Posted February 12, 200619 yr comment_4498017 Final Destination 3, Big Mama's House 2, When A Stranger Calls, Pink Panther, Nanny McPhee, etc. Nope.
February 12, 200619 yr comment_4498081 Hollywood's out of ideas or at least, doesn't want to take a chance on anything that people aren't familiar with. Things have been pretty bad for a while, though. There's just nothing dropping on the mainstream that even seems like it could be decent.
February 12, 200619 yr comment_4498098 Not only is When A Stranger Calls a remake, they gave away the big twist (for those who weren't aware it was a remake) in the motherfucking TRAILER. Even if he was just doing it for a paycheck, that shit's got to be infuriating for a director when they just ruin things like that.
February 12, 200619 yr comment_4498104 Not to fear, Madea's Family Reunion will be released shortly. And no, that's not sarcasm.
February 12, 200619 yr comment_4498189 never judge a movie year by the amount of crap it has, because every year will be filled to the brim with it. always judge it by how much good or exceptional material you get. i could give you a laundry list of terrible movies that cluttered up 1999 (like 'the haunting'), but it was still a great year because it had 'being john malkovich', 'magnolia', 'fight club', 'the war zone', 'boys don't cry', 'american beauty', etc. once good movies start coming, the crap will erase itself from your memory. if those good movies never really come (as was sort of the case last year)...THEN it's a shitty year.
February 12, 200619 yr comment_4498222 Actually, it's pretty typical for the first few months of every year to be the "dumping ground" for shitty movies. Then the most fun movies come out in the summer, and then the prestige pictures (aka Oscar bait) comes out towards the end of the year.
February 13, 200619 yr comment_4498351 Good point. I'm thinking back to the number of times I went to the movies last year and really, those trips were limited in the early months. Even then, the ones I saw were underwhelming (i.e. Hitch). Since we're on the topic of new releases, I'll say now that 16 Blocks actually looks interesting. I don't usually go for action movies (or movies with action elements), but I dig Mos Def. And since Bruce Willis is in it, I'd probably have to go see it anyway.
February 13, 200619 yr comment_4498422 Re: the current crop of releases sucking. I thought the exact same thing today when I went to the mall. About a foot of snow dropped here in MD last night and somehow the power in my entire town was out from about 2am until maybe 4pm today. I left my house and headed to the theater, hoping I could pass some time until the power situation got resolved and not freeze to death in my own house. Well, when I got there and looked at what was currently playing, death by frostbite suddenly didn't sound so bad. I didn't go back home but I damn sure didn't go to the movies, either.
February 13, 200619 yr comment_4500226 I thought black people would watch anything That's what Hollywood tells me, and Hollywood would never lie to me
February 13, 200619 yr comment_4500338 Hollywood would not lie and there always right, good points Ripper. Not to fear, Madea's Family Reunion will be released shortly. And no, that's not sarcasm For the record theres a WHOLE RACK of Madea movies/plays that have already been made. Its actually pretty popular amongst the african american community. Tickets for the plays go for top dollar and Best Buy had Madea displays up around christmas time.
February 13, 200619 yr comment_4501345 Not to fear, Madea's Family Reunion will be released shortly. And no, that's not sarcasm For the record theres a WHOLE RACK of Madea movies/plays that have already been made. Its actually pretty popular amongst the african american community. Tickets for the plays go for top dollar and Best Buy had Madea displays up around christmas time. This actually reminds me of CJ's post in this thread.
February 13, 200619 yr comment_4501388 I wish my theater still did the midnight showings of older movies on Friday night. Nothing like seeing Jaws or something similar when there wasn't anything good coming out.
February 13, 200619 yr comment_4501613 Not to fear, Madea's Family Reunion will be released shortly. And no, that's not sarcasm For the record theres a WHOLE RACK of Madea movies/plays that have already been made. Its actually pretty popular amongst the african american community. Tickets for the plays go for top dollar and Best Buy had Madea displays up around christmas time. Yeah, I know. I always see them all at Blockbuster, but I can't watch plays. They just fucking bother me.
February 13, 200619 yr comment_4501657 On the plus side, TV has gotten really awesome, so it's sort of a balance of the universe.
March 29, 200619 yr comment_4727240 Scary movies are multiplying faster than ever, and getting increasingly sadistic. Why are audiences so hungry for blood? Pull up a chair. Just be careful which one.
