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Jun 4, 2021 - 11:16 AM
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dragon53
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FRIDAY, JUNE 4
AMERICA: THE MOTION PICTURE---trailer released for the Netflix animated movie.
LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu0O-q7Kf2k
THE FLASH---director Andy Muschietti posted a hint of Michael Keaton's new Batsuit which has a suspicious bloodstain on it.
THE BATMAN---a rumor claims Warner Bros. is unhappy with the movie, "I have a guy who usually works for Marvel Studios but recently also heard from someone who told me he worked on 'The Batman' and that the film will make fun of Snyder by making a big deal out of Batman's no kill rule and explaining why he doesn't and should never kill."
The rumor source added, "Also was told by same person that The Batman is AMAZING but that stupid WB is unhappy with it for stupid reasons. They are thinking about delaying but no final decision."
A second source said the producers might order reshoots to improve the movie.
ALIEN: AWAKENING---Ridley Scott said the third prequel would have answered the mystery of the Alien eggs in the original movie and would have bridged the gap between PROMETHEUS and the original movie, “I still think there’s a lot of mileage in ALIEN, but I think you’ll have to now re-evolve. What I always thought when I was making the first one [was] why would a creature like this be made and why was it traveling in what I always thought was a kind of war-craft, which was carrying a cargo of these eggs. What was the purpose of the vehicle and what was the purpose of the eggs? That’s the thing to question - who, why, and for what purpose is the next idea, I think."
ANDOR---Robert Emms (CHERNOBYL) has joined the cast of the Disney+ ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY prequel series.
JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4---Donnie Yen will co-star as John Wick's friend "who shares a history and many of the same enemies with Wick."
BROTHERS---Josh Brolin, Peter Dinklage and Glenn Close will star in this comedy movie about two brothers.
THE TANK---horror movie underway about a family that inherits a remote house in Oregon and discovers flesh-eating creatures live below it. WETA will handle the creature special effects.
WE USED TO LIVE HERE---Blake Lively will star in this movie based on the novella about a woman is in her new house when the family that used to live in it visit and refuse to leave when a snow storm hits.
KAY SCARPETTA---Jamie Lee Curtis and Blumhouse Television bought the tv rights to the Kay Scarpetta crime novels.
TRIVIA---June 4, 2021 is the 79th anniversary of the Battle of Midway, the turning point of the war in the Pacific in World War II.
Here's a comparison between the 1976 MIDWAY movie and the 2019 MIDWAY movie.
LINK: https://davescheirer.medium.com/midway-movie-live-action-from-1976-versus-cgi-from-2019-3c6a17abe506
In the 1976 movie MIDWAY, legendary actor Toshiro Mifune played Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who planned the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Midway. In reality, Mifune served as reconnaissance photo expert in the 7th Brigade, an aerial photography unit of the Imperial Army Air Service during World World War II. Near the war's end, Mifune was assigned to a kamikaze airbase as an officer where part of his duties included treating each doomed pilot to a sukiyaki dinner and urging him not to shout “Long live the Emperor!" as he was about to crash his airplane into its target. Instead, Mifune told them to, “Go ahead and cry out for your mother. There’s no shame in it." Mifune would then take a commemorative photo of the pilot before he began his fateful mission. Mifune said the kamikaze missions were, "Senseless slaughter."
In the 1976 movie MIDWAY, legendary actor Toshiro Mifune played Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.
In reality, Mifune served as reconnaissance photo expert in the 7th Brigade, an aerial photography unit of the Imperial Army Air Service during World World War II.
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Jun 4, 2021 - 11:44 AM
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jackfu
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Mifune KICKS ASS!
That is all.
RIGHT ON! 
I never knew his war story. Awesome stuff, Dragon53!
I always wondered about the kamikazes, but never studied about them enough. I had heard that many times, the canopies of their planes were bolted down or that they weren't issued parachutes, etc. And I understand that some had mechanical difficulties and had to return to their bases and that many were spared because the war ended before they had to die.
In Midway (1976) the scene in which the torpedo bomber pilot (Tomonaga?) had lost too much fuel to return, and he decided to crash his plane into the carrier, I always thought of the other two crewmen. "Don't we get a say in this?".
