here i present a list of the upcoming movies which i am stupidly excited about even though it is fairly certain at least half of them (if not all) will be grade-a turkeys

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van helsing
hellboy
the day after tomorrow
troy
the terminal
around the world in 80 days (jackie chan & steve coogan!)
spiderman 2
king arthur
anchorman
the bourne supremacy
collateral
alien vs predator

and here is a list of movies i am NOT looking forward to:
the manchurian candidate (jonathan demme's "the real truth about charlie" rmx)
catwoman
the punisher

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

dude hellboy is gonna rock!!

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

omg ALIEN VS PREDATOR OMG

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i know!! alien vs predator is possibly my all-time most anticipated movie!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

they're really going for an x-men ripoff vibe with the trailers for hellboy but i still think it's going to be good even tho i'm iffy about guillermo del toro.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

the 12 yr old inside me is running around the room throwing paint on the walls and flicking wild boogers in anticipation

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)

haha they are making a mask 2: it is the summer of shitty dark horse comics movie adaptations

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i dont have much hope for troy. looks corny in a bad way. i want a DEAD SERIOUS version of the iliad

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i kinda doubt it's actually an adaptation of the iliad!

dude have you SEEN the trailer for mask 2?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i have to be honest - the hellboy trailers got me interested

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

it's a precocious little kid mask! it's so horrifying

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

liman's not directing bourne supremacy so i'm a lil worried on that one

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

word is king arthur is AWFUL

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

have you seen the spiderman 2 trailer? it's totally wicked!

xp: ha, blount, i was gonna comment on that too! he directed the first one really well

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i know! it looks so awful! "look who's mugging".

hellboy the comic is great...omg monsters and nazis and zombies oh my

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i kinda doubt it's actually an adaptation of the iliad!

yeah thats kinda what i mean.

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i love that it's ron perlman

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

ron perlman is so cool, what a weird movie star

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

he's kind of been typecast hasnt he

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

ryan, as the iliad only takes place during one episode of the war i think the movie will probably be better as it is.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

'gimme that ugly fuck on line one shirley'

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

strongo, as what? a big-jawed tough guy? yeah, i suppose so.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

troy's gonna suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

he's in all those jeunet/caro movies (weirdest consistent ensemble cast ever there)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

troy probably will suck as it's directed by wolfgang petersen but the trailer is awesome

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i was thinking more of a guy dressed up in monster costumes, but yeah

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

admittedly i am not very familiar with his uh body of work

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"ELIZABETH!!!"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

van helsing looks awesome too--trailers for those kind of movies always make them look impossibly good though (nothing is that exciting!)

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

oh wait, maybe it's "CATHERINE!!!"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

what was nice lady's name in beauty and the beast again? dude was vincent as i recall

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

troy probably will suck as it's directed by wolfgang petersen but the trailer is awesome

you mean the one with the long shot of all the ships?

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

haha - confession time: who here does hsx?

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

no there's a newer one that's all "introducing the tough guys"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

if that gives you any idea what i mean

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

awesome!

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

can we talk about catwoman's costume for a second?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

wait - troy will probably have an 'assemble the samurai' type scene right? i luv those!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

such a terrible, terrible mistake (xp)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

brian cox is in it! (troy)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

who is playing catwoman? wait, its halle berry right?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, joe elliot designed the costume

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah! but the costume is so sadly shitty (xp)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

here's another one i'm not excited about: the ladykillers

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i'll see it

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

slocki plz explain these movies to me

van helsing
the day after tomorrow
the terminal
anchorman
collateral

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Steve Coogan the guy from 24 Hr Party People?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

van helsing is the one with hugh jackman as van helsing from the dracula mythos: he has to fight ALL the famous monsters! (except the mummy)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

good lord

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Is I, Robot going to be good or is it going to suck?

I'm looking forward to The Punisher.

I'm just hoping Hellboy is more X-Men than League of Extraordinary Gentlemen...

― Stuart (Stuart), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

the day after tommorrow is the roland emmerich climate change disaster movie that my friend was cut out of (he played a "surfer dude")

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

you're looking forward to THE PUNISHER?! have you SEEN that trailer?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

The previews I saw for The Day After Tomorrow (over a year ago?) indicate that massive global climate changes cause giant tornados, tsunamis and a new ice age.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah - i'm totally gonna see that one!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)

what's the future world one with gwyneth paltrow and some shit

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)

the terminal is spielberg/tom hanks (I KNOW I KNOW). hanks plays a guy who has to live in an airport terminal after his country is dissolved or something. ok it's gonna suck

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)

you think?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:07 (twenty-one years ago)

true story that one!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:07 (twenty-one years ago)

sky captain and the world of tomorrow! did you know that movie was all done on one guy's computer? he apparently was working on it for like 5 years!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:07 (twenty-one years ago)

anchorman has funnyman will ferrell as a 1970s anchorman!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Are they already showing ads for The Terminal? Hanks comes on with a bad accent and then reviewers proclaim it the greatest movie of all-time, etc. Looks/sounds like shit.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

collateral is the new michael mann movie! tom cruise is in it but it's still a new michael mann movie

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm gonna see that one too

milo's talking about the ladykillers

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I like Thomas Jane and any movie where John Travolta gets his ass kicked (which is most of his recent ones).

― Stuart (Stuart), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

okay any of these without monsters or some sort of world castastrophe sound shitty

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't know why i allow myself to get mildly excited about the terminal, maybe it's the jg ballardish idea of it or something. i know it's gonna suck.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

strongo van helsing has frankenstein, dracula, AND the wolfman!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

aargh xpost - i am not gonna see tom cruise in a michael mann movie!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

it's like my ideal movie (xp)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, so Hanks will be in two terrible movies this year.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i guess my ideal movie is abbott & costello meet frankenstein

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i think catherine zeta jones plays a stewardess in that terminal flick

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:09 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, and that ain't bad

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

IF YOU FELLAS KNOW WHAT I MEAN

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

its gonna be like jg ballard filtered through wally lamb

haha god this thread is a total clusterfuck

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm so sorry. (xp and not)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Dubplatestyle: i still cant believe hellboy is ron perlman
ETHANP23: linda hamilton as rasputin

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

haha - i watched some stewardess porn today (ok tmi)

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:11 (twenty-one years ago)

that manchurian candidate though, what a bad idea, jonathan demme should really stop it with the stupid remakes already

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

jonathan demme died in 1990. this is a clone.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

haha blount that was the "toxic" video

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

What happened to Kill Bill Vol 2?

― Stuart (Stuart), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)

it was pushed back again

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Julia Stiles new CinderellyCinderelly-esque romantic comedy going to be any good?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

even the trailer for that is so pathetic

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

wait - ella enchanted? i thought that was that princess diaries chick?

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, different movie

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

the big question is whether i'm gonna go see secret window or not

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

my corny ass probably anticipates before sunset more than any of these

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Really? I thought it looked kind of cute, what with the little prince dude and*BLAM*

― Stuart (Stuart), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

i know, before sunset! date movie of the year

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:17 (twenty-one years ago)

The Bourne Supremacy has only directed one other film recently - a docudrama on Bloody Sunday. Weird choice.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:17 (twenty-one years ago)

you're thinking of under the cherry moon

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:17 (twenty-one years ago)

BAH

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i am so DONE with this thread!

more killing cgi robot things plz

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:17 (twenty-one years ago)

or boobs. got any boobs?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Jessica Simpson Is... Daisy Duke.

― Stuart (Stuart), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:18 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahhahah i just lost a funny joke to xposting too

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:18 (twenty-one years ago)

including that one

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:18 (twenty-one years ago)

the jessica simpson vs. britney spears thing for the daisy duke role is easily the showbiz throwdown of the new century

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:18 (twenty-one years ago)

i worked on v*n h*lsing for a little bit. it looked like fun. your typical st*phen s*mmers stuff.

― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, i mean honestly the dude is a pretty shitty director but whatever, for all the famous monsters i'll take what i can get.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

more killing cgi robot things plz

Garfield: The Movie?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

haha oh dear the simpson/spears/duke thing is for real?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

if i get sent to garfield i'm gonna resign on the spot

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:20 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm waiting for the garfield book adaptation thanks

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Jessica wins hands down.

