Timewaster's Guide Archive
Departments => Movies and TV => Topic started by: Slant on February 12, 2004, 05:36:29 PM
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So what upcoming films are we anxiously awaiting? Here is my short list:
5: Van Helsing
4: Troy
3: Spiderman 2
2: Kill Bill 2
1: Hellboy
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Definitely Hellboy.
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Willie Wanka (Not sure if I'm 'looking forward' or just apprehensive...)
Good Omens
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:o
A good omens movie?
/me swoons
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Ummm, EUOL, I think you mean Willie Wonka. Willie WANKA is another type of film altogether.
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Now you've got me curious. I did a google search and an IMDB search, and neither one gave a clue as to what you're talking about.
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just think of it as a penny arcade or bevis and butthead kinda joke EUOL
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wanka: even slangier form of "wanker," which has a variety of meanings, most of them crude.
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And given that the word 'willie' is what comes before it, you're guaranteed that someone has probably made a porn movie with that actual title.
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Not according to IMDB, as I mentioned above. I don't know if it does porn, though.
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It must, since Ron Jeremy's entire career is up there.
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I used to be excited about Hellboy, until I saw the trailer. It's unmitigated trash, with horrible effects and worse makeup. Van Helsing, on the other hand, looks awesome.
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Are you sure you didn't catch the Gigli trailer instead? The Hellboy preview that I saw was incredible. It may be the best comic book movie to date.
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Oh, I thought of another thing. I'm looking forward to Hidalgo, in a few weeks.
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Maybe they have a new trailer out, Slant. The one I saw was really bad, and Hellboy especially looked like a dope in a bad rubber mask. I'll have to look for another one.
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the guy incharge of the Hellboy make-up is the same guy that did the Grinch, say what you will about that movie but the make-up was amazeing.
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Well, on top of Hellboy, I'm really looking forward to The Life Aquatic with Bill Murray. It's another treat from Wes Anderson and the Wilson brothers.
Also, the Coen brothers reimagining of Ladykillers with Tom Hanks is high on the 'to see' list.
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I am looking forward to Hildago as well. Horses and Van Mortensen, what more could a girl ask for?
I'm ashamed to admit that I am also looking forward to Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. I like L Lohan's work and was impressed by her performance in Freaky Friday. I think it would be fun to see.
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Is Van Mortensen more closely related to Viggo Mortensen or to Van Morrison?
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Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen is getting pretty horrible reviews. Then again, almost all live-action disney movies get pretty horrible reviews.
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Maybe that's because they're pretty horrible movies.
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Is Van Mortensen more closely related to Viggo Mortensen or to Van Morrison?
Ooops. I realized that I did that at 7:00pm on Friday, but was too lazy to admit it until now.
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen is getting pretty horrible reviews. Then again, almost all live-action disney movies get pretty horrible reviews.
Eww . . . 15% on RT. I think I'll pass afterall.
Freaky Friday (also Disney) got an 89%, which is why I went to see it.
Thank heavens for RT.
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/film/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000442491
Runelords. Anyone heard of this?
2 things stand out to me:
1. it has begun...the first cinematic spawn of LotR. It was bound to happen, given Jackson's fantasy trilogy's phenomenal success.
2. notice how they labelled it "epic adventure" and not "fantasy." Veeery interesting. I think everyone's realized that the genre is here to stay, and so they've found a term that doesn't scream "nerd."
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Yup, Runelords is Dave Wolverton's (under the name David Farland) book. Dave used to teach at BYU.
He's actually been thinking about making a movie about Runelords for a while--he's been working on it for a couple of years now, and he's just now getting to the "about to film" point.
He spent a long time planning and trying to start his production company.
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I was in that production company for quite a while, but in the TV branch. It wasn't really a real company at the time, of course, but it was still fun. I'm kind of amazed that the Runelords movie has come as far as it has.
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I, for one, say "Go Dave!"
This has been his dream for a long time. I hope it turns out like he wants. I'll certainly go see it--and drag some friends along.
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So, since I'm all about pictures, and getting into film someday, lets say we run down a few basics with myself. I've seen some of these "resume" things people make for castings or auditions, and they usually include some kind of photo. So, lets start there. What say you about these two pictures of me, on a "resume."
http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v85/Gemm09/Myself/zak03.jpg
http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v85/Gemm09/Myself/zak02.jpg
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If you're serious about performance of any kind, you need to have a professional headshot for your C.V. In nice clothes, with nothing around your neck, with a nice background. Have you seen other headshots? I'd suggest you look at other performers' headshots and get your ideas from that.
