Prepare to get wet, TiBettes: Your favourite fan-fiction housewife porn, 50 Shades Of Grey is in pre-production. Don't ask me who's who in it because it is in pre-production and I don't know. Rumour has it they want Emmy Rossum to star.
Google it, and shit will probably pop up. And, MOTHERFUCKER, don't jinx the Deadwood thing by being a meanie-meanerson to me. I have a candle in the window for that shit as we all should, especially with Luck failing. If they did it for Family Guy and Arrested Development, they could do it for what might be the best show ever made.
By the way, Top Gun II just got approved. Tony Scott will direct, and Tom "Maverick" Cruise returns (pending script approval). I will not fucking watch it unless Val Kilmer is in it. A sequel without Iceman in in the ladies' room down the hall.
Between this, Dumb and Dumber 2, and Twins 2 (with Eddie Murphy as the third twin), it's been a razor-close, hotly contested battle for "most unnecessary, blatantly cash-grubbing sequel ever", and they have all been announced in the past couple of months! If that isn't a sign of how far in the shit Hollywood is right now, both financially and with regards to original screenplays, I don't know what is.
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Here's the full trailer. I'm torn on this one. The director of this movie has style to burn, but has also yet to make a movie that hasn't sucked (Wanted, Daywatch, Nightwatch) However, the book is just fucking awesome. It looks visceral and exciting, so I'm in.
I liked Day Watch! It's a silly movie that trivializes the fine book it was adopting, but is fun nonetheless. It's a funny concept, but the trailer makes it seem dark and serious. Maybe they manage to pull that off in a funny way, or it's just a misleading advertisement. However, even from the trailer, I can tell the action scenes are going to be shit. Which is unfortunate.
Seth Grahame-Smith is still a young author and he doesn't expect his readers to take things too seriously, his biggest books include Pride & Prejudice & Zombies (which is in pre-production right now) and Unholy Night, which paints the Three wisemen from The Nativity as murderous thieves trying to save baby Jesus from Herod. This book is more serious than his others. He blends real historical moments deftly with his own horror elements, and paints Lincoln as a depressed and shell-shocked personality (I won't give away why). The novel is more of a life saga than an action-horror story, but action is what sells soap at the box office so how faithful this will be is anybody's guess.
I really enjoyed, Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. I didn't really have high expectations for the book because of what it was called, but I was very surprised. Its also the kind of book that will be hard to fuck up as a movie. The story was fairly linear and had a certain darkness throughout. I'm very much looking forward to seeing how they adapt it for the screen play. I'm sure it will be better than the recent cinematic abortion, "The Raven."
God I want that shit to happen. A really good BDSM porn mainstream movie with this much buzz would generate the most entertaining internet slapfights in history, and fetish clubs will be fucking awash with girls who want to meet their own Badass uber dom. I've ordered a copy of the book so that I can brush up on the appropriate level of smoldering.
Latest Dark Knight Rises trailer: Am I the only one thats skeptical about this movie? It just looks... okay.
One of my friends said he thought the stadium collapse scene, more prevalent in the last trailer, looked over the top Michael Bay to him. He used the words, "jump the shark moment". Nolan has yet to disappoint in terms of a quality story and tight action scenes. Why do I think you are just joking?
The new trailer is good, not quite as good as the previous trailer but this one had some great images in it. I don't think Nolan will make an "okay" film to end this series, call me a fanboy but I'm fucking pumped.
Let's just hope the fight scenes were better the The Dark Knight. It was a very good movie, but honestly watch it again and try to tell me that the hand-to-hand fights in that film weren't the worst in the history of film. Batman moves like he has cement in his veins during that film. And then there's that raspy whisper that sounds like he had too many cigarettes... "INOTWERRIN HOCKEY PUDDS!!!" The new one will be good, I have no doubt. I just hope I don't have to listen all over again to people going on about how a Batman movie is a profound exploration of human emotions and conditions. It isn't. It's a better-than-average scripted comic book movie so SHADDAP, douchebag.
Yeah I'm going to have to agree with the fight scenes critique. It isn't just Nolan, but Hollywood at large. Pardon me, but I enjoy a good fight scene with people who know what they're doing. The first Transporter movie is a good example. I'll take that over a confused shakey-cam any day. As for TDKR, I changed my mind, I don't think Bruce Wayne is going to die after all. It's too obvious, especially with all the hints in the trailer. Nolan is all about misdirection.
You're absolutely correct on this. "The Dark Knight" is the only great (or even good) action film I have ever seen that also had shitty fight scenes. I have never understood why or how the shaky cam became popular, since it is awful in every film I have seen it used in, utterly ruining one's enjoyment of the action. I have confidence that Nolan will improve in this regard; Inception's fights were nothing special, but they were decent and competently made, eschewing the shaky cam bullshit. You're going to hear this regardless of the actual quality of the picture, if the reaction to "Batman Begins" (which sucked horribly) was any indication. I just hope that Nolan isn't pressured into making a fourth film and can instead move on to bigger and better things.
Not sure if I posted this here or not, but a month ago my friend who works for Warner Brothers saw a screening of it, said the executives walked out the theatre with tears in their eyes or crying. I pushed him on the exaggeration, and he said he wasn't. I asked him "Was it because the movie was good or they just know how much cash they're going to make?" "Both."