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
Charlize Theron was so close to having back-to-back #1 weekends with two different films. Has anyone ever done that before?
DiCaprio almost did it when Man in the Iron Mask fell short by $300k to unseat Titanic.
And Chris Rock came close when he was #2 & #3 at the box office with Madagascar 1 and The Longest Yard opening behind the 2nd weekend of Sith. Then he went #1&2 the following weekend.
Also Jeff Bridges pulled a #2 & #3 with True Grit and Tron Legacy.
Taye Diggs #1 The Best Man and #1 House On Haunted Hill.
Kate Beckinsale too very recently…#1 Contraband and #1 Underworld Awakening.
This level of growth suggests that MOONRISE probably won’t turn into a huge $40M+ success… not that there’s anything wrong with that. Will probably squeeze out around a $16K PTA on the weekend — good, but the real indie breakthroughs are doing ~$30K at this level.
PROMETHEUS may end up sub-$55M, I think, if all the front-loading talk is to be believed. WATCHMEN seems like a good comparison, actually, and it barely had an internal multiplier of 2.2, suggesting that even with older people interested, this may struggle to hit 2.5X Friday on the weekend.
MADAGASCAR 3, on the other hand, will easily win the weekend… Last one’s weekend was 3.6X Friday, so even if this one has a bit of a dip, we’re looking at $65-68M easy. Wonder if it’ll have better legs than the others, since it has better reviews.
Predicting animation is such a tricky business. Last year Kung Fu Panda 2, coming off of a well loved sequel underperformed, and so did Cars 2, a sequel to what was arguably Pixar’s least liked entry. And now this third entry that no one asked for does well, and if isn’t kneecapped by Brave next two weeks, should hit that $180-$200m sweet spot.
Pixar is always viewed as the animated entry to beat during the summer, with the exception of Shrek, but does anyone sense that because Brave is sandwiched between Madagascar and Ice Age, that it may suffer a bit? Any predictions on Brave’s opening weekend?
Also, kind of an interesting stat, but of the seven computer animated films that have opened north of $70m, three blew the roof of with $100m or more and the other four have all opened at $70m, none in between. The Lorax had a Friday opening of $17m, and then had a fantastic $31m Saturday, so there’s chance that Madagascar could hit $70m with a strong Saturday as well.
Looks like we have another animated battle in November when Wreck it Ralph and Guardians open within three weeks of each other. Both trailers I found were actually very good, with the edge to Wreck it Ralph.
Good hold for MIB3 as well, with Prometheus taking away a lot of males. With over $440m worldwide and a good chance of a $550m-$600m total, news of its premature death were greatly exaggerated, especially when the Finkster and others declared SWATH an all out home run, based on the studio’s good job of lowering expectations. SWATH opened $2m higher, but based on this 2nd weekend performance, will not catch MIB3, which as at $111m at the end of the 2nd weekend, with a $28m take to SWATH’s $24m. The international story of SWATH is in it’s early stages with a slower roll out, so we’ll see.
Moonrise Kingdom should have been released wide. It would have found a spot, because Wes Anderson does have a fanbase in the FLY-OVER STATES. He’s not just a coastal filmmaker and it’s absolutely freaking idiotic to treat him as such. His films should always open wide and Moonrise Kingdom, whenever it goes much wider, will probably see an uptick in business. Until then, shitty release pattern, leads to shitty numbers, and that’s why limited releasing like this in the 21st century, is stupid.
That aside, it sucks that Snow White and the Huntsman has to be released in a time, where people are too cynical and lacking in whimsy, to appreciate a film that would have been loved like crazy in the early oughties and 90s. The film at least shows off how Chris Hemsworth should be this decades action star.
The Hunger Games is about to hit $400 million. Didn’t think it had the legs to get there but it did.
SNOW WHITE is boring garbage. The sequel will be like TOMB RAIDER 2 or WRATH OF THE TITANS all over again. Word of mouth on it is toxic.
Bulldog – if BRAVE does suffer a bit, I guarantee people will blame it on the female heroine. Never mind that the biggest movie of the spring also featured a girl with a bow.
Whimsy? SNOW WHITE is a deadly slow film completely lacking in any joy or humor. Even the dwarves are a downer. It is a film that one endures, not loves.
