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    A couple of years ago, I did a deep dive into the Jason Statham filmography. If  you want to see a worse movie t hat is also more boring and yet somehow stranger, I would recommend LONDON, which came out a year after Cellular. Why would I bring up this Jason Statham movie? Because it ALSO stars Chris Evans, Jessica Biel, and Jason Statham. It doesn't take place in London, Jessica Biel's name is London. Statham plays a coked up banker who, despite being like 50 years older than Evans, is friends with him. 
     

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    48 minutes ago, taylorannephoto said:

    Dude... that was Nicole Kidman c'mon!

    Also I agree because their chemistry was off the hook

    I KNEW that and the entire film and afterwards I kept going "so when is Kim Basinger going to come back?" I have no idea why I kept trying to make Nicole Kidman into Kim Basinger

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    On 1/14/2019 at 6:00 PM, WatchOutForSnakes said:

    I lost my shit at the crab people! And am I the only one who thought that red wig was awful?!

    when the red hair was CGI (when they were underwater) I was fine with it, it was her on land sequences...oaf.

    That all said, I loved the movie because it was just so batshit insane while managing to tell a pretty basic King Arthur story. 
     

    21 hours ago, taylorannephoto said:

    It's the. worst. wig.

    Also I didn't believe they had any romantic chemistry! I mean totally great bro energy with the possibility of falling in love years later lmao, but I'm thinking you give me two or three more adventures with those two and THEN I could believe they fell in love lol.

    I would have rather the only love story been between Kim Basinger and the guy that played Momoa's dad. At least that was the only love story I was engaged in.

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    8 hours ago, ol' eddy wrecks said:

    Or maybe it's just a sad job that single women work at and spinster-hood is a sad, sad thing at the ripe old age of 28 as far as 1947 is concerned

    The Music Man plays with this idea too. The whole town either views Marian as a slut because something happened between her and the rich old man prior to Harold Hill arriving that he left her the library or spinster because she isn't a wife and is devoted to the library.

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    1 hour ago, sycasey 2.0 said:

    I also agreed with him that I would have enjoyed playing Clarence: a relatively small role that makes a big impact on the audience. That's what Orson Welles once called a "star part" (referring to his own role in The Third Man).

    Paul would actually make a GREAT Clarence, but I honestly think if I was casting a modern version, I'd put him and Zouks as Bert and Ernie

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    I really like Lords of Dogtown. It's an interesting companion to thirteen, looking at boys in SoCa and less focused on girls. I thought it was interesting to see a female director handling a distinct male coming of age story. the Nativity Story is also very pretty to look at, and is well filmed, but is one of those Christmas and Christian movies that people just don't talk about. I think it ultimately came down to being pretty vanilla. I haven't seen it since it came out in theaters

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  16. Posted

    7 hours ago, gigi-tastic said:

    On the topic of the Twilight movies the director of the first one really got fucked over apparently. I encourage everyone to read this article by The Daily Beast : https://www.thedailybeast.com/catherine-hardwicke-broke-records-with-twilight-then-hollywood-labeled-her-difficult 

    Basically Catherine Hardwicke worked her ass off trying to make this source material not suck . For example she fought with the author to have diversity in the cast : 

    " But Meyer, who was raised Mormon in Phoenix, Arizona, “had not really written it that way,” Hardwicke says. “So she probably just didn’t see the world that way. And I was like oh my God, I want the vampires, I want them all—Alice, I wanted her to be Japanese! I had all these ideas. And she just could not accept the Cullens to be more diverse, because she had really seen them in her mind, she knew who each character was representing in a way, a personal friend or a relative or something.” She says Meyer pointed to her books’ description of the vampires: “She said, I wrote that they had this pale glistening skin!” 

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    In the end she convinced her to let one of the evil vampires be a black actor they were looking at. 

    Then there's the fact she was the first woman to ever direct a movie this big. Apparently when movies do well directors often get gifts. Catherine's gift? A fucking mini cupcake.

     " When I went in I saw that there were massive bouquets and balloons and bottles of wine, and crazy gifts sent to them by all the distributors around the world or whoever, all their friends,” she recalls. “So I actually had it in my mind, wow, this is a pretty unprecedented success. I had heard these rumors that when a director does something like this they give them a car, they give them a two-picture deal or something like that. They give them an office and ask them what they want to do after this.” Hardwicke pauses. “And then I got a mini cupcake that day. I was like oh, OK, cool—coming in here, I’m sort of working for free, doing this online stuff, and that was what I was offered: a mini cupcake.”

    This women's other film Thirteen was nominated for a fucking Oscar not to mention the crazy money she just got you! And she gets a mini cupcake?!? 

    Even worse she was taken off the sequel New Moon and then basically labeled the deadly "difficult".  

    I may not like Twilight but I feel terrible for how Catherine Hardwicke was treated. She deserved so much better.

    That's interesting, I've thought that Hardwicke has had one of the most disappointing career trajectories. Thirteen was so good,Lords of Dogtown was pretty good, The Nativity Story wasn't bad, then Twilight, Red Riding Hood and Plush were probably future HDTGM material

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    So I love this movie and I'm glad I get the chance to talk about it. I just got back from vacation (or should I say holiday). First I'm a lover of all things R&H and this is a great adaptation of their musical. My only real compliant about the musical itself isn't necessarily about THIS version but that there doesn't seem to be a definitive version. Since R&H wrote the LAW version for TV initially, they (and others) have felt the need to tweak this with more, different songs, whether that's on stage or filmed.

