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Im hearing rumors that Twins 2 will be called Triplets and Arnold and Danny discover they have a 3rd sibling....Eddie Murphy. If true that could be a riot. never saw the first movie but I love Murphy.

Moliere wrote: ↑Fri Jun 08, 2018 9:48 am Bad Times At The El Roayle! with Chris Hemsworth, Dakota Johnson, and a bunch of other big names.

Seven strangers, each with a secret to bury, meet at Lake Tahoe's El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one fateful night, everyone will have a last shot at redemption - before everything goes to hell.

Seems very "American Horror Story"ish which isn't a bad thing.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Wed Oct 10, 2018 11:21 am Im hearing rumors that Twins 2 will be called Triplets and Arnold and Danny discover they have a 3rd sibling....Eddie Murphy. If true that could be a riot. never saw the first movie but I love Murphy.

As much as I like Murphy, It's really too bad Robin Williams isn't around because that would seem like a perfect role for him.

Hunter Killer.

American submarine Captain Joe Glass is on the hunt for a U.S. sub in distress in the Arctic Ocean. He soon learns that a secret Russian coup is in the offing, a conspiracy that threatens to dismantle the world order. With crew and country on the line, Glass must assemble an elite group of Navy SEALs to sneak through enemy waters, rescue the kidnapped Russian president and prevent World War III.

Gerard Butler
Gary Oldman
Common
Linda Cardellini

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs - Netflix

Ranging from absurd to profound, these Western vignettes from the Coen brothers follow the adventures of outlaws and settlers on the American frontier.

Tom Waits
Liam Neeson
James Franco
Clancy Brown
Tim Blake Nelson

Buster Scruggs review...9.5 amazing.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/11/09 ... ggs-review

Yeah, I watched it yesterday morning. It was really quite good. I highly recommend any Coeh Bros. / Western fans check it out, pronto.

PG-13 Deadpool Dec

Holman wrote: ↑Sun Jun 10, 2018 3:17 pm If it's not chasing Apollo 13, the alternative is chasing The Right Stuff, and that bar is even higher.

It might be fun seeing Claire Foy play an American, though. She's great.

I think the real problem will be making Neil Armstrong interesting. By all accounts he was a rather introverted, solitary person who did everything by the book and showed little passion. It's said he was the inspiration for the relatively soulless astronauts in Kubrick's 2001.

Saw First Man a couple of weeks ago. Since the whole movie is from Armstrong's POV, it's like the whole story is held at arm's length. They also made Buzz Aldrin out to be a bigger asshole than he really was, IMO. The only two really memorable scenes were the Gemini 8 near-disaster and the Apollo 1 fire, and even that gut-punch failed to humanize two of the three doomed astronauts. All in all, it left this space program fanboy disappointed.

Today we saw Front Runner, which I don't think was mentioned in this thread. It was quite good, although IDK how much someone who was too young to remember Gary Hart would care about his story. It was a watershed moment in the relationship between politicians and the press, with all the implications for today's politics that that implies, and the movie portrays that successfully without bludgeoning one over the head with it. In fact, I'd say it was more about the press than about Hart himself. Casting Alfred Molina as Ben Bradlee is about the worst thing I can say about the movie...I didn't buy him in that role at all.

Saw The Lion King in theaters when it came out .Loved it. but have never watched it again.....unless the Timone & Pumba cartoon counts .....and have no interest in a remake live action movie. But here it is.

Max Peck wrote: ↑Thu Sep 14, 2017 8:23 am

Holman wrote:

Moliere wrote:The Death of Stalin
A comedy starring Jason Isaacs and Steve Buscemi.

And Jeffery Tambor and Michael Palin?

There has to be something in the script that attracted them. I'm willing to hope.

The BBC's critic calls it a "absurdly funny... a dark comedy triumph."

I haven't seen any later discussion of this movie, so this seems like the place to say it's hilarious.

I made my kids watch it with me!

Daehawk wrote: ↑Thu Nov 22, 2018 10:14 pm Saw The Lion King in theaters when it came out .Loved it. but have never watched it again.....unless the Timone & Pumba cartoon counts .....and have no interest in a remake live action movie. But here it is.

The only thing that makes me interested is to see if Jon Favreau does something different with the material like he did with Jungle Book.

Oh hey, thanks James Gunn for giving me the Superman movie I never knew I wanted.



Brightburn isn't anything new, as DC has done more than one variant on the "What if Superman wasn't such a nice guy" formula, but I trust Gunn to make something unique and fun out of it. By turning it into pure horror, I think he's on the right track.

Horror movie.

"A man stranded in the Arctic after an airplane crash must decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his makeshift camp or to embark on a deadly trek through the unknown in hopes of making it out alive."

