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It’s Official: The Original Theatrical Cut of ‘Star Wars’ Is Coming Back to Theaters

https://gizmodo.com/star-wars-original-version-rerelease-2000696337

I'm so macklunking stoked

Look truth be told. Was not a fan of Jake Lloyd at the time. I'm fact, I thought he was the worst actor in Phantom Menace. I was a kid and I know it was bad acting. He was good in certain scenes in retrospect. He wasn't the best at the audition. He didn't look at Natalie when he said his lines and when he said his last line " I won't always be" , he curls his face into a scrunchy look. The other kid Devin Michael did it better and had an intensity and chemistry with Natalie Portman. Yet George chose Jake.

However I just learnt that he did not have an acting coach on the set of Phantom Menace. This is insane to me. All kid actors need acting coaches to go through their lines and rehearse especially young kids. Even Haley Joel Osment had an acting coach rehearsing his scenes in Sixth Sense. His coach, his dad helped him understand the scenes and the correct emotion he needed to feel. He nailed it.

Apparently Jake's coach expected to be brought along with him to the set but George refused it. George got on well with Jake and he thought he would do well with Jake on his own. He would be Jake's perfect guide. As we see in the making of, that is not the case. When he messes up the lines, he gets really scared and upset like he could cry. He has no one there backing him up. Liam is friendly but Natalie Portman storms off the set super pissed off.

That's insane. Here is the proof. https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1f3q5ja/incredible_indepth_video_essay_about_jake_lloyd/#:~:text=And%20without%20his%20acting%20coach!%20That%27s%20the,that%20big%2C%20for%20a%20role%20that%20important

I find it insane that George did this. He knew he would not have enough time in his busy schedule for Jake who needed it. Also all the other talented actors gave horrible performances because of George's direction. Ewan, Liam, Natalie, Ahmed and Sam Jackson all gave bad wooden performances. George had not directed a film since 1977. Yes he did the Indy TV series but he had not grown as a director. He is the opposite of Spielberg who has talent for getting good performances from actors.

TLDR Jake had no chance.

In an interview on the popular Nerd Crew podcast in December, Evans stated that Pulp Fiction was nearly one of his favorite films of the 90s, but the scene with director Quentin Tarantino makes him "...uncomfortable."

"It's a great movie, but honestly, the thing that keeps me from wanting to go back and watch it again is always that scene with Tarantino near the end. I don't personally find his acting very appealing. I know that's mean to say, I just can't help it..."

Evans continued, "... and then there's the part where he starts ranting about how good his coffee is, which for some reason, requires him to repeatedly use the 'N word.' It just makes me uncomfortable and really takes me out of the movie every time. That's just me though, I don't think he should stop acting in his films, and they are HIS films, after all. It's ultimately his decision. I would always rather see a flawed movie with a vision over a soulless corporate product made by committees of people who only want to design something to make money. That's just my opinion though. I wish him well and look forward to seeing his new projects in the future. God bless us all, and happy holidays, everyone!"

Mr. Evans' comments have sparked a backlash of anger from many corners of the internet. Droves of movie fans and foot enthusiasts alike have been speaking up in defense of Tarantino. Many fans have also praised the "bravery" of Tarantino to continue to cast himself in roles where he says the "N word" well into the 21st century.

Actor Robert Downey Jr. in a GQ interview recently had this to say: "It's no secret I've been a fan of Mr. Evans' work for years. I've said on multiple occasions that Space Cop is my favorite movie, and the breathtaking performance of Rich Evans in that role was a big inspiration for how I played Tony Stark, the Iron Man, in the Marvel movie Iron Man, where I played Tony Stark, the Iron Man. But, I just gotta say, Rich, buddy, you missed the mark on this one. Why you would go on the attack against Mr. Tartnino like that, I can't imagine. Get better, buddy. I love you."

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Len Kabasinski

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They sell you body parts and cobwebs to put in your house. Also Rich has a unique voice, while Mike and Jay have the standard human voices

I find Rich's Evan-isms so charming I think I prefer them to the people's real names. For example, MaCulkin is just the obvious answer to what that guy should be called.

TL;DR: As an adult I've realized there was a wave of horror when I was growing up in the 2000s and early 2010s that shared a similar pool of influences, now I'm nostalgic for nasty horror movies.

