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    This should have been a great episode. But even Jason and Paul couldn't overcome the obvious problem. A guest that said like zero and a guest that would not shut up. It's like he wanted to be loud funny guy, but Jason already does that, so he decided to be loud unfunny guy instead.

     

    Whatever happened to the guy they did Reindeer Games with? He was great!

     

    Agreed. Moshe comes off as an unfunny version of Nick Kroll. And it really sounds like neither of the guests gave a shit about the film.

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    I really enjoyed this movie. It took a bit for it to really get going, but that third act is very strong. It's hard to believe that John Voight went from this to Anaconda and Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2.

     

    The final shot is super poignant. I'm pretty sure June/Jason would be crying their eyes out.

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    Isn't it pretty clear that the studios hunt for these directors, though? They throw money at these indie directors because they want young guys who they can push around. They want to be able to tell them what to do (exception: Edgar Wright, etc), force storylines and characters, etc. Marc Webb went from 500 Days of Summer to the Spider-Man reboot (what), Josh Trank went from Chronicle to Fantastic 4, and I think like 90% of those Platinum Dunes horror reboots were directed by either former music video directors or Rob Zombie.

     

    Oh, it's a trend for sure. Gareth Edwards did one film before doing Godzilla. Colin Trevarrow did one film before doing Jurassic World. The directors for Skull Island and the next Spider Man both did only one film before starting the project. It makes economic sense to hire these directors on the cheap for franchise films that almost always guarantee a profit. So who cares if the actual films being made are mediocre and boring, amirite?

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    Trank seems like an asshole. He admitted that he treated this movie like it was a sequel to Chronicle. And that none of his actors have come to his defense is pretty telling. He apparently had terrible on set behavior, and if this movie is any indicator of what he does with a licensed property i'm glad they fired him off his Star Wars movie.

     

    Why are we so eager to label this guy a dick? We're so willing to write off filmmakers as garbage after they made one fluke of a movie or hear rumors of mistakes on set (if he made I Heart Hukabees today, David O. Russell would've been fucked). Being a filmmaker means making mistakes along the way. Stanley Kubrick didn't start out of the gate with masterpieces. Neither did Scorsese, De Palma, Aronofsky, Kurosawa, etc.

     

    What a sad ultimatum these indie turned studio directors face: you either try something different and risk failures, knowing that if you fail you'll probably get butfucked by both critics and social media OR you play it safe to the point of sterility, and make mindless unmemorable movies that guarantees profit (e.g. Jurassic World, Jurassic World, Jurassic World).

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    I had the exact same thought...

     

    Now I'm looking at the interview in a totally different way. I mean, I in no way expected he would do a huge interview and trash his soon to be released movie, but to hear him talk passionately about the movie just a couple of weeks ago and now we see him distancing himself from it is so very "Hollywood" and reeks of insincerity. In the interview, I believe he explicitly states that a lot of it was exactly how he envisioned it and that his relationship with the studio was positive and collaborative. He also stresses how important it is for someone trying to make it in Hollywood needs to know when to keep their mouth shut. It just leaves me thinking, if you don't feel the movie is very good or the result has been marred by studio interference, why do the interview at all? Or, if you are just lashing out because it truly was your vision and viewers just aren't responding to it, fuck 'em. Stand by your work. I will admit, there are times in the interview where he comes off as a bit immature, out-of-touch, and a bit of a douche-nozzle, but I kind of ignored that. Now, with his latest actions, he all but confirms that that's exactly what he is.

     

    What's going to be interesting is that the fourth part of the interview is supposed to come out next week. Granted it was probably recorded a month ago, but they do address the fact that the fourth part is scheduled to come out the week after the movie was to be released. I'm just wondering if Kevin Smith is going to address the recent controversy in his intro/outro...I'm sure Kevin Smith is going to give the movie glowing reviews, that's just the type of person he is, but how can you not address that this person you spoke to for four hours and was telling you how awesome his movie was is now saying that it was ruined be studio interference? The whole interview now seems incredibly disingenuous.

