Movie News & Miscellany
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figmentPez
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The Christmas Chronicles is getting a sequel! YES!
Fucking heelarious that Clint Eastwood's new movie Richard Jewell is about the press smearing a man and ruining his life at the same time shows a female reporter, Kathy Scruggs, as trading sex for tips, something no one has ever claimed or insinuated happened. She's not alive to be mad about this because apparently the stress at covering this story crushed her health and she died in 2001.
“The film literally makes things up and adds to misunderstandings about how serious news organizations work,” said Riley. “It’s ironic that the film commits the same sins that it accuses the media of committing.”
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/clint-eastwood-richard-jewell-kathy-scruggs-1203429660/
“The film literally makes things up and adds to misunderstandings about how serious news organizations work,” said Riley. “It’s ironic that the film commits the same sins that it accuses the media of committing.”
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/clint-eastwood-richard-jewell-kathy-scruggs-1203429660/
As a clever man once said: "There are no bad stories, just bad writers!"
Rescued from the latest forum hiccup:
PatrThom said:In the vein of Christmas Chronicles, someone suggested this:
I mean, I'm 100% onboard with the idea.
Cats. The reviews are in. It plumbs heretofore unknown depths of bad. Just read some of the blurbs for yourself.
Every critic I know has been saying it's the weirdest, horniest, oddiest thing they've ever seen. That makes me want to see it, actually.
figmentPez
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A bunch of people dancing around in "skin tight" cat suits? Yeah, horny. And that's not even getting into how some people have described one of the scenes from the original musical as a "cat orgy".
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Is this true?
figmentPez
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The Hollywood Reporter is saying this is true: Universal Notifies Theaters 'Cats' Is Being Updated With "Improved Visual Effects"
The article doesn't say what's being changed, but I've heard rumors it's fixing missing special effects (background actors who still look human, hands that haven't been changed into paws, etc.)
figmentPez
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The movie adaptation of "Uncharted" has lost another director, at least the fourth that was attached to the project.
Wouldn't the movie adaptation just be Indiana Jones?
figmentPez
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I think that's a very reductive view of the idea. Not all buddy cop movies are Lethal Weapon, not all westerns are John Wayne films, and not all Christmas movies are just remakes of Die Hard.
Sure, but look me in the eye and tell me you don't think they'd just make an Indiana Jones ripoff.
figmentPez
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I'm absolutely certain Dan Trachtenberg wouldn't have.... Huh, maybe that's why he was taken off the project.
Honestly, Uncharted 4 is basically a Dirk Pitt Adventure, straight down to none of it being supernatural and it involving an intact period sailing vessel. But if I had to pick between the two series, I'd much rather have Raiders of the Lost Ark than Sahara.
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Do we have a TV news thread? Eh, whatever:
Does Mark Hamill count?
I didn't hear any problems about Heath Ledger on set, just that his performance was frighteningly intense. He wasn't doing crazy ass shit like this.
And he died while filming the mediocre at best Imaginarium of Dr Panassus, not Dark Knight.
I didn't mean his performance, he just had a lot of issues with substances etc. I meant healthy mentally for the most part. I'm pretty I've read somewhere that Heath Ledger said that being the Joker wasn't good for his mental state. I'm sure Jack Nicholson and Cesar Romero both have their whatevers, but they treated acting as a fucking comic book character like you should, a job.