‘This isn’t a paranoid future nightmare’: the explosive return of Chris Morris
Looking forward to this. Four Lions seems like a long time ago now.
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Apparently the reviews so far are rather divisive. It’s not unusual for The Guardian, who employ more than one critic to argue with itself. I remember they gave Endgame both a 5 star and a 2 star.
Talking of which:
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Well, I doubt it’s bad… it’s a Nolan flick… it’s literally impossible that it’s actually a “bad movie”. I didn’t particularly like his last war movie, but there’s no fucking way I’d call it bad by any stretch of the imagination… in fact it’s a great movie, I just didn’t like it. So that’s about the worst case scenario that could happen with Tenet, and considering I love sci-fi weird shit, I’m probably gonna love it…
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Apparently the reviews so far are rather divisive. It’s not unusual for The Guardian, who employ more than one critic to argue with itself. I remember they gave Endgame both a 5 star and a 2 star.
Talking of which:
Ha ha, I just saw it and jumped into this thread to crow to everyone how wise I am. Then some upstart beat me to it.
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Critics are refusing to review New Mutants because Disney are not arranging press screenings.
Disney clearly don’t give a shit about this movie, and probably would have just locked it in a vault somewhere if there wasn’t some kind of contractual obligation to release it.
Can’t say I blame them.. the original cut apparently got mediocre scores at test-screenings, although apparently it’s been worked on since then. The trailers haven’t done a lot for me though. It’s yet another movie where they seem to want to convince people that it’s not just a superhero movie. Because, y’know… why would an audience want more of the kind of movie that’s already generated dozens of billion-dollar hits!
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Disney clearly don’t give a shit about this movie, and probably would have just locked it in a vault somewhere if there wasn’t some kind of contractual obligation to release it.
Yeah, at this point it feels like the theatrical release is a contractually-mandated formality that needs to be got out of the way before it goes on Disney+.
I’ll watch it then.
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That movie truly is cursed.
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So I went back to the cinema today for the first time since Feb, to see Tenet which I covered in another thread.
It was not that weird really, every other seat marked out but otherwise it was pretty full and I’m so used to wearing a mask everywhere now I forget about it.
Before the film was a little strange, no ads, I guess everyone stopped paying for them and haven’t got back up and running yet. I got one trailer, Wonder Woman 1984 (the first one and that Blue Monday tune was ace in Dolby Atmos) which said’ next year’ which it probably won’t be but nobody has a clue on release dates
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That looks good, but it’s worth remembering Quantum of Solace had a great trailer as well:
That said, it’s just nice to see a trailer for a big budget movie again – I miss getting hyped for a movie! They’ve been so thin on the ground lately with a lot of big releases being put on hold, and even if the final movie turns out to be bad, the anticipation is half the fun. -
It’s a very well put together trailer I agree.
I miss getting hyped for a movie! They’ve been so thin on the ground lately with a lot of big releases being put on hold
I wonder if they had some of that in subtext with M saying ‘come on Bond, where the hell are you?’ followed directly by the release date.😂
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The Bond movies haven’t done much for me since Casino Royale, to be honest. I couldn’t really see why everyone got so excited about Skyfall, and I thought Spectre was *terrible!*
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The Bond movies haven’t done much for me since Casino Royale, to be honest. I couldn’t really see why everyone got so excited about Skyfall, and I thought Spectre was *terrible!*
Casino Royale is head and shoulders above the rest, but I did like Skyfall as a well-made slick action movie with some memorable visuals.
Spectre I don’t remember much about, other than the cool pre-credits scene and the stuff with Waltz towards the end. It didn’t stick in my memory, so the fact that this movie is picking up threads from that one is maybe a slight warning sign.
Looking forward to Malek as the villain though, and hoping (possibly in vain) that they might break the mould of the Bond movies with this one given that they’ve had so long to prepare for Craig’s departure.
(Really I’m just hoping he plays the whole film as Benoit Blanc.)
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(Really I’m just hoping he plays the whole film as Benoit Blanc.)
I think we all are!
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I’ll be honest and say that the trailer doesn’t do a huge amount for me, it feels like a bit of a ‘best of’ the Daniel Craig era and I wonder whether it’s time for something fresh again.
