Film forum off topic/random chat thread

There is one I did not expect a big screen remake of 70's Emmanuelle film based on the same novel starring Noemie Merlant & Naomi Watts and directed by Audrey Diwan has finished filming and due to arrive next year at some stage.

I've never understood how 'Emmanuelle' was/is even a thing. I saw the first one, donkey's years ago, and it was absolute trash. I've no doubt subsequent ones were even worse, especially the Laura Gemser movies.

A remake of it is baffling to me too.

It's being denied a release because of an old 1930's UK law prohibiting the display of cruelty to animals.

The scene in question is where a guy puts another guy's pet rat in some breathable liquid to show that oxygenated fluid works. But the rat is clearly in some distress. You can see the scene on YouTube and it's intact on various DVD and Blu Ray releases.

All a bit of a silly storm in a teacup, really, considering the rat has probably been dead for about 30 years at this stage.

Aye, but the humans signed a contract and got paid handsomely. Poor old ratty had no say whatsoever.

TBH, I've seen worse animal cruelty. The director of exploitative trash 'Men Behind the Sun' decided to set hundreds of rats on fire for real and then film them running about in terror while they burnt to death. That has an 18 cert for the UK release.

Likewise, 'Cannibal Holocaust', notorious for its scenes of animal cruelty was given a pass, too, fairly recently because the animals had "quick deaths".

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Strangely enough, 'Old Boy' passed uncut in the UK because the octopus was an invertebrate and wasn't covered by UK laws about animal cruelty on film.

'Cannibal Holocaust' is an interesting movie though. It's more a comment on the shameless levels mondo movie makers used to go to when making their own exploitation films, which they subsequently passed off as "documentaries". It's not really the film most people think it is. It's not an innocent movie by any means either, though, and the scenes of animal slaughter are gratuitous to say the least, even if the crew say that they ate the animals they slaughtered. It's a strange, disturbing, film. But not one that's entirely without some merit.

'Cannibal Ferox'...now that's just real trash.

Yeah, octopi apparently have very good short and long term memories and are quite intelligent. They'll use objects as weapons against attack and for camouflage for instance, and they can navigate complex mazes too. There was a program on a while ago about an octopus and her keeper and she "knew" who he was and was comfortable around him. But she would only touch him and not go near other people. It was remarkable. If she was distressed, she'd go over to him and hug onto his arm.

The Golden Globes host was terrible, I didn't know him but apparently he is a comedian from Chelsea Handler show

Bring back Ricky Gervais who I see won a GG

According to THR, a sequel (or maybe a series of sequels) to 28 Days/Weeks Later is in the works, and Danny Boyle and Alex Garland are on board.

looks like some studious getting their bad news out early in the year , you would have to reckon that Pixar and Disney Animation studios will merge? its an obvious cost saving move

Yeah, I think dubs are definitely more common in some non-English markets - a big part of that being the sheer volume of big mass-market English language movies. Funnily enough, there were always voice actors in the likes of Germany and France who specialized in certain English language actors - like, someone would be the German Eddie Murphy for instance, doing the voices for all Eddie Murphy movies. Interesting niche career option! Increasingly I think the trend is shifting towards subtitles over dubs though.

Think there's a fair few unofficial audio tracks floating around for movies too, which are always a disaster.

I do like the idea of being able to hear dialogue over loud music. Maybe they should try that with the original English language as well.

More Jurassic japes on the way. Such a boring franchise, surely the only way is up (he says, in denial)?

The fact they're keeping the 'World' brand going for this one makes me think it's a shift in perspective rather than a reboot. There's definitely a lot of interesting things you can do with just accepting you live in a world full of dinosaurs, and seeing what that's like for a group of people who had nothing to do with any of it - don't worry about the causes or solutions of it, just look at from a family's experience of how their life has changed now that there's a rake of velociraptors and pterodactyls to worry about on the school run. Or a small isolated town dealing with a herd of something-or-other coming in, like Tremors. Go back to having a story about people, in which dinosaurs are thrown in as a complication.

Another version could be like Gareth Edwards Monsters, with a rescue mission in dinosaur country - but that's kind of already been done with Jurassic Park 3, so exploring the 'normal' world of it seems more interesting.

Maybe it was mentioned here before and I forgot but today I found out there's a live action remake of How to Train Your Dragon happening

I guess the main question is Why?

Maybe I blocked it as well. It is a great movie.

I think Jungle Book and 101 Dalmatians are the only live action remakes I've seen.

What other non Disney animated movies were remade in live action or will this be the first?

I know we have series like The Last Airbender but movie to movie seems more pointless.

Put your pirate hat on and set sail.

It's an unfortunate set of circumstances that these streaming services have set their model on the idea that most people don't want to see a movie that was made before 1980. Thing is, they're probably right in most cases. I've lost track of how many times I've recommended a good movie to someone and they're never even heard of it because it was made before they were born or it wasn't something that made massive money and has been in constant circulation.

In any case I hope that the likes of Bluray stays around for a long time to come. But I have absolutely no problem torrenting something that I can't get either through a streamer or on physical. There are some films out there that you can only get by hitting the high seas.

The boutique labels are a godsend, especially if you're into genre movies and trash which you'll never see on any streaming service. Some of their asking prices are eye watering though. Some 4K releases are absolute madness. Luckily I don't give a toss about 4K. 1080p will do me just fine.

I rip most of my blus anyway, so getting an iTunes copy is fine for me too. But I'm also a bit of a sucker for extras and if there's a film I know I'll be watching a number of times before I snuff it, I'll opt for the Blu ray. Mind you, these days most of the "making of's" that you'll find on physical media end up on YouTube, who don't seem to be too worried about copyright infringement on such material. Also, I find that director's (or whoever) commentaries aren't what they used to be. I think that the last truly entertaining commentary track that I heard was on Arrow's release of 'C.H.U.D'. But yeah, I couldn't give a toss about steelbooks or postcards and any of that junk either and I'm way too old to be sticking posters up on the wall. I don't think the Mrs. would be too happy about that as well. 😄

Gina Carano is suing LucasFilm and Disney after having been fired over Twitter comments. And to make things even spicier, it's being funded by everyone's favourite real life Bond Villain, Elon Musk. I wonder will the mouse house settle to avoid any publicity.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/feb/06/gina-carano-sues-disney-mandalorian