Celedhring
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On 2/17/2024 at 11:51 AM, Porthos said:
Dammit. This was supposed to be a Cliff Notes Version.
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Thanks a lot for ellaborating in such detail.
As a kid, Empire was actually my least favorite film of the OT. Always disliked how it ended the way it did compared to ANH or ROJ (the protagonists just manage to escape... and that's it), and found the later third pretty boring. Battle of Hoth is such a banger of an action scene, and it's never topped for the remaineder of the movie. Now, as I aged up I appreciated the emotional beats in the rest of the movie much more and it is now my favorite Star Wars thing among all Star Wars things.
Personally I feel that Leia is portrayed quite well in her Hoth scenes. She leads the evacuation effort and is shown as being one of the last to leave, etc... Always felt she gives a very good impression of an heroic military commander, putting others before her, etc...
She's given not much during the subsequent escape though - on that I'll agree. But then again Ford and Fisher have such dizzying chemistry, "I love you/I know" is one of my favorite dialogue exhcanges in movie history.
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13 hours ago, Porthos said:
Folks, as mentioned, literally NO FILM has 100% approval. To give a personal example even after all these years, I still have a somewhat... complicated relationship with The Empire Strikes Back, and that is near universally considered one of the best films of all time.
Okay, you've made me curious. What's your issue with it?
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7 hours ago, fabiopazzo2 said:
Poor Dakota. she did a good job... Sweeney 💀💀. terrible, I don't know if it was the Italian dubbing but she was terrible
Dakota Johnson must have the worst agent on Earth - she's genuinely talented but her post-Shades career has been awful (she was amazing in Suspiria but that movie unsurprisingly bombed).
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Watching Fury Road for the first time is easily one of my all-time movie theater experiences - that movie blew me away. I don't expect this to be on that level but I'm certainly going to be there.
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13 hours ago, Mojoguy said:
No single genre should be dominating so much. The superhero era is ending just as the western era ended.
In the end superhero movies have become a bit of a Dutch disease. More variety of movies ensure that if a genre goes out of fashion it's not such an existential crisis for the business.
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On 11/17/2023 at 12:31 AM, TalismanRing said:
Phoenix/Scott bring out a refreshingly comic side to Napoleon
Is this something we were truly missing and wanting?
It worked for Woody Allen!
(Love & Death is my favorite of his early straight comedy films)
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My favorite thing of the trailer might be trying to pass Sydney Sweeney as a plain looking girl by having her wear glasses and disheveled hair, like a 1990s teen comedy.
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I think they worry about the precedent of expanding the recipients, even if the outlay wouldn't change for them at this point.
Good on Fran for sticking with it, IMHO.
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Yeah, my reading is that SAG will use that 25% to distribute it to shows under the 20% line.
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When Marvel jumped into making movies, the biggest handicap they had was that they had sold off their most famous characters - Spidey, X-Men, F4 - and they only retained second or third string characters. Nobody thought of Iron Man as a valuable IP. And much less Guardians of the Galaxy. They only had a following among comic book fans.
Anyway, I always was a casual comic book reader, but I recall picking up some Ms Marvel comics in the 2000s and they had a decent storyline where she was a bit of a struggling superhero that nonetheless strived to be the best version of herself. That seems to me a more interesting approach than the "she's the strongest evah" from the first movie. Not Marvel, but I had the same feeling with Black Adam. Those are not engaging characters.
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3 minutes ago, Issac Newton said:
Another very good hold incoming, then. Curious pattern, I suppose the first weekend was inflated because of past Di Caprio - Scorsese collaborations being more accessible, and now the movie is finding its audience.
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3 hours ago, filmlover said:
I mean, Reynolds could've played his part in The Grey Man too.
Let Gos enjoy this cash in era of his career.
Oh absolutely. Grab the cash!
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Looks like Ryan Gosling finally doing a Ryan Reynolds movie.
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1 hour ago, The GOAT said:
Honestly, it just feels sad at this point. I get the feeling that this going to do what WW1984 did to Wonder Woman. In getting the character cancelled and written off.
