Guillermo del Toro to direct The Hobbit.
Also: god damn Peter Jackson lost a lot of weight.
Also also: apparently there will be a FIFTH movie bridging the gap between Hobbit and LotR. Not sure how I feel about that -- what happens in those years that isn't already implied in the FotR movie? Granted, I haven't read through The History of The Lord of the Rings (I made it through the FIRST five posthumously-published Middle Earth books, but conked out somewhere after the fourth version of The Children of Hurin, which apparently is not enough as THERE IS ANOTHER VERSION COMING (http://www.cinematical.com/2007/04/17/new-tolkien-book-to-rival-the-hobbit/)), but between the LotR appendices and Unfinished Tales I don't remember enough material in that timeframe to justify a whole movie. I'd ask for anyone who's read The Treason of Isengard to chime in, but I'm guessing I'm the only person here who made it as far as The Lays of Beleriand.
If all the minutiae were cut out and it were boiled down to its essential elements, The Silmarillion could actually make a pretty damned amazing epic under the right writer and director. But the odds of it coming out as something watchable compared to the odds of it being a huge clusterfuck are not good, which I assume is why Jackson and New Line are more comfortable with putting together a Hobbit sequel instead.
Tangent: do books still have a higher dollar price in Canada than the US, even though your dollar's better than ours now (or was at least about even last I heard)?
The Incredible Hulk isn't a sequel.
The Happening isn't a sequel.
Hulk (shut up, I liked it)...
I dunno, this could work (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117985365.html?categoryid=13&cs=1).
He recently penned the screenplay to "Tintin," to be directed by Steven Spielberg for DreamWorks
What really annoys me about the Tatsunoko X capcom thing is that Chun-li in that looks WAY FUCKING BETTER than she does in SF4
For this week’s exclusive first-look, feast your eyes on the beautiful Moon Bloodgood as Det. Maya Sunee. The character probably won’t sound familiar to you die-hard SF fans out there. And it shouldn’t. Maya’s new to the Street Fighter universe.
Notice that Chun has abandoned her traditional dual-bun hairstyle and her blue frock with spike bracelets, and has instead gone for a more demure, peasant girl look. What do you guys think?
$3 Billion, Worldwide.
Notice that Chun has abandoned her traditional dual-bun hairstyle and her blue frock with spike bracelets, and has instead gone for a more demure, peasant girl look. What do you guys think?
I go out of my way to make people feel bad for media self-immersion.
Can something be ruined FOREVER if it was already in a ruined state for the latter half of its existence?
The series has been off the air coming on ten years
and the last movie, released when the series was at it's absolute height as cultural icon, was a colossal failure.
Not only that, but the promotion has been terrible (I didn't even know it was coming out until a couple weeks ago), and it's coming out right in the middle of the strongest movie summer in probably a decade. What a pointless endeavor.
Is it just me, or does The Spirit look completely ridiculous?
Is it just me, or does something with Frank Miller's name on it look completely ridiculous?
Is it just me, or is everything with Frank Miller's name on it completely ridiculous?
A lot, yes, but not everything. What about the omnipresence of prostitutes?
prostitutes
:kowhyee: ditto
:kowhyee: I came.
NRAMA: Tell me about the casting process, especially for the unknowns. How did you end up, for instance, figuring out who, among a couple dozen little girls can swear like a sailor – or worse than a sailor, while committing acts of horrific violence?
MM: That was one of the funniest things we did. I don’t know if we’re going to be able to show this on the DVD extras, but every night, I would log on to a special website with a password, and they had uploaded the casting sessions with the prospective little girl and Dave [“Kick-Ass”]. That was always my favorite part – to log on and watch these kids...
NRAMA: Swear and get all angry?
MM: [laughs] You had all these kids who looked like Disney Channel people – cute as a button, just swearing like sailors. It was my favorite thing in the whole world – it was just hilarious. And then I would be wracked with pangs of guilt, thinking “My God, what are we doing?” But pretty spoon I’d find it all very funny again, and end up showing my friends.
