Which films have you seen lately? ΚΓ' - The thread is your movie hegemon.

[Kyriakos]

At least Dano is a prominent actor now. What kind of has-been makes it a point to badmouth Lillard (the first Scream guy)?

 

[Clubber Lang]

Last time Quint was in a media ruckas was about the lampooning of Bruce Lee in OTIH.

He's gotta movie playing on the big screen right now and he's talk of the town for other reasons...

Quentin Tarantino torched by The Office star after director's ruthless attacks on Hollywood actors​

He told Tarantino, 'The only movie I want to see you in is Ring camera footage of [Tarantino] having a stroke in [his] own home.'
He added, 'You are so enamored by the sound of your own voice, you probably would f*** one of your own opinions if you could.'

Woods even played the controversial Howard Stern clip in which Tarantino downplayed Polanski’s sexual assault of a minor, a remark he later apologized for in 2018.
Fans and fellow actors quickly rallied behind Dano and Lillard, but few defenses have been as savage — or as poetic — as Woods’s.

In his first video, he quipped that Tarantino’s recent films 'take a historical villain — slave owners, Nazis, the Manson family — and then use them as a thin pretext to enact your same old tired pornographic violence, and then some shot of feet and the N-word.'

By Tuesday, Woods had returned for a second round, mock-apologizing before hitting Tarantino with, 'You rip off everyone, from Hong Kong auteurs to Bill Maher’s barber, and you look weird as sh** — and that’s coming from a guy who looks like a bird had sex with another more tired bird.'

Woods also dubbed Tarantino 'the Megyn Kelly of guys who look like a turtle.'

Ouch.

Quentin Tarantino needs to stop criticising films and start making them again

Trolling wokesters, disparaging Paul Thomas Anderson, insulting Paul Dano … the controversial director plays to type with his list of the top 20 best films of the 21st century

Did Quentin Tarantino just put Paul Dano into the alpha league of the world’s most loved and admired movie actors?
His recent insults aimed at Dano counterprovoked a flood of defensive praise, with Daniel Day-Lewis, Dano’s costar in There Will Be Blood, publicly endorsing it. But was Tarantino’s pronouncement just bluster and flex? Will he end up casting Dano in his next film – a turnaround like Donald Trump making nice with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un after pretty much threatening him with nuclear war? Or are we witnessing a kind of midlife emotional crisis in the heart of one of the most brilliant directors of his generation? I speak as a superfan with reservations.
In his recent podcast interview with the legendary controversial author Bret Easton Ellis – and therefore perhaps in a mood to provoke and épater les bourgeois de la critique – Tarantino unveiled his top 20 best films of the 21st century. Asked why Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood was only at number 5, Tarantino declared that Dano was the problem: “[Dano] is weak sauce, man. He is the weak sister … He’s just such a weak, weak, uninteresting guy.”

Hmm. This isn’t an accurate assessment of Dano. But it could be that Tarantino’s feelings about Anderson are in any case more complicated than that.
The top 10 half of his picks is an almost ostentatiously normie list, a Letterboxd civilian list, in reverse order: Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, Edgar Wright’s Shaun of the Dead, George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road, Tony Scott’s Unstoppable, David Fincher’s Zodiac, PTA’s There Will Be Blood, Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation, Lee Unkrich’s Toy Story 3 and Ridley Scott’s wartime action-thriller Black Hawk Down at the very top. Well, OK. No one should patronise a cinephile connoisseur like Tarantino by dismissing this selection as populist – almost all of them are absolutely great, although I am baffled by the inclusion of Tony Scott’s dire Unstoppable.

Is Tarantino trolling the wokesters by including Woody Allen? I would have gone for Allen’s Blue Jasmine. I am not every bit as saucer-eyed about Miller’s Mad Max revivals as other people, but they’re certainly really good, and Scott’s Black Hawk Down is a wildly impressive two-hour-plus action sequence – but, please, Scott’s Gladiator is surely a better film, released in 2000, and only a pedant would say that doesn’t count as 21st century. As for the others: yes, absolutely great – and on a patriotic note, it’s nice to see Wright’s Shaun of the Dead, which way back at the beginning of the 00s revived self-respect for the British film industry.
It is certainly not the hipster-obscure selection that you might expect, certainly from, say, reading Tarantino’s fascinating memoir Cinema Speculation.

The more recondite titles (and non-English-language titles) come in the 10 lower down, in reverse order from 20 to 11: Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, Eli Roth’s Cabin Fever, Bennett Miller’s Moneyball, Prachya Pinkaew’s Chocolate, Rob Zombie’s The Devil’s Rejects, Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, Richard Linklater’s School of Rock, Jeff Tremaine’s Jackass: The Movie, Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado’s Big Bad Wolves, and Kinji Fukasaku’s Battle Royale.

That seems more to be the QT we know and love. There’s Fukasuku’s badass survival-reality masterpiece Battle Royale – which Tarantino correctly says was ripped off by the Hunger Games franchise – the Thai martial-arts actioner Chocolate and the Israeli horror-thriller Big Bad Wolves. I agree with Tarantino that Spielberg’s West Side Story is great (although here too Tarantino is a bit salty about the cast: “I couldn’t believe I liked the lead [Ansel Elgort] as I didn’t like him in anything else” ). I like his praise for Brad Pitt’s movie-star mystique in Moneyball, although Pitt is far better in Tarantino’s own Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. I’m not down with Roth’s Cabin Fever or Zombie’s tiresome Devil’s Rejects, and Gibson’s Passion is a non-sacred turkey fit only for the culture wars. Linklater’s School of Rock is great fun, but only a contorted inverse snobbery pose can put that in there and not Linklater’s real masterpiece, Boyhood.

But we’re back to Paul Thomas Anderson and There Will Be Blood; Tarantino wouldn’t be human if he wasn’t aware of PTA’s status as a rival to his own and of Anderson as a film-maker who seems to be creating work with more fluency and productivity than Tarantino right now, and he might have picked a quarrel with Dano on the spur of the moment just to take PTA down a few pegs.

Tarantino recently said that his next film and perhaps his last film would be a project entitled The Movie Critic – now reportedly shelved – inspired by the LA Times’s Kevin Thomas, who Tarantino loved growing up: the guy entrusted with the popcorn fare that the main critics wrinkled their noses at. This intriguing and amusing list, in which commercialism and cinephilia are such a complex mix, may in fact constitute the “movie critic” performance that his abandoned film was going to be.
So how does Tarantino see himself now? Does he think he has one big masterpiece left in him? I think he does. More than one, probably. He has said he doesn’t want to go on past 10 films, having so far made nine, and said that a great master like Don Siegel should have quit while he was ahead after Escape from Alcatraz in 1979.
But the time has come for QT to stop sulking in his tent, stop making irrelevant pronouncements on podcasts. Tarantino created this 10-film idea; he certainly can’t quit at nine films – but there’s an enormous amount of self-imposed pressure. This 10-and-no-more thing has pointlessly paralysed him, and his Dano outburst is just a symptom of that. My prediction is that Tarantino will go for an adaptation, his first since Jackie Brown: he will find a novel and supercharge the pulp with shock and flair. And Paul Dano will be in it.

Tarantine fav movies of 21st Century -

Quentin Tarantino Ranks His Top 20 Favorite Films Of 21st Century: From ‘Black Hawk Down’ To Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’

Director Quentin Tarantino has ranked his favorite 20 films of the 21st century, including 'Black Hawk Down,' 'There Will Be Blood,' and more.

deadline.com

 

[Clubber Lang]

That was playing at the theatre near me this weekend, but I couldn't get past the 4-plus hour runtime. It was split up into 2 movies for a reason.

It was always meant to be one movie, but Weinstein had other ideas.

Never liked that it was in split two.

I wanted to see the new Predator, but neither of my kids were interested so, oh well... I'll wait for streaming.

Not interested?!

Set things straight and buy them a deluxe Predator box-set for Xmas.

 

[Clubber Lang]

+1, Excellent. *Chef's kiss

I wanted to see this, but i heard they got the Nuke tech warning system etc stuff wrong, but it's meant to be good on tension and drama.

What ‘House of Dynamite’ gets right and wrong about nuclear command and control

The Netflix film is good on process and tech, but has one major flaw.

www.defenseone.com

A similar Nuke film by HBO from 91 starring J Earl Jones -

(Full Movie)

A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The destruction sets off a race between American and Soviet politicians to prevent a nuclear holocaust. While the U.S. president feverishly works to keep the military and political machine from going into overdrive, various subordinates panic. When the president is believed to be killed in a helicopter crash, zealous advisers take over.

 

[Kyriakos]

I wasn't watching this guy back in the day, and was surprised to find that his channel is ancient (videos from over a decade ago, doing a variation of the current thing).
There's a morbid fascination in seeing someone age literally in one day.
He is ok. Better when he started as then the two split personalities were the comedy relief, when now all three are cartoonish.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Not interested?!

Set things straight and buy them a deluxe Predator box-set for Xmas.

As in DvDs? Those are sooooo 2010s I think the only thing still plugged in at my house that might still play a DvD is my kids old XBOX... their newer one is a version that doesn't even use disks anymore. In any case, good luck getting kids nowadays to actually sit down and watch a full length feature film, especially ones that old... their attention span is pretty hardwired to TikToks and YouTube shorts length... its sad and a little disturbing

The Substance (on HBO Max)- Starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley and featuring Dennis Quaid. Overall, an enjoyable watch. Kind of like an episode of Black Mirror. Pretty good story, albeit somewhat reminiscent, if not derivative (in spirit rather than plot) of The Picture of Dorian Gray. One thing that isn't really addressed in the story's Faustian bargain is what "the devil" gets out of the deal, other than some sadistic pleasure/curiosity. The answer isn't really necessary to the plot, I guess... Mwahahaha/evil/torture/suffering for its own sake, is usually a good/simple enough motivation for the Devil in a story like this, even without the added macguffin of "poor unfortunate soul" collection... although this lack of clarity makes the Tarantino-esque ending a little muddled.

The role was perfect for Moore as I imagine it carried a very personal theme that closely touched her own career experience.

 

[Kyriakos]

Well done, another revolting movie supposedly based on a famous book.
I also like how they refer to it as a 'masterpiece', like anyone who worked on this has read it.

 

[tjs282]

Bleurgh.... Someone definitely missed Orwell's point.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Bleurgh.... Someone definitely missed Orwell's point.

The question is: "Would AI have done a better job of retelling Orwell's story than these "creative" humans?

 

[Clubber Lang]

^^^ The hell was that?

I remember a teacher reading a chapter from the book every last lesson, the class used to be dead silent and in deep thought.

What's Andy Serkis playin at.

Andy Serkis’ ‘Animal Farm’ Animation Acquired by Angel, First Trailer Unveiled (EXCLUSIVE)

With a voice cast including Seth Rogen, Glenn Close, Woody Harrelson, the animated adaptation of George Orwell's classic is due for release in May

variety.com

Acclaimed actor and director Serkis shepherded “Animal Farm” to life with a screenplay by Nicholas Stoller. The film premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival earlier this year.


“Orwell’s Animal Farm has never felt more relevant,” said Serkis. “In an age where power, propaganda, and inequality shape our societies, it’s vital that we remember his cautionary tale. This adaptation isn’t just a story for entertainment — it’s a reminder that democracy, freedom, and integrity are fragile, and must be watched over.”
He added: “My hope is that audiences walk away moved, thoughtful, and inspired to stand up for the values that matter. I’m honored that Angel and the Angel Guild are willing to bring this film to big screens around the world.”

“This is a project of tremendous heart,” said Brandon Purdie, executive vice president of theatrical and brand development at Angel. “Andy Serkis’ visionary direction, combined with this powerhouse cast, creates a film that feels timely, urgent, and deeply human — even though the protagonists might be pigs, donkeys, and horses. We’re confident that moviegoers will see not just a story of farm animals, but a mirror held up to our world today.”

Added Adam Nagle, CEO of Aniventure: “We are thrilled to partner with Angel Studios, as their unique connection with audiences, amplified by an exceptional marketing team, ensures this story will get in front of as many people as possible. We are incredibly proud of this adaptation we have made and can’t wait for everyone to see it .”

