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2 minutes ago, Edmilson said:

 

Nobody.

 

Why don't they just make a new movie with Streep, Hathaway, and Blunt? I'd be up for that.

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25 years after the first one and 16 years after the last one. It's more time than Toy Story 2 and 3 (11 years) and 3 and 4 (9 years).

 

It's also more than between Finding Nemo and Finding Dory (13 years), Incredibles and Incredibles 2 (14 years) and Inside Out 1 and 2 (9 years). But less than Chicken Run 1 and 2 (23 years).

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Emerald Fennell, writer/director of Promising Young Woman and Saltburn, is directing a new adaptation of Wuthering Heights.

 

First thing that springs to mind is that Anthony Willis gets to score this and he could turn in a fantasticly romantic score.

 

 

 

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I want Kate Bush involved too. In fact I demand it.

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7 minutes ago, filmmusic said:

Looking forward to Ralph Fiennes's Ulysses in THE RETURN.

First photo released:

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A Rachel Portman score too. Could be interesting if she has been allowed to do something grand.

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3 minutes ago, LSH said:

 

A Rachel Portman score too.

Rachel Portman? Why do I consider her a most unusual choice?

She has only done bittersweet dramas, hasn't she?

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1 hour ago, filmmusic said:

Looking forward to Ralph Fiennes's Ulysses in THE RETURN.

First photo released:

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I never saw a film of Uberto Pasolini. Can he be trusted with this project? 

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37 minutes ago, A24 said:

 

I never saw a film of Uberto Pasolini. Can he be trusted with this project? 

Well, his (only) 3 directing credits get above 7 at imdb.

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I know most people think Dune is just Lawrence of Arabia IN SPACE. But I REALLY want to see David Lean's Dune!

 

I'll just watch Lawrence Again, I guess.

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2 hours ago, Tallguy said:

 But I REALLY want to see David Lean's Dune!

 

 

We kinda have since David Lean was Villeneuve's biggest inspiration for Dune. I definitely felt the ghost of Lean, especially while watching Dune 2.

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I've never heard of it before. My first instinct was to say that whatever it is, it can only improve the quality of Bay's output, but after looking into it *very* briefly on YouTube, I guess it's just about on the same level as what Bay generally does.

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15 hours ago, Edmilson said:

I'm a simple man. I see Michael Bay's name attached to a film/TV show/etc and I avoid it like the plague.

What scummy thing did Bay do that makes you avoid his work?

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2 hours ago, HyenaBoy said:

What scummy thing did Bay do that makes you avoid his work?

I don't like his movies. Not a single one of them. Some may even be close of being acceptable (The Rock, which I saw ages ago, The Island, maybe Pain and Gain), but in general I don't care for his style. I think the last thing from him I bothered to watch was one of the last Transformers... Which I hated.

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4 hours ago, HyenaBoy said:

What scummy thing did Bay do that makes you avoid his work?

 

He's a friend of Zack Snyder and both love their action in slow motion. Despicable! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Snyder > Bay. The latter never did a movie as good as Dawn of the Dead or Watchmen. Sure, ZS was working with great source material, which makes me think how a Bay movie based on something decent, as opposed to the atrocious scripts for Pearl Harbor or Bad Boys 2 or one of the many TF movies, would fare.

 

But Bay does have an advantage over Snyder: his action sequences, as chaotic as they are, at least appear to take place in the real world. Bay films his action scenes in real locations (like the desert from Transformers 2) and I do respect that. It makes his movies feel more real.

 

Snyder's stuff all seem to take place in comfortable Hollywood sets with green screens everywhere (yeah, Bay also uses that, but you get my point). Movies like Man of Steel or Batman v Superman have this weird, fake, digital look that I think it's quite ugly. It may have worked for 300 (a movie I liked when I was a teen but I'm afraid to rewatch it as an adult) but for the others you can't escape the fakeness of how they all look.

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25 minutes ago, Edmilson said:

Snyder > Bay. The latter never did a movie as good as Dawn of the Dead or Watchmen. Sure, ZS was working with great source material, which makes me think how a Bay movie based on something decent, as opposed to the atrocious scripts for Pearl Harbor or Bad Boys 2 or one of the many TF movies, would fare.

 

But Bay does have an advantage over Snyder: his action sequences, as chaotic as they are, at least appear to take place in the real world. Bay films his action scenes in real locations (like the desert from Transformers 2) and I do respect that. It makes his movies feel more real.

