Film

[Ollkiller]

Ya he's been doing pay check films for years now. He's supposed to be a total fruit cake though. Supposedly a dickhead of the highest order on sets. Berating interns about hot his tea was and so forth. And trying to create his uptopia by buying up a town in Idaho in the 90s.

[Carnage]

Kevin Smith had bad experiences with him on a couple of films, but Smith's a grade A wanker anyway, so hardly surprising.

[Ollkiller]

Ya it was Colm Meaney who when asked who was the worst actor he ever worked with and said it was Bruce Willis. Said he was a bully and a prick of the highest order. He still ruled in Die Hard though.

[Eoin McLove]

Odd. I just read a thing on Bruce Willis the other day after listening to the "Comfort Blanket" podcast's discussion about "Die Hard".

Supposedly there's "grave concern" in Hollywood over his well-being and the care that he's getting from his current wife/management team. Much like Groucho Marx in his later years where his secretary/manager Erin Fleming forced him into the pubic eye to make appearances to line her own pockets even though Groucho was frail and nowhere near as sharp as he used to be. She herself was later diagnosed as being mentally ill. 

Willis has been doing these direct-to-video gigs for over a decade at $2 million a pop for less than a week's work. There's a rumour that he may have been suffering from that condition for a long time - and was making the movies at the behest of his agent or whatever. On one of the last movies he made, he was fed all his lines through an earpiece because he couldn't remember them - that would go to what McLove said about his acting skills in the movie that he watched.  Apparently Willis seemed confused as to where he was and what he was doing there too.

If that's all true you'd really feel sorry for the poor bastard. He made some great movies and seemed like a bit of craic too. 

Jesus. I hope that isn't the case.

[91/30]

Odd. I just read a thing on Bruce Willis the other day after listening to the "Comfort Blanket" podcast's discussion about "Die Hard".

Supposedly there's "grave concern" in Hollywood over his well-being and the care that he's getting from his current wife/management team. Much like Groucho Marx in his later years where his secretary/manager Erin Fleming forced him into the pubic eye to make appearances to line her own pockets even though Groucho was frail and nowhere near as sharp as he used to be. She herself was later diagnosed as being mentally ill. 

Willis has been doing these direct-to-video gigs for over a decade at $2 million a pop for less than a week's work. There's a rumour that he may have been suffering from that condition for a long time - and was making the movies at the behest of his agent or whatever. On one of the last movies he made, he was fed all his lines through an earpiece because he couldn't remember them - that would go to what McLove said about his acting skills in the movie that he watched.  Apparently Willis seemed confused as to where he was and what he was doing there too.

If that's all true you'd really feel sorry for the poor bastard. He made some great movies and seemed like a bit of craic too. 

Jesus. I hope that isn't the case.

That aussie youtube channel Explosive Action collects all Bruce Willis films and has been reviewing the latter ones.  Bruce get a packet for his face/ name on the front of the DVD and a few lines

[Thorn]

Simon ( Explosive Action) is some boy, mad collection of stuff

[blessed1]

Watched one called Before The Devil Knows You're Dead with Ethan Hawke and Philip Hoffman.
I dunno how I never heard of it before.
Brilliant pitch black comedy.

[astfgyl]

Watched Gold last night. About 2 lads who find a giant gold nugget in the desert. Might have been ok as a 20 minute short or something but not worth the hour and a half

[Caomhaoin]

Seen 'what is a woman'? there, the Matt Walsh/Daily Wire documentary. Meh. Here, I agree with everything he says on the topic, but it's that prick Michael Moore's MO, make the other side look like the most gigantic spastics on the planet. Dr Peterson's cameo must be for those who don't use the internet, he became a public figure for an incident related to the issue.

[astfgyl]

I saw a small clip of him asking a transsexual if they were a cat since they couldn't define woman so I decided not to bother, assuming it's that stretched out over an hour or two. As you say, the Michael Moore method of making out like the people on the other side of a point/ideology are just thick as shit across the board. Used to see the same tactic used for the trump rallies too.

Was I right not to bother?

[Caomhaoin]

Yeah it's not great. Paint by numbers stuff. Some facts about children (well, teenagers) being carved up and the Canadian lad who got fined and is going on trial for misgendering his own daughter are alarming etc, but it's not shocking or very insightful.

I listen to his podcast, and I've never heard a less magnanimous fella over the Roe v Wade malarkey abroad in America. Can't say I blame him

[astfgyl]

Seeing that Roe v Wade thing a lot today. I feel I should stay out of it but I think the reaction is overblown, given they only have to drive a few hours to a blue state in any event

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Film thread lads...

[boozegeune]

Would you believe I only saw There Will Be Blood for the first time this week. Turns out, it's good.

[astfgyl]

Film thread lads...

Fair.

Watched a British film the other night on film 4 where some chaps do a bit of work on a house but the owner won't pay them and it goes steadily downhill from there but for the life of me I can't remember the name of it.

Any ideas? There was a fairly harrowing burying scene in it.