• cv_octavio@piefed.ca
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    7 days ago

    Ronald Reagan. Any movie where he’s a stigmatized gay man during the early AIDS epidemic. I want to sit in that directors chair and watch him get more and more visibly uncomfortable.

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    There’s a strong case to be made the Rise Of Skywalker was the shit-show it was because Carrie Fisher died. The idea for the trilogy (as little of a plan as there actually was) was for the first film to centre Han, the second to centre Luke, and the third to centre Leia.

    Then Fisher died and they had to rework the entire film without any change to the release schedule. And they reanimated her corpse in the most unconvincing and disrespectful way.

    I’m not saying the film would have been good - because it probably wouldn’t have been - but I don’t think it would have been the silly, incoherent mess that it actually was. And it’d have been nice for Fisher to be able to give Leia a proper send-off, especially as the character was what catapulted her into stardom in the first place.

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      This. I said it at the time, I don’t know what the correct answer was.

      She died a year before Last Jedi came out, so they could have Lucased the hell out of that movie, made it hers, killed her off gracefully instead of Luke, then given the 3rd film to him.

      Or they could have re-cast Leia. I think Michelle Fairley from Game of Thrones could have pulled it off, and it’s not like they hadn’t already done multiple actors before.

  • MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I choose the TRON franchise. I want to bring it back from the dead and do a TRON Legacy sequel starring Elijah Wood as Beck.

    If I’m not allowed to bring franchises back from the dead then I choose the old man from the first movie, he’s probably dead by now.

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    This summer…“Who? Me? King? We-he-he-heeeell, I have been called a lot worse, sugar”…Chris Farley is…“no, no, no, no, those were the guys that got em, see? I-I-I just took care of it for ya! Does this look like the face of a guy who just killed a king? :D”…Macbeth. “-in a horseless cart DOWN BY THE RIVER!!!”

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      This would be great. As a huge fan of Almost Heroes, I really wish Chris Farley had gotten a chance to do more historical comedies.

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    Since you said, “one more movie”, I guess it has to be a movie actor. Otherwise, I’d probably pick an author like Shakespeare, who was also an actor, and obviously, he’d be acting in something new that he wrote. Wouldn’t it be better to end up with a new work?

    Otherwise, I’d choose a universally beloved actor who would be willing to make a serious movie that speaks out against what is happening today in America will authority, conviction, and gravitas. Like, Charlie Chaplin starred in The Great Dictator. Maybe he’d be excited to star in a movie that shits all over Trump and MAGA.

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    I could go for another Farley + Spade buddy movie but at their ages they would be now. I wonder what that would look like in 2025.

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    John Cazale - every film he was in was Oscar nominated for Best Picture, so you’d imagine this extra one would have a shot at being good too.

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    Watched the original Road House night before last. Told my wife I would have loved to see Patrick Swayze keep on. He wasn’t the best actor of all time, but I could see his performance maturing into something truly strong with another decade or two under his belt.

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        I talked so much shit about Heath Ledger playing the Joker before that movie came out. The pretty boy from “10 Things I Hate About You?” Ridiculous. Just getting a big name, you know? And then he was beyond incredible, and a perfect example of what the Joker should be.

        That made me hold my tongue when so many questionable choices for actors came out in the future, like both Ben Affleck and Robert Pattinson for Batman.

        Turns out Ledger was just an anomaly, though. So I’m still not going to be watching Tron: Ares.