David Goyer: Warner Bros. Putting DC Movies On Hold
7 January 2009 9:32 PM, PST | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news
In an IESB interview for The Unborn, director/writer David Goyer says all DC properties are currently on hold for the time being in regards to film development. This comes as confirmation of what we’ve previously suspected.
When probed about Supermax and Justice League, Goyer had this to say.
“A lot of the DC movies at Warner Brothers are all on hold while they figure out, they’re going to come up with some new plan, methodology, things like that so everything has just been pressed pause at the moment.”
Including the two movies mentioned, Superman and Green Lantern would also be on hold. With an across the board freeze, Warner Bros. may be looking to create a cohesive DC Universe.
The follow-up question asked whether or not this was attributed to the success of The Dark Knight and Goyer continued.
“It was the double header of both" (Iron Man)
Cass, you simply have no taste for junk food.
Next weekend, I'll probably watch In Bruges. I have it at home from Netflix. Has anyone seen it yet?
Next weekend, I'll probably watch In Bruges. I have it at home from Netflix. Has anyone seen it yet?
http://www.greatsociety.org/forums/index.php/topic,3864.0.html
Wow. I haven't experienced censoring for years...
Lot of life lessons in that movie.
Following the success of Family Guy's special Star Wars spoof, "Blue Harvest," Seth MacFarlane and company are wrapping up their latest trip to a galaxy "Far, Far Away" with a send-up of The Empire Strikes Back, "Something-Something-Something Dark Side."
"Blue Harvest" is one of Family Guy's most popular and successful episodes, pulling down big ratings and soaring on DVD. The "Something-Something-Something Dark Side" follow-up will air sometime in fall, 2009.
Of course, a Return of the Jedi parody is not far behind with Family Guy's “Episode VI: The Great Muppet Caper" currently in the writing process.
I hope that color scheme is not being revived.
Yes Man was actually pretty funny. Not any sort of classic, but the Red Bull + running photography bit made me laugh until I started throwing up in my throat a bit.
Despite the Internet leak several weeks ago of a nearly complete version of the movie, X-Men Origins: Wolverine topped the May 1 weekend box office with an estimated $87 million in ticket sales domestically, the Reuters news service reported.
Hollywood eyes $70 zombie movie wowing Cannes
CANNES, France (CNN) -- A budding British director is enjoying success on a shoestring at Cannes with "Colin," a new zombie feature that cost a scarcely believable $70 to make.
Japanese distributors are currently in negotiations for the rights to the film and buzz around the no-budget zombie chiller has attracted interest from some major American distributors -- all of which is a very nice surprise for the team behind "Colin."
"We were almost fainting at the list of people who were coming [to the final market screening of the film]," said Helen Grace of Left Films who is helping the film's director Marc Price publicize the film in Cannes. "Representatives from major American distributors -- some of the Hollywood studios."
"When we say it's a low budget film, people presume a couple of hundred thousand [dollars]. People can't figure out how it's possible. What Marc's achieved has left people astonished."
It was by advertising for volunteer zombies on social networking site Facebook, borrowing make-up from Hollywood blockbusters and teaching himself how to produce special effects that thrifty director Price was able to make the film for less than the price of a zombie DVD box set.
"The approach was to say to people, 'OK guys, we don't have any money, so bring your own equipment,'" the the 30 year-old director told CNN.
With help from a makeshift band of friends and volunteers, Price shot and edited the feature -- which ingeniously spins the zombie genre on it's head by telling the story entirely from the zombie's perspective -- over a period of 18 months while working nights part-time as a booker for a taxi company.
Online social networking was an invaluable tool in both generating buzz and cheaply sourcing the undead: "We went on Facebook and MySpace and said 'Who wants to be a zombie?'" Price told CNN. "We managed to get 50 brilliantly made up zombies and stuff them into a living room."
In keeping with Price's beg and borrow approach, most of the zombie make-up in the make-up artists' cases was inherited from other movies. "One of our make-up people came off 'X-Men 3,' so we were having the same latex that was put on Wolverine," he told CNN.
Price says he came up with the idea to make a no-budget film because he realized that he and his friends would never be able to scrape together enough money to make even a low-budget film.
"A couple of friends were round a few years ago watching Romero's 'Dawn of the Dead,' recalls Price. "And we were lamenting the fact that we could never make a zombie film -- we wouldn't be able to acquire a budget."
"Then I just woke up before everyone else -- I was probably a bit hungover -- and I wondered if a zombie movie from a zombie's perspective had been done before."
The end result is "Colin," a zombie film "with a heart," Price says, shot using production values cribbed from endless re-watching of making-of featurettes and director's commentaries from his personal DVD collection.
Zombie fan Web site zombiefriends.com called it "as original, compelling and thought provoking as [George] Romero's 'Night of the Living Dead,'" while horror magazine SCARS predicted it would "revolutionize zombie cinema."
Price hopes that the film will generate enough interest to kick-start his career and allow him to make another film. "Hopefully we'll be able to generate some interest and maybe try to get some kind of a budget for our next film -- maybe a bigger budget, £100, I don't know."
Price's cost-effective filmmaking may make him the envy of film executives sweating over whether their latest projects will break even, but even "Colin" may suffer at the market: "In a strange way it's kind of counter-productive." admits Price.
"Anyone involved in sales will say, 'Oh, it cost [$70], well how much do you expect us to pay for that?' but with the current economic climate it seems to be a great way to make movies."
So, what exactly did Price spend the famous $70 on?
"We bought a crowbar and a couple of tapes, and I think we got some tea and coffee as well -- not the expensive stuff either, the very basic kind," Price told CNN. "Just to keep the zombies happy."
You mean the version they shot or his original draft(s)?
Mere days after Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull star Shia LaBeouf dropped the bombshell hint that director Steven Spielberg had "cracked" the story for a fifth Indy adventure, producer Frank Marshall is now confirming another movie is indeed in the works.
"Fringe" co-producer/writer Brad Caleb Kane will be writing a movie based on the View-Master toy, which first came on the market in 1939.
Will Forte's bumbling Saturday Night Live spy MacGruber is headed for the big screen in a movie to be directed by Jorma Taccone, the actor who played Chaka in the recent Land of the Lost movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter; Kristen Wiig will reprise her Vicki character for the feature, and Val Kilmer and Ryan Phillippe are in talks to join the cast.
In a world in which Hasbro's Transformers and G.I. Joe are adapted into movies that gross hundreds of millions of dollars, to say nothing of sales of DVDs and tie-in products, it seems inevitable that more movies based on toy lines should be on the way. But... a movie based on Lego?
Nacho - Was that the leap from the wall to the tree?
http://www.cloudywithachanceofmeatballs.com/
i really think we've turned the corner on kids' movies. almost everything looks really cool, cute, and outside of the box nowadays, from Wall-E to Coraline to this.
I want to credit Pixar with the transformation because before they came around, Disney was putting out absolute garbage and getting away with it because… that's all there was.
who did they get bought out by now?
Yeah...last I heard Pixar had the Scrooge McDuck tower and was diving into money all on their own. No buyout.
So, RC...no reaction from you about Disney buying Marvel?
homo.
See Kate Beckinsale naked! And, oh yeah, there's a movie ...
It seems the film Creation, a major-production biopic about Charles Darwin starring Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly, won't be seen in the United States because no distributor with the guts to stand up to the religious right in this country can be found:
The film was chosen to open the Toronto Film Festival and has its British premiere on Sunday. It has been sold in almost every territory around the world, from Australia to Scandinavia.
However, US distributors have resolutely passed on a film which will prove hugely divisive in a country where, according to a Gallup poll conducted in February, only 39 per cent of Americans believe in the theory of evolution.
Movieguide.org, an influential site which reviews films from a Christian perspective, described Darwin as the father of eugenics and denounced him as "a racist, a bigot and an 1800s naturalist whose legacy is mass murder". His "half-baked theory" directly influenced Adolf Hitler and led to "atrocities, crimes against humanity, cloning and genetic engineering", the site stated.
The film has sparked fierce debate on US Christian websites, with a typical comment dismissing evolution as "a silly theory with a serious lack of evidence to support it despite over a century of trying".
Jeremy Thomas, the Oscar-winning producer of Creation, said he was astonished that such attitudes exist 150 years after On The Origin of Species was published.
"That's what we're up against. In 2009. It's amazing," he said.
"The film has no distributor in America. It has got a deal everywhere else in the world but in the US, and it's because of what the film is about. People have been saying this is the best film they've seen all year, yet nobody in the US has picked it up.
"It is unbelievable to us that this is still a really hot potato in America. There's still a great belief that He made the world in six days. It's quite difficult for we in the UK to imagine religion in America. We live in a country which is no longer so religious. But in the US, outside of New York and LA, religion rules.
"Charles Darwin is, I suppose, the hero of the film. But we tried to make the film in a very even-handed way. Darwin wasn't saying 'kill all religion', he never said such a thing, but he is a totem for people."
No wonder conservatives believe liberals lack the courage of their convictions. We prove them right every other day.
according to a Gallup poll conducted in February, only 39 per cent of Americans believe in the theory of evolution.
RiffTrax: Christmas Shorts-Stravaganza!
12/16/2009 - 12/17/2009
EVENT OVERVIEW
The stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 are back on the big screen this holiday season with special guest "Weird Al" Yankovic!
Grab your friends for this one-of-a-kind hilarious holiday event! RiffTrax: Christmas Shorts-Stravaganza will broadcast LIVE to movie theatres nationwide on Wednesday, December 16th with an ENCORE on Thursday, December 17th. Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy (Tom Servo) and Bill Corbett (Crow T. Robot), now of RiffTrax.com, will zing their wisecracking commentary at a wonderfully warped collection of Christmas shorts for some much needed comic relief.
The evening will feature a collection of brand new and old favorite shorts including the bizarre animated “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” classic commercials and a musical short extolling the virtues of pork.
