So I'll hold off judgement for a while, but this looks to be borrowing a lot from Hogfather.
Posted Sep 10, 2020, 7:49 AM UTC
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Sharing the single point of "assassinate santa" does not mean it is borrowing anything from hogfather.
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Yeah. If another anthropomorphic personification has to take over for him, then I'd be interested in Naratavia's response.
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Then they'd be ripping off Sandman.
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Agreed. I saw that post yesterday and immediately made the connection to Hogfather, but it never even occurred to me to assume it's "borrowing a lot".
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The comic book character Lobo was hired to kill Santa back in 1992. That's four years before Hogfather came out. Sir Terry didn't invent the idea - he just perfected it.
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Well, I don't know. There isn't exactly a lot of info out about this movie, but just because one plot point is similar, doesn't mean they're borrowing from Discworld. Personally I think it highly unlikely that any Hollywood movie would go in any sort of similar direction as Pratchett movie.
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its not like it can be worse than the upcoming watch series
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Ok I saw Walton Higgins name and I'm in. Ever since the shield and justified I have LOVED him as an actor. I'll watch a trailer and see what I think of the plot, but he can get me to watch a mediocre movie more often than not.
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He was entertaining even as a one dimensional character in Predators.
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I think he is truly underrated as an actor. Every time he came on son's of anarchy he stole the scene for me. His last performance was amazing on there plus Boyd Crowder, I mean holy crap good acting.
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why is mel gibson given a pass? he has been publicly horrible to his wife, used racist and antisemitic slurs. i do'nt understand why he isn't flat out cancelled.
i will not be seeing this movie.
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Are you talking about the same industry that ignored and even protected Harvey Weinstein for decades?
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so are you proving my point? why are we still going to see these a-hole's movies once we know they are a-holes? the industry follows the pocketbooks, if we don't watch, they won't get platform.
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I see his movies because I like his movies. Mad Max, Air America, Lethal Weapon, Maverick. I’m able to separate the artist from the art. Movies involve more than just one person, so if you won’t see a movie just because one person that had something to do with it is a twatwaffle then that says something about you not being able to separate the art from the artist.
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i'm pretty damn ok with what this says about me.
why would i want to separate the art from the artist, when the artist doesn't think i'm a human and hurts others.
there is no nobility in continuing to support someone who is hurtful to others, even for art.
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Wait, that's Mel Gibson? I thought it was Pierce Brosnan.
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I've never heard of this film, I am confused
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That's because it hasn't come out yet and the distribution rights have only now just been purchased by Saban, the guy/company behind Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. But it sounds like it's already been shot and is in the can because they plan to release it before the end of the year.
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Maybe I need to watch more trailers... I had no idea Gibson was in anything new
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There's no trailer for this out yet. But he's been in a few things the past 5 or so years. He also directed Hacksaw Ridge.
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I knew he was in Machete 2 and Daddy's Home 2 (I really hated the latter)
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...Does it? "Someone tries to have Father Christmas killed" is not really all that specific
Killed, kidnapped, goes on vacation, retires, is replaced by a robot - pretty standard Christmas movie stuff,
You forgot "becomes Tim Allen", but tbf I can understand why