In the interview with Empire, Villeneuve said shifting from sandworms to spies is truly his ideal situation. “I thought, ‘When it’s done, I need a very powerful rocket to pull me away from Arrakis.’ When I was asked to do the next Bond, I said: ‘Okay, this is what I need.'”

He also admitted, “I’m tired of it,” and he channeled that Dune weariness into his creativity: “I want to make sure that I will be severe with the material. That I will not be complacent.”

Word is that the opening five minutes of Terminator 2: Judgment Day has the same budget as the entire first film, and it's easy to see why. The prologue is a short glimpse of the Future War where the human resistance fight the robot forces of Skynet at night in a decisive battle, facing off against giant tanks and automated VTOLs. While James Cameron loved the setting he showed restraint and devoted only one scene to the conflict, since it doesn't feature any of the four principal actors.

Where in the first film we only saw the skeletal T-800 in rickety stop-motion at the climax, here we get a few cool seconds of him in motion as an animatronic. In the behind-the-scenes footage you can see Stan Winston's team practising the iconic shot where the T-800 crushes a child's skull into powder by stepping on it (Kudos to the children who donated their skulls for this moment). Notably we don't see any skeletal T-800's outside of this prologue, as it would have ruined the emotional climax of the movie if Arnie was missing all his skin when young John Connor hugs him. There are four T-800's together in one shot and nowhere else, two of them being articulate puppets and the other pair being mostly static props. It's an incredible animatronic for what little we see of it.

The Future War was the last scene filmed and it's important to consider the many special-effects heavy set-pieces they had to plan, storyboard, budget, and execute. The truck chase in the water channel, the hospital escape, blowing up Cyberdyne, the frequent body-horror, the climax at the foundry, and everything to do with the T-1000's shapeshifting nature. At a budget of 100 million, Terminator 2 was the most expensive film ever made back in 1991 and every dollar of it is on-screen. In all honesty it would have been cheaper to just hire real android assassins from the future to get the movie done. Terrific film, glad they stopped at two.

But what if James Cameron and crew had blown the entire budget on just two of those scenes and the rest of the film was entirely dialogue? Just Arnie on an empty stage, speaking all the lines off the script in his thick accent and voicing all the sound-effects? Imagine if Cameron flooded the Grand Staircase in Titanic, only to shit himself upon realising he hadn't filmed any other scenes there like the heavenly reunion between Jack and Rose? What if David Lean demanded every camera look up at some rare butterfly that flew into view while the bridge over the River Kwai blew up behind him? Creativity aside, all movies are a matter of deadlines and logistics, and sometimes a production can get out of hand regarding one aspect. Maybe they get a sequence or two done to perfection, but it comes at the expense of the film as a whole. Or a ton of money and talent goes towards crafting a set-piece or special-effect that in the final film is sub-par, barely noticeable, or cut entirely.

Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) came out six months prior to Terminator 2 and is remembered as the premier of Hollywood bombs that wasn't Kevin Costner's fault. The movie begins with a five-minute tracking shot of a drunken Bruce Willis arriving at a party in his honour (at the Winter Garden atrium that was later destroyed on 9/11). It's a technically proficient scene but has a weirdly chipper tone for what is supposed to be the intro to a pitch-black satire. Willis's performance and narration is just plain awful here, and the film as a whole is remembered for its fatal casting choices and blunt interpretation of the source-material. They spent 80,000 dollars on getting a shot of a Concorde plane landing at JFK airport during sunset. An impressive feat, but also ten seconds that doesn't counter-balance the other two hours of arse. Julie Salamon tells the story best about the film's turbulent production in her book The Devil's Candy.

King Kong (1976): I like to believe this film secretly tells the backstory of Jeff Bridges' Dude from The Big Lebowski, as tussling with an oversized ape will turn any man into a pothead slacker who loves to go bowling. In this retelling of King Kong, 2 of the 24 million dollar budget went towards an animatronic of the ape that was forty-feet tall. What was the total screen-time of this giant? About 15 seconds. The machine was too hard to operate and unconvincing in motion, so they went ahead with a then-unknown Rick Baker in an ape suit for the majority of the runtime. To give credit to the animatronic's designer, Carlo Rambaldi, he did later create E.T. It was a slow year for Hollywood because King Kong actually won an Oscar for special-effects alongside Logan's Run. You ever see the robot in that one? He looks like a tin-foil cereal box that wants to kill Spider-Man. No wonder Star Wars set the film industry ablaze the very next year. King Kong '76 was a mediocre film all round, but goddamn was Jessica Lange smoking in that one.

Other Fodder Examples:

The Thief & The Cobbler started production in 1964 and then never stopped for three decades. It's a breathtaking technical feat of hand-drawn animation, but a failure as a cohesive film. Beautiful but dull. You know that gag in cartoons with an elaborate Rube Goldberg device where random objects bump into each other like dominoes towards some comedic outcome? That happens in the climax of this film and it goes on for ten fucking minutes. Even in a world where Richard Williams had no shortage of funding I still can't fathom he'd have ever finished it in his lifetime. Lindsay Ellis tells the story best.

