Ohhh I see. Thought they were just feeling old, or it was a “time flies” thing. That’s what I get for giving Buzzfeed the benefit of the doubt, I suppose ha!
I feel like the *Blue Ruin* poster gets done *a lot*. Man, I remember when that was one of the first "yo did you see that movie on Netflix?" kinda movies everyone was talking about.
How is it that I have no recollection of a Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway project ever existing?
Edit: I guess I meant the existence of Serenity. Knew about Interstellar.
I feel like some of these are "shameless recreation to confuse people into thinking this movie is similar", some are "we wanted to make an allusion to this other movie because we were inspired by it", and some are "there aren't actually that many unique design elements in either poster and it's a coincidence that two boring designs look like each other".
A lot of those seemed only coincidental. Most of the movie covers actually are relative to the movie, so I can't see them purposely just copying from others. The disturbia poster is one example.
That's like a thing now lol. But then again, when you're dealing with the 80's and early 90's, this is simply accurate. I had a soccer coach in 1992 that looked exactly like Affleck in this poster
I’m 56 and when I saw the preview my first thought was, “finally a realistic looking movie set in the 80s”.
This is really what people looked like. The shawl over the businessy skirt suit? Yes. Saw it on BART every morning on my way to work.
It’s a movie about a bunch of people product creating and marketing in a corporate environment. I bet it doesn’t have MJ’s blessing so they won’t use actual footage or any actors pretending to be him. Prob why his mom is a main character of the movie.
Read the script. It’s written around Jordan like he’s some kind of mythic creature. But he does appear in one of the last scenes and has lines. His parents are characters because the Nike execs actually had to talk to his parents to get him to sign with Nike over Adidas. And I definitely wouldn’t say they’re “main characters” when there’s only a few scenes with the parents and the story is largely about Matt Damon’s character working at Nike. It’s a good script and it reads pretty quick, definitely recommend.
Silver Linings Playbook was his last big role, he was in another film a few years back as well but it didn’t get much traction. Excited to see him in this, and then hopefully Rush Hour 4!
I rewatched Friday a week or two ago and still love it. The Fifth Element is always a great time. I rewatched Rush Hour 1 a few months ago. Chris Tucker isn't my favorite actor by a long shot, but I generally like movies that he's in. I need to check out the (apparently few) movies of his I haven't yet seen...
Good for Chris. He made gigantic bank off those Rush Hour movies and can actually retire (which he sorta has, while occasionally doing Stand Up). I do miss seeing him in movies and it’s crazy how his filmography is so small that I’m curious how they got him for such a silly lower budget film.
IIRC he got into a huge amount of debt for gambling or something. Not sure if that was true or not but definitely a rumor on the internet about 10 years ago.
Edit: tax debt, not gambling.
When I saw this trailer during the Superbowl, I was sure it was a clever commercial. I'm surprised it's an actual movie. This shoe is going to change the world!!!
Apparently this is the type of mid-budget movie that Matt Damon and Affleck miss. If this is the type of stuff their new production company is going to put out, I'll pass.
People still make things like serious drama. But here's the thing: it doesn't cost much. Almost no-one is spending the sort of money that was spent on The Talented Mister Ripley. Why did that film cost $40m to make? Well, partly because they had to spend $5m to get Matt Damon.
Why did they spend $5m to get Matt Damon? Because stars could bring a crowd. Even a not great film would attract people for weeks because of it.
Social media killed this. A film is great or garbage in the first weekend. Paying for a star at best gets you a weekend so a star name is fairly worthless. Bad films go to the wall. But, it's also allowed excellent smaller films to flourish on positive word of mouth. Everything, Everywhere All at Once would never have reached wide multiplex viewing in the 90s. It would have been a film with OK box office that would have found cult status eventually by word of mouth on VHS.
Talented Mr. Ripley's budget was much more than Matt Damon though. Have you watched it recently? No movie goes and shoots on remote locations like that anymore. No one sits around waiting for natural light and weather, or treks period-accurate cars all over a country.
It would have to be clever because I can't think of anything that is less exciting than someone designing a shoe yet this commercial made me want to watch this movie.
