Oh I'm sorry, Did I Break Your Conversation........Well Allow Me A Movie Thread by S&T

[kevin cleveland]

No movie that could ever possibly be made would succeed in thoroughly keeping my attention for three hours.

 

[Kimchi Papi]

I used to always watch Godfather I & II, The Last Emperor, & Ghandi (a few others too) whenever they came on. A good film is a good film no matter the length...

 

[youngdoc]

No movie that could ever possibly be made would succeed in thoroughly keeping my attention for three hours.

I'm guessing you were one of those dissing the Godfather in that other thread

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Here's the rest of the Tarantino post along with the recent Leno interview. I don't think I'd want QT doing a John Brown flick though. It's a historical figure near & dear to my heart & given the poetic license QT takes with his flicks, I'd rather have a film more true to history.

Also a great Australian western has already been done with The Proposition starring Guy Pearce, Danny Huston, Emily Watson, Ray Winstone, & John Hurt (the English one). Love the flick...



http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/17...no-reveals-details-about-his-next-movie.jhtml

Quentin Tarantino Reveals Details About His Next Movie
As 'Django Unchained' writer returns to the genre, we examine which of his previously discussed projects could be up next.

One of the few directors who can make headlines by announcing plans for his next project, Quentin Tarantino did just that on Tuesday night, giving himself a big platform to share the news.

During a visit to the "Tonight Show," Tarantino looked back on his many chats with Jay Leno and revealed that he's already at work on his next screenplay, a western — but not a sequel to his most recent adventure in the genre, "Django Unchained."

"I can't talk that much about it, but I will say one thing. I haven't told anyone about this publicly, but I will say the genre: It's a western," Tarantino said. "It's not a 'Django' sequel, but it's another western. I had so much fun doing 'Django,' and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.' "

While the news is exciting, leaving it at "a western" is a little too much of a tease for us. Since Tarantino has mentioned potential projects in the past that could fit the bill, we speculated on what might match what he talked about on the "Tonight Show."

John Brown
Tarantino once called the radical abolitionist his "favorite American who ever lived," and told Charlie Rose that he wants to eventually make a film that tells the story of John Brown. With a setting just before the Civil War, Brown's story could fit into Tarantino's twisted view on the genre, and it is almost guaranteed to be insane in all the right ways.

Australia-Set Western
Back in September of 2012, "Django Unchained" castmember John Jarratt told an Aussie paper that Tarantino wants to make a film set in the country, using only Australian actors. This marks the only time we've heard about this project so far, and it would definitely be new ground for Tarantino.

'Forty Lashes Less One'
It would be appropriate that Tarantino return to material from Elmore Leonard, the author of the source material for "Jackie Brown," especially after his passing in August of this year. It has been long-rumored that the writer/director wants to adapt "Forty Lashes Less One," a novel with a story that sounds just like a Tarantino movie. The book follows two characters: a disgraced, black Union soldier and a half-breed Apache man, who are released from prison to hunt down the five most-wanted outlaws in Arizona.

 

[CP1708]

What'd you pick up, CP?

I was thinking about finally getting a Blu-ray player yesterday/today/Monday. The Sony one with Wi-Fi that is everywhere for $54.99.

 

[lawdog1]

For those of you who like documentaries and, more specifically, docs about music, I recommend It Might Get Loud. Caught it today on Showtime. It's Jimmy Page from Led Zepplin, the Edge from U2 and Jack White from the White Stripes talking separately and together about playing guitar. Cool stuff. I especially liked the scenes with the three musicians together, jamming and talking.

 

[Master Zik]

What is going on in The Wolf of Wall Street that it almost got a NC-17 rating?

Don't mind the 3hrs. Plenty great 3hr movies. Quite frankly, I'm pretty sure I've watched more great 3hr movies than bad ones so when I see that a movie is that long or almost that long I tend to expect it will be good. It's when it's longer than that I feel it's a chore.

 

[macbk]

What is going on in The Wolf of Wall Street that it almost got a NC-17 rating?

As we know by now with the MPAA: violence good, sex bad. And so today brings with it another tale of a movie that has made the ratings body just a bit too hot under the collar, but it also happens to be one of the biggest films of the year: "The Wolf Of Wall Street."

THR reports that Martin Scorsese's upcoming epic—with the trade also confirming recent reports that it runs 2 hours and 59 minutes—was initially returned with an NC-17 rating thanks to "abundant, explicit sex (not to mention drugs)." Of course, no major studio movie is ever going to get released with an NC-17, so trims, cut and edits were made (though it's not clear how extensive they were) to ensure the movie got an R rating, and it seems everyone is happy (or at least not making their concerns public).

That quite can't be said for Evan Rachel Wood who heatedly took to Twitter this week to slam the MPAA for cuts made to her recent film, "Charlie Countryman." It would appear that between its Sundance premiere and recent release, a scene in which she receives some oral pleasure from Shia LaBeouf wound up on the cutting room floor to appease the prudes at the ratings group. She criticized the MPAA for not blinking at the film's explicit violence but balking once clothes came off.

"This is a symptom of a society that wants to shame women and put them down for enjoying sex, especially......when (gasp) the man isn't getting off as well! Its hard for me to believe that had the roles been reversed it still would have been cut..., " she wrote. You can read her full comments right here.

