Oh I'm sorry, Did I Break Your Conversation........Well Allow Me A Movie Thread by S&T

It's so weird seeing the /10 rating system in every other movie thread on NT. Such an eyesore
 
I just saw it for a review of SS and the way his opinions were listed were numbered. I couldn't make sense of any of it when he rated it out of 10 :lol:
 
Suicide Squad 5/8

The soundtrack was distracting.

A lot of gimmick performances.

David Ayers racial cliches are getting old, just write better.

Will Smith and Viola Davis are the highlights for me. Some cool visuals.

Not my Joker.

Jai Courtney didn't suck.

I'm giving DC a chance no matter what. I think they still need to iron out the big picture.

Aquaman looks like the most promising film (Drogo bias) but I wouldn't mind seeing more from this group.
 
shogun said:
That one punch knock out he did in the trailer looked cool. Doesn't make me want to see the movie though.
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They stole that move from Mickey Oneil/Scene from Snatch anyway. And they changed the angle in the Film so it's not even the same. Snatch producer probably gave them **** about it
 
^^^ Scene was flames. Even Eazy's boys were co-signing.

Cube was a boss from jump.
Bet on himself.
Then came Dre and Snoop and Master P, but I feel like Cube made those careers possible by bucking the system that was feeding him and showing dudes you don't have to sell out to sell Records
 
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Sooooo for whatever reason, I had never seen the movie Malcolm X. I watched some scenes about lighting techniques in a film class but never the whole movie. I just watched it and I'm sitting here like
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This is one of the best movies I've ever seen man, I wanna cry or go do something revolutionary or something :rofl:

Everything about this film is EPIC. What happened to Spike man? You don't see any of the elements from his previous films in his newer ones.
 
CP1708 said:
Ice Cube's rap after the Benedict Arnold line is absolute fire. He destroys those dudes. :lol:
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i probably still have like 90% of amerikkkas most wanted and kill at will memorized :lol: :pimp:
probably still know some songs of the first lench mob album too.
early cube was so damn good.

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Denzel not winning the Oscar for Malcolm X is a travesty
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ESPECIALLY considering that al pacino beat him with that godawful scent of a woman OVERACTED CORNY performance. damn i hate that movie.
 
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while it was a travesty...

I still enjoy scent of a woman, hoo ha.. damn it
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tommy lee jones winning best supporting actor for the fugitive, is the other one that always sticks out to me
 
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I liked Scent of a Woman. Al won for previous performances.


calibeebee said:
Sooooo for whatever reason, I had never seen the movie Malcolm X. I watched some scenes about lighting techniques in a film class but never the whole movie. I just watched it and I'm sitting here like
400


400


This is one of the best movies I've ever seen man, I wanna cry or go do something revolutionary or something :rofl:

Everything about this film is EPIC. What happened to Spike man? You don't see any of the elements from his previous films in his newer ones.
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:smokin Glad you saw it.

Spike, I dunno. Lack of inspiration I guess. He's tried but the takes he decides on don't turn out the best.

It would be nice to get a great black director churning out great movies on a consistent basis.
 
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Master Zik said:
It would be nice to get a great black director churning out great movies on a consistent basis.
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coogler?

I had the bar set a little too high for 12 years a slave after shame, but McQueen is there.. didn't realize that was 3 years ago and doesn't have anything coming according to imdb
 
Coogler's 2/2.

Isn't he set to direct Black Panther?

If so & if it's a success, then we can say he got the juice.
 
itsaboutthattime said:
Master Zik said:
It would be nice to get a great black director churning out great movies on a consistent basis.
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coogler?


I had the bar set a little too high for 12 years a slave after shame, but McQueen is there.. didn't realize that was 3 years ago and doesn't have anything coming according to imdb
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He had an HBO mini series that was supposed to come out. Vinyl blowing messed all that up.

The following was buried in a Hollywood Reporter piece published a few days ago, titled "HBO’s High-Class Problems: $100M ‘Vinyl’ Disappoints Amid ‘Westworld,’ David Fincher Woes," which takes a look at the premium cable TV giant’s waning ambitions, thanks, in part, to underwhelming ratings for "Vinyl," the new period rock drama from Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger, which premiered a couple of weeks ago: "THR has learned that McQueen’s drama, ‘Codes of Conduct,’ with Paul Dano, Helena Bonham Carter and Rebecca Hall, has been scrapped. The pilot was shot, and HBO had ordered a six-episode series before pulling out."

Devon Terrell Of course the project being referred to here is Steve McQueen’s "Codes of Conduct," which, announced a year ago, HBO had moved beyond the pilot stage, ordering a 6-episode season (it was meant to be a one-time limited/mini-series).

One of us here at S&A actually read the script for "Codes of Conduct," but we weren’t able to review it, because doing so would’ve meant having to give much of the plot away. So we passed. But now that it’s been shelved (although maybe not for good), we might go ahead and publish that review.
An exploration of a young African American man’s experience entering New York high society, with a past that may not be what it seems, newcomer Devon Terrell was to play a character named Beverly Snow – a talented, confident young man from Queens, NY, who, with a chameleon-like ability, breaks into the social circles of Manhattan’s elite, testing the boundaries of social mobility.

