Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[Enl]

Just got back from Dark Shadows. As someone who used to watch the show when I was a kid I thought it started off ok but snowballed into a clusterfuck of "What the fuck" towards the end. Everything up until Barnabas return was pretty solid and had that Dark Shadows vibe to it (with some slight nods to Beetlejuice here and there), but after he comes back the constant "fish out of water" gags got pretty old after awhile. I guess it's better than Alice and Charlie, but still a far cry from the Burton of old. Elfman's score was once again forgettable as well.

[Phoenix Dark]

Just sat down for a screening of Battleshits. Hopefully I can get some sleep.

Where does it rate on a scale of Aragon to Twilight?

[ManaByte]

Just sat down for a screening of Battleshits. Hopefully I can get some sleep.

Where does it rate on a scale of Aragon to Twilight?

Transformers 2.5

[ManaByte]

Just sat down for a screening of Battleshits. Hopefully I can get some sleep.

Tell us, on a scale of "Awesome to AWESOME", how awesome is the US Navy?

That was actually the only good part. They used so many real sailors as extras, I saw my friend in one of the opening scenes.

[Enl]

Two new horror trailers. First is for the remake of Maniac with Elijah Wood(??) in the starring role. It's a bit NSFW and also a little grittier than I expected. The second is The Possession from Sam Raimi's production company. It's PG-13 so you can watch it all you want at work to your heart's content.

[Diunx]

[Momo]

Eh idk, Liam Neeson seems to have been picking a ton of shitty parts since he broke onto the scene

[Tasty]

Eh idk, Liam Neeson seems to have been picking a ton of shitty parts since he broke onto the scene

 

[Joe Molotov]

I'm assuming that's from Taken 2, but frankly it could be from almost any Liam Neeson movie. And I would still watch it.

[Momo]

Eh idk, Liam Neeson seems to have been picking a ton of shitty parts since he broke onto the scene

 

Third Person (pre-production)
 
2013 Non-Stop (pre-production)
 
2013 The Butler (pre-production)
Lyndon B. Johnson (rumored)
 
2012 Taken 2 (post-production)
Bryan Mills
 
2012 The Dark Knight Rises (completed)
Ra's Al Ghul
 
2012 Battleship
Admiral Shane
 
2012 Wrath of the Titans
Zeus
 
2011 The Grey
Ottway
 
2011 A Child's Garden of Poetry (TV movie) (voice)
 
2011 Unknown
Dr. Martin Harris
 
2011 Star Wars: The Clone Wars (TV series)
Qui-Gon Jinn
– Ghosts of Mortis (2011) … Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)
– Overlords (2011) … Qui-Gon Jinn (voice)
 
2010 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Aslan (voice)
 
2010 The Next Three Days
Damon Pennington
 
2010 The Big C (TV series)
Bee Man
– Everything That Rises Must Converge (2010) … Bee Man
 
2010 Cubed (TV series)
Liam Neeson
– Episode #1.39 (2010) … Liam Neeson
 
2010 The A-Team
Hannibal
 
2010 Clash of the Titans
Zeus
 
2009 After.Life
Eliot Deacon
 
2009 Chloe
David Stewart
 
2009 Five Minutes of Heaven
Alistair Little
 
2008 Fallout 3 (Video Game)
James - Father (voice)
 
2008 The Other Man
Peter
 
2008 Ponyo
Fujimoto (voice: English version)
 
2008 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Aslan (voice)
 
2008/I Taken
Bryan Mills
 
2006 Seraphim Falls
Carver
 
2005 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Aslan (voice)
 
2005 Breakfast on Pluto
Father Liam
 
2005 Batman Begins (Video Game)
Henri Ducard (voice)
 
2005 Batman Begins
Henri Ducard
 
2005 The Simpsons (TV series)
Father Sean
– The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star (2005) … Father Sean (voice)
 
