Movies

[Panzermann]

Pity imdb killed their discussion boards. In spite of the signal-to-noise ratio they often had some informative posts.

 

Yes. Some people in the know actually used to post there.

 

I still miss this rumour site for films in development. Something with gorilla in the name. They also had most inside information why some production was still in development hell etc. A very simple site, but lots of info. I liked that they listed the rumours in chriniligucal order so you could follow the development turns and craziness.

 

 

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Nick Cage going batshit crazy:

 

 

the film's logo looks like a band-shirt.

 

and this is an original script, no remake of a seventies film or something like that. Although for my full enjoyment I would have to copy the film to VHS and make the copy of a copy. Only way to properly enjoy horror movies.

Edited July 9, 2018 by Panzermann

[NickM]

Pity imdb killed their discussion boards. In spite of the signal-to-noise ratio they often had some informative posts.

 

Indeed, I am forced to scrounge on YouTube to talk about the movies & shows & Songs I love--and Loathe. I even ran into a familiar face or two on YT because they always posted with their real names. A Bazillion years ago, I think Soldier of Fortune or maybe National Review held this special up a egregious BS;...I guess that it's 'malarky'?

[Panzermann]

 

korean movie adation based on the japanese manga and moved into the future.

 

I guess they also take hints from Oshii's Kerberos Saga series.

[Skywalkre]

What could have been...

 

https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2018/07/the-legend-of-conan-screenwriter-explains-why-his-unforgiven-style-take-isnt-happening/

 

 

“Conan will always have life in it, not for us unfortunately,” said Morgan. “We put together a great, great story –I’m the biggest fan of the [John] Milius Conan film, a lot of people make fun of it but I think it’s the smartest script, I think it’s a great performance, I love the story. It actually has something to say about what it is to be a man and a warrior, what’s worth fighting for and what’s not, I’ve always loved it. To me there’s only been one Conan movie and it’s that one, there’s never been anything else.

 

“So our idea was to literally pick that movie up but 30 years later and kind of do a version of Unforgiven, where there’s something going on and Conan is not the strongest guy he used to be, he’s not the legend he used to be; he’s an old, broken guy. And this thing comes down to where now he’s got to find a reason to go on and find a different way to fight other than just with brute strength. It was a great movie that just gave validation to even at the end of someone’s life there’s real value to them. I don’t know, it was so great, Arnold Schwarzenegger loved it.

 

“I think at the end of the day it was just probably too expensive, too big, and to the studio ultimately it wasn’t in the cards for them. So now it’s kind of out and I think they’re looking elsewhere to do like maybe a TV show or something else with it. But that was my interest, just to tell that one story, but you never know, down the road we’ll see what happens.”

This is how you bring characters back after 30 years. They may not be the same they were but they still find a way (because that's what heroes do). Maybe the real reason it never took off was it wasn't emo enough for Hollywood.

[toysoldier]

Ahnold did that for Terminator Genysis... i'm not sure the trick would work twice.

[Skywalkre]

Ahnold did that for Terminator Genysis... i'm not sure the trick would work twice.

Never saw it though I heard it was an unmitigated disaster (terrible writing, beyond confusing issues inherent with time-travel stories, etc.). On top of that you've had other Terminator movies that didn't do so well hurting the franchise.

 

I'd like to think a simpler, well written story along the lines of Unforgiven in the Conan setting would do better. Then again there was a Conan movie a few years ago that from memory fizzled. Who knows if that would hurt the chances of this (coupled to the fact Arnold just isn't a draw like he used to be).

 

Honestly with what Hollywood gives us (outside of the Marvel movies and the occasional gems like John Wick) I'm starting to think whatever they pass on would actually be good.

[Ssnake]

I don't know what beef others have with Genisys. It wasn't a perfect movie, but quite okay and with a nice variation of the continuous evolution of Terminator technology. I concede however that I may be a sucker for killer robots from the future (not so much for the killbots of the present).

 

The fundamental problem with time travel stories is that you can either tell them as a loop where the consequences are that the end is like the beginning, or as a branch (usually where disaster is averted). In both cases you will eventually have to divide by zero with respect to causality. People who have a problem with that should never bother looking into time travel stories.

The question is how you deal with those paradoxa. You can point them out with self-irony (Back to the Future series), you can bury them in the haystack of a fractured presentation of reality (Twelve Monkeys), or you can try and gloss them over (which is the way to go in an otherwise straight action film adaptation); that requires of course that the audience is willing to look the other way.

Edited July 17, 2018 by Ssnake

[Stuart Galbraith]

Possibly the most interesting (and must fucked up) time travel film ive seen was Predestination. Man falls in love with a woman who turns out to be himself, has a child with himself that turns out to be himself, tracks a mad bomber that turns out to be himself, then ultimately kills himself whom turns out to be himself.

 

The worst of it is, according to current time travel theory, that all seems entirely consistent. You cant change the future or the past, its already hard coded.

[Stuart Galbraith]

 

Pity imdb killed their discussion boards. In spite of the signal-to-noise ratio they often had some informative posts.

 

Yes. Some people in the know actually used to post there.

 

I still miss this rumour site for films in development. Something with gorilla in the name. They also had most inside information why some production was still in development hell etc. A very simple site, but lots of info. I liked that they listed the rumours in chriniligucal order so you could follow the development turns and craziness.

 

 

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Nick Cage going batshit crazy:

 

 

the film's logo looks like a band-shirt.

 

and this is an original script, no remake of a seventies film or something like that. Although for my full enjoyment I would have to copy the film to VHS and make the copy of a copy. Only way to properly enjoy horror movies.

 

 

 

Oh man, ive got to see that. It looks like hellraiser meets the evil dead. Much awesome.

[toysoldier]

So the villain is Linus Roache... i'm sold.

[Stuart Galbraith]

I like Andrea Risborough. She was in the pilot for 'Being Human' about 10 years ago, and she was excellent in it. In fact, she has been damn good in most things ive seen her do.

 

And I like Nicholas Cage. I mean yes, some parts he is a complete car crash in, but even his car crashes are interesting. I even liked Face Off, God help me.

[toysoldier]

Agrred that Nicholas Cage car crashing is convenient when the movie is about car crashing. But horror movies are made or unmade by the villain. Dracula, Jason, Freddy, Pyramid Head, etc...

[Stuart Galbraith]

Yes, perfectly true. I think looking back, thats why Hammer Studio's was so successful. Every other film had Christopher Lee or Peter Cushing in it.

 

 

Granted the Character is important, but its the guy playing it thats sells it. I couldnt imagine anyone else but Robert Englund playing Freddy Kruger.

 

Pyramid head was a new one on me. I thought that was a typo for this fella.

[Stefan Fredriksson]

Silent hill, yes?

 

Film wasn't too shabby, but the game (first one) was creepy for real.

[Panzermann]

Silent hill, yes?

 

Film wasn't too shabby, but the game (first one) was creepy for real.

 

Yes Pyramid Head is from Silent Hill 2, though not really the villain but a representation of the player cahracter's guilt and remorse for of his wife's death.

 

 

But then Silent Hill is one of those japanese mind fuck horror series, that totally knot your brain when you start to think about it. Especially with successive installments. Part 4 was the worst imho, being locked in an apartment inside the bad guy's nightmares. And it all revolves about the abandoned coal mining town of Silent Hill which had witch burnings, secret cults and a really bad orphanage and other horrors.

 

 

 

The Silent Hill movie captures the atmosphere of the games admireably. Something in which most video game to movie adaptions fail hard. Isn't there a second movie?

 

 

 

€dith remonneds to read the really good wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_Head

 

 

 

btw I always wanted to steal Pyramid head from SH2 and use it as player in Quake 3 Arena.

Edited July 17, 2018 by Panzermann

[Stuart Galbraith]

I still grieve nobody did a move of Interstate 76. This screamed Tarantino from start to finish.

 

[Stefan Fredriksson]

Sean Bean survived iirc (!).

[Panzermann]

I still grieve nobody did a move of Interstate 76. This screamed Tarantino from start to finish.

 

 

I still have the CD-ROM here somewhere. I was gutted, when I saw that Fallout 76 was not Fallout with Mad Max cars, but some dumb online survivalist game MMO thingie. I want to be a road warrior with a fusion powered Chevy damit

 

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Sean Bean survived iirc (!).

 

Yes. Yes he does. Odd for such a movie, but he does.

 

He even survives a suicide mission to Norway in ww2.

[NickM]

 

 

Its not exactly a movie, buts related: i am enjoying the living shirt out of the show "Hollywood Weapons fact or Fiction" which deals with, duh, gun stunts in movies and TV. The conductor, named Terry Schappert, its a mercurial fellow who manages to flesh the simple lets-shoot-stuff trope with details and background. It has this nice "take our gun fun seriously" approach, no jackassery at all. Give it a shot if you have spare time.

