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VomKriege

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« Reply #40860 on: July 30, 2022, 01:49:48 PM »
Apparently Lonely Island are all Bay natives and for their first full length concert they made that happened to be back home, they dressed like that and from there developed more songs in character.

The best bit might be the opening one of "THEY CALL ME JOSEEEEEEEEE" "...and I'm Mark". I'm a fan of just cutting to them in a flying car as an illustration of the cultural mindscape more than a straight story, the grandiloquent fake docu voice over or just leaning in stupid religious imagery bit that's maybe not to everyone's taste. I think they're really good at visual satire through brief mimicking, like when the first song digs at product placement in just a couple of shots & sentences.
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« Reply #40861 on: July 31, 2022, 02:36:09 AM »
Finished watching all the interviews on Miller's Crossing. Man, between the interviews on Blood Simple and the interviews in this, one thing that sticks out is Barry Sonnenfeld seems like a really nice and friendly person lol

Also thought it was funny that he says he started out by buying a 16mm camera and going and shooting 9 full length porn movies in 9 days  :lol

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« Reply #40862 on: July 31, 2022, 06:57:39 AM »
Watching Burnt, and it's pretty good  as far as food stuff goes.

Then the subtext got creepy. and it's a weinstein production.

what the fuck.

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« Reply #40863 on: July 31, 2022, 10:06:54 AM »
Everything Everywhere All At Once is everything (PUN) it was hyped up to be. This is like... the good, fully realized version of what Marvel movies wished they could be. Or a 2022 child of the Matrix and Satoshi Kon. It's predictable and a little saccharine in ways (it has a little bit of everything for everyone) but this is just so, so strong formally, inventive and fun it carries through. Maybe not a film I'd rewatch because 140mn is steep for what it is but definitely try to catch this. Michelle Yeoh is spectacular, this might be her strongest role in her full career. Certainly my favourite film she did since that first film run in HK.

Those A24 people are talented, man. That or they just embody a certain set of shared zeitgeist with people our generation they perfectly pander too.
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« Reply #40864 on: July 31, 2022, 11:18:39 AM »
Independent of whatever the hell is going on with Ezra, the trajectory of The Flash movie as a growing headache for WB is funny.


Anyway, I enjoyed Everything Everywhere All at Once. Can’t elaborate but it felt very 2015 with with touches of 2004. I’d say it dragged moments past the impact. The jokes, the messages, the homages. Like it wanted to make sure you got it. It’s a me thing that I’d rather be a little confused than have it blunt. I mean, I really enjoyed The Fountain.

Read the daughter was originally gonna be played by aquafina. Whatever caused that scheduling conflict, thank you.

Maybe that's why it won't support too many rewatches, yeah. There's something a little contradictory to having a movie both be so dense and... synthetic, syncretic? but pushing it a whole reel past 2 hours. I think you're losing a little of the punch and the efficiency (for lack of a better word) of all those techniques and using references to enhance the emotion by leveraging the shared cultural past ?

It's a long shot comparison but Bash Brothers is also playing along some of those lines but they kept it 30mn.

Overall I think this is a superior take at this sort of concept than anything recent I can think off, better than the Matrix actually perhaps, except maybe Satoshi Kon's films. In some ways I thought it was a little too stock Hollywood (the music, perhaps) to truly elevate to full KINO status.
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« Reply #40865 on: July 31, 2022, 06:02:11 PM »
One really strong choice was
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« Reply #40866 on: July 31, 2022, 06:13:30 PM »


David F. Sandberg continues to be a treasure.

VomKriege

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« Reply #40867 on: July 31, 2022, 06:13:32 PM »
Some Youtuber had a video about how 4:3 aspect ratio is trending back (notably through A24) and I must say Paul Schrader's First Reformed looked interesting... Has someone seen it ?

It’s good. If you’re familiar with the movies he’s written, you know what you’re getting from it. The Card Counter is good, too. Not 4:3 but it plays with aspect ratios.

Getting an OLED TV was a game changer for content presented outside 16:9.

I'm not a big Schrader guy but yeah obviously I've crossed paths with his work a number of times. Among his "recent" but no so recent work I saw and liked Adam Ressurected though the memory of it is hazy.
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« Reply #40868 on: August 01, 2022, 06:37:26 PM »
Independent of whatever the hell is going on with Ezra, the trajectory of The Flash movie as a growing headache for WB is funny.


