Joel M

Streamers severely underpaying pretty much all creative people outside of the 0,1% that has the fame and power to negotiate is a disgusting thing that's been going on for over a decade. AI replacing human creativity with cheap bullshit is a much more recent thing but equally horryfying. I hope the writers hold out and don't back down.

Goose playing a stuntman that also lives a life of crime for the third time. Sounds excellent and the cast is good. Only thing I'm not crazy about is David Leitch.

I have no idea about the Color Purple musical and how good it is on stage. It just sounds super weird to me making this story into a musical.

That fish looks dead

Not gonna lie the Taika shtick has gotten old pretty fast but I'm probably gonna fall for this. Looks like Cool Runnings but with football. What's not to like? at the same time I don't see it playing like an oscar movie ala JoJo or even be on the awards rada,r even with good reviews.

Whether the "romance" gossip is real or PR they 're kinda overselling it way too soon.

ofc it's not beneath him. I just don't want him in a 7-movie contract with Marvel for the rest ofthe decade. He's already 40 and started very late. Plus he already did the big franchise thing with Star Wars.

Don't do it Adam Driver, you 're so sexy.

Funniest episode of the season. The Kerry scene was horryfying and at the same time that Marcia line about the Taxi to the subway was so brutal, I just laughed out loud. Also Karl destroying Tom on the spot, Greg trying to parlay a doodle with his name into 2nd in command, the underlined/crossed out meaningless debate. Epic hilarious stuff and at the same time the big moments like with Kerry or Shiv still land hard. When it ended with Kendoll back to his old bullshit, I had such a grin on my face. He's gonna fuck everyone up and then himself again. I can feel it.

He is definately that for the last two decades but that wasn't always the case. Before the 00s with the exception of New York, New York which was a BIG project for its time, he did exclusively mid to low budget movies. Some of them did fine, some of them bombed even with low budgets and even his biggest hits were just hits moneywise, not the kind of success that will give you a blank check to do anything. He did his time working with as much as the studio sustem will alow him. By 2000 he was already mentioned right next to Chaplin-Kubrick-Hitchkock as the big directors that oscars never rewarded. At the same time Weinstein was at the peak of his power and wanted to be the one to crown Scorsese so he got the huge budgets. And right after he failed Departed happened and the Titanic guy actually became a real movie star and some of Marty's older smaller movies were now huge classics and it ended up with him today being a gigantic figure in Hollywood that people still wanna gamble to make a big movie with. imo he earned it more than most. And to touch on the runtime thing, Scorsese is famously against Director's Cuts. He says as long as the producers didn't take the movie away and you agreed to the Cut, that's the final cut end of story. There's even some Spielberg quote somewhere about Scorsese telling him he ruined a generation of filmmakers by going back to Close Encounters and doing the special edition. Also Gangs of New York has been his only movie that had unreleasable runtime drama and they fought for a year with Weinstein in the editing room and the whole thing was heavily reported by the press. The movie came out at 165 minutes, Scorsese stood by the cut and there was never even a mention of an extended version, despite those being all the rage at the height of the dvd home market boom. Where I'm going with this is that if the Irishman is 3,5 hours and KOTFM is 4, it's probably because Scorsese and Thelma wanted them to be so. In a hypothetical situation where those were traditional studio movies, they would have force him to cut them down and he would be either fine with it or publicly fine and secretly mad about it. I like Gangs of New York but I wish I could have seen what that original supposedly unreleasable cut was like.

The movie might be bad but my god those people heckling sound like insufferable assholes. I hope they had the most miserable time in their life and someone stole their wallet on their way home.

SCENE: Leo sits at a table looking up. Lily Gladstone turns and looks at him. The screen fades to black. INTERMISSION.

Never thought about it but you might be right. Any big game has to be total trash and almost unplayable to get below 70 at metacritic. I saw the movie on Sunday and it was fine. It barely has any story and the only ones that got an actual character are Bowser and maybe Luigi, but the "videogame" scenes with platforming or racing got me. And I'm not some big fan, haven't played a single mainline Mario game in more than 20 years, but everything and everyone is so inherently iconic the movie goes over very smooth despite all the things it lacks. I just hope they 'll have a real adventure with more characters being actual characters the next time around. Because "look the rainbow road is so pretty" ain't gonna work that well a second time.

Yeah it was incredible! Both they way it happened and the way it played out. Legendary stuff. I think they would have gotten away fairly easy with doing the usual season 4a+4b split (that's actually two seasons) just to have it on their slate for another year. It's pretty much the way to go for every big awards magnet show since Sopranos. But I'm really glad they didn't. All this happening so soon after the big shake up of the s3 finale, makes it even more surprising. Even though it isn't really.

The main father-daughter emotional thing is flimsy and there's only enough dino action a modest budget would allow, but otherwise this is pretty good. It has many tense sequences, Driver is compelling, the kid is ...fine and it's a pretty lean 90 minutes. Also the twist half-way through that I'm amazed they didn't spoil in the marketing is hilarious. And the way they keep playing all this ridiculousness straight just works imo.

lol that didn't take long. These ytbers are the lamest people alive.

good show but this is my favorite part. Both japanese and western characters often switch language even mid-conversation and for whatever reason I love it. I remember there's a scene where Rinko Kikuchi interviews a Korean lady in Korean, then talks with elgort about it in Japanese and then they start speaking english when the lady goes to the other room. true bliss. Watched during the last month: Creed III: Much better than 2, obv not as good as 1. Scream VI: I saw that one twice and it's just really really fun. I haven't rewatched the Craven sequels since forever to properly place VI in my rankings, but I think it's gonna end up high. John Wick 4: It was very good, didn't mind the runtime but at the same time I watched it 5 days ago and have already kinda forgot what happened in it. Cocaine Bear: Not in a theatre and thank god because it's both bad and boring. The much maligned Charlie's Angels reboot was much better than this. I also am slowly rewatching Justified for the first time since it ended. I'm midway through season 4 and loving it even more. A true unsung masterpiece. Also binged White Lotus season 2. Still don't get the breathless hype for this show, but I liked it more than season 1.

the trailer was mid but I have faith in Greta. It looks like all this stuff will be at the start and the bulk of the movie will take place in the real world. The posters seem to be taking off on twitter (which was their intention)

Still think the first one was the kind of perfect alchemy that feels impossible to repeat. But the trailer does look great.

I assume they were the kind of small roles that were only gonna be in one or two scenes anyway, but those scenes didn't make it to the final cut.

Thelma ain't playin'

Not the biggest fan of the last two but this has me hooked from the trailer. I like most of his stuff but I think his most famous movies (Tenenbaums and Grand Budapest) are easily his best.

Sure it's been done before but I think not with a movie of that scale. This like Dune or OUATIH is the kind of movie that will get 10x the media buzz/coverage of any other smaller auteur movie in a big festival. It would normally be the start of a large scale marketing push until the release. It will be weird if this open at Cannes with all the breathless coverage a 200m Scorsese-Leo movie would get and then pump the breaks for 3 months to relaunch in September in a smaller festival. This isn't comparable to Parasite or No Country for Old Men. It might come from a streamer but it's still a gigantic movie with a ton of pedigree and star power. And it 'll release in theatres supposedly with all the marketing hoopla that entails. I'm not saying it won't happen. Just noting that it's kind of unprecedented.

Fingers crossed. Weird they'll premiere it at Cannes and not Venice though, with that release date.