The day we found Chloe Moritz...it was unbelievable. Everybody in the room just got really excited – the other little girls were good, but Chloe just knew how to swear. She put her heart and soul into it. She’s a brilliant actress. She gives you the same feeling that you got when you saw Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver when she was 12. You just can’t believe that a child is capable of pulling off this stuff. It’s amazing.
oh fuck... what's the word for when someone self-inserts into a fanfic?
what's the word for when someone self-inserts into a fanfic?Term. Self-insertion. You might be thinking of a Mary Sue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sue), which doesn't by necessity involve self-insertion, but sometimes does.
This is more of an example of taking an existing character, completely redesigning it to serve the purpose of an author-avatar, and then playing it up to ridiculous levels. It's common enough that I'm sure there's a trope name for it, but I don't care to go digging for it right now.
The term "canon-Sue" (also written as canon!Sue) or "Possession Sue" is used to describe canon characters who are changed significantly from their original canon characterization and sometimes even divorced from their original context completely. Such characters are seen as having been heavily idealized to the point of being more of a stand-in for the author's wish fulfillment than being the original canon character.
One of the executives is also producing King of Fighters. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1038685/)
It also looks like the King of Fighters movie will introduce a new science fiction spin into the setting established in the games’ universe by following the surviving members of three legendary fighting clans who are continually whisked away to other dimensions by an evil power. As the fighters enter each new world they battle that universe’s native defenders, while the force that brought them seeks to find a way to invade and infect our world.
But uh, it stars the guy who played Darth Maul! Maybe it won't be that bad.
If anybody but an actual Jeet Kune Do master plays Keanu Reeves, I'll murder every atom in the universe, one-by-one. With like, tweezers.:wrong:
You forgot about Jason X: Couple has sex, they get killed with a machete, repeat IN SPACE!
You forgot about Jason X: Couple has sex, they get killed with a machete, repeat IN SPACE!
The best part of that movie is when Jason beats a promiscuous pot-smoking bisexual camp counselor to death with another promiscuous pot-smoking bisexual camp counselor.
Also the sequel has nobody who made the first one involved.
The Fancy Pants editions are trades that collect individual plotlines rather than going sequentially through the issues as far as I can tell, The Goon Noir is a standalone spin-off (as far as I know) that I haven't actually read, and Chinatown (which I have also not read yet) is considered to be vol. 6 by Dark Horse. I've got 0-5.
And yeah, it is that short.
That movie would be a million times better if the first twenty minutes were the same and then the next eighty consisted of the cast being chased by a guy with a donkey mask and boxing gloves whose dialogue consisted entirely of Heavy voice clips.
Oh lucky you. You managed to avoid having to watch pretty white teenagers rap about being yourself
Oh lucky you. You managed to avoid having to watch a bunch of sweaty men looking constipated and not doing anything most of the time.
this is the best thing ever written on this board.
this analogy is something i never, ever would have thought of.
We're making them look photorealistic; the fibers of their clothing, the pores of their skin and each individual hair. They look exactly like real people – but real Herge people!
If there is one line in that whole movie, I will kill unconditionally.
I'm taking the same stance on this that I took with Transformers: if Bay can make an good action flick out of this, he's done his job. Thundercats was never a heck of a lot more than mindless fun.
First, Stryker plots Wolverine's death, first by sending a henchman capable of gunning down targets from a mile away. Only later does Stryker admit that he shouldn't have sent that guy because Wolverine is impervious to bullets.
... Can we just make him the Road Warrior and start pumping out some flicks already?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gsq73XvcwcHe looks like Batou from GITS.
Her husband Kazz
District 9 (http://www.d-9.com/): a movie about unwanted refugees in South Africa.
