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

[shogun]

Katrina is beautiful. 

I kept thinking she was from New Zealand or England but she's actually American. She needs to be on more shows.

 

[shogun]

That shannara chronicles show was very average. But crixus has a cool haircut and i'm liking that cute, short brunette that robs people.

 

[RyGuy45]

Sorry if posted but saw this over the holidays if anyone follows Sundance.

The most ambitious nonfiction project in a newly announced lineup of films at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival — coming in at a whopping 7½ hours — is not a traditional indie film but an ESPN miniseries. The heretofore secretive project focuses on O.J. Simpson, attempting to go deeper and fresher on the controversial figure. Directed by Ezra Edelman, “O.J.: Made in America” is a miniseries under the sports network’s “30 for 30” banner. It traces Simpson’s personal and public life during his murder trial, setting its story against the backdrop of Los Angeles while exploring race and celebrity. The festival, which kicks off Jan. 21, will screen the entire project in one day in two parts. ESPN aims to air the film later in 2016, likely in two-hour chunks over multiple days.

Other movies announced as narrative film premieres at Sundance 2016 include “The Hollars,” starring and directed by actor John Krasinski (who previously made his Sundance directing debut with “Brief Interviews With Hideous Men”); “Amy” director Asif Kapadia’s “Ali & Nino,” a tragic love story set in the oil-rich country of Azerbaijan at the dawn of World War I; and indie stalwart Kelly Reichardt’s “Certain Women,” a tale of three women in small-town America that boasts a starry ensemble of Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern and frequent Reichardt cast member Michelle Williams.

The section also includes the directorial debut of the former film executive and longtime Ang Lee collaborator James Schamus, whose “Indignation” is an adaptation of Philip Roth’s period-midcentury novel set on a college campus, and Ira Sachs’ “Little Men,” an inter-cultural coming-of-age story from the director of “Love Is Strange.”

Fest favorite Taika Waititi makes his return to Sundance with “Wilderpeople,” about a boy and his uncle on the run in the New Zealand outback.

Among the documentary premieres, most, like “O.J.: Made in America,” are personality-driven. They include “Michael Jackson’s Journey From Motown to Off the Wall,” from Spike Lee, about the early Jackson album; Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s “Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You”; and Louis Black and Karen Bernstein’s “Richard Linklater — Dream Is Destiny,” which examines Linklater via Austin in the 1990s.

 

[big j 33]

That OJ miniseries sounds really interesting.

 

[KingParappa]

That shannara chronicles show was very average. But crixus has a cool haircut and i'm liking that cute, short brunette that robs people.

I think it will pick up tho.

Speaking of the OJ miniseries, I was wondering how many people watch those TV events based off real world events and take what was shown as fact.

 

[jpzx]

USA and ABC hot and fresh out the kitchen.

 

[aychd]

Finally had some time to do some catching up and saw Southpaw last night... great movie... 

 

[rook]

Big Short was much more entertaining than I thought. Easily one of my fav movies of the year

 

[lawdog1]

That OJ miniseries sounds really interesting.

Isn't there a scripted series about the OJ trial coming on this year too? Or did that already air? I know I read about one somewhere.

 

[MajinZuub]

I've just watched 10 minutes of the Adam Sandler movie Blended - one of the worst movies I've ever seen. And I'm surprised it didn't get more flack for the ridiculous Africa stereotypes in the film.

I tried giving that Ridiculous 6 **** on Netflix a chance and turned it off after 15 minutes


Sandler has become such a joke.

 

[lawdog1]

I tried giving that Ridiculous 6 **** on Netflix a chance and turned it off after 15 minutes


Sandler has become such a joke.

I laughed at both Grown Ups movies - mainly on the strength of the other people in the movies, but that's about the only Sandler films that I've thought were ok since roughly the turn of the century.

I also liked Hotel Transylvania, but I don't count it as a "Sandler film."

 

[Master Zik]

USA and ABC hot and fresh out the kitchen.

Are you saying they're banging?

 

[RyGuy45]

Isn't there a scripted series about the OJ trial coming on this year too? Or did that already air? I know I read about one somewhere.

Comin up on FX in a few weeks.

John Travolta as Bob Kardashian

 

[shogun]

The commercial where cuba gooding jr. says he's not black, he's oj had me laughing.

 

[sea manup]

Big Short was much more entertaining than I thought. Easily one of my fav movies of the year

First week of January and this will prob be in my 2016 top 5

It would be an amazing year if we had 5 movies better than this one.

