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

Ralph Baer said:
A sequel to The Lion King is coming out around Christmas.

Following Emily Bear has caused me to listen to a lot of stuff that I would have otherwise ignored. E.g., over half of 2023, I followed Beyonce's Renaissance tour which otherwise I would have ignored. One of probably over 100 videos of Beyonce singing 1+1 while MLE is playing the piano and watching admiringly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaKvUo75hLo She played a keyboard when not playing the piano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB-bSKcTu2c. Playing with other band members at a private performance in a nightclub some evening after a concert. https://www.tiktok.com/@emilythebear...77484315315502 That is "Bumble Boogie" at the end, or as she sometimes writes "Bumble Bear Boogie".

Emily looking in a Target store at a doll that sings part of "We're Back" https://www.tiktok.com/@emilythebear/video/7433208467013389610. That's her dachshund Penelope at the end.
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Its not a sequel...its a prequel. Cause we all want to know how Mufasa came to power :rolleyes:
 
Handyman said:
Its not a sequel...its a prequel. Cause we all want to know how Mufasa came to power :rolleyes:
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That shows how little I have paid to Disney movies since I was a child. :) All I heard was that Lin-Manuel Miranda was composing the songs as well as for the 2026 live action remake of the original Moana.
 
Time Cut - derivative Scream/Final Destination dreck. Skip it.

Long Legs - not derivative 7even/Silence of the Lambs dreck. Must see it.
 
Handyman said:
It’s not a sequel...it’s a prequel. Cause we all want to know how Mufasa came to power :rolleyes:
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all these pre-things are silly….especially after Star Wars decided we needed to know the back story of darth & obi wan. Those three offerings were dum. Ruined the whole pre-concept for mookie. :mad:
 
thinking then…..was there ever a decent prequel outside of the deniro stuff-in with godfather 2??
 
mookie1995 said:
all these pre-things are silly….especially after Star Wars decided we needed to know the back story of darth & obi wan. Those three offerings were dum. Ruined the whole pre-concept for mookie. :mad:
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George Lucas' original idea for Star Wars was a three-parter, and then a three-parter prequel, and then a three-parter sequel. He had this plan all along before he even knew it was ever going to be successful.
 
Ralph Baer said:
I am considering going to my first Disney movie in over 60 years. On 11/27, the movie Moana 2 is premiering in theaters. Normally, I would completely ignore this. Now the only reason that I would not go at some time is that there will probably be many small, noisy children in the theater.

To explain my interest, I have to go back to 2010. During that year, I googled the name of a niece whose given name is Emily and family name is the same as mine. All of the top matches were for the then 8- or 9-year-old child prodigy pianist and composer Emily Bear. I was overwhelmed by her talent at a young age.

I followed her career sporadically for several years, perhaps every couple of months. This slowly increased especially after she graduated high school in 2017 at age 15 and decided to take a gap year before going to the Berklee College of Music in Boston. I have long felt that she was waiting for her older sister Lauren Bear to go to nearby BU in 2018. Lauren, by the way, was a member of BU’s figure skating team which won two national championships while she was there. She had been a harpist, and there are a couple of YouTube videos of Emily and her playing together. Emily never went to Berklee as a student.

I won’t go into detail about Emily’s career but to write that she has won a Grammy and an Emmy, and that she was mentored and managed Quincy Jones who died on Sunday (https://www.instagram.com/p/DB9EwkJPcEV/?img_index=1). Yes that song was originally called "For Q". It was changed to "Q". Her Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Bear summarizes her history well although there are some missing highlights including the anthem she wrote for the Manchester City soccer team in 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-FsTh_54k4 and the commercial for PetSmart and Purina for which she and the lyricist and singer Abigail Barlow wrote and performed the song. A version was shown during the 2023 Super Bowl in selected markets https://www.instagram.com/p/ConB74QpESE/.

Emily’s career has been on a continual upward slope since she was a small child except for when she and Abigail Barlow were sued by Netflix in 2022 for theft of intellectual property after they played a sold-out concert of their Unofficial Bridgerton Musical album at the Kennedy Center in DC with Broadway actors and actresses. It was based upon Netflix’s series Bridgerton. A subsequent concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London was cancelled. The suit was settled out of court although details were not revealed. A video of Emily conducting part of the overture in rehearsals with the National Symphony Orchestra: https://www.tiktok.com/@emilythebear...68266620898606.

Despite this, Netflix has twice hired Emily to score films. The second, Our Little Secret, will be streamed for the first time on 11/27/24, the same day that Moana 2 will debut at theaters

Back to Moana 2. Emily and Abigail were hired by Disney in 2022 to write the songs for a series of shows based upon the 2016 film Moana. They were to be broadcast on Disney+. Because it was not going to be a theater release, Lin-Manuel Miranda who wrote the songs for the original film was not interested. Disney president Bob Iger eventually decided to change it to a movie, among other things stating that the songs were too good for the small screen. Barlow and Bear are the first female duo to write the songs for a Disney animated feature movie and the youngest overall. Emily on a zoom call with Disney while returning to the hotel on the cast bus from a performance of Beyonce’s Renaissance Tour in 2023 https://i.ibb.co/d0td90P/IMG-1319.jpg. The photo is by Natalie Imani, one of Beyonce’s backup singers.

As of now, only two songs have been released. One is the opening number We’re Back which was first sung at the Disney fan expo D23 in Anaheim by Auli’i Cravalho who supplied the voice for Moana. All recordings suffer from loud Polynesian music and crowd noise, e.g . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln5pl-an8lQ. A clearer version of part is here https://www.instagram.com/p/DAZQSfXPv3z/. The second is Beyond, one of two songs which Disney has submitted for consideration for the Best Original Song Oscar. A portion is shown in this interview with Auli’i Cravalho https://www.instagram.com/p/DBr7KmcylVs/. OTOH, the Japanese version has been released in its entirety. This video contains a back translation into English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Ep3spQeiI. Variety is currently predicting that Beyond will receive an Oscar Nomination.

One final thing, I am not related to Emily as a Baer. Her great-grandfather changed the name from Berkowitz/vitz to Bear when he became a US citizen.
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The end credit version of Beyond has been released. It was sung by Auli'i Cravalho and composed by Barlow and Bear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Ef1_9OGG8


A lengthy blog interview of Emily Bear containing many words which USCHO would replace by ****. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWclYzKH2d0 Although this was posted after Quincy Jones died, it was clearly recorded earlier.
 
mookie1995 said:
Marisa Tomei turns 60yo today
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I just have one thing to say.

When the left tire mark goes up on the curb and the right tire mark stays flat and even?

Well.

The '64 Skylark had a solid rear axle, so when the left tire would go up on the curb, the right tire would tilt out and ride along its edge. But that didn't happen here. The tire mark stayed flat and even. This car had an independent rear suspension. Now, in the '60s, there were only two other cars made in America that had positraction, and independent rear suspension, and enough power to make these marks. One was the Corvette, which could never be confused with the Buick Skylark. The other had the same body length, height, width, weight, wheel base, and wheel track as the '64 Skylark, and that was the 1963 Pontiac Tempest.

I went to high school with, roughly, thirty women who could have done this line by line off the top of their head without notes.

They weren't women I had any interest in, but I can remember feeling seen during her courtroom testimony.

God bless MT.
 
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