• lil_tank [any, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    55·
    11 days ago

    Hot take : Jack Black is devoid of talent and people should just stop talking about him

    Well I’m not sure it’s that hot here but it certainly is on the mainstream internet

  • hypercracker [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    50·
    11 days ago

    as is well known, it is impossible to grow facial hair or use hairpieces to replicate them. so we can only use actors for this role who are currently sporting mutton chops

    also lol at using a man with a gigantic jaw made of titanium to portray Kim, whose main caricature feature is a small jaw.

    • inlandempire@jlai.luEnglish
      32·
      11 days ago

      Also I don’t think Jack Black has the acting ability to play Harry, and he’s not a good face for such a movie because of the genre people are used to see him act in

  • SSJMarx@lemm.eeEnglish
    42·
    11 days ago

    I would be much more worried about the writing than the casting. I could just see a situation where they make a rough cut that’s really true to the tone of the game, but then test audiences don’t like it, so producers take a hatchet to the entire thing and bring in Joss Whedon to “punch it up” and we get a flashback scene with The Deserter where a coalition airship comes over the horizon and he turns to his fellow revolutionary and says “they fly now!?”

  • Krem [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    40·
    11 days ago

    daniel dae kim as kim is borderline racist or something because they have nothing in common besides being korean/fantasy korean-new worlder, and having “kim” in their name. it would be like casting harry styles as tequila sunset

            • bortsampson [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
              4·
              10 days ago

              The begining is a chore just because he had to make 1 movie out a very dense book. 30 Minutes in and it’s one of the most visually interesting works of the 80s. There is nothing that looks like it. And the story gets better but without the narration you miss a lot. It’s unfortunate he did have to use as much narration as he did. They didn’t have the time and money to complete his vision. I think what’s there is more entertaining than the 2 new films. It’s also frankly more daring. It’s criminally underrated. It’s a lightning rod for crit because it was a box office failure, lynch was pissed he couldn’t finish it, and most Americans are too impatient to devote 30 minutes of time for character development. It’s by no means a terrible movie. Cats was a terrible movie. Jaws 3D was a terrible movie. Lynch’s Dune is facinating and unique.

              • SeekTheDeletion [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
                4·
                10 days ago

                Lynch wasn’t mad he couldn’t finish it. He said it was the worst experience of his life and he would never do anything like it again. He wanted off the project as soon as possible.

                He spent more time on torturing a hairless cat and a minor lieutenant of the Atreides than he spent on the entirety of the Fremen people and Chani’s character. The new films are so much better it’s not even funny.

                • bortsampson [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
                  3·
                  10 days ago

                  I heard him talking about it on some KROQ show a few years ago when I was in the area. He said she didn’t want to do it the way the studio did and when they stopped letting him do his thing he stopped trying to finish it. It’s Lynch so who fucking knows what’s true. He speaks in riddles.

                  I respectfully disagree on the new Dune films. Good director and Hans is always an interesting composer but I just found the rigid blockbuster movie scifi action flick spin on it played out. I really didn’t need the drawn out EXPLOSIONS and battles. It get’s tedious after a while. I didn’t like the choice of actors. All of them. It also just felt too sanitized visually. That’s not exactly good criticism but it lacked an edge or something that set it apart. Too clinical maybe? That said, The VFX on a technical level was awesome. I can’t deny the skill involved. Like working in Houdini and Blender is already pretty next level human brain shit but also the cutting edge physics involved … much respect.

                  I do not get the love for 2nd. They changed some pretty substantial plotlines. Or I should say characters and factions involved in events of those plot lines and their decisions which changes the dynamics of the story enough to make it hard to comprehend their motivations. WTF was that ending. Awful. I don’t remember that in the book but I read it a while ago.

      • icerunner_originEnglish
        6·
        11 days ago

        Give each person in the theatre a set of headphones that will overlay a randomised track with different in-head personas talking for each person watching. A slightly different experience every time.

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    29·
    11 days ago

    Jack Black can’t play a drunk marxist cop when he’s always cast as the utopian anarchist who is suspiciously only surrounded by other white people.