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kodachrome-net · 1 month

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Patio Theatre, Chicago, July 2011

#patio theatre #patio theater #theatres #theaters #chicago theatres #movie palace #vintage theatres #architecture #atmospheric theaters #photographers on tumblr #original photography #lumix dmc-fz28 #2011 #bruce sharp #movie theater

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michael-pemulis · 1 year

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even if you don’t play DnD definitely go see honor among thieves; it’s super fun and well-done and accessible to people who’ve never played. if you want a slightly enhanced experience, do what I did an go with folks who do play, and ask them some of their favorite settings, character types, creatures, or tropes on the way over so you can be delighted when you recognize something.

#I was so thrilled to know about the underdark #and owlbears and mimics #really enhanced my delight #dndhat #dadhat #idk how long it’s been since I went to the movies #years probably #but it was so much fun #i was really impressed by how enjoyable the movie was for me #not knowing any of the tropes or lore or such #very accessible. they talk in interviews about using structures viewers will be familiar with to ease them into the setting #and they do a good job of not getting bogged down in terminology and just showing what things are/do #at the same time there are tons of settings and creatures and items that the friends I went with could recognize and enjoy #most weren’t plot related but they obviously added to the atmosphere #fight scenes were great #dialogue was funny #and there were a few times where you could even intuit mechanics despite it not being part of the movie #j next to me in the theater: persuasion check #or the dm making a complicated puzzle or obstacle course only for the party to immediately break it or go around #rip thank you for your service

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mrderelict · 1 month

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Soft colors, dark atmosphere.

#sigma lens #rome #Key #sigma fp #65mm #italy #musical theater #dark atmosphere #soft colors

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thisgodwontforgiveyou · 11 months

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its also intersting how horror always artificially gets aged up to an Adult demographic despite literally all of the most dedicated horror fans being 16

#altho a lot of that is the marketing teams knowing it attracts 16 year olds specifically because of the atmosphere of maturity #i mean that was kind of the only reason a movie like friday the 13th got popular was by it making a big deal #about how they were gonna GET you for seeing it if you were a kid #while the movie theater people were like on the phone with the CIA being told to only let children into the screening

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purrtyhatemachine · 5 months

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I actually think the most scared ive ever been while watching a horror movie was the scene in skinamarink where the phone’s eyes are just like staring in the dark and then it rings really loud. which is crazy because i honestly didnt care for the movie much at all. but i must admit that part got me good

#being in the dark theater and my friend and i being the ONLY ones in there really helped with the atmosphere #it was like agonizingly scaring to me #scary*

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preciouspatriots · 2 years

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very rarely does a movie live up to my every last expectation, but The Black Phone was genuinely incredible and my favorite movie i’ve seen in theaters this year

#i’ve been excited to see it since Before it was pushed back months in the box office #the kid actors were incredible #the brother and sister relationship was SO great #ethan hawke scared me relentlessly #and the concept ate #the theater i was in was the perfect atmosphere too #also finney and robin…..i know what you are dog meme #the black phone

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garthnadermemestash · 11 months

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Flerfs be like,

#flerf #flat Earf #science #atmosphere #atmosflat #round earth #pathetic3 #garth nader memes #mystery sovcit theater memes #mistaken con man #mst memes #tumblr memes #dankest memes

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you-can-be-what-you-want-to-be · 2 years

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I absolutely think when watching some thing you should keep in mind what themes and such there are but also I don’t think you have to expect that out of anyone first watch because they don’t have all the pieces yet and their job at that moment isn’t to be writing a video essay or anything it’s to be having a new experience. Vice versa too obviously don’t judge something you experienced once without all the pieces stupid but like yeah don’t call someone dumb for not picking up on a theme when they are simply letting emotions build during a scene and only pay attention to that scene at that time.

#like don’t watch something once and not understand it and then not attempt to and say the film was stupid and confusing #but also like I’m seeing everyone rag on people who didn’t get nope right away and it’s like dude it’s a new movie.#I went to the theater to watch it yesterday #and was expecting a horror movie. You need tension and atmosphere and build up to experience a horror movie in a horrific way #I was in no way looking for symbolism at that time. I also wasn’t looking for things to critique.#and when done with the movie for the most part I was thinking about individual scenes not how they interconnected #I’m thinking about it NOW but like. you can start with just experiencing something #like until you’re familiar with the thing you’re taking it one thing at a time you’re not connecting dots

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natandacat · 1 year

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Udpate: completely obsessed by that Orpheus production

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#I WISH I HAD BEEN THERE #its such a magical intimate atmosphere and i want to be there to experience the marvel!!!!#it NEVER happens that a recording captures even a fraction of the awe of real life theater/opera/etc #i miss going to the theater/performances several times a month....

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ew--gross--blog · 1 year

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Date night❤️❤️❤️ this theater is absolutely 😍

#date night #stephen king #christine #polk theater #love #fun #things to do #atmospheric theater #horror #plymouth fury #1950s #1980s movies #adapted from a novel #beautiful #1927

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msclaritea · 3 months

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Shelving Movies for Fun and Profit

Destroying Movies for Fun and Profit

If you ask any director, screenwriter, actor, stunt performer, gaffer, editor, cameraperson or other Hollywood worker, they’ll likely tell you a variation on the same story: “My dream, ever since I was a little kid making home movies, was to one day grant Warner Bros. a deduction for a loss sustained upon the abandonment of property (reported on Form 4797).” Yes, little is more exciting for an aspiring filmmaker than the idea that—with a lot of dedication and a pinch of luck—their years of driving Lyfts and waiting tables could pay off, resulting in a star-studded line item that will be shelved forever so that a major studio can claim a tax write-off. Ah, the magic of the movies!

