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[Xprimentyl]

There're in the works for a prequel to Heat. God damn it. Why can't they just leave good enough alone? Heat is an amazing film featuring some stellar actors; why sully it's legacy with another film no one asked for and is completely unmerited???

Full disclosure, I am biased. Heat is a film very close to my heart as it introduced me to Moby's "God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters" which would go on to be the catalyst for my passion for Electronic music, so it remains a very perfect and formative moment in my lifetime. They need to leave it alone. Pacino and De Niro are getting up in years; let's not waste their remaining time on cash-grabby films trying to capitalize on what they've already done well.

Al Pacino thinks Timothée Chalamet should play him in a Heat prequel film

The actor shared his thoughts at the Tribeca Film Festival reunion panel for Michael Mann's 1995 crime masterpiece.

www.yahoo.com

 

[BrawlMan]

There're in the works for a prequel to Heat. God damn it. Why can't they just leave good enough alone? Heat is an amazing film featuring some stellar actors; why sully it's legacy with another film no one asked for and is completely unmerited???

Full disclosure, I am biased. Heat is a film very close to my heart as it introduced me to Moby's "God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters" which would go on to be the catalyst for my passion for Electronic music, so it remains a very perfect and formative moment in my lifetime. They need to leave it alone. Pacino and De Niro are getting up in years; let's not waste their remaining time on cash-grabby films trying to capitalize on what they've already done well.

Al Pacino thinks Timothée Chalamet should play him in a Heat prequel film

The actor shared his thoughts at the Tribeca Film Festival reunion panel for Michael Mann's 1995 crime masterpiece.

www.yahoo.com

I don't blame you, and I'm sure there's a lot of people that feel the same way. Heat is Michael Mann's best movie next to Collateral. Goes to show how bankrupt the Hollywood System is. They'll try to make something out of anything, as long as it gets some type of profit. I'm not even flipping out about it, I'm just going to ignore the disaster. Hollywood never seems to learn that most prequels are pointless, and there's no sense of drama, if we already know it's going to happen to these characters in their future lives. Be it death, some unkind fate, or whatever the past eight shoes. There's rarely any investment in these. This is the same system that did a prequel to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Remake during the early 2000s. A majority of people didn't like it.

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[Thaluikhain]

There're in the works for a prequel to Heat. God damn it. Why can't they just leave good enough alone? Heat is an amazing film featuring some stellar actors; why sully it's legacy with another film no one asked for and is completely unmerited???

Full disclosure, I am biased. Heat is a film very close to my heart as it introduced me to Moby's "God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters" which would go on to be the catalyst for my passion for Electronic music, so it remains a very perfect and formative moment in my lifetime. They need to leave it alone. Pacino and De Niro are getting up in years; let's not waste their remaining time on cash-grabby films trying to capitalize on what they've already done well.

Al Pacino thinks Timothée Chalamet should play him in a Heat prequel film

The actor shared his thoughts at the Tribeca Film Festival reunion panel for Michael Mann's 1995 crime masterpiece.

www.yahoo.com

Oh...yeah, no.

Mind you, Heat was a remake of LA Takedown, they could do a prequel to that and nobody would care.

 

[BrawlMan]

Oh...yeah, no.

Mind you, Heat was a remake of LA Takedown, they could do a prequel to that and nobody would care.

Better yet, just make a heist movie that has nothing to do with any of that and be its own thing. Or do this....

Divorced Installment - TV Tropes

To put it simply, this is when a work that is part of a series or franchise is re-tooled into a standalone work, with most or all signs of its heritage completely erased. This is, for all intents and purposes, the exact opposite of a Dolled-Up …

tvtropes.org

 

[Thaluikhain]

Better yet, just make a heist movie that has nothing to do with any of that and it's its own thing. Or do this....

Divorced Installment - TV Tropes

To put it simply, this is when a work that is part of a series or franchise is re-tooled into a standalone work, with most or all signs of its heritage completely erased. This is, for all intents and purposes, the exact opposite of a Dolled-Up …

tvtropes.org

You're not allowed to make a film that's not based on an existing franchise anymore. Unfortunately.

 

[BrawlMan]

You're not allowed to make a film that's not based on an existing franchise anymore. Unfortunately.

Sure as hell didn't stop Netflix, nor straight to DVD action movies.

 

[Chimpzy]

The Ezra Miller story apparently continues ... and gets even more bizarre and iffy ... somehow

Guns, Bullets, and Weed: Ezra Miller Housing Three Young Children and Their Mother at Vermont Farm

Ezra Miller has been hosting three young children at their Vermont farm, a living arrangement that has terrified the children’s father

www.rollingstone.com

 

[Gordon_4]

The Ezra Miller story apparently continues ... and gets even more bizarre and iffy ... somehow

Guns, Bullets, and Weed: Ezra Miller Housing Three Young Children and Their Mother at Vermont Farm

Ezra Miller has been hosting three young children at their Vermont farm, a living arrangement that has terrified the children’s father

www.rollingstone.com

You know, this all really makes Ezra look like a brilliant actor because I cannot fathom how else he managed to hide this much fucking batshit crazy from literally everyone he would have come into contact with while working on these films. Like seriously if there was some kind of insanity Geiger counter this fuckwit would have lit up like ground zero at Chernobyl.

