Do you think actors hit an age in hollywood, where everything that lands on their desk turns into "Fuck it, lets see where this goes!"? I dont even mean in a broke way, just a..... Ghandi in bloodrayne kind of way.
Depends on the actor. Ben Kingsley has a similar attitude toward acting as Christopher Walken. He'll do the job so long as it doesn't conflict with another job.
At least I'm pretty sure he's answered interview questions to that effect.
Ben Kingsley willingly did a movie for Uwe fucking Boll. He'll say yes to anything.
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Now, I hear all this talk about how sequels make the most money and that original movies don't snag nearly as much cash, and to that I say
So What?
Is that only method of validation for a movie its box office return? Should that ever be the metric to go by if your concern is more about the craft of the story or how well the actors/director/writer puts in the effort? Because those don't really converge. There isn't a correlation between the ability to get lots of people to see your movie, and getting the people involved to make a really good movie.
It's simply easier to make a movie people will turn up for than it is to make something that advances the medium, or reveals something about the human ability to wonder, look within, or empathize with a previously unrelatable character or concept. You can aim high, or just aim wide.
So I don't care if Pirates of the Caribbean 4 made Fuck You Money to mars and back. Let them have their Fuck You Money. They've earned it. They had the ability and clout to make absolutely any kind of movie they wanted to make, and they made the one they wanted that would make the money they wanted to make. Good for them. There's simply going to always be more people willing to show up for a middeling piratical drama-quest with a proven lead actor helming a proven franchise than there will ever be for any movie that wants to spread open the cracks of the human soul or make uncertain statements about the nature of life.
You might not like that, but it's very misguided to, on one hand, favor an original work that does quite well for itself, but on the other think that it's wrong a sequel blockbuster makes exponentially more money than it.
MAKING MORE MONEY DOES NOT INVALIDATE A MOVIE THAT HAS SOMETHING BETTER TO SAY.
In fact, I'd go so far as to say great movies get their due, but their due is not in box office returns.
How many people do you think watched Pirates of the Caribbean 4 and shat it out the back of their brain in less than a month, never to consider it again until the dvd bumpers rolled out for it?
How many people have been emotionally affected by watching a Scorcese movie and have needed to view it multiple times, returning to its themes and discovering how it reads at different stages of their life? Who return to it as a cultural touchstone of a time and a place, a reference to what was being done in cinema as well as, possibly, a reference to the way the world may have looked at itself at a certain point in time? How many people took Scorcese and made their own art out of how he made them look at the world around them? How many actors, authors, artists, musicians, comedians, and more have been fueled by his work in some way?
Fuck the returns. Let em have the big ten in sales. As they say, it's lonely at the top.
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KalTorakOne way or another, they all end up inthe Undercity.Registered Userregular
Unoriginal box-office hit movies pay the bills for small, original, artsy films. Without Transformers, good movies probably wouldn't get made.
The Dictator just took a turn for the worse. I'd rather see a crazy Middle Eastern dictator than this turn story where somehow no one recognizes him just because he doesn't have a beard. Its rather stupid now.
If a crazy middle eastern dictator came to the US, would you recognize him if he had his beard?
I don't quite know what to say about this. I mean on one hand it's Danny DeVito coming back to the silver screen but it's such a batshit insane idea.
that's messed up, and Eddie Murphy is definitely the poison pill in this. I guess he's from that era but I just don't get how they can have any chemistry.
My first thought was that Arnold and Devito get killed off in the first 5 minutes, and then it's all pure Murphy gold.
I don't quite know what to say about this. I mean on one hand it's Danny DeVito coming back to the silver screen but it's such a batshit insane idea.
that's messed up, and Eddie Murphy is definitely the poison pill in this. I guess he's from that era but I just don't get how they can have any chemistry.
My first thought was that Arnold and Devito get killed off in the first 5 minutes, and then it's all pure Murphy gold.
What was that? 1 thousand words or whatever? I never even saw it advertised or a trailer for it. Crazyness.
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Eddie Murphy is one of those guys that has had enough big money and early success that almost everything generally just bores him now. He's basically sleepwalking through life from here on out.
