you're hired
― qualx, Sunday, 9 August 2015 04:22 (eight years ago) link
ty qualx, i won't let you down
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 9 August 2015 04:23 (eight years ago) link
i heard call all destroyer's hamsters did $200k worth of damage to pinewood atlanta
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Sunday, 9 August 2015 04:27 (eight years ago) link
wait how did i manage to miss that philip glass did the score to trank's ff movie
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 27 August 2015 15:20 (eight years ago) link
(along with marco beltrami)
did anyone else see this in the end? i watched it over the weekend and it is catastrophically bad, one of the worst big-budget movies i've ever seen. at least the ff movies with chris evans etc were at least competent, if totally uninspired - this was embarrassingly poor.
it reminded me of hancock a bit - a bad movie made even worse by reshoots and re-editing. helpfully, you can tell every time the reshoot footage appears because kate mara is wearing a terrible wig which looks nothing like the hair she has in the rest of the movie.
maybe in a decade someone will make a documentary about all the shit that went down behind the scenes and the whole disaster might at least be entertaining in retrospect
― the illicit unit slid tantalizingly across the waxed tile (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 9 November 2015 16:46 (eight years ago) link
I knew it had to be as bad as it seemed when Richard Brody at the New Yorker raved about it. He's a Rosenbaum level contrarian, so of course he would praise the universally derided FF flop.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 November 2015 16:49 (eight years ago) link
wonder what armond white thought
― the illicit unit slid tantalizingly across the waxed tile (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 9 November 2015 17:53 (eight years ago) link
it got a quick dismissal at the end of his Ricki and the Flash review
We’re almost done with this season’s comic book–based blockbusters. How many more insults will fanboys take? Comic-book franchises are being remade faster than old TV shows, as proven by the new Fantastic Four, a remake of the 2005 film with Chris Evans as a white Johnny Storm; here Michael B. Jordan plays a black Johnny Storm. Yet, this Obama-era Fantastic Four isn’t updated — or incendiary — enough. The visual style of director Josh Trank, who made the visionary Chronicle, deserves more moral substance. Chronicle suggested that Trank could make emotionally potent action films, but most franchise fans’ only criterion is to see their fav comics sanctioned. Hollywood persistently pushes such fanboys (and other filmgoers) away from their deepest feelings. No wonder the end credits of Ricki and the Flash advise: “Be Moved.” While comic-book blockbusters regularly insert postscript teasers, Demme reminds us what movies are for.
― Number None, Monday, 9 November 2015 18:01 (eight years ago) link
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/steven-spielberg-kathleen-kennedy-frank-902545
Kathy, did you think of Steven to direct Star Wars: Episode 7? KENNEDY No. Steven and I had many conversations about J.J.SPIELBERG I brought J.J.'s name up. I thought J.J. would be the best person to direct Episode 7 and I called J.J. and said 'Would you do it if it was offered to you?' He said, 'I would but my wife won't let me 'cause she doesn't want me to restart any more franchises.' But I went to Kathy and asked if I could get J.J. to say yes to this would you consider it? Kathy said 'Are you kidding? Of course I would. But why would J.J. do Star Wars; he's already done Mission Impossible and Star Trek.' So I take Katie Abrams and J.J. to dinner that night to Giorgio with my wife, Kate, and right in front of Katie Abrams I popped the question. I said to Katie, 'I think there's a chance that J.J. could direct Star Wars. What do you think of that?' And Katie turned to J.J. and said, 'That would be amazing. Really?' And I went outside the restaurant, picked up my phone, called Kathy and said, "When can we meet with J.J.?" And that's how the whole thing began.So when you look at young directors, how do you know you're not hiring another Josh Trank [who directed the Fox bomb Fantastic Four]?SPIELBERG Who is that?
KENNEDY No. Steven and I had many conversations about J.J.
SPIELBERG I brought J.J.'s name up. I thought J.J. would be the best person to direct Episode 7 and I called J.J. and said 'Would you do it if it was offered to you?' He said, 'I would but my wife won't let me 'cause she doesn't want me to restart any more franchises.' But I went to Kathy and asked if I could get J.J. to say yes to this would you consider it? Kathy said 'Are you kidding? Of course I would. But why would J.J. do Star Wars; he's already done Mission Impossible and Star Trek.' So I take Katie Abrams and J.J. to dinner that night to Giorgio with my wife, Kate, and right in front of Katie Abrams I popped the question. I said to Katie, 'I think there's a chance that J.J. could direct Star Wars. What do you think of that?' And Katie turned to J.J. and said, 'That would be amazing. Really?' And I went outside the restaurant, picked up my phone, called Kathy and said, "When can we meet with J.J.?" And that's how the whole thing began.
So when you look at young directors, how do you know you're not hiring another Josh Trank [who directed the Fox bomb Fantastic Four]?
SPIELBERG Who is that?
― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 16:24 (seven years ago) link
I forgot to ask max when i saw him a couple weeks ago how many superhero movies he has either disliked or skipped.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 June 2016 16:30 (seven years ago) link
you could probably look it up on youtube i bet he has several dozen videos on the subject since his main talent seems to be being a professional 7 year old
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 16 June 2016 01:21 (seven years ago) link