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shadowstriker86

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all those movies look like syfy channel fodder, seriously mute the audio and watch them again, doesnt it look like a bunch of movies you'd take 5 seconds to figure out that look like garbage?
 

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Danial said:
PsychedelicDiamond said:
Can someone tell me what Bob didn't want to spoil about Mortal Instruments?
Quote from Wiki PS: MASSIVE SPOILER

"During the attack, Luke and Clary get inside Valentine's lair. While Luke is distracted, Clary finds Valentine and Jace. Valentine reveals to them that he is actually Jace's father as well, making them siblings, shocking and horrifying both Jace and Clary, who by then realized that they have fallen in love with each other. Luke then returns to fight Valentine, along with Jace's help, but Valentine escapes to the Shadowhunter capital, Idris, where he has now hidden the Mortal Cup, which can used to create Shadowhunters. The Mortal Cup is one of three Mortal Instruments given to the first Shadowhunter by the angel Raziel, and if Valentine has them, he will create a whole army of Shadowhunters. Clary finds her mother, who is in a coma caused by a potion, and takes her to a hospital. In the meantime, Alec has been healed by Magnus Bane and he and Clary decide to start fresh. Afterwards, Clary and Jace meet at the Institute and express their frustration that they cannot be together like they once believed."

So yeah Incest

I see what Bob means
Well there goes my guess based on Bob's pitch of the concept, I assumed that Shadow Hunters, being supernatural entities, didn't have naughty bits, which can cause some problems in a relationship.
 

sextus the crazy

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Is it just me, or does warm bodies seem like something ripped from the fallout series. humans hate all ghouls, even though non-feral ghouls are sentient and like normal people.
 

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I'm sorry that girl actually said in that trailer "This is the future" REALLY? That's bad screen writing 101, no one says "we're living in the future" because to them its the FUCKING PRESENT! GOD DAMMNIT! Thats even worse, in fact a million times worse, than that one part in the new (shitty) Total Recall when that woman is injecting him with the needle and she says "Its still the best way to get chemicals into the human body." Yes he probably knows that already you dumbass exposition spouting fool.

That comedy with the lad from Skins looks funny though, it was probably the song.

As for the mortal instruments... f-FUCK! Thats pretty edgy what they're trying to do, and I'm more than okay with it. Well there are two things technically.
I looked it up because I expected it to suck but the twist is actually alright. Two men one woman love triangle excpet one is gay and the other two are actually siblings but they don't know it. The incest one is pretty edgy but I'd like to see since it could be an interesting story, and the gay thing, well how many gay characters can you think of in movies who don't suck or are offensive honestly. Hollywood, lets be honest, are terrified of having a gay main character in a possible bug hit, maybe even as terrified as the incest thing.

Capcha: bizarro jerry. Yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah Capcha that's the crazy phrases I love you for :D
 

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sextus the crazy said:
Is it just me, or does warm bodies seem like something ripped from the fallout series. humans hate all ghouls, even though non-feral ghouls are sentient and like normal people.
Well the sentient zombies in Warm Bodies look way prettier than the sentient ghouls from Fallout.

Also, they should make a Homestuck movie franchise, it would be like 20 movies long. It's also popular with teens and doesn't have
unlike The Mortal Instruments.
 

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Steve the Pocket said:
I remember reading some webcomic that parodied Twilight with a fake in-universe book series about a girl falling for a zombie. So Warm Bodies could be hilarious depending on how much they're leaning on that angle as opposed to making it the kind of movie most think of when they hear "romantic comedy". (I.e. straight romance story with some funny bits thrown in to broaden the potential audience.)
This must be the webcomic you're looking for: http://hijinksensue.com/2008/11/12/30-days-of-twilight/

I'm starting to wonder if the movie industry is going to follow the same formula for tween-lit horror/romance from the Simpsons episode "The Book Job", what with how Bob described these upcoming movies. Side note: WTF was happening in the spinning dining room with the gawd-awfulvfake Southern accents? And ZOMBIE romance? Really? That better just point out how dumb this whole "undead romance" THING is as a whole.
And now, after reading some other comments on this thread, why did Bob leave off Hunger Games, besides not liking the 1st movie? Both it & the Twilight series have female lead characters with funny names & little personality, contrived love triangles, and psychotically obsessed fanbases of teenage girls.
 