Like Gar said, the trailer doesn’t give us much of a sense of the story, but I am very optimistic about that part, as Cary Fukunaga usually has a very strong grasp of narrative and especially character. So I’m still hoping for a special Bond to cap off the Craig era.
Other than that, I’d agree it’s time for something new. It’s all been diminishing returns since Casino Royale, really.
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Cary Fukunaga usually has a very strong grasp of narrative and especially character.
They’ve also got Phoebe Waller-Bridge working on the screenplay, who has a very strong grasp of narrative and character.
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Cary Fukunaga usually has a very strong grasp of narrative and especially character.
They’ve also got Phoebe Waller-Bridge working on the screenplay, who has a very strong grasp of narrative and character.
Damn, I somehow forgot both Fukunaga and Waller-Bridge were involved. I’m a big fan of both of them. I knew there was a reason I was initially excited for this movie, but I couldn’t remember why until you all reminded me.
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Amazon picks up Karen Gillan and Awkwafina’s new movie
Action-comedy Shelly follows a young woman named Shelly Wheeler (Awkwafina), who was driven out of her town a decade prior after being humiliated by a prom prank. So hardened by the experience, she ended up becoming a cold-blooded hitwoman.
She is surprised when she finds her next target is her former high school tormentor, Dianna Park (Gillan) and even more surprised to find them becoming friends and being accepted into the cool group.
She then has to protect her ex-bully from another hit team who are after them both.
Sounds like a perfectly good premise. We’ll see what they make of it.
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Joan Cusack should play Awkwafina’s handler and then they can make it a back door Grosse Pointe Blank sequel.
@Christian I’ve been meaning to ask you, where is your horrifying avatar from??2 users thanked author for this post.
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Dune’s a great story so the movie will probably be enjoyable but nothing in that trailer really leaps out at me. Lynch’s Dune is a top 5 designed sci-fi film easily but a lot of this just looks like Halo but gray.
Still, I doubt this movie will rush through Muad’Dib like Lynch’s version did. So we’ll probably end up with two flawed movies that together mostly do the book justice.
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I’ve got no pre-existing investment in Dune but that looks pretty excellent. Villeneuve has plenty of credit with me anyway, but even regardless I’d want to see that movie.
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@Christian I’ve been meaning to ask you, where is your horrifying avatar from??
Heh. Theatre stage performance last year, at a thing where you had ten days to create and rehearse a play and then perform it in a competition. I did this with a friend, and it turned out pretty well. Two brothers at the South Pole, conflicting ideas of manliness, cannibalism.
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It looks nice, and a lot of the dialogue sounded like it was lifted wholesale from the book. But it loses points for inappropriate use of Pink Floyd.
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I’ll definitely be in the cinema
Optimism. Good for you
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But it loses points for inappropriate use of Pink Floyd.
I would have thought you’d be in the “there is no inappropriate use of Pink Floyd” camp
I’m sure David does have reasons for that but hit the wall in trying to list them.
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But it loses points for inappropriate use of Pink Floyd.
I would have thought you’d be in the “there is no inappropriate use of Pink Floyd” camp
I’m sure David does have reasons for that but hit the wall in trying to list them.
I’ll thank you not to Meddle in my conversations.
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Prepare for an endless river of Pink Floyd puns…
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Piper at the Gates of Dawn…
Ummagumma….
Atom Heart Mother…..
I got nuthin’
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More! We need more!
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I used to talk to Eva Longoria’s sister quite regularly. This is not really relevant to anything but she was the US representative on my global team at work and I was the rep for Asia-Pacific.
We never mentioned it in front of her. I only knew it because European rep in Limerick called me up later and said ‘that’s fecking Eva Longoria’s sister” and after a bit of Googling – so it was.
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Boseman was a true class act.
Chadwick Boseman gave part of his 21 Bridges salary to Sienna Miller
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I’ve not seen a second of it and I’m already laughing at it. This is nat 20 titlegore.
“BORAT: GIFT OF PORNOGRAPHIC MONKEY TO VICE PREMIERE MIKHAEL PENCE TO MAKE BENEFIT RECENTLY DIMINISHED NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN”
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It’ll be interesting to see who he targets. Since the first came out basically everybody knows who Borat is.