― Stuart (Stuart), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:20 (twenty-one years ago)

they should switch up the genders and get brit and jen to play the duke bros and ashton as daisy

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:20 (twenty-one years ago)

you know breckin meyer begged for the "jon" role

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:20 (twenty-one years ago)

uhh in garfield

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:21 (twenty-one years ago)

NO WAY STUART - BRITNEY 4EVER

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm holding out for nuMandy over Simpson and Spears.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:21 (twenty-one years ago)

My girlfriend says it's for real.

― Stuart (Stuart), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:21 (twenty-one years ago)

JESSICA GOD DAMMIT I WILL KILL YOU

― Stuart (Stuart), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:21 (twenty-one years ago)

jessica isn't here dude

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)

if i say kelly osbourne i'll be shouted down as a madman right?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)

they need to make a stewardess movie with numandy, brit, jen, kathleen hanna and me

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

DAISY DUKE MUST BE PLAYED BY A REDBLOODED AMERICAN GAL

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Jessica Simpson, Jersey GOP-Babe-OTW

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

blount your kathleen hanna thing never ceases to amaze me

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

when are they just gonna give us our own fucking vh1 show already?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm still trying to figure out who "jen" is? not aniston?!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

isn't this better than i love film?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:25 (twenty-one years ago)

pfft i dont even go there

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:25 (twenty-one years ago)

jennifer simpson - she's hot but no britney who will be america's sweetheart forever

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

plus jennifer simson married some chippendale dude

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

i think you mean jessica simpson

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Can we just have two hours of Britney running in that Angie Dickinson-lookalike thing?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

have you seen that poster with mandy moore's busted-ass looking face on it? jesus...

I was just about to post it when i noticed this in the source code on the apple trailers Saved site: META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="official movie site saved limited release united artists ua movie mgm studios metro-goldwyn-mayer new movies independent film indy indie single cell pictures infinity international entertainment red bull productions director writer brian dannelly screenplay michael urban cast jena malone mandy moore macaulay culkin patrick fugit heather matarazzo eva amurri martin donovan mary louise parker eva amurri chad faust chris evans valerie bertinelli aaron douglas sydnie skeeles r.e.m. lead-singer michael stipe producers sandy stern michael ohoven william vince sweetly subversive dark comedy drama good girl mary beauty queen skater punk wild child wannabe youth minister strangers senior year misery miserable high school caste system teens sexual content smoking teen problems pregnant pregnancy expecting best friend gay-boyfriend labels outcast senior-year nightmare true-friends treacherous halls graduation southern baptist high school coming-of-age story jesus-freak teenagers planned parenthood angels heaven abortion protest promise keepers rally motherhood manhood christian music rock concert bible confession vision lord jesus christ sin spiritual guidance religious gay pride gayification unwed mothers love forgiveness baptist classroom tattoo missionary work sacred jewish skateboarding expelled production notes synopsis cast filmmakers trailers entertainment pictures video photos pics stills theatres theaters teaser trailers movie trailers downloads"

holy shit

― Stuart (Stuart), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

i think saved is the exact same movie as get down with it or whatever that movie she was in with cj from the west wing

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe he means jessica alba

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Now i don't even need to see the movie.

― Stuart (Stuart), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

GAYIFICATION

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

jessica alba was in honey which was wicked

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:28 (twenty-one years ago)

haha hands up: was gayification the first thing everyone noticed?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:28 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Have Jessica Alba and Rachael Leigh Cook ever been in a movie together?

That needs to happen.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:29 (twenty-one years ago)

they should play stewardesses

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:29 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah jessica alba is one of my queasy skinny girl crushes

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:29 (twenty-one years ago)

she didn't used to be so skinny! she was never not skinny but like all actresses who get popular at all she's become a skeleton. I HATE THAT

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i say BRAVO KATE WINSLET

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I suspect Blount has a stewardess screenplay just waiting for the right actresses to sign on.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

she's still all that

skinnification has been a disaster for katie holmes though

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

oh my god did you know scarlett johansson is doing a movie with brian depalma? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i will admit i watched all of "idle hands" once

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

with my pants on no less

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

[joke about hands not being idle]

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Just for that sweet sweet Devon Sawa ass.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

haha - i used to sneak into the end of that movie (yknow why)!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"used to"? as in regularly?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)

god i will sit through the worst shit for stuff like that

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

josie and the pussycats is like my waterloo

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry Van Helsing looks like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Hellboy, yeah that's gonna be one to see, Del Toro had a great one-two punch a couple of years back with The Devil's Backbone and Blade II.

And Dawn of the Dead looks like it's gonna be a fun one.

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:34 (twenty-one years ago)

blade 2 sucks!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I own Josie and the Pussycats (I actually like the movie, not just for Rachael Leigh Cook as every high school crush I had x10) (okay, partially because of that)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I want to see Dust to Glory

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/dust_to_glory.html

― Stuart (Stuart), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

blade 3 is coming out this year too though!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

josie and the pussycats is such a headache movie

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah no doubt

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

if they ever made an archie movie i think my head would explode

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

oh and this is where i say that spartan was pretty good, even if everyone in it mumbled a lot. SPEAK UP PEOPLE

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Saw the Punisher trailer on TV. Wow, yet another movie in which a vintage muscle car is gratuitously destroyed! INNOVATION~!

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

strongo do you have any idea how many times i've dream-casted an archie movie? it's my number one pastime

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I know I'm going to get dragged to the Alamo, but I have low expectations for it. How you gonna top the fucking Duke?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

david caruso as an aged, bitter archie

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:37 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha remember "the alamo"? is that movie ever coming out?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

"wonder how it ends?"

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

if they ever do an archie movie mandy moore better be betty!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

alamo looks strangely lame. and i was obsessed with that story growing up

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

and i humbly submit summer from the OC as veronica

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

STOP IT YOU'RE KILLING ME

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone seen the previews for the wannabe-Ed Wood alien film coming out? Guaranteed to be the worst thing on-screen all year long.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

in re the alamo, i do really like billy bob thornton as davy crockett

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

but who would be archie? besides carrot top of course

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Billy Bob's Sundance flick looked good, in a low-budget Sundancey way. Billy Bob as ex-con is always a good thing.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

that wannabe ed wood flick is in atlanta now - supposed to be bad (not in a good way)

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

i hear that billy bob is shooting some texas high school football movie here in austin--that could be good.

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)

the one where he had the long hair and was trying to get rehabilitated in a tough neighbourhood? yeeeee. (2xp)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)

what wannabe ed wood alien film?

― Stuart (Stuart), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it Varsity Blues II: The Return of the Beek?

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Mult. x-post - um, possibly? I just saw clips on the Sundance channel, and it looked nice and atmospheric.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:43 (twenty-one years ago)

this is all moot as i have no money to see any of these

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

SHUT IT DOWN

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Did this thread just happen within the last two hours or something? (I just finished watching the first half of Andrei Rublev.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

it was fast

― Stuart (Stuart), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

That Punisher movie sure looks incredibly awful, but one possible blessing of it is they're simultaneously releasing a videogame that looks incredibly awesome. They made the character look EXACTLY like Punisher in the comics!
I never much liked the comic, either; I think I only ever read it (and I read it a lot) for the purposes of fantasizing about the great videogame they'd someday make of it. The old arcade one was great-- the two-player with him and Nick Fury--but this!

― antexit (antexit), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 05:48 (twenty-one years ago)

wow! what's it for?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 05:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm excited about Alien vs Predator. I'm an Alien Series fanatic. It still has a good chance at sucking, but judging from the new trailer it will probably at least be an entertaining creature feature. The images in the trailer look really nice, at least I don't have to worry about that aspect of the film.

As for superhero movies, I don't give a shit. I wanna see monsters tear people apart, not morons in tights (save for maybe that new Batman movie coming out next year, which has me intriuged).

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 06:33 (twenty-one years ago)

it would be great if there were no humans in the film at all! and it was all in alienese/predatorese à la the passion of the christ

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 06:39 (twenty-one years ago)

That would be the greatest thing ever. Subtitles for growls, hisses, and snarls!

Alien: "Die!"

Predator: "You're mine, bitch!"

Facehugger: "I look alarmingly like an alaskan king crab."

Chestburster: "I look like a penis with teeth, how do you think I feel?"

