the d train ( also known as bad bromance ) is a 2015 american black comedy film written and directed by jarrad paul and andrew mogel in their directorial debuts , and stars jack black and james marsden .

the film premiered at the 11th sundance film festival on january 23 , 2015 , and was released in the united states on may 8 , 2015 by ifc films .

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a passenger pulled the emergency brake on the d train as riders ran to escape the crickets . ( jjlouis / istock )
refreshingly subversive and featuring a never - better jack black , the d train takes bromantic comedies to their natural conclusion .
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may be a scant and rather unconvincing comedy , but it deserves credit for taking a risk .
“the d train” is rated r ( under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian ) . boys will be naughty boys .
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the last act of the d train becomes a hilarious , deeply weird , and ultimately touching medley of delusion , humiliation , and friendship .
“the d train” stars james marsden and jack black starred at the film’s premiere . james marsden was gorgeous . jack black was jack black .
jack black , left , and james marsden are reportedly headed to new orleans to shot the indie comedy ' the d - train . '
the film is still one of the worst of 2015 , even if you change the title from the d train . . . . . . . . rubbish
the bizarre incident took place on a brooklyn - bound d train about 6 : 05 p . m . wednesday , police said .
if you spot d - train filming in louisiana this month , let us know about it at olv @ onlocationvacations . com !
with the emergency brake pulled , the train was stalled over the east river for 15 agonizing minutes .
the movie shot for about three weeks in hollywood south . when she read the script to
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she said she just couldn ' t put it down .
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but there are a trio of knockout scenes toward the end of “the d train” — sensitively spotlighting black , marsden and hahn — that make it well worth checking out .
nothing about
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feels the least bit authentic , and worse , little about it is funny . that ' s a deadly recipe for a dark comedy .
‘a mesmerising presence’ : emily blunt in the girl on the train . photograph : allstar / dreamworks skg
so , i thought the d train was amazing . when the climactic confrontation between black and marsden happens at the reunion , it’s one of the deepest , darkest nadir ' s i ' ve seen a character reach . d train is , by far , the most cringe - inducing movie i’ve seen since . . . young adult probably . and that was a major cringe .
newcomers andrew mogel and jarrad paul’s darkly hilarious “the d train” dares to take the homoerotic subtext of bromantic comedies to its logical conclusion without resorting to the cheap gay panic humor so closely associated with the genre .
“no . ‘the d train’ is like his nickname . i’m not fond of the title , but that’s what we got . we also got great scenes , but we did them fast .
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- may 8 jack black plays the head of his high school reunion committee who must convince the most popular guy in his class ( james marsden ) to attend the reunion in this sundance pic .
when black signs his name on the message with “the d train” instead of “dan landsman” : most viewers will see it as reaffirming . but it’s high irony . black’s grandest moment of ignorance . he makes it sound as though he’s finally discovered who he is , the d train , but the reality is it’s a hollow name he’s given himself to avoid facing the truth of being “dan landsman” . isn’t that fucking sad ?
they ' d worked together on a tv show before , which helped give them the hunger for directing .
jack black and james marsden are teaming up to star in the d - train , a comedy being produced by mike white ' s ripcord productions , black ' s electric dynamite and ealing studios .
woman just let crickets out on the d train as we went over the manhattan bridge ,
passenger ezra mechaber wrote on twitter .
panic ensued . someone pulled the e - brake . stuck . new york .
submitted by diane gartland , psy . d . on october 28 , 2014 - 4 : 15am
“the d train” is a good - humored , warm - hearted movie in which black , as usual , excels . the screwball nature of the early going livens things up , with increasingly farfetched plot twists keeping things fast and funny .
a man on the train was able to calm her and kept her from making the frenzied situation worse , frizell said .
frizell said there was pure pandemonium , with the crickets and worms causing a
bum rush
to the other side of the train .
the train pulled into the dekalb ave . station about 6 : 30 p . m . , where police took the woman into custody .
imagine “get him to the greek” if the rock concert was a high school reunion and you have “the d - train” a comedy that will pair jack black with his fellow “anchorman” franchise alum james marsden , an individual familiar with the project has told thewrap .
if we view the ending in this way , the d train becomes a film about being unable to accept the truth about yourself and your actions , that there are people in the world who will lie to themselves about who they are because it’s the only way they can cope with their life . which makes the d train a companion film to charlize theron’s young adult , where theron continues to delude herself that she is a better person than everyone around her because she was popular in high school .
author : agustina d saenz , md ; chief editor : david c spencer , md more . . .
working on this movie for this actress whose also appeared in
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makes her feel nostalgic .
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is a movie that ' s most likely to get you to think .
filming is underway for d - train – a new comedy that follows the head of a high school reunion committee who travels to los angeles to track down the most popular guy from his graduating class and convince him to go to the reunion – in louisiana .
the d train deals with the dark side of things . it captures the idea of a man who is stuck in the past , and disillusioned with the way things are . although i still think they shied away from that in the end , your version is a vast improvement to how i saw it .
yet the d train does stand out in one not - inconsiderable respect . it is , i think , the only film of its type in which the two male leads actually sleep with each other – and by that i don’t mean a coy , coded snuggle under the duvet .
i’d like to propose a counter - viewing that makes the movie , in my opinion , heartbreaking rather than “good except for the end . ”
a woman sent straphangers into a frenzy when she released crickets on a train over the manhattan bridge . ( errayj / facebook )
jack black and james marsden are boarding
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and heading for new orleans . the film , an indie comedy that established pre - production offices in town weeks ago , is scheduled to start shooting for 23 days starting feb . 18 .
le train en miniature . modélisme ferroviaire à wasquehal ( 16 - 17 / 02 / 2013 ) . 3ème partie
much of the joy of “the d train” lies in watching black’s dan try to extricate himself from a tar - ball of lies , and the harder he tries to solve his problems , the more new ones he creates . there’s not much to praise about “the d train” technically , even as editor terel gibson manages the impressive feat of juggling reality and possible hallucinations in the film’s final act . the production design by ethan tobman also helps the film — lawless’ apartment , for example , is exactly as awful as you would hope ; the office where dan works is also a perfect piece of middle american design , the ’90s trapped in futility like amber .
there’s a shocking twist in the d train that’s impossible to discuss without ruining the film’s impact . so , keep that in mind when you’re reading ahead . now that we’ve settled that business , let’s start dissecting what will undoubtedly be the most provocative and polarizing comedy to hit theaters in the months ahead .
agustina d saenz , md resident physician , department of internal medicine , albert einstein medical center disclosure : nothing to disclose .
carballo explains that banana boat was contacted by the d train ' s production company over a year ago , in the winter of 2014 , and they were looking for a sunscreen to partner with for the movie . after the banana boat team reviewed the synopsis of the film , they determined that it made sense to integrate its triple defense sunscreen for men into the movie .
in the end , the d train succumbs to a failure of nerve , trotting out the same cosy reassurances about hearth and home the rest of the film so mischievously needles : perhaps a bolder draft of the film once existed , and this is it with the edges sanded off . jack black getting the girl is no big deal . but jack black getting the guy ? now that would have been something .
despite mr trump’s suggestion that the terrorist was known to police , counter - terrorism sources insisted that was not the case and that the hunt for the perpetrator of the bombing on a district line train was ongoing .
i use quote marks because although the d train clearly imagines itself to be a daring excavation of a soul in turmoil , it is in fact an utterly formulaic comedy save for the extreme unlikability of its protagonist and a theoretically edgy central twist that the film has absolutely no idea what to do with .
jack black ( school of rock ) is at his hilarious best as dan
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landsman , nerdy outsider and head of his high school ' s 20th reunion committee . hoping to go from zero to hero ,
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jets to la to convince oliver lawless ( james marsden , x - men ) , the school ' s most popular guy turned actor , to come to the big bash . but an insane night of hollywood - style revelry leads to an unexpected bromance that leads to the most outrageous reunion ever in this hysterical dark comedy .
american soul group , formed in a brooklyn , new york city high school in the early 1980s by james ' d train ' williams ( lead vocals ) and hubert eaves iii ( keyboards , bass , drums and arrangements ) . they garnered much success on the early 1980s disco scene .
they ' ve bought the rights to a wired article about beating a video poker machine thanks to a glitch in the machine , with jonah hill attached , so that could end up being on the docket . they ' ll be watching the box office results on
the d train
closely , hoping that helps secure them their next step .
a key plank of the investigation has focused on cctv , with officers combing through footage to establish who planted the device , and when and where it was placed on the train .