Anyway, I enjoyed Everything Everywhere All at Once. Can’t elaborate but it felt very 2015 with with touches of 2004. I’d say it dragged moments past the impact. The jokes, the messages, the homages. Like it wanted to make sure you got it. It’s a me thing that I’d rather be a little confused than have it blunt. I mean, I really enjoyed The Fountain.

Read the daughter was originally gonna be played by aquafina. Whatever caused that scheduling conflict, thank you.

Maybe that's why it won't support too many rewatches, yeah. There's something a little contradictory to having a movie both be so dense and... synthetic, syncretic? but pushing it a whole reel past 2 hours. I think you're losing a little of the punch and the efficiency (for lack of a better word) of all those techniques and using references to enhance the emotion by leveraging the shared cultural past ?

It's a long shot comparison but Bash Brothers is also playing along some of those lines but they kept it 30mn.

Overall I think this is a superior take at this sort of concept than anything recent I can think off, better than the Matrix actually perhaps, except maybe Satoshi Kon's films. In some ways I thought it was a little too stock Hollywood (the music, perhaps) to truly elevate to full KINO status.

Read an interview with the directors of EEAAO and their drilling in the message was very deliberate to avoid misinterpretations. They didn’t want
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I guess it’s admirable. They’re young filmmakers and roughly the same generation as me. I can see why they’d arrive at it. There’s a sect of film and art criticism about missing the point being dangerous on the off chance it emboldens somebody. Or simply wanting audiences to engage with it on the level they intended.

Anyways, it’s A24’s biggest movie and continues to play well in theaters after the home release. Feel good success story all around.

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« Reply #40869 on: August 01, 2022, 07:07:19 PM »
Didn't realized they did Swiss Army Man before that which was certainly noteworthy.
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« Reply #40870 on: August 01, 2022, 07:50:45 PM »
I want Prey to be good, but usually if the review embargo is this close to the film release date, it is a BAD sign

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« Reply #40871 on: August 01, 2022, 09:58:03 PM »
Are you praying for its success :corona_rodney
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« Reply #40872 on: August 01, 2022, 10:16:12 PM »
mods halp  :six:

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« Reply #40873 on: August 01, 2022, 10:20:34 PM »
Do Arnold, Danny Glover, and Adrian Brody walk out of a portal in this one?

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« Reply #40874 on: August 01, 2022, 11:53:14 PM »
Is that a Marvel reference or something

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« Reply #40875 on: August 02, 2022, 12:33:54 AM »
Prey is on paper the best pitch for a predator sequel, I feel. If they can hopefully avoid fanservice it would certainly be a better film for it.
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« Reply #40876 on: August 02, 2022, 01:30:55 AM »
If the spoken language was Comanche it'd be the better for it.


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« Reply #40878 on: August 02, 2022, 12:26:02 PM »
Yeah I knew about that but it should be filmed in Comanche and dubbed in english optional not the other way around!

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« Reply #40879 on: August 02, 2022, 01:48:12 PM »
Yeah I knew about that but it should be filmed in Comanche and dubbed in english optional not the other way around!

Yeah, too bad it's a dub. Why is it only crazy ass Mel Gibson who could make something like Apocalypto.

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« Reply #40880 on: August 02, 2022, 01:51:39 PM »
I don't think it's a huge difference tbh. Like unless the dub is just terribly off in lip-sync it should be fine and is better than expected from a studio film.

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« Reply #40881 on: August 02, 2022, 05:44:02 PM »
Waaaat

https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1554572956109455360

Crazy, filming had already wrapped. $90 million budget.

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« Reply #40882 on: August 02, 2022, 05:49:45 PM »
Crazy, filming had already wrapped. $90 million budget.

Yeah, this is ...odd.

Either it's really terrible and they're worried about its effects on the DCU reputation (lolz).
Or it's got some really heavy political vibes they were afraid to put out there and put a target on WB.

Or after Ezra they're just canning every DC film and ending the DCU after Aquaman 2 and Shazam 2.

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« Reply #40883 on: August 02, 2022, 06:00:17 PM »
There's got to be lawsuits incoming from that though, right?

