OCEAN'S 8's first official still

Right. Because this worked so well with"Ghostbusters."

Love Cate! She's half-Texan you know.... (I'm Texan)

Not so much with Sandra, Sandy, whatever..... You will never convince me she didn't know her hubby was into Nazi stuff.

This is going to be excellent.

I tried to watch one of the Oceans movie with the guys and thought it was boring.

I fucking hated the Oceans movie. I felt like I watching a video of a party that I wasn't invited to, but they liked me enough to show me a video of it. It was too self-indulgent and way too groovy for me.

I agree with R5. I don't remember if I saw the film (don't remember which one) from start to finish but I just remember hating Brad Pitt and George Clooney. It's like they weren't even trying, bad acting (mostly with Pitt), bad writing, lazy lazy lazy. Also one of the few films where I didn't like Matt Damon.

The first Ocean's film is great fun. The second feels as R5 described. The third is inoffensive, but doesn't capture the magic of the first. I have no strong opinions on Ocean's Eight, but the cast is strong.

Is this about menopause?

Sarah ("Bette Davis of America") is going to overshadow all of those bitches!

[quote]("Bette Davis of America")

Wouldn't Bette Davis be the Bette Davis of America?

R10 No!

ah thanks r11.

and btw how did you make the youtube video start at the precise moment?

I want to learn that!!!

R12 That's easy. Just pause the video, right click on the video box and select "Get video URL at current time."

I didn't know Steve McQueen was so stupid. He's like Tony Blair of Great Britain.

Matt Damon is supposed to have a cameo in this film. What will be his role?

R15 George, Brad and Matt all have cameos. They play their Ocean's characters as this is a spinoff/sequel. Bullock plays Clooney's sister.

Will there be any objectifying of men in this film?

Richard Armitage and Damian Lewis are in it. So maybe.

R8 Yup Should be called the "Menopausal 8" Who thought we needed another Oceans flick? The first was ok because of old time actors but the next couple were walk throughs.

IMDB lists a ton of people in cameos--everyone from Kim Kardashian to Zayn Malik.

[quote]Matt Damon is supposed to have a cameo in this film. What will be his role?

He plays Jan van der Boob.

Yeesh, r21. Though, guess we can expect her to have a manly ass.

The writer of Ocean's Eight is highly creative, instead of Danny Ocean, Rusty and Linus - the characters are Donna Ocean, Dusty and Lisa. Mind-blowing! And they're THIEVES! But they're WOMEN!

Wait. There's someone named Awkwafina? I'm assuming she's a rapper of some sort?

Lets hope so R17.

She's an Asian comedian-rapper

The third Ocean's movie was basically just an excuse for the actors to have an extended European vacation on the studio's dime.

Not the Rat Pack, but the Pussy Pack!

Where is Carl Reiner?

Awkafina? Sounds like a drag queen from the '70's.

Which actress will be doing the mandatory dreadful Cockney accent?

R27 Wonder where they got that idea.

[quote] Though, guess we can expect her to have a manly ass.

Why?

[quote]Which actress will be doing the mandatory dreadful Cockney accent?

They're bringing in Meryl for a cameo.

Are they refugees from a plastic surgery clinic? This could be either great or awful. This is the movie where all of the cast members hate Cate Blanchett and her marriage fell apart during filming. The Met Gala heist seems very TV movie of the week but maybe it will be a good comedy. Sandra as a ripoff character named "Debbie Ocean" made me wary. Good luck menopause champions!

I love ensemble heist movies. I'm not going to compare it to the male version. I'll just try to enjoy it on its own merit.

They made 3 Ocean's films? I hated the one with Julia Roberts.

Everybody hates the one with Julia Roberts, no matter what movie it is she's in.

[quote] I'm not going to compare it to the male version. I'll just try to enjoy it on its own merit.

Like Ghostbusters?

[quote] Don Keye

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Cate Blanchett and Anne Hathaway are the most unpopular cast members

Not Cate but certainly AnnE, R41.