... We get a suffering James Dean in whiteface, the teenage vampire named Edward (Robert Pattinson), who adores Bella (Stewart). But he can't kiss her without moaning and turning colors, because if he loses control he might open up one of her veins. Edward has been a teenager for almost a hundred years, and he's still no good at it.
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In addition, there's lots of naïve conversation about what will happen in 50 years, when Bella is old and Edward, an immortal, is still young. Surprisingly, there's no conversation at all about what's going to happen when Bella is, say, 21, and the idea of dating a guy who can only kiss her - and even then, not without going into spasms - becomes less than completely satisfying.
He's too old.
ashamed to admit I've never seen Star Trek 1,2, or 3. Well, maybe I'm not ashamed. But my inner geek is lacking some street cred.
ashamed to admit I've never seen Star Trek 1,2, or 3. Well, maybe I'm not ashamed. But my inner geek is lacking some street cred.
Thank god there's someone else out there who missed them, too. Though, I did enjoy watching Wrath of Khan last night - there's just something about having Nach there mouthing every line throughout the whole movie, and grabbing my arms and shaking me when it gets exciting. I'm worn out!
You'll have to get me some mescaline, first.
EXCLUSIVE NEWS: Wesley Snipes says he's interested in doing Blade 4!
When John Hughes left us in August 2009, it was presumed that he had long ago put away his pen and turned his back on the movie business. But a recent article in Vanity Fair -- an interview with his sons -- revealed that he had continued writing through the years.
Now, one of those newly discovered screenplays might make it to the big screen. Paramount Pictures has reportedly purchased the rights to Hughes' Grisby's Go Broke, the story of a dysfunctional Chicago family that is financially ruined when the economy went to hell.
The Grisby's "are forced to move to the sticks losing their friends, all of the while becoming closer to one another,” according to Slashfilm.com. "The tone is said to be similar to Modern Family."
ERIC ROBERTS VS. “SHARKTOPUS”!
Not since the liger has an animal hybrid generated so much buzz. Syfy has announced that Eric Roberts will star in SHARKTOPUS, a new Original Movie being produced by Roger Corman that will premiere on the channel later this year.
Roberts is no stranger to creature features or Corman, having previously appeared in the Corman-produced RAPTOR (in which he contended with dinosaur clones) and CYCLOPS (in which he went up against the mythological one-eyed giant—as Emperor Tiberius!). The actor—whose higher-profile recent fantasy credits include THE DARK KNIGHT and a guest-star stint on HEROES last month—plays a research scientist who, along with his daughter, develops a secret military weapon: a hybrid shark/octopus that goes on a destructive and deadly rampage along the resort beaches of Mexico.
SHARKTOPUS is being produced by Corman and his wife Julie and directed by Syfy feature vet Declan O’Brien (ROCK MONSTER, MONSTER ARK and CYCLOPS, plus the recent WRONG TURN III: LEFT FOR DEAD for Fox); shooting has already commenced in Mexico. “Part of the deal that we made with Roger was that he also has to do a cameo in the film,” a Syfy source tells Fango. Look for more updates on SHARKTOPUS on this site soon.
A film I'm still dying to see is The Escapist, a thriller that's been buzzed about at various film festivals over the past year. Apparently, it's pretty awesome. So hearing that director Rupert Wyatt will be getting behind the camera for 20th Century Fox's Planet of the Apes prequel is quite exciting news. Deadline New York reports that there's no start date, but Wyatt's come aboard to develop to direct. The script's by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. No other details are available at this time -- but it's gonna be hard to make a worse version than Tim Burtons.
“DARK CRYSTAL” sequel seeing the light of day?
It has been quite a while since we’ve heard anything about THE POWER OF THE DARK CRYSTAL, the long-mooted follow-up to Jim Henson’s 1982 creepy puppet cult classic, but according to artists-designers Brian and Wendy Froud, the project is still moving forward.
TotalFilm reports that the husband-wife team, while out promoting their new fortune-telling card set THE HEART OF FAERIE ORACLE, talked about the sequel. The Frouds were both involved with THE DARK CRYSTAL as well as LABYRINTH, designing the sets, props and puppets used in both films.
“I don’t know how many years they’ve been trying to do a DARK CRYSTAL 2, but we are involved,” Brian tells the site. “I have done some designs and I’ve been talking to the director. We’ve been involved in the script. We don’t know quite when it’s gonna go.”
“It’s inching its way closer,” Wendy adds. “The backgrounds will be CGI, but the main characters will be puppets. They decided that was really the only way they wanted to do it to keep the integrity.”
The last news released about the project said that THE POWER OF THE DARK CRYSTAL would be heading for release in 2011, with a script by Craig Pearce. Nothing has been confirmed yet, but die-hard DARK CRYSTAL fans will have to be content for now with the second of TokyoPop’s manga-style DARK CRYSTAL graphic novels, due out this summer.
No one sets out to make a train wreck. Actually, comparing it to a train wreck isn't really fair to train wrecks, because people actually want to watch those.
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You're supposed to reach an "End Point." I never did, but I was bored so I told them I had a vision of L. Ron. They said, "What did he say?" "Pull my finger," was my response. They said I was done.
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My script was very, VERY different than what ended up on the screen. My screenplay was darker, grittier and had a very compelling story with rich characters. What my screenplay didn't have was slow motion at every turn, Dutch tilts, campy dialogue, aliens in KISS boots, and everyone wearing Bob Marley wigs.
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I HAVE no idea why they wanted to go in this new direction, but here's what I heard from someone in John's camp: Out of all the books L. Ron wrote, this was the one the church founder wanted most to become a movie. He wrote extensive notes on how the movie should be made.
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I could have taken my name completely off the movie, but my agent and attorney talked me out of it. There was a lot of money at stake.
Now, looking back at the movie with fresh eyes, I can't help but be strangely proud of it. Because out of all the sucky movies, mine is the suckiest.
Well, I finally saw Withnail and I last night. After the better part of a decade of looking through video rental stores but a half-assed commitment that never got me to buy a used copy, I finally wrestled it to the top of our new Netflix queue and we were entertained mightily by this darling little movie.
For no good reason that we can see, Fox has hired Skip Woods (the writer behind Swordfish, Hitman, and the upcoming A-Team movie) to script a fifth Die Hard.
Just watched Pandorum. It was fucking awesome...kind of Event Horizon meets Descent meets Fight Club. Well worth watching.
It's also what Event Horizon should have been.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1188729/
http://www.pandorummovie.com/
Okay, so I'm watching The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo so that all the people telling me to watch it will shut up.
Then I'm going to watch the other two movies in the trilogy (which they don't even know about) and turn the arthouse yuppie tables on them!
BURN THEM ALL!
Um... Oh! Good morning, GS.
Documentary Trek Nation, Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry and Scott Colthorp’s philosophical peek into the sci-fi franchise’s enduring cultural appeal, has yet to touch down in theaters. But from its desire to be the anti-Trekkies to its all-star interviewees like George Lucas, J.J. Abrams and Patrick Stewart, the movie is approaching warp factor geek.
First Skids and Mudflap, and now this! Presumably owing to her comparing him to Hitler and accusing the director of trying to kill her on the set of last year's Transformers 2, Michael Bay has opted not to bring back Megan Fox for Transformers 3. Nikki Finke reports that Bay and writers are currently finishing T3's script (shooting begins next month, by the way) and have suddenly decided that "giving Shia [LaBeouf] a new love interest makes more sense for the story" — and what is a Transformers movie without a sense-making story, after all? Bay had previously slapped back at Fox in two letters — one anonymous and one which he signed his name in the wrong place — but we guess he was still mad. Watch your mouth, Shia.
When facing the press, Megan is the queen of talking trailer trash and posing like a porn star. And yes we've had the unbearable time of watching her try to act on set, and yes, it's very cringe-able. So maybe, being a porn star in the future might be a good career option. But make-up beware, she has a paragraph tattooed to her backside (probably due her rotten childhood) — easily another 45 minutes in the chair!
Will we ever get to see Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor play jailed, star-crossed lovers on the big screen? Seemingly not! Following a trio of canceled release dates, I Love You Phillip Morris has been slapped with a preliminary injunction blocking the film's release. The problem stems from a lawsuit, filed by French-based EuropaCorp, which produced the movie, against Consolidated Pictures Group, which struck a $3 million deal for Phillip Morris's American distribution rights last year, but then allegedly never paid. In her decision, California District Court Judge Dale Fischer says EuropaCorp will likely win its case and get the movie back. It's a civil suit, though, so neither side will be sent to prison and kissed by Ewan McGregor, sadly.
Surprisingly, Hot Tub Time Machine probably deserves its own thread. I really enjoyed it. It's good, dumb fun and if you were someone who came of age in the 80's, the movie has a surreal feel at times when you watch 45-year-old John Cusak remind you of all the 80's movies he was ever in... in another 80's movie... sort of.
I laughed all the way through it. Very funny.
The actor behind the mask of Darth Vader has been banned from the Star Wars Celebration V convention and any other Lucasfilm-associated events, he said on his site:
"It is with regret that I have been informed by my friends at C2 Ventures, Ben and Phillip, that I am not to be invited to C5 this year or any other Lucas Film associated events. After enquiring, the only thing I have been told is that I have 'burnt too many bridges between Lucas Film and myself' - no other reason given...I have also been advised by the promoter of Paris Manga in September that LFL (Lucas Film Limited) have requested no photo opportunities with the 501 Squadron, even though I am commander in chief of the 501"
There is a lot of speculation online about what "burnt too many bridges" means, but no one seems to know and Lucas and Prowse aren't saying. If we find out more, we'll let you know.
This is...fake. Right? (I hope so.)
This is...fake. Right? (I hope so.)
Nope. That's what that production company does. They churn out a huge number of titles that ride the coattails of popular/new movies. They're awful B-rate movies but... People love them.
You can now officially forget the somewhat ill advised Nicolas Cage remake of the cult classic The Wicker Man because the producers of the original film are making a sequel that is totally Cage free. The new film is a thematic sequel to the first one and is being done by the same creative team of director Robin Hardy and star Christopher Lee.
