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kiimo posted:Studios are targeting that festival more based on timing mostly. This year Cannes is relatively quiet. flashy_mcflash posted:Venice has been eating Toronto's lunch for world premieres for the last few years as well.
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It is later, but companies used to 'save' movies for TIFF, which fewer and fewer are still doing.
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Toronto has Telluride as competition now as well. Not sure TIFF is equipped to fend off challengers. It's been getting stuffier and more full of itself as time goes on.
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Timby posted:At the time, Brian May--who has ordained himself the keeper of Mercury's legacy--wanted Mercury to die halfway through the movie and for the rest of it to focus on how the band has survived since his death. Cohen said that was bullshit and walked away. this is actually almost as dumb as making Freddie's death the halfway point because as cool as the arc of his life is until that point the last few years are really the emotional core of his story and there aren't enough stories in fiction about the AIDS crisis right now so it could be a very important movie in that aspect as well. BeanpolePeckerwood posted:He's incredibly distinct looking, dramatically flexible, and has a badass voice. He also comes off as whip-smart. he also seems like a genuinely good person. The work he does with veterans is awesome and doesn't come off as some celebrity "we <3 troops" pet project because he's a vet as well and talks about how his artistic work was very important to him after he left the Marines. He reminds me a lot of Steve Buschemi (a similarly talented actor with a unique look), and I expect he'll have as long and fruitful a career as Buschemi too.
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Ending the Freddie movie at Live Aid seems like a really lovely idea. Is it just going to end with, "And Queen was just such an awesome band that everyone loved! (Oh, also, Freddie got AIDS and died.)"?
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May 15, 2018 13:19
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I mean, we got an Alan Turing biopic that glossed over the fact that he got chemically castrated and committed suicide, the standard of the Hollywood biopic is not exactly very high. Biopics are garbage.
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May 15, 2018 13:28
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Remember how one of the big episodes in the movie Ray is Ray Charles being banned for life from entering the state of Georgia when he refuses to play at a segregated venue? That never happened in real life. They made it up, because apparently Ray Charles's actual life wasn't dramatic enough.
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May 15, 2018 14:03
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Wheat Loaf posted:Remember how one of the big episodes in the movie Ray is Ray Charles being banned for life from entering the state of Georgia when he refuses to play at a segregated venue? That never happened in real life. They made it up, because apparently Ray Charles's actual life wasn't dramatic enough. haven't seen ray since it was in the theater but don't they also intimate that was responsible for "georgia on my mind?"
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May 15, 2018 14:16
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:They booed Tree of Life, a film so earnest it resolved Malick's midlife crisis! Tree of Life was super bad though.
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May 15, 2018 14:20
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y7X6le5qmE It looks weird?
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R. Guyovich posted:haven't seen ray since it was in the theater but don't they also intimate that was responsible for "georgia on my mind?" Nah, in fairness, they don't go that far. It does have a bit where Ahmet Ertegun appears to grow a full beard overnight between two scenes, though. In any event, the entire movie became impossible to take seriously as soon as I saw Walk Hard. Great soundtrack, of course.
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May 15, 2018 14:31
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Anne Frank Funk posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y7X6le5qmE It's a decent trailer, in that it has my interest. I hope it's weird. It should be weird. But that could just be how they cut the trailer.
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May 15, 2018 14:33
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Parties with dwarfs, that have silver trays on their heads, which have lines of cocaine on them, or its a cop out.
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There's a very brief clip of him in the yellow leather jacket which I think he only wore for the Magic Tour so maybe it'll go past Live Aid?
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I mean, even if they changed the ending it's still a Brian Singer film that was nerfed from the get-go by the band's meddling. This thing feels unsalvageable from the core.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Remember how one of the big episodes in the movie Ray is Ray Charles being banned for life from entering the state of Georgia when he refuses to play at a segregated venue? That never happened in real life. They made it up, because apparently Ray Charles's actual life wasn't dramatic enough. Walk the Line might be the king of bullshit musician biopics (and I say that as a huge James Mangold fanboy).
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muscles like this! posted:It is just me or does Matt Dillon look like he's turning into Billy Crudup in this movie? https://twitter.com/McJesse/status/996082418535882752
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Timby posted:Walk the Line might be the king of bullshit musician biopics (and I say that as a huge James Mangold fanboy). It's a shame, because I think both of them (Walk the Line and Ray) have really good performances from their respective leads. Maybe I'm just susceptible to that maudlin stuff, though. One of my favourite pieces of movie trivia is that Gary Busey was nominated for an Oscar for playing Buddy Holly in a biopic.
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Wheat Loaf posted:It's a shame, because I think both of them (Walk the Line and Ray) have really good performances from their respective leads. Maybe I'm just susceptible to that maudlin stuff, though. Jamie Foxx kills it in Ray, but I'm not at all a fan of Phoenix in Walk the Line; Reese Witherspoon carries that entire movie on her shoulders.
