Lucy in the Sky (Noah Hawley, 2019)

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Lucy in the Sky (Noah Hawley, 2019)

#2 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Tue Mar 19, 2019 10:04 am

Lucy In The Sky, the major motion picture directing debut of Noah Hawley.

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#3 Post by domino harvey » Tue Mar 19, 2019 10:08 am

Pale Blue Dot was an infinitely better title

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Re: Lucy in the Sky (Noah Hawley, 2019)

#4 Post by mfunk9786 » Tue Mar 19, 2019 10:44 am

This guy's done a brilliant job with Fargo, something that had no right to be as great as it's been in all three of its iterations. And this looks great. So - great!

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Re: Lucy in the Sky (Noah Hawley, 2019)

#5 Post by mfunk9786 » Tue Mar 19, 2019 10:46 am

From Rolling Stone:
The film is loosely based on the 2007 tabloid saga of Lisa Nowak, who famously drove from Houston to Orlando, wearing an adult diaper, to kidnap her ex-boyfriend’s new lover.
Okay, I'm 1000% in

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Re: Lucy in the Sky (Noah Hawley, 2019)

#6 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Tue Mar 19, 2019 10:49 am

Someone on reddit claimed to have seen it already. Says it's very good and follows the Nowak story closely. But alas, no diapers.

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#7 Post by PfR73 » Tue Mar 19, 2019 11:20 am

domino harvey wrote:
Tue Mar 19, 2019 10:08 am
Pale Blue Dot was an infinitely better title
Pale Blue Dot was also the working title of Jason Reitman's Men, Women, & Children, when it was filming here in Austin, and also didn't stick with it.

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Re: Lucy in the Sky (Noah Hawley, 2019)

#8 Post by mfunk9786 » Tue Mar 19, 2019 11:29 am

I find it difficult not to prefer Lucy in the Sky just because it means the movie will surely pull in more box office based on a more eye-catching title to the general filmgoing population. I'm sure the actress who just had a movie called Vox Lux bomb will appreciate it

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Re: Lucy in the Sky (Noah Hawley, 2019)

#9 Post by Cremildo » Tue Mar 19, 2019 11:34 am

Or maybe casual moviegoers will go see it during opening weekend thinking it's a Beatles musical, then realize it's an artsy drama/sci-fi movie, and the ensuing negative word-of-mouth will kill it instantly!

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Re: Lucy in the Sky (Noah Hawley, 2019)

#10 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Tue Mar 19, 2019 12:11 pm

Maybe studios are iffy about the word "pale" in the title. Two of the definitions of the word are "deficient in color or intensity of color" and "not bright or brilliant". They practically read like negative movie reviews on their own.

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Re: Lucy in the Sky (Noah Hawley, 2019)

#11 Post by swo17 » Tue Mar 19, 2019 12:15 pm

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What was Sagan thinking not naming this after a Beatles song?

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Re: Lucy in the Sky (Noah Hawley, 2019)

#12 Post by Persona » Tue Mar 19, 2019 8:15 pm

Um, I was looking forward to this, but that trailer just launched my hype into the stratosphere.

wowee zowee

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Re: Lucy in the Sky (Noah Hawley, 2019)

#13 Post by swo17 » Tue Mar 19, 2019 8:47 pm

If only we lived in a world where naming a film after that Pavement album would sell tickets

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Re: Lucy in the Sky (Noah Hawley, 2019)

#14 Post by The Narrator Returns » Tue Mar 19, 2019 9:05 pm

I mean, Portman's problem in this is when she's grounded...

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Re: Lucy in the Sky (Noah Hawley, 2019)

#15 Post by furbicide » Tue Mar 19, 2019 10:18 pm

mfunk9786 wrote:
Tue Mar 19, 2019 10:46 am
From Rolling Stone:
The film is loosely based on the 2007 tabloid saga of Lisa Nowak, who famously drove from Houston to Orlando, wearing an adult diaper, to kidnap her ex-boyfriend’s new lover.
Okay, I'm 1000% in
I just saw the trailer and er, wow ... talk about burying the lede!


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Re: Lucy in the Sky (Noah Hawley, 2019)

#17 Post by mfunk9786 » Mon Aug 26, 2019 3:49 pm

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#18 Post by therewillbeblus » Sun Sep 15, 2019 4:43 pm

Noah Hawley’s Lucy in the Sky is getting panned by critics, despite some love for Portman’s performance.

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Re: Lucy in the Sky (Noah Hawley, 2019)

#19 Post by mfunk9786 » Sun Sep 15, 2019 7:12 pm

Oh no, you aren't kidding - a 37 on Metacritic, what a mess

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Re: Lucy in the Sky (Noah Hawley, 2019)

#20 Post by domino harvey » Sun Sep 15, 2019 7:14 pm

Would have been Certified Fresh if it was still called Pale Blue Dot

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Re: Lucy in the Sky (Noah Hawley, 2019)

#21 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Wed Sep 18, 2019 5:37 pm

Apart from David Chase, are there any show runners who directed well-received movies? I seem to remember one that Matthew Weiner did basically fall off the face of the earth with no buzz around it whatsoever.

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#22 Post by knives » Wed Sep 18, 2019 5:40 pm

Michael Mann would seem a more obvious choice than David Chase.

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#23 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Wed Sep 18, 2019 5:46 pm

I mean someone who was a show-runner first, and more someone from the recent ages of television where shows took much more cinematic steps. Miami Vice is a good early indicator of this, but Mann had already directed both television and features.

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Re: Lucy in the Sky (Noah Hawley, 2019)

#24 Post by knives » Wed Sep 18, 2019 5:55 pm

Well, that takes away Norman Lear as well I guess. Recently, JJ Abrams and Joss Wheadon seem to have done well for themselves.

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Re: Lucy in the Sky (Noah Hawley, 2019)

#25 Post by mfunk9786 » Wed Sep 18, 2019 6:42 pm

If he has another couple of opportunities on the horizon, I would still have some confidence that Hawley could pull off something interesting. That said, it's a minor miracle that Fargo is as compelling as it is, considering how much it trades in pastiche of the Coens' films. Even though I was enjoying it in the moment, the bowling alley scene in Season 3 makes me cringe just thinking about it.

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