This got a theatrical release!?
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I feel really really bad for giggling at the first 2 jokes. At first I sort of thought maybe they had done slightly better, but then it all went downhill into the pits of comedic hell.bartholen said:
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I love watching trailers like this for things that just can't be real.
Starring Eric Roberts!
It's like vommit that's been lying around for so long it's become a self sustaining entity. Nothing can stop it now!bartholen said:
SeltzerBerg probably have some pretty big connections in Hollywood.
What I'm wondering is how in the sweet name of Christ are they still finding actors for these movies? You'd think any actor with even one funtctioning brain cell would just go do porn instead.
'It looks horrendous' - meaning the dialogue and just general plot right? Because that's really not bad animation. Like, at all. It's not Disney or Pixar level good, sure, but if you're saying that's horrible animation and effect quality you need to get your eyes tested.
Really "The Starving Games", I would ask how they could possibly have found enough jokes to make a film about the Hunger Games but based on that trailer they are just making bad references to anything they can think of. I admit to liking some of their previous bad films like Epic Movie and Super Hero movie but at least they tried to have a consistent theme back then. Epic movie was about making fun of Epic sized films like Narnia and Pirates of the Caribbean, and Super hero movie was able to make jokes at a whole lot of movies due to Super heroes being popular. I am not saying they were good but if your film is not going to just be about the Hunger Games then don't use the title.
Literally or not it still comes across as extremely petty and not at all funny.[/quote]
Petty? How so?
Were you excited for this remake of Annie? Do you have some vested interest in its success? Do you know someone involved in the production?
If no to all of those than how can you possibly say I'm being "petty"? Especially in regards to my personal opinion.
You may think I'm being petty, but I think you're being rude.
Petty? How so?
Were you excited for this remake of Annie? Do you have some vested interest in its success? Do you know someone involved in the production?
If no to all of those than how can you possibly say I'm being "petty"? Especially in regards to my personal opinion.
You may think I'm being petty, but I think you're being rude.
That's part of what appalls me about this film. It's literally just some studio exec sitting down and deciding, "We need a new movie. We haven't remade Annie yet, so let's do that. Modernize it, but don't do anything original. Kids are stupid. Remove any semblance of character and fill it with pop-culture references no one will remember in five years, make the adults act like children (and be sure to get some good actors to fill those roles), neuter the villain but make everyone hate him anyway, and redo all the original music with contemporary beats and auto-tune."FPLOON said:
It's less the film itself that bothers me as much as the perpetual trend of such films continually being made and, for some god-forsaken reason, seeing way too much success. If anything, this Annie remake is just the latest example of that trend.
The Oz film just looks like another 'babysitter in a can' film. Stupid as hell but inoffensive. (to me, anyway)
I didn't read all of Baum's Oz books, though I'm making a start simply for anti-pop culture issolation's sake, and this... yep. Hollywoodified. Even if it's based on something else, that doesn't give it an excuse.
Okay... I see what you mean...Vigormortis said:
It's not that the movie's getting an updated version one of the main problems in theatrical movies in general (since like hell would kids of the present generation would want to see a movie that's two or three generations old in the first place[footnote]HA! I would point to Disney as the counter-example, but even then you'll find "updated" versions of movies in said example...[/footnote]), but the fact that it's only being done for the sake of making "easy money" makes it a pretty glaring problem... Kids wouldn't care because they would find it enjoyable no matter what, according to the studio execs, and that's good enough for them to keep doing this in the vain disguise of showcasing "source material" from years's past to a "modern audience"...
But, let's face it... It's been done in the past, it's being done today, and it will continue to happen as long as there's "easy money" to be made in the process... Besides, it's not like any of us would actually go out and SEE these movies in theaters in the first place... (unless, for example, your kids beg you to take them to see it in theaters or something like that...)
Oh, I don't disagree. I think you and I are of the same general line of thought on the matter. And I know it's been done in the past. Quite a lot, in fact.FPLOON said:
My main issue is that the budgets of the modern day versions of these types of remakes are exuberant; at times to the extreme. And that because of aggressive marketing and an increasing acceptance of mediocrity by general audiences these films usually make piles of money. Thus, perpetuating the trend.
It's started to spiral out of control in recent years. To the point that it's almost like a recurrence of the "rip-off/spin-off" trend in the 70's.
Not that I'm saying all modern day movies, or even popular movies, are bad. Not even remotely. God knows I've gone to see my fair share of big budget movies in recent years. Hell, I saw Gravity, The Avengers, Tron Legacy, and Inception at least twice each in theaters. But the deluge of "quick cash grab" garbage is starting to increase again.
Perhaps it's just a cyclical pattern to the industry. Maybe it's as inevitable as Tarantino referencing a blaxsploitation trope in his latest movie or Mel Gibson trying to do a "personal character" film to fix some of his bad image. I don't know. But from my perspective, the Annie remake is more "offensive" to me than the new Oz movie.
Whats funny is that this is better then the actual hunger games movie....bartholen said:
OT: I died a little on the inside when i saw this. From the trailer it looks like they are destroying everything that made the Wizard of Oz the classic that it is. The animation also looks horrible