If nothing else, we should probably give Chris Evans an award for "guy who most became his actual character off-screen".
I dunno, is Ryan Reynolds in the running for that award?
He's in the running, but I would posit that Chris Evans has spent more time fighting fascists than Ryan Reynolds has spent regrowing limbs.
I would counter that Deadpool is more about being sarcastic and funny and completely ridiculous, and Ryan Reynolds has spent a whole lot of time being really good at that.
If nothing else, we should probably give Chris Evans an award for "guy who most became his actual character off-screen".
I dunno, is Ryan Reynolds in the running for that award?
He's in the running, but I would posit that Chris Evans has spent more time fighting fascists than Ryan Reynolds has spent regrowing limbs.
Ryan Reynolds entire career since two guys a girl and a pizza place has been non sequitur wink at the camera 4th wall breaking comedy. That's like his entire schtick. Like he's one of those castings that came up that just made sense. Like Reynolds as deadpool made sense before deadpool as a movie even seemed like something that could happen.
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Chris Evans is just so damn charming and I really hope he's moved past the feeling about being typecast and will keep acting.
Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
If nothing else, we should probably give Chris Evans an award for "guy who most became his actual character off-screen".
I dunno, is Ryan Reynolds in the running for that award?
He's in the running, but I would posit that Chris Evans has spent more time fighting fascists than Ryan Reynolds has spent regrowing limbs.
Ryan Reynolds entire career since two guys a girl and a pizza place has been non sequitur wink at the camera 4th wall breaking comedy. That's like his entire schtick. Like he's one of those castings that came up that just made sense. Like Reynolds as deadpool made sense before deadpool as a movie even seemed like something that could happen.
I mean, he played Wade Wilson years and years before the Deadpool movie was a glint in the network executives' eye, and he was basically perfect then.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
If nothing else, we should probably give Chris Evans an award for "guy who most became his actual character off-screen".
I dunno, is Ryan Reynolds in the running for that award?
He's in the running, but I would posit that Chris Evans has spent more time fighting fascists than Ryan Reynolds has spent regrowing limbs.
Ryan Reynolds entire career since two guys a girl and a pizza place has been non sequitur wink at the camera 4th wall breaking comedy. That's like his entire schtick. Like he's one of those castings that came up that just made sense. Like Reynolds as deadpool made sense before deadpool as a movie even seemed like something that could happen.
See also when RDJ was first announced as Tony Stark, wayyyyy back when, and everyone was all "of course".
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
If nothing else, we should probably give Chris Evans an award for "guy who most became his actual character off-screen".
I dunno, is Ryan Reynolds in the running for that award?
He's in the running, but I would posit that Chris Evans has spent more time fighting fascists than Ryan Reynolds has spent regrowing limbs.
Ryan Reynolds entire career since two guys a girl and a pizza place has been non sequitur wink at the camera 4th wall breaking comedy. That's like his entire schtick. Like he's one of those castings that came up that just made sense. Like Reynolds as deadpool made sense before deadpool as a movie even seemed like something that could happen.
See also when RDJ was first announced as Tony Stark, wayyyyy back when, and everyone was all "of course".
The most "Oh yeah, that makes sense." castings for people when they were announced are:
3: Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool
2: RDJ as Tony Stark
1 and it's no contest: Patrick Stewart as Professor X
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
If nothing else, we should probably give Chris Evans an award for "guy who most became his actual character off-screen".
I dunno, is Ryan Reynolds in the running for that award?
He's in the running, but I would posit that Chris Evans has spent more time fighting fascists than Ryan Reynolds has spent regrowing limbs.
Ryan Reynolds entire career since two guys a girl and a pizza place has been non sequitur wink at the camera 4th wall breaking comedy. That's like his entire schtick. Like he's one of those castings that came up that just made sense. Like Reynolds as deadpool made sense before deadpool as a movie even seemed like something that could happen.
See also when RDJ was first announced as Tony Stark, wayyyyy back when, and everyone was all "of course".
The most "Oh yeah, that makes sense." castings for people when they were announced are:
3: Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool
2: RDJ as Tony Stark
1 and it's no contest: Patrick Stewart as Professor X
Kelsey Grammer AKA Fraiser Crane as Beast.
"The sausage of Green Earth explodes with flavor like the cannon of culinary delight."
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
If nothing else, we should probably give Chris Evans an award for "guy who most became his actual character off-screen".
I dunno, is Ryan Reynolds in the running for that award?
He's in the running, but I would posit that Chris Evans has spent more time fighting fascists than Ryan Reynolds has spent regrowing limbs.
Ryan Reynolds entire career since two guys a girl and a pizza place has been non sequitur wink at the camera 4th wall breaking comedy. That's like his entire schtick. Like he's one of those castings that came up that just made sense. Like Reynolds as deadpool made sense before deadpool as a movie even seemed like something that could happen.
See also when RDJ was first announced as Tony Stark, wayyyyy back when, and everyone was all "of course".
The most "Oh yeah, that makes sense." castings for people when they were announced are:
3: Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool
2: RDJ as Tony Stark
1 and it's no contest: Patrick Stewart as Professor X
Kelsey Grammer AKA Fraiser Crane as Beast.
That'd be at 4 for me.
EDIT: Though part of it is bias because he's in the movies so little.
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Ian McKellen as Magneto deserves a nod, especially since they're friends in real life.
If nothing else, we should probably give Chris Evans an award for "guy who most became his actual character off-screen".
I dunno, is Ryan Reynolds in the running for that award?
He's in the running, but I would posit that Chris Evans has spent more time fighting fascists than Ryan Reynolds has spent regrowing limbs.
Ryan Reynolds entire career since two guys a girl and a pizza place has been non sequitur wink at the camera 4th wall breaking comedy. That's like his entire schtick. Like he's one of those castings that came up that just made sense. Like Reynolds as deadpool made sense before deadpool as a movie even seemed like something that could happen.
See also when RDJ was first announced as Tony Stark, wayyyyy back when, and everyone was all "of course".
The most "Oh yeah, that makes sense." castings for people when they were announced are:
3: Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool
2: RDJ as Tony Stark
1 and it's no contest: Patrick Stewart as Professor X
People were fan-casting PStew as Charles back when he was winding up on TNG, so for him it was more "yes, finally, about time".
If nothing else, we should probably give Chris Evans an award for "guy who most became his actual character off-screen".
I dunno, is Ryan Reynolds in the running for that award?
He's in the running, but I would posit that Chris Evans has spent more time fighting fascists than Ryan Reynolds has spent regrowing limbs.
Ryan Reynolds entire career since two guys a girl and a pizza place has been non sequitur wink at the camera 4th wall breaking comedy. That's like his entire schtick. Like he's one of those castings that came up that just made sense. Like Reynolds as deadpool made sense before deadpool as a movie even seemed like something that could happen.
Write that down.
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If nothing else, we should probably give Chris Evans an award for "guy who most became his actual character off-screen".
I dunno, is Ryan Reynolds in the running for that award?
He's in the running, but I would posit that Chris Evans has spent more time fighting fascists than Ryan Reynolds has spent regrowing limbs.
Ryan Reynolds entire career since two guys a girl and a pizza place has been non sequitur wink at the camera 4th wall breaking comedy. That's like his entire schtick. Like he's one of those castings that came up that just made sense. Like Reynolds as deadpool made sense before deadpool as a movie even seemed like something that could happen.
See also when RDJ was first announced as Tony Stark, wayyyyy back when, and everyone was all "of course".
The most "Oh yeah, that makes sense." castings for people when they were announced are:
3: Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool
2: RDJ as Tony Stark
1 and it's no contest: Patrick Stewart as Professor X
People were fan-casting PStew as Charles back when he was winding up on TNG, so for him it was more "yes, finally, about time".