“Moonrise Kingdom” is in the projected top 10 because the mainstream movies are so weak. Sequels, name-checking, money grabs galore.
I don’t see “Moonrise Kingdom” going national. First, it’s being promoted now with a blurb from Mr. Quote Whore himself, Peter Travers. Second, Focus will put another movie in national release later this month.
Watching SWATH, I kept thinking that they rewrote the script with KStew in mind, and her sleepwalking type acting delivery. Which kind of flies in the face of what Snow White is supposed to be.
I think I liked it more than you Glamour and Dude. I did not find it boring. I enjoyed the world that was created, loved Theron and Hemsworth, as well as the Dwarves, which is actually a precursor for the more serious Hobbits later this year, and in fact the only weak link was KStew.
I know people rag on her quite a bit, and I don’t mean to pile on, but this was probably the most boring Snow White performance in a movie. Snow White is supposed to light up a room, be as magical a character as the Queen, and some of the other creatures that inhabit this fairy tale. This Snow White was essentially supposed to be the light to the Queen’s dark. The Luke to the movie’s Vader. She wasn’t. She was sad, brooding, and uninspiring, and to me the movie was saved by everyone else.
Was Anne Hathaway too old at 30? I would have loved to see Emma Watson in this role.
Yeah Kristen Stewart is a fine actress, who bugs people. If she dyed her hair, changed her name, and starred in a film almost unrecognizable as herself. People would praise her. There’s something about her that pisses people off, that’s the truth of it.
Also, GB, sorry but that’s not even close to the truth, but that’s how it works for you. I really enjoyed the hell out of it, loved the Dwarves, and loved the re-used locations from Robin Hood!
“Dwarves”…ah, yes, had to keep reminding myself of that. At one point when they were tramping up and down the mountains I wondered “Which one has the ring?”
And KStew was far from the only problem with the movie. Based on my impression of the movie that I wrote up last night, ( http://moviecitynews.com/2012/06/143964/#comments ) there’s plenty of blame to go around, from the awful writing to the slow pacing to the brain-dead direction to the studio’s ultimate decision to end the movie without giving any sort of resolution to the relationship stated IN THE FRICKIN’ TITLE because they want to save it for the sequel, which is in the works.
Why they want a sequel makes no sense aside from the obvious cash grab. Why don’t we want to see the story continue? To paraphrase Neil Gaiman, the secret to telling a happy ending is knowing where to stop. Or, to quote Anne Sexton:
Cinderella and the prince
lived, they say, happily ever after,
like two dolls in a museum case
never bothered by diapers or dust,
never arguing over the timing of an egg,
never telling the same story twice,
never getting a middle-aged spread,
their darling smiles pasted on for eternity.
( http://www.units.muohio.edu/technologyandhumanities/sexton.htm )
K-Stew is the world’s finest actress.
Whimsy though, JS?? Really? Point to one whimsical moment in that long, slow mess of a movie where Snow White never even cracks a smile
“The film at least shows off how Chris Hemsworth should be this decades action star.”
So a modern action star spends more time drinking than doing anything remotely action-oriented?
Of course Snow White cracks a smile. She’s quite charming when dancing with the dwarf Gus. But granted, it’s not a light-hearted telling of the tale overall.
i have a Prometheus spoiler question. Haven’t heard anyone address this, so i throw it out to the room.
SPOILERS AHOY
So at the end of the movie we find that the planet they went to is not the engineer homeworld but some other place where they hang out and develop WMD’s.
So why do all the Earth paintings lead there? There’s this big bit at the beginning and in the trailers about these ancient drawings leading them to the planet. But why do those drawings exist? Who drew them? Why would they leave a roadmap to their weapon facility.
I don’t know why you’d leave a map or who exactly composed it. As far as i could tell they dropped off the dude, he killed himself and the ship flew away. Who was etching these drawings.
There were lots of holes in the script, but that was the one that left me scratching my head.
I 2nd all the questions above. Prometheus is full of holes and unanswered questions. But I also enjoyed it very much.
SPOILERS
Anghus, while I don’t have the answer to that, I would say that we don’t know for sure that those drawings constituted a “road map” and especially not an “invitation” — that seems pretty clearly something that could’ve been presumed by the scientists. There’s no real indication that those pictograms were meant to be discovered and read by humans.
