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Tobey Maguire was in The Wizard, though I think he was only in the background.
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Barometer posted:You might want to edit in what constitutes your "life time", for reference. Not trying to be snarky, anyone who wants to answer is going to need to know what timespan you are asking about. Oops, I'm 32, so pretty much star wars onwards.
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Binowru posted:You mean you have to use your hands? That's like a baby's toy!  I mean, I probably have not seen that movie since it came out, but holy crap! I think that is the first picture of him where his proportions actually look OK.
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Feb 12, 2010 05:51
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Were all the specific fast food references and close-ups of the McDonald's logo in The Weather Man intentional product placement or just accidents, part of the movie, that kind of thing?
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Feb 12, 2010 07:59
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twistedmentat posted:There is probably a page with this, or i could do painstaking research and figure it out, but are there any examples of movies made in my life time that have kids in them that became stars later on? Sean Astin and Josh Brolin in The Goonies. A bit of a stretch here as far as being "stars", but Jerry O'Connell and Corey Feldman in Stand By Me. Edit: Leo DiCaprio in What's Eating Gilbert Grape? Encryptic fucked around with this message at 14:23 on Feb 12, 2010 |
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Christian Bale in Empire of the Sun and Drew Barrymore in E.T.? e: Oh and Kirsten Dunst in Interview with the Vampire. e2: How did I forget Natalie Portman in Léon/The Professional? franco fucked around with this message at 14:02 on Feb 12, 2010 |
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Feb 12, 2010 13:57
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Encryptic posted:A bit of a stretch here as far as being "stars", but Jerry O'Connell and Corey Feldman in Stand By Me. River Phoenix was a legitimate star before he died, though.
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Feb 12, 2010 18:21
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Encryptic posted:Sean Astin and Josh Brolin in The Goonies. er, isn't that the movie that put DiCaprio on the map in the first place?
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Feb 12, 2010 19:17
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You're thinking of Titanic
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Dr_Amazing posted:You're thinking of Titanic No, you're thinking of The Quick and the Dead  Real content: Leonardo DiCaprio in The Quick and the Dead, though he wasn't really a child anymore.
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Feb 12, 2010 19:54
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Glass Joe posted:No, you're thinking of The Quick and the Dead No, that's wrong too. The actual answer is the final season of Growing Pains
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Feb 12, 2010 23:53
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NYIslander posted:No, that's wrong too. 
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Dr_Amazing posted:You're thinking of Titanic He was nominated for an Oscar for Gilbert Grape.
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Feb 13, 2010 03:01
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Yea, the Josh Brolin thing is weird. He was in Goonies, then he shows up again in Planet Terror, then BAM, No Country for Old Men.
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Feb 13, 2010 06:22
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Thought of another one - Matt Damon in the 80s Julia Roberts movie Mystic Pizza, long before Good Will Hunting put him on the map. Funnily enough, I just checked IMDB to find out when that movie came out and Josh Brolin happens to pop up on the front page since it's his birthday.
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This is only barely related but I don't know where else to ask this kind of question. Is Full Sail a good or bad idea for someone trying to get into the film industry? I'm 20 and only have a year of basic Liberal Arts community college under my belt, and honestly, I'm just clueless on what to do. I have 8 completed, feature length screenplays. I imagine I would do best getting into screenwriting, but I want to learn and get into other cinematic fields and not just write. It's just that screenwriting is my language and comes easy to me. At the same time I haven't written anything that I would want anyone else to direct. I've heard some wary things about Full Sail. Would I be better off applying for straight up film schools? Do I even have a chance with just screenplays as my film experience?
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twistedmentat posted:Yea, the Josh Brolin thing is weird. He was in Goonies, then he shows up again in Planet Terror, then BAM, No Country for Old Men. He was also in American Gangster in between the two you mentioned. It's cool to see things have worked out well for him. He'll also be starring in Jonah Hex, which I'm looking forward to.
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This might be a kind of silly request but lately I've been sort of enchanted by films that sort of expose how things get done in creative industries, ranging from stuff like Synecdoche, New York with the gigantic productions shown and even other stuff like The Devil Wears Prada(fashion/magazine publishing industries), which happens to share an actor on that show Entourage which I also liked in that aspect (the whole process that movies get made, however fictional/silly). The Aviator also touches on this at points. Any other stuff like this? And I don't mean just limited to theater type production but really anything with a creative process.
