Wednesday
Aug162017
Open Thread
Wednesday, August 16, 2017 at 10:42PM Your host Nathaniel has been been out of commission for a couple of days having thrown his back out. Thank you for your patience with the slower posting. In the meantime, what's on your cinematic mind that we haven't been talking about?
Reader Comments (27)
I'm wondering if "IT" will become the biggest blockbuster in notoriously slow September history. And how good it really is. Those trailers are making me believe.
I'm also happy Daniel Craig will be back one more time, and I hope we see him in that blue bathing suit one more time, too.... or out of it. Either or.
And I'm hoping that Oscar realizes that Controversy causes viewership, and the Academy members vote outside the box this year. Surprise us! We like that!
All I can think of is Nathaniel going full Rear Window while his back is healing. They haven't remade it in a while and I think this scenario could be just the modern update the story needs. For real though, I hope you feel better as soon as possible.
I'm really worried about Daniel Craig in Logan Lucky, just cuz it so cynically seems like what you'd make if you were sick of being James Bond. I for sure hope he and the film are good but the trailers haven't convinced me and the fact that he's getting an introducing credit really feels like they wanna push him for it and I am just not feeling it. Seems calculated in a very nekid way.
I just heard Betty Gabriel's gonna be in the next season of Westworld. Hot damn! Way to go, Betty. Let's just hope Oscar notices her too. Glad it already looks like she's gonna have a strong career ahead of her, at least for the immediate future.
Just watched The Witches of Eastwick for the first time. I thought I was going to battle with myself about which one of that triumvirate ( Cher, Sarandon, Pfeiffer) of beauties would deliver the best performance and BAM! It was Veronica Cartwright's show! I feel she has been criminally underused and I wish auteurs would have gotten their hands on her more often because with this and Alien, I'm thirsty for more of her! Can you think of another persons career who was this underused by Hollywood?
It's all about the smackdown for me at the moment.
Wondering what years would interest me the most.
My top years would be:
1988 (I am glad Geena won)
1940
1969
2002
@ Cris
I always loved Harley Jane Kozak. Thought she deserved a leading lady shot.
Also at the moment I'm thinking a lot about Jill Clayburgh. But then again, who doesn't?
Covered a bit before, but I recently had an adaptation of Hamilton on my mind, and cast it out with actors (not accounting fully for how old they'll be when it gets made):
Alexander Hamilton: Riz Ahmed
Aaron Burr: Chadwick Boseman (alt. Donald Glover, musically capable and could really surprise)
Eliza Hamilton: Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Angelica Schuyler: Janelle Monae (alt. Tessa Thompson)
George Washington: Jamie Foxx (alt. Mahershala Ali, Chris Jackson)
Thomas Jefferson: Daveed Diggs (alt. Donald Glover would be superb, but should be someone older and more 'stately')
James Madison: Lakeith Stanfield (alt. J. Quinton Johnson - he was superb live)
Marquis de Lafayette: Shameik Moore
Hercules Mulligan: O'Shea Jackson Jr.
John Laurens: Jussie Smollett
Philip Hamilton: Jordan Fisher
Penny: Kiersey Clemons
Maria Reynolds: Keke Palmer
and as the benevolent King George: Chris Pine (alt. Neil Patrick Harris, Jonathan Groff)
Your host Nathaniel has been been out of commission for a couple of days having thrown his back out.
Write what you know...?
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What happened in the mid- to late 80s that songs written for films suddenly became less popular? From 1981 to 1987, we had seven consecutive years of Oscar Winners for Best Song that also were #1 on the Billboard Charts. In the 30 years since then, we had only three more songs that achieved the same.
Whitney Houston's film career and the rise of the pop star vehicle in the late 80's early 90's.
I'm currently hooked on the SKY series - PSYCHOBITCHES - anyone else watched this? Hilarious 'psychoanalysis' of famous women from history. A real treat of a show! The finale features Bette Davis and Joan Crawford beating each other up with their Oscars.
Penélope Cruz on Michelle Pfeiffer from the EW Fall Movie Preview
"The first day, everywhere I looked, I was like, ‘Wow!'” Cruz says. “It was very interesting, every day, to be in that company. Maybe, the first day, I see Michelle, I’m looking at her and thinking, ‘It’s beyond my control! It’s beyond my control!’ — you know the line from one of her scenes with John Malkovich in Dangerous Liaisons. Or, maybe in the afternoon, I’m looking at her, and thinking about Frankie and Johnny, or all these different movies and how I admire her.”"
TV spot for mother! with new Pfeiffer footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVHoakcbJnA
I know I am in the minority here, but I am not feeling mother! or Pfeiffer in it.
@forever1267 On the contrary, I smell a low key Best Supporting Actor campaign coming.
I think it's just the physical toll the Bond movies must take. Craig is no spring chicken anymore...he's 49. This seems like a role where he can have a lot of fun and isn't jumping across buildings and shooting at people and doing crazy stunts.
Also, if you look at his filmography, when was the last time he got to have fun in a film?
Tried to watch "The Fury" and turned it off after 45 mins. Not what I was expecting. Amy Irving is gorgeous in that film. What ever happened to Andrew Stevens? I remember having an immediate crush on him when I saw "the Seduction" as a youngster. Yes, I said youngster.
Just added "Purple Noon" to my Netflix cue thanks to MNPP.
Can't wait for "IT." I'm trying to read the book before it's released but I don't think I'm going to make it in time.
MMinDC
All I can think of right now is ....
"We can light it up, up, up!" ...
Dope trailer.
DePalma's " The Fury" has some of his best set pieces I specially I like Irving's vision on the stairs- the movie is crazed and the book is not better. Stevens was very hot . He moved on to direct to video erotic thriller and producing low budget movies
Please give Nathaniel a big kiss from us to get better soon!
He totally deserves to have fun in his movies! I just hope there's more to the joke than it being Daniel Craig doing all that shit
Nathaniel feel better soon
My mind goes to sex when you say you threw your back out.
/3rtful - if only that were how!
jaragon, billybil, brevity - thanks!
adam - new smackdown news coming soon
Get well soon!
My roommate and I watched Philomena last week and I loved it. I wanted to call my very not-Catholic grandma.
I am finally getting caught up on The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. I know Ellie Kemper is a long shot for the Emmy, but she really encompasses that part.
I saw In The Heat of The Night twice this month. I'd never seen it before although I'd read about it in Mark Harris' book.
What a perfect little film. It holds up so well and is so beautifully made and acted.
Norman Jewison is a great director. I love how every actor, no matter how small their part, has moments where they are specific and the camera focuses completely on them, as if they were the lead character.
Well. I saw Logan Lucky. Daniel Craig was pretty damn great in it. Sorry I ever doubted that savvy, chiseled man.
Jamie Foxx has been on my mind recently. He's one of the most underrated Best Actor winners, and brings such an electricity to the screen when given the right material (see: Baby Driver).