Wojo 2,453 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 It doesn't have Godzilla in the title?The 1998 Hank Azaria vehicle did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 That may be part of Pacific Rims problem in drawing an audience. There's no familair / known monsters or characters.Nobody knew Luke Skywalker before May 1977 or Jack Sparrow before spring 2003. I'm not saying Pacific Rim will go on to become as classic or successful as those, but it's early. As someone who dreamed of giant robots before Power Rangers made them uncool, this movie is right up my alley.Actually that was one of the criticisms I read about the film prior to its release and they also mentioned a similar problem with the Lone Ranger too. Audiences today need some familiarity which is why the studios keep churning out franchises that are known. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 box office mojo actually forcasts Pacific Rim to win this weekend, though they think it will be a tight race between it, Despicable Me 2, and Grown Ups 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,802 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 How To Train Your Dragon 2 teaser trailer:Holy shit, I had my doubts when I heard the reports, but that looks amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 It sucks that The Lone Ranger is tanking. There goes any hopes of an F Troop movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Not if the tracking numbers for Pacific Rim turn out to be true.Del Toro on Godzilla I would have preferred he direct Godzilla. What's the difference?Just a preference. Everyone got excited when he was originally scheduled to direct The Hobbit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted July 12, 2013 Author Share Posted July 12, 2013 It's a damn shame he didn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 He was flavour of the months back then. He hasn't done anything worthwhile since....I say...down with the Mexican! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Well I'll find out tonight, got my tickets for Pacific Rim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 I wasn't referring to you when I said Mexican btw.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Bullshit...,, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Toro mierda! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 I'm gonna go see The Lone Ranger tonight before its gone. Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 I'll wait for the DVD or Netflix to check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Westerns are one genre that should always be seen on the big screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 It's not a true western! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 It's not a true western!why would you say something so preposterous? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Westerns are one genre that should always be seen on the big screen.Not after sitting through Wild Wild Wild West. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 It's not a true western!why would you say something so preposterous?It's a special effects comedy blockbuster that happens to have been set in the West.Like POTC is not a true pirate film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 It's a western. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Well, another reason not to bother with it!I don't like westerns, in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Do you feel the same towards Sergio Leone's cheesy takes on Westerns? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 It's not a true western!why would you say something so preposterous?It's a special effects comedy blockbuster that happens to have been set in the West.Like POTC is not a true pirate film.it's got Cowboys, it's got Indians, it's got old railroads, it's set in the old west. It's a western, so what that it's made with modern conventions.And POTC was a pirate film sure and true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Another notch closer to senility I see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 not to senile to know this American can spot a western when he see's one moreso than the flying Dutchman can recognize a pirate film. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 POTC is a movie based on a fairground attraction Joe.It's a parody of a pirate film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted July 12, 2013 Author Share Posted July 12, 2013 I'll never watch that movie ever I reckon. Just looks like everything I don't like in a movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 I had very very little interest in seeing it anyway, then I saw a pic of Depp with a crow on his head.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmmusic 1,844 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 The trailer for that film with Tom Hanks playing Walt Disney and the story around Mary Poppins: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Ohhh, I really want to see that. Tom Hanks, Josh from the West Wing, BJ Novak (as a Sherman brother!) and Paul Giamatti (looks like he has a surprisingly small part?), plus the subject matter. admittedly since Disney is producing it may be a bit one-sided, but still looks like it'll be very entertaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Once 605 Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 The reviews from the test-screening is very positive. And apparently the Sherman Brothers play a fairly big part in it. Isn't Thomas Newman scoring?Oh, and the first set photo from Tim Burton's Big Eyes starring Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Terence Stamp, Danny Huston, Krysten Ritter and Jason Schwartzman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy4 155 Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Oh, and the first set photo from Tim Burton's Big Eyes starring Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Terence Stamp, Danny Huston, Krysten Ritter and Jason Schwartzman.No Johnny Depp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Once 605 Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Nope. Actually nobody in the cast that he has worked with previously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt C 455 Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Johnny Depp is in final negotiations to return for the Alice in Wonderland sequel. Tim Burton isn't returning to direct, but James Bobin (The Muppets) will step in. Linda Woolverton has written the screenplay for this as well.http://www.deadline.com/2013/07/johnny-depp-finalizing-alice-in-wonderland-2/No word on whether actors like Mia Wasikowska or Anne Hathaway will return. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted July 13, 2013 Author Share Posted July 13, 2013 The trailer for that film with Tom Hanks playing Walt Disney and the story around Mary Poppins:Looks wonderful, thanks for linking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 So this is this years "Hitchcock"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted July 13, 2013 Author Share Posted July 13, 2013 No, Hitchcock didn't look heart warming and feel good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Didnt you see it? It was feel-good movie through and through!Complete with sappy ending Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted July 13, 2013 Author Share Posted July 13, 2013 Oh I didn't know that, didn't get that impression at all. Still have no interest in it though. I like Mary Poppins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 You didnt like Psycho? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted July 13, 2013 Author Share Posted July 13, 2013 Not really. Love a lot of his other stuff though, North By Northwest most. Nah, I just didn't fancy the look of Hopkins in the role. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmmusic 1,844 Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Johnny Depp is in final negotiations to return for the Alice in Wonderland sequel. Tim Burton isn't returning to direct, but James Bobin (The Muppets) will step in. Linda Woolverton has written the screenplay for this as well.http://www.deadline.com/2013/07/johnny-depp-finalizing-alice-in-wonderland-2/No word on whether actors like Mia Wasikowska or Anne Hathaway will return.Why? Why? Why?Spin-offs, prequels, sequels, remakes!Whyyyy???Well, i've read somewhere that studios don't invest anymore in new ideas, and invest only in something that know it will bring money, since it's not the best period for cinema too.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 We need a new Hollywood New Wave, like the 70's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 12 Years A SlaveInception and The Thin Red Line used. Looking forward to Zimmer's score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,351 Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 We need a new Hollywood New Wave, like the 70's.You mean 'New Hollywood' or 'American New Wave'? Yeah ... but nobody goes to an Andrew Dominik film. The New Hollywood appealed to the young generation of the late '60s/early '70s. The times were different then. Today the young generation wants big blockbusters, because that's how they were brought up. To them, watching films older than 10 years is a difficult, if not an impossible chore. The 'new wave' of today is happening on TV and for an audience that doesn't go the blockbusters. To them, TV offers what you can't find in the theaters.Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 They go to films like BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL and the like. There is an audience for cinema beyond comic books (i.e. me) and they will make more 'small' movies in the future - just as Spielberg said. I don't even need a new 70's wave (i'm not too keen on movies like TAXI DRIVER), just cinema as it was in 80's and even 90's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,351 Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 The '80s and the '90s were blockbuster oriented decades. The type people want today but with even more spectacle. Spectacle that is possible to thanks to CGI. George Lucas, once part of the New Hollywood movement, ended the wave with Star Wars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 Yes!More....MORE!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,351 Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 Since then people are watching the same movie over and over again, only bigger, faster and more spectacular, and more expensive. Where is it going to end? Perhaps it's going to implode like Spielberg prophesizes?Of course, Spielberg has lost his interest in spectacle and perhaps it's why he believes that the rest of humanity will follow.Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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