Category: Movies

‘The Wizard of Lies’ trailer.

This is the Bernie Madoff movie that has Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer in it, and I personally would not have starred in it, even in that weird alternate universe where I’m a big-name Hollywood movie star.  Madoff is hated.  I am absolutely convinced that there are multiple hit men currently on retainer against the possibility that Madoff might somehow get out of prison, some day: I for myself would be just the slightest bit worried that playing the role of Bernie Madoff might sufficiently qualify as guilt-by-association.  A very low-probability scenario, sure – but there was a lot of money on that particular table.

Movie comes out May 20th on HBO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G2carVhVJk

This ‘The Osiris Child trailer looks pretty interesting.

It’s an Australian flick, and there’s no real easy way to say ‘The production values look good enough for Hollywood’ without at least subtly insulting the Australian film industry.  Which is unfair: obviously, the Australian film industry is capable of putting together something like The Osiris Child.  What we can see of it so far appeals: Continue reading This ‘The Osiris Child trailer looks pretty interesting.

Quote of the Day, I’d Watch This Star Wars Pitch, Sure edition.

Anybody except Guillermo del Toro, though – maybe not.  But I like del Toro’s stuff, even when he’s a little off.  So, sure:

“I would do the sort of Godfather saga that Jabba the Hutt had to go through to gain control. One, because it’s the character that looks the most like me, and I like him. I love the idea of a Hutt type of mafia, a very complex coup. I just love the character.”

The ‘Rogue One’ Honest Trailer.

To be honest, I didn’t have the problem with Rogue One that Honest Trailers had. I enjoyed the flick. It did what it came to do; it was a proof-of-concept by Disney that established that, sure, you could do successful movies in the Star Wars universe that weren’t revolving around the main trilogies.  We’re not talking high cinema, here, but Rogue One was pretty solid.

SPOILERS IN THE TRAILER.

The ‘Thor: Hot Darn But I Am THERE Ragnarok’ Trailer.

I am absolutely, totally there.  Because while Marvel – to quote Honest Trailers – is drunk on its own power, it’s a blessedly friendly drunk who said “You wanna see Thor and Hulk gladiator it up in the arena, right?  RIGHT? Because so do we!  And we’re gonna get Jeff Goldblum, just because!”

Seriously, this looks far too good to be the third movie in a franchise. Or sub-franchise.  I’m not sure how to score this.

Moe Lane

PS: It lacked only the record scratching sound.

‘Dunkirk’ apparently not really a war film?

I’m not surprised by this, per se.  The Dunkirk trailer seemed to be not really into the combat aspects of the event. So hearing from Christopher Nolan that they didn’t really try to push the R envelope makes a certain amount of sense:

This film has been rated PG-13. Was that a choice you made?

All of my big blockbuster films have been PG-13. It’s a rating I feel comfortable working with totally. “Dunkirk” is not a war film. It’s a survival story and, first and foremost, a suspense film. So while there is a high level of intensity to it, it does not necessarily concern itself with the bloody aspects of combat, which have been so well done in so many films. We were really trying to take a different approach and achieve intensity in a different way. I would really like lots of different types of people to get something out of the experience.

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So, my children have discovered this ‘The Croods’ television series.

Yeah, based on that movie that I didn’t actually watch.  Anyway, it is… remarkably blase about the fact that most of its supporting cast is in constant danger of being dragged off and presumably eaten, given that the first half of that happened several times in the pilot episode.

On the other hand – I guess that it’s the other hand – The Croods show has owlbears.  Excuse me: ‘bearowls.’ I absolutely refuse to believe that this was accidental.  There are many professions where you can legitimately expect most of its members to be ignorant of basic details from D&D, but ‘computer animators’ is not one of them.

Carrie Fisher is getting put into Star Wars Episode IX. Somehow.

I would prefer that they not do this.

When Carrie Fisher passed away late last year, there was a lot of speculation about whether or not she’d appear in some way in Star Wars: Episode IX. Her role in the upcoming Star Wars: The Last Jedi had been completed before her death, but the next film had not yet begun shooting. Her brother Todd Fisher told The New York Daily News that he and Fisher’s daughter Billie Lourd have given Disney and Lucasfilm permission to use recent footage of Carrie Fisher in Star Wars: Episode IX.

My objections are relentlessly practical, however.  Unless they’ve gotten extremely lucky, Disney has a bunch of footage that needs to have the rest of the movie written around it, as it were.  Maybe they’ll only have to write around it a little.  Maybe they’ll have to write around it a lot.  No matter what, it gives off the feel of a gimmick — and that will make the movie just a little less watchable.  Sometimes you need the gimmick anyway (the CGI character resurrections in Rogue One spring to mind). And sometimes you do not.  I think that this might be a ‘not.’

The decidedly NSFW fan-made Deadpool/Gaston parody.

The language is absolutely NSFW, and totally unsuitable for your children.  And it’s not Ryan Reynolds singing or fighting as Deadpool.  But it’s a good ‘Gaston’ parody with good production values.  I almost wrote ‘impressive production values for a fan production,’ but that distinction gets more and more unnecessary every year.

Video after the fold.  Again: NSFW.  Really, they drop a bunch of f-bombs in this one. Continue reading The decidedly NSFW fan-made Deadpool/Gaston parody.