BronsonLee
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I'm not joking about that laser dance scene
It is fucking awesome
It is fucking awesome
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Warner Bros Firms Oceans 8 Lineup
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Most of the cast sounds pretty great, very interested in seeing some trailers.
Rihanna isn't a good actress.
Rihanna isn't a good actress.
Great cast, and the director has done some alright stuff.
It's going to be hard to match what Soderbergh did in the first remake though. "Simply" gender-swapping the cast won't be enough if both the script and direction aren't up to snuff. From what I've heard that was kind of the issue with the Ghostbusters reboot.
It's going to be hard to match what Soderbergh did in the first remake though. "Simply" gender-swapping the cast won't be enough if both the script and direction aren't up to snuff. From what I've heard that was kind of the issue with the Ghostbusters reboot.
JimJamJones
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Now that's a great all-female cast *cough*Ghostbuers*cough*.
Dunno who Awkwafina is, though.
Dunno who Awkwafina is, though.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
It doesn't bother me in that none of the characters in the Ocean's remakes were interesting or particularly memorable to begin with. But yes, I agree it reeks of "lazy" to just to remake a movie with distaff counterparts and claim its the "feminist version." There's also something cynical about the idea a stock Vegas Caper movie starring women wouldn't be successful without being attached to an aging, irrelevant brand like "Ocean's."
lightskintwin
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Looked up Awkwafina. Man she's awful as a hip hop artist, unless that's the point, and I've missed it. Can she act?
Exploratory
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That makes it even worse not better.
Confrontation
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Politically correct Hollywood strikes again. Hope the movie's at least good.
BronsonLee
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'I don't even have any money anymore!'
'Oh yea? Well GIMME YOUR COAT'
IIRC this is more sequel/spinoff than reboot
Besides you, who claimed it is a feminist version?
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Should we count him?
Does it hurt or something?
Inferno313
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No, but there's nothing wrong with a movie that's primarily about women. Especially in a culture where a good majority of films and stories are primarily about men.
heliosRAzi
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But I didn't say that. I just said I'd rather watch a movie with men and women working together.
If you guys want an all-female heist/bank robbery film, I suggest Set It Off.
lightskintwin
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Unfortunately, I'm going to have to agree with you. Plus there's a culture war going on, and this film will get strongly disliked off the strength of it being another gender flipped feminist agenda remake and probably do poor business at the box office, unless of course they budget it right unlike Ghostbusters.
Set It Off is great too. Good suggestion.
Situation reminds me of that Simpsons episode with The Bloodening where the parents yelled at their kids and then the parents parents yelled at their kids.
We need OG Oceans 11 fans to come in this thread and say it was better with Frankie.
Is sexism so deeply entranched in our culture, such business as usual that a female cast is another gender flipped feminist agenda remake?
Special effects, how do they work.
BronsonLee
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They're all dead.
Now I know Slayven is around here somewhere...
They work cheap, shit's competitive as hell.
Systolique
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It's directed by Gary Ross? Why!?
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...
BronsonLee
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Don't worry I got him
Amazing detective work.
slightconfuse
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Helen Mirrian should be in the Al Pacino role
lightskintwin
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Yes, The SJW's are at it again.
God bless them.
heliosRAzi
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It feels like a gimmick. Reeks of marketing. Go see Set It Off, though.
sensui-tomo
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I see gender swaps as a lazy thing, but not as a feminist agenda thing, hope the movie does well though.
Black Republican
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def' keep an eye out on this.
i know she was just in the Suicide Squad movie and busy with S3 of HTGAWM but Violia Davis would've been perfect for this movie
i know she was just in the Suicide Squad movie and busy with S3 of HTGAWM but Violia Davis would've been perfect for this movie
Seabiscuit and Pleasantville are good movies though.
Inferno313
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First Hunger Games is also... fine. The second best movie in that series.
A Grizzly Bear
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Based on the cast, did they really need the Ocean's brand to make a caper movie? I loved Ocean's 11, but 12/13 did not convince me they could make another good one.
Female casts are gimmicks? So sexism is deeply ingrained in our culture?
Creatively, it's an easy way to distinguish a remake from the movie it's based on. Marketing wise, it ensures the movie will at least have some buzz surrounding it. I doubt the executives give a shit about feminism.
andythinkpad
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Nah let Julia Roberts's niece play Julia Roberts.
heliosRAzi
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Gender swaps? Yeah. All female casts? No.
Extra Sauce
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Solid cast but I don't know that we're quite looking at the female equivalent of Ocean's 11 in terms of star power. I guess they couldn't afford ScarJo.
the seabiscuit fanbase is deep from what I heard
BossLackey
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Honestly, I don't think there are any die-hard fans of Ocean's 11.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The guy I was responding to who brought it up to begin with?
reading the possible cast it looks like they struggled to get that many
The cast may not have been interested without the Ocean brand, and it's an easy way to get huge cameos from Clooney/Damon/etc.
BronsonLee
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Ocean's 8 so they can do 9 and 10 you dopes
lightskintwin
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This. Although the actors giving this film any credibility and legitimacy is Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, and Helena Bonham Carter. Rihanna is going to be there for eye candy. I suspect Mindy Kaling and Awkwafina will be there for comedy relief. There going to have big shoes to fill in that category as the other Ocean's had Bernie Mac and Don Cheadle.
Systolique
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I'm probably one of them but I don't care about the all female cast ; what I'm worried about is how they can try to the renew the Ocean's formula, 12 and 13 weren't poorly received but it basically was "well, it's just another one"
Inferno313
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The project wouldn't exist without the Ocean's brand, so this is kind of an irrelevant point.
Studio projects like this typically don't begin with a concept, that is then grafted onto whatever brand fits best. What likely happened is someone at Warner thought: "We could probably make a profitable Ocean's continuation, let's start on that." They hired a team to start developing it, and someone had the idea: "What if we had a cast of women?" and the higher-ups at the studios signed off on the idea. It's not like there's an alternate reality where this project would exist as an original film.
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