General Movie (Film for snobs) News Thread

[Chest Rockwell]

Woods is way too old now. I thought Super Hans was a brilliant shout for Cass that I would never have thought of otherwise.

 

Cameron from Modern Family to play the fat sex detective that bums Starr!

[Rey_Piste]

I know that, but I when I first watched John Carpenter's Vampires he was a fucking spitting image.

[LaGoosh]

I've read Preacher so many times I think I'd rather see a TV show that departs from the comic books. The idea is so good that I think there are multiple avenues a TV show of it could explore without being just an issue-by-issue adaption. As long as it gets the characters right and includes the big moments (like God biting out Jesse's eyeball for example) then I'd be happy. I love the Sex Detectives as much as anybody but I think some of that stuff wouldn't really translate to TV no matter what channel it was on.

 

Like how HBO are doing Game Of Thrones now...it's the same basic plot as the books but they are just getting there in a different way with completely different scenes yet still including all the big major moments. I'd much prefer that.

Edited November 28, 2013 by LaGoosh

[chokeout]

Not on AMC is how. The network that allowed Breaking Bad a single bleeped 'fuck' a season.

 

Thats an FCC ruling, not AMC's choice. If they were to have more uses of the word 'fuck' they then fall into a different set of guidelines that mean they would become a subscription style chanell like HBO. And then chances are that Breaking bad would have disappeared after a couple of seasons rather than being the fucking awesome piece of television that it is

 

America has some fucked up censorship rules. When I was there is Feb they showed Beverly Hills Cop at 2 in the afternoon with all the violence still in but cut out the swearing, the sort of weird edit you'd get on ITV about 20 years ago

[ultimo the great]

The tremendous Japanese poster for the greatest christmas film of all time.

 

 

and this picture

 

 

The end.

[King Pitcos]

I've only just seen this thread with the Preacher news! Is it actually happening now, not just wet talk like the last seven announcements of it? Very exciting if it becomes a reality. The TV landscape is more ready for it now than it's ever been, but is "God's a cunt" too much for even the people who followed Walter White's downward spiral?

 

I'll be upset if they make a pilot then nothing more. Even if it turns up online. How far did any of the previous attempts ever get, just the Arseface makeup test?

[Forrest]

The tremendous Japanese poster for the greatest christmas film of all time.

 

 

Odd. That doesn't look like Die Hard.

[Fox Piss]

Just seen the Harry Hill tv advert for his new film. It looks fucking awful. Anybody heard anything about it?

Edited December 3, 2013 by Fox Piss

[Cobra1000]

Godzilla trailer. Hell yeah.

[HarmonicGenerator]

Godzilla trailer. Hell yeah.

 

Ooh. Quite like the look of that. It's been a good couple of weeks for trailers, with this, Pompeii and the Spider-Man one all coming out.

[LaGoosh]

Pompeii and Spider-Man will be awful but I have a good feeling about this new Godzilla movie. That trailer really got my juices flowing. And I love they are using the original iconic roar and design for Godzilla.

[ultimo the great]

The Golden Globe Nominations

 

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Best Motion Picture - Drama

12 Years A Slave

Captain Phillips

Gravity

Philomena

Rush

 

Best Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical

American Hustle

Her

Inside Llewyn Davis

Nebraska

The Wolf Of Wall Street

 

Best Director

Alfonso Cuaron - "Gravity"

Paul Greengrass - "Captain Phillips"

Steve McQueen - "12 Years A Slave"

Alexander Payne - "Nebraska"

David O Russell - "American Hustle"

 

Best Actress - Drama

Cate Blanchett - "Blue Jasmine"

Sandra Bullock - "Gravity

Judi Dench - "Philomena"

Emma Thompson - "Saving Mr Banks"

Kate Winslet - "Labor Day"

 

Best Actor - Drama

Chiwetel Ejiofor - "12 Years A Slave"

Idris Elba - "Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom"

Tom Hanks - "Captain Phillips"

Matthew McConaughey - "Dallas Buyers Club"

Robert Redford - "All Is Lost"

 

Best Actress - Comedy

Amy Adams - "American Hustle"

Julie Delpy - "Before Midnight"

Greta Gerwig - "Frances Ha"

Julia Louis-Dreyfus - "Enough Said"

Meryl Streep - "August: Osage County"

 

Best Actor - Comedy/Musical

Christian Bale - "American Hustle"

Bruce Dern - "Nebraska"

Leonardo DiCaprio - "The Wolf Of Wall Street"

Oscar Isaac - "Inside Llewyn Davis"

Joaquin Phoenix - "Her"

 

Best Supporting Actress

Sally Hawkins - "Blue Jasmine"

Jennifer Lawrence - "American Hustle"

Lupita N'yongo - "12 Years A Slave"

Julia Roberts - "August: Osage County"

June Squibb - "Nebraska"

 

Best Supporting Actor

Barkhad Abdi - "Captain Phillips"

Daniel Bruhl - "Rush"

Bradley Cooper - "American Hustle"

Michael Fassbender - "12 Years A Slave"

Jared Leto - "Dallas Buyers Club"

 

Best Screenplay

Spike Jonze - "Her"

Bob Nelson - "Nebraska"

Jeff Pope & Steve Coogan - "Philomena"

John Ridley - "12 Years A Slave"

Eric Warren Singer & David O Russell - "American Hustle"

 

Best Foreign Film

Blue Is The Warmest Color

The Great Beauty

The Hunt

The Past

The Wind Rises

 

Best Animated Feature

The Croods

Despicable Me 2

Frozen

 

Best Original Score - Motion Picture

Alex Ebert - "All Is Lost

Alex Heffes - "Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom"

