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That's fair. Sony hasn't done much lately with their own live action Spider-Man related projects to deserve the benefit of the doubt but I'm willing to be surprised. Nic Cage leading the series is at least enough to get me to give it an honest chance.
It's a biopic about getting Rocky made.
The official logline for “I Play Rocky” reads: “A struggling actor with a partially paralyzed face and a speech impediment writes a script that a big movie studio wants to buy, but he refuses to sell it unless he gets to play the lead. Turning down an offer of life-changing money, he instead works for pennies to get the movie made with himself in the starring role. The movie becomes the biggest box office hit of 1976, garnering 10 Academy Award nominations and winning Best Picture.”
But even without that context I don't understand why that'd be strange. Loads of biopics have been made about famous actors who've appeared in lots of films with a much less interesting story than how Sly brought Rocky to the screen by gambling on himself.
Nested comments are so much easier to follow with this UI. I find it very difficult to keep my place in conversations using the default lemmy front end on desktop which is why I've stuck with photon or alexandrite. But I will absolutely be using this UI as soon as it's fully functional. It looks great so far!
I think the 1951 adaptation of Dickens's A Christmas Carol starring Alastair Sim is worth a watch during the holidays. The original British release was titled "Scrooge" but it was released in the US as "A Christmas Carol" so keep that in mind if you go looking for it.
Yeah, pretty much sums up my feelings on it too. We've been burned by too many bad game adaptations. *cough Halo cough*
Tales From the Hood (1995) and Tales From the Hood 2 (2018) were both directed by Rusty Cundieff and written by Rusty Cundieff and Darin Scott. They're horror comedies (Cundieff would go on to direct many of the sketches from Chappelle's Show (2003) so those might be good options if you want a palate cleanser after more serious fare.
There's also a third 'Tales From the Hood', but I haven't seen it, so I can't speak to its quality, but it's got the same creative team.