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I feel like Gnomeo and Juliet was only made because someone came up with that title and didn't want it to go to waste.
My son recently watched this movie and it made me wonder if someone came up with that title, thought it was catchy, and the entire movie production stemmed just from that. It also makes me wonder how often that happens in the film industry since there are a lot of movies that aren't very good but have very catchy titles with puns. I'm not suggesting that it's always a bad thing for a movie production to start with just a title but I imagine many movies that start this way aren't very good because then the movie is being made the fit the title rather than a title being found that fits the film. via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2zNjAev
Gore Verbinski's Rango (2011) is ingenious.
Not exactly sure what this film is supposed to be but it's fucking fantastic nonetheless.Some sort of spaghetti-western/adventure/comedy hybrid; it blends all these genres and hits a really wholesome tone. Cannot believe it's been 9 years since its release, and only just coming onto my radar now. It's so different from anything I've seen.The voice acting is brilliant and the dialogue is genuinely hilarious. Johnny Depp is a scream. Bill Nighy is great. Isla Fischer is great. Everyone is excellent.The production design/animation is off-the-charts incredible. I dropped my jaw multiple watching this film. The cinematography is just glorious.Tl;dr: watch Rango.https://preview.redd.it/8plvtb95zyv41.png?width=2880&format=png&auto=webp&s=274dbb96b67fd3aaafbc6fa39005f96f472d87d7https://preview.redd.it/t2wcg1a5zyv41.png?width=2880&format=png&auto=webp&s=5b052e08af783356d4558f4f6c52a3a9817c46f7https://preview.redd.it/msgoh895zyv41.png?width=2880&format=png&auto=webp&s=ad59347aabc0a4310e24c08ced62740ce483d7f1https://preview.redd.it/hmi0ra95zyv41.png?width=2880&format=png&auto=webp&s=b22f85e3d586708fac5f980b3380588950ddc190https://preview.redd.it/4rhhk595zyv41.png?width=2880&format=png&auto=webp&s=22d849c682c336a65d308c052e575af603f5a038https://preview.redd.it/o53m6a95zyv41.png?width=2880&format=png&auto=webp&s=b6228cc07364a55f47ceb2651f8c22d422baf2dfhttps://preview.redd.it/b1z2lv95zyv41.png?width=2880&format=png&auto=webp&s=c20e23f3700092d22d806c6b72ffce8cb202cb4chttps://preview.redd.it/qxs0yy95zyv41.png?width=2880&format=png&auto=webp&s=4d911396da61577dc69b8f74e8f08f8719249ee2https://preview.redd.it/j23aku95zyv41.png?width=2880&format=png&auto=webp&s=c69aaf9b5f9066f08bfd216509255c31e5dbb795https://preview.redd.it/mdvxspc5zyv41.png?width=2880&format=png&auto=webp&s=5596b958130e29dd7a65b48b5968d9ff5a68276a via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2SoY9qq
What's the best double feature of two completely separate films that take place during the same time period?
For Example off the top of my head, the first half an hour or so of The Aviator takes place around 1930 (release of Hell's Angels) on the US West coast, while the events of The Untouchables are happening in Chicago.There are probably better ones but I just watched those in the last week so they're fresh in my mind. Bonus points if they're based on real events via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2ycTS2z
Does anyone know the first movie to ever feature a scene of someone crawling through a ventilation shaft?
