axalon

I felt his best work was dramatizing Justin Beiber's hat on Twitter.

sure he makes excuses but film is a collaborative process. when something fails it's most likely due to a lot of people's mistakes.

@dsjones... yea that end action sequence seemed out of place and unnecessary. I also hated how hard everyone was hitting each other and yet sustaining no visible damage

Yep, fantastic movie. One of the year's best along with BEFORE MIDNIGHT, STOKER, FRANCES HA, PLACE BEYOND THE PINES, DRUG WAR and FRUITVALE STATION. Been a good year for movies so far if you can just ignore the popcorn movies.

I just saw it this weekend. Amazing.

@ira It really sucks how all those movies you listed got completely buried under crap like R.I.P.D.

If only those movies had the advertising campaigns like the aforementioned.

Awesome job!

That's pretty interesting -- nice visual effects work on the face too (I'm assuming that's FX...heh).

Got a heavy John Carpenter vibe. Cool!

It's about a guy who does his thing. And his family, his family's a real mess - because conflict! And there's the mob, and hookers, and crazy women everywhere and Liev! Liev Schreiber! Checks! Checks for everyone!

So I take it the show hasn't improved since the pilot?

It's a SOPRANOS in LA... I am a fan if only watching Jon Voight have a blast with a meaty and shameless character...

@jones No, not at all. Story threads get picked up and dropped at whim. I think they really thought "let's make this girl a lesbian, yeah, that'll make her interesting!". And that's pretty much all we know about her, is that she likes women and she's "tough". This can be extended to pretty much every character on the show. His wife gets super pissed at him annnnd then she's cool with everything.

I'm amazed Showtime picked up the show at a...

VOD releasing is still very new, and somehow hard to track. I think it's more of "behind closed doors" than anything, seeing as how tracking the numbers of rentals and purchases should be incredibly easy. Releasing on VOD for a low budget (maybe 5-8 million and under) can be quite successful, but the other issue becomes piracy because as soon as a film drops on VOD, someone out there has already pirated a 1080 copy of the film for free. It's a bummer to see because most VOD o...

... originals are indies these days, and are affected the most.

Given its Australian pedigree, expect it to make a couple of bucks down here too.

I'm on board. I was almost expecting McConaughey to say "Time is a flat circle."

I absolutely loved it.

Thanks Axalon for info. Might add it to the read pile!

According to the imdbs, it's him.

is it gonna be any good?

The pilot script, if you want to check it out: http://forum.tracking-board.com/index.php?/topic/5982-la-noir-frank-darabont/

You're right Stringer, should have specified, I specifically meant pitching sci-fi.

I was just curious based on Neil Blomkampp's Alien artwork he posted on Instagram.

My advice if you're going to include it is to limit the images and make sure they are getting across a clear, concise message that augments/clarifies the pitch.

Visual images/concept art can be very useful when pitching. As Axalon says, if you're creating a sci-fi world it's a very good idea if you can access the right materials.

I'm sorry, it's nothing personal.

SPOILER. I love the proud smile he has when his uncles are watching the tape of Jessie telling of how he killed a child in cold blood.

"That opie dead-eyed piece of shit"

What a great line

What books Hasmap?

They're definitely going for a scary angle, it feels more like a horror movie.

@dsjones, I'll have a look and see if I've still got the name's of the books he said I should buy.

Who said anything about multiple shots? Just a quick glimpse, like the way they showed Godzilla in the Godzilla teaser.

Nolan has some of the best resources at his disposal, I'm just curious as to what his rendition of a wormhole would be.

I'm waiting to see it on the big screen tonight with the Hobbit. Watching Hobbit I now in Blu-Ray 3D in preparation!

I'm looking forward to seeing his take on a wormhole, too. Also, curious about the neutron star and ice planet "plants".

Because the script was unique, very well written and has a chance to be an awesome movie.

If it's too long to read, here:

http://scriptshadow.net/screenplay-review-nightcrawler/

GREAT script, great casting....I'm a bit concerned about that trailer tho...seems diff than i expected (tone, performance choices, etc)

Yeah tone of the teaser didn't match the way I read it, but if the story evolution works I'm all for it. Loved the script.

