Thomas Webster attacked “like a junkyard dog” in the Capitol riot, a prosecutor said.
Destiny 2 Dead Man’s Tale Catalyst Guide – How To Unlock It And Make Quick Progress
Destiny 2‘s Presage Exotic mission will earn you Dead Man’s Tale, a new Exotic scout rifle. But if you want to further improve the gun with its Exotic catalyst, you’ll have to take on a much tougher version of the mission, while also seeking out a whole lot of secrets aboard the Glykon. Here’s how to get the Dead Man’s Tale catalyst, what it’s good for, and how to unlock it quickly.
Earning the catalyst requires you to complete Presage at least twice, but you’ll get faster progress on the catalyst if you’re willing to run it several times. There are a lot of moving parts involved with the new Exotic quest, however. It seems that you’ll want to run the mission at least once a week to get the maximum speed out of your catalyst progress.
We’ve got plenty more coverage of the Presage mission, including a complete guide of how to access Presage and how to uncover all of its secrets, and a rundown of all of the hidden lore found within it so far.
11 Worst American Remakes Of Foreign Language Movies
Last week it was reported that a Hollywood remake of the South Korean zombie action movie Train to Busan was in the works. The movie will be produced by the Conjuring and Aquaman director James Wan and helmed by Indonsiean filmmaker Timo Tjahjanto.
Of course, Train to Busan is only the latest foreign language movie to get the US remake treatment. Hollywood has long been a place where original ideas take second place to making movies based on existing properties that have already been a success. While international cinema might not always have the built-in recognition factor of a franchise sequel or remake of an older American film, there’s no denying that it’s a source of great storytelling ideas. Why think of a new story when some guy in another country has already done it?
Unfortunately, very few Hollywood remakes of great foreign language movies are actually any good. In many cases, the American filmmakers take a great story but remove much of what makes the original so effective–whether that’s tone, style, or acting. Other times, the desire to make a movie more accessible to mainstream US audiences means that the darker, weirder, and ultimately more interesting edges of the original are blunted.
There are exceptions of course. Movies such as Matt Reeves’ Let Me In (remaking Let the Right One In), Martin Scorsese’s The Departed (Infernal Affairs), William Friedkin’s Sorcerer (Wage of Fear), and James Cameron’s True Lies (La Totale) all brought something new to the source material, and stand separate from the originals as great movies in their own right. But for every one of these, there are many more bad, silly, and utterly redundant remakes. Asian horror has been particularly badly served over the years, which doesn’t necessarily bode well for the Train to Busan remake. But while we wait for that movie with our fingers crossed, here’s a look at some of the worst US remakes of foreign language films.
11. Point of No Return (1993)
While many Hollywood remakes bring a more commercial edge to the material, there are some foreign films that are so commercial and accessible to start with, that you wonder why they bothered. Luc Besson’s La Femme Nikita was an exciting and popular 1990 French action thriller that focused on a troubled young woman who is trained to become a highly skilled government assassin. Point of No Return has exactly the same plot, with Bridget Fonda standing in for Anne Parillaud, and John Badham (WarGames, Stakeout) directing. The results aren’t terrible, but it’s so close in style, look, and pace to the original that it becomes utterly redundant. La Femme Nikita was remade yet again in 2010, as a CW series that ran for three seasons.
10. Downhill (2020)
The Swedish black comedy Force Majeure was one of 2014’s most acclaimed films, and it centered on a great central idea–the fallout of a marriage after the husband abandons his family when he thinks they are about to be hit by an avalanche on a ski holiday (it misses them). Stars Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus are good choices for the US remake, but unfortunately Downhill does absolutely nothing to improve–or even equal–the superb original. It struggles to find the right balance between biting drama and farcical humor, and yet again, only really exists because Hollywood prefers “safe” best to original ideas.
9. Godzilla (1998)
The classic Japanese monster Godzilla has successfully returned to Hollywood in recent years, but this wasn’t the case back in 1998. Director Roland Emmerich followed his 1996 alien invasion blockbuster Independence Day with this big budget, star-studded Hollywood update, and the results weren’t good. Godzilla was critically panned and swept the board at the Razzies that year, and was only a modest box office success. Some of the urban mayhem, as the Big G levels New York, is well staged, but there’s no escaping dumb plot, clichéd characters, and idiotic dialogue.