It's funny you should say this, because for a very long time Pat was really uncomfortable with the fandom; his background was Shakespearean acting, not sci-fi action and you can actually see it with how stiff he is in the early seasons of TNG. It was years before he relaxed and learned to enjoy genre and be the loveeable goof we know him to be today.
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I recall that Newsweek called Patrick Stewart's casting in X-men "The role he was born to play."
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I'd say Hugh Jackman deserves recognition for making Wolverine his, despite looking completely wrong for the role. Comics Wolverine is known for being short and hirsute, which Jackman is not.
I hate how quickly these clickbait sites start stating the casting for Hawkeye series as fact when it's clearly still up in the air. Reminds me of the whole Doomfist fiasco.
If nothing else, we should probably give Chris Evans an award for "guy who most became his actual character off-screen".
I dunno, is Ryan Reynolds in the running for that award?
He's in the running, but I would posit that Chris Evans has spent more time fighting fascists than Ryan Reynolds has spent regrowing limbs.
Ryan Reynolds entire career since two guys a girl and a pizza place has been non sequitur wink at the camera 4th wall breaking comedy. That's like his entire schtick. Like he's one of those castings that came up that just made sense. Like Reynolds as deadpool made sense before deadpool as a movie even seemed like something that could happen.
See also when RDJ was first announced as Tony Stark, wayyyyy back when, and everyone was all "of course".
The most "Oh yeah, that makes sense." castings for people when they were announced are:
3: Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool
2: RDJ as Tony Stark
1 and it's no contest: Patrick Stewart as Professor X
People were fan-casting PStew as Charles back when he was winding up on TNG, so for him it was more "yes, finally, about time".
It's funny you should say this, because for a very long time Pat was really uncomfortable with the fandom; his background was Shakespearean acting, not sci-fi action and you can actually see it with how stiff he is in the early seasons of TNG. It was years before he relaxed and learned to enjoy genre and be the loveeable goof we know him to be today.
If nothing else, we should probably give Chris Evans an award for "guy who most became his actual character off-screen".
I dunno, is Ryan Reynolds in the running for that award?
He's in the running, but I would posit that Chris Evans has spent more time fighting fascists than Ryan Reynolds has spent regrowing limbs.
Ryan Reynolds entire career since two guys a girl and a pizza place has been non sequitur wink at the camera 4th wall breaking comedy. That's like his entire schtick. Like he's one of those castings that came up that just made sense. Like Reynolds as deadpool made sense before deadpool as a movie even seemed like something that could happen.
See also when RDJ was first announced as Tony Stark, wayyyyy back when, and everyone was all "of course".
The most "Oh yeah, that makes sense." castings for people when they were announced are:
3: Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool
2: RDJ as Tony Stark
1 and it's no contest: Patrick Stewart as Professor X
People were fan-casting PStew as Charles back when he was winding up on TNG, so for him it was more "yes, finally, about time".
It's funny you should say this, because for a very long time Pat was really uncomfortable with the fandom; his background was Shakespearean acting, not sci-fi action and you can actually see it with how stiff he is in the early seasons of TNG. It was years before he relaxed and learned to enjoy genre and be the loveeable goof we know him to be today.
If nothing else, we should probably give Chris Evans an award for "guy who most became his actual character off-screen".
I dunno, is Ryan Reynolds in the running for that award?
He's in the running, but I would posit that Chris Evans has spent more time fighting fascists than Ryan Reynolds has spent regrowing limbs.
Ryan Reynolds entire career since two guys a girl and a pizza place has been non sequitur wink at the camera 4th wall breaking comedy. That's like his entire schtick. Like he's one of those castings that came up that just made sense. Like Reynolds as deadpool made sense before deadpool as a movie even seemed like something that could happen.
See also when RDJ was first announced as Tony Stark, wayyyyy back when, and everyone was all "of course".
The most "Oh yeah, that makes sense." castings for people when they were announced are:
3: Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool
2: RDJ as Tony Stark
1 and it's no contest: Patrick Stewart as Professor X
People were fan-casting PStew as Charles back when he was winding up on TNG, so for him it was more "yes, finally, about time".