Like, they just killed any potential residuals for literally everyone involved

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« Reply #40884 on: August 02, 2022, 06:17:45 PM »
oh no one less superhero movie what will we do
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« Reply #40885 on: August 02, 2022, 06:24:41 PM »
There's got to be lawsuits incoming from that though, right?

Like, they just killed any potential residuals for literally everyone involved

It was planned as HBO max movie so I'm guessing they may not have had any residuals in the contract

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« Reply #40886 on: August 02, 2022, 06:33:18 PM »
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“There’s crazy stunts, crazy drops,” Grace said of the film. “She’s a biker chick, so you’re going to see her do a bunch of badassery… There were a lot of long days, but it was so worth it.”
I guess not worth it in the end.

Not releasing it is very weird as it was intended for streaming anyway but it's apparently for cost cutting reasons.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/batgirl-shelved-at-warner-bros-hbo-max-1235191371/

My guess is that while shooting was complete they still had to do a lot of editing and VFX and that just wasn't worth it or the movie was just very bad.

The writing is on the wall that these streaming services just aren't profitable enough compared to theatrical releases.
Especially when the first thing everyone will cut during a recession is subscriptions.
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« Reply #40887 on: August 02, 2022, 06:40:54 PM »
This'll be fun to see the dailies leak in a few years.

Then #ReleaseTheBatgirlCut in a few decades, where they go back and spend $80 mil on finishing the VFX in 2030.

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« Reply #40888 on: August 02, 2022, 07:22:50 PM »
If I’m getting this, it’s WBD seeing Warnersmedia plans, or lack of, and reconfiguring things before they continue to waste. If news comes of scrapping the already filmed Blue Beetle movie and planned Black Canary movie, wouldn’t be surprised.

This is heading into capeshit dumpster territory, but what a thud when bringing back Keaton’s Batman. That’s a trump card and they wasted it. Could’ve done a Batman Beyond movie with Keaton.

Speaking of,

https://twitter.com/CultureCrave/status/1554358847979921408

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« Reply #40889 on: August 02, 2022, 09:52:02 PM »
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« Reply #40890 on: August 02, 2022, 10:35:54 PM »
As much as I didn't really care for these films (Warner has released worse too I reckon), this is a good sign of what's to come with David Zaslav.

He's sexually attracted to costing cutting, shithouse 'reality' "TV", and staking some shitty new legacy at the top.

How hard will DC overall get fucked and will he fuck HBO while he's at it?

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« Reply #40891 on: August 02, 2022, 11:49:05 PM »
Fuck the last 10 years of DC films. They just recently hired back Alarn Horn from Disney, who generated the TDK Trilogy when he was at WB along with other golden age era DC film hits. The faster Snyder/Ezra Miller/et al are shown the door, the better.

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« Reply #40892 on: August 02, 2022, 11:51:18 PM »
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How hard will DC overall get fucked and will he fuck HBO while he's at it?

The one thing everyone seems to agree on is HBO is the golden goose. Casey Bloys (CCO HBO/HBO Max) just got a renewed 5-year contract and now reports directly to Zas. 98% of other WarnerMedia execs did not get the same preferential treatment.

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« Reply #40893 on: August 02, 2022, 11:52:47 PM »
There might be some contracts / deals stuff that makes releasing Batgirl anywhere else than the intended platform a little more difficult... I guess ?
But a theater release means more expenses, shipping it to a "competing" platform might be a big no no (even if the home platform might not exist soon, if rumors are to be believed) and video is now longer a market for that.

Still :mindblown at just sitting on a completed movie that costs so much. Especially since it's a DCEU / Batman related movie, not Monster Trucks. You know there will be some audience.
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« Reply #40894 on: August 03, 2022, 12:19:14 AM »
Fuck the last 10 years of DC films. They just recently hired back Alarn Horn from Disney, who generated the TDK Trilogy when he was at WB along with other golden age era DC film hits. The faster Snyder/Ezra Miller/et al are shown the door, the better.

True for films, but I'm more concerned about the other parts of DC entertainment like animation and comics. Should've clarified, my bad. 

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« Reply #40895 on: August 03, 2022, 12:44:02 AM »
Batgirl was finished some time ago, then they added more to the budget and bumped it up to theater release, but the screening reviews apparently said it looks like a TV movie still and is terrible.

They should dump The Flash too and completely forget about Keaton which was stupid anyway.

Blue Beetle might be okay because it still has a year of post-production.

