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I never liked this shitbag or any of his movies.
He is a shitbag⊠but I did like Buffalo 66 back in the day.
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Isnât this the guy who already did this with Chloe Sevigny like 15 years ago?
ETA - Yep
Killers of the Flower Moon is free on AppleTV + tomorrow. Well, you do need a subscription, but you should already have one if you properly binged The Morning Show and Silo.
Anyway, I watched the trailer and saw the screenplay is by Eric Roth, who is probably one of the greatest living screenwriters. His work includes (thnx Wikipedia) Forrest Gump (1994), The Insider (1999), Munich (2005), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), A Star Is Born (2018), and Dune (2021) â winning for Forrest Gump; he also earned a Best Picture nomination for producing Mank (2020). He also worked on the screenplays for the Oscar-nominated films Ali (2001) and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), as well as Martin Scorseseâs epic Western crime drama Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).
I donât think I could be more excited to watch his latest tomorrow.
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Emily wasnât the only one who said she felt uncomfortable because of Galloâs remarks. Jane*, another actress who auditioned to play one of the serial killerâs victims in The Policeman, written and directed by Jordan Gertner and co-starring James Franco,
James Franco, trying to make that quiet come back without getting his name in the paper. Almost made it.
In one complaint filed to SAG obtained by Rolling Stone, Jane said she attended a callback to play a female victim who was violently raped and psychologically tortured by DeAngeloâs character. Jane said she was told the role required full nudity, which she was willing to do. But when she walked into the audition and met Gallo, he talked about what she called his âtorture porn fantasiesâ with the actress and told her the script âwould bear very little resemblance to what was going to be filmed,â according to the complaint.
âHe then proceeded to tell me that the filming environment he wanted to create was one that was fully improvised,â Jane wrote in her complaint.
Not to question an actorâs method, but I feel like the rape and murder scenes are not where you want a guy to be like âhold up Iâm going off scriptâ or " yea I know what actually happened is pretty bad, but I have a whole new improvised direction to take rape and murder"
Then she said Gallo explained DeAngelo was âturned on by his victimâs fearâ in real life, so while they were making the movie, âhe would be constantly creating an environment of terror and vulnerability to inspire his characterâs actions on and off set.â
sounds like a work environment anyway would want to be a part of.
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Robo
âThe problem there, I felt, was that he was really aware that he lost all his legs and arms. He knows it from the very beginning,â explained Verhoeven. âThe beautiful thing about the original âRoboCop,â what makes it not just pure tragedy or whatever, is that he really does not know anymore. He gets a couple of vague flashes of memory when he goes to his old house, but RoboCop is not a tragic figure. Yes, heâs killed in the most horrible way in the beginning. But when we see him again as a robot, he doesnât feel that.â
Total Recall
âI felt it had a lot of special effects, but this mysteryâis it true or is it not true?âI just didnât feel that anymore,â the filmmaker said. âThe interesting thing about the original movie is that at the end, when Rachel Ticotin says, âWell, kiss me quick before you wake up,â you still donât really know if itâs real. Also, we had a wonderful composer, Jerry Goldsmith. I was so pleased with the piano motifs. Without all that, what do you have?â
Mean Girls (2024) is decent; well short of the greatness of the 2004 movie, but that was to be expected. I hoped for a bit more, but I wasnât mad at it. I will say that the musical numbers arenât really a value-add to the movie, and Iâm generally pro-musical. 3/5.
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Hamilton spoiled me for all future musicals.
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I havenât actually seen Hamilton. I recently rewatched Chicago and itâs still excellent. The recent rendition of The Color Purple was great. I actually enjoyed Wonka well enough, and thought those musical numbers were better than these without being anything too great. Not that theyâre comparable movies otherwise, but itâs just not common for me to see the musical numbers as neutral or less in musicals; usually theyâre helping make a movie better for me.
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That makes sense. Iâm gonna check it out anyway just from knowing itâs good. Some advance reviews were so unkind that I felt confused.
Chicago is my favorite musical! I saw it live when I visited London over ten years ago.
I think KOTFM is the best film since The Social Network.
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Premium Rush is on Tubi. I want to call it a nice little genre picture with a tight script, but I donât really know what genre it falls into. It would be cool, though, if there were a sub-genre of bike messenger films. It has JGL and Michael Shannon in it too!
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I love Premium Rush, even if the ending is basically the ending for Training Day.
âBest movie since The Social Network.â Okay, I need to finally rewatch The Social Network. I liked it well enough, but I always feel like Iâm missing something when people talk like itâs some sort of all-timer. As far as I can tell, The Social Network was bested just in the year 2010, about two months later, when Black Swan came out.
But I havenât seen it since the theater, so Iâm going to revisit it right now with an open mind in hopes that it can cease to be my own personal Liâl Sebastian.
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Social network is one of the best films of last 20 years.
Hard to imagine making a movie in a genre where the best you can hope for is to be 2nd best.
Ainât nobody making a better bike messenger movie than Quicksilver.
Why is this? I have not seen it
Alright, I rewatched The Social Network. Itâs really good, maybe edging into great. The superlatives are still weird to me, especially because Iâm as big a fan as anyone of âmen talking in roomsâ movies, so there is certainly no style disconnect for me where it should be more to someone elseâs tastes.
But, whatever. At least people arenât going around saying these grand things about a movie I actually dislike or something.
(I stand by Black Swan > Social Network, though itâs not by a big margin. Not nearly as big of a margin as Bridge of Spies > Fury Road, of course.)
Insert obvious gif here, lol
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