It's funny you should say this, because for a very long time Pat was really uncomfortable with the fandom; his background was Shakespearean acting, not sci-fi action and you can actually see it with how stiff he is in the early seasons of TNG. It was years before he relaxed and learned to enjoy genre and be the loveeable goof we know him to be today.
If nothing else, we should probably give Chris Evans an award for "guy who most became his actual character off-screen".
I dunno, is Ryan Reynolds in the running for that award?
He's in the running, but I would posit that Chris Evans has spent more time fighting fascists than Ryan Reynolds has spent regrowing limbs.
Ryan Reynolds entire career since two guys a girl and a pizza place has been non sequitur wink at the camera 4th wall breaking comedy. That's like his entire schtick. Like he's one of those castings that came up that just made sense. Like Reynolds as deadpool made sense before deadpool as a movie even seemed like something that could happen.
See also when RDJ was first announced as Tony Stark, wayyyyy back when, and everyone was all "of course".
The most "Oh yeah, that makes sense." castings for people when they were announced are:
3: Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool
2: RDJ as Tony Stark
1 and it's no contest: Patrick Stewart as Professor X
People were fan-casting PStew as Charles back when he was winding up on TNG, so for him it was more "yes, finally, about time".
It's funny you should say this, because for a very long time Pat was really uncomfortable with the fandom; his background was Shakespearean acting, not sci-fi action and you can actually see it with how stiff he is in the early seasons of TNG. It was years before he relaxed and learned to enjoy genre and be the loveeable goof we know him to be today.
Is that movie as bad as it looks? It sure looks it.
It's weird as fuck and hard to follow at times, because it throws made-up sci-fi words at you all over the place, and makes huge jumps in the plot that make the story hard to follow.
That said, it's weirdness is compelling as fuck to me, and the effects, though dated by today's standards, are really fun in my mind. Also, it's not "bad" in the sense that it's cheesy, it's "bad" in the sense that it's kinda missing the point of the source material in many ways, which makes it kind of a mess. That said, the acting is actually decent in patches, and the on-screen realization of many of the characters and set pieces can be really inspired (I mean, H.R. Giger was involved), even if the plot doesn't follow suit.
Also, don't know if you're a fan of the books, but, as an adaptation, it takes a bunch of liberties, but that was pretty much par for the course for sci-fi adaptations of the time.
If nothing else, we should probably give Chris Evans an award for "guy who most became his actual character off-screen".
I dunno, is Ryan Reynolds in the running for that award?
He's in the running, but I would posit that Chris Evans has spent more time fighting fascists than Ryan Reynolds has spent regrowing limbs.
Ryan Reynolds entire career since two guys a girl and a pizza place has been non sequitur wink at the camera 4th wall breaking comedy. That's like his entire schtick. Like he's one of those castings that came up that just made sense. Like Reynolds as deadpool made sense before deadpool as a movie even seemed like something that could happen.
See also when RDJ was first announced as Tony Stark, wayyyyy back when, and everyone was all "of course".
The most "Oh yeah, that makes sense." castings for people when they were announced are:
3: Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool
2: RDJ as Tony Stark
1 and it's no contest: Patrick Stewart as Professor X
People were fan-casting PStew as Charles back when he was winding up on TNG, so for him it was more "yes, finally, about time".
It's funny you should say this, because for a very long time Pat was really uncomfortable with the fandom; his background was Shakespearean acting, not sci-fi action and you can actually see it with how stiff he is in the early seasons of TNG. It was years before he relaxed and learned to enjoy genre and be the loveeable goof we know him to be today.
Is that movie as bad as it looks? It sure looks it.
It has its fans. I haven't tried watching it in 20 years, but I found it difficult to enjoy. Mainly due to the whispered thoughts of the characters.
