pretty much, they wanted a female lead and explored different options before just going with Amanda
The unnecessary reboot/remake of the week thread
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Mostly, yeah. It was an awful season.
Josh Gadd posted on X that he's working with Mel Brooks on script/movie and showed an image of a starfield, leading many to speculate that it's 'Spaceballs 2'.
Finally, Space 2: The Search for More Money.
Or Spaceballs: The Schwartz Awakens
Or Spaceballs: Rise of the Schwartz.
Spaceballs 3: The Quest for the Missing Sequel
You didn't like the Jews in Space short at the end? I thought that was the best part! 
You didn't like the Jews in Space short at the end? I thought that was the best part!
he means the recent Part II series on Hulu. it was aggressively mediocre.
AH - I didn't know there was such a thing! Thank you for the clarification.
It would be difficult to be worse. I turned HotW 2 off partway through the series. Honestly, it was the "Caddyshack 2" of Mel Brooks projects.
Gyllenhaal is one of those guys they try to make into a leading man but there's just something sufficiently off kilter about him where he really should stick to character parts.
I started noticing the same thing with him in Jarhead. He's been in a lot of things (I kind of liked him in Donnie Darko), but it feels like he seems to have reached a bit of a brick wall with his acting range, of late. IMO, of course. Others probably love his work. I'm ambivalent about it, at best.
I honestly don't find his sister that terribly compelling either, for generally the same reasons.
I honestly don't find his sister that terribly compelling either, for generally the same reasons.
I haven't seen the original movies (AFAI remember) but his looks cool. Downside of the trailer, it spoils the police chief (EE adverts guy) is either the Big Bad or the big bad's Dragon.
I always felt that on DS9 Jake Sisko should've been demoted to Guest Character, and Nog promoted to Main once his Starfleet ambition began.
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I think Jack Gyllenhaul is actually a gread lead. I mean just look at this list of movies, Donnie Darko,The Day After Tomorrow,Brokeback Mountain,Jarhead,Zodiac,Source Code,Prisoners, Nightcrawler, Sothpaw,Nocturnal Animals,Spiderman:Far From Home,The Guilty and Ambulance.
Not as big a fan of his sister but she was in one of the greatest romance stories ever in "Secretary."
Not as big a fan of his sister but she was in one of the greatest romance stories ever in "Secretary."
It took me a few years to appreciate him, which eventually happened with ZODIAC and PRISONERS in particular. Maybe not so much in JARHEAD, since all the characters were pumped up to the point of hostile obnoxiousness. But you left out one of his very best: 2009's BROTHERS with Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire and Bailee Madison.
Funnily enough, I keep getting him and Toby Maguire mixed up since they look so much alike. And the fact they've also played brothers kind of adds to that fact.
I was thinking of "leading man" in the "matinee idol" sense. He's more of a character actor who sometimes plays the main character. In my mind, and to compare him to 70s actors, he's a successor to quirky guys like Nicholson and DeNiro but Hollywood keeps trying to cast him in "Redford" and "Beatty" roles where he doesn't work so well.
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