Is their any nakedness in this movie?

double aught said:

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Bruce Almighty said:

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So there would be significant opposition to an Ocean's 14 movie?

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If it had an entirely new cast, yes.

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I'd be ok with it if The Rock played every character

Saw this tonight. Overall, it feels like store brand Ocean's 11. Fairly generic and comes across as a somewhat cheap imitation of the trilogy. It gets better as it goes along, and the second half is definitely more entertaining than the first, but it never reaches anywhere close to the highs of its predecessors. Feels really subdued at times as well. You'd think the female version would have a little more pep in its step, but it's all weirdly vanilla and hardly takes any chances. That, and every single problem encountered (all three of them) is easily solved in 30 seconds or less. There's no real tension and the mission never feels like it's in any legit jeopardy.

That said, I chuckled a couple of times, but the audience I saw it with laughed their asses off and seemed way more into it than I was. So maybe it's just me, I don't know.

Either way, now having seen it, I don't at all get how this could be interpreted as any kind of a women's empowerment thing (if it was ever even meant to be). I'll sometimes defend that kind of stuff a bit more than most here (and did so earlier in this thread), but this comes across as women getting nothing more than the men's table scraps. The whole thing screams "Look, we're doing this too!" and is such a bland, derivative variation that I don't understand how it can be considered anything but a setback. It's a money-grab, plain a simple (which I've also defended), but you'd think with this cast there'd be a bit more too it - at least some kind of subtext - and there's just not.

Though, again, the audience I saw it with seemed to genuinely enjoy it, and there were FAR more people in the sold out theater tonight than there were for Solo on opening night a couple weeks back. So I may not be the best person to analyze this one, and it probably doesn't even need analyzing to begin with. It's a fun enough movie, is going to make a ton of money, and I'd say it's probably even worth the price of admission, just don't go in expecting anything on par with the earlier installments in terms of cleverness, charm, or filmmaking technique in general.

That's because this movie is a cash grab written solely as a "look, women can do anything men can do!" movie. And when a movie is written for any purpose other than to tell the story it just never turns out well.

This whole women's empowerment thing can be done well when you focus on the story and just let the "it's women doing it" angle take a back seat to the plot. For instance, I think the trailer for The Widows looks pretty good, and it has nothing to do with the fact that its a bunch of women pulling off the heist (or whatever they're doing).

11 is my favorite. 13 is good, because it's more like 11.

Hey just saw it this afternoon... can't remember if I posted here before or not but......


my DAUGHTER is in this movie. We kinda waited to make sure she wasn't completely cut. she was just an extra and filmed last year in NYC where she is a theater student. she was a generic model type in a ball gown at the Met Gala big event of the movie. we knew they would not cut all of that but you never know what makes the final cut.

We saw her 4 times in that scene all together but you would have to be looking for her of course. Tall blonde in a green sequined dress. I'll post a pic of her from wardrobe fittings later.

Once she was behind bullock just during like the entrance to the Met. Another time she was standing at one of the other tables as they followed Anne Hathaways entrance. And she was in one of those panning shots of the weird dark room with all the other gowns and jewels just walking like any of the guests. She was also on the stairs of the crowd as they exited during the lockdown. I think that was it but we will have to watch again.

she had several other parts shot where she had closer proximity to the stars especially Sarah Paulson but none of those made it in apparently. she shot for 10 nights overnight from like 6pm to 4-5am at the Met itself. there were reshoots later where they recreated parts of the interior.

And she met several of the stars at one time or another - Sarah Paulson kept talking to her because she wanted to know the designer of her dress and they had to get wardrobe to find out and get the info for her. She met Rhianna as she did a special backroom meet an greet thing for the model girl extras. Briefly met Sandra and Anne but nothing much to report just a hi nice to meet you kind of thing. Talked briefly to Katie Holmes who was a celeb cameo in that dining room scene. And saw the Kardashians but never talked to any of them - they were more aloof than the movie stars of course. Never saw Cate Blanchett or Mindy Kahling because they were not on the floor during the Met scene they were always back in the kitchens, etc.

It was a fun little game for us to try to find her - I need to pay more attention to the movie next time but I liked it for the most part (I could be biased).

