Enos Cabell posted:

Robert Zemeckis

Chairman Capone posted:

I agree that Zemeckis has a steep decline in later years after Cast Away, but I don't think it matches with Burton.

Polar Express was at least a major technical innovation, even if the technology's impact is debatable. Beowulf, Flight, and even Marwen have some defenders, and I think the consensus of Allied is that it's fine (I liked it), and all of those are pretty different from each other in terms of plot, tone, and actors. It's really just his last two movies that are unambiguous shits.

Contrast that to Burton where for the last fifteen or twenty years it feels like he's put out pretty much the exact same sort of movie with the exact same actors and exact same atmosphere and tone, and nothing really innovative or even unique among them. Plus he propped up Depp more than arguably anyone else and also pioneered the Disney live action remake trend, which are ethically and creatively worse than anything Zemeckis is guilty of IMO.

Sourdough Sam posted:

Big Eyes was pretty well regarded right? It's based on a true story about Walter Keane the "artist" being a fraud. No Johnny Depp or Helena Bonham Carter or any garish CG to be found.

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

Escape from LA is better than Escape from NY.

Shageletic posted:

naked lady shooting lazers out of her hands as she flies past the crystal fortress of solitude

there's more stuff that happens too

Snowman_McK posted:

Baron von Eevl posted:

I forget if it was that or Marc Maron's podcast where he was going on and on about why the protagonist using a bunch of racial slurs in French Connection was really vital and it was just showing the gritty truth. I know on the Dante podcast he was going on about Trump being pretty great and a smart guy and also denigrating Jackson Pollock with "anybody could do that."

Bad news for you about Friedkin's money...

MacheteZombie posted:

I love low budget direct to video schlock

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

. Uwe Boll's Auschwitz

The Saddest Rhino posted:

Does the new one at least have him have the mustache? The 2nd one ended with him recognising him keeping it is his internalising his ww1 trauma, which is frankly ridiculous, and then it ended with a stinger of him having it shaven off

High Warlord Zog posted:

https://twitter.com/THR/status/1722717188493291944

dr_rat posted:

Hannibal was on free to air in the US? Hahah, gently caress. Like those gothic murder scenes. Like pretty sure that show was far gorier that hellriser.

Although wait are all those incredibly stupid NTIS, NTIC, what ever, gory detective shows on free to air? I guess they must be. Not... to much worse then that.

Swearing or nudity, oh no! Piles of skinned people filmed in excessive detail, all okay!

Ccs posted:

Oh i just watched this movie a month ago, surprisingly entertaining for a WS Anderson movie. Wish they had gotten to go even weirder and Hellraiser-esque with it.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Zaslav is a true believer in what he's used to- that is, reality TV. I think he's genuinely thrown that people are actually invested in scripted media and don't treat it like interchangeable slop, and that talent actually cares if what they spend months and years working on gets thrown down the drain for pennies.

Professor Shark posted:

Yeah what is up with The Rock, I feel like he’s fizzling

live with fruit posted:

It's a little terrifying how many people are mad about this movie but it also highlights why this movie is so great.

The Saddest Rhino posted:

i forgot good burger 2 was a thing. was it any good?

X-Ray Pecs posted:

From what I’ve heard, it’s total dogshit.

Inspector Gesicht posted:

A Good Burger sequel sounds like the most depressing thing ever. Two middle aged guys stuck in the same job when they were teens. Abe Vigoda's bones gathering dust in the corner of the kitchen.

Dinosaurs! posted:

We’re all so old now that 2008 probably feels like yesterday, but he could do a current day roided up Alpha Male™ version of The Wrestler. That feels beneath Benny Safdie, though.

I haven’t watched a lot of The Rock’s movies, but I thought he was legit great in Pain & Gain. If this has a dark humor bent I think he could do pretty well.

Non Compos Mentis posted:

an oompa loompa tv show? why?

Basebf555 posted:

Yea the man knew that his career was hanging by a thread and said gently caress it I'll do a 2.5 hour long Hammer flick. Thank you Gore Verbinski.

muscles like this! posted:

McGregor is an awful person and apparently an awful actor.

Tars Tarkas posted:

Beetlejuice 2 is officially called Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and releasing September 6th

Hasturtium posted:

Big Fish, for sure. I know people who defend Sweeney Todd even though it’s him throwing a bone to Carter and Depp, but I think they made it work. Dumbo’s a resentful curiosity, that Alice in Wonderland live action fiasco was like watching a diorama that loved to inflict violence against eyes, and… I didn’t hear awful things about Big Eyes? Someone I used to talk to indicated a lot of his past success was built on the foundation of collaborators he’s steadily alienated, but that sounds catty as hell. Here’s hoping Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will be more than I expect.

ONE YEAR LATER posted:

Competition reality TV is okay because there's at least an end goal. The ones where they just follow around rich people is gross human zoo poo poo.

Detective No. 27 posted:

I’m starting to think that Spider-Man is the character most people care about in Spider-Man.

Professor Shark posted:

I hate The Beatles

Chairman Capone posted:

An intelligent creator designed cars 130 years ago. The idea that cars evolved from simpler machines is heretical.

Young Freud posted:

Like if you want to see Nielsen in a serious performance that's not for laughs, I'd recommend looking into Nuts. It was only a year before the first Naked Gun movie and probably his last serious role.

Hasturtium posted:

Yeah, the Razzies aren’t grounded in a good-natured acknowledgement of how movies sometimes turn out badly, or even an effort to laugh when things go tits up. They’re tedious and hateful and frequently go after people who have a history of struggling with personal issues.

gently caress the Razzies, is what I’m saying.

Barry Convex posted:

seriously what is this. why would you make Harold an adult instead of just, y'know, adapting the goddamn books

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

I mean just basic stuff like there’s a scene where the character does a blood test on herself to illustrate the effect that quantum alien magic has on people’s cells. This illustration gets cellular biology wrong, and gets the mechanics of the movie’s own magic system wrong. So, like, is the character hallucinating at this point?

That’s not a useful ambiguity, because you’re now introducing this idea that random shots might be dreams - or telling your audience not to think too hard about what they’re shown. (Or both.) And, like, doing this scene required time and money. The cells under the microscope are a digital effect that artists had to work to create.

Sirotan posted:

Sounds like someone hasn't watched The Andromeda Strain.

Does Contagion count as sci-fi in a post-COVID world?

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

It's specifically a white blood cell and, unless I've been really misinformed, you wouldn't see any division outside a bone marrow sample or something.

Sirotan posted:

No, I was listing it as an example of a film where the science depicted isn't "totally silly nonsense". I'm not sayin The Andromeda Strain is a completely realistic movie. Also you ignored my other suggestion which is even more realistic in its portrayal.

Also I dunno what else to tell you other than turn off your brain. I work in cybersecurity and I am not gonna go on a rant about how unrealistic my profession is depicted in media, lol.

Monica Bellucci posted:

Areola is just another word for halo.