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Lots and lots of ads for Babylon AD. Still, looks incredibly aggressive / in your face, even for a Vin Diesel film.
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Though I am sure that the sf/x of the water tube creature is the same used in Terminator 2. Same f/x house, perhaps?
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Interesting how many visual sf/x become obviously layered CGI on an MPEG video signal. Ends up kinda cheesy, not thrilling like in theater.
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Some TV news: character actor Laurence Fishburne has joined the cast of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
DaVinciDeb
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3d wasn't too bad. it was funny watching the little kids grab at stuff. We were really close to the front and didn't get headache
Im_X1
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1 banana 2 banana 3 banana 4, 5 bananas make a bunch and so do many more. Yeah. It's seared into my brain.
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@davincideb
from the 3D preview before Journey, looked like Fly Me to the Moon was a headache inducer. Did you enjoy the 3D effect??
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Beware! Warners launching remake of "The Banana Splits" TV show from the 60s, mostly on Cartoon Network. Gadzooks, I remember that show.
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Cumulative overseas box office for animation: Wall-E = $146.2mil, Kung Fu Panda = $363.5 mil. Indy Jones Skull = $465mil. Big numbers!
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@FilmBuzz
went to Fly Me to the Moon yesterday with grandkids.They loved it.Definitely kids movie but
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Mummy: Dragon Emperor doing far better overseas than domestically: 70% of gross from overseas, cume of $196.6mil. Foreign 3x domestic?
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Film project goes into turnaround: "Voltron: Defender of the Universe". Anyone know what "turnaround" means, in H'wood parlance?
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John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein working on rewrite of "Burt Dickenson, Most Powerful Magician On Planet Earth". Interesting title
mmog37
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"They Live" with Roddy Piper...that movie has one of the best fight scenes ever :)
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Nachmanoff's "Traitor" gets a very lukewarm review by Variety, is compared to Syriana, still "provocative thriller"
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Weekend box office, so far: Tropic Thunder $26mil, Dark Knight $17mil, Clone Wars $15.5mil
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All time USA box office top five, as of this weekend: Titanic (1997), Star Wars (1977), Dark Knight (2008), Shrek 2 (2004) and ET (1982).
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and I'm also partial to "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" which has one of the best dance numbers evern put to celluloid too.
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Actually I have to admit "On The Town" is on my top ten movies list, it's a WONDERFUL example of 40s musical whimsy, with a fab cast.
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I was watching a bit of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" this morning too, with Sinatra and Kelly. VERY similar to On The Town, not as good.
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@conniegreen
"Father Goose", holy cow, haven't seen that in a long time. Danny Kaye, right? Brilliant actor!
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@filmbuzz
- went fishing yesterday 'Father Goose' style - the restaurant didn't see us but we still let the fish go
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George, George, what will you think? Tropic Thunder beat Star Wars Clone Wars at box office yesterday, w/ $8.2mil one day.
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@searchguru
Why so many remakes? Risk avoidance: When you spend $30-$100 mil on a movie, untried concept/property can be scary!
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@CalvinLotz
Yeah, Watchmen should be cool. Just bought the book, planning on reading it this week, to prep :-)
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Friday box office figures (tentative): $8.2mil for Tropic Thunder, $6.5mil for Star Wars: Clone Wars. Not bad at all
calvinlotz
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Have you seen the trailer for Watchmen? Looks fantastic. The crowd at the Dark Knight premier cheered when it played.
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Robert Downey Jr reveals that, yes, there *is* an Iron Man II in the works. But first, he has to finish "Sherlock Holmes" w/ Guy Ritchie
LeStew
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Great movie!!! can't just be blamed on director/actor/producer/score/script
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@Sweetnote
I don't think it's that simple, saying bad film is because director rewrote it to death. Sometimes a script != a good movie.
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Warner has expected 25 films to release in 2009, Harry Potter, Terminator, live action Jetsons, Watchmen, Wild Things, Get Smart II, Fri 13
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I'll BET if we read one of the earlier versions of the script it was better, which means the Dir/Prod rewrote it to death! Agreed?
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Let's make this broader: When all the elements are great but the movie sucks, whose fault is it? I say director & script
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@Sweetnote
when all the pieces are good but it doesn't add up, I'll say it's the director + script that are too blame. Agreed?
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@Sweetnote
well, it takes a few hundred people to get a film out the door. When a piece is broken, it's easy to diagnose.
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@FilmBuzz
I know what you mean bout DV. Had all the elements, but fell flat! Always wonder who to point at for blame-Director? Acting-VGood
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Watching "Deja Vu". Solid opening scene, interesting storyline, great actors (esp. Denzel W.) but somehow it didn't add up to a great film.
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Did you see the earlier note I sent out, btw, about a *live action* Jetsons movie that they're working on? I expect it'll be abyssmal.
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@nichelady
Dunno, don't really want to go see Death Race myself. You see it, and tell us all about it!
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Surprisingly, the film that isn't in the top 15 for domestic grosses is Harry Potter
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