Filming is wrapping soon and these two Oscar winners still haven’t spoken to each other outside of their acting roles. A couple of scenes had to be rewritten just to keep them away from each other.

Cate Blanchett/Anne Hathaway

Blanchett and Bullock look like they're made of wax.

I stumbled upon some old video of Blanchett being interviewed on YT. It reminded me that there was a time when Blanchett was actually quite normal, unaffected, spoke in non-grand manner... about ten, fifteen years ago.

Can we all at least agree?

Ocean's 11 - Original has not stood the test of time. Ocean's Eleven - Not bad. Updated, fast-paced. Ocean's Twelve - Julia Roberts - how can you make Europe seem do dark and dreary - horrible! Ocean's Thirteen - good comeback from Twelve disaster, but labored scenes with Damon and Barkin, and the Mexican factory strike.

I'm so excited for this, I actually like all of these actresses and Rihanna. But I have bad DL taste because I love Julia Roberts, she may be a b***** in real life but she is one of that last big movie stars. I will see any movie with Cate B.

R47, this is Sandra's show.

Will Frank Ocean be doing the music? Or will it be Billy?

New still and an interview with Sandra Bullock.

Poster is out.

I waited on Sandra decades ago. During the Speed era. She was SO nice and wonderful. I shall go dammit. Even if it sucks.

This film will suck twice as much as Ghostbusters

R53 Thanks, Mystic Meg.

By the end of the caper, they'll all be on the same cycle.

R51 That looks more like 'Kill Bill's Uma then Blanchett on the poster.

These remakes are actually a bit condescending to women. "Wouldn't it be adorable if we remade 'Where Eagles Dare' -- and they were all GIRLS?"

It's like dressing your chihuahua in an army uniform. "Look he's a little soldier, aren't you my precious angel?"

Notice you don't see Hollywood lining up to make a male Beaches or Steel Magnolias.

R56 Yeah, good catch! She does look like Uma from the side and with those glasses and the bangs.

[quote]These remakes are actually a bit condescending to women.

You say condescension, women say inclusion. But thanks for being offended on others' behalf. We had an all-male version and no one bitched about it, so why bitch now? Is your imagination really that limited? I bet there will be a whole lot of fist pumping going on in the theatres when this comes out. I'll never forget this one woman being on the edge of her seat at the Avengers press screening whenever Black Widow had an action scene.

Cannot wait to see this movie!

Looks fun! I'm open minded enough to give it a shot without listening to the closet misogynists who haven't even seen it!

Whomever did that poster should be fired, it is awful and totally unbalanced. If they thought the apostrophe after the 'n' didn't ruin things they were wrong. Back to the drawing board!

Terrible poster, agreed.

First trailer.

The poster's perfect.

R60 *Whoever.

I'll give it a shot! Looks pretty fun

I wonder how many fucked for their part in the film. the casting was done pre-Weinstein right.

You live a sad life, huh, R65.

The poster is hideous. Looks like a 20th centurySoviet propaganda flyer.

"Every con has its pros"

"Pro" is short for prostitute. I wonder if that was intentional? Seems odd, otherwise. Let's face it, the selling point for this film isn't that it's an all female heist movie. That's been done before. The selling point is that it's an all male franchise that's been redone with women. It's a shame they couldn't envisage an all female franchise without having to tack it onto that godawful Clooney/Pitt/Damon series. It smacks of tokenism.

I'm still looking forward to it, though. I love Cate Blanchett.

If they had a decent, twisty plot it could be fun.

I don't know which one of the Ocean's Elevens I watched with Clooney and Pitt, but it was B O R I N G !

"because women don't deserve their own franchises or fresh ideas!!"

This casting sucks. Jennifer Lopez or Cameron Diaz would have been perfect for this.

Jennifer Lopez hasn't been in a hit movie since forever, she's B- now

Rihanna has zero screen presence.

"So, we need a Chinese actress, a black actress, an Asian-looking actress, someone dykey, someone who can act..."