When the trapped-on-a-ski-lift thriller Frozen opened last February, it made less than $250,000. So when it turned up on IMDbPro’s Moviemeter index (which measures the top ten movies that people are searching for) last week at No. 7, among high-profile moneymakers like Inception, Takers, and Robin Hood, it would seem like sweet vindication and a sign of impending profitability for the film, which is coming out on DVD on September 28. Except for this: The film's writer/director Adam Green discovered that the reason people were so curious about it was because an early copy had leaked online, and thousands of people were madly downloading it for free. "It’s devastating,” he says. “I literally had a nervous breakdown watching this happen."
Right now, Green is directing his anger at two places: First, his film’s distributor, Anchor Bay. His movie was first released in February, just as Anchor Bay was being sold off by parent company Starz Media. "It got shitty treatment when it came out," admits Green, "because unfortunately, we were with a place that had no interest in being in the movie business. Even when the movie came out, you couldn’t find it. There were no commercials." He adds, "And now, it's being stolen." When other films are leaked online, studios sic their killer lawyers on the Torrent sites, but Green says that now that Starz has decided to give Anchor Bay the heave-ho, there's little interest or resources available to pursue pirates, let alone write them threatening letters. "They couldn’t even pay for a fucking commercial [when they released it], they’re not going to do anything about it now," he sighs. "Once it’s out there, everybody has it." Asked for a comment, Anchor Bay president Bill Clark says simply that the company “takes piracy issues very seriously. We deal with each incident on a case-by-case basis and have a great legal team on board that responds quickly.”
The second focus of Green’s rage is, of course, the people downloading his film for free. Hoping to stop the downloading, he posted a dismayed plea online — thinking people would sympathize with an actual artist as opposed to a bottom-line exec — and, well, if you’ve spent any time on the Internet, you know what happened. "Torrent sites started linking to my [negative] response. Fans came after me! I had one guy tell me, and I'm not even kidding here, 'Hey, I pay $60 a month for Internet; you owe me this,'" relates Green, pausing for a doozy of a metaphor. "So, if I love a woman, is it okay for me to rape her because I love her? It doesn’t work like that!"
He adds: "And by the way, I didn't make $50 on Frozen; every sale means so much in terms of me having a career. But the fans don't see it like that. There’s this new entitlement with this generation, where they feel like everybody owes them."
Green is trying to make sure the same thing doesn't happen with his next film, Hatchet II, which will be released in theaters October 1 by Dark Sky Films. But this time, he has a plan to combat illegal downloaders, using the same countermeasures employed by major movie studios: sending out multiple decoy versions of Hatchet II to the very Bit Torrent sites that pirated Frozen. "We’re going to be uploading all kinds of files that contain the first five minutes of the movie, labeling 'em 'Hatchet II rough cut,' and 'Hatchet II — final mix,' and so on," he says. "These files can take two hours to download, so if you keep getting videos of my cat’s litter box, eventually, it’s just going to be too frustrating. There’d be so many, you’d have no idea where to start or what to do. If we can confuse them enough, we might curb it." That is, unless his fake film catches on with litter-box fetishists who would have paid to see it. Screwed again!
I have no idea where to put this, but it's part of the making of doc being released with the Blu-Ray of Back to the Future. Was I aware they shot for five weeks with Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly. I certainly know this is the first of his footage I've ever seen.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/showbiz/2010/10/11/bttf.eric.stoltz.universal
Hey, that is neat. I will definitely be checking that out.
Also not worth a thread, Get Him to the Greek was way funnier than I expected it to be. I recommend it.
I think we might go see Red today. I am excited. It looks like the movie Expendables was supposed to be.
Maybe the same reason I haven't seen Red, or Moon, or Pandorum.
http://vimeo.com/15032988
Linotype...the Movie!
It was a heady bit of news, that 17 minutes of 2001: A Space Odyssey—previously cut from the theatrical release by director Stanley Kubrick—had been found, in pristine condition, buried in a Kansas salt mine. The question was: Would we ever see it?
Well, Warner Brothers has released a statement that clarifies the situation:
"The additional footage from 2001: A Space Odyssey has always existed in the Warner vaults. When [director Stanley] Kubrick trimmed the 17 minutes from 2001 after the NY premiere, he made it clear the shortened version was his final edit. The film is as he wanted it to be presented and preserved and Warner Home Video has no plans to expand or revise Mr. Kubrick's vision."
Which, honestly, is the answer they should've given. As much as the idea of a Supreme Monolith Director's Cut of 2001 is intoxicating, that kind of cinematic reincorporation would be in direct opposition to Kubrick's intentions, and it's right for Warner to respect that. However, there's no saying that those 17 minutes couldn't be a bonus on a new home video release.
As for what those 17 minutes consist of, IMDB has broken it down:
* Some shots from the "Dawn of Man" sequence were removed and a new scene was inserted where an ape pauses with the bone it is about to use as a tool. The new scene was a low-angle shot of the monolith, done in order to portray and clarify the connection between the man-ape using the tool and the monolith.
* Some shots of Frank Poole jogging in the centrifuge were removed.
* An entire sequence of several shots in which Dave Bowman searches for the replacement antenna part in storage was removed.
* A scene where HAL severs radio communication between the "Discovery" and Poole's pod before killing him was removed. This scene explains a line that stayed in the film in which Bowman addresses HAL on the subject.
* Some shots of Poole's space walk before he is killed were removed.
Though it hasn't yet been shopped to studios by Media Rights Capital, Neill Blomkamp's District 9 followup Elysium is looking better and better. He's just gotten Jodie Foster to commit and join Matt Damon and District 9's Sharlto Copley to the sci-fi film he wrote and will direct as his next project. Simon Kinberg is producing. Plot is being kept under wraps. Foster most recently completed directing and starring alongside Mel Gibson in The Beaver, which Summit Entertainment will release April 11. Foster is also starring alongside Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly in God of Carnage, the Roman Polanski-directed adaptation of Yasmina Reza's Tony-winning play. Foster's repped by ICM.
Because everybody wanted to fuck her when she was thirteen?
Drive-In Academy Award nominations for Jessica Lowndes as Sara, who hasn’t logged enough flight time to deal with a flying octopus attack, for insisting, “I’m the pilot and what I say goes!” and for quoting Jean-Paul Sartre at a crucial moment; Julianna Guill as Mel, the blonde with the camcorder, for saying, “Could you be any more insensitive?”, Ryan Donowho as the emo lovesick Cory, for saying, “Wait a minute--Sara’s playing hide the sausage with her tutor?”; Jake Weary as dumb jock Sal for yelling, “Where the hell is the ground?”; and for Landon Liboiron as Bruce, the creepy boyfriend with a secret, for saying, “We’re going to die like them!”
Robert Pattinson To Star In David Cronenberg's 'Cosmopolis'
Robert Pattinson has booked his first major lead for when he completes The Twilight Saga. Pattinson will star in Cosmopolis, the Don DeLillo novel adaptation that David Cronenberg wrote and will direct. Pattinson, who just starred with Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz in Fox 2000's Francis Lawrence-directed adaptation of the Elizabeth Gruen novel Water For Elephants, will play Eric Packer. A financial wunderkind, Packer risks his entire fortune to bet against the yen on a tumultuous day. His deed puts him in the crosshairs for assassination in a drama that is a study of capitalism in a slightly futuristic metropolis. Most of the scenes in the book take place in the limousine that transports Packer from place to place. Marion Cotillard and Paul Giamatti are also reportedly doing the film.
As Pattinson and his Twilight Saga castmates plan their careers after the series is completed--Bill Condon is directing the final film right now, Pattinson is following a path based on strong filmmakers and tasteful source material. He took the role because he is a big fan of Cronenberg's work and an admirer of DeLillo's books. He's repped by WME and 3 Arts.
Baz Luhrmann said that he has "workshopped" his upcoming film The Great Gatsby in 3D, though he has not made a final decision about whether to shoot the Carey Mulligan/Leonardo DiCaprio project that way or not. The director made the remark in Las Vegas over the weekend, where he sat on the "Technology in Hollywood: The Director’s Vision" panel with Oliver Stone. Stone cautioned against the decision: "Don’t shoot a 3D movie unless you can afford it, otherwise you are putting yourself under enormous pressure," he said.
The director of Cloverfield has just signed on to make his next movie, and it's based on the same material that inspired John Carpenter's cult classic They Live.
Ray Bradbury's 'The Martian Chronicles' to Be Made Into Film By Paramount
Paramount is heading to Mars.
The studio has picked up movie rights to The Martian Chronicles, the classic short story collection by Ray Bradbury, one of the foremost names in 20th century science-fiction literature.
John Davis will produce the adaptation of the book of short stories that Bradbury wrote in the late 1940s about humans trying colonize Mars.
In three structures, the stories dealt with attempts to settle Mars and the Martians’ efforts to fight the humans off, the colonization of the red planet and a nuclear war that eventually forces most of the humans to return to Earth. In the aftermath of the war, humans become the new Martians.
A TV miniseries was made in 1980 by NBC and the BBC that was written by Richard Matheson and saw Rock Hudson leading the cast.
Universal acquired the feature rights in 1997, where Steven Spielberg and Davis, among other producers, tried to get a project off the ground. Michael Tolkin and John Orloff were some of the writers who worked on a script, which focused on a commander investigating two missing space missions on Mars.
The option reverted earlier this year and Paramount has now stepped up.
No writer is on board the new Martian Chronicles.
Davis, via his Davis Entertainment banner, last year produced Gulliver’s Travels, Marmaduke and Predator.
Bradbury, 90, is repped by Don Congdon Associates.
Another one that will be almost impossible to adapt. Thought Davis' previous three films makes me wary.
When James Bond orders his next martini "shaken, not stirred," perhaps he'll also request a specific brand of gin. The Sunday Times reports that in the next James Bond movie — already long-delayed owing to MGM's money problems — a full third of the budget will be raised via onscreen product placement. For the bean counters at home, that's $45 million, the biggest product-placement bonanza ever.