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 06:53 (twenty-one years ago)

why are they talking about what they look like?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 06:59 (twenty-one years ago)

They're neurotic. That's why they're so hostile to humans.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 07:02 (twenty-one years ago)

that would be very demystifying.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 07:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Alien vs Predator is so not gonna be what it's suppose to have been. They got some crapo director who did resident evil, and he does most of the writing. For crying out loud, It starts in lamo Antartica, and IT"LL BE AWESOME!

(almost as awesome as Hellboy)

Punisher will be awesome!

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 07:11 (twenty-one years ago)

"save for maybe that new Batman movie coming out next year, which has me intriuged"

I know! directed by Chris Nolan (of Memento and Insomnia fame) and it's got the scarecrow in it. The scarecrow is one of the best batman villians (as in darkest and creepyest)

(I heard a while ago that Darren Aronofsky was gonna do a batman movie, but that changed or I heard wrong.)

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 07:17 (twenty-one years ago)

somebody came to their senses

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 07:19 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't want to see batman turning door knobs and dilating his pupils and making coffee for 2 hours

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 07:19 (twenty-one years ago)

But dude, the soundtrack.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 07:23 (twenty-one years ago)

VEEP VEEP VEEP VEEP

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't want to see batman turning door knobs and dilating his pupils and making coffee for 2 hours

I do!

Also what's the deal with all the Punisher hate? Have you seen the (allegedly shitty) Apple trailer or the (COMPLETELY AWESOME) Yahoo trailer?

― Frühlingsj4n (Wintermute), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 07:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i saw one in the theatre, it was so lame, they blow up his family on the HAPPIEST DAY OF THEIR LIFE and then ugh, it just looked so shitty.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 07:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Batman deciphers the secrets of the Kabbalah. And in the sequel he becomes addicted to smack.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 07:32 (twenty-one years ago)

...and the Punisher cuts off his gangrene-ridden arm.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 07:33 (twenty-one years ago)

...with sexy results!

― okay i'll stop now (Oops), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 07:34 (twenty-one years ago)

thank you

― very much (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 07:34 (twenty-one years ago)

my friend and i couldn't stop laughing tonight talking about david lynch directing the dukes of hazzard movie. imagine the boss hog scenes! and the shots from behind the windshield of the general duke as it blazes down darkened country highways!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:29 (twenty-one years ago)

There needs to be more bizzare directors making seemingly unbizarre movies. It'd be like twice as bizzare.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 18 March 2004 05:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I always wished Cronenberg would have taken Basic Instinct 2 (wich he was offered), that would have been interesting. Also, seeing him do an Alien film would be cool.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 18 March 2004 07:11 (twenty-one years ago)

They got some crapo director who did resident evil, and he does most of the writing.

Speak not ill of The Other Paul Anderson!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 18 March 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Scarily enough, I was randomly wondering if there was going to be a Dukes of Hazzard movie this morning. So one's in production?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 March 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah! or pre-pro, at least. i'm thinking, if david lynch does this (and it's purely in my fantasy world that he will), harry dean stanton's gotta play roscoe.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I got one for ya -- Eminem as Enos.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

It's too bad Jim Henson's gone, I'd love a Henson/Lynch colab movie. Written by Charlie Kaufman.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

except for the charlie kaufman part, i'm with you there!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Kaufman's style would be a billion times more suited to muppets than humans is the thing.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

thing is the muppets already do the meta-backstage thing so perfectly though!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Of Ds of H?

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't understand

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

also i've decided that around the world in 80 days is going to be the sleeper hit of the summer!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck Punisher update (have we all forgotten Dolph Lundgren edition??)

i want a new Dune movie, or similar

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

What, it will be a hit with people who are fast asleep?

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I know full well that Around The World will break my heart, but the sum of anticipation between now and then will more than make up for it.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

i want a new Dune movie, or similar

But they just made two (the miniseries)! Or do you mean you want them to keep going in the storyline?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel that my life would be fulfilled if the Alien vs. Predator movie was actually really good.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

is the mini-series any good? the thing is it's not Lynch and i suppose i'm looking for something new in that style

AVP is rumoured to be getting a 12A certificate alas

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 18 March 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The mini-series is great! I love Lynch, but let's be real here, his Dune was not all that it could have been. The mini is a straighter telling of the story, less weirdness maybe but it makes sense, is true to the book, and the actors are great. And Chani is f'n hot.

I didn't like the Children of Dune followup quite as much, but it did have a higher budget and was still pretty aiight. No Saskia Reeves though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 March 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

"Also, seeing him do an Alien film would be cool. "

Dude, is there a petition?

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 18 March 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

previews that I saw over the last couple of days -

The something of Riddick (Pitch Black prequel) - meh, too overdone with special effects, too much Vin Diesel, the first one sucked. But it has Dame Judi Dench.

Saved - looks great

Troy - I'm not getting my hopes up

King Arthur - Keira Knightley as ass-kicking Guinevere might be the best part. I wasn't aware that buildings in 400AD Britain looked like that, but they claim to be historically authentic.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 06:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Dear God, I promise I will be good forever if you can make Dodgeball not suck.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry if everyone knows this, but I am stupidly excited about the fact that Ben Stiller's parents in Meet the Fockers are DUSTIN HOFFMAN AND BARBARA STREISAND

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, seconded. But it has Vince Vaughn where it should have Owen Wilson, so that's asking a lot of God.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Ugh, Ben Stiller doing funny voices.

The previews for Saved look great, even with the little dweeb from Almost Famous.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that the "born again comedy" or something, with Macaulay Culkin?

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

and nu-Mandy (and Mary-Louise Parker *swoon*)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

and Martin Donovan doing backflips for Christ. Thank God

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I, Robot looks soul-crushingly stupid.

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

A lobotomized Minority Report.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and Jena Malone! I seem to like her in everything. Cool. And who doesn't love Martin Donovan?

I, Robot does look stupid, but I'd be okay with that if it were stupid in an actionblamwonktits sort of way, instead of just dumb and dull. We'll see.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

The new pre/sequel to Pitch Black looks even worse, though.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I noticed that a gigantic space Jesus menaces Riddick in the preview, though

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if the trailer for Garden State is online, but it has the single indie-est shot I've ever seen. Twentysomething slacker-guy centered in the frame, wearing a shirt the blends into the wallpaper exactly, with the camera pulling back slowly.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

is that based on the Rick Moody book? oh, I guess I could look

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

nope

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

It's written and directed by the lead in Scrubs, it looks kind of cool.

I, Robot will be as bad as eating tarmac. But probably better than Thunderbirds.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Garden State

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.themoviebox.net/movies/2004/DEFGH/Garden-State/footage/ - trailer copied off TV. Look for the shot a little before the halfway point. No camera pullback, that must have been in my head.

(xpost)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm there for space Jesus. Big chromey rocket-cross, bunch of Muppet angels with ray guns? Psh. Sign me up and prepay my popcorn.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

seriously

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the buzz on Garden State at Sundance was surprisingly good.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Saw a preview for Jarmusch's new one, Coffee and Cigarettes. I loves me some Jarmusch, but I dunno. I gather it's a series of vignettes of people sitting around drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes. It's your standard Jarmusch hipster cast: Bill Murray, the RZA, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Roberto Begnini, Jack and Meg White, others who I can't remember. From the preview I couldn't tell how scripted it was or if he was just throwing people together and letting them talk. I'm sure I'll end up seeing it, I just don't know if I'll end up liking it.

I was much more excited by the preview for Shaolin Soccer.

― spittle (spittle), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

shaolin soccer rules

and jim jarmusch, well, i'm not getting my hopes up.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Benigni pretty much kills that for me, but I'd pay ten bucks to watch Tom Waits smoke cigarettes and ramble for two hours.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

(indiewire says Alfred Molina, Steve Coogan, Cate Blanchett and Steve Buscemi are also in the Jarmusch movie. indiewire also liked it. so maybe it's OK to look forward to it...)

― spittle (spittle), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I am of a mind with Tep. Particularly if it's Tom Waits rambling with Iggy Pop. Basically I just wish I could watch a Jim Jarmusch film for the rest of my life.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

if i did that "the rest of my life" would be about 5 minutes!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Bad Girls!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Mean Girls?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah shit I forgot the title already it's so bad....