March 29, 200619 yr comment_4728664 "Increasingly sadistic", yet I'm noticing the annoying trend of PG-13 horror movies. Come on, I grew up on Jason and Freddy slicing motherfuckers up like it ain't no thing, don't give me this "no boobies" stuff and call it horror.
March 29, 200619 yr comment_4728938 As a non-horror fan, I'd argue that the genre has hit the ceiling. Seems like most of the new ones attempt to push the envelope a bit further and slap a horror label on it. I've always said it, but I stand by it: I don't see the appeal of watching masses of people die brutal, terrible deaths. The amount of blood; the body count; the different methods of murder; none of these appeal to me or make me dub a film "great," even if it's in the horror genre. It's so popular because the masses like scary movies. They're good date movies, for the most part and people in high school or college (somewhat) flock to any piece of shit horror movie like a drinking fountain in the middle of a desert. And then, naturally, you have the fanboys, who to their credit, have been down with this garbage before it was en vogue.
March 30, 200619 yr comment_4729089 The best "horror" films are the ones that are great movies that happen to be a little scary. Any movie that tries to lock itself in a genre like that is bound to suck.
March 30, 200619 yr comment_4729183 As a non-horror fan, I'd argue that the genre has hit the ceiling. It's so popular because the masses like scary movies. They're good date movies, for the most part and people in high school or college (somewhat) flock to any piece of shit horror movie like a drinking fountain in the middle of a desert. And then, naturally, you have the fanboys, who to their credit, have been down with this garbage before it was en vogue. I am also a non-horror fan. However, and maybe I'm biased, but it seems more and more that there aren't any original horror movies these days, they just rip off Asian horror cinema, do remakes, or else sequels to older movies. I think CJ said it somewhere else here, and we've actually had a conversation about it, but Hollywood sucks for the most part now. I'm only waiting for The DaVinci Code, X3, and Superman Returns. When I went to see Inside Man and V for Vendetta, I was appalled at the horridness of upcoming movies. Hills Have Eyes? Looks like a shitty remake of the Wes Craven movie with bad CGI. Poseidon? Another shitty remake of an average movie. Silent Hill? Movie version of the video game. And, God help me...Fast and the Furious THREE?!! Why, God, WHY? I'm going to go claw out my eyes now.
March 30, 200619 yr comment_4729308 Ahem. LOS ANGELES (AP) - Now that George Clooney's an Academy Award winner, he and his crew are returning to their thieving ways. Clooney, Brad Pitt and Matt Damon will star in "Ocean's 13," the third flick in their franchise about a gang of lovable crooks, distributor Warner Bros. announced Monday. A supporting-actor Oscar winner for the oil-industry thriller "Syriana," Clooney will reprise his role as leader of the pack Danny Ocean, with the group pulling off a new heist in Las Vegas. Clooney's producing partner Steven Soderbergh, who made the 2001 hit "Ocean's Eleven" and its 2004 sequel "Ocean's Twelve," will direct again. Julia Roberts, Clooney's love interest in the first two movies, and "Ocean's Twelve" co-star Catherine Zeta-Jones will not be back for the third movie, according to Warner Bros. "It was a script issue. We didn't have a place to really use talent like theirs, two big stars like that," said Jerry Weintraub, the franchise's producer. "They're very good friends of ours, and neither Soderbergh nor I would prevail on them to come back and do nothing just to do it." Weintraub said if the filmmakers hit on a good idea to include the actresses, there was a chance Roberts and Zeta-Jones could return. The studio expects the rest of the cast, including Don Cheadle, Andy Garcia, Bernie Mac, Carl Reiner and Elliott Gould, will return. Joining the cast will be Ellen Barkin. Production is scheduled to start in July, with "Ocean's 13" due in theaters in summer 2007.
March 30, 200619 yr comment_4729516 So when will Hollywood start production on remaking grindhouse, Itallion, cannibal movies?
March 30, 200619 yr comment_4730507 The 2000's, have been the best horror era since the 70's. The majority of the mainstream theater releases have been garbage, but those don't provide an accurate representation of the genre.
March 30, 200619 yr comment_4730851 And if Hollywood doesn't use an old idea, they decide to use a topic/subject WAY too early. *points to United 93* Although, I DO want to see it... just because.
March 30, 200619 yr comment_4731992 Maybe it's just me, but the idea of anyone profiting from recreating the events of 9/11 kind of sits wrong with me. It's the cynic in me but the trailer makes it seem like the people in charge had more of a clue of what was going on than they actually did. It just seems to be rewriting history slightly.
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