'Bombshell' (2019)

Couple thoughts:

Jay Roach is such a boring, standard film director. His productions always look like TV movies, and at this point TV is becoming more sophisticated than his work.

Charlize looks incredible.

Nicole's wig work always looks off in everything she's in.

I like these actresses, so I'm in it for their performances.

How is this different from the TV mini-series that was aired earlier in the summer? Looks like they are covering the same territory.

Why?

Are Fox News vierwers going to pay to see this?

Aren't the rest of us sick of this shit?

Nicole doesn't look piggish enough to be Gretchen Carlson.

r2 They're going to mine this like crazy because it's a more filmable MeToo material than, say, the Weinstein stuff. But there's enough room for both a TV and a movie version, for now.

I'm into it.

Is Kidman trying to pass as a 33-year-old in this film?

R7 The CZJ School of Acting

Naomi Watts was perfect as Gretchen Carlson on the Showtime series. Weird that her friend, Nicole, is playing the same part (with a terrible wig).

Here's the thread about the Naomi Watts version, btw. Doesn't seem like many here saw it.

Oh. So it's not....

Damn. Before I knew the premise I was really hoping Charlize and Margot were going to get in on in the elevator. Then I'd see it.

And yes r9, Naomi's "friend" Nicole...

Charlize recently had a facelift too. But Nicole takes the cake. I swear her face changes in every darned movie or show. Maybe she’s like Mr. Potato Head, changing out facial parts on a weekly basis? That said, this looks like it could be good.

Does Nicole ever wear her real hair in movies these days? Her head with that wig looks so big compared to the other two, and it's set so high as well. I agree with r1 that Charlize looks effortlessly spectacular.

I didn't recognize Charlize. Looks just like Megyn Kelly here.

Most boring trailer on the face of the Earth. Looks like a desperate Housewives teaser circa 2005. The only thing missing is the voiceover by some suicided Fox news bimbo.

[quote] I didn't recognize Charlize. Looks just like Megyn Kelly here.

Omg, I was thinking of who she reminds me of now (post-facelift) - and you’re right, she looks like Megyn freakin’ Kelly now!

She's playing Megyn freakin' Kelly in the film.

Charlize is actually trending on Twitter right now because she looks so much like Megyn.

R18, so why do Robbie and Kidman still look like Robbie and Kidman?

Only in Hollywood would they cast 2 Australians (Kidman, Robbie), and a South African (Theron) to play American-born women.

They're white people playing white people, who cares. Dialect coaches do the rest.

Charlize Theron looks like herself in Megyn Kelly drag.

I thought the Showtime docuseries was just okay. I felt they made Ailes look too much like a genius. This might be more nuanced? Looking forward to it...

They used prosthetics on Charlize

I don't want to see this because in this social climate they will probably be portrayed as victims . If you want to see the real victims of right wing policy look at the poor and working class.

will we get to see their pussies getting grabbed

[QUOTE]In theaters in December.

I’m not going to the movie theater for this.

That trailer’s music is irritating and awful.

I don' t want to see fictional portrayals of all these awful, awful people.

R29 I thought I was the only one who found the music annoying.

It creeps me out how much Charlize looks like Megyn in this.

Film is 100% dead, it's just commercials for democrat identity politics ideology. These people are insane. Not only has Hollywood lost the ability to make films they apparently don't know how to style wigs properly. Nicole Kidman has 30 years of godawful wigs. She is the most consistent but every single film out there today features awful wigs. The movie VICE won an Oscar for styling and it features the worst hair of all time. But everyone in the media is too lobotomized to even notice. I'll gladly pass on this.

[Quote]Film is 100% dead, it's just commercials for democrat identity politics ideology

I'm sure you would have been protesting "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". Right wingers have been complaining about this the entire history of the industry.

Robbie looks stunning

Jay Roach like Adam McKay is a hack director. I'll pass on this mess.

I absolutely love all three of these actresses, I think they are some of the finest working today - I just wish they were all together in a film I actually wanted to see. I have absolutely no interest in seeing this at all, and I suspect neither will most audiences outside the US.

[quote]They're white people playing white people, who cares. Dialect coaches do the rest.

Hopefully, Nicole's Aussie accent didn't slip out too much like it did on BLL season 2.

Don't be surprised if Charlize dons prosthetics and ugly makeup to play Kellyanne Conway in a movie.

Trailer.

Wait, McKinnon is in this? I didn't know she could act outside comedy.

Fucking hell, Lithgow's fatsuit looks even better than in that Churchill movie he did. Crazy how fast the fatsuit technology is advancing.

The tone of the trailer is comedy r40.

I think this movie plays as a black comedy, similar to Vice.

Thanks, I wrote that when I saw the trailer on mute. I definitely see the black comedy tone now.

That CGI with Doocy and Kilmeade is pretty good.

If you've ever been in a conference room, restroom or elevator during a company meltdown, you know exactly how those three were feeling in the trailer. That scene is pure gold.

I never watch Fox; is that how Gretchen Carlson sounded when she talked? Like a little girl?

Who is Margot Robbie supposed to be?

Margot Robbie's character is not a real life person r47.

So a composite character of all those harassed reporters/interns?

[quote]Wait, McKinnon is in this? I didn't know she could act outside comedy.

McKinnon seems to be branching out to drama. She's going to play that weirdo con woman Elizabeth Holmes in a Hulu show.

r50 Omg, you're right, I recall being taken aback when I read that article.

Oooh looks good!!!

Naomi Watts was excellent as Gretchen Carlson in Loudest Voice in the Room in Showtime. Poor Nicole seems to be an afterthought as GC in Bombshell.

I went to a screening this week and R1 is spot on. It looks like a Ryan Murphy TV project and probably should have been. Charlize is amazing and Margot Robbie is very good but the rest of the cast is very TV level and on the whole the movie feels very lightweight. There’s also so much going on if you don’t already know the story and players it would be easy to get lost. A limited series could have developed the story and characters better.

Kidman isn’t in it as much as you’d expect from the trailer - very much a supporting role and not her best work. Her prosthetics and wig are distracting. In closeups she looks a bit like Rocky Dennis. Lithgow is great and his prosthetics are very convincing. McKinnon essentially plays herself and the part could easily have been cut. Alanna Ubach is hilarious as Jeanine Pirro and the sister from Mad About You plays a very unattractive Greta Van Sustern. Richard Kind isn’t a very good Rudy Giuliani but the impersonation gets a laugh.

Worth a watch for Charlize when it hits cable or Netflix, which shouldn’t be long.

So they have 2 Australians and a South African playing 3 American women, and an Australian played her in the Showtime series.

Wasn't there a single american actress even considered? Reese? Julia? maybe bring Bridget Fonda out of retirement. I just found the casting choices quite interesting.