The budget for “Fast X,” the penultimate film in Universal’s lucrative “Fast & Furious” action franchise, has ballooned to $340 million, according to individuals with knowledge of the production. That’s 70% more than the reported $200 million budget for 2021’s “F9: The Fast Saga,” and easily the most expensive entry
The budget for “Fast X,” the penultimate film in Universal’s lucrative “Fast & Furious” action franchise, has ballooned to $340 million, according to individuals with knowledge of the production. That’s 70% more than the reported $200 million budget for 2021’s “F9: The Fast Saga,” and easily the most expensive entry
could they maybe pay for Charlize Theron to have a better haircut this time
I watched Doctor Sleep not long after watching The Shining
I did not like Doctor Sleep
I thought it did a REALLY amazing job of mixing the Kubrick canon with the King canon but overall no it wasn't a great film. But I screamed like a 3 year old when the lady playing Wendy was on screen; she did such a fucking stunning impersonation of shelley duvall it was creepy.
And i really love finding out what happened to characters years later.
I thought her vocal impression was very good
My favorite scene was Danny's speech at AA and his talk with Lloyd!Jack at the bar. Really hits the tale of addiction and falling in that the King story focused on. I thought all the visual nods were pretty hokey, especially the interview room being the exact same for no real reason.
The new plot with Abra... well I liked her early stuff with her doing all sorts of magic kid stuff but the villains in the movie suck. I don't think they're that scary and also the fact that it's a (in the book) romani woman, native tracker, and a queer woman at the center of that makes me grimace.
I watched Doctor Sleep not long after watching The Shining
I did not like Doctor Sleep
I thought it did a REALLY amazing job of mixing the Kubrick canon with the King canon but overall no it wasn't a great film. But I screamed like a 3 year old when the lady playing Wendy was on screen; she did such a fucking stunning impersonation of shelley duvall it was creepy.
And i really love finding out what happened to characters years later.
I thought her vocal impression was very good
My favorite scene was Danny's speech at AA and his talk with Lloyd!Jack at the bar. Really hits the tale of addiction and falling in that the King story focused on. I thought all the visual nods were pretty hokey, especially the interview room being the exact same for no real reason.
The new plot with Abra... well I liked her early stuff with her doing all sorts of magic kid stuff but the villains in the movie suck. I don't think they're that scary and also the fact that it's a (in the book) romani woman, native tracker, and a queer woman at the center of that makes me grimace.
I started watching Don’t Worry Darling but I couldn’t get into it.
Harry Styles just looks like Harry Styles. Every time he was on the screen my thought was, “oh it’s pop star Harry Styles, formerly of One Direction!”
It's also incredibly dull.
The conceit & story is fine, but it's just so devoid of any tension, character, anything at all. The moments that are meant to be dramatic are flat, the reveals should be horrifying but make you shrug, if you've not already slipped into a lethargic coma.
It's a shame since the 'genre' of
horror about shitty men that's had a minor upswing lately-ish is a good one, but this falls on its face. Watch The Invisible Man again instead, or for something like the flawed but interesting Run Sweetheart Run that actually managed to get released recently.
Watched Smile, was fine but has one of my most hated things in horror movies,
it ends with like the cycle continuing and nothings changed. And I feel like great yeah scary, but as a movie there needs to be a reason I’m watching this link in the chain and not the others. If this is just another failed victim in the chain, what’s the point.
I get it’s like a common trope in horror, and some would argue it’s a crucial element to some forms of horror, but I’m just utterly sick of it. Whenever I watch horror movies now I look for the tell tale signs of this trope and if they’re there I just tune out
Watched Smile, was fine but has one of my most hated things in horror movies,
it ends with like the cycle continuing and nothings changed. And I feel like great yeah scary, but as a movie there needs to be a reason I’m watching this link in the chain and not the others. If this is just another failed victim in the chain, what’s the point.
I get it’s like a common trope in horror, and some would argue it’s a crucial element to some forms of horror, but I’m just utterly sick of it. Whenever I watch horror movies now I look for the tell tale signs of this trope and if they’re there I just tune out
It's just low sequel bait.
If they had
Established some narrative reasoning for the next victim to maybe have more of a shot of breaking the cycle then it wouldn't have been as groan worthy.
In It Follows it at least has the fear of a life forever altered, unable to live a traditionally full life without severe consequences for yourself or others, which ties really well into the horror STD angle.
Smile is just "The End, no moral!"
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Fine is exactly the word that should be used to describe Smile.
It’s a perfectly middle of the road horror movie.
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I’m watching The People We Hate at the Wedding
This cast is pretty loaded!
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Alright I sucked it up and watched Barbarian. It was great.
Going in, I knew about the mother and what I had read about that made me pretty uncomfortable (the forced suckling, etc.) was only briefly shown and wasn't all that bad so that was a relief. I thought knowing about her would deflate the buildup to the reveal but I was legit spooked for the first 30 minutes or so, just waiting for her to show up. Even though I knew Keith wasn't up to anything, they did a great job communicating Tess' aprehension.
