The “This’ll be shit, I reckon” thread

[El Unicornio, mang]

Different rights. A compulsory license (the one which allows a cover to be released without explicit permission) only covers "mechanical" rights; to release an audio-visual presentation using a song requires a "synchronisation" license, which must be negotiated with the rights holder and can't be compulsorily obtained.

Ah right, that makes sense. Thanks!

[Mister Six]

You're not a space alien, you're from Bromley, man!

"There's a Bromley man waiting in the sky..."

[Thomas]

The lad in the miserable Mozzer biopic could at least do a great Morrissey voice. And, accounting for its absentee soundtrack, that film had the excuse of being set prior to the existence of any Smiths songs (though he turns in an excellent vocal performance when he does sing).

[Icehaven]

God, Mr. Haven is making me sit through the absolutely godawful 'Dare To Dream' based on The Secret. He's enjoying it but it's giving me diabetes. Goodbye cruel world.

[Hand Solo]

Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones, Morgan Freeman, Zach Braff, Emile Hirsch

Star
In

Remeber Mel Brooks' The Producers? Well It's That Again But With The Added Thing Of Showing Them Making The Movie Within The Movie That's Been Popular The Last Few Years Like The Disaster Artist Or Once Upon A Time In Hollywood But Ripping Off The Plot From The Producers. Well, That.

The Comeback Trail

[Gulftastic]

I like how the first three names have 'Academy Award Winner' above them, but then it's just 'Zach Braff'.

[frajer]

I like how the first three names have 'Academy Award Winner' above them, but then it's just 'Zach Braff'.

'Ill-Advised Kickstarter Starter' Zach Braff

[dissolute ocelot]

'Ill-Advised Kickstarter Starter' Zach Braff

Grammy Winner Zack Braff[nb]Seriously, he made a mix tape for the Garden State soundtrack and won a fucking Grammy for best soundtrack for it[/nb]

[dead-ced-dead]

Grammy Winner Zack Braff[nb]Seriously, he made a mix tape for the Garden State soundtrack and won a fucking Grammy for best soundtrack for it[/nb]

Does anyone remember, in the month following Garden State, when people were saying Braff was "the voice of a generation." Seriously, it was a big marketing push.

It's why when he starred in the rubbish The Last Kiss, they let him choose the soundtrack and re-draft the script. They really thought that in a couple of years time, Braff was going to be the big American indie wunderkind, like an American Xavier Dolan. He very nearly remade the brilliant Dogme 95 film Open Hearts. All of this fizzled out by 2006 when The Last Kiss flopped and was shit, but can you imagine Zach fucking Braff butchering Open Hearts?

[Icehaven]

Thought James Corden couldn't possibly do anything worse than Cats? Actually you probably think if anyone could sink even lower it'd be him, and you'd be right as he's apparently made an absolute dog's dinner of playing a gay character now.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/dec/09/james-corden-the-prom-netflix-proves-straight-actors-playing-gay-should-think-twice

I think at this point if he had to play a chubby British character actor who inexplicably made it as a TV presenter in America he'd fuck it up somehow. I almost want to sit through a bit of this just to see if it's as hideously caricature-ish as the article suggests, but I think the combination of Corden and Nicole Kidman together on the screen for even a few seconds might make me drink bleach.

[dead-ced-dead]

I think at this point if he had to play a chubby British character actor who inexplicably made it as a TV presenter in America he'd fuck it up somehow.

Is James Corden really considered a character actor?

[Icehaven]

Is James Corden really considered a character actor?

I just thought it was a cover-all term for 'not (handsome enough to be) a leading man'.

[dead-ced-dead]

I just thought it was a cover-all term for 'not (handsome enough to be) a leading man'.

I think it often is, but I tend to think of it as being actors who are too weird and are given the weirder roles, but I think it's one of those terms that doesn't quite have a definitive meaning.

[Icehaven]

I think it often is, but I tend to think of it as being actors who are too weird and are given the weirder roles, but I think it's one of those terms that doesn't quite have a definitive meaning.

Yeah I just had a look at the Wikipedia definition and it does seem to imply it means actors with considerably more about them than Corden. It even says some character actors are so versatile audiences don't always recognise them in different roles, and there's no danger of that with him unfortunately.   

