TV/Movies Megathread

[Liep]

I meant the cellphone function by which it "corrects" what you've written if it thinks it was wronglt written.

I meant movedizas.  I looked up the meaning, but I don't recognize the tense.

I thought it was a young and smart way of contracting "moved his ass" which kind of made sense in context.

[celedhring]

Willis had 8 movies come out in 2021 and I didn't hear about any single of them? He's finally entered the Stephen Seagal phase of his career, it seems. A pity.

And "movedizas" means shifting. As in quicksand (arenas movedizas).

[The Larch]

I meant the cellphone function by which it "corrects" what you've written if it thinks it was wronglt written.

I meant movedizas.  I looked up the meaning, but I don't recognize the tense.

Ah, gotcha. Movedizas is a bit of a strange derivation of "mover", meaning something that moves, it is employed almost exclusively in the phrase "arenas movedizas", meaning quicksand.

[Syt]

Willis had 8 movies come out in 2021 and I didn't hear about any single of them? He's finally entered the Stephen Seagal phase of his career, it seems. A pity.

And "movedizas" means shifting. As in shifting sands (arenas movedizas).

I heard very tangentially of two of them (Switchgrass and Out Of Death). IMDB (for whatever that's worth) has the highest rated at 4.4 (Midnight in the Switchgrass), the lowest at 2.5 (Cosmic Sin), and most of the others in the 3 point something range.

I like the elevator pitch for Cosmic Sin, though: "Seven rogue soldiers launch a preemptive strike against a newly discovered alien civilization in the hopes of ending an interstellar war before it starts." Cold be a cool action thriller if done right. Based on the photos on IMDB it seems to have been predominantly shot in exotic alien locales like "pine forest" and "badly lit industrial halls."

Looking at Wiki it gets even cheaper: the aliens use parasites to control humans. That's a good way of keeping the make up budget low, I guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Sin

[celedhring]

I like the elevator pitch for Cosmic Sin, though: "Seven rogue soldiers launch a preemptive strike against a newly discovered alien civilization in the hopes of ending an interstellar war before it starts." Cold be a cool action thriller if done right.

The trailer will probably disabuse you of that notion 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNxsB6o6DJs&ab_channel=MovieTrailersSource

[Syt]

I like the elevator pitch for Cosmic Sin, though: "Seven rogue soldiers launch a preemptive strike against a newly discovered alien civilization in the hopes of ending an interstellar war before it starts." Cold be a cool action thriller if done right.

The trailer will probably disabuse you of that notion 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNxsB6o6DJs&ab_channel=MovieTrailersSource

I remember "Bruce Willis in: Out of Death" popping up on my timeline at some point, and I thought it was a parody or spoof announcement at first.

[Syt]

Love the Polygon review for Cosmic Sin quoted on Rotten Tomatoes:

There is still a lot of visceral fun to be had in movies that dare to dream big and manipulate sci-fi conventions toward original ideas. Neither of these is what Cosmic Sin does.

From another:

To suggest that Bruce Willis is phoning in his performance in Cosmic Sin would be an insult to telephone communication, which can be an effective means of conveying important information and genuine emotion.

[celedhring]

Reading the plout outline on wikipedia it seems that Willis' character is tormented by having dropped a superbomb on a seceding human colony, wiping out millions. And he redeems himself by dropping a superbomb on evil aliens, wiping out millions. 

[The Larch]

Does Bruce Willis have a secret Faberge egg addiction to mantain that we don't know of? Several secret families that depend on him for sustenance? It seems that since 2019 everything he's done is cookie cutter thriller-action films, with a couple of sci-fi stuff for good measure, that all goes straight to video (or straight to streaming platform nowadays, I guess). And he seems to be ramping up, he had 7 movies out last year, has 8 scheduled for this year, and 3 still TBA.

[celedhring]

Does Bruce Willis have a secret Faberge egg addiction to mantain that we don't know of? Several secret families that depend on him for sustenance? It seems that since 2019 everything he's done is cookie cutter thriller-action films, with a couple of sci-fi stuff for good measure, that all goes straight to video (or straight to streaming platform nowadays, I guess). And he seems to be ramping up, he had 7 movies out last year, has 8 scheduled for this year, and 3 still TBA.

It's so odd. I mean, aging action stars going the B-movie route is hardly a new phenomenon, but Willis has a bunch of truly iconic films, and was a bit of an indie darling in the 1990s-2000s (Pulp Fiction, Moonrise Kingdom, What Just Happened, Fast Food Nation, Looper, etc...). I feel he could have parlayed that into a better late career. Then again, Cage was in a similar position and that didn't save him (but at least he seems to be enjoying doing crap, Willis looks truly miserable).

[The Larch]

It also reminds me a bit of the "wacky comedy" period of Robert de Niro.

[celedhring]

It also reminds me a bit of the "wacky comedy" period of Robert de Niro.

I remember an interview at the time where he spoke about realizing that he couldn't show the movies he made to his children, and that's why he wanted to do more comedy and PG stuff.

But I don't think I would show them Rocky & Bullwinkle, either.

[celedhring]

Also, DeNiro got involved in a lot of business and real estate at that time. So I can see why he wanted to cash in.

[Josephus]

Reading the plout outline on wikipedia it seems that Willis' character is tormented by having dropped a superbomb on a seceding human colony, wiping out millions. And he redeems himself by dropping a superbomb on evil aliens, wiping out millions. 

Spoiler Alert 

[The Larch]

It also reminds me a bit of the "wacky comedy" period of Robert de Niro.

I remember an interview at the time where he spoke about realizing that he couldn't show the movies he made to his children, and that's why he wanted to do more comedy and PG stuff.

But I don't think I would show them Rocky & Bullwinkle, either.

Reminds me of the comment by Dennis Hopper on why he made the Mario Bros movie. Apparently his son asked him why he did the movie, and he answered that it was so that he could have new shoes, and his son answered that he didn't need shoes that badly.