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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

I saw it today, Fred is right, Cold Pursuit is a black comedy disguised as an action movie. it's very similar to Miami Blues, and in the same universe as Repo Man (though not nearly as good as either). worth seeing imo, and I hate all that Taken shit. it's not like that at all

Liam Neeson's action star career has run the gamut from competent trash to outstanding. Taken obv made him viable as an action commodity but its the least interesting film of this era (well maybe more interesting than Taken 2&3...) The Grey and A Walk Among the Tombstones and a couple of those Collet-Serra flicks are great.

Perhaps unfairly, i assume any movie with liam neeson isn’t worth watching

gonna fight you over Darkman

and Buster Scruggs I guess

The Grey is really good

Director: Gurinder Chadha
Starring: Rob Brydon, Dean-Charles Chapman, Hayley Atwell, Aaron Phagura, Kulvinder Ghir, Sally Phillips, Viveik Kalra, Nell Williams, Meera Ganatra
Duration: 117 min

In 1987 during the austere days of Thatcher's Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family and find his own voice through the music of Bruce Springsteen.

the first movie written solely for eric alterman

Saw the trailer for that the other day and it looked so bad I was embarrassed to be there for that two minutes.

there's a mini-trend of movies trying to follow the commercial success of bo rhap, using some combination of 1. britain 2. minority groups 3. classic rock. rocketman and yesterday being the other prominent ones, and this one looking by far the worst.

to be fair, Rocketman started filming before Bohemian Rhapsody even came out, although of course its director is the guy who'd replaced Singer on BR, so maybe he had some confidence it would be a hit.

No intention of seeing any of them but rocket man does sound better than the other three, which I would rather be murdered badly than have to see

I bought a ticket for a “surprise film” knowing only that it was a preview of a “much anticipated” upcoming film. I thought it might be the qt or almodóvar but it turned out to be that Springsteen thing ☹️

I gave it 40 minutes

Jesus... how are you holding up?

lol

I mean the film is exactly what it looks like. I could have seen a preview of it for free earlier this week and couldn’t be bothered, it genuinely never occurred to me that it could be the surprise film. When the title came up several people murmured “oh no”

One of my funniest cinema experiences was years ago at the film festival, they always close with a mystery film (eg last year was Roma), that year it was that proclaimers musical for some reason. When the title came up two guys in front of me looked at each other and without saying a word got up and left - maybe you had to be there but it made the whole thing worthwhile for me

When the title came up several people murmured “oh no”

lmfao!!

I saw the trailer for it before Yesterday (which I really liked, leagues better than Rocketman and, from what I gather, BoRap), and the Springsteen movie is like one of those shitty 95/96 Pulp Fiction ripoffs, but of a movie released 2 months prior.

Avoiding the hell out of that Springsteen movie, but I keep reading reviews of it for some reason. I'm weirdly fascinated by the fact that it even exists. A couple of Springsteen superfans made a movie about the true story of one of them becoming a Springsteen superfan? And people let this happen?

Probably got through on the strength of the current wave of boomer rock flicks (Queen, Elton, that “what if the Beatles never happened?” one...)