Yeah, it's definitely one that requires having a certain mindset. Which isn't unexpected when the director is David Lynch, famous for "just past weird" movies. And a source material that's pretty heavy (I've tried reading it several times, and passed).
Side note, apparently they're remaking it, and while I'm not particularly excited by the prospect, they went all out on casting.
Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Zendaya, David Dastmalchian, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Charlotte Rampling,
Jason Momoa and Javier Bardem.
I mean, that's an impressive cast, even if the director isn't a heavyweight.
EDIT: Should be clear, not trying to disparage Denis Villeneuve, just that his body of work isn't expansive enough I can tell if he's likely to do a good job with a project of this scale. Quite possible he does an outstanding job. I mean, who'd have thought giving Tolkien to the director of Braindead and the Frighteners would work? By that same token, giving the DCEU to the director of 300 and Watchmen didn't seem like that terrible an idea at the time either.
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If nothing else, we should probably give Chris Evans an award for "guy who most became his actual character off-screen".
I dunno, is Ryan Reynolds in the running for that award?
He's in the running, but I would posit that Chris Evans has spent more time fighting fascists than Ryan Reynolds has spent regrowing limbs.
Ryan Reynolds entire career since two guys a girl and a pizza place has been non sequitur wink at the camera 4th wall breaking comedy. That's like his entire schtick. Like he's one of those castings that came up that just made sense. Like Reynolds as deadpool made sense before deadpool as a movie even seemed like something that could happen.
See also when RDJ was first announced as Tony Stark, wayyyyy back when, and everyone was all "of course".
The most "Oh yeah, that makes sense." castings for people when they were announced are:
3: Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool
2: RDJ as Tony Stark
1 and it's no contest: Patrick Stewart as Professor X
People were fan-casting PStew as Charles back when he was winding up on TNG, so for him it was more "yes, finally, about time".
It's funny you should say this, because for a very long time Pat was really uncomfortable with the fandom; his background was Shakespearean acting, not sci-fi action and you can actually see it with how stiff he is in the early seasons of TNG. It was years before he relaxed and learned to enjoy genre and be the loveeable goof we know him to be today.
Is that movie as bad as it looks? It sure looks it.
This quote from a review linked on Rotten Tomatoes sums it up pretty well, "Dune is not the masterpiece its adherents have hoped for - but neither is it the disaster its detractors have claimed."
I loved Dune when I was young. Back when the only options for watching something were either what was on live tv, or what I could pick out at Blockbuster, it was one of my fallback options - whenever I couldn't find anything that really grabbed me at Blockbuster, I could rent Dune and have a good time watching it. It's not a great movie, but it isn't terrible either. It's a very ambitious film, with one hell of a cast, that doesn't quite hit what it was aiming for. The pacing could use some work, the whispered thoughts are off putting for some, and it has some Lynchian surreality but probably could have used a little more. It's also supposedly difficult to follow if you haven't read the book or seen it more than once, though I don't recall any problems in that regard. But it's very interesting visually - especially for the time - and that impressive cast do give it their all. It's also a great story underneath it all, and the original novel is a scifi classic for a reason.
I watched it recently for the first time in many years and it was like spending an evening with an old friend who I hadn't seen in a long time.
I liked the Sci-Fi Channel movie adaption, even though there are many scenes that are clearly in front of a green screen and not in a good way.
This movie doesn't do a good job with Paul imo, and the inner monologues of characters from the book are thrown into the movie. It just doesn't work in this medium and I can't articulate why.
If nothing else, we should probably give Chris Evans an award for "guy who most became his actual character off-screen".
I dunno, is Ryan Reynolds in the running for that award?
He's in the running, but I would posit that Chris Evans has spent more time fighting fascists than Ryan Reynolds has spent regrowing limbs.
Ryan Reynolds entire career since two guys a girl and a pizza place has been non sequitur wink at the camera 4th wall breaking comedy. That's like his entire schtick. Like he's one of those castings that came up that just made sense. Like Reynolds as deadpool made sense before deadpool as a movie even seemed like something that could happen.
