Chatterbox- Film

That and the rise of streaming making theaters akin to arcades, once the only way to experience a film, then getting by on superior tech, now seen by many as a relic for special situations.

Just watched Ip Man 1 and 2.

Man, that Mr. Twister doesn't seem to understand he's in a Kung-Fu movie. He was actually winning there for a bit.

He killed Sammo Hung!

.....It was like Kung Fu Rocky IV!

.....seriously.

The trailer for Netflix's Enola Holmes featuring Eleven as the titular Enola and Superman as Sherlock Holmes himself is up on Twitter now.

EDIT: My brain was stumped about what "alone loshme reeebtpms wnettyrhitd" means, but I've deduced that it reads "Enola Holmes September Twenty-Third". In other words, Enola Holmes is coming September 23.

Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Aug 17th 2020 at 9:23:52 AM

Bump.

The Russo Brothers' Cherry, starring Tom Holland as a former army medic who gets roped into crime to pay for the drugs that make his PTSD go away, is now an Apple TV+ exclusive.

So, Greenland with Gerard Butler. I understand that the movie industry hopes that a spectacular blockbuster with an A-lister actor will bring people back in the theaters and recover them from the slump caused by the pandemic... but still, a disaster movie?

Kinda hilarious that the audiences would get relief from the world going to shit by watching a movie where the world goes to shit. Or maybe that's what the people want right now? Do they enjoy knowing that reality is more fucked-up than disaster movies now?

Also I heard that there's a lot of family drama in it and that it's pretty slow, so it won't be too good for those who only want to see scenes of chaos and mayhem either. It will probably be crap like Geostorm, but at least that one was tailor made for conspiracy theorists.

Regal Cinemas will be closing all 573 locations in the US.

Thomas the Tank Engine is getting another film adaptation, helmed by director Marc Forster (World War Z, Christopher Robin, Quantum of Solace).

Edited by XMenMutant22 on Oct 6th 2020 at 3:24:35 PM

Wow, "Masters of the Universe" can't get worse than the original movie, now can it.

Also, Hannah John-Kamen (she of Killjoys infamy) joined the Resident Evil reboot as Jill Valentine. It's not "Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman" casting choice, but I hope it'll be a "Zazie Beetz as Domino" casting choice for me.

Researchers at the University of California - Los Angeles' Center for Scholars and Storytellers has put out a paper saying more diversity in films improves a film's financial performance.

Why are studios so stubborn in making their film purchaseable digitally?

Because discs are too pricey for the digital age? (Really not sure.)

Anyway...

Who wanted to see Logan but with Santa Claus?

Laconic synopsis: Santa's become convinced that Christmas and he himself are seen as just a farce, so he goes into hiding in Alaska as Chris Cringle. However, he's forced to fend for himself when an assassin comes for Santa's head. And the assassin's client? A 12-year-old with apparently way too much money who got a lump of coal one Christmas ago. Yup.

Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Oct 7th 2020 at 10:19:31 AM

I'm talking about debuting via streaming. WB is too stubborn while Disney went full greedy. Why they didn't they apply the Trolls' method?

They probably thought it was a fluke and thought they could do better.

Speaking of greed and stubbornness, David Fincher's new movie Mank is a retro-styled biopic of a ruthlessly critical, booze-guzzling screenwriter named Herman J. Mankiewicz and his race to finish the screenplay for a little indie movie called Citizen Kane before he's beaten to the punch by a little-known gentleman named Orson Welles.

Exclusively on Netflix!

Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Oct 8th 2020 at 12:16:53 PM

Hollywood increasingly is facing warnings normal is dead even with a vaccine which would doom the theatre industry.

Right. Just watched Terminator: Dark Fate. Want to write about it in it's thread, but search doesn't work well anymore, even when I type in the actual name of something. How do I find the thread now>

There doesn't seem to be a thread just for that movie, so here's the general Terminator thread.

Hey, so remember how Daniel Kaluuya is doing a movie on Barney the Dinosaur?

He managed to talk a little about that one...

Folks on Twitter are joking that this means Barney will be a horror story or something, but what if this winds up doing what The LEGO Movie did with its aesops and becomes a metamodernistic tale on why we seriously need love right now?

Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Oct 20th 2020 at 2:52:47 AM

I didn't know Mattel is involved with Barney.

So I just found this:

The Hong Kong version of the famous ladder fight from Jackie Chans First Strike.

I had just watched the International version of the same scene on youtube, so caught a few bits that this version had that the one I'm used to didn't.

And of course, there's a different soundtrack. Certain a strange experience.

When you say international version, do you mean English dubs, or something else?

Edited by gropcbf on Nov 14th 2020 at 4:03:05 PM

Yeah. English dubs.

I always thought English dubs don't work nearly as well in live-action as it does in animation. (Though I guess that's the general consensus of literally everyone?)

There is the whole thing with live-action about this actor having that unlikely accent. And the question of budget for producing high quality dubs. In fact the French dubs for an American blockbuster are generally good.

In cases like First Strike, if the dubbing production had to remake all the sound effects, it probably means that no soundtrack without the original speech was available to them.

Edited by gropcbf on Nov 15th 2020 at 11:26:39 AM

It's January 1st, you know what that means? It's Public Domain Day, which means the natural copyright of certain original works has expired, allowing the average person to freely copy, distribute, and transform them for their own needs! This year, films from 1925 that have entered include:

• Lovers In Quarantine
• Go West
• The Freshman
• The Merry Widow
• His People
• Pretty Ladies
• Stella Dallas
• The Unholy Three

Edited by XMenMutant22 on Jan 1st 2021 at 4:36:24 AM

In a strange turn of events, MGM just bought the film rights to an upcoming book proposal called The Antiscoial Network by Ben Mezrich, according to Deadline. The working story chronicles the (current) events between Wall Street hedge funds and r/wallstreetbets regarding Gamestop's stock, where the former were hoping to gain profits from Gamestop's financial failure.

Edited by XMenMutant22 on Jan 31st 2021 at 11:56:39 AM