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Father Geek here with another fact filled review by Elston Gunn of all the work week's west coast movie news for those of you that may have missed some of it...
The Weekly Recap...
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CASTING
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CASTING
* Kevin Spacey will take a supporting role in his Trigger Street Prods.'
UNITED STATES OF LELAND for writer/director Matthew Ryan Hoge. Don Cheadle,
Ryan Gosling, Chris Klein, Jena Malone, Martin Donovan, Sherilyn Fenn, Ann
Magnuson and Michelle Williams also star. It's about 15-year-old Leland,
who murders an autistic child and claims that he committed the act out of
sadness. Leland is sent to a juvenile facility, where a male teacher named
Pearl must solve the mystery behind his murderous act and sadness while
dealing with how the tragic killing affects the families of both the victim
and the perpetrator.
* Halle Berry is attached to star in NAPPILY EVER AFTER, based on the Trisha
Thomas novel, for Universal Pictures. Berry will play Venus Johnson, a
beauty who grows impatient waiting for her dream man to marry her. They
break up, but her resolve is tested when he falls for someone else.
* Reese Witherspoon will star in an Intermedia Films drama set in the world
of professional women's tennis. Production is expected to begin in May.
The story centers on a former phenom whose intensity led her to lose her
composure at the U.S. Open. She's considered washed up, and is working as
the resident pro at a tennis club teaching rich people to swing a racquet.
She soon meets a beautiful Anna Kournikova-esque athlete who has
endorsements, but not the intensity to win major tournaments.
* Jonny Lee Miller has replaced Gerard Butler in Dimension's MINDHUNTERS for
director Renny Harlin and Intermedia Films. Christian Slater, Kathryn
Morris, Patricia Velazquez, LL Cool J and Val Kilmer also star. Butler had
to drop out due to scheduling conflicts with Paramount's TIMELINE, which
Richard Donner is helming.
* Edward Norton and director Spike Lee are teaming up on a feature
adaptation of David Benioff's novel THE 25TH HOUR for Disney. Shooting
begins in May in New York. Benioff also adapted the screenplay, which
chronicles the last day of freedom for a young man before he begins serving
a seven-year jail term for drug dealing. He prowls through the city until
dawn with his two close male friends and his girlfriend, re-examining his
life and how he got himself into his predicament, which leads to a
disturbing finale.
* Michael Clarke Duncan will join Ben Affleck, Colin Farrell and Jennifer
Garner in 20th Century Fox/Regency Enterprises' DAREDEVIL, a live-action
adaptation of the Marvel comic book, for writer/director Mark Steven
Johnson. Shooting starts March 25.
* Jude Law is in talks to star in DIARY OF YOUNG LONDON PHYSICIAN, a new
take on the Jekyll/Hyde story, for writer/director David Mamet. Penelope
Cruz is also in early negotiations to play the female lead. Production is
expected to begin in the late spring.
* Mark Dacascos (THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF) is in talks to join DMX and
Jet Li in CRADLE TO THE GRAVE for director Andrzej Bartkowiak.
* Tim Daly joins BASIC for director John McTiernan. John Travolta and
Samuel L. Jackson star.
* Will Yun Lee ("Witchblade") has nabbed a role in the latest James Bond
pic.
* Molly Shannon has landed a cameo role opposite Tim Allen in the Disney's
THE SANTA CLAUSE 2.
* Ewan McGregor will join Renee Zellweger in the comedy DOWN WITH LOVE for
director Peyton Reed (BRING IT ON). The twisted romantic comedy, written by
Eve Ahlert and Dennis Drake, closely follows the romantic Doris Day/Rock
Hudson films and includes scenes that take place in cars, just so audiences
can see the process shots of a fake background passing behind them. The
film is set in New York during the '60s.
* Devon Sawa, Amanda Detmer, Ian Virgo, Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Andrew Keegan
will star in the indie comedy EXTREME DATING for Filmstar Prods. and
director Lorena David (EASTSIDE). The story follows two friends who scheme
a false kidnapping so one can get his girl. Shooting starts Monday.
DIRECTOR/WRITER ATTACHMENTS
* Christopher McQuarrie will write the English-language remake of the 1999
Hong Kong action pic THE MISSION for Intermedia Films. It's about five
elite bodyguards who form a tight bond while protecting a key Triad mob boss
after an attempted assassination.
* New Line Cinema grabbed the horror script NEXT DOOR from writer Jake Wade
Wall. It's set in a small town where a wraithlike serial killer comes home
to roost.
* Sid Quashie will adapt Susan Kelly's 1995 book THE BOSTON STRANGLERS for
Paramount and producers Gale Anne Hurd and Jesse Beaton. Carl Franklin is
attached to direct. The book postulates the theory that the Boston
Strangler's infamous crimes were actually committed by multiple killers
rather than only confessed murderer, Albert DeSalvo.
* John Polson (upcoming SWIMFAN) will co-write and direct THE UP AND COMER
for Michael Douglas' Furthur Films. Polson and Howard Roughan will adapt
the screenplay from Roughan's debut novel. It's a dark comedy about a
cutthroat attorney who's enjoying the high life in the big city. That
changes, however, when a broke prep-school buddy comes to town and proceeds
to blackmail him.
* Mike Newell will develop and direct A SEASON IN CENTRAL PARK for Warner
Bros. and Outlaw Prods. The project is about a wealthy man in a
relationship with a woman, but unbeknownst to him, his best friend wants to
be with her. Said best friend concocts a scheme with a working-class girl
-- who has her sights set on the wealthy man -- in an effort to drive a
wedge between the couple. Tey do not plan on, though, is falling in love
with each other. Aline Brosh-McKenna is penning the latest draft of the
script.
