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If people were acting like that when I saw The Raid, I would have walked out and complained 
And I've heard radio interviews with the director (when he was promoting the film in the UK) and I was proud to discover he's a Brit. Even if he is Welsh
Early word on the Dredd movie is that it is basically "The Raid + Robocop" and that is has a very hard R for crazy gory violence. Also saying that it's actually pretty good. I am now stoked for Dredd.
Unfortunately, Dredd will probably bomb at the box office. It comes out in two months and there hasn't been so much as a teaser yet.
EDIT: Some light Googling revealed that a trailer was in fact released last month. Weird that I never heard about it.
http://collider.com/dredd-movie-trailer/133319/
Looks like some stupid fun. Maybe I'll actually see it.
Last edited by Doctor Submarine (2012-07-14 05:27:17)
I thought it was going to be terrible based on the trailer and early word of production problems, but the early reviews and clip have me super excited.
Yeah, it has been getting positive reviews so far. Empire magazine gave it 3 (out of 5 ) stars which is still a recommendation.
It may get hurt because of the similarities to The Raid (although Dredd went into production first).
Poster and trailer for found footage Dinosaur movie: The Dinosaur Project-
That poster is very clever. The trailer, not so much.....
Sooo... Blair Witch Jurassic Park Project?
That's a profoundly terrible idea. Found Footage movies usually work on the strength of having an unknown entity as the antagonist. We already know what all these dinosaurs look like, so there's literally no benefit to doing it found-footage (and any action/chase scenes will be garbage).
I still am waiting for a good found-footage breaking into Area 51 movie. Wasn't Paranormal Activity guy making that, what happened to that project?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1245492/
I literally have no idea what to make of this thing. I...just...I got nothin.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that's going to be amazing.
That looks awesome!
That's a profoundly terrible idea. Found Footage movies usually work on the strength of having an unknown entity as the antagonist. We already know what all these dinosaurs look like, so there's literally no benefit to doing it found-footage (and any action/chase scenes will be garbage).
Yup. Also, it's a British film, which is a bit odd.
Anyway, I still like the poster even if the film looks really shite.
That's a profoundly terrible idea. Found Footage movies usually work on the strength of having an unknown entity as the antagonist. We already know what all these dinosaurs look like, so there's literally no benefit to doing it found-footage (and any action/chase scenes will be garbage).
Found Footage works when there is SOME mystery. In one of the first, Cannibal Holocaust, three people are missing but the TV station they were working for finds their cameras. Thinking to make a TV special, they look at the footage... nope, that's not going on TV 
The Asylum are accepting pitches.....for African American and Latino movies- http://theasylum.cc/production.php#jobs
Oh, and for Martial Arts movies....
Huh.
http://theasylum.cc/product.php?id=205
I might actually watch an Asylum movie with Sean Astin in it.
Yeah, I was thinking that too
wow... does it matter that I don't live anywhere near California to The Asylum guys? Like... they wouldn't give a crap if they got a pitch from Alabama?
Stuff I've watched recently (without commentaries)....
Jimmy Stewart in Harvey. Not at all what I thought it would be. Rather gentle comedy that sometimes rises to screwball levels.
Tucker and Dale vs Evil. Very funny. Not quite a Shaun of the Dead-level subversion of the genre, but a lot of fun.
Three Amigos. This was with the 9-y-os. They loved it, and holy crap is that a fun movie. Just about perfect. We gave up on the dull and song-poor Pete's Dragon after 20 minutes (I'd never seen it) and put on The Addams Family. They weren't sure what to make of that for a little while but really got into it by the end.
Ep 1 and 2 of Mission: Impossible. I'd only seen maybe 1 ep previously in syndication (it's now all available on Amazon Streaming, free with Prime). It's really good, but Steven Hill (later replaced by Peter Graves) plays it very flat, reportedly at the demand of the creator.
Also having fun with Sherlock series 2.
@Zarban: I really liked Tucker and Dale as well.
Last edited by Squiggly_P (2012-07-22 06:21:46)
Just watched the 2011 version of Conan, and it's pretty hilariously bad. The effects are only slightly better than Xena: Warrior Princess stuff. Toward the end of the film especially there are some really really bad shots where they filmed people on green screens and threw a matte painting behind them and called it done. It looked like something you'd see in a bad youtube parody. The last shot of the movie has THE worst lens flare / metal glint I've ever seen in a feature film. Period. It is hard to believe.
There are characters that Conan spends much of the film fighting with who just aren't there at the end at all for the final scenes. He has a boat full of guys that he just leaves in a lagoon or something. They're probably all waiting there like "Dude, where the fuck did that bitch go? We were supposed to wait for her, right? Should we go look for her or something? Like... make sure they're OK?" "No, no, no... I'm sure everything's fine. Let's just wait on the boat."
I can't believe this movie cost $90 Million. It looks and feels more like a $10 Million movie, or like a TV miniseries or something.
It's ok, it's better than Sorbo's Kull film and frankly there's far too few of this type of movie out there for me to exclude it totally. However, its principal failing is that it is boring. It's devoid of excitement, tension, peril and stakes.
Instead, we get like an extended scene with Conan and a thief companion entering the villain's fortress, only to find that the villain and his entourage have left the fortress already. Which, not coincidentally also happens in Pathfinder, also by the same director, as we greeted with a long 'chase' scene in a cave which doesn't really go anywhere.
Worse, when the villain does succeed at the end, he doesn't really become any more powerful and is defeated by Conan even whilst being supposedly 'all powerful', leaving you with the feeling that the entire film is pretty pointless.
What annoys me is the sex scene with Rachel Nichols having a body double. Now, I know body doubles are not new but I do think they are sometimes pointless. If your lead actress doesn't want to show her breasts, the character doesn't need to show her breasts. It was only a sex scene that added nothing to the plot therefore seeing the character's breasts was totally unnecessary.
Now, if it was Rachel Nichols' breasts, I wouldn't be moaning
That movie was a gigantic pile of garbage. One of the worst things I've ever sat through, and a total desecration of everything that's good about the original Conan.
Bullet speaks the truth......
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