General movie news thread

Anyone who hasn’t seen Forrest Gump isn’t missing much.

 

My GF and I asked each other “Why are we here?” at least four times each while watching “Uncut Gems.”

 

I never considered Forrest Gump anything other than escapist fiction. I never expected another Citizen Kane going in.

I agree Shawshank and Pulp Fiction were movies more deserving of Oscars for Best Motion Picture.

 

DC is rebooting its superhero universe with James Gunn as their Kevin Feige. They better put out some hits fast, but they aren't done.

 

Ive saved an ungodly amount of money by not giving two shits about the worlds of DC and Marvel, which thankfully my 15 yo daughter inherited as well.

She and her friends all went to see “Barbie” on Friday afternoon and she said it was great, much different than she expected. Given its success, they’ll probably relaunch it with a different Barbie in a few years, probably after DC buys it…

 

The Barbie-verse?

It makes me laugh to think that in England the lines to get in are called Barbie queues. Queue would be a good Wordle word.

 

People would line up to kill the wordle editor

 

Even if this one is good, DC would likely fuck it up. Then again, a James Gunn take on Barbie could be entertaining.

 

I don’t care what they say about The Flash — Batman v. Superman is still the biggest fucking dud in superhero movie history.

I still can’t get over how badly that movie missed the easiest mark in cinema history. And the Martha scene is among the top 5 worst scenes of all time.

 

Mission: Impossible 7 suffers franchise-worst slump at the box office

 

DC ain't buying Barbie or anything else, right now they're frantically trying to figure out how to salvage some fragment of the Aquaman franchise and squeeze another chapter out of the Reeves/Pattinson Batman.

Warner Discovery is effectively shutting down the DC comic inspired series on The CW. All have brrn cancelled except for Superman:Lois which is being dramatically cut in budget and cast in apparent preparation for an abrupt wrapup. They are going to rehash the stupid boring predictable cliched "Doomday/Death of Superman" brutality porn storyline for the 57,957th time over the last 35 years ("They say Superman is too powerful, too indestructible, well watch this, we'll show you!. Not only will we show Superman getting harmed, we'll show him getting BEATEN TO DEATH!! In great bloody brain bludgeoning detail!! By a big bony spiky monster so scary and badass we named him Doomsday! Get it?? How you like that! And take our word for it, he's Really Really Dead!! We'll have a funeral and everything, Lois will cry, boo hoo!!")

Maybe this time they'll kill off Superman for real!!

All the James Gunn stuff is pie in the sky right now.

Lot of speculation about WB offering to license out the DC comics properties to others possibly able to write successful hero movies -- like Disney/Marvel.

 

Random thought - to spice up the Oscars, add sideline reporters who can go up to the losers after a winner's speech and ask "Pretty tough, thoughts?" "What did you think of the acceptance speech?"