 

[Thaluikhain]

You know, this all really makes Ezra look like a brilliant actor because I cannot fathom how else he managed to hide this much fucking batshit crazy from literally everyone he would have come into contact with while working on these films. Like seriously if there was some kind of insanity Geiger counter this fuckwit would have lit up like ground zero at Chernobyl.

He's raking in the big bucks, people would look the other way.

 

[Gordon_4]

He's raking in the big bucks

Is he though? Like I know everyone's got this idea of what Hollywood actors earn but Ezra Miller isn't fucking Tom Cruise or Will Smith (circa six months ago) or Robert Downey Jr. There is nothing to indicate he's earning big bucks beyond his involvement in something that itself cost big bucks.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Is he though? Like I know everyone's got this idea of what Hollywood actors earn but Ezra Miller isn't fucking Tom Cruise or Will Smith (circa six months ago) or Robert Downey Jr. There is nothing to indicate he's earning big bucks beyond his involvement in something that itself cost big bucks.

True, but then I suspect that how big you have to be to have your behaviour overlooked is not all that big. I could be totally wrong, though.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

https://movieweb.com/tommy-lee-wallace-announced-halloween-3-season-of-the-witch-production-book/amp/

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Season 4 Premiere tonight -

Westworld | Official Website for the HBO Series | HBO.com

The official website for Westworld on HBO, featuring interviews, schedule information, behind the scenes exclusives, and more.

www.hbo.com

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Sony is making Kraven the Hunter an "animal lover"

Heh. So if they're going to make Kraven the kind of hunter who respects Mother Earth and hunts sustainably, does that mean he's going to be dressed up in exclusively overpopulated boar and deer skins? Maybe some vermin accessories?

Or since he'll probably a hunter of hunters like the article suggests, I guess we'll be seeing a human skin suit. Man, Sony is just amazing.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Old but still revelatory-

Predator Star Arnold Schwarzenegger Pooped His Pants While Working Out Before Filming - SlashFilm

There was a lot of testosterone on the set of Predator, and competition between them led to Arnold Schwarzenegger having a bit of an accident.

www.slashfilm.com

 

[Chimpzy]

Old but still revelatory-

Predator Star Arnold Schwarzenegger Pooped His Pants While Working Out Before Filming - SlashFilm

There was a lot of testosterone on the set of Predator, and competition between them led to Arnold Schwarzenegger having a bit of an accident.

www.slashfilm.com

Ruuuuuuun! Gooooooo! Get to da shitta!

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Ruuuuuuun! Gooooooo! Get to da shitta!

And immediately after I’d hope it would be, “Ruuuun! Goooo!! Get to da showaaaaa!!!

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Westworld Season 4: Who Is Christina?

The artist formerly known as Dolores has a new identity on Westworld season 4. Or does she?

www.denofgeek.com

Was a pretty intriguing season opener.

 

[Piscian]

There're in the works for a prequel to Heat. God damn it. Why can't they just leave good enough alone? Heat is an amazing film featuring some stellar actors; why sully it's legacy with another film no one asked for and is completely unmerited???

Full disclosure, I am biased. Heat is a film very close to my heart as it introduced me to Moby's "God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters" which would go on to be the catalyst for my passion for Electronic music, so it remains a very perfect and formative moment in my lifetime. They need to leave it alone. Pacino and De Niro are getting up in years; let's not waste their remaining time on cash-grabby films trying to capitalize on what they've already done well.

Al Pacino thinks Timothée Chalamet should play him in a Heat prequel film

The actor shared his thoughts at the Tribeca Film Festival reunion panel for Michael Mann's 1995 crime masterpiece.

www.yahoo.com

I think my question be "ok then what are the stakes?". Now I will say Gareth Evans is working on a "Raid prequel", but the difference is that this would take place in the same world, with some supporting characters returning. I'm fine with prequels, but the problem, LIKE FUCKING OBIWAN, is that if you know what happens at the end its difficult to be invested in the story. Prequels I believe are pretty common in Asian cinema, even in hardboiled crime films, but its usually a diferent story in the same world. Thats something that hollywood sucks at. They just assume audiences want prequels about about the same characters when in truth its usually the writing and story that was compelling, but how do you merchandise "good writing"? *sigh*

 

[BrawlMan]

Gareth Evans is working on a "Raid prequel", but the difference is that this would take place in the same world

What? When? He had this big speech about how he didn't want to do a third movie, cuz he didn't know how he's going to top the second movie. So now he wants to make a prequel? Why? Just make another sequel and be done with it. It doesn't even have to have the same characters. Place them in the same universe, but in a different situation, or a certain group of people tangently related to what happened in the last movie. It's not that hard.