 

Snyder's stuff all seem to take place in comfortable Hollywood sets with green screens everywhere (yeah, Bay also uses that, but you get my point). Movies like Man of Steel or Batman v Superman have this weird, fake, digital look that I think it's quite ugly. It may have worked for 300 (a movie I liked when I was a teen but I'm afraid to rewatch it as an adult) but for the others you can't escape the fakeness of how they all look.

 

I know it's got a political tinge (putting it lightly) but I thought 13 Hours was actually watchable from a Bay standpoint. It was like he looked at it and said "Hey, this is really confusing and chaotic, so maybe my job as a director should be to always make sure the audience knows what's happening." So, kind of the opposite of what he did in the Transformers movies.

 

I know what you mean about Snyder's "digital look". We just watched Justice League. Even his scenes set in Smallville have this "artistically artificial" look. It has to be a choice. He likes it. I think there was a lot less of that in Man of Steel. Maybe because you had Nolan putting his thumb on the scale. Maybe because he wanted to contrast Krypton with the "real world". Who knows?

 

I know how you feel about 300. I feel that way about The Rock, AKA the one Bay movie I mostly loved. I consider Armageddon to be one of the worst movies I've ever subjected myself to.

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52 minutes ago, Tallguy said:

I consider Armageddon to be one of the worst movies I've ever subjected myself to.

 

I couldn't watch that. I think I did finish The Rock but it's been decades ago, so I don't reall recall. I thought The Island was really bad and I remember that I fell asleep during a big action scene in the city. I like Snyder's first 3 movies but he's a changed man now. His alternative for Star Wars that he's doing for Netflix is utter garbage. It looks really bad too.

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1 hour ago, Tallguy said:

I know what you mean about Snyder's "digital look". We just watched Justice League. Even his scenes set in Smallville have this "artistically artificial" look. It has to be a choice. He likes it. I think there was a lot less of that in Man of Steel. Maybe because you had Nolan putting his thumb on the scale. Maybe because he wanted to contrast Krypton with the "real world". Who knows?

 

Yeah, Man of Steel might be among Snyder's "least ugly" digital movies. But it still has that weird, artificial "fake" feeling. I remember when the movie came out someone did a color correction on YouTube, it looked way more "pleasing" to the eyes.

 

 

1 hour ago, Tallguy said:

I know how you feel about 300. I feel that way about The Rock, AKA the one Bay movie I mostly loved. I consider Armageddon to be one of the worst movies I've ever subjected myself to.

I saw 300 when I was 14, and it was the ideal movie for me at the time: sex, violence and blood galore! It seems to have been made for Snyder's ideal audience, i.e. edgy teens who think Superman and Spider-Man are "too nice" and want more gore (and sex). As an adult though... It looks kinda ridiculous. But I still have this nostalgic feeling for it.

 

I saw The Rock way too many years after it was released and thought it was just okay. Not the action masterpiece many say it is. In a way, I think that movie is kinda similar to Independence Day: either you saw it in the 90s and loved it or you saw it later but didn't think it was too great because your vision was clouded by the numerous movies that came out in the years between that either immitated them or did something radically different.

 

I liked the opening scene of Armageddon with all the meteors falling in NYC (?), but the rest of the movie was dreadfully boring.

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1 hour ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

At least Bay's movies are not meant to be taken seriously.

Snyder, on the other hand, thinks that he's putting something "meaningful" on screen.

 

 

Actually, the serious tone only came when he was asked to direct Superman (because, to save the franchise, DC and Nolan wanted to produce a Superman movie that was deadly serious).

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1 hour ago, JNHFan2000 said:

New featurette on Dreamworks' The Wild Robot.

Looks absolutely stunning.

 

 


 No John Powell sadly.

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On 25/7/2024 at 1:30 PM, Edmilson said:

I don't like his movies. Not a single one of them. Some may even be close of being acceptable (The Rock, which I saw ages ago, The Island, maybe Pain and Gain), but in general I don't care for his style. I think the last thing from him I bothered to watch was one of the last Transformers... Which I hated.

Aren’t the soundtracks one of the few things you like from the Transformers movies? 

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59 minutes ago, HyenaBoy said:

Aren’t the soundtracks one of the few things you like from the Transformers movies? 

I don't remember saying that here... I listened to Jablonsky's TF scores years ago, thought they were okay but not sure how I'd react to them now.

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Rebecca Ferguson is mesmerizing. I'd watch her in anything.

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23 hours ago, Edmilson said:

I don't remember saying that here... I listened to Jablonsky's TF scores years ago, thought they were okay but not sure how I'd react to them now.

Must be confusing you with another user here (happens when there are so many users)

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