And as is common practice in the biz, it was reductively tagged as "Six Degrees Of Separation" meets "Shame." I threw Wendell B. Harris’ "Chameleon Street" into the mix as well.

The project was expected to be in McQueen’s signature provocative style – perfect for premium cable.
HBO was fast-tracking the project, meaning it would’ve premiered on the network some time in the current TV season, or over the coming summer.
On Terrell’s casting, McQueen shared the following: "I needed to find an extraordinary actor… Although you’re trying to find something you recognize, it’s more about finding something you’re surprised by. Devon had this quality. It was no easy task casting the character of Beverly Snow and, with the help of HBO, we left no stone unturned. This was a 10-month intense process in which we came across many talented actors, but only one Beverly."

This won’t be the first series we were anticipating here on S&A that HBO recently scrapped. In January, eight months after the network ordered a half-hour comedy from Diallo Riddle and Bashir Salahuddin to series, they pulled the plug on the project, which was to be titled "Brothers in Atlanta."

Executive produced by Lorne Michaels, along with Riddle and Salahuddin, the series was to star both actor/writer/comedians as 2 young struggling entertainers trying to make it big in Atlanta: "After some time apart, 2 old college friends, Langston Rogers (Riddle) and Musa ‘Moose’ Almuharib (Salahudin), reunite in the black mecca of the New South, Atlanta. Both determined to make it big, their unique perspectives on the quirks of both Atlanta and the black community inevitably lead to personal and professional conflicts."

Maya Rudolph, Finesse Mitchell and Jaden Smith were all part of the cast, in recurring roles. And Tim Story directed the pilot (and was to direct more episodes).

At the time of the announcement, HBO released the following statement: “After assessing our programming needs we talked to Bashir and Diallo and decided moving forward didn’t make sense for us at the time. We feel they are immensely talented and we hope to work with them in the future.”

Almost 2 months later, no word yet on whether another network is considering picking up the series.

As far as we know, Issa Rae’s "Insecure" is still in play; unless I just missed some announcement that it too had been yanked. Although I think Issa Rae would’ve mentioned something on her various social media pages, all of which I follow. So I think she’s good to go.

A key section from the Hollywood Reporter piece reads: "Yet HBO is in a period of challenge. It hasn’t had a breakout drama hit since ‘Game of Thrones’ launched in 2011, and in recent months, it has seen several troubled shows go expensively into and then out of production. Those include the mega-budgeted futuristic ‘Westworld,’ which was halted in December with several episodes shot but needing additional work. The series now might be pushed into 2017 despite an initial plan to have it ready last year. Other projects shut down well into the process include two shows from David Fincher, a limited series from Steve McQueen and another on Lewis and Clark from producers Brad Pitt and Tom Hanks. HBO says some of these may be revived. ‘We make no apologies for sticking by a project we believe has the potential to be great,’ says programming president Michael Lombardo. ‘Unfortunately, we also at times find ourselves in the position of deciding not to move forward with others. That is never fun, but that is our business.’

I’d submit that Netflix and Amazon (and even Hulu) getting heavy into the original scripted programming game, might also be influencing HBO’s woes.

"Codes of Conduct" was to be Terrell’s big introduction to the world; alas, it won’t be, unless some other network picks up the series, or maybe HBO revisits it at a later date, when they feel more assured of its success, or are willing to take the risk.

McQueen penned the script for "Codes of Conduct" with "World War Z" co-writer Matthew Michael Carnahan. Russell Simmons (yes, that Russell Simmons), and the Oscar-winning producers of "The King’s Speech," Iain Canning and Emile Sherman, were co-producers.

McQueen is currently working on a drama about the lives of black Britons for the BBC, which will tell the story of a West Indian community in London, across three decades, beginning at Enoch Powell’s infamous “Rivers of Blood” speech in 1968. It’ll follow the lives of a group of friends and their families from 1968 to 2014. A year ago, the BBC formally commissioned the “epic” drama, which will be produced by "Game of Thrones" producer Frank Doelger via his Rainmark Films banner, and former BBC Films executive Tracey Scoffield, with a spring 2016 shoot date eyed – which means we likely won’t see it until 2017.

It’ll be a 6-episode miniseries which McQueen will of course direct, and co-write alongside Debbie Tucker Green (most recently, she directed Idris Elba in what was her feature film directing debut, “Second Coming,” which world premiered at the London Film Festival and is now available on VOD here in the USA).
 
F. Gary Gray has been doing solid work. All his movies, IMO, have been good to very good, with Straight Outta Compton being the latest example. Law Abiding Citizen, Be Cool, The Negotiator and the Italian Job are all very solid watches. And Friday is, of course, legendary.

Never seen A Man Apart, which is a movie he did with Vin Diesel or Set it Off (in its entirety).

He's doing Fast 8 now, which I'm sure will be good . . . as an F&F movie can be.

J/K C CP1708
 
A Man Apart was really good. Surprisingly. Last time I saw Lorenz Tate too.

Reminds me of how hype I was for Dead Presidents, but film didn't tickle me the way the preview did. :frown:
 
^^^ Yeah, man. I was going to say O-Dog fell off hard, but then I checked his IMDB profile. Dude has been working steady all this time, but in TV and not movies. Still, after Menace, I expected him to really blow up and become a huge star and it never really happened.
 
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