Which films have you seen lately Vol.22 Now with Smell-O-Vision.

[Takhisis]

At the very least, English with strong Spanish accents.

Oooooh. Get the execs at Hollywood to hire some great-grandchildren of Mexicans, it'll work (not).

Every single European monarchy is Germanic a way or other. From the Windsors to the Borbons.

Except Serbi- SERBIA RULES @#$*""·$!!!

 

[Takhisis]

Hmmm. Dead Poets Society (1989) so holds up even after time.

 

[bene_legionary]

Hmmm. Dead Poets Society (1989) so holds up even after time.

There is an odd but consistent correlation between Robin Williams playing a teacher and what is considered a good movie in most of the Robin Williams movies I've watched.

 

[Kyriakos]

Robin Williams was an interesting character, and clearly had some notable abilities (quick-thinking, improv etc), very far beyond the norm. But I feel he Robin-Williams'ed his roles all the time, and a few movies did suffer (imo) from this.
I did like One Hour Photo.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Robin Williams was an interesting character, and clearly had some notable abilities (quick-thinking, improv etc), very far beyond the norm. But I feel he Robin-Williams'ed his roles all the time, and a few movies did suffer (imo) from this.
I did like One Hour Photo.

There were some exceptions -- The Final Cut comes to mind. A science fiction thriller set in a time when people have optical implants that record everything they experience: Williams' job is to produce memorial videos from the footage after someone dies. I forget the plot, though, it's been 20+ years.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Robin Williams was an interesting character, and clearly had some notable abilities (quick-thinking, improv etc), very far beyond the norm. But I feel he Robin-Williams'ed his roles all the time, and a few movies did suffer (imo) from this.
I did like One Hour Photo.

Dead Poets Society is a pretty good example of Robin Williams doing a straight dramatic role and not doing the one-man-show thing. Good Will Hunting is another example I'd say.

 

[Kyriakos]

Dead Poets Society is a pretty good example of Robin Williams doing a straight dramatic role and not doing the one-man-show thing. Good Will Hunting is another example I'd say.

I was actually thinking of GWH as one of the most striking examples of Robin Williamsing a role ^^
He wasn't an actor playing a psychiatrist, but Robin Williams playing an actor playing a psychiatrist who is Robin Williams.
It's mainly about inserting his trade-mark adlib.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Aguirre, the Wrath of God. 1972. Pizarro hears of a city of Gold and sends a few troops to investigate. They are led by Aguirre, who proves to be insane. We spend 1.5 hours watching a crew of Spaniards and their enslaved native servants being picked off by the hostile tribes of the Amazonian interior. I had some doubts, historically (there is no way Spain would send two women in a military expedition like this!), but it made for interesting drama and cinephotography. My first Werner Herzog film. I spent most of the first hour trying to get over "Spanish" people speaking German, which got especially weird after Aguirre appointed some noblemen as the new Kaiser after announcing that the Hapsburgs were dethroned. Klaus Kinski is...an interesting actor. Evidently he has a reputation.

It was even weird when I saw back in 1972.

 

[Voidwalkin]

Too much art in that art.

 

[Smellincoffee]

A Coffee in Berlin, 2012. We follow a young man as he lives a day in Berlin. He tries to slip out on his girlfriend, is invited to lunch by his father who tells him he is a disappointment who will no longer be supported financially, encounters a girl in high school he used to bully but who is now kind of cute, goes to see her in a play, and closes the evening in a bar with a man who remembers living in 1930s Germany and witnessing the Night of Broken Glass -- a man who moved away with his family and returned after sixty years, only to find his homeland unrecognizable. The man collapses and dies and the young fellow finally has the cup of coffee he's been trying to have all day. Interesting movie but hard to precis.

 

[lymond]

Ah...so Joker 2 has already been released a week ago. Completely missed that. It appears that it was not only a bomb but a complete turkey. I had no clue that they made it a musical. I mean, seriously, how did that concept even make it out of the draft room. Just a braindead idea.

 

[Fippy]

Sounds a bit Lady Gaga.

 

[Takhisis]

Unitedstatesians seem to have an obsession with making musical films, musical episodes, musical whatevers and other than specific instances such as Dreamgirls, Chicago or The fiddler on the roof the genre plainly and uncontestably sucks. And the last of those three is an adaptation so drastically different from the original work by Sholem Aleichem that it is another thing! And lookee here, in A star is born Lady Gaga acts rather than sings and it's good.

I'm seeing a lot of criticism against the director of the new Joker film but I'm already on a no-superheroes diet so meh? A bullet dodged, I am sure.

 

[Kyriakos]

Among the most random (or non-subtle, in another - perhaps the main - interpretation) elements in the new Joker film was

Spoiler :

that in the end he literally wasn't the Joker; some random extra was

.
I posted the Pitch Meeting, which maybe is spot on (haven't watched the film).

 

[Broken_Erika]

I'll wait for the Honest Trailer or The Nostalgia Critic to cover it.

 

[Smellincoffee]

I'll wait for the Honest Trailer or The Nostalgia Critic to cover it.

Ryan George of Pitch Meetings already did, if you enjoy his work. It's a shorter, funnier kind of criticism.

Edit: Whoops, didn't realize Kyriakos had already shared it.

 

[BenitoChavez]

I saw Joker 2 and gave my review a few pages back and the musical part of it worked for me. This version of Joker is a bit of a stage performer. He wants to be a comedian and is always dancing. The music just leans into that aspect of it. Plus he's in his head a lot imagining various scenarios and the music is like his inner monologue. Which is what most musicals are, only Joker is evil and weird which was interesting.

 

[Kyriakos]

Rewatching Misery (the 1990 film).
Didn't know Bates had a new tv show. But why did they call it Matlock? (iirc she is in law there too). Matlock was a classic tv series ^^

 

[Clubber Lang]

The chosen one -

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Orginal idea for Gladiator II -

Ideas for sequels have been kicking around for more than 20 years. One concept that reached a fairly advanced stage of development was called Christ Killer, scripted by Nick Cave, in which Maximus is resurrected from purgatory and sent back to Earth to kill Jesus. He then gets stuck into the Crusades, the second world war and Vietnam before finding employment at the Pentagon. Despite Crowe’s enthusiasm, the idea was eventually scrapped by the studio.

 

[Takhisis]

The chosen one -

This has to be a joke.