Ocean's 8 on the way... all female cast

[chitwood]

I'm all for more female roles, but can't they do something original? I really hope we don't just get a decade of hollywood rehashing previous movies (yet again) but replacing the male with a female. We already have enough remakes/reboots as it is. Someone create something original for the love of god.

Next it will be a remake of Back to the Future with a female Marty and a female Doc.

female Marty will be played by Miley Cyrus and female Doc will be played by Meryl Streep.

 

[Pardus]

Shouldn't the movie be called Ocean's 14 ?

 

[Mayne]

how come in movies you never see a pimp with a 'heart of gold'?

 

[pauldun170]

related article on the new Star Trek show they are doing and casting decisions
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/08/10/star-trek-tv-series

 

[pete6032]

First Star Wars! Now this lol
Rey = Luke with a vajayjay

Why does it matter the gender of the characters? What is so funny? If the move is good, then it is good.

 

[PliotronX]

Shouldn't the movie be called Ocean's 14 ?

No because there aren't enough actresses from SNL.

 

[pauldun170]

Why does it matter the gender of the characters?

It matters to studios and it matters to those lobbying to diversify casts.

 

[Skel]

related article on the new Star Trek show they are doing and casting decisions
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/08/10/star-trek-tv-series

ST has always been doing this. I can't really think of a cast that wasn't diverse all the way back to the OG series.

I don't really care much about the casting as I dislike the redoing of the same old same old. I'd prefer it if they released it as a new movie rather than a "reboot" with the same title. It's so far away from the original that I doubt anyone would notice or care. Doing it this way makes it feel like cheap publicity by triggering idiots.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I'm all for more female roles, but can't they do something original? I really hope we don't just get a decade of hollywood rehashing previous movies (yet again) but replacing the male with a female. We already have enough remakes/reboots as it is. Someone create something original for the love of god.

Counterpoint: there are no original stories anymore. Regardless of title, they're all remakes or retellings of the same old tired cliches. Whether they share a title or not.

Also, that formulaic recycled garbage SELLS. The average moviegoer LIKES seeing the same old story hashed and rehashed for their entertainment.

 

[Skel]

Counterpoint: there are no original stories anymore. Regardless of title, they're all remakes or retellings of the same old tired cliches. Whether they share a title or not.

Also, that formulaic recycled garbage SELLS. The average moviegoer LIKES seeing the same old story hashed and rehashed for their entertainment.

I agree if you boil it all down, it's the same stories told again and again with new skins. If we're going by that, then there's nothing to say as there will never be anything new. If we're talking about reboots vs new IPs, then I don't think that the average movie goer so much likes it as there's not much other choice. New IPs like Deadpool killed at the box office this year vs reboots having so so results. I could be wrong, but it seems that people want new (even if it's just the characters and backdrop) and not reboot after reboot. I get why the studios don't want to risk it, but I keep reading that every year sales are down.

 

[Ruptga]

Crossposted from the Hume thread

https://forums.anandtech.com/thread...images-within.2089188/page-2111#post-38414986

 

[Ruptga]

I agree if you boil it all down, it's the same stories told again and again with new skins. If we're going by that, then there's nothing to say as there will never be anything new. If we're talking about reboots vs new IPs, then I don't think that the average movie goer so much likes it as there's not much other choice. New IPs like Deadpool killed at the box office this year vs reboots having so so results. I could be wrong, but it seems that people want new (even if it's just the characters and backdrop) and not reboot after reboot. I get why the studios don't want to risk it, but I keep reading that every year sales are down.

Agreed, his argument doesn't work any more than this does: "I'm going to give you every document ever written in English. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. Everything else is just a rehashing of that, so you're not missing anything if you never read anything again."

 

[Homerboy]

i look forward to the day when women go to war and men go to clubs without any money in their purses.

Yeah it'll be a cold day in hell before any females are in the armed forces, right?

 

[yllus]

Next it will be a remake of Back to the Future with a female Marty and a female Doc.

female Marty will be played by Miley Cyrus and female Doc will be played by Meryl Streep.

I would totally watch that.

 

[Ns1]

Yeah it sounds like they just picked a bunch of women that happen to be famous right now as opposed to good actors who might make a decent film.

I'm not saying you're wrong but...

Bullock, Blanchett, Hathaway and Carter have four Oscar wins and nine nominations among them

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Agreed, his argument doesn't work any more than this does: "I'm going to give you every document ever written in English. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. Everything else is just a rehashing of that, so you're not missing anything if you never read anything again."

If you don't understand the gulf between that absurdity and boring, formulaic storywriting, I pity you.

 

[jman19]

I can't wait to see all of the GamerGate warriors go berserk about this.

 

[Linux23]

I would totally watch that.

Me too actually. If they do it right.

 

[DigDog]

Yeah it'll be a cold day in hell before any females are in the armed forces, right?

http://download.militaryonesource.mil/12038/MOS/Reports/2014-Demographics-Report.pdf
a whopping 15%.
in my home country it's .. 0%.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_military_by_country
and a few more. you guys are waaay ahead of everyone else with integration; i guess poverty does that ..
anyway, call me when chicks are up to 85%.

 

[Ns1]

call me when chicks are up to 85%.

not quite 85 but...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_Israel_Defense_Forces

a google images search of that is enlightening too.

 

[JimKiler]

Triggered

What does this mean

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[DigDog]

i know about the IDF. there happens to be one ... "special" video ... ermm.. for grownups only... you know what, never mind.

 

[master_shake_]

i really hope that they don't try to remake the success that was the first 3 movies.

but chances are they will.

 

[Ruptga]

If you don't understand the gulf between that absurdity and boring, formulaic storywriting, I pity you.

If you don't understand the gulf between an analogy and an equivocation, I pity you too.

 

[Skel]

I can't wait to see all of the GamerGate warriors go berserk about this.

They still exist? I shouldn't be surprised but I would have figured both sides of that stupidity would have gone away by now. I haven't looked in a long while, but I thought the guy posting 10,000 pictures and links in the post in P&N stopped a long time ago.