i mean , it ' s admirable that they want to spread their wings , but you have to crawl before you walk . before dropping the d - train into 1 , 000 theaters , their widest opening was my big fat greek wedding in 100 theaters 13 years ago !
retest the train - of - four 15 minutes after a bolus dose or with a change in a continuous nmba infusion rate , titrating to the prescribed clinical endpoint .
the rapidly moving developments came a day after commuters fled in terror after a homemade bomb partially detonated on a district line train , injuring 29 people .
let ' s take a trip down memory land with local actress , corrina lyons . she stars alongside funnyman , jack black and james marsden in the new dark comedy ,
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. this hollywood south - shot flick is about going back to high school 20 years later for a reunion .
he train , which was bound for edgware road , was just pulling into the station in south - west london when the device detonated in the rear carriage , sending passengers fleeing to safety .
exclusive : ifc films closed a $ 3 million deal for the u . s . rights to the d train , the jarrad paul / andrew mogel - directed film that stars jack black , james marsden , kathryn hahn , jeffrey tambor , mike white , and kyle bornheimer . that ties the high - water mark at this festival so far , matching the deal brokered for the bronze .
written and directed by andrew mogel and jarrad paul , “the d train” starts out looking like a fairly standard - issue comedy of midlife crisis : suburban pittsburgh resident dan landsman ( jack black ) jumps , with more certainty than one would think , to the conclusion that the best way to make more of his old classmates sign up for the upcoming reunion is to make sure that coolest - kid - in - school oliver lawless ( james marsden ) goes to the reunion as well . but when dan’s convinced his masterstroke of social engineering will — and must ! — work , that’s when “the d train” goes along a very different set of tracks than you might think .
there’ve been films that have found comedy and satire in the high school reunion , from “romy and michelle’s high school reunion” to “grosse point blank” and many more . “the d train” succeeds because it isn’t just a reunion ; it’s reaching out to improve an unchangeable past and to set a course for an unknown future , like gatsby entranced by the green light on the dock , if gatsby were jack black and the green light was a dj playing quarterflash’s “harden my heart . ” with superb , nuanced comedy performances from both white and marsden , “the d train” is a great , out - of - left - field star vehicle with tough laughs and real regret in it .
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tells the story of a former high - school outcast ( black ) who - - taking very seriously his role as chairman of his alma mater ' s reunion committee - - heads to los angeles to persuade a famous former classmate ( james marsden ) to attend the 20 - year get - together .
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the d train fundamentally fails as black comedy because , apart from its central , moderately homophobic twist , it has nothing to offer except for a stereotypical bromedy plot ( the nerd and the hollywood star ! ) and a series of tedious homilies . ( be yourself ! popularity isn’t everything ! ) unlike , say , the king of comedy —another film about an intolerably narcissistic loser—it has no larger social context or commentary . its out - of - left - field twist remains just that ; the movie makes no effort to mine it for any deeper meaning than a kind of low - grade gay panic . the d train isn’t smart enough to be dark ; it’s merely disagreeable .
new orleans ( wgno ) - the new jack black and james marsden dark comedy called ,
the d train
was shot in hollywood south . many of the scenes in metairie . news with a twist ' s kenny lopez goes along with one of the actresses from the new film , as she shares her movie - making experience and shows him some sights of where the film was shot .
they also didn ' t have their actors on set — the screen actors guild keeps them from showing up until the money is in . they ' d been working on the movie for three years .
let’s just get the so - called spoiler out of the way : in the d train , oliver lawless , a badass d - list actor played by james marsden , fucks dan landsman , a small - town schmo played by jack black . the promotional material for this movie has avoided this element altogether , while many press reactions have dutifully treated it like a climactic , crying game - style jaw - dropper . the big moment is a tad startling , but it occurs around the beginning of act two , almost like a second inciting incident , and there’s really no way to fully unpack this film without laying it out on the table . without the sex , the d train is just another bromance . with it , it’s a groundbreaking inquiry for the post - bromance era , exploring the secret corners of male identity and relationships after a literal penetration that virtually every other film of its kind has only flirted with .
a wacky subway rider released a cloud of crickets and urinated on herself in a rush hour train crossing the manhattan bridge , sending horrified straphangers into a frenzy .
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stars jack black as an unpopular guy who , desperately trying to prove himself , invites the most popular person in his class to come back for their high school reunion in hopes of riding his coattails . it ' s also a movie about something else , with a big secret that made it the talk of sundance .
funny and sad isn’t the easiest combination to pull off , and while both descriptors fit “the d train” well enough , this dark comedy might just as well be described as edgy and soft , audacious and coy , a largely enjoyable letdown . starring jack black as a chronic loser who decides to save his high - school reunion by securing the attendance of [ … ]
rookie filmmakers jarrad paul and andrew mogel delivered a charmer with their bromance “the d - train , ” which stars jack black as daniel , an anally - retentive pittsburgh man trying and failing to round up classmates for their 20th anniversary reunion . he’s so unpopular that his fellow board members on the reunion committee go out for beers without inviting him .
moving again now , cops meeting us at dekalb ,
mechaber added .
never seen a crowd get so panicked so fast , everyone rushed to the other side of the train .
produced & arranged for huemar productions . recorded at sound lab studios by pete & mike . mixed at sigma sound nyc . run - out inscriptions : prld - 621 - a hi gerry , phyllis and mike mastering by frankford / wayne new york herbie : ^ ) fk a2 < — > prld - 621 - b mastering by frankford / wayne new york herbie : ^ ) fk a2 < — > this is an alternate pressing , with the same track lengths :
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with light and moderately dark comic flourishes , a skipping , sometimes thudding heart and some careful lighting , “the d train” takes the bromance to its logical conclusion . even so , it plays it sweet rather than tough , including narratively , and there are instances — as in a close - up of dan , his face knotted up in jealousy as he watches oliver across a dance floor — when you see hints of a more dangerous , less comfortable movie . “the d train” acknowledges there can be more to all the usual sharing , caring and relentless joking than the reproduction of male power , but it isn’t going to upturn the status quo . the truth is that it’s pretty straight , including in its revelation that sometimes when a guy says “i love you , man , ” he really , really means it .
speaking of which , the film’s just as unforgiving as payne’s strongest works , leading to a conclusion that’s equal parts destructive and rejuvenating . but it finds a soft landing that’s actually quite enlightening and speaks to the strengths of its writers , whose willingness to heighten the levels of bromance up towards legitimate romance shifts the d train from being a star - studded indie - comedy into an accessible celluloid debate on society’s often expected barriers of sexuality .
you’d think he’d learn . but this year he seizes upon a far - fetched chance to finally turn the tables on his nemeses ; chancing to see a tv suntan lotion commercial starring hunky former classmate oliver lawless ( james marsden ) , dan figures that , if he can deliver this “star” to the reunion , he himself will at long last also become cool in the eyes of those who have so long disdained him .
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she was hysterical for 20 minutes and peed herself before the train operator unlocked the car doors to let us through ,
mechaber tweeted .
mass hysteria in a locked , enclosed space is something else .
reading the book , there’s plenty to keep this cinematic train a - rollin’ , from charlotte bruus christensen’s adventurous cinematography to danny elfman’s expressive score and erin cressida wilson’s oddly sympathetic script . most importantly , in the shape of the mercurial emily blunt ,
ounter terrorism specialists from scotland yard were working to establish his identity from cctv footage on the train and at stations on the line . they were also combing through records of payments with oyster cards used to buy tube tickets .
this is where the d train pulls into the station . in most respects , writer - directors andrew mogel and jarrad paul’s raunchy cringe - comedy is a typically minor mid - september release . its stars , jack black and james marsden , are well - known , but not quite marquee names . and it’s funny enough to pass the time , but doesn’t have the comic extravagance of a film like the hangover – perhaps the most successful bromance to date – that would have turned it into a hit .
d - train centers on a middle america high school reunion committee chairman ( black ) , still searching for high school acceptance , who has to do whatever it takes , including flying to los angeles to penetrate the world of celebrities , to get the most popular guy from high school - - now a failed actor working in commercials ( marsden ) - - to show up to their 20 - year reunion .
i don ' t like the idea of * professional * debriefing for everyone . personally , i ' d feel much better telling my husband about what happened , not a counselor who i ' ve never met .
whetstone foster jg . peripheral nerve stimulators . d j . lynn - mchale & k carlson . aacnprocedure manual for critical care . elsevier saunders : philadelphia ; 2005 . 837 - 844 .
