Amph At The Movies (film discussion thread)

I was about to make a joke about the DP but apparently it was Joseph Biroc so... um... off day on the set?

 

There was an old episode of The Nerdist where Chris Hardwick had the ZAZ guys and Robert Hays all on the podcast. Really great episode.

Hardwick asked why the Zuckers and Abrahams had all passed on being involved with Airplane II. One of them said that they had just done an entire movie of airplane jokes and thought they had probably run out. One of the others said, "Some would say we ran out about halfway through the first one actually" or something like that.

 

What the hell?

 

Who said she had 50% control of the movie?
Didn't the Variety article say she went away during post production to start work on another movie?
It's odd she didn't get invited to one screening, but she was to another and she was off having a party anyway.

The narrative against this movie is weird. First the cast get blamed for it failing, then the director, then the studio because they're too "woke" now, then the studio again because they apparently didn't let her do half the movie and she supposedly walked away before it was finished

 

She openly said it was more Feige’s film than hers back in September:



(I appreciated her being honest about it, instead of the usual bs like “oh this actually more like a 70’s conspiracy thriller.”)

 

He's the head of the studio, of course he'll make sure it remains on brand. But he doesn't direct the movies, part of the reason for the drop in quality is he's been overstretched trying to oversee multiple movies and TV shows at the same time and having to get other executives to take responsibility instead.

You know what you're getting with franchise movies, which is why I always find it odd when directors sign up and then leave part-way through as if they were unaware of this. How did Lord & Miller ever get as far as filming 75% of the Han Solo movie without some sort of discussion from the start about what they wanted from the movie and how it was supposed to be?

 

Feige is a suffocating force on the MCU, and I think that’s becoming more and more evident. He needs to let artists help expand the brand, rather that trying to jam everything into the house process and style.

 

It’d be cool if the whole thing crashed and burned and died of smoke inhalation tho

 

https://deadline.com/2023/11/nicholas-hoult-superman-legacy-lex-luther-1235630393/

Oh, I thought that would embed. Deadline's reporting that Nicholas Hoult has been officially cast as Lex Luthor.

 

I'm beyond consosolable... c'mon, ****ing useless, checked the word over and over.


A.I. my ****ing arse.

 

So a younger Beast re-cast is likely, since Hoult probably can't do both DC & Marvel stuff

 

What... what are ya talking about?

 

Aunt Belle, I didn't mean to do it!

 

The truth is nuanced. Multiverse of Madness was very much a Sam Raimi movie where Feige let them go way outside of the "house style" and it worked absolutely brilliantly. On the other hand, you can feel Waititi's hands all over Love & Thunder and it's the worst movie in the MCU in my opinion. I'm glad Feige let Raimi go kind of wild, but somebody should have been keeping a closer eye on Love & Thunder. By and large, I agree with you that the films need to range farther in tone & style and the way to do that is to give the artists more freedom. WandaVision's still one of my very favorite things in the MCU. Quantumania absolutely failed because it was a movie that was far too bland and generic, but Love & Thunder failed specifically because of the personal quirks of the writer-director and how grating they were. I feel like some of the MCU has gotten the balance exactly right in terms of the roles of producer and director, but things are swinging around pretty wildly right now.

 

Multiverse of Madness, Love and Thunder and Guardians of the Galaxy absolutely felt like something from the individual directors than being hamstrung by a nebulous Marvel House Style. On the flipside, Ant-Man 3 and Marvels could have been directed by anybody.

 

Grabbed my ticket for this the second it went live yesterday. Between this, a second viewing of Avatar: The Way of Water in January, and the 3D Titanic rerelease, this will be my third Jimbo movie on the big screen in 2023.

Can't wait to get my hands on all of the new 4K releases of his films, too - though I'm a tad miffed about the double dipping they're asking for with Avatar and The Way of Water after just grabbing the first 4Ks of those a few months back. Will probably wait for a sale before grabbing those to lessen the sting of that a bit, but will be getting Titanic, Aliens, The Abyss, and True Lies (which I actually haven't seen before) as soon as possible.

Now, fingers crossed that we get new restorations of The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day that fix the issues with the last releases, please.

 

Well, considering that the entire ST was made with no apparent coordination between studio & filmmakers, or between the respective filmmakers themselves, the situation with "Solo" is not all that improbable.