Big G: Also, numerous cast members had back to back #1 weekends with different films in February 1997 with the “Star Wars” and “Empire Strikes Back” special editions.
I am not a huge Wes Anderson fan. Like some of his films very much, find others hard to sit through. But Moonrise Kingdom is delightful from start to finish. Loved almost everything about it. It is sweet and funny and the whimsy is mostly charming. It works well within the confines of the story. The cast is great, though regarding the two leads Kara Hayward makes much more of an impression than Jared Gilman. The setting is perfect. It moves swiftly and doesn’t overstay its welcome. It just all worked for me. I found myself enchanted and engaged throughout.
Prometheus was my most anticipated movie of the summer. It’s fascinating and beautiful and kind of a mess. I am glad I saw it on the big screen, and I really liked parts of it a lot, but I also felt disappointed when it was over. The ideas it raises and seeks to address are extremely compelling, but it succeeds far more at raising them than addressing them. Visually it’s pretty damn spectacular, and there are many amazing moments. But the parts don’t add up to a whole. I wanted (and expected) more. I found the creature designs underwhelming. The central relationship between Shaw and Holloway is thin. Some of the dialogue is really clunky. And the “deep” thoughts never really dig beneath the surface. After awhile it feels sort of hollow. But some of it is absolutely mesmerizing and I was certainly never bored. I liked it and was let down at the same time. It’s something I’ll definitely watch again.
Spoilers aplenty.
Also unresolved is why the drop-off ship is a big disc while the two organic ships are horseshoes. Sure, times and designs may change, but cars rolling off assembly lines now aren’t all that differently shaped from Model Ts.
And yes, the engineers must’ve mingled or the proto-language experiment wouldn’t have worked (and we know it worked because the engineer didn’t freak until David spoke to him).
Another issue–why did the engineer chill in cryosleep for over two thousand years? What was he waiting for? His peeps decided to ice humanity around the time Jesus was water-walking, so I’m sure they would’ve launched an inquiry when they realized those human scrubs were still lively enough to nail people to trees.
I LOVED Prometheus. I also love that it doesn’t answer every question. The movie is challenging. The film has stayed with me and I find myself wanting to talk to people about it and get other opinions and thoughts. The only other movie I can compare it to (more than the Alien films) is 2001. It is visually stunning, exciting and tackles deep questions. I can’t wait to see it a few more times.
I don’t think it tackles deep questions as much as it asks one or two and then repeats them over and over and over again. It doesn’t ever really probe the questions it initially asks and ultimately feels pseudo-intellectual. That’s frustrating as opposed to challenging.
Even more spoilery questions:
What did the alien trapped in the operating bay nosh on to let it grow that big? Linoleum? Rubber gaskets? And what a waste to put all that energy into growth just so it can kark it moments after having a little oral sex with the engineer.
And why is it that the thing that burst from the engineer’s chest was clearly a hybrid, while the critter pulled from Shaw’s nether regions–after obviously getting there by hitching a ride on Holloway’s contaminated sperm–looked very much like the thing David pulled out of an urn?
So why didn’t Shaw end up contaminated just like Holloway? Was she lucky enough to avoid the replication phase, even after receiving a shot of icky love juice between the legs?
“That aside, it sucks that Snow White and the Huntsman has to be released in a time, where people are too cynical and lacking in whimsy, to appreciate a film that would have been loved like crazy in the early oughties and 90s.”
If SNOW White would have been made in the late 80’s/early 90’s it would have starred Amy Irving, Chris Sarandon and Billy Barty and would have been made by Golan Globus.
Glamourboy, there’s a difference between raising interesting questions and asking us to believe A+B=C in one instance but A+B=D in another.
And nobody mentioned the date tease after the credits…
ALIENS VS ENGINEERS?
And if something like SWatH had been made in the late ’90s it would’ve starred Drew Barrymore and Dougray Scott. Remember them? Will we be saying the same about KStew and Thordude fourteen years from now?
Thordude is much better than KStew in SW, though to be fair her role is woefully underwritten.
A+B=C in one instance but A+B=D in another instance, is an interesting question in itself.
I think it means someone hasn’t been cleaning their glassware.
