Ok, I now have a new must see film, quite possibly one of my most anticipated of the year.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present: District 9
Ok, I now have a new must see film, quite possibly one of my most anticipated of the year.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present: District 9
S. Darko
Anyone hear about the Donny Darko sequel? Just found out its coming out this month. Called S. Darko. I thought it would be theater release, but looks like it will be straight to DVD. I think it could still be pretty good especially since Donnie Darko wasn’t a really wide release either and turned out to be amazing
I thought it would be theater release, but looks like it will be straight to DVD. I think it could still be pretty good especially since Donnie Darko wasn’t a really wide release either and turned out to be amazing
That would be because of the time it was released in(it got a short release in some cinemas in America and didn't do very well apparently because of the atmosphere), something to do with September 11th. Donnie Darko got a cinema release here in Britain about two years later and people went mad for it. I got it when it first came out on DVD in America.
The sequel looks quite rubbish from the trailers.
Originally posted by MildPossession
That would be because of the time it was released in(it got a short release in some cinemas in America and didn't do very well apparently because of the atmosphere), something to do with September 11th. Donnie Darko got a cinema release here in Britain about two years later and people went mad for it. I got it when it first came out on DVD in America.The sequel looks quite rubbish from the trailers.
I have not seen the sequel yet, but honestly the trailer looks pretty good. I like that it will have more time travel and sci-fi theme. Looks like they will have way more special effects… especially since they had a budget twice that of the original. And the cast looks pretty hot. Did you see grown up Daveigh Chase?? She is looking really good in the trailer… and this girl makes it sound like it was a pretty good movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL5ZL6UrGEk
Originally posted by SnakeEyes
I'm gonna defend Michael Bay here for once. I think that the Transformers franchise is perfect for him, personally. People always give him shit but he's actually a pretty talented action director. I mean, if you look at his filmography, none of his films are groundbreaking, but nearly all of them are entertaining action films (The Rock, Armageddon, Bad Boys 2). And what do people want in a Transformers film? An engaging intellectual story? Hell no. People want to see big ****ing robots taking each other down and the occassional shot of Megan Fox looking hot. That's what I expect and Bay's the perfect director for that. Just be glad he isn't directing a Charlie Kaufman script or something. Anyway, point is, this franchise is fun, disposable action.As for Underworld, I guess the same could be said, although I think those movies are less fun. The first two were decent vampire-action films, I haven't had the urge to see the third, I'll probably see it when it comes out on dvd.
I do, however, think that there are people who think these are the best films out there, which is simply wrong. But for someone like me, who I'd say has good taste in film, what's wrong with disposable fun every now and then?
And no, these films are not the epitome of poor filmmaking. Watch Uwe Boll or something and then tell me Michael Bay is a poor filmmaker.
It's good seeing someone defend Michael Bay. I will have to agree with you. His films are entertaining. I actually own every Bay film (minus Bad Boys 2 which really was crap.) But I do pay to go and watch a huge blockbuster with a lot of action and a story I don't really have to think about... and MB delivers that every time. I secretly even enjoy Pearl Harbor. The action is awesome the girls are hot. I'm looking forward to Transformers 2!
Re: 2009 Movies
Originally posted by Strangelove
To keep my little "trademark" here at KMC, I think it high time to start getting people excited about films coming out in 2009. I was inspired to do this right now as I learned about the fact that the new Star Trek movie was moved to 2009. So here we go!As a primer, I'll notify you that as the thread progresses, I use colors to note certain kinds of films. Blue means I, Strangelove, am interested in this movie. It's my thread, I get to do that. Green means that either the film is new to the list, or the release date has changed. Red means the title has changed in some way. Italics means that the film will be in limited release only. I also use (parentheses) when a film title has a comma in it and I don't want people to be confused.
[b]January
9- Hellraiser
16- Notorious, The Spirit, They Came from Upstairs, Untitled Kevin James Comedy
23- Hotel for Dogs, My Bloody Valentine
30- InkheartFebruary
6- Coraline
13- Confessions of a Shopaholic, Pink Panther Part Deux, The Wolf Man
19- The Ghost of Girlfriends Past
TBA- Vanilla GorillaMarch
6- Watchmen
13- The Lovely Bones, Race to Witch Mountain
27- Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Monsters vs. AliensApril
3- Dragonball
10- Case 39, Old DogsMay
1- The Hannah Montana Movie, X-Men Origins: Wolverine
8- Star Trek
15- Angels & Demons
22- Night at the Museum 2: Escape from the Smithsonian, Terminator 4
29- UpJune
5- The Fast and the Furious 4, Year One
12- Nowhereland
16- Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
26- Transformers 2July
1- Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
10- 2012
17- The Land of the Lost
24- G-Force, Piranha,Planet 51
31- The Taking of Pelham 123August
7- G.I. Joe
14- District 9
28- Rob Zombie's Tyrannosaurus RexSeptember
25- The ProposalOctober
2- Shutter Island
3- Toy Story (re-release in 3D)
16- Where the Wild Things AreNovember
6- A Christmas Carol, Fantastic Mr. Fox
13- Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
20- The SurrogatesDecember
18- AvatarTBA
Akira, Astro Boy, Fame, The Fighter, Final Destination 4, Gatchaman, A Killing on Carnival Row, Nottingham, Pride and Glory, The Princess and the Frog, Ripley's Believe it or Not!, Splice, Spy Hunter, Warcraft [/B]
This is the World Wide Box office gross according to Boxoffice mojo. The premier website on boxoffice info.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine 20th Century Fox $311,966,445
Star Trek Paramount Pictures $288,715,220
Taken 20th Century Fox $221,549,992
Angels and Demons Columbia Pictures $195,620,564
Watchmen Warner Bros. $182,735,282
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Terminator Salvation: The film's total domestic gross as of May 28, 2009, is at $74,516,559 so this one doesn't count yet, hasn't been out long enough.
Now in the "Xmen Origins: Wolverine" post in this forum i wrote that Wolverine would be the highest action summer blockbuster film of 2009. And i was right and here's proof when everyone was telling me that i was going to be wrong. That Terminator and Star Trek would surpass it. I guess they were wrong.
And I said this about a month before the Wolverine movie release. And here's proof.
Originally posted by FistOfThe North
This is the World Wide Box office gross according to Boxoffice mojo. The premier website on boxoffice info.X-Men Origins: Wolverine 20th Century Fox $311,966,445
Star Trek Paramount Pictures $288,715,220
Taken 20th Century Fox $221,549,992
Angels and Demons Columbia Pictures $195,620,564
Watchmen Warner Bros. $182,735,282
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Terminator Salvation: The film's total domestic gross as of May 28, 2009, is at $74,516,559 so this one doesn't count yet, hasn't been out long enough.Now in the "Xmen Origins: Wolverine" post in this forum i wrote that Wolverine would be the highest action summer blockbuster film of 2009. And i was right and here's proof when everyone was telling me that i was going to be wrong. That Terminator and Star Trek would surpass it. I guess they were wrong.
And I said this about a month before the Wolverine movie release. And here's proof.
Star Trek's got a while to go yet, though, hasn't it? As for Terminator... you yourself said it hasn't been long enough, and yet you claim to be right. Absolute. Bollocks.