- Lol, Red Dawn Down Under
- I'm getting a little tired of movies making fun of LARPers. Sure, I've done my fair share of LARP-bashing, but you know, as a geek, when I make fun of my retarded cousin, it's funny. When non-geeks do it on a huge screen for the benefit of fratboy jockstraps, I get a bit offended. Enough "look at the fuckin' nerds" movies.
- Seth MacFarlane needs to retire and stop making anything forever.
Sir, I am both a fratboy and wore a jockstrap. Your denigration of our people is uncalled for bro.
Also it'd be cool if all Seth MacFarlan's characters weren't Peter just different voices. Hell use the Peter voice with a completely normal character I dunno!
Also I just finished watching that trailer. It's Willard except Willard is Brian/Roger/Rallo?
He could have just acted in it for real
Willard? it doesn't look like a bizarre horror movie with trained evil rats by Crispin Glover.
Anyway, I still think it looks funny and I love the thunder buddies song.
Original Total Recall was. . .I mean it had its moments but it isn't a "great" movie. It is as popcorn as it gets, which was great as a kid but damn sitting through it today is - bleah.
Original Total Recall was. . .I mean it had its moments but it isn't a "great" movie. It is as popcorn as it gets, which was great as a kid but damn sitting through it today is - bleah.
Original Total Recall was. . .I mean it had its moments but it isn't a "great" movie. It is as popcorn as it gets, which was great as a kid but damn sitting through it today is - bleah.
Baby, you make me wish I had THREE HANDS to slap you with.
Edit: And the divorce scene? Thats the more realistic gunshot to the head you are ever going to see in cinema. bullethole, body falls straight down. no head exploding/body flying 50 feet/entire scene in slowmo.
edit: that ted trailer.... I thought that was a different actor and I was going to say as a joke "Man mark whalberg looks like shit". then I heard him talk. yikes. Think they did something with makeup to make him old and dumpy or does he look dumpy now? That character is radically different then anything I have seen him do, so I'll give him credit there.
If the new Red Dawn remake looked this competent I'd watch it. That trailer was great.
See, I have the opposite opinion, I'm hoping for the Red Dawn remake to be as hammy and ridiculous as possible in the spirit of the original.
If the Communists fire a single shot that's not from the hip the entire movie I will be outraged.
The best part is when the minigun from the helicopter shoots the chick, and she walks it off.
Why does every trailer with a cast under 30 have at least one makeout scene
Up until that point the needle was wavering between "could be a solid execution of a less than original concept" to "90 minutes of cliches", but then it just pegged to the right.
Get the hell out of here! Please tell me this is real.
I can't believe they made a movie out of an Internet meme. Could this be the beginning of a whole new trend?
I know this is a few pages old now but I wanted to respond. I think we could indeed be seeing the start of a trend here. And you know what, why not? Writers have always got inspiration from all sorts of sources. It might be a quirky news story, a local legend, or a meandering conversation with friends. There's every chance that newspaper ad might have sparked off some writer's imagination anyway, the only difference is that thanks to the internet we've all seen it too. It's already happened more than once - there was that guy a little while back that sold a script based on a reddit comment. I mean yeah, that sounds cheesy as hell but it also sounds like a lot of fun and who knows what else we'll get in the future from the massively distributed brainstorming session that is the web? Bring it on, I say.
Diggin all the love for the original Total Recall in this thread.
One of my favorite movies growing up, even today. The film whisked me away to a magical world where one could get exploding robot masks, Nail polish that can change colors with the touch of a stylus, three tittied whores, holographic tennis coaches, and I guess false memories of vacations or spy shit or whatever. Just magical.
Plus it had some goddamn bloody scenes and I still crack up to this day whenever they get sent out into the martian landscape and get all bug eyed.
Plus, it's just so damn quotable. A friend of mine does a really good Arnold, and he's known to randomly spout out a "Dammit, Cohagen, give those people air!" at the most inappropriate of times.