Just... just watch the trailer. :pop: :proceed:
(http://kazz.rooms.cwal.net/mrfox.png)
GAMER is a high-concept action thriller set in a near future when gaming and entertainment have evolved into a terrifying new hybrid. Humans control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online games: people play people...for keeps. Mind-control technology is widespread, and at the heart of the controversial games is its creator, reclusive billionaire Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall). His latest brainchild, the first-person shooter game "Slayers," allows millions to act out their most savage fantasies online in front of a global audience, using real prisoners as avatars with whom they fight to the death. Kable (300's Gerard Butler) is the superstar and cult hero of the ultraviolent "Slayers." Kable is controlled by Simon, a young gamer with rock star status who continues to defy all odds by guiding Kable to victory each week. Taken from his family, imprisoned and forced to fight against his will, the modern day gladiator must survive long enough to escape the game to free his family, regain his identity and to save mankind from Castle's ruthless technology.
That sounds like the most metal movie ever.
That sounds like the most metal movie ever.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j9fEKdvSzs
That sounds like the most metal movie ever.:wrong:
In 1900, the Earth was attacked by ruthless invaders from the planet Mars. The Martian's 80 ft tall, heat-ray spewing, Tripod battle machines laid waste to the planet, but the invaders ultimately fell prey to Earth's tiny bacteria.
Fourteen years later, Man has rebuilt his shattered world, in large part by utilizing captured Martian technology. Equipped with giant, steam-powered Tripod battle machines, the international rapid reaction force, A.R.E.S., is Mankind's first line of defense against the return of the rapacious Martian invaders. Based in a massive fortress complex at the south end of Manhattan Island, the young warriors of A.R.E.S. train under the leadership of Secretary of War, Theodore Roosevelt, and the grim General Kushnirov.
And return the Martians do. The rematch finds the multinational squad of the A.R.E.S. battle Tripod 'Goliath' on the front-lines of a vicious interplanetary offensive when the Martian invaders launch their second invasion using even more advanced alien technology. In the crucible of combat, this young team helming the mighty Goliath will be tested to the limits of their endurance and courage as they fight for Mankind's very survival under the onslaught of an implacable enemy.
This is the saga of "War of the Worlds: Goliath", a 90-minute, animated, steampunk epic of war, comradeship and courage under fire.
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c-c-c-combo breaker
Other than the fact that that one screenshot Kazz posted looking absolutely terrifying, I want to see that movie so bad.
stopped reading at steam-powered
:jizz: at steam-powered
(http://www.metaltv.com/wotw/images/index_poster.jpg)
Adam Baldwin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Baldwin)
Scott Pilgrim makes me SO ANGRY
So basically you hate being challenged by works of art?
Yea, I have a hard time watching and reading things that revolve around realistically bad relationships (even non-romantic relationships between characters). It's depressing.
How is it realistic?Actually I haven't read or watched or whatever this particular thing. I already forgot what we were talking about. I was just kind of agreeing in general.
How is it realistic?
It has a scene where a character tries to look intimidating and says "Release the kraken". This seems familiar.
It has a scene where a character tries to look intimidating and says "Release the kraken". This seems familiar.
kra·ken (krä'kən)
n. A huge sea monster in Norwegian legend.
[Norwegian dialectal : krake, kraken + Norwegian -n, suffixed definite article.]
Cassiopeia, having boasted herself equal in beauty to the Nereids, drew down the vengeance of Poseidon, who sent an inundation on the land and a whale, Cetus, which destroyed man and beast.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/ironman/
today is awesome fucking trailer day
trailers generally use any footage that will sell
So hey, in the upcoming Solomon Kane movie, James Purefoy gets into a swordfight with a man on fire.I thought you were just saying Denzel Washington was in the movie until I actually watched the clip.
I hope that movie is even half as good as its premise, actually. The trailer is just okay.
trailers generally use any footage that will sell
the next live action / animated hybrid travesty is speedy gonzales starring george lopez
because of course it is
You'd think so, but apparently he's one of the characters on the back burner because of the way he talks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG2iDJhX1_I\
It's at 8:37.
Motherfuckers I fucking had this idea two fucking years ago (http://gawker.com/5490020/will-critics-spoil-the-ridiculous-end-of-remember-me)
guys
guys
my chest hurts i am laughing so hard
you guys
Trejo also plays a character by the name of "Machete" in Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids films. It is unclear whether the two characters are the same.
