TV/Movies Megathread

[Sheilbh]

Fair - although I feel like Adam Driver is maybe the closest of the younger generation. I feel like he could be a "movie star" in that way. Mabe he just needs to start doing action films, rather than his eccentric drive to play every prominent post-war Italian businessman

Also the budget difference is crazy - Killers of the Flower Moon on $200 million and Silence had $40-50 million. As you say both for long depressing Scorcese historical dramas - and that's less than ten years apart but world's apart.

[Barrister]

Fair - although I feel like Adam Driver is maybe the closest of the younger generation. I feel like he could be a "movie star" in that way. Mabe he just needs to start doing action films, rather than his eccentric drive to play every prominent post-war Italian businessman

In addition to Adam Driver you could almost certainly add Robert Pattinson and maybe even Daniel Radcliffe (though he's short).  But I think all three came to great fame in massive popular movie franchises and they desperately want to prove themselves as "real" actors.  Plus they're almost certainly not hurting for money.

Guys like Denzel Washington, or Liam Neeson made a name for themselves as "serious actors" first, and only later on went to make action movies.

Maybe they haven't reached the phase of losing tons of money and needing to take whatever script comes along aka the Nicholas Cage story.

[celedhring]

Fair - although I feel like Adam Driver is maybe the closest of the younger generation. I feel like he could be a "movie star" in that way. Mabe he just needs to start doing action films, rather than his eccentric drive to play every prominent post-war Italian businessman

Also the budget difference is crazy - Killers of the Flower Moon on $200 million and Silence had $40-50 million. As you say both for long depressing Scorcese historical dramas - and that's less than ten years apart but world's apart.

Well, in the case of Flower Moon, COVID played a part in ballooning the budget. It's definitely a "spare no expense" movie though. They built the entire village - with lavish sets that are only used for single scenes... Watching it, it reminded me of Heaven's Gate. Both insanely expensive slow paced historical dramas about greed and violence in America's past. One bankrupted MGM, the other will probably be a rounding error in Apple's P&L.

[Admiral Yi]

In addition to Adam Driver you could almost certainly add Robert Pattinson and maybe even Daniel Radcliffe (though he's short).  But I think all three came to great fame in massive popular movie franchises and they desperately want to prove themselves as "real" actors.  Plus they're almost certainly not hurting for money.

Timothy Chalomet as someone mentioned.  Ryan Gosling.  Oscar Isaac.  I would have added Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who for a while there seemed to appear in every movie made, but disappeared after making that Edward Snowden movie.  Anna de Armas.  Anya Taylor Jones.

Julia Garner I think had a breakout role in Inventing Anna.

[Admiral Yi]

Oh yeah, Margot Robbie.  How could I forget her.

[HVC]

Surprised Scientologists don't have a second generation of actors ready. They not interested in Hollywood anymore?

[Valmy]

Surprised Scientologists don't have a second generation of actors ready. They not interested in Hollywood anymore?

Their brand has taken a hit recently...to put it mildly.

[Admiral Yi]

Surprised Scientologists don't have a second generation of actors ready. They not interested in Hollywood anymore?

There were some, but then they saw Battlefield Earth.

[Jacob]

Their brand has taken a hit recently...to put it mildly.

How so?

[Valmy]

Their brand has taken a hit recently...to put it mildly.

How so?

Well their cover-up and enabling of the Danny Masterson sexual abuse was a bit of a black eye recently (though I guess that kind of thing is just normal for American institutions these days...). Obviously the nuttery of Tom Cruise and the embarrassment of the South Park episode still linger. Recently a lot of their former members have been putting their long history of human trafficking and exploitation on blast on youtube and other social media.

And, you know, their leader is an asshole and they do the usual crazy paranoid Scientology stuff.

[Jacob]

I mean, I know that Scientology is an evil cult. I didn't realize it had actually managed to impact their brand - but I'm happy to hear that it has.

[Syt]

Well their cover-up and enabling of the Danny Masterson sexual abuse was a bit of a black eye recently

I mean, was the Danny Masterson thing really a surprise?

[crazy canuck]

Heston was terrible Gordon.

Ralph Richardson was a fantastic Gladstone though. 

Well yes. 

But Olivier was also a terrible Mahdi.

No way Richardson could overcome the Heston and Olivier casting blunders

[frunk]

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, the anime version of Scott Pilgrim comic/movie.  Isn't a copy of either one, but includes the entire cast of the movie doing the voices.  So far enjoying it for its own thing, particularly Scott Pilgrim not being nearly as much an asshole as the movie.

[celedhring]

Isn't the character in the comic a bit of a dishonest asshole? Felt that got watered down in the film.