EVA
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I've been meaning to work some Chandler into my reading schedule for a while now, so thanks for making me finally do it.
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I'd choose either Adam McKay for Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy or Ruben Fleischer for Zombieland. Still wish Edgar Wright was on board. I love Adam McKay's stuff, but he seems like a terrible fit for this movie. I laugh a lot at THE OTHER GUYS, but I don't think any of the action bits are all that good. Reuben Fleischer seems like the best fit to come in and carry on in Wright's place based on ZOMBIELAND. But, man, I thought GANGSTER SQUAD was a turd. I wonder which Fleischer would show up. Thurber is the obvious worst choice. But after being swatted down by the studio on DODGEBALL, he's gradually remade himself as someone the studios can deal with, and last year he turned in a no-fuss, no-muss, by-the-book comedy in WE'RE THE MILLERS that made a lot of money. So they'll probably pick him.
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All kidding aside, if someone actually put some money behind this franchise, so that it didn't look like a sub-Syfy production, it would probably do gangbusters at the box office. The books were a publishing phenomenon in their day. If small-time pap like GOD'S NOT DEAD can make $60 million (and HEAVEN IS FOR REAL has a, um, real shot at $100 million), imagine what a halfway decent-looking Christian disaster movie could haul in.
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This is so true.In the wake of Wright's sacking from ANT-MAN, I popped in HOT FUZZ the other night and was blown away by it all over again, even though I feel like I know it by heart. It's one of the tightest movies I've ever seen. There is zero fat, despite the fact that it's stuffed to the gills with references and running gags. The thing that probably stood out to me the most, though, is something this video pointed out: Wright gets a ton of value out the bits that drag other films down because they put no imagination into them. All of the rote exercises that other film makers accept (moving characters around, introductions, etc.), Wright turns into opportunities to squeeze more gags into his movie. For instance, there's the one bit when Nicholas first arrives in Sanford, and it's basically "He settled into his room, gets bored, decides to go to the pub." It's a scene that really serves no purpose but to transition him to the next thing (meeting Danny), and it's exactly the sort of scene that a lesser filmmaker would trip over. They would linger in the malaise too long, because they really need you to know that his room sucks, there's nothing to do, yadda yadda. But Wright burns through it in, like, 10 seconds tops, and earns a laugh in the process. Everything you need to know is communicated in about 6 hard cuts. The only other director out there I can think of who is capable of packing so much kinetic energy into mundane operations is Fincher.
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Well, the title doesn't exactly make it sound like a pocketful of sunshine.
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FIGHT CLUB holds up, man.
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Yeah, Jackman can't make up his mind at all. I think his story changed 3 or 4 times during this press tour alone. Frankly, I worry about the guy. The dehydration diet he goes on to get that look is insane and can't be easy on his body the older he gets. -
The X-Force spin-off is still in the works. I imagine they'd save Cable for that. I also don't know if they'd want to do another time travel-heavy plot right after DOFP. Especially since they're only going to be first introducing us to the new Scott & Jean in the next movie. What a weird story that would be. "Oh, hey, I know you guys just met, but I'm your adult son from the future. Err, well, technically you were dead, Jean, and Dad impregnated your evil clone*, but that's getting ahead of ourselves. Put that out of your mind. Forget I said anything. What matters is that Scott really wants to bang you, and, Dad, you should really follow that impulse, even after you watched her die. Just, anybody in the ballpark, fuck 'em." *At least this was the accepted version of events back when I was reading.
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I thought that was obvious to begin with. It is clearly something that was thrown together quickly after they got the greenlight for the sequel. It will be a completely different actor with a completely different look in the movie.
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Maybe I missed something, but he didn't seem all that white to me. Looked appropriately light blue-greyish.