2005 Kingdom of Heaven
Godfrey de Ibelin
 
2004 Kinsey
Alfred Kinsey
 
2004 Patrick (TV documentary)
Narrator (voice)
 
2003 Love Actually
Daniel
 
2002 Gangs of New York
'Priest' Vallon
 
2002 K-19: The Widowmaker
Capt. Mikhail Polenin
 
2002 Liberty's Kids: Est. 1776 (TV series)
John Paul Jones
– Not Yet Begun to Fight (2002) … John Paul Jones (voice)
 
2000 The Man Who Came to Dinner (TV movie)
Host
 
2000 Gun Shy
Charles 'Charlie' Mayeaux
 
1999 The Haunting
Dr. David Marrow

[Enl]

1990 Darkman
Motherfucking Darkman

[Great Rumbler]

Speaking to The Daily Beast, director Ridley Scott has opened up a bit about his plans for Blade Runner 2. Most intriguingly, the beloved auteur flat out states that the film will feature a female protagonist.

The majority of the interview focuses on Scott’s past films and the prominence of strong female leads therein, so right at the end of the piece the interviewer drops all coy pretense and straight up asks the man about his plans for Blade Runner 2, presumably expecting to be stonewalled. Surprisingly, Scott is forthcoming and direct. “Funny enough, I started my first meetings on the Blade Runner sequel last week. We have a very good take on it. And we’ll definitely be featuring a female protagonist,” Scott said.

Sadly, that was all Scott said of the film, but the reasoning for his choice is quite well thought out. Scott, he claims, has always been drawn to strong women. “I’m used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away all the time,” he said. “My mother was a big part of bringing up three boys, so I was fully versed in the strength of a powerful woman, and accepted that as the status quo. I think there are a lot of men who feel they’re being emasculated by having the woman be in charge; I’ve never had that problem.”

Though Scott may not have anything else to offer on the film, the other interesting bit of Blade Runner 2 news unearthed today does. Sort of. In a press release, Alcon Entertainment announced that actor/writer Hampton Fancher has been tapped to write the script for the film. Fancher’s name may not be familiar to most of you, but rest assured that he knows what he’s doing; the man wrote the screenplay for the original Blade Runner, after all.

Additionally, that press release is the first official confirmation we’ve seen that the upcoming film is, in fact, a sequel to the original Blade Runner. It claims that Blade Runner 2 will be set “some years after the first film concluded.”

http://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/blade-runner-2-gets-a-writer-and-a-female-protagonist/#ixzz1vBSTDEvc

[Phoenix Dark]

Can't be more average than the first one I guess

[Cormacaroni]

My daughter and I are so hype for Spider-man, of all things. It's the first tent-pole movie of the summer to open in Japan, and a huge-ass poster went up at our local place about a week ago. Every time we walk past it she squees with excitement :hype

...which is a bit crazy given that she's 4 and a half but hell, I took her to Captain America and Tin-tin last summer and she had a ball.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Eh idk, Liam Neeson seems to have been picking a ton of shitty parts since he broke onto the scene

  I'm about to lose my shit over here...

Edit: I'm willing to give the new Spiderman a chance.  I didn't like the Tobey Maguire ones at all so I'm hoping these (I'm assuming there will be more than one) are completely different.

Edit 2: Am I the only one who doesn't give a shit about TDKR?  I was really hyped up for TDK but I'm left completely cold with this one.

[Cormacaroni]

Can't be more average than the first one I guess

[Tasty]

Edit 2: Am I the only one who doesn't give a shit about TDKR?  I was really hyped up for TDK but I'm left completely cold with this one.

Marketing has been horrible but I'm really looking forward to it, since it seems to be channeling more BB than TDK did. Although I am less hyped for it than TDK (again I blame the marketing.)

[CajoleJuice]

I'm much more hyped for Prometheus than TDKR. Dat R rating.

[Tasty]

Me too at the moment and I didn't even watch Alien until this year. It comes down to the trailers for me.

Three Four Five years (holy crap it's been that long?! ) ago if you had asked me I would have said SM3 was my most hyped movie ever. The trailers for that movie were incredible. But that's their job.

I'm not saying "Prometheus = Spider-man 3 dur hur hur" of course, it's probably going to land well above 90 on RT, I'm just saying, trailers build expectations and are designed purely to make you fork over your money to see it. No shit of course, but I'd rather be lukewarm on TDKR and blown away than overhyped and underdelivered. As of right now I think it's a 50/50 shot I'll be let down by Prometheus in some way. Scott's record isn't pristine and Cameron has already erased any goodwill I had for previous sci-fi "greats" returning "back to the fold."

