I'm Sad Now
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Well it can always be worse, I think Batman 7( I think tis 7 now not counting the 60s tv films) will be more like beginnings ok but could have been better.
Spider man was a mess if 3 was not a train wreck it might could sustain the weight of further continuity, I liked the first film so in all I bet the new one will suck, unless they figure out that copying ultimate marvel crap is not the way to go....
A shame transformers needs a reboot and less junk heap designs..... lets follow the 80s TV plot a bit more minus the human focus on the stories....
Like I said in another thread mixing batman and super man is easy enough but the way hollywood dose things it will suck.....
Spider man was a mess if 3 was not a train wreck it might could sustain the weight of further continuity, I liked the first film so in all I bet the new one will suck, unless they figure out that copying ultimate marvel crap is not the way to go....
A shame transformers needs a reboot and less junk heap designs..... lets follow the 80s TV plot a bit more minus the human focus on the stories....
Like I said in another thread mixing batman and super man is easy enough but the way hollywood dose things it will suck.....
I'm actually glad their not making a new Spidey with the original cast or with Raimi at the helm.
I love the first 2 movies, but by the 3rd one you could tell everyone was getting really tired of reprising the same role. Tobey Maguire didn't really have that boyish enthusiasm anymore which made him so endearing in the the first 2 movies, Kirsten Dunst started to look old, and Danny Elfman and John Dykstra were either dropped or left the production. The later of which I'm sure nobody was really bothered with but me.
I don't have any hopes for the reboot, but I'm glad the original was laid to rest.
I love the first 2 movies, but by the 3rd one you could tell everyone was getting really tired of reprising the same role. Tobey Maguire didn't really have that boyish enthusiasm anymore which made him so endearing in the the first 2 movies, Kirsten Dunst started to look old, and Danny Elfman and John Dykstra were either dropped or left the production. The later of which I'm sure nobody was really bothered with but me.
I don't have any hopes for the reboot, but I'm glad the original was laid to rest.
Transformers 3 will be fine. I'm sure it would be like the first, which was very entertaining and wasn't dumb like the sequel. I know people romanticize the cartoons, and act like Bay is the most offensive person out there, but there was a country named CARBOMBYA people!
In fact there was an article about it:
Actually War of The Worlds did. Spielberg even deliberately used 9/11 imagery such as the ash on people's faces and clothes, and the board with the missing people's names on it. This, combined with the panic of being under constant attack by a devastating enemy, gave that film a terrifying, yet grounded, atmosphere. I know most people don't like it, but I find it pretty underrated.
In fact there was an article about it:
I'm a little more optimistic about Batman 3's prospects. I'm a little confused though as to whether Bob thinks it won't be a good film or it won't be a commercial success. Batman Forever and Spiderman 3 were both more successful financially than their predecessors, even though they were clearly less interesting. Given that Nolan was able to get 800 Million box office on a non-sequel, hard (-ish) sci-fi film, I'm willing to bet Batman 3 will be massive.
If Nolan has as much creative control as he's had previously, I've got high hopes for the quality of Batman 3, even though I thought the end of The Dark Knight was a bit dire.
If Nolan has as much creative control as he's had previously, I've got high hopes for the quality of Batman 3, even though I thought the end of The Dark Knight was a bit dire.
The Dark Knight was good, but hardly earth-shattering beyond its commercial weight.
I walked in not knowing about Ledger's death and came out surprisingly satisfied (I just about swore movies off forever after watching Pirates 3, and how they completely missed the point of what made the first movie so damn fun and memorable).
Perhaps I'll have the benefit of anti-hype again, and "Batman 3" (doesn't that film already exist?) will turn out to be good.
As for the Spiderman reboot...I can't wait for it to tank. I'm so eagerly waiting for it to fail.
Seriously. I hate the three modern Spiderman films. The first one I admit was promising and well-paced, but the second movie drove me nuts. The third movie was just torturous to even be near.