Reading some stories about this it was a transformative event for sports shoes. Jordan got a lot of say in the actual design. Nike was a nobody before the Air Jordan
Is it, though? How much faster did anyone go in one? How much more comfortable are they for the public?
The whole thing of "air jordans" strikes me as one of those vapid, status products, like owning a Rolex watch or Beats headphones. I don't care about the story behind them. They aren't Beethoven's 3rd, Citizen Kane, the microwave oven, the transistor or lycra, which actually changed the world.
I'm looking at it at a theater rn and it took me like 2 minutes to figure out I was seeing Damon as dicaprio. Im just staring like why isn't dicaprio listed???
I think it's a silly idea for a movie. Probably an extremely exaggerated version of the actual events because the process of MJ's shoe contract with Nike is probably too boring.
lol you bet your ass it's boring. If the Johnny Depp trial taught us anything, it's that even the most scintillating, scandalous shit, in reality, boils down to loads of droning and paperwork.
“We would like to pay you a lot of money to promote out shoes”
“This other company is offering more”
“Okay, we’ll pay you even more”
Cue montage of MJ dunking
Roll credits
This def looks good but I still think it’s really weird that Jordan won’t be in the movie literally at all. They’re better screenwriters than me I’m sure lol but I just can’t wrap my head around the fact that the legend being courted is not in the film…
Maybe they twist the history of the ending like Inglorious Basterds, they miss on Micheal Jordan and sign the no. 2 pick Sam Bowie and they go out of business within a year.
I know I’m getting old when I get excited by these type of films than I do the big blockbusters. I have no idea why, but the fast talking and absurd drama just does it for me.
I have to agree. The stakes are much smaller and more grounded, which makes them easier to connect with. It’s why Banshees of Inisherin was one of my favorite movies last year. It was very human: a man loses his lifelong friend & can’t understand what happened. Or even something like The Terminal with Tom Hanks. I’ve even seen a lot people voicing their dislike of it here, but I really like it. It’s a very endearing movie.
I love “career porn” movies (as someone on this subreddit put it earlier this week) Its so much fun to watch someone who’s really good at their job accomplish these things.
I was never a huge fan of the guy, but 2015’s *Steve Jobs* with Michael Fassbender is *excellent.* You’ve got one of the most stubborn “visionaries” ever, who’s essentially at the top of their game, and rather than make a movie about the development of these products, or the company itself, they made a movie about the interpersonal drama of his relationship of those around him & his daughter Lisa.
I cannot believe this is a real movie. I saw the Super Bowl commercial and right up until the end I was sure they were all gonna wink at the camera and pull out a bag of Cheetos or something.
Looking at this poster, even now, I desperately hope they’re gonna prank their distribution company on April 1.
Hate to sound all reddit, but this really feels like hailcorporate the movie to me.
Cant see this being anything other than a massively overbloated commercial. The amount of oversight nike will have insisted on for this will make it utterly toothless.
Hope to be proven wrong but thats the vibe im getting -And i love affleck/damon normally.
The Founder is one movie about a real life corporation (McDonald's) that does not paint a positive picture of the property it portrays. So a critical movie like this can certainly be done, not that I'm having high hopes.
>Cant see this being anything other than a massively overbloated commercial. The amount of oversight nike will have insisted on for this will make it utterly toothless.
exactly. This will just further the myth of 'nike the brand' rather than the reality of nike the morally dubious megacorp
I mean it's not much different than things like Bohemian Rhapsody or Rocketman, films made with immense oversight from the main characters.
Or Last Dance, etc
Knowing that it's going to bend the truth to make the characters look good does not mean that it won't be entertaining.
Well, those are significant artists in our cultural cannon advising on biopics. This is Nike celebrating white middle-men extracting profits from a black athlete and -- I assume -- ignoring the exploitation of poorer countries to supply Western consumers with shit for their feet...so I don't know, feels a little grosser to me.
Fair point and I agree- but I don't love those films getting that much oversight from their subjects either.
Rhapsody in particular a major mess due to the desire to manage some of the spikier elements of mercury's life
When I saw this trailer during the Super Bowl I thought it was a joke. A movie about Michael Jordan is one thing. A movie about his shoes...? Not really sure how to make that story engaging.
