As you all can probably tell by now, I am both infinitely wise, sexy, and strong. But also, you can probably tell that I am a movie buff. So here are a few films that are coming out that sound interesting, and now I am going to slap them down on the proverbial barrelhead or whatever.
The Brothers Grimm: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0355295 Terry Gilliam's first movie since his disastrous Don Quixote movie with Johnny Depp! This sounds quite intruiging. But I wonder how two actors primarily known for their pretty faces are going to pull off the acting.
Good Omens: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0155724 Hilarious book. It's up there in the Hitchiker Genre. I discussed this previously in the Hitchiker movie thread, but it's worth mentioning again. The fact that this also is being helmed by Gilliam gives me pleasure.
The Polar Express: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0338348 I know. What the hell. They're making movies out of a classic children's picture book? Well, they are, and they've hooked Tom Hanks. Apparently it's going to be visually stunning. It's a live action film rendered to look like animation utilizing motion capture technolgy. But what that means is beyond me. As well as many, many, many other things.
The Big Empty: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0321442 VERY interesting. Fantastic cast, including Boromir and Frasier. The plot, a man (John Favreau) is told to deliver a blue suitcase to a man called Cowboy (Sean Bean) and winds up in another world. Only thing is that it's so indie, who's going to have a chance to see it?
Troy: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0332452 You will know of this movie soon. I promise it. Note that after this project, Petersen is going to do Ender's Game. So keep an eye on this one to we can have a taste of his style and skill.
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
Whale Rider. Go see it. Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
Wow, Troy has an impressive cast list. I wasn't really interested in seeing it before, but maybe I'll give it a try. (I'll try to ignore Brad Pitt.)
Posted by Fitz (Member # 4803) on :
I had no idea they were making a Good Omens movie. Groovy.
Posted by Sho'nuff (Member # 3214) on :
Brad Pitt's been given a bad rap. I think alot of people talk about him unfairly. look at the cool movies he's been in. And done a good job in as well.
Cool World Twelve Monkeys Sleepers Kalifornia True Romance Seven Fight Club Snatch Ocean's 11 Spy Game Interview with a Vampire
He's done some bad things. And yeah, he's a pretty boy, but alot of people can't get passed that. He doesn't get by on just his looks...
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
How can one ignore Brad Pitt... o_O
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
I actually don't think he's been given a bad rap. He's probably the only pretty boy actor out there who's been given an oscar nomination.
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
Yeah, he was good in Fight Club. I guess it's not his fault that he bugs me because everyone thinks he's so hot for some reason that I can't fathom. Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
Abs, dude. Coming from a straight guy, he has killer abs.
[ August 16, 2003, 01:04 AM: Message edited by: Book ]
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
<---is chick that couldn't care less about his abs.
edit: hot chick
[ August 16, 2003, 01:07 AM: Message edited by: PSI Teleport ]
Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
Kalifornia is one of my all-time favorite films. I especially like the way Brad Pitt plays so against type. Early Grayce is no pretty-boy role, and I think Pitt pulls it off in style.
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
Best example of that...Leonardo DiCaprio as Artie (Arnie?) in "Gilbert Grape." I don't really care about Leo, but that was a great job he did in that role.
Posted by Zotto! (Member # 4689) on :
PSI: okay, logically, if a guy who looks like Brad Pitt turns you off...then the opposite (a guy who looks like me) should turn you on! *cheers*
You have given me hope. Great hope.
Posted by Zotto! (Member # 4689) on :
Seriously, though, I actually think Brad Pitt is a GOOD actor, and I've enjoyed the movies he has been in that I've seen.
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
Brad Pitt made a really sexy vampire. Mmmm...
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
What kind of guy do you look like, Zotto? Posted by Netty (Member # 4306) on :
"Tape" and "Ripley's Game" are both really great.
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
Brad Pitt is great because he's not only a pretty-boy, but he's also a MoFo who can seriously act.
He can and will take you down to China town.