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Yeah, I have. I was looking around for some places on the web today at work. I have however since then, shaved and gotten a haircut.
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two bits!
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Wow. You look like my freind Drew. Or at least, you remind me of him.
yeah, get some more professional ones done if you're serious about acting.
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Oh great. They chose one of the most obnoxious fantasy series's i know to make into a set of films.
Hoo - f***ing - ray.
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Runelords? If you find Runelords annoying, I shudder to think how you find some other series...
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Runelords has its flaws. However, it does have some good things for it.
1) Good, interesting magic system.
2) (And I mean this in a nice way.) Simple straightforward plot, easily adapted to a medium that requires a lot of editing.
3) It was written by a guy many of us know on a first-name basis.
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You know, Gemm, I always pictured you as looking something like Francis from PvP.
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Ditto.
Runelords magic system is what annoyed me so much.
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It annoyed me too, but in a good way. I thought it was incredibly clever--the way it was incorporated into the economic, political, and social system of the world. I was annoyed because it made me uncomfortable when the 'good' guys used it. However, I call this 'good' annoyance because it was 'in-world' annoyance. I was annoyed at the characters, not at poor handling of the system.
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I was annoyed that I read the first book, enjoyed it, then tried to read the second book and got frustrated after half-way through ABSOLUTELY NOTHING had happened.
So I still need to read the other two books if they're not going to make them into movies so I can cheat.
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The second book has a siege i remember, against big tyranid things.
The magic system annoyed me because it offended my sense of Honour. The Hero's cannot defeat the enemy by using their own abilities, they steal the abilities of a huge group of random peasants and thus the most powerful guy becomes the guy with the biggest collection of peasants (and branding sticks as i remember). And the method by which the magic system works is just reprehensible. Nobody who uses that deserves to be called a hero. Compared to something like LOTR, where the hero's have practically no outside modifiiers - very little magic swords or buffs - and thus achieve their goals by pure ability and skill alone. That is heroism, not branding a bunch of peasants until you have haste permanently cast on yourself.
I seem to remember that the characterisation was moderately dull as well.
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i wrote a whole paper on this
Despite having a signed copy of book 1, I've not read it. However, while it's perfectly fine to not enjoy a work because it doesn't conform to your conceptions of heroism, that hardly seems a reason to say the work as a whole is no good. It can still include engaging conflicts and moral decisions. Heroism is only one of many many many potential themes, even in epic fantasy. If it's only about heroism, well, we used up most of what we can say in the works of Howard and Tolkien
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The thing I liked about the magic system was that it offered a great metaphor for leadership, and gave good opportunities for discussion of power and responsibility. The hard truth of medieval warfare is that the strongest king was the one with more people and more money; a good leader is one who best uses the skills and abilities of his followers. Runelords simply took that concept and made it direct and literal.
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well Dave has a director now:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/film/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000450662
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Hot diggity dog--this is the coolest live action anime I've ever seen. You may consider me officially looking forward to it.
http://www.apple.co.jp/quicktime/trailers/casshern_large.html
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Wow diddly! Spriggan translate! Although, it could just be another flashey Japanese movie. I'm not sure if anyone has ever seen a live action Japanese movie... but they aren't the greatest of actors. They're wonderful voice actors.... but the acting was.... bad.
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ya Japanese live action movies usaly realy suck. Godzilla's are usealy the crownjewels of their feild (and I'm not makeing that up). One of the resons is bugets and actualy geting them finaced. Movies are, on adverage, $20 a shot there, and most people don't see Japanese flicks. On the other hand, Titanic was in the theaters there for over a year. The thing that's helped lately is US production companies buying the rights to remake Japanese films (the ring, shall we dance). So there's a revival in the marked there.
I do think its funny that the first thing they say about the movie (in the text below, I don't have sound so I can't tell you whats going on there) is that the director is the same one who did Utada Hirkaru's music videos (Hirkaru is probaly the most famous Japanese-american over there, well ok she's probaly as popular as brittney spears over there). The text dosen't say much about the movie, just that it's a remake of some show from the 70's, and I know you're going to laugh at this but I don't know how else to translate this, "New Structure Human Casshern" is the full name. And he;s some immortal, I think I'm reading that right, that fights for humanity.
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Well, that does actually make a lot of sense. And clears some things up.