Steven Price - "Gravity"

John Williams - "The Book Thief"

Hans Zimmer - "12 Years A Slave"

 

Best Original Song - Motion Picture

"Atlas" - Coldplay - "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire"

"Let It Go - Idina Menzel - "Frozen"

"Ordinary Love" - U2 - "Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom"

"Please Mr. Kennedy" - Justin Timberlake & co - "Inside Llewyn Davis"

"Sweeter Than Fiction" - Taylor Swift - "One Chance"

 

Best TV Series - Comedy/Musical

"Big Bang Theory"

"Brooklyn Nine Nine"

"Girls"

"Modern Family"

"Parks & Recreation"

 

Best Miniseries Or Motion Picture Made For Television

American Horror Story: Coven

Behind The Candelabra

Dancing On The Edge

Top Of The Lake

The White Queen

 

Best TV Drama

Breaking Bad

Downton Abbey

The Good Wife

House Of Cards

Masters Of Sex

 

Best Actress - Drama TV Series

Julianna Marguiles - "The Good Wife"

Tatiana Maslany - "Orphan Black"

Taylor Schilling - "Orange Is The New Black"

Kerry Washington - "Scandal"

Robin Wright - "House Of Cards"

 

Best Actor - TV Drama

Bryan Cranston - "Breaking Bad"

Liev Schreiber - "Ray Donovan"

Michael Sheen - "Masters Of Sex"

Kevin Spacey - "House Of Cards"

James Spader - "The Blacklist"

 

Best Actress - Miniseries

Helena Bonham-Carter - "Burton & Taylor"

Rebecca Ferguson - "The White Queen"

Jessica Lange - "American Horror Story: Coven"

Helen Mirren - "Phil Spector"

Elisabeth Moss - "Top Of The Lake"

 

Best Actor - Miniseries

Matt Damon - "Behind The Candelabra"

Michael Douglas - "Behind The Candelabra"

Chiwetel Ejiofor - "Dancing On The Edge"

Idris Elba - "Luther"

Al Pacino - "Phil Spector"

 

Best Actress - Comedy TV Series

Zooey Deschanel - "New Girl"

Lena Dunham - "Girls"

Edie Falco - "Nurse Jackie"

Julia Louis-Dreyfus - "Veep"

Amy Poehler - "Parks & Recreation"

 

Best Actor - Comedy TV Series

Jason Bateman - "Arrested Development"

Don Cheadle - "House Of Lies"

Michael J Fox - "The Michael J Fox Show"

Jim Parsons - "The Big Bang Theory"

Andy Samberg - "Brooklyn Nine Nine"

 

Best Supporting Actor - TV

Josh Charles - "The Good Wife"

Rob Lowe - "Behind The Candelabra"

Aaron Paul - "Breaking Bad"

Corey Stoll - "House Of Cards"

Jon Voight - "Ray Donovan"

 

Best Supporting Actress - TV

Jacqueline Bisset - "Dancing On The Edge"

Janet McTeer - "The White Queen"

Hayden Panetierre - "Nashville"

Monica Potter - "Parenthood"

Sofia Vergara - "Modern Family"

 

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[HarmonicGenerator]

My thoughts on the film categories, for what they're worth (not a lot):

 

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American Hustle being in there so much irritates me a little bit. I'm sure it's very good and everything but at this stage it seems a little bit like studios only give David O Russell money to make films so they can bag loads of nominations in awards season. That's his last three - this, Silver Linings and The Fighter - that have dominated most of the acting categories in the past four years. And you never hear about any of them before the Awards Buzz starts. Anyway, moving on...

 

The Motion Picture - Drama category looks really strong this year. I haven't seen Philomena, and 12 Years A Slave isn't out here yet, but I'd be happy with any of those winning. Obligatory 'David O Russell's made a film, NOMINATIONS AHOY' aside, I feel the same about Director. Cuaron and Greengrass both did great things this year, and McQueen and Payne are worthy winners too.

 

Best Actress - Drama is very strong indeed this year too. I'd have considered Blanchett a lock for it, but Emma Thompson is superb in Saving Mr Banks, and Bullock does a hell of a lot with Gravity. You can't ever discount the Dench, either. Winslet seems a bit tacked-on, like they ran out of people, spotted she'd made a film and assumed she was good enough in it to warrant a nom.

 

Nice to see McConaughey get nominated, he's been in loads of good stuff this year, but the Actor - Drama category is going to Redford, Hanks or Ejiofor. Ejiofor's got the buzz at the moment, it seems, but I'd be perfectly happy seeing Hanks win just for the final scene of Captain Philips. He's astonishing there. I'd have to assume Bruce Dern will take Idris Elba's place in the Actor category come Oscar time, but I don't know, maybe Mandela's death will affect how people see Elba's performance. DiCaprio might get a nod ahead of McConaughey, too.

 

I'd imagine Sally Hawkins has Supporting Actress sewn up, but knowing recent history, American Hustle will get 3/4 of the acting awards because it exists. (I'm sure it's very good, I'm sure it is, but it irrationally annoys me. It means nothing to me who gets nominated for film awards! It really doesn't. But it annoys me.)

 

Some really nice surprises in Supporting Actor - based on what people are saying, you can't look beyond Fassbender, but Barkhad Abdi was excellent in Captain Phillips (can't see him winning, mind) and it's brilliant to see Daniel Bruhl in there for Rush.

 

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Edited December 12, 2013 by HarmonicGenerator

[Maverick]

Guardian are saying Peter O'Toole has died.

[Merzbow]

Teaser trailer for Richard Ayoade's new film,

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I really liked Submarine so looking forward to this one, plus I fanboy'd a little at the end.