Oh I'm sorry, Did I Break Your Conversation........Well Allow Me A Movie Thread by S&T

I did the same last month :smokin You should be done just in time for the new season.

I think i just killed my eyes and half my brain. Finished the first season in one sitting. Just couldn't stop... Will try my best to watch the second season at 1 ep per day rate maybe starting tomorrow night.
 
Got damn....Just saw this...Danny Boyle is planning a Trainspotting sequel with the original cast for 2016. I wouldn't trust this kinda of sequel with most directors but I would with Boyle.

http://collider.com/trainspotting-2-sequel-danny-boyle/



Danny Boyle Planning for TRAINSPOTTING Sequel in 2016 with Original Cast: “You Want to Make Sure You Don’t Disappoint People”
by Brendan Bettinger Posted: March 10th, 2013 at 6:18 pm


Trainspotting is my favorite movie. I don’t need a sequel, and I’m unsure how much I even want one. But I will be in the theater opening day if director Danny Boyle ever gets around to the one he wants to make once the original cast ages enough to suit the story: “When they have aged clearly into a mid-life kind of crisis, basically.”

Boyle is currently at SXSW to promote his latest movie, Trance, and addressed the timeline and likelihood of the sequel. Trainspotting screenwriter John Hodge is currently working on the script, and Boyle hopes to reunite the cast—Ewan McGregor, Ewan Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Kevin McKidd, Kelly Macdonald—for a sequel in 2016. Hit the jump for quotes.


The Playlist got Boyle on the record to explain his vision for the sequel:

“This has been a long time coming. There’s always been this long term plan for Trainspotting 2, if John [Hodge] can produce a decent enough script, I don’t think there will be any barriers to Ewan [McGregor] or any of the cast coming back. I think they’ll wanna know that the parts are good so they don’t feel like they are letting anyone down. The reason for doing it again is that people cherish the original, people remember it or have caught up with it if they never saw because they were younger. So you want to make sure you don’t disappoint people. That will be the only criteria I think.”

Most of the cast is currently scattered across television (seriously: see Elementary, Once Upon a Time, Grey’s Anatomy, and Boardwalk Empire), so most of the schedules should align in the summer hiatus. McGregor is the busiest, and may or may not be wary of reuniting with Boyle after he was passed over for the lead role in The Beach. But McGregor at least seems open to the idea, telling the Daily Record in January, “I would always read [a sequel script] if I was sent it.” That’s promising. I guess one could make a sequel that doesn’t center on Renton, but I don’t see why one would.

Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh wrote a sequel novel, Porno. However, Boyle previously described Porno as “not a great book in the way that Trainspotting, the original novel, is genuinely a masterpiece.” Boyle clarified at SXSW that Trainspotting 2 will not be a straight adaptation of Porno:

“It’s very loosely based on Porno. There’s a couple of things that are based on the book, but obviously we’d have to have Irvine [Welsh] on board.”

As for when he wants to move on this project, Boyle notes the platinum anniversary is fast approaching:

“Well, the ideal time would be Porno in 2016. Because it was 1996 when Trainspotting came out. Twenty years, it’s like wow, where did that go.”

2016 is still a few years away, so it remains to be seen if all the pieces will fall into place as Boyle hopes. If it does, let’s do our best to manage expectations. Any sequel inevitably flirts with disappointment, especially one that arrives two decades later. With Boyle steering the ship, I believe it will be fun to spend more time with these characters no matter what, and see any quality on top of that as a bonus.
 
So question / opinions.

After watching FLIGHT last night, I sorta feel like the opening scene should've been just him waking up in the hospital, then finishing it with the plane crash, any thoughts on this?
 
a long time ago i watched trainspotting and requiem for a dream in the same weekend................the ups and downs are crazy in those 2
 
I can't wait to see the Welcome To The Punch with James McAvoy & Mark Strong. I found out the director, Eran Creevy did another movie called Shifty which I watched over the weekend & I liked it. Here's the trailer...
 
Is this a movie thread?

The title of the thread always pisses me off, so I've never clicked on it.

lol I use to think it was some kind of wacky nt thread or a samuel jackson/pulp fiction appreciation thread

:lol: we were forced to change the title of the thread and put it to a sort of vote. I combined the ideas of the votes into this new title.

It was formerly; Name Your Favorite Sports Movies/TV Shows/Books.

Mitch, it is indeed a movie/TV thread, you can give reviews, ask opinions, speak on what you watched, or will watch, or want to watch, post previews, dvd pick ups, old movies, new movies, movie news, tv news, etc etc.
 
CP how do you find time to watch all these movies while you raise your kids, deal with the Lakers, have a job, have a marriage, watch Lakers, post essays in the Laker tread 4 times a day, argue with Ska for an hour a day about Kobe being overrated, eat, take showers, and take pictures with Greg Oden?
 
So question / opinions.

After watching FLIGHT last night, I sorta feel like the opening scene should've been just him waking up in the hospital, then finishing it with the plane crash, any thoughts on this?
iwas really into this, got halfway and the disc stopped working........dang redbox
 
absolutely.

you're either going to love it or hate it.

Sorkin's writing is alienating, if you don't like a great script that is a little tough to absorb you won't like the show. It's very wordy, but I love it.
i love it, the episode about gabby giffords was awesome
 
CP how do you find time to watch all these movies while you raise your kids, deal with the Lakers, have a job, have a marriage, watch Lakers, post essays in the Laker tread 4 times a day, argue with Ska for an hour a day about Kobe being overrated, eat, take showers, and take pictures with Greg Oden?

Multi-task. :lol:

Only 1 kid. Never met Oden, type fast, and don't sleep a lot.
 
Is Newsroom worth a shot?

absolutely.

you're either going to love it or hate it.

I'm a big Sorkin fan. American President, Sports Night, West Wing, Social Network, Moneyball.
Dude is a genius...I mean, I even watched all of Studio 60.

So I was dumb hyped when I heard he was going to HBO with More As the Story Develops...now called Newsroom.
but after seeing this and House of Cards, it's pretty plain to see that Social Network was more Fincher making a great film, than Sorkin showing he's still got it. :smh:

A really, really noble, pretty damn important and even sometimes well done, mess.
The show is a mess, the characters are a mess and it feels like everyone is on blow.

I don't hate it.
I'm just...aggressively disappointed at the wasted potential and the way they minimize important stories to focus on their ******ed love triangles.

And there were 2 or 3 really well done episodes. I loved the one with Dev Patel's undercover friend.
 
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If MrONegative doesn't hate Newsroom, then I'd don't wanna read what he types if he hates something. :lol:

:lol: @ aggressively disappointed...
 
Is Newsroom worth a shot?
I thoroughly enjoyed the 1st season. If you're a Sorkin fan, I'm sure you'd like it. It has it's critics though.
I ended up getting thru the first 2 episodes last night!


Is Newsroom worth a shot?

absolutely.

you're either going to love it or hate it.

Sorkin's writing is alienating, if you don't like a great script that is a little tough to absorb you won't like the show. It's very wordy, but I love it.
I don't know whom Sorkin is.... But the first episode was a little tough as soon as the British chick was introduced. But so far so good, I think I'll finish up the season since there's only 10 episodes
 
I talked about the Newsroom last month after watching the whole thing in like one or two sittings and it's good but they do focus on the love triangles too much and I also noticed they yell a whole damn lot for no damn reason. Something off about the show I can't pinpoint. Like when I'm watching it I'm watching it but if I never made the effort to check out the next season I could go years without feeling compelled to pick the show back up.

It was a really good attempt though.
 
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