the first electrode is placed on the face at the outer canthus of the eye and the second electrode is placed 2 cm below , parallel with the tragus of the ear . connect the negative ( black ) lead wire to the distal electrode at the tragus and the positive ( red ) lead to the proximal electrode at the outer canthus , as shown in the image below .
the first electrode is placed 2 cm posterior to the medial malleolus in the foot , with the second being 2 cm above the first . connect the negative ( black ) lead to the distal electrode at the posterior malleolus and the positive ( red ) lead to the proximal electrode above the malleolus .
in the d train , black is putting together a high school reunion in hopes of erasing the loser tag that dogged him back then , and he tracks down a relationship with the most popular guy from the class , who’s a semi - celebrity . just as the bronze is distinguished by a gymnastic sex scene between melissa rauch and sebastian stan , this one had everybody buzzing about a comparable scene — between the two male leads . white , black , priyanka mattoo , ben latham - jones , dave bernad and barnaby thompson produced and paul and mogel wrote the script .
yes man screenwriters andrew mogel and jarrad paul , who make their directorial debut here , pieced together a very risky and original screenplay with the d train , which is what attracted an all - star cast that also includes jeffrey tambor , kathryn hahn , mike white , henry zebrowski , and kyle bornheimer . without spoiling too much , the two writers followed through on a literal bromance , tipping off all the crazy consequences that might come from such a chance encounter .
the “just world bias” plays into this . where we like to think the world we live in is a good one , and that most people are living happy lives . this gives us the plausible deniability that the bad things won’t happen to us . we tend to ignore the sinister energy beneath the surface of things : the weird and horrible truth that the happy world we see is more complicated , that people we know and love lie to us and to themselves about who they are , what they’ve done . . . when you think of the d train as capturing this aspect of the world . . . the ending seems far from lackluster . is , instead , pretty brilliant .
if the clinical situation is not emergent , whenever possible apply the electrodes to determine the best site of location by testing the train - of - four response and finding supramaximal stimulation level prior to nmba initiation . supramaximal stimulation is the level at which additional stimulation will not increase the intensity of the 4 twitches . it is a baseline for comparison and establishes what the adequate stimulating current is prior to nmba therapy .
they thought of the script as something they could direct while they were writing it . rather than leaving certain stage direction for the director to figure out , they wrote more specifically , writing it how they ' d want to shoot it and figuring that out on the front end .
save the money , limit the takes — five maximum . go with the gut .
explain that the peripheral nerve stimulation will help to assess the effect of the medication .
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the us stands in solidarity with the people of the uk .
there’s a short stretch of the film , right after dan’s trip to l . a . and the sex scene , but before oliver arrives for the reunion , when it starts to look as if dan is panicking because he thinks the reunion will be ruined if the other alumni find out oliver is gay . ( at this point , his bisexuality hasn’t yet been established . ) thankfully , the d train is not a wacky comedy about dan trying to hide oliver’s sexual orientation . but for the five - to - 10 minutes that it looks as if it might be headed that way : yikes .
the banana boat team also
wrote the majority of the ad [ in the movie ] ,
carballo says .
so dan ( jack black ) hatches a plan . after spotting a popular former classmate , oliver lawless ( james marsden ) , in a banana boat sunscreen commercial , he concludes that if he can persuade oliver to attend the reunion , it will make everyone in the class want to attend , and thus render dan a hero . the fact that this feeble premise does , in fact , come to fruition is among the smaller failures of the d train , a thin and painfully unfunny “dark” comedy by writer - directors jarrad paul and andrew mogul .
the commissioner said the public should feel
utterly reassured
by the presence of police .
“i think the prime minister of the uk was appropriate in calling the president out . ”
in most movie bromances , sexual desire skitters at the edge of the story , quivering like a man - child in a cathouse . the dudes in these movies tend to observe a ritualistic narrative proximity ( they get close , but not too close ) that’s echoed in the physical protocols of the typical bro - hug . in these familiar ceremonial interactions , the bros lean in toward each other for some upper - body contact even as they simultaneously maintain scrupulous , observable genital distance . once contact is made , the bro - huggers exchange two or three hearty back slaps and then uncouple . in the comedy “the d train , ” there’s no such retreat — only sweet , sweaty surrender .
one of new york city’s longest running weekly dance parties , takes it to east river park sunday august 13th . join us to celebrate the life of funkbox host evelyn santos , as she completes 50yrs of involvement in nyc nightlife and celebrates her 70th birthday . in honor of that , guest dj’s jellybean benitez and danny krivit join along with a performance by d - train . presented by resident dj tony touch and legendary dancer / choreographer voodoo ray .
sen s , sari s , kurt i , cobanoglu m . the use of train of four monitoring for clinical evaluation of the axillary brachial plexus block . j clin monit comput . 2014 jun . 28 ( 3 ) : 243 - 9 . [ medline ] .
one theory is the suspected bomber may have fled the scene among the stampede of panicking passengers and escaped among the crowds .
extend the arm , palm up in a relaxed state . the 2 electrodes are placed over the path of the ulnar nerve . the distal electrode is placed at the level of the wrist on the ulnar surface at the flexor crease , as close to the nerve as possible . the second electrode should be placed 1 - 2 cm proximal to the first , parallel to the flexor carpi ulnaris tendon .
the very first line of the review is the spoiler warning :
let ' s just get the so - called spoiler out of the way .
when pressing the train - of - four button , the stimulus is sent as a group of 0 . 2 - millisecond pulses ( to avoid direct muscle stimulation or repetitive nerve stimulation going over the refractory period ) in a square - wave pattern spaced 500 milliseconds apart . this is repeated every 10 seconds .
note the current ( in ma ) that corresponds to 4 vigorous twitches when the train - of - four stimuli button is pushed . if there is then no increase in the intensity of the 4 muscle twitches when the current is increased by 10 ma , the supramaximal stimulation is the level at which the previous 4 vigorous twitches were observed . for example , if 4 strong twitches are observed at 50 ma but when raised to 60 ma there is no further increase , the supramaximal stimulation is then 50 ma .
all his life , dan landsman has never been the cool guy . that’s about to change – if he can convince oliver lawless , the most popular guy from his high school who’s now the face of a national banana boat ad campaign , to show up with him to their class reunion . a man on a mission , dan travels from pittsburgh to la and spins a web of lies to recruit lawless . but he gets more than he bargains for as the unpredictable lawless proceeds to take over his home , career , and entire life . d train serves up the question : how far would you go to be popular ?
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in the indie comedy the d train , jack black ' s unpopular dan landsman , in the process of organizing his 20 - year high - school reunion , first stumbles across his popular former classmate oliver lawless ( james marsden ) in a sunscreen commercial that dan catches on tv late one night . dan rewinds and pauses the ad a couple of times and wakes up his wife and kids to see it . he then plays the commercial for them and even gets his son to help him record it on his phone . the spot leads dan to think that oliver ' s made it and he sets off for l . a . to convince his celebrity classmate to attend the reunion with him .
brokered by uta and wme , the d train piqued bidders from its debut screening friday night . lionsgate and fox searchlight were two others in the mix as well as new companies like broad green and alchemy . it was a risky strategy to not close a deal right away — last night all the attention was on the rick fumiyawa - directed dope , which has bids at $ 7 million and a $ 15 million p & a commitment i hear to dwarf all other films , with five players in the mix — but these talks dragged out and a deal finally closed this morning . there’s some p & a in the deal also so it will play theatrically .
it may well be a sign of the rarity of such depictions that a simple make - out scene can generate as much i - can’t - believe - what - i’m - seeing laughter as it does ; then again , for body - type reasons alone , marsden and black would probably make a pretty hilarious pairing under even the most liberated circumstances . yet while “the d train” scores points for taking risks , it’s not nearly as brave in terms of follow - through — and not just because the actual sex , shot in a few brief and blurry seconds , is treated as a cheap punchline .
“the d - train” also makes its points about the hypnotic light cast by even a small amount of glamor , and about how avidly we want to catch even its reflection . it’s there when dan is enthralled by oliver’s stupid sunscreen ad ; it’s there when oliver tries to convince dan he knows dermot mulroney ( playing himself with deft charm ) at a hollywood club . it also makes it clear that everyone who reaches for that , to catch even a small part of it , is grasping for , at best , a poisoned chalice .
to decrease the current required to stimulate a nerve , the positive electrode is placed proximally and the negative toward the muscle terminus . the wires are connected to the nerve stimulator . the negative ( black ) and positive ( red ) leads are attached to the corresponding connection colors .