Mean Girls!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Mean Girls beats White Chicks.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Who's going to go see The Girl Next Door?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 05:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Saw a preview for Jarmusch's new one, Coffee and Cigarettes. I loves me some Jarmusch, but I dunno. I gather it's a series of vignettes of people sitting around drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes. It's your standard Jarmusch hipster cast: Bill Murray, the RZA, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Roberto Begnini, Jack and Meg White, others who I can't remember. From the preview I couldn't tell how scripted it was or if he was just throwing people together and letting them talk. I'm sure I'll end up seeing it, I just don't know if I'll end up liking it.

Hasn't Jarmusch been doing these "Coffee and Cigarettes" short films for years? Are they now collected into a single feature?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 05:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Dodgeball looks much like BASEketball...

― Kingfish Hypercolor (Kingfish), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 06:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Hasn't Jarmusch been doing these "Coffee and Cigarettes" short films for years?

I didn't know that, but (the all-knowing Web says) apparently so -- started as a Saturday Night Live project, of all things. It looks like several of the vignettes are recent, so maybe he had a handful and decided to go ahead a do a bunch more.

― spittle (spittle), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 06:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently Paul Auster and Wayne Wang were familiar with these, because in "Blue in the Face" they had a vignette of Jarmusch himself smoking a cigarette and having a seemingly improvised speech.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 06:35 (twenty-one years ago)

So does this Coffee and Cigarettes compile some of the old shorts or is it all new Tom Waits action?

It would be cool if the new Pitch Black is good since I like the original so much (at least the first half), but it won't have any Claudia Black unfortunately.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Old, new, it's Tom Waits, that's good enough. (His bit in Fishing With John is still one of my favorite bits from my DVD collection.)

Blue in the Face was one of those movies I loved the first time I saw it and have hated every time since, but I don't think I hold that against it.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG IF THEY HAVE TOM WAITS RAMBLING WITH RZA I WILL DIE A HAPPY MANG

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Hellboy comes out Friday! I'm hype; it looks better and better with every preview I see.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

plus, Selma Blair does look hott as the blue-fire pyro..

....God, what a shitty pun.

― Kingfish Hypercolor (Kingfish), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Hehehehe he's gonna die a mang! not surprised really

― flubber, Monday, 5 April 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Rza ft. Tom Waits "Drink Smoke Fcuk (Letters from a Hooker in Chinatown)"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 5 April 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

"The new pre/sequel to Pitch Black looks even worse, though. "

I'm shaking in anticipation for this movie!

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 5 April 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

http://publish.uwo.ca/~cagis/experiments/images/dough.gif

― Dada, Monday, 5 April 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm gonna try to go see Hellbwah tonight!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 5 April 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Van Helsing looks like a massive dud except for Kate Beckinsale as vampire slayer.

The new Jennifer Garner movie might be the low point of Mark Ruffalo's career. Yikes.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 5 April 2004 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

what are you talking about, i'm psyched for that one!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 5 April 2004 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Ugh, Jennifer Garner doing funny-little-girl-voice. I'm saving myself for The Girl Next Door,

Oh, and I saw a preview for the new Wayans Bros. movie. Yuck.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 5 April 2004 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy living fuck, that new Wayans brother movie trailer was met with stunned silence by an instantly uncomfortable crowd. Who the fuck financed that?

However I'm noticing that audiences are en masse looking forward to The Punisher, which has a fantastic trailer but might just have a fantastic trailer editor.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 06:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Hellboy was really fucking fun! I want to go see it again baked off my gourd. Selma Blair is the hottest person ever.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

John Woo gets rights to Metroid.

Color me Stupidly Excited, it's the one right next to Burnt Sienna.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

ha, I came to this thread to ask slocki what he thought about the Garner/Ruffalo flick.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

When I went to see Hellboy last night they had posters on the wall for Aliens vs. Predator, and I realized that it's actually being made and got stupidly excited for a moment.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

The Girl Next Door suuuuuuuucked.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 1 May 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT SPIDEY 2!!!!!!!!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 1 May 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

how good is that trailer? i'm a little less excited about van helsing now, i mean i always knew it was going to be a turd, but the idea of a famous monsters movie kind of kept me going. these new trailers look pretty shitty though.

i'm pumped about bourne supremacy though!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 1 May 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

the day after tomorrow!!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 1 May 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

how pathetic does i robot look

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Not as pathetic as Troy, surely.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

troy is going to rule!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd rather sit through Minority Men In Black Independence Day Report than Troy.

Saved still looks like it'll be great. Garden State appears to be wanky indie fare.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoa, Doug Liman's next project sounds awesome - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0356910/

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt as a married couple... who happen to be assassins... hired to kill each other.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

the spiderman 2 trailer really is better than it has any right to be.

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

KB2 really utterly sucked. And I liked Part 1.

― Aaron A., Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Has there ever been a crappier accent than Kate Beckinsale in the Van Helsing trailer? "I vont to suck yer blooood"

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 1 May 2004 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

the spiderman 2 trailer really is better than it has any right to be.

it is so fucking good.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 2 May 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

As disappointing as Kill Bill 2 was, the Oscar for best supporting actor should go to Michael Parks for his 3 minute scene as the Mexican dude. (he was also the sheriff in pt 1)

― Aaron A., Sunday, 2 May 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

this is my favorite thread ever, i learned a lot

i am being serious

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 2 May 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I just picked up the Entertainment Weekly with the summer movie preview thing, and stupidly excited basically covers it. I'm giving the benefit of the doubt to a lot of things -- like Troy, either because of or despite my girlfriend being a classicist (I guess it's one of those things where if it's good it'll be her favorite movie ever, and if it's bad she'll never forgive them).

Van Helsing doesn't have to be good for me to like it, especially in the theater.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 2 May 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

ts: the new michael mann starring tom cruise vs. the new terrence malick starring colin farrell

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 2 May 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Malick > Mann
Farrell >>>>> Cruise

The answer is clear.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 2 May 2004 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

vs the new alexander sokurov with sarah michelle gellar

xpost

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 2 May 2004 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i actually dont know anything abt colin farrell but his facial hair annoys me

cruise is the antichrist

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 2 May 2004 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

>around the world in 80 days (jackie chan & steve coogan!)

does steve coogan play the jackie coogan role??

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 2 May 2004 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

the new terrence malick starring colin farrell

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 2 May 2004 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

what the fuck is up with this colin farrell piece of shit!!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 2 May 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

ARGH

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 2 May 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

please tell me this is all a cruel joke amateurist!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 2 May 2004 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

like a woody allen movie starring helent hunt

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 2 May 2004 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

have you seen the pictures of cruise in the michael mann movie though? he looks so michael mann! he's really working a william petersen style!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 2 May 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"A Terrence Malick-scripted drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and the British in the 17th century."

John Smith and Pocahontas go on a killing spree?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 2 May 2004 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

It's cool that they're doing a Bourne sequel. I liked the first one; it was so strange how it actually had quite a bit of action, but was also very low-key and everyday seeming. Kind've like Ronin (which sucked, though).

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 2 May 2004 03:25 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0356910/

how does that Lou Reed-sounding chick from Law and Order (Stephanie March)keep getting work? It was bad enough that she ruined my ill minority moments in "Head of State"

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Sunday, 2 May 2004 03:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't believe that no one has mentioned the Olsen Twins' 'New York Minute'. Eugene Levy is in it playing the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Sunday, 2 May 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

dan, ronin is the best.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 2 May 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw the trailer for Napoleon Dynamite and it was really really funny.

The Stepford Wives looks not-good.

I think that guy wrote Garden State so he could make out with Nathalie Portman.

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 2 May 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

stepford wives looks like a real disaster

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 2 May 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I have already, in my head, preemptively put it at ~ the 150-200 range in my Netflix queue.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 2 May 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

(I think of movies now in terms of where I put them in the queue.)

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 2 May 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

ronin is pretty good.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 2 May 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

TROY
VAN HELSING

― CAss (CAss), Sunday, 2 May 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

the preview for troy made it look boring and dumb

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 2 May 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

not really. i thought is looked pretty good. oh and also the passion of christ. i wanna see that even though i dont believe

― CAss (CAss), Sunday, 2 May 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

but do you believe in predator?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 2 May 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

yeh i guess

― CAss (CAss), Sunday, 2 May 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Predator exist in our hearts and minds. Jesus is just a lie.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 2 May 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

still- i wanna see the film

― CAss (CAss), Sunday, 2 May 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I was jokin'. Go see it, it's not very good though.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 2 May 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

what about van helsing??