Plus, his protrayal of the incomprehensible bare-knuckle boxing champion Irish gypsy in Snatch is GENIUS.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
You should ask Terry Pratchett some time about the process behind getting the Good Omens film made. To give you an idea of how long it's taken, Neil Gaiman pretty much moved to America for the first time just to get that movie made; almost all the cynicism about Hollywood in his later work comes from the second series of pitch sessions. Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
I just saw Seabiscuit and the story was great but the moviemaking was pretty mediocre. I hated the narration, and the guy who played the owner was a bad actor, I think. The thing I liked most about it was the horses. I wasn't ever that crazy about horses but my niece is and I think I'm starting to catch it from her. I just loved that horse. It was the greatest character in the movie. The movie made me want to get a horse of my own, which isn't terribly practical, but I just want one.
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
quote: The Brothers Grimm: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0355295 Terry Gilliam's first movie since his disastrous Don Quixote movie with Johnny Depp! This sounds quite intruiging. But I wonder how two actors primarily known for their pretty faces are going to pull off the acting.
Matt Damon is more than a pretty face! I mean, honestly - he's got a great bod in The Bourne Identity
And Troy. I'm pumped for that movie. Sure, it's half-naked pretty boys, but from the script review I've read, this "looks like a serious Oscar contender," which means it'll be the almost-ran of the summer movie season. Recent examples of this include Road to Perdition and Seabiscuit (just a guess, folks, it won't do well come award time).
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I was shocked to learn that Brad Pitt (whose nickname to me is "The Pitts") is around forty. I was always under the impression that he was a whole lot younger. Anyway, he's in Oceans Eleven, so I let him off some of his... slips.
As an actor, Leonardo DiCaprio bores me, except for in Catch Me If You Can, where perhaps he felt he had to live up to Tom Hanks' standard, because suddenly he was interesting. *Shrug*. This is the only of his films that I have seen that I felt was worth seeing, including Gangs of New York.
quote: including Boromir and Frasier
I know, can never call them by their names either. But I did see Kelsey Grammar in New York, and while all the New Yorkers covere their eyes in shame, we (a group of grade nine and ten female students) jumped up and down demanding that he wave. Not me, of course, I just stuck my hand above the crowd with me camera. I haven't developed that film yet. Poor Frasier looked hideously embarassed.
Posted by The Silverblue Sun (Member # 1630) on :
Brad Pitt is one of my FAVORITE actors of all time, he's only below such wonderful performers as Cary Grant and James Dean in my book.
If I got to work with ONLY one actor working today, I would probably choose Brad Pitt over everyone else.
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
The entire Ocean's Eleven cast sounds like they'd be pretty fun to get drunk with.
Kelsey Grammar and Sean Bean. Sean Bean is going to be Odysseus in Troy, btw, which is a great role for him, as he's always dignified and noble.
[ August 16, 2003, 04:07 PM: Message edited by: Book ]
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
quote: Terry Gilliam's first movie since his disastrous Don Quixote movie with Johnny Depp!
Actually, I really liked that movie. Johnny Depp is almost always great, but this was the best I had ever seen from Marlon Brando. Kind of a wistful, subtle performance.
I agree that Brad Pitt gets a bad rap. He's a pretty good actor. But as to this . . .
quote: If I got to work with ONLY one actor working today, I would probably choose Brad Pitt over everyone else.
I personally think Denzel Washington is the best actor working today.
As for James Dean, I never got the sense that he was all that great an actor. He was in one movie, the right movie at the right time, and he died young (and recklessly), making him a romantic legend. Based on one performance, though, how can you really judge the totality of his talent?
I too thought DiCaprio was pretty outstanding in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, though the movie was depressing, and I also loved Catch Me If You Can. It may be that his best chapter is yet to be written . . . once he stops being so pretty we may get to see what he's really made of as an actor.
Or maybe not.
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
quote: The entire Ocean's Eleven cast sounds like they'd be pretty fun to get drunk with.
Charming. Can you imagine having one of those "say something nice about co-workers/classmates" thing and having someone writing: "I guess they'd be pretty fun to get drunk with." I mean, what a compliment.
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
I honestly can't watch the entirety of What's Eating Gilbert Grape. The mother kills me, I can't stand to watch it, because I can't stand to see her humiliated. Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
I can't stand to watch it either, mainly because the plot seems almost non-existent. The acting was good tho.