0
Options
Linespider5ALL HAIL KING KILLMONGERRegistered Userregular
Original Total Recall was. . .I mean it had its moments but it isn't a "great" movie. It is as popcorn as it gets, which was great as a kid but damn sitting through it today is - bleah.
Immediate first impression: Heathers. On acid. With Scream and Donnie Darko making out on the seat next to it.
Everything you said should make me love this movie. I can't trust any of it will be true, especially if there is "buzz"
There is seemingly no genre that the angst and ecstasy of the adolescent’s growing pains cannot inhabit – yet part of the genius (and I don’t use that word lightly) of Detention is to mash up all these different genres into a postmodern, protean plot that simply defies summary. Suffice it to say that there is the dark comic satire (and suicidal tendencies) of Heathers, the bloody body count (and self-referentiality) of a post-Scream slasher, the Saturday group detention of The Breakfast Club, the intergenerational body swapping of Freaky Friday, the apocalyptic prescience of Donnie Darko, the time travel of Back to the Future, as well as subplots involving a grizzly bear abducted by aliens and a school bully transforming into The Fly (complete with wings and acidic vomit).
Kahn weaves these elements into a playful bubblegum pastiche, full of razorsharp one-liners, pop-culture parodies, bizarre digressions and flagrant breaches of the fourth wall, all tinged with a voguish nostalgia (for 1992!) because, as one character so absurdly puts it, “the ’90s are the new ’80s.” And so Detention nails the teenagers of today – piecing together their identity from an infinity of retro-cultural models no further away than a mouse click, and yet still struggling, as ever, to fit in, find themselves (and the guy or girl of their dreams), and get an A – if not save the world.
With every second of the film seeming to contain as many ideas as frames, this is one of the most hyperactive, desultorily attention-demanding films ever made, guaranteeing endless rewatch value and ensuring a well-deserved cult status. It is also very, very funny, bombarding the viewer with one quotable quip after another.
Packing in more confounding slang than a Wu-Tang record and more gonzo subplots than a Pynchon novel, relentlessly manic high-school horror-comedy "Detention" will leave most viewers winded after the first reel. Writer-director Joseph Kahn labors mightily to maintain a speed-freak pace throughout, though his script and cast run out of gas long before he does, and hence what starts as a bracing rush quickly devolves into a deadening assault of stimuli. Not without merits, the film may ultimately prove too strange for the multiplex and far too glib for the arthouse.
The densely woven, pop-culture-stuffed script is impossible to summarize tidily, but operates largely on tropes winkingly borrowed from other movies: The ‘90s-obsessed Ione undergoes a Freaky Friday-like switch with her mother, sending her back to 1992; the school responds to CinderHella's murders, crazily, by forcing students believed to have information into a Saturday detention straight out of The Breakfast Club; eventually, catastrophe must be averted with a nerd-built time machine housed not in a Back to the Future Delorean but within the school's mascot, a stuffed bear.
Director Kahn, a music-video vet, doesn't only use this hubbub as an occasion for fast cutting, glossy production values and out-of-nowhere visual elements (like a sequence in which a bullying jock turns out to suffer a Jeff Goldblum-ish fly disease). He and co-screenwriter Mark Palermo also cram more smart-ass dialogue and meta-movie banter in than actors should be expected to deliver or audiences to digest.
It all comes off though. Detention also offers a couple of gags so strange (a funny movie-within-movie-within-et-cetera bit involving pirated slasher-porn flicks) they look like the filmmakers' bid to be seen as the next Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze. Lest that sounds too high-brow, there's more vomit in this movie than at a frat party catered with week-old sushi.
I don't recall anything in Southland Tales being remotely funny, and comedy has a way of making disparate parts work together by providing a cohesive theme throughout all the non-sequitors: laughter.
Immediate first impression: Heathers. On acid. With Scream and Donnie Darko making out on the seat next to it.