[idunnosomename]

I think that James Corden is the exact opposite of a character actor, in that he always plays an obnoxious fat cunt.

[Cuellar]

Thought James Corden couldn't possibly do anything worse than Cats? Actually you probably think if anyone could sink even lower it'd be him, and you'd be right as he's apparently made an absolute dog's dinner of playing a gay character now.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/dec/09/james-corden-the-prom-netflix-proves-straight-actors-playing-gay-should-think-twice

I think at this point if he had to play a chubby British character actor who inexplicably made it as a TV presenter in America he'd fuck it up somehow. I almost want to sit through a bit of this just to see if it's as hideously caricature-ish as the article suggests, but I think the combination of Corden and Nicole Kidman together on the screen for even a few seconds might make me drink bleach.

The film that the Guardian just gave 4 stars. Although it was Bradshaw - 'is Ryan Murphy's musical the first film of the Biden era?' Probably, and apt by the sounds of it i.e. shit

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/dec/01/the-prom-review-ryan-murphy-nicole-kidman

[dissolute ocelot]

The film that the Guardian just gave 4 stars. Although it was Bradshaw - 'is Ryan Murphy's musical the first film of the Biden era?' Probably, and apt by the sounds of it i.e. shit

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/dec/01/the-prom-review-ryan-murphy-nicole-kidman

Since with Pose, Murphy managed to turn the story of the AIDS pandemic, New York's varied gay subcultures, and the rise of Trump into a series of shitty soap opera plot points, despite having a brilliant cast, I dread to think how bad he would be with James Fucking Corden in the lead.

[beanheadmcginty]

Has anybody ever use the pun "Corden bleurgh" as a review for any of his films? It's just sitting there.

[SteveDave]

https://youtu.be/BprIf34eXUU

Fuck me. This ain't your grandma's Oliver Twist.

Everything about this feels like it's 20 years out of date.

[St_Eddie]

https://youtu.be/BprIf34eXUU

Fuck me. This ain't your grandma's Oliver Twist.

Everything about this feels like it's 20 years out of date.

Are generation Z so obsessed with their iPhones that studios are now pandering to them by presenting their trailers as though you're watching them on your mobile?

[Hand Solo]

https://youtu.be/BprIf34eXUU

Fuck me. This ain't your grandma's Oliver Twist.

Everything about this feels like it's 20 years out of date.

[Ferris]

https://youtu.be/BprIf34eXUU

Fuck me. This ain't your grandma's Oliver Twist.

Everything about this feels like it's 20 years out of date.

Loved the stunt of a van going through a little bit of plastic fence at low speeds (1m36s).

Wicked, man!

[Bad Ambassador]

"Hmm, this looks like a load of shit."
*Walliams enters*
"...am I awake?"

[kalowski]

https://youtu.be/BprIf34eXUU

Fuck me. This ain't your grandma's Oliver Twist.

Everything about this feels like it's 20 years out of date.

Well done to CITV getting Michael Caine and Claudia Winkleman.

[Bazooka]

You get Michael Caine on board to give it some pizzazz and calibre, and he fucks it even further tonally and looks the worst thing in it.

[Sonny_Jim]

Of course Noel Clarke is in it, he would be.  It looks farkin' shit.  It's that Kingsman/Snatch aesthetic that seems to click with a certain sort of crowd, but a Urban graffiti free-running movie belongs in the early 2000's.

[The Mollusk]

OF COURSE IT'S JUST CALLED "TWIST" ISN'T IT

This would make a great movie night double feature along with "White Glove Massive".

[Dex Sawash]

and Claudia Winkleman.

Is that her off Game of Thrones playing Winkleman?

[SteveDave]

OF COURSE IT'S JUST CALLED "TWIST" ISN'T IT

This would make a great movie night double feature along with "White Glove Massive".

Or "Speeding On The Needle Bliss"

[olliebean]

Are generation Z so obsessed with their iPhones that studios are now pandering to them by presenting their trailers as though you're watching them on your mobile?

More to the point, do they not think generation Z are capable of turning their iPhones sideways to watch a landscape format video?