“the d train” isn’t the first comedy to coax laughs out of two ostensibly straight guys having sex , a situation more typically found in seriously unfunny prison movies . the 2009 indie movie “humpday , ” a sendup of the genre , circled the issue with two straight male friends who decide to make a pornographic movie with each other only to keep their penises in lockdown . that’s invariably the case in the typical bromances , of course , which feature delineated straight guys who engage in stereotypically , even hyperbolically coded male behavior : they play air guitar , drink to excess , become involved in street altercations and so forth . one of the best , “i love you , man , ” even mimics the classic heterosexual romantic coupling : boy meets boy ; boy loses boy ; boy gets boy , kind of .
the thing that threw me for a loop : d train’s abrupt conclusion . it takes about 90 minutes for black to melt down every relationship in his life—with his wife , his son , his work , what friends he might have had , and himself . then in the last 5 minutes he manages to repair the relationship with his wife , his son , his work , james marsden , and himself ( and potentially his classmates ) . on top of this sudden reconciliation with everyone : we have shots of black in a park doing tai chi . tai chi ! and doing it well !
most education initially will be with the family members present at the bedside because the patient is heavily sedated .
a search of the address is ongoing and the cordons will remain in place until the operation is complete .
the negative ( black ) lead wire is attached to the distal electrode and the positive ( red ) lead wire is attached to the proximal .
to reduce any anxiety , describe the equipment and the experience of the stimuli as a slight prickly sensation that the patient may or may not experience .
the peripheral nerve stimulation can be performed either in the ulnar , facial , or posterior tibial nerve . the ulnar nerve in the wrist is the preferred site , but if gross anasarca is present , the facial nerve is then usually the site of second choice .
the arrest place to close to the busiest ferry hub in europe , which serves as a commercial gateway to the french coast , including calais and dunkirk - raising the prospect the suspect could have been attempting to leave the country .
the dark and sometimes funny the d train is a feel - bad comedy , in that one feels bad for what happens to every character in the film and bad for sometimes being taken to places that feel more implausible than just transgressive . after not getting the career bump he should have for his great performance in richard linklater ’s bernie four years ago , it’s good to see jack black front - and - center again playing a very strange man in a feature film . but his character is so harmful to so many people for no reason other than his own unfinished business from high school that it’s a legitimate impulse just to want to get away from the guy much sooner than the film permits . the talented cast and pervasive waywardness will appeal to some , but commercial prospects look limited .
on paper , it sounds like the stuff of a nervy , probing look at the straight male ego under the most unwelcome sort of siege , one that provocatively blurs the lines between friendship and attraction . in execution , however , the second half of “the d train” can be as frustrating as it is funny , flailing about in search of the right tone of dark absurdity ( established in part by andrew dost’s synth score ) , but more often falling back on easy laughs and implausible , sitcomish formulations — including the matter of 14 - year - old zach’s own burgeoning sexual curiosity — that keep the material from going deeper . unsurprisingly in this maelstrom of male anxiety , hahn is good enough to make you wish she had more to play than just another wife and mother , called on to exhibit superhuman levels of patience and understanding by a far less emotionally competent spouse .
the lesson :
make sure the person who ' s paying for the movie has money ,
mogel says .
for long stretches , “the d train” serves as a commodious vehicle for mr . black , who , like the best comic performers , never seems remotely concerned about going too big or risking the audience’s love . he’s a showboat if every so often , more of a steamroller , capable of flattening everyone and everything in his way . yet he is also adept at conveying emotional and psychological fragility , and there are some nice moments here when you see dan as confused by his feelings for oliver as a crushed - out 12 - year - old , which the filmmakers smartly don’t try to explain . instead , they show you what dan sees and in the process upend the old formulation ( often attributed to raymond chandler about james bond ) that while men want to be the handsome hero , it’s only the women who want to be with him .
a genial movie about how we live now or like to think that we do , “the d train” stars jack black as dan landsman , an outwardly ordinary joe who’s helping to plan his 20th high school reunion . his testy dealings with the other reunion committee members suggest that he was as unpopular in high school as he is now . he’s not a bad guy , but more of a fussbudgety blowhard who’s always trying too hard to be the big man , often through trivial means like scatting slang and being keeper of a reunion password . when he sees one of the school’s former golden boys , oliver lawless ( a nimble , perfect james marsden ) , in a television commercial , dan decides to try to persuade him to come to the reunion .
et assistant commissioner , mark rowley , said the police were making
excellent progress
in the hunt for the terrorist .
all his life , dan landsman ( jack black ) has never been the cool guy . that ' s about to change if he can convince oliver lawless ( marsden ) , the most popular guy from his high school who ' s now the face of a national banana boat ad campaign , to show up with him to their class reunion . a man on a mission , dan travels from pittsburgh to la and spins a web of lies to recruit lawless . but he gets more than he bargains for as the unpredictable lawless proceeds to take over his home , career , and entire life . showcasing jack black and james marden ' s most outrageous performances to date , the d train serves up the question : how far would you go to be popular ? co - starring kathryn hahn and jeffrey tambor .
all his life , dan landsman ( jack black ) has never been the cool guy . that ' s about to change - if he can convince oliver lawless ( marsden ) , the most popular guy from his high school who ' s now the face of a national banana boat ad campaign , to show up with him to their class reunion . a man on a mission , dan travels from pittsburgh to la and spins a web of lies to recruit lawless . but he gets more than he bargains for as the unpredictable lawless proceeds to take over his home , career , and entire life . showcasing jack black and james marsden ' s most outrageous performances to date , the d train serves up the question : how far would you go to be popular ? co - starring kathryn hahn and jeffrey tambor .
mogel says a lot of times they gave in to people telling them what they couldn ' t do , but looking back , they realize times they could have said no to certain people . still , they said they were proud that they ' d managed to stretch their budget pretty far .
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one of the things that i love most about the movie is the idea of going back and thinking what life was like back then and what life is like now . there were funny scenes with the planning for the reunion and the clashing of opinions between the characters ,
she said .
with japan still to come . the ja bayona - directed entry to the classic franchise
seventh , the debriefer and the use of debriefing assists in short - term and long - term recovery as well assisting the employer and the employee - survivor re - entry process . a thorough review of the events surrounding the traumatic situation can be advantageous for the healing and recovery process to begin .
moreover , the d train uses its male - on - male boundary - leaping to give the shopworn man - boy narrative a refresh . still living in his hometown of pittsburgh with wife stacy ( kathryn hahn ) and son zach ( russell posner ) , dan is the self - appointed chairman of his high school’s alumni committee , which serves as both a perpetuation and a micro snapshot of his high school experience . dan’s peers still don’t like him , and they still forget the nicknames he strains to assign himself , which only stokes his fiery , undying need to be accepted . with the high school’s 20 - year reunion fast approaching , dan and company are manning the phones to get former classmates to attend , and when dan sees oliver , a fellow alum , in a banana boat commercial , he sees his hot , chiseled ticket to being the hero who draws the crowd . he keeps his family up watching the video on repeat , and relays his rabid enthusiasm to the committee members , who are skeptical , yet sold .
a peripheral nerve stimulator , also known as a train - of - four monitor , is used to assess neuromuscular transmission when neuromuscular blocking agents ( nmbas ) are given to block musculoskeletal activity . by assessing the depth of neuromuscular blockade , peripheral nerve stimulation can ensure proper medication dosing and thus decrease the incidence of side effects . peripheral nerve stimulation is most commonly used for ongoing monitoring in the intensive care unit ( icu ) .
selection of studies flow chart . studies excluded for not meeting the following criteria : ( a ) original research ; ( b ) study population of athlete ( s ) ; ( c ) no non - training intervention ; ( d ) include a subjective measure ; ( e ) include an objective measure ; and ( f ) appropriate timing of measures .
that would be oliver . the one student from high school who got out and , to his former fellow students , looks to have made good is actually a dissolute and infrequently employed pretty boy on the downswing . if he were successful , he’d have no time for the likes of dan . but he’s able to impress him by saying hi to dermot mulroney ( in a cameo ) at a nightclub and takes the bug - eyed dan on a whirlwind nocturnal tour of l . a . , even if it projects a rather antiquated notion of what’s hot in town — the strip , the roxy , the whiskey ?
the movie pivots on that l . a . visit and what transpires between dan and oliver . to spoil that surprise would deservedly earn me the wrath of filmgoers . let’s just say that dan and oliver share a moment of honesty and intimacy that dan has never known . and when oliver returns to pittsburgh for the reunion , dan’s emotional neediness comes crashing down on everyone in his life , especially on himself . marsden is stellar playing a star who never was , finding the weakness in this bisexual prettyboy who’s just beginning to wonder what will happen when his looks start to go . dan and oliver rep two different kinds of losers , and the filmmakers nail every nuance , comic and calamitous . black and marsden are both extraordinary . to say you’ve never seen either of them like this would be a gross understatement . ignore the haters , and give the hilarious and heartfelt d train a chance to work its magic .


