General Movie (Film for snobs) News Thread

[Steve Justice]

I've never understood the Anchorman love. The only part I legitimately laughed at was Steve Carroll's "LOUD NOISES!". Other than that I thought it was very average and unfunny.

[benbobjr]

Alien Prequel

 

No official plot yet, but it's said to be a prequel to the first film, in which the crew of a commercial towing ship returning to Earth is awakened and sent to respond to a distress signal from a nearby planetoid. The crew discovers too late that the signal generated by an empty ship was meant to warn them.

I didn't realise Ridley Scott was involved in the Alien Prequel

 

here's a quote from him from Digital Spy

 

Meanwhile, on his planned prequel for 1979 movie Aliens, Scott explained: "I got fed up with all the sequels, so I'm going to do a prequel, which will be set before the days of Sigourney Weaver's character.

 

"It will take place in about 2085 when they first come across this thing. And it will ask the question, 'Who is the guy lying in a chair with his chest blown outwards?'"

 

Could be pretty interesting

 

What the fuck ever happened to Neve Campbell? She was mega-hot (and a passable actress)...what was the last big film she was in?

the only thing i've seen her in since Scream 3 was the pretty awful "Churchill: The Hollywood Years"

Edited May 1, 2010 by benbobjr

[HarmonicGenerator]

Buried

 

And can I post Scott Pilgrim again, just because it's awesome?

[Maytrix]

It will take place in about 2085 when they first come across this thing. And it will ask the question, 'Who is the guy lying in a chair with his chest blown outwards?

 

Finally

[DJ Kris]

Scream 4

 

No official plot yet, but it's said to take place 10 years after the events in part 3.

 

Has the original cast

I'm very much looking forward to this. I think the original trilogy was superbly done, and even though some felt it lost it towards the end, I actually felt the way it came full circle was great.

 

Regarding Scream 4, I would expect either Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox or David Arquette (or all three) to buy it in the pre-credits scene.

I agree with you on this. It's my understanding that the original writer came back because he'd come up with a new trilogy and although he wouldn't give anything away I kind of expect it'll follow a new set of stars. That said, I'd sooner at least 2 of the 3 survive and the focus keeps a stronger link to the original story. I didn't like Nancy getting killed off in Nightmare 3, same for Lorie in Halloween Resurrection. BUT, if Sidney is to survive, as I'd like her too, I'd at least like efforts to be made to make me doubt it!

[Green]

Yeah I'm really hyped for Scream 4 even if the poster is pretty poorly done. We can hope that, once it's released, critics can refer from writing their reviews along the lines of "the rule of a horror movie is that the sequels get worse and worse and Scream 4 further proves this".

[Steveo2007]

And on the subject of superhero movie news I've also found this:

 

Vulture is reporting that Columbia Pictures is finding themselves in a little bit of a bind when it comes to filming the sequel to their Ghost Rider movie. You see in order for Columbia to prevent the rights for doing another Ghost Rider movie from revering back to Marvel Entertainment, they have start production on a new movie no later than November 14, 2010, and even though Nicholas Cage has defiantly said he wants to be on board, there are questions as to whether or not the actor's schedule will permit him from doing so. According to Vulture, Columbia is trying to get an extension from Marvel on the production date, but if they fail to do so then they may need to look elsewhere for and new lead actor to play the part of the Spirit of Vengeance.

 

Vulture also is reporting that they hear that FlashForward writers Scott Gimple and Seth Hoffman, overseen by their show's creator (and Batman Begins scribe), David S. Goyer, have just turned in a draft of a GR2 script, which Columbia will bring to a still-evolving list of potential directors.

 

I guess it just means they'll probably base the next movie on Danny Ketch rather than Johnny Blaze, and anything that takes screentime away from Nicholas Cage is alright by me.

 

 

And there's also this:

 

Chud.com is reporting that Marvel Entertainment is looking to do a number of smaller-budget movies with lesser-known characters after it gets through with it's current string of big-budget Avengers related movies.

 

According to the report, the folks at Marvel are wanting to take characters only known to hardcore comic book readers like Dr. Strange, Ka-Zar, Luke Cage, Dazzler and Power Pack, and make good movies only spending something like $25 million as opposed to the big $100 million like budgets we see used with movies like Iron Man.

