I wanna see that! The official "doesn't merit its own thread" movie trailer thread

[Moliere]

OK so in this Battle of the Sexes movie are they just going to completely ignore the likelihood that Bobby Riggs threw the match to pay off debts to the mob?

There was an ESPN documentary that was very convincing to this argument. Riggs easily beat a much better female player in Margaret Court, became a heavy favorite against Billie Jean King, then clearly didn't even try.

Not to sound like a Neanderthal Trump voter but it sounds like this movie just ignores what really happened.

It just seems like a weird thing to memorialize in a movie. Wasn't Riggs twice her age and basically have issues gripping the racket at his age? I also heard the rules for King allowed for her to use more of the court, but maybe that was a different match.

Needless to say, the Williams sisters got destroyed by some no name player a while back so I'm not sure trying to show men and women on equal footing when it comes to playing tennis is really the best argument.


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[CardiacCoug]

OK so in this Battle of the Sexes movie are they just going to completely ignore the likelihood that Bobby Riggs threw the match to pay off debts to the mob?

There was an ESPN documentary that was very convincing to this argument. Riggs easily beat a much better female player in Margaret Court, became a heavy favorite against Billie Jean King, then clearly didn't even try.

Not to sound like a Neanderthal Trump voter but it sounds like this movie just ignores what really happened.

[Walter Sobchak]

Not much in this trailer except for gobs of CG eye candy, which leads me to believe this movie will not do the book justice.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I saw all of the second one but didn't understand that swamp lady. I fell asleep in the third one and woke up to crabs carrying the ship on the beach. That made me think I wasn't really awake, but I don't remember anything else from the third. I believe there was another one after that, which I didn't see and I likely won't see this one.

The first movie in the franchise was great, though. I still enjoy watching it.

I'll be darned. There are five now? Last one I saw was #3. It was awful.

[Moliere]

This is funny (from an NYT review). Serves Disney right for trying to milk this for more cash. The last one was awful.

I saw all of the second one but didn't understand that swamp lady. I fell asleep in the third one and woke up to crabs carrying the ship on the beach. That made me think I wasn't really awake, but I don't remember anything else from the third. I believe there was another one after that, which I didn't see and I likely won't see this one.

The first movie in the franchise was great, though. I still enjoy watching it.

[Jeff Lebowski]

This is funny (from an NYT review). Serves Disney right for trying to milk this for more cash. The last one was awful.

[Armenag]

Atomic Blonde (AKA Charlize Theron makes a John Wick movie) - trailer is red band, so very violent and surprisingly racy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI7HVnZlleo

[Armenag]

The Promise. Looks promising. (get it)

Crazy manipulation on the IMDB ratings. It has IMDB rating of 4.1 with over 90k IMDB ratings so far, yet hasn't been released. Per this article nearly all people voting are outside the US, nearly all either 10 stars or 1 stars, presumably based on how you feel about Armenian Genocide.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...-a7378881.html

The movie looks pretty mediocre but I'm glad they made it and I plan to see it.

[jay santos]

The Promise. Looks promising. (get it)

Crazy manipulation on the IMDB ratings. It has IMDB rating of 4.1 with over 90k IMDB ratings so far, yet hasn't been released. Per this article nearly all people voting are outside the US, nearly all either 10 stars or 1 stars, presumably based on how you feel about Armenian Genocide.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...-a7378881.html

[jay santos]

Pretty excited for Silence. What's not to love about a collaboration between Scorsese and Andrew Garfield and Kylo Ren? Okay, a collaboration between Scorsese and Daniel Day Lewis and Benicio Del Toro, the original team. Oh well. And set in 17th Century Japan, and based on Endo's book of the same name. Father Rodrigues watches as his Christian converts are tortured until he recants.

Wikipedia gives us this passage about the book:



Has Anyone read this book, Silence by Shusaku Endo?

Saw this. Pretty brutal. Difficult to watch. But a good pay off. If they would have edited it down to two hours, I might say it's picture of the year worthy.

[myboynoah]

Pretty excited for Silence. What's not to love about a collaboration between Scorsese and Andrew Garfield and Kylo Ren? Okay, a collaboration between Scorsese and Daniel Day Lewis and Benicio Del Toro, the original team. Oh well. And set in 17th Century Japan, and based on Endo's book of the same name. Father Rodrigues watches as his Christian converts are tortured until he recants.

Wikipedia gives us this passage about the book:



Has Anyone read this book, Silence by Shusaku Endo?

Excellent book. Excited about the movie.

[Armenag]

On paper, 20th Century Women isn't very appealing to me but the trailer has me interested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JnFaltqnAY

[Northwestcoug]

I forget. Are you the one whose head explodes if we go OT?

I'll risk a head explosion further. That trailer reminded me a lot of the book 'The Samurai' by Endo. Did Endo write more than one book about the Christianity clash in Asia?

[Walter Sobchak]

I admit to googling Marshmallow Desert. I was overrun by Freakin Pinterest Dessert foodies.

Since you seem to want to spoil the movie by googling it...

Spoiler for movie ending:

Rostanze after losing his competition, returns to his hometown. He learns that Melis (Deschanel) has been given in marriage by the King's command to the court jester. Rostanze rejects his friend's advice (admirably played by Nicolas Cage) to build a fence, settle down, and breed his takhi for the budding American circus market. In a jealous rage, Rostanze leaves the Mongolia highland desert plain he calls home and heads into the mountains. A sudden snowfall strands Rostanze's takhi herd on the wrong side of the dreaded Altai mountain pass. As Rostanze watches his herd (and livelihood) slowly die (and it seems he will also freeze but the movie doesn't make that clear), we cut to Melis and the court jester's wedding just as the snow starts to fall in the Mongolian capital. In the final scene, snow piles up on the fence posts resembling the homemade marshmallows that Rostanze eats at the beginning of the movie when he was learning the Takhi trade while apprenticing under his Takhi Master (played by William Shatner). Fin.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Has Anyone read this book, Silence by Shusaku Endo?

No, but I saw the movie way back in 1982, in the original Japanese. It was excellent.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067755/?ref_=nv_sr_1