Don't know about good casting, but seems like potentially a good career move.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 03:49 (four years ago) link
she was great in True Grit and Edge of Seventeen
― Nhex, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 04:50 (four years ago) link
that is great casting, she’s a perfect kate bishop
― don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 05:51 (four years ago) link
https://io9.gizmodo.com/sony-and-marvel-strike-new-deal-to-keep-spider-man-in-t-1838527425
― WmC, Friday, 27 September 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link
Inevitable. Although less so is the deal to have Spidey straddle both the MCU and the Sony Crapverse. Nice bit o' extra walkin' around money for Holland.
― Steampunk wasn't in my vocapulary 6 days ago. (Old Lunch), Friday, 27 September 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
Are you his accountant or something, lol
― #YABASIC (morrisp), Friday, 27 September 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link
Only for Spidey 3 and a single MCU movie, I'm guessing whatever grand plans Marvel had for him are still kinda derailed. Still, much better than nothing, at least the Home trilogy will get a completed ending.
― Nhex, Saturday, 28 September 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
Popcorn movies reinforce cultural values of the moment. Marvel is brilliant at encapsulating the Kardashification of wealth and power as virtue. You can hang out in the mansions with the toys with your good looking friends and still save the world.— Joseph Kahn (@JosephKahn) October 21, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 October 2019 11:29 (four years ago) link
wow, superheroes as power fantasy, what a novel take
― expedited frictionless convergences (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 21 October 2019 11:50 (four years ago) link
This is an important point to make right now, in the midst of a nearly year-long period when Marvel is releasing precisely zero movies. But you knew that, of course.
― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Monday, 21 October 2019 12:17 (four years ago) link
Why don’t Coppola and Scorsese come at their boys Spielberg and Lucas (ret.)? “Popcorn movies” have been around for a minute; I don’t get what inspired this round of, er, “commentary.”
― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Monday, 21 October 2019 14:21 (four years ago) link
Spielberg and Lucas' best efforts at 'popcorn' look like Bresson in this context
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 October 2019 14:26 (four years ago) link
“Best efforts,” I guess... I’m much more of a Star Wars fan than an MCU fan, but 3 or 4 of the SW movies Lucas made seem no “better” than the best of the MCU.
― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Monday, 21 October 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link
Morbs, I have prepared a substantial bowl of popcorn and I await your defense of the Star Wars prequels.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 21 October 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link
Has Scorsese ever commented on Star Wars? I can't imagine him liking it that much.
Anyway, MCU seem way more defensive than Star Wars fans, for whatever reason (at least from what I can tell online, nobody I know in real life cares that people don't like their favorite movies).
― silverfish, Monday, 21 October 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
that's called "cherrypicking" rogermex
however i thought Phantom Menace was about as good as the first Iron Man
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 October 2019 15:29 (four years ago) link
Phantom Menace was a seeping fistula
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 October 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
v harsh on fistulas imo
― expedited frictionless convergences (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 21 October 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
Attack of the Clones was horrible, Sith slightly better bcz mangling of Hayden Christensen
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 October 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link
The prequels are DC level bad
― Frederik B, Monday, 21 October 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
Sith would have been a cinematic classic had it been 150 minutes of Christiansen dying
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 October 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
Marty was a big expanded universe fan, and he was steamed when Disney rendered all that stuff non-canon.
― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Monday, 21 October 2019 15:40 (four years ago) link
Xxxxpost
Just think how much worse it would have been without Scorsese et al’s thoughts on it. https://variety.com/1999/voices/columns/lucas-friends-approve-of-episode-1-1117492871/
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 21 October 2019 15:40 (four years ago) link
i would argue the star wars prequels are more interesting than any marvel film i've seen but y'all know where i'm coming from here. marvel movies are way more anonymous
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 21 October 2019 15:43 (four years ago) link
though i guess i haven't seen them all
First Star Wars movie heavily indebted to Kirby's Fourth World comics, so it's just as much a comic book movie as Endgame
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 21 October 2019 15:44 (four years ago) link
The prequels kind of get an unfair rap in some ways; at least Lucas was trying to do new things. (Though I think Revenge of the Sith is a truly awful movie)
― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Monday, 21 October 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
― american bradass (BradNelson), 21. oktober 2019 17:43 (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Well, yeah, but you know what's also not anonymous: Zack Snyder films! Still abysmal.
― Frederik B, Monday, 21 October 2019 15:54 (four years ago) link
i like batman vs superman (i know it has no fans here, you don't have to tell me)
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 21 October 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link
This is an important point to make right now, in the midst of a nearly year-long period when Marvel is releasing precisely zero movies. But you knew that, of course.Seven (7) Marvel films have been released in the 23 months since his last feature was only able to screen for a week despite packing a theatre, and he is an American having his thoughts while flying from a commercial gig in Buenos Aires to one in London. He has to make commercials because he cannot get funding for mid-level features, which have been squeezed out of the market. Would it have been okay for him to have frustrations about a massive monopoly reshaping his chosen industry three months ago, if it’s not okay now?
