Avengers is tracking through the roof… but they are still giving away one of the strongest action sequences online. Huh?
Is it just habitual now? Are they going to show us the movie before we get there and then make us pay to get out?
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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
I don’t understand the point of your commentary. If it’s indeed tracking through the roof despite the decision to give scenes away…then apparently it doesn’t matter at all, and people will still go in droves. So good on the studio decision-makers, no? If it doesn’t bother them, then why does it bother you?
The deterioration of the movie going process continues through things like this. Almost as lame as showing critics or “select audiences” the first act of a movie. Stupid stupid stupid.
I really don’t get that one, Don. Every time the studios are so proud of a movie they have to screen 20 minutes of it, I dread it. “Oh, so when I see the whole movie, I can feel like 20 minutes of it is already tired?”
They do cut it off before it gets really good (when someone else joins the fight).
I’m actually surprised they’ve put out so little of the Hulk’s stuff.
Jason –
It doesn’t bother me. It’s just weird.
Like I wrote, it’s almost like they thought of it, put it on the schedule, and then forgot to cancel it… because taking “yes” for an answer it usually a good idea.
I don’t understand the point of your commentary. If it’s indeed tracking through the roof despite the decision to give scenes away…then apparently it doesn’t matter at all, and people will still go in droves.
Because that’s not accurate.
They’ve only been giving away the same few sequences, mainly third act – and adding or dropping bits of them as they go along.
This is a scene never shown before. When Cap gets involved is shown quickly in one spot, but they’ve never focused on Thor/Iron Man.
It’s pointless to treat more scenes like chum. After awhile, the tipping point for the audience reaction will become “all the good stuff is in the trailers”.
How long has Joss Whedon been Peter Stormare?
It’s very strange. Dr Strange even. The third act IS the film. Where it finally comes to life but somehow just feels like you’re watching a weird remake of T3. They’re saving the Hulk moments as they’re genuinely the only fun moments in the film.
cue IO
Hey Lady, you decided to grace us with your presence? http://assets0.ordienetworks.com/images/GifGuide/dancing/beyonce1.gif
and
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2l9r4Wmbm1qzkmr1.gif
Now I can’t get that blues clues song out of my head. Thanks a lot.
Two heroes fighting each other? Sigh. I’d hoped that trope had died out in the ’80s.
I’m grateful they put this online because this is a great scene where some big strong mens start touching up on each other and getting all hot.
Has anyone seen _this_ before?
http://www.hometheaterforum.com/t/320364/a-few-words-about-digital-projection-in-the-wild#post_3921780
Casablanca isn’t good enough for WB to send a DCP on a Harddrive of it to theatres (like they do for first run), instead they send a 1080 satellite feed, and WB doesn’t care if the theatres don’t know how to switch their projectors to run B&W images, so A nice Magenta and Green image of Casablanca was ran across the country.
Ew, watching that clip would only make me wonder during which part did IO ejaculate. Or did he not finish in time and have to play it gain and accidentally finish when Joss Whedon was talking and be all like “oh fuck.”
It’s the same on TV, where now we get “teasers” for the scene coming up in one minute. Turning an already ADD addled media landscape into further idiocy.
Anghus, your point about this being a party. Read Perm’s bullshit up there and point out to me how that’s not disrespectful to one of Poland’s GUEST? Seriously Perm, go back to your editing bay and shitty up someone’s movie!