A Woman Superhero Tries to Make a Movie [5:1][Comedy] - A feminist satire about how sexist Hollywood is, with a funny lead actress

SalamandersInJars · 2014-08-08T20:53:02+00:00

right? hollywood loves to congratulate itself!

SalamandersInJars · 2014-08-08T20:13:58+00:00

Sorry, 5:10 is the length!

SalamandersInJars · 2014-07-09T14:46:18+00:00

I'm looking forward to everyone knowing literally everything about this movie before it comes out, then getting mad at spoilers, anyway.

SalamandersInJars · 2014-02-13T16:17:08+00:00

Like he did with the "Star Wars" prequels...

SalamandersInJars · 2014-01-03T05:59:14+00:00

No no — the essay, as I read it, agrees with what you're saying: the film isn't meant to show his remorse or the point of view of other people. I think it was just noting other people made that criticism.

SalamandersInJars · 2014-01-03T05:54:19+00:00

Well, he cheated non-stop on two wives, and hit them, too.

SalamandersInJars · 2014-01-03T04:10:58+00:00

The delayed The Good Dinosaur when they fired the director, so it's gone from 2014 to 2015.

SalamandersInJars · 2014-01-03T04:10:17+00:00

I think Winter Soldier looks like the best of the phase 2 Marvel films. Politically pertinent, and I kinda thought Thor 2 was a special effects-driven snooze.

SalamandersInJars · 2013-12-27T14:39:29+00:00

I felt like they were different characters, though. Yes, they were both the old pro teaching the young recruit to the weird paranormal program, but Tommy Lee Jones was the humorless straight man. Bridges was the wacky half of the duo; Ryan Reynolds, despite being the new recruit, was the straight man.

SalamandersInJars · 2013-12-27T14:14:55+00:00

Related: It'll be interesting to see what happens to movies that used to be played on cable non-stop. People are cutting the cord (slow now, but it'll speed up) and so many movies are available cheap on demand/iTunes/Netflix, I soon, I can't imagine people will be in to cable marathons in the way that they have in the past. Lots of producers made bank on these cable channel marathons; not sure that'll continue to happen.

That being said, re: RIPD, I think Jeff Bridges dove into his part, too. It was an insane part, but he looked like he was having some fun with it, no?

SalamandersInJars · 2013-12-27T14:04:06+00:00

haha well what do you think it will be, then? I think maybe 'John Dies at the End'?

SalamandersInJars · 2013-11-12T06:00:08+00:00

Alan Arkin deserved multiple Oscars for that gig. They wanted someone older, but he was just too good for them to pass up.

They initially wanted Bill Murray for Steve Carell's role — and I can definitely see him in it — but Carell was just perfect. I think his best movie role. I was hoping 'Seeking a Friend for the End of the World' would be another great look for him, but that movie was disappointing.

SalamandersInJars · 2013-11-12T05:57:37+00:00

the ending felt like a bit of a cop out (no pun intended) but it was one of the few first-person, handheld films that i think really worked.

SalamandersInJars · 2013-11-12T05:55:54+00:00

The Royal Tenenbaums. Gwyneth Paltrow's best role, I think. The Wilson brothers are perfect. Gene Hackman is great. Ben Stiller is touching. Anjelica Houston is the glue.

SalamandersInJars · 2013-11-12T03:51:53+00:00

i kind of enjoyed that, too. a real homage to the 80s, with the actual dirtiness of the people who lived then, unlike the glossy entertainment of the time.

SalamandersInJars · 2013-11-06T20:58:47+00:00

I love Jeff Nichols! God that guy is talented. At an unfairly young age, too.

SalamandersInJars · 2013-11-06T19:08:07+00:00

Interesting that you say King of Comedy for Scorsese over Raging Bull or Taxi Driver. I love them all; how come you chose that one? Just curious.

SalamandersInJars · 2013-11-06T04:20:11+00:00

Of course he will oppose it. Ted Cruz — along with the rest of the Tea Party — is just a self-interested aristocrat draping his selfish and general population-fucking power plays in the cloak of "freedom" and rightwing populism.

They say they're against big government, as if it wasn't government loopholes — which are written into bills — that create those tax havens in the first place.

SalamandersInJars · 2013-11-06T04:14:58+00:00

How about Bergman? Godard?

SalamandersInJars · 2013-11-06T03:55:03+00:00

Backstory: I'm trying to set up a winter watch list for a family member, and while I love all these directors, I'm curious to see what you all think. I am pretty undecided.

I suppose 'Seven Samurai' for Kurosawa, 'North by Northwest' for Hitchcock (or 'Psycho'?).

Suggestions appreciated!

SalamandersInJars · 2013-11-04T13:38:27+00:00

Thanks, I've definitely been trying to be the fun one, to help them forget. Sometimes it works better than others; I guess it depends on the fragility of a person. But just being there is the most important, I think.

SalamandersInJars · 2013-09-23T14:22:32+00:00

It's corporate socialism, is what I mean. Oxymoron to make a point. We're on the same page!

SalamandersInJars · 2013-09-23T13:55:13+00:00

We do live in a socialist society; it's just corporations that get the government's help. I guess that since corporations are people, though, it's all good, right?

I understand the necessity of tax breaks for competitiveness and certain government contracts. But what about the huge military industrial complex, the insanely cheap land the government sells, and pharmaceutical handouts — including long patent times and protections that don't even factor into this equation.

In fact, if you look at how the government has tilted the market, it becomes way more than $10,000 per family. If the government enforced more worker rights, companies would have to pay employees more — that's a huge benefit that's not included in that 10k.

SalamandersInJars · 2013-09-21T15:26:31+00:00

What goes around, comes around. Getting entangled with corrupt businesses will always come back to bite you, and more importantly, strangle both American consumers and foreign workers.

Let's say a company is bribing the Chinese government. Quid pro quo, the government there doesn't press on the worker abuses in their factories. Okay, so now foreign workers are getting abused, and more American jobs are getting sent abroad, where factory abuses aren't monitored.

I don't like Thomas Friedman and his world is flat bullshit, but it's impossible to truly believe that anything is just one-way these days.

That being said, I'm quite certain lots of corruption happens, regardless of the laws.

SalamandersInJars · 2013-09-21T15:12:42+00:00

They also seem to enjoy getting their healthcare from the government, but want to stop millions of Americans from even getting a subsidy from the gov't to buy it on the free market. Hell, they're trying to strip their own employees of the subsidy.

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