figmentPez
Staff member
Movie News & Miscellany
- Thread starter ThatNickGuy
- Start date
Not technically a movie, buuut...
I don't know if I'm more surprised at who ordered the series or at all the people they got to helm it.
--Patrick
You'd better hurry if you want to read it before the TV series comes out.
I don't know if I'm more surprised at who ordered the series or at all the people they got to helm it.
--Patrick
Sweet! That sounds really interestin--- oh-- Apple ...... oh well.
Well holy crap. GLOWING, 4-star review from MovieBob. I hadn't even heard of Searching, but now I need to see it.
Superman (the 1978 film) is returning to theaters on November 25th for its 40th anniversary.
Somebody really missed the point.
Kati almost choked laughing when she saw this one go by her feed.
—Patrick
figmentPez
Staff member
Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers for the upcoming film You Are My Friend.
I am impressed with the RL talent of Mr Rogers's mother. Those were some snappy sweaters to be hand made.
So, Fox just had a bunch of shifted movie release dates. Alita: Battle Angel has been pushed back to Feb. 14, 2019, while Dark Phoenix has been pushed to June 7, 2019. So, what's coming out on Alita's old release date of Dec. 21, 2018?
A PG-13 cut of Deadpool 2, which will be framed as Deadpool reading the film's events as a bedtime story for Fred Savage.
A PG-13 cut of Deadpool 2, which will be framed as Deadpool reading the film's events as a bedtime story for Fred Savage.
figmentPez
Staff member
If I hadn't just heard this news, I would have suggested that you picked up a copy of Mad Libs instead of reading Variety.
There's a bunch that have both, but it's true that nobody has yet won both for the same performance (that I could find).
--Patrick
Venom marks new October opening weekend record at $80 million.
figmentPez
Staff member
Halloween 2018
This is the real deal. They do so much right in this movie, I don't know where to begin.
This is the real deal. They do so much right in this movie, I don't know where to begin.
Definitely. Honestly, my favorite thing is how the film's reaction to anyone attempting to understand Michael Myers or seek some meaning behind his actions is basically, "No, there's nothing to understand. He is just evil."
And yet we learn so much about how he hunts in the process. There is methodology to whom he targets and how he approaches each kill. It's very clear that Michael Myers has priorities in how he approaches a target or who even qualifies as one. It's like the Doctor says in the beginning; he can talk but chooses not to. He's not mindless. There's REASON to how he hunts, even if there is no discernible purpose to it all.
However, my favorite thing...
Is Laurie Strode turning her house into a fucking kill box. She was NOT going to fuck this up. She's practiced this, every day, and knew what she'd need to do. In doing so, she became something almost as bad Michael himself... it's breathtaking when they start using shots from the first movie but with Laurie in Michael's place, just to show just how far gone she really is.
DAMMIT!
I was cautiously looking forward to that.
I was cautiously looking forward to that.
Halloween pulls $77+ million opening weekend. Thing had a $10 million budget. Expect sequels, even if they really shouldn't.
The franchise was basically dead; it hadn't had an outing in 9 years, the last two weren't exactly well received by the fans, and before that it had been since... 2002?
Compare it this one; second biggest opening weekend in October ever, biggest opening day in October ever, and a Friday the 13th revival is happening now.
Considering everything post-Season of the Witch didn't involve Carpenter at all, and were... mostly awful (except H20), it's not surprising that they made this call since the grounded nature of this outing is sort of what made it work.
The current story is that the cops caught Michael pretty quickly after the first movie, while Laurie was on her way to the hospital. So Halloween 2 didn't happened.
We were having a discussion this morning about movies we want our son to watch.
I want to show him The Last Dragon, of course, because it’s silly and because it shows the bad guy biting someone (he bit another kid at school, it’s a long story, I want him to get the idea it’s the sort of thing only bad guys do) BUT I’m not happy with all the language in it so it’s on hold for now.
“Oh,” Kati says. “I want him to see Buckaroo Banzai.”
I ask about the language, she’s not sure, but she says it’s rated PG, but she remembers people dying, etc.
I ask her to check when it came out and compare it to Red Dawn, because I know Red Dawn was the first movie to be rated PG-13.
IMDb says release date for:
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension - August 10, 1984
Red Dawn - August 10, 1984
Well, then.
—Patrick
I want to show him The Last Dragon, of course, because it’s silly and because it shows the bad guy biting someone (he bit another kid at school, it’s a long story, I want him to get the idea it’s the sort of thing only bad guys do) BUT I’m not happy with all the language in it so it’s on hold for now.
“Oh,” Kati says. “I want him to see Buckaroo Banzai.”
I ask about the language, she’s not sure, but she says it’s rated PG, but she remembers people dying, etc.
I ask her to check when it came out and compare it to Red Dawn, because I know Red Dawn was the first movie to be rated PG-13.
IMDb says release date for:
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension - August 10, 1984
Red Dawn - August 10, 1984
Well, then.
—Patrick
GasBandit
Staff member
I saw Buckaroo Banzai when I was in grade school, and a lot of it just went right over my head. I didn't remember any swearing, but when I rewatched it a year or two ago, the attempted suicide in it might have given me pause, if I was a parent.
But like I said, I was somewhere between 6 and 8 when I saw it and I ̨̙̳t̰̱͠u̶r͖n͔̠͟e̝̻͓̲d̰ ̠̬͚̖̣o͇͉̮̜u̼̖t̴̻̤̞̠ ̙̗̻̟̰̼̱̕j̴̙u̗̮͎̘̞̲ș̶̙͕͈t͎̖̮̯͓͖͕͘ ̶f̺̪̹̳̀i̲̬̖͎̞n͔̮̝̖͝e̝.̹̦͖͠.̢̣͉̳.͔̮̙̻̮
But like I said, I was somewhere between 6 and 8 when I saw it and I ̨̙̳t̰̱͠u̶r͖n͔̠͟e̝̻͓̲d̰ ̠̬͚̖̣o͇͉̮̜u̼̖t̴̻̤̞̠ ̙̗̻̟̰̼̱̕j̴̙u̗̮͎̘̞̲ș̶̙͕͈t͎̖̮̯͓͖͕͘ ̶f̺̪̹̳̀i̲̬̖͎̞n͔̮̝̖͝e̝.̹̦͖͠.̢̣͉̳.͔̮̙̻̮
Surprisingly, that’s the very scene she was most concerned about, and brought up to me (and why we were doing the PG-13 search). I didn’t even remember it.
—Patrick