In the film, which received a rapturous 11-minute standing ovation after its Cannes premiere last night, Moore plays a faded Hollywood superstar, whose yearning for youth leads her to an experimental procedure: once injected with a mysterious fluid, she births an alternate version of herself (played by Margaret Qualley) – someone sparkling with sex appeal and youthful pep, whose body she can only ever inhabit for a total of seven days at a time, before she must revert back to her older self.
“The places that risk takes her in the movie’s absolutely bonkers final act will have your jaw on the floor, if it’s even still attached to your body.” “Ripping into her best big-screen role in decades, Moore is fearless,” raved the BBC.
(Her demand for pay parity with the male movie stars of the Nineties didn’t earn her media respect back then, but a snarky nickname: “Gimme Moore”).
In the former, her character turns to exotic dance to pay the bills; Moore’s nudity and her sculpted, toned physique made up the entirety of the film’s marketing campaign.
No one really spoke about her acting – her determined resolve in GI Jane, or the haunting image of her keeling over in agony in the TV film If These Walls Could Talk, her character having undergone a clandestine abortion.
The Substance is, in a sense, a bold move for Moore, and there is a meta thrill to her playing an actor mourning her heyday and fixated on age and experimental plastic surgery (she had to repeatedly deny in the mid-Noughties that she’d spent $300,000 on cosmetic work ahead of filming 2003’s Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle).
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Does "Jaws" count? It wouldn't be PG these days but I'd say it counts as horror.
"The Birds" was technically unrated when it came out. I've seen it rated as PG-13 now, but not sure what that's based on since it is from way before PG-13.
The MPAA rating system didn't start widespread use until the early 1970s, and even then (as you'd expect since since it is the MPA"A") only in the USA. Other rating systems in other countries followed later (for the most part).
So any movie prior to that would have been unrated when it came out. Especially if it was a non-USA production.
Any rating you see on a movie older than that has been applied after the fact.
Poltergeist. Only PG rated horror movie I actually still think is a little scary. Every time I have meat, I can't help but think of that scene with the maggot steak, followed up by the face peeling. 🤢
One of the most anticipated moments of the 77th Cannes Film Festival finally arrived Monday night with the world premiere of the Donald Trump drama The Apprentice, starring Sebastian Stan as a young version of the real estate mogul in his pre-MAGA days.
Only Francis Ford Coppola’s wildly ambitious swan song Megalopolis had inspired more pre-premiere chatter and curiosity at this year’s edition of the glamorous French film festival.
Directed by acclaimed Iranian-Danish filmmaker Abbasi and written by Gabe Sherman, The Apprentice explores Donald Trump’s rise to power in 1980s America under the influence of the firebrand rightwing attorney Roy Cohn.
After the screening, Abbasi warmly hugged his cast members and Cate Blanchett, sitting just in front of the director and crew, was the first to jump up and applaud, embracing Bakalova.
Abbasi also held up his cell phone to the cameras during the standing ovation to show a shirtless selfie of Strong in costume and seemingly backstage from his play in New York.
By Monday night, The Apprentice still didn’t have a U.S. distributor in place, although it sold earlier in the Cannes festival to StudioCanal for the U.K. and Ireland, where it will be released theatrically later this year.
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The movies just came out. I’d like to see Fall Guy in a theater but I’m busy, even movies that come out on streaming still take me a few weeks if not months to get to. I got shit to do.
Hollywood really needs to stop declaring flops within the first few weeks, whether it’s streaming or films in theaters. I really wish things were allowed to grow organically. Video games are essentially in the same boat. Unlike my dad who stopped watching movies because of the “Hollywood liberals” I’ve stopped watching/buying any new movies/tv shows/video games because everyone is looking for an immediate smash hit. I give them at least a year now. If enough people are still talking about it, I might buy it.
I finally watched the first Dune last month, still on the fence about buying
Baldur’s Gate 3, I’ll probably get around to it eventually.
After wasting all that time typing this out, I realize that I don’t really care that much. The producers and powers that be don’t care about me so I’m not their target demographic. But, I take comfort in the fact that by the time I get to some new(to me) piece of media that it’ll be good because it stood the test of time(at least for a year or so).
I’m like you. Really wanted to watch Dune2 in the theater but needed to watch Dune1 before but never got around to it in time. By the time we watched Dune1, Dune2 was already out of the theater! Oops. My bad.
Another problem with the theater is that my tv and surround sound are good enough and I get about 85% of the movie theater experience without the cost / hassle.
I doubt the star, co-writer, and director had to fight very hard to get a deaf actress into a movie where sound (or lack thereof) is one of the main plot points. The article itself never even uses the language “fought” and uses “insisted”, and also notes that the character was written as deaf in the script from the beginning.
Studios and producers, the people who pay for the movie and ultimately end up being the people who make decisions about what to do with the movie after it is made, like re-editing and distribution. There could have been a very real fight with a producer who wanted a big named star to be more recognizable than an unknown.
I always have to correct people who think I love Cage ironically. Have you seen Prisoners of the Ghost Land? Another recent work from him and its amazing.
I wasn't as bowled over by that one (and I am a big fan of Cage, Tak Sakaguchi and Sion Sono, so felt like it should have been a guaranteed hit with me) - it seemed like it was trying too hard.
Anytime someone says he can’t act I just tell them to go watch Leaving Las Vegas. The guy is insanely good when you give him good material to work with. He just had to take anything that came his way for a while there because he makes horrible financial decisions lol.
Unironically Pig is one of my favorite movies. I do live with a chef though so anything cook/chef related I get pretty invested in. I'll have to watch Color Out of Space
Am chef...but most chef related movies/shows I give a pass (the Bear? who the fuck cooks an entirely new dish not tasting a bit of it along the way only to taste it after plating and then go "it's shit".... stupid ass waste of time chefs do not have) but this was just on the edge of greatness and really enjoyed it.
Okay but if you get the chance to visit Mr. Beef in Chicago I highly recommend it. Show was based off that location and parts of it were even filmed in it. The Bear nailed the vibe of the place perfectly and the food is awesome
the athleticism and fight choreography is impressive, even if the action is edited so frenetically that it’s almost impossible to follow.
As it's already on the Odeon app (although no screenings are listed yet) I'll be seeing this and will have to decide for myself - the way they filmed the action in Monkey Man really let it down.
Ferreal. Hanuman is one of my personal favorite fables (incl the early plagiarism by Sun Wukong's existence, yes), and they did my fuzzy boy dirty AF. 😱
My impression of Godzilla x Kong, as someone who's generally enjoyed that franchise, is that it's basically reached a sort of "strangely calm and abstract animated cartoon vibe". Which I'm probably down for, but which is also probably just not as entertaining as many would expect.
There has only been one surf film, ever, worth the time of an auteur and that is Bruce Brown’s seminal masterpiece The Endless Summer. Others, including Point Break, North Shore, Blue Crush are cute.
Such disrespect against Big Wednesday shall not stand.
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