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I mean the first Happy Gilmore was one of the early Adam Sandler classic comedies... but a sequel?



Hopefully the film will have more charm and endearing humor rather then the puerile dreck that a lot of his recent "comedy" films have had. Even with the hilarious juvenile humor his early films were pretty charming and that was part of the appeal. The trailer seemed to be aware of that.

I do like how Happy Gilmore's trait of powerful swings from the first film is seen as something more commonplace now.

It'll be tough watching this film in a post-Chubbs (and post Bob Barker) world.

Also people keep confusing this film with Billy Madison... like c'mon people...

Overall the trailer makes me think the film might be better then when I first heard this sequel was being made.
 
Red Letter Media did a review of A Minecraft Movie but only sat around for half of it... not because the film was unwatchably bad... but because they had seen enough of it to know how the boilerplate plot would play out despite both of them being completely unfamiliar with the game and setting.

The video is actually a good commentary, as they bring up, on Studio IP Mining where you take a recognizable property and while the Studio isn't there to make a bad movie, the first goal is to ensure the movie makes a billion dollars so everyone gets paid. It might be a nightmare long predicted by critics like Red Letter Media themselves are, as they point out, but its a formula that works.

Towards the end they compare these films to expensive theme park rides. Millions of dollars are spent on marketing and construction and engineers and electricity and staff and maintenance and retail and trash cleanup to make sure kids can have a good time in the theme parks and will consume more. They point out how some movies are considered art and can be considered impactful and can stay with you and have profound or emotional impact but that theme parks for some reason are not.



Most amusingly, after trashing on the Hollywood trend, RLM actually recommends the movie as they found it charming, especially for kids... which was the purpose of the product. 🤑

Also RLM points out how they did predict all of this years ago...



Still waiting for General Mills+, known as 'The Mill' by Zoomers to create film and television IP based on their iconic and beloved cereal brands... as well as content on serial killers.
 
There was a good Red Letter Media Discussion on the constant failing of original movies with modest budgets at the Theater. While they both seem to have an affinity for original movies, they don't really touch on the concept of people who complain about there not being any original films anymore, just sequels and franchise films and yet still don't watch original movies when they are released.

Instead they talk about the trends and statistics and the reasons why this is happening. Whether its due to lack of marketing, the short theatrical runs, and how streaming and online purchasing cuts into potential box office releases, as well as the various types of film watchers, ranging from those who want to see a movie that will see it in a theater, versus those who will wait to buy or rent it over the internet, versus those who'll just wait to see if they can stream it for "free" and the truly lost who wait for it to be released at their local public library. :p



They point out that one issue might just be that people who are interested in these risky, artistic, small budget films just don't go to theaters to watch it. Big budget films tend to be the ones that are keeping theaters in business still.
 
Apparently one of Ben Afflecks finest performances was when he was starting in the 1998 Michael Bay disaster epic Armageddon.



Keep in mind his performance in the film isn't what was so regarded... It was his honest, sobering, passionate portrayal of himself in the biopic that became the film commentary to Armageddon.

An excerpt below...

 
The fifty seventh film in the Final Destination series, Final Destination: Bloodlines has broken a film record...



... By setting an old woman on fire! 👵🔥

Seventy one year old Stuntwoman Yvette Ferguson came out of retirement to be set on fire in a scene in the upcoming horror film. Apparently she has set the record for the oldest stunt person to be set on fire... presumably intentionally.

ew.com

'Final Destinations Bloodlines' directors say they broke the world record for oldest person set on fire

'Final Destination Bloodlines' directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, along with stars Brec Bassinger and Richard Harmon, break down two of the film's wildest sequences — one of which might've broken a world record for oldest stunt person set on fire.
ew.com ew.com

The filmmakers submitted the achievement to the Guinness Book of World Records but have yet to hear back. This was Yvette's first stunts role since 2020 according to her IMDB page and has been doing stunts since 1987, almost forty years ago. She has performed stunts or acted in some of the greatest Oscar nominated movies of the past hundred years including Timecop and Deep Rising.
 