(Obligatory “Real Genius” reference FTW)
A young girl who loses her mother, has her father remarry a witch who takes down the kingdom, and her father, who grows up in a tower, comes to womanhood, escapes into enchanted forests, befriends the Woodsman who is sent to kill her, reunites with her childhood Prince, enchants the white unicorn and the spirit fairies, learns to fight, becomes a Joan of Arc figure, makes a stirring speech to bring the war-torn villagers to arms, goes one on one with the evil queen….yup, that’s a totally underwritten part.
Or perhaps, Stewart is just such a terrible actress that she misses every good opportunity in the film to take on this role…she’s the kind of actress that always seems to make her part feel underwritten…where there are actresses (and actors) with just ten minutes of screen time in movies that give us fully-realized characters.
Love the sarcasm. So glad you decided to bring it to the conversation. It really elevates the level of discourse. Anyway, for 90+ minutes she is given nothing to do and hardly says a word. Those details do not in and of themselves prove that a character is three-dimensional.
Getting back to the animation, the ICE AGE and MADAGASCAR movies are essentially the same plot–wise-cracking animals trying to get from one place to another–over and over again, and the new editions seem to be more of the same. BRAVE, on the other hand, looks quite a lot different–human characters, for one thing–and thus ought to have the upper hand with folks who are tired of wise-cracking animals trying to get from one place to another…at least those moviegoers over the age of nine.
I think this is the article you’re looking for:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/06/04/2833339/kristen-stewart-actress-or-cipher.html
I’m guessing it’s that constant sameness that makes the young ‘uns like her. That’s what makes McDonalds so popular after all–you know you’re going to get the same thing every time.
Maybe we should be asking which actress, paired with the same (lousy) director, would’ve done a better job. Keeping in mind the age requirement and the need for a “star”, I’d suggest Dakota Fanning.
What the ‘eff–after doing a search on the (lousy) director of SWatH it looks like Rupert Sanders got the job because of a Halo commercial? All he’s ever done is commercials and short films. So Universal gave him $170 mil based on that resume?!?
Jeez, maybe someone should let Justin Bieber direct that next Transformers movie, ’cause he apparently had the skills to make that first YouTube video all by himself.
I totally disagree Paul. All of the events I listed are absolutely enough to distinguish a dimensional character. And yes, she didn’t have much dialogue, but that is where a real actress would bring an inner life to the character (think of what a silent movie actress could have done with the same part). All poor Stewart knows how to do is bite her lip and show us that she is totally lost as a character because she is totally lost as an actress.
The Queen is coming to kill her! Stewart bites her lip really, really hard.
She is running through the evil forest, Stewart gives us her ‘distressed’ look, like she just got to the market and left her purse in the car.
Snow White needs to come up with a plan? Stewart stares into nothingness really, really hard.
It really is one of the worst performances in recent memory and a sad reminder of what happens when an actress with a range from A-B takes on a challenging role.
“Snow White needs to come up with a plan? Stewart stares into nothingness really, really hard.”
…and then she starts talking about iron melting, and that’s supposed to be enough to make us want to die for her.
I think there’s plenty of blame to go around but yes, KStew was the shoddy foundation the movie was built on. Can’t say the same about Prometheus–it’s the ideas we’re attacking, which is really a good thing.
But doesn’t just about every lead in every movie have some back story and obstacles to overcome that are established in the beginning? You need a whole lot more than that to develop a fully three-dimensional character. The problem is not limited to Stewart’s poor performance. She is not given anything to work with. The writing is quite weak.
Rupert Sanders also got the job from a proof-of-concept reel, shown at Comic-Con last year, that looks exactly like many of the money shots in the final film (troll, milk bath, queen turning into ravens, fairies, etc.) but with no-name actors.
Kerry Conran must’ve had a good demo reel, but we saw how Sky Captain turned out: great-looking movie, not much else there.
Kristen is as good an actor as Brando or Dean.
She’s by far the best thing about SWATH, which is kind of leaden and feels like a snoozy version of a Kevin Reynolds movie from 1995.
All hail K-Stew.
For reference I will put up Drew Barrymore’s performance that was previously mentioned, and Anne Hathaway’s performance in Ella Enchanted.
