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Internet Trolls Have Found A Way To Make Bruce Willis's Tragic Health Situation Even Worse
Internet Trolls Have Found A Way To Make Bruce Willis's Tragic Health Situation Even Worse

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time3 hours ago

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Internet Trolls Have Found A Way To Make Bruce Willis's Tragic Health Situation Even Worse

Bruce Willis is one of the greatest movie stars of all time, a beloved figure, and by all accounts a really great guy. His health has been failing for years now, and it's due to a slow, horrifically tragic illness. Everyone feels terrible about it, especially those closest to him. Unfortunately, internet engagement farmers have now found a way to make the whole situation sadder by trying to destroy Bruce Willis's biggest fans. Bruce Willis knew what was happening to him years before it became debilitating. He reached a point where he was no longer able to perform the way he had at the height of his career. But the actor wanted to keep making money for his family. So Willis signed up for a long string of low-budget direct-to-DVD movies that tricked fans into paying to watch them by putting Bruce's face on the cover. Unfortunately, he was barely present in most of these movies, which were all utterly terrible. At the time, no one knew about Bruce Willis's health situation, so fans rightly called him out for participating in what was, basically, a fraud. In the absence of other information, they assumed he'd gotten greedy. Now we know what was going on, and the whole thing is tragic. However, the hot new trend is shaming and attacking those Bruce Willis fans who, back then, tried to warn people about what those terrible movies really were, before they wasted their money on them. And now, engagement farmers have taken advantage of that and begun rallying up a lynch mob to shame anyone who pointed out that, hey, maybe you shouldn't spend your money on those terrible Bruce Willis cash-in movies. Their argument seems to be that Willis was somehow entitled to participate in movie fraud because he was sick, and that anyone who called him out on it should be shamed in the town square. If that's your point of view, leave now and never return. What's really tragic is that the people who called out Willis for making those movies are his biggest fans. We know that because they watched movies that looked this terrible, just because they thought he might be in them. Now that they know Willis is ailing, those same people are also his biggest cheerleaders. They're the ones leaving messages of support for his family and boosting them when they have an update. What we should be doing, instead of somehow justifying movie ripoffs, is celebrating his best work. There's a lot of it. Bruce Willis's last great movie before he dove into the world of direct-to-DVD cash-ins was the time travel movie Looper. Maybe we should start right there. Let's celebrate his career and the amazing man he's been. That's where the Bruce Willis discussion should be pointed, not at each other. Solve the daily Crossword

Pedro Pascal leads ‘best-looking' A-list Fantastic Four reboot
Pedro Pascal leads ‘best-looking' A-list Fantastic Four reboot

News.com.au

time6 hours ago

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Pedro Pascal leads ‘best-looking' A-list Fantastic Four reboot

With the best-looking superhero movie ever made, a tired reboot and a challenging comedy, it's a mixed bag at the movies this week. THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS (PG) Director: Matt Shakman (feature debut) Starring: Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Joseph Quinn, Julia Garner. ***1/2 Barely a stumble, and always looking the goods First, the very, very good news about The Fantastic Four: First Steps. It is the second superhero movie in a row to flat-out not suck. That is quite an achievement when we remember there has been three truly terrible Fantastic Four flicks over the past two decades. Let's move on to some very good news. First Steps could well be the best-looking superhero movie ever made. The production design is a triumph of inspired aesthetics, conjuring a retro-futuristic world that is believably unbelievable. The planet Earth that the F4 team are required to save seems to have hit the pause button in 1964. The fashion, the architecture, the furniture and the innocent optimism of the era are displayed both precisely and pleasurably. And yet, the technology that underpins every aspect of life on this version of Earth is from the year 3064. Yes, that was a flying car whooshing by, complete with chrome tailfins and a vintage Chevy front grill. Now for some merely good news regarding First Steps. While it never quite matches the new Superman in terms of telling a compelling story or generating euphoric levels of excitement, it is still an entertaining and enjoyable screen experience from start to finish. The key here is that Marvel have ditched the usual entry-level requirements of prior knowledge and considerable patience for viewers (demands that have ruined much of the studio's recent output). You can safely show up to First Steps completely unaware of the F4 origin story, as a niftily succinct montage early in the movie will set you straight inside three minutes. The team sheet for the Fantastic Four is comprised of a quartet of ex-astronauts accidentally exposed to high levels of cosmic radiation during their final mission. The ordeal blessed them with a varied suite of superpowers. Though Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal) is the brains of the F4 outfit, he is also famous for a body that can stretch and bend like a high-tensile rubber band. Reed's wife Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby) can turn invisible and emit giant force fields of energy at will. Her brother Johnny (Joseph Quinn) is adored by the general public in his guise as the flying fireball known as the Human Torch. Then there is their good friend Ben Grimm, aka The Thing. He is the strongman of the unit, a rock-encrusted cousin of the Hulk, whose favourite time on the clock is 'clobberin' time.' The F4's chief assignment in First Steps is to prevent Earth being swallowed whole by a gargantuan Thanos-on-steroids named Galactus. To be honest, the plot surrounding how our heroes will thwart Galactus and his heavy-metal henchwoman the Silver Surfer (Julia Garner) is charged with a silliness that never quite earns our respect or awe. Thankfully, the warm and inviting chemistry shared by the A-list cast stops any possible descent into B-movie blandness for First Steps. And when all else fails, there is all that astonishingly attractive imagery to gawk at. The Fantastic Four: First Steps is in cinemas now. I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (MA15+) General release. We all know what Hollywood did late last century, because they keep recycling horror hits from yesterday like there is no tomorrow. For this tepid update of a so-so slasher flick from the '90s, the formula remains exactly the same as before. A quartet of semi-annoying, totally clueless young friends mistakenly assume they have successfully covered up their involvement in a coastal car accident a year prior. Now they're all getting threatening notes from an unknown entity inferring their shared secret will soon be a shared death sentence. Eventually, a mysterious rain-slickered psychopath will start checking off names on his personal to-die list in tired, predictable and curiously unscary fashion. A few casting cameos from the original might tweak a nostalgic pang or two, but there's no crime in waiting for this sluggish effort to show up on home streaming. FRIENDSHIP (M) ***1/2 General release. This decidedly unorthodox affair gets a welcome run in cinemas on the strength of its casting of former Saturday Night Live regular Tim Robinson in a leading role. Via his acclaimed Netflix series I Think You Should Leave, Robinson has proven himself to be one of the most daring figures remaining on a diminished American comedy scene. Some familiarity with Robinson's often-surreal brand of humour will come in useful here. Robinson plays Craig, a regular suburban dad who slowly, but surely loses his mind after misinterpreting a polite gesture of thanks from a new arrival in his neighbourhood, Austin (Ant-Man's Paul Rudd). With Craig mistakenly assuming he and Austin are best buds, he fails to notice his marriage, job and grasp of reality are slipping away rapidly. Though not without its share of laugh-out-loud moments, this is actually a poignant and disarming portrait of male loneliness in the modern age. Strong, striking and unique stuff, even if not for all tastes.

'A rude awakening': Jason Momoa addresses son's movie debut in Dune: Part Three
'A rude awakening': Jason Momoa addresses son's movie debut in Dune: Part Three

Yahoo

time6 hours ago

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'A rude awakening': Jason Momoa addresses son's movie debut in Dune: Part Three

Jason Momoa thinks his son Nakoa-Wolf Momoa is in for a "rude awakening" with his first movie role in Dune: Part Three. The 16-year-old actor is set to make his screen debut in director Denis Villeneuve's upcoming sci-fi blockbuster as Paul Atreides' (Timothee Chalamet) son Leto II, and his famous dad has admitted he's in for quite the surprise when production begins. Speaking with Extra, Jason, 45, said of Nakoa-Wolf: "A rude awakening is what he's in for. He's into the workforce for the first time. It's going to be good. He did it on his own." The A Minecraft Movie star added he didn't want to "help" his son with the job as he wants Nakoa-Wolf to be "better" than him. Jason added: "I don't want to help him, and he's done it all on his own, and good for him. "You want your children to be better than you, and I really, actually believe he is. I couldn't do what he's doing at his age. "There's no way I could sit in a room with Denis Villeneuve and hold my own. I was on Baywatch at 19. He's 16 and holding shit down with Denis Villeneuve." The Aquaman actor – who also has daughter Lola, 17, with his wife Lisa Bonet – concluded Nakoa-Wolf was "very confident". He said: "We raised him beautiful. We raised our children … It's just, you know, being loved and being confident in themselves … That is what he is. He's very confident." Nakoa-Wolf will be joined by Silo Star Ida Brooke, who will be playing his twin sister Ghanima in Dune: Part Three. The young actor will also be starring alongside his father, who is set to reprise his role as a resurrected Duncan Idaho - known as a ghola. Dune: Part Three will see the return of Zendaya's Chani, Florence Pugh's Princess Irulan, Rebecca Ferguson's Lady Jessica, Javier Bardem's Stilgar, and Josh Brolin's Gurney Halleck. Robert Pattinson is also said to be in the running for the antagonist role of Scytale - a Face Dancer and secret agent of the Bene Tleilax who plays a central role in Dune: Messiah as part of a conspiracy to overthrow Paul Atreides.

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