Apparently the plot involves “Borat” putting on disguises to fool people.
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Yeah I’m pretty pumped for Borat 2. I’ve rarely laughed so hard at a film as when the first came out.
The naked wrestling scene almost gave me a seizure I was laughing so much.
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I do wonder at what point the ‘comedy’ eastern European/central Asian accent is going to be consigned to the same dustbin of unacceptable offensive stereotypes as the comedy Indian accents and comedy Caribbean accents that it replaced in the UK.
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To be honest, what’s more offensive is the really mundane & low-hanging type of comedy it offers. But as you say, the first one was full of those “older” comedy tropes that would probably be considered as offensive today, so yeah, I don’t really see the point of this.
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First Look: Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’
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Aw crap.
I mean, I can understand them not releasing it this December, but moving it back almost a year…
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I wish Alan Moore would just shut up already… although it’d be nice if for once someone called him on his bullshit on an interview, but that’s probably not gonna happen…
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I mostly wish interviewers would stop asking him about comics and superhero movies. He’s made his position abundantly clear over the last couple of decades. He doesn’t want anything to do with them and thinks they suck. Cool. Let’s talk about anything else at all because his views won’t change. But if it is Moore who always brings it up first, then yeah he needs to just give it up because we all get it.
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I think it’s kinda hard not to bring it up. He IS famous for not only his comics, but also for shaping the entire american superhero comic book industry. As interviews often start with introducing and presenting the interviewee to the audience it would be hard not give that a mention, and if it is brought up anyone with his disdain for it would probably want to make a comment, however long or short, about him no longer associating himself with that part of the business.
A respectful interviewer with the creative or journalistic integrity to actually read some of his recent interviews would probably circumvent this for him.
If an old snake-worshipper was as insistent as retiring from his grumpy way of holding on to grudges he would be happy to casually say that he’d prefer not to talk about it and leave it at that.
See how I said “respectful interviewer with […] integrity” in one paragraph and then gave Alan Moore, albeit a fictional version of him, traits like “be happy” and doing things “casually” in the next paragraph?
2020 is getting to my creative liberties. I’m being deregulated! RUN, RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
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I wish Alan Moore would just shut up already… although it’d be nice if for once someone called him on his bullshit on an interview, but that’s probably not gonna happen…
He’s promoting an indie movie that he wrote. Surely giving interviews to do that makes sense?
Mind you, he has to bring the conversation around to The Show himself, the interviewer apparently wants to keep talking about superhero comics…
Anyway, sounds like he’s doing some interesting stuff.
MOORE: I’ve only retired from comics. I’m finishing off a book of magic now. It’s been stalled for a while but I’m also working on an opera about John Dee with [musician] Howard Gray. I’ve got some short stories coming out. And I’ve also been thinking a lot about what we want to do after The Show feature film. We hope that it’s enjoyable as a thing in itself, but to some degree it could be seen as an incredibly elaborate pilot episode, we think there’s quite an interesting story that we could develop out of it as a TV series, which would imaginatively be called The Show.
I’ve worked out about four-five seasons of potential episodes. We’re showing that around to people to see how it goes, if there should be any interest I am prepared to launch myself into that. We’re not asking for a huge amount of money we’re just asking for control over the work and ownership over the work, if that is something people are prepared to give us we have no problem with people making money out of it. What we have got a problem with is us losing our rights to the ownership of the material, and having the work interfered with in any way.
I do wish they would stop saying it’s a “rare” interview when obviously all you have to do to get Moore to give you an interview is drop him a line asking about it.
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“Notorious hermit Alan Moore, who is about to star in a film…”
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I’d rather a 5th movie with Tom Hardy but I’m down for anything George Miller does in the Mad Max universe.
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I’ll only watch it if they call it The Fast And The Furiosa.
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Remember when Nicolas Cage won an Oscar…?
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My god, it’s…… beautiful
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I haven’t read the article, but I assume from the word “backlash” in the URL that some people are complaining because Gal Gadot is Israeli while Cleopatra was Macedonian Greek?
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Well it’s kinda crass to cast an Israeli to play THE Egyptian Queen, no matter the color of skin.
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I think I would be cool with a Frenchman playing Richard the Lionheart.
Thought maybe not a Scot pretending to be French
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