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

Watching a movie from what is I assume the early 80's, with Christopher Atkins and a very young Julian McMahon, set in Australia and him speaking in his native accent.

Sounds completely different, not just accent-wise, but tonally and vocal range. Sorta like the difference between Dominic West, or Damian Lewis when they speak with their native English accent, or in American dialect.

A testament to the work he must have put in to lose that accent.

Correction. Early 90's.
 
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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Anyone seen Brat, the new brat pack doc by Andrew McCarthy?

looks interesting
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I watched it the other night. I thought it was mildly interesting.

One curious thing. It almost seems like McCarthy personally feels the most affected by the article, and the Brat Pack label. Yet, if you look at the actual New York magazine article, he is at best an afterthought. In fact, you might almost conclude that Blum did not include McCarthy as a member of the Brat Pack.

I think this link will work.
 
SJHovey said:
I watched it the other night. I thought it was mildly interesting.

One curious thing. It almost seems like McCarthy personally feels the most affected by the article, and the Brat Pack label. Yet, if you look at the actual New York magazine article, he is at best an afterthought. In fact, you might almost conclude that Blum did not include McCarthy as a member of the Brat Pack.

I think this link will work.
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I believe that’s why some of the reviews have been so scathing. One in particular was so bad it made me more curious
 
so who are they?

molly
judd
estevez
demi?
sheedy
mcarthy
lowe

not that winningham broad
not Anthony Michael hall :confused:

outside of st elmo Demi wasn’t in any with the others. So mookie questions even her. Think it’s just the six:D
 
SJHovey said:
I watched it the other night. I thought it was mildly interesting.

One curious thing. It almost seems like McCarthy personally feels the most affected by the article, and the Brat Pack label. Yet, if you look at the actual New York magazine article, he is at best an afterthought. In fact, you might almost conclude that Blum did not include McCarthy as a member of the Brat Pack.

I think this link will work.
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I read his book...it is probably better clarified in there but yes, he did feel he was hampered by it a lot and he wasn't like that so it sucked. Many of the others as well. McCarthy was never really part of the crew, he never wanted to be a big star (he preferred stage to screen) and is a very quiet and introspective type of person. After the article it was assumed by most that all the people in those films were hardcore partiers with little in the way of talent and could not be taken seriously. He was basically painted as being Rob Lowe or Judd Nelson and he was about 180 degrees the other way and it screwed with his head quite a bit. And unlike Lowe who had the charisma and appeal to really always find a way to land on his feet or Estevez who had a foot in the door already McCarthy had no real way to weather the storm. It took years, even decades to wipe the stink off of that label for some of them...and it was all guilt by association for many of them. (I will die on the hill that that article prevented Judd Nelson from being a bigger star than he was...he was awesome in New Jack City and no one cared)

Blum's article is problematic for a lot of reasons, but it is more the reaction to that article which is the real story and that is what I would assume McCarthy is trying to get at. I havent watched it, mainly because I read his book and I have heard enough accounts from the actors themselves over the years. Plus some of the missing actors (ones who had falling outs with Hughes) are the more interesting stories anyways. For example Anthony Michael Hall had his friendship with Hughes end because Hughes wanted him to be Ferris Bueller and AMH turned it down. They rarely if ever spoke after that and they were super close. Molly Ringwald has an interesting story too. McCarthy just didn't have access to some of them or limited.
 
I love Anthony Michael hall. Used to see him all the time walking in nyc, always smiling and unbothered. He high fived me the night Obama beat McCain and we were hollering in the village
 
Handyman said:
That tracks...everyone seems to think he is the nicest guy ever!
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It's hard for me to reconcile the middle-aged, thickly built AMH with his teenage 'geek' self. Same way I can't get around Blacklist James Spader being the same guy that played Steph in Pretty in Pink. Or old balding, bearded Steve Earle with the heroin using, hell- raising bad boy he was in the 80's.

Which leads me to.....AMH was really good in a guest appearance on The Blacklist..
 
Yup. That's Sony's problem. Along with Venom and practically every other Marvel project they touch.

Marvel's problem is the vocal fan bois don't like female leads and hate that not every film is Infinty War / Endgame epics.
 
The Sony Spiderverse movies have always sucked. Always. In the MCU, as stated, the testosterone freaks can't stand female leads, and can't stand that every movie can't be Endgame.

They should just stop releasing anything, move on like Star Wars did for years, and then come back in 20 and do something then.

Star Wars is so screwed up right now it's worse than Marvel.

Me? I've enjoyed all of it, but I'm not the general public.
 
Watched ‘the lost weekend’ on the plane. Story of John Lennon running off with yoko’s admin. Who knew :rolleyes:
 
Just finished a 11 day Film Festival yesterday. Not going to review the movies so much (hope you can see some of them), but what I want to do is to encourage all of you to attend a film festival if you can. Could be one movie at Sundance if you happen to be there, or as many movies you can at the art house that is in your city- doesn't matter. Just go.

This festival started in 2012, and it was growing kind of oddly over the years- but we kept going. And then the pandemic. With movie attending going down, the indications we got that this wasn't going to come back. But thanks to the old timers who were there when it last happened in 2019, they brought a very nice version of it back- we saw 26 movies in 11 days. If you are in SE MI, this is the Cinetopia Film Festival at the Michigan and State Theaters in Ann Arbor.

And based on the documentary movie "Join or Die"- bring friends, and meet people to talk about the films....
 
Watched The Birdcage last night.

The dialogue still holds up, so does the idea of a "moral order" politician being worse than drip slime.
 
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