Everything you said should make me love this movie. I can't trust any of it will be true, especially if there is "buzz"
There is seemingly no genre that the angst and ecstasy of the adolescent’s growing pains cannot inhabit – yet part of the genius (and I don’t use that word lightly) of Detention is to mash up all these different genres into a postmodern, protean plot that simply defies summary. Suffice it to say that there is the dark comic satire (and suicidal tendencies) of Heathers, the bloody body count (and self-referentiality) of a post-Scream slasher, the Saturday group detention of The Breakfast Club, the intergenerational body swapping of Freaky Friday, the apocalyptic prescience of Donnie Darko, the time travel of Back to the Future, as well as subplots involving a grizzly bear abducted by aliens and a school bully transforming into The Fly (complete with wings and acidic vomit).
Kahn weaves these elements into a playful bubblegum pastiche, full of razorsharp one-liners, pop-culture parodies, bizarre digressions and flagrant breaches of the fourth wall, all tinged with a voguish nostalgia (for 1992!) because, as one character so absurdly puts it, “the ’90s are the new ’80s.” And so Detention nails the teenagers of today – piecing together their identity from an infinity of retro-cultural models no further away than a mouse click, and yet still struggling, as ever, to fit in, find themselves (and the guy or girl of their dreams), and get an A – if not save the world.
With every second of the film seeming to contain as many ideas as frames, this is one of the most hyperactive, desultorily attention-demanding films ever made, guaranteeing endless rewatch value and ensuring a well-deserved cult status. It is also very, very funny, bombarding the viewer with one quotable quip after another.
Packing in more confounding slang than a Wu-Tang record and more gonzo subplots than a Pynchon novel, relentlessly manic high-school horror-comedy "Detention" will leave most viewers winded after the first reel. Writer-director Joseph Kahn labors mightily to maintain a speed-freak pace throughout, though his script and cast run out of gas long before he does, and hence what starts as a bracing rush quickly devolves into a deadening assault of stimuli. Not without merits, the film may ultimately prove too strange for the multiplex and far too glib for the arthouse.
The densely woven, pop-culture-stuffed script is impossible to summarize tidily, but operates largely on tropes winkingly borrowed from other movies: The ‘90s-obsessed Ione undergoes a Freaky Friday-like switch with her mother, sending her back to 1992; the school responds to CinderHella's murders, crazily, by forcing students believed to have information into a Saturday detention straight out of The Breakfast Club; eventually, catastrophe must be averted with a nerd-built time machine housed not in a Back to the Future Delorean but within the school's mascot, a stuffed bear.
Director Kahn, a music-video vet, doesn't only use this hubbub as an occasion for fast cutting, glossy production values and out-of-nowhere visual elements (like a sequence in which a bullying jock turns out to suffer a Jeff Goldblum-ish fly disease). He and co-screenwriter Mark Palermo also cram more smart-ass dialogue and meta-movie banter in than actors should be expected to deliver or audiences to digest.
It all comes off though. Detention also offers a couple of gags so strange (a funny movie-within-movie-within-et-cetera bit involving pirated slasher-porn flicks) they look like the filmmakers' bid to be seen as the next Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze. Lest that sounds too high-brow, there's more vomit in this movie than at a frat party catered with week-old sushi.
I must see this film.
0
Options
surrealitychecklonely, but not unloveddreaming of faulty keys and latchesRegistered Userregular
The JudgeThe Terwilliger CurvesRegistered Userregular
edited April 2012
I've read damn near everything Don Winslow has written. Love the guy. But I felt like Savages wasn't exactly the best thing he'd done and did not see it as a potential film with major actors and backing.
I saw this at Gen Con last year, and it was fantastic. It really wasn't ripping on LARPers -- you really wanted to get out there and join in. At least, I did.
As far as I know, it only has distribution in Utah right now, though.
Seems fairly by the numbers, but it made Get The Fuck Outta Here money in France and Omar Sy picked up the César for it, so it will probably end up in front of me sooner or later.