when will i be loved is a 2004 american drama film written and directed by james toback and starring neve campbell .

the film had a 35-page script and was mostly improvised throughout its 12-day shoot .

when will i be loved ( film )

i imagined there would be some twist embedded in the film , but what i found when i watched it wasn’t what i was expecting at all .
lana condor will star in to all the boys i ' ve loved before movie . - ya interrobang
lana condor will star as lara jean covey in the upcoming adaptation of jenny han’s to all the boys i’ve loved before .
the film began production earlier this month in vancouver . to all the boys i’ve loved before is available now .
i’m cautiously hoping wonder woman is going to be a great film . the first trailer i saw hit so many right notes on a visual and action level . of course , the movie will need more than that to be successful . let’s see what the early reviews will be like . 🙂
improvisation sometimes leads toback ' s films into meandering byways .
when will i be loved
is notable for the clockwork precision of the crucial scenes , in which vera decides from moment to moment what she will do and how she will do it , and then , when there is an unexpected development , is able to turn on a dime and improvise a radical development that neatly turns the tables .
it must have been amazing when you read the script ,
i said .
toronto - -
when will i be loved
is about a young woman who accepts a million dollars from a rich man who wants to have sex with her . what the man doesn ' t know is that she ' s rich , too .
she had a personal triumph in robert altman ' s
company
( 2003 ) , playing a member of the joffrey ballet of chicago in a film she co - wrote and co - produced . and now
when will i be loved
is a calling card for roles of great emotional complexity .
captain america : civil war is a barry bonds steroids hitting home - run by marvel & russo brothers . and i loved spider - man in the film . loved . — steven weintraub ( @ colliderfrosty ) april 9 , 2016
when will i be loved
operates in an entirely different arena , however . it ' s the best film yet by toback , who was the screenwriter of
bugsy ,
a movie about a man who essentially talked las vegas into existence . the film centers on an extraordinary scene in which campbell and chianese negotiate how much will be paid , how it will be paid , and what it will be paid for . this is not a crass scene . vera and the count recognize each other as intelligent sophisticates , and as they negotiate for her body , they both take pleasure in the sheer audacity of what they are doing , and the verbal elegance with which they ' re doing it .
many viewers will be turned off by this depraved look inside the darkest corners of one filmmaker ' s psyche , but i found it refreshing and quite daring .
it ' s been funny ,
she said ,
because people think i chose to be a horror film actress . ' scream ' was the first movie i got as lead , so that ' s what i did , and it ended up becoming huge . but that was not the genre i chose . i don ' t watch horror movies . i used to be really concerned about what the industry would think of me . when you first start out you have a lot of agents and managers and publicists giving you their opinion of what the next step should be . at some point i realized there ' s no controlling it , that i should just go with my instincts . i think i have good instincts and so i ' m finding people and scripts that i ' ll be challenged by , where i feel i can grow as an actress .
in high school , i struggled to fit into a world that i didn’t understand .
a film about growing apart when growing up . two best friends relationship strains when one deals with her newfound sexuality and the other with breaking up with her long term boyfriend .
: they gave me this ticket , so i thought i ' d come here . i mean it was either los angeles or calcutta and i thought , what the hell .
i think the key is to go in with low expectations . i did , and i really dug it . dug it more with distance . i’d see it again . ”
when will i be loved
is like a jazz solo that touches familiar themes on its way to a triumphant and unexpected conclusion . neve campbell plays the soloist , a rich girl who likes to walk on the wild side , is open to the opportunities of the moment , and improvises a devious and spontaneous revenge when her boyfriend betrays her . here is a movie that doesn ' t start out to be about a con , but ends up that way .
interesting film , neve campbell puts on a great performance in this enigmatic independent film .
many fans of the book were outraged at the film ' s 180 - degree different conclusion , but king himself absolutely loved it . according to cinemablend , king stated ,
frank wrote a new ending that i loved . it is the most shocking ending ever and there should be a law passed stating that anybody who reveals the last five minutes of this film should be hung from their neck until dead .
well damn , stephen .
from this , we can see which movies the audience loved , but the critics hated – which will be more positive , and movies the critics loved but the audience hated – more negative . we can also find out what types of movies fall into these categories – like which actors , directors and genres are most common to each .
i really think wonder woman will be the breakout movie that dc needs to get back on track . it has so much potential , and the trailers have all been stunning , fingers crossed !
i agree ! so much potential in this film , here’s hoping it lives up to it .
but what is really needed for this movie to be loved by the critics ? well having this charming , lighter tone helps . but really where the other dceu films have struggled with the critics , is the overall story and structure . i think wonder woman will be safe in that regards , as it seems to be more focused than the other films . i think that as long as we get the movie that is being advertised to us , the movie about an eager young woman who is passionate about humanity and wants to be a bridge for peace , but enters into a much more complicated world , critics will like it .
jenny han , bestselling author of the to all the boys i ' ve loved before series , recently announced that the movie adaption for this ya contemporary novel is currently underway , and we couldn ' t be more excited .
i love the fact that we find ourselves in a situation where what should be a shootout is a series of monologues , really examining purpose and motivation and understand and to be understood . it’s just how it unfolded as i wrote .
what is fascinating and ingenious about
when will i be loved
is that nothing need be anticipated , not even the possibility of a con . in scenes of flawless timing , logic and execution , vera improvises in a fluid situation and perhaps even surprises herself at where she ends up . the third act of this movie is spellbinding in the way vera distributes justice and revenge and adapts to the unexpected and creates , spontaneously and in the moment , a checkmate .
a young woman engaged to be married finds herself in an affair with her soon - to - be stepmother ' s lesbian daughter .
teen rom - com “to all the boys i’ve loved before , ” starring lana condor ( “x - men : apocalypse” ) in the lead role , has begun production in vancouver . the film , based on the novel by bestselling author jenny han , is being produced by awesomeness films and overbrook entertainment . “to all the boys i’ve loved before” is directed by susan johnson with [ … ]
when violence takes place in my films , i want there to be real consequences for it . i want to watch the suffering beyond the act . when marcus talks about his partner having a family , it’s the consequences of actions reverberating through generations . how much alberto’s death affected his children and their children ? toby’s actions were foolish , but they were also selfless as well . the consequences to his actions are that another family will suffer now , even though it wasn’t his intention . they will , so that his doesn’t .
the film , based on the novel by bestselling author jenny han , is being produced by awesomeness films and overbrook entertainment . “to all the boys i’ve loved before” is directed by susan johnson with a screenplay by sofia alvarez .
i just thought that for either one of them to die was letting them off easy . there was a certain amount of suffering that they both deserved to endure . i love a movie that when i sees it makes me come up with a story beyond the film . i love imagining what might have happened . i don’t think it’s my right to tell you what i think , because it could alter what you think . that cheapens the process a bit… . that’s a long way of saying that i ain’t answering that .