I was absolutely delighted for Justin Long's appearance. I knew he was in it but I just assumed he was running the situation so that whole sequence was fantastic. The measuring joke got me every time.
edit: I will also say that although it's not subtle about it's broader social commentary, it's far less up it's own ass about the same themes as Men.
edit again: I think the only thing that didn't really work for me is the flashback scene. Necessary, I think, but clunky.
It was ok…not going to watch it again but I don’t feel like I wasted my time.
Got a few laughs out of me.
We watched this last night and I thought it was cromulent to good! I love Allison Janet in everything she does.
Also is it just me or do Amazon movies look fake? There are a few scenes here that look straight up green screened locations. Admittedly good green screens, but still fake.
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It was ok…not going to watch it again but I don’t feel like I wasted my time.
Got a few laughs out of me.
We watched this last night and I thought it was cromulent to good! I love Allison Janet in everything she does.
Also is it just me or do Amazon movies look fake? There are a few scenes here that look straight up green screened locations. Admittedly good green screens, but still fake.
Anyways, "CEO of Disney" is one of the most visible positions you can have in entertainment and Chapek spent the last year and a half systematically pissing off just about everyone he possibly could so it's not a huge shock that he's gone. It's wild that Iger quit in February of 2020, about a month before the pandemic shut everything down (I don't think it's a stretch to say the burgeoning pandemic played some part in that decision) and then came back right at the moment everyone was about as pissed off as they could possibly be at his successor.
Bob Chapek sucked in a lot of ways that Iger will almost certainly fix, and he also sucked in a lot of ways that all CEOs suck. He's sure got a laundry list of loud complaints about Disney to respond to but I'd imagine that, like...telling Kevin Feige to stop running VFX studios in the ground probably isn't on his list
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Anyways, "CEO of Disney" is one of the most visible positions you can have in entertainment and Chapek spent the last year and a half systematically pissing off just about everyone he possibly could so it's not a huge shock that he's gone. It's wild that Iger quit in February of 2020, about a month before the pandemic shut everything down (I don't think it's a stretch to say the burgeoning pandemic played some part in that decision) and then came back right at the moment everyone was about as pissed off as they could possibly be at his successor.
Bob Chapek sucked in a lot of ways that Iger will almost certainly fix, and he also sucked in a lot of ways that all CEOs suck. He's sure got a laundry list of loud complaints about Disney to respond to but I'd imagine that, like...telling Kevin Feige to stop running VFX studios in the ground probably isn't on his list
We're going to see if, for example, the focus on basically running the Disney parks on the idea that visitors are fungible and loyalty doesn't matter goes away.
Also, it wouldn't surprise me if this was part of Iger's plan, because he knew that COVID was going to be kind of a shitshow.
Anyways, "CEO of Disney" is one of the most visible positions you can have in entertainment and Chapek spent the last year and a half systematically pissing off just about everyone he possibly could so it's not a huge shock that he's gone. It's wild that Iger quit in February of 2020, about a month before the pandemic shut everything down (I don't think it's a stretch to say the burgeoning pandemic played some part in that decision) and then came back right at the moment everyone was about as pissed off as they could possibly be at his successor.
Bob Chapek sucked in a lot of ways that Iger will almost certainly fix, and he also sucked in a lot of ways that all CEOs suck. He's sure got a laundry list of loud complaints about Disney to respond to but I'd imagine that, like...telling Kevin Feige to stop running VFX studios in the ground probably isn't on his list
We're going to see if, for example, the focus on basically running the Disney parks on the idea that visitors are fungible and loyalty doesn't matter goes away.
Also, it wouldn't surprise me if this was part of Iger's plan, because he knew that COVID was going to be kind of a shitshow.
I guess part of the statement here is that Iger is only taking over for two years, so what I'd guess is that Iger saw a chance to get out before something big happened, and was content to be...retired, or whatever the hell he was doing, and Disney paid him a lot of money to come in and save their asses. Guy's 71, it feels like he probably was done with this shit.
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Anyways, "CEO of Disney" is one of the most visible positions you can have in entertainment and Chapek spent the last year and a half systematically pissing off just about everyone he possibly could so it's not a huge shock that he's gone. It's wild that Iger quit in February of 2020, about a month before the pandemic shut everything down (I don't think it's a stretch to say the burgeoning pandemic played some part in that decision) and then came back right at the moment everyone was about as pissed off as they could possibly be at his successor.
Bob Chapek sucked in a lot of ways that Iger will almost certainly fix, and he also sucked in a lot of ways that all CEOs suck. He's sure got a laundry list of loud complaints about Disney to respond to but I'd imagine that, like...telling Kevin Feige to stop running VFX studios in the ground probably isn't on his list
We're going to see if, for example, the focus on basically running the Disney parks on the idea that visitors are fungible and loyalty doesn't matter goes away.
Also, it wouldn't surprise me if this was part of Iger's plan, because he knew that COVID was going to be kind of a shitshow.
I guess part of the statement here is that Iger is only taking over for two years, so what I'd guess is that Iger saw a chance to get out before something big happened, and was content to be...retired, or whatever the hell he was doing, and Disney paid him a lot of money to come in and save their asses. Guy's 71, it feels like he probably was done with this shit.