Not even close to the OG cartoon -

 

[Clubber Lang]

https://www.reddit.com/r/StreetFighter/comments/1pkg9g5/official_character_posters_for_kitao_sakurais

 

[Fippy]

Watched Frailty (2001) again..high quality actors in a very creepy thriller.
Borders into horror i would say

Also good for those who like "ooooh okay that's why" moments.
The final twist can be hit or miss, just depends on personal preference.
But tbh it's such an interesting film..who cares

 

[Birdjaguar]

The 1954 film is what I remember seeing.

 

[Kyriakos]

^^^ The hell was that?

I remember a teacher reading a chapter from the book every last lesson, the class used to be dead silent and in deep thought.

What's Andy Serkis playin at.

Andy Serkis’ ‘Animal Farm’ Animation Acquired by Angel, First Trailer Unveiled (EXCLUSIVE)

With a voice cast including Seth Rogen, Glenn Close, Woody Harrelson, the animated adaptation of George Orwell's classic is due for release in May

variety.com

Not even close to the OG cartoon -

That film seems to at least follow some main points of the original (like the role of the dogs and Napoleon taking over), but the ending certainly is their own (and arguably vastly inferior to the very memorable ending of the novel)
Their ending is just a 'sic semper tyrannis', which is literally the opposite of what happens in the book's end.
Of course I agree that it still is monumentally better than this new Serkis adaptation.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Civil War (2024) - Pretty good. Not what I expected, in terms of it being from the perspective of war journalists rather than ordinary survivors or soldiers, but an entertaining and eerily believable take, given the current state of things in the US.

I understand why some regard the ending as controversial or unsatisfying, but I thought the ending was well done and well in line with the rest of the film.

In any case I say the movie is worth a watch.

 

[Kyriakos]

The viewers looked from pig to Serkis, and from Serkis to pig, and from pig to Serkis again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Last time Quint was in a media ruckas was about the lampooning of Bruce Lee in OTIH.

He's gotta movie playing on the big screen right now and he's talk of the town for other reasons...



Ouch.



Tarantine fav movies of 21st Century -

Quentin Tarantino Ranks His Top 20 Favorite Films Of 21st Century: From ‘Black Hawk Down’ To Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’

Director Quentin Tarantino has ranked his favorite 20 films of the 21st century, including 'Black Hawk Down,' 'There Will Be Blood,' and more.

deadline.com

I remember watching Once Upon a Time in Hollywood a few years ago and wondering what all the close-ups of feet were about. Like was it known trope of the Manson family that they walked around barefoot, or was it some metaphorical symbolism I wasn't getting. Then I found out it's just some foot fetish guy making his own porn and putting it on display to the world and now I never want to watch another thing he makes ever again.

 

[lymond]

Rob Reiner and his wife were murdered..by their own son..alledgedly:

Rob Reiner - usa today

very sad

 

[Kaitzilla]

Full Video -

I never really paid attention to the two movies twenty years ago, so I watched the whole 4+ hour version in one go.

Spoiler :

Whoa, that twist ending! Her child was alive

Apparently in the originals, Bill spoils the secret at the end of the 1st movie?

I was just as shocked as Beatrix that the kid was alive and had some more empathy for her.

*********
In real life, Uma really didn't want to do a stunt at the end of the movies, but Tarantino forced her.
Wanted her hair to blow just right for the final scene or something, so she had to drive 40mph (66kph) herself.

Here is the secret footage that was finally released in 2018.

Uma Thurman Shares Kill Bill Crash Video: “The Cover Up After the Fact Is Unforgivable”

Thurman told The New York Times that Quentin Tarantino coerced her into driving the car, even though she was worried it might be unsafe.

www.vanityfair.com

Uma has a daughter named Maya who was 21 when she started playing Robin in the hit streaming show Stranger Things by The Duffer Brothers.

 

[lymond]

^^^ Maya played Jo in a pretty good tv mini-series of Little Women a few years ago..2019 maybe. She also played Anxiety in Inside Out 2

(oh..and she is Ethan Hawke's daughter too btw )