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Falterfire said:
I'll third the surprise that Hunger Games wasn't mentioned at all. It completely fits the whole 'appealing to teenage girls' thing and has the added bonus of having already had one very successful movie. Obviously with only 3 books total it won't be the Next Big Thing for many years, but I think it's got a pretty good shot at least for the next year or two.
I am also surprised, and was kind of expecting it as an obvious one. If anything, it looks like THE one example of trying to follow Twilight's trail and being successful.

And I wouldn't be surprised if they stretch it out for some years. Without spoiling much, let me say that the 3rd book could be adapted into two movies, while the 2nd one barely being worth one.
 

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I'm a little bit sad that everything that Hollywood's turning into movies almost sounds like plots for short stories I was writing in Junior High when I should have been studying.

Short of that, I'm apprehensive for Warm Bodies. I kind of wish the Funny or Die sketch about When Harry Met Sally 2 was more real then a love story with zombies.

Although, here I am complaining about a love story with Zombies when Shaun of the Dead did it first and did it best, so who knows? Maybe I'm a grumpy old man already.
 

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The only thing Twilight related I would watch is a Spin-off revolving around the Volturi.

Im totally serious! I would love to see a movie staring Micheal Sheen just mincing to the camera. It'd be fucking awesome.
 

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Antonio Torrente said:
Scarim Coral said:
Honestly the only one that I'm going to dread in the future is the film adaption to 50 Shade of Grey which apparently is in the work.
Need I remind you that book originally start off as a Twilight fanfic.
If that movie ever comes up (still hoping it will end up in development hell but pretty sure it will still be made) I'm pretty sure they will cast those hacks from CW shows more specifically Gossip Girl.

Absolutionis said:
I'm surprised that The Hunger Games wasn't mentioned. It's yet another blandly written love-triangle book series with an inexplicably "special" female lead based on a mythos mostly ripped from other sources. I guess the only thing it's lacking is monsters.
For some reason my straight A younger sister likes Hunger Games.
The mythos you are talking about is Battle Royale. Which its author claims she didn't even know BR when writing it. Yeah, typical American plagiarism. I'm surprised she gotten away and made a crapton of money with it.
Of course they are going to make a 50 Shades of Grey Quadrology (they will split the third book in two), they will do anything to prevent development hell, since it will bring stupid amounts of money to the studios, so getting it out as fast as possible is the best option, and they will hire the prettiest underwear models as actors, kind of like transformers. Welcome to hell.

My 22 year old brother Straight A brother and his girlfriend also likes the Hunger Games, guess Straight A people don't have a lot of time to develop good taste.
 

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hermes200 said:
Falterfire said:
I'll third the surprise that Hunger Games wasn't mentioned at all. It completely fits the whole 'appealing to teenage girls' thing and has the added bonus of having already had one very successful movie. Obviously with only 3 books total it won't be the Next Big Thing for many years, but I think it's got a pretty good shot at least for the next year or two.
I am also surprised, and was kind of expecting it as an obvious one. If anything, it looks like THE one example of trying to follow Twilight's trail and being successful.

And I wouldn't be surprised if they stretch it out for some years. Without spoiling much, let me say that the 3rd book could be adapted into two movies, while the 2nd one barely being worth one.
Well maybe because the first movie of the Quadrology is out (They are going to make it a quadrology since Harry Potter and Twilight did it) it's not what's on the horizon as the video said, rather it's what's popular right now. They are going to strech it until 2015 at the least.
 

Canadamus Prime

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Caramel Frappe said:
canadamus_prime said:
DVS BSTrD said:
If at first you do succeed
Twi, Twi, Twi again.
Yep that's Hollywood for you.

Incidentally, that Warm Bodies looks incredibly stupid, at least based on the scene where the zombie "falls" for the girl. Oh god... *facepalm*
I laughed harder at the scene in "Beautiful Creatures" where the table began to spin and the ladies are debating- until one of them screams which was utterly hilarious to me.

"She's already closer to the darkness then I was!"
"I want you out of here-"
"AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

lol wut.
I might actually like to see that one... maybe. Although that Mortal Instruments did actually look interesting. ...except for the love triangle part.
 

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Just remember, people... Breaking Dawn part 2 opened to $141 million.... while Dredd opened to around $6 million.

You have no one to blame but yourselves.
 

