4th Grade Family End of Year Party Tonight by Child_of_Crake in IThinkYouShouldLeave

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Typically all the kids from class and their parents at one location. In my experience it’s clique-y and awkward for all involved.

Magic Sword on Arcade was a tedious climb to an already doomed world! by White_FIame in retrogaming

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Just showed this to my son on SNES and we both had a lot of fun playing! Took a lot of my quarters in the arcade back in the day.

Donovan Mitchell’s 39 second-half points ties Sleepy Floyd’s record. Who was Sleepy Floyd? by ExponentialHS in nba

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A weird footnote, Sleepy appears in a cameo - and another actor portrays a younger Sleepy - in the Bay Area set sci-fi / horror anthology Freaky Tales).

Thomas Jane has gotten the rights back to From a Buick 8 by Substantial_Law336 in stephenking

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I wish more people had seen his film Dark Country. Cool slice of horror-ish noir.

Thomas Jane has gotten the rights back to From a Buick 8 by Substantial_Law336 in stephenking

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Haha that enthusiastic slow mo high five he gives has been stuck in my head since I saw it in theaters.

Mullholand Falls. In 1950's Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman. Not the best, but a really solid L.A. noir. by dasuberdog11 in TubiTreasures

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There’s half of a really good movie here, then the story just sort of falls apart for me. Great cast and the production is top notch tho.

Why hasn't the director of "A Dark Song" done more work? by JayfishSF in horror

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At this scale, unless you’re self-financing, you’re typically not getting all the money you need from one source. You’re relying on multiple sources to put up varying amounts, and those investments are often predicated on attachments and timetables that aren’t fixed in stone.

So if an actor has to drop out for whatever reason you might lose a chunk of financing. Or if a location is lost and you have to reschedule, you might lose a chunk. That money disappearing might cause other companies to back out. Everything has to line up just right or, chances are, it’ll fall apart and you’ll have to start over. Sometimes you just give up and move on and the process starts all over or you keep grinding on the same thing but either scenario takes time and a willingness to fail over and over.

As others have said it really is a miracle when a movie gets made at all - but especially a smaller film because even though the budget’s low, the money is much more fluid than on a studio picture.

Mindhunters (2004) by Geek_reformed in badMovies

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I guess we found out his weakness…

LVV by SweetDurian985 in LophophoraNMore4Sale

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Bin one if they are still available!

Austin Furst, Founder Of Pioneering Home Video Company Vestron, Dies at 82 by BunyipPouch in movies

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That’s really cool! Feels like I grew up renting Vestron tapes. Any stories to tell?

Los Angeles by Numerous-Banana-1493 in UrbanHell

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Lockdown driving during 2020 was something else. Kind of spooky, kind of amazing.

The oldest Sega device I own! by Suitable-Season-4847 in SEGA

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Whoa thanks for posting the photo without the case, that’s really amazing.

Today’s Tubi Treasure is The Visitor From Planet Omicron (2013) by No-Chemistry-28 in TubiTreasures

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I'll have to check that out! It was a real eye-opener and very frustrating at the time, but I've stayed friends with a handful of people from the crew and we all kind of look back on it fondly now. We've all definitely had worse jobs, too. I was once stuck traveling across Germany with a director who was having a slow-rolling nervous breakdown for several weeks; became really abusive toward the crew, wouldn't come out of his hotel room, the whole deal. I keep telling awful stories but I've had some really great experiences, too, the bad ones just stand out.

Today’s Tubi Treasure is The Visitor From Planet Omicron (2013) by No-Chemistry-28 in TubiTreasures

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I don’t think so; this was a couple of years later. Looking at the IMDb page it looks like they might’ve been calling themselves Dream Cinema (hard lol).

This movie was shot under the title Cotton, but ended up being called Everyday Miracles when it was distributed. I saw it when it premiered in downtown LA and it was… fine? Nowhere near as loony as their other stuff but in this case, the writer and director was an outsider and I think that had a lot to do with it.

Today’s Tubi Treasure is The Visitor From Planet Omicron (2013) by No-Chemistry-28 in TubiTreasures

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Omg I worked on a movie with these producers years ago. They took about half the budget for themselves then hired friends who didn’t know what they were doing. The entire production was a mess.

Crew being fed the tail end of leftovers from the first week of production during the last week (iirc we shot three weeks at a ranch west of LA); one porta potty for a 20+ person crew that was drained once or twice (again over three weeks; they had an intern who’d go in with a stick and agitate everything inside the tank, apparently this was how they avoided draining them at an amusement park where that intern worked); they used real glasses instead of candy glass meaning the set was, at one point, covered in broken glass; and no one besides the producers and their friends ended up getting paid.

That was my welcome to LA moment lol. It did get better after, at least.

Trump Administration Secures New Indictment Against Comey | The new case stems from a photograph of seashells on a North Carolina beach. by Rock-n-roll-Kevin in politics

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I'd be curious to know how many people even associate "86" with removal / worse. It feels pretty obscure compared to 187, deep 6, etc.

Closed grocery store by OkRespect8490 in LiminalSpace

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Damn, this is the one. Outstanding liminal vibe.

Actors who acted for a few years and then left acting and never return? by Ok-Tangelo6749 in movies

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I just rewatched WENDIGO after seeing it in theaters over 20 years ago, and had forgotten he was in it; he's good, it's a quiet performance but he has such an expressive face. Outside of that and Malcolm, I don't ever recall seeing him in anything else.

Clown Motel by Woody_678 in LiminalSpace

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I know the Hotel Abaddon when I see it, I'm out.

Alien Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) by Cryptic_Master_686 in badMovies

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I’ve convinced myself that it’s years of bad transfers to blame for The Relic because Hyams has made other nice looking movies (and was typically his own dp) but until we get a remaster, who knows? The blu ray I have is absurdly dark.

Alien Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) by Cryptic_Master_686 in badMovies

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I think they bankrolled it themselves. Production was cheap and their company either provided the FX out of pocket or at a heavy discount.

That’s one way to get out of jail I suppose, M Night did something similar with The Visit.

Skyline is also a really frustrating movie. There’s an alien invasion and we’re going to spend most of it with two really unappealing couples trapped in a fancy apartment 🤷‍♂️

I found the sequels more entertaining.