After seeing Dune I wanted Hyperion to be adapted more than anything else.

Nearly anything speculative by China Mieville, but in terms of ‘filmability’, The City & The City is probably the easiest.

I just watched it, and up until McGregor shows up, it’s bad, but fun bad. But boy howdy, you aren’t kidding about how unwatchably bad he is. And he drags down everything else in the movie that probably would continue to be at least kind of fun.

SHUT YOUR MOUTH, SUCKA

If you genuinely think this movie is made for young people and not for middle-aged dudes to claim ‘they don’t make them like this anymore’, then you’re a dumbass

The original was so over the top silly, which is what made it so entertaining.

Does McGregor at any point inform Gyllenhaal that he once fucked guys like him in prison?

i think we really lost something when we stopped giving low-level villains monster truck fleets (see also: tango and cash)

Problem is three of his first four movies were Swingers, Go and Bourne Identity.  He’s had some good ones mixed in since (Mr. and Mrs. Smith, American Made, and the superb Edge of Tomorrow) but there are some stinkers too.

Everyone in the original knew exactly what kind of ridiculous film they were making and just went for it. And I’ll bet there’s no one in this version who can begin to match Sam Elliott’s contribution.

I really like Jake Gyllenhall but I agree that this just doesn’t seem well-suited for this movie. It does look better than the Point Break movie which was dogshit

My guess is they were hoping he would be the Terry Funk of this version.

Doug Liman is two years shy of 60

You don’t have to like the guy, but I think Liman directing Edge of Tomorrow and The Bourne Identity immediately disqualifies him from ‘hack’ status

liman isn’t a hack. he’s unreliable but he’s also delivered multiple stone cold classics.

Sounds awful, can’t wait to watch it.

Did anyone think McGregor could act?

I mean, it’s not like the original Road House was getting four-star (or even three-star) reviews when it came out. If I recall, it was pretty universally panned. But at least the original was entertaining.

Directed by a hack of a director.

Jake Gyllenhaal strikes me as a weird little theatre imp (in a positive way) who also happens to be willing to be superhero buff. I’d disagree with people who say he doesn’t have charisma, but it’s a more malovelent, mischievous charisma - his intensity in films like Zodiac or Nightcrawler is amazing, and then on the…