Film forum off topic/random chat thread

worst kept secret, if HBO are up to it, no doubt the other are too

"Bloys was responding to a bombshell Rolling Stone report that referenced alleged text messages between himself and Kathleen McCaffrey, HBO’s senior vice-president of drama programming. In six conversations, the pair discussed a “secret army” that could respond to TV critics who gave HBO shows a negative review."

The Longest Yard being remade again.

Did we really need the first?

looks like there is a market for the film after all

Why is Corey Feldman not in more proper big movies or TV series? He was in a clutch of 80s films that a lot of today's directors probably grew up absolutely loving. I'd have thought that giving him even a small part in something like Stranger Things would have been an absolute no-brainer. Is he just considered too mad to employ in a big production or did he make enemies out of the wrong people or what?

I've never understood the appeal of 'True Lies'. It's beloved by a lot of people and I always found a really bang average movie.

Maybe it's because it never got a blu release, but there's been a pretty loud clamour for it over the years. Might just be the web amplifying a niche again though. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

On 'The Abyss', I hope the director's cut is included on the Blu as that was always my preferred version of that film. And on that...

Whether that happens in little ol' Ireland is another thing.

A bit of each I think... he came out talking about endemic child abuse relating to some powerful people which I think saw him blackballed fairly young (he's one part of a doc called "An Open Secret" from 2014 that was pretty gross and goes into some fairly horrible practices taking advantage of young actors - a lot of which has since come out more publicly since, like the Bryan Singer stuff). Then on top of that, he's definitely on the eccentric side these days, and also just not many teen stars make that transition.

Yeah in theory, but much like the first people who called out/went against Weinstein, a decade before 'metoo', never professionally recovered, his blackballing years and years ago stopped any progress and effectively ended his career. Even with that though, I don't think he ever made the transition from good child actor to good adult actor... they're very different things, and most can't make that jump. But yeah, it is perhaps a bit surprising not to see a cameo here or there or something. Though I guess none of the properties that made him famous have yet been rebooted. Could yet pop up in a probably-inevitable Lost Boys/Goonies remake.

Do actors chose their own pics for IMDB?

Apparently, James Cameron didn't really direct Piranha II...

Maybe it might have been a better film had he been given a proper shot at directing it, but even then he wasn't working with great material, and so there was probably a glass ceiling on how good his first directing effort could have been.

This makes me think of terrible to average efforts by otherwise great directors. I suppose that a lot of great directors don't have the clout for the kind of creative control they might otherwise want when they first start out, so it's not a huge surprise to see that someone like Stanley Kubrick's first feature wasn't really a standout film at all. In fact, his first three features don't really figure when people talk about his work, unless they're really diving deep into his career.

Sometimes this goes the other way where great directors end up directing average to crappy films later in their career. It's weird to think that Francis Ford Coppola was the one who directed Jack, starring Robin Williams. A pretty forgettable 90s comedy.

February is going to be a great month to see these films in 4K.