[Momo]

1990 Darkman
Motherfucking Darkman

I'm bitching about post 1999 Neeson

[ManaByte]

[Momo]

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[Mupepe]

The GAF thread has the usual steroid experts who also analyzed Vin Diesel's "gut"

[CajoleJuice]

that picture is fucking disturbing

[Mupepe]

You like it.  You want him.

[CajoleJuice]

his upper chest/neck looks so fucking weird, man

[Mupepe]

That's how he looks during climax I bet

[Momo]

His face looks like he is either taking a massive shit or smiling about having a guy in a "my dick is on your forehead" technical mma hold

[cool breeze]

he's 45 wtf

[brob]

just came home from cabin in the woods. had all the good stuff I want form a horror film. silly jump scares, funnies, known actors in odd roles, squeamish girl clutching my shit, beer, etc. fun fun fun.

[cool breeze]

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Liked it but might need to watch it again tomorrow.  I was way too tired and the movie is constantly casually slow.  It's not a slow burn or anything; it's hyper normal, if that makes sense. 

[Eric P]

Last night there was a screening of Icon Eye, which is about Sun Araw working with The Congos, a legendary Reggae group, in their Kingston studio.  Rather than the expected "white dude goes to Jamaica and learns something about himself," Sun Araw is barely in it, as the film focuses more on The Congos, their family and the surrounding area of their neighborhood.  It's really, really, really fucking good.




Article on the collaboration
http://www.thefader.com/2012/03/13/happy-songs-cameron-stallones-m-geddes-gengras-and-the-congos/

[Eric P]

I didn't realize this made it to netflix

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Cold_Fish/70151002?trkid=2361637

The second movie in Shion Sono's Love Trilogy after "Love Exposure"

[Verdigris Murder]

Shit man, I fucking love The Congos. It's pretty much the only reggae group that really clicked with me. Bob Marley and Me was just so so.

[BlueTsunami]

Watched Battleship yesterday. It was boring in parts but it was genuinely funny in parts and there was some good action. I'm so sorry guys.

[Eric P]

Shit man, I fucking love The Congos. It's pretty much the only reggae group that really clicked with me. Bob Marley and Me was just so so.

I loathe Bob Marley.  I can't determine if it's because of his US fan base or the music, but both are so intertwined that I can't help but just wince whenever I hear any of the Bob Marley standards.

[Verdigris Murder]

Eric P, as a fan of The Congos, you would seriously enjoy 21 Jump Street the film.

[Phoenix Dark]

Watched Battleship yesterday. It was boring in parts but it was genuinely funny in parts and there was some good action. I'm so sorry guys.

I had some exclusive nude pix of Jennifer Connely which I was just about to send you. NO MORE, you ruined your shot bro

[Great Rumbler]

Battleship opened with $9 million on Friday.

[Eric P]

Eric P, as a fan of The Congos, you would seriously enjoy 21 Jump Street the film.

I want to see it, but just haven't gotten around to doing so.

[fistfulofmetal]

I watched Jeepers Creepers tonight.

which i think is an underrated classic.

[fistfulofmetal]

whats that recent teen slasher horror movie where there's a party at this rich dudes house? and there's like a porn quality sex scene in it? it's not a Friday the 13th. i've seen it but i can't remember what it is.

[Enl]

whats that recent teen slasher horror movie where there's a party at this rich dudes house? and there's like a porn quality sex scene in it? it's not a Friday the 13th. i've seen it but i can't remember what it is.

Could be anything. What did the killer look like?

[fistfulofmetal]

absolutely no clue! i remember an (asian?) dude having to go into a shed and fighting off the killer with tools?

my mind keeps thinking it's Friday the 13th so i'm downloading the new one so i can watch it to see if that's it.

[Enl]

absolutely no clue! i remember an (asian?) dude having to go into a shed and fighting off the killer with tools?

my mind keeps thinking it's Friday the 13th so i'm downloading the new one so i can watch it to see if that's it.

You're right it is. It's the recent Friday remake. It does have an asian dude fighting Jason in a shed and a porn quality sex scene. It's as forgettable as all the other Platinum Dunes remakes so that's probably why you can't remember it so well.

[Joe Molotov]

Battleship opened with $9 million on Friday.

Already made $200 Mil overseas, tho.

[fistfulofmetal]

You're right it is. It's the recent Friday remake. It does have an asian dude fighting Jason in a shed and a porn quality sex scene. It's as forgettable as all the other Platinum Dunes remakes so that's probably why you can't remember it so well.

jeeze. i basically forgot about the entire movie. oh well.

[Great Rumbler]

Battleship opened with $9 million on Friday.

Already made $200 Mil overseas, tho.

Probably won't make much more than that overseas, though, since it's already a month old.

[fistfulofmetal]

this movie ain't so bad. the asian dude is great

"I can fix it! ... i just need some tools"

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

so The Dictator is pretty damn hilarious.  Shame its not making more money, Cohen's good enough in this that he deserves to have a totally fictional film career.

[Robo]

The marketing for it has been terrible, Cohen's stunts included.  I'm surprised to hear it's actually funny, though I realize I shouldn't be.

[Eric P]

I watched Jeepers Creepers tonight.

which i think is an underrated classic.

this is hilarious because the director is a convicted pedophile

but yeah i agree.  Jeepers Creepers is a pretty grand monster movie.

[Enl]

I remember kind of liking Jeepers Creepers 2 as well since it plays up the "monster movie" aspect a lot more. Though it was weird watching it knowing Victor Salva's history and seeing a lot of half naked teenage boys running around.

[Robo]

Ha, he directed Powder, too.  That makes so much sense.

[Positive Touch]

so The Dictator is pretty damn hilarious.  Shame its not making more money, Cohen's good enough in this that he deserves to have a totally fictional film career.

100% disagree

outside of like 3 scenes in the movie everything was as tired as a fucking jay leno monologue.  WOAH ANOTHER JOKE ABOUT WOMEN DRIVERS HOLD UP!  AHAHAHA ANOTHER CAMEL FUCKER JOKE? GREAT!!  cohen does a lot better when he's pulling out other's bigotry, rather then when he relies on it to make worn-out jokes.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

so The Dictator is pretty damn hilarious.  Shame its not making more money, Cohen's good enough in this that he deserves to have a totally fictional film career.

100% disagree

outside of like 3 scenes in the movie everything was as tired as a fucking jay leno monologue.  WOAH ANOTHER JOKE ABOUT WOMEN DRIVERS HOLD UP!  AHAHAHA ANOTHER CAMEL FUCKER JOKE? GREAT!!  cohen does a lot better when he's pulling out other's bigotry, rather then when he relies on it to make worn-out jokes.

That sucks.  This was one of the movies I was looking forward to this year.

[Beezy]

The Departed

I was not prepared for the ending Also one of DiCaprio's best role and Nicholson's worst.

Why are you just now seeing this?

[Timber]

Hugo is the funniest thing Baron Cohen has done.

[Dickie Dee]

Duncan Jones Takes On 007 Creator
Moon man to make Ian Fleming biopic

Bafta-winning Moon director Duncan Jones is taking on the man behind James Bond: spy, journalist and 007-creator Ian Fleming. Yes, it’s the Moon-maker on the Moonraker-maker.

Jones’s third film as director – with his Liberty Films partner, producer Stuart Fenegan – will focus on the events in Fleming’s own life that inspired his books. 

Though he became famous as the author of twelve Bond novels and two collections of 007 short stories, Fleming was himself a man of considerable mystery, co-ordinating real-life espionage in World War II and using his experiences as fuel for his iconic literary creation.

 

[Eric P]

Babylon, This is the story of the children of West Indian immigrants living in Brixton / New Cross section of London in 1980.  Just hanging out, dealing with racism and basically growing up young and poor trying to make it.  I love how it shows a side of London that differs from what you normally see.  Really captures the squalor but also the fun of just hanging out with friends listening to records on a really loud soundsystem.  A very insightful review basically calls this London's Saturday Night Fever, and I can totally see it.  London hardly comes off as egalitarian with parents too busy trying to survive to police their children, casual racism from damn near everyone while trying to build and maintain a huge soundsystem on non-existent budget.



highly recommended.