“a story like this was going to come under fire regardless of will’s decision to end his life . if his decision had been different , if louisa had managed to change his mind , then wouldn’t that suggest that love is enough ? wouldn’t that undermine everything will had been saying about his life ? i think that while that decision would appeal to the hopeless romantics , it wouldn’t be true to will’s character .
coming into batman v superman and suicide squad , we already heard rumours of troubled screenings before the films came out . nothing concerning has come out about wonder woman , and overall reactions have seemed quite positive towards the film . now i don’t want to jinx anything , but i really do believe that wonder woman will be loved ( or at the very least , liked ) by both critics and fans . i don’t want to back here writing a post about what went wrong with the film , hopefully it lives up to the great expectation the trailers have given us .
teen rom - com “to all the boys i’ve loved before , ” starring lana condor ( “x - men : apocalypse” ) in the lead role , has begun production in vancouver .
the loved ones is a movie starring xavier samuel , robin mcleavy , and victoria thaine . when brent turns down his classmate lola ' s invitation to the prom , she concocts a wildly violent plan for revenge .
the original starred meryl streep , amanda seyfried , pierce brosnan , colin firth , stellan skarsgård , julie walters and christine baranski . the new movie will be written and directed by ol parker , who penned the best exotic marigold hotel , and will be released on july 20 , 2018 — 10 years and two days after mamma mia ! opened — complete with a soundtrack of abba songs not featured in the first film . of course , they will bring back some of the old ones , too .
rotten tomatoes says it was “misunderstood when it first hit theaters . ” in the original review , variety reflected a lot of the mixed reaction , saying the film is “a stylistically dazzling film noir set 37 years hence in a brilliantly imagined los angeles… special effects and sheer virtuosity of the production will attract considerable attention but unrelenting grimness and vacuum at the story’s center will make it tough to recoup reported $ 30 million budget , not to mention ad - promos costs . critical reaction will probably vary widely . ”
the film premiered at the 2016 sundance film festival and won the audience award for
best of next
.
life itself ,
based on roger ebert ' s memoir and directed by steve james , will open in theaters and be available on demand on july 4 , 2014 .
jim knows this is wrong , and agonizes over the decision . the film knows this is wrong , and makes it the central point of friction for the first two - thirds of the film as you wonder when aurora will find out the truth ( because of course she will ) . but even if the film treats it as a monumentally crappy thing to do , that doesn’t make it any better , and it does the unthinkable . it makes charming , goofy chris pratt come off as a creepy , psychotic stalker when he’s leading his own romantic movie .
so i said to myself going into wonder woman , that i won’t watch all the trailers , tv spots and clips , like i did for batman v superman . watching too much footage going into bvs had a negative effect on my viewing experience . so i thought i would try to be more restrained going into wonder woman . well that hasn’t worked out too well for me , but i don’t regret it because everything looks amazing !
“my nephew is in a wheelchair and i hope he will be pleased to see this shown in a way that does not make audiences too uncomfortable , ” tharrock said in an interview with the guardian , published ahead of the film’s release . “if we had shown will being taken in and out of his chair , or put in a hoist over a bath , the impression we would give is of difficulty . i wanted to make it more normal . ”
the list of movies that the critics loved but audiences hated was topped by 1974 film daisy miller , a costume drama starring cybill shepherd . i was surprised to see antz ( - 48 ) and spy kids ( - 54 ) in the top 10 most negative – i thought they were both quite popular .
“but when i read the book , i didn’t see will as a plot device , as a ‘pity party’ or as an inspiration for the able bodied . i saw him as a layered , complex character with so much depth , and his decision to end his life doesn’t change that . fiction isn’t always about telling stories that represent everyone ; it’s about telling stories about complex individuals .
so ,
i said ,
it ' s not just the obvious angle where you would be twisting him . . .
an interesting observation , given that like a fine wine phantom improves with viewings and age . after all , who only plays an album by their favourite band once ? the film will be with us for the rest of our lives — enjoy it .
on june 25 , 1981 , exactly a year before it opened , variety reported that the film was racing to complete before a directors strike . “despite unconfirmed reports over the past several weeks of a mushrooming budget , pic will wrap june 30 , five days over schedule . considerable special effects work will then remain to be done under supervision of douglas trumbull . ”
the cast includes janel parish and lana condor , who plays lara jean covey , a girl who must deal with the aftermath of her secret when a hatbox of letters written to every boy she ' s ever loved are mysteriously mailed out .
“i think it’s good that me before you has provoked such conversation about disability , because i do think we need to tell more disabled stories , especially in films , ” she said . “we need to see more characters with disabilities , and that’s something i hope will come out of this whole discussion . ”
that ' s why i loved it . neither one is a victim . they ' re two equals . the count is excited to find that the woman challenges him from a position of strength .
the thing is , it ' s not just another terrible video game movie . it ' s not a perfect movie , either , but it ' s far from the awful , no good , very bad offering most critics have made it out to be . i really liked it , and will definitely see it again when it comes out on blu - ray .
so hold on : is suicide squad good or bad ? bad , right ? i haven’t seen it , but i’ve sat through the preview roughly a dillion times this year , and jared leto’s cackling psycho hipster routine did not improve with repetition . when the film scored a horrible 26 percent on rotten tomatoes , i figured i was in the clear—okay , bad movie , don’t have to see it , back to waiting for black panther .
“this film is offensive to disabled people , the vast majority of whom want to live – not die , ” actress and disabled activist liz carr told buzzfeed news . “our lives and those of our loved ones are not mired in tragedy as depicted in this film . ”
yeah ,
she said ,
i ' ve had issues with nudity when i feel that the scenes have nothing to do with the film itself - - when it ' s solely for box office draw or for the titillation of the audience . but in this film , the power of this woman ' s sexuality is what the story ' s about , in a way . so it wouldn ' t make sense to not see her in that way .
to all the boys i’ve loved before follows lara jean , a junior in high school who is happier to stay home friday nights baking and spending time with her family . but her junior year gets thrown into disarray when a box of secret love letters to all the boys she’s had feelings for accidentally get sent out .
he ' s not just a chump ,
i said to campbell . this was last week at the toronto film festival .
tries hard to be endearingly eccentric but crashes in a web of its own convolution .
when deaf mute singer moves to a small city to be near his only friend confined in a hospital , he grows attached to his landlady ' s sensitive 16 - year - old daughter .
jean - michel frodon : yes , i’ve seen what i suppose–of course , it is not possible to be totally sure—is the most complete version . it is not finished , obviously . nevertheless , you can see what the film would have been . it tells the story from beginning to end in the proper order , and comparing it with the script , no major scene is missing . of course there [ is ] some editing that could be done , and certainly sound work , and perhaps there are a few errors . but basically i can say i have seen the film .
that ' s what i love about it ,
i said .
usually when you see a con movie , at the end you wonder how they could have planned it all in advance and counted on everything happening according to schedule .
it ' s certainly also something you should see on as big a screen as possible . i saw it on a regular sized screen in 3d , but i wish i ' d seen it in 3d imax .
but somehow , this bomb of a movie took in $ 133 million in its opening weekend . not only does that total beat the better - reviewed deadpool ( 84 percent on rotten tomatoes ) , which i loved , it smashed the august box office records previously set in 2014 by guardians of the galaxy , which i really loved . and this doesn’t seem to be a fluke : deadline reports suicide squad is posting great weekday numbers , beating even the vaunted captain america : civil war for a tuesday box - office record . hence my confusion . how could such a poorly reviewed film make so much money ?
i’m sure in about a week , it’s going to become quite fashionable to bash this flick — hard . but i’d like to go on record as saying i dug it . it’s a good movie with great moments . ”
well , i’d already seen assassin’s creed , so i figured i might as well see the other sci - fi movie released this christmas , passengers , starring the they’re - so - hot - right - now duo of chris pratt and jennifer lawrence . reviews were tepid , and i wasn’t expecting much , but the film did manage to surprise me in one significant way .
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x - men : apocalypse actress lana condor has signed on to star in to all the boys i ' ve loved before alongside john corbett . the film , based on the novel by jenny han , is being directed by susan johnson and was written by sofia alvarez . production on the film , which is also being produced by awesomeness and overbrook entertainment , has begun in vancouver .
“of the film , i can say many things . but the long and short of it is that i liked it — quite a bit . i’d rank it right after empire in a list of fave star wars flicks . it starts great , ends great , and has great stuff sprinkled in between .
she also shared an adorable snap of herself with janel parrish ( who will play lara ' s older sister , margot ) , lana condor ( as lara jean ) , and anna cathcart ( who will star as lara ' s youngest sister , kitty ) .
that’s true of arrival , too , and i don’t think it should be overlooked . i know some people view arrival as a deeply personal story — but that personal story is unquestionably political , and every move adams makes is sanctified with moral goodness .
we know where her character journey will take her . she won’t be the idealistic woman we see at the beginning of the wonder woman movie , no she’ll become the jaded warrior we saw in batman v superman . and i’m excited to see what exactly happened to her , to change her worldview so much .
and the verbal sparring between vera and the count is an exercise in the precise and stylish use of language to communicate exact meanings while using inexact euphemisms . dominic chianese and neve campbell are like virtuoso soloists with conversation as their instrument ; the way they test and challenge each other is underlined by their obvious joy in performance . both characters seem pleased to find another person who can engage them on their level of emotional negotiation . the song
when will i be loved
is about a woman who complains ,
i ' ve been cheated - - been mistreated .
in the movie , the cheater and the mistreater have no idea who they ' re dealing with .
the top movie that audiences loved but critics hated was 1986 bmx film rad . rad tells the story of cru jones , who enters and ( spoiler ) wins a bmx race called helltrack . take a look at the wikipedia entry for the film , and i ' m sure you ' ll agree it sounds pretty awesome ( though obviously not as good as seminal 80s flick bmx bandits ) .
the orcs themselves are entirely cgi , but it ' s actually really good cgi . there ' s real emotion on the faces of characters like blackhand ( clancy brown ) and durotan ( toby kebbell . ) you really feel the pain of these cgi characters when they suffer , and laugh alongside them when they joke around . that brings us to the second thing i really liked about the film .
finally , as a side note , this isn ' t going to be a great film for a lot of kids , as some of the stuff is really scary and dark . some of the death scenes are really gross , and the orcs can be pretty frightening .
it’s in the film of 2010 that the big world - saving stakes come to the forefront . and the film updates that final message , too :
oh yeah , the big fight in captain america : civil war is cinematic joy . and spider - man is so great . he’s in it more than i thought he’d be .
