Did Hayden Christensen bulk up or is it just padding? I always felt the Darth Vader suit looked comical on his thin body when I saw the promotional photos for ROTS.
In the book the Emperor is described as being in his early seventies yet looks no older than 35.
Yeah, I genuinely think this is just an unreasonable casting expectation. Personally I’m glad Denis/the casting director is ignoring this and just focusing on who is the best actor to bring the right qualities to the role.
Why is it unreasonable?
We’ve had plenty of actors in their mid twenties playing beings who are centuries or millennia old (vampires, LOTR elves, etc), so this wouldn’t be much of a stretch.
I will never watch the Dune adaptation I want, that is a fact.
In the book the Emperor is described as being in his early seventies yet looks no older than 35.
I hoped Villeneuve would finally cast an actor in his late thirties to early forties or least one who looks deceptively young (Jared Leto comes to mind, as he’s 50 years old but can easily pass for a much younger man) so we could have a book-accurate Emperor Shaddam IV. Alas, Villeneuve has chosen to continue the tradition of casting much older actors in the role.
IMO Walken would’ve been much better suited to play Count Fenring.
Christopher Walken is Emperor Shaddam IV.
Nothing against Walken, he’s a great actor, but why can’t we ever get an accurate portrayal of the Emperor?
The 4K disc release of Jurassic Park has quite a bit of DNR. Is it from a 3D conversion? This fan 4K thing for the trilogy seems to be a great idea.
Based on the screenshots I’ve seen, the 4K seems to be transferred from the same source as the regular Blu-ray.
In this clip Ewan talks about how making the prequels was difficult because of all the green/blue screen
Ewan McGregor’s first movie job after ROTS was The Island, and I vividly recall him saying in interviews that at first he was reluctant because he was exhausted from having to act in front of blue/green screens and expected much the same thing with an effects-heavy movie, but Michael Bay reassured him that that wouldn’t be the case, and McGregor admitted it was a liberating to work on real sets and locations and having real things to react to instead of having to imagine stuff that wasn’t there.
The Ice Pirates.
Great screwball sci-fi b-movie. I particularly enjoyed the IDGAF vibe.
All of Dave Filoni’s shows are decent but overrated at best (ATLA/TCW) but mostly kinda bad. The Mandalorian is his best show, but it seems that it was good in spite of him. The two episodes he directed were the worst two.
I wholeheartedly agree.
What irritates me the most is how everyone is always praising him for his work on the various SW shows.
So… I was looking through my USBS to find something to transfer to my new computer, and was greeted with all the weird and EXTRA cringey shit I stored there when I was very horny back in 2018.
I feel tainted.
Stop feeling ashamed of your own horniness.
But what if it’s Zone?
What do you mean?
Twitter as we know it is about to die.
How so?
So… I was looking through my USBS to find something to transfer to my new computer, and was greeted with all the weird and EXTRA cringey shit I stored there when I was very horny back in 2018.
I feel tainted.
Stop feeling ashamed of your own horniness.
Saw the 2nd trailer. Still doesn’t do anything for me.
Finally saw The Batman.
It was just OK.
Daniel Day-Lewis is overrated.
I’ve been thinking about one aspect of the first Men in Black movie, namely the Arquilian civilization.
In the movie the Arquilians are established as being so advanced that they’ve managed to store the energy of an entire galaxy in a pebble. As an adult I’ve come to realize that a civilization that has advanced such a degree would be facing situations and problems way beyond the capacity or understanding of the MiB.
Anime girls are not cute, and never will be.
On a side note, while sexual depictions in anime aren’t inherently wrong, it’s done way too much.
One thing that bothers me about animé female characters is that most of the Japanese voice actresses speak like flirty 15 year old girls.
Reminiscence (2021), starring Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson and Thandiwe Newton.
Visually striking and much to my surprise, I was very moved emotionally.
Actually 12 Angry Men is very questionable, as it has one juror manipulating the other eleven jurors into ruling in favour of the defendant.
Jupiter Ascending.
It’s an objectively terrible movie, but I always find myself being thoroughly entertained by it.
Cesar Romero is a better Joker than Jack Nicholson.
I love TLJ, and find it to be the only only worthwhile entry in the ST, however I sometimes feel like I have to be discreet about it, because there seems to be a collective mentality of “YOU’RE WRONG FOR LIKING TLJ!”
I feel your pain, Spuffure.
For three years (2017-2020) I had no internet access whatsoever and had to rely solely on phone data. Were it not for CDs and the music I had stored in my external hard drive I would have gone insane.
The experience left me with a newfound appreciation for physical media, and on that note I wish I could own streaming service original productions such as The Boys on Blu-ray.
Basically any movie directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
Everywhere I look they’re praised by critics and movie fans alike as masterpieces, but I find them to be the very definition of boring. The only movie directed by him I did like was The Master and it had nothing to do with the acting, the characters or the plot, but purely because of the 70mm cinematography which is pure eye candy.
One thing I do respect about PTA is the fact that he’s one of the last directors who’s still committed to shooting on film.
Christopher Lloyd is a national treasure.
I’m almost afraid to rewatch the Sixth Sense. Because i used to really like Signs. Rewatched it and found it was awful. I kind of used to buy into M. Night being a genius filmmaker. But now i’m not so sure.
Every director can have bad films. I’m not knocking him for After Earth and The Last Airbender.
But is there one movie he has done that proves he is this great auteur?
Unbreakable.