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total recall trailer up on apple
i dunno, it looks fun but they shouldn't be trying to market it as a total recall reboot as they seem to be doing a completely different story just revolving around the same tech (ie they're not going to mars or anything)
if anything this is more like future jason bourne
Original Total Recall was. . .I mean it had its moments but it isn't a "great" movie. It is as popcorn as it gets, which was great as a kid but damn sitting through it today is - bleah.
This new trailer though - I have no idea who is who when Biel and Beckensale are on the screen. . .
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I think I'd have been interested in Triplets twenty years ago, but not now.
Ben Kingsley willingly did a movie for Uwe fucking Boll. He'll say yes to anything.
So What?
Is that only method of validation for a movie its box office return? Should that ever be the metric to go by if your concern is more about the craft of the story or how well the actors/director/writer puts in the effort? Because those don't really converge. There isn't a correlation between the ability to get lots of people to see your movie, and getting the people involved to make a really good movie.
It's simply easier to make a movie people will turn up for than it is to make something that advances the medium, or reveals something about the human ability to wonder, look within, or empathize with a previously unrelatable character or concept. You can aim high, or just aim wide.
So I don't care if Pirates of the Caribbean 4 made Fuck You Money to mars and back. Let them have their Fuck You Money. They've earned it. They had the ability and clout to make absolutely any kind of movie they wanted to make, and they made the one they wanted that would make the money they wanted to make. Good for them. There's simply going to always be more people willing to show up for a middeling piratical drama-quest with a proven lead actor helming a proven franchise than there will ever be for any movie that wants to spread open the cracks of the human soul or make uncertain statements about the nature of life.
You might not like that, but it's very misguided to, on one hand, favor an original work that does quite well for itself, but on the other think that it's wrong a sequel blockbuster makes exponentially more money than it.
MAKING MORE MONEY DOES NOT INVALIDATE A MOVIE THAT HAS SOMETHING BETTER TO SAY.
In fact, I'd go so far as to say great movies get their due, but their due is not in box office returns.
How many people do you think watched Pirates of the Caribbean 4 and shat it out the back of their brain in less than a month, never to consider it again until the dvd bumpers rolled out for it?
How many people have been emotionally affected by watching a Scorcese movie and have needed to view it multiple times, returning to its themes and discovering how it reads at different stages of their life? Who return to it as a cultural touchstone of a time and a place, a reference to what was being done in cinema as well as, possibly, a reference to the way the world may have looked at itself at a certain point in time? How many people took Scorcese and made their own art out of how he made them look at the world around them? How many actors, authors, artists, musicians, comedians, and more have been fueled by his work in some way?
Fuck the returns. Let em have the big ten in sales. As they say, it's lonely at the top.
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It doesn't trickle down much. Even successful directors like Peter Jackson have to fight for proper compensation.
If a crazy middle eastern dictator came to the US, would you recognize him if he had his beard?
My first thought was that Arnold and Devito get killed off in the first 5 minutes, and then it's all pure Murphy gold.
Is gold the word I'm looking for?
Judging from his last movie, no.
Apparently it's like 3 or 4 years old, they're only releasing it now because of contract deadlines or something.
i dunno, it looks fun but they shouldn't be trying to market it as a total recall reboot as they seem to be doing a completely different story just revolving around the same tech (ie they're not going to mars or anything)
if anything this is more like future jason bourne
Also, drops a lot of the comedy.
Aw
WOLVERIIINEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS
oh, wait
If the new Red Dawn remake looked this competent I'd watch it. That trailer was great.
Prettymuch what I figured. A neutered Total Recall. A Linkin Park Total Recall.
The cityscape looks nice but otherwise...
What looks terrible about it?
Man, I cannot wait until the Blu-Ray release with the Alternate Endings comes out.
That shot where the camera bounces around and he kills all the guys was kinda cool.
See, I have the opposite opinion, I'm hoping for the Red Dawn remake to be as hammy and ridiculous as possible in the spirit of the original.
If the Communists fire a single shot that's not from the hip the entire movie I will be outraged.
There aren't any Communists in the remake, it's North Korea.
Close enough to Communists, I'll allow it. Hard to have a Red Dawn remake without Communists or quasi-Communists, after all.
Supposedly the only changed the antagonists from the Chinese to North Koreans to avoid pissing off China after they finished filming.
Ya, that doesn't seem racist at all.
This new trailer though - I have no idea who is who when Biel and Beckensale are on the screen. . .