QuoteWhen James Bond orders his next martini "shaken, not stirred," perhaps he'll also request a specific brand of gin. The Sunday Times reports that in the next James Bond movie — already long-delayed owing to MGM's money problems — a full third of the budget will be raised via onscreen product placement. For the bean counters at home, that's $45 million, the biggest product-placement bonanza ever.
When everyone else was struck with dysentery on the Tunisia set, Spielberg was the only one who didn't get sick, thanks to the fact that he avoided the local cuisine and ate only canned SpaghettiOs.
Although it sounds like movie legend, Raiders was born as Lucas and Spielberg built sand castles on the beach in Hawaii, where both were vacationing as Star Wars opened. Spielberg wanted to make a James Bond film, but Lucas told him he had a better idea: something called Raiders of the Lost Ark.
In the novelization, it's revealed that Marion was only 14 when Indy first romanced her, lending a creepy truth to her line "I was a child. It was wrong!"
The canyon where Indy threatens to blow up the ark is the same one where the Jawas take R2-D2 in Star Wars.
The scene in which the monkey executes a "Heil Hitler" salute took 50 takes. A grape was attached to a fishing line and held just out of reach of the camera shot to get him to "salute."
The set of the Well of Souls: Also used as the hotel room set where Jack Nicholson does all his writing in The Shining.
Sallah's name means "sprout," which is probably due to the much shorter Danny DeVito being offered the role first instead of John Rhys-Davies.
Our hero's original name? Indiana Smith. It was changed on the first day of production when Steven Spielberg told Lucas it just didn't sound right and suggested "Jones" instead.
Are you ready for Jurassic Park 4? Steven Spielberg seems to think so, because he's thinking about making a fourth trip to the dinosaur island.
Even though he's currently finishing up two movies (The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn and War Horse) and is executive producer on the upcoming TV series Terra Nova—which also features dinosaurs—The Hollywood Reporter says that Spielberg has been tossing ideas around for a new Jurassic Park movie with screenwriter Mark Protosevich.
Protosevich's credits include working on the script for Thor and co-writing I Am Legend, but he hasn't been officially hired to write anything for Jurassic Park 4 yet. In fact, both Spielberg's team and Universal Pictures are saying that all they're doing right now is seeing if they can come up with a way to relaunch the series.
It needs all the help it can get, because even though 1993's Jurassic Park is still a modern classic (not to mention that its special effects hold up better than those in most of today's movies), its two sequels, 1997's Jurassic Park: The Lost World and 2001's Jurassic Park III, leave something to be desired. Actually, they leave a lot to be desired, because they both pretty much stunk.
Audiences seemed to feel the same way: The first movie made $915 million worldwide, while the second earned $619 million and the third limped to the finish line with $369 million.
Spielberg directed the first two, while Joe Johnston (Captain America) was behind the camera for the third. Both men have been attached in the past to direct a rumored fourth movie, but who takes the job now has yet to be determined.
There have been rumors of a fourth movie on and off for years, and at one point there was reportedly a script written that revolved around the U.S. government creating intelligent new dinosaurs and equipping them with guns to battle the original ones. Let's hope they don't revisit that idea. Star Sam Neill also feels that without author Michael Crichton and special effects genius Stan Winston, who are now sadly both dead, it doesn't seem right to continue the series.
7 sci-fi book-to-film adaptations that TOTALLY changed the ending
Director Steven Spielberg told an ecstatic audience at Comic-Con yesterday that he hopes a fourth installment in the blockbuster Jurassic Park dinosaur epic can be made in the next two to three years. "We have a story, I can happily announce." Spielberg made the announcement on the back of promoting his upcoming animated feature The Adventures of Tintin: The Secrets of the Unicorn. While some questions remain whether motion capture was the right choice to adapt Hergé's famous (at least in Europe) swoop-haired hero for the big screen, if it's a royal T-Rex smack-down you're looking for no one does it quite like Spielberg.
An irresponsible preppie, Preston West, is presumed to have murdered his parents for a sizeable inheritance, so he flees to find the real killer, Phantom 13, a crazed freight train hobo!
"You do the safe picture, then you do the art picture."
"And sometimes you go back to the well."
"...And sometimes you do 'Reindeer Games.'"
A few weeks ago Universal renounced plans to turn Hasbro's CLUE game into a Gore Verbinski directed film.
Now comes word that the studio has nixed another game-to-screen adaptation: its OUIJA movie.
Insiders tell Vulture that Ouija, an adaptation of the magical board that was to be produced by Michael Bay and directed by McG, has been put in turnaround.
Nike patents plan for self-lacing shoes
Company working on technology that includes automatic ankle cinching system
Nike has filed a patent for a self-lacing shoe that resembles the sneakers from "Back to the Future 2" so closely, one has to wonder whether a hover-board and flux capacitor could be far behind.
There is currently no timetable for when these shoes may hit the market, but the patent shoes indicate that Nike is definitely working on the technology.
According to the patent, "the automatic lacing system provides a set of straps that can be automatically opened and closed to switch between a loosened and tightened position of the upper. The article further includes an automatic ankle cinching system that is configured to automatically adjust an ankle portion of the upper."
Which is to say, you slip a switch, and the shoe tightens as if you just pulled and tightened conventional laces. The switch activates a motor that rolls or unrolls a spool of wire distributed throughout the shoe. When the spool reels in the wire, the shoe tightens along axis supported by various rods.
Naturally, the system requires a power source, and the shoe will have an on-board battery. However, the patent reveals that Nike hasn't decided whether to go with a USB or a mini-USB port to charge the shoe.
The Nike Air Mag aka “Marty McFly” shoe has captured every eye in the sneaker community within the past 24 hours. Earlier today, we notified you that Mr. Marty McFly himself, Michael J. Fox will appear on David Letterman tonight with some details regarding this highly anticipated release; however, we have just learned from Nike CEO Mark Parker that there will be 1500 pairs auctioned on eBay. All of the proceeds will go to the Michael J. Fox Foundation. Stay tuned for the official date of the eBay auction.
We all need something to hang on to.
But that marketing has lingered past its own shelf-life and the lost art of mainstream pictures. Hollywood thinking still wants us to trust that good-looking people are good; that you will fall in love and get a happy ending; that women are seen, while men watch; that desire and dreaming are necessary pursuits that take precedence over evidence and reasoning; that justice will be done, very likely with a gun; that stories are resolved and heroes are sound; that you can understand experience just by looking (so keep everything cinematic); that shopping can make you whole and clean (think of Julia Roberts in “Pretty Woman”, one of Hollywood’s fondest love-letters to itself); that, in the land of the free, celebrity is a hallowed state, instead of the madness waiting for a Charlie Sheen.
I know, that’s a lot to take in, and your response may echo the movie executives in February when Charles Ferguson said, “And that’s wrong”— “He can’t mean me! Can he?”
But I do mean you, and me, and our prospects for intelligent life. I mean the realisation that “Hollywood” is deceased, and deranged—a dangerous ghost. I am thinking of its grim legacy of rousing catch-phrases in our public life: “mission accomplished”, “no child left behind”, “the show must go on”, “a well regulated militia”, “the remaking of New Orleans”, and even “orderly change”.
How do I see this?
Paramount is so high on the upcoming 3-D re-release of Titanic that the studio has scheduled special Valentine's Day screenings of the film for tonight, but don't expect to see Kate Winslet in the audience, rewatching her biggest hit. "I'm sure I wasn't really a very good actress," she tells USA Today. "Seriously, we are talking about something that happened 15 years ago. It is a very long time ago. I've learned so much, and I've changed as a person so much since then. It is really quite weird. Can you imagine anything stranger? It's going to be like, famous all over again, Titanic all over again!" She does admit that the studio screened seventeen minutes of the 3-D version for her, but, "I was literally like, 'Oh my God, make it stop! Is that me? Oh my God, that's me. Block my ears, somebody! Somebody club out my senses. Make it fucking stop!'" Then, Winslet added crucially, "And Leo looks so young and so skinny!"
I saw it in the theater. It's gripping, but...well, my friend compared it to "Call of the Wild" + "Saw".
It came and went in a flash. I meant to see it because I like Ryan Gosling. Worth a look?
I'm surprised we don't have a Bourne thread.
Anyway, trailer for the... what, reboot? "Sidequel?"
Actually, with all the "hidden" op programs, they could just swap out new actors and tell "sidequel" stories forever... or at least until people stop watching which based on Legacy's numbers isn't happening anytime soon.
Trailer for Brian DePalma's latest, Passion. Sometime I get the feeling that DePalma just keeps making the same movie over and over again because he just can't get it perfect.
I'm surprised we don't have a Bourne thread.
Anyway, trailer for the... what, reboot? "Sidequel?"
Yes, The Bourne Legacy is a "sidequel." And you know what?
It was awesome.
This one's all story though haven't they all been? It's a lean, mean action machine that takes place either right after or maybe even in tandem with the events of The Bourne Ultimatum. Basically a bunch of stuff has leaked about the CIA's genetic ops programs in the wake of Jason's Bourne's adventures and the CIA decided to shut down Treadstone's sister program Alcom, wiping all all the ops except our hero, Aaron Cross. Rachel Weisz plays the lone survivor of the labs where the ops are processed and Cross finds her because he still needs the meds provided by the program. Bourne style country jumping and action ensue.
Is a bit rehashy of Supremacy? Sort of, but who cares once you're in the big bike chase through Manilla at the end. REEEEEEAAAAAANNNNNNNOOOOWWWWWWW!!!!
Now Universal needs to do one more with Renner before throwing a ton of money at Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass for the big kablooie finale where Bourne and Cross team up to take the whole conspiracy down.
Actually, with all the "hidden" op programs, they could just swap out new actors and tell "sidequel" stories forever... or at least until people stop watching which based on Legacy's numbers isn't happening anytime soon.
Johnny Mnemonic. Oh wait, you asked for the great ones.
Re-watching Wargames...and it kind of holds up.
So what are the great proto-cyberpunk flicks? Wargames, Hackers, and Sneakers, right?
Reggie?
That's her Hunger Games character, right? Missus RC and I a boycotting The Hunger Games movies for no good reason whatsoever.
I think we'd enjoy it too, but she just refuses to get involved in another multi-movie series right now.
She was also Mystique in X-Men: First Class.
Watching Flight.
The first half hour is awesome.
Also, I'll never fly again.
Watched Argo last night. Interesting. Sort of a poor man's Zero Dark Thirty, and a little self-obsessed with nostalgia.
In the wintry countryside near Canada, smooth-talking heist man Addison (Eric Bana) and his femme fatale sister Liza (Olivia Wilde) are on the run with a bag full of cash from a c asino job. With a deadly blizzard swirling around them, they split up to make a desperate dash for the border. Meanwhile, troubled boxer Jay (Charlie Hunnam) has just been released from prison and is heading home to spend Thanksgiving with his mother (Sissy Spacek) and retired sheriff father (Kris Kristofferson). A twist of fate sets them all on a collision course, hurtling this icy thriller to a shocking climax.
then we get into the argument of why remake it?
It is not beautiful.
I'm excited enough to see the story play out on the big screen that it could look like ass and I wouldn't care.
If you are reading this in New York City, better stock up on bottled water and chain saws, because a Sharknado is coming. Syfy announced today that after the success of Sharknado, they have begun developing Sharknado 2 for 2014. They haven't announced whether it will be a prequel or a sequel, but there will definitely be a shark-filled tornado. Syfy knows a movie like this needs a perfect subtitle, so they are asking the fans for one. Just tweet @SyfyMovies using #Sharknado and you can name the movie. Here are a few to get your mind going: 2 Shark 2 Nado, Sharknado 2: SharkNATO, Sharknados Take Manhattan, Sharknado 2: Electric BoogaSharknado, Sharknado 2: Havana Sharknados, Sharknado 2: This Time It's Persharknal, I Still Know What You Did Last Sharknado.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/23/jim-carrey-kick-ass-2_n_3487880.html
Uh, what?
Didn't you see Gravity, Nacho? I think I'm going on Sunday and wanted to remind myself if you hated it. Reviews are *really* positive.
Guilty pleasure alert:
Wait… She's in Enders Game?
Don't I have a review somewhere in this thread?
We all liked District 9, yes? I'd like to see Blomkamp do well as he's an original voice in sci-fi.QuoteThough it hasn't yet been shopped to studios by Media Rights Capital, Neill Blomkamp's District 9 followup Elysium is looking better and better. He's just gotten Jodie Foster to commit and join Matt Damon and District 9's Sharlto Copley to the sci-fi film he wrote and will direct as his next project. Simon Kinberg is producing. Plot is being kept under wraps. Foster most recently completed directing and starring alongside Mel Gibson in The Beaver, which Summit Entertainment will release April 11. Foster is also starring alongside Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly in God of Carnage, the Roman Polanski-directed adaptation of Yasmina Reza's Tony-winning play. Foster's repped by ICM.
sexed up 70s Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Adams.
Well, Lawrence is the Hot New Thing™… the way Amy Adams was a few years ago.
Well, Lawrence is the Hot New Thing™… the way Amy Adams was a few years ago.
I want to chew on both sets of lovely tits.
Well, Lawrence is the Hot New Thing™… the way Amy Adams was a few years ago.
I want to chew on both sets of lovely tits.
Indeed.
21 Jump Street!
I actually enjoyed it. A self-aware meta comedy. I feel sorry for anyone under 25, though, because half the jokes are thinly veiled stabs at the show. Including a somewhat lengthy heart to heart between Johnny Depp and Peter DeLuise that only people who regularly watched the show in the 80's would understand. That's, like, a minute long scene in the midst of the finale.
I don't which excites me more: pimped out 70s Christain Bale and Bradley Cooper or sexed up 70s Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Adams.
Also, when did David O. Russell become one of my favorite directors?
If that's your litmus, you may be disappointed. That said, it's a very sexy movie.
Litmus test? Am I saying it wrong?
But...my aunt said it was the worst movie she had ever seen!
So...Kickstarter brought Veronica Mars back from the dead, raising two million in a day. Geekdom is abuzz with how this is the new way to revive a series...though Whedon has already said he won't even think about touching Firefly again for another two years.
Either way...fans crowd-sourcing the revival of a show, and producing some sort of mandate, is interesting, yes? I think Veronica Mars is operating under a deal where if they raise X then Warner or whoever will respond and handle distro/marketing. So, essentially, you all make the movie/show and we'll pick it up.
This feels more exciting than the pipe dream (and ultimate sad failure) of the Netflix 2.0 revolution...
Wow...Walter Mitty is bad. Really bad.
I think one needs to be 100% ignorant of the fun-loving and heartwarming original, actually.
Oscar round-up:
Frozen was quite good. I actually enjoyed the updated themes (as Reggie called them a few ages back) and was surprised at how adult it skewed...
Lone Survivor is jingoistic bullshit and totally absurd... But it's also very well done and super intense. Kept me glued to my seat.
Her is idiotic Apple porn.
American Hustle is annoying as I look back on it, but it should get the sideboob Oscar. Is it a good movie? No. But I'll watch it again and again for Lawrence and Adams!
Gravity -- clearly written by a child.
12 Years a Slave: Downloading and pending...
Captain Phillips is embarrassing and terrible. I know it's based on a true story about a guy who willingly captained a ship into the pirate zone and got off scot free, but it actually steals more from the Scandinavian "A Hijacking" which is a tense and amazing movie.
The Wolf of Wall Street: Downloaded and pending...
I'm ignoring Nebraska, the Cumberbatch Collection, and that movie about the AIDs cowboy.
What others am I missing...?
Oscar round-up:
Gravity -- clearly written by a child.
I was hoping for it to be more like a sequel to the Scorpion King and less like a story of "unwavering faith."
I was hoping for it to be more like a sequel to the Scorpion King and less like a story of "unwavering faith."
Isn't that Hercules?
I refuse to watch any other version than Schwarzenegger's Hercules.
I refuse to watch any other version than Schwarzenegger's Hercules.
Probably more accurate than these two...
The last Pink Panther movies featured Steve Martin playing the perfectly incompetent Inspector Jacques Clouseau, to perfectly awful reviews. But now, MGM has announced a new Pink Panther movie, which ditches the Inspector in favor of the literal Pink Panther himself, who appeared in previous movies' opening credits.
David Silverman, who directed and produced The Simpsons Movie, is directing, with Walter Mirisch and Julie Andrews producing. Mirisch was the executive producer of the original movie and Andrews is the widow of Blake Edwards, who directed the classic Pink Panther movies.
As with the original cartoon show (which some may remember from the '60s), the Panther himself won't speak. But unlike the original cartoon, the movie will drop the Panther into the real world, using a combination of live-action and CGI. The story itself takes cues from the original movie, where the title referred to a precious gem-stone that thieves steal. As an "international jewel heist" movie, it should at least stay near its roots.
I need to read R.U.R. The Czechs talked about it endlessly.
Dad's Army film 'in the works'
I'm sure this won't in any way completely ruin and destroy the memory of a classic show...
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-27178025Quote
Dad's Army film 'in the works'
They're raping history, Nacho.
You still live in hope.
I'll watch it this week.
I'll watch it this week.
Leave your IQ at the door.
I'll watch it this week.
Leave your IQ at the door.
Hey! I ain't got no illness.
Tom Cruise is still allowed in films...? Wait... he's out of the closet?
QuoteIf you are reading this in New York City, better stock up on bottled water and chain saws, because a Sharknado is coming. Syfy announced today that after the success of Sharknado, they have begun developing Sharknado 2 for 2014. They haven't announced whether it will be a prequel or a sequel, but there will definitely be a shark-filled tornado. Syfy knows a movie like this needs a perfect subtitle, so they are asking the fans for one. Just tweet @SyfyMovies using #Sharknado and you can name the movie. Here are a few to get your mind going: 2 Shark 2 Nado, Sharknado 2: SharkNATO, Sharknados Take Manhattan, Sharknado 2: Electric BoogaSharknado, Sharknado 2: Havana Sharknados, Sharknado 2: This Time It's Persharknal, I Still Know What You Did Last Sharknado.
The very concept of "using 100% of your brain" is the "has no basis in actual science" giveaway if you made it past 6th grade. Even the nuns taught me that!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_percent_of_brain_myth
The very concept of "using 100% of your brain" is the "has no basis in actual science" giveaway if you made it past 6th grade. Even the nuns taught me that!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_percent_of_brain_myth
Even the science in everyday things that we know is true didn't make sense in this movie. Skipping over the whole 100% thing.
Don't I have a review somewhere in this thread?
I looked and couldn't find it! But then I realized that I was searching for The Purge and gave up.
It's also The Crazies.
It hurt me.
I can't imagine Groundhog Day meets Starship Troopers, I mean, Edge of Tomorrow is any good... and yet I'd totally watch it.
Saw Lucy last night and enjoyed it. Reggie is right though, it's weird. And has no basis in actual science. Some of the scenes reminded me of Natural Born Killers.
Die Hard on a boat? One of Steven Seagal’s somewhat classier, higher-budget movies from the first Bush era? The motion picture which single-handedly set the stage for Under Siege 2: Dark Territory costarring Eric Bogosian? Yes, 1992’s Andrew Davis-directed actioner Under Siege is all of these and more. A one-time staple during the VHS era of home entertainment, the testosterone-drenched film has not inspired a terrific amount of detailed critical attention or fan speculation in the 22 years since its successful release. Or so one might think. One Tumblr user, however, has apparently given the film a great deal of attention, focusing particularly on the many characters who lose their lives over the course of Under Siege’s 103-minute running time.