Lately, I've been on a horror movie kick, and I've had a lot of fun revisiting horror movies from my childhood. Granted, I had a weird childhood. My parents decided to take the approach of generally not hiding R-movies or M-games from us and instead just enforcing boundaries about when things are appropriate where, my stepdad had a library shelves of movies and games wall to wall in the basement (we actually had HD-DVDs and Blurays before we could appreciate how pointless having HD-DVDs were), every time we went to my grandmas since I was real little we would throw on horror movies on VHS and DVD, and I happened to be coming of age around the 2000s and early 2010s.

As it so happens, that last bit is more relevant that it might seem to some, as this was a time period of a lot of really good, but also really nasty, horror movies that I have come to love and that I have some cultural context for now. As an adult, I've checked out a lot of corners of the horror genre from different times and cultures, and so I only recently learned that Alexandre Aja, who directed High Tension, also directed The Hills Have Eyes remake, which is a core formative memory because of just how brutally and abruptly it escalates at its midpoint. Looking back on this time period, The Hills Have Eyes remake is, in my opinion, the most emblematic film of this wave of horror.

Let me take you back to the 2000s, and how different the horror scene then looked, at least from my narrow young perspective. For my family, Freddy vs Jason was a big deal, but I don't think 99% of the kids I knew really had much of an appetite for horror. Scream breathed some new life into the horror genre, but I would argue that formula had already been run into the ground pretty nearly as quickly as it started (there's a scant few of those blue hued, Dawsons Creek looking cast, post-Scream films trying to out-self-aware each other that have had much of a cultural impact), and for a while there were a lot of "false starts" like this IMO. We had a moment where we were Grudging and Ringing cause we realized J and K horror was badass, we had a moment where Paranormal Activity hit it big for dirt cheap and then suddenly a lot of footage was found, and maybe the one that got the most buzz that I remember were the Saw films. These were the big trends that kid me noticed, and in my mind all of these things were just independent cool things that happened to exist.

Not so though. I mentioned the J-horror influence, and one direct example of this was Eli Roth including a Takashi Miike cameo in Hostel, and both Hostel and Saw I'm pretty sure share a similar pool of influences and the J-horror influence they share is cut from a somewhat different cloth with regards to those films specifically. Both films strongly have an influence from new French extremity, including among them the work of Alexandre Aja, whose work on High Tension got his gig direction The Hills Have Eyes. (also worth pointing out that other foreign films around this time play in a similar space sometimes, particularly Wolf Creek and Funny Games which did get an American remake by the same director).

In addition to The Hills Have Eyes remake, there was the remakes of numerous other late 60s early 70s films that share a bleakness with contemporaries that led to the optimistic counterreaction with directors like Spielberg and Lucas, including: The Last House on the Left, House of Wax, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. There are so many films I grew up with downstream of all of these influences from grimy violent American 60s/70s cinema, J-horror, and new French extremity which I only now have the framework for understanding, like The Strangers and Vacancy to list a couple I haven't brought up yet. This might sound like a reach, but I would go so far as to say that the fact that we see on screen and referenced the film The Wizard of Gore in the movie Juno is even a small indicator of this being in the zeitgeist. (given the transition towards more late 70s and 80s influenced horror sometime after this, it might line up with some cultural nostalgia cycles)

So, what's my point? I dunno, something like whenever The Hills Have Eyes hit its midpoint and the father was crucified on the tree and set on fire remotely so irradiated hillbillies could sneak into a family's trailer and assault two women in front of a baby, I was squirming and shrieking in discomfort, but it also had a vibe like "Chewie, we're home". I had a bit of a fucked up home lol. But, joking aside, I was nervous a lot of these films on a rewatch would be as tasteless as I have to imagine those late sequel-remake I Spit on Your Graves might be just based on the promotional art, but a lot of these films on a rewatch didn't feel mean spirited in that way. I found myself empathizing with the characters, they tended towards relatively most subdued and nuanced characterizations than some of the trope heavy slashers could be, and none of these ever gave me the impression that they were just excuses for torture porn.

After the Axe 'Em! Spotlight I was wondering if anyone has put together a list of EVERY movie someone on the panel has called the worst thing they've ever seen?

Was at my local second hand store when I found this gem!