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May 15, 2018 16:50
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Chadwick Boseman was a good James Brown in Get On Up but the movie as a whole wasn't outstanding. My favourite story about an actor preparing for a biopic role is Andy Serkis going to the gym so he could strengthen one side of his body so he could portray Ian Dury's polio more realistically in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll.
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Wheat Loaf posted:It's a shame, because I think both of them (Walk the Line and Ray) have really good performances from their respective leads. Maybe I'm just susceptible to that maudlin stuff, though. The only good recent biopic that does justice to its subject and is still interesting is Get On Up e: ^^^ lol didn't see your post. I dunno, the music parts were aces and that's 80% of it for me.
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The only good biopic is Walk Hard.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:The only good biopic is Walk Hard. It's weird, when googling for some good biopics, there are movies that, I guess, are technically biopics, but I don't seem them as ones. Like Goodfellas. And Wolf of Wall Street. And Schindler's List, I guess? So I'm not sure what the difference is in what I consider a biopic and what I don't. I know here we're just talking about musician biopics. But still.
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Did that Miles Davis biopic that Don Cheadle spent five years learning the play the trumpet for turn out to be any good?
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Wheat Loaf posted:Did that Miles Davis biopic that Don Cheadle spent five years learning the play the trumpet for turn out to be any good? It's really horribly written, but he does a phenomenal job as Davis and he's a really good director, too; he has a great eye for staging and framing shots. But I wouldn't recommend it unless you have at least a passing interest in Miles Davis, because in terms of storytelling it's a loving mess.
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thrawn527 posted:So I'm not sure what the difference is in what I consider a biopic and what I don't. A biopic by nature tries to cover a huge swath of much ground, generally jumping between multiple eras of a person's life to try to capture a person's entire life story in around 2 hours. These are separate from movies based on true events with characters who are based on real people, which generally focus on one set of events to tell one story. Either can be 90%+ fictional, or hew relatively close to true events. But a biopic is literally a biographical picture, one that tries to encapsulate a figure in their entirety. Occasionally biopics can be good. It's rare, but it happens. Like The Avaiator. But usually they're utterly forgettable because you might as well read a Wikipedia page. feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 17:30 on May 15, 2018 |
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Walk Hard is a masterpiece.
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feedmyleg posted:A biopic by nature tries to cover a huge swath of much ground, generally jumping between multiple eras of a person's life to try to capture a person's entire life story in around 2 hours. These are separate from movies based on true events with characters who are based on real people, which generally focus on one set of events to tell one story. Either can be 90%+ fictional, or hew relatively close to true events. So Lincoln wouldn't be considered a biopic (which covers a small period of time, mainly about him trying to do this one thing), but Goodfellas would (which basically covers the life of Henry Hill up to joining Witness Protection)?
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That Brian Wilson biopic from a couple years ago was pretty good. The only weird thing was that I can buy Paul Dano as Brian Wilson or John Cusack as Brian Wilson, but it's weird with both in the same movie.
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thrawn527 posted:So Lincoln wouldn't be considered a biopic (which covers a small period of time, mainly about him trying to do this one thing), but Goodfellas would (which basically covers the life of Henry Hill up to joining Witness Protection)? That feels accurate to me, yeah. But maybe that's just my definition 
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feedmyleg posted:That feels accurate to me, yeah. But maybe that's just my definition Oh it makes sense, it's just a bit nebulous in my head. Just kind of thinking out loud, I guess.
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Vintersorg posted:Walk Hard is a masterpiece. Every time I see it I find something new to laugh at. The midget man song is like top ten comedy moments in any movie I've ever seen. I don't know why but that movie hit just the right spot for me.
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Almost Blue posted:That Brian Wilson biopic from a couple years ago was pretty good. The only weird thing was that I can buy Paul Dano as Brian Wilson or John Cusack as Brian Wilson, but it's weird with both in the same movie. See also the Bob Dylan biopic with six different actors. I got home from watching that and found out Heath Ledger was dead. 
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MonsieurChoc posted:Tree of Life was super bad though. cursed post Wheat Loaf posted:Did that Miles Davis biopic that Don Cheadle spent five years learning the play the trumpet for turn out to be any good? Didn't get a chance to see that one but I thought Pollock was pretty good, if mostly for Marcia Gay Harden.
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Vintersorg posted:Walk Hard is a masterpiece. Walk Hard ever once paid for drugs. Not once.
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Almost Blue posted:That Brian Wilson biopic from a couple years ago was pretty good. The only weird thing was that I can buy Paul Dano as Brian Wilson or John Cusack as Brian Wilson, but it's weird with both in the same movie. That dissonance worked for I'm Not There the problem with that movie tho I just wanted to stick with Cate Blanchett's version of the character.
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Someone finally made a movie about goons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq7lOpfyn2U
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ruddiger posted:Someone finally made a movie about goons. #NotAllGoons
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I think the Bohemian Rhapsody trailer looks alright. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Iko Uwais you deserve better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJU6S5KOsNI
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