So given that this article is dated August 2009 (http://screenrant.com/predators-production-start-date-ross-21763/), I am unclear as to how this is the first time I've heard of the Rodriquez produced Predators.
Predators is being said to be about a “very intense group of people stranded on a Predator planet discovering unspeakable horrors – that are not always from outside their group.”
IT HAS LAURENCE FISHBUUUUUUUUURNE (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1424381/)
"An epic of epic epicness."
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World starring actor Michael Cera
I just want to know how did anyone ever expect that "Toronto Hipsters: The Movie" would be funny as anything but a documentary in the first place?
Also, anybody else spot the shout-out to Tintin? The wooden idol floating off the floor right at the beginning is almost certainly the Arumbaya fetish from Tintin and the Broken Ear. Heheheheh.
Actually, in explaining what the comics were to Starr, I realized the best way to explain what the series is to someone unfamiliar with French comics:
Adele Blanc-Sec is Hellboy, only in WWI era France, with an incredibly forthright woman as the lead instead of a big friendly Demon. And it was written 25 years earlier.
Tardi wrote a strong female lead for a comic long before it became fashionable to do so
Well, that confirmed my suspicion that Michael Cera won't make a good Scott Pilgrim. A doe-eyed milquetoast does not a compelling protagonist make.
those who pay to see that will be first against the wall
Response from a friend of mine:Quotethose who pay to see that will be first against the wall
I dunno guys.
I mean, I love trainwrecks. I love glorious, glorious trainwrecks.
Can we get Uwe Boll to direct this?
Oh, so apparently there's a Neverhood movie coming out? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1058777/)
At least they're fully aware that the movie's core audience is going to be aging hipsters.
'Rango' Official Full Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-48ujEK4mwY#ws)
I've always liked Jack Sparrow because Disney is so squeaky-clean and yet have managed to base a bestselling franchise around somebody who is singularly obsessed with drinking and stealing.
I had a lady who wrote on a comment card that her son had seen me and said, “Look, it’s Jack Sparrow!,” and Jack Sparrow had turned around and said, “No shit.” My manager said, “I don’t think you would say this, but where’d they get the idea?” I said if they’re in a stroller I say, “Nice ship.” She told me to say “Nice boat” from now on.
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4145/4836678898_244fc9556e_b.jpg) (http://www.atheists.org/)
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4145/4836678898_244fc9556e_b.jpg) (http://www.atheists.org/)
Honestly, they should just call this movie Nerdgasm. (http://trailers.apple.com/movies/wb/suckerpunch/suckerpunch-tlr1_480p.mov)
Leaked Thor trailer (http://io9.com/5599251/check-out-the-full-thor-trailer-and-get-hammered)
Enjoy it while it's still there. It has Thor on the ground going NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
Is Dan Akroyd a selling point? Anyone that knows who he is would be cringing at the thought of a Yogi Bear CGI-fest in the first place.Okay, allow me to rephrase that:
(http://www.alicia-logic.com/capsimages/a_014BillPaxton.jpg)
... why the hell wouldn't they be able to unionize? Why shouldn't they?
The Warrior's Way Trailer (2010) HD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6Qi9QaL0Lg&feature=player_embedded#ws)
Geoffrey Rush.
Ninjas.
... why the hell wouldn't they be able to unionize? Why shouldn't they?It's one of those things that gets brought up every time I get into an argument with somebody about why unions are a good thing.
I'll be sure to tell my mom that her teacher's union doesn't exist, then.
Because actors would be, in almost all cases, well paid, with good benefits and well protected in an industry that is neither dangerous nor damaging to their bodies?
Ten thousand thundering typhoons! (http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=29355)
This is now a day-zero, avert-eyes-from-trailers, pre-order-tickets movie for me. And that never happens for me with movies.
Hector Hammond's supposed to be a minor villain; the big bad's going to be Parallax, probably in its giant yellow monster version.
