It’s every 80’s action movie.
It does slightly comes across like it’s success says how willing studios want to negotiate over the AI scripts thing…
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All the more reason to hope this will tank.
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Good old Arnie fun. I didn’t expect anything less of it, so it’s been fun. A subtle/not so subtle cross between True Lies and any of his “greatest hits” but some fun.
Rabbit Hole (Paramount +)
Kiefer Sutherland as master manipulator being sucked into a conspiracy which tries to outmaneuver him and establish a new world order.
Extremely twisty thriller fun, highly entertaining and not afraid to be timely and pulpy, but these times are like this, unfortunately.
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Nice
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“The series is a bold, modern reimagining of the beloved and respected novel and film,”
Translation: “we cannot touch the Zinnemann original, so we are going to copycat things everyone else is doing.”
“While staying true to the DNA of the original story, this contemporary drama will delve deeper into the chameleon-like ‘anti-hero’ at the heart of the story"
He wasn’t an anti-hero in Zinnemann’s film–he was a cipher, and you cannot delve into a cipher.
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Another desecration.
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IP.
That’s the only thing you can get made these days.
If you offer an original story, not based on existing titles, studios will not dare to do it.
Which is the main reason why one should hope that all those remakes, reboots, etc. utterly tank.
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Except… you know… all these reimaginings they keep doing based on those Ian Fleming books… 
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No, those are okay 
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The film industry is in a bit of a rut with the IP obsession and there’s no easy way out. If a know IP (be it a remake, reboot, adaptation or whatever) tanks whoever green-lit it can just point at demographic data and go ‘I don’t know why it failed, we had visibility across all quadrants’. By contrast if an original idea fails ‘it was a great idea’ isn’t going to save the producer’s job.
However, audiences are also to blame. After all, they’re the ones who keep showing up for familiar IP’s. And I’ll admit that I’m part of the problem, I’ve watched mediocre - bad films and streaming just because it’s something I’m already a fan of.
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Always a good sign when audiences are blamed:
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It’s definitely not that it was in that “lovely” place that was dumb and derivative but seemed to think it wasn’t?
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Just watched Poker Face, a little late to it, but what a fantastic show. Columbo for this century. She is extraordinarily engaging, just as Falk was.
Loved every episode.
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Looking forward to this. Unfortunately, it’s not available in Germany yet.
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Only Murders in The Building season 3 - 2 episodes in.
God I’ve missed this!
Speculation, spoilers and spoilery thoughts follow
Summary
Paul Rudd dying then getting better, before dying again was a surprise!
Meryl Streep, as brilliant as she was, I think is a red herring.
The “stranger” who was recording the read-through is definitely going to be a thing; Jesse Williams (actor) - Wikipedia may not be Paul Rudd or Meryl Streep, but he’s not small enough for you to just see his face briefly in passing.
I notice poor treatment of actors who aren’t top of the bill is already a recurring theme…
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All are credited, but only Ellen Wong can be heard.
I don’t know, maybe this will turn out to be a great show.
But from what I have seen so far it all looks like a greatest hits compilation, and the innovative vision the original trilogy offered is lost.
Maybe I have finally outgrown Star Wars?
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It’s a trailer - greatest hits is its job.
Just give it a week. It will get good reviews and fans of the first film will pounce on it and start complaining they aren’t the age they were in 1977 and Kathleen Kennedy is worse than Hitler. It seems to be Star Wars thing.
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