Film forum off topic/random chat thread

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 28-11-2023 10:49am

That's why they're doing Frozen 3 and 4. They're going to milk it dry.

silverharp · 28-11-2023 12:19pm

speaking of milking, though if done right a film with Tim Allen in it could be more than a cash grab

https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1727384950993981836

CastorTroy · 28-11-2023 8:38pm

Isn't Wish the one that's meant to be full of Disney references due to releasing on the anniversary?

Xofpod · 29-11-2023 12:30pm

Folks, is there a separate thread for Hard to Find/Lost movies? There are a couple of films - American, last 30-40 years, not particularly obscure - that I've been trying to find for the last couple of years with no joy. I've tried the library, streaming services, mainstream online sellers, etc. I'm not looking for any mad collectors editions. just want to watch them...

Any advice/direction to other threads greatly appreciated.

johnny_ultimate · 29-11-2023 4:19pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121432346#Comment_121432346

There's no specific thread that I can recall, so feel free to start one!

pixelburp · 29-11-2023 4:31pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121432346#Comment_121432346

JustWatch, while not perfect, can often outline what streamers or services you'll find a film - even if it's a (often rip-off) rental from Apple or whatnot. Ditto letterboxd - though IIRC that pulls from Justwatch. I do find myself that if a movie's over 40 years old and not a mainstream classic (like Jaws or the Exorcist), it can be really hard to track down a legitimate copy of the film. Folks have been known to sail the high seas just to put their hands on an oldie.

johnny_ultimate · 29-11-2023 4:57pm

If the film isn't available legitimately, tbh I think it's fair game wherever you find it. YouTube and Archive.org are valuable sources for some films that are not easy to find elsewhere - uploaded illegally or dubiously, of course, but as far as I'm concerned it's a public service if someone cannot, despite their best intentions, find a film elsewhere. Some films are also stuck in rights limbo: The Heartbreak Kid, among the greatest films of the 70s IMO, is caught up in all kinds of copyright shenanigans so is unlikely to see a proper release any time soon. So if there's a version out there - and there certainly is - go for it.

brevity · 29-11-2023 10:17pm

My gripe the films on streaming services, particularly Prime, is the lack of a subtitle option.

There are quite a few I would like to watch but without the subtitle it's not much good for me.

Agent Coulson · 02-12-2023 11:59am

They really could have used his real voice instead of dubbing him.

https://twitter.com/SoundofMusic/status/1730587754260574522

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1TaI4NvVBQ

CastorTroy · 02-12-2023 1:10pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121435163#Comment_121435163

I usually watch with subs as well, but it's annoying when there are other languages spoken that just show like "[Speaking Spanish]" but if you turn off the English subs, it shows the English translation. No option for both.

brevity · 02-12-2023 2:06pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121445271#Comment_121445271

It's very frustrating. I really wanted to watch They Look Like People and Shepherd but there isn't any options at all.

They have loads of weird horror/thriller movies that look interesting as well.

JP Liz V1 · 02-12-2023 6:55pm

Macaulay Culkin finally gets his star, he looks happy and healthy with his partner, child and film mother

Agent Coulson · 03-12-2023 9:23pm

Edgar Wright working on rebooting The Running Man.

In a new appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Wright offered some hints about what his first film since “Last Night in Soho” might be. The director gave an update on his planned reboot of “The Running Man,” Stephen King’s dystopian novel that inspired the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie of the same name. Wright explained that his film would not necessarily be a remake of the movie, but a more faithful adaptation of King’s novel, including parts that director Paul Michael Glaser omitted.

“’The Running Man’ is something that is in active development,” Wright said. “Why is that interesting to me? It’s like, I like the film but I like the book more, and they didn’t really adapt the book. Even as a teenager when I saw the Schwarzenegger film I was like, ‘Oh, this isn’t like the book at all!’ And I think, ‘Nobody’s done that book.’ So when that came up, I was thinking, and Simon Kinberg says, ‘Do you have any interest in ‘The Running Man?’ I said, ‘You know what? I’ve often thought that that book is something crying out to be adapted.’ Now, that doesn’t mean that it’s easy! But it’s something that we are working on, yes. I’ll tell you that much.”

https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/edgar-wright-the-running-man-reboot-in-development-1234931676/

Tony EH · 03-12-2023 10:22pm

^

Now that is something I'd like to see a fresh version of.

nachouser · 03-12-2023 10:39pm

A faithful adaption of the running man would be good, but the long walk would be preferable.

pixelburp · 03-12-2023 10:41pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121450635#Comment_121450635

One of those movies that doesn't quite hold up to a rewatch; a better director and a few shekels more might do wonders.

