Quote from: The Boo Man... on June 12, 2015, 11:58:32 PM
Apparently it is on schedule to lose 140 million....

Just another resume enhancer for a leftit.

Clooney to the film backers....

"Yes, we realize we lost $140 million, but if YOU hadn't been so cheap on advertising and spent just a few hundred million more....."

It is never the message, just the evil right wing which suppresses it.

Quote from: quiller on June 12, 2015, 12:29:30 PM
For that you need to suffer through M. Night Shayamalan. Absolutely ANYTHING by M. Night Shyamalan. Between Unbreakable nearly breaking Bruce Willis's career and Sixth Sense stunning audiences into REM-sleep comas, or Lady in the Water botching a terrific premise....gee, I can't think of a more consistent loser still able to draw producers' dollars...except Clooney. 

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=movie+producer+M.+Night+Sha+

Really?

I take it you've never seen "Heaven's Gate"!



As one reviewer put it, "It took Michael Cimino 4+ hours to tell a story John Ford could have told in 30 minutes!"

Quote from: Darth Fife on June 13, 2015, 03:21:21 PM
Really?

I take it you've never seen "Heaven's Gate"!



As one reviewer put it, "It took Michael Cimino 4+ hours to tell a story John Ford could have told in 30 minutes!"

I may get that movie if Big Lots sells the DVD for $3 or something. But judging from reviews, it was "Ishtar" on roller skates (another I have avoided.) No argument about Ford: he could tell more story in a fixed panoramic shot than any number of Stuart and Kate Baird-style editors slicing up footage, trying to make it more interesting.

In hindsight, Lady in the Water did introduce me to the super-quirky actor Paul Giamatti, who was superbly creepy in Shoot 'Em Up and simply splendid in TV's miniseries John Adams.

What man in his right mind would willingly go into a movie knowing he would exit the movie sans testicles?

Quote from: The Boo Man... on June 13, 2015, 11:47:12 PM
What man in his right mind would willingly go into a movie knowing he would exit the movie sans testicles?

Bruce Jenner?

Quote from: quiller on June 13, 2015, 04:46:15 PM
I may get that movie if Big Lots sells the DVD for $3 or something. But judging from reviews, it was "Ishtar" on roller skates (another I have avoided.) No argument about Ford: he could tell more story in a fixed panoramic shot than any number of Stuart and Kate Baird-style editors slicing up footage, trying to make it more interesting.

In hindsight, Lady in the Water did introduce me to the super-quirky actor Paul Giamatti, who was superbly creepy in Shoot 'Em Up and simply splendid in TV's miniseries John Adams.

I don't watch much live action these days, I prefer animation. However, I did love Paul in American Splendor. I never met Harvey Pekar, but I have a friend who is a big comic book fan who did and he told me that Giamatti had Pekar's personality and mannerisms down pat!