Former WWE Wrestler and now actor Hornswoggle talks about his antipathy for Peter Dinklage for ruining the lives of more little people then Smaug...

Also he thinks he might make it into the Mount Rushmore for midget actors since he thinks he might be the fourth most popular little person in show business... After the aforementioned Dinklage, Warwick Davis and Wee Man of Jackass fame.



Sorry Verne Troyer.
 
I might have to actually bother myself to watch this podcast with Bill Maher, Quentin Tarantino and Judd Apatow even though I don't typically watch podcasts... and I'm not the biggest fan of two of these people because the clips I keep seeing on YouTube are so interesting.

Apparently the role of the 'Bear Jew' in Inglorious Basterds was intended for Adam Sandler who was actually really excited for the chance to do a "serious" role where he was a Jew who beat Nazis to death with a Baseball Bat.

Sadly the filming timelines didn't match up and Adam Sandler had a prior commitment in Judd Apatow's film Funny People which also turned out to be a hugely successful film.



Having seen Adam Sandler in serious roles like Uncut Gems and Punch Drunk Love, I can safely state that he absolutely kills it in non-comedic roles so this could've been pretty epic.

posh-goofiness said:
... I thought this was satire until I heard Aflec's commentary. They actually let that through?
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Yeah seems kinda surprising but I get the impression that Michael Bay is actually pretty comfortable with people lightheartedly mocking him if that was an issue.
 
Tom Cruise's film, Mission Impossible 8: Final Reckoning has broken at least two Guinness Book of World Records.



The first notable one is niche stunt related of course...

www.guinnessworldrecords.com

Hollywood legend Tom Cruise becomes record holder for his fiery Mission Impossible stunt

The three-time Academy Award nominee is known for doing his own dangerous stunts… and now he’s got the world record to prove it!
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That's right, he broke the world record for jumping out of a helicopter with a parachute on fire. Sixteen times is the record to beat since Tom Cruise apparently took sixteen takes to get the perfect sequence of shots of him descending through the air at two hundred feet a second with a gasoline soaked parachute that is set ablaze that he had to cut away before it burned away and then open up a reserve parachute (after jumping out of a helicopter at 7500 feet in altitude). Sometimes he did it while wearing a fifty pound camera rig attached to him.

The other record Tom Cruise broke is starring in eleven consecutive movies with a $100 million dollar or greater box office. This record stretches back over a decade to the release of the film Jack Reacher in 2012.
  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (USA/UK, 2025) - $356,367,823 (as of April 6th, 2025)
  • Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning (USA, 2023) - $565,696,302
  • Top Gun: Maverick (USA, 2022) - $1,454,001,110
  • Mission: Impossible – Fallout (USA/China/France/Norway, 2018) – $786,626,183
  • American Made (USA/Japan/Colombia/Canada, 2017) – $135,569,212
  • The Mummy (USA/China/Japan, 2017) – $409,953,905
  • Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (USA/China, 2016) – $159,946,489
  • Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (USA/UK/China/Austria/Morocco, 2015) – $688,858,992
  • Edge of Tomorrow (USA/Canada/India, 2014) – $367,028,980
  • Oblivion (USA, 2013) – $287,916,633
  • Jack Reacher (USA, 2012) – $217,370,736
 
He is one of few actors who still draws movie attendance based on his stardom. The fact that he has good instincts on what people want and the pull to have it his way, helps.
 
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He is one of few actors who still draws movie attendance based on his stardom. The fact that he has good instincts on what people want and the pull to have it his way, helps.
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Yeah plus two or so decades ago he stopped babbling about his personal opinions on everything and the scientology stuff. His public facing persona has really rehabilitated and he just seems like a guy whose passionate about being an actor and doing cool stunts and movies for audiences and his fans.

Even the leaked audio of his "rant" from when he was shooting these latest Mission Impossible films during Covid didn't really seem to harm people's opinion of him when the full video and context of the situation came out.
 
Look who got knighted by King Charles!

deadline.com

Gary Oldman Knighted By King Charles; Samantha Morton & Adjoa Andoh Among Others Honored

Arise Sir Gary Oldman! The 'Slow Horses' actor was knighted in King Charles III's Birthday Honors list. Others honored included Samantha Morton.
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Grats to Gary Oldman!

