Known as one of the best people in Hollywood throughout his career, so I'd say it's another example of why he's one of the greats!
If you like McMurtry's style, there's a whole world out there (film and novels) for you to explore.
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If you like McMurtry's style, there's a whole world out there (film and novels) for you to explore.
All I remember is the skinheads getting their arses handed to them by the Vietnamese.
Best immigrant gang ever.
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I saw quotes from Newman saying something like he didn't have to try too hard to play Hud.
Any particular recommendations for McMurtry? He seems like an old school writer with a good range like William Goldman.
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Beyond Skyline (2017)
Part 2 of the trilogy
Huge continuity fail in the first 5 minutes didnt endear me to this
Skyline followed a group in LA under the alien invasion - Beyond Skyline was around a 2nd group in LA under alien invasion . There is a connection between the 2 movies (apart from alien invasion ) which pays off at the end.
Its actually a better movie - not that it needed a high bar - but apart from 1 or 4 glitches it held together
Part 2 of the trilogy
Huge continuity fail in the first 5 minutes didnt endear me to this
Skyline followed a group in LA under the alien invasion - Beyond Skyline was around a 2nd group in LA under alien invasion . There is a connection between the 2 movies (apart from alien invasion ) which pays off at the end.
Its actually a better movie - not that it needed a high bar - but apart from 1 or 4 glitches it held together
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A dozen Vietnamese people spill out of a VP commodore
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Im not sure. It seemed like a re worked script that added the joker as the main character. No way would that version of the joker be of any match to batman. Strange film.
Phoenix was electric though
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Yeah at no point in any of that is Phoenix supervillain material, he becomes something of a martyr but that's it.
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The script was based loosely on the real life exploits of Melbourne Neo Nazi Dane Sweetman.
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Were re doing the fast and furious series at the moment. Just did 2 fast 2 furious... what a dumpster fire.
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It’s defs a stand alone film (DCEU doing r Patz batman and affleck batman and Keaton batman shortly).
I did read a theory that Arthur “inspires” the real Joker with his anarchist, violent ways which made the title of “joker” not “the joker” part of the canon.
Not sure I buy it but didn’t mind the theory.
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They ain't doing an Affleck Batman.
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He’ll supposedly be in Flashpoint.
Point was more there is going to be 3 different dudes playing batman in 3 different timelines and 3 different universes.
My broader point is DC is a mess
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I like the mess. Marvel are going to introduce messiness with multiverse stuff. DC just don't gaf and let different iterations of things just run riot.
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By accident, not design. Whereas Marvel is by design.
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Am on another chat site- there's this crazy movie nut from the States- who can speak fluent Castle.
(He reckons he says randomly to ppl "Dale dug a hole" and they think he's crazy).
What other Aussie films should I recommend to him ya think??? I gave him: The Big Steal (thought if he likes the Castle, he'll like TBS), Two Hands, then on the flip side: Snowtown, The Boys and 2.37.
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and one of my favourites, Lets Get Skase
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That's awesome you enjoyed it! Apparently Newman was cold to Neal (who was married to Roald Dahl!) on set but I have no idea what he was like IRL. I'm planning on continuing the Newman film experience with Butch Cassidy this weekend but might not if he was like a Spacey type.
I also had no idea about McMurtry's involvement but it makes sense. Lonesome Dove is incredible as is Brokeback.
Haven't seen American Beauty in awhile and probably won't again tbh. But yeah I remember the gym workout and fast food scenes as being hilarious. I guess they're both cautionary explorations of suburban life creating very dissatisfied people.
Re the spoiler- I've wondered how successful they'd have been in that instance and remain conflicted. A great what if.
Just some modesty I'd say
In terms of the visual medium, Lonesome Dove is one of my favourite things ever. Some of it has aged (1989) but storywise it is timeless. You won't see better acting than Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones here, with an incredible supporting cast.
Then novel ain't half bad either.
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It's one of my favourite movies and I have watched it several times. There are so many great scenes, for example - Lester quitting his job, Carolyn shagging the real estate agent, Lester buying a sports car, a plastic bag blowing around in the wind! Then I've watched it with the director's commentary and there's heaps more to admire. The performances by Spacey, Benning and Cooper are fantastic. It's about the same themes of dissatisfaction with boring suburban life as Revolutionary Road, but there's an underlying message of hope.
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It's all by design. DC just never gave as many *s about a universe concept. It always had a half assed stink stink about it of just trying to do what Marvel was doing. At the same time it was going on they had multiple TV shows going that were all different.
No Marvel deviated from their concept except the Fox X-Men.
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Dunno, I didn't mind the original F4 flicks with Horatio Hornblower, never seen the reboot.
Spider-Man is Sony, they aren't selling, just agreed to a temporary partnership. X-Men was Fox and has now been acquired by Disney.
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Watched THE MAURITANIAN on Amazon prime - true story legal drama based on a guy the yanks send to Guantanamo as they thought he was a recruiter for 9/11 and just left him there without charge for years. Excellent movie portrayal of how ****ed up this period of American history was.
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