Juding by box office it seems I'm not the only one avoiding the new Indiana Jones.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 10:35 (ten months ago) link
I would avoid that, but my sister wants to go. If it's at an Alamo Drafthouse, I can get regularly replenished drinks during the screening.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 17:38 (ten months ago) link
I'd watch a Gerwig-directed Oppenheimer.
And I would watch a Nolan-directed Barbie. They should have traded movies.
― silverfish, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 21:31 (ten months ago) link
Barbie played by Tom Hardy
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 21:43 (ten months ago) link
Oppenheimer played by Saorsie Ronan.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 21:45 (ten months ago) link
Wonder if Oppenheimer will cover the goings on in the Congo as detailed in parts of this piece, rather than torturing a guy's conscience for three hours?
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n12/kevin-okoth/poison-is-better
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 8 July 2023 14:47 (ten months ago) link
First trailer for Ridley Scott’s ‘NAPOLEON’ starring Joaquin Phoenix. pic.twitter.com/Ab301ec9fN— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) July 10, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 10 July 2023 20:40 (ten months ago) link
lots of english actors and Joaquin Phoenix doing stupid 'Allo 'Allo! accents and lots of tedious cgi naval battles... no no no fuck off
― calzino, Monday, 10 July 2023 20:46 (ten months ago) link
lol, will probably still watch it tho!
― calzino, Monday, 10 July 2023 20:50 (ten months ago) link
This'll be better than Joker for sure! idk I'll give Ridley some slack when it comes to a period movie with big epic battles but that's based probably solely on Kingdom of Heaven.
― omar little, Monday, 10 July 2023 21:02 (ten months ago) link
I think I still prefer the never-made Kubrick one.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 06:10 (ten months ago) link
I continue to be sulky that the 1927 version is still not officially available in Region A. Has Brownlow's work been for nothing?
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 12:34 (ten months ago) link
Gotta get me a polyvision compatible tv.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 12:43 (ten months ago) link
Sound of Freedom
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Saturday, 15 July 2023 20:42 (ten months ago) link
Yes, not even morbid curiosity will get me to see that. But is there a thread around for discussion of the right-wing media-industrial complex in general, or this specific film's distribution model?
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Thursday, 27 July 2023 19:09 (ten months ago) link
There's always this short-lived thread: Favorite Right-Wing Movies
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Thursday, 27 July 2023 19:12 (ten months ago) link
one of these types of movies comes out every couple weeks now:
Dumb Money is a 2023 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Craig Gillespie and written by Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo. It is based on the 2021 book The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich and chronicles the GameStop short squeeze of January 2021. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Vincent D'Onofrio, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley, and Seth Rogen.
― omar little, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 18:59 (eight months ago) link
yeah lol it's pretty dire
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 19:50 (eight months ago) link
This level of hackery is almost admirable
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Mezrich#Non-fiction
― jmm, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 20:25 (eight months ago) link
'Meanwhile, isn't Eddie Redmayne amazing as a Dane, let's give him all the oscars!'― Frederik B
― Frederik B
holy shit this is the best fucking take on The Danish Girl ever
guys you wanna know the problem with The Danish Girl? eddie redmayne ISN'T EVEN DANISH
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 20:34 (eight months ago) link
We've had what the Red Hot Cheetos movie, the beanie babies movie, tetris, blackberry, what other bullshit am I forgetting?