― CAss (CAss), Sunday, 2 May 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Alien: "Die!"
Predator: "You're mine, bitch!"
Facehugger: "I look alarmingly like an alaskan king crab."

Chestburster: "I look like a penis with teeth, how do you think I feel?"

Alien v. Predator should have been directed by Woody Allen.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 2 May 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

cassandra, is there some elaborate design to your apparent guilelessness or are you another aja type character?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 2 May 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

why cause i wanna see that film?? calm down im just curious. i dont know why people feel the need to be rude in these things

― CAss (CAss), Sunday, 2 May 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

"Alien v. Predator should have been directed by Woody Allen."

That would explain why the creatures are so vicious...they're neurotic basketcases!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 3 May 2004 06:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Lesson: don't tell an Alien it has a big butt.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 3 May 2004 06:40 (twenty-one years ago)

King Arthur!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 3 May 2004 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

List of upcoming/current movies which i am stupidly excited about and in some cases disagree with the consensus that they will be crap, even though I know full well that any and all of them might just well be:

Mean Girls
I, Robot
Day After Tomorrow
King Arther
Troy
Alien vs. Predator
Anchorman

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 3 May 2004 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

SHIT I LEFT OFF HARRY POTTER TRES: THE PRIS OF AZKABAN

I don't agree with the consensus on I, Robot. I think it looks like a rowdy fun action movie, and the robots look k-creepy as hell.

Judging by the previews, Troy might turn me gay.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 3 May 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

But KK as Genevieve in Arthur will bring me right back to the wimmenses.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 3 May 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha who the fuck is "Genevieve"? Put the bong DOWN nick.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 3 May 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

the amazing story of queen genevieve and king arnold!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 3 May 2004 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Soul Plane, anyone?

http://www.apple.com/trailers/mgm/soul_plane/large.html

― Aaron A., Monday, 3 May 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

My excitement for most of these has slipped, I'm just going to sit in my room until Aliens vs. Predator comes out.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 May 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

stepford wives looks like a real disaster

Perhaps, but the fact that the press seems to have been jumping aboard the bandwagon suggests that sort of Gigli/Showgirls/Ishtar pile-on, the sacrificial lamb that Hollywood seems to somehow engineer every so often, despite the films' not actually being all that bad.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Monday, 3 May 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Did anyone actually see Town & Country? I wanted to but it was gone in a week. Didn't look good by any means but I sensed it was probably a victim to the preceding phenomenon.

― Aaron A., Monday, 3 May 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

isn't alien vs predator kinda like the Chinese Democracy of the film world?

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 3 May 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, jel, that'd be _Watchmen_, I think.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 3 May 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

But I've never seen an actual ad in a record store for Chinese Democracy (i.e., I actually saw a movie poster in the theater!).

(x-post)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 May 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh...er...um....I'm looking forward to...uh...Soul Plane. Cough...

― Skottie, Monday, 3 May 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Perhaps, but the fact that the press seems to have been jumping aboard the bandwagon suggests that sort of Gigli/Showgirls/Ishtar pile-on, the sacrificial lamb that Hollywood seems to somehow engineer every so often, despite the films' not actually being all that bad.

possibly! i just read a REALLY defensive interview with frank oz that had me wondering. (also, gigli was pretty fucking bad, if not the worst movie i saw last year)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 3 May 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"THE PRIS OF AZKABAN"

i read this as "the bris of azkaban"

ouch

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 3 May 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Judging by the previews, Troy might turn me gay.

Funny, I had the same thought.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 3 May 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

That Orlando et al would turn Nickalicious gay?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 May 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

No, that I might turn gay -- there's only so much Brad Pitt I can take.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 3 May 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

You just want in Helen's pants.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 3 May 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

She is hottter than Brad.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 3 May 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

there's only so much Brad Pitt I can take

I have to think back to Johnny Suede when he and Nick Cave appeared in a scene and wonder, 'You know, what happened there?'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 May 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

this reminds me of my theory that straight men are more attracted to brad pitt than straight women are

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 3 May 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Not straight men, stoners. 'Cause of the scene with the honey bear bong in True Romance. The rest of his movies are mostly dreck.

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 3 May 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Brad Pitt has the least to do with that movie's turning-me-gay quotient of all the men in it, including the hairy fatty old men. I speak more of Ornaldo Bloomps y the Hulk.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 3 May 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Orlando is too elvish and pretty.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 3 May 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

But a PIRATE elf.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 May 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Elf-pirates sound good in theory, but the reality was far more disappointing. I had my hopes up!

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 3 May 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

(but it was okay because the movie was fine without the elf-pirate angle)

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 3 May 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

does orlando take a pasting in the calcium kid?

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 3 May 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmm, elvish and pretty.

Did anyone else, like me, guess the title of Soul Plane within the first ten seconds of the trailer?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 3 May 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the most common point of division in Brad Pitt-hotness I've come across is the semi-naked bit in Fight Club where he's showing off his D'Angelo-like hip flexors.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 May 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

ALERT ALERT sky captain and world of tomorrow pushed back to september ALERT ALERT

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 9 May 2004 05:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I am now looking forward to I Robot, though I've yet to see a trailer for it.

I did see a trailer for the Ladykillers, it looks quite good. Though, intially I did think it was Forest Gump 2.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 9 May 2004 08:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Mean Girls was flat. Tina Fey and goth-'lesbian girl' were awesome, though.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT TROY.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

really? i want it to be good but for some reason i just think it is going to suck.

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"some reason" = "starring Brad Pitt as Achilles"

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Is wanting to laugh at Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom a valid reason for seeing a movie?

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

It's the only valid reason to see Troy.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Researching Pitt-Bloom Troy slash is also a valid reason.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Meh, who cares about the plot. Pitt in armour + Bloom in armour = vital viewing

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

but brian cox is agamemmnon! and sean bean is odysseus!! (great casting that)

and peter o'toole and julie christie are in it!!

and i want to see it!!

and i kinda like brad pitt!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

also, the iliad! movies based on homer never fail

― .rob (rgeary), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't think it's quiiite based on the iliad

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

my flatmate wants to see troy just based on cute guys in skirts and things...

i need to read threads like this more often so i know which movies i should(n't) be excited to see!

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377079/

Not yet released apparently, but the latest from Takashi Miike and Takeshi Kitano. Anyone else heard of it?

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

no... any more details?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently it's a samurai movie, with Kitano's character going after the gangsters who have wronged his daughter. I only gleaned this much by scrolling far down into the comments on imdb though, so can't be certain what more there is to it. Annoyingly, they don't seem to have a scheduled release date listed.

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

btw the movie i am most excited about like possibly EVER is 2046, the new wong-kar wai which apparently is like a SCI-FI SEQUEL TO IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

!!!!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:48 (twenty-one years ago)

No fucking way! I am attempting to picture this and failing. Sci-fi in what sense? (I mean, lasers and spaceships or buddhist afterlife reunions, for example)

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

ha 2046 is like a holy grail at this point

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

apparently 2046 refers to the flat number from in the mood for love, not the year in which it takes place!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm also freaking out about the new michael winterbottom movie which is also sci-fi!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i saw that at SXSW. it kind of sucked

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

tho i think i saw a rough edit.

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Troy looks so bad from the trailer, like a live action Disney's Hercules.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

We're planning to see Troy on Friday, I'll report back. (The girlfriend would like to use it in a "Classics and Pop Culture" class she wants to teach, if enough of it doesn't suck; the only thing that would be a bigger deal for her would be like an Oedipus trilogy or something. Or 2 hours of Snape and Lucius Malfoy having sex, but that's not really because of the classicist thing so much.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

ryan--oh no!!

the plot synopsis on imdb does make it sound kinda shitty

also weirdly it's called "code 46" right?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

anyway re troy, i'm re-reading the odyssey right now and thus am in the mood for a little o' that.

still think sean bean is brilliant casting as odysseus!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I really don't think any of the casting is bad (I have no idea about Eric Bana because I've only seen him in the Hulk, but I can give him the benefit of the doubt), and the whole anti-Brad Pitt thing bores me. It's the direction I'm concerned about, because if it were an easy movie to get right, it would've been by now, you know?

