you really couldn't make many movies from 40-50 years ago today. this is due to the unavailability of certain discontinued film stocks and the deaths of many principal actors, directors, and other various crew members
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Also, they already made the movie. What are they going to do, just make the same movie again? Some sort of a "re-make?" Preposterous
aug 30, 2025, 1:44 pm • 11 0 • view
they don’t even let you hire John Cassavetes anymore!!
aug 30, 2025, 1:50 pm • 14 0 • view
And good luck finding a matte painter
aug 30, 2025, 2:19 pm • 6 0 • view
Also you would probably get sued for blatant copyright infringement.
aug 30, 2025, 1:23 pm • 51 0 • view
You could never make Blazing Saddles today…because some asshole already made it
aug 30, 2025, 1:37 pm • 20 0 • view
missed opportunity for the necromancy industry here
aug 30, 2025, 2:25 pm • 5 0 • view
I am close friends with a cast member of Life of Brian, but it is true she would probably not be willing to reprise her role
aug 30, 2025, 2:38 pm • 7 0 • view
I'm sure AI will let us get over these hurdles any day now!
aug 30, 2025, 1:24 pm • 3 0 • view
Not only that, but most of those movies took more than one day to make. Several of them took many days.
aug 30, 2025, 1:54 pm • 50 1 • view
Things move slow when the average age of the crew is 110.
aug 30, 2025, 1:45 pm • 28 0 • view
Plus nobody smokes anymore
aug 30, 2025, 1:48 pm • 37 0 • view
make em on da computer
aug 30, 2025, 3:36 pm • 2 0 • view
The saddest part of the whole thing is that if Palin had a quarter of the chops of his youth, he could have come up with this himself.
aug 30, 2025, 3:17 pm • 3 0 • view
I think we could make The Sting
aug 30, 2025, 3:16 pm • 17 0 • view
Capture that big wave of ragtime revival
aug 30, 2025, 3:39 pm • 2 0 • view