Surely there must be a definitive origin for this trope? AFAIK it's not something anyone has done in real life, it's just one of those things that only ever happens in movies. Or is it one of those strange things that doesn't really have an origin, everyone just claims to have copied it from something else? via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2Wb9xrb
A closer look at the meaning of La La Land's epilogue
Spoilers of course. Skip this paragraph if you've seen the movie, but for some context for those who haven't seen it and for some reason don't intend to: Mia (Stone) and Sebastian (Gosling) meet in Los Angeles, where they are struggling to achieve their lofty dreams. Mia wants to be an actress, and Seb wants to open his own jazz club. Seb is a bit of an eccentric and purist, making him a bit of a stubborn asshole to others. They fall in love, and their careers take interesting turns - Mia focuses on writing and acting in a solo play to get the attention of Hollywood casting folk, Seb takes up an offer from an old frenemy to play in a band that turns out to be wildly successful but is not the pure type of jazz Seb likes. He is constantly away touring, while Mia's play completely bombs with only a few people in attendance. They fight, but eventually make up when Seb is contacted by a casting agency and he forces Mia to go to the audition despite her initially refusing because she is ready to give up and can't go through more heartbreak and rejections. Fast forward, Mia goes to Paris and becomes a famous actress, Seb just opened his jazz club, she stumbles into his club with her husband and he plays their song, prompting a mutual what-if daydream where they stayed together, and in the end they don't have each other but they achieved their dreams so it's OK, right?It's a bit more nuanced than that. Mia is fine with her outcome, but Seb is clearly not. In fact, the "mutual daydream of what-if" that people took his piece to be, may be something more. Let's start!The epilogue immediately starts with establishing Mia's happily-ever-after. She steps out of the fancy car, grabs a coffee from her former workplace, where everyone is an adoring fan (of course, mirroring the actress she idolized in the beginning of the film), and goes home to her loving husband and adorable daughter. It's here that we confirm that shit, the loving husband isn't Seb! Let's see how Seb's doing, shall we?Recall that we first see Seb in the epilogue testing the keys to the piano at his new club. He hits each note on the way up, but stops and tilts his head as he hits the final note. He hits it a couple more times as if it's bothering him. This is the first hint he is not happy with the conclusion of this journey. An enthusiastic man is with him asking him to sign the papers and make Seb's dream official. He exclaims "Not doing too bad, Seb!" to which Seb responds with a tired "Not too bad is great..." Seb goes home, is specifically shown cooking alone while the picture of his sister's happy family sits on the counter. Soon after, he heads to his new club, walking right by a mural of the famous Mia's face and, tellingly, he can't bring himself to look up at it. Instead he keeps his eyes to the floor and keeps walking. Even worse, Seb hasn't smiled a single time in this epilogue up until he is up on stage and has to put on a show for his patrons.With that out of the way, here's an additional kicker that may be a slight stretch. As Seb plays their song, the two are pictured in an alternate timeline in which they stayed together. The most straightforward interpretation of this is that they are imagining their lives together before they go back to reality. But what if this is Seb's regretful love letter to her?Earlier in the movie, Seb introduces Mia to jazz and explains to her that jazz came about in a little flophouse in New Orleans where people speaking different languages couldn't communicate with each other until they used music to do so. I'm no jazz history expert and maybe Seb is off on this somewhat romantic origin, but this is the context he provides. Years later, Mia walks into his club with her husband and sits down in the audience, where Seb sees her from the stage. He can't exactly jump into the crowd and tell her how he feels in front of her husband, so instead he communicates it to her with their song. Notice that when this version of Mia and Sebastian's Theme concludes (38 seconds in if the timestamp doesn't work) in the epilogue, Seb merely leaves the song unfinished. He immediately kisses Mia instead of blowing her off, he ignores Keith and doesn't join the band, he attends her play which is a sold out masterpiece, etc. Really, the only things that change are on Seb's part. She still becomes a famous actress and he follows her to Paris. He doesn't open his own club, but he seems happy enough playing piano wherever she is, and raising their child.This Seb who isn't totally happy with his original dream is such a far cry from the Seb from the beginning of the film, who only cares about his ideas and his goals! If you read this far, I hope you enjoyed my analysis. I love LLL and have put way too much thought into it.TL;DR: Mia is happy with her ending, Seb is not. They may have shared an intimate what-if in the epilogue, but I interpret it as Seb telling Mia he would've done everything differently to be with her. via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2W7Z0Nm
I loved every motherf***ing minute of Dolemite Is My Name.
