The BJMDDS General Discussion Thread......

[bjmdds]

Get ready for the big "G" this weekend.

And your friend Hugh is taking stage next weekend with X-Men.

As Garfield's Spider BITES the dust .......look for November Man to top $50 million in it's 6 day long holiday weekend opening from Wednesday through Monday.

[bjmdds]

Inspired by Harry Potter's Hogwarts textbook "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," the series will center on the textbook's author, Newt Scamander. The film is neither a prequel nor a sequel to the Harry Potter series, but an extension of the wizarding world.

"The laws and customs of the hidden magical society will be familiar to anyone who has read the Harry Potter books or seen the films, but Newt's story will start in New York, seventy years before Harry's gets underway," Rowling said in a statement when the project was announced last fall. "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," a new fantasy adventure from "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling, will open on Nov. 18, 2016, Warner Bros. said Tuesday.

[Daltonite Toothpaste]

That November Man teaser looks like an attempt to make Brosnan out to be the next Liam Neeson. The difference is that Neeson carries more weight, but not the same kind of weight that Brosnan looks to be carrying, It's like watching Connery in DAF.

[Capt. Sir Dominic Flandry]

Get ready for the big "G" this weekend.

And your friend Hugh is taking stage next weekend with X-Men.

Don't forget Captain Picard and Sir Ian.

You meant Gandalf?

Captain Picard and Sir Ian Gandolf?

[bjmdds]

Need we say more?

[bjmdds]

California Chrome has the 3 post in this Saturday's Preakness stakes in Baltimore. Can he win the second leg of the Triple Crown of horse racing? He will be tested by Social Inclusion but I am rooting for him to make it 2 in a row and a chance for glory since there has not been a Triple Crown winner since 1978, and in the 1970s we had 3 Triple Crown winners Go baby, go

[kater23]

In case you saw the stories about the fires in San Diego..I'm OK..there are a whole bunch of wildfires burning at once and they've burned down a bunch of homes already.It's just really freakin' scary.

[bjmdds]

Where is the rain when you need it?

[FormerBondFan]

That November Man teaser looks like an attempt to make Brosnan out to be the next Liam Neeson. The difference is that Neeson carries more weight, but not the same kind of weight that Brosnan looks to be carrying, It's like watching Connery in DAF.

It's not Pierce's intention to be the next Liam Neeson. It's more like waiting for the right time to move back into the action realm. Besides, there are other actors around his age doing actioners like Kevin Costner and Denzel Washington.

[Daltonite Toothpaste]

I think he should stick to his nu age Cary Grant style. I have seen more Brosnan films than I would care to count, including a lot of forgettable tosh like Live Wire and Death Train, which he wasn't convincing in, and by the looks of that trailer, a tubby worn out Brosnan doesn't look any more convincing.

[bjmdds]

After 13 days The UN-Amazing Spidey sequel is at $153 million...........after 13 days, the first crummy film was over $200 million already.........Godzilla awaits tomorrow and the bug will be squashed for good and justly so with Gargield the Cat in the lead. Tobey was much better, right FBF?

[bjmdds]

Deadline.com predictions: Godzilla is stomping into more than 3,000 theaters tonight at 7 PM and its late nights will be front-loaded with fanboys who will love the Imax and 3D versions. Tonight’s gross will be indicative of what the monster’s haul will be for the three-day weekend. If it makes, say, more than $6M, odds are that the Warner Bros/Legendary Pictures tentpole will move past $60M-$65M to closer to $70M+. Hard to predict until we see tonight’s take. The franchise pic, not surprisingly, already had $1.5M in ticket sales by 9 AM this morning and, according to Fandango, is outselling Thor: The Dark World, World War Z and Pacific Rim. “We are selling twice as many tickets as we sold in the same point of the sales cycle of Pacific Rim,” said Fandango’s Harry Medved. About 91% of the weekend ticket sales are going to the lizard, which really is expected........(our boy FBF surely knew his onions on this film )

[bjmdds]

It's sick, and getting sicker out there .....any woman who can say this is a handsome man needs psychiatric help immediately........get Broccoli to ward B as soon as possible

[bjmdds]

Skyfall screenwriter John Logan has discussed the apparent homoerotic subtext inherent in the James Bond series...........The 23rd 007 film includes a scene in which Bond (Daniel Craig) is tied to a chair as former MI6 agent-turned-villain Raoul Silva (Javier Bardem) unbuttons his shirt and makes a sexually-charged remark, to which Bond responds: "What makes you think this is my first time?" "Some people claim it's because I'm, in fact, gay but it's not true at all," Logan told The Hollywood Reporter. "Sam [Mendes] and I were discussing, there were so many scenes where Bond goes mano-a-mano with the villain, whether it's Dr No or Goldfinger or whatever.

"There's been so many ways to do a cat-and-mouse and intimidate Bond, and we thought, what would truly make the audience uncomfortable is sexual intimidation; playing the sort of homoerotic card that is sort of always there subtextually with characters like Scaramanga in Man with the Golden Gun or Dr No.

