pretty sure "dumb crew" falls under "imitates all the other Alien movies", doesn't it?

Cube: Low budget sci-fi concept film from 1997. Remake underway. The budget was $350k! The acting was impressively bad - high school students can act better than half of the cast here. If nothing else, made me appreciate how good at their job professional actors are. Think I stumbled across this after reading about the remake on reddit. If you can handle bad acting (and I do mean bad) and enjoy sci fi concept movies, it's not a complete waste of time.

Primal Fear: somehow never saw this before, most likely due to my dislike for Richard Gere outweighing my love of Edward Norton. Was pleasantly surprised to find a young Maura Tierney in here as well as Andre Braugher. The story itself is not great, and fairly disjointed, and there are some stretches that require quite a bit of suspension of disbelief, but Edward Norton (in his film debut) still carries the movie to the finish line. There is a famous line in this movie that kind of ruins some things if you know it, and I half-remembered it from prior discussions, which dampened the enjoyment somewhat. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, you'll enjoy the movie much more. Definitely do NOT read the wiki entry as it contains the line.



Was looking at the filmography for Franchise Pictures and it blows my mind that a company like that can make so many horrible money-losing movies and still survive for 8 years before having to declare bankruptcy. They didn't declare until losing a lawsuit related to Battlefield:Earth (that may give you an idea of how bad their movies were - they also did Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever) and claims of the organization engaging in money laundering did them in. Of all the films on their list, the only one with a gross higher than the budget was The Whole Nine Yards.

Re: Richard Gere. He was terrific in Norman, a really good, probably little seen and mostly ignored film.

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Think that's bad, they are bringing back Linda Hamilton for Terminator 6...

In honour of St-Jean Baptiste (Quebecois holiday), will be (re)viewing the excellent Dede, A Travers les Brumes, a movie depicting Andre Fortin's rise in fame in the French Canadian music world, before leading to his tragic suicide. Excellent movie. And one of the best that Quebec has to offer.

Speaking of which, and because I spent a couple of years back in my Uni days viewing a ton of Quebecois movies, a few suggestions :

- Polytechnique, Denis Villeneuve : About the 1989 shootings at University of Montreal. Powerful movie.

- Un 32 Aout sur Terre, Denis Villeneuve : Villeneuve's first flick which depicts a man's severe street beating and his subsequent fantasy-coma-induced journey.

- Les Ordres, Michel Brault : Released in 1974, this movie revisits the 1970 October crisis where martial law was declared in Quebec and the Canadian army came in and arrested/detained a few 100s of innocent peeps. A classic.

- Leolo, Jean-Claude Lauzon : Depicts the story of a French Canadian family that is instilled with that existential and tragic dread often associated with Quebec's cinema. And it was curiously included in Time's top 100 movies of all time (in the top 20s, if I remember correctly...).

- Le Vent de Wyoming, Andre Forcier : Like all of Forcier's uncanny magic-realism universe, this film follows the characters through their dark and tragic faith.

- Yes Sir! Madamme, Robert Morin : After his mother's death, a son inherits reels of films and starts filming in diametrical opposite fashion a reel in English, followed by a reel in French which clearly contradict each other As an ode to Quebecois culture, the film obviously finishes as the hero swimming a la French Frog naked in a pod with "Oh Canada" playing in the background

There's a 6!? I think I've missed a few.

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Cube might be the worst movie I've ever seen (acting wise)

I mentioned “tone” in my review of Lady Bird last week, and man, does this next movie have a tone problem.

Very Bad Things

This is a late 90s movie I had never seen, but had heard good things about. But holy cow is it bad. This is Peter Berg’s first film as a director, and he wrote the script...and I think it’s supposed to be morbidly funny. But it’s not. It’s just...awful.

Everyone in the cast - Jon Favreau, Jeremy Picen, Daniel Stern, Cameron Diaz, Leland Orse - is overacting to the point of shrill mania. Even Christian Slater, usually a quiet, mannered performer, is yelling at the top of his lungs.

The story about a bachelor party in Vegas that goes horribly wrong has promise, but every single character is completely morally reprensible. The violence is disgusting and objectified, and not at all funny - like I assume Berg meant it to be.

Just a complete misfire from beginning to end.

I've been subscribing to Filmstruck for a few months, and up next, since it's such an influence on Certified Copy, is Rosselini's Voyage to Italy. I like Filmstruck because the bonus features are included.

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FilmStruck is great...

I wanna get Filmstruck. What subscription plan do you guys get?

I get the big kahuna, Baby. Give me all of it.

Exactly.

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Pay for a year at least, It's the stone cold Nuts.

The only issue is that some platforms don't support it yet. I can use it on all my computers, phones but I can not use it with my LG monitor. Maybe if I "cast" it, it I haven't tried that as yet.

Great concept and worth watching for sci-fi fans. Acting is def not strong.

“Ok, you just woke up and you’re stuck in a giant cube....ACT!”

Wind River - 7.2/10

Wow, I thought the first Kingsman movie was bad, but the 2nd one is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Completely vile and worthless as entertainment.

I use Chromecast. It works fine.

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There is a lot of speculation going on whether or not Tarantino will portray The Bruce Lee connection in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Jay Seabring is widely credited with getting BL started in Hollywood and he was also interviewed by the FBI in connection with the Manson investigation.

There is no Asian actor listed in the credits as yet, but there's talk.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is well worth seeing if you were already so inclined. If you're the type who hated JP3 (you're wrong, but whatevs) and thinks that JP1 is some genre-transcendent cinematic masterpiece that the sequels have never touched, then sure, skip JP5.

Many problems with the movie and eyeroll moments, but it delivers good enough for me on the monsters.

JW1 > JW2 on monsters (variety, size, action set pieces)
JW2 > JW1 overall, I think
JW2 > JW1 for being less problematic
JW2 > JW1 for getting to see scum rich people get what's coming to them
JW2 > JW1 for setting up future films (stay for credits too)

Motherless Brooklyn: it's still filming. Bringing it up because I was looking at Edward Norton's wiki page after watching Primal Fear, and noticed it. Pretty excited about this one, given the cast (Norton, Dafoe, Baldwin, Mann, Williams, and despite Willis) and the fact that this is a Norton passion project that he's been developing ever since the source material book was published almost 20 years ago. Norton is directing, and one of the four listed producers. The other producers are his old roommate Stuart Blumberg who Norton produced Thanks For Sharing with, Bill Migliore whose last producer credit was Manchester By The Sea and who produced By the People with Norton previously, and billionaire Gigi Pritzker who founded Odd Lot (now MWM) which produced Hell or High Water as its last studio film. Unfortunately the one before that was Mortdecai. Don't know of any previous Pritzker/Norton collabs. Cinematography by Dick Pope, who got an Oscar nom for The Illusionist (Norton starring).

Looks like Norton has free reign on this one. Looking forward to seeing what he delivers. Hopefully Pritzker doesn't get in his way, the other two producers clearly know the drill already.

i won't say i was incredibly disappointed by JW2 (it was down to 50% on RT by the time i saw it, so my expectations were low), but god, i thought it was pretty meeeeeeeeeeeh. i don't think a dinosaur movie can ever be truly terrible, but it was super boring at the very least. one thing that really jumped out to me was how underutilized the classic JP music was compared to JW.

JW was on tv later that night and it's just way, way, way better imo.

also, staying through a solid 8-9 mins of credits to see a 4 second scene probably isn't the best use of time.

Just watched Looper, enjoyed it a lot. Sucker for a cool scifi movie like this, I'm in. God that Emily Blunt is so hot. Hard to believe this is the same woman who was in Sicario, and I think she's British too! That guy from The Office who married her is one lucky bastard.

Emily Blunt stars opposite Bill Nighy in Wild Target, a 2010 British release that no one has ever heard of. A failed remake of Cible Emouvante with an $8m budget, it flopped hard both critically and commercially, with $5.6m earnings. I like the work of both Blunt and Nighy but the film is bad. It's a british black comedy with occasional injections of zany. She was 27 and he was 60, so of course there's a romantic angle, as gross as that is. It has some tonal similarity to A Fish Called Wanda. If you just want to see Blunt doing the seductive quirkyhot thing, it's OK. Or if you really like Martin Freeman, who has a small but memorable role. For some reason they also shoehorned Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) in there but he doesn't add or subtract in any way, he's just kind of there. For the most part, it's just bad and not worth watching unless you really have a thing for Blunt.

Nighy is cool, a charismatic modern character actor.

He was also in Page Eight, an interesting political thriller centred around the secrecy surrounding renditions of suspected terrorists.

And yes, he does get it together with another younger actress, this time Rachel Weisz.