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I just don't know what to believe anymore.
See also, the EU.
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Avengers has been out for five days over here and I haven't gone to see it yet...
The Euros enjoying big-budget, high-concept shitfests is not a new phenomenon.
They're basically the whole reason Clash of the Titans and Tintin got sequels.
(would that this hoodie were a time-hoodie!)
Everyone is just scared of angering Liam Neeson and having their constant stream of teenage prostitutes interrupted by his subsequent rampage.
1) Is Ron Perlman in it?
2) Is it a science fiction movie or a fantasy movie?
3) Are there swords?
I'm still amazed he's actually in Drive and somehow didn't appear in Predators.
I don't understand the warning signs.
Ice Pirates got all of the above and was every bit as amazing as robot ninja pirates that were also in the movie.
71: Into the Fire is a good war film that is kind of like Korean Alamo. Early days of the Korean War, the South is getting pushed back, so it's up to an all student soldier squad of 71 students to hold the advancing North Korean army at a girls school to protect a crossing point over a key river. It's one of the few Korean films I've seen where it doesn't try to make the North seem like a misguided brother or to give them sympathy for their actions. It's very brutal, Saving Private Ryan levels of violence, particularly in the opening scene, and does a good job of having the young men realize they are pretty much dead, but it's got the right jingoistic buttons going. And they don't crap on the US, which is nice. The only weird thing that stands out is that the cameras have a filter that really highlights freckles on people's faces.
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope is a Morgan Spurlock documentary about San Diego Comic-Con that follows 6 people around during the 2011 comic-con, interspersed with comic creators and actors and actresses in comic/nerd genre films. It's done in a way to highlight how fun the event is for the fans, and it doesn't make fun of them or anything which would be an awfully easy thing to do. The main people they follow around is a comic shop owner who's been there since the beginning who is trying to sell a super rare comic and the chick who makes pretty awesome Mass Effect costumes for the costume contest. There's also two artists looking to get evaluated, a guy who plans on proposing to his girlfriend at a Kevin Smith panel (there is such a great irony in this portion of the film that the guy never picks up on in trying to plan the proposal but the girlfriend doesn't want to leave his side), and a guy who is an action figure collector who is trying to get a super Galactus figure before they sell out. It's not a Senna or a Comedian in terms of originality or insight, but the people interviewed are actually delivering good stuff and being candid and aren't really posturing for the camera. There's actually only one really creepy guy in the film, who does a Star Wars slave girl booth. Everyone else are just people who like that they can go somewhere to enjoy that stuff with others, despite Hollywood's increasing presence.
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My favorite moment has to be the Merman scene. That was fucking hilarious.
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Hellboy 2 was a gorgeous looking movie with a crap story that skips over the part where it makes you actually give a shit about anything that's going on and just assumes you already do.
Best hate sex on film.
The massive popularity in Europe of the source material of Tintin had nothing to do with it making $Texas there? Big budget, mindless extravaganzas are popular all over the place. And Clash took over $150 million in the US, hardly disappointing numbers that needed Europe to save the sequel.
After marketing, the US numbers for CotT were squarely in the red, and has an RT/MC rating of 28/39.
If the film didn't triple its budget overseas, no more would have come from it. Studios don't generally look to spend a lot of money extending bland franchises that the critics and audiences don't care for.
Ron Perlman has done a LOT of crappy science fiction and a lot of crappy fantasy.
Basically I see his involvement in any new science fiction movie these days as a kiss of death for that picture being good.
Seriously, this movie has everything! Action, adventure, musicals and so on.
Oh, and it's almost 3 hours long.
I'm not a fan of Ron Perlman, but I do kinda feel sorry for the guy; he just has a big weird face that feels out of place in serious dramas not based on comic books. No wonder he tends to work with visually expressive directors like del Toro and Jeunet.
It was really, really good, it ends very abruptly, almost like it's just a peek through a window in the day in the life of four people, and it all takes place in one room.
Very well done, and incredibly awkward for 120 minutes straight.
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*The only exception is Chinatown.
I have seen very few Polanski films but I feel like Frantic held up until the very end.
So did Rosemary's Baby, his super-dark version of MacBeth and a film you can't find anywhere, Pirates.
Honestly I was surprised that the ending WAS NOT the four of them going into the bedroom to bang. Like really surprised actually.
Regardless, I enjoyed it. The dialogue was good, and everyone's emotions and pauses during scenes were very well timed. I'm still laughing over putting "armed with a stick" in a letter.