SPOILER ALERT!!! I found it a bit unbelievable that the president was about to be impeached for such a minor offense compared to what our current president has done during his tenure. I think this phrasing is more PC? You can disagree with me of course and I promise not to wish that harm befalls you.

Whoa what'd I miss? Did someone say something offensive?

@Red I figured movie/discussions usually happen in the status updates so I figured I'd post here. If you want I can move this to Chit Chat, although not as many people seem to frequent it.

@Pompa (SPOILERS)

Yeah it felt like such a little thing I was amazed that his numbers dropped as fast as they did.

I'm also curious about what the public's real reaction would be to a President taking anti-anxiety meds...

Seriously?

Ehh... I dunno about him as Lex...

Someone misheard Heisenberg.

The first hour was really good, I loved watching him build up his business but the last two hours felt like roughly the same scene copy and pasted over and over.

I did think the meeting Belfort had with the FBI agents on his boat was really great too.

Is it essentially about Decaprio getting super rich while taking advantage of people? I'm trying to get a sense of the story.

I just saw it - thought it was hilarious.

After all the reviews talking about how near-pornographic it's supposed to be, I was surprised that I thought it was all-and-all relatively tame on that front. Maybe I'm too desensitized from watching HBO and Showtime. I'm talking about you, Game of Thrones!

I think you're dead on, Axalon. I completely agree. They haven't pushed it for a while and then suddenly they are dropping the price significantly. It's too bad - I completely love paperwhite and I'd seriously consider picking up a DX paperwhite.

Not sure what I'm looking forward to more. Watching Homeland or the TB discussion that happens afterward.

It's a "bridge episode" (according to the producers. Bridge to NOWHERE! (booyah!)

I don't give a shit whether Dana or mom are great actresses -- Brody's gone so the rest of the family needs to go. I don't need a show about families working through their interpersonal issues. I have American Dad for that.

Well, he's not really gone... Clearly, tehy're going to circle back to him by the end of the season. But enough of that. Was that Death-By-Bottle harsh or what?

No shit "he's not really gone" but when they include him in all of one episode for the entire first half to the season and for no real meaningful purpose, for all intents and purposes to the most present episode, he's non-existent.

Also, apparently Scorsese was able to cut the movie down to 2 hours 45 minutes.

Loving this trailer. Really thought this movie would suck given what I know about how it came together, but it looks great.

this trailer is awesome! and jonah hill looks surprisingly good

Sally Field. Line 1.

I was wondering too and going to send and email in about it but... then I got lazy. Or just continued lazy.

Yep. Same here.

Although to be fair, his version doesn't give Anakin much to do and does not have a satisfying climactic set piece. That Yoda-Dooku battle rocked the house in Clones.

after watching the episode I version I am actually angry at George Lucas lol

Thanks Axalon. These are great. He go it so right, it's painful to think how it went so wrong.

Really? True Detective is like metaphor heaven.

True Detective is a little more subtle and tactful about it, House of Cards is so blatant that sometimes I wonder if the metaphors are an inside joke among the writers.

Even Achilles was only as strong as his heel.

I legitimately thought it was going to top the box office this weekend.

I guess people felt they just saw it in OLYMPUS...

sadly, WHD is the better "die hard in the white house" film... Hell, Emmerich even lampshades Independence Day in the film.

Bruges? It's a fuckin' shithole, man.

If I grew up on a farm, and was retarded, Bruges might impress me but I didn't, so it doesn't.

Love that movie.

Looks good. Trailer style and visuals remind me of P.T. Anderson. Magnolia, There will be Blood...

Think Jake will nail this. He can play the off-kilter dude pretty well.

so awesome! Gyllenhaal, Russo, and Paxton ALL in the same movie? OH I AM SO FUCKING THERE OPENING WEEKEND!!!!!!

I think Efron is a good actor, same with Gosling. Efron probably gets some shit because he's good looking and a lot of dudes are probably jealous but he works really hard and I think could pull it off.

Is it going to be a space musical? Cool.

REAL JEDI BEING. AND A HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL.