Doug Liman directs new film road house Amazon is furious that the remake is streaming the movie directly instead of releasing it in theaters.
Lehman is furious and is boycotting the film's premiere at the SXSW Film Festival. Lehman was so angry that he wrote: Editorial for the far-left Deadline expressing outrage.
Based on what we know, this remake will star Jake Gyllenhaal as Dalton, with the great Patrick Swayze in the role immortalized, telling the same story with a few twists. I am. Dalton, played by Gyllenhaal, is a former UFC fighter, so he will be played by UFC champion Conor McGregor in the remake.
Other than that, Dalton comes to town to clean out the bar and mayhem ensues. Well, let's hope so. After Hollywood's woke Nazis have provided us with a ton of garbage, be prepared for transsexual bouncers and plenty of lectures on toxic masculinity.
Why do some people try to remake it? road house (1989)? The original is perfect.
But who knows?I said the same thing about John Wayne. true grit (1969) and loved the 2010 remake.
Anyway, what's interesting here is the undertow. Lehman said that when he agreed to direct the remake, he was told that if he delivered a “great movie” from Amazon, the studio would consider a full-fledged theatrical release.
director To tell He believed this was because after Amazon acquired MGM, “they announced they were going to spend $1 billion on theatrical movies and release at least 12 a year.”
And this happened. Limond writes:
we made road house “A huge hit” – Amazon’s words are not mine, by the way. road house Tested over my biggest box office hit, Mr. and Mrs. Smith.Tested higher than The Bourne Identity, which spawned four sequels. I've heard that Amazon's press response has been the best since acquiring MGM. road house There are strong ties to the UFC, which has a passionate and loyal fan base with over 1.5 billion social media impressions for the film, and marketing has yet to begin. The action is revolutionary. And Jake Gyllenhaal gives a career-defining performance in the role he was born to play. Spectators will want to watch UFC megastar Conor McGregor take his debut swing against Jake on the big screen. The truth is, there's nothing more fun than a bar fight.
but:
[C]Contrary to official statements, Amazon has no interest in supporting movie theaters. Streamed exclusively by Amazon road house On Amazon Prime. Amazon asked me and the movie community to trust them and their public statements about supporting movie theaters, but then they turned around and said, road house This is to sell plumbing fixtures.
Lehman says streaming-only releases will be “[s] After giving the best performance of his career, Jake Gyllenhaal has a chance to be recognized come awards season. ” That sounds a bit hyperbolic to me. Unless something else is going on here. road house This isn't Shakespeare, it's a formulaic genre story to string together a bunch of ass screams.
Lehman goes on to make a good point about the importance of a shared theatrical experience and why studios like Amazon shouldn't undermine that experience by getting people used to consuming entertainment in their living rooms. continued.
But, as always, what I find most interesting about this story is do not have It is said…
Direct-to-streaming movies will evaporate. In our culture and popular imagination, they have no shelf life. For better or worse, even without a theatrical release, when the algorithm is complete, so are we. These disappear from the front of his streaming queue and are never heard from again. why? That's all the content, so content. For better or worse, it's being touted as the disposable filler of the week.
As far as I can think of, the only direct streaming movies that have made any kind of mark are Martin Scorsese movies Irish (2019). But it required the help of Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino…and it also happened to be a masterpiece. Furthermore, its languid pace and length of 209 minutes Irish It didn't play like the movie. Instead, it felt like a five-part limited series.
This evaporation is not due to pollution created for television. The numerous films produced at the height of the made-for-television era had a tremendous influence on our culture. duel (1971), the next day (1983), chaos (1976), brian's song (1971), night stalker (1972), thread (1984), gathering (1977), Christmas carol (1984), and the band played (1993), salem lot (1979), and beyond…
So what's the difference?
To begin with, many of the TV movies mentioned above were promoted nationally as “event films.” Some are duel and night stalker, found an audience, but these titles were never tossed onto the multi-billion dollar trash heap. That's what streaming services are all about.
There's also the fact that the TV movies listed above are objectively great, which is why we still remember them and watch them over and over again.
Finally, TV movies are now available for viewing. all of us. They were broadcast nationally, and as a culture, we sat together as a nation and watched them. Now that Hollywood has alienated half the culture, those days are long gone.
But quality is what matters, and always will be…
Does anyone else worry that they're missing out on a hidden gem among the tons of crap on Netflix, Amazon, and Disney+? Even if they believed there was a gem, they'd rather waste their lives looking for it. Will there be anyone? No movie is worth his 1,000 hours of bad streaming content full of gay sex, perennial weirdos, smug characters, and ignorant lectures.
One more thing about the TV movie mentioned above…its appeal is universal. Those movies were made for ordinary people, not neurotic white women with purple hair and piercings celebrating abortion.
Probably Mr. Liman's road house amazing. It doesn't matter and he knows it.Hollywood produces so much trash that it's unwatchable, so his only chance is road house You have to make a mark in the theater. Without it, it will be forgotten after a week. Another piece of content ends up on the disposable trash heap.
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