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Post by Joaquim on Nov 30, 2021 17:45:13 GMT
Uhm sooo, apparently like 40% of the dialogue is subtitle-less Spanish. That's going to majorly divide audiences. Ok now I’m a bit intrigued
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Nov 30, 2021 18:32:37 GMT
I don’t think the Elgort controversies will die down so it will be interesting to see how this plays out. Yeah, I was wrong about this. No one cares (or knows?) about his controversy outside of Twitter. That is clear now.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Nov 30, 2021 18:34:53 GMT
Nah...they are more likely to pay fixers to make these allegations against Elgort go away or do enough to discredit the accuser (unless more come out the woodwork, and are credible, in which case Elgort and the movie are fucked). Look at Ezra Miller...the guy was literally caught on camera asssulting and choke slamming a girl, and there were no immediate recriminations. No statement from Warner Brothers saying he's no longer the Flash and fired from Fantastic Beasts. Warners seems to be banking on the whole thing blowing over.. There’s already been at least two more and I guarantee you even more are coming. The movie is fucked and his career is over. Plain and simple.Nope. I also thought things could go down that path but clearly the winds have shifted.
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Post by Martin Stett on Nov 30, 2021 18:36:16 GMT
Probably the point. The story's about division, the language barrier is part of that. If the Jets don't need subtitling then nobody does. Feels like the kind of thing Spielberg would do, put English-speaking audiences in a position where they don't understand what Maria, her family, the Sharks are saying at times either, so you're experiencing it for yourself and have to look past that. Oh I know it's the point, just not sure how well general audiences are going to react to it. As I understand it, the last big Broadway Revival did the same thing and was a big hit. I heard the soundtrack album years ago and thought that it was excellent. The songs are pretty well ingrained into American pop culture, even after all these years.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Nov 30, 2021 18:36:36 GMT
It feels weird. I had it on good authority Spielberg’s last few movies were getting pulled. What do you mean by that? Even American Dad made a joke about it.
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Post by sterlingarcher86 on Nov 30, 2021 18:55:35 GMT
I wonder if Spielberg didn’t already have two if he could have made a push for a director at win here. I just think it’s going to be crazy hard for Spielberg to ever win another Oscar because the bar is so high for him. I don’t know if they will give him another for anything less than another Schindler’s List or Saving Private Ryan.
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Post by stephen on Nov 30, 2021 19:08:32 GMT
I wonder if Spielberg didn’t already have two if he could have made a push for a director at win here. I just think it’s going to be crazy hard for Spielberg to ever win another Oscar because the bar is so high for him. I don’t know if they will give him another for anything less than another Schindler’s List or Saving Private Ryan. Spielberg, I think, is going to get the Streep treatment: he'll get his third once the narrative starts building for it to be his time again. Problem is, this is a crazy strong year for auteurs in well-regarded movies, many of whom are winless. But I think that the last few films he's made have been so low-key that he needed a "wow!" factor to get people buzzing about him again. Another couple of movies like that to build on that momentum, and I think he can win again.
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Post by wonky on Nov 30, 2021 20:27:41 GMT
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Post by DanQuixote on Dec 1, 2021 0:34:06 GMT
I wonder if Spielberg didn’t already have two if he could have made a push for a director at win here. I just think it’s going to be crazy hard for Spielberg to ever win another Oscar because the bar is so high for him. I don’t know if they will give him another for anything less than another Schindler’s List or Saving Private Ryan. I think he’s a major threat next year for The Fabelmans. A superstar director making his most personal/autobiographical film yet is going to go over very well with the Academy imo.
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Post by futuretrunks on Dec 1, 2021 1:28:55 GMT
If Frances McDormand can win 3 Oscars in Best Actress, Spielberg can in Director.
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Post by JangoB on Dec 2, 2021 14:13:36 GMT
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Post by wonky on Dec 3, 2021 21:26:13 GMT
Soundtrack is available
Elgort's "Maria"...well it's not a disaster by any means. Not amazing but I'm more or less happy that he's hitting those notes around 2:00. It's a little bit like listening to the best singer at your high school...maybe that's harsh, depending on the high school. He's fine, that's all.
He pales next to Zegler, who is terrific.
Rita's "Somewhere"
You know how to find the rest. Orchestra sounds excellent of course. Also a short clip from "America" here, at 2:50
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Post by quetee on Dec 3, 2021 21:32:16 GMT
Rachel has a wonderful voice.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 8, 2021 20:21:26 GMT
After a year’s delay due to the pandemic, Steven Spielberg’s remake of the Broadway classic and 10x Oscar-winning 1961 movie, West Side Story, finally tunes up this weekend as the sole wide major studio theatrical release in 2,800 U.S./Canada theaters and offshore debuts in France, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, Russia and UK. All in, the global outlook is $22M-$31M, with $12M-$17M coming from domestic and $10M-$14M from abroad. The 20th Century Studios-Amblin production is being released by Disney.deadline.com/2021/12/disney-hopes-for-long-holiday-dance-with-steven-spielbergs-west-side-story-global-start-could-reach-31m-box-office-preview-1234887032/
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Dec 9, 2021 17:21:44 GMT
Lots of subtle FYC hints dropped in here. The significance of Moreno returning for the remake, her input as an executive producer having grown up a Puerto Rican in America, the way she did her big song number with a cold. Well played, Spielberg.
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Post by SZilla on Dec 10, 2021 21:18:06 GMT
If this were to win Best Picture, would this be the first time in Oscar's history that a remake of a former Best Picture winner wins Best Picture?
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Post by urbanpatrician on Dec 10, 2021 21:39:26 GMT
Spielberg fanboys now have an excuse to rise up after laying more muted than their usual in the last 20 years.
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Post by sterlingarcher86 on Dec 10, 2021 22:25:53 GMT
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Post by quetee on Dec 10, 2021 22:38:58 GMT
I had no interest in first of seeing this movie but after watching the interviews with Spielberg, Rita and the cast, I'm gonna go.
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Post by wonky on Dec 11, 2021 5:14:09 GMT
She really does make you wish they'd found an absolute stud with a golden voice. You'd think there'd be a few guys out there who could have killed it at her level, Tony's not a needle-in-a-haystack part, really...idk what Spielberg thought he had in Elgort or who all else he was looking at.
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Post by ibbi on Mar 20, 2022 19:24:01 GMT
Rachel Zegler is not invited to the Oscars?! What the fuck is going on?? I hope this show does half the viewers they did last year.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Mar 20, 2022 19:25:48 GMT
Rachel Zegler is not invited to the Oscars?! What the fuck is going on?? I hope this show does half the viewers they did last year. Oh, I am so glad I’ve cut cable out. Saves me having to watch this disaster.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 20, 2022 20:00:07 GMT
surely they can shoot her an invite and fix this because the ceremony is still a week away. What a cluster...
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Post by ibbi on Mar 20, 2022 20:04:37 GMT
surely they can shoot her an invite and fix this because the ceremony is still a week away. What a cluster... They thought we didn't Pacino in 73, no DiCaprio in 98 and they got to keep their quarter century-ish tradition alive. Next big thing confirmed.
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Post by LaraQ on Mar 20, 2022 20:15:15 GMT
Come on.There's no way they wouldn't invite the leading lady of one of the BP nominees.Rachel is a bit prone to exaggeration so I'm finding this a bit hard to believe.
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