I've been meaning to recommend this documentary on YouTube. Apparently Sylvester Stallone has always been unhappy with how Rocky IV turned out, so during the pandemic he decided to go back and edit a new cut of it (it was released on HBO last year)
This 90 min doc is literally just one of his buddy's filming him on an iphone while he sits in the editing suite deciding on what to cut, re-add, re-frame etc but it's absolutely fascinating listening to him talk about mistakes he made with the film (spoiler: he wishes he didn't kill off Apollo)
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There was already hardly any "movie" in Rocky IV so not much you can cut and still have anything beyond a TV show.
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Elvis is such a weird movie. Austin Butler absolutely kills it, he IS Elvis, but the pacing is all over the place and someone must have slipped some drugs in Tom Hanks' water bottle, because that is the dumbest most non-sensical performance I've ever seen him do. In one movie you have Butler nominated for an Oscar as best actor, and Hanks nominated for a Razzie as the worst. Has that ever happened before?
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In one movie you have Butler nominated for an Oscar as best actor, and Hanks nominated for a Razzie as the worst. Has that ever happened before?
I just heard this a couple of days ago... For Wall Street (1987): Michael Douglas won the Oscar for Best Actor and Daryl Hannah won the Razzie for Worst Supporting Actress.
A couple of years ago, Glenn Close had the rare honour of being nominated for both an Oscar and Razzie for the same role, in Hillbilly Elegy. Amy Irving had the same for Yentl. Neither won either "award".
Many other films have received both Oscar and Razzie nominations, but they're mostly bad films that happened to have really good makeup or effects, or a good soundtrack that got the Oscar noms.
Elvis is such a weird movie. Austin Butler absolutely kills it, he IS Elvis, but the pacing is all over the place and someone must have slipped some drugs in Tom Hanks' water bottle, because that is the dumbest most non-sensical performance I've ever seen him do. In one movie you have Butler nominated for an Oscar as best actor, and Hanks nominated for a Razzie as the worst. Has that ever happened before?
Fully agree with this review. Hanks was abysmal and Butler was the entire film for me. Really worth watching for his performance alone. Hanks was channeling some alternate version of Goldmember from the Austin Powers films.
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Hanks probably deserves a get out of jail free card if it was that bad. Dude doesn't lay down a stinker. Period. So as far as 1st times go, not a bad stretch before committing it.
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I've been meaning to recommend this documentary on YouTube. Apparently Sylvester Stallone has always been unhappy with how Rocky IV turned out, so during the pandemic he decided to go back and edit a new cut of it (it was released on HBO last year)
This 90 min doc is literally just one of his buddy's filming him on an iphone while he sits in the editing suite deciding on what to cut, re-add, re-frame etc but it's absolutely fascinating listening to him talk about mistakes he made with the film (spoiler: he wishes he didn't kill off Apollo)
Did you watch his new cut of the movie? I don't know if it would be worth watching unless there was some significant stuff changed. Not a masterpiece but I remember it being fun at the time. And then trying some of the exercises he was doing during his training montage.
I thought Tar was amazing and Cate Blanchett gave an incredible performance. Tar isn't a very likeable character, especially by the end of the film and if a less talented actress played her it would have been very easy for the audience to check out. It's a very timely film and it doesn't hold the audiences hand throughout.
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Back to the Future 3 was fun but was my least favorite of the franchise. Felt like they used alot of the same jokes in the previous two movies and I preferred the 50s or 2015 setting to the wild west. Having said that, I did enjoy it and laughed at lots of parts and thought it was a fun way to end the series. The sequels while good, were in a tough position because the first one is a near perfect movie that would have been hard to top. I could see this getting remade eventually but I really hope they don't and just leave it alone.
Wife and I watched Shotgun Wedding with Jennifer Lopez.
Intentionally over the top comedy in the vein of Lost City.
Good if you want something mindless with a few chuckles.
Jennifer Coolidge is hilarious, as she usually is.
Jennifer Lopez has talent and deserves to be in some quality movies so she can show how well she can act.
always fun to see Cheech Marin and Lenny Kravitz in a movie.
Michael Bay discovered that you can put cameras on a drone. He was so excited by this fact that he decided to make a movie about it called Ambulance. It has no plot and the dialogue was written by a 9 year old (a dumb one at that) but it has a lot of drone shots.
I thought Tar was amazing and Cate Blanchett gave an incredible performance. Tar isn't a very likeable character, especially by the end of the film and if a less talented actress played her it would have been very easy for the audience to check out. It's a very timely film and it doesn't hold the audiences hand throughout.
Watched Tar this weekend and loved it. Agreed that Blanchett absolutely killed it. it could have fallen flat with a lesser actress
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