Justice League (2017) went through the effort of reshooting half the movie despite principal photography being complete, costing an extra 25 million instead of the more typical 10 for a blockbuster. Zack Snyder had to leave production for personal reasons, and his sweaty replacement went far beyond just finishing the movie with the material that entered his damp hands. Sometimes this degree of post-hoc meddling works, with the Anchorman we got being far more funny than the version that was planned. But with a special-effects heavy superhero ensemble it sounds insane to add an entire subplot from cloth about some Russian family in peril. Why were they in the movie? I haven't watched the notorious Snyder Cut and don't plan to, but it's interesting knowing there's a third unmade version of the film out there meant for a 2017 audience with a theatrical runtime and a perfectly normal upper lip on Henry Cavill.

Because I'm tired of seeing dudes complaining about rose being a d!ck to her real husband after pining longingly on her deathbed over a random nobody she met as a young adult for like a day. I get it, that can def be seen as a crappy move, but it's a crappy move because a dude who doesn't know what romance is, wrote it. not because a woman (who never existed) actually thought that way. Remember, this is the same dude who wrote about a hardcore marine going native after only 3 months. -and not even relatable native, like giant, blue-ball, alien native. So the lesson here is look at who wrote the dam movie before you complain about your representation.

Adam Sandler top 10 movies netflix and 2 on youtube

1. Happy Gilmore

2. Thats my boy

3. You dont mess with the Zohan

3.25 Big daddy

3.5 mr Deeds

3.75 Billy Madison

1. Anger management

4.25 Click

4.5 Grown ups

1. Happy Gilmore 2

5.1. Blended

5.75 The longest yard

1. Ridiculous 6

6.5. The Do Over

1. Sandy Wexler

2. Hubie halloween

8.5 Murder mystery 2

1. Murder mystery

9.5. Grown ups 2

1. The week of

Directed by two-time Academy Award winner Ben Proudfoot, THE EYES OF GHANA follows the story of Chris Hesse – the personal cameraman to the first president of Ghana, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.

The documentary Hesse's attempts to rescue more than 1,000 films capturing Africa’s fight for independence in the 1950s & ’60s.

Summer movies just hit different

Definitely one of the best summer movies . What i love about it is that you got two different sides , the one at home where his mom and her boyfriend portray this mundane n  stressful life and the one at the waterpak where stuff goes so right its almost unreal.

You get the stress and sadness when he is at home and you get this feel-good relief when he is at work.

Even the ending is amazing , where you got a grounded scenario where the family leaves and mom doesnt break up , and you got the surreal scenario where he passes Owen in the waterslide and everyone cheers.

Definitely a must watch !

So far the reviews of all the movies ongoing are terrible. I was looking forward to seeing a film this week but the reviews are awful. Other mommy is being called literal trash. Digger which I did not enjoy at all has had the biggest box office flop of all time. The social reckoning has been called a caricature Zuckerberg performance of the social network that lacks cinema visuals. The Uprising which I was excited for has now been criticised to a shaky camera of a messy reimagined Robin hood. Everyone knew verity would be terrible just like any Colleen hoover adaptation. The only film I’ve enjoyed this month has been resident evil. Phenomenal film. What have people enjoyed so far this month and what do you recommend? I feel like skipping cinema this week and maybe waiting for clayface and street fighter.

I'm looking to catch up on movies that are considered essential viewing. I'm talking about widely acclaimed classics and iconic films that have stood the test of time like The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Forrest Gump...

I'm not necessarily looking for obscure gems but rather those movies that you think everyone should watch at least once in their life.

If you had to pick just 5 what would they be?

I very recently watched the movie Conspiracy (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266425/) and today I saw Naza in cinema https://naza-documentary.com/

Those two movies very perfectly compliments each other.

Without spoiling too much.

Both describe the mechanics and procedures of genocide and how to organize it in a way that people can perform the genocide by separation of duties, "just doing my job" and also in a way with plausible deniability.

One big difference is the ending of Naza.

Highly recommend.

Naza is an intensely well made movie.

Nobody spoke after the movie. People say shell shocked. A feeling that moving was breaking a taboo. That moving would make it real.

After several minutes people walked out. Silently. Still shell shocked. Beautiful. Like a fire.

Together with the recent revelations about the warnings about October 7 and Bibi not acting on them, watching Conspiracy before or after makes the two movies a perfect pair.

If you have watched NAZA, what did you think about the ending?

I had a feeling that the ending underlined perfectly the way you as a viewer of the confessions of the IDF people in tel aviv far from the actual ground in Gaza, got lulled into the same distance from the actual horrors on the ground that the whole Israeli society has gotten lulled into. That is NOT an excuse. But the director hits hard with the ending that this could happen to the viewer too. Or do i over analyze?

