It’s not flattering.

Agreed, I loved the casting but was a bit disappointed with the movie itself but I’m glad they’re bringing him back for more.

I’ve been looking forward to this for a while. I never would’ve considered Colin Farrell for The Penguin but he pulled it off in what limited screen time he got in The Batman. So at the very least, we’re in for a good performance. I just hope the writing will be on par with The Batman.

Oh well. I guess this shouldn’t come as much of a surprise considering the show’s disinterest in the source material and Paramount’s precarious position these days.

I’ve never seen Doctor Who.

You say you've never even seen Doctor Who before so by your own admission your opinion is uninformed and therefore offers nothing of substance. This is a community for discussing movies and television. Not your personal soapbox for airing your uninformed culture war grievances. Take that somewhere else.

That's fair. Sony hasn't done much lately with their own live action Spider-Man related projects to deserve the benefit of the doubt but I'm willing to be surprised. Nic Cage leading the series is at least enough to get me to give it an honest chance.

It's a biopic about getting Rocky made.

The official logline for “I Play Rocky” reads: “A struggling actor with a partially paralyzed face and a speech impediment writes a script that a big movie studio wants to buy, but he refuses to sell it unless he gets to play the lead. Turning down an offer of life-changing money, he instead works for pennies to get the movie made with himself in the starring role. The movie becomes the biggest box office hit of 1976, garnering 10 Academy Award nominations and winning Best Picture.”

But even without that context I don't understand why that'd be strange. Loads of biopics have been made about famous actors who've appeared in lots of films with a much less interesting story than how Sly brought Rocky to the screen by gambling on himself.

Jeff Bridges as the least grumpy version of Harrison Ford ever portrayed on film!

No. She's been in custody since she was convicted on March 6th which is 17 months short of her 18 month sentence.

“Accountability is WOKE!” - Ron Pudding Fingers DeSantis

Nested comments are so much easier to follow with this UI. I find it very difficult to keep my place in conversations using the default lemmy front end on desktop which is why I've stuck with photon or alexandrite. But I will absolutely be using this UI as soon as it's fully functional. It looks great so far!

I love that! It’s a funny anecdote and very endearing. John Williams is a giant in the industry but didn’t seem to have an ego about himself when it came to the daunting task of scoring such a powerful film.

I think that’s the kind of attitude you’d want from a composer for a film like Schindler’s List. Someone that recognizes the importance of the film and who is going to work their ass off to do the film justice rather than someone waltzing in and treating it like they’re working on a run of the mill movie gig.

What kind of genres are you into? It'd help narrow down recommendations.

I'm a big fan of For All Mankind. It's an alt-history scifi series from Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica, 2003). The fourth season just concluded last month too, so it'll keep you occupied for awhile.

I’ve gotta say I’m looking forward to this one. I went into the first expecting schlock considering the last time Gerard Butler did a disaster movie we got the god awful Geostorm (2017). And while Greenland didn’t exactly reinvent the disaster genre it did some interesting things along the way. It’s probably the best (non-animated) film Gerard Butler’s done since Law Abiding Citizen in 2009.

I think the 1951 adaptation of Dickens's A Christmas Carol starring Alastair Sim is worth a watch during the holidays. The original British release was titled "Scrooge" but it was released in the US as "A Christmas Carol" so keep that in mind if you go looking for it.

Same here. I didn’t realize Dan Trachtenberg also did 10 Cloverfield Lane before Prey. Both films were the strongest sequels in their respective series so I’m willing to checkout anything this guy makes.

kid’s gloves

It’s “kid gloves.” It refers to gloves made of kid leather, the skin of a young goat. Not a child’s glove.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/origin-of-phrase-with-kid-gloves

Studio 60 wasn't perfect but I enjoyed it. I'm still annoyed to this day that it didn't get renewed for a second season. I think it was just beginning to find its footing but hey, those are the breaks.

It debuted during the same TV season and on the same network as 30 Rock and while they were both very different approaches to the same concept the premises were similar enough that it always felt like one of them was doomed to be a single season affair. NBC was throwing both at the wall and seeing which stuck. Lorne Michaels and Tina Fey's comedy just won out over Sorkin's dramedy in the end.

It's well worth some downtime, Lemmy 0.19 is a major QoL upgrade. Thanks for giving us some advanced notice though!

You'd reckon wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_chic#Asia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Nazism#Japan

https://www.dw.com/en/nazi-themed-party-in-japan-draws-condemnation/a-54718274

There's actually a simple explanation for that. Much like the "conservative/christian entertainment" industry the alt-tech movement is primarily composed of failures and hacks who couldn't cut it in the mainstream field.

IMO he was always the funniest person on Brooklyn Nine-Nine which is quite the feat because it's a pretty stacked cast.

Bigotry such as the transphobic rhetoric the OP of this thread was referencing is objectively bad. And I have zero interest in your attempt to defend child abuse.

Aha! You are bad because of the way you think. The classic.

Yes, dumb too.

If you don’t understand one of those positions is objectively bad then that says a whole lot about you.

It's not flying, it's falling with style.

Pretty great to see this place growing bit by bit. Thanks everybody!

I mean, some people would view you as one of the master directors of horror films.

That's nice. Sorry, I'm eating a Popsicle.

I rarely laugh out loud when reading articles/interviews but that had me in stitches.