TV/Movies Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

Does Miramax still qualify?

[The Brain]

Rush. It was OK.

[Martinus]

Heathers is a great movie. I am not sure Hollywood of today could even make a movie like that.

Wasn't it considered an indie movie at the time (might be wrong)? And even so, it was a commercial flop originally, wasn't it? (Not that that says something about a movie's legacy or later popularity).

Myabe it was a flop, I don't know.

But even so, that would not disprove my point. Hollywood today has become amazingly competent at turning out incredibly profitable movies that have very little imagination or actual story to them, much less any kind of controversial topics.

They have the giant dollar blockbuster down to an "art" that has very little artistry in it...

I'm pretty sure there are still movie outlets that can put together over the top movies. Whether or not you find them and whether or not you enjoy them are entirely different matters.

Bruce LaBruce has been getting better at his trade. So has Xavier Dolan.

[celedhring]

Does Miramax still qualify?

Yeah, once Disney spun it off.

[Josephus]

Heathers is a great movie. I am not sure Hollywood of today could even make a movie like that.

Wasn't it considered an indie movie at the time (might be wrong)? And even so, it was a commercial flop originally, wasn't it? (Not that that says something about a movie's legacy or later popularity).

I remember seeing it in the movie theatres and loving Heathers (even though Winona ain't no Ally Sheedy ). I remember thinking that this Christian Slater guy is the next Jack Nicholson

[frunk]

Heathers Oral History

MICHAEL LEHMANN Director The original ending was that [spoiler]J.D. blew up the high school and they all died, then there was a prom scene in heaven. [New World execs] just said, "No way. We can't make a satirical movie about teenage suicide in which the people actually kill themselves."[/spoiler]

Hmm, I'm not sure if that would have been cooler or way too cutesy an ending.

[Josephus]

How can that be - it had all those big names stars!

It was released in 1988. Ryder had been in Beetlejuice, Slater in The Name of the Rose, and Doherty in a few forgotten tv series.

Yeah, I'd never heard of Christian Slater at that point, though I liked him later in Pump Up The Volume.

[garbon]

Heathers is a great movie. I am not sure Hollywood of today could even make a movie like that.

Wasn't it considered an indie movie at the time (might be wrong)? And even so, it was a commercial flop originally, wasn't it? (Not that that says something about a movie's legacy or later popularity).

I remember seeing it in the movie theatres and loving Heathers (even though Winona ain't no Ally Sheedy ). I remember thinking that this Christian Slater guy is the next Jack Nicholson

So your taste is no taste?

[Barrister]

How can that be - it had all those big names stars!

It was released in 1988. Ryder had been in Beetlejuice, Slater in The Name of the Rose, and Doherty in a few forgotten tv series.

Hence the

[celedhring]

Speaking of Heathers, what's Languish consensus on Hudsown Hawk? Amazing or turboshit? I love it 

[Eddie Teach]

So your taste is no taste?

Eh Christian Slater does mimic a lot of Nicholson's mannerisms.

[katmai]

Speaking of Heathers, what's Languish consensus on Hudsown Hawk? Amazing or turboshit? I love it 

Jesus, you are the Spanish Ide.

[frunk]

WATERS I did come up with this crazy, cockamamy Heathers 2 where Veronica becomes a page for a senator named Heather, played by Meryl Streep. The ending is her assassinating the president and getting away with it — and it's a good thing.

[Eddie Teach]

Speaking of Heathers, what's Languish consensus on Hudsown Hawk? Amazing or turboshit? I love it 

I was gonna watch that a while back and never got around to it.

[crazy canuck]

Watched the Last Kingdom on netflix.  I liked it a lot.  Good witty dialogue, a good story and good production value.