Yeah the two-year stint feels extremely desperate, like Chapek was making everyone so mad they'd do anything to get rid of him, and this was anything
Alright I sucked it up and watched Barbarian. It was great.
Going in, I knew about the mother and what I had read about that made me pretty uncomfortable (the forced suckling, etc.) was only briefly shown and wasn't all that bad so that was a relief. I thought knowing about her would deflate the buildup to the reveal but I was legit spooked for the first 30 minutes or so, just waiting for her to show up. Even though I knew Keith wasn't up to anything, they did a great job communicating Tess' aprehension.
I was absolutely delighted for Justin Long's appearance. I knew he was in it but I just assumed he was running the situation so that whole sequence was fantastic. The measuring joke got me every time.
edit: I will also say that although it's not subtle about it's broader social commentary, it's far less up it's own ass about the same themes as Men.
edit again: I think the only thing that didn't really work for me is the flashback scene. Necessary, I think, but clunky.
I really enjoyed the style of the flashback stuff. How it was weirdly janky Wide-angle. I also like how we see white flight being the soil that the evil plans take root in. How everyone not wanting to look at the ugly blight provided the cover for the crime.
It was ok…not going to watch it again but I don’t feel like I wasted my time.
Got a few laughs out of me.
We watched this last night and I thought it was cromulent to good! I love Allison Janet in everything she does.
Also is it just me or do Amazon movies look fake? There are a few scenes here that look straight up green screened locations. Admittedly good green screens, but still fake.
From what I've seen of behind the scenes docos, it's rarer to have a scene NOT filmed in front of green screen
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could they maybe pay for Charlize Theron to have a better haircut this time
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I learned that the hard way
I thought her vocal impression was very good
The new plot with Abra... well I liked her early stuff with her doing all sorts of magic kid stuff but the villains in the movie suck. I don't think they're that scary and also the fact that it's a (in the book) romani woman, native tracker, and a queer woman at the center of that makes me grimace.
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Harry Styles just looks like Harry Styles. Every time he was on the screen my thought was, “oh it’s pop star Harry Styles, formerly of One Direction!”
I watched Moonraker last night and enjoyed it quite a bit!
But that Roger Moore, at this point in his tenure as James Bond, he's starting to show his age...
It's also incredibly dull.
The conceit & story is fine, but it's just so devoid of any tension, character, anything at all. The moments that are meant to be dramatic are flat, the reveals should be horrifying but make you shrug, if you've not already slipped into a lethargic coma.
It's a shame since the 'genre' of
What did you expect Harry Styles to look like?
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For a better movie about Palm Springs, can I recommend Palm Springs?
It's just low sequel bait.
If they had
In It Follows it at least has the fear of a life forever altered, unable to live a traditionally full life without severe consequences for yourself or others, which ties really well into the horror STD angle.
Smile is just "The End, no moral!"
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It’s a perfectly middle of the road horror movie.
This cast is pretty loaded!
It was ok…not going to watch it again but I don’t feel like I wasted my time.
Got a few laughs out of me.
Were you loaded by the end of it?
I was stoned for the entirety of the movie. Still am!
I was absolutely delighted for Justin Long's appearance. I knew he was in it but I just assumed he was running the situation so that whole sequence was fantastic. The measuring joke got me every time.
edit: I will also say that although it's not subtle about it's broader social commentary, it's far less up it's own ass about the same themes as Men.
edit again: I think the only thing that didn't really work for me is the flashback scene. Necessary, I think, but clunky.
We watched this last night and I thought it was cromulent to good! I love Allison Janet in everything she does.
Also is it just me or do Amazon movies look fake? There are a few scenes here that look straight up green screened locations. Admittedly good green screens, but still fake.
Yes, there is something about them that looks off
Per an email to staff, Bob Chapek is stepping down as Disney CEO and former Disney CEO Bob Iger is stepping back into the role
Bob Chapek sucked in a lot of ways that Iger will almost certainly fix, and he also sucked in a lot of ways that all CEOs suck. He's sure got a laundry list of loud complaints about Disney to respond to but I'd imagine that, like...telling Kevin Feige to stop running VFX studios in the ground probably isn't on his list
We're going to see if, for example, the focus on basically running the Disney parks on the idea that visitors are fungible and loyalty doesn't matter goes away.
Also, it wouldn't surprise me if this was part of Iger's plan, because he knew that COVID was going to be kind of a shitshow.
I guess part of the statement here is that Iger is only taking over for two years, so what I'd guess is that Iger saw a chance to get out before something big happened, and was content to be...retired, or whatever the hell he was doing, and Disney paid him a lot of money to come in and save their asses. Guy's 71, it feels like he probably was done with this shit.
Yeah the two-year stint feels extremely desperate, like Chapek was making everyone so mad they'd do anything to get rid of him, and this was anything
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I really enjoyed the style of the flashback stuff. How it was weirdly janky Wide-angle. I also like how we see white flight being the soil that the evil plans take root in. How everyone not wanting to look at the ugly blight provided the cover for the crime.
From what I've seen of behind the scenes docos, it's rarer to have a scene NOT filmed in front of green screen