One could say that both films were rife with error and the former can be maddening with the planes being switched interchangably, but they didn't have the actual planes/ships to do it right, so it can mostly be forgiven.
The latter had some scenes that just seemed too busy with planes/ships.
All in all, i enjoyed them quite a bit, especially the first one.
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Plenty of time to wreck "The Batman" film, create a new base of Jack Snyder-like fans asking for the original cut, and have Junkie XL rescore it in a week or less.
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Jun 4, 2021 - 11:59 AM
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jackfu
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ALIEN: AWAKENING---"What I always thought when I was making the first one [was] why would a creature like this be made and why was it traveling in what I always thought was a kind of war-craft, which was carrying a cargo of these eggs. What was the purpose of the vehicle and what was the purpose of the eggs? That’s the thing to question - who, why, and for what purpose is the next idea, I think."
I thought the original purpose of the prequels was to answer those questions but he had the Spaihts draft of Prometheus rewritten to get rid of the aliens, and then he became more enamoured with robot David angle. He had two films already, he could have easily answered this, if he really wanted to.
Excellent! And dead-on!
I don't know about other fans of the first film, but that was the overriding puzzle: What was the source of the creatures? Was that ship bearing a cargo, or did the pilot or some of the crew board the ship while infected and the alien that was "birthed" a queen and just burrowed down and laid its eggs?
“I still think there’s a lot of mileage in ALIEN, but I think you’ll have to now re-evolve." - Scott is really starting to task me. More teasing, more David. Enough already! Please make the film the FANS want (you didn't and that's why Covenant bombed)!
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THE BATMAN---a rumor claims Warner Bros. is unhappy with the movie, "I have a guy who usually works for Marvel Studios but recently also heard from someone who told me he worked on 'The Batman' and that the film will make fun of Snyder by making a big deal out of Batman's no kill rule and explaining why he doesn't and should never kill."
The rumor source added, "Also was told by same person that The Batman is AMAZING but that stupid WB is unhappy with it for stupid reasons. They are thinking about delaying but no final decision."
A second source said the producers might order reshoots to improve the movie.
I don't know if those two quotes are related, but it certainly isn't the first time that Batman's no kill rule featured prominently. Haven't they seen the Nolan Batman movies? Honestly though, I don't know that many people care about that rule at this point. It made sense in the comics for practical reasons, as you want recurring villains and routinely killing them off makes that problematic. Yes, death rarely sticks with comic characters, but it is better to not have that problem in the first place. Second, there was the target audience, which for a long time was kids, and due to internal and external pressures, showing superheroes as killers didn't go over well. These days though, the films are made for the PG-13 audience, and action heroes in those movies routinely kill dozens of people and the audience cheers. That said, I think Snyder pushed things too far by giving us a Batman who brands criminals knowing that those who get branded are killed by fellow inmates in prison for some unknown reason.
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But we have to see the inevitable android skinflute flick you know he has in the deep recesses of his mind.
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But we have to see the inevitable android skinflute flick you know he has in the deep recesses of his mind.
Streamed on PornHub.
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When it comes down to it, the primary aim of these prequel films is to demystify the original Alien. Part of what makes Alien work so well—what makes it so truly chilling—is the mystery of not knowing what these aliens are or where they came from or who the space jockey is and why it was transporting these things. There is terror in the unknown and that all contributes toward Alien's status as a truly masterful exercise in cinematic horror. Why would you seek to lessen the impact of that by spelling out for the audience what the aliens and space jockeys are and where they came from?
I would be perfectly happy if the series moved forward rather than backward and explored the greater consequences the proliferation of the xenomorphs could have for mankind without ever touching upon where or how they originated. Sort of like the 90s books did—and where Alien: Resurrection could have left off—with the aliens spreading like a plague across the Earth. You could develop a very different and quite epic breed of Alien film (or films) out of that premise—no origin story required.
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When it comes down to it, the primary aim of these prequel films is to demystify the original Alien. Part of what makes Alien work so well—what makes it so truly chilling—is the mystery of not knowing what these aliens are or where they came from or who the space jockey is and why it was transporting these things. There is terror in the unknown and that all contributes toward Alien's status as a truly masterful exercise in cinematic horror. Why would you seek to lessen the impact of that by spelling out for the audience what the aliens and space jockeys are and where they came from?
I've been saying this since 1986.
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