We have a Pitch Meeting thread now. Threads are _tight!_

[JasonPratt]

"Oh, so this guy's a little sketchy!" "Oh, definitely." "...not as sketchy as Grandpa Joe, though..."

[JasonPratt]

"Oh, so do we have enough story here to stretch this to two movies?" "No, definitely not." "So, why, why, uh, why are we d-?" "Because money." "OH, MONEY IS THAT THING THAT I LIKE!"



"... -- what are we doin' here, man?" "... uh, money." "Oh, yeah, money, I love it!"

[JasonPratt]

The end of the beginning ends, which is also the end.



"So within the first ten minutes, Smaug is dead, and the second movie is over."

[JasonPratt]

"Oh, subverting expectations by flipping characters around even though it doesn't make sense, is TIGHT!" {characters now flipped in the Pitch Meeting}

[al_infierno]

I died a bit with laughter when I noticed the character swap gag in that video. 

[airboy]

"But happy other than that?  Very happy other than that!"

[JasonPratt]

"ok, I feel, I feel like that's pretty messed up for a movie. [...] I did not like that sentence at all!"

(You can probably guess the topic from context. )

[JasonPratt]

"Oh, I feel like they should have some clothes on..." "No, sir, NEW Mutants."

[JasonPratt]

"So that wacky editing thing, that's gonna match the brooding tone, right?" "Who's to say?"

[al_infierno]

Writer Guy saying, "Who's to say?" has become one of my favorite Pitch Meeting-isms of late. 

[JasonPratt]

One of the more epic entries...



"Oh, so it's going to LOOK cool! -- okay, never mind about character then."

[al_infierno]

Yeesh.  I really don't understand the appeal of movies like Tenant.  Granted I haven't seen it, but the Pitch Meeting makes it look like a bunch of pseudointellectual mumbo-jumbo clumsily strung together into something resembling a "plot" which justifies some cool time-wobbly set pieces that Nolan really wanted to bring to the big screen.  Watching this movie must be the equivalent of trying to read a Thomas Pynchon novel when you're illiterate.

[JasonPratt]

I haven't seen it yet but I am totally sure that Nolan started with "I want to try filming this" and worked backward.

Just like the movie, ha! 

[al_infierno]

 

[JasonPratt]

Spoilers for a film you've probably already heard or read all the spoilers you can stand about by now... 

"Well, I guess there was a chance she could have turned into a killer whale, but that would have made the final fight a lot less exciting." "I WHOLEHEARTEDLY disagree with that!"