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

Considering that the teaser is 99% archival footage, I'm surprised at how much more hyped I am after seeing it.

I'm not going to sit here and say the Nolan's owe me after the debacle that was TDKR, but.. they really do. :frown:

I'm happy you said that, you know why you feel like that...because it's the Nolan factor...AND...that's the proper way to TEASE a movie. You peak the interest...
 
If I had to pick a few of my favorite performances…

Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski
Anthony Perkins in Psycho
Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight
Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange
Samuel Jackson AND John Travolta in Pulp Fiction
Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Basterds
Anthony Perkins in Silence of the Lambs
Matthew Broderick in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Ed Norton in American History X
Boris Karloff in Frankenstein
Sam Rockwell in Moon
Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream
Robert DeNiro in Taxi Driver
Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men

I tried to leave out genre films, but a few were too good to leave out.

Good list. I always hear about Rockwell in Moon, need to finally give that a viewing.
 
Prisoners... Wow

I can see why the script was so hyped up. That was not an easy watch. It's nice to see that a gritty thriller can still be made. Excellent cast. Good twists.

With that said I doubt I'll ever watch it again. That was tough to see
 
Prisoners... Wow

I can see why the script was so hyped up. That was not an easy watch. It's nice to see that a gritty thriller can still be made. Excellent cast. Good twists.

With that said I doubt I'll ever watch it again. That was tough to see

I felt the same way about Prisoners.

It was solid and very well executed, but its hard for me to say I actually enjoyed it or that I'll ever watch again.
 
Wow that, Interstellar trailer did not peak my interest AT ALL. I'd say it almost turned me off to the movie. I made effort not to read or see anything spoilery about the movie for like the past year. All I knew was Nolan + Scifi + Space. Even with Matthew's little spiel about doing the impossible, overcoming obstacles, surpassing limits I am not moved.

Maybe the past trailers for the latest Cruise sci fi movie and the joint with Tatum and Kunis had me subconsciously expecting something other than what I just got.

Naked Gun remake :lol: :smh: I remember seeing a title of an article a few days ago basically saying 'Remake for Naked Gun with Ed Helms has it wrong every way possible' I let out a sigh and smirk then moved on. Leslie rolling over in his grave.
 
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Wow that, Interstellar trailer did not peak my interest AT ALL. I'd say it almost turned me off to the movie. I made effort not to read or see anything spoilery about the movie for like the past year. All I knew was Nolan + Scifi + Space. Even with Matthew's little spiel about doing the impossible, overcoming obstacles, surpassing limits I am not moved.

Maybe the past trailers for the latest Cruise sci fi movie and the joint with Tatum and Kunis had me subconsciously expecting something other than what I just got.

Naked Gun remake :lol: :smh: I remember seeing a title of an article a few days ago basically saying 'Remake for Naked Gun with Ed Helms has it wrong every way possible' I let out a sigh and smirk then moved on. Leslie rolling over in his grave.

The teaser didn't show much about what the movie is actually about so I hit up Wiki and I'm definitely excited for this movie
 
The last 2 things I saw O'Toole in that I enjoyed was Ratatouille as Anton Ego (the food critic) & in The Last Emperor. It was heartbreaking when he left Pu Yi. My favorite performance of O'Toole's however was as Henry II in The Lion In Winter with an incredibly young Anthony Hopkins. RIP to a great actor who was definitely appreciated by me.
 
The teaser didn't show much about what the movie is actually about so I hit up Wiki and I'm definitely excited for this movie

We've always defined ourselves by the ability to overcome the impossible. And we count these moments, these moments when we dared to aim higher, to break barriers, to reach for the stars, to make the unknown known. We count these moments as our proudest achievements. But we lost all that. And perhaps we've just forgotten that we are still pioneers and we've barely begun. And that are greatest accomplishments cannot be behind us, as our destiny lies above us.

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Wow that, Interstellar trailer did not peak my interest AT ALL. I'd say it almost turned me off to the movie. I made effort not to read or see anything spoilery about the movie for like the past year. All I knew was Nolan + Scifi + Space. Even with Matthew's little spiel about doing the impossible, overcoming obstacles, surpassing limits I am not moved.

Maybe the past trailers for the latest Cruise sci fi movie and the joint with Tatum and Kunis had me subconsciously expecting something other than what I just got.

Naked Gun remake :lol: :smh: I remember seeing a title of an article a few days ago basically saying 'Remake for Naked Gun with Ed Helms has it wrong every way possible' I let out a sigh and smirk then moved on. Leslie rolling over in his grave.

The teaser didn't show much about what the movie is actually about so I hit up Wiki and I'm definitely excited for this movie
That was the stuff I was avoiding looking up the trailer made me not even care to anymore. When it comes out, it comes out is the way I feel now.

I'll just have to wait for reactions from fans and the impartial.
 
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RIP to Peter O'toole. Lost one of the great ones today.

RIP. Great actor. His voice performance as Ego is one of my favorite parts of Ratatouille. And My Favorite Year was a movie my family watched together multiple times when I was a kid. Very good comedy.
 
Would have love to have seen this :lol: .

http://m.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/august-blowout-ferrell-movie-article-1.1547343

They came to talk about “Anchorman,” but Will Ferrell and his collaborator Adam McKay might just as easily have been sitting down with the Daily News to talk about the highly anticipated “August Blowout 2.”

Unfortunately, the first script by the two comics — submitted a decade ago when they were both full-time “Saturday Night Live” employees — was rejected by Paramount. Ferrell had yet to break through with the 2003 one-two punch of “Old School” and “Elf,” and McKay had exactly zero directing credits on his résumé.

So what did audiences miss out on with “August Blowout”?

“It was ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ meets a car dealership,” explains McKay, referring to the David Mamet drama about real estate salesmen.

“I was ‘Jeff Tanner’ — the best goddamned Ford salesman there was,” adds Ferrell, laughing. “You had all these guys who worked at the dealerships who had these sordid pasts.”

It doesn’t take long for the pair to slip back into pitch mode:

“There was a whole ‘New York, New York’-style song called ‘Anaheim,’ ” says McKay, breaking into the chorus, which seems to just be the name of the California city.

“In the montage, we had planned four shots of Denny’s, and one of the shots was a mattress coming off a car on the highway.”

There was a scene — the memory of which causes both a fit of laughter — of the Tanner character waking up at the home of a redheaded bombshell after a night of passion, going to the kitchen for a drink and finding a Nazi flag on the wall. “I told you I was a Nazi,” she says.

“Nooooo, you didn’t say that,” Ferrell replies in a whispery impression of the character.

“It was a funny script,” says Ferrell. “We actually did a read-through, a last-ditch attempt to get it going that [‘SNL’ producer] Lorne Michaels organized, on the soundstage where they shot ‘Soul Train.’ ”

They even got actor Harry Dean Stanton to read — and watched him chain-smoke through the whole thing, his voice getting lost in the cavernous soundstage on the Paramount lot.

“We left going, ‘There’s no way this is getting made,’ ” says Ferrell.

It didn’t. But things turned out okay for them and for us: Ferrell and McKay also had a crazy idea about a ’70s-era news team ...
 
I liked the first Rounders, but not enough to want a sequel. Happy for those movie/poker enthusiast who have been clamoring for it though.

RIP to Peter O'Toole as well. I have to admit, I still haven't seen Lawrence of Arabia, but his resume and accolades are impressive.
 
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