Be Excellent To Each Other

Sex.

The kids figure that virgins are all more vulnerable to Pennywise, so they all line up and take turns with Bev.

Not overly surprised that it didn't make it into the movie

If it had been directed by Woody Allen it might have.

The fuck?! How don't I remember that?

Or Roman Polanski.
Or Luc Besson.
Or Bryan Singer.
Or Victor Salva.

I think Hollywood might have a problem.

I don't know? It's really jarring and weirdly out of place in the book.

Did it get taken out in later revisions?

Apparently not. Maybe I'll read it again.

Read what again?

It

Because you’re into child sex?

Who isn't?

The children

Fine, be that way.

When did Luc Besson have sex with kids? I picked woody because he'd actually done it (allegedly).

I'm not sure Leon was in any way inappropriate, if that's what you're referring to? Then again I haven't watched it for years.

He can fuck off for Valerian though.

Leon was a bit more inappropriate in the 'international version'.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110413/alternateversions

There's also the fact that her parents totally objected to shooting a lot of that stuff, but he went ahead and shot it anyway. I didn't mean to suggest he had sex with a child, but it's absolutely inappropriate.

Those crazy Frenchmen!

Still, kind of harsh to put him in such an "illustrious" company.

Besides, do you think writers or movie directors should never tell immoral stories at all? Besides, it's not uncommon for a grown child/early teen girl to have a crush on a grown adult. There's the question on how did he protect the underage actress in this instance of the story he was about to tell. I do remember that the fake name "Natalie Portman" came into being to protect her, but i don't know if it was the director's or the parents idea.

Jem and I took the kids to watch Paddington 2 yesterday - we've not seen the first one though.

Great film, and I was in tears for a lot of it (not through laughter either!) - they really went for my heartstrings. I'm getting soft.

Yes I cried a lot.. they hit that well.

I'm not sure if this follows from the previous posts - did Paddington boff a kid?

I think it is child abuse to force them into sexual situations explicitly against the parents wishes, and that includes acting.

Main point isn't really to condemn him, but to condemn the movie industry for not giving a shit about this kind of thing.

It's a real shame that they switched from Katie Holmes to Maggie Gyllenhaal in the Batman films.

Indeed, it's just a matter on how it was done. We don't know for certainly what occurred behind the scenes and how the director and parents explained to her the script and what the movie was about. For example afaik, the kid from the shining didn't know he was acting in an horror film at all.

Nah

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Maggie is way more charismatic imo, and a better actress. Katie is prettier but too vanilla.

Should've gone with Jennifer Connelly, am I right?

That's the right answer for every question in life.

It's going to be a little weird if Jake is cast as Batman though.

Watched the first 10 minutes of the new IT film last night, it covered the scene where Georgie meets Pennywise in the drain with his paper boat.



So far looks to be good!

See, I don't like this.

Watched 'The Autopsy of Jane Doe' on Netflix last night. The description of it was deliberately vague.

A 1 on the Craster scale even from just within the Netflix app without even watching the film.

Rather enjoyed the Will Smith film, 'Bright' on Netflix, although it felt like a mix of End of Watch, Alien Nation and Warcraft. There are stormtrooper-levels of bad guy shooting though.

End of Watch is one of my very favourite films.

Bright was directed by David Ayer, who directed End of Watch.

I very much liked End Of Watch too, I will watch Bright soon.

Bright’s reviews have been incredibly bad. And the trailer looked bad. And I say this as someone who played Shadowrun for many years, so I’m down with urban fantasy.

There's also this about Bright

Edit: How am I supposed to link to a post? I mean the stuff I posted in that other thread.

The Guardian gave it 3/5, by all accounts they tried to cram too much into not enough running time.

Since it's on Netflix I'll give it a watch, I like Will Smith anyway.

I think you usually click the time stamp?

That's what I did, but then the link seems to be broken when I post it into a url tag. It looks correct in preview but then looks broken in the actual post. Or is it just looked broken on my end?

I think it's Grim's auto-hashtagging thing getting in the way rather than anything you're doing wrong.

That was pretty much my reasoning too. It's not a classic by any means, but it's better than some stuff I've watched this year.

Yes this.

Watched it last night. Some good ideas in there.

A bit signposted towards the end.

Yeah, it is. I'll fix it.

From what I’ve read, the reviews seem to go from awful to decent romp. Apparently the original screenplay was meant to be good but hasn’t translated so well. But then there are a load of sexual assault allegations coming out about the writer anyway, so ugh.

I'd also say that the writer has a habit of saying that they didn't do his screenplay justice for two previous movies (American Ultra and Victor Frankenstein). Obviously a lot of this goes on with making movies, where the final work is only loosely based on the screenplay, but it's pretty telling that very few writers air this concern publicly before a movie comes out.

Closest other recent example I can think of is Fantastic Four where director Josh Trank disowned the movie a few days before release, and ironically Max Landis & Josh Trank both worked together on the somehow excellent Chronicle.

I've never written a screenplay, but I'd imagine a big part of the skill is to balance giving the studio what they want with telling an interesting story.

Reminds me of what Scorsese says. Studios can now do anything they want with modern technology, and the skill a good filmmaker needs is to navigate the studio system effectively enough to be able to tell a personal story.

All that’s true, though it was other people mentioning the screenplay quality, as Landis hasn’t posted on Twitter since he was outed as a sexual assaulting dipshit.

I'm about halfway through Bright. It's... okay. Some heavy handed race relations allegories, and largely carried by Mr Smith.