See also when RDJ was first announced as Tony Stark, wayyyyy back when, and everyone was all "of course".
The most "Oh yeah, that makes sense." castings for people when they were announced are:
3: Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool
2: RDJ as Tony Stark
1 and it's no contest: Patrick Stewart as Professor X
People were fan-casting PStew as Charles back when he was winding up on TNG, so for him it was more "yes, finally, about time".
It's funny you should say this, because for a very long time Pat was really uncomfortable with the fandom; his background was Shakespearean acting, not sci-fi action and you can actually see it with how stiff he is in the early seasons of TNG. It was years before he relaxed and learned to enjoy genre and be the loveeable goof we know him to be today.
Is that movie as bad as it looks? It sure looks it.
If you're looking for the definitive, faithful cinematic version of the Dune book, it's inadequate.
If you have no understanding of the source material, it's convoluted.
If you want a Dune-inspired fever dream brought to you by David Lynch, it's amazing.
Dune is one of the exceedingly few examples of a movie I prefer over the book. That may be blasphemy to Frank Herbert fans, but I just liked what the movie did wrt the Kwisatz Haderach.
But ya, the movie has quite a few weird bits that don’t make much sense if you don’t know the context, which is more than a bit actually. That said, I still like the movie.
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Dune is one of the exceedingly few examples of a movie I prefer over the book. That may be blasphemy to Frank Herbert fans, but I just liked what the movie did wrt the Kwisatz Haderach.
But ya, the movie has quite a few weird bits that don’t make much sense if you don’t know the context, which is more than a bit actually. That said, I still like the movie.
Really, after what Brian and Kevin have done with and to Dune, that doesn't even register.
The books didn't really know where to go with it either. The next two books were royal court politics and they veered into crazytown from there. The prescience was the main plot of the series, but the rest of the powers Paul supposedly had (super-mentat, ancestral memory, full Reverend Mother, etc) not so much.
If you want a faithful version of the books, he SciFi channel miniseries version (and it's sequel, which incorporated he second and third books) do that. At 12 hours they still needed to shave a lot - these are Lord of the Rings scale novels without 60 pages of walking and singing between main events. They also stand by themselves much better than the David Lynch fever dream.
If nothing else, we should probably give Chris Evans an award for "guy who most became his actual character off-screen".
I dunno, is Ryan Reynolds in the running for that award?
He's in the running, but I would posit that Chris Evans has spent more time fighting fascists than Ryan Reynolds has spent regrowing limbs.
Ryan Reynolds entire career since two guys a girl and a pizza place has been non sequitur wink at the camera 4th wall breaking comedy. That's like his entire schtick. Like he's one of those castings that came up that just made sense. Like Reynolds as deadpool made sense before deadpool as a movie even seemed like something that could happen.
See also when RDJ was first announced as Tony Stark, wayyyyy back when, and everyone was all "of course".
The most "Oh yeah, that makes sense." castings for people when they were announced are:
3: Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool
2: RDJ as Tony Stark
1 and it's no contest: Patrick Stewart as Professor X
People were fan-casting PStew as Charles back when he was winding up on TNG, so for him it was more "yes, finally, about time".
It's funny you should say this, because for a very long time Pat was really uncomfortable with the fandom; his background was Shakespearean acting, not sci-fi action and you can actually see it with how stiff he is in the early seasons of TNG. It was years before he relaxed and learned to enjoy genre and be the loveeable goof we know him to be today.
Is that movie as bad as it looks? It sure looks it.
Dune was made in 1984 with a budget of 40 million and adapted an incredibly weird setting for mass consumption. I'd be surprised if it didn't look bad.
If nothing else, we should probably give Chris Evans an award for "guy who most became his actual character off-screen".
I dunno, is Ryan Reynolds in the running for that award?
He's in the running, but I would posit that Chris Evans has spent more time fighting fascists than Ryan Reynolds has spent regrowing limbs.
