quote:Originally posted by Fabrux: Its Merry Christmas, damnit.
Happy Chrismahannakwanzaka!
I'm a nihilist, so I suppose the rest of the year is one big holiday for my kind... Youre never disapointed if you root for the reaper.
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It's not the Apocalypse until I say so. Besides, it wouldn't do to let some jackass say the loser Myans were right...about anything.
Also, the Blue Jays have to be in the World Series- thta's a requirement for the stars to align just right, and it give me plenty of time to get my ducks in a row.
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Merry Christmas all. Now somebody give us some REAL Sci-Fi!
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Well, there's some nice looking stuff on the horizon- Oblivion, a Tom Cruise vehicle, which looks pretty good.
Prototype, which looks like crazy fun in a 1980's "everythng happens at night with bad cops and big explosions. Kinda Snake Plisken as a robot. Or something.
After Earth, a Wil Smith vehicle which looks SO fantastic until you realize it's directed by M Night Shyamalan, so you know that the inrediible trailer is possibly the best part of it.
Pacific Rim, which is giant mecha vs. giant monsters so I'm sold, and it's by DelToro.
World War Z which is a Brad Pitt zombie thing...and holy shit, friends, I never thought I'd miss lameass vampire movies, but the putrid overflow of zombie movies, TV shows, comics and (probably) happy meals, has become just as bad, if not worse.
Iron Man 3, will be the best comic movie ever
Thor 2, will be the second best comic movie ever
Ender’s Game, the story has been re-worked from the novel, but as a suprise, WITH the author, who is very happy with the result (has that ever ahppened before- ever?). harrison Ford is in it, so it must be great...um..
The Wolverine, will be the third best comic movie ever.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug next december....
There's also a Riddick movie and a Superman movie but, really, fuck those.
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To be fair, World War Z was a surprisingly good book. However, I'm under the impression that the movie doesn't follow it very closely, and has been plagued with production problems, so I'm not holding out any hope for it.
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Pacific Rim does look good, it even has gLadOs.
I'm hopeful for Man of Steel, but I worry about Michael Shannon being cast as Zod. I mean he's good at portraying crazy, but I don't want an alien Heath Ledger Joker ripoff.
World War Z, meh. I recall one commenter noting how there was a lack of zombie's in the trailer, but plenty of bad CGI.
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The CGI in WWZ does indeed look cheesy but it's cheesy because of the impossible speed the zombies move at- they're all olympic runner fast...and for added cheese, they're all dust colored and very uniform in appearance- all of them seem to be the same CG model in the trailer when they show masses of them swarming up the sides of walled fortifications like how ants crawl over each other to get up a hill.
Really, it seems to be very much like speilberg's (mostly awful) War Of The Worlds in it's focus on Brad Pit defending his family and trying to get back to them through all the carnage...
I also read the novel- and I'll tell you, that shit would be impossible to make into a movie- it's all accounts of what happened, told first hand to a guy writing a book on the war. Maybe they could make a HBO series or something, and be faithful to the book but not one movie.
I'm kinda suprised the book has such a die hard following- I found it pretty generic overall with very few original ideas. (shrugs)
Anyone here see Dredd? I wanted to see it in the theater but it was not playing down my way. a freind is burning a copy for me though, so maybe this weekend I'll get to see it.
What about Cloud Atlas? The trailer for this is just impossibly cool....and yet, with Tom hanks and Hallie Berry it seems to have been in limited theaters and died a quick and silent death.
You guys seen this one?
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Wasn't aware Cloud Atlas had come out yet. At least, it hasn't in the UK.
Wanted to see Dredd, but cinemagoing is problematic these days. May have to pull a sickie just to go see The Hobbit.
At one point JMS was writing WWZ, he said he'd come up with a way to do it that worked. But then he got replaced, no idea if any of his input survived to filming script.
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I went and watched the trailer for After Earth. Looks OK, I guess. Thing is, Nightychops is all out of chances: he went from visionary to laughing stock in less than a decade. And, far as I know Will Smith's box-office-draw remains - he's not had any major flops I'm aware of, so I don't think he'd do a MNS film out of desperation. Unless it's all part of this unstoppable determination that he and Pinkett have, that Their Kids Will Be Big Movie Stars.
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