“i don’t agree that the book suggests that being disabled is a fate worse than death . it’s not an opinion , it’s a story , and we shouldn’t take away will’s right to choose simply because he is fictional .
the painting that vera is painting in her apartment early in the film is immediately a different painting when the camera changes angle , and then a few scenes later the painting reverts to its original form .
how did the movie overcome that irrefutable flaw to become a movie that’s not just enjoyable , but widely considered to be good ? it should be fairly obvious : with the indomitable spirit of julie andrews .
tell me about the experience of watching the film . it feels to me that if the script were fully realized , especially the ending , it would be almost impossible to watch .
third act struggles is where things could go wrong , but hopefully the ares arc is handled well . you can’t have a serious war movie , and then just have the bloody god of war rocking up . it will seeming jarring . there will need to be a good set - up for his character . and because we haven’t seen much from the villains , this is my only concern .
the location will be on the greek island of kalokairi , and the sequel brings back the producers from the original film , littlestar’s judy craymer and playtone’s gary goetzman . craymer is also the creator and producer of the stage musical . benny andersson and björn ulvaeus are aboard again to provide music and lyrics and serve as executive producers .
and just glancing at imdb ' s user vs . critic scores , i can see i ' m not alone . the film has a 7 . 7 / 10 score with users , and just 32 / 100 with critics . on rotten tomatoes , the film gets a 26 %
rotten
from critics , with 83 % of viewers liking it . something ' s not right about such a discrepancy . something ' s rotten , but i ' m not sure it ' s the film .
i did predict some of the film ' s twists , but i sure as hell didn ' t predict all of them , let alone some of the more tragic character deaths . i was actually pretty stunned at how some of the movie ' s fights turned out , and left the theater feeling a bit shocked and depressed . director duncan jones didn ' t pull any punches with the film ' s main characters .
actors and comedians , notably patton oswalt , have produced staged readings of the film’s screenplay . in 2016 , 30 minutes of footage from the film even leaked online . a year earlier , lewis had donated his print of the film , along with the rest of his filmography , to the library of congress—with the proviso that the day the clown cried not be screened until at least 2024 . so there is hope for some , at least , that the movie will eventually see the light of day .
not in the foreseeable future , that ' s when , assuming your name is james toback and you insist on making phonily provocative movies .
you either think 2001 is a perfect movie or you think it’s totally boring . i lean the former , and i cried when i saw it last year on the big screen for the first time . but i understand the latter perspective , too . 2001 features a bare minimum of exposition , most of it inscrutable . the actors barely form facial expressions . there’s a five - minute scene where a guy runs and runs and runs . it’s never made explicitly clear why anything is happening , ever .
i wonder if there would be a similar reaction today if it was announced that adam sandler , say , was going to do a holocaust movie—that this is just not appropriate material for this particular performer .
i’m a real stream - of - consciousness writer . i knew the characters so well by this point that i just wrote . it made sense that they would say this and that this would be the way the character would react . they’re playing a chess match , both of them . they’re boxers circling each other in the ring , and the punches they throw are with honesty .
“will’s reasons for wanting to die are all connected to the fact that he’s no longer a prize physical specimen , ” wrote the evening standard’s charlotte o’sullivan . “imagine a movie in which a woman was made to seem brave for aborting an impaired foetus . such a movie could be viewed as pro - choice , but could just as easily be seen as anti - disabled . ”
the stephen king horror film had one of the most controversial endings of all time .
received a standing ovation at its premiere at the cannes film festival in may 2016 .
what he does have , in abundance , is exhilaration . there is a sense of discovery in scene after scene of the phantom menace , as he tries out new effects and ideas , and seamlessly integrates real characters and digital ones , real landscapes and imaginary places . we are standing at the threshold of a new age of epic cinema , i think , in which digital techniques mean that budgets will no longer limit the scope of scenes ; filmmakers will be able to show us just about anything they can imagine . ”
the film almost functions better when you look at it like a horror movie . pratt effectively seduces a woman he sentenced to death while playing the dumb the entire time . the movie tries to press the angle about them being truly in love regardless of the circumstance , but as the only two people on a doomed trip , i’m not buying that this is “genuine” love rather than something created out of shock and duress . i mean you could strand michael cera on a desert island with kate upton and they would probably be hooking up within a few months . the premise is not something that lends itself to “true love , ” especially when the guy comes off like a selfish lunatic .
“we need more disabled stories : that is something i agree with wholeheartedly . but i honestly don’t believe that a book showing one mans story , one mans decision , represents the entire disability community as a whole . i don’t think there’s any story out there that can do that . ”
mark is a long - time contributor to star wars insider , the co - owner of jedi news , a regular contributor to the uk’s biggest free newspaper the metro and co - host of rebelforce radio ’s uk - centric radio 1138 podcast . when he’s not talking or writing about star wars , he can usually be found sleeping , where he’ll most likely be dreaming about star wars .
this would still be bad even if gender roles were reversed , but the fact is that they weren’t , and it is not great that jim essentially feels “entitled” to aurora , even if it means destroying the rest of her life so he can be with her . it’s sort of the definition of a male power fantasy when the film is based around waking up a hot girl to have sex with you for all eternity because you’re bored and lonely . and you’re supposed to be the hero ! even if the film ( and jim ) wrestles with the morality of this , there really isn’t a way to extract a love story from this concept that doesn’t end up feeling weird and wrong .
in the past , i’ve used the phrase “realistic science fiction , ” but that’s not quite right either ; if the story was realistic , then by definition it couldn’t be science fiction . ( perhaps “real ish tic” ? ) “realism” as an aesthetic term is unhelpful now , vague enough that it can apply to anything . actually , “realism” is now most often used as a paradoxical modifier , appended to things that are base - level unrealistic . ( no director of a superhero film will ever say : “i wanted this movie to feel as unrealistic as possible . ” )
“the film approaches this thorny issue with an honourable maturity and forthrightness , even if it’s all given the glowing gloss of an instagram snap with the filter put up to the hilt . that , to me , represents something intrinsically , crucially british about the film , a pragmatic , a - religious approach that i can’t really imagine a mainstream , commercial american film taking . ”
louisa eventually manages to restore some of will’s spirit and sense of humour – and , as is often the way in tear - jerking romances , the pair fall in love . but , despite his newfound happiness , will decides to stick to his original plan and end his life – before urging louisa to live hers to the utmost .
oh , and you don ' t have to be a huge warcraft lore buff to enjoy it . i ' m not , though i ' ve played all the original warcraft games and spent many hours in world of warcraft ( though not nearly as many as true hardcore players . ) my girlfriend went with me to the film and has never played a warcraft game in her life . she enjoyed it as well .
among its many lasting accomplishments , the original film introduced audiences to philip k . dick , a prolific writer whose novel “do androids dream of electric sheep ? ” was the inspiration for the film . unfortunately , dick didn’t live long enough to see the film’s eventual success . he died of a heart attack in 1982 , three months before the film opened , at age 53 .
you can read more about how i did this below , but first , here are the results .
ideally i ' d have used a comprehensive list of films from a large time period , but i couldn ' t get the data from the rotten tomatoes api , or find such a list elsewhere .
dr . mann could’ve been one of the heroes in when worlds collide , a 1951 movie about the global fear that erupts when a rogue planet approaches earth on a collision course . when worlds collide doesn’t read “serious” the way interstellar or arrival both do — it’s b - movie pulp from the atomic era — but its ending is impressively blunt , and serene in its weird acceptance of global catastrophe . there is no space - god there to save anyone . earth ends ; but the movie claims that doesn’t have to be the end . when worlds collide sends a few lucky survivors to a very biblical vision of a new eden , but it doesn’t ignore the other biblical visions , the flood that ends the world once , and the fire next time .