Posted by filetted (Member # 5048) on :
Book,
The Polar Express? Hasn't this one been in the making for quite a long time now?
flish
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
The Good Omens movie has been stalled for some time, as Tom mentioned. I checked the imdb site you listed and it still lists it as in production limbo, as in the last I heard, they hadn't gotten all the financing for it, yet.
I believe Troy was originally going to be done by Ridley Scott.
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Teshi, that actually sounds like a high compliment to me. Posted by filetted (Member # 5048) on :
pitt IS good and he IS pretty, in a niche role.
He sucked in the vampire movie (and not in a good way).
flish
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
I was pumped when I first heard Sean Bean was cast in Troy. I've been a huge fan of his for a few years now, beginning with GoldenEye. That movie kicks butt. Anyhow, at the time his casting was announced, there was no role up for him (at least not on IMDb). I went through my Iliad knowledge and decided that the only ONLY role he could play would be Odysseus. Why? He's a badass trickster. He plays well the man of high station who's incredibly self-serving. His casting is perfect, and will make the movie good even if Orlando Bloom can't figure out how to deliver a line without the melodrama Posted by Fitz (Member # 4803) on :
quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Terry Gilliam's first movie since his disastrous Don Quixote movie with Johnny Depp! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Actually, I really liked that movie. Johnny Depp is almost always great, but this was the best I had ever seen from Marlon Brando. Kind of a wistful, subtle performance.
I believe you're thinking about Don Juan Demarco(sp?). The Don Quixote movie is one which was never actually made because it faced one disaster after another, until finally it was completely abandoned by all involved.
However, a very enjoyable documentary was made which showcased the entire process of how the production of a movie goes wrong.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
You're right!
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
More Terry Gilliam films! I can't wait. He's my second favorite film director, I've loved all of his films. Especially Brazil.
Icarus, Dean had 3 feature film roles: Rebel without a cause, East of Eden and Giant. I used to work at video stores, so I'm killer at film trivia. I agree he's waaaay overrated though. And Rebel is all he's remembered for. [edit:Icarus, you could just repeat your last post. ]
[ August 17, 2003, 10:14 AM: Message edited by: Morbo ]
Posted by Godric (Member # 4587) on :
For more information about Gilliam's failed Don Quixote project, I highly suggest checking out the documentary, Lost in La Mancha.
If you get the DVD, the second disc has a wonderful discussion between Gilliam and Salman Rushdie wherein is revealed Gilliam was considered for director of the first Harry Potter film, among other delightful little nuggets of info...
Posted by unohoo (Member # 5490) on :
I have to say that I've been most recently impressed with Billy Bob Thornton in "Monsters Ball" and "Slingblade". He plays two very different roles and does each masterfully.
Did Brad Pitt play a role in "Interview with the Vampire"? I liked both the book and the movie, but I was really taken with Tom Cruise's role in Interview. I haven't liked much of what Tom Cruise has done, but this was quite enjoyable.
Posted by Avadaru (Member # 3026) on :
I saw "Pirates of the Caribbean" for the eighth time today. Oh, I need a life. But I looove that movie.
Speaking of downright weird movies, try "Picnic At Hanging Rock". It's Peter Weir's first film, and one of the most unsettling and strange things I've ever seen.
Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
I'm wondering how the powers that be are going to squeeze 1 1/2 plus hours out of Polar Express, because in my opinion the existing plot would get old quick. Especially since, in my opinion at least, the best part of the book was the illustrations.
The parts seem a little vauge--Head Waiter, Elf #2, The Conductor/Hero Boy, Toothless--I guess I'm just being nitpicky.
Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :
"picnic at hanging rock" is a fictional tale, presented as though it might be real... the location is real tho - Hanging Rock is not far from the city of Melbourne.
Posted by Godric (Member # 4587) on :
quote: Speaking of downright weird movies, try "Picnic At Hanging Rock". It's Peter Weir's first film, and one of the most unsettling and strange things I've ever seen.
Dang! I keep hearing about this one. I'm really gonna have to track it down...
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