then either some genre or kink. For the rest i use the sorting functions. Sometimes i sort by popular, or increase the rating threshold to only show images with a minimal rating of 4-5 stars.

Spoiler: What about katara though?

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Spoiler: Or you want to stick your dick in crazy

Good night.

Gn bloodheart

Spoiler: and good dreams

perhaps you know this one already. I noticed when looking up the artist, that i recognized a lot of the artwork since you posted them here recently xD. So anything from etheross is probably nothing new to you

Thanks, sir!
That Toph one males me conflicted.
I like feet, but hers must be hella dirty!
(and I don't like that. Hahaha)

It's basically Iced Tea that alcoholic.
Lipton flavors with a little booze.

Maybe I'd like it. Usually I like good flavored alcoholic drinks, if the flavor is good and the alcohol taste is not so strong.

You quoted my post and didn't say anything. Hahaha

I mean, I wouldn't stick my dick in crazy if they weren't so sexy!

I don't think I would pass on that, too.
"Do as I say, not as I do."

Edit: For some reason, the last line had disappeared. Added it again.

 

[kurgan]

This is the graduation of the character Minato Aqua, the last stream the streamer behind her does as her. I wasn't planning making a post about it but while watching almost 650.000 people are tuning in and the number still rising. Grown up men are crying over this sounds stupid but it also even she, her colleagues and friends are crying about it and they know her in real life. This is why I fell into the rabbit hole because even it's fake anime girls everybody cares and puts their passion behind it.

The world is changing! But here we are, caring about DAZ models lmao.

 

[PsychicJohn]

Thanks, sir!
That Toph one males me conflicted.
I like feet, but hers must be hella dirty!
(and I don't like that. Hahaha)

Yeah, when i looked her up, a lot of people made her feet pretty dirty, which makes sense given how she is always running around barefooted, but yeah that one didn't look as bad and was overall a really well done artwork.

If we apply realism tho, her feet must not only be dirty as hell, but also feel like sandpaper. Maybe some ppl are even into that

looked up sandpaper on tenor and this gif was the second result. Idk how to feel about it . I haven't seen spongebob in ages

 

[Coin_Gaming]

Yeah, when i looked her up, a lot of people made her feet pretty dirty, which makes sense given how she is always running around barefooted, but yeah that one didn't look as bad and was overall a really well done artwork.

If we apply realism tho, her feet must not only be dirty as hell, but also feel like sandpaper. Maybe some ppl are even into that

looked up sandpaper on tenor and this gif was the second result. Idk how to feel about it . I haven't seen spongebob in ages

Considering he's a sponge.. must feel very good for him..

 

[whoisit]

Waiting for AI Vtuber that never graduates from big corporations that is indistinguishable from real vtuber.
One day I hope a vtuber that is secretly fully AI comes that is so good people think there is a human behind it.

Neuro-sama is getting better with every upgrade and some chat bots are having really good interactions. So fully AI streamer is not a far reach and I can see people paying for streams for only them.