Some interesting facts about the lead developers of "The Marvels"
The only thing memorable that the director has to her name is Candyman.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4804442/?ref_=ttfc_fc_wr1
The other two writers have at most THREE previous writing credits to their name
Yeah, but those credits include the two most successful Marvel shows. They seem pretty reasonable choices.
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18 minutes ago, Spidey Freak said:
It's got the darkest subject matter out of all Leo/Scorsese projects by far and is almost 4 hours long. The fact that it wasn't DOA is a miracle in itself.
And he plays an extremely unsavory character without all the twisted aspirational glamour that Jordan Belfort had. That same movie without Leo does Silence's numbers or whereabouts.
Also, the first version of the script (with Leo playing Plemons' character and having all the movie centered about him solving the murders) probably does much better at the BO - but becomes a lesser film, too.
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2 minutes ago, MysteryMovieMogul said:
Oh, well, in that case, why didn't streaming hurt the films overseas, at least in regard to piracy?
We didn't get D&D releases - at least here in Europe. And piracy has rarely been a factor for BO, imho.
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8 hours ago, Cmasterclay said:
This rings true to me. I think I realized how much old I am when I was having lunch with a workmate and she was telling me their children were dying to watch this.
I finally managed to watch KOTFM. Easily my favorite movie of the year so far, but it's certainly more Silence than, say, Irishman, so I can see why it's failing. Still, found it riveting - and I only felt the runtime in the last hour, the whole investigation and trial I didn't think was that interesting and could have been managed more expeditiously (but then that ending scene is simply great).
I hope he's still able to get a decent budget for The Wager after this.
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Yeah, I'm dying to see this - I'm very much the target audience for this kind of film - but I just can't budget the 3.5 hours (plus travel time) needed for it. I suspect I'm not the only one.
Hopefully this weekend!
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11 hours ago, dudalb said:
Apple is after prestige, thinking that will pay off in the long run.
A good example of htis is their announcement that "Masters Of The Air", the long awaited Speilberg/Hanks produced sucessor to "Band of Brothers" and "Pacific" will debut on Apple on Jan. 24th. Thie series about the 8th Air Force Bombing Campaing against Nazi Germany was in limbo at HBO for years until Apple grabbed it. Very much a project wiht a lot of prestige.
That alone will make me re-suscribe to Apple, tbf.
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Reynolds was great in Buried, and the entire movie fails if he can't hold it.
After that... yeah, it's bland action-com after bland action-com. Deadpool was fun I guess, but I had no desire to watch the first sequel or the upcoming one. I wish he spread his wings out a bit more.
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Tbf, that's a super normal thing to do (filming pedestrians for a B-roll). They shouldn't be doing it during an actor's strike though, for sure.
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34 minutes ago, Jonwo said:
I'm impressed the talkshows will be back by Monday with the exception of John Oliver which is back this Sunday,
Writers in talks shows turn out material at an incredibly fast pace. It's a very stressing job, tbf, not everyone can do it.
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Who likes Hollywood executives anyway? Even the usual anti-labor types hate "liberal Hollywood studios".
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All the wins on "quality and quantity of employment" (staffing and contract length minimums) seem pretty big and are hugely important moving forward. Putting those down in writing, even if they are a small improvement on what people were already getting, seems hugely important given the changing environment.
The success-based residuals seem much less impressive (how many shows are viewed by 20% of the suscriber base? I guess a tiny amount), and I wonder if that will work for SAG-AFTRA.
Let Gos enjoy this cash in era of his career.
Weekend Numbers | actuals | 80.01M G×K: THE NEW EMPIRE | 11.35M DUNE II
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I have a soft spot for 2 because it was the first one I watched in cinemas (too young for the first), but in all honesty you're right.
I found 2016 to be pretty bad, but closer to an actual Ghostbusters movie than the annoying nostalgia-fest that GBA was. Haven't seen Frozen Empire.