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I like Shia, I just find him more annoying in his earlier sidekick roles like Constantine and i Robot. I don't like his characters in those films, they are basically the same. He's much better in Disturbia and Indy 4.
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Sigh, I didn't think Shia could get cooler in my mind without an Even Stevens reunion, but he just did.
Kinda forgot he was in Constantine, but I just remembered one part: "Kramer... Chas Kramer assho--!!!"
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If he'd gone on to say "And those Transformer things are just car commercials for morons - you knew that, right?" then he would have been my hero for life.
Well whaddaya know, he almost did say that:
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/163922 … tory.jhtml
I'm really starting to like this kid...
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Also does anyone know any other movies/books/comics whatever, along this same vein (God, demons, angels etc.) Cause I really love the shit out of this kinda stuff and I only had Supernatural before this, and I really want to find more like it.
Well, there's the Sandman comics for one, if you haven't read them. Constantine shows up in the first book, and his 18th Century ancestor has a larger role in later stories. I love John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness, where quantum mechanics helps prove Jesus came to warn us that God was from the anti-mater side of the universe (and thus evil to our point of view).
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Invid wrote:
maul2 wrote:Also does anyone know any other movies/books/comics whatever, along this same vein (God, demons, angels etc.) Cause I really love the shit out of this kinda stuff and I only had Supernatural before this, and I really want to find more like it.
Well, there's the Sandman comics for one, if you haven't read them. Constantine shows up in the first book, and his 18th Century ancestor has a larger role in later stories. I love John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness, where quantum mechanics helps prove Jesus came to warn us that God was from the anti-mater side of the universe (and thus evil to our point of view).
Or you could read the Hellblazer comics the movie is based on. I haven't read them myself, but they do exist.
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Yeah but Sandman is awesome, where as Hellblazer is bleh.
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I've been a fan of Shia as long as I've had him on my radar. I really hope the films back him up here.
But how many times have we heard and actor/filmmaker/whatever say "Oh, yeah, we totally fucked that last one up (even though in the early/promotional stages we said it was really good), but now that we're in the early/promotional stages of the next one, this one's really good. Seriously, go see it the first weekend and don't wait for the word of mouth or anything."
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But how many times have we heard and actor/filmmaker/whatever say "Oh, yeah, we totally fucked that last one up (even though in the early/promotional stages we said it was really good), but now that we're in the early/promotional stages of the next one, this one's really good. "
I'm gonna say... three times?
L.L. Cool J. admitted that Rollerball was awful and he only promoted at the time because he had to. I sorta recall Clooney - or maybe Soderbergh - admitting that Ocean's Twelve was maybe not so hot. And was it Ewan MacGregor who's made a few negative references to the prequels?
But those plus Shia are the only examples I can think of. Out of all the bad movies that get made, that's a pretty low number. (And if there's a Hugh Jackman interview where he trashes Wolverine, I'd love to see that. 
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Admitting the flaws in some prior project when said project is decades in the past... sure, that happens. But an actor saying that about a movie he made just a few years earlier still seems pretty unusual to me. Especially when it's as bluntly put as Shia's comment. I still say it was pretty ballsy of him.
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Trey wrote:
DorkmanScott wrote:But how many times have we heard and actor/filmmaker/whatever say "Oh, yeah, we totally fucked that last one up (even though in the early/promotional stages we said it was really good), but now that we're in the early/promotional stages of the next one, this one's really good. "
I'm gonna say... three times?
Wasn't the joke that Arnold would always say yes, the last picture had major problems, but his new one was the best ever?
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maul2 wrote:
Also does anyone know any other movies/books/comics whatever, along this same vein (God, demons, angels etc.) Cause I really love the shit out of this kinda stuff and I only had Supernatural before this, and I really want to find more like it.
Preacher. Imagine cowboys vs. angels vs. demons vs. bad cowboys vs. a paramilitary christian organization vs. a vampire.
If that doesn't make you wanna jizz in a sock then I don't want to know what does.
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maul2 wrote:Also does anyone know any other movies/books/comics whatever, along this same vein (God, demons, angels etc.) Cause I really love the shit out of this kinda stuff and I only had Supernatural before this, and I really want to find more like it.
Preacher. Imagine cowboys vs. angels vs. demons vs. bad cowboys vs. a paramilitary christian organization vs. a vampire.
If that doesn't make you wanna jizz in a sock then I don't want to know what does.
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Thank you Greg, my sentiments exactly...
Must find Preacher...like now...
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Jesse Custer, the aforementioned Preacher, on the Klan.
300? You're doing 300? AHHH! AWESOME! 300! TITS! SWORDS! BLOOD! ABS AND FIGHTING! HUFUCKINGZZAH!
That's all I have to say about that.
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I was stoked when I first heard about 300. "Wow! A movie about the famous 300 Spartans at Thermopylae?" Then I saw the trailer and went, 'WTF? This looks like a comic book!" Oh well. It wasn't too bad; just not the semi-historical story I wanted.
I love the fact that when 10,000 BC came out, the people rose as one and went "WTF?" It seems like everybody wanted a semi-historical story then.
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"Wasn't too bad?" Good grief, man. "300" made "Transformers" look positively erudite.
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Not a fan of 300?
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I wasn't present for the 300 recording session, so I'll be curious to hear what the consensus was on that one.
Me, I tried to watch that movie more than once and never got more than halfway before losing interest and turning it off.
But they win, right?
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IN SPIRIT TREY
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I have still yet to see 300 all the way through. Not for any disdain or anything like that I just havn't sat down and watched it.
I think I saw 10 mins of it maybe when my parents were watching it and I was taking a break from working or something like that.
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If you've seen ten minutes of it, you've seen all of it. Because it's just that same ten minutes, repeated over and over and over until you claw out your own eyes and eat them, and then the soundtrack is replaced by the sweet, sweet sound of sirens and panicking health-care professionals.
Also, Gerard Butler can't knock his Scottish accen' down wi' a hammer, ooo augh.
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My response to 300 was 'meh.' Some parts of it were badass but, like Zarban said, it wasn't really what I wanted.
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