Chatterbox- Film

Does anyone know if Glass Onion: Knives Out has a DVD release? I can't find anything.

And then I guess films like Aliens or Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior may have inspired more films than the film they were a sequel to. But I only mean films being inspired by these ones, not remakes.

That seems unlikely considering this on Netflix.

Edited by gropcbf on Jul 4th 2023 at 11:10:44 AM

First look at Timothée Chalamet and Hugh Grant in Wonka.

Today, in cartoonishly evil things:

The studios' plans is to not negotiate with the WGA and let them go broke.

I see no way that could backfire whatsoever.

I've been saying in other threads that between the strikes and the recent string of "flopbusters," I feel like the American film industry is in for a shakeup, and that is, probably, ultimately a good thing.

A return to smaller-budget films is very welcome at this point.

Now SAG-AFTRA is on strike. Not only will nothing get filmed, actors won't be promoting their projects either.

A cruel but necessary evil.

Is the actor strike in sympathy with the writer's strike? I figure they have more pull when striking so it'd be nice if they could get everyone's issues with AI etc sorted at once (before the writers starve for example, of course I guess a lot of the actors that aren't the big name stars will be hurting for money soon as well)

One of the proposals the studios gave the actors' guild, was to digitalize the actors' likeness for a one day pay and use it for perpetuity without pay or consent.

Edited by Akirakan on Jul 13th 2023 at 5:47:21 AM

* without any further pay you mean.

Did some techbro infiltrate the hollywood industry?

Also in a random musing, I wonder what would have happened if The Sims didn't cancel its movie plans.

Edited by Ookamikun on Jul 14th 2023 at 12:39:40 AM

Saw Moonrise Kingdom last night. Def got into the second half more than it’s first due to the distinct nature of the acting. I got into its quirkiness more by the time the storm started hitting because people were taking the time to raise their voices more instead of saying everything in a casual matter of fact manner.

I recently watched Dave Made a Maze. I normally don't watch horror or Comedy Horror movies, but this one very entertaining. I especially like the contrast between the tense scenarios and arts-and-crafts-like setting.

Edited by KaabiiFan13 on Jul 23rd 2023 at 3:49:47 AM

Finally I decided to watch more Terry Gilliam movies so I started with Time Bandits and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Enjoyed both of them a lot, I miss this kind of fantasy/surrealistic films. Curiously enough I just found out that apparently Taika Waititi is in the process of filming a series based off of Time Bandits, I enjoyed some of his work so let's see where this goes.

Watched Paris, Texas. One of those last scenes of the mother realizing her lover is there is really quite something.

An MCU insider claims live action Jak and Daxter movie with Tom Holland as Jak and Chris Pratt as Daxter with Ruben Fleischer directing.

I'll wait till the Deadline article or the like, but after the Mario movie made a stupid amount of money and Sonic having a good thing going on, guess more videogame characters making it into the big screen is kind of expected.

A federal judge ruled yesterday that works created by AI are ineligible for protection by the US Copyright Office.

I assume this'll be a blow to the studios and possibly push them to begin negotiating with the striking workers.

Honestly if they're desperate enough they'll find a way around it so they don't have to return to the negotiating table

So, I just saw The Last Voyage of the Demeter, and...

I liked it! ^_^

It probably won't go down as one of my favourite horror movies ever, but it was a good time, with a good monster, some decent characters, and a setting that was a little different to the usual!

And I liked what they did with the lore of Dracula—including the use of a dragon insignia for his crates.

I will say, my experience might have been slightly hurt by having last just night finished watching a Let's Play of Until Dawn, because one early jump-scare was just like an early jump-scare from that game, and the monster's appearance early-on is uncannily similar to that game's wendigos.

Oh good! I thought it looked promising.

David Fincher strikes again with his adaptation of a neo-noir french comic book, The Killer!

So here's a thought I had about Dawn of the Dead (2004):

If the infection is only spread through bites....how did it start in the first place?

I even put it up in the Headscratchers page for the film because I thought it was pretty notable.

Last weekend, I finished pretty much all the Quentin Tarantino films, The only three I haven't watched being, respectively, an amateur film whose full footage is now lost, a film written by him and was a box office bomb, and one that is directed by him but was such an abysmal failure that I'm pretty sure I can skip all those.

So now, I'm planning to do the same with Sam Mendes films, although I'll be skipping Jarhead, Away We Go, and Empire of the Light. Unfortunately, trying to watch his films is nowhere as easy as Tarantino films.

Did anyone else check out the Roald Dahl short film adaptations by Wes Anderson on Netflix? (I've also made the pages:)

• The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
• The Swan (2023)
• The Rat Catcher
• Poison (2023)

After watching Asteroid City I'd begun to think that ol' Wes was becoming a parody of himself, but I overall think his style is a good fit for Dahl's works (Henry Sugar/Poison in particular is a good double feature, I think).