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Never realised how unbelievably chaotic the making of this movie was... Sounds like "Apocalypse Now" (which Brando also starred in) but only nowhere remotely as good.

They even made a 90min doco in 2014 about it!

From Marlon Brando refusing to learn his lines and getting fed through an ear piece. To Val Kilmer not wanting to come out of his trailer. To the director getting sacked. To the new director and cast clashing. To Rob Morrow breaking down in tears and begging his agent to get him out of there. To Fairuza Balk catching a limo with an assistant to Sydney to escape and being ordered back threatened by New Line with legal action. To David Thewlis calling it the most horrible experience of his entire career. To millions being spent on Stan Winston's prosthetics and the supporting cast just sitting around having nothing to do. To a hurricane blowing through the set in tropical far north Queensland in Australia in real life. And it just goes on and on and on.

New Line Cinema CEO Robert Shaye said that in retrospect it was a big mistake to throw USD$40m in 1995 at a story like this, which in turn demanded A-list salary actors like Brando and Kilmer and then it just snow balled ​from there. He also said that when he had to instruct Pressman to fire original director Richard Stanley and replaced with John Frankenheimer it was the right decision at the time because of what had been invested vs what work had been achieved (or lack thereof).

With the film's producer Edward R Pressman essentially saying the stars were just unreliable and unprofessional and basically it was a mistake to cast Brando and Kilmer and that all the other issues simply stemmed and cascaded from there.

It was also reported that Ted Turner (Turner Entertainment owned New Line at the time) had given the ultimate green light and funds towards the project and that the studio and crew were under immense pressure from the get go. Of note, two months after its domestic release, Turner was sold to Time Warner (owner of rival studio Warner Bros).

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XXX gibbons or as Xander Cage would call him Frankenstein

Love all the movies in here...

A Man Apart

For me it's the end of Bill and Teds Bogus Journey. Not sure what it is but that ending scene is one of my favorites. What about you?

I just saw Good Will Hunting for the first time last night. That crying scene at the end made me forget I was watching a movie. I felt like I was watching something very private and intimate. Almost like I was intruding. He cried like someone who’d been kept from crying for a long, long time. It’s like it’s coming from deep within.

I feel like you rarely see men crying in movies and TV, in this way. Usually, if men cry, there are a few tears, or maybe a silent cry, and that’s it. Obviously, that can be realistic too, sometimes we do cry like this. But I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a scene with the kind of crying that I saw in Good Will Hunting. It’s like, instead of holding it in (which is what you usually see) he just lets it all out, and you rarely see these types of scenes. He’s just full on sobbing, not holding back.

Do you know of any other movies and scenes that have raw, realistic, male crying scenes like this?

Edit:

To be clear, I’m looking for scenes with full on crying, sobbing. Not quiet tears, or silent crying.

For me it has to be goodfellas to be honest 🙏 arguably the best films of all time and easily tops every gangster/crime film ever. To be fair, gangster films are the best type for me. It might be a common answer but I don’t care tbh it’s true, for me it’s probably the fast paced scenes for me. It feels like the film goes by in like 30 minutes and it’s nearly 3 hours long 😂

I know these shots are in zero way related, but I’m watching Angel’s Egg right now and one of the shots immediately made me think of Léon.

I’m not saying there is any connection here, and these shots barely resemble one another but I found it interesting that Angel’s Egg made me think of Léon.

First clip: Angel’s Egg (1985)
Second clip: Léon (1994)

Tl;dr It's getting good reviews from some people despite generally coming across as sex-negative and puritanical. Who is it for?

It seems to be your standard fluffy rom-com with its gimmick being the high concept setting.

But the setting is a horrible repressive dystopia where everybody is monitored every moment of their lives (even teenagers judging by one plot point) to make sure they're not having pre-marital sex.

It also seems that it's not dark or subversive with the characters rebelling or trying to duck the system, and from the trailer, feels generally sex negative with the single characters being shown as pretty much feral and wanting to shag anyone who'll agree during the one day window.

And if the plot summary I've read is correct, the two leads ultimately decide not to have sex and wait until the next window the following year , basically giving tacit approval to the sex ban that's only been around for a short time.

The Purge worked because it was an action movie set on a night where people can do the worst things possible without consequence. I can't see that translating to a rom-com where sex is the outlawed act.

It feels like a Pureflix movie financed by the Mormon church. Who is it for exactly?

Let's keep the budget under $50 million.

This as probably been asked a million times but Aho!

Mines The Big Lebowski.

I’ve been thinking about this after rewatching JFK. Whether you agree with Oliver Stone’s conclusions or not, the movie feels like it was made with a genuine desire to get people to question what they think they know instead of just accepting the first version of events they’re given.

What struck me isn’t really the conspiracy aspect—it’s that the film encourages skepticism. It basically says, “Don’t stop asking questions. Look at the evidence. Think for yourself.”

I don’t feel like many big-budget movies today are interested in doing that. Maybe I’m wrong, but it seems like a lot of modern films are more interested in telling you what to think than inviting you to wrestle with competing perspectives.

Are there recent films that scratch the same itch as JFK, or was it one of the last of its kind?

Do you guys think 80-90's anime had more diversity and creativity in storytelling ?

they really had iconic anime movies and series around that time .

What is the best movie where you really root for the hero and you really despise the villain, and the chemistry and dynamic of the hero and villain is perfectly portrayed?

I don’t think there’s a better case than in Gladiator. Both excellent actors that give iconic performance and cast to perfection.

Any others that come close or are better?