What Movies Have You Seen Lately?

Quote: Ayecarumba

Quote: Mosca

...Along those lines, DirecTV on demand has The Wrecking Crew, a documentary about the LA session musicians who played on about half the AM radio hits of the 60s and 70s. I loved it, especially Carol Kaye talking about how the musicians often came up with the riffs that made a song famous, like the bass line on "The Beat Goes On". Produced and directed by Denny Tedesco, son of Wrecking Crew guitarist Tommy Tedesco, most of the filming was completed 20 years ago but the movie was held up over lack of money and wrangling over music rights. It was finally completed in 2014 through angel donors and a Kickstart campaign....

I'm curious how the Kickstart money works in a situation like this. Do folks who give get a portion of the money if the project makes a profit?

Good question, I have no idea. I'd known about this film's existence for years, but I never thought it would be released. Now it's here, and worth the wait.

On "A Taste of Honey" by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, the drum part, where the bass drum goes thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump-thump leading into the melody: the musicians were having trouble with the long pause, so Hal Blaine counted the beat with his bass drum, and Alpert liked it so much that they made it part of the song. Lots of great stuff.

Quote: zippyboy

Maybe you're too old to appreciate it now. It reminded me of a modern Kentucky Fried Movie or Groove Tube, which I saw in high school. Maybe the Internet and cable TV has diminished the impact of ribald comedy today; its novelty has worn out. But I laughed in parts. But I still laugh at fart jokes too.

I'm too young to have appreciated those movies, from a different era than my high school, and a different culture too.

I quite like uncomfortable humour, the cringeworthy stuff of Fawlty Towers, and the Office, and there was elements of that here, but much was one-note theatre of the grotesque. And I've seen it done far funnier too.

Oh well :)

Quote: Ayecarumba

Quote: Mosca

...Along those lines, DirecTV on demand has The Wrecking Crew, a documentary about the LA session musicians who played on about half the AM radio hits of the 60s and 70s. I loved it, especially Carol Kaye talking about how the musicians often came up with the riffs that made a song famous, like the bass line on "The Beat Goes On". Produced and directed by Denny Tedesco, son of Wrecking Crew guitarist Tommy Tedesco, most of the filming was completed 20 years ago but the movie was held up over lack of money and wrangling over music rights. It was finally completed in 2014 through angel donors and a Kickstart campaign....

I'm curious how the Kickstart money works in a situation like this. Do folks who give get a portion of the money if the project makes a profit?

I've never seen any KS project give back money if the owners make money... and I think that offering a cut of profits is against the Kickstarter rules. It's not an investment. You pays, you get a reward, the project happens. If someone makes a million out of it, well done them, the backers get the agreed upon reward.

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Quote: Ayecarumba

Quote: Mosca

...Along those lines, DirecTV on demand has The Wrecking Crew, a documentary about the LA session musicians who played on about half the AM radio hits of the 60s and 70s. I loved it, especially Carol Kaye talking about how the musicians often came up with the riffs that made a song famous, like the bass line on "The Beat Goes On". Produced and directed by Denny Tedesco, son of Wrecking Crew guitarist Tommy Tedesco, most of the filming was completed 20 years ago but the movie was held up over lack of money and wrangling over music rights. It was finally completed in 2014 through angel donors and a Kickstart campaign....

I'm curious how the Kickstart money works in a situation like this. Do folks who give get a portion of the money if the project makes a profit?

I've never seen any KS project give back money if the owners make money... and I think that offering a cut of profits is against the Kickstarter rules. It's not an investment. You pays, you get a reward, the project happens. If someone makes a million out of it, well done them, the backers get the agreed upon reward.

There was a recent news story about a board game designer who asked for funding in order to turn out a game. He apparently took the cash, paid some bills, then worked on other projects. I think the feds are going after him for not fulfilling his promise.

I am, frankly, amazed, that people give money so someone else can make money. It feels so unAmerican....

Quote: Ayecarumba

There was a recent news story about a board game designer who asked for funding in order to turn out a game. He apparently took the cash, paid some bills, then worked on other projects. I think the feds are going after him for not fulfilling his promise.

I am, frankly, amazed, that people give money so someone else can make money. It feels so unAmerican....

There's been at least two dodgy boardgame kickstarters, probably more. "Up Front" raised several hundred of thousands for a reprint of a classic. The company making it had existing debts up the wazoo, and the funds from KS have been seized to pay their debts.

"The Doom that took Atlantic City" (I think) had a developer who took the money, spent a bunch of it on moving state to "set up" his company to produce the game, and then said 'sorry, it's all gone'. I suspect he's in big trouble for fraud. The whole operation was dodgy as hell.

These won't be the last...

I'm holding out for a "Futurama" movie.

Anybody seen Advantageous?
Was criusing yahoo and ths really caught my eye
"The best sci-fi movie of the year is here — and it's not Mad Max"

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/best-sci-fi-movie-not-141200823.html

Quote: Wizard

I saw Jurassic World a few days ago. It is a worthy addition to the series. The original is still the best and I think the sequels are all about equal to each other.

About equal to most analysts expectation for the movie. They were shocked when it made that much money so fast. Jurassic World made $450 million domestic in 15 days beating Avengers (original film) by 2 days. Avengers: Age of Ultron took 54 days to reach $450 million.

The analysts were betting Jurassic World would come in below Avengers.

Personally, I think analysts have no reliable way to predict what older viewers will do. Older viewers have warm feeling about the original film and they are curious. Analysts would never have predicted at the beginning of the year 2014 that American Sniper would be the top film.

I don't get JW. It has to be a bunch of dino's
chasing people around, that's all they can
do. That's what the first 3 were. How could
this one possibly be any different. Big whup.

Quote: Wizard

I saw Jurassic World a few days ago. It is a worthy addition to the series. The original is still the best and I think the sequels are all about equal to each other.

We caught it this afternoon. It was okay enough, about what we thought it would be. A pleasant diversion, nicely shot, fun to look at.