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You just know they'll end up making that Expendables-style team-up action movie starring digital versions of dead classic-era Hollywood actors
I can't remember where I read this, it might even have been on the podcast but wasn't there a trend about 10 years ago where A-listers were being digitally scanned so that their young CG likeness could star in films forever more?
With Benjamin Button technology, we could have a Star Wars Episode VII that follows directly on from ROTJ with the actors 'looking' the same. Tron Legacy attempted this - with mixed success - but it'll only get more sophisticated. Ultimately it'll become more a legal issue than a technological obstacle.
Aliens versus Jedis versus Superheroes versus The Enterprise versus Wizards versus Expendables versus Transformers versus Vampires versus Zombies versus Mutants versus Werewolves versus Dinosaurs versus James Bond versus everything that came out of the evelators in Cabin in the Woods versus The Tea Party versus Samuel L Jackson's cussing versus Ryan versus Dorkman versus Your Mom
Cinemas will be known as 'Mannies' by 2020, as in 'want to go to the mannies'?. 'cos they'll only be showing Bat MAN, Spider MAN, Super MAN, Iron MAN, etc.
And it'll be hard to remember which sequel of which reboot we're up to.
Then DC and Marvel will merge their franchises in the great singularity event of 2024.
Reflected on the creature known as Margot Kidder. I never liked her as Lois. Someone like Jaclyn Smith or Ali McGraw would have fit the bill so much better. Indeed, she was kind of odd looking. It won't win me any chivalry merit badges any time soon, but I think Teague's insinuations that Kidder resembles Gollum were spot-on.
[spits out his malibu and coke] Wtf!?! Sacrilege!
Enjoying the episode, fellas. Classic movie. Great commentary.
Production Company logos Russell Crowe phones it in Exposition yadda yadda yadda Indestructibles having stakes-less WWF fight on main street Raaaar! Aaaawh! Rrrrrrrar! Finale - wtf? Drop the drive thingy into the other thingy, which makes black hole or wormhole or whatever. It's so crazy it might just work. Interminable PG-13 WWF fight with indestructible protagonists. 20 minutes of punching dolls. CG buildings blow up (audience looks at their watches) Roll credits The final post-credit scene should have been a janitor with a mop arriving in Metropolis to clean up the mess.
Thor finale (first action set piece in the country town) + Avengers finale (alien bug ships) + Transformers 3 finale (more alien bug-ships) finale + Matrix Revolutions flying punch-up finale Nothing imaginative or new - seen it all before a dozen times Zimmer score was effective and served its purpose Zack Snyder's direction of action was bland. Too fast to see anything. He's there. He's gone. He's there again. Snap-zooms? Seriously? That's so Stargate. Are snap zooms Snyder's lens flares? Superhunk was a hit with the ladies "A good death is its own reward" is probably what the 9-11 hijackers thought too, and Tom Cruise in Oblivion. Another Hollywood endorsement of suicide bombing.
Wow, that's really sad to hear PJ do such an apparent 360 (:P) on the use of miniatures. And ironically, the ability to swoop in and do any camera movement with the CGI sets is that the film becomes much less real. Maybe that's the intention, to make this trilogy a 'ride'?
Maybe it'll be entered into the Best Animation category at next year's Academy Awards.
18 years later I walked into the screening of STID and saw... three giggling girls in an otherwise empty room. Exactly the kind of girls that I would expect to see at a Twilight screening. After a few minutes some guy and a (heterosexual) couple joined us. Good job, Mr. Abrams... Thanks to you, Star Trek became just another teen flick.
Yep - the new international box office means all PG-13 tentpoles look and feel the same. Minimise the dialogue - so it plays in all markets to the main demographic, teenagers. Lots of visual running, chasing, fighting as that doesn't need subtitles. And do you get adults also into the cinema? By relaunching all their nostalgia shows they grew up with.
If you're over 30 - you're getting too old for this shit. Go to an art gallery. TED talk. Science lecture. See the world. Start a family.
Over-use of CG was the Prequels' least problem. Poor child actors, mismatched casting, monotone line delivery, infantile Jar-Jar, flat directing, and ruining the original trilogy with unwanted wtf revelations (midi-chlorians) are some of Lucas' many sins.
Peter Jackson hasn't quite stooped so low yet. And he hasn't fucked with the original trilogy.
Agree with all the above. 3D means no miniatures and fewer practicals. And too much Smaug is revealed. Was hoping not to see any of Smaug until the movie. Will still see it for all the eye-candy, though, but expectations have been lowered. LOTR was the Star Wars of our time, whereas the The Hobbit x 3 is just generic tentpole fodder.
By the way, there appears to be an Extended Edition coming out later this year, featuring 15 minutes of extra stuff.
I'm sure the first thing everyone thought after seeing The Hobbit was... 'could have been longer'
Even Jackson's King Kong, which was already over 3 hours (and PJ sacrificed some of his fee to put more scenes in there) then did an extended edition on DVD with even more stuff. The problems of blank-check directing, having final cut, an ego fuelled by prior success, and being surrounded by yes-men.
Looking forward to Dorkman's fan-edit of The Hobbit.
And it just highlights the contrast even further - both Star Trek 2009 and STID end with the famous narration about exploring new worlds, but are just villains-out-for-revenge plots. After all the chasing and punching, the reminder of a more noble time is like an extra kick in the nuts. It's like ending Fast and Furious with a Shakespeare soliloquy.
Nigel Hawthorne, the boss baddie in this, is famous in the UK for being on a BBC TV classic comedy called Yes Minister (& Yes Prime Minister), one of the funniest black comedies ever made about politics. He steals every scene.
