muscles like this! posted:

So a modern day Guy Ritchie movie?

Failed Imagineer posted:

He was pretty juicy anyway from previous roles, the body remembers. It's not like it was DJ Qualls getting a lead role in a Marvel

Len posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/65_(film)

Pirate Jet posted:

What's worse is the guy who directed Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is trapped doing it.

Enos Cabell posted:

He's already got one live action remake under his belt with Pete's Dragon, and that turned out phenomenally.

Tars Tarkas posted:

Wow, Amélie Poulain was a KGB spy! This is from the director so it is canon and no takebacks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB_lTTxYSsg

Casimir Radon posted:

Quantum of Solace has one of the strongest endings in a Bond movie. I’d have to watch again to see how the rest of it held up, but the ending has stuck with me.

Alan Smithee posted:

Dan Stevens could have had a career being just Mchandsome Whiteface but decided to be an indie darling

Byzantine posted:

Nobody actually "wants" to "have fun" at "the movies", that is capitalist propaganda. There were no movies in the Soviet Union for just that reason.

GrandpaPants posted:

I'm hoping the 4 hour cut is as big a jump in quality as the extended cut of Kingdom of Heaven.

I also hope it comes out on a 4k disc instead of being lost forever on apple+.

Young Freud posted:

The one I know was that he beat up one of his sons with a fireplace poker then shot him back in 2007.

But I found out that he hit on his own daughter Tatum at the funeral of his wife, Farrah Fawcett, in 2009.

Young Freud posted:

More likely because of age.

When O'Neal started his acting career, Travolta was in the 5th grade. O'Neal debuted in the soap opera "Peyton Place" in the mid-'60s. He was 23 in the first season.

When he assaulted his son, he was 65.

Detective No. 27 posted:

I know the internet has collectively groaned at Disney properties entering the public domain and becoming terrible slasher movies but I welcome it. Make that Steamboat Willy slasher. Make the Disney corporation uncomfortable using their iconography.

The Saddest Rhino posted:

Alan Smithee posted:

https://twitter.com/strangeharbors/status/1758171386453844479?s=20

this is either going to be great or cringe

FlamingLiberal posted:

Comedy movies are essentially dead

I think this had been rumored as a project in development awhile ago but it kind of got forgotten

Big Mean Jerk posted:

It’s a Civil War where the premise begins with California and Texas allying and seceding, which… lmao

It sounds extremely “British man fundamentally misunderstands American politics”

FlamingLiberal posted:

Some news on a few franchise sequels-

Bad Boys 4 is officially titled Bad Boys: Ride or Die and comes out in June

https://www.ign.com/articles/bad-boys-4-trailer-release-date

There is another Pirates of the Caribbean movie in development, but it is going to be treated as a reboot, per Jerry Bruckheimer.

https://www.ign.com/articles/pirates-of-the-caribbean-producer-franchise-reboot-sixth-movie

muscles like this! posted:

It could be really good if they're actually adapting the book and not just remaking the Arnold movie. The book is about how America is hosed with environmental collapse and a giant wealth divide while megacorps keep the population pacified with violent game shows. The main character is a guy who lost his job because they tried to unionize and he's forced to try out at an open casting call for said violent game shows because he can't afford healthcare for his sick daughter. He's chosen for the big show, The Running Man, where the player is just let loose in the world and have to try and survive against corpo hunters and audience participation in bounty rewards for turning him in.

Carpet posted:

Marty's next next film, after his upcoming Life of Jesus, is supposed to be a Frank Sinatra biopic starring Leonardo Di Caprio. Which is interesting news, as I had thought his next one was going to be The Wager, based on David Grann's book. I wonder if he reckons the Sinatra pic will be cheaper and more commercially viable than a film with portions set out at sea, making getting the funding for The Wager easier.

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/martin-scorsese-frank-sinatra-biopic-dicaprio-jennifer-lawrence-1235973769/

Aglet56 posted:

Nah, that was the scene I was complaining about too. Part of the problem is the sound design: one of the Manson women gets injured right at the beginning of the scene, and she spends the next five minutes shrieking her head off, which is just physically unpleasant to listen to. The Manson killers are also not very satisfying as victims of hyper violence; unlike nazis or southern slaveowners, it's a lot easier to see them as brainwashed cult members (and thus not really culpable). The nazis and slave owners in their respective movies were also legitimate, serious threats to their protagonists, and in both cases they had scenes where the protagonists were captured and helpless before the tables got turned. Brad Pitt, in contrast, doesn't know who the Manson family is and he just kind of demolishes them without a second thought

Aglet56 posted:

Sure but they're clearly no threat to him. Contrast with, like, Django, where Django has a strong motivation to hate the slaveowners, and there's a middle act where they almost capture and torture him before he escapes. An underdog story is a lot more engaging than "some psychos run into Godzilla and get instantly squished"

FlamingLiberal posted:

Have people not figured out that Tarantino is an exploitation film director yet? His whole deal is making actual Hollywood movies that are bigger budget exploitation films that aren't quite as gross (with some exceptions like Pulp Fiction).

Aglet56 posted:

Yeah idk I'm certainly not a Manson family expert or anything but my uninformed impression was that it was a Jonestown type situation where a lot of mentally vulnerable people got swept up into a bad situation. I guess there was that mindhunter season where Anna torv speculates that Tex was trying to usurp manson's authority within the cult by committing the murders? Not sure how true that is. I would say that nazis and slaveowners are on a different level but perhaps I'm splitting hairs here

MeinPanzer posted:

We can debate the culpability of the Manson family murderers w/r/t the Nazis or whatever, but I do distinctly remember when seeing OUaTiH in theaters that I found the whole scene to be off-putting in a way that a lot of other violence in Tarantino movies isn't.

There's something about orchestrating your movie so that your rich, handsome, cool Hollywood protagonists exact incredibly brutal violence against three people that felt beyond the pale; the particular brutality meted out to the main woman and the way in which Tarantino played up her shrieking and flailing just pushed it beyond the violence in his other movies.