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  1. Posted

    36 minutes ago, Cakebug Tranch said:

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    Canadian pizza' is mozzarella, bacon, pepperoni, tomato sauce, and mushrooms. 

    ALSO: Hawaiian Pizza was invented in Chatham, Ontario, so you can thank Canada for that too...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian_pizza

    This is the kind of info they could’ve leaned into to make their Little Italy distinctive! 

    I don’t know why I am so frustrated by this. They seem to have wanted it to be all Little Italys but the narration to th effect of “tHis was our Little Italy” actually works better with a less generic world. 

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    1 hour ago, Cakebug Tranch said:

    The 'Taste of Little Italy' festival (which is a real festival on College Street each year) is actually shot in the Distillery District in the east side of the city, which is distinctive for its cobblestoned streets.  The banner that reads 'Welcome to Little Italy':

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    Yeah, that doesn't exist.  In fact, that's not Toronto at all. That's the Little Italy street sign FROM Mulberry Street, NEW YORK CITY. No wonder June was confused! WHY would you show the New York sign while setting up Toronto? WHY?

    This, however, IS our Little Italy. Enjoy!

     

    They were definitely dressing the sets like Little Italy in New York which was why it was confusing. Like if they said no this is the Toronto Little Italy from the jump, it wouldn’t feel so odd. Like the sign in the front is like New York and the sign further down the street (which you can only half see in this shot) is ALSO from here. It’s for the San Gennaro festival which is celebrated every September. I know it’s not just a red/white/green Italy banner because now that you have screencapped it, I can see the Saint’s bishop hat—fun fact from Catholic school, it’s called a miter not a Pope hat—in that picture. 

    Does Toronto’s Little Italy have a San Gennaro festival? He is the patron saint of Naples so only Napolitano Italian immigrants would celebrate it, and when I Googled “San Gennaro Toronto” it said it was “closed.”

    And a follow up, if I may, do you allow figs on pizza is Canada?

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  4. Posted

    1 hour ago, taylorannephoto said:

    I truthfully had a conscious thought during their date scene that she is a terrible actress in this. Maybe just in general? I haven't seen her in too much so maybe she's actually really bad.

    I've only really seen her in the terrible Nancy Drew movie. That was sad. This show might want to consider that. What else has she been in? Wasn't she in an American Horror Story?

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  5. Posted

    This is a Paul-level tangent into my history, but I am Italian-American. Except we didn’t know it until I was in high school (my great grandfather came here from Italy in the early 1900s but he died young and we didn’t know about him, it’s a long story). So when we learned we were Italian my dad and his siblings would do a lot of Italian -American voices and jokes—mostly from the Sopranos and mob movies. And that is what the accents in this movie are. People with no actual connection to the culture. 

    Taylor Anne made me feel really angry for Alyssa Milano. She is Italian too! She should’ve been the lead! 

     

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  6. Posted

    On 1/27/2019 at 4:17 PM, WatchOutForSnakes said:

    I went to see based solely on @Elektra Boogaloo's post here and a Slate headline. I purposely went in without googling or knowing anything else about it. If you told me Matthew McConaughey was drunk the entire shoot, I wouldn't be surprised. This one is A Night In Heaven kind of crazy. I so hope the crew covers it! 

    I feel quite honored! I haven't seen it myself but I was reading about it on Twitter and then Slate and I thought "this sounds amazing." I need to find a theater showing it.

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    I know we covered it on Unspooled but Green Book is Driving Miss Daisy or The Help for 2018. It's kind of enjoyable. The performances are legit good. But it's really just a movie to make white people feel less racist about themselves.

    I didn't see the round table but I read something about it a couple weeks ago. I guess the family has said their relationship was mostly professional and not a friendship.

    I am sure Mahershala Ali is good in GREEN BOOK. He's good in everything. The article I read about the Shirley family said they were not consulted about the movie, that the white driver and he were not friends and, in fact, he was fired. Mahershala Ali called them an apologized because he was told there was no close family left.

    https://shadowandact.com/the-real-donald-shirley-green-book-hollywood-swallowed-whole

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  10. Posted

    I haven't seen a lot of the movies but GREEN BOOK looks legit terrible. I love, love Mahershala Ali but if you saw the Hollywood Reporter roundtable that was going around Twitter yesterday? It made me want to see it even less, which is saying something.