Though given how Netflix, without any irony, made a real game show of Squid Game, perhaps a new go becomes a little redundant.

Mr Crispy · 03-12-2023 10:51pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121450700#Comment_121450700

That's happening too. Well, they're adapting it... No idea if it will be faithful.

AMKC · 04-12-2023 12:31am

Ok I am at a bit of a brain block here. What is it or who is the person called that film and TV series stars have who look out for parts for them?

TIA

brevity · 04-12-2023 3:53am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121451111#Comment_121451111

Their agent?

pixelburp · 04-12-2023 12:03pm

"I Am Legend" sequel is still being worked apparently, but bizarrely, will use the DVD Alternative Ending as its jumping-off point:

https://variety.com/2023/film/global/will-smith-michael-b-jordan-sequel-i-am-legend-1235818843/

AMKC · 04-12-2023 2:42pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121452091#Comment_121452091

Sure it can probably be found on You-Tube for does who have not seen it and a great way to get people to buy the DVD of if they can find a shop still selling DVD lol.

Tony EH · 04-12-2023 3:30pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121450700#Comment_121450700

Tony EH · 04-12-2023 3:38pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121450711#Comment_121450711

Yeah, like 'Total Recall', it comes off as a bit disappointing nowadays, whereas back in the 80's/90's they were absolutely necessary video rentals 😁 . Although, speaking of which, that remake was kinda shite. Hopefully Edgar Wright can make a good stab at things with his proposed Running Man redo. But TBH, he can be a hit and miss.

Mr Crispy · 04-12-2023 4:06pm

Wasn't the Arnie movie very, very loosely based on the King/Bachman book? I read it over thirty years ago now, so I could be wrong, but I seem to remember it being completely different to the film.

Tony EH · 04-12-2023 4:29pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121453451#Comment_121453451

The book, IIRC, is about an unemployed guy who participates in a reality show where he can travel the world but has to avoid hunters and the public who'll get money if they kill him within an allotted time frame.

So the movie is, yeah, very loosely based on the book.

Fysh · 04-12-2023 4:34pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121453551#Comment_121453551

The book was much darker (it was King writing under the Richard Bachman name IIRC before that became common knowledge, and those books are generally nastier and darker than most of King's work, which is saying something...). If I remember right the book ends with

the protagonist crashing an airplane into the TV company headquarters

so quite different in tone to the film.

Tony EH · 04-12-2023 4:40pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121453578#Comment_121453578

Honestly I can't really remember too much of the book. I read it in school! But it was darker alright. Most books that adapted into movies usually are. I think 'Blade Runner' might be the obvious exception.

That being said, I'll have to dig out 'The Long Walk' and give it another go.

pixelburp · 04-12-2023 4:43pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121453220#Comment_121453220

Wait wait wait; you're saying 1990's Total Recall is a disappointment now? In what way? Some of the FX has aged a smidge, but it still has that totally óddball crazy-violent energy classic Verhoeven brought in spades. IMO etc.

Tony EH · 04-12-2023 4:49pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121453624#Comment_121453624

Yeah. It didn't do an awful lot for me when I rewatched it a couple of years ago. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It's entertaining, like 'The Running Man', but not what it was.

pixelburp · 04-12-2023 5:08pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121453657#Comment_121453657

Fair enough just curious as I'd have rated as one of those unassailable classics of the 80s/90s? But yes, the remake was just a colossally weird, pointless thing and a waste of everyone's time.

Agent Coulson · 04-12-2023 7:04pm

Omniplex is buying up cinemas in the UK as it expands into the UK market

https://deadline.com/2023/12/omniplex-cinema-group-empire-cinema-uk-ireland-1235649823/

pixelburp · 04-12-2023 7:59pm

Huh. I didn't know OmniPlex was Irish and that's kinda neat of takeovers and buyouts happening in the opposite direction it usually goes in. Hopefully the takeovers keeps the cinemas running at a good standard.

CastorTroy · 04-12-2023 9:27pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121452091#Comment_121452091

Similar to how The Descent 2 was based on the American ending of the first?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121450700#Comment_121450700

Started of King's books in release order last year. The plot of The Long Walk. Didn't sound exciting and even if you were to explain it, it sounds boring, but it was one I had no trouble getting through and was easy listening since was an audiobook. But I'd say, at most, it would be a movie on a streaming service.

Electric Nitwit · 11-12-2023 4:54pm

Three of the six nominations for Best Actor (Drama) at the golden globes are Irish, that's pretty cool 🙂

https://twitter.com/goldenglobes/status/1734205918789992919?t=B0IV0uUVG25Wr0FdA59NEg&s=19

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 11-12-2023 5:48pm

Surprised to see Keoghan in there again. He was predicted earlier in the year but Saltburn got very mixed reviews so I thought he'd fallen off a bit.

Barbie having 3 songs in the Best Original Song is gas.

JP Liz V1 · 12-12-2023 12:01am

I'd say it's between Leo and Cillian, hoping Cillian takes it

CastorTroy · 12-12-2023 10:04pm

Do we have a Christmas films recommendation thread?

I've seen the usual like Elf, Die Hard, Christmas Vacation, It's a Wonderful Life, Home Alone 1+2, Scrooged, many versions of A Christmas Carol, Love Actually.

And modern favourites like Klaus and plan a rewatch of Christmas Chronicles.

I know there are a few horror/slashers/action I need to see. I watched It's a Wonderful Knife and Violent Night.

What are some underrated or lesser known films?

Or just what are your favourites?

Maybe I'm missing ones that I keep meaning to watch but never got around to. I only watched Love Actually last year for the first time.

odyssey06 · 12-12-2023 10:21pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121488658#Comment_121488658

Christmas forum has some threads eg

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121488363#Comment_121488363

Lefty2Guns · 13-12-2023 10:02am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121454901#Comment_121454901

Being a big Stephen King fan and having read majority of his books, The Long Walk is actually a really good story IMO, I had read a few years ago that it was due to be made into a film but haven't seen anything mentioned since.

Enjoy reading Stephen King's books, an absolute master of story telling. I'm actually now collecting his books (2nd hand versions) and regret getting rid of the one's I have read throughout the years. My favorite being The Stand. Hearts in Atlantis is also an excellent read.

CastorTroy · 13-12-2023 12:06pm

Not saying it's not a good story but that has a lot to do with the telling. I enjoyed it.

I got as far as the first Dark Tower book then decided to just concentrate on reading it and any that were connected like The Talisman. Just finished Dark Tower 3.

Anyway, on topic, I'm also watching adaptations as I go along. So have to try and rewatch It. Rewatched the miniseries but want to do the films as well.

There are others that I'm surprised haven't been adapted.

Fysh · 13-12-2023 6:06pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121488658#Comment_121488658

Cross-posting this from the October/Halloween/Horror Recs thread:

The '74 Black Christmas and original Silent Night, Deadly Night are both good fun as festive slashers.

A Christmas Horror Story is an anthology festive horror - some stories are better than others, but William Shatner as a radio presenter who provides the connective tissue between the stories is very entertaining.

The Advent Calendar is a good, fairly dark horror thriller.

Violent Night is a fun riff on Die Hard.

Rare Exports is a cracking Christmas-set film with a unique take on Santa Claus

El Dia De La Bestia is a Spanish black comedy/horror about a priest who is tasked with preventing the birth of the Antichrist - which is due on Christmas Day...

I don't generally go in for "regular" Christmas films, I find them a bit too twee.

Satoshi Kon's Tokyo Godfathers is a tragicomic story about three homeless people in Tokyo finding an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve.

Sad Professor · 19-12-2023 7:44pm

Word is Jimbo might have gone a bit mad in the mastering booth for the 4k versions of True Lies and The Abyss. Removed all the grain and invited in Peter Jackson's AI guys to tinker with the image...