This practice is back in the news because the powers that be at WB have gone back to their original decision regarding the hybrid live-action/animated Looney Tunes movie Coyote vs. Acme. Despite the film testing well and generating plenty of buyer interest, a team of execs who haven’t seen the finished movie look like they’re going to “unceremoniously delete it” for tax purposes. Sorry, filmmakers, but apparently it actually looks better to stockholders if WB doesn’t actually put movies out. “Hollywood accounting” has its reputation for a reason, but it’s never been so obviously broken.

It might seem like Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav is a true innovator of idiocy, but the man behind the permanent shelving of movies like Batgirl and Scoob! Holiday Haunt is just ramping up a long tradition of burning art to save a quick buck.

After buying up DreamWorks, Universal decided to bury the musical-comedy Larrikins instead of selling it to Netflix. Universal president Jimmy Horowitz told Tim Minchin that “It’s schmuck insurance – if someone made a lot of money out of it, we’ll look like schmucks.” That mindset certainly applies here: Coyote vs. Acme is a creation from an earlier group of WB leaders, and would naturally be on the chopping block from a spiteful new C-suite who also happens to hate movies.

Even more relevant is a case from almost 100 years ago: Charlie Chaplin literally torched the film negatives of A Woman of the Sea back in 1933, in front of multiple witnesses, so that he could claim the movie as a loss for tax purposes.

The tax code may have changed since then, but the logic remains the same: Get rid of the movie so you can avoid all the final complications and lingering expenses associated with its “useful life.” If you cut that life short, pulling off an accounting assassination, you save a little immediate cash at the low, low cost of…art. It’s always been a crass practice, more often performed by resentful new regimes or moneygrubbers who’ve found themselves attracting the gaze of Sauron’s IRS. But now shelving movies, completed films that other companies want, is picking up steam as standard practice. Actually making things is such an outdated, small-time business model. It’s far more lucrative to remove things other people made.

For example, if Disney keeps all of its movies and TV shows on Disney+, it has to pay residuals to the people who made them. They’ve also spread out the costs of a movie like Crater (which was available to watch for a mere seven weeks during the summer of 2023) over the years that the movie will ostensibly be available to the public and, therefore, creating value for Disney. Remove these movies and shows from the streamer, or better yet, remove them permanently (like Disney did with Crater), and their value can be added to an impairment charge—basically, a claim to the tax man that something a company owns has become, suddenly, worthless.

Disney recorded a $1.5 billion impairment charge last year. As Julia Rock points out, this means that Disney is claiming something pretty odd: Both “that the assets were producing so little value that it’s cheaper to destroy them than to keep them and that the assets were worth $1.5 billion.” Huh. There’s no push for anyone to justify this contradiction. The IRS isn’t asking questions. It doesn’t matter if a movie is good, or bad, or somewhere in between. It doesn’t matter if it had the potential to one day be rediscovered as a cult classic. It certainly doesn’t matter that even the worst pieces of Z-grade trash are still worth preserving as cultural artifacts. As an aside, the HBO Original Fahrenheit 451 is still streaming on Max.

And sure, you can say that you didn’t want to watch those movies anyways. Kid movies! Superheroes! Cartoons, yuck. I get it, you’re tough and cool. But one day, this will happen to something that you were looking forward to. It will happen to something that would have moved you. Something you’d have remembered fondly, something that would’ve turned your day around. But even if you’re the most jaded, anti-art, movie-hating curmudgeon, you should remember that, released or not, you’re helping pay for this scheme anyways.

“When intertwined with public funding through state and federal tax incentives, the practice of movie and television write-downs represents a troubling exploitation of taxpayer funds,” writes tax attorney Andrew Leahey. “Coupled with rapidly expanding state tax incentives, it represents a multibillion-dollar Rube Goldberg machine that culminates in a nickel being pulled from your pocket, strapped to an Acme rocket, and fired directly into the bank accounts of movie studios.”

Every loophole taken by these studios doesn’t just rob us of art. It burns the work of countless artists. It steals from our quality of life by monkeying around with our broken tax system, allowing our most powerful corporations to skip out on their bills. It picks the remaining shreds of flesh off the bones of our culture, all to further fatten a few vultures at the top.

Politicians like Texas Representative Joaquin Castro are calling for the government to “review this conduct,” but the only people who seem to have the power here are those actually creating the movies. They can boycott the guilty studios, and we can support them, but there are so few left that aren’t exploiting this practice to its most predatory extremes. Cooking the books has always been a Hollywood practice. Burning them is new.

Jacob Oller is Movies Editor at Paste Magazine. You can follow him on Twitter at @jacoboller.

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It's too bad that this Paste article was written by a Leftist, who let their biases show, ie pushing Castro, and the 'Sauron's IRS'. But otherwise, it is spot on. What the studios are doing to Intellectual Properties is a SIN. It's cruel, it's greedy and so fucking unnecessary. Just how much money do these studios and their shareholders, NEED? I better not find out that the Supernatural Planet Series was destroyed.