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Monday, 21 October 2019 16:10 (four years ago) link
It's too bad that Francis Ford Coppola can't get funding because of superhero-films, when in a perfect world he wouldn't be able to get funding because he haven't made a good movie in 40 years.
― Frederik B, Monday, 21 October 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link
*continues to clown self itt* dracula was only 27 years ago
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 21 October 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
Tucker is a good movie also, that's only 30 years old.
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 21 October 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
Dracula is A Good Movie, I will die on this hill.
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Monday, 21 October 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
If there were no superhero movies, there'd have been 10 more Rambos
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 October 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
it's fuckin great xp
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 21 October 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
the larger point though is this squeezing-out of mid-budget fare. it's not just superheroes doing the squeezing - it's the well-discussed combination of franchise marketing, studios chasing reliable huge international grosses through effects-heavy spectaculars, and streaming options drawing away viewers (especially older viewers).... and it's not just New Cinema veterans losing the chance at wide releases for more serious or adult films, it's the theatrical death of the rom-com, the romantic drama, the police procedural, the biopic, the crime thriller, the espionage thriller, the buddy-cop movie...there are exceptions to all of these obv, but what fills studios' slates and multiplex schedules is very very different than 10 or 20 years ago and i think it's okay for those who have some clout to complain about this to use that clout, even if it's tilting at windmills.
― weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Monday, 21 October 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
I feel like there are two biopics in the theatre at any given time. I am sick of them
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 October 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
people just not going to the movies as much people used to killed off mid-level features way more than superhero movies. If there were no blockbuster movies, there would probably just be way less movie theaters.
― silverfish, Monday, 21 October 2019 16:30 (four years ago) link
Yeah, the only one where I think there's been a significant drop-off is police procedural, and there's probably other reasons for that?
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 21 October 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
ok biopics were maybe a bad one to include in my list... esp ones that can leverage a popular discographic IP.
― weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Monday, 21 October 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
it's the theatrical death of the rom-com, the romantic drama, the police procedural, the biopic, the crime thriller, the espionage thriller, the buddy-cop movie
tbf most of these formats/genres suck. we just have a different brand of shit now *shrug emoji*
― Οὖτις, Monday, 21 October 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
and i mentioned streaming!it's very hard to say which did more harm. but it's a real thing that when screens are booked up for weeks for a sure thing (often under contractual demand), those screens are not holding something else. there's no way to know if given time to hang around and let word of mouth do its thing (or even to commit to a slow-n-steady marketing campaign, versus opening-weekend-or-bust), certain underperforming, grownup fare might have had time to find its audience.the success in recent years of a handful of big word-of-mouth hits (girls trip, get out), and of e.g. the handful of "dad movies" that are blockbustery enough to get a chance for dad to notice they exist (dunkirk), and things with yknow "heartland appeal" (american sniper), are also suggestive. yes, streaming and ticket prices are hugely to blame here - it's absolutely just plain harder to get people to go to the movies. but to make room for superhero movies and animated movies, everything else is in and out so fucking fast that water-cooler recommendations become almost pointless. that's a problem for lots of filmmakers or aspiring filmmakers (assuming they want their work seen on the big screen), not just your coppolas and scorseses.
― weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Monday, 21 October 2019 16:40 (four years ago) link
Would it have been okay for him to have frustrations about a massive monopoly reshaping his chosen industry three months agoAlso he didn’t say anything about this; he said the films are “despicable” and that Scorsese was “being kind when he said it wasn’t cinema.”
― drunk on hot toddies (morrisp), Monday, 21 October 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
Seven (7) Marvel films have been released in the 23 months since his last feature was only able to screen for a week despite packing a theatre, and he is an American having his thoughts while flying from a commercial gig in Buenos Aires to one in London. He has to make commercials because he cannot get funding for mid-level features, which have been squeezed out of the market. Would it have been okay for him to have frustrations about a massive monopoly reshaping his chosen industry three months ago, if it’s not okay now?
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Monday, October 21, 2019 11:10 AM (thirty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Mea culpa, I didn't realize Morbs' filmmaking career had been so directly impacted when I ribbed him for what seemed at the time an unnecessary revive of this thread.
― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Monday, 21 October 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
Sorry to break it to you, but Francis Ford Coppola did not direct the battle rap movie or the motorcycle race movie
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Monday, 21 October 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
xp
The worst thing about Marvel becoming so ubiquitous is that thing where everybody has to have an opinion about it now. Ugh.
― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Monday, 21 October 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
And just for the record, speaking as a fan of Marvel and their movies, the last thing I want is for every theatrical film to be a Marvel film. Or even a Disney film, since that's really what most people are grousing about.
― Go-Gurt Ops (Old Lunch), Monday, 21 October 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link
Shakey otm.
― Frederik B, Monday, 21 October 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link