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I spent a few minutes reading the reaction comments of the trailer on YouTube and didn't see a single mention of this so-called PR nightmare/liability Spielberg is supposed to have on his hands. Surprisingly, I just saw loads of comments talking about how good Kaminski's photography is. There's the real controversy right there.
Ulysses 31 is just one of those guys who confuses online discourse and Reddit echo chambers with real life shit. It's very common behaviour these days. Just the fact that he referred to a no-name actor's transgressions as cause for entire movie "cancellation" says it all.
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On 6/19/2020 at 7:01 PM, TheUlyssesian said:
Some time later...
16 hours ago, TheUlyssesian said:Reading reactions on twitter and my god does Spielberg have a PR nightmare on his hands. People are slamming Elgort left and right.
I think the best strategy would be to no use the actors in the promotion of the movie - which is a crying shame because of the USPs of the film is the diversity in the cast. But when the leading man is a PR liability, I wonder if they can get the other cast members out without raising uncomfortable questions.
This looks good obviously - could be anything else if Spielberg directed it? I think in normal times this would have been a superhit, critically acclaimed and been nominated for a bunch of oscars.
Much of that might still happen. But the movie definitely has a liability on its hands.
Sheesus you're really determined about this total none story, aren't you. Get a life, dawg! Nobody cares about your obsession with the bollocks twitterverse.
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Seth Rogan directed Future Man too, oddly enough.
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For middle of the road low viewer investment flicks, IMDB ratings (not reviews) are more reliable than the tomatometer score, I find. I've enjoyed plenty of 6.7 IMDB movies just fine.
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No one loves mr angry pointy finger more than I do, but I don't think he'd even be suitable enough anymore to provide Indy's voiceover for an animated feature or a deep-faked "younger" version of himself. He sounds every bit the 90 year old these days.
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I bet it's a map icon clearance fest as well. Basically the reason I stopped playing Ubisoft titles.
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Everything needs a chunky marketing budget behind it these days to stand a chance.
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Watch Three Fugitives instead lol
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Isn't it basically Far Cry but as a slash 'em up? You know, clearing out enemy settlements and turning them into outposts, rinse repeat?
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Started watching some sci-fi action comedy series I'd never heard of called Future Man, starring that short dude out of the Hunger Games. It's on Amazon Prime. How the hell was this somehow not higher profile while it was running? Was it sent out to die with a miniscule marketing budget by Hulu? That's criminal, because its bloody great!
The Last Star Fighter meets Critters 2-ish and with direct similarities with T2; a hopeless gamer dude beats the hardest third person shooter video game in the world and is promptly invaded (in his bedroom) by two interdimensional mercenary types who inform him he's just beaten their recruitment tool and he is to be drafted into some far flung intergalactic war as their best hope.
The juvenile adult gags land and the sfx are up to scratch; I'm still trying to work out why nobody ever talked about it when it was on.
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I'm probably more curious about this than I have been of the last handful of Spielberg efforts, but I'm still coming at it from a "they remade Jaws?" perspective, but then again I can see why an updated version might find relevance. But it still just feels like a really bad time to release anything theatrically, so I wouldn't like to fancy its chances of making decent money.
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Weaver's knickers are so Seventies, they ruin the whole movie.
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Anyone here like The Frisco Kid? Critics seems to be down on it, but this morning other parts of the internet tell me it's a classic?
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It was a fine show, but the chess match montages became tiresome, even though the lively score did its best to keep them engaging (not that successfully).
I liked the relationship with her surrogate mother; for me that aspect grounded the glam lead character more than her vices and upbringing.
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5 hours ago, bruce marshall said:
Well, it's not supposed to be a realistic look at chess.
It's a fable.
One only has to take a look at the main girl.
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3 hours ago, gkgyver said:
Sure.
And if you don't like any modern movies, you can just watch Raiders Of The Lost Ark over and over and over and over until you vomit.
Funnily enough I sat and watched this behind-the-scenes footage this evening (somehow for the first time) and JW's soundtrack as heard over the top of the extremely crude opening of the Ark clips towards the end still managed to make the individual shots, the editing of them together for the doc, feel utterly alive, and somehow almost just as effective as the score in the finished movie itself. I mean, shiiiiiit man, this guy was ridiculous.
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I didn't get online till 2003-04 and didn't find JWFan till '05. I was massively into Empire online forums before I was here, but corporate eventually shut it down. I even met and shagged a female member I met on there, a mod! Ah, those were the days.
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Maybe. The line between competent and good becoming increasingly blurred.
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10 minutes ago, bruce marshall said:
so, Quintus, why did you criticize and insult ME?
You seem to be on both sides of the issue unless I'm misreading you.
"@bruce marshall
I can only assume that you are actively trying to be perma banned here. Reading your regular content, any member can reasonably deduce that your end is nigh at JWFan.
If not, if you're oblivious to all this, then you're even more stupid than you appear."
Self-explanatory.
20 minutes ago, Jay said:Depends on what is being said
You have a thick skin though, right? It's not going to get you down, I mean.
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There's some good in modern, there are gems. But yeah, older stuff is like a treasure trove.
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Do you find sarcasm and dry dismissals insulting?
Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story (2021)
in General Discussion
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You assume all kinds of things, like I give a shit about this movie (I don't), and that the regular public give a hoot about whatever the latest thing twitter is being outraged by (when the vast majority of people in the western world don't use it). You're living in a hyperreality if you think junk links like the one you posted are worth a damn.
I don't question the fact that the filmmakers will no doubt be asked some awkward questions about the actor's alleged conduct, but I very much doubt any of this will live up to the sensationalist hype you're determined to build around it, not by a long shot.