alien resurrection is such a hard movie to talk about because it's got some of the coolest shit you've ever seen but it's all surrounded by the worst script joss whedon has ever written
the thing is the new one isn't an actual exorcism movie, it's about an actor losing his mind shooting an exorcism movie, and I have no fucking idea why they didn't go for the easiest slam dunk of all time and have russell crowe play himself filming the pope's exorcist
can't believe I had tickets for this at sundance 2023 and ended up skipping it in favor of something else because "with such a big star in it it's sure to get a wide release soon" and now it's lost media lmao
Searchlight Pictures is nearing a deal to acquire ‘MAGAZINE DREAMS’, starring Jonathan Majors.
Neon, Sony Picture Classics and HBO were all circling the Sundance hit.
(Source:
@Deadline
)
Fresh off the one Academy Awards speech worth anything, Jonathan Glazer has reunited with Scarlett Johansson for a 'Persona'-like, Shakespeare-heavy Prada ad.
Watch:
@arthurjwarren
it's one of those things where even if you don't know how to put it into words, you can recognize it immediately because it looks so wrong
Sony reportedly scrapped most of the work that was finished on ‘SPIDER-MAN: BEYOND THE SPIDER-VERSE’ due to creative reasons.
Workers will have more time to work on the movie, which is now expected to hit theaters in 2027.
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@PCloud76
@Nicholas_DeOrio
What happened was Stephen had retweeted a transphobic dogwhistle that JK tweeted, not realizing what she meant by it. She took it as an as endorsement of her terf rhetoric but once he realized what she was actually talking about he shut that shit down real quick.
like the scene this character is introduced in is so horrifying and the tension is broken by ripley delivering some of the worst trademark "badass woman" Whedon dialogue you've ever heard
@manly_footwear
@_haaniyah_
also worth noting that rubber bullets were designed to be fired at the ground and bounced up so they hit the legs with reduced force, but cops are shooting them directly at people's faces
if it does end up getting quietly dumped on a streamer somewhere eventually i wouldn't even watch it, but just the thought of a movie that is finished and even screened publicly totally vanishing from existence drives me a little insane
Netflix is staging a real-life
#SquidGame
series that’s billed as “the biggest reality competition ever."
#SquidGame
: The Challenge will include 456 players in real competition in a series of games for a record-setting $4.56 million cash prize:
Colin Farrell Complained on 'The Penguin' Set 'That I F---ing Want It to Be Finished,' Said After Wrapping: 'I Never Want to Put That F---ing Suit on Again'
@skullmandible
and it's even less weird than star wars because dune is set in our universe, just the future. names have thousands of years of staying power!
@bornposting
I don't understand why people talk about Robin like he's some absurd concept that's incompatible with an even remotely serious Batman. "Younger guy that helps him" is basic enough that you can adapt it to literally any tone
@adamtotscomix
come on man, off the top of my head: rami, carpenter, craven, cronenberg, romero, argento, hooper, wan, and noé. can also pretty much guarantee that aster, eggers, and ducournau will be there too in the next couple years.
@spamaramis
@JeffreyStClair3
Neither, he was basically real life Captain America in terms of being used for propaganda, but while he was over there he realized that the war was quote, "so fucking illegal" and planned on become an anti-war advocate when he returned to the U.S.
@Mrzacchh
@benedict_rs
@BadPostsLLC
if a piece of media doesn't have two angsty but ultimately non-threatning white boys that can be shipped together, it's not gonna get a lot of fan fiction
@parasocialyte
@MeganBitchell
She says a couple different ages throughout the movie, but a big part of her character is her trying to seem more mature than she actually is, so there's no exact number but the implication is "younger than she says"
@KeithBos3
@KyleNumber
@hilaryagro
Marx also isn't a terrible fucking writer. Even if you ignore the garbage politics, Atlas Shrugged is just an incredibly poorly written book
Jake Sully and Quaritch are like the guy who thinks good sex is pumping away while you’re making a grocery list in your head wondering when he’ll be done.
Norm is like the guy who is all sweet and nerdy but holds you down and makes you cum until your calves cramp.
@Balls_Alt20
- sluggish
- justice smith is a terrible actor and is the worst part of the movie
- the pink opaque is a bad title for the characters to keep saying
- bad stock door opening sound effects
- cringe ending
- claw machine performance is poorly directed
i wonder when people are going to realize that most of the "washed out 4K" screenshots that get shared on here are just the result of people not knowing how to properly screenshot HDR video
on that note I think it's very odd that the movie's wikipedia has an otherwise very detailed plot synopsis that skips over one extremely important scene
@jonathanmb32
apparently the premise is that it's a character study where he plays a psychopath with violent rage issues, so they can't really pull the "what if the movie is so good people don't think about the allegations while watching it" card
@junglespycamp
New York Times mentions gender dysphoria extremely briefly at the very end of the review but is mostly about how the movie is about fandom
lots of talk about who the best non-Ripley Alien character is and not a lot of talk about who the worst non-Ripley Alien character is (it's Vasquez, it's obviously Vasquez)