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It's better than 85% of the Star Wars rip offs I've seen. Enjoyable trash. Anything with Sofia Boutella gets an interest watch from me.
Except that Mummy bomb.
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Except that Mummy bomb.
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Pauly Shore to Play Richard Simmons in New Biopic
Pauly Shore is getting ready to sweat to the oldies, as the actor and comedian will play fitness icon Richard Simmons in a new biopic.
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Richard Simmons is denying any involvement in the Pauly Shore movie project and basically said the producers are making the biopic without his consent/involvement.
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Richard Simmons disavows connection to Pauly Shore's biopic of him
Simmons has disavowed any involvement in, or permission for, Pauly Shore's new biopic about his life
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I get this it’s for Tubi. Doesn’t make it look any less embarrassing. Stephen Amell shouldn’t be in things.
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So oof, I went in blind to a Jenna Ortega movie this past weekend that apparently was a "suspense thriller" but it felt anything but a huge waste of time.
Movie in question is called Miller's Girl. I can't wrap my head what the intention was here. The characters were bland and vanilla, no layers, no real understanding of the character's intentions. It came off as a borderline arthouse film but without any real substance or point. The dialogue between all the characters is hard to believe and feels just strange in execution.
The basic premise is the Ortega character is this lost soul/hopeless romantic who hinges on the words of literary work, and kinda falls for her high school writing teacher, who is played by Martin Freeman. A friend of hers pushes for fulfilling a fantasy of both losing their virginity to teachers but there is really little heightened suspense, tension or such revolving around this aspect.
There's many points in this film where it just becomes some dreamy state of mind focus, so you don't know what's real and what isn't. The vagueness in the intentions of the teacher and students in question is confusing. It's clear the teacher is intruiged by Ortega's character, and there is a scene where he actually
To say that this was an awkward sequence of events would be putting it mildly.
At that point the last stage of the film becomes very open-ended and nothing is really settled in terms of understanding the true reality of what has occurred between Freeman and Ortega's characters. The film ends with a school authority starting to ask questions but then it just ends without any closure on any real level other than that it's clear the Ortega character is out for revenge since the teacher started pulling away after the writing submission.
This was a tonally messy film that really felt incomplete to say the least. The performances are also lazy and not very well written too.
Movie in question is called Miller's Girl. I can't wrap my head what the intention was here. The characters were bland and vanilla, no layers, no real understanding of the character's intentions. It came off as a borderline arthouse film but without any real substance or point. The dialogue between all the characters is hard to believe and feels just strange in execution.
The basic premise is the Ortega character is this lost soul/hopeless romantic who hinges on the words of literary work, and kinda falls for her high school writing teacher, who is played by Martin Freeman. A friend of hers pushes for fulfilling a fantasy of both losing their virginity to teachers but there is really little heightened suspense, tension or such revolving around this aspect.
There's many points in this film where it just becomes some dreamy state of mind focus, so you don't know what's real and what isn't. The vagueness in the intentions of the teacher and students in question is confusing. It's clear the teacher is intruiged by Ortega's character, and there is a scene where he actually
jerks off to her writing submission to him which is basically a fantasy between them that she illustrates in the writing, but then he immediately recoils and demeans her for doing the writings.
At that point the last stage of the film becomes very open-ended and nothing is really settled in terms of understanding the true reality of what has occurred between Freeman and Ortega's characters. The film ends with a school authority starting to ask questions but then it just ends without any closure on any real level other than that it's clear the Ortega character is out for revenge since the teacher started pulling away after the writing submission.
This was a tonally messy film that really felt incomplete to say the least. The performances are also lazy and not very well written too.
This looked like a mess from the trailers. Henry Cavill needs a hit badly.
Looks like we have our first disaster of 2024 with Argylle. It has a 200 million budget too and is projected to gross around 15 million. So it's a huge critical and box office bomb. This looked like a mess from the trailers. Henry Cavill needs a hit badly.
Looking at his filmography, and Matthew Vaughn just isn't for me. I like Layer Cake and X-Men: First Class. Kick Ass aged terribly when I went back a few years ago, and I don't like the Kingsman movies. He's not that much better than Zack Snyder imo and he's very similar.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/argylle
Looks like we have our first disaster of 2024 with Argylle. It has a 200 million budget too and is projected to gross around 15 million. So it's a huge critical and box office bomb. This looked like a mess from the trailers. Henry Cavill needs a hit badly.
