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A cursory Google search has not turned up any merchandise featuring the gray gentlemen from Momo, and that's some bullshit. I had just explained to my son that I felt a bit like a gray gentleman from time to time and then rushed to the computer to look at all the ironic t-shirts they must surely be on, but I found nothing. For those not familiar, they are the bad guys in a German children's book, and they eat time. They come for people dressed as bankers and they convince them to save time at their bank by not wasting their time, and then they smoke the time rolled up in cigars. They couldn't really be any less subtle and they own for it, and i am severely disappointed in the Internet for not having a dedicated fandom to them.
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Skwirl posted:I'm pretty sure the real reason Arnold was as big as he was is because he did Terminator. If the Rock wants to be a proper star he needs to play a villain at least once. He’s definitely not a good guy in Pain and Gain but he’s a comedy side character and not THE villain I suppose
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Jun 26, 2021 20:00
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PeterCat posted:An anecdote from Arnold: This is great, thank you. I especially love the bolded but.
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Jun 26, 2021 20:19
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The Rock was a villain in the classic The Mummy Returns
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Jun 26, 2021 21:13
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Roth posted:The Rock was a villain in the classic The Mummy Returns A CGI approximation of The Rock was the villain in Mummy Returns. Pretty sure he also doesn't have a single line of dialog.
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Jun 26, 2021 21:18
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Wasn't he an antagonist in the F&F franchise until he wasn't?
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Jun 26, 2021 21:19
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Mechafunkzilla posted:Wasn't he an antagonist in the F&F franchise until he wasn't? He was a cop chasing them in 5, but teams up with them against the main bad guy before the end. It's like calling Tommy Lee Jones the antagonist in The Fugitive (I use that example because the part was apparently originally written for Tommy Lee Jones).
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Jun 26, 2021 21:22
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The rock was the bad guy in Get Smart. And as Black Adam coming up unless that's what sparked this discussion. And he fought 7 of 9 on star trek voyager
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Jun 26, 2021 21:41
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Azhais posted:The rock was the bad guy in Get Smart. And as Black Adam coming up unless that's what sparked this discussion. And he fought 7 of 9 on star trek voyager He should be the villain in a good movie, like Arnold. And I'm betting Black Adam isn't gonna be a straight up villain.
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Jun 26, 2021 21:47
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He should prob learn how to act first.
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Jun 26, 2021 21:52
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PeterCat posted:An anecdote from Arnold: This is a great anecdote and my favorite take away is that Arnold calls himself the Schnitzel
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Jun 26, 2021 22:09
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I keep hearing stories about James Cameron being hard to work with. Apparently "I worked with James Cameron and survived" t-shirts are a thing for his crews.
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Jun 26, 2021 22:33
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I worked with a guy who was a concept artist on Avatar and apparently it was well known that nothing you sent Cameron before he'd had lunch would get okayed.
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Jun 26, 2021 22:41
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There was an episode of Chapo Trap House where Felix claimed that Cameron doesn’t have any stories about being difficult to work with and I immediately thought “didn’t Ed Harris deck him on the set of The Abyss?”
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Jun 26, 2021 23:19
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X-Ray Pecs posted:There was an episode of Chapo Trap House where Felix claimed that Cameron doesn’t have any stories about being difficult to work with and I immediately thought “didn’t Ed Harris deck him on the set of The Abyss?” Maybe this explains why we don't have a good home video release of The Abyss.
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Jun 26, 2021 23:49
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Tom Arnold had a story about getting hired to do True Lies and the studio tried to tell Cameron that absolutely wouldn't happen so Cameron threatened to walk. Tom Arnold took this as "this guy believes in me that strongly" but it's clearly "James Cameron will not let anyone tell him who he can or can't cast in his loving movies and if you try he'll loving slit your throat."
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Jun 27, 2021 01:11
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I feel like if you were having lunch with James Cameron and he said "maybe pizza?" and you suggested something else he'd threaten to walk.
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Jun 27, 2021 01:12
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Who are some other directors what are/were giant pissbabies that can't stand anyone even slightly disagreeing with them? It's practically a cliche but none come to mind.
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Jun 27, 2021 01:40
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CPL593H posted:Who are some other directors what are/were giant pissbabies that can't stand anyone even slightly disagreeing with them? It's practically a cliche but none come to mind. David O Russell, though he's an abusive maniac well beyond just being a baby about people disagreeing with him. Joss Whedon also threatened to end the careers of multiple actors on the set of Justice League due to the crime of giving him notes.
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Jun 27, 2021 01:51
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CPL593H posted:Who are some other directors what are/were giant pissbabies that can't stand anyone even slightly disagreeing with them? It's practically a cliche but none come to mind. I wanna say Kubrick but that might just be towards Shelley Duvalle.
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Jun 27, 2021 01:52
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Grendels Dad posted:I wanna say Kubrick but that might just be towards Shelley Duvalle. I thought they tracked her down for an interview more recently and she said that the trauma was much more about how he does 12 takes for every scene so she was spending days on end screaming and sobbing to get through all the takes he wanted. But that otherwise he was nice and spent a lot of time talking with her.
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Jun 27, 2021 02:02
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CPL593H posted:Who are some other directors what are/were giant pissbabies that can't stand anyone even slightly disagreeing with them? It's practically a cliche but none come to mind. David O Russell called Lilly Tomlin a oval office while shooting I Heart Huckabees and got in a physical fight with George Clooney because Clooney didn't like how he treated the extras while shooting 3 Kings.