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, but what I meant to post: I figure Sean Bean's casting is so they have someone potentially marketable in an Odyssey follow-up, which could be very cool.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm not that sure how marketable sean bean is. but i do think casting him as wily odysseus, "the great tactician," is quite perfect

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

btw the movie i am most excited about like possibly EVER is 2046, the new wong-kar wai which apparently is like a SCI-FI SEQUEL TO IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE!!!!!!!

OMG WTF ETC.!!!! The only thing that could make In the Mood for Love even better is if it was sci-fi -- I predict this will be my favorite movie of all time.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

What kind of movie is Troy if they cast Sean Bean in a role where his character doesn't die by the end of the movie? I thought it was written into his contracts.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I just found this. Hopefully in theaters soon...

http://www.festival-cannes.fr/films/fiche_film.php?langue=6002&id_film=4202747

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm not that sure how marketable sean bean is.

Well, he's just the right balance between "recognizable to moviegoers" (and probably he was cast around the time Fellowship came out, right?) and "affordable and unlikely to be committed to half a dozen starring roles in a row," the way Brad Pitt would be. You can certainly carve a Russell Crowe out of Sean Bean if you run short.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Sean Bean didn't die in Caravaggio.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

or in ronin!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder how long it'll be before A&E does a miniseries version to right the wrongs of the theatrical, with Patrick Stewart and an "oh THERE you are" Rupert Everett.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

http://a69.g.akamai.net/7/69/7515/v1/img5.allocine.fr/img_cis/images/festivaldecannes/img/photo/007394.jpg

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

what is that?

i can't think of anyone better to play achilles than brad pitt.

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Im excited about Napoleon Dynamite. I wonder if it will be a tird.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

For real tho slocki, what is that? It looks like teh BJORK!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

it is apparently a publicity still from 2046

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

(from sgs's link)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Sean Bean dies in a good 85% of his movies though! I feel somehow cheated when he lives (even tho' I like Sean Bean).

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

(I am too busy swooning over the pics in sgs's link to make much sense anyway.)

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

That's a great photo of Faye Wong. Also the one of Gong Li seen between curtains (?) on the same page. I also found two more movies for me to anticipate there: Nobody Knows (Kore-eda Hirokazu) and The Ladykillers (Coen Bros.).

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

The Gong Li one is my favorite.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

zhang ziyi plays a robot looking for love!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Sean Bean never died in that film where he's a footballer, or Lady Chatterley's Lover or Sharpe.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"zhang ziyi plays a robot looking for love!"

WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Tonight at 10, "Sharpe fucks up"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

re: 2046
from chinadaily.com

"In a November press conference in Shanghai, Wong revealed some details of the plot. Tony Leung, who played the depressed protagonist in In the Mood For Love, plays essentially the same character in 2046, though this time he is a novelist rather than a newspaper editor. According to Wong, the title of the movie refers to an important year for Hong Kong - in 1997, after the handover back to the China Mainland, the Chinese Government promised Hong Kong 50 years of autonomy. 2046 will mark the end of that 50 years. The title also apparently refers to a sci-fi novel that Leung's character writes based on a one-night tryst with a prostitute in room 2046 of a hotel.

Wong's usual cast is onboard: Maggie Cheung, Faye Wong, Chang Chen - and Zhang Ziyi will also make an appearance as a robot looking for love. According to Wong, In the Mood For Love was about changing emotions contrasted with an unchanging background. Apparently, 2046 is about the same thing, whatever that means. Faye Wong, the Hong Kong popstar (who starred in Chungking Express), also plays a robot who is loved by two men played by Chang Chen and Takaya Kimura. Shanghai, the director's birthplace, is the backdrop to the film, and the film will feature both 1960s Shanghai and a Bladerunner-esque Shanghai of the future. Wong has promised a lot of digital effects, which he has also used as an excuse for the delays in production. Fans are certainly expecting a super-slick, super-cool hipster masterpiece."

faye wong as a robot! i think i'm going to pass out with excitement!

― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Ziyi also plays a 60's-era prostitute--probably the bottom photo there.

― sgs (sgs), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm intrigued already. (I still need to see In the Mood for Love first, though.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.monkeypeaches.com/pix/020604a.jpg

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmm, I like that shade of green. Vivid.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

JEL OTM

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

see it ned!! it's so great!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, take s1ocki's advice!

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I missed in the Mood for Love when it came on TV :(

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I'm sure it's fantastic, it's just one of those 'I will see it at some point here' films. Which I'm sure we all have, to one extent or another. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

for sure!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not coming out any time in the near future, but my spidey-sense tingles with pleasanticipation for A Scanner Darkly.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

An sf movie starring Keanu where questions of what reality is are paramount? It'll never fly.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

(More for the WOAH RICHARD LINKLATER SCIFI!?! factor.)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Reeves plays an undercover drug officer in the future who becomes addicted...

Are they sure Robert Downey Jr is actually cast in the movie and not just confusedly hanging around trying to score?

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

the "in the mood for love"dvd from criterion is the most breath-taking dvd i have ever seen. the color is absolutely amazing. however, remember that i have a high def. television and it may not be as brilliant on regular televisions.

― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

the tribute to the cinema archives on that dvd is the greatest thing ever

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

yes it is

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Envy - Jack Black and Ben Stiller! This film will be awesome!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i saw it, it is so bad

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm... *makes mental note on Criteirion DVD for gift list*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

don't buy envy by mistake ned!! NOOO!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Ew now I'm getting mental images of In the Mood for Love with Stiller and Jack Black as the leads.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Ben Stiller movies almost always look good to me in the trailers and then -- except for Zoolander -- they let me down in the theater. Envy looks good to me too, but not nearly as good as Dodgeball.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Can't you just imagine the smoldering looks in Ben and Jack's eyes, though?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

How can it be bad? With such a winning combination of stars?

We ought to have a thread where we predict which Philip K Dick story or novel will be made into a film next! Though, yeah, A Scanner Darkly, cool!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

(Wasn't Envy delayed a long time? I saw the trailer last summer/early fall...)

The next PKD story will be The Short Happy Life of The Brown Oxford, of course, starring Jim Carrey.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Envy was delayed a couple of times because it was such a bomb. I don't know what happened to Barry Levinson.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

something horrible, judging from envy and bandits

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Christopher Walken is in Envy!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

still sucks

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Was Levinson ever that good aside from Diner? He always sorta struck me as the more boring equivalent of John Waters for Baltimore. (Note: I do not care about Homicide and never have.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I wasn't crazy about Bandits, either :/ Geez, I can't remember the last time I loved a Levinson movie ... (checking imdb) ... Toys! 12 years ago! I didn't hate Sleepers, but I didn't love it either.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I shall watch anyway, hopefully it'll go straight to video here, so I don't get accused of dragging people to terrible Ben Stiller films.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

(liberty heights was good, amazing chris doyle cinematography (just to bring things full circle))

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you loving or hating Young Sherlock Holmes?

Judging from imdb, Homicide drained him, since he didn't have a bad movie up until then. (Some were better than others, but I don't think you can call any of them terrible.)

(jel, I'll go see Envy with you.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm... uh, "announcing" young sherlock holmes

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Cool! Good on ya Tep!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh My God!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327405/

Leo as Alexander the Great?

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

better than colin farrell

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i doubt that movie will actually happen tho

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Duelling Alexanders!

Ancient shit is hot now. Competing rise-of-Octavian TV series this fall!

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, is there another Alexander the Great film? They were talking about it on the news this morning, but I wasn't paying much attention.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Leo & Nicole Kidman? They better figure out some way to get Q-Tip in that cast too AW NAW.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

oliver stone's certainly psychotic c. farrell pic

(is the other one)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I loved Young Sherlock Holmes.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i kinda loved it too (certainly miles ahead of horrible young indiana jones)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Colon Farrell is gonna be in the movie of John Fante's "Ask the Dust".

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm a little worried about Linklater sci-fi, unless it's just two people wandering around the future talking. School of Rock was pretty good, but his other foray into normal narrative was pretty bad (the Newton Boys).