Looked a little too "What About Henry" to me, but it pulled the requisite heart strings, looks good.
I've read damn near everything Don Winslow has written. Love the guy. But I felt like Savages wasn't exactly the best thing he'd done and did not see it as a potential film with major actors and backing.
Posts
Willard? it doesn't look like a bizarre horror movie with trained evil rats by Crispin Glover.
Anyway, I still think it looks funny and I love the thunder buddies song.
The best part is when the minigun from the helicopter shoots the chick, and she walks it off.
Nope. Still terrible.
you disappoint me
Edit: And the divorce scene? Thats the more realistic gunshot to the head you are ever going to see in cinema. bullethole, body falls straight down. no head exploding/body flying 50 feet/entire scene in slowmo.
edit: that ted trailer.... I thought that was a different actor and I was going to say as a joke "Man mark whalberg looks like shit". then I heard him talk. yikes. Think they did something with makeup to make him old and dumpy or does he look dumpy now? That character is radically different then anything I have seen him do, so I'll give him credit there.
Why does every trailer with a cast under 30 have at least one makeout scene
Up until that point the needle was wavering between "could be a solid execution of a less than original concept" to "90 minutes of cliches", but then it just pegged to the right.
With Michigan's "Financial manager" law, Robocop is one solid corporate bid for Detroit away from being reality
Of course no corporation would ever bid on Detroit
I know this is a few pages old now but I wanted to respond. I think we could indeed be seeing the start of a trend here. And you know what, why not? Writers have always got inspiration from all sorts of sources. It might be a quirky news story, a local legend, or a meandering conversation with friends. There's every chance that newspaper ad might have sparked off some writer's imagination anyway, the only difference is that thanks to the internet we've all seen it too. It's already happened more than once - there was that guy a little while back that sold a script based on a reddit comment. I mean yeah, that sounds cheesy as hell but it also sounds like a lot of fun and who knows what else we'll get in the future from the massively distributed brainstorming session that is the web? Bring it on, I say.
One of my favorite movies growing up, even today. The film whisked me away to a magical world where one could get exploding robot masks, Nail polish that can change colors with the touch of a stylus, three tittied whores, holographic tennis coaches, and I guess false memories of vacations or spy shit or whatever. Just magical.
Plus it had some goddamn bloody scenes and I still crack up to this day whenever they get sent out into the martian landscape and get all bug eyed.
This just seems...unnecessary.
But, then again, if we need foul-mouthed CGI teddybears on the road to PG13 or R-rated big name full CGI movies, well, I guess we'll take that bridge.
So, I am hearing weird buzz about this movie.
Also, wtf @ 2 minutes
Wait, I'm confused. Are indie movies remaking mainstream movies now? Hasn't this movie been made like twice or even thrice?
Immediate first impression: Heathers. On acid. With Scream and Donnie Darko making out on the seat next to it.
Hollywood Executive, "Shaddup!"
ooo I was ready to give negative fucks about this movie. Bravo.
Obviously the Samuel Goldwyn hires better executives!
Everything you said should make me love this movie. I can't trust any of it will be true, especially if there is "buzz"
Then I watched the movie and gave up after like 20 minutes.
I must see this film.
cool
STEAM
STEAM
Alright, fine, I could watch that
Oliver Stone clearly disagreed with me:
I saw this at Gen Con last year, and it was fantastic. It really wasn't ripping on LARPers -- you really wanted to get out there and join in. At least, I did.
As far as I know, it only has distribution in Utah right now, though.
Looked a little too "What About Henry" to me, but it pulled the requisite heart strings, looks good.
I love that they seem to have voice cast Heavy Weapons guy for Santa Claus.....my movie going experience will be the better for it.
So that reads like a reverse polygamy is good/ weed is good/ regular guy is diehard movie.
Did I sum that up proper?
Credits have Wilson and Stone working out the screenplay, so I have no idea if this will hold to the book or skip the rails somewhere along the line.