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Post by solidsnake on Sept 8, 2024 12:32:43 GMT -5
Focus/Universal bought international rights for The Brutalist, it's getting pushed as an awards contender. Can't wait. Well, all right then. Good stuff.
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Post by solidsnake on Sept 8, 2024 12:34:40 GMT -5
With Speak No Evil remake just about upon us, I’m just wondering if it meaningfully departs from the original. If not, not much point in ever seeing it (still never seen Let Me In). I imagine it’s just…more toned down (if the stoning happens, it won’t be as crushing), while also more viscerally “thrilling,” with the end of the trailer packing some action shots in. The fact that they tell you in the trailer that the boy’s tongue is cut out removes a lot, I think. Woulda been better if they had Longlegs’d the trailers/marketing campaign, which we’ll probably see a lot of in the next two years. More selling the tone than the story/character beats, while luring audiences in based on ambiguity. Honestly may have only worked this one time cuz audiences are fucking stupid and want a movie spoon fed to them in the trailers, which is why we get trailers that show 90% of a movie. It really seems like they’re playing up the family fighting back aspect to the point where I feel like they might survive the whole ordeal. There was some screening reports where people hinted as much. Ya know, the fighting Americans!! But who knows. If it has them meeting the same fate then it’s truly fucking pointless. Either way it really really did not need a remake. It’s got a good cast, who I assume will do a good job. And James Watkins did Eden Lake, very overlooked and very fucking intense. So if it weren’t a remake, I’d be interested.
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Post by MMST3K on Sept 8, 2024 13:39:45 GMT -5
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Post by xgreenxcloverx on Sept 8, 2024 13:41:12 GMT -5
Hell or High Water fits the bill as far as modern westerns go imo. Centered on characters at the ends of their proverbial ropes, struggling to survive by any means in a barren world very much like the Western frontier.
Sicario and Wind River fit the bill too imo, also written by Taylor Sheridan.
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Post by antipasto on Sept 8, 2024 13:43:59 GMT -5
Hell or High Water fits the bill as far as modern westerns go imo. Centered on characters at the ends of their proverbial ropes, struggling to survive by any means in a barren world very much like the Western frontier. Sicario and Wind River fit the bill too imo, also written by Taylor Sheridan. I love all three of these!
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Post by xgreenxcloverx on Sept 8, 2024 13:44:31 GMT -5
It's like Airplane! or the Naked Gun, just gag after gag after gag, barely letting you catch your breath. From what I understand, Dante really didn't want to do a sequel at all, unless he was given 100% creative control. Joe Dante FTW
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Post by MMST3K on Sept 8, 2024 13:44:42 GMT -5
Yeah I want to see Hell or High Water.
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Post by MMST3K on Sept 8, 2024 13:46:06 GMT -5
It's like Airplane! or the Naked Gun, just gag after gag after gag, barely letting you catch your breath. From what I understand, Dante really didn't want to do a sequel at all, unless he was given 100% creative control. Joe Dante FTW Yeah he didn't want to unless he had creative control and he used it to mock the first movie, the studio, and even Donald Trump.
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Post by xgreenxcloverx on Sept 8, 2024 13:49:30 GMT -5
It's like Airplane! or the Naked Gun, just gag after gag after gag, barely letting you catch your breath. From what I understand, Dante really didn't want to do a sequel at all, unless he was given 100% creative control. Joe Dante FTW Yeah he didn't want to unless he had creative control and he used it to mock the first movie, the studio, and even Donald Trump. When he breaks the 4th wall with the theater scene! Jesus h tapdancing christ 🙌
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Post by antipasto on Sept 8, 2024 13:51:11 GMT -5
Yeah I want to see Hell or High Water. Definitely check it out. I was just recommending it to my dad yesterday. It’s so good
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Post by xgreenxcloverx on Sept 8, 2024 13:55:18 GMT -5
Yeah I want to see Hell or High Water. Definitely check it out. I was just recommending it to my dad yesterday. It’s so good There's a shot right in the beginning as the movie opens, the camera casually passes a wall with a spray painted message saying "three tours in Iraq. where's my bailout?" Mood established 💯
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Post by xgreenxcloverx on Sept 8, 2024 14:10:53 GMT -5
Hell or High Water fits the bill as far as modern westerns go imo. Centered on characters at the ends of their proverbial ropes, struggling to survive by any means in a barren world very much like the Western frontier. Sicario and Wind River fit the bill too imo, also written by Taylor Sheridan. I love all three of these! Wind River broke me dude. It came out shortly after the Standing Rock protests had reached their peak in terms of global awareness. I even wen't myself to help however I could. Learning about the very real and constant threat women on reservations live under, and how largely unreported cases of the missing & murdered go. Fucking bleak man. The movie certainly helped raise awareness, but cases of missing and murdered indigenous women still happen. And so it goes. *Edit* Apparently in Sicario there's a callback (foreshadowing?) to Wind River during the sequence when the convoy entering Juarez makes a quick stop before taking a detour. During the stop, there's a shot where the camera shifts focus from Del Toro to the wall behind him with several missing persons posters stuck to it. On one of the posters is the missing girl from Wind River.
