Movies That Didn’t Actually Happen • Page 2

Because it didn’t actually happen

 

Matthew Rhys scowling in the corner is amazing. I’ve seen that movie and even I agree it isn’t real.

 

Found my copy of Jumper on DVD last time i was at my mothers house. Felt like something I should burn and then bury the ashes

 

I love that movie, but it probably fits. I’ve only ever known a few people to mention it. It’s basically the only time Dane Cook wasn’t the most insufferable person imaginable.

Another Steve Carell contender has to be Hope Springs. Him, Meryl Streep, and Tommy Lee Jones in a fairly interesting concept that no one ever remembers. Pretty sure that was one of his first movies after leaving The Office too.

 

You’d do it but then it would appear on your shelf again anyways.

 

Just copy paste the last three years of nic cage movies from IMDb

 

I wonder if filmmakers would prefer that their movie is remembered poorly or not remembered at all.

 

Yo Cage puts out some dumb shit but once in a while they are incredible trips. Mandy and Color Out of Space were great.

 

I love Cage and think he’s a fantastic actor and among the best when he’s paired with a great script and/or director, but he does do a ton of shit, haha

 

I guess there’s a Croods 2 coming out which is like the first “big budget” cage film in a long time

 

I think I would much prefer the latter. Think about all the time, resources and manpower goes into making just a single film. For all of that to happen just for everyone to forget about it in a year or two sounds mortifying. Yet that’s *most* films

 

Spider-Verse

 

I like nic cage as well but it's wild how many movies he does. But make that money.

 

We can rag on Nick Cage for this but he’s not even close to the only actor to churn out these kinds of movies. Just about every A-list respected actor from the 70s/80s does them all the time. Robert DeNiro, Christopher Walken, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Meryl Streep.

I wish I knew more about how the industry worked and how much such people get for each film they do. You would think a single successful pile of shit could hold them over for a couple years so that they could just mostly relax or do passion projects. Are they just bored, maybe? Joe Pesci has only done four roles in the past 20 years, so I assume he’s well off enough that he never feels a need to resort to them again, and there’s no way he’s grossed more than those five I mentioned

 

I feel like 50% of the movies I watch fall into this

 

the reason he needs the money is very on brand
Nicolas Cage blew $150 million on a dinosaur skull, pygmy heads and 2 European castles

 

I didn’t realize he was in that

 

smallish role as the noir spider-man but still!

 

I bet a lot of actors just can’t not work. Like, it’s not really the money but the need to continue being productive.

 

I also have very little conception of how much time an actor spends working each year. Like for each film there’s (1) whatever prep is required, which I’m sure varies wildly, (2) actually filming, which I assume is typically 1-2 months? And a lead actor is probably involved in most of that, and (3) all the award show and interview stuff that they are expected to do when the film is finally coming out, which again I assume varies based on how big the film is.

 

Someone once asked Michael Caine if he had seen Jaws: The Revenge. He said no, but he had seen the house he bought with the money he received.

It is a lot harder to know if a film is going to be any good if you are an actor. If you only ever accepted roles with established master directors, no one would ever be able to get their career going.

 

yes but not knowing whether a film will be good is different from being a big established name taking on films that are all but certain to be movies that didn’t actually happen

 

iirc, it came out around the same time as Chef, which greatly outshone it.

 

I legitimately loved Dan In Real Life when it first came out. Definitely forgot it existed at this point though.