Probably Hoppers, Sheep Detectives, Coyote Vs Acme, The Invite, and Send Help. None of these movies had the most promising trailers, but I really loved them all. I was also somewhat pleasantly surprised with Minions and Monsters. I really don't care about the despicable me movies, I don't hate them, but this recent one was decent enough, not a movie i'd watch again, but a movie that actually seemed like they put a lot of effort in.

The lion king was lowkey the perfect animated movie. It teaches a philosophy of life pretty well without feeling like a lecture, treats concepts as real. It feels deep but not unnecessarily complicated, it just becomes profound because it takes simple ideas seriously. Characters face lasting consequences, comedy exists together with tragedy, the plot is driven by a central moral conflict, etc. It was something an entire family could watch because the surface level for the kids was interesting and well crafted but also a deeper layer for adults. It introduces serious realities through stories children can emotionally understand before being able to consciously explain them intellectually, and as they grow up the story matures with them.

Meanwhile modern kids movies have become just dopamine injected slop, plot is just a vehicle for jokes and set pieces, conflicts are resolved too easily, themes are explained and spoon fed through dialogue. It doesn't make the viewer think for a single second and instead is focused on just giving them something to watch.

I think the new format of movies can have bad effects on future generations, they protect children from the serious realities of life, overstimulate them, and are pure slop.

Out starting today, for 1 week in theatre's. 4k of Director's Cut. Just got tickets for 6 of us.

I'm a pretty solid Ken Russell fan, as his stuff simply isn't like anything else to me. His fever dream style of cinematography usually grab me pretty hard. As time goes on, it's lost a bit of impact, but I've never had the chance to see this, and am very excited. Anyone else going? Has seen before?

https://theconversation.com/possessed-nuns-and-sexual-deviance-the-history-behind-ken-russells-highly-censored-film-the-devils-294049

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImeXlanF3iY

You know the scene, at the end the Villain has the upper hand and all hope is lost but they forgot one thing or the protagonist slipped one thing up and then it all comes crashing down for the bad guy.

Spoilers obviously:

Shawshank Redemption is an easy one that comes to mind.

Iron Man - Tony is fighting Obadiah “you solve the icing problem?”

Lord of the Rings: ROTK “no man can kill me!”

Aladdin he tricks Jafar into wishing to be a genie

Princess Bride: they were both poison

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1998) if you know you know.

Actors Austin Abrams and Josh Brolin, alongside director Brian Duffield & writer Daniel Kraus, joined us for an AMA/Q&A last week. That can be found here. It was an in-person event for r/movies, where members of the community were treated to a complimentary screening of Whalefall in 4DX (at Regal Times Square), along with food & drinks, followed by an in-person AMA/Q&A with Austin, Josh, Brian, and Daniel. Here are some photos from the event.

Austin stopped by yesterday to answer a few more questions via video.

Here are the original questions for anyone interested.

Question #1 from /u/skellingtonjacks:

Did you have a favorite scene that you shot?

Question #2 from u/MobileResident5527:

How did you and Josh prepare to play father and son? What do you hope viewers take away from Mitt and Jay's relationship?

Question #3 from u/Adeline_Hayes:

The trailer gave me chills. Did the production work with marine biologists to get the whale's behavior right? Asking as a nature documentary addict

Question #4 from /u/Weary_Hunt_3374:

Since Whalefall is a book to screen adaptation, what's your favorite book to screen adaptation that you've seen recently (or ever)? Why did you like it? And, did you read the book it was based on?

Question #5 from u/MobileResident5527:

Did bringing this story to life change how you and the team feel about the ocean at all?

Thanks to everyone for the questions and for the 4 guests for joining us in person and again virtually yesterday. Please keep an eye out for more r/movies-exclusive in-person events.

Came across this article where James Gunn was talking about the possibility of a Batman Beyond movie. He agrees that Michael Keaton is the perfect person to play the grumpy old Bruce Wayne. Gunn apparently loves the show and basically says that it deserves some love from the studio. As for who plays Terry, I think that it should be a unknown or rising actor. I would love to see a fresh face for Terry. Same thing for Dana and Max.

https://www.hola.com/us/entertainment/20261014929118/james-gunn-batman-beyond-movie-comments-michael-keaton-return/

I'm trying to decide what to watch this Friday, October 16, and I can only pick one since I have AMC A-List.

My options are:

- Street Fighter

- Whalefall

- You Can See Everything

- Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother

- Once Upon a Time in Harlem

I've been looking forward to all five, so I'm having a hard time choosing. Which one do you think is the most worth seeing in theaters, and why? I'm especially interested in hearing from people who've seen any of them at early screenings or festivals.

If you could only choose one, which would it be?