Tars Tarkas posted:

Deepwater Horizon - A cooler film would be about how BP PR managed to cover up a bunch of the oil spill's bad effects, but then there couldn't be cool explosions.
Production Budget: $110 million
Box Office: $61 million (domestic); $119 million (worldwide total) - currently still in theaters

Vince MechMahon posted:

You're only wrong in the part where you said there are better parts of Suicide Squad. That entire movie is a dumpster fire from top to bottom. Except Jai Courtney, weirdly enough.

Young Freud posted:

Yeah, it's a bit in Intron Depot, his artbook, which has that scene uncut in it. I believe he said he did the scene as lesbians because "he didn't want to draw male rear end".

Of course, Shirow's tastes have grown in recent years. He's no longer frightened of drawing men's butts but, boy, you wish he was because now we're getting his ingenues getting railed in thirty-man gangbangs by horse men, bird men, black men...

Detective No. 27 posted:

Guy Mann posted:

Hollywood wants people to think that their movies are always bombing because it makes it easier to not pay taxes on anything ever.

The one big failing of the Sony hack was that they didn't dump any incriminating Hollywood Accounting records.

Blade_of_tyshalle posted:

The word blood no longer makes sense after reading that post.

Brocktoon posted:

There's another Slender Man movie coming?

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/slender-man-horror-movie-finds-director-960742

MacheteZombie posted:

Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story (2015)

Jack Gladney posted:

The money influx from that and their dvd sales ultimately drove them apart and killed all their future projects. That should be the plot of this movie.

FilthyImp posted:

Odd that Lowtax would get the money and not, like, the poster that came up with the idea.

SA is just a giant work-for-hire scheme.

Madkal posted:

The scariest thing for me was the movie The Witches based on the Roald Dahl book. Just seeing Anjelica Houston transform freaked me out for months.

Monster Truck looks like the most earnest movie made in the last 20 years or so.

Samuel Clemens posted:

Freddy Krueger bed sheets for children has to be near the top on the list of bizarre marketing ideas. The meeting where they came up with that must have been fascinating.

CelticPredator posted:

I wasn't really scared of too much as a kid. Skeletons kinda creeped me out a little bit, but the only thing that really got me was this fucker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsJjfS-i2zM

Took me years to finally be able to watch that part of the film.

Samovar posted:

I remember being allowed to watch Alien when I was about 6.

I thought the Chestburster was cute.

jisforjosh posted:

The only horror movie that messed me up as a kid around 9, and I don't know how I came across seeing it, is Event Horizon. It wasn't even the core, it was the overwhelming sense of despair and hopelessness that they're all hosed.

Samuel Clemens posted:

The Fly is an interesting case for me because the depicted events are technically horrifying, but there's so much humour in the film that I never really get the uncomfortable feeling that some other horror films induce. Watching Jeff Goldblum being excited about turning into a fly is just too much fun.


Yeah, in retrospect, it's kind of strange that Temple of Doom was the film which got us the PG-13 rating, when everything in it pales in comparison to the finale of Raiders.

Spatula City posted:

jesus gently caress, yes. I was watching it with my family at home, and the way the aliens moved was just utterly terrifying to me. I see now they were meant to be funny-creepy, but I had a meltdown and hid behind the couch for the rest of the movie.

I also remember being freaked out by the Halloween Ernest movie, which was a terrible dumb comedy, but had nightmarish transformation sequences that haunted my dreams.

Blade_of_tyshalle posted:

Makes his role in Ferris Bueller a little hosed up in retrospect. Why's he so obsessed with that young boy?!

O-oh...

Dexie posted:

I'll admit it. I'm kind of intrigued by this.

precision posted:

I watched Ocean's Twelve last night, as part of my quest to actually watch every Soderbergh movie, and holy poo poo, who greenlighted that? It was incredibly fun, but from a Hollywood standpoint it's absolute arthouse wank nonsense with really amazing visuals and the best score I've ever heard.

Today I found out that Soderbergh himself considers it "the highest budget stoner film" and that they're doing an all-female Ocean's Eight

They named the fourth Ocean's film Ocean's 8

GrandpaPants posted:

Wasn't Ocean's 12 written during the writer's strike?

kiimo posted:

It kind of was.

Phylodox posted:

Except without the characters.

I was going to say "memorable characters", but I feel like even that's giving Rogue One a bit too much credit.

Corrode posted:

Yeah we saw the 60s and 1994 Romeo & Juliets and also Name of the Rose at school at like age 15 and no one cared. These parents are loving idiots.

Skwirl posted:

I showed part of The People vs Larry Flynt in a US History class as part of a project about the first amendment.

That's a pretty good movie.

Skwirl posted:

She is, I think she got nominated for several acting awards. Her struggle and sacrifice enshrined in Supreme Court case law our ability to obliquely imply Jerry Falwell hosed his mother in an outhouse via parody liquor ads.

Phylodox posted:

Will Smith is, presumably, slated to play Dumbo, right?

So many ear jokes on the horizon.

marshmallow creep posted:

One of my college English professors showed us the Crying Game, and having lived with a drag queen and other LBGTQ people all my life I was the only one in my class that wasn't surprised by the reveal.

Mecha Gojira posted:

Late Tim Burton Dumbo sounds awful, AND if Will Smith opts to do it, it'll put Bad Boys 3 on hold. Personally, I'm hoping it never gets made. And we get Bad Boys 3.

Chairman Capone posted:

I'll let him tell it in his own words:

http://www.dirkbenedictcentral.com/home/articles-readarticle.php?nid=5

The funny thing is that originally before the new BSG miniseries aired, he did a promotional interview with the new Starbuck actress to promote it and was supposedly the one who convinced a then-reluctant Richard Hatch to give it a try.

Snowman_McK posted:

Ah, Gran Torino, in which a rich old white man explains to two poor young minorities why political correctness is bad.

Snowman_McK posted:

Clint Eastwood himself is really rich, and so, when he makes a film where he gets to tell poor minorities that he's not really racist while playing a character who speaks almost exclusively in racial slurs, it's kind of hard not to see it in a loaded light.

Jack Gladney posted:

Get off my lawn and pull up your pants: the movie

FilthyImp posted:

Clint Eastwood stars in What if Old and Racist But Good.

Grendels Dad posted:

Clint Eastwood in: The Wrestler, But With Racism Instead of Wrestling.

K. Waste posted:

Clint Eastwood is basically just a more polished Frank Miller at this point.

FreudianSlippers posted:

Aliens, in general not in Signs specifically, are a modern incarnation of fairies/elves. They're a mysterious otherworldly force that is like us but different. They abduct people and like faires (and succubi/incubi, vampires, mares and shadow people) they're an attempt to explain sleep paralysis.

Schwarzwald posted:

If you haven't experienced sleep paralysis it can be difficult to describe, but it is quite distinct from dreaming.