Given that Parallax is known for possessing people, it's possible it'll bond with Hammond. Or Hal, or somebody else. Probably not Sinestro, obvious though that'd be, as they're supposedly holding off on having him go bad until the sequel.
Can't help but wonder if his being so pissy and upset at this turn of events is connected somehow to his current disdain for producing shows and films purportedly for everyone but only really attracting Joss Whedon fans and, (kind of) by extension, for making anything for a wide consumer market. Not that my word is worth anything, but I hear tell that after Dollhouse is over he's going to give television and movies a pass and start doing direct-to-Internet stuff like Dr. Horrible exclusively. Easiest way to deal with criticism is to go where the critics aren't and to surround yourself with your sycophants, I always say.
Is that a real statement or a parody?
Mars Needs Moms - Official Trailer #1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWYVQzG0rYk#ws)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb6U938auvg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb6U938auvg) The right Twilight ZoneWeird, that was the first thing I thought of, too.
the merciless motorcycle gang the "Los Muertos"
I wouldn't say it's impossible to make a good movie out of that book, but that the overall negative consequences for doing so will largely outweigh the positives of redeeming a bad book with a decent movie.
I wouldn't say it's impossible to make a good movie out of that book, but that the overall negative consequences for doing so will largely outweigh the positives of redeeming a bad book with a decent movie.
No, probably not (http://www.buffalobeast.com/?p=3903)
Based upon that reviewers description, it sounds like Twilight but replace vampires with objectivists.
Is it possible that before it turns into a 90-page rant, there's a vaguely interesting story underneath the awful prose?
made it look more boring than actual business.
Monopoly.
"Hey workers go on strike all the time. What if the owners went on strike?"
I will say this about Atlas Shrugged. Including Andrew Ryan in the cast was a stroke of genius.
6. Have you decided how you’ll tackle John Galt’s epic speech in part three?
Well, I’m looking at a number of different things. Having John Galt give that speech, it might be in a casino environment. It might be that he is at a mountain retreat, rather than being where he is captured, not…that violent scene at the end. But we’re going to take a look. It doesn’t have to copy just that.
No, it absolutely will be a concentrate of entertaining words with a total, philosophic…But, you know, part three could be a musical…like a Les Miserables kind of a musical. That’s part of the impact and I guess I haven’t said this publicly yet, but I’m looking at it completely different if part three is a musical with quality music that’s done in a certain way that people will like. I mean, if you saw the play Les Miserable without the music, and then with the music, you may go in there saying, ‘oh hell, I would never want to see that great book in a musical.’ That’s going to shock a lot of people to see part three be a musical, and part two may be very different from part three and very different from part one. It has to be new, you know…We get a freshness, a vitality about it, and yet it has the same, rock-solid principles and philosophies that we all know and love.
BREAKING HEADLINE:
GROSSLY OVER-BUDGETED FILM WITH LAUGHABLE DIALOGUE, EXTENSIVE PRODUCT PLACEMENT, AND ENDING THAT GOES NOWHERE BEING REMADE BY HOLLYWOOD
PEOPLE SOMEHOW EXPECT FILM TO BE DIFFERENT FROM SOURCE MATERIAL
and launched the careers of stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet
Quoteand launched the careers of stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet
...the year after DiCaprio starred in a $150M-grossing goddamn Shakespeare adaptation, yes.
It beats the hell out of Arwen suddenly becoming Glorfindel.
I don't know who will scream harder, Orlando Bloom fangirls or Tolkien purists.
The thing about Tolkien is that most of everything is explained in the appendixes, because LotR is from the point of view of the Hobbits except briefly when it's just Aragorn/Gimli/Legolas alone.
Glorfindel was an elf lord named after the elf lord who killed a Balrog in Gondolin. That's... pretty much the extent of his background.
Well, that or someone tells the character about what happened after the fact. Case-in-point: Gandalf telling Frodo about his battle with Saruman, or Boromir telling Aragorn in his dying breath about how he fought off six million orcs.