 

This is a method we have seen used more and more, most recently with such movies like Kick-Ass which opened last weekend and The Losers which hits theaters this weekend. Kick-Ass only made a little over $19 million for its opening weekend, though many speculated that the low turn out was due to the extreme violence depicted throughout it. It will be interesting to see how The Losers does this weekend. Iron Man 2 which is Marvel's next movie to hit theaters early next month will quit possibly will be the highest grossing movie for 2010, but by no means was it made with a small budget, so I am not sure how realistic it will be to do low-budget movies with characters most people have never heard of, but I guess time will tell.

 

I've got mixed feelings about this one. On one hand it could be a great way to bring certain stories to the big screen that wouldn't normally get a look in, but on the other a string of low-budget, dodgy superhero movies could be enough to kill off the genre again. On another note is really disappointing to see that Kick-Ass did so poorly when the reviews were so great.

TBH I'm looking forward to this possibility as it's more a way of Marvel establishing its movie bases Marvel universe to bring in new audiences and introduce them to the wider scope of the Marvel universe. I would love the see a Marvel civil war movie come about somewhere down the line, but Marvel would need to try and take back the rights to some of the bigger names like Spider-Man and X-Men and keep everything in house so they can continue with the cross-overs of the entire universe.

[DJ Kris]

Yeah I'm really hyped for Scream 4 even if the poster is pretty poorly done. We can hope that, once it's released, critics can refer from writing their reviews along the lines of "the rule of a horror movie is that the sequels get worse and worse and Scream 4 further proves this".

Frankly I don't pay much attention to critics, but I wouldn't be suprised if they slated it anyway. The Scream films have always highlighted the "rules" of a horror film and I'm very encouraged by the tag "New Decade - New Rules" Aside from Star Wars, which was clearly always intended to be 2 trilogys (is that the right way of looking at it?) I'm not aware of another film series to do that and certainly not in the horror genre. I remember when the first Scream came out, it felt fresh and new. It combined the old "Who Dun It" with the more traditional slasher movie. I wouldn't be suprised if Scream 4 takes advantage of these new rules and gives us something fresh again. I always have much more confidence in a sequal that has come out after a longer period of time compared to those which rush out a sequal purely to cash in on a more recent success.

 

On the topic of the horror genre, the remake of A Nightmare On Elm St came out in the states this weekend, does anyone know how it's been recieved? It comes out here next weekend and I'm really tempted to go and see it since I've never seen one on the big screen and I'm a big fan .

[LaGoosh]

The new Elm Street has gotten pretty much universally terrible reviews. Well except from Harry Knowles who loved it, but he's a massive prick so who cares what he thinks.

[DJ Kris]

The new Elm Street has gotten pretty much universally terrible reviews. Well except from Harry Knowles who loved it, but he's a massive prick so who cares what he thinks.

Bad reviews from Movie goers or critics?

[Green]

Both really. I've not read many good things about it.

[DJ Kris]

Both really. I've not read many good things about it.

That's a shame because I think the trailer looked promising. That said I was kind of expecting this to get slated since Englund was the perfect Freddy. I'd just gonna hope the slatings have been over harsh on that basis, rather than treating the film on its own merits.

[Green]

Both really. I've not read many good things about it.

That's a shame because I think the trailer looked promising. That said I was kind of expecting this to get slated since Englund was the perfect Freddy. I'd just gonna hope the slatings have been over harsh on that basis, rather than treating the film on its own merits.

From what I can gather, the film appears to be a confused mish-mash of either a dead serious tone (ala Nightmare On Elm Street) or a more whacky, one-liner tone (ala Dream Warriors) and this hurts it. Also the make-up for Freddy looks god awful and most seem to agree that overall it's just incredibly boring.

[CaptainCharisma]

The illegal Machet

[Snake Plissken]

Both really. I've not read many good things about it.

That's a shame because I think the trailer looked promising. That said I was kind of expecting this to get slated since Englund was the perfect Freddy. I'd just gonna hope the slatings have been over harsh on that basis, rather than treating the film on its own merits.

 

I didn't think it was that bad... OK so it's not the original, but Haley's Kruger is downright sinister...

 

Screen One Review Of Nightmare on Elm St remake

Edited May 5, 2010 by Snake Plissken