They are, but that's not really an American problem. They should just have certain screenings which cater for twats who can't turn their phone off for two hours, like the ones that let babies in. Short of that the obvious answer is to split the room in two, whack in some one way glass, and have the back section reserved for the twats.
So I didn't know they were making a live action Ghost in the Shell, I also didn't know that Scarlett Johannson is playing MitokoIt's Moses played by Christian Bale all over again.
Oldboy
Yeah, that was a lot more fucked up than I remember it being. I didn't really enjoy it that much, in honesty. I remember absolutely loving it when I was 16, but didn't really care for it this time around.
It's one of the most overrated films of all time.
No it isn't. Moses is a semi-historical figure with one very specific story to tell, which can't really be transplanted elsewhere. They could easily take the narrative of Ghost in the Shell and set it in New York or wherever.Originally Posted by phonics
So I didn't know they were making a live action Ghost in the Shell, I also didn't know that Scarlett Johannson is playing Mitoko
If they set it in Japan and contort themselves trying to fit a white actress into the lead role they need a slap though.
It is set in Japan. She's called Mitoko. She's even got a dodgy wig / blowdry to make her hair look Asian.
As far as I can tell it's being filmed in New Zealand and the character name hasn't been confirmed beyond 'Major', but I'll take your word for it.
It's a bit lol but there seems to be no logic to when and where these 'whitewashing' debates crop up. Taking Oldboy as an example, there was a white actress cast in the remake as a character named Haeng-Buk with absolutely no complaint, and the process of remaking that film with a white cast is itself no different to this Ghost in the Shell film. It's taking an existing property and fucking with it until it fits their market.
I'm looking forward to these four (FOUR) Avatar sequels.
Four? Christ.
Haha what?
THIS TIME: watch the Smurfs defend the Oceans from the cruel exploitation of Man!
THIS TIME: watch the Smurfs defend the Mountains from the cruel exploitation of Man!
THIS TIME: watch the Smurfs defend the Swamps from the cruel exploitation of Man!
THIS TIME: watch the Smurfs defend the Desert from the cruel exploitation of Man!
AND AS ALWAYS, count on lots and lots of PREMIUM BESTIALITY SMURF PORN!
I liked the first one, and it's still (ninety years later) the only film to have properly donned 3D.
That's probably because it's the only film where we were all actively looking for how good the 3D was. It was very, very good. Every film after that, good 3D basically became a given.
Tomorrowland is such bollocks.
Hugo.
I've noticed this happening a bit lately. Sequels to films that absolutely nobody wants.
For some reason, they've been pushing the sequel(/prequel?) to The Huntsman, a Snow White adaption that nobody watched or cared about.
Weird. It's like they've got the intellectual properties, and dammit if they aren't going to do something with them.
Well that didn't last long. Gangs of New York was a whole load of nothing. Really wasn't impressed by it. Also watched Master and Commander a few days ago which although nothing special, was perfectly watchable.
I thought that Concussion was great.
They probably didn't nominate Will purely because of his accent though.
Oh and the character played by Mike O'Malley is a MASSIVE dickhead. If he is based on a real character I'm sure Omalu has battered him.
Master And Commander is a film I came out of the pictures thinking was really really.great, but can't imagine I'll ever watch again.
I'm a twit
The Jungle Book was probably as good as it could've possibly been. It was fantastic. I went in expecting to hate it.
Fuck I opted not to go because I thought it would be shit.
Yeah, Kermode reckoned they absolutely nailed it, having gone in thinking what's the point.
I should have known by the cast. Fuck!
In fairness, 'as good as it could've been' probably still means it's shit. It's a fucking musical cartoon (or maybe this isn't a cartoon, but anyway).
Classic Giggles.
He's probably right mind.
I've now watched The Invitation and The Witch, both worth a watch with knowing as little as possible about them going in.
I actually thought The Invitation did a pretty good job of keeping you guessing which way it was going to go. The Witch seems to be a bit love/hate but very few films manage to be as creepy and give the chills like that. Similar to It Follows and The Babadook in that respect.
The Witch is brilliant.
I am so hyped about The Junglebook.
Got The Invitation lined up for sometime this week. The trailer looked cool as hell.
I thought The Invitation was good, but not quite the level DS made it out to be. Enjoyed it though.
Yeah I saw that. I do understand Avatar more in that case, because the first film was a huge Box office hit and going off of that, I guess that makes more sense. But the Huntsman one, that baffles me as well. The first one can not have generated very much money...
Touch under $400m from $170 budget which is better than I'd have thought.
It doubled it's budget. The reason there's a sequel is because it was made as a Co-Picture deal between Universal and a Chinese Production Company. You have to assume that the Chinese company invested a shit ton of money in Universal and so gave them the opportunity to spin out a sequel. Roth Films (the production company for the original) has a minimal role in the sequel.
I read an interesting article about Avatar which pointed out the very true fact that, despite making a fortune at the time, Avatar has left almost no pop culture footprint. To an almost baffling degree.
Which is true. I saw Avatar in the cinema, and I can barely remember a thing about it. It's certainly not something I've discussed with any kind of regularity.
I'm the same. I remember leaving the cinema thinking "That was quite good" and that was that. I remember it was about some mineral called unobtainium (cringe), but beyond that, I literally have no clue what it was about.
Fuck off was it called that.
Edit: It was as well
What a shambles.
Will be interesting to see how the sequels do as the first was probably a huge success due to being the first big 3D film.
I'm hoping they take the story in a very different direction. The first one was incredibly innovative in terms of visuals and incredibly unoriginal in terms of story. If they flip this around then it's worth watching, I don't think we will be impressed by the visuals anymore.
I read Look Who's Back last year but I didn't realise they'd made a film of it too. Strangely they've just gone for a Borat approach with Hitler travelling the country as a curiosity in improvised scenes with the public for most of it, which is nice enough but should have been a much smaller part of the story. Particularly because everybody appears to love a fake Hitler in real life now.
I think that's down to a combination of how 'other' the whole thing was trying to be and the complete lack of anything kids want to imitate.
As a place Pandora looked good but it was deeply boring, and the characters were essentially just blue environmentalists who lived in a treehouse.
It was basically Pocahontas.
I couldn't even tell you what the main character's names are in Avatar. It is weird, you're right.
So is Spotlight any good then, and is it better than Deliver Us From Evil (which rocked me to the core)? The wife hates stuff like that so hopefully Spotlight is the stuff of nightmares for her.
Those two films aren't remotely comparable.
I thought they were about noncery in the Catholic church?
Just seen Jim Sheridan on TV. Dunno the fuck I was thinking was him all these years but it wasn't this guy.
As I remember it DUFE (a great acronym for it) is about a paranormal detective bloke catching demons. Spotlight is a true story about a small group of journalists slowly uncovering something horrible.
He means this John, get ya facts right bro before trying to get one over someone:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814075/
A superb doc, btw.
Where was I trying to get one over?
That's close enough to Spotlight that it might actually make watching unnecessary.
Most threadsWhere was I trying to get one over?
Actual lol.
Anyway it's a great film, really intense. Probably a lot grimmer IRL. It tied in nicely with 'DUFE', which concentrates on the actual perp. To me it was far more sinister experiencing the mindset he had and getting to know his victims. This made it both easier and harder to accept that this occurs on a gigantic, worldwide scale.
We write it off as lol nonce priest etc but it has such absolutely awful effects as all child abuse does on the victims of it.
I bet it's absolutely rampant in other religions too, most notably Islam. There should be some equivalent on that.
I guess there won't be, Catholicism Is an Autocracy, there is established hierarchy. There's nothing similar in Islam. And there's so many variants.
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