    I remember in 97, I was not a Brandy fan but I was a fan of Jason Alexander and Victor Garber and Bernadette (I'm a theater nerd, what can I say) and this is probably her best performance as actor, but with the supporting cast they surrounded her with, that's not surprising. 

    This isn't Whitney's best performance but it's her last great performance I think (when did the Preacher's Wife come out?) 

    This was also the start of a brief Renaissance of ABC Wonderful World of Disney musicals that included Bye Bye Birdie (with Jason Alexander), The Music Man (with Matthew Broderick and Kristen Chenoweth), South Pacific (with Glen Close and Harry Connick Jr), and Once Upon A Mattress (with Carol Burnett). These vary in quality and adherence to the original sources with Mattress in particular taking quite a bit of liberties, despite having probably the second best cast. I'm kind of surprised with this surge that NBC and Fox has been doing with the live musicals that Disney/ABC hasn't tried bringing this back. 

    And speaking of Mattress, it wasn't until that musical that I realized that "Cinderella" isn't her name. She is "Ella of the Cinders" meaning she comes from, sleeps, etc in the cinders. 

    Finally the tree is Ella/Cindy's mom and gives her the dress is something that Sondheim uses in Into The Woods. He also uses the multiple balls (IIRC) and the tar on the steps.

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    So I finally got around to watching this and it struck a weird note with me too. First, it hit at a weird time for me, I just finished acting in a Christmas production of Little Women and it's the first time in like 3 years I've actually been on stage. And then there is my writing and my other artistic endeavors. I long for reviews but I also fear negative ones. Not that constructive criticism is something I fear, because I love that, but it's just this nagging fear that I really suck. I'll also be the first to admit that if I won a 100 million dollar lottery or something, I'd be financing my own shows in NY and being like "screw the critics". I think there is a message about the thin knife edge that actors/artists walk. Recently, on a Facebook playwrights group I'm a part of, a picture was posted of a writer responding very poorly to their play not getting selected for a festival. I'm also reminded of the many times writers have lashed out to critics. I think the message they are trying to get across is the same as Ratatouille. But it's done, less...convincingly.  I do think that this would be an interesting companion piece to THE PRODUCERS.  

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  19. Posted

    On 11/26/2018 at 6:21 AM, Cam Bert said:

    Before Mikey discovers the horrible truth about mall Santas two of Kirstie Alley's co-workers are leaving for the day. As they leave she wishes them good bye by saying "Good night Prancer, good night Dancer." Two things, one they are elves not reindeer. Santa has two reindeer named Prancer and Dancer but does he also have two elves that go by the same names as the reindeer? There is no denying that Prancer and Dancer do sound like elf names but when in relation to Christmas the first thing that pops in your mind when you hear those names are the reindeer. It's just confusing. Second, does Kirstie Alley not know her co-workers actual names? True, she hasn't been working there long but do you think people at Disney say "Good Night Mickey" to the kid in the costume as they are leaving for the day? What about the surly Santa? Is going to say "Good Night Santa" to him? Just learn their names.

    Not to defend this movie that much, but I know when I'm acting in a play (like I am now, Little Women, Hays, KS opens on Friday--shameless plug) even if I know all the actors names, I tend to default and call them by their character names. Maybe these elves were like really into "the method" and wanted to be called by their character names (that they probably gave themselves) at all times.

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    19 minutes ago, Cameron H. said:

    This was essentially my take (although I watched it alone and *did* bail a couple of times :) ). It’s not that it was bad. The sum of its parts were all solid, but I found the plot to be kind of dull. Take out the music, and occasional visual flair, and the plot was a pretty basic Prohibition Era drama. Everything was pretty predictable. I mean, who at this point isn’t like “That’s going to stop a bullet” when a character is handed a Bible?

    It also didn’t help that André and Boi play most everything so unflappably low energy. Aside from the music, I never really felt like they were in it, and consequently, I was never really in it. It’s not that it was bad, but my focus kept wandering as I watched.

    Yeah they do kind of play everything as just going through the motions (it does seem like I liked it more but I'm also a sucker for gangster/prohibition movies that lean into the redemption angle i.e. the Bible stops the bullet). It's interesting though that around this same time, Andre 3000 did Be Cool (the Get Shorty sequel that is BAD) and is one of the bright shining spots in that film.

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    What is it about musicals and gangster films that seemingly go so well together? It's like chocolate and peanut butter. I really enjoyed rewatching this film (if I was to guess, I'd say I hadn't seen this in 11 years or more and reconnecting to the world of Idlewild, GA. Frank Lovece of Film Journal International said that Idlewild was seemingly an "African-American Moulin Rogue" an you know what the comparison kind of fits. Between the anachronistic music (which I think really works in this consider that the roots of hip-hop and funk can be found in the African-American jazz sound). What struck me is how...young I guess the leading cast is. The veteran African-American characters are killed off (or run away) leaving some very hungry characters to fill their place(sometimes figuratively sometimes literally), be it Ving Rhames' Spats or Patti LeBelle's Angel.

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