The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread

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Chris Rock rebooting the Saw Franchise wut

[LoathedVermin72]

Yeah what could the studio possibly be thinking

Spoiler: show

[VinylGuy]

Chris Rock rebooting the Saw Franchise wut

yeah, weird.

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This should make you feel better, Joey. According to the film’s producer, those two minutes were cut at the studio’s behest due to poor critical reception. Kubrick always wanted to keep them in.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/ew.com/mov ... ained/amp/

The second outtake was a two-minute hospital scene that was placed after Jack froze to death and before the final shot of the ballroom photograph. In the scene (read the script pages), the hotel manager, Ullman (Barry Nelson), visits Wendy and Danny after their ordeal and explains that no supernatural evidence was found to support their claims of what transpired. Just when the audience begins to question everything they’ve seen, Ullman ominously gives Danny the same ball that was rolled to him from an unseen force outside Room 237.
Johnson: In other words: All of this really happened, and the magic events were actual. It was just a little twist. It was easy to jettison.
The hospital scene was included in the film’s preview screening for critics in New York and Los Angeles. Johnson has previously said Kubrick liked the scene because it reassured the audience that Wendy and Danny were okay. But Ullman giving Danny the ball ramped up audience confusion. So in a unusual move, Kubrick ordered it removed from prints distributed around the country.

Harlan: The tennis ball is the same thing as the photograph — it’s unexplainable. It makes Ullman now another ghost element. Was he the ghost from the very beginning? The film is complex enough because nothing is explained. That non-explaining is what was bad for the film initially. It was not a huge success. Now everybody thinks it’s the best horror film ever or whatever. But when it came out the audience expected a horror film with a resolution, with an explanation. Who is the baddie? What was going on? And they were disappointed — many of them, anyway. The fact they were left puzzled was exactly what Stanley Kubrick wanted. And when the film [screened for critics] and wasn’t well received, Warners quite rightly suggested, “It’s enough, just take [the hospital scene] out.” So Stanley did it. He’s not stubborn, especially since this is a film mainly to entertain people. But Stanley was actually very sad that he misread the audience, that he trusted the audience to live with puzzles and no answers, and that they didn’t like it.

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Guess it's better than trying to hit the old release date and change everything, thus burning out several effects houses.

Well, burning them more than is usual.

[dimejinky99]

Between two ferns. The movie


I fuckin love the premise. I can’t see it working in a movie though

[Jorge]

Ridley Scott to direct third Alien prequel movie, which is currently in the script phase

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/alie ... 203223989/

[LoathedVermin72]

HALLELUJAH

[BurtReynolds]

stop its already dead

[lennytheweedwhacker]

stop its already dead

let’s watch it together

[VinylGuy]

Amazing news

[Stickman]

[VinylGuy]

I love everything with Sly in the ranch.

[LoathedVermin72]

I am so so so in. All in.

[bada]

100% in. Just hate the idea that its the last one. Rambo forever.

[LoathedVermin72]

100% in. Just hate the idea that its the last one. Rambo forever.

He’s 72, man. How much longer could it go?

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"New Blood" ... Summer 2022

[LoathedVermin72]

"New Blood" ... Summer 2022

Please no...it never works when they try to introduce younger characters

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"New Blood" ... Summer 2022

Please no...it never works when they try to introduce younger characters

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I was just riffing on another "Blood" title. I didn't imagine a "new Rambo" or anything like that.