Since mid-October, And the Man Next To You: The Tragic Backstory of Everyone Killed in Under Siege has been offering its readers mock-serious, paragraph-long epitaphs for each of the film’s fatalities, written in the grim style of a dime novel. “Hollywood says every hitman has a heart of gold,” states one entry. “They kill and kill until they get that one special target.” The author has been working backwards through the film, denoting each kill with a corresponding time code. The Tumblr starts with the final moments of Seagal’s character, Casey Ryback, years after the events of the film. “He’s more scars than skin,” goes his obituary. “The faces of those he’s killed are long gone, too.”
Mark Wahlberg to star and Peter Berg to direct The Six Billion Dollar Man
The Six Billion Dollar Man is still on its bionic track, with Mark Wahlberg set to star in the upcoming reboot and Peter Berg to sit in the director's chair.
Rumors of Wahlberg starring in the film have been swirling for a couple of months now, but now it looks like it’s almost a done deal.
Here’s Deadline’s report about the upcoming flick:
Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg, the duo behind the critically acclaimed and box office success Lone Survivor, are re-teaming for the feature film version of The Six Billion Dollar Man with various writers circling the project for The Weinstein Co.’s Dimension Films label. (Yes, billion with a ‘b’). Berg will direct and Wahlberg is attached to star in the film about former astronaut Steve Austin who, after a horrific crash of an experimental plane, is saved by doctors when he is fitted with bionic replacements — both legs, his right arm and left eye. With super-human power, he becomes a force to be reckoned with for the government as a secret agent for the Office of Scientific Intelligence.
The story is based on Martin Caidin’s sci-fi book Cyborg. It became a bestseller when it was published back in 1972, and the book inspired the 1970s television series The Six Million Dollar Man, then starring Lee Majors as Steve Austin. The popular TV show had a large fan base and also spawned a spinoff: The Bionic Woman with Lindsay Wagner.
Filming on The Six Billion Dollar Man should begin next year, with Dimension eying a 2016 release.
The Jurassic World trailer has been released two days early on the day after the Ferguson non-indictment to placate the masses. ILLUMINATI CONSPIRACY!!
Surprisingly, Hot Tub Time Machine probably deserves its own thread. I really enjoyed it. It's good, dumb fun and if you were someone who came of age in the 80's, the movie has a surreal feel at times when you watch 45-year-old John Cusak remind you of all the 80's movies he was ever in... in another 80's movie... sort of.
I laughed all the way through it. Very funny.
Wait...hold on. Yes, this is a good movie. Watching it now and loving it. I'm shocked!
I'll never doubt you again, Nubbins.
Screener season continues with American Sniper!
Are soldiers really able to make phone calls to their wives from the middle of firefights in Sadr City whenever they want? We'll just crouch behind this wall as the apocalypse unfolds and chat a bit on the cellphone. Hey baby! Wanna have phone sex?
The most egregious is when he makes a phone call to his wife who does offer him phone sex while he's in position and supposed to be protecting a convoy.
No wonder America has stopped winning wars!
Catch me up on Elysium which I still haven't seen. My understanding was that it was the sophomore slump you expected from his studio follow-up to District 9; gorgeous and visually rich with great ideas that were likely strangled by some executive who wanted to make sure it didn't effect toy sales.
Screener season continues with Preservation. I'm a sucker for this genre -- wilderness thriller/horror survival -- so I'm going into it with a very open and ready to forgive attitude. Mainly because these movies are all the same (which is fine), even if you try to make them different with Hopkins fighting a bear or Neeson fighting a wolf, or Streep fighting Bacon.
Screener Season continues with We Still Kill the Old Way (AKA The Guvnors).
Screener season continues with American Sniper!
Are soldiers really able to make phone calls to their wives from the middle of firefights in Sadr City whenever they want? We'll just crouch behind this wall as the apocalypse unfolds and chat a bit on the cellphone. Hey baby! Wanna have phone sex?
The most egregious is when he makes a phone call to his wife who does offer him phone sex while he's in position and supposed to be protecting a convoy.
No wonder America has stopped winning wars!
Screener season continues with American Sniper!
Are soldiers really able to make phone calls to their wives from the middle of firefights in Sadr City whenever they want? We'll just crouch behind this wall as the apocalypse unfolds and chat a bit on the cellphone. Hey baby! Wanna have phone sex?
The most egregious is when he makes a phone call to his wife who does offer him phone sex while he's in position and supposed to be protecting a convoy.
No wonder America has stopped winning wars!
I got from this you didn't like it. The previews look awesome and it's the only movie Missus RC and I want to see right now.
So, great trailer, but no so great movie, eh?
Watch: 'Force Majeure' Director Breaks Down Over His Oscar Snub
AMERICAN SNIPER... with Bradley Cooper... OMG... if you love your country... THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA... you must watch this true story!!! Sometimes we are so far removed from what our young men and women do in order to protect us...and we need to be REMINDED!!!!!!!!!!! I won't share anything other than.. if you don't value what our troops do for us, then you are cold and selfish and I pray that the enemy never comes knocking at your door or in your neighborhood... like they did on 911, and the countless other places they continue to sneak their way in!!! PLEASE GO SEE THIS MOVIE if you get a chance.. GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS, OUR VETERANS, and our WOUNDED WARRIORS... heart emoticon
Here;s American Sniper's fucking audience:QuoteAMERICAN SNIPER... with Bradley Cooper... OMG... if you love your country... THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA... you must watch this true story!!! Sometimes we are so far removed from what our young men and women do in order to protect us...and we need to be REMINDED!!!!!!!!!!! I won't share anything other than.. if you don't value what our troops do for us, then you are cold and selfish and I pray that the enemy never comes knocking at your door or in your neighborhood... like they did on 911, and the countless other places they continue to sneak their way in!!! PLEASE GO SEE THIS MOVIE if you get a chance.. GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS, OUR VETERANS, and our WOUNDED WARRIORS... heart emoticon
Symptomatic of the success American, and even British, media has had in manufacture of public consent and opinion. Anybody even vaguely Muslim-looking has been demonized these last ten years to similar extent as Jews where in 1930s Germany.
So yeah, speaking of xenophobia, you'll be happy to know that every middle eastern person in this film is portrayed as either a snake, an idiot, or a lying bastard. Every American, though, is fucking :angel5: :salute: :angel5: :salute: :angel5: :salute:
I watched, 'Primer' [2004] tonight. Bizarre, enthralling, one of the best films I've seen in a long time.
Holy tits, Batman.
I watched, 'Primer' [2004] tonight. Bizarre, enthralling, one of the best films I've seen in a long time.
Yes, of course I've seen the movie Primer... 12 years ago!
Yes, of course I've seen the movie Primer... 12 years ago!
Is it like Timecrimes?!
Think of the potential... you would never need to sleep. Each time you entered the timeline, you'd still be ready for a full day's work.
Think of the potential... you would never need to sleep. Each time you entered the timeline, you'd still be ready for a full day's work.
God. I could... Never stop masturbating!
So....Selma is up for Best Picture, okay. I think it should get it. But...no other nominations? Really?
Screener season continues with...um...Taken 3.
Screener season continues with Everly. I have Interstellar here, but, got, it's 500 hours long...
Ugh...I have some sort of mystery flu today. Or maybe it's just Monday. So Interstellar time!
How many people do you think we need for human life to continue largely as it is today?
A lab somewhere - I can't remember where, so fuck you - just realigned the graphite properties of solar panels to improve efficiency from 32% to 60%.
This is a good thing.
I'm always glad to see that gif.
Screener season continues with Nightcrawler.
Really? Velociraptors are cute and friendly now?
Really? Velociraptors are cute and friendly now?
Only when they're not eating your face.
Really? Velociraptors are cute and friendly now?
Only when they're not eating your face.
Or when Chris Pratt trains them and joins forces with them Johnny Quest style to go battle a mutant dino.
‘Jupiter Ascending’ Flops: Why the Wachowskis’ Failure Is Bad for Movies
Be careful what you wish for.
Originality is a virtue in most creative pursuits, but in Hollywood, it will always be less appealing to studio bosses than more of the same. Audiences and critics often decry the sequels and franchises that flood multiplexes, but when filmmakers like the Wachowskis answer their calls for something original and innovative with a film like “Jupiter Ascending,” they’re often rewarded with a cold shoulder. With a production budget of $179 million, not to mention tens of millions spent to promote the science-fiction adventure, and an opening of only $19 million, “Jupiter Ascending” will likely be one of the year’s biggest flops.
“Audiences are kind of reticent to take a chance on something they don’t know or understand,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Rentrak. “They marketed the heck out of this movie, and it was still tough to bring people through the door.”
All the red ink that “Jupiter Ascending” will spill will make studios all the more conservative and risk-averse. There will be more reboots, retreads and revivals as companies try to give facelifts to geriatric franchises such as “Star Wars,” “Indiana Jones” and “Ghostbusters.” That’s bad for audiences and, ultimately, for business. Right now the formula is working, but the repetition risks making the moviegoing experience feel stale and overly familiar.
As Lana Wachowski told the Los Angeles Times on Friday, “When I was young, originality was everything. A sequel was like a bad word. We’ve gone to the opposite place where [audiences] actually are more excited about a story we know the ending to.”
She’s right. Where are the fresh visions of distant worlds and futuristic conflicts to inspire the next George Lucas or Steven Spielberg? Younger audiences are already abandoning the theater in favor of videogames and mobile devices. Nostalgia for an era of popcorn films they didn’t grow up with is unlikely to lure them back.
At the same time, television and gaming have supplanted movies as platforms for iconoclastic works of art ranging from “Mass Effect” to “Breaking Bad.”
In a Wired opinion piece, Angela Watercutter urged people to buy a ticket to “Jupiter Ascending” even as she acknowledged that it was deeply flawed.
“Do it because the Wachowskis are part of a shrinking species: original sci-fi filmmakers,” she wrote. “And in these long, cold months before the Marvel machine cranks back up, it’s good to remember what those look like — for better or worse.”