Just a bummer to watch it on Netflix because it turns out to be a celebration of the movie theater experience. Popcorn, the big flashy marquee, a packed house with hundreds of people screaming and laughing.Before we even see Eddie Murphy's face, we hear him say four 'motherfucker's, and we know the old Eddie Murphy is back. Big time. It's obvious that Eddie has a lot of love for Rudy Ray Moore, and he makes it look so easy to capture both the bombastic crowd-pleasing showman and the relatable, self-doubting but utterly determined human being that Rudy Ray Moore was."Rudy, you think I wanted to be a DJ at a used records store? Our dreams don't always come true, brother.""They still can."I'm always a sucker for movies about making movies, and The Disaster Artist left me disappointed with how often it just screeched to a halt to explain a joke. This movie didn't do any of that. We just witness the chaotic, slapdash production of Dolemite and the funny comes naturally. Nobody knows what the hell they're doing on this set. But they're a team, and they're going to make a movie. This is where Wesley Snipes shines especially, as the eternally flustered D'Urville Martin who directed and acted in the production."Is there any angle you can shoot this where it looks like he's actually kicking him?""...........there's no such angle."The scene where Rudy finally gets to premiere his movie and watches the entire crowd go crazy for it was just the cherry on top.In that moment, nothing else mattered. Fuck debt. Fuck losing his record royalties. Fuck every no-business-born insecure motherfucker who ever doubted him. The world was loving his movie. He'd won."Rudy, I'm a little confused. Is this movie supposed to be funny? I was thinking it was going to be a Shaft kinda thing.""Of course it's supposed to be funny! They get it, that's why they're laughing! See, it's comedy, and it's sexy and it's action! It's a total entertainment experience!" via /r/movies https://ift.tt/3f3X94M
Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise is One of my Favorite Performances of the Decade
These movies have gotten under a lot of scrutiny lately, especially with the harsh critical and fan reaction to Chapter 2. I do have to say that IT Chapter 1 I've rewatched countless times and consider it one of my personal favorite movies. It blends horror and comedy so well while also staying genuinely intriguing and creepy ( not necessarily scary) And a lot of that has to do with Bill Skarsgard as Pennywise.No matter what you think of the movies you cannot deny that his performance as the shapeshifting demon clown is near perfect. His facial control is amazing and the way he uses his body like a puppet is genius. He uses his voice so well also, tonally able to shift up and down creating such an unsettling spectacle that you just cannot take your eyes off of while hes on screen.I consider Chapter 2 a guilty pleasure for me, i definitely see the issues with it, but I love watching it for many reasons. The scene with Pennywise under the bleachers is my favorite scene of both movies because of how perfect Bill is in that scene.I know the movies have mixed reactions, but Bill definitely deserves all the praise for his mystical performance. via /r/movies https://ift.tt/35cp3XW
A few years ago we had the dumb idea to ride mopeds across America and accidentally became first-time filmmakers. Our movie, Slow Ride Home, was published to Amazon Prime yesterday and we'd love to share our story with r/movies
The backstory:Through a crazy series of events (including the ride itself) we ended up making a feature-length documentary and the final result was not terrible - we even won a few awards for it.The ride was an 11-day journey from Florida to Washington state. Eight of us made the journey on 125cc scooters that topped out at 55mph so it was pretty much backroads the whole way. One guy had the crazy idea to bring a buddy with a camera along and film the thing - and who hasn't dreamed of having a camera follow them around while they do something they'd love to share later. Months later we had a successful Kickstarter and enough money to pay for a small crew and rent some good gear.I'll leave out the part about the ride for sake of spoilers, but it was definitely one of the more memorable experiences of my life... one we all wanted to share... so back to the movie...Well, long story short, our original plan fell through... we were left with a hard drive full of TERABYTES worth of footage and tasked with making a movie with almost zero no film experience. But we know that this movie was going to get made - we were going to have to do it ourselves. There was a LOT to go through, but we began to catalog