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Jun 27, 2021 02:14
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Directors who aren't complete bungholes are a treasure that should be appreciated.
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Jun 27, 2021 02:20
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FreudianSlippers posted:Directors who aren't complete bungholes are a treasure that should be appreciated. Isn't David Lynch known for being super nice to his actors?
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Jun 27, 2021 02:31
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From everything I've ever heard about Lynch he's basically a dream to work with. Comparable to Pier Paolo Pasolini who was apparently the nicest guy ever and probably got assassinated by the CIA/Masons/Fascists/Vatican for being a gay Communist.
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Jun 27, 2021 03:25
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FreudianSlippers posted:Directors who aren't complete bungholes are a treasure that should be appreciated. Zack Snyder is apparently a really nice guy. I've heard John Ford could be a prick though.
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Jun 27, 2021 03:38
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Grendels Dad posted:I wanna say Kubrick but that might just be towards Shelley Duvalle. Scatman Crothers too.
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Jun 27, 2021 04:15
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X-Ray Pecs posted:There was an episode of Chapo Trap House where Felix claimed that Cameron doesn’t have any stories about being difficult to work with and I immediately thought “didn’t Ed Harris deck him on the set of The Abyss?” Under Pressure: The Making of THE ABYSS is great to watch about the movie. It's all around crazy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZTSNQve0rk This is just about the production with a narration overview of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RyLikHFh78 I loving loved The Abyss as a kid and even still do today
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Jun 27, 2021 04:18
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FreudianSlippers posted:a gay Communist. Is this what the kids mean when they say "big mood"?
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Jun 27, 2021 04:53
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Edgar Wright seems like he would be nice but also very anal on set.
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Jun 27, 2021 05:01
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I worked on an Aronofsky set and let me tell you and i poo poo you not, I am lucky to be alive. Not because the set was dangerous or anything, I’m just practicing gratitude.
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Jun 27, 2021 05:17
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I know a lot of people that work in the UK film industry and you hear bits and pieces about certain people, but there is near unanimous agreement that Sam Mendes is a oval office.
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Jun 27, 2021 05:50
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Lynch is famously nice and funny, Tarantino and Spielberg are always very excited about movies and are infectious about it, Snyder is nice and learns seemingly every single person’s name on set from every extra all the way up, The Coens are nice but anal-retentive about their scripts to the point where - I forget who told this story - they walked up to one of the actors during a shoot and was like “you said this line with a comma in the middle, it’s actually two sentences and should be said that way.” Actor responds, “Oh, I thought it was a typo.” “We don’t have typos.” And the Coen walked away. Guillermo is a guy people love, too. I think it was John Hurt who described as “he has to be such a large man because it’s the only size that could fit the amount of love he has.” And the actress playing little girl Mako deciding she’d call him Totoro because she couldn’t say Guillermo and him just being over the moon about it. Cronenberg is another nice guy. But he’s Canadian, so you expect it. And there aren’t any real stories out there, but it seems pretty obvious that Justin Lin is loved by the Fast cast since he’ll have done half or more than half the drat franchise by the time they wrap up the Toretto Saga.
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Jun 27, 2021 08:51
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I've always heard good stuff about Lloyd Kaufman.
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Jun 27, 2021 09:06
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PeterCat posted:I've heard John Ford could be a prick though. The impression I got from his biography is that Ford had serious insecurity issues and tried to compensate for them by being a tyrant on set. On average, I would assume directors are far easier to work with nowadays than they were a couple of decades ago. Not because they've become nicer people but because more regulations and norms exist to prevent them from being too evil. Fritz Lang nearly burning his lead actress or drowning extras while filming Metropolis thankfully wouldn't be seen as a normal work day on a modern set.
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Jun 27, 2021 09:22
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Coffee And Pie posted:Edgar Wright seems like he would be nice but also very anal on set. I've been to three Edgar Wright Q+As and watching him talk he just seems like a big kid who's constantly excited about being able to make movies. He talks more about other people's movies and stuff he just likes than his own films. Even if you didn't like his movies (but let's be serious, who doesn't?) it's great to listen to him talk because he just has this wealth of knowledge and a lot of worthwhile insights. I think of him as Quentin Tarantino if he wasn't problematic.
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Jun 27, 2021 09:42
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The Cameo posted:Lynch is famously nice and funny, Tarantino and Spielberg are always very excited about movies and are infectious about it, Snyder is nice and learns seemingly every single person’s name on set from every extra all the way up, The Coens are nice but anal-retentive about their scripts to the point where - I forget who told this story - they walked up to one of the actors during a shoot and was like “you said this line with a comma in the middle, it’s actually two sentences and should be said that way.” Confirming Cronenberg. Wim Wenders is a nice man.
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Jun 27, 2021 10:46
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My friend had a breakfast meeting with GDT once, said he came off as a very nice guy in person but there was some stuff going on behind the scenes that eventually soured the experience and his impression of the man.
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Jun 27, 2021 14:38
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PeterCat posted:Zack Snyder is apparently a really nice guy. Ford apparently gave John Wayne a ton of poo poo for not fighting in WW2, so he's cool in my book.
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Baron von Eevl posted:My friend had a breakfast meeting with GDT once, said he came off as a very nice guy in person but there was some stuff going on behind the scenes that eventually soured the experience and his impression of the man. 
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