Here he is discussing his greatest role in his long career as an actor!



It was actually some interesting insight from an actor (and grats on Gary Oldman remembering his character and all that jazz) who typically doesn't do video game voice roles talking about his experiences over four days screaming lines while in studio for the Call of Duty game.
 
Husky_Khan said:
The fifty seventh film in the Final Destination series, Final Destination: Bloodlines has broken a film record...



... By setting an old woman on fire! 👵🔥

Seventy one year old Stuntwoman Yvette Ferguson came out of retirement to be set on fire in a scene in the upcoming horror film. Apparently she has set the record for the oldest stunt person to be set on fire... presumably intentionally.

ew.com

'Final Destinations Bloodlines' directors say they broke the world record for oldest person set on fire

'Final Destination Bloodlines' directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, along with stars Brec Bassinger and Richard Harmon, break down two of the film's wildest sequences — one of which might've broken a world record for oldest stunt person set on fire.
ew.com ew.com

The filmmakers submitted the achievement to the Guinness Book of World Records but have yet to hear back. This was Yvette's first stunts role since 2020 according to her IMDB page and has been doing stunts since 1987, almost forty years ago. She has performed stunts or acted in some of the greatest Oscar nominated movies of the past hundred years including Timecop and Deep Rising.
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What a performance 🫡

 
The Running Man 2025 Edition!



I was going to say this film looks dumb but I mean, the original Running Man film wasn't exactly smart. But it was solid stylish action entertainment.

This just looks like messy slop.

Glen Powell is portraying some guy who does this Running Man murder gameshow for money I guess but the schtick isn't that he's launched via tube into some Murderworld Arena to be hunted by colorful hunters as selected by lucky audience members... but apparently he's just launched outside and has to make his way across the country being hunted by everyone?

🤷‍♀️

Okay... but like... why change it?

This film is being marketed as a black comedy action film though this is a YouTube channel that plays horror film trailers so I have no idea what genre this is going for.

I will say while this looks dumb and stupid and pointless, Edgar Wright is a pretty good Director by and large so... maybe it'll work even if it fails completely and utterly as some sort of adaption of another beloved 80's iconic action movie schlock.

Also I feel like Glen Powell is like... five feet tall or something. I'm exaggerating but I mean... he's got a good physique but Arnold had a bit more literal screen presence.
 
Husky_Khan said:
The Running Man 2025 Edition!
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So.

The Running Man was a Steven King novel first. This is trying to be closer to that book, it seems.

Silly, really. The book is a reasonable story, but it really doesn't work in a visual medium like a film.

It was also pretty dumb as a book, when you think about it. Any story about how to have average folk hunt whoever through the streets without worrying about little things like collateral damage, and how either side might kill somebody important....

Pretty dumb. Like The Purge movies.


That's why the first movie worked, as far as it did. You might have effectively modern gladiators killing each other, but you didn't have others as possible targets(until it went off the rails, of course.)
 
From the same creative genius visionary filmmakers that blessed us with Inside Man (the direct to video sequel that no one saw or liked) and Silent Hill Revelations (which gave us a Silent Hill Bosses Fighting each other as the climax... glorious) and... oh this is the same Director of Deathwatch... that was a decent horror flick back in 2002...

Anyways...

Red Sonja trailer dropped.



Starring Matilda Lutz (an actual Redhead!!!1) as Red Sonja!

Natural Redhead playing a Natural Redhead? Check.

Skimpy Warrior "Armor"? Check.

Slow Motion Action Scenes? Check.

Forgetting any and all other details of the trailer by the time I wrote this post less than five minutes later? Check.

It's only once in a lifetime a cinematic masterpiece like this gets released, especially in todays climate.

Make no mistake, this CINEMA will be studied in film schools and arthouses for generations to come.
 
She is WAY too scrawny to be a good Red Sonja.
Not that Brigitte Nielson was much more buff, but she was definitely better for the role.

Wait, wait, wait...did that dude on the throne just show off his light up microphone?

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