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rstrong wrote:
Shouldn't this be in the Food Thread?
I initially thought that. When I started watching it, I thought "man what an idiot". Then I gradually started feeling bad for the guy.

He clearly had some underlying issues. Failed actor, drug addiction. Living amongst grizzlies out in the wild became his raison d'être. It became his life. He hated the world of man. But he was also delusional, trying to impose human values upon the wild, which ultimately led to his "suicide by grizzly bear"

Best quote of the documentary:
But once in a while, Treadwell came face-to-face with the harsh reality of wild nature.
This did not fit into his sentimentalized view that everything out there was good, and the universe in balance and in harmony.
Here I differ with Treadwell. He seemed to ignore the fact that in nature there are predators.
I believe the common character of the universe is not harmony; but chaos, hostility and murder.
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Canadian author W.P. Kinsella ended his own life today under Canada's assisted-dying law. His 1982 novel Shoeless Joe was turned into the 1989 film Field of Dreams.

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Happy Public Domain Day! Every January 1st a vast number of movies, TV shows, books and musical works enter the public domain.

(But not in the US of course. As with the last 18 years, nothing will be entering the public domain there.)

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I won't do the three million page loads needed go through the whole list. Especially not after the first item:

Of all the inaccuracies in Braveheart, they chose the date of the kilt? How about "William Wallace wasn't called Braveheart. That was a different guy." Or "Damn near everything in the movie."

In Mel Gibson's defense, those who mocked him for having an Australian rather Scottish accent were wrong too. If William Wallace didn't kill someone for speaking English or making him speak it, he probably spoke it with a French accent.

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One of the weirdest goddamn movies I've ever seen: The greasy strangler

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt4381236/
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Where/how does one even find out this film is playing? And, having read the title, how does one think, "I'll watch that."

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Maybe that's the point.

"Hollywood accounting" is used to declare that some of the biggest hits never actually made money, so that writers and others who get royalties or a percentage of the net profit don't have to be paid.

According to Lucasfilm, Return of the Jedi, despite having earned $475 million at the box office against a budget of $32.5 million, (plus VHS, DVD, Music CD and other revenue) "has never gone into profit." Batman (1989) made $2 billion but never turned a profit. Spider-Man (2002) made more than $800 million, but Stan Lee made nothing on his 10% of the net profits. The Lord of the Rings trilogy made $6 billion at the box office alone, but according to New Line the trilogy made "horrendous losses" and no profit at all.

One way involves "sharing" costs - sets, lawyers and accountants, distribution, marketing, payroll etc. - between an obscure money loser and a hit.

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O Really wrote:... And, having read the title, how does one think, "I'll watch that."
Have you met JTA? :P
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rstrong wrote:Maybe that's the point.

"Hollywood accounting" is used to declare that some of the biggest hits never actually made money, so that writers and others who get royalties or a percentage of the net profit don't have to be paid.
Sounds like somebody needs better lawyers, agents, union reps reviewing their contracts.

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O Really wrote:Sounds like somebody needs better lawyers, agents, union reps reviewing their contracts.
It won't help. "Hollywood Accounting" is institutionalized, both by the industry and the government it pays for. It's been that way for many decades.

Peter Jackson knew all about it, and had as much power as anyone outside of the studio CEOs going into Lord of the Rings. And yet despite the trilogy making $6 billion at the box office alone, New Line declared "horrendous losses", no profit at all, and screwed over Jackson. The average "somebody" won't do any better, and they'll find themselves not getting work if they try.

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O Really wrote:Where/how does one even find out this film is playing? And, having read the title, how does one think, "I'll watch that."
You aren't doing it wrong if no one knows what you are doing.

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Not everything is progress in the future. Star Trek never had seat belts, either.

Why 'Star Wars' Hates Handrails: Finally We Know Why People Keep Plummeting to Their Death

Otoh, maybe it's because the light sabers keep slicing apart the handrails.
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Vrede too wrote:Not everything is progress in the future. Star Trek never had seat belts, either.

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Wasn't "future" in Star Wars.
"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away."

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Ah, that explains it, thanks. No one had invented handrails, OSHA or labor lawyers ;) back then.
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They had the "send ... guns and money" part, but didn't know about the lawyers.

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With some awful damn haircuts.
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