Looking at his filmography, and Matthew Vaughn just isn't for me. I like Layer Cake and X-Men: First Class. Kick Ass aged terribly when I went back a few years ago, and I don't like the Kingsman movies. He's not that much better than Zack Snyder imo and he's very similar.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/argylle
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That’s kinda what happened. The movie had an 80 million budget and they sold it to Apple for 200 million. I assume this movie might not make 80 million but everyone except Apple, like the director and producers, they made bank on this one.
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Outside of "Layer Cake" and "X-Men: First Class" I'm not really a fan of Matthew Vaughn. "Kick Ass" was annoying outside of Nic Cage (and I'm not really a fan of the source material), I find the "Kingsmen" movies to be cringey outside of the action, and at the end of the day I find his sense of humor to be grating.
Stardust was fairly good in a sort charming childish way. Sounds like he was less involved with it (despite having director and cowriter credits) than later films, I think Neil Gaiman was p hands on with that film. I don't think people much associate it with him in the same way his other films are
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Public domain Pooh is back in the trailer for Blood And Honey 2
Tigger has now joined Pooh in the public domain, so he's here killing people as well
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It had its moments, and those moments all involved Pooh and Piglet brutally murdering people.
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So going back to Argyle for a moment.....hmmm, I dont think this was per-se a really totally bad movie, because the story kept me engaged and I did like the plot twists here and there, but there were certainly moments (and a good handful of them at that) that really took me out of it. Mostly the musical numbers which just felt so freaking off-base with the rest of the whole thing. But the run-time was a factor on a negative aspect as well, as it went just on and on....and onnnnnnn.
There was a pretty interesting post-credits scene too that
There was a pretty interesting post-credits scene too that
seem to connect this film with the Kingsmen franchise. Possibly an Argyle prequel that then ties into the canon of that other franchise. But I doubt it will see the light of day since this film isn't racking it in, box office wise.
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Yikes. Apparently, the iconic trailer line "He was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died" is not even in the movie.
Yikes. Apparently, the iconic trailer line "He was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died" is not even in the movie.
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Maybe the groans for test screenings were too loud. I remember the “place your bets!” Stinker in the Freddy vs Jason trailer that didn’t make the movie.
Gary
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Also doing poorly with critics is Bob Marley: One Love. Outside of "Driveaway Dolls", this month is continuing to look bleak.
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Yet they kept in the "Freddy died by fire, Jason by water, how do we use that?" line in the movie. And also the homophobic slur used by Kelly Rowland.
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I never really read much about his personal life but over the past few weeks I've consumed a lot of reports on how Marley wasn't a great guy IRL and the movie of course goes into none of that.
Gary
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It's been said before, but if you've seen "Walk Hard" you'd realize most musician biopics are pointless unless you go a totally different route.
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Yeah. That Kelly Rowland line had long expired by the time it came out. My theater gave an Austin pop when she ate shit in that one.
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Tubi Is Reviving a Lost Joy: Watching Really, Really Bad Movies
Their films have gone viral for their awful production values. But their success says fascinating things about what comes after prestige TV.
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I remember seeing the trailer ages ago and having no interest way back then, then the movie got pushed further out from its original release date. It reminded me of that George Foreman biopic movie that came out and just flopped super hard (barely over $5 Million on a $32 Million budget) where I just didn't see the big crowd for it outside of its probable niche audience.
I feel like those types of biopics would've been thrown onto HBO/Showtime back in the day and now the studios are throwing them into theaters just to try and recoup any money.
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Father Piss Jug: me and Mom went to see Argyle yesterday…
(Me stunned into silence by my dad, who only goes to the movies once every 2-3 years, making the trip for that)
Father Piss Jug: BEST MOVIE I HAVE SEEN IN YEARS!
(Me stunned into silence by my dad, who only goes to the movies once every 2-3 years, making the trip for that)
Father Piss Jug: BEST MOVIE I HAVE SEEN IN YEARS!
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You can finally watch Freddy Got Fingered on The Criterion Channel
Starting next month, Tom Green's provocative 2001 comedy will be available on the classiest of streaming services
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Bohemian Rhapsody made $910 million globally on a $50 million budget. The Elton John biopic Rocketman didn't do Queen numbers, but $200 million on a smaller budget than the Queen film is still impressive. This is why we're seeing a Bob Marley biopic.
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No Dave Chappelle or Jim Breuer but we got a cameo from Harland Williams and David Koechner as Paul Heyman apparently.
Plot is about someone dying from smoking a powerful hybrid strain of weed. Idk if it could get much worse. Unless current Dave Chappelle and Jim Breuer were actually in this?
Plot is about someone dying from smoking a powerful hybrid strain of weed. Idk if it could get much worse. Unless current Dave Chappelle and Jim Breuer were actually in this?