Personally I would hire the Academy Award winning Zack Snyder to come back, do Justice League 2 and 3 alongside Wonder Woman 3, and reboot at the end of the JL3 pulling the plug on the entire thing and letting someone else start over from scratch except for maybe the Shazam based stuff. It's hilarious that the tentpole of the franchise that would complicate this is Aquaman.

They just recently hired back Alarn Horn from Disney, who generated the TDK Trilogy when he was at WB along with other golden age era DC film hits.
Constantine and Man of Steel? ???

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« Reply #40896 on: August 03, 2022, 01:44:07 AM »
Fuck the last 10 years of DC films. They just recently hired back Alarn Horn from Disney, who generated the TDK Trilogy when he was at WB along with other golden age era DC film hits. The faster Snyder/Ezra Miller/et al are shown the door, the better.

Legit Snyder hasn't been there longer than he was. Other than finishing JL, he stepped away in 2016 after his daughter passed. Am more interested in seeing him do his original sci-fi stuff than returning to DC. At best they should swallow their pride, throw people a bone, and say his JL replaces the old one. Whatever. Just let The Batman 2 survive.

For the DC hits during Alan Horn's previous tenure, there were:

Nolan's Batmans
Superman Returns
Catwoman
Jonah Hex
Green Lantern
Constantine (innocent!)
(excluding scrapped movies like McG's Superman and George Miller's Justice League)

Yeah. What I'd suggest is, don't let Geoff Johns get involve anymore. Somehow even Martin Campbell has bad stories about him from working on Green Lantern. WB's big recent DC successes avoided that shit. Joker, JL, Batman. If there's any plan to take from that, and for WB as a whole, it's to return to their brand as a filmmaker's studio. Stop worrying about being the MCU. They turned down a Henry Cavill Superman movie from Chris McQuarrie, said to have involved Green Lantern. WB said nope not in our plans. They almost lost Matt Reeves doing The Batman. He walked away for a sec and took a lower budget to have his say.

Another suggestion, let Baz Luhrmann make a Midnight and Apollo film. Marvel will never risk getting that gay or violent. Untapped audience.

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« Reply #40897 on: August 03, 2022, 02:26:20 AM »
Yeah, they really should pull the plug on a DCEU in the films and make a new one for HBO Max or whatever that's like the CW version in terms of ever expanding but like closer to Netflix Marvel was and so on. Let the films be standalone stuff.

And fire Geoff Johns. Out of a cannon. Or send him back to the comics at least.

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« Reply #40899 on: August 03, 2022, 04:37:59 AM »
I am beyond impressed that Warner Brothers had the class to cancel a film they knew had no artistic value whatsoever. This is a big victory for anyone who has ever uttered the words "what a piece of shit, I wish I had that two hours of my life back". Just this once, we got it back.

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« Reply #40900 on: August 03, 2022, 09:26:17 AM »
I am beyond impressed that Warner Brothers had the class to cancel a film they knew had no artistic value whatsoever. This is a big victory for anyone who has ever uttered the words "what a piece of shit, I wish I had that two hours of my life back". Just this once, we got it back.

Need to subtract the time wasted discussing the movie previously though
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« Reply #40901 on: August 03, 2022, 01:58:27 PM »
Prey reviews looking positive so far

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« Reply #40902 on: August 03, 2022, 02:14:20 PM »
This'll be fun to see the dailies leak in a few years.

Then #ReleaseTheBatgirlCut in a few decades, where they go back and spend $80 mil on finishing the VFX in 2030.

:wut

What year do you think this is?  :what
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« Reply #40903 on: August 03, 2022, 03:48:56 PM »
This'll be fun to see the dailies leak in a few years.

Then #ReleaseTheBatgirlCut in a few decades, where they go back and spend $80 mil on finishing the VFX in 2030.

:wut

What year do you think this is?  :what


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« Reply #40904 on: August 03, 2022, 05:15:55 PM »
Reads like HBO Max is dyin and it’ll be folded into Discovery Max Plus whatever. HBO Max originals getting scrubbed. What survives might get shifted to HBO regular?

This list I’m looking at, clearly I had no idea what was HBO and HBO Max. Hacks and Tokyo Vice were HBO Max. They had a Menudo documentary?? Magic Mike 3 was going to be HBO Max. Nooo!