 

[jpzx]

Big Short was much more entertaining than I thought. Easily one of my fav movies of the year

I caught it last night.

Selena Gomez didn't know what a synthetic CDO was when she was explaining it even, you could just tell.

Okay, Christian Bale - I'm back.

Liked him in The Fighter a whole lot obviously, but thought his performance in American Hustle, while not bad is very overrated (Bradley Cooper was the person I came away from that movie impressed with), and then you have things like Exodus: Gods and Kings, Public Enemies, Out of the Furnace, etc. Meh.

But his performance in The Big Short brought to light something he's really good at that few are -- sinking into an array of strong personalities. Whether it was convincing you:

- he could be a crazed lunatic by night and just tolerating you with every fiber of his being by day in American Psycho
- he could be the sibling in a supporting role whose bad decisions are compounded by his even worse addictions, even though he clearly means well in The Fighter
- he could be an ex-physician turned hedge fund manager with social anxiety and a beautiful mind in The Big Short

He can become so many different things in such a grave and convincing fashion sometimes and it blows me away each time I'm witnessing it on-screen. It's really a talent.

 

[sea manup]

Yeah Selena Gomez was my only real issue with the movie. Didn't fit in at all

 

[lawdog1]

I caught it last night.

Selena Gomez didn't know what a synthetic CDO was when she was explaining it even, you could just tell.

Okay, Christian Bale - I'm back.

Liked him in The Fighter a whole lot obviously, but thought his performance in American Hustle, while not bad is very overrated (Bradley Cooper was the person I came away from that movie impressed with), and then you have things like Exodus: Gods and Kings, Public Enemies, Out of the Furnace, etc. Meh.

But his performance in The Big Short brought to light something he's really good at that few are -- sinking into an array of strong personalities. Whether it was convincing you:

- he could be a crazed lunatic by night and just tolerating you with every fiber of his being by day in American Psycho
- he could be the sibling in a supporting role whose bad decisions are compounded by his even worse addictions, even though he clearly means well in The Fighter
- he could be an ex-physician turned hedge fund manager with social anxiety and a beautiful mind in The Big Short

He can become so many different things in such a grave and convincing fashion sometimes and it blows me away each time I'm witnessing it on-screen. It's really a talent.

Funny you say that about Bale because I was just think that the other day when people mentioned that Will Smith and arguably Denzel Washington always just play variations of themselves. I actually think that true of most "movie stars." Even Leo to a degree. Bale is one of the exceptions. DDL too. They can just become the character completely. Gary Oldman is so good at it that he's been in movies that I didn't even realize it was him until after the fact. But he's not as big a star as the other guys I mentioned.

Still, there's not many actors out there who are chameleons with their performances.

 

[getback]

My cousin is friends with Christian Bale. Says dude is super laid back and humble. Whips a mid 90's Tacoma while the wife has a Rover

 

[Master Zik]

Yeah Bale is great but he's been in some stinkers.

I don't remember Out of the Furnace being that bad though.

Big Short was much more entertaining than I thought. Easily one of my fav movies of the year

First week of January and this will prob be in my 2016 top 5

It would be an amazing year if we had 5 movies better than this one.

You really counting that for 2016?

I don't know what the release date was so I aint even sure. Was it New Years? or did it just leak early and it's not even out in theaters yet?

 

[shogun]

Seems like he's only intense when it's time to work. Word to that audio of his venting on the set of terminator salvation.

 

[d0nny donowitz]

You should move to a small town, somewhere the rule of law still exists. You will not survive here. You are not a wolf, and this is a land of wolves now.

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[jpzx]

Are you saying they're banging?

That's what I'm saying

 

[sea manup]

Yeah Bale is great but he's been in some stinkers.

I don't remember Out of the Furnace being that bad though.

 

Big Short was much more entertaining than I thought. Easily one of my fav movies of the year

First week of January and this will prob be in my 2016 top 5

It would be an amazing year if we had 5 movies better than this one.

You really counting that for 2016?

I don't know what the release date was so I aint even sure. Was it New Years? or did it just leak early and it's not even out in theaters yet?

i just dont want to have to demote any movie from my 2015 top 5 

but it would def be in my 2015 top five

i would describe the movie as a very informative documentary about an otherwise boring subject for people with ADHD

 

[shogun]

Are you saying they're banging?

That's what I'm saying

sara hyland deserves some fun. I read last year that her boyfriend who also played her boyfriend on the show was abusive to her. In a year or two ariel winter will have more value than her though.