This is going to sound ham-fisted, but I’d like to be able to say: I agree that the situation exists, I sympathise, I don’t like that you have to deal with it on a daily basis, or that you wake up that way. (I suppose that’s what posts are for instead of likes, I’m just a lazy bastard.)
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From what I’ve read, that was Sinatra being himself.
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So Ocean’s 11 was “boring”, but My Dinner With Andre (where two middle-aged pretentious twats do literally nothing except talk about their (white) privileged life) is a masterpiece?
Please do let me know which movies you expect to be good, so I can avoid them like the plague.
I was gonna say they already kinda did it with The Expendables;
Not the expendables you’re thinking of, but chicks who were convicts sent on a dangerous mission as a sort of “suicide squad”. I only saw 10 mins of it but remember thinking to myself “huh, as premises go that surely is a one”.
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Every time I see “all female cast” written any where I can here the distant sound of the butthurt brigade.
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Yeah, conversations are so boring. Why couldn’t they just Snapchat.
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When Showgirls was released Gilbert Gottfried was still hosting “USA’s Up All Night” and did a parody of it called Tuchus.
Needless to say his version was much better but I doubt any copy of it still exists.
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But Montalban wasn’t ugly, not even the Hollywood ugly (i.e. ordinary) that Wallach was. If anything he would have made a good Hispanic Angel Eyes.
If it were up to me I’d be tempted to follow the lead of Wallach’s casting, and in a distaff tGtB&tU cast an African American as ‘Blondie’ (it’s an ironic nickname, see), a Latina for Angel Eyes, and, yes, a Jewish American for the Mexican Tuco.
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Grace Jones as Blondie, Rita Moreno as Angel Eyes, Lena Dunham as Tuco.
(I couldn’t find a contemporary photo of Moreno where she’s not smiling, but you get the idea.)
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Also a must-listen, if you haven’t heard it already is the version on Yo-Yo Ma Plays the Music of Ennio Morricone.
It makes me feel like I truly missed something historic by being born after the time when westerns were novel, knowing that it was composing for a western that inspired this piece of music to be conceived.
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Westerns were never novel.
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Hollywood is not self aware, its just a giant moneymaking machine that has too much mass and momentum to swing back around with any subtlety. If it even bothers at all.
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Yup. You got it in one.[quote=“Donald_Petersen, post:86, topic:83245”]
What if you set it in the Spanish Civil War… and shot it in New Mexico?
In 1936? Or do you mean the Spanish-American War of 1898? Or the Mexican-American War of 1845?
I just don’t think much of the Spanish Civil War was fought in New Mexico. Or Old Mexico, for that matter.
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I think that was the point: lots of Westerns were shot in Spain (Almeira) including the good, the bad, and the ugly, so a Spanish Civil War Western should be shot in New Mexico…
You’re so right about the Morricone. Just so good. I used to use that in a noise set.
Funnily enough one of my first thoughts was who was going to do the music for Ocean’s Ocho, I thought the soundtrack was a big part of the charm of 11. I’m not entirely sure I’ve seen all three as they are fairly disposable in the first place, but I found them mildly diverting.
I never got Ghostbusters in the first place (I hated the song everywhere when I was a kid, though I can agree with the sentiment that bustin’ makes me feel good, and I’m not sure I’ve seen it through on the telly), and have just been shocked to discover that Ghostbusters 2 made money. I thought it was the punchline for a joke on the most expensive script ever (at the time) and how desperately shit it was.
But I guess misogynists will get outraged about anything
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So we need Toni Iommi to be the stunt hand double?
Have you seen “El Gran Silencio”; I think it must win the prize for most nihilistic spaghetti western ever 
I feel the same way for most of the Fuck Today thread.
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But with guns! And horses!
It would be magnificent!
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