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It's really hard to pull off the deep thinking pointy headed intellectual stuff on the big screen. Usually it comes off as either boring or confusing. This one looks like it's going for the confusing route.
Expect to see it in the discount bin at wallyworld by xmas...
In May 2012, Orson Scott Card visited the set of the film and recorded a voice-only cameo as a pilot making an announcement to his passengers. Card praised the understated acting of Ford and Butterfield, whom he saw filming a scene written by Gavin Hood. Card stated that "very few" of the film's scenes had appeared in the novel, but that he was comfortable with the liberties being taken with the source material. "My book was already alive in the mind of every reader. This is writer-director Gavin Hood's movie, so they were his words, and it was his scene."[/url]However, the Casting seems to be well done. However, its probably going to be a well acted let down. Why can't directors submerge their egos and do what they are supposed to do - make films. No, its got to be their F'ing story too. Know what a real filmmaker can do? He can take something like Lord of the Rings and bring it to the screen with minor changes that (IMO) make it better. Hood? I think he will just rip you off. Hence the name. It could turn out fine. A story can sometimes be told better by a second person, and movies obviously require a different type of story telling. I just don't hold high hopes that anyone in Hollywood has the ability to tell a conservative story without F'ing it up.
Just saw for the first time in years , "Tarzan's New York Adventure" , my all time favorite Tarzan Movie !
But don’t expect it to linger very long. Where the 1984 original successfully played upon widespread public fears over a supposedly rising and belligerent Soviet Union, the remake expects viewers to take North Korea seriously as an existential threat. We’re guessing the flick is going to get a lot of unintended laughs.You see, the actual North Korea is a country of 24 million people with a GDP roughly equal to North Dakota’s. It’s an impoverished, even starving, prison state that lacks modern weaponry and any ability to deploy forces globally. If preview clips posted this weekend are any indication, the movie magically gifts North Korea with a huge fleet of long-range transport planes … because it has to. Of course, how these planes get past the U.S. military’s 3,000 jet fighters is anyone’s guess.
The new Red Dawn has been sitting on the shelf for a couple years owing to financing troubles and at least one major revamp by screenwriters Carl Elsworth and Jeremy Passmore. As originally written, the relaunched Red Dawn was only slightly less silly. The bad guys were Chinese. And while China has no discernible intention of invading anyone, much less the U.S., Beijing at least commands a $7.3-trillion economy and an increasingly modern, two-million-man army. But it’s bad business to portray one of the world’s fastest growing film markets as brutal world conquerors, so the producers swapped in North Korea, a country no one counts on for ticket sales.
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OH crap,Falling skys is on tonight.
Quote from: John Florida on August 05, 2012, 06:58:39 PM OH crap,Falling skys is on tonight.Is that a bad thing?