Amph At The Movies (film discussion thread)

This just dropped yesterday. A few peaks at additional scenes along with bytes from cast members about the production and show.



This is definitely a movie that I plan on seeing during opening weekend, and I hardly do that at all.

 

We went to see Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes on Sunday evening. It was a great movie. It's fantastic like the three Andy Serkis' Apes films, and it's a sequel to them. While Noa, the lead ape character, was fabulous, the lead human character, Mae, was my favorite person in the new film. She was amazing. The ape villain was also intriguing, as was a human collaborator. I can't recommend this film enough.

 

It’s been nearly five years dude, get the **** over it.

 

Won’t anyone think of the massive blockbuster franchises????

 

To be fair to Mr. Hemsworth, he probably wouldn't have brought it up if he hadn't been asked about it. The entertainment rags enjoy milking the "Martin Scorsese thinks you should be shot for liking Marvel movies" thing because it makes the dumbest people angry.

 

Clicks pay the bills and playing the hits get clicks.

 

That's something that's always been dumb about the original thing Scorsese said. It's not like he was just going around bashing the MCU; he was asked a question about the MCU. Me personally, I would have known better than asking Martin Scorsese what he thought about superhero movies, but the journalist who asked him probably did so because, you know, talking about the MCU gets clicks. So, he unleashed the idea of this whole massive feud between Scorsese and Marvel on the universe when it was basically just a guy giving his opinion about something because he was asked about it. Scorsese isn't on some kind of crusade to take down Marvel; he was asked a question in an interview and he answered it. Same with Hemsworth here.

 

Full trailer for Wicked released today.

 

The trailer isn't doing anything for me, but I'm sure I'm not the target demographic.

 

My brother was obsessed with Wicked back in the 2000s. I still remember falling asleep in the theater (because I was sick with the flu) as Idina Menzel was belting out "It's Not Easy Being Green."

 

I saw the show twice, but the first was after the original cast (that included Idina Menzel) had left. Stephanie J. Block was the lead as Elphaba, and I got her to sign my Playbill.

 

The wickedly talented Adele Dazeem

 

For me it was among the most memorable shows that I've seen in the last 20 years; exceeding Hamilton and the new BTTF musical that's out now, but still falling short of Phantom and Les Mis.

But to each, their own.

 

The most memorable play for me was Uncle Vanya with Hugo Weaving and Cate Blanchett. Man that was good.

 

Megalopolis reactions have unsprisingly been polarizizng, but I might try to catch it in theaters just to see how this bit plays out.

 

GODDAMMIT WHY DID THEY ******* SPOIL THAT

EDIT: Admittedly, if that is indeed part of the movie, I suspect it's not going to be showing at my local Cinemark.

 

I think we've figured out one reason distributors are balking.

 

So is it like a Looney Tunes bit where it’s all done in-camera or is Coppola trying to force underpaid ushers to humor his bull**** for no extra pay? The tweet’s kind of ambiguous.

 

Given that the use of the word stage combined with the fact that this was at Cannes, it might be the latter.

 

Ugh. You want to do a throwback to Gertie the Dinosaur set up a traveling show and pay performers accordingly. “But that’s not feasible” well guess I’ve got some bad news.

 

I'mma guess that this bit will only be part of "special" showings, if any. But holy cow that shouldn't have been spoiled.

 

While that’s fine by me ethically in that case, then I just kind of wonder how they handle it in a normal screening. Now, am I wondering enough to pay money to see a Coppola film released after the mid-90s? God no.

 

I just like this quote from at BTS Megalopolis article

Things came to a head in December 2022, roughly halfway through the 16-week shoot, when most of the visual effects and art teams were either fired or quit. “I think he had to work quite hard to then figure out how to replace them,” says Figgis. “I think he just wanted to liberate himself while he was shooting. So he didn’t have to wait for stuff, and then he’d say ‘Oh, I’ll fix it later. I’ll fix it in post – which I guess he’s done.”

The virtual “volume” was abandoned in favour of more traditional “green screen” technology”, according to one source: “His dig at us was always, ‘I don’t want to make a Marvel movie,’ but at the end of the day, that’s what he ended up shooting.”