Official main trailer.

That Marcia Clark bitch with the lisp?

PASS!

Mindy Whatsherface and that fat english closeted fuck are in this????? Fuck you Hollywood, you deserve to burn.

and what the fuck is an Awkafina???

r77 What's wrong with Mindy?

And I'm glad you added "fat" to that second part because that could easily apply to two of them.

Looks horrible. No wonder Steven Soderbergh wanted nothing to do with it. Can someone explain how Mindy keeps on getting work? Does she have dirt on somebody powerful?

Awkwafina does seem like yesterday's news. They should've gotten Cardi B instead, judging by the number of threads about her here on DL.

Looks fun! Looking forward to it

Is Damon in the trailer?

R80 Soderbergh is a producer on this.

Judging by their faces, there must have been an on set Botox tent available.

Assembled in New York. It's here, bitches!

I can't wait, but then I would watch Cate read the phone book.

I think it looks fun. But, I'm an unabashed Sandy fan.

Looks fun!

Social media reactions

Ethan Alter: Had a cracking good time with #Oceans8; zippy pacing, great set-pieces and NYC photography and top-notch cast. Here's to Rachel Bloom and/or Frances McDormand joining the team for Ocean's 9.

Michael Blackmon: Anne Hathaway is fucking fantastic in #Oceans8.

Caroline Framke: The biggest and best heist in Ocean’s 8 is Anne Hathaway stealing the entire movie!!!

Phillip Henry: What a comeback for Anne Hathaway in my heart. She was so good. It was so fun!

Tomris Laffly: I don't really need superheroes, or lots of fancy special effects, Hollywood. Just give me a line-up of fabulous female actors in high fashion, PERFECT smoky-eyes & layers of statement necklaces, and I'll be all set. Yes, #Oceans8 is my kind of fun, glossy entertainment!

Sam Lansky: Oceans 8 is so good and fun and I hope it inspires a generation of young women to grow up and scam men for fun or vengeance

Richard Lawson: OCEAN’s 8 is funnnn

Dave Quinn: #Oceans8 is so good, it’ll make you like Anne Hathaway again (I never stopped but seriously - she’s doing GREAT work in it).

Sydney Scott: Anne Hathaway was amazing in every scene of #oceans8. THAT bitch, first of her name, queen of Genovia.

Rachel Simon: OCEAN’S 8 is very funny and good and features the best comedic Anne Hathaway performance in years.

Nigel M. Smith: Expected #Oceans8 to be a blast. Didn’t expect for Anne Hathaway to be its MVP. All the ladies are stellar but she steals every scene she’s in. She’s a hammy riot.

Adam B. Vary: Since we're all tweeting about #Oceans8 now, it's that rare movie that I quite thoroughly enjoyed and yet also wanted to be so much better.

Gwynne Watkins: Ocean's 8 is exactly the movie I wanted it to be: a breezy heist film full of banter, capital-f Fashion, and elaborate nesting-doll con jobs. I'd watch one of these every summer.

Alison Willmore: Oh, I really, really wish Steven Soderbergh had directed OCEAN’S 8. I was pretty bummed out by both the writing and directing! Cast was great!

I'm totally ready to like an all-female Oceans 11. But I won't like it just [italic]because[/italic] it's all-female.

R86 I love what Sandy and Cate are wearing. Mindy's face is still a mess.

Looks like the MVP is Anne Hathaway.

r90 Thanks for that. I'm glad it's not a turd as it would just give the MRA haters more ammo.

Still, it'll be interesting to see what the critics say about it. The review embargo lifts two weeks from now, the Tuesday before it releases.

Final trailer.

Saw it last night. LOVED it.

I saw it this afternoon and thought it was amazing. Highly recommend.

Saw it last week and thoroughly enjoyed it.

I liked the lez vibe between Sandy and Cate.

So, is anybody going to try that trick that Sandy did at the beginning of the movie where she swiped the items from the store and attempted to return them?

left after the first 20 minutes

Surprised there’s not more love/discussion of this flick! Saw it last night with friends - and we all had a ball!

