#807

A few bits and pieces.

Tenet : watched this recently. It’s very absorbing until the second half at which point it just becomes a technical exercise. Nolan’s habit of using a plot hook eventually fell flat this time. Obviously beautifully done but ultimately left me empty the next day. Good enough to watch though…

Palm Springs : another Ground Hog Day rip-off but SO GOOD! I would even say it’s a “spiritual sequel”, although technically not. Funny and insightful. 10/10

Netflix has dropped a bunch of projects for 2021.

One that caught my eye was Don’t Look Up by Adam McKay who is one of my favourite directors of all time. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Timothée Chalamet, Cate Blanchett, Meryl Streep and Matthew Perry.

I’m pretty psyched about anything with Cate Blanchett that one.

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#808

Bloody Hell - 8/10
Really enjoyed it, a nice twist on a horror film, add me laugh at a few bits and pretty cool style to the film.

#809

Sisters Brothers

This is one of the finest examples of a book that’s adapted to a film and succeeds in not only being completely faithful to the book but also becomes a wonderful piece of art in its own right.

The book is an odd quiet ramble. As much a series of connected vignettes than a standard plot structure. Very enjoyable.

The film, directed by Jacques Audiard, essentially follows that format but tightens it into a story a bit more with wonderfully understated transition shots. I adore when a filmmaker — or author for that matter — use just a few brushstrokes to reveal a significant event while avoiding pretentiousness.

Why are all the best westerns made by non-Americans? (maybe don’t answer that)

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#810

Hey everyone, let’s get angry. Well, maybe just confused and disappointed.

As ■■■■■■■ Roland!?!?!?!? I can’t wait to hate-watch this steaming pile of celluloid. :roll_eyes:

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#811

Well that was weird timing with RTT…

sigh

Kevin Hart. How? Why? There are hundreds of better candidates. Hell, they could have gotten Idris Elba to play across Cate again. Speaking of her : my initial horror that she would stoop to this was tempered by my realization that Roth and the Arads went with someone with some real chops and not some bubble gum starlet. The choice of writer is pretty reassuring. But…Roth. ■■■■■■■ Roth. And now ■■■■■■■ Hart.

In other news

Once again reinforcing the fact that Danish actors are amongst the most talented in the world. But more than that : the ballsiest of them all.

were the actors really drunk? The answer is an emphatic no. “We were firm about that from the beginning,” Mikkelsen tells BBC Culture. On a video call from Copenhagen, he dismisses the idea of actors getting drunk for drunk scenes as “amateurism”. Nonetheless, Vinterberg put them through an “alcohol boot camp”.

To help themselves seem properly dizzy, the actors would spin around before each take – well, some of them. “I don’t think Mads did that,” notes Vinterberg. “It was beneath him.”

The first time I saw a Danish movie was back in the Dogme era. That would have been Idioterne (The Idiots). At that moment I realized there was no question : these people are willing and capable of doing anything on camera.

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#812

All the fan theory casting threads over the years literally had infinitely better choices than this. Which is weird because there were some bad wish-list actors in those things.

They are going to destroy my boy Mordecai…

Idris can play every character for all care. I’d ■■■■■■■ love it. That man is fine as helllllll :heart_eyes:

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#813

I am inconsolable about having to say it, but even Idris Elba can’t save every film. :crying_cat_face:

Exhibit A: uhm, wait… need an expert witness here…

Summoning @paulothead with the magical words: The Dark Tower.

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#814

Didn’t you hear? They’re getting Michael Peña to play him!

Ahhhh kidding sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry

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#815

/Shudders in revulsion, make it stop make it stop make it stop.

It’s not his fault that the writers mishandled the characters (who were actually cast well for the roles as they existed in the books). But holy hell was he not given the best stuff to work with. His acting was probably the best part of the film, and that saddens me as Matthew McConaughey was my dream casting for the man in black, but being the shiniest peanut in a turd pile is not something to be proud of IMO.

Idris, Matthew, if you’re reading this, I love you guys. You were dealt a ■■■■ hand, and no one should hold it against you.

Oh my lord. If they did that I think they might have a shot at angering us and making a successful comedy romp out BL at the same time. Michael Peña is hilarious.

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#816

Don’t you even play like that…Nearly threw my damn phone :joy:

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#817

I dunno. You remember my thread trying to cast the worst right?

For gods sake, give me some credit. I had Kathy Griffin as Lilith.

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#818

This might be the only time these words have ever been said together. Michael Pena has been notified of his first positive comment since the inception of the internet and has framed it for his bedroom wall lol.

Not found anything personally I have liked him in I can recall off hand.

Hart can be ok as comic relief to a movie, but as Roland??? Really bizarre choice. Maybe the news is a decoy and he really plays a role he could actually pull of. Tiny Tina.

EDIT Actually Yeah Jefe. I normally find him pretty grating but I did not mind him in Ant-Man :slight_smile:

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#819

There’s always Ant-Man

And we can’t forget Hart’s best possible role : Truxican wrestler.

Or maybe the purple juice midget. Yes, this is the correct answer.

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#820

He could play any of the Tink’s if they got him some decent high heeled shoes.

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#821

They probably going to get Snoop Dogg, he was born for the role. Doesn’t have to change his hair much and they are both used to being high all the time. Snipers and stoners the unseen connections :slight_smile:

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#822

I remember this this discussion started waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in 2014.

You will rarely (never) hear me say that the best suggestion by far came from Klaatupotomicshamalamadingdong : Julio Cedillo, who voiced him in the game. Of course she went on to write an entire 300-page graphic novel in support of her candidate.

The most horrifying suggestion, especially since it was the most popular?

Johnny Depp :face_vomiting:

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#823

Been giving it some thought. The only way I can make sense of it is if the movie focuses heavily on the events of the first game. Roland starts out as really oddball comic relief and is slowly more built into the “leader” role.

I’m not optimistic, but it’s “a way” I can see it work.

No matter what comes out, I refuse to judge a project like this till I see it.

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#824

On a strangely similar topic, I just wached this

And am not convinced it doesn’t look like a better borderlands movie than borderlands at the moment.

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#825

Reading one of the posted articles about that, someone associated with the movie was extolling Kevin Hart’s over-looked abilities as a ‘serious’ actor. IOW the claim of those responsible for the casting is that he’s been stereotyped into the comic role, and we’ll now see another side of him. So sort of a reverse Sigourney Weaver, who confounded expectations with her comedic role in Galaxy Quest (and, more recently, her cameo in ‘Call My Agent’).

Whether any of that actually works remains to be seen: sometimes, it’s really hard to see a character as anything other than comic (Tim Allen comes to mind, but also Jim Carey).

Time tells all.

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#826

If they make it to BL2, the dude that plays homelander is perfect for Handsome Jack.

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