Ryan Reynolds entire career since two guys a girl and a pizza place has been non sequitur wink at the camera 4th wall breaking comedy. That's like his entire schtick. Like he's one of those castings that came up that just made sense. Like Reynolds as deadpool made sense before deadpool as a movie even seemed like something that could happen.
See also when RDJ was first announced as Tony Stark, wayyyyy back when, and everyone was all "of course".
The most "Oh yeah, that makes sense." castings for people when they were announced are:
3: Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool
2: RDJ as Tony Stark
1 and it's no contest: Patrick Stewart as Professor X
People were fan-casting PStew as Charles back when he was winding up on TNG, so for him it was more "yes, finally, about time".
It's funny you should say this, because for a very long time Pat was really uncomfortable with the fandom; his background was Shakespearean acting, not sci-fi action and you can actually see it with how stiff he is in the early seasons of TNG. It was years before he relaxed and learned to enjoy genre and be the loveeable goof we know him to be today.
Is that movie as bad as it looks? It sure looks it.
Dune was made in 1984 with a budget of 40 million and adapted an incredibly weird setting for mass consumption. I'd be surprised if it didn't look bad.
I don't know, I mean, it's definitely showing its age at this point, but even without that taken into consideration the special effects aren't horrible.
I mean, you can tell it's models and miniatures with no small amount of blue screen, but it's far from the worst visuals of 35+ years ago.
Story wise, yeah, it's a bit of a mess. It's the only movie I've heard of where it came with a primer for the audience to know what's actually going on, because even with the voice over monologues, there's only so much exposition you can cram into a movie. But I would love to see it on the big screen today.
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I dunno, is Ryan Reynolds in the running for that award?
For some context, she voiced Spider-Gwen.
And was the lead in Bumblebee. And is a friend of Taylor Swift.
Wow you guys sure are telling me a lot about comic book character Kate Bishop.
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He's in the running, but I would posit that Chris Evans has spent more time fighting fascists than Ryan Reynolds has spent regrowing limbs.
I would counter that Deadpool is more about being sarcastic and funny and completely ridiculous, and Ryan Reynolds has spent a whole lot of time being really good at that.
Ryan Reynolds entire career since two guys a girl and a pizza place has been non sequitur wink at the camera 4th wall breaking comedy. That's like his entire schtick. Like he's one of those castings that came up that just made sense. Like Reynolds as deadpool made sense before deadpool as a movie even seemed like something that could happen.
I mean, he played Wade Wilson years and years before the Deadpool movie was a glint in the network executives' eye, and he was basically perfect then.
See also when RDJ was first announced as Tony Stark, wayyyyy back when, and everyone was all "of course".
The most "Oh yeah, that makes sense." castings for people when they were announced are:
3: Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool
2: RDJ as Tony Stark
1 and it's no contest: Patrick Stewart as Professor X
Kelsey Grammer AKA Fraiser Crane as Beast.
That'd be at 4 for me.
EDIT: Though part of it is bias because he's in the movies so little.
People were fan-casting PStew as Charles back when he was winding up on TNG, so for him it was more "yes, finally, about time".
Like sometimes Hollywood gets stuff right
I do worry about whoever they chose for the next wolverine tho
Write that down.
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It's funny you should say this, because for a very long time Pat was really uncomfortable with the fandom; his background was Shakespearean acting, not sci-fi action and you can actually see it with how stiff he is in the early seasons of TNG. It was years before he relaxed and learned to enjoy genre and be the loveeable goof we know him to be today.
Also, this is always fun:
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Is that movie as bad as it looks? It sure looks it.
It has its fans. I haven't tried watching it in 20 years, but I found it difficult to enjoy. Mainly due to the whispered thoughts of the characters.
It is a real tough book to adapt. It is probably the best adaptation of it but I don't know if that makes it a good general purpose movie or not.
It's weird as fuck and hard to follow at times, because it throws made-up sci-fi words at you all over the place, and makes huge jumps in the plot that make the story hard to follow.