― omar little, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 20:38 (eight months ago) link
I'd forgotten all about eddie redmayne
― omar little, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 20:39 (eight months ago) link
i'm just sick and tired of hollywood's constant perpetuation of negative danish stereotypes. it's not as bad as it used to be, for the most part, but nobody understands or wants to acknowledge just how much harm danephobic stereotypes in the media have done to danish people for decades now.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 20:40 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHQojhNjnks
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 20:43 (eight months ago) link
lol beat me to it
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Tuesday, 26 September 2023 20:46 (eight months ago) link
Hollywood has always been envious of Danish culture, so they lean on those stereotypes as a sort of Copenhagen mechanism
― Evan, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 20:49 (eight months ago) link
good lord
― rob, Tuesday, 26 September 2023 20:51 (eight months ago) link
We've had what the Red Hot Cheetos movie, the beanie babies movie, tetris, blackberry, what other bullshit am I forgetting?― omar little, Tuesday, September 26, 2023 4:38 PM bookmarkflaglink
― omar little, Tuesday, September 26, 2023 4:38 PM bookmarkflaglink
Air Jordans movie, two different Ferrari movies, two direct-to-streaming Fyre Festival docs, various direct-to-streaming miniseries about things that were interesting when someone shared an Atlantic or VF piece on ILX (ex. McDonald's Monopoly scandal) but which cannot sustain unlimited padding, and about four hundred thousand direct-to-streaming docs on justly forgotten movies/shows/toys that would have been unbearable even as twenty-minute YouTube reports by talented amateur video essayists.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 00:49 (eight months ago) link
docs on justly forgotten movies/shows/toys that would have been unbearable even as twenty-minute YouTube reports by talented amateur video essayists
wait this is pretty much all i watch, if any of these are even a quarter as good as "Ranking Anime Denny's" i'm fucking in
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 01:14 (eight months ago) link
I think doc is more thinking about crap like The Toys That Made Me, the tmnt episode of which I grudgingly sat through. Obviously if netflix gave hazel a deal that'd be rad.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 07:26 (eight months ago) link
it's not as bad as it used to be, for the most part
https://i.imgur.com/wCyhTqh.jpg
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 27 September 2023 07:31 (eight months ago) link
I think doc is more thinking about crap like The Toys That Made Me, the tmnt episode of which I grudgingly sat through. Obviously if netflix gave hazel a deal that'd be rad.― Daniel_Rf
― Daniel_Rf
yeah i remember when that came out and i was like "that sounds interesting" and i never watched it, i guess it wasn't interesting
i genuinely love "wallpaper television" like "how it's made" though. you know, it's like some kids are with videos of construction equipment
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 14:51 (eight months ago) link
that stuff would be ok if it was done "slow TV" style, can't be doing with excitable talkovers tho
― Steve Bully IX (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 14:55 (eight months ago) link
see also: Billy Nighy shut up and let me just watch the train journey
― Steve Bully IX (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 14:56 (eight months ago) link
yeah, one of the worst things about almost all television is overactive narrators, especially when they're supposed to be funny/cheeky/zany. for example, there are many horrible things about Love Island, but deleting the narrator is the single thing you could do that would most reduce the suffering of watching it, or passing through a room where it's on.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 28 September 2023 12:09 (eight months ago) link
This is quite late but I did see a trailer for Maestro before Fallen Leaves some weeks ago and had a real "who in the world would be interested in this?" reaction.
Also, currently discussed on the anti-semitism thread, had one look at One Life poster at a bus stop and that was enough to know this was going to be one to avoid.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 5 January 2024 15:45 (four months ago) link
anything directed by bradley cooperanything directed by matthew vaughn
― ivy., Wednesday, 7 February 2024 18:48 (three months ago) link
bradley cooper seems like the new eddie redmayne, the young star oscar voters want to pinch the cheek of
― formerly abanana (dat), Thursday, 8 February 2024 06:41 (three months ago) link
He's 49!
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 8 February 2024 10:49 (three months ago) link
That's almost a budding prodigy relative to many voting members of the Academy.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Thursday, 8 February 2024 13:39 (three months ago) link
I can't bring myself to watch Wicked Little Letters despite quite a few people telling me it's good - balanced by one friend walking out of it after less than half an hour.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 09:23 (two months ago) link
"Best British comedy film of the year" blurb makes it sound v unappealing.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 09:27 (two months ago) link
I seem to remember very very early press was dreadful then suddenly switched arcs to 4* across the board.
― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 09:38 (two months ago) link
Harold and the Purple Crayon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_and_the_Purple_Crayon_(film)
Live action and Harold is an adult.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, 30 March 2024 07:39 (one month ago) link
Sounds like somebody decided to make a male Barbie.
― Stevo, Saturday, 30 March 2024 10:14 (one month ago) link