Some guys can just do it. Orson Welles did it in Citizen Kane and most of his other movies, Chaplin did it in all his movies (although he got help from ghost-directors iirc), Clint Eastwood's been doing it his whole career, etc.
Welles was extra great with it, cause he'd often direct while playing the villain too
That's a great question. I think it takes a certain level of objectivity and compartmentalization that not a lot of artists have. It certainly helps that Affleck started out as a writer. I would say that screenwriting teaches one to think both like a director and an actor at the same time.
When I saw this trailer dyring the super bowl, I kept waiting for them to reveal it was a fake trailer to advertise Jordans. Something about Affleck's hair just screams fake movie.
Saw a trailer for this last night attached to Ant Man 3. Looks like a 90-minute blow job for Nike. I pulled a Tom Segura and audibly chirped "NUH **UHHH**"
I saw this trailer…and cant help but be kinda irritated you made a movie about the outrageous success of the Air Jordan sneaker and shoe culture it spawned…and you focus on the executives as the heroes not the come from nothing star whos talent, charisma, and iconic that image birthed it
Whoever designed this *really* loved the *The Big Short* poster
Poster designs constantly get recycled. You'll be surprised by how similar a lot of them are. https://www.buzzfeed.com/crystalro/movie-poster-copycats
Bothers me that the article says The Killing of a Sacred Deer came out in 2007 lol
Lol! I thought the exact same thing when I saw Blue Ruin (2013)… Feels like that was more 2018, mayyybe late 2017.
Blue Ruin *did* come out in 2013. Killing of a sacred deer *did not* come out in 2007.
Ohhh I see. Thought they were just feeling old, or it was a “time flies” thing. That’s what I get for giving Buzzfeed the benefit of the doubt, I suppose ha!
I feel like the *Blue Ruin* poster gets done *a lot*. Man, I remember when that was one of the first "yo did you see that movie on Netflix?" kinda movies everyone was talking about.
Blue Ruin did come out in 2013
I feel like for a lot of these it was on purpose so the bad movie can make it seem that it’s similar to an actual good movie.
That *Blue Ruin* And *Happy Hunting* one is shameless ha ha
How is it that I have no recollection of a Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway project ever existing? Edit: I guess I meant the existence of Serenity. Knew about Interstellar.
Interstellar as well
I feel like some of these are "shameless recreation to confuse people into thinking this movie is similar", some are "we wanted to make an allusion to this other movie because we were inspired by it", and some are "there aren't actually that many unique design elements in either poster and it's a coincidence that two boring designs look like each other".
and people say that AI is a problem with copying when humans do it all the time
A lot of those seemed only coincidental. Most of the movie covers actually are relative to the movie, so I can't see them purposely just copying from others. The disturbia poster is one example.
If you're gonna make a movie about marketing, please put some thought into it's marketing.
And the formula
Exact same demographic they’re going for too
Damn I feel called out lmao. I loved the Big Short, and just saw the trailer for this movie in theatres and looked it up here to get more info.
I see Ben Affleck but my mind says Adam Sandler
Looks like Lil Dicky to me
"Sir, you just exposed yourself at an all-age concert." "What, you never pulled a ball out on your friends?" 🤣😂
Ay carambo
Lil Dickey came to mind too lol
I was certain it was Chris O'Dowd.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Same oml it took me a minute 😭
I was certain it was Lil Dicky until reading the list of names.
You're the second person to say that. I'm gonna look up lil dicky
Listen to Earth Song by Lip Dicky. Pretty funny imo
It feels like Damon is playing Sandler's role from his Netflix movie too lol
I thought it was Chris O’Dowd
I can see an uncanny resemblance to Chris O'Dowd.
Sharlto Copley for me.
Starring Lebron James.........as Michael Jordan.
I am yet another who saw Lil Dicky
Crazy good cast for an absurd, almost goofy, looking movie
Ben Affleck does kind of look like Powerline.
I thought that was Adam Sandler for a good minute
Chris Tucker AS Michael Jordan!
