Wow, barely can catch a glimpse of his face. This is almost on “Steven Seagal falling out of the plane in the first minute of a movie”'s level.
Yeah, that is some unbelievably horseshit filmmaking right there.
It has been some time, but AFAIR no, he didn’t.
Glass is in a completely different league compared to his recent junk, though. The end of a trilogy by a famous director Willis had already worked with repeatedly (M. Night Shyamalan), a whopping 20M$ budget - solid enough for a movie with only selective action and f/x scenes - and at least 5 well known actors and actresses who got some opportunity to shine. So no, Glass was McAvoy’s show, but Willis was solid and at least didn’t get in the way. If they had to use doubles and other tricks, they had more time to do it carefully.
Glass is a movie you can say many positive things about, or call it over-constructed BS. It’s nowhere near to the other garbage discussed though.
Knowing about Willis’ health problems, the 3rd act actually becomes even more interesting. I won’t say any more due to spoilers.
In the end it was a huge success, earning more than 10x its budget in cinema alone.
Yeah, Willis has done a lot of terrible half-assed work, but Glass wasn’t one of those jobs. Now, I’ll leave the question of whether or not Glass was good to another discussion…
In an era where green screen visual effects are ubiquitous and virtually seamless in most cases, I continue to be shocked how often these audio dubs seem to be so poorly matched, even when it’s the actual actor inserting the line of dialogue. It’s always when the speaker is offscreen or is not facing camera, and the sloppiness is so jarring every time like a bad censored-for-TV edit.
You would think audio would be easier to get right than visual wizardry, but apparently not.
If they can put Carrie Fisher in a movie after she died and show Nancy Peolosi all drunk and loopy when she’s stone cold sober, why can’t they just CGI/deep-fake Bruce into a movie while he’s still alive and sober?
They don’t want to lose control of their likeness.
Ha! That sounds like a good horror movie.
Serious answer, maybe the screen actors guild (or similar group) has rules that say an actor can’t be credited unless they physically show up on camera. In a few years, they’ll probably switch to shooting the low-effort actors on green screen and adding them to the scene later.
I doubt that is the case, as that would make a lot of work (let’s start with animated movies, or any scifi movie where Kevin Spacey is voicing a robot) engagements based on the hope of getting a check based on someone’s good will.
As for Bruce Willis I never thought he had dementia, and always assumed he was just clinically depressed. His character in the Shamalyan movies sort of wasn’t really there either I thought, even if it fitted.
PRODUCER: Hey, it’s been 20 pages since the last Willis scene - let’s put another one in where he’s working out as his neighbor leaves the house.
DIRECTOR: On it. I’ll call the body double.
P: We’ll need a closeup of Bruce, though. Can’t make it too obvious.
D: No prob. We got a deleted scene where he reacts to seeing a kitten’s head rolling down the gutter. We can use that! We’ll just cut the split second before he starts speaking.
P: Swish!!
That reaction shot! Is Bruce playing a psycho ex-cop or something?
Someone put cayenne pepper in his Metamucil.
the thing that goes through my mind when watching that, is that after everything that could be done, THAT was deemed the best.
1 second of work!
He’s thinking, “wait, do I have two socks on my left foot?”
It’s unkind. I know.
Someone should write a horror thriller like A Quiet Place or Bird Box for Bruce where you must face away from all other humans or the monsters will come.
Transplant Blues starring Bruce Willis as a terminal patient who undergoes an experimental head transplant surgery that goes terribly wrong as his head is attached to a new, healthy body – BACKWARDS!
I’d like to expand on this idea, if I may, and propose an update to…
I saw Rosey Greer in a casino once. I really, really, wanted to walk up to him and say, “Hey, you were great in the Thing with Two Heads”, but I did not have the guts.