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Movies 52 - 1917: Sonic the Bad Boys of Prey

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mookie1995 said:
how did Walter Matthau become a movie star anyhow? Didn’t one have to have looks back then?
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Only for chicks. Boys could be ugly. Bogart, Borgnine, Cagney, a ton of leading men looked like Doghouse Riley.

Women find other stuff than looks attractive. That's why guys can be 40 and a sex symbol but for a girl to pull that off she has to be Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida or some other incredibly large-chested Italian.
 
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RaceBoarder said:
So what are your guesses for when we have another "successful" blockbuster?

We're literally watching an entire industry die on the vine and I'm not sure what to make of it... Not that any of the major studios are innocent of anything related to corporate BS... But still sucks to have to step back on something that I really enjoyed....
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Blockbusters will never be a problem. You prime the lowest commoin denominator pump with ads and you create a blockbuster. In 1990 nobody gave a sh-t about comic books. 2 billion dollars in marketing later you can wipe you *** with celluloid, put Marvel on the can, and you make 100 million dollars.

Film goes through phases, each of which is destroyed by greed. We had the star system, then the indy directors, and now the point-and-click CGI machine. The next phase looks like micro-targeted home streaming. It will around for a generation to suck people dry, and then the next gimmick will come in. And each decade will leave a handful of movies people will still watch in 50 years, and almost none of them will have been blockbusters.
 
Kepler said:
Only for chicks. Boys could be ugly. Bogart, Borgnine, Cagney, a ton of leading men looked like Doghouse Riley.

Women find other stuff than looks attractive. That's why guys can be 40 and a sex symbol but for a girl to pull that off she has to be Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida or some other incredibly large-chested Italian.
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Ernest is always the choice for mookie when people ask who would play you in a movie.

of course he’s dead now......
 
Kepler said:
Blockbusters will never be a problem. You prime the lowest commoin denominator pump with ads and you create a blockbuster. In 1990 nobody gave a sh-t about comic books. 2 billion dollars in marketing later you can wipe you *** with celluloid, put Marvel on the can, and you make 100 million dollars.

Film goes through phases, each of which is destroyed by greed. We had the star system, then the indy directors, and now the point-and-click CGI machine. The next phase looks like micro-targeted home streaming. It will around for a generation to suck people dry, and then the next gimmick will come in. And each decade will leave a handful of movies people will still watch in 50 years, and almost none of them will have been blockbusters.
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Sir this is an Arby's.
 
French Rage said:
Sir this is an Arby's.
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RaceBoarder said:
So what are your guesses for when we have another "successful" blockbuster?

We're literally watching an entire industry die on the vine and I'm not sure what to make of it... Not that any of the major studios are innocent of anything related to corporate BS... But still sucks to have to step back on something that I really enjoyed....
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3 months after a vaccine at the earliest.
 
Kepler said:
Blockbusters will never be a problem. You prime the lowest commoin denominator pump with ads and you create a blockbuster. In 1990 nobody gave a sh-t about comic books. 2 billion dollars in marketing later you can wipe you *** with celluloid, put Marvel on the can, and you make 100 million dollars.

Film goes through phases, each of which is destroyed by greed. We had the star system, then the indy directors, and now the point-and-click CGI machine. The next phase looks like micro-targeted home streaming. It will around for a generation to suck people dry, and then the next gimmick will come in. And each decade will leave a handful of movies people will still watch in 50 years, and almost none of them will have been blockbusters.
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For most things released to the theater, you need to put a large number of buttes in the seats. Small movies will have a place, but they will remain in the minority while the Marvel, DC, Star Wars, etc. will keep being made. They’ll be bigger, more finely crafted (technically), and something that really needs to be seen in the theater at least once.

Netflix, etc. will be better suited for the niche stuff. Speaking of which, I recommend The Social Dilemma. I don’t think any single point is all that surprising, but when it’s wrapped together like that it’s fairly powerful. And some of the drama bits they added to the documentary were funny, especially the name of the extremist group used to lure in the one kid.
 
No Time to Die, Daniel Craig's final outing as James Bond, has now been delayed until April 2021...
 
So, I'm watching the 1963 version of the Haunting of Hill House (one of the scariest movies ever made, and the most intelligent ghost story ever written and filmed) and Lois Maxwell shows up. Cool! But in verifying it I realize that the heartthrob Theodora is played by wonderful Shakespearian actress Claire Bloom. So, I go imdb'ing...

Here's the thing. Claire Bloom is still working. She's in pre-production right now for a version of Sophie's War. 57 years after The Haunting. That's impressive.

More impressive? When she was in The Haunting she had already been acting in movies, as an adult, for 15 years.
 
I watched Julie and Julia last night, and Amy Adams had me feeling sympathy for Julie Powell. After reading the book, I wanted to punch Julie Powell square in the face.
 
MissThundercat said:
I watched Julie and Julia last night, and Amy Adams had me feeling sympathy for Julie Powell. After reading the book, I wanted to punch Julie Powell square in the face.
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Much better movie if it were just the Julia pieces. Could not have cared less about Julie.

Also Stanley Tucci and Meryl Streep are the best movie combo.
 
I thought I posted this a few days ago, but apparently not?

Trailer dropped a couple weeks ago for the Murder on the Orient Express sequel Death on the Nile.

https://youtu.be/JM1U-Whb-P0

*eeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!* This looks fantastic!!!


(And no, I still have not watched Love's Labour's Lost yet Kepler.)
 
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