So I never cared to see either Cloud Atlas or Jupiter Ascending, but based on Rotten Tomatoes I guess you could say that Cloud Atlas was better, I guess. But even Cloud Atlas only has a 66% on RT and both of them only made back about 1/4 of their budget in the US so ... that's not a great endorsement as far as I can see
Cloud Atlas was interesting to see once. I didn't love it, but there were some good parts. Meanwhile, I never had any interest in Jupiter at all and have watched Speed Racer and the first Matrix probably 20+ times. So... it really depends.
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I really dug Cloud Atlas when I saw it but that was during the fog of permadrunkedness so I need to give it a once over.
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Cloud Atlas is really weird and really ambitious and has some problematic shit in it but at the same time I kind of loved watching it?
It's not something I've ever felt like going back to, but damn if it wasn't a unique experience
Olivawgood name, isn't it?the foot of mt fujiRegistered Userregular
Oh and I've been desperately curious what the fuck a Matrix 4 would even look like, so the idea that it is "Cloud Atlas weird" is exactly what I wanted to hear
I haven't watched the movie but cloud Atlas the book is weird and semi problematic and almost unfilmable, so honestly I've always thought 'props for trying'.
Really looking forward to the Matrix just going weird as hell, yeah, which is saying something since Reloaded just went for it, but also pulled a lot of punches (Warewolves, Draculas) on cool shit we should have seen expanded upon in Revolutions. Go hard into Matrix Draculas and whatever! More orgies, not less!
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I've seen only parts of Cloud Atlas and Jupiter Ascending didn't really land for me (although as a spectacle movie holy good lord it's nice to look at), but Lana is basically always swinging for the fuckin' fences so even when she doesn't quite stick it I respect the hell out of the attempt.
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The comparison I was looking for was Matrix 1 Wachowski and not Matrix 3 Wachowski.
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Based on the Netflix movie, the anime film will be directed by Kyohei Ishiguro.
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Ok so, Bright was terrible and this is a bad idea. But also, they took the role that was played by a black actor, from a movie about racism, and made him samurai who appears (from the image here) to be not even Asian, but a white dude?
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I would be hesitant to assume the race of anyone depicted in a picture like that.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I mean the director, writer, and lead animator are all japanese, and the name of the character is japanese, so I think probably not? It's also not supposed to be the same person as Will Smith's characater, or even the same time period.
I mean the director, writer, and lead animator are all japanese, and the name of the character is japanese, so I think probably not? It's also not supposed to be the same person as Will Smith's characater, or even the same time period.
Ah ok that helps me breath a sigh of relief a bit better then. From the little article I found on it, which only had this and like 2 other pictures, I had no details about the crew, and the and the one other picture didn't really make me think "Asian-descent" and from the plot summery, I thought this was just "The Movie Bright but Anime" since its...the same plot, and this was Will Smith's character. So thank you for clearing that up
So long as Sexpest Dadkilledkids and Bootlicker Copagandaman aren't attached to the project, I could see it being a reasonable amount better than the original movie
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I have plenty of opinions that colleagues in writers rooms find baffling, but my genuine belief that Sense8 was Good, Actually is by FAR the one that catches me the most shit
I think the wachowskis are largely bad directors that god lucky with the matrix because they hadn't developed their bad habits of trying to convey complex emotional development in 90 minutes and getting lost in their own world building while trying to very awkwardly try and poorly interject queer theory
I think sense8 was the perfect format for turning their movie director flaws into an intricate exploration of human emotion and queer theory that seemed believable
The Wachowskis might not make the best films and they seem to veer away from plots at times, but damn do they make some of the best worlds I've had the joy of seeing on screen
The Wachowskis might not make the best films and they seem to veer away from plots at times, but damn do they make some of the best worlds I've had the joy of seeing on screen
At work they had on MacGruber. I have seen the end of it before but the person who put it no said it was funnier than shit the funniest movie he ever has seen
Meh it's not for me
MacGruber is just so earnest and dumb that I have trouble not watching it whenever it's on
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The Wachowskis might not make the best films and they seem to veer away from plots at times, but damn do they make some of the best worlds I've had the joy of seeing on screen
Cloud Atlas was interesting to see once. I didn't love it, but there were some good parts. Meanwhile, I never had any interest in Jupiter at all and have watched Speed Racer and the first Matrix probably 20+ times. So... it really depends.
I've only seen cloud atlas once, but I've seen Jupiter Ascending TWICE! I forgave more of JA the second time around. Still god awful. But I had to watch it again because I wanted to experience the awfulness a 2nd time.
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I think Tom Tykwer should probably be mentioned in discussing Cloud Atlas and Sense8, since his fingerprints are also all over both.
I knew about the tattoos, but not that Beattie had one nor just how much he put into Gimli.
Some notable quotes:
“I am aware that a lot of the people, even hard-core Lord of the Rings fans assume that a lot of the shots are some tricky sort of camera angle or some CGI shrinking John Rhys-Davies down,” Beattie says with a good-natured laugh. “I don’t want to burst anyone’s bubbles, but I can only think of a couple of shots where CGI was used to shrink Rhys-Davies down.”
