Did anybody see Vacation? Was it so bad you walked out? Heard it was miserable-bad.

Martin Scorsese and Leo DeCaprio are collaborating on "Devil in the White City". It was a great book, I will see the movie for sure.

 

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/leonardo...ity-1201567113/

new pics from SW - TFA over at Entertainment Weekly

 

http://www.ew.com/gallery/star-wars-force-...st-look-gallery

new pics from SW - TFA over at Entertainment Weekly

 

http://www.ew.com/gallery/star-wars-force-...st-look-gallery

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The Gift was ok. Interesting character twist and odd ending. Also had some redundancy of some scenes. Not the movie that's advertised at all.

The Gift was ok. Interesting character twist and odd ending. Also had some redundancy of some scenes. Not the movie that's advertised at all.

I agree about The Gift. It was ok but I would have liked more closure at the end and thought the beginning had lots of parts that dragged on. I certainly wouldnt rate it anywhere near its RT score though.

Martin Scorsese and Leo DeCaprio are collaborating on "Devil in the White City". It was a great book, I will see the movie for sure.

 

http://variety.com/2015/film/news/leonardo...ity-1201567113/

 

I am excited for this. I'm also interested to see how they can weave the World's Fair and Holmes' story together. Easier to do in book form.

I am excited for this. I'm also interested to see how they can weave the World's Fair and Holmes' story together. Easier to do in book form.

i am intrigue as well on the whole story line. i have read little of the whole thing. i really think with both leo and martin, it is going to be a great movie.

Josh Trank is lawyering up and is preparing to go to court against Fox.

Josh Trank is lawyering up and is preparing to go to court against Fox.

 

His (deleted) tweet on the night before the premiere was EXTREMELY ill-advised and stupid for his career going forward. You just have to take your lumps throughout the theater run and blast Fox when you are done with the red carpet.

His (deleted) tweet on the night before the premiere was EXTREMELY ill-advised and stupid for his career going forward. You just have to take your lumps throughout the theater run and blast Fox when you are done with the red carpet.

 

He's on the verge of being blacklisted

http://screenrant.com/fantastic-four-josh-...k-house-damage/

 

Well Josh, it was nice knowing ya

Apparently he was also very cold to Mara (preferred a different actress) and almost came to blows with Miles Teller.

 

 

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/fantastic-four...6670602777.html

Ultimate career suicide

Fantastic Four wasn't 9% bad, but it's not fixable for a sequel.

 

In my opinion, there were three huge casting mistakes....Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm, Michael B. Jordan (who was great in Fruitvale Station) and Reg Cathey as Dr. Stone, not to mention the actor playing Doom was utterly forgettable.

 

Ben was kind of the anti Chiklis, and came across with this sort of existential angst that drained your energy just listening to him after the transformation. Very discordant reading of that character.

 

Jordan suffered from not having that Chris Evans overconfidence/machisimo...once again, we got more psychology with the father/son relationship but not enough action. Then you have the whole racial dynamic just not hitting the right note.

 

Finally, Reg E Cathey is great on House of Cards but equally too low key...you need an Idris Elba or Morgan Freeman gravitas to play a convincing visionary, not someone you'd expect to see at 2 am on QVC hawking ginsu knives.

 

It was way too much origin story, a forced sense of teamwork thrown in at the end but not really earned (like skipping Hoosiers directly through the regular seasons to the playoffs)...essentially, it tried to follow the Chronicle casting success with a more ethnically diverse group of actors who never jelled together, the action sequences were unsatisfying and the obligatory ending was just kind of slapped on at the end. And that ending made Green Hornet/Green Lantern seem like masterpiece theatre in comparison.

I appreciated "It Follows" more than I liked it, if that makes sense. Liked the tone and simple way it's made.

Come to think of it, I did like it.

Then you have the whole racial dynamic just not hitting the right tone...

 

Please elaborate on this.....

Watched The Kingsmen last night. It was a good Saturday night movie...though I wasn't so fond of Samuel L Jackson's character as much as I would have liked. His sidekick however....very nice

Please elaborate on this.....

 

Making Sue Storm the adopted daughter of Dr. Storm...and changing the character of Johnny not only in terms of race but also temperament. He goes from Chris Evans/badass/chick magnet to more reminiscent of a less whiny Shia Lebouf.

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Making Sue Storm the adopted daughter of Dr. Storm...and changing the character of Johnny not only in terms of race but also temperament. He goes from Chris Evans/badass/chick magnet to more reminiscent of a less whiny Shia Lebouf.

 

Chris Evans was anything but a bad ass in F4 1 and 2. I think you are having a case of revisionist criticism

Chris Evans was anything but a bad ass in F4 1 and 2. I think you are having a case of revisionist criticism

 

Let's just say he's a lot cooler...and leave it at that.

 

Maybe the character was meant to evolve in that direction during the planned sequel for 2017.

Making Sue Storm the adopted daughter of Dr. Storm...and changing the character of Johnny not only in terms of race but also temperament. He goes from Chris Evans/badass/chick magnet to more reminiscent of a less whiny Shia Lebouf.

 

To me....

 

MBJ's Johnny Storm was very much still the Johnny Storm that people come to love through the comics. He was cocky, arrogant, hated authority and smart and was a bro to everyone on the team. It dosen't matter what the character's skin color is as long as those traits are there and even in that mess of a movie, those things were.

 

And I would never go as far as saying Chris Evan's Johnny Storm as being the definitive intrepetation* of the character.

To me....

 

MBJ's Johnny Storm was very much still the Johnny Storm that people come to love through the comics. He was cocky, arrogant, hated authority and smart and was a bro to everyone on the team. It dosen't matter what the character's skin color is as long as those traits are there and even in that mess of a movie, those things were.

 

And I would never go as far as saying Chris Evan's Johnny Storm as being the definitive intrepetation* of the character.

 

Maybe the movie centered too much on Teller and Ben Grimm...that Sue and Johnny ended up getting short shrift, and the whole teamwork vibe kind of got pastiched in at the end by the studio.

 

Fwiw, he was a lot more effective in Fruitvale Station, but, then again...much more central character, obviously.

Watched The Kingsmen last night. It was a good Saturday night movie...though I wasn't so fond of Samuel L Jackson's character as much as I would have liked. His sidekick however....very nice

 

I also watched it last night. I liked it. I enjoyed the little digs at other spy movies. The anal joke at the end was kinda weird but there were a few of those throughout.

I hated the Kingsmen, I thought it was disgusting. Seems to be a big divide on that movie with love/hate. The violence in that church seen was gross to me, but I can't necessarily tell you why it was worse than something like Kill Bill which I could watch and be much affected by it.