So, another day, another MPAA controversy. "The Wolf Of Wall Street" brings the business on Christmas Day.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplayl...-before-cuts-made-to-secure-r-rating-20131128

 

[Kimchi Papi]

For those of you who like documentaries and, more specifically, docs about music, I recommend It Might Get Loud. Caught it today on Showtime. It's Jimmy Page from Led Zepplin, the Edge from U2 and Jack White from the White Stripes talking separately and together about playing guitar. Cool stuff. I especially liked the scenes with the three musicians together, jamming and talking.

It is a good doc. When I watched Jack White build the pedal steel like guitar out of nothing, it made me think of the John Lennon quote from Nicholson had in The Departed.






I mean dude just built the thing out of a pick-up, a 2x4, steel string, & a coke bottle.... :x

 

[jrp44]

Just saw Captain Phillips..I loved it..Hanks is the man

 

[illmaticsoulchild]

I went through the hassle of re-registering this account for the sole purpose of recommending Blue is the Warmest Colour. Best film I've seen since Midnight in Paris.

Luckily I didn't get the bug to get any Blu-Ray's this BF. Only got the Blade Runner 30th Anniversary (the one with the "spinner" car).

 

[lawdog1]

I mean dude just built the thing out of a pick-up, a 2x4, steel string, & a coke bottle.... :x

That was a cool scene and reminds me of another thing I found interesting about the movie generally. Really enjoyed seeing how all 3 guys made efforts to come up with new and different sounds, whether by tweaking normal guitar designs or something else. Hard not to appreciate people who aren't satisfied with just mastering their craft, but also want to innovate.

 

[TXZ]

I went through the hassle of re-registering this account for the sole purpose of recommending Blue is the Warmest Colour. Best film I've seen since Midnight in Paris.

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

The break-up scene had me like

. Uncomfortably vicious and painful.

 

[nachobroadweezy]

Just saw Unforgiven, wow! that's a man's movie right there, so quotable.
Zodiac was decent
2001: Space Odyssey was way beyond it's time, better graphics than a lot of movies in the 80s & 90s

 

[duba169]

Cable network FXX announced Friday that they have acquired the cable and streaming rights to The Simpsons, the New York Times reports. The show’s 500-plus episodes will begin airing on the 21st Century Fox cable channel in August 2014.
Bidding for the show’s extensive library was fierce and, according to industry insiders, very expensive, potentially reaching $1 billion. “After the television unit announced the sale, analysts estimated a purchase price of between $1 million and $2 million an episode, putting the overall value in the range of $550 million to $1 billion-plus.” TBS and Adult Swim also expressed interest in airing the show.


Power moves.

 

[rook]

Hayden Christianson was so bad as Anakin. I hate Lucas for that smh

So was portman as the queen.

 

[sb]

Hayden Christianson was so bad as Anakin. I hate Lucas for that smh

So was portman as the queen.

blasphemy

 

[sb]

finally saw gatsby. great film. leo was great and tobey held his own.

also saw the internship. good movie. good lulz. that indian chick can get the d.

 

[Master Zik]

Hayden Christianson was so bad as Anakin. I hate Lucas for that smh

So was portman as the queen.

blasphemy

You think they were good?

Bad screenplay aside, that trilogy is filled with bad acting (Liam, Ewan, and Samuel aside).

 

[youngdoc]

Hayden Christensen was awful

 

[secretzofwar]

You think they were good?

Bad screenplay aside, that trilogy is filled with bad acting (Liam, Ewan, and Samuel aside).

Portman is such a good actress, I completely blame the poor writing.

 

[suberzat1]

Im pretty hype about Wolf on Wall Street going to find some breezy to take to movie if not I will bring the fam like I did last Christmas. Lets not at like Django wasnt close to 3 hours long. We all sat through the move last year. There are other great movies that was 3 hours(close to it) just dont feel like posting them.

 

[kevin cleveland]

I wasn't at all discrediting long films. Quality is, in fact, quality.

I just have attention issues. Very difficult for me to sit in a theater and watch for so long. I need to be able to pause and move around and do other things over that amount of time.

 

[lawdog1]

Portman is such a good actress, I completely blame the poor writing.

Nobody was in top form in those movies. Not Portman, not Neeson, not McGregor or Sam Jackson. Nobody. The guy who played the Emperor was good, but then again I've only seen him play the Emperor (that I'm aware of), so I don't really know if he's capable of better acting.

Anyway, with so may good actors giving 2nd rate performances, you have to point the finger at Lucas writing a lot of lame dialogue and being a lazy director when it comes to trying to get the best out of his actors.

 

[Hahahaha]

What'd you pick up, CP?

I was thinking about finally getting a Blu-ray player yesterday/today/Monday. The Sony one with Wi-Fi that is everywhere for $54.99.

I used to do this every BF. Spend $100-$200 on blu's and TV shows. Now with HBO Go, Netflix and all the streaming sites now, it's almost like they don't want you to buy

I gotta few TV series that are incomplete but they're all on Netflix pretty much or are a blu ray box set for cheap (Weeds, Dexter, Entourage,....)

I only picked up The Great Gatsby, 42, Dumb and Dumber this year.