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Feb 13, 2010 11:50
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Piano posted:This might be a kind of silly request but lately I've been sort of enchanted by films that sort of expose how things get done in creative industries, ranging from stuff like Synecdoche, New York with the gigantic productions shown and even other stuff like The Devil Wears Prada(fashion/magazine publishing industries), which happens to share an actor on that show Entourage which I also liked in that aspect (the whole process that movies get made, however fictional/silly). The Aviator also touches on this at points. Any other stuff like this? And I don't mean just limited to theater type production but really anything with a creative process. Have you seen 24 Hour Party People? It's the (mostly) true story of Tony Wilson and Factory Records. It's an extremely entertaining movie and offers a decent look behind the scenes of the bands, labels, and clubs of the time.
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Feb 13, 2010 13:47
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VorpalBunny posted:The talk of TITANIC was all doom and gloom, they even moved the release date from summer to winter to give Cameron more time to put the film together. 20th Century Fox was certain it would ruin them. Fox thought Star Wars would bankrupt them, too, with it's $10 million dollar budget.
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Feb 13, 2010 15:00
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Encryptic posted:Sean Astin and Josh Brolin in The Goonies. Everyone seems to have forgotten Anna Paquin in The Piano, whose breasts are currently starring in True Blood.
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the Bunt posted:This is only barely related but I don't know where else to ask this kind of question. Is Full Sail a good or bad idea for someone trying to get into the film industry? I can't speak with any authority about the film industry in general, but a friend of mine went to Full Sail, and she thought it was worthless. They're very over-priced (she has tens of thousands of dollars in tuition debt, now) for what they offer.
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Yeah I live about 10 minutes from Full Sail and know quite a few people who go there. Not many of them have anything good to say about the place.
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The other day I recorded The Dam Busters off of TCM. Irritatingly, either my guide or TCM's clock was off, because my recording, even set to start early, started a little into the movie. The first thing I have recorded is a boardroom-looking scene with people arguing about how "Mr. Wallace has come up with a theory that was so far afield that we wasted time" with it or something like that. So my question: is this the beginning of the film (at least, right after opening credits)? Or have I missed a lot? I tend to be anal about seeing all of a film, and so if I'm missing a lot, I'm not going to watch it, and I'll just record it again. How much am I missing?
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the Bunt posted:This is only barely related but I don't know where else to ask this kind of question. Is Full Sail a good or bad idea for someone trying to get into the film industry? I'm 20 and only have a year of basic Liberal Arts community college under my belt, and honestly, I'm just clueless on what to do. I live by the Orlando one and I haven't heard much good stuff about it: It's ridiculously expensive and none of its credits are transferable to other schools, it's a "technical" school that focuses more on teaching you tools (like Photoshop/Maya/AfterEffects/etc) rather than how to actually be an artist, there's almost no actual portfolio work or even an essay required to get in so you get a lot of incompetent people who are there because they have money, and the general sentiment seems to be that it's a "scam" in the way that schools like ITT Tech are. Of course, this is all hearsay and I have no experience with actual art schooling myself.
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No, you're pretty much right. It's overpriced (mind bogglingly so), it's unaccredited and thus you can't transfer credits as you said. You can learn all the stuff they teach you on your own fairly easily, and the one the friend of a friend went to was in a poo poo area.
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Daveski posted:Have you seen 24 Hour Party People? It's the (mostly) true story of Tony Wilson and Factory Records. It's an extremely entertaining movie and offers a decent look behind the scenes of the bands, labels, and clubs of the time. Also Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story by the same director (Winterbottom). Behind the scenes look at the making of a movie based on an unfilmable book.
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the talent deficit posted:Also Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story by the same director (Winterbottom). Behind the scenes look at the making of a movie based on an unfilmable book. I actually came here to talk about Tristram Shandy Was all the humor in the non Shandy parts that awkward The Office-esque stuff, where the humour is in the uncomfortableness of the situations? Because I really tried to like Tristram Shandy but I had a lot of trouble making it through the bits that weren't the actual filming of the book. I thought it was an awesome idea to make a metafictional movie about a metafictional book (I'm a sucker for metafiction, really), and it did have it's amusing moments (Steve Coogan stuck in a giant womb, for example), but overall, I just felt like I missed something. That said-are there any other movies that really enjoy destroying the fourth wall, like a lot of the book scenes did in Shandy? Like the bit at the beginning, where Coogan goes on about how the kid couldn't play the part well? I love the idea of tearing down the fourth wall and messing with the viewer.