There is actually no (or exceedingly little) action in Tolkien. Every fight is told as if someone was actually telling the story.
i.e. "Aragorn slew the orc."
This is starkly opposed to, say, Salvatore
Of course, TV is a visual medium and I expect we'll see a lot more of those battles next year than we "see" in the books.
Which I think is part of why Martin's such a breath of fresh air: he's NOT stock Tolkien/Howard/White fantasy (though there are a few recognizable bits of each), he pretty much took feudal Europe and threw in some extinct dragons and made the scary things beyond the borders of the known world literal. And there's only one dwarf, and he's not a fantastical creature.
LotR struck a resonant chord in its time because it was about a massive worldwide war and its irrevocable effect on the world's innocence, nary a decade after that exact thing had happened again.
It's never going to strike the same chord in this generation no matter how hard you try, because we were all born in the fourth age. We can only think of time when people could believe that legends existed as itself a legend.
Any attempt to write a similar story in the modern day is going to come out as a tedious cynical trudge through a gallery of once-respected entities now reduced to their true colors and generally being less than impressive. In other words, modern fantasy.
Kick the emo out of Gen-X, Gen-Why and Gen-iPod and maybe you'll get your old childlike innocence back in your stories. Or just learn to work in the context of what the world is. Whatever, I'm gonna go watch TV.
Yes, guys, I read the foreword too. Did I say that's what he wrote?
It's also worth pointing out the fact that Tolkien explicitly states (in that same introduction) that his book is not supposed to be an allegory for WWII, and even described how the plot would have been different if it was.
NOTICE:
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted;
persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished;
persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
By Order Of The Author,
Per G.G., Chief of Ordnance.
Just saw a commercial for insurance.Couldn't care. But here's what Emma Frost looks like in the movie:
Please tell me that's not what Beast looks like in the new movie.
Hmmm, apparently reviews for Green Lantern are being kept under wraps until the day before its release. (http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/Wolvie09/news/?a=39343)
The tag is just [url=blah blah] not [url="blah blah"]
Also people tend to type in [url=http://"http://blah blah"] which is just completely right out.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch voicing both Smaug and Sauron, according to Deadline (http://www.deadline.com/2011/06/benedict-cumberbatch-to-voice-smaug-in-the-hobbit/). Deadline is a real thing, right?
Attack The Block - Official HD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD0gm7dHKKc#ws)Aliens vs. Chavs
largely because it didn't make a good book either.
Screw MML3, The Dark Tower (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/19/us-darktower-idUSTRE76I06Q20110719) got canceled also.This is probably for the best. There's basically no way this could have turned out good.
Screw MML3, The Dark Tower (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/19/us-darktower-idUSTRE76I06Q20110719) got canceled also.This is probably for the best. There's basically no way this could have turned out good.
I agree, but goddamn what if it had been goodim sorry i cant hear you over how hard im not thinking about it
-Arthur Christmas: I have no idea what this crappy movie is, but it was the best trailer by sheer virtue of not being a sequel.
(http://i.imgur.com/Wlb9d.jpg)Okay it has been annoying me since it was posted. Who is that replacing Bombur's face?
Arrest Development (http://laist.com/2011/07/25/will_arnett_confirms_arrested_development_movie.php)
Usual grains of salt and all that.
So, for three or four generations now, Canada has been absorbing higher proportions of immigrants than just about any other country in the world.
It's long past time that we started seeing some of the incredibly bizarre fruits of this fact.
'Speedy Singhs' Official Theatrical Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFlzYCkRG5M#ws)
I don't know about you guys, but this looks awesome.
ParaNorman Trailer 2012 HD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N617SL1ZcM#ws)
Melancholia is out today, but I have to wait until my fiancee comes back from Boston to go see it. :(
so i just saw that they're remaking Snow White DARKER AND EDGIER just like I guess every fairy tale
at first I was just angry and sort of amused but then I saw it had Thor so now I am torn
on the one hand I want to have sex with Thor
on the other hand I am filled with a terrible rage that I have to see this movie
ian mcshane
bob hoskins
Uuuh is having sex with Thor included with a ticket to this movie?
i'm just throwing this out there but you know around the time Thor came out I remember seeing these plastic Thor hammers with moderately sized handles and maybe they're still selling them? i don't know but it might be worth looking into i'm gonna stop talking nowWhosoever holds the hammer, if they be worthy...