So what went wrong? Ever since “Jupiter Ascending” introduced footage last spring at CinemaCon of Mila Kunis as a cleaning lady who discovers she’s queen of the universe and Channing Tatum as her protector, a genetically enhanced creature with Spock ears, the buzz for the film has been very bad indeed. The sense of impending cinematic disaster intensified after Warner Bros. opted to push the film out of its July release date last summer and into February.
The studio was hoping that additional time for reshoots and effects work would help salvage the film and put it on the path to solvency. It had employed a similar strategy for troubled or problematic productions such as “300: Rise of an Empire,” “The Great Gatsby” and “Gravity,” one of the rare original science-fiction epics that worked. Unfortunately for “Jupiter Ascending,” the extra time couldn’t wipe away the stench of failure, and critics overwhelmingly decried the film as an overcooked bore.
Across town, there’s likely a feeling of Schadenfreude among Warner Bros.’ competitors, but delighting in the Wachowskis’ misfortunes would be misguided. It signals that the siblings have lost their deft sense of the culture that made “The Matrix” a phenomenon. Given that it marks their third consecutive dud, following “Speed Racer” and “Cloud Atlas,” these once blazing-hot talents risk being iced out of the A-list.
“They’ve been making the movies they want to make ever since the first ‘Matrix,'” said Phil Contrino, vice president and chief analyst at BoxOffice.com. “But there’s only so much mileage you can get from a big hit until people turn off the funds. They need to find something more commercially accessible and crank out a hit quick if they’re going to buy their clout back.”
Like Michael Mann, who headlined the recent box office disaster “Blackhat,” the Wachowski siblings may be forced to return to lower budgeted films and face years in the big studio wilderness. That’s a shame. The movie business needs these sorts of prickly geniuses. The alternative is overly caffeinated and commodified productions designed to sell toys, not stir imaginations.
“Jupiter Ascending” may have crashed and burned, but at least it tried to soar on the strength of its own originality and daring. Its failure makes it harder for other filmmakers to get a chance to take similar risks. In this climate, would “The Matrix” ever have gotten made?
Whatever. Let me know when Jolie gets cast as Evil-Lyn.
Whatever. Let me know when Jolie gets cast as Evil-Lyn.
Ha! She's perfect for it!
Whatever. Let me know when Jolie gets cast as Evil-Lyn.
Ha! She's perfect for it!
I've only seen the first one.
I've only seen the first one.
You owe it to yourself to watch Ghost Protocol. It's essentially a full-on reboot of the franchise (and it's most successful, critically and box office).
Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, the writing team behind Iron Man, are working on a re-imagining of the 1988 film (that also spawned a one-season TV series and several TV movies) Alien Nation for Fox.
The original film dealt with the integration of the alien “Newcomers” (if you were being nice – “slags” if you weren’t) into American society, several years after their enormous spaceship became stranded on Earth with its cargo of slaves, and the abusive “Overlords” – Newcomers who kept the slaves in line for an unknown authority. Detective Sykes (James Caan), a bigoted veteran of the force who just lost his partner in a shootout with Newcomers, is forced to take on the newly promoted Sam Francisco (Mandy Patinkin) – who he immediately re-dubs “George” (Newcomers were often assigned human names by bored government workers…) The two then investigate a similar crime, and find a much bigger conspiracy to exploit the aliens. Aside from the twist of the aliens, it was basically a reluctant buddy cop story.
I personally found the TV series to be a bit better than the film. As much as I like Patinkin, and Caan is perfect as a cantankerous cop, the interaction in the series, where Sykes was played by Gary Graham and Francisco by Eric Pierpoint, seemed more natural and playful. Graham’s Sykes is younger and has to address his growing affection for Newcomer neighbor Cathy (Terri Treas). It also deals a lot more with the problems of integration, Newcomer family life, and the origins of the Newcomers.
While plot details for the new version are not yet being released, it is expected that this movie will deal with the aliens’ arrival on Earth, which wasn’t really addressed in the film.
I do love me some sci-fi Cronenberg.QuoteRobert Pattinson To Star In David Cronenberg's 'Cosmopolis'
Robert Pattinson has booked his first major lead for when he completes The Twilight Saga. Pattinson will star in Cosmopolis, the Don DeLillo novel adaptation that David Cronenberg wrote and will direct. Pattinson, who just starred with Reese Witherspoon and Christoph Waltz in Fox 2000's Francis Lawrence-directed adaptation of the Elizabeth Gruen novel Water For Elephants, will play Eric Packer. A financial wunderkind, Packer risks his entire fortune to bet against the yen on a tumultuous day. His deed puts him in the crosshairs for assassination in a drama that is a study of capitalism in a slightly futuristic metropolis. Most of the scenes in the book take place in the limousine that transports Packer from place to place. Marion Cotillard and Paul Giamatti are also reportedly doing the film.
As Pattinson and his Twilight Saga castmates plan their careers after the series is completed--Bill Condon is directing the final film right now, Pattinson is following a path based on strong filmmakers and tasteful source material. He took the role because he is a big fan of Cronenberg's work and an admirer of DeLillo's books. He's repped by WME and 3 Arts.
Really? Velociraptors are cute and friendly now?
My wife was a huge Jem fan and after watching this, said they made all the right choices in updating it this way.
My wife was a huge Jem fan and after watching this, said they made all the right choices in updating it this way.
My wife was a huge Jem fan and after watching this, said they made all the right choices in updating it this way.
Am I remembering wrong? Didn't Jem fight crime or something? Because I kept waiting for the CIA or NSA or someone to step in and say "hey you're a worldwide phenom, want to help us fight the terrorists?" during the trailer. Wasn't that the cartoon? Admittedly I didn't really watch it, just caught snippets when my sisters had the TV on.
What rattles my cage is the ongoing hatred for women in our culture. Jem moves from being an empowered woman who cares for others and saves the day as the unexpected CEO of Starlight to an angsty teenager prime for victimization and at the mercy of someone else's Starlight. This ongoing problem -- how women are portrayed and treated in the entertainment industry -- is becoming alarming even to me (who doesn't really care).
Okay, fine, you throw women to the floor and wound them in sports commercials. But when you take once powerful female role models and remove all their power, that's a step too far.
Or...maybe it isn't. Maybe, if the modern woman doesn't care that she's being marginalized, I shouldn't care.
What rattles my cage is the ongoing hatred for women in our culture. Jem moves from being an empowered woman who cares for others and saves the day as the unexpected CEO of Starlight to an angsty teenager prime for victimization and at the mercy of someone else's Starlight. This ongoing problem -- how women are portrayed and treated in the entertainment industry -- is becoming alarming even to me (who doesn't really care).
Okay, fine, you throw women to the floor and wound them in sports commercials. But when you take once powerful female role models and remove all their power, that's a step too far.
Or...maybe it isn't. Maybe, if the modern woman doesn't care that she's being marginalized, I shouldn't care.
Maybe that's what her character will grow into in the sequal or through the course of the movie. Powerful females don't just sprout out of nothing! They have backstory!
And what am I doing predicting what might happen in a Jem movie.
And if Generation X’s childhood movies share one lesson, it’s that People Who Have Fun Are Inherently Good, and people who believe in rules are inherently bad. Animal House, Caddyshack, Meatballs, Ghostbusters, Grease, The Outsiders, The Goonies, Beverly Hills Cop, Revenge of the Nerds — no matter how skeevy they are, joke-cracking characters looking for good times beat authority figures and uptight stooges hands down.
what kind of Reaganite propaganda play is this where the only non-supernatural villains are university professors and officials from the EPA just trying to do their jobs?
Admittedly, Dean Rooney takes Bueller’s latest elaborate con rather personally, but to be fair, not only does he have the welfare of other students to consider, but he watched Bueller’s absence count go from nine to two before his own eyes. He probably thinks either his entire data network’s been compromised or he’s losing his mind.
In Lean on Me, Clark also installs a weird paramilitary security force answering only to him, encourages a student to commit suicide, bullies the music teacher out of a job because the school’s worst students don’t know the school song, unilaterally demotes the head football coach to assistant over the team’s record (going on to belittle him every chance he gets, only relenting when the coach/English teacher fights him physically) and puts the entire school to work full-time on drills to pass a basic skills test, largely just so that he can stay in charge. So Joe Clark’s “victory” may have been eerily prescient of where public schools were heading, but it certainly violates everything we know about what constitutes good education.
After "Independence Day" redefined the event movie genre, the next epic chapter delivers global catastrophe on an unimaginable scale. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens' advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction.
Aside from Harry Shearer, who saw it at a private screening in 1979 and has said about the experience, “This movie is so drastically wrong...that you could not, in your fantasy of what it might be like, improve on what it really is,” almost no one has seen The Day The Clown Cried. But a lot of people have heard about the film, which stars Jerry Lewis as a clown who gets sent to a concentration camp after publicly mocking Hitler and is eventually tasked with leading children to the gas chambers, Pied Piper-style.
Every rumor about the film grows its legend: Patton Oswalt tells the story of doing a live read of the script in a tiny black-box theater, only to be served a cease and desist letter by an enraged producer. Tales of a remake—alternately starring Chevy Chase, Robin Williams, and Richard Burton—flew in Hollywood in the ’90s. All the while, director/writer/star Lewis has refused to release the film, calling it “embarrassing” and keeping it locked away in his personal vault for 36 years.
And if we’ve already been waiting 36 years, what’s another 10? IndieWire reports that Lewis recently donated a collection of prints from his personal collection to the Library of Congress, including the only known copy of The Day The Clown Cried. He did so under one condition: That the library agreed not to screen the film for 10 years after its donation. Lewis has said that he doesn’t want The Day The Clown Cried to get out until after his death, and, frankly, at 89, 10 years from now that may very well be the case. And who knows? Maybe 10 years from now, the world’s collective sense of humor will have warped so drastically that future generations will be moved by Lewis’ vision and hail the film as a masterpiece of post-irony. If anyone still knows who Jerry Lewis is, anyway.