    I have been pretending he is winning things for his performance as Uncle Aaron in Into the Spider-verse.

    I liked RBG but it wasn't super in depth. But then neither was the book it was based on.

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  11. Posted

    5 hours ago, grudlian. said:

    Also, why didn't Kim Basinger's husband go to the cops in a different precinct? Give it to the news?

    The husband was a real zero. Like somehow he got away from all those cops, immediately put the evidence in a safe deposit box. Then... just went home and pretended like everything was fine? He said his name loudly SECONDS before he saw the cops. Or they could just figure out who the realtor was. He never thought "maybe they'll go to my house?"

    Also he didn't do any fighting and, like, I'm used to husbands and/or fathers in movies having to really step up. Like if this was TAKEN? Liam Neeson would never.

    At least call the FBI if you know there are crooked cops after you. Geez.

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  13. Posted · Edited by Elektra Boogaloo

    I agree that everyone is in a different movie. Probably because none of them met each other. I kept wondering why they didn’t reveal Statham & co were cops earlier, because then Jessica Martin could say DON’T go to the cops. It would make a bit more sense. Of course,  we’d miss the riveting stairwell scene where he is losing the signal. 

    Macy was great though. My FAVORITE thing was that after he shoots the female cop, by distracting her by kicking over the fish tank. The next time we see him, he’s in the back of an ambulance and he has saved the fish in a tiny glass. I really wish he carried the fish around for the rest of the movie. 

    Funny this dropped today since it was recorded in Nov. Last night on “The Good Place” (which Jason was on) they mentioned torturing Shakespeare by telling him the plot of the Entourage movie and I thought, “hey didn’t Ike Barinholtz want to talk about Entourage? Maybe HDTGM should do that one...”

    Is it bad enough to torture Willy Shakes? (I only saw a couple episodes of the show and I hated all the characters but Shakespeare might be kind of into the sex stuff.) 

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  15. Posted

    3 hours ago, taylorannephoto said:

    The couple next to me when I saw it were laughing SO hard during some parts that I couldn't help but laugh as well, and during the entire war scene the three of us were just cracking up.

    I mean literally crab people vs mermaids is the funniest shit I've ever seen.

    The crab thing (played by John Rhys Davies) is for sure the best character.

    I wanted it to have better music cues. I said on Twitter that they should've played Cher's HALF BREED while he rose up on the leviathan. No one else thought it was funny.

    WHY DID JULIE ANDREWS AGREE TO THIS? Does Warner have something on her?

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  16. Posted

    I just watched it. I remember the commercials with Kim Basinger and thought it was more of a thriller. But I think it would’ve been better as a comedy. Because like one of the big obstacles is... a tunnel. You know?

    William H. Macy kind of killed it in the scene where he realizes foul play is afoot and...wipes green mask goo off his face. Except the stuff with Kim Basinger is dark. Maybe if it had been played as like a rich housewife, who like used to be a teacher and then married? 

    The tone was very odd. 

  23. Posted

    Have you guys seen that RANKER did a list of worst movies ever and TWILIGHT was the "winner." I didn't care for the book or the film, personally, but I understood why young girls did.  (Like for me I had already read VAMPIRE DIARIES and seen BUFFY so it seemed old hat.) And I don't know why this struck me as so wrong but it doesn't seem correct. I mean I got through TWILIGHT easily compared to HOLIDAYS IN HANDCUFFS.

     

    Thoughts?

     

    ETA It now seems that some TwiHards have gone in and voted Gigli to the top.

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  24. Posted

    37 minutes ago, Wien said:

    Also, looking at Mario Lopez, if you had told me that the movie was shot at the same time as Saved By The Bell, I would have believed it. If you told me it was shot last week, I would have believed it. Dude is a vampire.

    HIs lack of aging is really the only highlight of this movie. And I could just watch EXTRA for that.

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    Craig Zadan: Though I’ll tell you what was going on behind the scenes: There was an executive at Disney — who will remain nameless — and he was very nervous about a black Cinderella. He loved the idea of Whitney being the black fairy godmother, but he came up to us and said, "Well, if you’re coming up with someone like Brandy as Cinderella, why can’t you go get Jewel instead, and have a white Cinderella and a black Fairy Godmother. It’ll still be multicultural."

     I am reading the oral history WatchOut posted and this is the worst idea I have ever heard. 

     

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