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« Reply #40905 on: August 03, 2022, 05:36:16 PM »
Yeah, basically consumers losing out on a lot of quality content.

Execs maybe making money by losing less idk. I kind of agree that spending money on original streaming content is mostly pointless as are more than 10 randos who've never bothered signing up for a streaming service gonna suddenly sign up for Magic Mike 3 or Tokyo Vice S2, etc...

But at the same time, as a collective sum total it makes a huge difference. If HBO Max didn't have any of their original content (Hacks, Tokyo Vice, Flight Attendant, Our Flag Means Death, Station Eleven, MAX original movies, etc...) would as many people be subscribed? Probably no. Having a large volume of variety of original content is what sells memberships, not any particular one outside big hits like Stranger Things.

HBO Max doing an all or nothing collapse of original content going forward saying "no more scripted shows" is definitely gonna hurt them going forward in memberships for HBO (cable) and Discovery+

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« Reply #40906 on: August 03, 2022, 05:56:19 PM »
Hollywood corpo's are basic af as always.

The executives looked at their spreadsheets and they asked their creators and market researchers:
"We funded your PG-13 inclusive cinematic universes and original content, where did all the entertainment dollars and subscribers go?"



And then the new guy wants to get rid of everything that the old guy stood for.
Finally the accountants fearing for their job and stock throw everyone under the bus to save themselves.
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« Reply #40907 on: August 03, 2022, 06:12:28 PM »
Reads like HBO Max is dyin and it’ll be folded into Discovery Max Plus whatever.

From the get-go they've been saying there will be 1 app but they haven't said what the tech will be. Either way I doubt Discovery+ will be the surviving name. There's been whispers even a few months ago some top execs at WarnerMedia/AT&T were trying to change "HBO Max," and Zas wasn't hot on it either. However, seems he's warmed up, and the HBO Max name has turned a corner reputation-wise, would be a shame to lose that and start from scratch.

HBO Max originals getting scrubbed. What survives might get shifted to HBO regular?

Yup, and it was always confusing and always a debate come Emmy time ("Are HBO and HBO Max Originals the same?") Max Originals had quite a few great shows, particularly Hacks. IMO this move makes sense, even though I know it's mostly motivated by cost-saving.

They're also killing a bunch of Warner reality content, and that also makes sense as that's really more Discovery's bread and butter and consumers somewhat know that.

This list I’m looking at, clearly I had no idea what was HBO and HBO Max. Hacks and Tokyo Vice were HBO Max. They had a Menudo documentary?? Magic Mike 3 was going to be HBO Max. Nooo!

Exactly. HBO will just be a silo inside Max for a certain brand of prestige content, like most people always assumed it was.

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« Reply #40908 on: August 03, 2022, 06:27:47 PM »
HBO Max doing an all or nothing collapse of original content going forward saying "no more scripted shows" is definitely gonna hurt them going forward in memberships for HBO (cable) and Discovery+

I don't really think so, especially as the better Max Originals (Hacks, etc.) did get renewed. And really... as cable dies, HBO content basically is Max streaming exclusive content for 90% of under-40s. Nothing really changes there as long as the content continues hitting it out of the park, and Zaslav is keeping HBO mostly intact from the previous regime.

What's changing is:

- Less/no feature films for streaming, instead increasing theatrical output and using the 45 day window to boost Max (a good move, as it should increase theatrical diversity beyond just blockbusters and comic flicks... here's hoping)

- Just like when DC Universe died and most of its shows got renewed on HBO Max (Titans, Harley Quinn, Doom Patrol, etc.), the same is gonna happen with HBO Max Originals (which most consumers didn't know was different from HBO proper anyways)

- Warner's reality slate is getting axed for Discovery's (I don't care, and anecdotally, people prefer Discovery); same with streaming-exclusive Euro/EMEA content I think, as Discovery+ has a bigger worldwide headstart

- Discovery+ and HBO Max will be merged, theoretically it will use the better of the two's tech stacks and be a one-stop hub for all WBD content (HBO, Cartoon Network/Adult Swim, CNN, Ghibli license, HGTV, Food Network, New Line, Rooster Teeth, etc.), which... not sure how anyone could complain about that -- I don't think they'll raise prices for another year or two (could be wrong)

- The line last year was $20 bil on content spend in 2022, compared to Netflix's $18 bil; it may shrink or stay flat in 2023+ but that's still leading the pack so the idea that "consumers are losing out on a lot of quality content" isn't really well-founded and won't even be clear for months at the earliest IMO (Batgirl is the first first thing, and who was really looking forward to that?)

