Get outta here, Gene Shallit!
There’s a part of me that always thinks of Billy Connolly as that guy who took over Head of the Class.
Fuck Godzilla and the nuclear explosion he rode in on. The kaiju-starved public demands Gamera!
The scene where Jenko figured out Schmidt slept with the Captain’s daughter is some of Channing Tatum’s best acting.
There’s a hilarious guess I read on the WANDAVISION subreddit that the guest actor Paul Bettany has been talking about having such great chemistry with is himself.
Gene Kelly to me defines the difference between an actor and movie star. He’s perfectly competent at the former, but absolutely nails the latter. He lights up almost every scene he’s in, no matter the film.
Alejandro Innaritu made Birdman as a comedy because he was well aware that as a drama, it would come off as the most insufferably pretentious and self-righteous movie ever made. It seems this is that movie.
Ahh the AVclub, where they’ll “snark” about a directors comments about a streaming service (which doesn’t have HDR, atmos, isn’t available in on all platforms, has been broken for months on others) and ignore the important parts of an article. Like, executives brazenly ignoring contracts, looking to cutout profit…
(singing) Remember when I accused my parents and I killed them...we’ll see who’s laughing nooooow...
So, yes, it all kind of starts with a car crash, and in this case, it’s a Ford-on-Ford literal mashup, with what appears to be a 1948-ish Ford F1 pickup climbing up and over a 1949-1951 Ford sedan
Wait...Travis Kelce?
Its no Miles Teller punchable but he is close
Sadly, we did not.
Hot take alert from 2010!
Verhoeven wanted to do a 50's style big bug movie. Starship Troopers just kinda plugged in. I think a lot of it was mirroring the studio system of putting in attractive if not talented actors and shoehorning in a love story to fill in between bug attacks.
The thrust of that argument is that you, the viewer, are watching an in-universe propaganda film that has been exclusively cast with attractive young people to make military service seem glamorous. I don’t know that Verhoeven’s gone on record as saying that’s the case, but I’m 99% sure that it is.
Oh, man. I loved this movie as a kid, and apparently had no idea who Carl Reiner was at the time, because when I read this article, my first and overwhelming thought was “Carl Reiner directed Summer School?!?!?!”
Alternately, just watch Innerspace instead and be entertained instead of, you know, enervated.
John’s bard is now alternately Lou Reed, Nick Cave, or Thom Yorke.