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I believe a rumour, and have no reason to suspect it's untrue, that the actor in question was Peter Dinklage.
I would say the one thing he does well most of all is his ability to create very good scenes of dialogue driven tension - Jules' and Ringo's confrontation at the diner in PF, Jules' and Brett's scene, the scenes in IB of the protagonists being interrogated, Candie at the dinner table in DU, and maybe the best of all which he didn't direct but still wrote, the scene between Walken and Hopper in True Romance. This is something that seems to be more absent in his recent films and from the sounds of this movie idea I'm not sure where they would fit in there either, so maybe just as well he plumps for another idea. You can bet your life savings that he would have fitted some close up shots of women's feet into it though.
Maybe he can play a trans character? It would be fitting considering his stance on the matter and I expect there will be enough wokeness to allow such a character to exist.
You can never properly tell from a trailer but I suppose when I saw that I did think there was at least some interesting imagery going on, so slightly more hope raised than when I saw the Exorcist: Believer trailer, which looked a bit more generic and reliant on fan service. That said, it's still surprising it's rated as high as it is.
The whole part about the aliens not understanding the concept of lying and fantasy really is rather stupid, not just considering how intelligent they're supposed to be and how observant of the human race they've been, but also because they've actually been tricking humans to see things that aren't actually there, basically masking the truth themselves.
It doesn't but it certainly helps paint an image of someone being more accepting of different people and cultures and therefore more likely to be good. Already we can say that the First Order aren't guilty of racism or misogyny. It makes it harder to buy that they are an evil organisation. They may as well just be evil for the sake of being evil.
The flitting between happy and unhappy in Dickie alludes more to his personality than anything. It's as Marge says on the boat that one minute Dickie can give you all the attention and the other give you the cold shoulder. However, towards the end I don't think there is much ambiguity in Dickie having lost some of that earlier warmth towards Tom, as a result of Tom's behaviour, the difference in their personalities, and the dependence on Dickie. Dickie is still happy to go with Tom for one last trip and appears to be in good spirits around Tom, probably more as a result of going to a new place and experiencing the music, but the underlying feeling is that he has grown tired of Tom and will be relieved when he goes, which he practically admits before getting killed. You can tell when you compare how Dickie acts around Tom at the station before their last trip to when they are at the station previously.
It must boil your blood to see all these Brit actors infiltrate Hollywood and take the roles of archetypal American superheroes - Batman, Superman, Spiderman. Kind of funny really, those are like your 3 most popular and beloved comic book heroes.
The film was pretty plotless and boring apart from the scene at the ranch and the ending. Arguably Tarantino's weakest for me. If the next film is his last it might be good timing.
I agree I don't think it happened and was just imagined in Bateman's head, at least a large chunk of it was. Straight off the bat, the whole section from the card machine to the call to his lawyer was obviously a fantasy. The machine saying to feed it the stray cat is already a dead giveaway and he couldn't create that sort of mess and not face the repercussions. Similar to the killing of the prostitute with the chainsaw. He can't magically make all that go away. The only thing that could really remotely suggest some might be real, and probably why the director put it in here, is the reaction of the estate agent at Paul Allen's apartment. She seems a little too disturbed by Bateman's presence, like more than from his acting all paranoid and almost as if she's seen something or is aware of something. Doubtful she would have seen bodies or body parts but could have been something else.
The Walking Dead ran out of steam by about the third season. I gave up at about season 5 when they couldn't find anything else in the story to do than for the main group of survivors to bump into another group of survivors in their protected little sanctuary, until all hell breaks loose and they are on the road again looking for another group of survivors to bump into. Hard to believe they dragged it out for so long and with spin offs that are presumably more of the same.
Honestly, zombie apocalypse shows and films are boring now and can't offer anything we haven't seen tonnes of times before. The Last of Us was the same, just with higher production values.
Tom Hanks and Saving Mr Banks.
I dare say seeing the success of Top Gun: Maverick too might have had a hand in it for these studios. Suddenly they've been shown what is possible for a popular once standalone 80's movie.
The only thing you need to know is that it's probably going to suck.
I think it's pretty entertaining and at least goes in a slightly different direction for a zombie flick to the usual tired and limited plot in this genre. A plot that usually always involves a group of survivors in the midst of a zombie apocalypse going from A to B, meeting other survivors along the way, before ultimately one or more of them gets infected. I mean it sort of does that as there is little else you can do with zombie apocalypse movies, but I appreciate how this one shows the zombie outbreak on a much larger scale, going global with it. I realise that's as much down to the source material though, which I haven't read.
It delivers well on set pieces, such as with the beginning scene, Israel, and on the plane, even if it's a bit ridiculous how the latter 2 events materialise.
Got to agree with this. I always thought his transition from nice guy fighting for a good cause to bad guy was too unbelievable even after his experiences. He'd need to have some serious inner demons in place already to want to be prepared to commit pedicide thereafter.
At least in Gareth Edwards' hands we know the special effects are going to be top notch, as they should be for a Jurassic Park movie.
I thought she was one of the favourites to win the award and it was a good performance by her. I'm not getting the idea of being ridiculed either. They almost all expected her to win hence Emma Stone directing more attention to her in her acceptance speech.
Yeah the irony is Will Smith was one of the ones pushing for more black representation and now his slap has pushed it back.
I couldn't even understand why Emily Blunt was nominated, let alone being worthy of winning the thing. The character was underdeveloped and the performance was nothing special.