Am I the only one who dislikes the Comedy Central/Paramount big voice guy?
He’s really jarring and off tone for most of the stuff he does the plugs for. Reminds me of old early nineties trailers with intense and dramatic action sequences followed by the fairly high pitched fast talking big voice guy “Starts Friday, get tickets now!”
Let me see if I can find an example
Tangentially, if you ever want to see a movie about people doing voice overs for trailers, this was pretty great:
Re: top gun homo erotic
Friend sent me this the other day, had never seen it
Saw Top Gun: Maverick. It was fine. It’s an old school action movie. There’s I think deliberate analogy drawn between Maverick/fighter pilot :: Tom Cruise/movie star, you know, both growing old and belonging to another era, but grimly hanging on. It’s laid on a bit thick and so the movie gets a bit bogged down in the second act and doesn’t quite have the propulsive energy of a MI film or something like Edge of Tomorrow. The action scenes do deliver but the RT scores had me expecting a real classic of the genre and I wouldn’t go that far. But go see it at the theatre, it’s worth it. Keep expectations in check and you’ll have a good time.
Shit I’m gonna have to get Paramount+ when it launches here.
Beavis and Butthead Do America was criminally underrated.
I thought they were going to Force Awakens it at first where it’s a sequel, but really just a remake. Have to give a lot pf credit to Mcquarrie, Cruise and whoever put the effort into making it better than it could have been.
B&BDA, is the absolute best movie that should have been garbage of all time. Its fantastic.
Having lost Chinese funding and being uncertain of receiving a Chinese release, someone somewhere decided the juice was no longer worth the squeeze and undid the vandalism to Mav’s jacket. In addition to simply making aesthetic sense, the move also earned the picture some goodwill with American audiences who have grown tired of having their blockbusters defaced by Chinese censors.
Did it though? How many Americans knew or cared about Maverick’s jacket? If that’s all the Chinese suggested would it have killed the movie? I wouldn’t think so. The worst parts of Chinese censorship, other than the Chinese political considerations, are the wedged in Chinese pop star characters and the mandatory trips to China unrelated to the script.
I didn’t tell my girlfriend anything about the movie going in. At first she was laughing about the over the top action and music and then after the movie she was recommending it to everyone. Crazy how 3 hours felt like 90 minutes, there wasn’t a wasted scene.
Had been looking forward to the Top Gun sequel. It was the original, rented at the library on Laser Disc, that got me through my first lonely days in Japan many moons ago when I had nary a friend and couldn’t yet speak the language.
However, I just rewatched it on Amazon Prime and felt like it didn’t age well at all (nor have Val Kilmer or Kelly McGillis, based on a cursory search of the cast on Google). Wasn’t nearly as interesting as I remembered it being.
I want to see it and like it but wondering if, after this disappointing rewatch, I should bother?
I think the sequel is worth the watch. To me, it struck the right mix of invoking the things I liked about the original while telling a new(ish) story. Also, I thought the pacing was a bit crisper than the original and the improvements in camera technology helped the flight scenes look even better.
Watched Windfall on Netflix. Fun, very small, 3 person 1 location character study that really ramps up the tension towards the end. Starring Meth Damon from BB as a tech billionaire who is held captive with his trophy wife by a man trying to rob them while they wait for what is essentially the ransom money to arrive. Some might consider it boring but I liked it a lot.
I already posted itt about how I liked Kristen Stewart’s weird acting in the Cronenberg movie, here is a small sample
https://twitter.com/JarettSays/status/1533855978235392000?s=20&t=mUJ-mG57VmnF4pfdghWocg
I am not sure how much of a conscious choice it is on her part, but being basically the most famous actress of her generation and going what I can only think of as the “Nic Cage route” seems…unexpected ? It makes for some very polarizing performances (I also saw “Spencer” recently where she plays Diana and from the moment she opened her mouth I knew I would hate the movie because of her over-acting…but she got an Oscar nom for it so some ppl liked it), but at least this should be interesting, looking forward to seeing more of her lol
Speaking of Cage I recently watched Color out of space on Prime. This is adapted from a Lovecraft story, about a meteor crashing in a countryside family’s frontyard and then a bunch of weird/horrible things happen. I thought it was not great but had some good parts (especially when shit starts to really get wild). But this is also an example of a movie where NC’s antics don’t work great imo (would have been better to start from a “normal” person as the family father who slowly goes into madness, rather than Cage who is already weird from the start, and his acting at many times was so strange that it took me out of the movie).
I loved it and thought she did a great job. Would have been okay if she won it.
Color Out of Space was like the Diet Coke version of Mandy, you only get one calorie of Nic Cage goodness.
Haha yeah this was almost unwatchable for me, but in theory I like what the movie and KS are trying to achieve, so I can certainly see myself liking it if I’d been in a different mood…and like I said I really like that she’s going for this kind of performance
I’m probably in the minority as someone who both enjoys Nic Cage and really doesn’t like Mandy, but at least in that one NC’s crazy acting was in line with what the movie was doing ( in fact a major problem I had with it is that it takes way too long before he goes crazy…). Whereas in COOS, I only watched the movie bc of him but in the end I think I’d have liked it better if it was some generic boring guy in his place.
Is she really the most famous millennial type actress? I certainly don’t think of her like that but maybe my perception is off.
Trying to think who I’d have over her, defintely Jennifer Lawrence and Scarlett Johansson.
Don’t forget Emma Watson (same age as Stewart)
Yeah idk, even though Johannson is only 5 years older I wouldn’t have put her in the same generation (maybe bc she got famous very young).
Lawrence hasn’t been in many notable films after Hunger games, and Emma Watson I would also have put as way less famous than KS and also doesn’t seem to be still very active.
But you might be right, googling “most famous 30 yo actress”, you find a bucnh of lists where KS seems to always be behind these choices 
I’m probably biased bc she’s been willing to both play in big and small indy movies which means I often see her in my news feed…