Viewers can’t really tell when Gimli is Rhys-Davies and when he’s Beattie — that’s the whole point — but Beattie can. He recalls watching a YouTube video of one minute and a half of Gimli fight scenes and realizing that all but four seconds of the montage were him. Beattie says he spent 189 days — some 2,300 hours — as Gimli, all told.
Even when they weren’t becoming blood balloons, those facial prosthetics were a lot to endure. The scale doubles playing the hobbits had full rubber masks they could just pull on and take off, and there was an unwritten rule that they couldn’t be in the masks for more than an hour at a time on set. Beattie, meanwhile, had more than 2 kilograms of silicon and foam rubber glued to his face for a minimum of 12 hours a day, sometimes more.
And this sucks
With the encouragement of his seasoned movie star cast members, Beattie, who did not have an agent or any movie business experience, asked to get a screen credit befitting the amount of time and effort he’d put into Gimli. The producers agreed, saying that he was going to be listed in the credits as Gimli’s stunt, scale, and photo double. But a week later, he was told that he actually couldn’t be given the screen credit, due to “movie politics’’ and “concerns about preserving the illusion that is Gimli.” Beattie is listed in the credits, but just as a stunt performer. (Sean Astin’s book about his time filming Lord of the Rings, There and Back Again: An Actor’s Tale, confirms that Beattie almost got co-credit for playing Gimli.)
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That DOES suck. Give the man his credit you dickheads!
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Librarian's ghostLibrarian, Ghostbuster, and TimSporkRegistered Userregular
I swear JRD said the thing about the tattoo way back on the making of special features.
Cloud Atlas was interesting to see once. I didn't love it, but there were some good parts. Meanwhile, I never had any interest in Jupiter at all and have watched Speed Racer and the first Matrix probably 20+ times. So... it really depends.
I've only seen cloud atlas once, but I've seen Jupiter Ascending TWICE! I forgave more of JA the second time around. Still god awful. But I had to watch it again because I wanted to experience the awfulness a 2nd time.
Jupiter Ascending is amazing cause basically every 10 seconds was punctuated by a hearty guffaw and me yelling "WHAT!?" at the TV in utter amused bewilderment.
Hope the cloud atlas comparison doesn't mean that there's yellowface in this one
Cloud Atlas slides on this for me as actors being under a ton of makeup was the movie's whole deal. There were white actors in yellowface, black actors in whiteface, Korean actors in whiteface, black actors in yellowface, etc.
Like... two of Halle Barry's characters:
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Jupiter Ascending was just too advanced for em
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It's not something I've ever felt like going back to, but damn if it wasn't a unique experience
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I'd say something similar about jupiter ascending, which I ultimately like a lot more because its goals are more obvious and fun
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Ok so, Bright was terrible and this is a bad idea. But also, they took the role that was played by a black actor, from a movie about racism, and made him samurai who appears (from the image here) to be not even Asian, but a white dude?
Ah ok that helps me breath a sigh of relief a bit better then. From the little article I found on it, which only had this and like 2 other pictures, I had no details about the crew, and the and the one other picture didn't really make me think "Asian-descent" and from the plot summery, I thought this was just "The Movie Bright but Anime" since its...the same plot, and this was Will Smith's character. So thank you for clearing that up
Maybe not good per se, but maybe better
It made like 90 million on a 120 million budget
So probably not
Based on the best-selling novel by Miriam Toews, Women Talking follows a group of women in an isolated religious colony as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony’s men
Frances McDormand
Jessie Buckley
Rooney Mara
Claire Foy
Judith Ivey
Sheila McCarthy
Michelle McLeod
Ben Whishaw
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I think the wachowskis are largely bad directors that god lucky with the matrix because they hadn't developed their bad habits of trying to convey complex emotional development in 90 minutes and getting lost in their own world building while trying to very awkwardly try and poorly interject queer theory
I think sense8 was the perfect format for turning their movie director flaws into an intricate exploration of human emotion and queer theory that seemed believable
This still gives me goosebumps
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MacGruber is just so earnest and dumb that I have trouble not watching it whenever it's on
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I love Freddie Wong having an orgasm on the couch from that clip
I've only seen cloud atlas once, but I've seen Jupiter Ascending TWICE! I forgave more of JA the second time around. Still god awful. But I had to watch it again because I wanted to experience the awfulness a 2nd time.
Lord of the Rings’ uncredited Gimli double did the work, and has the tattoo to prove it
I knew about the tattoos, but not that Beattie had one nor just how much he put into Gimli.
Some notable quotes:
And this sucks
I know I heard that way long ago.
Jupiter Ascending is amazing cause basically every 10 seconds was punctuated by a hearty guffaw and me yelling "WHAT!?" at the TV in utter amused bewilderment.
10/10
Cloud Atlas slides on this for me as actors being under a ton of makeup was the movie's whole deal. There were white actors in yellowface, black actors in whiteface, Korean actors in whiteface, black actors in yellowface, etc.
Like... two of Halle Barry's characters:
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