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Hannibal's original plan was to present Abigail as a surprise gift to Will before they all left together to go be a fucked up psycho family. He intended to seal the deal on Will's undying allegiance by bringing the shattered teacup back together.After he smelled Freddie on Will, he spent basically their whole last supper together trying to give Will a chance to come clean about it, but Will didn't, which is when he decided to go scorched earth on the whole thing, to hurt Will in the worst way he could think of. I think the "You were supposed to leave" was in reference to Will's phone call alerting him that the FBI was onto everything. He expected Hannibal to drop everything and run, just as Hannibal had once expected Garrett Jacob Hobbs to run. But psychos can't run when they have unfinished business. To that end, I guess Will was successful: He had effectively put Hannibal in a mindset where the confrontation with Jack was something he had to do.
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I had zero problem with the lack of explanation for Xavier being alive, and I can't think of any way it would have improved the movie to have a moment where it was explained. This movie took place in a world with people who can throw fucking portals and send minds back in time and super advanced technology that lets you build giant killer robots with adapting bodies. Let's just assume that at some point they found a mutant who could put the molecules of his body back together, or create a duplicate version of him. Or they built a life model decoy with a comfy place for his consciousness. Yadda yadda yadda. It doesn't really matter. Just go with it.
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You should've felt like you wasted your money on THE LAST STAND and WOLVERINE long before now.
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SCOTT PILGRIM and SPEED RACER would be an awesome America Does Not Want double feature.
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Apparently most of the world shared that opinion. It made about fifty bucks at the box office. But it's incredible. It's one of the most amazing feats of direction I've seen in the past 5-10 years. I don't think anyone else on earth could've pulled it off. And, damn, did I want to see that guy have a go at a Marvel superhero movie.
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I find it humorous that FX is running a double feature of THE LAST STAND and the first WOLVERINE movie tonight. "Come see the movies that the new movie wipes out of existence!"
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I don't think anyone has suggested that Edgar Wright was going to put butts in the seats.
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I saw X-MEN last night, so I'm just now getting around to seeing this...And now my Saturday night is ruined because my soul has been destroyed. Easily the most emotionally devastating episode of TV since "Ozymandias." I think it's safe to say that, given the ratings and their continued inability to get the rights to the Clarice books, Fuller has completely given up any pretense that this is a "prequel" and is just totally off the rails, making his own Hannibal Lecter story. And I can NOT fucking wait until next...whenever when we get to see what's next. When this show is at the top of it's game, there is nothing better on TV right now.
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Yeah, I thought they did a good job holding out as long as they did, all things considered. Some of those deaths were shockingly violent.
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Part of me wants to believe it was Singer's ultimate revenge for that time she told him to kiss her ass during X2. But then there's the part of me that actually read the article talking about how she was limited due to her pregnancy.
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My favorite part of the Tom Jane PUNISHER movie is during the massacre of Frank's family when the one guy tries to escape ON A SAILBOAT, makes it about 10 feet out to sea, then one of the gunmen just casually walks up to the shoreline, shoots him, and walks off. Kills me every time.
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Haven't seen DOFP yet so feel free to spoil what needs to be spoiled to answer this, but how is the old guard (Stewart, McKellen, etc) "done?" Is the X-Men universe now taking place in the 1970s-ish New Class time? Or does Wolverine bring the New Class into the future/old guard time period of 2010ish? Ian McKellen looks like death in this movie.
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I'm not going to explain it (mainly because I couldn't even keep that character's powers straight 15 years ago when I read the comics), but I had a funny experience with that scene: The kindly older gentleman who was taking tickets told every person in line for this to stay through the credits for an easter egg, so WAY more people stayed through to the very end than I usually see. Basically the whole theater. Needless to say, there was a collective HUH? at the end. And the one question on everyone's lips as we all made our way out? "Was that a man or a woman?" I'm going with very pretty young man.
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It's both hilarious and sad that January Jones was SO bad as Emma Frost that they killed her off in between movies. She's one of the most significant characters in the X-Men mythos, and they didn't even try to recast. They were just like, "Fuck it. There's no coming back from that performance."
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I know it's costly and difficult to pull off his power on screen, but if they don't bring him back, they're insane. Hopefully, his picture won't show up in an autopsy file like...almost the whole supporting cast of FIRST CLASS.