Be happy about your average children.

If you can tolerate subtitled foreign films, Thelma is a good take on the creepy paranormal child genre. Just watched it last night.

This looks like it could be wonderful: Yesterday from director Danny Boyle.

Something happens and a frustrated young songwriter finds himself in a world where The Beatles never existed, only he (and ONLY he) remembers all their songs...

Wow, what an awesome concept for a movie. Totally in for that.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels "remake" with Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson playing the leads.

Is this something that really needs to exist? How can you possibly improve upon Martin and Caine??

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 13, 2019 9:20 am Is this something that really needs to exist? How can you possibly improve upon Martin and Caine??

Wasn't Dirty Rotten Scoundrels itself a remake?

(Yes, of Bedtime Story, a 1964 movie with David Niven and... Marlon Brando?)

2 academic superstars and best friends who, on the eve of their high school graduation, realize they should have worked less and played more. Determined not to fall short of their peers, the girls try to cram 4 years of fun into 1 night.

That looks horrible. Man the teen movies in the 80s were cheesy but great and fun.

Yeah, i'll wager that old men are not the audience for that one. Pass.

Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2019 8:56 pm Man the teen movies in the 80s were cheesy but great and fun.

That's nostalgia talking. Teen movies in the 80s were not great and fun to those who were in their 50s and older at the time.

Moliere wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2019 12:22 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2019 8:56 pm Man the teen movies in the 80s were cheesy but great and fun.

That's nostalgia talking. Teen movies in the 80s were not great and fun to those who were in their 50s and older at the time.

I loved me some 80s teen (and college) movies, but watching them now can be pretty cringe-worthy. Not too long ago I watched Revenge of the Nerds with a few people that had never seen it before; they were rightly horrified by some of the "antics" the nerds got up to (e.g. wearing a disguise in order to fool a girl into having sex, setting up video cameras in a sorority house to film girls undressing, etc.). I used to love that movie and I still have a soft spot for it, but it's definitely not a movie I'll be recommending anymore.

Speaking of which, I wish someone would make a new Police Academy. We could use a new class of antics.

Hepcat, the early years.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2019 3:29 am

I hope Valve is getting a cut of this.

US Release Date: June 7, 2019
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Morena Baccarin, Josh Charles
Directed By: Don Argott, Sheena M. Joyce
Synopsis: Who was the real John DeLorean? To some, he was a renegade visionary who revolutionized the automobile industry. To others, he was the ultimate con man.

This is a trailer for an HBO miniseries rather than a theatrical release, but it is incredibly evocative.

Be sure to play it with sound.



The cast looks amazing.

Oh HELL yeah.

Whoa

That looks amazing! Looks like it could possibly top the Jungle Book remake as my favourite live-action remake.

That DS9 docu. Show started 26 years ago and ended 20 years ago. If you're like me you never thought much about it. But thats a long time. I didn't even think about it until seeing how old the actors looked in that trailer. Most are older than my wife who passed away. Wow.

Well this was unexpected. Miniseries based on Heller's Catch-22.

Wife and I saw this one this evening.

Holman wrote: ↑Tue Feb 12, 2019 6:50 pm

This looks like it could be wonderful: Yesterday from director Danny Boyle.

Something happens and a frustrated young songwriter finds himself in a world where The Beatles never existed, only he (and ONLY he) remembers all their songs...

There was an episode of the 80's sci fi show Otherworld that had a similar plot.

Wikipedia wrote:In the Centrex province, Trace and Gina introduce rock 'n' roll music, and record songs written by the Beatles and other classic artists. The music has an emotional impact that takes the province by storm; the Church of Artificial Intelligence angrily protests the idol worship of Trace and Gina, whom the church views as subversives undermining their control. Cmdr. Kroll is sent to deal with the problem, and he likes the music! – then he recognizes the two singers.

hepcat wrote: ↑Sun Dec 09, 2018 10:55 am Oh hey, thanks James Gunn for giving me the Superman movie I never knew I wanted.


Brightburn isn't anything new, as DC has done more than one variant on the "What if Superman wasn't such a nice guy" formula, but I trust Gunn to make something unique and fun out of it. By turning it into pure horror, I think he's on the right track.

Well, that was a waste of 90 minutes. Saw it this afternoon and it goes from promising to cliched slasher film fairly quickly. They try to create a mashup of an origin story for a bloodthirsty killer and a comic book Superman rip-off. But they just ended up making a mediocre horror film that isn’t really that scary. They do pile on the gore though...which just makes the whole thing feel even more confused about what it wants to say. Turns out it was only produced by James Gunn.

At best this is a streaming service watch...as long as you don’t have to pay for it.