also cad, the budget for MLB licensing and shooting in ballparks ... this would be a early '00s period film, calling for quite a bit of FX to make the game transitions work...
If the script didn't stick to general facts, MLB might withdraw its co-op, which would kill the film (a different way).
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 16:17 (fifteen years ago) link
ok, you are slowly convincing me....
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 16:20 (fifteen years ago) link
I think the average studio pic budget is well over $100 mil, and even the avg Aniston romcom costs $60 M or more. (pre-advertising)
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link
solaris is maybe the worst movie i've ever seen. soderbergh is overrated but his fans are more annoying than the movies he's been a part of imo.
― Matt P, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 16:38 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm a fan of his! i think i'm kind of annoying too, but not overly so
― surm, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 16:40 (fifteen years ago) link
what does that even mean xp
― Michael tapeworm much talent for the future (s1ocki), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 16:40 (fifteen years ago) link
like ppl who wear steven soderbergh t-shirts?
i don't do that
― surm, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
artists who follow their muse will be "annoying" some of the time
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
who's worse, soderbergh fans or DMB fans???
― i want to marry a pizza (gbx), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Soderbergh fans joined forces with grieving MJ fans.
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
you know what that should have been "two people i didn't like who always brought up steven soderbergh in class as examples of 'post-modern' cinema in 2002." solaris still sucked so hard but i haven't seen very many of his other movies so idk honestly
― Matt P, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link
steven soderbergh is ok but the fanfic writers are a little ott
― Matt P, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 16:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Especially the mpreg stories.
― Detroit Metal City (Nicole), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 17:03 (fifteen years ago) link
i really wish ppl would EXPLAIN why things "suck so hard"
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 17:05 (fifteen years ago) link
i foolishly GISed mpreg before checking wikipedia x-post
― Matt P, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 17:05 (fifteen years ago) link
it's a remake of my favorite tarkovsky movie and one of my favorite movies of all time with george clooney in it, who drives me crazy, so admittedly i'm a little biased. i saw it years ago and i've forgotten specifics but i just remember feeling like it was the most pretentious and vacuous movie i'd ever seen.
― Matt P, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Solaris is the Kid A of films. make of that what you will.― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, March 11, 2003 6:54 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark
a movie about baseball, really
― josh fenderman (jeff), Wednesday, 1 July 2009 17:16 (fifteen years ago) link
what a tragedy for movies about baseball
― We are not a gossip site like Wikipedia (hmmmm), Thursday, 2 July 2009 04:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I cannot join the contrarians in praising The Informant!, which strains to be a satire of something or other (the corporate culture of theft, I wish). Matt Damon's bipolar voiceover wore me out before his Bruce McCullochization. I don't particularly understand all the bashing of the Marvin Hamlisch score, it just underlines the already smug vibe.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
It was obnoxious. Scott Bakula and his hair were the only saving graces.
I did get The Girlfriend Experience today.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 17:22 (fourteen years ago) link
*instant rimsh...wait that sounds wrong.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 17:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I liked Bakula! Tom Smothers slipped by unnoticed; I did spot his brother.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
So, is this the point where everyone comes to their senses and realises this man has never made a good film?
― grobravara hollaglob (dowd), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 01:16 (fourteen years ago) link
King of the Hill, Out of Sight, The Limey, Erin Brockovich, The Girlfriend Experience comprises an impressive achievement.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 30 December 2009 02:06 (fourteen years ago) link
*comprise
watched "king of the hill" it was good i thought. also i correctly id'd a young katherine heigl! i never really knew she started so young
― johnny crunch, Friday, 3 September 2010 22:41 (fourteen years ago) link
we all did
― real s1ock (s1ocki), Friday, 3 September 2010 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link
'out of sight' remains way more stylish and fun than i had assumed it wld - lol'd heartily throughout - everyone & everything in this is so charming that it sorta fucked me up that the end was so bloody & heartless
the cast in this is so stellar - head nods @ catherine keener and luis guzmán & the keaton cameo that nods to jackie brown - whole thing has a tremendous ease to it
― Lamp, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
If he'd made OOS now we'd all think he was in his Effortless Craftsman phase.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 03:28 (thirteen years ago) link
ru crazy, i still want my money back for ocean's 12
― A B C, Friday, June 8, 2007 11:55 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i walked out of it hating liberal hollyweird
― A B C, Friday, June 8, 2007 11:56 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark
haha! ocean's 12 sucked but i did like the Kashmir scene
― My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
out of sight was the last time j-lo was really hot too... then she got a bunch of work done to make her look like a white girl
― My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Princess TamTam), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 03:30 (thirteen years ago) link
j-lo in out of sight is O_O esp when they put her in those little shorts and a dolphins jersey
― Lamp, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 03:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i gotta watch oos again--my gf loves it but i never cared for it.
sex lies is still one of my faves and really the limey is too so i don't care what else this guy does.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 03:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Never loved sex lies like some ppl seemed to. Maybe I should watch it again. I do love Spader. OoS is really good.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 03:40 (thirteen years ago) link
It's true about Lopez, I think, in that film.
The Limey is super!
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 11:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Love how well shot, written, and acted the scene in that lovely Detroit hotel bar is. You can taste the bourbon and smell J-Lo's perfume.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 00:29 (thirteen years ago) link
He is filming a "OH NOES FATAL VIRAL OUTBREAK IN METRO USA" film with O_o ensemble cast in SF right now called Contagion, looks to be v. similar to Outbreak (ensemble cast, shit film).
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 15 February 2011 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Didn't see this one coming, Steven Soderbergh to retire.
― Cluster the boots (Billy Dods), Monday, 14 March 2011 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I posted a similar story on a diff thread last month
― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 March 2011 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, he's gotta be depressed that some people actually love the Ocean's movies
― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 March 2011 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
has he publicly downplayed them or admitted to being less proud of them than his other work?
― some dude, Monday, 14 March 2011 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
NO, I COULD TELL BY WATCHING.
Clooney on Letterman a few years ago: "yep, we're doing Ocean's 12... (flashes grin) cuz Solaris bombed."
― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 March 2011 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Not sure he'll actually follow through--Jay-Z retired, too, and so did Michael Jordan and Brett Favre, more than once. Neither am I really sure why he's unhappy. Of the four remaining films the article mentions, two are action/genre films, one's The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and the other's a biography of Liberace. The last could be interesting, the other three probably not. Is it that he wants to make stuff more like sex, lies & videotape and no one will let him? I thought he voluntarily veered into more commercially viable filmmaking with Out of Sight. I also thought he made enough money from that and the Ocean films that he can pretty much do what he wants anyway. Or is he just frustrated that no one goes to see his smaller films, like the quote above suggests? A whole lot of filmmakers better than him learned to live with that (don't get me wrong, I like some of his movies)...I find the story odd, but maybe I'm over-analyzing; maybe he's just tired.
― clemenza, Monday, 14 March 2011 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd take the Oceans on either side of 12 over Inception anyday, as far as directors aiming for virtuoso editing.
― A Very Small Bag of Phrases (Eazy), Monday, 14 March 2011 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
He is apparently bored with the syntax of narrative filmmaking; Matt Damon quoted him saying something like "If I see one more over-the-shoulder shot I'll go crazy."
― Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius), Monday, 14 March 2011 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
doesn't he have enough money to do whatever the hell he wants? he should go do that. whatever the hell it is he wants to do.
― scott seward, Monday, 14 March 2011 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Soderbergh's one of the few guys who knows how to direct Conventional Hollywood Narrative, so he should stop overestimating his talents.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 14 March 2011 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, I wish more boilerplate as good as Erin Brockovich more often.