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Super Sweet Movie Discussion Thread
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This just dropped today on Netflix. Damn good movie, Will Smith does an amazing job, as usual.
Has anyone seen The Darkest Hour yet? If so, how was it?
Star Wars was a huge disappointment. Thanks, Disney (send the hate!) 
I have to parrot what everyone else has said about it, Oldman hits it out of the park with playing Churchhill. It's almost like the role was meant for him, I enjoyed it.
Like it or hate it, I'm curious as to why. Star Wars, that is.
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Finally saw the Guy Ritchie King Arthur Flick, it was fun, done in the guise of his Sherlock Holmes movies. Apparently it was planned to be a trilogy but it bombed at the box office which sucks. Would have enjoyed seeing the evolution of it.
Two movies I'm looking forward to this year:
Pacific Rim 2 and Sicario 2.
Pacific Rim 2 and Sicario 2.
"12 Strong" and "Hostiles" are on my to-see list. Wife and son #3 saw "Darkest Hour" and liked it very much.
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I could be repeating myself....but "Shot Caller" was a very good movie, think it came out when some big movies realesed, overshadowing it at the box office. It's worth watching.
I thought so too. FYI, It’s on Amazon prime.
I enjoyed it too, I just thought the space between being a scared white-collar inmate to full-on honcho seemed too fast. Similarly his endgame seemed like it could have been reached better ways. Still, well put together, acted, and engaging to the end.
I'm sure they needed to make those choices for pacing. I felt like it would have made a great series in the vein of Sons of Anarchy just on the prison stuff - where they might have done a 10 episode arc to let his development in the organization be more gradual and his ascension seem more real.
Copy all. Sad that we're likely to see a Blade Runner prequel in 2019. Dust Bowl of creativity.
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Strong concur. It would appear we've exhausted all originality on the big screen and no one is left that can write/tell a great story.
I'm sure that can't be true because there have been a several pretty decent shows on small screen. Still, Hollywood has a lot to prove and they need to stop churning out this garbage no one wants to see. And I hate this franchise view of crap from Hollywood...not every movie needs to be a series or trilogy. Just tell a good story, wrap it up in 2 hours, and let it go.
Absolute bollocks. Look at the two movies I mentioned earlier, for a start.
Strong disagree with the absence of creativity in Hollywood, I think a strong comparison in terms of creativity when it comes to Hollywood would be the music industry as a whole. Often I hear from people that music isn't like it used to be or that people are no longer churning out creative or compelling music anymore which is complete asinine.
That's not to say that there isn't some pretty garbage music out currently but that's how it's always been. You just have to search a little bit to find the good stuff, the same idea holds true for film.
That's not to say that there isn't some pretty garbage music out currently but that's how it's always been. You just have to search a little bit to find the good stuff, the same idea holds true for film.
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As far as sequels, the big surprise for me was Split that was released early 2017. I’d completely forgotten about Unbreakable that was released all the way back in 2000. So it wasn’t until the end of Split that the dots connected for me, that it related to the Bruce Willis movie. They’re such entirely different stories too. I’d just randomly caught it and wasn’t sure what I was watching initially. I’m excited they’ve started filming Glass, and how they’ll tie it all together after so many years.
Filming begins on 'Glass,' M. Night Shyamalan's sequel to 'Unbreakable' and 'Split'
Filming begins on 'Glass,' M. Night Shyamalan's sequel to 'Unbreakable' and 'Split'
I read several years ago that 'Hollywood' (I think in this case large movie studio executives) had spent millions researching what kind of movies were most likely to earn positive return. The ultimate answer - other than creative fair that audiences love (which they were already pretty terrible at predicting ahead of time) was 'sequels.'
I was listening to a James Cameron interview where he said much the same thing. That Hollywood executives are dominated by the risks of big budget films and make movies largely out of the fear of missing out - that another studio will have a blockbuster while they have a dud - rather than motivated by belief in a creative product and it's quality. The result is that original, story-driven fair is almost impossible to make (in Cameron's opinion), while executives constantly look for projects drawing on existing intellectual property that provides supposed built-in audience, buzz, and fan base.
Cameron said the silver lining was the emergence of phenomenal television. Non-network television has proven the model for creative, original, high-production value programing with Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, etc. He said if he were starting out today he'd work in TV not movies. Accordingly he said TV like that is generating top writing, directing, producing, and acting talent for the shorter-series (8-12 episode) projects. He said on TV executives will give producers/show-runners (who are more analogous to directors in movies) much more leeway and time to develop characters, story, and plot than a movie studio would ever give.
Don't get me wrong, there's still a lot of shitty stuff and unoriginal 'revamps' on TV - but I think with the success of great TV the last few years and the push into original content by streaming services and pay-channels the TV quality is only going to get better and better. I think Steven Spielberg wrote a few years ago - and Steven Soderberg has said much the same thing - that the Hollywood big studio economic model is one bad summer of blockbusters from going broke. Maybe the international market changes that calculus but I'm not sure.
I was listening to a James Cameron interview where he said much the same thing. That Hollywood executives are dominated by the risks of big budget films and make movies largely out of the fear of missing out - that another studio will have a blockbuster while they have a dud - rather than motivated by belief in a creative product and it's quality. The result is that original, story-driven fair is almost impossible to make (in Cameron's opinion), while executives constantly look for projects drawing on existing intellectual property that provides supposed built-in audience, buzz, and fan base.
Cameron said the silver lining was the emergence of phenomenal television. Non-network television has proven the model for creative, original, high-production value programing with Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, etc. He said if he were starting out today he'd work in TV not movies. Accordingly he said TV like that is generating top writing, directing, producing, and acting talent for the shorter-series (8-12 episode) projects. He said on TV executives will give producers/show-runners (who are more analogous to directors in movies) much more leeway and time to develop characters, story, and plot than a movie studio would ever give.
Don't get me wrong, there's still a lot of shitty stuff and unoriginal 'revamps' on TV - but I think with the success of great TV the last few years and the push into original content by streaming services and pay-channels the TV quality is only going to get better and better. I think Steven Spielberg wrote a few years ago - and Steven Soderberg has said much the same thing - that the Hollywood big studio economic model is one bad summer of blockbusters from going broke. Maybe the international market changes that calculus but I'm not sure.
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