Man, I can’t wait to see the fault lines on this one. Ironically, Joseph Fiennes might even end up giving a bravura performance as Michael Jackson. After all, what’s the point in going this gonzo if you don’t redline the accelerator?
'Urban Myths' trailer: The first look of Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson https://t.co/yXDuLgc3mJ pic.twitter.com/9hNusolXE2
— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) January 11, 2017
First, watch this.
The end result in Modern Times (1936), looks like Chaplin is really in danger of going over the edge pic.twitter.com/2qjjzU04WX
— Silent Movie Gifs (@silentmoviegifs) January 6, 2017
Now, watch this.
Continue reading Tweets of the Day, How They Did SFX, Old-School edition.
Dear God, but that first one was more than a little alarming. This one is considerably more optimistic in tone. It also probably should represent the last Cars movie, too. Or franchise. The franchise is subtly disquieting, all on its own.
It’s not the music video for the night. I don’t even know if it’s the original. It is, however, an indication that I am of the five percent.
Come, I will conceal nothing from you: any other year I would not have anything remotely resembling an opinion on this. Then again, any other year Deadpool would not be up for two awards (Best Comedy/Musical, Best Comedy/Musical Actor). I would find it hysterical if Deadpool won those. It would make the lead-up to the Academy Awards actually interesting for a change, because snagging a Golden Globe or two in those categories would make people have to seriously talk about Deadpool maybe getting an Oscar nomination, which would then probably lead to making people have to seriously talk about Deadpool maybe winning an Academy Award for something non-technical.
It would horrify some people, in other words. Including a bunch of people who I kind of enjoy seeing horrified. Look, I never claimed to be a saint…
Moe Lane
I’ll allow it: “Willem Dafoe is the latest actor to join director Kenneth Branagh’s star-studded remake of Murder on the Orient Express. He will join Johnny Depp, Daisy Ridley, Judi Dench, Michelle Pfeiffer, Josh Gad, Hamilton star Leslie Odom Jr., and Branagh.” Mostly because, like the author of the linked piece, I like most of the cast and the director. This doesn’t have the feel of a ‘Hollywood wants to squeeze more juice out of an intellectual property’ situation; more like ‘a bunch of actors realized that they had the collective juice to go have fun onscreen.’
Although obviously Hollywood wants to make their money back, sure. The point is… the point is, I want to see Judi Dench as the Princess and Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot. I think that I can be allowed that indulgence, surely.
Moe Lane
The original Murder on the Orient Express is, of course, one of the best murder mystery movies ever made, with its own ridiculously A-List cast. If you’ve never seen it, you are missing out on a lot of fun. So go see it.
Come, I will conceal nothing from you: I’m disappointed that Roger Corman made Death Race 2050, because Death Race 2000 was perfect (for a certain value of ‘perfect’) and it needed no sequel. However, I will note this. Picking Malcolm McDowell for the President character? Continue reading The Full-of-Regrets Death Race 2050 trailer.
lolwhut: “…[Deadpool] was just nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Writers Guild Awards, which means it could very well end up getting an Oscar nomination! [snip] The WGA nominations frequently predict what the Academy is going to recognize in their Adapted and Original Screenplay nominations.” You know, I would pay money to see that happen, actually. It won’t happen, mind you, because the people who made Deadpool would naturally Deadpool their way across the entire Oscar proceedings.
Twice.
…And the Academy surely knows this. Still: my God, but the shtick the Deadpool guys would come up with. It would be entirely uncontained, not to say uncontainable. We’d all tune in to watch the red carpet show, at least until the FCC yanked it off the air and then seeded the ground with salt…
…there’s a trailer for Fifty Shades Darker out and I watched it. Desperately hoping that there was something to it that could possibly be worth talking about. …No. No, there was not. Oh, somebody had a gun out at the last few frames; but we all know that there’s going to be a third movie, so there’s no hope whatsoever for a mass Righteous Harvesting of the Unclean onscreen.
So there’s that.
Moe Lane
PS: No, I’m not linking the trailer or first movie. I don’t hate any of you. And some Amazon links are a bridge too far.
I’m just going to come out and say what I’m thinking, here: these idiots in Alien: Covenant kind of encapsulate Niven/Pournelle’s old saying “Think of it as evolution in action.”
And I don’t believe I’m the only one thinking it, either. This entire escapade, from what I can tell, fell off of the stupid tree and hit every door down. You don’t walk onto the surface of a new world without wearing a spacesuit. Doesn’t matter if the air is breathable: in fact, you take double precautions in that case. Why? Oh, I don’t know: maybe because there’s a possibility that something in the ecosystem might be eager to take a bite out of you? Continue reading The Alien: Covenant “Bring in the Fool-Killer!” trailer.
