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His stupid crusade leads to people trying to do the same thing and dying or having to be rescued by rangers.

 

It was one of my favorite movies and books in high school but being inspired by it to try and live in the woods is like guys watching Wolf of Wall Street and going into finance

 

Hence why they removed the bus from its spot several years ago

 

You should've seen my hair cut after No Country for Old Men

 

the story of mccandless is dumb and has inspired a bunch of idiots to do dumb things but it shouldn’t get lost in that mix just how bad that movie is too

 

I loved it when I saw it when I was 19 but I was probably wrong.

 

Inspiring for sure. Much in the way Catch Me If You Can inspired me.

 

The film definitely romanticizes it much more than the book. The book makes it super clear how ill prepared and little he seemed to think about the challenges ahead. The movie makes it seem like he just had a bit of bad luck.

 

Carine McCandless (Chris’s sister) released a book a while back going over their childhood and retracing his steps a bit. It was an interesting read for some additional details she was able to uncover and insight into the development of the film and its creative choices.

 

Anyone know/can confirm if the AMC accessible seats (where you can buy a ticket for a wheelchair) has an outlet in the area for the wheelchair or companion seats? I would think so but can’t picture it or know off the top off my head

 

I really miss that style of movies where the idea is so outlandish you’re surprised it got made

 

“Boo boo!”

 

I remember watching it at the cinema when I was a kid and I agree I do miss movies like this when the premise is outlandish but got made anyways

 

Finally Tubi is launching in the UK!

 

What about Quibi?

 

Hmmmm

 

Even in our modern world where IP just continues to be regurgitated I do not understand how they keep making Hellboy stuff

 

I am gonna copy/paste the same comment I posted in the thread about the trailer to explain some important things about this film that illustrate why it’s going to be bad, and why you shouldn’t support it:

I was curious as to why this looked like the cinematography, from the lighting to the composition was direct to video quality. So I looked up who shot this.

It’s some dude named Ivan Vatsov who’s a Bulgarian.

Looks like he does two things:

He works as a second unit camera op for mid budget Hollywood stuff when they shoot additional footage in Bulgaria.

He also does DP stuff. But he DP’s Bulgarian TV shows and DTV Geezer features and terrible dreck that usually starts Scott Adkins or Van Damme and those types of DTV actors.

Everything he DP’d is stuff that is done fast and cheap with short shooting schedules.

The people behind this are the same people behind all these terrible action movies starring washed up stars.

Probably the best quality stuff they did was The Expendables and the “… Has Fallen” series with Gerard Butler.

The company behind this is Millennium Films owned by Avi Lerner.

You may be saying “why does the name sound vaguely familiar?”

I’m going to tell you why…

He’s the guy that tried to blackmail Terry Crews to keep quiet about being sexually harassed and assaulted by Adam Venit.

“In 2018, Hollywood actor Terry Crews accused Lerner of making a phone call to his manager in which he said Lerner threatened to introduce difficulties into Terry Crews' career unless Crews dropped his case against Hollywood talent agency William Morris Endeavor, employer of agent and founding member Adam Venit.”

This movie is not going to be good. It’s shot fast and cheap with no talent behind of or in front of the camera.

They’re the same people who did the Harbour Hellboy movie.

These movies aren’t meant to be good. They’re almost never good. They’re meant to use either recognizable IP or cheap (former) stars with name recognition using shady financial backing from Eastern Europe and Israel in order to sell international theatrical rights to make back a good chunk of the low budget and make money off digital rentals and selling it to streaming services around the world.

They also get cash rebates from Bulgaria.

“25% CASH REBATE Bulgaria offers 25% cash rebate for international film and TV productions. Applications are reviewed on a first-come-first-serve basis. The local companies will provide you with a unique servicing model that guarantees high production value for your projects.”

It’s largely a financial scheme that is probably laundering money for shady sources, including many that I’d wager are Russian in origin.

All these movies have 15-20+ executive producers.

This is not going to be good.

It’s not going to look good.

It’s not made to be good.

And it’s being made by terrible people who likely did terrible things to get the money used to fund it.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

This random reddit comment definitely took away any curiosity from me

 

Tubi is 10 years old??!

 

After The Shape of Water oscar win, whatever studio had the rights Hellboy at the time should of green lit and let Del Toro complete his Hellboy trilogy

 

It’d probably look better if it was hosted on any site besides Twitter

 

What if it was hosted on X dot com?