GoldenJCJ

I saw Motherless Brooklyn not too long ago and honestly don’t even remember Willis in it.

DJariya

https://deadline.com/2021/09/tubi-ru...es-1234828579/

Willis is now starring in TUBI original movies It’s called Corrective Measures. I’m sure TUBI just acquired the rights to this.

dex14

Still not as bad as allowing for his likeness to be deepfaked in foreign commercials.

Good for Tubi for getting in the originals game though.

GoldenJCJ

Say why you will about Nicolas Cage and John Travolta appearing in straight-to-video dreck but at least they show up and give it their all. They may not be great performances but at least they’re not completely phoned in like Willis has done over the last 10 years or so.

mwbmis

His character's fate drives the action for the movie. This wasn't a money job; it was actually Willis doing Edward Norton a favor.

DJariya

Before Movie Pass went out of business, they signed Willis to some contract to make movies for them. Shows he was willing to take any kind of paycheck. And yes Movie pass was trying to get into the business of making low budget movies.

GoldenJCJ

In my defense, I don’t recall MOST of Motherless Brooklyn…Except Norton’s unusual choice to play his character with Tourette’s Syndrome.

DJariya

And by the way, thanks for telling me that Motherless Brooklyn sucked, it’s been airing on Cinemax and I was thinking about recording it, but I never heard one good thing about it.

Runaway

I liked Motherless Brooklyn, it's not a great movie, but Edward Norton gives a strong performance and the supporting cast is good as well, including Willis in his small, but important part. The movie is a bit to clean for the era it's playing in, but I just enjoy those classic detective stories, set in the 1930-50s.
The last movie I liked with Willis in the lead is Once Upon a Time in Venice. It's more on the level of his lesser films, when he used to give a fuck, which he actually didn't on this movie, if you've heard about his behind the scenes stuff.

Why So Blu?

Really? Motherless Brooklyn is quite awesome, IMO.

mwbmis

I thought it was a mixed bag. The Tourette’s stuff kind of undermines the seriousness of the rest of the movie, and it's biggest flaw is that it's just too long (also the biggest flaw for me in Norton's "Keeping the Faith"), but I liked the noir story.

Nick Danger

I just read the whole thread.

I didn't know Bruce Willis was still working. Has any other actor fallen further and kept working? This is like Lugosi going from big-budget Universal horror movies in the early 30s to Ed Wood movies in the 50s.

DJariya

Guess what? Another new Bruce Willis movie





Out of Death is now on Hulu for those who dare to watch it.

GoldenJCJ

^ Based on the trailer, at least that one looks like Willis spent more than a couple days filming. Of course, it’s entirely possible it’s a misleading trailer and Willis is only in it here and there while the rest of the movie is the hunters looking for him.

Time Warrior

From Edward Drake, director of Cosmic Sin (2021) and Breach (2020), films where Willis contributed 3 days work on average. He also has two more Willis films in the can for the coming year - a prolific collaboration!

Willing to bet Willis did no more than 3 days work on this new one as well.

TheMovieman

Yeah, this is yet another one where Willis is billed second. Guarantee the movie will mostly follow the bad guys.

rexinnih

I think it was Breach when I saw it and said, hey new Bruce Willis movie, might as well watch it. Then with Cosmic Sin, was more leary but still streamed it. They won't fool me a 3rd time!

DJariya

Another new Bruce Willis movie. Coming in December

dex14

mwbmis

My takeaway was that Patrick Muldoon still acts? I thought his career died when that smart bug ate his brain.

Looking at his IMDB, apparently he's quite busy in lots of things very few have ever heard of.

Dan1boy

Yikes, that Apex trailer looks like a C grade disaster. Bruce looks utterly baffled as to what he's supposed to do and say.

I'M BACON AND EGGS ON SUNDAY MORNING!!

DJariya

I had a free rental from Red Box and actually tortured myself watching Survive the game last night. Awful and super super low budget.

I actually timed it and Willis had about 20 minutes of screentime. The movie looked so cheap that I think they spent no more than a few weeks filming it. There's 21 people listed in the closing cast credits and pretty much the majority of the movie is filmed on some farm in Puerto Rico.

These Lionsgate/Grindstone movies are making Cannon Films look like high art. They are bottom of the barrel cheap. I think Willis spent no more than 2 days filming his scenes.

Donna D'Errico, who used to be on Baywatch, plays one of the bad guys and she's seen better days. Her facing is suffering from the remnants of her 90s plastic surgery. There is another actress on this who plays some over the top looney Harley Quinn knock off. Someone needs to do a MSTTT type commentary on these horrible Willis VOD trash.

story

I see this kind of movie being made and I don't understand how it makes money. There is so much content out there, so many things worth repeat viewing even, how are enough people watching this in paid methods to be worth the time, energy, and cost of doing these sorts of projects? I really feel like I'm missing something huge.

Why So Blu?

Presales to the foreign market. Just like Cannon used to do.

GoldenJCJ

Wait, so Survive the Game is a different movie than Apex? Even though Apex appears to be direct ripoff of Surviving the Game which was already a ripoff of The Most Dangerous Game?