Entertainment Forum General Chat Thread [ARCHIVED] • Page 679

How

 

ha that’s what you think

 

Is there someone out there who gets pumped for Law Abiding Citizen 2?

 

Everyone knows a Brian or a Trevor who will see it

 

Honestly know several people who will be pumped for it

 

I do remember that getting a ton of play on cable back in college. It’s a forgettable movie, but people liked it for a moment in time I guess.

 

One of the most interesting movie stars we have ever had.

 

Haven’t actually seen a lot of Cruise, but I love Edge Of Tomorrow, but from my understanding he’s kind of playing against his usual type right?

 

He's also an abusive scientologist

 

watch all the mission impossible movies now

 

his largely uninterrupted from from '83 to now is one of the best we've ever had

 

I’m catching the directors cut of Robocop tonight at Alamo. Should be great.

 

just watched it for the first time last week

 

Admittedly, I’m a sucker for Verhoeven, but it’s a damn near perfect movie. It was great to see on the big screen.

 

I didn't have my usual hard drive with me for exams so I have been showing the kids Good Burger. How did they get away with the mental asylum scenes, even back then? Yeah it is a kids' movie, but it is pretty offensive.

 

Cinema

 

why are Chris Pratt, Ryan Reynolds, and Dwayne Johnson/Kevin Hart the only actors anymore?!

 

yeah, there's a lot of "psychiatric ward as comeuppance" in children's entertainment. it's weird and it's fucked up

 

https://www.indiewire.com/2022/05/guillermo-del-toro-cinema-state-unsustainable-cannes-1234727914/

this and the James Gray clip I saw circulating are well articulated assessments of the inhospitable environment for art the current movie landscape is

 

The James Gray clip in particular lines up with how I've been thinking about this. As everything moves to streaming, you'd think studios would try to invest in higher quality content that would have a life well beyond its first week of release. Instead we're getting a slew of forgettable, seemingly thrown together (yet somehow still very expensive) films from the largest companies.

 

Incredible