footage: key shots, b-roll, transcribing dialogue of interview footage so it could be searched later, etc. Thankfully one of us knew their way around Adobe Premier fairly well, but the files quickly became overwhelming.We took to the analog way and created a massive serial-killer-hunter-style board and began to put up sticky notes of key moments, bits of dialogue and transitions. At this point, we knew what needed to be shown and then came a stack of library books about filmmaking. How do you pull together a good story? How do you make documentary footage compelling? What is a three-act structure? We slowly massaged the story so that there was a rhythm of highs and lows, and did the best we could to develop each character (it's a weird thing deciding "ok I guess I am sort of the idiot of this movie").We finally began to share the movie with some friends in the industry and they all were surprised at how not-bad this movie was... maybe it was even good? A few more cuts of adjusting and trimming and we had a feature-length doc. It was a surreal moment showing it to a group of about 200 peers and watching everyone truly enjoy the movie.The whole process took about 3 months of editing, and then another year or so of showing it around at scooter and motorcycle shops, small theaters and some film festivals. Yesterday we reached our final milestone, getting the film on a streaming platform that can be watched by all. Especially given the time we are in when people seem to need something lighthearted to watch, we hope our film can be enjoyed by as many people as possible. Thanks for taking the time to read our story!TLDR: Rode scooters across the country, ended up with a bunch of footage, made a movie and it was actually pretty good. Check out Slow Ride Home on Amazon Prime. via /r/movies https://ift.tt/3bL6E6U
It’s Butt Boy AKA Chip Gutchel AKA Tyler Cornack, director/writer/co-star of BUTT BOY, which was recently released on VOD by Epic Pictures and premiered last year at Fantastic Fest. AMA!
Sup Reddit, It’s Butt Boy AKA Chip Gutchel AKA Tyler Cornack, director/writer/co-star of BUTT BOY, which was recently released on VOD by Epic Pictures and premiered last year at Fantastic Fest. He is joined by detective Russel Fox AKA Tyler Rice.This movie was conceived from a short sketch on my comedic Instagram page Tiny Cinema. There is no easy way to say this... But here goes nothing: On the exterior, this is a film about a dispirited man becoming dependent on the sensation of depositing things into his butt... But as you watch, I hope and expect that you see the film’s interior goes much deeper than that. (PUN INTENDED)I could not be more thrilled to converse with you about our otherworldly and unusual film... Or anything else you want to talk about! As of today, you can purchase our sexy Blu-Ray. It features never before seen BTS of how we assembled the bizarre madness on a super low budget. It also includes commentary from me and some of the other butt boys.If you like butts, genre, greasy goatees, and pulpy cinema... then proceed to AMA!IG: https://ift.tt/2SfvaFG Blu-ray: https://ift.tt/3cSUfhx Amazon: https://ift.tt/2VNOj3L https://ift.tt/35b9sYE via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2VIXClp
Shaky cam doesn't make you feel like, "you are part of the action". It makes you feel like the director is incompetent.
I think when it comes to action cinematography, I associate shaky cam with trying to hide imperfections in your movie in the worst possible way. I get that some actors are not very athletic, but have you ever seen Into the Badlands? They made Nick Frost into a believable Kung Fu master. Hire some Chinese action choreographers and stop shaking the cam. via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2SdEqdw
Elijah Wood, Daniel Radcliffe and Robert Pattinson need to team up for the most bizarre indie film of all time
The three of them each got their big break as the star of a big budget film franchise but since then have revealed their true talents playing in some of the most interesting (and frankly bizarre) indie films of the last decade.Not only have they starred in some of the strangest films to date but their involvement has often helped secure funding for independent directors who might otherwise struggle to find the money. Elijah Wood even runs his own production company to help up and coming directors get their weird and wonderful ideas to the big screen.I'd love to see the three of them get together for the weirdest, most bizarre and out there independent film imaginable. If the stars of Swiss Army Man, Come to Daddy and High Life can't do it, then no one can! via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2YmMFb5
