mister police. you could have saved her. I gave you all the [MOVIES]

Mr. G · October 2017

THE SNOWMAN is sure to be the hottest (MORE LIKE COLDEST) movie of the season that features a script where 15% of it wasn't shot, entire scenes rephrased in ADR, and TWO alcoholic cops who don't play by the rules

I'm sure other movies are coming out, but why would anyone compete with this juggernaut

A duck! · October 2017

I'm starting to think Michael Fassbender is largely consigned to shit movies.

Sweeney Tom · October 2017

Thor Ragnarok is 100% on Rotten Tomatoes with 30 reviews so far

Theodore Floosevelt · October 2017

‪my father is mister police. please, call me sting‬

Poorochondriac · October 2017

I was at a short film festival where a really weird thing happened and all of them were really good? Usually at short film fests, there are at least a couple of clunkers. But this one was all good-to-great, which was very cool!

One of my favorites was this Chan-wook Park (in Sympathy for Lady Vengeance mode) riff about siblings and crimes, and it was gross and funny and sad and all shot in subtitled Korean even though it was filmed in Burbank. It ain't online yet, but I'll probably post it if/when it is - it was a treat. It was called "Lost Dogs," and that team is gonna do some cool-ass shit if they keep on the rise. Trailer for it's here:

On the more overtly comedic side, there was "Groundhog Day for a Black Man," which plays the very smart card of offloading its whole premise right there in the title. So it gets into the jokes immediately, no long setup or over-explanation. Immaculately cut, well-shot and well-acted, funny as hell. Good stuff.

Another favorite was a bittersweet high school romance vignette, "Pop Rox." Dynamite lead performance, quietly heartbreaking without any outsized tragedy, warmly funny - lovely piece. Full thing isn't online, but there's a trailer:

Short film festivals are cool! I'm not just saying that because this one had an open bar!

Grey Ghost · October 2017

Boy that Snowman movie sure seems like a trainwreck

Grey Ghost · October 2017

Also are you kidding me that they didn't use the original pronunciation of his last name
How did you all think this would go

2 Marcus 2 Ravens · October 2017

Poorochondriac wrote: »

I was at a short film festival where a really weird thing happened and all of them were really good? Usually at short film fests, there are at least a couple of clunkers. But this one was all good-to-great, which was very cool!

One of my favorites was this Chan-wook Park (in Sympathy for Lady Vengeance mode) riff about siblings and crimes, and it was gross and funny and sad and all shot in subtitled Korean even though it was filmed in Burbank. It ain't online yet, but I'll probably post it if/when it is - it was a treat. It was called "Lost Dogs," and that team is gonna do some cool-ass shit if they keep on the rise. Trailer for it's here:

On the more overtly comedic side, there was "Groundhog Day for a Black Man," which plays the very smart card of offloading its whole premise right there in the title. So it gets into the jokes immediately, no long setup or over-explanation. Immaculately cut, well-shot and well-acted, funny as hell. Good stuff.

Another favorite was a bittersweet high school romance vignette, "Pop Rox." Dynamite lead performance, quietly heartbreaking without any outsized tragedy, warmly funny - lovely piece. Full thing isn't online, but there's a trailer:

Short film festivals are cool! I'm not just saying that because this one had an open bar!

Groundhog Day for a Black Man was excellent.

And Pop Rox looks solid. If Kimia Behpoornia doesn't end up way more shit, it'll be a tragedy. I haven't seen her in that many things, but she's always the best part.

Maximum · October 2017

Man, I'm bummed that The Snowman is going to be terrible. Maybe I'm broken, but I love the trailer every time I see it.

Mr. G · October 2017

I saw American Made yesterday and it was a lot of fun

Doug Liman knows how to frame it so Tom Cruise's usual charms feel desperate (in a good way, that serves the character)

and I'm glad that it doesn't shy away from how fucked the things America was doing were

It, like all good things set in the 80s, ends up with the ultimate villain being Reagan

Sweeney Tom · October 2017

I'll probably see Snowman even though I know it's going to be bad and that I liked Happy Death Day last week more than it and I'll like Jigsaw next week more than it

Also it's opening against both Madea Halloween and Geostorm

Just a real bad month for it imo

miscellaneousinsanity · October 2017

idk if it was posted in a previous thread but i don't care, this is all i can think about whenever i see that movie

https://twitter.com/xChellbot/status/911468543971119107

https://twitter.com/xChellbot/status/911468806488383488

Grey Ghost · October 2017

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2017/10/19/val_kilmer_s_appearance_in_the_snowman_is_incredibly_bizarre.html

The first intimation that The Snowman is going to be a cataclysm of truly epic proportions comes when Val Kilmer enters the picture as a detective investigating the same killer’s crimes in the city of Bergen nine years earlier. Kilmer’s Gert Rafto sits silent as a man tells him about his missing wife, and when it’s his turn to speak, the film cuts abruptly to a shot from behind Kilmer’s head so he’s only visible as a silhouette. His shoulders jerk as he talks, like a puppet being operated by an unseen hand. It’s only subtly disorienting at first, but then you realize that the voice that’s purportedly coming out of Kilmer’s mouth doesn’t sound like him at all, and when the film finally cuts to his face on his third (of three total) lines, it’s clear Kilmer’s lines have been redubbed by another actor.

This, uh, continues

Maximum · October 2017

Harry Hole and Gert Rafto

This movie sounds amazing.

shoeboxjeddy · October 2017

The AVClub https://www.avclub.com/the-snowmans-main-character-is-named-harry-hole-and-1819671356 and IGN http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/10/19/the-snowman-review reviews for this shit movie brought me quite a bit of happiness this afternoon. I hope this becomes a "Book of Henry" style flashpoint of hit piece reviews.