I really, really want to live in the timeline where Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro and Jim Carrey held onto their positions as the stooges for this.
Synopsis
While trying to save their childhood orphanage, Moe, Larry, and Curly inadvertently stumble into a murder plot and wind up starring in a reality TV show.
Be honest though, was it the words coming out of Will Smith's mouth* or Jones's constant, unfettered "I cannot believe this guy won't shut up" expression that made those scenes?
It was only a matter of time. (http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/1170677/first_poster_for_abraham_lincoln_vampire_hunter.html)
I am saddened to learn of the passing of my dear friend Kim Jong-Il. Our thoughts go out to his wife and 813 children. “K-Jo” was a great leader, good friend and average doubles badminton partner. He died as he live, in 3-inch lifts. An extraordinary man, he did so much to spread compassion, wisdom and uranium throughout the world.
On behalf of myself, Ahmadinejad, Chavez and Newt Gingrich, we would like to welcome his son, Kin Jong Un into the “Axis of Evil.”
It's gonna be a long year.
Prometheus Trailer - Official TRUE HD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sftuxbvGwiU#ws)
Here's the official HD trailer for Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom. Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore -- and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle. Bruce Willis plays the local sheriff. Edward Norton is a Khaki Scout troop leader. Bill Murray and Frances McDormand portray the young girl's parents. The cast also includes Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, and Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward as the boy and girl. Directed by Anderson, and co-written with Roman Coppola. In theaters: May 25th, 2012.
Buzz I'm seeing is that it's not actually a movie, it's just a Super Bowl spot.
Because we have now hit a point where people are making commercials to advertise future commercials.
The only suitable update is one where he ends up homeless at 25.No, the only suitable update is where it's revealed that Ferris Bueller was in fact Cameron's imaginary friend, used by Cameron to help him muster up the courage to confront his abusive dad.
Actually, Shameless works, too.
No, the only suitable update is where it's revealed that Ferris Bueller was in fact Cameron's imaginary friend, used by Cameron to help him muster up the courage to confront his abusive dad.
The only suitable update is one where he ends up homeless at 25.No, the only suitable update is where it's revealed that Ferris Bueller was in fact Cameron's imaginary friend, used by Cameron to help him muster up the courage to confront his abusive dad.
Actually, Shameless works, too.
Buzz I'm seeing is that it's not actually a movie, it's just a Super Bowl spot.
Because we have now hit a point where people are making commercials to advertise future commercials.
http://jalopnik.com/5879809/exclusive-ferris-buellers-mysterious-super-bowl-ad-is-for-honda (http://jalopnik.com/5879809/exclusive-ferris-buellers-mysterious-super-bowl-ad-is-for-honda)
Treasure Buddies Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ-4LrurxoE#ws)
I actually liked him as a stand-up comedian (though not in excessive doses), but I always seem to be alone in that regard.
From... director...
Naaahhhhhh, I didn't just read that.
EDIT: Okay so basically this is
Garbage Day! (high quality)
Only imagine Bob Goldthwait saying the line.
Anyway, Nick Gurewitch already put this better than I could:
GEE GOLLY JEEPERS
In fairness I think shinra just needs a time out or something.
What did I just watch? Was that a creepy revenge fantasy movie with bonus pederastic undertones?Not to argue semantics, but pederasty is specifically between men and boys.
Movies this year look like what movies this year looked like in movies in the 80s.
It also has a fuckable butt.
It also has a fuckable butt.
I was wondering what yesterday's Trenches was about. (http://trenchescomic.com/comic/post/justice)
There's a new movie coming out in which current actors portray the Three Stooges and these Stooge fans are worried it will sully the good name of Stooge. My attitude in response is like, "Really? You're concerned about the dignity of the Three Stooges?" I submit that if you think the Three Stooges ever had any dignity to lose, you don't "get" the Three Stooges.