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Piano posted:This might be a kind of silly request but lately I've been sort of enchanted by films that sort of expose how things get done in creative industries, ranging from stuff like Synecdoche, New York with the gigantic productions shown and even other stuff like The Devil Wears Prada(fashion/magazine publishing industries), which happens to share an actor on that show Entourage which I also liked in that aspect (the whole process that movies get made, however fictional/silly). The Aviator also touches on this at points. Any other stuff like this? And I don't mean just limited to theater type production but really anything with a creative process. La Nuit Americaine (aka "Day for Night") is a really good look at what happens on a film set. It's got a lot of realistic details and shows some roles that aren't normally shown in films about film, and it's pretty funny as well. My fave scene is everyone's thoughts while they record room tone, but that's probably because I was usually the sound recordist on set during my film school days.
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Daveski posted:Have you seen 24 Hour Party People? It's the (mostly) true story of Tony Wilson and Factory Records. It's an extremely entertaining movie and offers a decent look behind the scenes of the bands, labels, and clubs of the time. I can't recommend that film enough. In the same vein, Control is specifically about Joy Division's singer Ian Curtis (which is the band that put Wilson's Factory on the musical map), but gets deep into his personal demons and how they influenced his creative process.
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Piano posted:Any other stuff like this? And I don't mean just limited to theater type production but really anything with a creative process. If you haven't seen Boogie Nights, do so. It's just as much about the porn industry (making pornos, the transfer from film to video) as it is about the rise and fall of Eddie Adams. People seem to remember it for the penis, but honestly it's a really terrific film.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:If you haven't seen Boogie Nights, do so. It's just as much about the porn industry (making pornos, the transfer from film to video) as it is about the rise and fall of Eddie Adams. People seem to remember it for the penis, but honestly it's a really terrific film. What the gently caress? Eddie Adams?
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the Bunt posted:What the gently caress? Eddie Adams?
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Piano posted:This might be a kind of silly request but lately I've been sort of enchanted by films that sort of expose how things get done in creative industries, ranging from stuff like Synecdoche, New York with the gigantic productions shown and even other stuff like The Devil Wears Prada(fashion/magazine publishing industries), which happens to share an actor on that show Entourage which I also liked in that aspect (the whole process that movies get made, however fictional/silly). The Aviator also touches on this at points. Any other stuff like this? And I don't mean just limited to theater type production but really anything with a creative process. All the suggestions so far (Boogie Nights, 24 Hour Party People, Tristram Shandy, Day for Night) and I second them. And I'll add All That Jazz which I did a Movie of the Month thread for here. Two great films about the artistic process at work are Quince Tree of the Sun and The Mystery of Picasso. I may think of a couple more later.
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e: dammit wrong thread.
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Living in Oblivion with Steve Buscemi is a good one about trying to make an indie film, and Soapdish is a pretty funny one with Robert Downey Jr and Kevin Kline about filming a daytime soap.
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twistedmentat posted:There is probably a page with this, or i could do painstaking research and figure it out, but are there any examples of movies made in my life time that have kids in them that became stars later on? I tried to google child stars of the 80s and came up with this. http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/child-stars-yesteryear.php Surprisingly there really is no site dedicated to this kind of thing.
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Akuma posted:What? Eddie Adams -> Dirk Diggler. Oh, for some reason using the name that is least referred to through the movie sent me for a loop. I'm dumb. That's kind of a huge point of the movie though, that the character hides from himself using nicknames for nicknames by the end of it.
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the Bunt posted:That's kind of a huge point of the movie though, that the character hides from himself using nicknames for nicknames by the end of it. It's really quite a film. Everyone remembers it for the penis, but it's got a lot of layers. And I called him Eddie Adams because once I called him Dirk Diggler, and someone was like "His name is actually Eddie Adams ".
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Piano posted:stuff like The Devil Wears Prada(fashion/magazine publishing industries) You might want to check out The September Issue, which is basically the real life version of "The Devil Wears Prada". I was actually much more interested in Wintour's second ("Grace" I believe is her name) by the end. Bonus points for the most ridiculous tennis lesson ever put to film, courtesy of the always ridiculous Andre Leon Talley.
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