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Perlman fits in well with Sons of Anarchy.
1) It's written by Joss Whedon and directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, holy crap. 2) I really liked it when I saw it in the theater, a week after my tenth birthday. 3) There's a lot that's good about it!
But it doesn't quite work. Joss Whedon claims that they ruined his script – not by changing it but by executing it badly. Which is a plausible because while the movie is gorgeous (as you'd expect from Jeunet), the performances are painfully over the top.
I mean imagine if the over-the-top Schumachery nervous guy was played instead by Alan Tudyk and he gave an actual performance. Imagine if the Ron Perlman character was played by Adam Baldwin (or else they asked Perlman to tone it way the hell down) - that character might have gone from “shouty guy whom I want to die horribly” to “loveable rogue”.
And comedy is all about timing so hey maybe if someone else was directing, the zingers would actually be funny.
What Whedon's good at is making stories with charming surrogate families filled with loveable people who love each other. This one doesn't give you a warm-and-fuzzy community (maybe it would if the acting was better) – but it does give you, at least, a nice one-on-one friendship. Sigorney Weaver plays an alien-human hybrid, and Winona Ryder plays a self-hating robot who wishes she was human. Both actors give good, restrained performances (unlike most of the cast). And the two characters are both outsiders who from this kind-of heartwarming mother-daughter bond. (Or maybe it's a homoerotic bond, whichever.)
(It's been awhile since I watched Aliens 1-3, but Ripley's sexuality is never really addressed is it? It'd be neat if for this one they were bold enough to be like “oh, by the way, Ripley's a lesbian.”)
One other person gives a really good performance and that's Brad Dourif. One scene that's great is when Dourif and two other bad guys look on as three humans become infected with the alien parasites behind glass. The scene is just so creepy, and visually it's beautiful, and Dourif's awed expression is perfect.
Well, at least, it's a great scene until one of the guinea pigs opens his eyes and starts screaming in a cartoony Malcolm in the Middle kind of way.
Whedon said he didn't like how they handled Buffy the Vampire Slayer: the movie, so he went and made it into a series. I guess he did the same thing with this movie because it's basically proto-Firefly. There's a rag-tag team of space pirates who do morally questionable things but look out for each other like family. Ron Perlman's character is basically Jayne. Ripley is basically River – she's got brain damage at first, she has superpowers, and she cocks her head animalistically (Sigorney Weaver plays the part beautifully). And Ripley starts out as a naked girl in a glowing box. (And when we first see her she's not an adult. How much do you want to bet that Whedon was like “hey what if we made cloned-Ripley a teenager?” and the studio bosses were like “uh we're cloning Ripley because we want Sigorney Weaver to be in the movie, remember?” and Joss Whedon was like “oh, right.”)
Anyway I hope the two Jeunet movies I loved in middle school (Amélie, Delicatessen) hold up better.
This might be a deleted scene.
I don't regard it as canon, but as a fun "what-if" it is great.
Back then, maybe not. Now? I'd be interested in seeing him write & direct an Alien sequel.
It was but it's usually put back in.
And it was cancer, but in the picture she was pretty old. (Interesting fact: Ripley's daughter's picture is actually a picture of Signory' mother.)
However she did sleep with the prison doctor in order to avoid answering his question about what happened to her previously and why she was insistent on chest exams for Hicks and Newt.
He even remarks as such as they're getting dressed "you managed to deflect my question rather nicely, but I must have an answer."
I should note I have no immediate evidence to back this up, but I feel like this claim (or "the only good lines they kept were mine") is his standard fallback-if-the-project-is-criticized position.
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They deleted that scene out of Aliens, which is ridiculous because that scene's inclusion is the sole difference between Aliens being a really good movie and Aliens being a great movie. It informs the entire rest of the movie, the motherhood themes, everything.
She could still be a lesbian though. But I kind of like that she isn't--you don't have to be a lesbian to be butch.
Joss Whedon isn't the guy to write an Alien movie because Alien movies aren't supposed to be funny and he is incapable of doing that. Breezy action-adventure with thematic and character depth? Whedon's your man. Dead serious sci-fi/horror? He's done a scene here or there, but he can't (or isn't interested in) sustaining it.
By the way, Charlie Kaufman is apparently adapting a YA novel.
What has time changed for this?
Alien is just not the kind of franchise I see Whedon's style fitting with at all.
Well it's good you have no evidence.