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canadamus_prime said:
DVS BSTrD said:
If at first you do succeed
Twi, Twi, Twi again.
Yep that's Hollywood for you.

Incidentally, that Warm Bodies looks incredibly stupid, at least based on the scene where the zombie "falls" for the girl. Oh god... *facepalm*
It looks stupid in that really corny/cheesy kind of hilarious way.

Like they're going for that it seems, which can either go wildly right or horribly wrong.
 

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rayen020 said:
Kumagawa Misogi said:
MetalMagpie said:
MichaelMaverick said:
PsychedelicDiamond said:
Can someone tell me what Bob didn't want to spoil about Mortal Instruments?
Seconded. Too lazy to look it up, the series looks like a decent clusterfuck.
Here's the very short version:
The main character is a (seemingly) ordinary teenage girl who falls for a magical demon-hunting guy. Turns out he likes her too and they have a bit of a smooch. At the end they discover that they're actually brother and sister. Ouch.

Half brother and sister from the father's side so at least there won't be any problems if they have kids (that only applies if they had the same mother or there mothers were siblings).
'
Actually they are full brother and sister. Same mother, same father. Father took off with the boy after faking both their deaths, mother took off with the girl to get away from the world that took everything from her.
Yo Dawg. I've heard you like a plot twist. So let me put a plot twist in your plot twist so you can twist the plot while twisting the plot.

Searching about the twist on MI:CoB I came across this quote:

"As readers of the series, we know how the story plays out. We know that they aren?t brother and sister. (http://tmisource.com/2011/05/17/lily-collins-talks-about-clary-and-jaces-controversial-relationship/)"

Dunno if it's true though...
 

Canadamus Prime

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Frostbite3789 said:
canadamus_prime said:
DVS BSTrD said:
If at first you do succeed
Twi, Twi, Twi again.
Yep that's Hollywood for you.

Incidentally, that Warm Bodies looks incredibly stupid, at least based on the scene where the zombie "falls" for the girl. Oh god... *facepalm*
It looks stupid in that really corny/cheesy kind of hilarious way.

Like they're going for that it seems, which can either go wildly right or horribly wrong.
I'm thinking horribly wrong, esp considering certain other inevitable scenes... *shiver*
 

RandV80

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Trishbot said:
Just remember, people... Breaking Dawn part 2 opened to $141 million.... while Dredd opened to around $6 million.

You have no one to blame but yourselves.
Yeah kind of sad. Wonder if it's a good thing or a bad thing that Hollywood doesn't or can't try to cash in other fandoms. Twilight is horrible, but on the other hand comic book movies are getting to be quite good. Personally my preferred medium is fantasy, which outside of Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones (the HBO treatment here is awesome!) it's mostly overlooked.

These books tend to be much bigger than their teen fiction counterparts, so it's probably better to go the HBO method rather than the movie method, which unfortunately loses a lot of budget. If it did get picked up more though one that would probably work well for movies is the Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn Trilogy.
 

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JoaoJatoba said:
rayen020 said:
Kumagawa Misogi said:
MetalMagpie said:
MichaelMaverick said:
PsychedelicDiamond said:
Can someone tell me what Bob didn't want to spoil about Mortal Instruments?
Seconded. Too lazy to look it up, the series looks like a decent clusterfuck.
Here's the very short version:
The main character is a (seemingly) ordinary teenage girl who falls for a magical demon-hunting guy. Turns out he likes her too and they have a bit of a smooch. At the end they discover that they're actually brother and sister. Ouch.

Half brother and sister from the father's side so at least there won't be any problems if they have kids (that only applies if they had the same mother or there mothers were siblings).
'
Actually they are full brother and sister. Same mother, same father. Father took off with the boy after faking both their deaths, mother took off with the girl to get away from the world that took everything from her.
Yo Dawg. I've heard you like a plot twist. So let me put a plot twist in your plot twist so you can twist the plot while twisting the plot.

Searching about the twist on MI:CoB I came across this quote:

"As readers of the series, we know how the story plays out. We know that they aren?t brother and sister. (http://tmisource.com/2011/05/17/lily-collins-talks-about-clary-and-jaces-controversial-relationship/)"

Dunno if it's true though...
they are not ________ and ______, by blood, father adopted him do to guilt over his experiments, however she does have a ________ by birth. All this happens in the 3rd book.