The only thing I'll remember from those movies 10 years from now is the magic cube that Doctor Octopus referred to as "Tritium" (I wasn't aware heavy water came in solid gold cubic form. It's just Hydrogen with 3 neutrons. IT ISN'T THAT FUCKING RARE. WE CAN MANUFACTURE IT.)
As for other movies...I honestly have nothing else on the docket.
Less than zero, if we're counting on Michael Bay raping my childhood yet again.
I walked in not knowing about Ledger's death and came out surprisingly satisfied (I just about swore movies off forever after watching Pirates 3, and how they completely missed the point of what made the first movie so damn fun and memorable).
Perhaps I'll have the benefit of anti-hype again, and "Batman 3" (doesn't that film already exist?) will turn out to be good.
As for the Spiderman reboot...I can't wait for it to tank. I'm so eagerly waiting for it to fail.
Seriously. I hate the three modern Spiderman films. The first one I admit was promising and well-paced, but the second movie drove me nuts. The third movie was just torturous to even be near.
The only thing I'll remember from those movies 10 years from now is the magic cube that Doctor Octopus referred to as "Tritium" (I wasn't aware heavy water came in solid gold cubic form. It's just Hydrogen with 3 neutrons. IT ISN'T THAT FUCKING RARE. WE CAN MANUFACTURE IT.)
As for other movies...I honestly have nothing else on the docket.
Less than zero, if we're counting on Michael Bay raping my childhood yet again.
I agree. 3 pretty much wrapped everything up, even if it did stumble across the finish line, so when I heard Raimi and Co. wanted to do a fourth, part of me was skeptical.Casual Shinji said:
That said, I'm really dreading the reboot. An unproven director (who was likely hired on the cheap to be a Yes-Man), a script from the guy who wrote Zodiac, a.k.a. 'David Frincher going downhill', and a lot of otherwise talented people who are miscast (except Emma Stone, I think she's the only spot-on choice) all made me uncomfortable with the idea of the reboot. Then, I saw the first photo from filming, showing Andrew Garfield looking like a constipated Robert Pattinson with wool mitts
Sucker Punch comes out in 2011.
I cease to care about any movie woes knowing that I will be watching Sucker Punch in approximately 3 months.
I cease to care about any movie woes knowing that I will be watching Sucker Punch in approximately 3 months.
.....eeeehhhhhh... I dunno these days. i figure movies will be the way they always have; piles of shit and money that has to waded through to find a couple of diamonds. Its just that now the piles of shit are the watered down dust of the monuments that stood in my childhood.
Also Is it just me or is christopher Nolan coming off a more of a douche than anything else? I mean great films aside this guy doesn't seem like a good person the way some others (George Lucas, Stephen Speilberg, Clint Eastwood) have been.
Also Is it just me or is christopher Nolan coming off a more of a douche than anything else? I mean great films aside this guy doesn't seem like a good person the way some others (George Lucas, Stephen Speilberg, Clint Eastwood) have been.
So, making movies you don't like apparently makes him a douchebag now?mireko said:
Or do you have any other, more susbtantial reasons?
OT: I have noticed that most of those have to do with superhero movies. And most of those don't really seem like news THAT bad.
It's not just that I don't like them, after watching Transformers I felt like I had just become a worse person. Like it had burned away a part of my brain that I could never get back.JourneyThroughHell said:
No substantial reasons though, I obviously don't know the guy.
OT: I don't see how a lull in superhero movies is such a disaster either. Maybe some incompetent directors will ruin a few franchises for a while, but it's not like they won't come back to superhero movies eventually anyway.
I mean, even after Joel Schumacher ruined Batman for everyone, they still gave Christopher Nolan hundreds of millions of dollars to reboot the franchise.
Well, that's not the problem with Bay, but with your self-perception.mireko said:
Bay openly admits his movies kind of suck and that he makes them for a specific demographic.
I find some of the stuff he does enjoyable, but even when I don't (Armageddon, Pearl Harbor etc.), I don't feel like I've become a "worse person" for watching it.
"Godzilla is one of the most important movie icons in cinematic history."
What the hell are you smoking?
What the hell are you smoking?