Lots of actresses had less to work with and did more with it in this genre. Claire Danes in Stardust. Robin Wright in Princess Bride. Michelle Pfeiffer in Ladyhawke.
The reason why an actor is considered good is when they can take mediocre material and elevate it. They can read between the lines. I’m with Glamourboy on this one.
One other thing,
“She is running through the evil forest, Stewart gives us her ‘distressed’ look, like she just got to the market and left her purse in the car.
Snow White needs to come up with a plan? Stewart stares into nothingness really, really hard.”
It also seemed to be the only look she had, even when the moment calls for bliss or a sense of wonder, like seeing the forest creatures for the first, it’s the blank expression that never seems to change that gives you this one-note performance.
She might have been developing as a good actress but maybe Twilight might have messed up her acting equilibrium big time.
Go watch the Cake Eaters and note how Kristen Stewart elevates that material. She can act. Really really well. If she does not work for you as an actress, then that’s you. Basically what GB and BD are referring to as they movie they watched, is not the movie I watched, and really enjoyed more than Promethemeh.
Anne Hathaway in SNOW WHITE would’ve opened to about 6 million. With THE QUEEN OF ALL ACTING KRISTEN, it opened to 60 mil.
Hathaway is box-office poison. Kristen’s fans are legion. You guys are in the minority on this. She is a BRILLIANT actress.
Outside of Twilight, name one hit…..I’m waiting.
Twilight would have made exactly the same number with any other actress in the role. Yeah…I said it. It’s fucking Twilight for chrissake.
Then you’re obviously unaware of the intensity of Kristen’s fanbase. Had they gone with Emily Browning (the apparent runner-up), the first Twilight wouldn’t have been anywhere near as successful.
Name one hit? You mean other than Snow White making 60 mil in three days ENTIRELY because of Stewart? Her other recent movies have all been limited-release arthouse indies that most of her fanbase couldn’t have seen even if they played in a town near them. But whatever money “Adventureland” made, it was ENTIRELY from Stewart.
There’s also OSCAR TALK about her in “On the Road.” I really ALWAYS get the sense that her detractors just have this inexplicable hate-on for the “Twilight” franchise and take it out on Stewart. If she had never done that silly series, she’d be as beloved a geek-dork hottie as like Evan Rachel Wood or Aubrey Plaza or Kristen Bell (talk about a nonentity) or whoever else geek-dorks have crushes on. Guys were totally smitten with her in “Into the Wild,” “Messengers,” “In the Land of Women,” etc etc etc… Then “Twilight” came around and film geeks turned on her.
I’m sure she’s crying all the way to the bank.
Better yet, she doesn’t give a damn!
And that’s really what bothers movie geeks about Kristen:
A) She does a franchise they don’t like ’cause “girls are yucky!”
B) And this is most important: Her persona is SERIOUS. Film geeks, dating back 80-some years, like over-the-top actresses who do COMEDY and are silly and playful. It’s why critics always have a bone-on for Amy Adams or Hathaway and use words like EFFERVESCENT to describe them, because some dizzy chick acting that way reminds them of CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD SCREWBALL, or old-school camp… I have a sub-theory on this that movie critics always ALWAYS like redheads. Jessica Chastain last year– redhead, over-the-top acting, kind of “on” in a theatrical way– that’s what MOVIE CRITICS respond to. They want Disney and MGM and SCREWBALL and MUSICALS… They don’t “get” a sullen emo like Kristen Stewart.
But to each their own.
“ENTIRELY”. Sorry no. Don’t state something as fact when it isn’t. I took my daughters because they were interested in the different take on Snow White, the character, not Kristen Stewart, the actress. Just like Alice in Wonderland, this is based on age old familiar material. You’re saying that has absolutely no drawing power?
What about the visual style that was so prominent in the promos? The fact that KS was actually like a fourth player in the promos, after the visuals, the Queen, and the Huntsman, it’s like she was an afterthought.
Also, there was also some guy there that had just starred prominently in a little indie flick called Avengers that you might have heard of, that might have brought a few people in. That brought absolutely nothing to the table right?
What about all the early talk about moving forward with a sequel named The Huntsman? I’ve heard that much more than your Oscar talk for KS in On the Road.