Seriously, did you remember there was a 1990's movie adaptation of The Beverly Hillbillies before I brought it up?
(awaits gritty reboot of Lost in Space).
ZOMBOOBIES! (OPAI-ZUKI-ZOMBIE!) 40 Sec TEASER (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy6TsNNoL3w#ws)
this is becoming an erection
... they're making a movie about John Dies At The End?
Holy shit that's awesome.
Sony is looking to dominate the Memorial Day holiday weekend with Men in Black 3, which returns the marquee Will Smith franchise to the big screen for the first time in a decade.
The big-budget 3D tentpole -- costing close to $230 million to produce -- is widely expected to topple monster hit The Avengers from the top spot at the domestic box office with a solid four-day gross of $80 million to $90 million (some believe it could hit $100 million). MIB 3, which also opens around the world, is predicted to clear $200 million globally through Monday.
It'll be Will Smith and you know it.
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Ninja-Turtles-Reboot-Shuts-Down-Production-31428.html (http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Ninja-Turtles-Reboot-Shuts-Down-Production-31428.html)
Can't say I'm saddened at this.
(No, I know, they're working the Siege of Dol Guldur in there and that's why she's there. Should be fun!)
I AM GROOT
Hobbit becomes a trilogy. Sure, why not?
Evangeline Lily (Lost) is playing Tauriel, a Mirkwood elf, who has some sort of romantic ties to Kili (played by Aidan Turner, the vampire from BBC's Being Human).
Richard Armitage even promised a bunch more dwarf drinking songs!
Robocop has a bike now.
I learned all I know about from Journey to the West from Dragon Ball.
That's good enough, right?
Also make sure to read all the prefaces carefully, since they explain how the fuck third-century Chinese battles actually worked, which the novel otherwise assumes you know.
[spoiler]Jimmy Olsen has been switched to Jenny Olsen[/spoiler]
There's no way any movie could actually live up to that trailer, right?
"Let's make him look like batman with laser eyes"
"Let's make him look like batman with laser eyes"
I suppose it's hard to parody the current state of the world but... what's the point if you're not even going to try?
Also PG-13, because an R rating is a death sentence.
Ever notice that the only time people ever cheer at movies is when it's at something really dumb? It's because only tasteless people cheer at the fucking movies.
you know now that I think about it the fact that there was robocop cartoons and toys is actually kind of fucked up. Rambo, too.
QuoteEver notice that the only time people ever cheer at movies is when it's at something really dumb? It's because only tasteless people cheer at the fucking movies.
Did you somehow manage to miss the point I was making?
featuring fat superman and gaunt hercules
I wonder if they'll use CGI or an animal trainer for the scene where an eagle named "Small Government" flies in and sheds a single tear on the American flag.
I'd not watched this trailer yet and oh my god this looks awful.
I looked up the writers:
Hunter Dennis has no movie credits (just a video called Redemption, loloololooloooolollololloolololololollololoollllll) but his IMDB page has some fun facts! I wonder who might have put them up there!QuoteHe comes from a distinguished military family. His father was a Recon Marine officer, his brother a Force Recon NCO, his cousin the first female Harrier pilot and his grandfather was a ground crewman for the Enola Gay.
Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon seem to be a writing team. Last time anyone was stupid enough to buy a script from them for a movie it was in the 90s. T.N.T. only has one (rotten) review on RT, I don't think it saw a theatrical release. Point Blank on the other hand has two reviews! Both are rotten and it also went strait to DVD.
The director, Harold Cronk released two strait to video movies recently with similar Rotten Tomato situations to his writer's movies. Jerusalem Countdown and The Adventures of Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Treasure?
Whoever financed this this film is a giant idiot. If you're going to pander please get better everything, this is one of if not the worst trailer I've ever seen.
Hey, why not? I mean, A Christmas Story 2 exists.
David Goyer