$WBD stockholder, AMA

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« Reply #40909 on: August 03, 2022, 06:34:00 PM »
Also I would be surprised if Magic Mike 3 was cancelled. It'll be a proper WB pic (like, label/prodco-wise) and could either be theatrical or still be one of the few that go straight to Max. They have flexibility there.

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« Reply #40910 on: August 03, 2022, 06:36:02 PM »
Was anyone here crying when the HBO Max Original WonderTwins film got canned a few weeks back? :thinking

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« Reply #40912 on: August 03, 2022, 06:43:47 PM »
Peacemaker was pretty damn good so that'd be nice. Maybe other HBO max shows can survive as well

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« Reply #40913 on: August 03, 2022, 06:47:02 PM »
https://twitter.com/MichaelMann/status/1554602237799849986

:thinking

Tokyo Vice pilot was great so I guess he's still got it :trumps

Potato

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« Reply #40914 on: August 03, 2022, 06:51:12 PM »
Don't know if Heat 2 is a good idea.


It's a classic. We don't need to know more.
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« Reply #40915 on: August 03, 2022, 06:51:52 PM »
Are we sure he isn't talking about the novel?

Edit: nevermind, he seems to be planning to turn it into a movie

https://www.nme.com/news/film/michael-mann-wants-to-adapt-heat-2-novel-into-large-ambitious-movie-3263367

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« Reply #40916 on: August 03, 2022, 06:59:16 PM »
WBD's quarterly results are tomorrow so we'll probably get some solid info on future plans then btw.

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« Reply #40917 on: August 03, 2022, 07:04:07 PM »
Novel is a prequel/sequel? like Godfather 2?

I’m down for whatever Mann. Finding the right actors, following that legacy. Mann is current doing an Enzo Ferrari movie with Adam Driver. Driver’s one of the rare actors of his generation with that weight.

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« Reply #40918 on: August 03, 2022, 11:36:55 PM »
My gut reaction to Heat 2  :kobeyuck
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« Reply #40919 on: August 04, 2022, 01:20:39 AM »
Watched Shaft (1971) and Shaft's Big Score (1972)

Shaft - I'd seen it back in the day but didn't remember it much. Good movie. The music is super fucking good. The Soulsville song montage where he's going around the streets getting information was the highlight of the film for me. Great scene. The opening stuff on the streets is shot really nice to give a good street feel of NY at that time and the OP song and Richard Roundtree coming out of the subway is iconic. Some good cinematography, some good lines, very fun movie that holds up outside like the final action sequence which is super budget and cheesy today.

Shaft's Big Score - I'd never seen this before. This is a weird, weird movie. Shaft felt like a street level indie budget crime flick. Movie was short and tight. This is long and slow and enormous budget upgrade after the success of the first one. Feels like a studio film complete with car chases and boat chases and helicopter chases. But like...it's not that fun. For whatever reason Isaac Hayes didn't do the music and Gordon Parks did it himself and there's all these scenes that have like no music or the music doesn't really fit. Like the end 20 min+ action sequence starts off good with a car chase with some cool side camera shots, but as it goes to the boat chase and stuff the music is like....abstract whereas the movie is trying to do this exciting long action sequence and it's got like no energy to it and was kind of boring. I think the first hour and fifteen mins are solid slower crime caper but yeah the last 30 mins of action just seemed weak outside some nice camera shots.

Is there a reason to watch the third film that Parks didn't make, Shaft in Africa? I'd seen the original, the Sam Jackson one and the latest 2019 one (which I thought was actually pretty solid), but hadn't seen Big Score and haven't seen Shaft in Africa.

I'm watching the new 2022 Criterion release of both and there's such a wealth of extra features on Gordon Parks, Hayes, Roundtree, the films and the film industry at the time and how important shaft was as a huge success for black mainline roles/creators in Hollywood. Really interesting stuff. Hours and hours of content. Still working through some of it. I never knew who Gordon Parks was, so it's been really great learning about him. His photography was really fantastic.

Oh and the I like how the sex scenes were shot in both movies. Each one had a different cool effect to it.