soft milk wrote:I also liked that it felt like a studio film that hasn’t been made in awhile
soft milk wrote:I also liked that it felt like a studio film that hasn’t been made in awhile
badhat wrote:bike solve all problems
badhat wrote:bike solve all problems
badhat wrote:bike solve all problems
pzadvance wrote:soft milk wrote:I also liked that it felt like a studio film that hasn’t been made in awhile
This was my favorite stuff, esp. the speculative sci-fi elements. Capitalism reaching outer space, turning everything into a mall, the Wild West of the moon, etc. kinda forgot how much fun it can be when the near future is depicted in really thoughtful and realistic ways, instead of just FLYING CARS and JET PACKS!!
I think the VO was mostly really poorly written and the father/son drama was well considered but too often verged into grandiose declarations that took me out of it. I was most moved by pitt trying to console his dad about not finding alien life—“now we know. We’re all we’ve got.”Toggle Spoiler I’m not a huge gray fan by any means but i came down on the side that I’m glad this exists in spite of its flaws
badhat wrote:bike solve all problems
badhat wrote:bike solve all problems
Feech La Manna wrote:They weren’t even really “action sequences” they were just fairly brief incidents of chaos/violence that weren’t out of place with the rest of the movie
CelticFC#1 wrote:The Natasha Lyonne cameo.
‘Mars. What a concept!’
Feech La Manna wrote:imagine caring about anything as much as this fucking dipshit cares about the tomatometer
Ersaph wrote:Good flick. I definitely think how good you find it ties to how you feel about your dad though.
Feech La Manna wrote:imagine caring about anything as much as this fucking dipshit cares about the tomatometer
Feech La Manna wrote:imagine caring about anything as much as this fucking dipshit cares about the tomatometer
auspice wrote:CelticFC#1 wrote:The Natasha Lyonne cameo.
‘Mars. What a concept!’
hated that tbh. I might be in the minority on this one but I can't stand when "serious" movies throw in unexpected cameos that are so clearly meant to serve the specific actor/actress. like it was literally just her Russian Doll character, it was such an obviously self-promotional/performative thing. I don't know why directors who are trying to make something serious agree to that
auspice wrote:CelticFC#1 wrote:The Natasha Lyonne cameo.
‘Mars. What a concept!’
hated that tbh. I might be in the minority on this one but I can't stand when "serious" movies throw in unexpected cameos that are so clearly meant to serve the specific actor/actress. like it was literally just her Russian Doll character, it was such an obviously self-promotional/performative thing. I don't know why directors who are trying to make something serious agree to that
James Gray wrote:I lived until very recently in an old apartment building called the El Royale, which was built in 1929, which for Los Angeles is extremely old. George Raft … a big movie star in the ’30s and ’40s, lived in the building, and Mae West lived across the street.
Anyway, every Sunday night, I make dinner … and we have a lot of guests, and it’s a wonderful thing. And one day, I’m walking down the hall, and I see Natasha Lyonne walking towards me, and she says, [extremely Natasha Lyonne voice] “Honey, I know who you are. You’re James Gray.”
“You’re Natasha Lyonne.”
And she says, “I’m smelling it. Every Sunday, I smell it. Every Sunday. What are you doing to me? What are you doing to me?”
“Would you like to come in and have dinner with us?”
She said, “Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I would.”
Natasha Lyonne joined us for dinner, and in the middle of it she said, “What are you doing now? What are you doing now?”
I said, “I’m doing this movie [in which] Brad Pitt goes to space.”
She goes [still with the New York accent], “Brad Pitt goes to space? What am I doing in it?”
I said, “The movie is Brad Pitt and Brad Pitt alone.”
She said: “I’m in it. I’m in it.”
Months later, I called her up, when we were getting closer to production. I said, “Would you come do one day for me?” Because I do love her … I mean, she’s a great actor. And I’ve known her work from Slums of Beverly Hills. She used to date Edward Furlong, who was in the first film I ever did, which was a movie called Little Odessa. He was 16 years old at the time.
In any event, to make a long story longer, she comes to set, and she’s incapable of an uninteresting moment, which is weird because it was supposed to be just a cameo. … And I kept seeing the cameraman keep putting the camera on Natasha Lyonne. I said, “Listen, buddy, I got Brad Pitt in the movie.”
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