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Movies: Poor Things, Barbie and Oppenheimer are stuck in La La Land

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When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.
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A thread about how Rob Reiner ended up directing North instead of The Shawshank Redemption!
 
Handyman said:
Rob Reiners first 7 films:

1) Spinal Tap
2) The Sure Thing
3) Stand By Me
4) The Princess Bride
5) When Harry Met Sally (which btw he changed the ending of because he met his wife)
6) Misery
7) A Few Good Men

As someone on Bluesky said...even Steven Spielberg had "1941" in his first seven!

8 was North which bombed but 9 was An American President which I am watching later because I love it!
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Hey, 1941 is a brilliant movie. Very overlooked.
 
Handyman said:
Rob Reiners first 7 films:

1) Spinal Tap
2) The Sure Thing
3) Stand By Me
4) The Princess Bride
5) When Harry Met Sally (which btw he changed the ending of because he met his wife)
6) Misery
7) A Few Good Men

As someone on Bluesky said...even Steven Spielberg had "1941" in his first seven!

8 was North which bombed but 9 was An American President which I am watching later because I love it!
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There’s someone out there on the socials that keeps replying “Too soon, there are two people dead.” whenever someone brings up North and it has me laugh crying. Who knows, maybe Rob would have found it hilarious too.
 
state of hockey said:
There’s someone out there on the socials that keeps replying “Too soon, there are two people dead.” whenever someone brings up North and it has me laugh crying. Who knows, maybe Rob would have found it hilarious too.
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He joked about it plenty so he would love it!
 
ScoobyDoo said:
Yeah, I never heard of it either. I love The Sure Thing. I think that movie enabled him to make When Harry Met Sally which is arguably the best rom com of all time.
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I adore WHMS. Knowing my, ahem, proclivities would you recommend The Sure Thing to me? I have always steered clear of it, like Stand By Me, because from a distance they looked like mawkish drivel. But the problem with not watching crap is you could be wrong it's crap.
 
The Sure thing is pretty childish and has not really aged well but if you like John Cusack in his younger days its worth watching. (plus I have always had a thing for Daphne Zuniga)

Its better than Better off Dead but One Crazy Summer beats both imho because of the cast. (these two were made by Savage Steve Holland and Cusack hates them or at least did)
 
Kepler said:
Is it?

It's no longer simulcast by telegraph either.
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I can and do still get the public over- the- air channels with a $10 rabbit ears antenna and no monthly fee. And OTA TV isn't nearly as compressed as cable or streaming is, at least for the main stations.

Major events should still be OTA if you want it accessible to the masses. By shifting everything to cable and streaming, you're inherently excluding potential viewers. It sucks enough with sports. I can now only watch the Final Four about every third year when it happens to be on CBS rather than TNT or TBS, for instance.

But it's just part of the enshittification of everything. Gotta make every last dollar even if it means a worse product.
 
unofan said:
I can and do still get the public over- the- air channels with a $10 rabbit ears antenna and no monthly fee. And OTA TV isn't nearly as compressed as cable or streaming is, at least for the main stations.

Major events should still be OTA if you want it accessible to the masses. By shifting everything to cable and streaming, you're inherently excluding potential viewers. It sucks enough with sports. I can now only watch the Final Four about every third year when it happens to be on CBS rather than TNT or TBS, for instance.

But it's just part of the enshittification of everything. Gotta make every last dollar even if it means a worse product.
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Though in the Oscar's case it's moving to Youtube, not cable, so still as accessible. In fact probably more accessible since the odds of getting a quality stream over YouTube seem better than OTA, though I guess that can depend on a number of things. My mom doesn't want to pay for channels she doesn't use and still uses OTA, but in the DC area NBC/FOX updated to better VHF frequencies that travel better, but ABC/CBS still stuck to their old ones, so the latter can be spotty.
 
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