There were flaws sure. Some plot holes bigger than Swiss cheese! And some of the gals seemed criminally underused at times. But overall - huge amounts of fun and energy - and it looked great!

It seems to have done well so far at the box office - in spite of some mean spirited reviews. And there’s lotsa kudos for Anne (with an E!) Hathaway for ‘stealing the show’. And while I don’t quite think she did that - she comes pretty close!

So yeah - why aren’t there more comments from you bitches? There was more going on here in the lead-up to the release than now the film is actually out!

I have lotsa nitpicks and curious to see if otners have them too - but like I said - overall - fabulous!

One really mean spirited thing from me tho: I love Sandra Bullock. She has a genuine warmth and likeability onscreen that’s hard to resist. BUT there’s an opening scene and one near the end - where whoever styled her should be shot. Especially the opening one! With all the surgery she’s had, and the makeup and the way her hair was done - the friend sitting next to me - a woman who is also a huge Bullock fan - gasped ‘god! She looks like Michael Jackson!’ - and she really did. It was disturbing. Really harsh lighting/makeup/photography. Someone should have done something surely?

Anyway - so some more thoughts and reviews from DL kindred spirits please!

Did anyone see that twist ending coming?

An enjoyable ride. It's a heist movie without suspense or tension. It just plays out with glossy surfaces and nominal character development. Mindy Kaling is huge on the big screen. Has there been a featured actress that portly in recent memory?

Dunno R104 - but thought it was great to see someone who wasn’t all skin and bone. Rhianna looked pretty voluptuous too! Just wish they were given more to do!

R103 - thought he twist was kinda bolted on. But whatever. It was fine. Tho woulda been nice if the little acrobat had also been a woman - in keeping with the theme of it all...?

I also felt like lotsa little character building scenes might have been sacrificed to keep the pacing up? I thought the pacing was great though - could quite happily have used the odd character-building scene and it wouldn’t have slowed proceedings down in the least. Odd though - I guess it’s all in the eye of the beholder! I thought it moved along at a fair clip - yet read a review that said it plodded. I was like - wtf? Did you see the same film as me?

Was this any good? If so I’ll def see it.

It seemed that James was fluctuating an American accent.

What was Damon’s cameo?

R108 - gather that the Damon cameo was akin to Hitchcock making little blink-it-and-miss appearances in his own movies. BUT that for whatever reason - it ended up on the cutting room floor. Wonder if we’ll one day get a director’s cut - or a DVD version including lots of the cut scenes...

R107 - Corden was my least favorite part I think. I just was put out of the story because he’s so ubiquitous now as Corden the Tonight Show Host - and he isn’t a good enough actor to overcome that. He was JAMES CORDEN - and wtf was he doing in this story?

I though there was some tension for sure. And I didn’t see that twist coming.

Saw it last night and didn't care for it. Maybe I expected too much but it just felt like an extended perfume commercial. I agree with much of what r104 said:

[quote] It's a heist movie without suspense or tension. It just plays out with glossy surfaces and nominal character development.

Zero suspense or tension or humor. 'Nominal character development' is generous. You learn almost nothing about any of the characters. And I'm not an SJW but it stood out how the minority members of the 8 got the least screen time and character development. Kaling disappeared for a good chunk of the movie and I forgot she was in it. Did they have to film it without all the actresses there at the same time? There was surprisingly minimal interaction between them all and the whole production just felt very detached. Never got a sense they were a team. Could have been a fun movie but the script and execution sucked.

Archie Panjabi should come onto the next movie Oceans 9. Hot hot hot.

Did this come out yet?

R113 lol! Yes I also think she’s bi or gay. I’m sure she had affair with Gillian Anderson. And suspect Julliana Margullies

I loved this movie. Its not supposed to be Shakespeare but fun and hammy. Anne and Helena were great. Cate was her dykey best. Sandra was outshined in her own movie.