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Post by jaredfromsubway on Sept 8, 2024 15:12:36 GMT -5
The Front Room is pretty bad
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Post by antipasto on Sept 8, 2024 15:13:16 GMT -5
I just watched The Proposition and it was so good
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Post by xgreenxcloverx on Sept 8, 2024 15:32:42 GMT -5
Even the Mad Max movies fit the Western motif.
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Post by MMST3K on Sept 8, 2024 19:52:04 GMT -5
I think that was the point.
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Post by xgreenxcloverx on Sept 8, 2024 20:11:49 GMT -5
I think that was the point. Word? I haven't done any digging beyond the Fury Road car bonus featurette so I'm def a bit ignorant of George's intentions with these films.
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Post by MMST3K on Sept 8, 2024 20:19:04 GMT -5
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Post by solidsnake on Sept 9, 2024 8:45:31 GMT -5
Pretty pumped for Heretic, primarily because Hugh Grant is awesome when you can tell he’s having a good time sinking his teeth into a role, like in The Gentlemen.
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Post by Athrenody on Sept 9, 2024 12:35:21 GMT -5
like in Paddington 2.
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Post by I Gave You Power on Sept 9, 2024 17:37:24 GMT -5
The Front Room is pretty bad This is one of those where I have to ask, why do this to yourself? Rookie directors, lead is a non-actor, no great supporting or even character actors to hold things together, bad premise and zero positive buzz. You’re just throwing 95 minutes down the toilet, it never had a shot at being good.
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Post by rc19 on Sept 9, 2024 18:43:50 GMT -5
The Front Room is pretty bad Can't believe Brandy is a leading actor in a film in 2024
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Post by paulkersey on Sept 9, 2024 18:47:54 GMT -5
The Front Room is pretty bad This is one of those where I have to ask, why do this to yourself? lead is a non-actor excuse you
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Post by paulkersey on Sept 9, 2024 18:48:27 GMT -5
I'd say sorry for the giant Brandy photo, but im not
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Post by jaredfromsubway on Sept 9, 2024 19:12:47 GMT -5
The Front Room is pretty bad This is one of those where I have to ask, why do this to yourself? Rookie directors, lead is a non-actor, no great supporting or even character actors to hold things together, bad premise and zero positive buzz. You’re just throwing 95 minutes down the toilet, it never had a shot at being good. Kathryn Hunter rules and she was the only redeeming quality of it Had a divided response amongst my friend group, which ends up increasing my interests. It was also over 100 degrees and I watched it for free. Sue me.
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Post by thezman on Sept 9, 2024 19:15:28 GMT -5
Lucked out and got tickets to see 'The Substance' on Friday.
Rewatched 'Vertigo' last night. Movie is top tier but I don't think I can ever get on board with James Stewart. He needs to get his "gee, golly" ass out of SF!
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Post by ☭ Bob Loblaw ☭ on Sept 9, 2024 20:06:07 GMT -5
Lucked out and got tickets to see 'The Substance' on Friday. I’m very into the idea of seeing this movie . also Margaret Qualley is heart eyes forever
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Post by jaredfromsubway on Sept 9, 2024 20:17:33 GMT -5
Lucked out and got tickets to see 'The Substance' on Friday. Rewatched 'Vertigo' last night. Movie is top tier but I don't think I can ever get on board with James Stewart. He needs to get his "gee, golly" ass out of SF! Dammit, it was sold out by the time I tried!!!!!!
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Post by Bussy Drippens on Sept 10, 2024 1:26:38 GMT -5
beetlejuice stinks. they had three decades to write a decent script and we this half-baked mess.
the emotional core of the first film is the love story between geena davis and alex baldwin, who wisely do not appear in this film. in the sequel, none of the characters are given anything compelling to do - Lydia is now a perpetually befuddled pillhead daytime TV psychic, Justin Theroux is her manipulative producer/fiancee, Jenna Ortega is Lydia’s bitchy, spoiled skeptic daughter, Jeffrey Jones’s absence is weirdly and unnecessarily explained in a claymation sequence depicting him getting decapitated by a shark (he appears throughout the film as a walking torso squeaking out his lines by an impersonator). Monica Belluci is built up as BJ’s vengeful ex-wife, but she doesn’t actually play any important role in the plot whatsoever and just floats around looking hot until the movie disposes of her.
thankfully it was just us in the theatre so I got my beetle JUICED if ya know what i mean.
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Post by Bussy Drippens on Sept 10, 2024 1:28:36 GMT -5
on another note, I watched Bulworth for the first time in over a decade, what a great fuckin movie. worth it just to hear Warren Beatty rap the words “they all give me nappy dugout”
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