I don’t hate the girl. I’m also not a Twilight fan. But them I’m not exactly the demo. I would like to see her in other roles where she expresses a range of emotions that shows she can do more.
I think Stewart is a very talented actress. She gives excellent performances in Panic Room, Into the Wild, and Adventureland for starters. She is capable of and has done exemplary work. I just didn’t think she was very good in SWATH.
I’m not a huuuuge K-Stew fan although she can be quite effective in movies like Adventureland and Welcome to the Rileys, and blaming her, probably the best young actor in Twilight, for those movies being awful is ridiculous. She’s far less wooden than either of her male costars, and less bland than any humans in the movie beyond Anna Kendrick. But what I really don’t get is the “Kristen Stewart is ALWAYS THE SAME!!!!” criticism as if that levels any actor’s worth. A WHOLE FUCKING LOT of actors are more or less doing the same or similar things in movies year after year. That’s kind of what being a major movie actor is. Cary Grant is the obvious example: no, he’s not De Niro, but no one really complains that he’s not, either, because he does his thing so well that he’s able to imbue it with different shades and notes in different material.
I’m not saying Stewart has Grant-level charisma. The sullen factor, as Lex points out, does set in here, because yeah, I’d rather watch Emily Blunt in a movie because she seems like a fun person on some level even when she’s being serious. Similar to Russell Crowe: he is soooo fucking dour that unless he’s giving a GREAT performance, I don’t have a ton of patience for him. So: great in The Insider, not that great in Robin Hood.
That said, Stewart definitely has something. Dismissing her or any actors for having a persona seems silly.
Stewart has legion of fans? Hmmm, let me throw out a few other titles for you. The Runaways. Welcome To The Rileys. Jumper. Whether SNOW White turns out to be a hit or not hasn’t been decided yet because of the cost of the movie. But it was a huge drop this week, RT has it listed at 48% and even her believers have to admit that she got TERRIBLE reviews for this film.
If you want a good idea of what a good actor can do in a mediocre or worse film, look at Jennifer Lawrence does in the Hunger Games (also not a lot of dialogue but a lot of action). In fact, imagine a role reverse…Jennifer Lawrence in SNOW WHITE and Stewart in Hunger Games. Lawrence would have given that character an inner life and rousing spirit, where Stewart, doing her one thing, would have made Hunger Games a much worse film.
Seriously guys, who is a worse working actress in films today other than Stewart?
“Hathaway is box-office poison.”
That was the feeling I got while watching the trailer for the new Batman flick–yiiick.
Am I the only one who thinks that movie might be a disaster waiting to happen?
Stewart is in Jumper? Isn’t that Rachel Bilson?
One of the speakers at the “Franchise Building” conference was Todd Phillips, “the filmmaker behind the The Hangover movies”, who unintentionally proved the truth of Nina Jacobson’s quote “The belief you can design a franchise just because you want one has been responsible for some of the worst movies we’ve seen in a long time.”
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hunger-games-transformers-sequel-produced-by-conference-335528
K-Stew has a brief role at the very end of Jumper. It was just before Twilight, and practically unbilled, and she certainly wouldn’t have had anything to do with the box-office returns.
Jumper was a huge international hit anyway, so that was an odd one for him to include.
Still my favorite youtube on “K-Stew”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKKAVYI7vdU
Hey, “Glamourboy,” you sure do expend a lot of effort and energy hating on an actress who affects your life in zero ways whatsoever.
Sorry she’s not Judy Garland enough for the THE GLITZ, THE GLAMOUR! you apparently crave.
Combining the worst of SWatH and the best of Prometheus, why doesn’t someone make a movie about a bioweapon that kills all plant life? Of course it crosses the border of the targeted enemy nation, so the race is on to stop it before it wipes out the Earth’s entire food chain.
Saw SWATH last night. I enjoyed it for the most part, but Ive gotta agree with a lot of the sentiment here – K-Stew was just dull as hell.
I don’t have anything against Stewart, liked her in other things. I don’t even hate the Twilight movies (I more “nothing” them, really). But she was broing in this. I always wanted the story to movie on to a more interesting character.
Whoever suggested it should have been Emma Watson was spot-on.
Hey Lex,
Is the Judy Garland comment another one of your somewhat veiled homophobic comments you make towards people you suspect are gay?