even critics who hated the film , like crowther , credited andrews for making the whole movie seem less asinine than it really was . “despite the hopeless pretense of reality with which she and the others have to contend , especially in the last phase , when the von trapps are supposed to be fleeing from the nazis and their homeland , miss andrews treats the whole thing with the same air of serenely controlled self - confidence that she has when we first come upon her trilling the title song on a mountain top , ” he writes .
julie andrews singlehandedly saved what should have been a turkey of a film . all signs pointed to its failure . it’s already been pointed out that robert wise initially balked at directing it because he thought the material was bad to begin with , and it’s hollywood legend at this point how unenthused christopher plummer was to be starring in it , famously referring to the film as the sound of mucus and allegedly requiring to be liquored up before going on set .
i don’t know , because roberto benigni received approval , generally speaking , even i believe in the u . s . and israel [ for life is beautiful , his 1997 oscar - winning comedy set in a concentration camp ] . i’m not sure what would happen if someone made the day the clown cried today .
a french film director , xavier giannoli , happened to own this video of it and asked me to his office to see it . this was a long time ago . i’m not sure the exact date , but i would say around 2004 or 2005 . at this point he asked me to keep it secret , which of course i did . until one day , he openly talked about having this print on a radio program . so i felt i had no longer to keep this secret . [ frodon did not know how giannoli got his print , and giannoli himself did not respond to multiple requests for an interview . ]
rotten tomatoes has previously released a press release listing their own analysis of the top eight films audiences loved but critics hated with documentary hating breitbart at the top . this wasn ' t in the list i used , probably because the list only considered movies with a wide release of 500 cinemas or over . apart from that , differences between their top 10 and my top 10 are the inclusion of older films in mine – i ' m not sure what dates they considered – and broken bridges not being in my list – i can ' t account for this one , i suppose it was just left off the list i used . also they ' ve got an extra decimal point available , which wasn ' t available via their api for my data .
i don’t know why it would be impossible to watch . there are many things that are difficult to watch . this film finds what i consider a cinematic answer to some real , serious issues , using a kind of stylized setting , both in the costumes and the sets . it’s not pretending to be realistic at all . instead , it has a very obvious fairy - tale feeling—not fairy tale , but tale . there are no fairies here , but there details like in the grimm brothers , like this kind of stylized background with a train rolling along the countryside where the children are being kept , and afterwards , when helmut leads them [ to the gas chambers ] like the pied piper . so the film uses an unrealistic way to relay events we know about , events that have been shown so many times in very realistic ways .
the next morning , however , clouds obscure the sunshine of first love — notably sasha’s internal “am i a lesbian ? ! ” and “what will people think ? ? ” freakout , exacerbated by anne’s need for affirmation and a suddenly - chilled - out clifton’s assumption that they’re already an item . when there’s rancor all around , anne makes an impulsive decision that necessitates a leap forward some weeks , and triggers an emergency parent / teacher / counselor summit .
a great and fair point , given the mass of licensing deals that surrounded and in part funded the making and promotion of the film . but maslin continues , focusing on the strengths of the film .
jerry lewis died on sunday at the age of 91 , leaving behind at least one big mystery : the fate of the day the clown cried , an unreleased 1972 holocaust film that lewis directed and starred in . it tells the story of a fictional german clown , helmut doork , who is sent to a nazi concentration camp as a political prisoner and ends up entertaining jewish children at an adjoining death camp . in the film’s climax , helmut distracts the children with jokes and pratfalls as he leads them to the gas chambers , ultimately joining them inside . you will be only partially relieved to know that this was intended to be lewis’s first dramatic role .
to all the boys i’ve loved before didn’t stop at casting condor . janel parrish of “pretty little liars” and anna cathcart of “descendants 2” and “odd squad” are set to play margot and kitty , lara jean’s sisters . noah centineo of “the fosters” is signed on to play peter kavinsky . john corbett is set to play the song girls’ dad .
part of the reason i love this movie is because i relate to it so much . but if i am trying to look at it in a more unbiased state of mind i still feel that as far as lesbian moves go this one is one of the good ones . the acting is great , the writing is real , and the directing is moving . there are few lines that are somewhat cringy but as far as the writing goes , these lines fit into the general awkwardness and inexperience that comes along with teenage - hood . these actors are great in their roles . i really believe that they have a connection and really care about them . the screenplay , i believe , is very well done . and the directing helps create this emotional energy that i cannot explain . i , in my own experience as a lesbian , relate to this movie so much . there are some scenes in the movie that i can just feel the emotion that the actors are trying to get across . it is so eloquently portrayed that i cannot help but feel a connection to it . in short , this movie is good , maybe great . i liked it quite a bit and encourage you to watch it .
in his mind ,
i said ,
he ' s getting you for a cheap price .
initially a somewhat bland , under - detailed tale of burgeoning attraction between two female high schoolers , “first girl i loved” gets more interesting as their tentative relationship crashes against the usual private uncertainties and social anxieties of that age . those conflicts aren’t particularly well developed either , however , compromised by uneven character writing and an awkward flashback structure . [ … ]
at the risk of offending devotees of the force , i will say that the stories of the star wars movies have always been space operas , and that the importance of the movies comes from their energy , their sense of fun , their colorful inventions and their state - of - the - art special effects . i do not attend with the hope of gaining insights into human behavior . unlike many movies , these are made to be looked at more than listened to , and george lucas and his collaborators have filled the phantom menace with wonderful visuals .
it’s certainly not unusual for a film to be ravaged by critics but voraciously consumed by moviegoers . the success of the transformers franchise certainly speaks to that . ( the sound of music , the film industry’s original transformers ? ) but bad films that still manage to eke out decent box office returns don’t stand the test of time the way the sound of music has . there’s a disconnect , it seems , between the film’s initial critical response and its longevity .
when the davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway , the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of the victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back .
writing in the new york times on may 19 , 1999 , janet maslin gave the film its due , while calming the waters and reminding her readers that this was a film , nothing more , nothing less .
this kind of split is of course not unprecedented . you may remember the boondock saints , that bizarre catholic twins revenge rampage that spawned a million dorm - room posters . fans loved it—91 percent on rt—and critics hated it—20 percent . but the size of suicide ’s haul is what sets it apart . with more than $ 100 million already in the bank , i wouldn’t be surprised if it beat batman v superman ’s u . s . domestic take of $ 330 million . cult classics are one thing—bad movies that tank at the box office but live on forever in well - worn dvds . suicide squad looks to be an actual smash .
i loved robert altman . i ' m so passionate about that man , and with james and robert , their egos don ' t get in the way of the art . there are so many directors in hollywood who want to think it was all their idea . they don ' t invite their artists to bring their art to the table . but robert and james want you to argue with them and suggest the new concepts and ideas . altman creates worlds , you know . robert to me is more of choreographer than a film director . he told me , ' i ' d rather direct 80 people than three , ' because 80 people gives him more room to breathe .
it’s an endearing vision , no doubt . we’d like to imagine a nasa free of bureaucratic oversight , where everyone’s a jodie foster and no one’s a tom skerritt . perhaps you think we need comfort right now , more than ever . perhaps the possibility of the dark mystery of the universe is too much to take , when earth itself feels dark and mysterious . arrival , like 2010 before it , wants to make you believe that humanity can be saved . these movies speak to us the way their space - gods speak to the characters onscreen : they advise us , in blunt terms , to be nice . and we should be nicer to each other . i didn’t need a movie to tell me that ; and i don’t think sincerity equals profundity . if you think good intentions make a movie great , go watch crash .
yes . i’m convinced it’s a very good job . it’s a very interesting and important film , very daring about both the issue , which of course is the holocaust , but even beyond that as a story of a man who has dedicated his life to making people laugh and is questioning what it is to make people laugh . i think it is a very bitter film , and a disturbing film , and this is why it was so brutally dismissed by those people who saw it , or elements of it , including the writers of the script .
however , anytime you mention the film to people who ' ve seen it , odds are they will instantly exclaim ,
ugh , that ending !
if you haven ' t seen the movie , stop what you ' re doing and watch it right now , because major spoilers are about to happen .
i talked to toback right after talking to campbell . i ' d been offered the chance to talk to them together , but no , i ' ve interviewed toback many times over the years , and if there ' s one thing i ' ve noticed , it ' s that nobody else gets to talk . since he is brilliant , funny and a little mad , this is not a problem , unless you want to hear what the other person has to say .