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Spaceships Are Still Over Los Angeles

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  • FirmSkaterFirmSkater Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    They aren't "good" movies either.

    At least not in my opinion

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    FirmSkater wrote: »
    Samir Duran Duran wrote: »
    DrIanMalcolm wrote: »
    Fox is making a Missile Command movie

    This reminds me of what ol' James Cameron said this week about the Battleship movie
    James Cameron wrote:
    We have a story crisis. Now they want to make a movie from the game Battleship! This is pure desperation, because now the business is governed by the sequel, or what we call it: the franchise. This means turning something already successful into a sequel, because everyone in Hollywood knows how important it is that the movie, before it comes into the cinemas, is already a brand. If the brand has been around, Harry Potter“for example, or Spider-Man, you are light years ahead. And there lies the problem, because unfortunately these brands are always ridiculous. Battleship! This degrades the cinema.

    Remember when he made good movies?

    In the time I have been alive James Cameron has not made a good movie

    so, no

    You're younger than 17 years old?

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  • YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    holy shit James Cameron what is wrong with you

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  • DrIanMalcolmDrIanMalcolm Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Green wrote: »
    Please tell me that script is an actual thing

    You can read it here along with looking at the storyboards

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Ho! Ho! Ho! Drink Coke!Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Green wrote: »
    Please tell me that script is an actual thing

    technically it's a "treatment", not a script

    but yes it is 100% real

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  • FirmSkaterFirmSkater Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Macro9 wrote: »
    FirmSkater wrote: »
    Samir Duran Duran wrote: »
    DrIanMalcolm wrote: »
    Fox is making a Missile Command movie

    This reminds me of what ol' James Cameron said this week about the Battleship movie
    James Cameron wrote:
    We have a story crisis. Now they want to make a movie from the game Battleship! This is pure desperation, because now the business is governed by the sequel, or what we call it: the franchise. This means turning something already successful into a sequel, because everyone in Hollywood knows how important it is that the movie, before it comes into the cinemas, is already a brand. If the brand has been around, Harry Potter“for example, or Spider-Man, you are light years ahead. And there lies the problem, because unfortunately these brands are always ridiculous. Battleship! This degrades the cinema.

    Remember when he made good movies?

    In the time I have been alive James Cameron has not made a good movie

    so, no

    You're younger than 17 years old?

    I'm 22.

    I don't like Terminator 2 and I barely enjoyed Terminator. Its not for me I guess.

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    FirmSkater wrote: »
    Macro9 wrote: »
    FirmSkater wrote: »
    Samir Duran Duran wrote: »
    DrIanMalcolm wrote: »
    Fox is making a Missile Command movie

    This reminds me of what ol' James Cameron said this week about the Battleship movie
    James Cameron wrote:
    We have a story crisis. Now they want to make a movie from the game Battleship! This is pure desperation, because now the business is governed by the sequel, or what we call it: the franchise. This means turning something already successful into a sequel, because everyone in Hollywood knows how important it is that the movie, before it comes into the cinemas, is already a brand. If the brand has been around, Harry Potter“for example, or Spider-Man, you are light years ahead. And there lies the problem, because unfortunately these brands are always ridiculous. Battleship! This degrades the cinema.

    Remember when he made good movies?

    In the time I have been alive James Cameron has not made a good movie

    so, no

    You're younger than 17 years old?

    I'm 22.

    I don't like Terminator 2 and I barely enjoyed Terminator. Its not for me I guess.

    Dear Lord

    Were you a special kid?

    edit:

    Which would also mean you didn't like True Lies

    These are sad times

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    On another note

    Someone should hide that spidey stuff from a person that takes that rape list thing to heart

    edit:

    I really enjoyed Peter's surprised face when he learned that MJ was really a man.

    That's one strong square jaw.

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Have you guys seen the trailers for the new thing Cameron is a producer on? Sanctum, or whatever? The spelunking movie

    For a movie that I'm sure they spent lots of money on it looks... cheap, somehow

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  • DrIanMalcolmDrIanMalcolm Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I've seen it, looks okay. Got some good actors in it

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  • UlisesUlises Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
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    he even looks like italian spider-man guy in this picture

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Tell us where it came from, Peter.

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  • redheadredhead Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Cameron's Script wrote:
    ON TOP OF THE BRIDGE TOWER. Hold a beat. We hear screams approaching. Spidey appears and sets her on terra firma. She clings to him, looking down and around in wonder. He has put the world at her feet. She can't believe this is happening to her.

    In a dizzying down-angle we see how the suspension cables all meet radially at the top of the tower... like the treads of some vast spider web. Peter and MJ seem to sit at the very center of the web, surrounded by the lights of the city. It is a warm spring night. And the moment is pure magic.

