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Somebody please explain why this is necessary. The original still stands alone as one of the best sci fi films of our generation. The effects are still mesmerizing. You think they can find a better henchman than MIchael Ironside? In your fucking dreams (no pun intended

 

In terms of unnecessary planned remakes, I don't think anything can hold a candle to All Quiet on the Western Front. After reading that, I was surprised that "Gone with the Wind" and "Citizen Kane" didn't have any upcoming remakes, too.

 

Nothing should surprise you anymore. Hollywood is nothing but a bunch of uncreative cuntflaps who rely on the simple-mindedness of the general populace for the popularity of such shit-sucking moves as "The A-Team", "The Expendables", or any movie based on vampires, natural disasters, or comic book heroes.

They remade Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, for fucksake. No classic is sacred anymore.

 

At this point, it's all about brand recognition. Hollywood has been remaking films for a long time but recently they've gone crazy. The reason is that in our over-entertained society, they feel like a movie with a recognizable title - something that is part of our cultural lexicon - is far more likely to attract viewers than a movie with an unheard of premise. Basically they believe that all else equal, the film with the recognizable name will make more money than the film with an original premise.

Combine this with the fact that studios pretty much rely on 3 or 4 films a year to stay profitable, and you've got the $200 million dollar Battleship movie in production. Will it have anything to do with the board game? No. Will it potentially attract lazy people who wouldn't have seen it otherwise because the name is recognizable? Quite possibly. I hate the remakes craze too, but don't expect it to end anytime soon.

 

I think I may have trumped everybody for the week with this find. You want to see a steaming pile of expensive shit? Just click below and prepare to be wowed. You thought a movie about Battleship is bad? Hows abouts a movie about Rock'em Sock'em Robots?

If this movie becomes a hit I have lost faith in all mankind.

 

When I first saw that trailer before "True Grit", I joked to my friend that it was inspired by "Rock'em Sock'em Robots". I didn't actually think it was true.

Anyways, when can we look forward to the "Hungry Hungry Hippos" picture?

 

So... As per a Warner Bros. press release, the villains in The Dark Knight Rises have been cast. We're looking at Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle and Tom Hardy as Bane. Here's the only link that I could find:

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/48139

Thoughts?

 

Uh...I'm happy that Tom Hardy is getting a nice paycheck? The success of Nolan's films have never had much to do with the names of his actors.

After all, I remember how infuriated and upset everyone was when Heath Ledger, the "gay Australian cowboy", was announced as the new Joker. I think that one turned out okay.

 

Tom Hardy became a household name once my roommates and I watched RocknRolla. Then of course there was Bronson and Inception.

Don't know about you guys but I'm waiting for the Scrabble movie!!! That was blatant sarcasm by the way.

 

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So many possibilities for Catwoman and they chose Anne Hathaway.

I mean, she's alright. But she's no Michelle Pheiffer. I'd rather have a 50+ Michelle Pheiffer reprise her role than Hathaway. She's....just not that attractive.

Granted she does like to show off her tits, maybe Nolan can work that into the script, similar to Schumacher did with Bat nipples.

 

From the Anne Hathaway story. So he's doing 3 and it's done? That would fucking suck, because these have actually been really, really good.

Especially Ledger. He was awesome.

 

Nolan and Bale have both said they'd be walking away after the third flick. That makes me wonder if/how they'll 'wrap it up' or if they'll leave it open for further sequels without Nolan and Bale (and there is zero doubt in my mind that they'd go forward with sequels without Nolan and Bale).

I stopped questioning Nolan after seeing Ledger as Joker. If he thinks Ann Hathaway will be a good Selina Kyle/Catwoman, who am I to question it?

I'm thinking that, given that Nolan tends to strive for 'realism' (inasmuch as he doesn't have any of the 'metahuman' aspects that other comic book movies have), I don't think Catwoman will have any superpowers, so much as she will just be an acrobat and cat burglar. I don't think they'll play up the 'nine lives' or 'coming back from the dead' stuff that they played up in Batman Returns. I also think Bane is going to be a much more cerebral villain whose goal is more in line with what it was in the Knightfall series: taking over the Gotham organized crime rings and underworld. That was Bane's chief goal, but he knew to do that he'd have to get rid of Batman.

It seems like trying to do the ENTIRE Knightfall storyline would be a lot. Will they do the 'Arkham Breakout" angle, where Batman tires himself out rounding up all of the escaped criminals before Bane attacks him after he is tired and weak? If so, will Bane actually cripple him, and then have the focus shift to him trying to regain his abilities? There are so many ways it could go, and honestly, his first two Batman movies sold me. Short of something completely insane, I'll be there opening night.

 

Maybe Nolan should called it quits after just two films. I just don't know what they're going to do in the third one. "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight" were the same idea, except the first one was awful, and the second was legitimately great. Where exactly do they go from there?

Anyways, have no fear; as D26 correctly noted, regardless of whether Nolan and Bale will continue, it certainly won't stop Warner Brothers from making many more Batman films.

 

This has the potential to be awesome.

Director: Ariel Vromen

Stars: Michael Shannon, Benicio Del Toro and James Franco

The Iceman is the electrifying true story of Richard Kuklinski (Shannon), a notorious mob contract killer and loving family man. He earned his nickname by freezing the bodies of his victims, disguising the time of death, and throwing police off-track. He was a man who used his tendencies toward violence and detachment from consequence to create an idyllic family life. His family and neighbors believed he was an average businessman, having no idea about his deadly alternate life. Kuklinski killed over one hundred people during his life. He never felt remorse for anything he had done, except hurting his family. Del Toro co-stars as Kuklinski’s employer, the notorious mobster Roy Demeo, and Franco plays his mentor assassin known as Mr. Softee.

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The book , The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer by Philip Carlo is awesome.

 

They had a bunch of interviews and HBO specials with the real murderer in the mid 90s, before he was killed himself;

 

He IS the next Spider-Man. They're half way through filmming whatever next that they have planned for that most uninteresting series (I think they're just re-doing it like Hulk).