And her 20th birthday was yesterday so it was kind of a fun birthday outing for us.

1876er said:

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AgMarauder04 said:

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If this bombs as hard as the she-ghostbusters flick, maybe they will get the hint that rebooted with a gimmick is just stupid.

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Ghostbusters made $230MM on a $145MM budget. I wouldn't call that a bust.

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you would if you realize thats the production budget alone.

Add another 50% typically or $70MM in distribution and advertising costs. thats $215MM total cost.

And of the $230MM in box office the studio typically sees only 50%on average or $115MM. the rest goes to the theaters.

So they lost over $100MM most likely on the standard basis for determining profit for films.

Cable, PPV and BR/DVD might make them back another $20MM or so and merchandising but I doubt it was much with this film maybe $5M.

Easily lost $75MM or more.

TajMaballer said:

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It's a fun heist movie. The actual heist is a lot of fun and the characters are all great. Kaling got a bit of the short stick in this one. I'd watch another movie with these characters based on the chemistry alone. Perfect for a MoviePass night if you are on the fence IMO.

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This movie was ***** And your mother's a *****. ( I kindly disagree with your sentiment

Only one opinion can be right!

Zombie Jon Snow said:

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Hey just saw it this afternoon... can't remember if I posted here before or not but......


my DAUGHTER is in this movie. We kinda waited to make sure she wasn't completely cut. she was just an extra and filmed last year in NYC where she is a theater student. she was a generic model type in a ball gown at the Met Gala big event of the movie. we knew they would not cut all of that but you never know what makes the final cut.

We saw her 4 times in that scene all together but you would have to be looking for her of course. Tall blonde in a green sequined dress. I'll post a pic of her from wardrobe fittings later.

Once she was behind bullock just during like the entrance to the Met. Another time she was standing at one of the other tables as they followed Anne Hathaways entrance. And she was in one of those panning shots of the weird dark room with all the other gowns and jewels just walking like any of the guests. She was also on the stairs of the crowd as they exited during the lockdown. I think that was it but we will have to watch again.

she had several other parts shot where she had closer proximity to the stars especially Sarah Paulson but none of those made it in apparently. she shot for 10 nights overnight from like 6pm to 4-5am at the Met itself. there were reshoots later where they recreated parts of the interior.

And she met several of the stars at one time or another - Sarah Paulson kept talking to her because she wanted to know the designer of her dress and they had to get wardrobe to find out and get the info for her. She met Rhianna as she did a special backroom meet an greet thing for the model girl extras. Briefly met Sandra and Anne but nothing much to report just a hi nice to meet you kind of thing. Talked briefly to Katie Holmes who was a celeb cameo in that dining room scene. And saw the Kardashians but never talked to any of them - they were more aloof than the movie stars of course. Never saw Cate Blanchett or Mindy Kahling because they were not on the floor during the Met scene they were always back in the kitchens, etc.

It was a fun little game for us to try to find her - I need to pay more attention to the movie next time but I liked it for the most part (I could be biased).

And her 20th birthday was yesterday so it was kind of a fun birthday outing for us.

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Here is a picture of her in costume during the shoot at the Met....

This will not end well for you.

(Awesome story/experience, though.)

TCTTS said:

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This will not end well for you.

(Awesome story/experience, though.)

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I know... I was hesitant about it but......oh well.

Zombie Jon Snow said:

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TCTTS said:

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This will not end well for you.

(Awesome story/experience, though.)

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I know... I was hesitant about it but......oh well.

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I'm a dad so let me say...

She is beautiful.

You should be proud and I know you are.

Awesome experience for her, you, and the family. Nice

TCTTS said:

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This will not end well for you.

(Awesome story/experience, though.)

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How so? He followed the rules.

Great story about your daughter Zombie.

I sometimes mistakenly expect The Zoo culture to seep in over here. Pleasantly surprised/glad that it didn't.

TCTTS said:

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I sometimes mistakenly expect The Zoo culture to seep in over here. Pleasantly surprised/glad that it didn't.

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I feel like there's an unspoken standard of conduct here. (Except for maybe redstone)