Daybreakers

Vampire movie with a twist.

Willem Defoe is in it, I'm won over.

The movie looks great actually, I'm pretty excited to see it.

And I see there's no love for Where the Wild Things Are in this topic. I don't think I've been as excited for a movie before, maybe for The Dark Knight and a few others. I would say Watchmen but I was disappointed by that, I'm hoping that this won't be the same.

But Spike Jonze is directing it, the guy's extremely talented and Sendak approached him for it, and it just looks brilliant. People reading the script are making it sound much darker than a kid's movie, which could go either way.

I dont remember if I have ever read the book but it looks really well done.

2012 another end of the world destroy everything movie from Roland Emmerich.

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Originally posted by Alex Freeman:
And I see there's no love for Where the Wild Things Are in this topic. I don't think I've been as excited for a movie before, maybe for The Dark Knight and a few others. I would say Watchmen but I was disappointed by that, I'm hoping that this won't be the same.

But Spike Jonze is directing it, the guy's extremely talented and Sendak approached him for it, and it just looks brilliant. People reading the script are making it sound much darker than a kid's movie, which could go either way.

The trailer got linked to somewhere, but, yeah, nothing recent. Have to say, that trailer looks awesome, and the Arcade Fire song they have playing over it is just pitch-perfect.

Where the Wild Things Are was one of my favorite books as a kid. I saw a guy once who had the picture from the cover of the book painted onto the back of his leather motorcycle jacket. I was in love! But he was way too punk rock for me. lol

I've finally seen the trailer, and I can't wait to see the movie!!

Looking forward to GI Joe, and that Dilinger flick.

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Originally posted by Mystery Guest:
Because the world can never have enough Zombie movies.

Zombieland.

This could be a great night of mindless fun or really excruciatingly bad. I cannot tell

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Originally posted by Lan Martak:
This could be a great night of mindless fun or really excruciatingly bad. I cannot tell

Hopefully both.

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Originally posted by InfinityCircuit:

...Looking forward to GI Joe,...

Oh please tell me you're kidding.

At least pay to see something else and sneak into this instead. We don't want to encourage this kind of thing with dollars.

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Originally posted by 男の子™:

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Originally posted by InfinityCircuit:

...Looking forward to GI Joe,...

Oh please tell me you're kidding.

At least pay to see something else and sneak into this instead. We don't want to encourage this kind of thing with dollars.

Unfortunately I have a member of the target audience desperate to see this crap. *sigh* At least for Transformers 2 the movie reels got mixed up and I got a refund - I can't hope for that to happen twice.

I'm not gonna actively tell him when this movie is in theatres though - he knew when Transformers 2 came out.

The thing that gets me with the G.I. Joe movie is that there were places they could take that franchise movie that would've been good and instead they went with the most banal and predictable of all possible options.

I'd rather see GI Joe than Transformers. I have no idea where they're going with the story, I'm just looking forward to some explode-y goodness that isn't so overwhelming it makes me feel nauseated.

well, in that case, watch Iron Man again.

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Originally posted by Mystery Guest:
Daybreakers

Vampire movie with a twist.

OH! I have been waiting AGES to see this!! I'm excited as it's written/directed by the same pair of brothers from Australia that did Undead, a fantastic low-budget zombie flick. *claps with glee*

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Originally posted by Dweller in Darkness:
The thing that gets me with the G.I. Joe movie is that there were places they could take that franchise movie that would've been good and instead they went with the most banal and predictable of all possible options.

Yes, yes, yes. Exactly. The new comics (I think by IDW, maybe?) are great. They're hitting it exactly right.

Larry Hama was given an absolute shit job of writing a toy tie-in comic in the 80s and his created an absolute gem of a storyline. Why you'd throw all that away is completely incomprehensible. (Hollywood is often incomprehensible, howwever).

There's a great disconnect between Hollywood writers and producers and the actual consumers of entertainment.

The people who miss the G.I. Joe cartoon won't care about a live action movie because however over-the-top it is (hee! in-sentence paradox!), it can't possibly top the animated adventures. I mean, remember that crazy multi-part episode with the Joe Squad versus an antediluvian civilization with bio-engineered weapons? Can't fit that much crazy into a live-action movie.

The people who like the figures won't care about anything except the new figures.

The people who like the comics just won't care. It's not their Joe, and it's obvious from the get go.

Who is there target audience?

The cartoon was so bad. People get all nostalgic about it and I never understood why. I actually refused to even watch it after season 2 because it was so bad.

I kindof envy kids today. Their TV shows have so much better writing than in the 80s.

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Originally posted by Dweller in Darkness:

Who is there target audience?

The same audience as Transformers 2. Idiots.

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Originally posted by Furious:

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Originally posted by Dweller in Darkness:

Who is there target audience?

The same audience as Transformers 2. Idiots.

Well, I won't call him an idiot, but Devlin desperately wants to see it.

It's almost worse to say "idiots and children," though, because it makes it sounds like all children are idiots.

Comprimise on "people who haven't yet learned to set their expectations higher than sensory stimulation"?

It's just.. I wish he'd take my advice sometimes. But then, I also want him to develop independent thinking and to do that he needs to be exposed to things I might find distasteful.

I suppose I don't mind him following such a path, but at this part of the trail I'm forced to go along with him since I can't just pay for his ticket and send him in to the theatre. Perhaps I can convince him to wait for Netflix, at least then I don't have to watch it too.