I hope he isn't following the Soderbergh path to irrelevance and suckitude.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

(sorry I'm turning this into "this is the thread where jel goes mental over finding out about films in production")

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never even heard of Newton Boys! And here I thought I was a Linklater-holic!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy shit, Newton Boys has both Skeet Ulrich AND Ethan Hawke in it. Eeeeewwwwww.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm awaiting a Suburbia DVD. Surely there are a half-dozen Linklater fanboys who'll buy it.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

one more for the road:

Surviving Christmas starring Ben Affleck - "A lonely guy rents himself a family for the holidays"

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Van Helsing had a trailer for the new M. Night Shamalamadingdong movie, and it actually looked good in a colonial Am. Gothic/Hawthorne way. (But I thought Signs looked good before having to watch it.)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

(Ned has been very restrained in not mentioning Sp0ng3 b0b Squar3 P@nts the M0vI3)

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

ARGH YEAH SPUNJBAWB YEAH WHUT WHUT

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I really loved the incongruous mostly-live-action Spunjbawb trailer I saw before Home On the Range. I was like "what the fuck kinda marketing...OH".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The Spongebob trailer is scary.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

...scary AWESOME!

The whole time I was reading Ubik, I was thinking it seemed like it would make a good movie.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

It made me uncomfortable for the same reason little kids make me uncomfortable - they're loud, obnoxious, often surreal and completely irration. (But still not as uncomfortable as the White Chicks trailer.)

Soul Plane looks awe-inspiring.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

the french ITMFL DVD is even better hehe

"btw the movie i am most excited about like possibly EVER is 2046, the new wong-kar wai which apparently is like a SCI-FI SEQUEL TO IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE!!!!!!!!"

apparently cannes accepted the film into competition without anyone having seen even a small part of it--indeed wong was still editing it a month ago. maggie cheung has no idea whether she appears in the movie for more than a minute or not. as of an interview two months ago, wong had no idea how the soundtrack would sound. madness.

wong spent so much of his producers' cash on this film it's not funny. wong has like the most decadent shooting ratio ever, you could make 10 movies out of the outtakes from "happy together."

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah tony leung plays a version of his ITMFL character but maggie cheung does not, indeed she refused to.

both leung and cheung are really ambivalent about working with wong; they both admire him, but say working on his sets is hell because everything is in his head and he doesn't communicate with his actors and he changes the scenario, indeed the whole concept, every few days,

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

s1ocki where do we get release dates for all these flicks anyhow???

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

imdb has some release dates

― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah wong also brags that the new movie has more hot asian women than any movie ever, if that floats your boat

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

well, i guess i can say it floats my boat, even though i am going to see this no matter what

― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned has been very restrained in not mentioning Sp0ng3 b0b Squar3 P@nts the M0vI3

Basically because if I did two of my very dear friends, Dan and Nicole, would die out of righteous indignation.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i read some of that stuff amateurist! about the constantly-pushed-back release date and all the froofrah with the actors (who joke that 2046 is when the film will finally be released)

so who knows, this might be a total disaster, at least it'll be an interesting one if it is!

tell me about this french in the mood dvd!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

omfg has anyone else seen the trailer for soul plane?!

http://www.soulplane.com/

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 15 May 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

only like a 1000 times!

― ryan (ryan), Saturday, 15 May 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Based on the posters, I'm pretty sure that the people who designed the Wayans' makeup for White Chicks are the same ones who designed the robots for I, Robot.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 27 May 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I am cautiously happy that all the trailers for The Prisoner of Azkaban end with the same scene. It is the pivot of the film, and if they get it right, I imagine I'll be crying from five minutes before until the end of the film.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.apple.com/trailers/dreamworks/collateral/

omgomgomgomgomgomgomgomdglsdgoRoyuyouzxvz

― ARL (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

the fucking winking robot!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm seeing the new harry potter on saturday morning

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Michael Mann +50 points
Tom Cruise -100 points
Jamie Foxx -1000 points.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

jamie foxx is (ie can be) great!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

so is tom cruise :( but, yeah.

anyway, isn't 'the day after tomorrow' tomorrow?

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Still looking forward to I, Robot, the robots look a little weak though, and in the trailer they are being deployed from the exact same truck as the Battle Droids in Star Wars ep1.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

yesterday the day after tomorrow was coming out the day after tomorrow!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't wait. I might pee.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Jel, that is the standard robot deployment truck. It's not like they're going to reinvent the wheel when they can get one right off the showroom floor!

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:38 (twenty-one years ago)

this is my credibility (erm) going down the toilet here, but I really like tom cruise!! he's a terrible actor and his movies are usually bad and his persona is annoying, but god i inexplicably love him. like he's just the perfect Movie Star. he looks like an action figure. Or an anime character. and the trailers for his movies are always awesome.

Jamie foxx is a good actor. and michael mann can redeem plenty. it's funny how cruise here almost looks like a parody of the trad Mann protagonist.

― ARL (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, I thought of the villain from Returner.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.geekonstun.com/images/wtf_tom.jpg

― ARL (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

ah, good point Layna!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hi, we're the fuckos from the club scenes in the Matrix films and boy, are we glad to get work again. The next Blade film isn't out until October!"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Is ANYONE really looking forward to any of these?

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

any of what?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

the day after tomorrow is totally lame!

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 29 May 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

harry potter was OK

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 29 May 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

it felt a little rushed

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 29 May 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

but at least it wasn't 3.5 hrs long.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 29 May 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

still can't get over how pathetic the end of TDAT was.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 30 May 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

As awful as Signs and The Sixth Sense were, I know I shouldn't get my hopes up, but The Village looks good.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 31 May 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Alexander - oh, God. Colin Ferrell as Alexander makes Brad Pitt look great and Russell Crowe's gladiator look like the greatest performance ever.

Before Sunset - the music does not bode well

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 31 May 2004 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

most of these movies are based on non-movie franchises of which i am completely ignorant (harry potter, i robot, riddick or whatever that is, etc. etc.). and "tdat"...does anyone actually want to see this movie? i am actually disturbed when i see, like, new york city being destroyed, to the point where i, er, don't want to see it.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 31 May 2004 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't, just because it looks bad. Global destruction doesn't bother me.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 31 May 2004 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The Day after tommorrow sucked!!!
The scientific bullshit was beyond ridiculous.
The acting was awful.
The plotline was basically non-existant.
The only cool thing about watching the movie was that everybody in the theater laughed whenever something 'scientific' was said. And that the group in front of me were completly drunk (the smart way to watch the movie)
O and the vice president looks unshamefully as Cheney.

― Cacaman Flores, Monday, 31 May 2004 05:44 (twenty-one years ago)

god I cannot muster the enthusiasm to go see any of the movies currently out. we've planned for the last four nights and then every time we look at listings, it seems like a better idea to just stay in and watch crap tv. when will this ennui end? this looks like the worst summer movie season in recent memory.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 31 May 2004 06:41 (twenty-one years ago)

hahahaha Alexander!! they actually had a crawl that read WARRIOR... POET... LOVER!!!!! my only hope for this movie is that Colin farrell and val kilmer make out at some point. though i guess the war elephant looked cool.

― ARL (Adrian Langston), Monday, 31 May 2004 08:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't had power since the storms on Tuesday night, so I spent the last several nights in theaters (yay air-conditioning)

The Day After Tomorrow was awful - but I liked the bits with Sela Ward and the cancer patient, and quite a bit of the interaction inside the library (the book-burning stuff). An entire movie about the survivors trapped in the NYPL would have been so much better.