Ketar · October 2017

Alright, I'm going to find a way to watch The Snowman and Geostorm back to back at one of the local theaters with booze. This weekend is too busy, but next weekend is probably doable. It will fill the Camp Counseling void.

Ringo · October 2017

That is some commitment to masochism

FroThulhu · October 2017

What's the purpose of making that kind of directorial/editing choice?

I mean, yeah, some studio goose probably made it happen, but...

to what end?

what's the meaning of this?

Like... Val Kilmer is a Good Actor

what does it mean?

Ringo · October 2017

Thanks to that AVclub article, I now know that Hospital Massacre is a movie that exists

I don't really care about that, as I'm not much for bad horror as I used to be, but reading the plot synopsis on Wikipedia was a freakin' treat

Theodore Floosevelt · October 2017

FroThulhu wrote: »

What's the purpose of making that kind of directorial/editing choice?

I mean, yeah, some studio goose probably made it happen, but...

to what end?

what's the meaning of this?

Like... Val Kilmer is a Good Actor

what does it mean?

he give you all the clues

2 Marcus 2 Ravens · October 2017

Inspired by @Poorochondriac I decided to take stock of my favourite short films I've seen this year. So far, this one comes out on top easily. It's about a bunch of fourteen year old girls who get bored and put 400 goldfish in a swimming pool. It's called "And So We Put Goldfish In The Pool". Also, it won Short Film Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year.

Munkus Beaver · October 2017

FroThulhu wrote: »

What's the purpose of making that kind of directorial/editing choice?

I mean, yeah, some studio goose probably made it happen, but...

to what end?

what's the meaning of this?

Like... Val Kilmer is a Good Actor

what does it mean?

I'll be your huckleberry.

Zonugal · October 2017

If you folks like Val Kilmer, you should check out MacGruber.

He plays the sophisticated & very reasonable villain to Will Forte's sociopathic "hero."

BahamutZERO · October 2017

FroThulhu wrote: »

What's the purpose of making that kind of directorial/editing choice?

I mean, yeah, some studio goose probably made it happen, but...

to what end?

what's the meaning of this?

Like... Val Kilmer is a Good Actor

what does it mean?

one of those articles mentioned Kilmer said at some point during production that he was "healing from cancer," and maybe it was interfering with his speech maybe?

Ketar · October 2017

Zonugal wrote: »

If you folks like Val Kilmer, you should check out MacGruber.

He plays the sophisticated & very reasonable villain to Will Forte's sociopathic "hero."

But then I would have to sit through over 90 minutes of Will Forte and, well, my cinemasochism has limits.

Zonugal · October 2017

Ketar wrote: »

Zonugal wrote: »

If you folks like Val Kilmer, you should check out MacGruber.

He plays the sophisticated & very reasonable villain to Will Forte's sociopathic "hero."

But then I would have to sit through over 90 minutes of Will Forte and, well, my cinemasochism has limits.

WILL FORTE IS A NATIONAL TREASURE!!!

Shorty · October 2017

the more of will forte I see, the less I like him

Mr. G · October 2017

Just saw Lucky, which is just charming as all hell

Definitely watch it if what you’ve been lacking in your life is David Lynch reciting an ode to the can-do spirit of the mighty tortoise

Macro9 · October 2017

MacGrubber is funny as hell so yeah watch it.

As for Kilmer being dubbed over. I can completely understand it. I saw him recently and his voice is jacked up. He blamed it on a cold but videos I've seen since and before then kinda hint at it not being the case. Cancer has done a number on him for sure.

Raijin Quickfoot · October 2017

I really want to see The Snowman

Gustav · October 2017

Mr. G wrote: »

Just saw Lucky, which is just charming as all hell

Definitely watch it if what you’ve been lacking in your life is David Lynch reciting an ode to the can-do spirit of the mighty tortoise

I never knew I needed this. But I need this.

DarkPrimus · October 2017

Glenn Kenny wrote:

Another problem is this: snowmen aren’t scary, and when you try too hard to make them scary, you just make it worse. The movie is strewn with camera pans from innocent-looking street scenes to … THREATENING SNOWMAN FACE, and the effect is very Dramatic Chipmunk, only less dynamic. To top off all of the ineffective weirdness, the movie ends on a tone-deaf “got a sequel if you want it” note. I do believe, and I’m sorry for this, that it’ll be a cold day in hell before any such thing materializes.

Yeah

Gustav · October 2017

Doctor Who had Snowmen monsters voiced by Gandalf and led by Withnail!

but i guess they weren't very scary either

Grey Ghost · October 2017

I'm laughing my ass off at "got a sequel if you want it" for some reason

2 Marcus 2 Ravens · October 2017

So, Tarantino says he knew about several incidents with Weinstein and didn't come forward.

“I knew enough to do more than I did,” Tarantino tells The New York Times in a new interview. “There was more to it than just the normal rumors, the normal gossip. It wasn’t secondhand. I knew he did a couple of these things. I wish I had taken responsibility for what I heard. If I had done the work I should have done then, I would have had to not work with him.”

Tarantino says "everyone who was close to Harvey had heard of at least one of [these] incidents” and encourages the men who know more details about Weinstein to come forward and be honest.

http://www.indiewire.com/2017/10/quentin-tarantino-harvey-weinstein-sexual-harassment-statement-1201889192/

Sweeney Tom · October 2017

Variety wrote:

The “Inglourious Basterds” director said that although he was aware of those instances, he didn’t put them together into an overall pattern of behavior by Weinstein, and continued to make films with him — which Tarantino said he now regrets.

“What I did was marginalize the incidents,” he recalled. “Anything I say now will sound like a crappy excuse.”