sillstaw
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This movie's actually really fun, and does not belong on "How Did This Get Made."
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I remember seeing the trailer for this before "Pacific Rim." Nearly two years ago. Also, apparently it's based on a YA novel (called "The Spook's Apprentice;" gee, I wonder why they changed that?). I guess maybe it wasn't a good idea to adapt a book nobody's heard of, then change the title so that even fans of the book might get confused.
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From James Ellroy's Wikipedia page: Who knows, maybe the missing hour actually deals with the titular killing instead of whatever else this movie was about.
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Exactly. I recall hearing that, despite a lot of people thinking that Eddie Murphy lost the Academy Award for "Dreamgirls" because of "Norbit," it had more to do with how he's considered kind of a jerk in Hollywood. Quite frequently, the Academy Awards voters are less about what movie excelled in a given category and more about who in a field of nominees has the most friends amongst the voting bloc; it's less like a public election and more like the "Most Likely to Succeed" page of a yearbook. On a similar note, I recall reading in 2011 an article on what would "Norbit" various nominees' chances, and the choices were ridiculous. Several of the offending movies had yet to be released, but more notably, it claimed that it would hurt David O. Russell and Darren Aronofsky that they were going to work on "Uncharted" and "The Wolverine," respectively--two movies that hadn't even begun production yet, and movies that I managed to predict they wouldn't end up directing.
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One of the more amazing things about this movie is that the whole plot and the big reveal is based around the Face on Mars that obsessed people who were convinced that We Aren't Alone in the Universe back in the 90s. Nowadays, that "face" has been shown to be just a regular mesa, and we only saw a face due to a mix of pattern recognition and low-resolution photography.
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Interesting. He has a note on his official site that takes a position of "it's flawed, but likable." One particularly telling quote: Incidentally, I'm mystified at how Hollywood seems to have decided that people want Kevin Costner back on movie screens, even though the box office for most of his movies lately have not been good. The most successful movie he's done lately is "Man of Steel," where his character dies before the third paragraph of the Wikipedia summary. Other than that, he's had movies like "3 Days to Kill" and "Draft Day" (because who wouldn't want to watch a movie about the owner of a football team deciding on a draft pick?).
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The director, James Burrows, hated working this movie. He then went back to his original job, directing sitcoms, and proceeded to work on some of the most successful shows of the 80s and 90s ("Cheers," "Friends," "Will & Grace"). I read a book on NBC where somebody described this movie as the best thing to happen to sitcoms because he refused to do another movie after it. Hilariously, he also went on to direct episodes of two different sitcoms called "Partners." Both of which were flops.
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I was wondering if this was the movie I read about in old Columbia House catalogs that was described as something like "he has to solve a case involving a bomb that looks like water." Which put into my mind an image of somebody trying to defuse a puddle of water. Also, courtesy of Wikipedia, a spoiler with the worst possible phrasing for getting back with your wife: Nothing like describing your wife as a "prize" that you "bagged."
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Of course, she hadn't directed anything in over ten years by that point, and only got the job because Warren Beatty thought she deserved another chance. (Whereupon she immediately resumed her overly perfectionist habits, contributing to the movie's bloated budget.) It's like somebody raised the Titanic, only to accidentally press the wrong button and have it sink down to the ocean floor again.
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I have seen the movie, and it's as bad as its reputation suggests. The comedy is pretty leaden, and at times borders on racist (seeing Dustin Hoffman yelling gibberish as he tries to act like he's auctioning off weapons to terrorists is a sight I will never forget, no matter how hard I try). Oddly, a lot of people recently have tried to claim it's an underrated classic. They are wrong.
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Well, admittedly "Transcendence"* and "The Lone Ranger" barely made more than they cost to produce, and when you factor in the costs of advertising, both movies could easily still be called flops. It'll be interesting to see if "Mortdecai" does play in Europe; even considering the books are popular there, I think comedies have difficulty translating into other languages. (Though given that the film seems to be mostly physical comedy, maybe it'll work. I'm arguing with myself now.) Also worth discussing, maybe: This awful tweet from the movie's official Twitter. I don't think I've seen something so tasteless associated with a movie's official Twitter account since the time "Olympus Has Fallen" favorited a tweet about wanting to kill Asians. * I seem to be in the minority in that I saw "Transcendence" and didn't totally hate it. It's nothing special, but the negative reviews it got seemed a bit much.
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I find it odd how Johnny Depp keeps making movies where he plays "quirky" characters, even though they all keep flopping. The international grosses must be amazing. And this movie... Literally, the only selling point I could discern from the trailers and posters was "Johnny Depp has a funny mustache!" Is it any wonder the movie is reportedly bombing hard?
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Probably for the same reason you mentioned in the first paragraph; he's been making a lot of boring-bad movies instead of crazy-bad lately. And the archive of crazy Cage only goes so far back. Stallone, on the other hand, has been doing bad movies for a while, and it's easier to figure out which bad movies are fun when they're several years old than when they're just coming out.
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The best part is that, reportedly, it will be done like Larry Charles' collaborations with Sacha Baron Cohen, with the dialogue being improvised. As the AV Club put it, "This can only mean one thing: 100% Unfiltered Cage."
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Now that would be a movie worth seeing.
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When a movie seems so awful that even Chevy Chase seems to deserve better...
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*dabs tears from eyes* It's so beautiful!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvNzhKTXweQ
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Wow. I was under the assumption that if you wore that kind of makeup and shirt, you were legally unemployable.
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It appears to be an original story. The only movie I know of with a story based on Sacks' work is "Awakenings," which isn't HDGTM-worthy.
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Yes, Sony totally made their executives look like assholes, released their own employees' personal information, opened themselves up to who knows how many lawsuits, all to cover up one movie that ended up getting released anyway. Hanlon's what now? ETA: Even if they disliked the film, Seth Rogen's been on "The League." If badmouthing movies their friends and costars have starred in is bad form, imagine how bad it would be to do it to a movie that said friend and costar also co-directed.
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AMC has long since stopped claiming the "C" stands for "classics." In fact, it sounds like they've stopped claiming that the letters stand for anything at all. Turner Classic Movies, on the other hand, still airs mostly older movies which could conceivably be called "classics;" the TCM Underground thing is a once-a-week thing which seems to have been done to attract younger viewers.
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Looks like it's going to be on late Saturday evening or early Sunday morning, depending on where you live. That's where they air their TCM Underground stuff, which is more cheesy and grindhouse-y stuff. (They've aired movies like "The Apple," "The Baby" and, the week after "Miami Connection," they'll show "Maximum Overdrive.")
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Having seen a commercial for this, I have to say the most mystifying thing about this movie is the toy MacGuffin. It's called "Harrison the Talking Bear." Which means that, in a movie made for release in 2014, apparently the hottest toy of the Christmas season is a Teddy Ruxpin ripoff.
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The funniest thing is that, by all accounts, the poster has more action than most of the movie. It's a movie mostly set in a car parked in a driveway; it's like the lazy version of "Locke."
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