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(I gutted a bit of this post due to opion poll's. They can be found at the soure on the bottom of the page)
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The Worst Movie Year Ever?
(I gutted a bit of this post due to opion poll's. They can be found at the soure on the bottom of the page)
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...googlenews_wsj
More and more I am thinking of writing a screenplay.
What a dumb article. They say they don't want to see John C Riley at the top of the marquee yet he just starred in Cyrus which was supposed to be really fucking good. Hot Tub Time Machine was hilarious and reviewed okay as well.
...Oh for fucks sake. Did they just compare The Matrix to The Godfather and Casablanca?
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves isn't considered much better than Robin Hood.
Hulk wasn't a sequel to Incredible Hulk.
Okay they just said Crazy Heart wasn't good. What the fuck?
Whoever wrote that article. Ugh. Do they normally write about fashion or something?
Crazy Heart wasn't Great, but was definitely moving and somewhat original, though it compared well with The Wrestler.
But yeah, the article is a bit of a waste of bandwidth. Inception was the big movie this year that wasn't a remake or sequel. The film industry is a business, cost-benefit analysis will always beat out trying to make the next new edgy franchise (remember how the R rating effectively killed the Watchman franchise from taking off? Yeah).
You'd need more than one crayon yah know.Originally Posted by lazy_piece_of_shit
Yeah, but he'd get paid a WHOLE $1.98 for it just like the professionals do RIGHT NOW!You'd need more than one crayon yah know.
And then get to cry when Michael Bay gets rights to it and then rapes the hell out of it. But don't worry, he'll still get writer's credit for the resulting stinky pile of shit (and never work again)!
do it man. the sad part is your 3k posts here could have been towards a screenplay.
on topic. Hot Tub time Machine was great. it was meant to be funny, and was.. Not supposed to be "Godfather". Just supposed to be like "Nightshift". Maybe he wasnt from the 8o's and ddint get it?
Not sure why he thinks Tron was a flop. It grossed 33 million on a 17 million dollar budget, pushed the boundaries of visual filmmaking, and is somewhat of a cult classic...
... and the sequel looks fucking badass.
For a Bay movie, they'd have to cut it in half at least.
It really shouldn't be hard to make a sequel that's better, especially with a decent budget and today's special effects. I have a lot of hopes about this one.
Hot tub time machine, I have to admit was good. Way better then what the critics gave it... Iron Man 2 is the only movie on there I want to see. Grown ups? C'mon... Sandler and Rock should have known better...
I'm more concerned about it having a good story and script, which it sounds like it does. The proof is in the pudding, though.
I think it's a good sign that Bridges agreed to do it.
I once collected articles like this, forecrying the doom of Hollywood, and how the bumper crop of rotten vegetables from that year's harvest was proof positive that movies were officially dead. The first such article I kept was from 1983.
Nerd alert.
Nah, it's just terrible that an author would talk out their ass like that. You couldn't even get away with that in SFW on this site, so I can't imagine how it passes for journalism anywhere else.
Right on; it's a poor cousin to real journalism. But there's always been a market for "Back in the good old days..." articles.
I take them as written junk-food -- a good way to waste 10 minutes, but nutritionally a zero.
In the case of story writer Joe Queenan, who turns 60 in November, I think it is definitely a case of back in my day mentality. To be fair Queenan should have waited to December before he totally critiques 2010. Summer movies are usually mindless kid and teenager entertainment, Serious adult films come out in the fall. The 2010 Oscar nominees will mostly come from December releases as usual.
I loved that movie, and there was a very successful videogame that spawned from it. It didnt make star wars money, but any movie with Jeff Bridges is good. How dare he.
cept maybe Starman.
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