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It is my theory that IM2 also suffered from a late script change erasing Stark's drinking problem.
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It's funny how much attention it's getting when the basic plot has already been done several times over. Battle Royale and The Condemned come to mind, and I'm sure there's more.
Was that the original premise before the Avengers replaced it?
It was the original premise before sudden radiation poisoning replaced it.
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"Oh, it's probably all the power and attention and drama I get from being a well-known superhero exacerbating my
alcoholismactually I'm dying for no good reason. It's okay, though, I'll just solve a puzzle and be okay."'swhy he goes around drinking that green sludge every time he should be drinking booze. It's a shame, too, because the first movie sets it up beautifully by having him drink all the damn time but never making a point of commenting on it.
1) Huge budget
2) Huge, built in audience of teenagers
3) Existing sequels to franchise
4) Jennifer Lawrence
5) They're actually pretty good. Suzanne Collins is not the best writer, but she writes a damn fine action scene, and writes a very cinematic action scene. And Katniss is a far more interesting role model than a lot of girls in supposedly YA novels (hi Bella Swan!).
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6) They are really, really funny the way I read them. It is some dark fucking satire on American coverage of the Iraq War in particular. The best description of the Hunger Games is not Battle Royale or anything like that but someone who was watching a LOT of television in the summer of 2003, and decided to merge the war coverage with reality TV because they weren't that dissimilar to begin with. The second one is (intentionally, I think) particularly hilarious.
The radiation poisoning was an interesting angle to go in IMO. Making Tony a potential dead man from his semi-cure with the
Am I the only one who thought Rhodey was being a dick when he effectively stole the War Machine suit at the end with the implication to share that technology with the U.S. military?
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The problem is that none of the things that happen feel organic to his plight. They didn't just keep the Drunken fight. If you watch closely like 75% of the movie would make as much if not more sense if the driving plot was his decent into alcoholism,
The problem isn't necessarily that they changed but that they seem to have changed it at the last minute.
I also have a rant about how they really undercut Whiplash's perceived effectiveness as a villain and how a small rearranging of scenes could have made the movie much better.
Frankly I don't think the part of the movie where Stark hangs with Shield hurt the movie. The aimlessness of the rest of it hurt it.
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What are you talking about? A girl who tries to kill herself when her boyfriends brakes up with her, wants desperately to become something that feeds primarily on blood, and allows her child to be entered into a childbride deal with her best friend is the perfect female role model.
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Agreed. Hammer was a much more effective villain. Whiplash had occasional scenes where he shined but he wasn't around enough to make a good impression. The final fight was an anti-climax, as well. Stane and Tony's fight in the first film was vastly superior in execution. I loved the drone fights, though.
The very concept looks patently absurd, and then throw in the tweeny romance angle, the po-faced melodrama, and the ridiculous costumes and you have my anathema.
My cousin loves the book. He's also a Randroid, and did poorly in school.
I actually skipped that one, I just figured since they made such a big deal about switching out the lead actor. Not that's exactly a telling sign or anything.
Absurd concepts are normal for Hollywood. The Marvel movies are all absurd yet they're well executed, excluding a few.
'bum's post sold it perfectly. This isn't Twilight. Romance will be there, but it hopefully won't dominate the plot too much.
That said, tastes vary.
I'm starting to get interested in the property and I'm not Randroid or did poorly in school. :twisted:
Hell just by it being discussed here by people who have no interest in going to see it lets you know It's going to be a massive opening. When did anyone discuss that John Carter movie a week in advance around here? It was "Oh that opened last week? Hmm looks decent I guess".
Frankly the Hunger Games is huge with the 4th-8th grade set, my 11 year old daughter and all her little cronies have read it about 3 times already. My wife is a 5th grade teacher and has like 20 copies of the book in her room for students to borrow and they're perpetually loaned out, they all just go apeshit for it. Like someone mentioned there's entire schools going to the premiere on field trips and that's happening around here too (but not at my wife/kid's school).
I felt like the hunger games gave it a much more "reasonable" plot/backstory to the set up.
She does have a crisis of feelings late in the 2nd book that carries over into the 3rd, but it's not a big deal.
The books are much more about the politics and rebellion, than they are about a love triangle.
You can tell that Norton was having a good time and wasn't just looking for a paycheck.
I'd give it a watch.
In 10th grade we went to a screening of Schindler's List.
There was a definite divide in the theater between the people who were expecting something scatological and simplistic though so I'm sure the reviews will be polarized.
Really fantastic movie. I actually start laughing again just reading about scenes.
I also have to say the movie is nothing like the trailers.
That might be changed in the film to appeal to the Twilight crowd.
Gary Ross campaigned heavily to get this directing gig as he was a big fan of the books and I think between him and the built-in audience, there is enough hype that it wouldn't need to pander.
That only matters if he has the power to do it. Does he?
That's not always enough. Riami had some power, Sony still fucked him in the end. The only directors with definite power over studio's are Nolan, Speilberg and Cameron. There are probably others but they're the obvious ones. I'd include Bay only (with the Transformers franchise anyway) I doubt Speilberg gives a fuck what he does.
I haven't read The Hunger Games but I've heard it's a shitload better than Twilight, so I will go see the film with my wife.
Prometheus is probably my most-anticipated movie this year, behind maybe The Hobbit.
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Why is it that I get chills every time I read those words coming from a director?
They never seem to lead to anything good.
Reviews were actually very positive.
This was a movie that I figured would be kinda funny but completely blew away every expectation I had. There were more than a couple scenes that kept the jokes coming so quickly that I couldn't breathe.