Last (x) Movies you are going to Avoid

The white people I know are awful, imagine how much worse all those unknown brown people must be.

now that's an award-winning straw man intro right there

Haha ok what the FUCK is this green book movie, how is it real. I saw the trailer and it was hilariously bad, it really feels like a parody trailer in the “simple jack” genre. Like, I might actually watch this it looks so bad

dark gritty Driving Miss Daisy reboot

Guido Mortensen vs ~articulate~

one does not simply walk into Mississippi

hahahahaha

Black Panther; I forgot to put that one down here months ago.

Cuarón, Jenkins and maybe a few others aside, this year's holiday/awards season crop looks pretty dire.

idk it seems pretty routine.

good:
Roma (assuming)
Beale Street (assuming)
Burning (assuming)
Vice (assuming... w/e I'm looking forward to it)
The Favourite
First Reformed
Eighth Grade
BlacKkKlansman
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Paddington 2
First Man

bad:
A Star is Born (i liked it for what it was but foh w/ any awards)
Bohemian Rhapsody
Green Book
Boy Erased
Beautiful Boy
Mary Poppins (wtf is this shit?)

i also don't think it's the worst year, but to be fair, a bunch of stuff on your 'good' list came out way earlier in the year.

yeah but they're getting nominated & winning, which is always good - silly to ignore films released before the fall/winter

fair enough, i took it as a comment on the 'awards movie season' as much as we evaluate 'this year's summer blockbuster crop' etc.

Beale Street was a mild disappointment.

Q: Is Green Book a spiritual sequel to Crash? Or is it a literal sequel to Crash?

Prequel

soft reboot

fair enough, i took it as a comment on the 'awards movie season' as much as we evaluate 'this year's summer blockbuster crop' etc.

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actually you're right, esp. with the wicked trifecta of star/book/rhapsody

Don't feel like Roma and A Phantom Thread (the 1/2 in the S&S poll) were that big a deal.

Benadryl Camembert IS Brexit

Did Michael sheen die or something?

The Favourite
Roma
The House that Jack Built

so they really cast the most posh, royal family-looking British actress as Brooklyn-born, second generation Jewish immigrant Ruth Bader Ginsburg? the Jews who control Hollywood need to be replaced with better Jews

— etan (@EtanHeytan) December 11, 2018

that movie has such a dumb, unwieldy title

Pubescent kids gonna be so disappointed after they surreptitiously DVR this Sex movie six months from now.

seems obvious they were banking on "RBG" as a can't-miss title, then the doc scooped them, and then they had months to come up with something else and just kept procrastinating the big meeting.

Oh is that what that film is about?! Funny that it’s coming out so close to the doc, one for the magician movies thread

This type of film is such an insta-skip for me that the only reason the fact of its existence has stuck in my mind at all is that the director mimi leder did consistently excellent work on the leftovers, & when I looked her up on the basis of that I saw that she’d directed deep impact and this upcoming oscarbait thing

Whoa

On The Basis Of Comets

Leder also helmed the icky Pay It Forward, which automatically cancels any interest I might have had in seeing this (though I had none).

On The Basis Of Comets

ehh I think of leder as an example of how female filmmakers only get 1-2 cracks at blockbuster scale work if they "underperform" (or make money but not quite ENOUGH money) while male mediocrities seem to get chance after chance after chance. deep impact is a perfectly reasonable disaster movie that was only overshadowed because armageddon (same subject matter, different genre) was concentrated preposterous manipulative cheese. the peacemaker was pretty lame on recent rewatch, i'll admit. disclaimer, i haven't read any interviews or anything to back this up - maybe she found doing these movies to be a nightmare and never went back on purpose, idk.

Deep Impact is dope, maybe I will see this new Notorious RBG film

I mean ...

2	Armageddon	BV	$201,578,182	3,184	$36,089,972	3,127	7/1
8	Deep Impact	Par.	$140,464,664	3,280	$41,152,375	3,156	5/8

Not to mention that apparently Deep Impact cost about half as much to make as Armageddon.

green book, the upside

why are these movies still being made

Oscars, baby

are the voters who nominated guess who's coming to dinner still voting?

why are these movies still being made

tide goes in, tide goes out

I had my "enough" moment with comic book movies back in 2015.
I saw "The Rock" in theaters and I haven't seen another Michael Bay movie since.
Anything directed by Zach Snyder is also insta-banned.

Honey Boy

lol this has a trailer now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0irKUtaCaU

And who was asking for a Mapplethorpe biopic?
https://youtu.be/TvXLMpjyqpU

new liam neeson joint "cold wish or whatever" sounds exactly like every other liam neeson movie in the past two decades.

the best part of Love Actually was when crying Liam Neeson kicked the sexist US President through a window and the president knocked over Egg Off Of This Life and all his stalker cue cards

I am baffled as to why Cold Pursuit has such a "wacky comedy" poster:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BOGY3YjUzOTgtMmJmMS00ZDJjLTkwOGEtYWE3Mjk0ZTgwYmY4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjM4NTM5NDY@._V1_SY1000_SX675_AL_.jpg

Like, the tagline looks like it should read "Everyone remember where we parked."

lmfao otm

It's a remake of a Norwegian comedy (with a script from a Danish writer). Very good film, the original, but even thought the director is the same I have a hard time imagining it to be any good. It's so much about Norway.

Don't fret, no one knows Norway quite like Hollywood.

Hey, if it's half as good as Nolan's remake of Insomnia it'll be complete fucking shit