I watched him while I had that part of my cable package; my favorite ep was the Quigley Down Under ep where he went & visited with Tom Selleck who had the original Buffalo Rifle used in 'Quigley'; they were testing to see if a round from said weapon could actually go thru two henchmen at the same time...turns out that such a stunt (two baddies being taken out by one bullet) is actually called a 'Quigley' in the sniper community.

Damn Netflix doesn't have that episodio

 

GOOD NEWS! It does now!

[toysoldier]

 

 

 

Its not exactly a movie, buts related: i am enjoying the living shirt out of the show "Hollywood Weapons fact or Fiction" which deals with, duh, gun stunts in movies and TV. The conductor, named Terry Schappert, its a mercurial fellow who manages to flesh the simple lets-shoot-stuff trope with details and background. It has this nice "take our gun fun seriously" approach, no jackassery at all. Give it a shot if you have spare time.

I watched him while I had that part of my cable package; my favorite ep was the Quigley Down Under ep where he went & visited with Tom Selleck who had the original Buffalo Rifle used in 'Quigley'; they were testing to see if a round from said weapon could actually go thru two henchmen at the same time...turns out that such a stunt (two baddies being taken out by one bullet) is actually called a 'Quigley' in the sniper community.

Damn Netflix doesn't have that episodio

 

GOOD NEWS! It does now!

 

Hitting it! Thank you!

[Stuart Galbraith]

 

I still grieve nobody did a move of Interstate 76. This screamed Tarantino from start to finish.

 

 

I still have the CD-ROM here somewhere. I was gutted, when I saw that Fallout 76 was not Fallout with Mad Max cars, but some dumb online survivalist game MMO thingie. I want to be a road warrior with a fusion powered Chevy damit

 

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Sean Bean survived iirc (!).

 

Yes. Yes he does. Odd for such a movie, but he does.

 

He even survives a suicide mission to Norway in ww2.

 

 

I still have it somewhere. I like the funkadelic music on it.

[Mobius]

Johansson probably thought she was doing a progressive thing to portray a transgender. I mean someone with her looks would probably really raise peoples perspective of TGs. And brings a big name to the movie. But, then no good deed goes unpunished.

 

 

Scarlett Johansson is reportedly quitting the film "Rub and Tug" after critics slammed the actress for taking on a transgender role, demanding movie makers recast the character "Dante Tex Gill."

Johansson, 33, told Out magazine Friday she has chosen to "respectfully withdraw" from the film, which shares the story of a transgender man who used his Pittsburgh massage parlor as a cover for a brothel in the '70s, according to Bustle.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/07/13/scarlett-johansson-drops-transgender-role-after-backlash-report.html

Does one have to be the subject of movie to portray the person in the movie? Did Tom Hanks have to have AIDS to play someone with AIDS in Philadelphia?

[Mikel2]

Johansson probably thought she was doing a progressive thing to portray a transgender. I mean someone with her looks would probably really raise peoples perspective of TGs. And brings a big name to the movie. But, then no good deed goes unpunished.

 

 

Scarlett Johansson is reportedly quitting the film "Rub and Tug" after critics slammed the actress for taking on a transgender role, demanding movie makers recast the character "Dante Tex Gill."

Johansson, 33, told Out magazine Friday she has chosen to "respectfully withdraw" from the film, which shares the story of a transgender man who used his Pittsburgh massage parlor as a cover for a brothel in the '70s, according to Bustle.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/07/13/scarlett-johansson-drops-transgender-role-after-backlash-report.html

Does one have to be the subject of movie to portray the person in the movie? Did Tom Hanks have to have AIDS to play someone with AIDS in Philadelphia?

 

Had sh come out initially saying that she would not play that role, she would have been eviscerated too, probably by the same people

Edited July 19, 2018 by Mikel2

[Panzermann]

And itis not like lots of actors and actresses having played transsexuals over the decades, who themselves are not.

 

 

 

I guess Ian McKellen must bend steel with his mind like Magneto and do magic tricks like Gandalf.

[Mobius]

Well, Pitt, Damon and DiCaprio all turned down playing a gay in Broke Back Mountain. What did they suffer? Did they want the Oscar that bad?

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/dicaprio-pitt-damon-turned-roles-brokeback-mountain-director/story?id=56691066

Edited July 20, 2018 by Mobius