So...wait a minute...have they never watched Jem before? They've taken Jem from an empowered woman with a super computer who goes on adventures to an angsty teen flick.
So...I thought the last Mission Impossible was terrific. The best of the franchise so far. I'm actually all for this one!
This weekend, what’s being billed as the last Paranormal Activity film will hit theaters, but you may not be able to see it. Why? Because Paramount Pictures is doing something different with the release and theaters aren’t happy.
These days, most major theatrical releases don’t hit On Demand for a few months after release. However, with Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, Paramount plans on putting it On Demand in about six weeks and theaters are pissed. So pissed, this film will only be on about 1,400 screens when it opens Friday, as opposed to the roughly 3,000 that the five previous films have opened on. That will, obviously, impact its theatrical gross but the studio is hoping it’ll make it up once it hits On Demand.
What does this mean for you? Well, it means it’s going to be harder to find in theaters. And theaters will be the easiest place to see it in 3D, which is the big selling point of this “final” installment. For the first time in the franchise, the movie was made in 3D so that “you can see the activity,” according to the poster.
This is the first step in a plan Paramount has been talking about for a few months. The plan is to team up with AMC Theaters and release films on-demand mere weeks after they all but leave theaters, hence the six or seven week estimate here. It’ll happen first with Paranormal Activity, later with Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse—and obviously, many theaters aren’t happy about this. The theater count for the latter movie, which opens October 30, hasn’t been revealed yet.
At home, I'm more frightened by horror movies,
At home, I'm more frightened by horror movies,
Me too, but I absolutely *love* the tribal aspect of watching those movies in a big crowd; the nervous laughter, the singular scream. Movies are meant to be a communal experience. It's why Edison's single viewer nickelodeon device never got off the ground.
I get you on the comforts of home though. There's something to intimacy of it all when you're watching the right film.
The ID2 description sounds like...the first movie...QuoteAfter "Independence Day" redefined the event movie genre, the next epic chapter delivers global catastrophe on an unimaginable scale. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens' advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction.
J.J. Abrams has secretly been working on a 4K restoration of 1979 horror classic Phantasm
This is so last week!
Are people who say "Independence Day: Resurgence is bad" the same people who say "This fire burns me every time I stick my hand in it"?
I just watched that this weekend. And enjoyed it!
Is its good? I wanted to see it really badly... at one point.
Whoa! That's a shocker. The reviews have been along the lines of "too soon for real perspective."
Sausage Party might be one of the best religious satires of the past ten years. It's crass and aimed at 14-year-old boys, and yet there are some great thematic undertones that actually make it interesting on a level it doesn't even deserve to be considered. I was shocked by how much I enjoyed it.
Forget Rogue One. Give me The Fifth Element 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX6LPS_PcCw
I've needed no further proof that Edgar Wright is one of the best stylistic filmmakers working today. It's been obvious to me almost since Shaun of the Dead. (Definitely after Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.) But if you somehow still aren't convinced, I highly recommend seeing Baby Driver.
Conceptually, it's extremely ambitious. The movie is a "musical" of sorts with the footage being directed and edited to the rhythm of famous pop songs. Gun shots go off in time with the beat, as do tire squeals, people walking, chewing gum, and everything else. The entire movie is in rhythm, even when you don't think you're noticing it. It's a wild ride. To make the concept work, Wright has wrapped it around a simple heist story about a a kid who drives getaway cars for an Atlanta crime lord. A car accident as a kid left him with tinnitus so he constantly listens to music in headphones to drown out the ring. He meets a girl, is paying off his debt, and it's the old "one last heist" plot device at work. The emotions and story are simple and probably rightly so since the style around it is so complex.
RC says check it out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTvJJnoWIPk
Did I never gush about I, Tonya on GS? I saw it in Austin and it's insanely funny, and so, so good. Watched the trailer which made me want to see it all over again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2iy5y0YjGM
Thor landed in a 1990's sci-fi dystopia. I hope Mick Jagger shows up as an antagonist. "FREEJACK!!!!!"
Oh, just Thor. So Loki is probably with the Quintessons.
Cate Blanchett in this movie makes me feel funny... in a good way. Talk about a lady who's aged well.
Tessa Thompson is current pilot of Slave One in this movie, right? She is hot.
This is where I realize I may have missed a movie or two. The Hulk is now perma-Hulk, crazy, and stuck in Goldblum's 1990's dystopia?
This is where I realize I may have missed a movie or two. The Hulk is now perma-Hulk, crazy, and stuck in Goldblum's 1990's dystopia?
Yeah, he flew off at the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron and apparently ended up on Junkion.
Not lost on me that Loki was correct at the beginning of the movie: Everything was going okay while he was posing as Odin and Thor did fuck things up by exposing him.
Which one was that?
So.... This is real...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCS657nOY8I
I want to see Snatched. Goldie Hawn as Schumer's mom seems such a great pairing. The trailer looks stupid, but I've been smart about my Schumer consumption, mostly because my wife absolutely can't stand her.
Makes me think of all those classic Gene Wilder/Richard Pryor comedies
So.... This is real...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCS657nOY8I
Danny McBride rebooting Crocodile Dundee?
Yes, please! I have no problems with this.
So.... This is real...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCS657nOY8I
Danny McBride rebooting Crocodile Dundee?
Yes, please! I have no problems with this.
So... the movie is fake. It’s a Super Bowl commercial for Australian tourism.
https://movieweb.com/crocodile-dundee-movie-fake-super-bowl-2018-commercial/
The joke is now up on what cold have been the best reboot of the past ten years.
Dunkirk:
A beautiful movie told in a strangely claustrophobic way. Nolan pulls out all the same visual and musical cues that made The Dark Knight amazing, following the evacuation at Dunkirk through the eyes of a handful of people. It's tense, exciting, and simply stunning to watch. Unfortunately, it feels needlessly complicated and a little too personal. We're essentially following one timeline that's shattered, Memento-style, so it all seems to pull together in the end...but it doesn't really mater that it pulls together because it's obviously just the writer's room being too clever for their pants. Meanwhile, the insular approach to the story -- strictly from the POV of the individual people -- cheapens the scope of the evacuation. 300,000 troops were evacuated by a flotilla of canoes and civilian craft. It's one of the most amazing moments of WWII, yet it's reduced to Joe Schmoe's viewpoint. Which might be fine if it was a more well-known engagement from the war. Consequently, the movie has to pause every once in a while to take a breath and explain itself. So...overdone.
Murder on the Orient Express is boring? That's disappointing.
I still haven't seen the original Insidious. Should I? Is this the one Annabelle was spun off from? I CAN'T KEEP UP!!!
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High on my list. Is it streaming in non-jolly roger circles?
You can pretty much assume everyone had smallpox at some point back then. In fact, it was fairly common practice (somewhat before the time of the Tudors) to intentionally infect children with smallpox (much like some people do with chicken pox). The "inoculation" methods were rather insane. In some cases, puss and scabs were taken, dried, and then blown into the healthy person's nose through a long tube.
You can pretty much assume everyone had smallpox at some point back then. In fact, it was fairly common practice (somewhat before the time of the Tudors) to intentionally infect children with smallpox (much like some people do with chicken pox). The "inoculation" methods were rather insane. In some cases, puss and scabs were taken, dried, and then blown into the healthy person's nose through a long tube.
That's fucked up.
On a different note, I'm completely agog over Saoirse Ronan since watching this movie. She's incredibly fun and humble.
This is so high on m list. Is it streaming anywhere?
Have I mentioned Parasite on GS at any point? I saw it last weekend and it has skyrocketed to my favorite movie of last year... even though I saw it this year.
So, like there's no movie I'm excited about coming out right now. This is a very strange place to be and I don't know how I'm supposed to feel... other than dead inside.
So, like there's no movie I'm excited about coming out right now. This is a very strange place to be and I don't know how I'm supposed to feel... other than dead inside.
Part of my news blackout is a commercial blackout. I have no idea what's coming out. And half of it leaks anyway now that the studios have made every mistake necessary to revitalize piracy. I mean, Parasite dropped two years ago!
Our Matrix thread was in the old forums, but a trailer hasn't made me this giddy since probably the one for "The Force Awakens."
https://youtu.be/JIThBMSABTo
Man, did I love Don't Look Up. Lots of Strangelove comparisons which aren't exactly on the nose, but I get it. It's funny and sad, and oh so of thw moment. I don't know how it ages, but it's got its finger on the pulse of the zeitgeist.
Who knew middle aged DiCaprio was going to be so fucking nuanced and perfect? Meryl Streep steals the show. Or does Cate Blanchett? Or does Jonah Hill? I don't man. Everybody is great in this.
Whether you like Shakespeare on not, Joel Cohen's Tragedy of MacBeth is absolutely gorgeous. Visually, it's the Lighthouse meets 300. Stunning to look at. Performances are petty good too. It's on Apple+ if you have it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptqe7s6pO7g
Also, I'm now subscribed to enough streaming services that I might as well be paying for cable again... which I fucking predicted ten years ago.
Don't know how much you've been keeping up with Robert Eggers (The VVItch, The Lighthouse), but I think he's one of the most fascinating directors working. Came from an Art Direction background and his movies are just gorgeous. Not for everybody, as he's way into dream logic and myth. The stories just aren't laid out for you. Lynchian in that it take a little bit of wrk on your art to piece together what it is your seeing
I finally caught The Northman last week, and it's well worth a watch. Because of the (increased) budget, Eggers had to make his story more linear and you feel his instincts struggling with that. Hi dream logic scenes have more plot hole significance, and yet his costumes and scenic design is so meticulous, the big budget realism seems at odds with his more esoteric impulses. It's a medieval revenge story that feels like a fever dream. If the main characters name "Amleth" does't give away where all the story points come from, you'll quickly realize Eggers wrapped his story in a more familiar one so he could get away with a wee bit more trippiness.
I loved it, but what he does fires all my synapses. Worth a look if you get a chance.