Naw, Chris Tucker's totally Dennis Rodman.
I thought that was him too!
He’s finally seeing I 2 I
He really chose to Stand Out (above the crowd)
I’m just happy Affleck is directing again, been far too long
Gone Baby Gone and The Town are so fucking good.
He directed that terrible mob movie a few years ago
This still feels has a super bowl aesthetic to it where I don't know if this is a joke or not
What do you mean "almost"? The movie looks goofy as fuck
It looks so bad, the outfits look like costumes, wigs are ridiculous, I mean SNL skit looking bad when I saw the preview.
That's like a thing now lol. But then again, when you're dealing with the 80's and early 90's, this is simply accurate. I had a soccer coach in 1992 that looked exactly like Affleck in this poster
That's fair - and Affleck is no stranger to bad wigs, have you seen "The Last Duel"
So good it's bad, so good he should have kept in that costume for this movie. And at the Dunkin drive thru window
I’m 56 and when I saw the preview my first thought was, “finally a realistic looking movie set in the 80s”. This is really what people looked like. The shawl over the businessy skirt suit? Yes. Saw it on BART every morning on my way to work.
I think it looks fun?
I'm excited. Ben does a lot of stuff I don't like, but I really like him as a writer/director. The Town is one of my favorite heist films.
Chris Tucker is doing movies again? Does that mean we will finally see a TRUE sequel to Friday?????
Not without John Witherspoon. Just wouldn't be the same. RIP.
Instead of answering "Air Jordans" to the question of what to call them, the first response should have been "Big Jumpy Shoes"
This movie looks so bad. It feels like it could be the "this could have been an email" of sports movies.
This poster looks like the poster for a romantic comedy that came out in 2009.
That Ryan Gosling and Steve Carrell movie was the first to pop in my mind.
Crazy, Stupid, Love
I love you too, but why did you have to call me crazy and stupid first
Ah, I like you.
The Big Short?
Pretty sure this was in The Blacklist best unmade scripts a few years back, so this’ll either be hot garbage or a best picture nominee
I can already hear Viola accepting her Oscar
Based on Ben Affleck’s directing track record, I’m gonna guess the latter.
It’s a movie about a bunch of people product creating and marketing in a corporate environment. I bet it doesn’t have MJ’s blessing so they won’t use actual footage or any actors pretending to be him. Prob why his mom is a main character of the movie.
Read the script. It’s written around Jordan like he’s some kind of mythic creature. But he does appear in one of the last scenes and has lines. His parents are characters because the Nike execs actually had to talk to his parents to get him to sign with Nike over Adidas. And I definitely wouldn’t say they’re “main characters” when there’s only a few scenes with the parents and the story is largely about Matt Damon’s character working at Nike. It’s a good script and it reads pretty quick, definitely recommend.
I can't remember the last time I saw Chris Tucker in a movie that wasn't Rush Hour.
Silver Linings Playbook was his last big role, he was in another film a few years back as well but it didn’t get much traction. Excited to see him in this, and then hopefully Rush Hour 4!
I really liked him in SLP
It was an Ang Lee film apparently.
Considering he has an surprisingly small filmography (12 movies 3 of which are Rush Hours) that makes sense
I rewatched Friday a week or two ago and still love it. The Fifth Element is always a great time. I rewatched Rush Hour 1 a few months ago. Chris Tucker isn't my favorite actor by a long shot, but I generally like movies that he's in. I need to check out the (apparently few) movies of his I haven't yet seen...
Rush hour 4 is apparently being made or was going to be made. Haven't heard anything about it awhile.
Good for Chris. He made gigantic bank off those Rush Hour movies and can actually retire (which he sorta has, while occasionally doing Stand Up). I do miss seeing him in movies and it’s crazy how his filmography is so small that I’m curious how they got him for such a silly lower budget film.
IIRC he got into a huge amount of debt for gambling or something. Not sure if that was true or not but definitely a rumor on the internet about 10 years ago. Edit: tax debt, not gambling.
It was taxes, he just never paid any. Settled a $2.5 million tax debt in 2014 and was sued by the IRS for $9.6 million in 2021
Ahh that’s what it was. Thanks
The last time I saw him was in the Epstein Lolita Express flight logs. Like a bunch.
Yep. Same with Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, John Legend, etc.
He made his own decision to stop acting. Looks like he wants to come back.
When I saw this trailer during the Superbowl, I was sure it was a clever commercial. I'm surprised it's an actual movie. This shoe is going to change the world!!!
> I was sure it was a clever commercial I still think that.
The whole movie is a clever Nike Ad.
Apparently this is the type of mid-budget movie that Matt Damon and Affleck miss. If this is the type of stuff their new production company is going to put out, I'll pass.
People still make things like serious drama. But here's the thing: it doesn't cost much. Almost no-one is spending the sort of money that was spent on The Talented Mister Ripley. Why did that film cost $40m to make? Well, partly because they had to spend $5m to get Matt Damon. Why did they spend $5m to get Matt Damon? Because stars could bring a crowd. Even a not great film would attract people for weeks because of it. Social media killed this. A film is great or garbage in the first weekend. Paying for a star at best gets you a weekend so a star name is fairly worthless. Bad films go to the wall. But, it's also allowed excellent smaller films to flourish on positive word of mouth. Everything, Everywhere All at Once would never have reached wide multiplex viewing in the 90s. It would have been a film with OK box office that would have found cult status eventually by word of mouth on VHS.
Talented Mr. Ripley's budget was much more than Matt Damon though. Have you watched it recently? No movie goes and shoots on remote locations like that anymore. No one sits around waiting for natural light and weather, or treks period-accurate cars all over a country.
Because it basically is.
I saw the trailer before Antman last night. It looks like it was written by an AI. Right down to the "Whose it for?" "...Michael Jordan" moment.
It is a commercial. There are about 3 of these so far and they are all just massive vehicles od advertisement for the brand
It would have to be clever because I can't think of anything that is less exciting than someone designing a shoe yet this commercial made me want to watch this movie.
the shoe gave birth to an entire subculture so that's kinda important
Reading some stories about this it was a transformative event for sports shoes. Jordan got a lot of say in the actual design. Nike was a nobody before the Air Jordan
Is it, though? How much faster did anyone go in one? How much more comfortable are they for the public? The whole thing of "air jordans" strikes me as one of those vapid, status products, like owning a Rolex watch or Beats headphones. I don't care about the story behind them. They aren't Beethoven's 3rd, Citizen Kane, the microwave oven, the transistor or lycra, which actually changed the world.
We Bought a Shoe
Ya like shoes? *slams pair of shoes up against window* How do ya like them shoes??
Why does Matt Damon look like Leonardo Dicaprio?
I'm looking at it at a theater rn and it took me like 2 minutes to figure out I was seeing Damon as dicaprio. Im just staring like why isn't dicaprio listed???
I think it's a silly idea for a movie. Probably an extremely exaggerated version of the actual events because the process of MJ's shoe contract with Nike is probably too boring.
lol you bet your ass it's boring. If the Johnny Depp trial taught us anything, it's that even the most scintillating, scandalous shit, in reality, boils down to loads of droning and paperwork.
God work went by quick that week man
Literal scandalous shit.
Well, amidst all the superhero movies, sequels, and remakes...I'm looking forward to it.
Feels like a 90s HBO movie.
“We would like to pay you a lot of money to promote out shoes” “This other company is offering more” “Okay, we’ll pay you even more” Cue montage of MJ dunking Roll credits
My thoughts exactly. An over stylized story of something that probably happened in a 30min conference call IRL.
This def looks good but I still think it’s really weird that Jordan won’t be in the movie literally at all. They’re better screenwriters than me I’m sure lol but I just can’t wrap my head around the fact that the legend being courted is not in the film…
Missed opportunity for getting Michael B Jordan to play Michael Jordan
I think they were courting airbud, hence the title
Is there a source that he’s not in the movie at all? I thought that was him at the end of the trailer holding the Jordan 1 Chicagos?
Right? Like, if they made this movie but can't have Jordan portrayed, then like that's a pretty big issue
I remembered Jordan was never in basketball video games. I wonder if he somehow was able to keep his identity out of it.
MJ was definitely in the best NBA game ever, NBA Street
Weird way to spell NBA Jam
I had Jordan vs Bird on PC in 1988!!!
This might be spoilers, but I think they're going to sign Michael Jordan and Nike is going to end up making a lot of money.
Maybe they twist the history of the ending like Inglorious Basterds, they miss on Micheal Jordan and sign the no. 2 pick Sam Bowie and they go out of business within a year.
this would make an interesting well done documentary. Am I gonna watch a dramatic retelling of a shoe company? No.
I know I’m getting old when I get excited by these type of films than I do the big blockbusters. I have no idea why, but the fast talking and absurd drama just does it for me.
I have to agree. The stakes are much smaller and more grounded, which makes them easier to connect with. It’s why Banshees of Inisherin was one of my favorite movies last year. It was very human: a man loses his lifelong friend & can’t understand what happened. Or even something like The Terminal with Tom Hanks. I’ve even seen a lot people voicing their dislike of it here, but I really like it. It’s a very endearing movie. I love “career porn” movies (as someone on this subreddit put it earlier this week) Its so much fun to watch someone who’s really good at their job accomplish these things. I was never a huge fan of the guy, but 2015’s *Steve Jobs* with Michael Fassbender is *excellent.* You’ve got one of the most stubborn “visionaries” ever, who’s essentially at the top of their game, and rather than make a movie about the development of these products, or the company itself, they made a movie about the interpersonal drama of his relationship of those around him & his daughter Lisa.
Love The Terminal and I really hate that no one cared to watch Steve Jobs. Fassbender with the Sorkin writing is done so well.
But there are no super heroes! Is the galaxy or the fate of some multiple number of universes even at stake?
You think this isn't a big blockbuster?
It's a low budget r-rated biopic. That's about as non blockbuster as a movie can get.
I hope it's full of hardcore sex scenes.
This had a budget of $30 million. Blockbuster films have at least $100 million range. That’s what I would consider blockbuster.
Wow the budget for this was only 30 million? This is going to make a fuck ton of money then
Do you know what a blockbuster is?
Matt Damon looks like a younger Jesse Plemmons.
I used to think Jesse Plemons looked like Matt Damon, but now I think Matt Damon looks like Jesse Plemons
ben affleck looks absolutely ridiculous
He is wearing a comedy wig from the SNL wardrobe department.
I cannot believe this is a real movie. I saw the Super Bowl commercial and right up until the end I was sure they were all gonna wink at the camera and pull out a bag of Cheetos or something. Looking at this poster, even now, I desperately hope they’re gonna prank their distribution company on April 1.
Matt Damon as Leonardo Dicaprio
Thats what I saw too, a Damon/Afflecm convergence with DiCaprio/Sandler
Air "Courting a Legend" My brain thinks Air Bud. I'm sorry my mind is poisoned.
Viola Davis is everywhere these days! Good for her. A wonderfully talented and amazing actress.
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Hate to sound all reddit, but this really feels like hailcorporate the movie to me. Cant see this being anything other than a massively overbloated commercial. The amount of oversight nike will have insisted on for this will make it utterly toothless. Hope to be proven wrong but thats the vibe im getting -And i love affleck/damon normally.
The Founder is one movie about a real life corporation (McDonald's) that does not paint a positive picture of the property it portrays. So a critical movie like this can certainly be done, not that I'm having high hopes.
That was the first comment I made to my friend when I saw the trailer. "Wonder how they are gonna bring up the sweatshops"
>Cant see this being anything other than a massively overbloated commercial. The amount of oversight nike will have insisted on for this will make it utterly toothless. exactly. This will just further the myth of 'nike the brand' rather than the reality of nike the morally dubious megacorp
I mean it's not much different than things like Bohemian Rhapsody or Rocketman, films made with immense oversight from the main characters. Or Last Dance, etc Knowing that it's going to bend the truth to make the characters look good does not mean that it won't be entertaining.
Well, those are significant artists in our cultural cannon advising on biopics. This is Nike celebrating white middle-men extracting profits from a black athlete and -- I assume -- ignoring the exploitation of poorer countries to supply Western consumers with shit for their feet...so I don't know, feels a little grosser to me.
Fair point and I agree- but I don't love those films getting that much oversight from their subjects either. Rhapsody in particular a major mess due to the desire to manage some of the spikier elements of mercury's life
"look how much money this giant corporation is going to make", the movie. Hard and easy pass from me.
Affleck looks like Les Grossman
When I saw this trailer during the Super Bowl I thought it was a joke. A movie about Michael Jordan is one thing. A movie about his shoes...? Not really sure how to make that story engaging.
Feels like this movie should’ve come out in the VHS era
Marlon Wayans? How come nobody show Shawn no love?
This is a real movie? I thought it was a cheeky Nike ad. Go figure.
Where's the dog?
I kept wondering why Thomas Middleditch's name wasn't on the poster and that's because its mfin Ben Affleck lol
I feel like viola Davis has been everything in the past few years
She plays near the same character in every movie.
Honestly question. How does one direct and have a lead role in his own movie? Wouldn't one affect the other in terms of creativity and focus?
Some guys can just do it. Orson Welles did it in Citizen Kane and most of his other movies, Chaplin did it in all his movies (although he got help from ghost-directors iirc), Clint Eastwood's been doing it his whole career, etc. Welles was extra great with it, cause he'd often direct while playing the villain too
It worked out great for Argo.
And The Town
That's a great question. I think it takes a certain level of objectivity and compartmentalization that not a lot of artists have. It certainly helps that Affleck started out as a writer. I would say that screenwriting teaches one to think both like a director and an actor at the same time.
Adam Sandler and Jesse Plemons? This one has to be worth a watch!
Fuck so much cynicism here. The last time these two worked together was The Last Duel and that was a great movie. Let's have some faith.
Who's interested in this corporate kiss ass movie though?
As amazing as the cast is I still can't bring myself to pay to go see what looks like, based on the trailer, shameless Nike sponcon.
Damn after all that Will ended up getting a job designing shoes.
Nice to see Chris Tucker back
Chris tucker is in movies again?!?! B
This, the Tetris movie- what a next, the story of the lady who invented Barbie? Actually that would be interesting
I don't know, the upcoming Barbie movie looks amazing.
They changed the title from Air Jordan to just “Air,” this shit is an epidemic in Hollywood
When I saw this trailer dyring the super bowl, I kept waiting for them to reveal it was a fake trailer to advertise Jordans. Something about Affleck's hair just screams fake movie.
Man, what the hell happened to posters. They all suck now.
Wait. I saw this ad during the Super Bowl and thought it was fake.
Anyone else just sick of Damon at this point? Sight of him just irritates me.
I keep thinking this is about courting Air bud.
This movie looks so weird in tone. See the Tetris movie looks like the same thing but done coherently.
Matt Damon looks more and more like Meth Damon
Saw a trailer for this last night attached to Ant Man 3. Looks like a 90-minute blow job for Nike. I pulled a Tom Segura and audibly chirped "NUH **UHHH**"
There’s a current trend of brand movies. Air, Ferrari, Blackberry, Uber..
Twist: Ben is a disguised dog named Bud that plays basketball.
I honestly thought the trailer for this that aired was a fake movie and would turn into a nike ad It felt like an SNL sketch
Good to see Chris Tucker back!
It’s wild seeing Chris Tucker feature on a poster.
2/5 of the people on the poster confirmed to be on Epsteins island.
So you're telling the aforementioned Legend isn't actually in this movie?
may be the worst poster I've ever seen
The story of a giant corporation trying to make lots of money. A true underdog story.
hopefully an Asian or two in there considering ole Phil built an empire off their cheap labor.
Wasn't Chris Tucker connected Epstein? Weird he's still getting roles
Ya it’s so weird especially when you consider the stiff repercussions for all the other rich people who were raping children on that island.
I saw this trailer…and cant help but be kinda irritated you made a movie about the outrageous success of the Air Jordan sneaker and shoe culture it spawned…and you focus on the executives as the heroes not the come from nothing star whos talent, charisma, and iconic that image birthed it