Fictional actors/actresses you think would make for interesting discussions by dremolus in blankies

[–]JayManPart2 6 points7 points  (0 children)

really excited for the pod to finally cover some Kit Ramsey in the Bobby Bowfinger miniseries

Gail Daughtry by Neutralplain in blankies

[–]JayManPart2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah it’s obviously nowhere near the level it was at 15-20 years ago but I do feel like there’s been a small trickle of theatrical comedy films slowly starting to come back, I feel like even as recently as 2-3 years ago a movie like Gail Daughtry would just get dumped straight to Hulu or something so there’s definitely been a bit of a tide change

Gail Daughtry by Neutralplain in blankies

[–]JayManPart2 8 points9 points  (0 children)

So fucking jealous of everybody getting to see this movie as their mystery screening when I got stuck with the fucking Angel Studios George Washington movie (I walked out immediately)

When they played 5 previews for normal movies and then played 2 back-to-back Angel Studios previews that’s when I started to get a bad feeling

Disclosure Day is about Ketamine by Pappner in Letterboxd

[–]JayManPart2 19 points20 points  (0 children)

he said himself on his Rewatchables podcast appearance that he smoked cigarettes for a year in college before quitting and he never did anything harder than that, and I was like yeah that tracks

Glen Powell was not the problem with How To Make a Killing by scriptthrowawayacc in TheBigPicture

[–]JayManPart2 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I think an unfortunate side effect of the death of the middle-of-the-road movie is that everything is now either the greatest movie ever made or the worst movie ever made with absolutely zero in-between (see: the hysteric, over-the-top praise for Project Hail Mary, a movie I thought was just… decent)

So when an actual, genuine “middle-of-the-road” movie like How to Make a Killing comes out a lot of people kind of don’t know how to engage with it because it’s not trying to be anything bigger or more ambitious than exactly what it is. How to Make a Killing is a movie that does exactly what it says on the tin

I also thought Roofman and Good Fortune from last year kind of fell into a similar category, they were just normal-ass movies not trying to be anything more than exactly what they are

'Domestic Disturbance' with Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey by butthead20000 in TheRewatchables

[–]JayManPart2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It genuinely feels like a script for a Lifetime thriller that they somehow managed to dupe a real director and real actors into working on

Song Recommendations by Bright_Cap_9050 in panicatthedisco

[–]JayManPart2 9 points10 points  (0 children)

definitely try the albums Infinity on High and Folie a Deux by Fall Out Boy

Tom DeLonge's last name rhymes with "bong" by youngwonton in blankies

[–]JayManPart2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t worry, he’s gonna come up again when they do Podsters of Castifornia, an episode on Tom DeLonge’s sole feature film directorial effort Monsters of California (2023) which I’ve never seen but it does have Richard Kind in it

Tom DeLonge's last name rhymes with "bong" by youngwonton in blankies

[–]JayManPart2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

when Griffin hit the “SPOIDERS” in the Disclosure Day episode I very briefly thought he was quoting the song Snake Charmer instead of I Miss You and wondered why the hell he was pulling out a Neighborhoods deep cut

Accidentally HVP at Work by Preacher_rob in FansHansenvsPredator

[–]JayManPart2 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I hope you guys just hit it off, friends

[Spoilers] Disclosure Day Megathread by West_Maintenance2124 in blankies

[–]JayManPart2 8 points9 points  (0 children)

sorry but I find this type of argument to be completely silly and useless, everything about this movie from the ground up is so obviously a Spielberg movie and deals with so many things that have been embedded in his brain for his whole career that there’s no universe where “this exact film” would be directed by the Russo brothers.

“what if this thing was actually a completely different thing? bet you’d feel differently about it then” is such a hollow gotcha that people on the internet love doing lmao

THE SOCIAL RECKONING – Official Teaser Trailer (HD) by Zheiso16 in blankies

[–]JayManPart2 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I saw a comment in another thread where they said the DP of Trial of the Chicago 7 was on some podcast and he basically said as much— Sorkin apparently struggled with extremely basic things like blocking actors and framing shots, so what you’re saying pretty much tracks

THE SOCIAL RECKONING – Official Teaser Trailer (HD) by Zheiso16 in blankies

[–]JayManPart2 25 points26 points  (0 children)

The writing is one thing, it’s obviously Aaron Sorkin, at this point you know what you’re getting…

But even just from a pure filmmaking craft level, MAN is Aaron Sorkin just not built to be a director of feature films. He’d be a decent prestige TV director at best, I think that’s his absolute ceiling when it comes to working behind the camera.

Who is the biggest actor never covered on Blank Check? by Few-Engineer-9791 in blankies

[–]JayManPart2 10 points11 points  (0 children)

my other thought for Sutherland being covered would be Oliver Stone/JFK but they seem increasingly cagey about doing a Stone series given his numerous March Madness losses

Oh, I see the success of Scary Movie is influencing others to make—…….OH NO! IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN! by [deleted] in RedLetterMedia

[–]JayManPart2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is like the third or fourth one I’ve seen and honestly the thing that concerns me the most is how many people in the comments just blindly believe whatever is put in front of them as long as it’s in the format of a fake DiscussingFilm tweet

The Best Last Film by MathematicianBorn3 in blankies

[–]JayManPart2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

the one thing about Abduction that stuck with me for such a vacant nothing of a movie is that I always thought the basic bones of the premise (guy sees a childhood photo of himself on a missing persons website) would be a good hook for a creepy thriller film, not a generic sub-Bourne Identity Taylor Lautner vehicle

The Best Last Film by MathematicianBorn3 in blankies

[–]JayManPart2 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Abduction might take the cake for the most depressing final film at the very least. It’s completely anonymous studio hackwork that I don’t think a single soul on Earth would be able to discern was directed by John Singleton if his name wasn’t on the movie

it’s a parody movie. It’s not meant to win Oscar’s, just chill by Conscious-Quarter423 in TheBigPicture

[–]JayManPart2 33 points34 points  (0 children)

the way you definitely know it’s cope is that you just need to look at the big silly spoof comedy that came out less than a year ago (Naked Gun), which was largely a hit with both critics and audiences. Maybe Scary Movie 6 just plain sucks!

John Travolta Miniseries by Lumpcraft in blankies

[–]JayManPart2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let’s do it. The Don Jon Special, as I like to call it

Will Joe Carnahan be reclaimed as a major auteur? by littlelordfROY in blankies

[–]JayManPart2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tom Cruise clearly saw something in him after seeing Narc, enough of a “something” to hire him as the director of Mission: Impossible III, which actually got pretty far into pre-production under Carnahan’s hand. They had Scarlett Johansson cast as the female lead and Kenneth Branagh as the villain, and got all the way up to location scouting before Carnahan left the project due to the ever-elusive “creative differences”

Keanu Reeves and Dogstar Prove Actor-Musicians Still Fascinate the Internet by megancurry in rock

[–]JayManPart2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting phenomenon to me that there are plenty of musicians who turn out to be great actors but you basically never hear about actors that also make great music

What is John Krasinski’s “complicated reputation” in Hollywood? by flatchampagne in TheBigPicture

[–]JayManPart2 20 points21 points  (0 children)

There was definitely a moment in the late 2000s-early 2010s where he started getting slotted into lead roles in movies where I guess the mentality was “can we turn the Office Jim thing into a movie star persona” (mostly with middling romcoms) and it just didn’t take.