The Big Picture: Next Light

[RJ 17]

"We might be through with this crap, but this crap ain't through with us."

Well......crap. I'd say that about sums it up.

 

[-Dragmire-]

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*

Come on, there's bound to be some excellent rigor mortis jokes in there!

 

[Gilhelmi]

I present to you PROOF. PROOF OF THE END OF THE WORLD.

 

[e.wlmo4]

As someone who read all of the Mortal Instruments trilogy for some reason back in high school, i'll probably go see it and pretend that it's in the same universe as Mad Men.

 

[saintdane05]

What about Maximum Ride? Since the series is already done, they don't have to wait much, and it has six books rather than a trilogy. Plus, its actually somewhat decent.

And for the record, The HOst plays out more as Yeerk Propaganda than Body Snatchers sequel.

 

[Kurt Cristal]

Shame on that Mortal Instruments trailer for using "Sunshine (Adagio in D Minor)" for it's trailer song. You don't deserve that masterpiece.

 

[Grimh]

I wouldn't be so sure about how good mortal instruments might be.

That Sunshine soundtrack messes with your head.
It's so good it makes other things seem better by association.

 

[Kurt Cristal]

I wouldn't be so sure about how good mortal instruments might be.

That Sunshine soundtrack messes with your head.
It's so good it makes other things seem better by association.

I was upset that the song was used in Kick-Ass until I found out the rest of the original score was by the same composer, so the production team was probably just being lazy and asked if they could use his old material.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

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*

Come on, there's bound to be some excellent rigor mortis jokes in there!

Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of.

 

[nondescript]

While I don't like much about Twilight (aside from the rifftrax version), and even my wife admits she hates how the movies turned out, I have to admit that blaming Meyers for it being a terrible series/movies is a bit unfair. Are they bad? Obviously I and others think they aren't as good as some make them out. But the fact that someone made the series so popular this whole fiasco began negates the argument that she has zero skill as a writer. If she was bad at it, the first book wouldn't have sold, so the sequels wouldn't have sold, so some producer wouldn't have said "We can capitalize on this!" and Kirsten Stewart would still be the faceless, bland girl you see for 5 seconds in Jumper.

Again, I'm not a Twi-hard, but causality states we suffered this because she was at least passably good, and very lucky.

 

[Ryan Hughes]

Andrew Niccol? Seriously? To be honest, I am a fan of his. Gattica, Truman Show, Sim0ne, and Lord of War were all good films. I actually wrote a paper discussing the role of society and identity within "Gattica, Truman, and Sim0ne," i.e. Fake Humans/Fake World, Real Human/Fake World, Fake Human/Real World, in that order.

Having him attached to anything Meyer is doing is simply mind-boggling.

 

[daxterx2005]

I am Number four was good, I was hoping I am Number four 2 would be coming out soon.

 

[daibakuha]

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.

I also had that initial outrage that I experienced myself when the author didn't acknowledge Battle Royale, but honestly it's a foreign film/novel meaning it's not common knowledge that it even exists to a lot of people, and the whole putting people in a survival death match situation that's viewed as entertainment, or just plain sports where people die instead of getting injured, is hardly limited to Battle Royale.

It borrows way more from 1984 than it does from Battle Royale. Let's also not forget that forcing people to participate in games of life and death for entertainment in a science fiction setting wasn't invented by Battle Royale.

 

[Urh]

Is that the actual sound from the "Bella tackle" scene in Twilight? I've only seen that clip in animated .gif form, but holy shit do those sound effects make it even funnier.

 

[Ishal]

I... I didn't know any of these things existed.

Neither did I. I knew there were more of the same types of stuff out there but that was it.

It was a good episode and I give a tip of the hat to Bob. It was quite informative and thats what I look for in his work.

But honestly, in high school and college, you have teenage/young adult girls and their boyfriends who mock nerd culture and its subjects (anime, video games, MLP, magic the gathering, MMO's)and then they turn around and apparently THIS is what they enjoy????

It just so happens that their exists a video to demonstrate my reaction upon this realization..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb8fWUUXeKM

 

[NinjaDC]

I wouldn't be so sure about how good mortal instruments might be.

That Sunshine soundtrack messes with your head.
It's so good it makes other things seem better by association.

Mortal Instruments (at last to through the original 3 trilogy) was a very good series filled with plot twists, creative monster lore, and characters with depth & relatbility.

Unlike Twilight, we know the series at least has a good plot going in, unlike Twi that was **** from the beggining.
My biggest worry with MI is how they create the monsters & demons. There are allot of really ***** up creatures in that series. If they abuse cheap CGI it could be a diaster, but if they put effort into the FX we could be in for a good movie.

 

[tkioz]

"Shadow Hunters"... really? REALLY??? If you're going to cherry pick real world faiths for your source material, go right ahead, but FFS at least get the names right... Angle/Human hybrids are Nephilim... And it's been done to death... Hell according to some sources they were mean ass giants that pissed off God enough he sent the flood to get rid of the dicks.

 

[tkioz]

The MI twist could be really well done if the film makers tackle it full on... I don't think I've seen anything outside of Japan dealing with the subject matter (well, actually dealing with it rather then ignoring it)... well that was that part of Veronica Mars season 1 that dealt with it pretty well... but it's rarely addressed.

 

[tkioz]

Andrew Niccol? Seriously? To be honest, I am a fan of his. Gattica, Truman Show, Sim0ne, and Lord of War were all good films. I actually wrote a paper discussing the role of society and identity within "Gattica, Truman, and Sim0ne," i.e. Fake Humans/Fake World, Real Human/Fake World, Fake Human/Real World, in that order.

Having him attached to anything Meyer is doing is simply mind-boggling.

It could be the production company is just using The Horrible Hack's name to draw in the fanbase but have decided to do a complete rewrite and hire competent people to make a decent film.

I mean her stuff was bloody AWFUL but like Bob says "you can make a good movie out of ANYTHING".

 

[BehattedWanderer]

*Listens to the part about The Host being written by SMeyer and laughs derisively, willing to wonder how much she would suck at Scifi until:*

"Andrew Niccol"

...well, fuck, I've never been so confused in my life. How did that happen? Seriously, how? I freaking love Andrew Niccol's work. Gattaca, In Time, Lord of War, S1m0ne, even The Truman Show. Main actresses voice is not my favorite part of that trailer, for sure. But I can see his touches on it already. Shit, who allowed that? If it's good, I have to say I like a Stephenie Meyer work. I don't know if I'm comfortable with that. Hmm. Maybe it will be good enough to forget it's hers. Hopefully it doesn't have her swill too prevalent.

Also, Rob Cordry and John Malkovich in a Romantic Zomcom? Wait...there is going to be a romzomcom? That's two things in one video that blew my mind.