Can confirm, used to be a security guard and wrote two screenplays at work. The intense urge to do the _exact fucking opposite_ of staring at a door makes its way into your stories way too easily.
As a programmer who spent the better part of two years just fixing bugs, using company time to write an RPG book with overt themes of escapism and rebellion was the only creative outing to keep me from flinging myself off the window.
I wish Disney would stop over budgeting their movies and just make something like 100 million or less. They risk a flop with every movie because it ends up way too expensive. Probably because they’re always paying for big name actors, expensive CGI, and a huge marketing campaign.
7:06 The story between Antz and A Bug's Life started when Jeffrey Katzenberg left Disney's animation studio to go and form Dreamworks after being denied a promotion at Disney and swearing revenge. While Katzenberg was still at Disney, he caught wind of a project called "Bugs" which eventually became "A Bug's Life". With the newly formed Dreamworks Animation, Katzenberg pushed out Antz as fast as possible to get it out before A Bug's Life, and succeeded. Even though it came out second, A Bug's Life performed much better than Antz in the box office and is definitely more fondly remembered by everyone I know.
It wouldn't if the president at the time granted the mayor permission to call in the national guard for security, one of the 6 separate times he asked.
With this re-release of Half in the Bag Episode 56. I was expecting some re-dos. Some visual clean up and enhancement. Unfortunately this is just the classic version re-packaged as a new release.
I'm always forced to go back to Screenwriting 101, and a big four-letter word that comes to mind: FUCK. No, I'm just kidding. The word is CRAP. No, I'm just kidding. The word is SHIT. I'm just kidding. The word is PISS. I'm just kidding. The word is POOP. I'm just kidding. The word is GARBAGE. Naw, I'm just kidding, the word is TONE!
When Pirates of the Caribbean came out Johnny Depp was a huge box office draw, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightly were huge at that time too. There was presumably good word of mouth because it was an actually good movie, and the trailers made it look good. Meanwhile you've got a widely publicized troubled shoot, trailers that made the movie look dull and lifeless, Armie Hammer's not a big actor and Johnny Depp's star has fallen. I remember reading at the time that for The Lone Ranger to make a profit it would need to be the highest grossing western of all time, so that ridiculous budget made sure it was doomed to fail.
@@notchuckproductions5029 no. Mike said in 2013 no one is crazy enough to storm the white house for money. Jan 6, 2021 a bunch of right wing psychos stormed the Capitol unpaid
I don't like Emmerich, but Stargate was pretty alright (not great). However, the spin-off TV show just blew it out of the water, and of course, Emmerich hates the TV show for that.
This episode deserves a revisit. Everyone loves Johnny Depp so much that it's ok for him to play an indigenous person, the VILLAIN is the cannibal, and... white house down.
@@simerlyisaac423 :whoosh: dude I was literally just making a joke in relation to Mike's film review commentary and recent relative events... wasnt attempting to make some grandiose political statement in a RLM comment section... grow up... and close that door!!
White house down and Olympus has fallen are so similar that they merge together as one movie in my head I've combined them into one movie and could not tell you what scene is from what movie
After binging this channel watching around 10 years worth of content I have to say the goofy face Mike makes at 0:48 is the best one he he has ever made.
I'm watching this in 2020 and when they started talking about James Woods having a tumor pressing against his brain and making him crazy, I couldn't tell if they were talking about the character he plays or the man himself.
@@Zanzibar_Dallax the “deep state” is right wing conspiracist bullshit. This is the American system working exactly as intended, plain to see. I already understand this, I don’t need to dress it up with Scooby Doo villains pulling the strings from the shadows.
@@chekovsgunman How is it a conspiracy theory when unelected officials actually have lifelong careers in politics, through admins? That's an objective fact. ("left" & "right" wing refers to economics, btw, not politics. GG tho)
"The most inept, insane people in the world are able to take over The Whitehouse." What an unbelievable premise for a movie! The second you get in you're f*cked, right! You're not going to get out of there alive!
@@TheTGOAC And what was the worst thing they did? Poop in someone's desk? That's somehow worse than anything Antifa and BLM was doing all the prior summer?
"you can't cast a Native American" of course you can, you cast Adam Beach - because whenever a movie needs a native in it, they cast him - unless he's caught up with the residual fame and admiration of Joe Dirt 2?
What really pissed me off about white house down, was the fact that Jaime fox has a pair of Jordans...like of course the black president would need a pair of sneakers and Jordans to put on, cause...he's black.... meanwhile white house down is basically die hard in the white-house...just stupider.
He probably based his character off Obama who did play basketball at the white house from time to time. Too bad he didn't act like Obama with the charisma and sociability. Not saying anything about his presidency but the guy knew how to talk.
I liked the ending of The Lone Ranger. As soon as the Willam Tell Overture started playing and they went full on with the Wild West Show cheese it was fun to turn my brain off and just watch the insanity. Yeah, the rest of the movie was absolute shit, but those five minutes were great.
Also, how can you not tap your feet to that 'Lone Ranger' theme at the end of the video! Classical music can be so rousing - I wish Hollywood remembered that more. I love some of the more naturalistic styles of movie scores that are popular now, but it seems like the only alternative besides naturalism is generic, bombastic action scoring, which is really forgetting just how good classical can be, as well as true themes like Lawrence of Arabia or Doctor Zhivago. It seems like Hollywood doesn't like putting in a traditional, memorable movie theme anymore, and for some movies that is a real shame.
They put the wrong people in charge of the revivall. In our current film climate where you get superhero movies up the ass, a little throwback to simpler times where a justice-crazed cowboy was all that you needed wouldve been a fresh breath of air
I thought they were going to write in that Tonto was a white guy. Found as a baby or a lunatic in a costume speaking some mock tribal language that is found out later in the film. I don't know just something to spin it.
Here after the latest Roland Emmerich masterpiece, Moonfall. I thought I had seen White House Down, and was reminded that no, actually I had seen Olympus Has Fallen. That the idea of crazy people storming the capital was, once upon a time, absurd, is comedy gold. I remember really enjoying the Lone Ranger when it came out. Fun action, but not overly sterilized in the way I expect Disney products to be these days. Maybe I wouldn't enjoy it as much through the lens of modern cynicism, but with the way certain other Disney franchises have been handled in recent times, it might be climbing higher on my list of enjoyable Disney franchises by default.
Speaking of Olympus Has Fallen, it was a better Die Hard movie than the last three Die Hard films. It's more of a classic Die Hard format than any of the new Die Hards.
It follows the formula lf Die Hard more closely is what I was saying. It's a formula that movies don't go for much anymore because they all want big and epic.
Still a great critique of both films. So crazy how some of these statements didn't agr well regarding the believability of certain things in the first reviewed film lmao.
I recently saw The 400 Blows too. I really liked the shot of the class going on a walk for exercise and the camera follows the group as 2 or 3 kids keep breaking off and go do their own thing. It's really amusing and a very cool camera shot
This Half in the Bag needs ones of those 80’s where are they now endings. Armie Hammer, Johnny Depp, and James Woods are on the Hollywood outs and plots revolving around crazed mobs attacking government buildings are perfectly believable now.
You guys are always ragging on Roland Emmerich but he made Stargate. I loved that movie. The first Mummy was also very entertaining if you aren't expecting a story that makes much sense.
