Chatterbox- Film

Speaking of Ready Player One, is it me or is Steven Spielberg no longer a favorite for cinema crowds? His films are always critical successes but I have the feeling that ever since The BFG nothing he did has stayed in popular culture. RPO was mocked a lot after it came out and it made no cultural footprint as far as I know, West Side Story is never going to replace the original film and I rarely ever see discussions about it, and The Fabelmans is often referenced about how few people went to see it in theaters. But I could just be wrong and apply my personal biases to this consideration (I enjoy his movies by the way).

I feel like it's more so that nobody likes Ready Player One's source material, nothing can really replace the first West Side Story, and The Fablemans is more so a personal movie for him than a crowd-pleaser.

As someone who thinks WSS 2021 justifies its own existence, both movies are more of a “legendary old director thinks they would be neat to make so ok” movie.

> is it me or is Steven Spielberg no longer a favorite for cinema crowds?

He's still a big name with a massive draw but he's probably well past his prime at this point yeah.

Speaking of Strays (2023), is the movie really the first r rated talking dog movie?

I was waiting in line for Dungeons and Dragons tickets last night and overheard some fellow moviegoers lamenting the fact that, apparently, somebody's trying to remake Breakfast Club. Is that legit? If so, wow, that seems like an excellent way to get yelled at.

will be worth it if allison stays a goth tho

Hollywood will remake anything so I can believe it

x2: With the power of Google, I can state that there's no evidence of a reboot/remake/whathaveyou currently in development in Hollywood. The closest result I found was an article from August 2022, highlight a indie re-imagining known as "The Class" that's Serial Numbers Filed Off.

Either the person saw this in the past and got confused, or they just wanted a strawman to complain about.

Huh, alrighty then, thanks.

Honestly, I could see a Breakfast Club remake working. The reason it's so beloved is because of how well it encapsulated 80s teenhood, which is pretty doable for Setting Update to 2020s with the right writer.

I saw they were making a movie of Mozart's The Magic Flute. And I was like, awesome, I've known about that since elementary school since I had an amazing music teacher. So I look up the trailer and...

...it's an isekai. It's literally about some performing-arts-academy yuppie who gets sucked into the opera and becomes the main character, Prince Tamino. I mean, I try not to judge on premise alone, but... Mozart as an isekai? Something about that does NOT sit right with me.

The Queen of Night looks badass though. And it seems like they've Race Lifted Sarastro and Monostatos, probably due to get rid of the implication that the former (the Big Good) is an enslaver and the latter (a villain) his slave. I can respect that at least.

> it's an isekai

nooo

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Have you guys seen or heard of film adaptation of From Hell? I remember seeing this and couldn't get off my head of how inaccurate the lobotomy scene is.

Edited by Bubblepig on Jun 17th 2023 at 10:15:04 AM

I definately watched it but I quickly turned it off

Turn it off? Wdym by that?

I imagine that they mean that they stopped watching.

Anyone have any favorite bits of movie trivia? One fairly recent one of mine is that The Shape of Water had its earliest genesis in Guillermo Del Toro's memories of watching Creature from the Black Lagoon as a kid - and rooting for the monster.

With the darker side of fandom we've seen recently, do you think a remake of Misery would be relevant in this day and age?

Here's one. In Mad Max: Fury Road, two different scenes were shot when the character Valkyrie was first introduced. The first one that everyone knows is Valkyrie trapped in a cage and nude, the second one is the same as the first but Valkyrie is wearing underwear. The second one was made for some international movie theaters so the movie could be shown without raising the age rating for showing nudity.

How do I know this trivia? Because me and some movie viewers saw the underwear version in the movie theater and I didn't know she was actually nude until I saw the DVD of that scene.

When filming Raiders of the Lost Ark's Well of Souls scene, Spielberg expected the snakes to be repelled by the torch fire, and didn't take into account that the cold-blooded reptiles would actually be attracted to the heat source. Eventually, he got frustrated enough that he picked one of the snakes up and yelled "Stop liking the fire! You're supposed to hate fire! You're ruining my movie!"

Oh, another one: For Dragonball Evolution, Piccolo was originally going to just be a boring Human Alien, but James Marsters, upon researching the source material for the role, actually became a legit Dragon Ball fan and had the Namekian makeup applied behind the director's back and just showed up onset in it, daring him to tell him to take it off. The director gave up and that's how we got the best part of that travesty of a film.

Edited by lbssb on Jun 30th 2023 at 12:30:40 PM

Oh it gets even better, James Marsters actually got a role in the dub for Dragon Ball Super as Zamasu. He did it to make up for Evolution being such a godawful movie. Apparently Chris Sabat and Sean Schemmel approached him about doing it and he did it free of charge.

Haha, yeah, that is the best part. It's got shades of Seychelle Gabriel playing Yue in The Last Airbender, to which Mike and Bryan actually liked her enough to cast her as Asami in Legend of Korra.

Been watching a bit of the film version of Battle Royale.

Very bloody film based off a very bloody book, that became a very bloody manga (obviously).

There's quite a few good alternate scenarios you could come up with from it as well.

What if Kiryama's coin toss had been different?

What if Shuya had died instead of Nobu?

What if the Lighthouse Girls hadn't panicked and started turning on each other. This one's especially notable because they actually had all the clues to figure things out)

• The ones who'd been cooking the meal had tasted it before Yuka died eating it, so they already knew it had to be poison.

• All they had to do was think what was the last thing that happened before Yuka ate the food...mainly that Yuko had been handling it.

• Then think about this: who among them had poison, and why use it now? Why not earlier?

If they'd all actually paid attention to Yuko, they could have put two and two together, but then again, the entire point is that she was so Beneath Suspicion that none of them suspected her for even a moment.

So I'm wondering, has anyone ever done a remake of a film, but just the sequel(s), not the earlier film(s)?

The Living Dead Series has sort of done that. Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead (2004) and Day of the Dead (2008) aren't related to each other despite that film being based on the sequel to the original Dawn.

Edited by lbssb on Jul 4th 2023 at 4:46:25 AM