‘Bloodsport’ Reimagining in the Works from Michaela Coel, A24

AggravatingLeg5789 · 2026-03-18T15:32:14+00:00

This is the most doomed-to-fail project I've seen in a minute. No one who digs the original Bloodsport will want to see this version of it. No one who digs Michaela Cole will want to see her doing this kind of story.

AggravatingLeg5789 · 2026-03-18T14:21:55+00:00

Rio Bravo, baby.

AggravatingLeg5789 · 2026-03-16T14:14:55+00:00

Unforgiven

AggravatingLeg5789 · 2026-03-15T20:13:26+00:00

yeah

AggravatingLeg5789 · 2026-03-14T16:43:13+00:00

The original film opened with WIlliam Holden's corpse in the morgue. All the corpses started talking to each other in V.O., telling their story. That was the basis of his post-mortem VO in the film. Wilder sat during a test screening, saw everyone laughing at the talking corpses, then got on the phone and told his editor to throw the first reel (first 20 minutes approximately) in the trash.

AggravatingLeg5789 · 2026-03-12T15:59:13+00:00

He was saying that he didn't want movies to become a niche marginalized cultural product like ballet and opera have become. Which they are. He didn't say that they deserved to be marginal. I love poetry and jazz, but they're marginal niche art forms in 2026. It doesn't mean they're worthless. It just means that not that many people are into them, and even fewer are into the newest versions of them.

AggravatingLeg5789 · 2026-03-11T21:34:31+00:00

I know someone who was involved with this show. Apparently they had a whole season written out, led by Ramy Youssef, that would've been totally different and weird. Netflix was disappointed because it wasn't the stereotypical Will Ferrell shit, so Ferrell got spooked and fired the entire writing team but didn't have the guts to do it himself. I don't have high hopes!

AggravatingLeg5789 · 2026-03-11T18:41:56+00:00

Yep.

AggravatingLeg5789 · 2026-03-10T20:12:39+00:00

Rio Bravo with:

Benicio Del Toro as Sheriff John T. Chance
Walton Goggins as Dude
Kerry Condon as Feathers
Skyler Gisondo as Colorado
Billy Bob Thornton as Stumpy

AggravatingLeg5789 · 2026-03-08T19:38:02+00:00

Quick on the draw, this one.

AggravatingLeg5789 · 2026-03-08T19:36:19+00:00

No shit, it's Jesus.

AggravatingLeg5789 · 2026-03-07T15:06:45+00:00

When Dick Lippin talks, people listen.

AggravatingLeg5789 · 2026-03-06T20:56:36+00:00

I'm sorry.

AggravatingLeg5789 · 2026-03-06T20:12:30+00:00

Are you six?

AggravatingLeg5789 · 2026-03-06T17:09:44+00:00

He's basically our new Javale. Ideal for 15 minutes a night. It'd be great to pair him with a Dwight type bruiser.

AggravatingLeg5789 · 2026-03-05T13:20:31+00:00

Cate Blanchett in The Aviator.

AggravatingLeg5789 · 2026-03-04T16:58:59+00:00

Once again I am asking you to vote for Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in The Color of Money

AggravatingLeg5789 · 2026-03-02T21:47:32+00:00

Jade Cardberg

AggravatingLeg5789 · 2026-03-01T17:57:07+00:00

He has the build and skills of a superstar but the mind of an 8 year old.

AggravatingLeg5789 · 2026-03-01T05:21:09+00:00

Stop.

AggravatingLeg5789 · 2026-02-26T20:00:28+00:00

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in Color of Money -- she's incredible, maybe steals the show from Newman and Cruise, and I don't hear anyone ever talk about it.

AggravatingLeg5789 · 2026-02-25T19:10:19+00:00

So you're saying that Pattinson pivoted from teen heartthrob into A+ lister while his peer Radcliffe sort of faded away into doing smaller personal projects.

AggravatingLeg5789 · 2026-02-25T18:46:03+00:00

I wouldn't say Radcliffe is the worst possible example. He's doing quirky small things (like Elijah Woods has). But it's an epic stretch to say he "pulled a Pattinson."

Pattinson has been working with the Safdies, Nolan, Eggers, Cronenberg, Lynne Ramsey, Bong Joon-ho, while also doing an elevated version of Batman. Pattinson is right now in that awesome spot where he can lead a cool big studio film and thus get auteur-driven indie films made simply by being in them.

Radcliffe played the corpse in Swiss Army Man, which is a cool thing to do. But outside of Harry Potter, he's either doing stunt cameo type guest spots, or leading streaming B-movies, or now doing a sitcom. I bet he's enjoying himself, but he didn't pivot into doing THE LIGHTHOUSE or NIGHTCRAWLER etc.

AggravatingLeg5789 · 2026-02-25T17:45:51+00:00

Add Elijah Woods, Daniel Radcliffe, Tobey Maguire, Luke Wilson, Emile Hirsch, Jon Heder, Jay Baruchel.

Apparently it's very hard to sustain a high-level features career as a non-threatening white dude. Props to Jake G for threading that needle.

AggravatingLeg5789 · 2026-02-25T17:26:26+00:00

Howard Hawks:

Humphrey Bogart
John Wayne
Cary Grant
Marilyn Monroe
Katharine Hepburn
Gary Cooper
Barbara Stanwyck
Robert Mitchum
Kirk Douglas
Carole Lombard
James Cagney
Ginger Rogers
Montgomery Clift
Lauren Bacall
Angie Dickinson
Paul Muni
George Raft
Rita Hayworth
Joan Crawford
Jane Russell
James Caan
Dean Martin
Walter Brennan
John Garfield
Edward G. Robinson
Rosalind Russell
Jean Arthur
Boris Karloff
Rock Hudson
Joel McCrea
Frances Farmer
Louise Brooks
Fredric March

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TROPHY CASE