    She stands with her back against a girder, needing to feel something solid. Spider Man stands before her, a perfectly formed male silhouette with a soothing low voice.
    SPIDER MAN
    Courtship among the spiders is highly ritualized. It varies from species to species. The male spider may circle the female, or wave his front legs... to signal that he is not prey.

    Spider Man moves in a hypnotic arc around her. He raises his hands in a dance-like movement. Lowers them.
    SPIDER MAN
    The female usually signals her willingness by an uncharacteristic passivity.

    MJ takes a deep breath. Her lip trembles. Her knees are weak. Her eyes, though, are steady, gazing at the silhouette before her. She doesn't move or speak. He moves closer.
    SPIDER MAN
    In certain crab spiders, such as Xysticus, the male will attach strands of silk to the female... tying her limbs...

    Spider Man moves his hand gracefully across her, and she sees the sheerest silk webbing glinting in the moonlight. First one wrist. Then the other. Hypnotic movement in the moonlight. Her arms are bound to the wall. Her breathing gets more rapid.
    SPIDER MAN
    Since the female can break free at any time, the bonds have only symbolic significance.

    MARY JANE
    The male must be very bold... to take such liberties with the predatory female.
    SPIDER MAN
    Yes. He is very bold. But he must also trust her.
    (he moves very close)
    Close your eyes.

    He removes his mask and kisses her. Their mouths very slowly and very sensuously devour each other. Peter and MJ are locked together. He is mesmerizing, gentle, powerful. He pushes up her skirt. They make love, high above the world. She doesn't look.
    um so this is incredible

    why was this movie never made, this would have been the best scene ever

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  • ProhassProhass Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    James Cameron has never made a bad movie, and while you can argue that his films are formulaic, and he has made two sequels (one of which completely shook up the formula to the original and became a classic in its own right, and the other did a similar thing and was based on his own original concept, again, how 'original' it was is up for debate, but in a literal sense that it was not part of a franchise or brand name it was original), his point about reliance on brands is valid and is hardly something he can be accused of hypocrisy over with any accuracy.

    I mean whether or not you thought avatar sucked or was dances with wolves, it still was not a brand and everyone thought he was taking a huge risk (it turned out he wasnt, and he never really has, but again another argument).

    Its not so much that he's throwing stones in his glass house, maybe something slightly more solid than glass but not exactly bricks and mortar?

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  • DrIanMalcolmDrIanMalcolm Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Cameron does have a point with the branding, but he is still a bit of a hypocrite with his sequels/franchise comment. Also he seems to believe that no movie based on an existing brand can be good and that is just ridiculous. The Social Network has a good chance of winning this year's oscar for Best Picture for pete's sake

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  • ProhassProhass Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I actually disagree with him entirely, but I dont think hes being hypocritical, just narrowminded. I mean theres nothing about brands that dull creativity, or sequels for that matter, as he has proven with his own sequels. As long as the films good who cares what its intellectual property source is?

    And frankly there are a shittonne of non-brand and non-franchise films being made that are awesome and do well.

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  • YoSoyTheWalrusYoSoyTheWalrus Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Spider Man moves in a hypnotic arc around her. He raises his hands in a dance-like movement. Lowers them.

    the best

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  • BusterKBusterK Negativity is Boring Cynicism is Cowardice Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    YoSoyTheWalrus wrote: »
    Spider Man moves in a hypnotic arc around her. He raises his hands in a dance-like movement. Lowers them.

    the best

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtcMW3i6-gA

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  • DudBoltDudBolt Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    That spider man script sounds like a porno.

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  • FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    For some reason I got less excited when watching that trailer as opposed to the teaser.

    Don't know why.

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  • DrIanMalcolmDrIanMalcolm Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Well

    Michelle Rodriguez was visible in it and opened her mouth

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  • FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    That could be it.

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  • DrIanMalcolmDrIanMalcolm Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I was also less excited with the trailer, but I think it's just because I loved the first one a lot (music was perfect) and I hadn't seen any of the footage before.

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  • HoukHouk Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    there wasn't anything in it that said 'oh well shit nevermind what i saw before, forget this'

    which i guess is good enough

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    First images of Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander in the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo remake

    I admit I was skeptical but they did a good job of gothin' her up

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  • SeriouslySeriously Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I guess I should read that book

    ...?

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  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    edited January 2011
    no, not really.

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    If you're interested you should just check out the original Swedish film
    It really compresses and cuts out a lot of the extraneous bullshit from the book

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  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    The book is damn good, it just should have ended about 100 pages before it did.


    The real point here is that the movie that already exists is Sex With That Girl You Were Always Hot For In High School perfect.

    I like a lot of the actors and the director, but damn, this is a perfect example of a remake that didn't need to be made.

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  • SeriouslySeriously Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    So it's a bit of a let down?

    ha ha ha!


    okay I'll see about renting the movie

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    I liked the first book, don't get me wrong

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  • Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited January 2011
    Now imagine that trailer with this song playing over it.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7umgkNX8NM

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