"So we just decided that we should play the card and enjoy it." (How do you like that Drakester?)

[dirtybenny]

Skyfall screenwriter John Logan has discussed the apparent homoerotic subtext inherent in the James Bond series...........The 23rd 007 film includes a scene in which Bond (Daniel Craig) is tied to a chair as former MI6 agent-turned-villain Raoul Silva (Javier Bardem) unbuttons his shirt and makes a sexually-charged remark, to which Bond responds: "What makes you think this is my first time?" "Some people claim it's because I'm, in fact, gay but it's not true at all," Logan told The Hollywood Reporter. "Sam [Mendes] and I were discussing, there were so many scenes where Bond goes mano-a-mano with the villain, whether it's Dr No or Goldfinger or whatever.

"There's been so many ways to do a cat-and-mouse and intimidate Bond, and we thought, what would truly make the audience uncomfortable is sexual intimidation; playing the sort of homoerotic card that is sort of always there subtextually with characters like Scaramanga in Man with the Golden Gun or Dr No.

"So we just decided that we should play the card and enjoy it." (How do you like that Drakester?)

I touched on this exact quote in one of my earlier rants! I don't understand where Logan is getting this "homoerotic subtext" from. I admit it's been awhile since I read the books, but I don't remember Bond getting hit on by Scaramanga or any other villain including the blatantly homosexual ones!

[bjmdds]

Correct Dirty one. They are making this up as they go and perhaps a heterosexual script writer would have a different approach to what the audiences want to see in a Bond film. Why try to make the audiences uncomfortable? Broccoli signed off on this. I believe it was a test scene whereby Logan would push the homosexualization of Bond in future films for his own political agenda ..........."One senses that Broccoli, elegant, charming, has a core of steel. In the early days, she watched Craig’s back, accompanying him to press conferences, batting off the ferocious criticism that first greeted his casting for Casino Royale.

“It’s absurd,” she shudders slightly. “I think that’s the trouble with the internet now. Everyone has an equal voice so people read something — supposedly written with great authority — and it’s by a 12-year-old in a little town some place in the United States who’s never seen Daniel Craig, doesn’t know what he’s capable of, and starts this fire. And then it’s given prominence, which is bizarre. Of course we were making the film and we knew what we had, so we just ignored it.”

[dirtybenny]

Yes! "We knew what we had" so we "just ignored it" because a sour faced hack is exactly what the series needed! If I had the time I'd love to compile a rant addressing the way EON has taken to picking the bones of Fleming to further their agenda of ridiculousness and causing his corpse to spin violently in his grave. However apparently I'm just a "12 year old in a little town some place in the U.S." so I can't. Which is ironic as Craig is the most "american" of the "Bonds". One gets the sense Broccoli hasn't read a Bond novel or watched a real Bond film from start to finish in some time, by the way she slaps this balderdash together. Sorry to use such big words in front of my fellow 12 year olds.

[FormerBondFan]

I think he should stick to his nu age Cary Grant style. I have seen more Brosnan films than I would care to count, including a lot of forgettable tosh like Live Wire and Death Train, which he wasn't convincing in, and by the looks of that trailer, a tubby worn out Brosnan doesn't look any more convincing.

Suit yourself.

[FormerBondFan]

After 13 days The UN-Amazing Spidey sequel is at $153 million...........after 13 days, the first crummy film was over $200 million already.........Godzilla awaits tomorrow and the bug will be squashed for good and justly so with Gargield the Cat in the lead. Tobey was much better, right FBF?

You could say that again. The lizard will fry the arachnid.

[bjmdds]

Boxofficemojo:Thursday Update: Playing at around 3,400 locations, Godzilla earned a phenomenal $9.3 million from late Thursday shows. That's one of the best late-night openings "ever" for a non-sequel.

Compared to recent releases, Godzilla actually performed better than The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($8.7 million), and was only a bit behind Captain America: The Winter Soldier ($10.2 million). It also did over twice as much business as World War Z ($3.6 million), which had the advantage of opening when school was out.

This debut guarantees at least $70 million for Godzilla. "If it plays like Spider-Man 2, it will have the biggest opening of the year" with around $98 million. It could go even higher, though: using Thor: The Dark World or 300: Rise of An Empire as comparable titles puts the movie above $110 million for the weekend. At this point, the sky is the limit for Godzilla..........Forbes: According to Box Office Mojo, Captain America and Spiderman 2 hold top spots for highest box office opening this year. Godzilla is "trending much higher across the social landscape" so it stands to reason the film will surpass the opening day box office and perhaps the total gross for both of these films. Another compelling reason Godzilla will trample its competitors? May 11th, the date of the movie’s London premiere, when social activity exploded. Positive social sentiment in the UK tipped the scales at an impressive 85.6%. (FBF nailed this gem I was hoping for $100 million the opening weekend. )