"The Juice is Loose."
This looks like it could be a fun movie.
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Dang it, movie. You had me until Reggie Hudlin.
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
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I’ll bite. What did he do? Was it a movie he made or something he did?
Edited by BigBadShadow25 on Oct 12th 2023 at 11:06:10 AM
The Owl House and Coyote Vs Acme are my Roman Empire.
Yeah, I don't get it either, Who is Reggie Hudli? I don't think he's in this movie.
“Boom! Boomboom! Boomboomboom! Bakuage Tire! Gogogo!"
Spirit of Battle
The director
You and I remember Budapest very differentlyOh, my bad. But what he did do wrong?
“Boom! Boomboom! Boomboomboom! Bakuage Tire! Gogogo!"
He’s just a writer / director with a history of having a subpar approach to making black media. He’s not as bad as Tyler Perry, but he’s still got a reputation.
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
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That’s it? Okay. Well, I’ll reserve judgement until I see the movie.
The Owl House and Coyote Vs Acme are my Roman Empire.
Pffft I thought Eddie Murphy did something.
Akira Toriyama (April 5 1955 - March 1, 2024).
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He did. He did Norbit years ago.
But yeah, I’m just interested in a mid-budget movie and a family film from a streamer that rarely releases them.
Edited by BigBadShadow25 on Oct 13th 2023 at 7:21:52 AM
The Owl House and Coyote Vs Acme are my Roman Empire.
I remember a funny story about Tyler Perry from DEAR WHITE PEOPLE's writer/director who said he had gotten into movies to be like Spike Lee and strongly disliked Tyler Perry. Then he got nastily called out by Spike Lee before meeting Tyler Perry who turned out to be extremely interested in mentoring young black film makers as well as running multiple sponorship programs. He even made it a subplot in the Netflix version of his movie where the main character ends up interning with the Tyler Perry Expy and is confused by how high brow the man is behind the camera.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
There's a strong sense with black creators that even if we despise what each other are doing, we should still support and have soldarity with one another because black professionals in the industry are so rare and they're mostly all trying their hardest the way they know how - and pulling each other down without reason is a no no. I recently saw an interesting interview with Wayne Brady about the origins of his famous sketch with Dave Chapelle which was very similar.
Whether every black professional believes that is another story, of course.
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
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We have a new trailer!
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Been over a month. Bumping to ask what everyone thought of the movie.
The Owl House and Coyote Vs Acme are my Roman Empire. Haven’t watched it yet but I'll let you know what I think of it when I start watching it soon.
Everybody, Everybody!
I mostly know it for a funny Letterboxd review.
Surprisingly not too bad. It averts some of the cliches I’m used to from these types of movies, and got some genuine laughs out of me.
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
So there’s a stomach-turning (for me, at least) trope that is present through most of this movie, in which a main character (typically dad/husband) either sees a danger that no one else recognizes, or is otherwise in a mission that those around him (especially wife and other close family) don’t take seriously, telling him to relax, etc., often treating him like a child… all while we, the omniscient viewers, can see what’s really going on. Does this trope have a name?
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Was listening to this film because it was on in the same room as me,it sounded like it dragged on
New theme music also a box
Sounds like You Have to Believe Me!
Edited by alanh on Dec 20th 2023 at 9:21:09 AM
It actually rather surprised me that they didn't use that trope, tbh.
Chris's daughter is there when they first meet Pepper, and as soon as the problem affects the whole family Chris shows them proof that supernatural stuff is going on, which - due to the proof - they immediately believe.
I'm not sure what is talking about - there's never a point where that happens in this film.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Dec 25th 2023 at 8:48:54 AM
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
We have a trailer for a new Eddie Murphy Christmas movie called Candy Cane Lane. It’s about a dad who makes a deal with an elf (Jillian Bell) to win a Christmas decoration contest but he unleashes magical havoc on his town. Tracee Ellis Ross and Nick Offerman are also in the movie and it’s directed by Reginald Hudlin, who did Boomerang (1992) with Murphy back in the day. It’s gonna be on Prime December 1. Check it: