On the Basis of Sex (Mimi Leder, 2018)
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On the Basis of Sex (Mimi Leder, 2018)
On the Basis of Sex, the RBG biopic with Felicity Jones
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So with that trailer now that the actress race is over for 2018, who’s winning 2019?domino harvey wrote:On the Basis of Sex, the RBG biopic with Felicity Jones
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I don't get Felicity Jones.
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She's a good actress with a good agent and one of the most beautiful women alive. What's not to get?
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Re: On the Basis of Sex (Mimi Lederer, 2018)
That seems really optimistic - Mimi Leder's made some real junk in her career and has never made a film that's anywhere close to Oscar contention despite trying very very hard with stuff like Pay It Forward. This is riding the somewhat inexplicable wave of sub-Wonkette meme-ified hero worship of Ruth Bader Ginsburg so there's sure to be an audience for it, but it could be totally ignored with a Christmas release date unless it's really, really good.movielocke wrote: ↑Mon Jul 16, 2018 12:33 pmSo with that trailer now that the actress race is over for 2018, who’s winning 2019?domino harvey wrote:On the Basis of Sex, the RBG biopic with Felicity Jones
That said, that documentary has been playing at my local arthouse for what feels like a century now, so maybe I am underestimating the level of hysteria around some kind of 'the year of RBG' narrative.
Also, I don't get Felicity Jones either. I think LQ has compared her to a wet noodle in the past, and she was DOA when she hosted SNL. And her presence as the lead in Rogue One wasn't doing that already troubled film any favors.
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Re: On the Basis of Sex (Mimi Leder, 2018)
Jones is great in her big scene in True Story-- for the whole movie it's a complete mystery why she took such a thankless role and then she gets an amazing monologue near the end and just kills it. A great example of a mediocre film with a great scene-stealing supporting performance
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Re: On the Basis of Sex (Mimi Leder, 2018)
I haven't seen True Story or The Theory of Everything but everything else I've seen her in, she didn't strike me as special. It doesn't help that she was horrendously miscast in the Star Wars movie. She has a girl-next-door prettiness, she's not my idea of "one of the most beautiful women alive" (not that there is anything wrong with that, of course)
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Re: On the Basis of Sex (Mimi Leder, 2018)
I'm actually kind of happy to see Leder getting another theatrical release. She's not a great director, but also didn't deserve to be damned to television.
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Re: On the Basis of Sex (Mimi Leder, 2018)
Well if the white dude critics (85% of population) pre decide months in advance they’re going to hate this film and they all take epic shits on it no-matter-what then all bets are off, of course. Awards films bomb every year and this could be one of the innumerable failed awards bait films, especially if the feral consensus turns against it.mfunk9786 wrote:That seems really optimistic - Mimi Leder's made some real junk in her career and has never made a film that's anywhere close to Oscar contention despite trying very very hard with stuff like Pay It Forward. This is riding the somewhat inexplicable wave of sub-Wonkette meme-ified hero worship of Ruth Bader Ginsburg so there's sure to be an audience for it, but it could be totally ignored with a Christmas release date unless it's really, really good.movielocke wrote: ↑Mon Jul 16, 2018 12:33 pmSo with that trailer now that the actress race is over for 2018, who’s winning 2019?domino harvey wrote:On the Basis of Sex, the RBG biopic with Felicity Jones
That said, that documentary has been playing at my local arthouse for what feels like a century now, so maybe I am underestimating the level of hysteria around some kind of 'the year of RBG' narrative.
Also, I don't get Felicity Jones either. I think LQ has compared her to a wet noodle in the past, and she was DOA when she hosted SNL. And her presence as the lead in Rogue One wasn't doing that already troubled film any favors.
On the other hand my wife texted me earlier that she is already setting up a dec 26th pilgrimage with her mom, aunts, cousins and friends to see this in the best theatre they can find (one of the arclights) which they haven’t done since les Mis. And they’ll do that even if they hear its shit.
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Re: On the Basis of Sex (Mimi Leder, 2018)
So, when a "progressive" awards bait doesn't actually become a contender, it's because of white male critics. But when it does - like Get Out, Call Me By Your Name, The Shape of Water, or Lady Bird, just to name a few of the most recent critically acclaimed ones -, it's in spite of the same white male critics. Isn't that neat?
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Pfft. I was being sarcastic, I think the whole awards eco system is a bananas and unpredictable cesspool with a lot of money in it for the participating punditry and the dancing monkeys of agents and above the line talentCremildo wrote:So, when a "progressive" awards bait doesn't actually become a contender, it's because of white male critics. But when it does - like Get Out, Call Me By Your Name, The Shape of Water, or Lady Bird, just to name a few of the most recent critically acclaimed ones -, it's in spite of the same white male critics. Isn't that neat?
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Re: On the Basis of Sex (Mimi Leder, 2018)
"Neither does the word freedom."
Looool, what is this. Ginsburg seems like an impressive and important figure in recent US history, but this looks like the mother of all cringeworthy biopics.
Looool, what is this. Ginsburg seems like an impressive and important figure in recent US history, but this looks like the mother of all cringeworthy biopics.
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It sure does. Finally got around to watching the trailer and woo boy this looks absolutely awful
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It looks fine, a typical middlebrow biopic with poor modern song choice and socially relevant message. This will make $40 million and be completely forgotten by this time next year
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Just took a quick peak at the trailer and it's been a while since somebody that not Jewish looking played such a distinctly Jewish character. That's borderline Alec Guinness in Oliver Twist.
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Re: On the Basis of Sex (Mimi Leder, 2018)
The trailer looks awful like most trailers these days do. They usually turn out to be 'honesty in advertising'. I'll pass on this.
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Re: On the Basis of Sex (Mimi Leder, 2018)
Trailer is pretty terrible.
Sign me up in the "don't get Felicity Jones" crowd (though her line reading at the end of this trailer was strong) and while Mimi Leder's work on The Leftovers is very good, this unfortunately looks closer to most of her theatrical stuff, i.e. slightly warmed-over garbage.
Sign me up in the "don't get Felicity Jones" crowd (though her line reading at the end of this trailer was strong) and while Mimi Leder's work on The Leftovers is very good, this unfortunately looks closer to most of her theatrical stuff, i.e. slightly warmed-over garbage.
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Re: On the Basis of Sex (Mimi Leder, 2018)
That's exactly what it looks like to me as well. Don't get the insta-hostility it seems to be generating quite honestly.domino harvey wrote: ↑Mon Jul 16, 2018 10:13 pmIt looks fine, a typical middlebrow biopic with poor modern song choice and socially relevant message. This will make $40 million and be completely forgotten by this time next year
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Re: On the Basis of Sex (Mimi Leder, 2018)
This is one of those movies whose very existence is so corrupt that there's almost no way it's even remotely good.
The Clarence Thomas Story—that could be a good movie. An obviously troubled man, a sexual predator, widely viewed as a race traitor, consumed with self-hatred and married to a paranoid, fragile crone, a Supreme Court justice who remains almost pathologically silent during oral arguments? Abel Ferrara could direct.
(Which reminds me, did anyone see Marshall?)
The Clarence Thomas Story—that could be a good movie. An obviously troubled man, a sexual predator, widely viewed as a race traitor, consumed with self-hatred and married to a paranoid, fragile crone, a Supreme Court justice who remains almost pathologically silent during oral arguments? Abel Ferrara could direct.
(Which reminds me, did anyone see Marshall?)
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Re: On the Basis of Sex (Mimi Leder, 2018)
Why is the existence of this film "so corrupt"?
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Because it exists almost solely to flatter the #resistance arthouse audience revealed by the blockbuster success of the RBG documentary; to collect Oscars; and to provide meme-able quotes for folks' social-media feeds? Because the chances it will have anything challenging or even interesting to share with that audience are almost nil? Because every aspect of it, from the casting on forward, seems like it was executed with an almost pathological caution?
Not to imply a false equivalence between the respective ideologies, but as "art," this seems likely to have a similar relationship to its intended audience than much of the pap discussed in this thread has to the evangelical crypto-fascists crowding exurban multiplexes.
Not to imply a false equivalence between the respective ideologies, but as "art," this seems likely to have a similar relationship to its intended audience than much of the pap discussed in this thread has to the evangelical crypto-fascists crowding exurban multiplexes.
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Re: On the Basis of Sex (Mimi Leder, 2018)
This movie was in production well before the documentary. That comes across as both silly conspiracy theory and doesn't reveal any actual corruption (just opportunism).
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Re: On the Basis of Sex (Mimi Leder, 2018)
Regardless of how bad this film might turn out to be, why shouldn't it be able to exist?
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Knives, is English your first language? Because you often seem to nitpick others' posts on the basis of a less-than-perfect (and often overly literal) understanding of what words can connote. "Corrupt" doesn't necessarily mean something like, I dunno, the Trump-Putin-GOP-NRA thing; it can just mean—and I intended it to mean—rotten, or dubious. Likewise, I'm not positing that the film was greenlit specifically because of the success of the RBG documentary, but that they both are seeking, in an identical and thoroughly opportunistic and slipshod fashion, to flatter and thereby exploit the same audience. (I'm not the only one who feels somewhat this way. And I'm not counting the usual shit-for-brains "conservative" film critics who might object to these films for the obvious reasons.)
Ugh. Who said it shouldn't (or shouldn't be able to) exist? It just looks awful, is all.Regardless of how bad this film might turn out to be, why shouldn't it be able to exist?
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Re: On the Basis of Sex (Mimi Leder, 2018)
I think Barmy might be back.