But at least TDAT was better than Coffee & Cigarettes. That was even worse than ILX had led me to expect. The only good short was the Cate Blanchett v. Cate Blanchett one, the rest were tedious (in a bad way). Meg and Jack White must forever barred from 'acting' again.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 5 June 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

She Hate Me, A Spike Lee Joint - I wasn't too sure about the premise I'd heard about (former corporate exec starts impregnating lesbians for money), but the trailer looks good.

http://www.sonyclassics.com/shehateme/flash.html

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 13 June 2004 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

as lee has his "joints," what would the equivalent be for other major filmmakers?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 13 June 2004 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)

a Chris Colombus crib

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 13 June 2004 05:23 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

amateurist writes:
apparently cannes accepted the film into competition without anyone having seen even a small part of it--indeed wong was still editing it a month ago. maggie cheung has no idea whether she appears in the movie for more than a minute or not. as of an interview two months ago, wong had no idea how the soundtrack would sound. madness.
wong spent so much of his producers' cash on this film it's not funny. wong has like the most decadent shooting ratio ever, you could make 10 movies out of the outtakes from "happy together."
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oh yeah tony leung plays a version of his ITMFL character but maggie cheung does not, indeed she refused to.
both leung and cheung are really ambivalent about working with wong; they both admire him, but say working on his sets is hell because everything is in his head and he doesn't communicate with his actors and he changes the scenario, indeed the whole concept, every few days

you realize both ITMFL and 2046 were shot at the same time right? the reason for the delay of 2046 was due to problems with investors (HK market crash/recession) and getting cash to produce the film. there are great interviews with WKW and Maggie and Tony on disc 2 of the criterion ITMFL that seemingly counter much of what you wrote above.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 19 July 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I just got a ticket in the mail to see "The Village" in Charlotte the day before it comes out.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 07:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Wimbeldon... mmmmmm...

― TheRealJMod (TheRealJMod), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah... wimbledon.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I was more excited about Wimbledon until it said "from the people who brought you Love Actually and Bridget Jones's Diary"

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

when is Garden State finally going to come out? I've been seeing the trailer for it for six months now. I hate the trailer to death now.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

well both cheung and leung have made contradictory statements about this. i'm basing my info on the cannes issue of cahiers du cinema.

i'm pretty sure wong shot most of the footage for 2046 well after making in the mood for love--but i've been wrong before.

much (most?) of the money in wong's films is japanese now, like with hou's films.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

the lead actor in wimbledon has a weird complexion

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

That's because he's Russell Crowe's imaginary friend.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

wimbledon = dunst & bettany, right?

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

They're filming a movie called Elizabethtown about 15 minutes down the road from here in Versailles, KY. This movie stars Ornaldo Bloomps and Spidey's Girlfriend. They have been around town lately; my friend Leah sold Mr. Bloomps a bitchin' jacket at my favorite thrift store the other day.

Anyway, I think it's funny that they didn't actually go to Elizabethtown to shoot a film set in Elizabethtown.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm pretty sure wong shot most of the footage for 2046 well after making in the mood for love--but i've been wrong before.

he talks about making both of the movies at once in the interview on the Criterion ITMFL disc 2.

much (most?) of the money in wong's films is japanese now, like with hou's films.

oh yeah, their economy is so much more stable than HK's.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

oh i thought he conceived them both at once and only had money for one?

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i wasn't making an argument re. the japanese, just pointing out that this new film and hou's recent films have been made in great part thanks to the japanese film industry.

2046 was shot in macao, shanghai, thailand, and hong kong--was ITMFL shot in all these places (obv. the coda was shot in cambodia)?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

obv. the coda was archival footage!

i have no idea where ITMFL was shot, I will watch the parts of the interview where he adresses shooting both movies at once again and see if it touches on that. I highly recommend it, WKW is very upfront and straightforward and clearly addresses things that you mention upthread. Tony and Maggie's interviews at the Toronto FF are also very enlightening and seem straightforward and honest answers. All interviews are in English so there's nothing "lost in translation" (ugh).

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

the de gaulle thing was archival footage, tony leung at angkor wat was not.

i have the ITMFL DVD but i haven't gone through all the bonuses.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i try to watch it all at once but it puts me to sleep... :-\

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I was more excited about Wimbledon until it said "from the people who brought you Love Actually and Bridget Jones's Diary"

YEAH RIGHT??!!

― TheRealJMod (TheRealJMod), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Bridget Jones Diary was a fine film.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

ON FUCKING MARS

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

Closer looks pretty damn good. And this is not just because I want to see Natalie Portman stripping, whatever my wife claims.

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 14 August 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

NATALIE WHO WHATTING

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 14 August 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"upcoming"

Definitely: Before Sunset, Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry (big surprise), Silver City gabbneb explosion, Riding Giants, Weapons of Mass Destruction, F9/11,P.S. haha, the LA movie, I Heart Huckabee's omg wtf, Vanity Fair, The Last Shot, the Metallica movie, Ray, Lewis & Clark: the Great Journey West
Maybe: Sideways, Friday Night Lights, Maria Full of Grace, Open Water, Shall We Dance?, Collateral, The Corporation, Saved!, Primer, The Day After Tomorrow

I dunno if this is a good year for movies or not, but there are more of them out or coming that I'm actually interested in seeing than there have been in years

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 14 August 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Silver City looks awful - was it really necessary to name the Evil Republican "Pilager"?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 14 August 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i am intrigued by i heart huckabees

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 14 August 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i like david o. russell

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 14 August 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I'm generally predisposed in Sayles' favor (partly based on his place-orientation, and I dunno how Colorado this will be), and bringing back Wexler, Cooper and Kristofferson and adding Richard Dreyfuss and Miguel Ferrer into a Bush-bashing mix sounds like it will hit lots of buttons.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 14 August 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

miguel ferrer!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 14 August 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm looking forward to the Chronicles of Riddick. Though they keep saying you gots to fight evil with evil sometimes, in the trailer. Vin just doesn't look at all evil. I bet this film came out eons ago over the ocean.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 14 August 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

The cast of Ray is hysterical. Beyond Curtis Armstrong as Ahmet Ertegun and Jamie Foxx as Ray himself, we have... Richard Schiff as Jerry Wexler! Larenz Tate as Quincy Jones! Ralph Tresvant as Sam Cooke! Bokeem Woodbine as David "Fathead" Newman!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 14 August 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

2046 DVDs are available on EBay now from mainland China. R0, PAL-encoded.

I'm tempted to buy one since it hasn't even found an American distributor yet.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 17 October 2004 02:58 (twenty years ago)

tarnation is out this week!

― youn, Sunday, 17 October 2004 03:16 (twenty years ago)

in retrospect, not a lot of these movies worked out for me.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 17 October 2004 05:37 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

the trailer for 'xxx - state of the union' is beyond awesoem.

― :| (....), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 08:24 (twenty years ago)

u r a moran right?

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 08:29 (twenty years ago)

'be cool', on the other hand, is clearly the worst film ever.

― :| (....), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 08:36 (twenty years ago)

sorry I don't know what got me to post that, it was a knee jerk reaction like asking people to install lphant then get this film
Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Mieville - Numero Deux (1975) 1 Of 2.mpg

Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Mieville - Numero Deux (1975) 2 Of 2.mpg

ps to admins: it's a left wing film, I don't think there are legal problems with hosting those links.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 08:48 (twenty years ago)

not if it's a left wing film!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 09:55 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

I couldn't actually bring myself to start an anticipation thread for Stick It (from the people who brought you Bring It On!), so let's just bump this

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 27 April 2006 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

O COME ON DO IT
I mean, I'm going to start a thread for Hard Candy.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 28 April 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

i guess my ideal movie is abbott & costello meet frankenstein
-- s1ocki (parrisactava...), March 16th, 2004.

hey mine too!!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 28 April 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

ah this thread is full of so much pathos now....

― ryan (ryan), Friday, 28 April 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 28 April 2006 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

How well did you do? I'd speculate that you liked the same percentage of your hate list (er, if you liked The Manchurian Candidate) as your hit list (Spiderman, Anchorman, Bourne Supremacy, Collateral =4/12). I thought Around The World was great, mind.

People are still anticipating A Scanner Darkly!

It's so weird to me that all of these films have come and gone in the last two years, it seems much longer.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 28 April 2006 06:32 (nineteen years ago)

Will backup appreciation for Stick It, tho I think it will be no Bring It On, and wonder loudly where Dushku is in all of this...

― Jimmy Mod is a super idol of The MARS SPIRIT (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 28 April 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

Also, more challenging titles, pls.

ie Waht Choo Got

― Jimmy Mod is a super idol of The MARS SPIRIT (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 28 April 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

fifteen years pass...

Rosamund Pike to star in pandemic-themed thriller ‘Rich Flu,’ produced by Pablo Larraín.

A disease kills off some of the richest people on the planet. Then it threatens to strike anyone with any sort of fortune. People then flood the market with assets the world no longer wants. pic.twitter.com/YNBPxmp0q8
— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) February 3, 2022

Make it in Imax 3D, please.

― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 4 February 2022 07:08 (three years ago)

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