That said, it's weirdness is compelling as fuck to me, and the effects, though dated by today's standards, are really fun in my mind. Also, it's not "bad" in the sense that it's cheesy, it's "bad" in the sense that it's kinda missing the point of the source material in many ways, which makes it kind of a mess. That said, the acting is actually decent in patches, and the on-screen realization of many of the characters and set pieces can be really inspired (I mean, H.R. Giger was involved), even if the plot doesn't follow suit.
Also, don't know if you're a fan of the books, but, as an adaptation, it takes a bunch of liberties, but that was pretty much par for the course for sci-fi adaptations of the time.
Yeah, it's definitely one that requires having a certain mindset. Which isn't unexpected when the director is David Lynch, famous for "just past weird" movies. And a source material that's pretty heavy (I've tried reading it several times, and passed).
Side note, apparently they're remaking it, and while I'm not particularly excited by the prospect, they went all out on casting.
Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Zendaya, David Dastmalchian, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Charlotte Rampling,
Jason Momoa and Javier Bardem.
I mean, that's an impressive cast, even if the director isn't a heavyweight.
EDIT: Should be clear, not trying to disparage Denis Villeneuve, just that his body of work isn't expansive enough I can tell if he's likely to do a good job with a project of this scale. Quite possible he does an outstanding job. I mean, who'd have thought giving Tolkien to the director of Braindead and the Frighteners would work? By that same token, giving the DCEU to the director of 300 and Watchmen didn't seem like that terrible an idea at the time either.
This quote from a review linked on Rotten Tomatoes sums it up pretty well, "Dune is not the masterpiece its adherents have hoped for - but neither is it the disaster its detractors have claimed."
I loved Dune when I was young. Back when the only options for watching something were either what was on live tv, or what I could pick out at Blockbuster, it was one of my fallback options - whenever I couldn't find anything that really grabbed me at Blockbuster, I could rent Dune and have a good time watching it. It's not a great movie, but it isn't terrible either. It's a very ambitious film, with one hell of a cast, that doesn't quite hit what it was aiming for. The pacing could use some work, the whispered thoughts are off putting for some, and it has some Lynchian surreality but probably could have used a little more. It's also supposedly difficult to follow if you haven't read the book or seen it more than once, though I don't recall any problems in that regard. But it's very interesting visually - especially for the time - and that impressive cast do give it their all. It's also a great story underneath it all, and the original novel is a scifi classic for a reason.
I watched it recently for the first time in many years and it was like spending an evening with an old friend who I hadn't seen in a long time.
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This movie doesn't do a good job with Paul imo, and the inner monologues of characters from the book are thrown into the movie. It just doesn't work in this medium and I can't articulate why.
If you have no understanding of the source material, it's convoluted.
If you want a Dune-inspired fever dream brought to you by David Lynch, it's amazing.
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But ya, the movie has quite a few weird bits that don’t make much sense if you don’t know the context, which is more than a bit actually. That said, I still like the movie.
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Really, after what Brian and Kevin have done with and to Dune, that doesn't even register.
If you want a faithful version of the books, he SciFi channel miniseries version (and it's sequel, which incorporated he second and third books) do that. At 12 hours they still needed to shave a lot - these are Lord of the Rings scale novels without 60 pages of walking and singing between main events. They also stand by themselves much better than the David Lynch fever dream.
Dune was made in 1984 with a budget of 40 million and adapted an incredibly weird setting for mass consumption. I'd be surprised if it didn't look bad.
I don't know, I mean, it's definitely showing its age at this point, but even without that taken into consideration the special effects aren't horrible.
I mean, you can tell it's models and miniatures with no small amount of blue screen, but it's far from the worst visuals of 35+ years ago.
Story wise, yeah, it's a bit of a mess. It's the only movie I've heard of where it came with a primer for the audience to know what's actually going on, because even with the voice over monologues, there's only so much exposition you can cram into a movie. But I would love to see it on the big screen today.