8. City of Angels (1998)
Wim Wenders’ 1987 German romantic fantasy Wings of Desire is one of the most celebrated and influential foreign language films of the ’80s. The Hollywood remake, City of Angels, is none of those things. Wenders’ magical meditation on love, death, and the afterlife is turned into an interminable melodrama in which Nicolas Cage’s weepy angel mopes around Los Angeles, pining after Meg Ryan. While the original film is deeply moving without being mawkish, the remake sees director Brad Silberling crank up the sentimentality to a laughable degree.
7. Diabolique (1996)
Diabolique is a remake of the 1954 French psychological thriller Les Diaboliques, that turns the eerie, gripping original into a silly, glossy melodrama. The plot is the same, and focuses on a wife and the mistress of a man, who conspire to kill him but then find themselves in a mess when the body disappears. But this big, expensive reworking throws the subtlety and dark wit out of the window and replaces them with ludicrous plot developments and over-the-top performances from the likes of Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, and Chazz Palminteri.
6. Martyrs (2015)
Pascal Laugier’s brutal Martyrs was one of 2008’s most controversial movies, and it was one of the key films in the French extreme horror movement of the ’00s. The belated and unwanted US remake removes everything that made the original so effective, including the grueling horror, stylish filmmaking, and intelligence that Laugier brought to this story of a woman haunted by terrible, hidden memories from many years earlier. The results are a cheap, unlikable shocker–the original might not be the sort of film you’d want to watch a second time, but the remake isn’t even worth a first look.
5. Pulse (2006)
The Japanese horror wave of the early 2000s inspired many US remakes, but most turned inventive, scary, and idiosyncratic original films into bland and forgettable retreads. One of the worst was Pulse, a remake of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s terrifying 2001 movie of the same title. If you’ve seen the original, you’ll know how deeply strange and incredibly scary it is–and how impossible it would be to remake with any degree of success. And you’d be right. Director Jim Sonzero throws every horror cliché at the wall in an attempt to generate some scares, but the movie fails to even raise a vague chill.
4. The Vanishing (1993)
The terrible US remake of George Sluizer’s stunning French/Dutch thriller The Vanishing somehow seems even worse because it was directed by Sluizer himself. While the basic plot is the same–a man spends years investigating the sudden disappearance of his wife–the subtle, gripping, slowly unfolding tension of the original is replaced by empty, slick thrills, with hammy performances from Kiefer Sutherland as the husband and Jeff Bridges as the man responsible for the abduction. Worst of all, the original’s devastating ending is replaced by a safe, predictable resolution because, well, this is Hollywood.
3. The Eye (2008)
The Eye was yet another acclaimed and scary Asian horror movie ruined by American filmmakers. The original 2002 Thai film was directed by the Pang brothers and had a great central concept. A blind young woman is given a cornea transplant to help her see again–but she also starts seeing mysterious ghostly figures that might be causing a series of deaths. The US version takes the story but forgets the scares, and Jessica Alba’s terrible performance was rightfully nominated for a Razzie that year.
2. Ghost in the Shell (2017)
The live-action remake of Masamune Shirow’s manga and anime cyberpunk classic was hit by controversy even before it arrived in theaters, with many critics questioning why Scarlett Johansson had been cast as such an iconic Japanese character as Major Motoko Kusanagi. The film itself was very bad, the admittedly impressive visuals and faithful recreation of the original movie’s early scenes quickly giving way to a derivative, incomprehensible mess with lifeless characters and little of the source material’s intelligence and enthralling mix of action and mystery.
1. Oldboy (2013)
Eyebrows were raised when Spike Lee was announced as director of the remake of Park Chan-Wook’s 2003 South Korean masterpiece Oldboy. Lee is obviously a hugely accomplished director but nothing in his filmography suggested he was the right man to adapt Park’s dazzling, twisted tale of bloody revenge and dark family secrets. On the plus side, Lee does bring some directorial flair to the project, and Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen both deliver excellent performances. But the film was a pointless and plodding affair that brought nothing new to the table. Producers demanded that Lee drastically re-edit and shorten the movie, leading the director to remove his trademark “Spike Lee Joint” credit, and it was a major box office failure.
When Does Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Season 2 Start?
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Season 2 will launch on all platforms on February 25 at 12 AM ET, or 9 PM PT on February 24. However, the content varies a little bit based on the game you’re playing. It introduces new multiplayer modes and maps, new weapons, and new zombie-themed challenges across both games. Read on more for about what Season 2 has in store, including a link to the patch notes where you can find a full breakdown.
In the case of Call of Duty: Warzone, there’s a rolling update happening on February 24 between 9 PM PT and 11 PM PT. The Outbreak content will last until March 5, so you won’t want to wait to try it out.
For Black Ops Cold War, updates are also rolling out to prepare for the full Season 2 launch, and you can gain immediate access to the new Death Machine scorestreak reward as well as other minor cosmetic additions.
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Simpsons Creator Matt Groening “Didn’t Have A Problem” With White Actors Playing Black Roles
After The Simpsons recently recast Dr. Hibbert with a Black voice actor, Kevin Michael Richardson, show creator Matt Groening has finally spoken out on the bigger shift the show initially had been slow to provide a definitive stance on: A move to longer use white actors to voice non-white characters. Speaking with the BBC (via Deadline), the prolific cartoonist said: “Times change but I actually didn’t have a problem with the way we were doing it. All of our actors play dozens of characters each, it was never designed to exclude anyone.”
When asked whether he regretted the show’s previous silence and slow public deliberation, Groening remarked, “At a certain point it doesn’t matter what you say. You’re going to be attacked by whoever, you know? We’re not going out of our way to comfort bigots. On the other hand, if you do any kind of gesture and people perceive a weakness, you’ll be criticised.” This comment isn’t all that different from past reactions from Groening, which were initially dismissive of the criticism.
Earlier in the show’s current, 32nd season, The Simpsons recast Carl Carlson with Alex Désert (Better Things, Better Call Saul) in for Hank Azaria. The move was met with a wide spectrum of reactions from fans, from wholehearted enthusiasm to shrugging indifference. Following a much-publicized, lengthy controversy over representation, whitewashing, and stereotyping sparked by comedian Hari Kondabolu’s 2017 documentary The Problem With Apu, The Simpsons has opted to either re-cast or, in the case of Apu, seemingly completely phase out the objectionable roles.
AMD to Announce Its Next Radeon RX 6000 Graphics Card on March 3rd
If you’ve been champing at the bit for a new mid-range graphics card from AMD, your prayers may finally be answered on March 3rd.
AMD has just announced it will reveal the latest addition to its Radeon RX 6000 graphics family on March 3rd. At 8am PT/11am ET/4pm UK/2am AET, users will be able to tune into the livestream on AMD’s website.
The computer CPU and GPU maker promises its event will continue the journey for RDNA2, the architecture behind AMD’s latest Navi graphic cards for gaming PCs as well as the graphics processors found inside of the Xbox Series X and PS5. We strongly predict that AMD will announce a new or several new graphics cards to compete with the Nvidia RTX 3060.
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David Fincher’s New Movie Is About Murder Again, Michael Fassbender Rumored To Star
The first details on David Fincher’s next movie have come to light, with Deadline reporting that the Oscar-winner is adapting the Alexis Nolent graphic novel series, The Killer, for a movie.
Fincher is working on the project with screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker, who wrote the script for Fincher’s murder movie Seven. Sources told Deadline that Michael Fassbender is in talks to star in the movie, though no deal has been made.
The movie is headed to Netflix, according to the report. Fincher recently inked a four-year deal with the streaming company that began with the movie Mank, which told the story of the process of making Citizen Kane and starred Gary Oldman.
Last Chance: Get Ghosts ‘N Goblins For Free On Nintendo Switch
Nintendo Switch owners can snag a free copy of Ghosts ‘n Goblins if they claim it by February 25. It comes as part of Capcom Arcade Stadium, which is a digital arcade that you can fill with a bunch of classic Capcom games. The arcade collection comes with 1943: The Battle of Midway, and there are additional game packs you can purchase it. You can claim Ghosts ‘n Goblins below–just sign into your Nintendo account, then “purchase” it.
Ghosts ‘n Goblins is one of Capcom’s most beloved retro games, and while it did release on the NES and multiple home computers, Capcom Arcade Stadium focuses on the company’s arcade titles. That means you’ll get the arcade version of Ghosts ‘n Goblins, which is considered by most to be the superior version.
The MCU Probably Won’t Go R-Rated Any Time Soon
During a panel interview with the Television Critics Association, Marvel Studios CCO Kevin Feige confirmed that while they have begun “working with Deadpool,” a famously R-rated character they recently acquired during the Disney merger with Fox Studios, other MCU projects will likely stay PG-13. This confirmation came thanks to a question about the future of Marvel’s projects skewing more adult.
This news may put a damper on the buzz surrounding the rights to characters like The Punisher and Jessica Jones returning from Netflix to Disney. The famously ultra violent Netflix Marvel universe has been a point of much speculation and theorization for fans now that the MCU stepped into the streaming TV show arena in earnest.