     

    Well to be fair, it's not beyond Hollywood to do drastic recuts of a film before release, and it's not outside the realm of possibility that Fox did just that and Tranck had no knowledge of it while he was being interviewed. There's no way of knowing whether this happened of course, but I think it's unfair to peg a filmmaker as disingenuous in this context, simply because we don't know what happened in the studio.

     

    Also, I feel terribly sorry for Tranck. He didn't seem to be trashing his film in that Twitter post, he just sounded defeated. Can you imagine yourself in his position? Just 31 years old, his first film was critically acclaimed and a box office hit, and on track to direct a Star Wars film. Now his newest movie is getting dismal reviews, he lost the Star Wars gig, and people are already writing him off as a failure. This is why the pattern of hiring indie directors to do studio films is awful. For every Colin Trevarrow and Gareth Edwards, there will be far more filmmakers who simply aren't ready to handle $150 million dollar budgeted films and will inevitably be manhandled by producers.

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    On the topic on films with subtitles, some of best movies I recently learned about and watched have been subtitled. I gotta say for a culture that brought us that guy that wears a suit, sunglasses, is a little chubby, and does a silly dance like he's strattling and lasso'ing all at the same time, Korean movies are pretty sweet. I definitely enjoyed Oldboy, The Host, and Thieves.

     

    Korean thrillers / revenge movies, at this point, have far surpassed Hollywood's imo, I Saw The Devil is a near masterpiece

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    How did this get made? Because Adam Sandler and company decided to make it, and Sony has nothing better to release. Done.

     

    I feel at this point, Sandler movies are low hanging fruit and aren't worth the time discussing. However, there is an article on the Atlantic that reviews Pixels, and asks the questions we most likely would have gotten if HDTGM picked this up. Questions such as:

    • Was there originally a part of the script that explained to audiences exactly how the aliens were able to render two-dimensional picture elements as three-dimensional blocks of light, and was that part maybe accidentally cut in the editing process?
    • How can those blocks of light crash around and damage things?
    • Does this movie understand what light is?
    • Oh, also, was there originally a part explaining how Kevin James became president of the United States? Or was the jarring cut between him as a nerdy, arcade game-obsessed tween and him as the Commander in Chief maybe meant as a canny commentary on the reach of executive power?

    http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/07/pixels-review-adam-sandler-why/399521/

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    Before Con Air, there was Runaway Train.

     

    Two convicts board a train that has --- surprise, surprise, --- no engineer on it. In a normal movie, this would be insanely dull to watch since the protagonists literally cannot do anything. The good news is that the convicts are played by 1980's Jon Voight and Eric Roberts, so you're in for an unfathomable ride into madness.

     

    Regardless of whether HDTGM picks this one up, everyone here should watch this well made and beautifully shot film. Certainly offers more food for thought than the summer blockbusters I've been seeing this year.

     

    But this film is balls to the wall in almost every department: plot, acting (this is that rare film where everyone is chewing scenery), and art department (a boxing ring in the middle of a high security prison?). And look at the core talent involved, most of whom are HDTGM alums:

     

    Jon Voight (Anaconda, and in peak form here), Eric Roberts (pulling a performance that I can only describe as proto McConaughey) and brief cameos from both Danny Trejo (Bad Ass) and Tom "Tiny" Lister (No Holds Barred)

     

    Director: Andrei Konchalovsky (Tango and Cash), and an early collaborator of famed director Andrei Tarkovsky

     

    With an original story from Akira Kurosawa, the director of Seven Samurai, Rashomon, and Ran.

     

    There are only a few films that are equal parts "How Did This Get Made" and "Thank God this got made". This is one of them.

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    I am going to be brutally honest here: Jupiter Ascending is one of the most insane, excessive, confounding, and glorious movies released by a Hollywood studio in a very, very long time.

     

    It's the type of film perfect for HDTGM in the sense that so much love was put into its production --- the cinematography, production design, costume design and CGI are beautifully designed and realized --- and yet it all falls apart oh so terribly. "Next level bonkers" doesn't even begin to describe what happens in this movie. And if that isn't enough reason, Eddie Redmayne gives one of the most deliciously terrible and incoherent performance I've ever seen by a human being.

     

    Paul. June. Jason. I beg you.

     

    Please do this movie.

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