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Got back from an early 10 PM showing of Zero Dark Thirty on Thursday night. Damn good movie, Jessica Chastain is a brilliant actress.
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That Safety post reminds me of that movie that came out a few years ago Sunshine Cleaners. Anyone ever watch it?
It was alright, but there were just some stupid common sense things that anyone would of done.. so you kind of have to suspend belief while watching it. It sucks that this happened in real life and the story was just hard to believe....but overall it wasn't bad. Really some scumbags in the world, also some real idiots. Nothing I would ever watch again, I just felt uncomfortable at times.. but once, sure why not.
It's in my top 10 of 2012 - and it is nothing like Little Miss Sunshine or Juno. Nothing at all - except maybe an "indie" feel to it.Is Safety Not Guaranteed the same type of movie as a Little Miss Sunshine and Juno?
http://www.avclub.com/articles/ben-affleck-chooses-the-next-boston-movie-hell-dir,90755/Affleck tells MTV his next directing project will be the gangster story Live By Night, Affleck’s second adaptation of a Dennis Lehane novel (after Gone Baby Gone), and one that has so many of the characteristics that Affleck finds appealing about stories set in Boston, such as their taking place almost entirely in Boston.
Published last fall, Live By Night is the Prohibition-era-Boston tale of a Boston police captain’s son who turns Boston outlaw, tangling with both Boston’s mobsters and his own Boston father’s Boston police force. It’s a taut, Boston-y thriller, chock-full of Boston on nearly every page, and one that should allow Affleck to explore how the Boston of yore relates to the modern, universal Boston we all live in. Unfortunately, Affleck says his commitment to getting Live By Night done by a certain deadline forced him to drop out of starring in the upcoming Focus. Of course, that film is set to shoot in Buenos Aires, a city crippled by the poverty of its not being Boston, and co-star Kristen Stewart, who also couldn’t be Boston if she tried.
It did have its funny moments, but I honestly was sad at how they did it.
21 JumpStreet, SHOULD have been a truly terrific, darker police movie. The OG show was not some laugh a minute riot, they tackled extremely real issues back then, imagine what they could do now?
With the internet age, kids bringing guns to school for massacres, they could have easily tackled something serious like that with the set up JumpStreet brings. Adult cops, youthful looking enough to work undercover in high schools all over a highly populated city? Going school to school? ****, you would have built in sequels, and wouldn't even need the same cast for each one outside of a couple core members, like the captain and a couple other cops that could help coordinate. That way acting wise, you could bring in 2-3 of the new "it" young actors and actresses to play the roles within the actual schools.
Turning it into a Jonah Hill laughfest was a sad play imo. Even if they made it a funny movie, the franchise was not built for that and they could have tackled so much more. |I
Oh please.. forget planning for future sequels, you'd have to get people in the theaters for the first one before anything else happens. The reason it was successful is because they went a different direction and made it a comedy.
The odds of that being financially successful enough to warrant sequels would have been pretty slim. It certainly wouldn't have been too appealing to a wide audience, not the way a comedy would have been. I don't see it as a missed opportunity for some great cop franchise, not without injecting a good deal of humor and action into it. And if you're going to do that, might as well make it a comedy.