* Brian Robbins will direct THE PERFECT SCORE, a Paramount dramatic comedy
about seven high school seniors who heist the SATs.
* Francois Girard (THE RED VIOLIN, THIRTY TWO SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN GOULD)
will helm THE SINGING DETECTIVE for Icon Prods. Robert Downey Jr. may star.
It's about a novelist who is bedridden with a crippling disease and
mentally begins to rewrite a novel with himself in the title role. Taking
himself into a fantasy world set in 1945 with spies, criminals and swing
music, he somehow finds the cure for his disease. The project is based on
Dennis Potter's screenplay and was first produced as a BBC miniseries in
1986, starring Michael Gambon.
* Robert Harmon (GOTTI) will direct HIGHWAYMEN for New Line Cinema from a
script by Hans Bauer (ANACONDA) and Craig Mitchell. Shooting may begin this
summer. It's about a dehumanized villain who uses a car as an expression of
his rage against the world and the hero who chases him down. An innocent
woman gets caught in their game as they chase each other in 1970s muscle
cars.
* Stephen Gaghan has written HAVOC, picked up by MDP Worldwide, based on the
screenplay by Jessica Kaplan. The script is a multilayered drama about a
gang of wealthy L.A. teens faced with the real-life gangster lifestyle they
have long tried to imitate when they encounter a drug-dealing Latino gang.
* Robert Luketic (LEGALLY BLONDE) is set to direct DreamWorks' first feature
film in a planned franchise based on Donald Hamilton's 27 books in the Matt
Helm action/spy series. Team Todd is attached to produce. Luketic is also
attached to develop and direct BOYS-R-US for 20th Century Fox and 1492
Pictures about a middle-aged woman who opens a brothel where older women can
have sex.
* Ed Decter and John Strauss (THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY) have rewritten
THE SANTA CLAUSE 2 and Disney now has the pic on a fast track with a Feb. 13
start in Vancouver. Tim Allen stars for director Michael Lembeck. The
story centers on Santa having to get married within a month, if he is to
remain in the job. Decter (THE NEW GUY) will direct Disney's THE JANE PLAN
about a Donald Trump-type whose empire is dependent upon Jane, his personal
assistant.
* David Dobkin will direct TOY MEN for MGM from a pitch from actor/producer
Vince Vaughn. The project is an ensemble piece about four reps on the road
competing in the no-holds-barred arena of toy sales. When they set their
sights on a housewife who has come up with what could be a new best seller,
one of the reps brings his young daughter to improve his chances to land the
account. Steve Pink (HIGH FIDELITY) is attached to write the script.
* Joel and Ethan Coen are in talks to write a remake of the 1966 British
caper comedy GAMBIT as a potential starring vehicle for Hugh Grant. It's
about a British thief who conspires with a beautiful woman to rob a rich guy
of his expensive statue.
* Michael Bay's new low-budget production company, Platinum Dunes, is
developing a remake of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. Production is set to
begin in the spring. Tobe Hooper, is writing a draft with his original
co-writer, Kim Henkel.
* Antoine Fuqua (TRAINING DAY) will develop and direct WHITE OUT, based on
Bergen County, N.J., Police Chief Jerry Speziale's untitled manuscript for
Gaylord Films. It's about Speziale's real-life Pygmalion-esque experience as
a New York police officer.
* Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy are working with Castle Rock on an
untitled feature film about the world of folk music that Guest will direct.
Three folk acts get together for a concert at Carnegie Hall after the death
of a legendary folk manager. Production will begin in the spring in Los
Angeles. Guest, Levy, Harry Shearer and Michael McKean will write original
material as well as take roles in the pic.
* Cineville has purchased the rights to Christopher Okum's script ALPHAWAVE
for Carl Colpaert to direct. The offbeat comedy centers on a misfit teen,
subjected to the misguidance of adult authority figures, who finds salvation
and love in an emotionally troubled young woman. Production begins this
fall.
* Warner Bros. is moving forward on a live-action/CGI sequel to CATS & DOGS
with Kevin Lima (102 DALMATIANS) set to direct. John Requa and Glenn
Ficarra will write the script.
* Kimberly Peirce (BOYS DON'T CRY) is in final talks to direct a feature
adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke's novel CHILDHOOD'S END for Universal/Beacon
Pictures. The book features giant spaceships that suddenly appear over
every major city on Earth. The arrival of the mysterious aliens bring a
half-decade of unprecedented peace and prosperity. However, this "golden
era" is the precursor to a new evolution for mankind, bringing about the end
of the human race as we know it.
* Paramount has picked up the thriller script THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS from
writer Cristi Limm for producer Scott Rudin. The project is about a
trusting woman whose life spirals out of control and suspects that her new
best friend and co-worker might be behind her troubles.
* J.P. Donahue and Kevin Polay have sold their action-thriller pitch
ADRENALINE to DreamWorks Pictures and the pitch BOOK OF THE DEAD to Warner
Bros. Jon Shestack will produce both projects. ADRENALINE is about two
detectives from different coasts who team up to solve a series of deaths,
only to find out that the deaths are connected to an experimental drug
funded by the government. DEAD centers on the demons and deities of the Far
East and is set during the present.
* New Line Cinema has grabbed the action/comedy script ACTION ABRAMOWITZ,
penned by Aaron Mendelsohn, for producer Noah Emmerich. It's about an
accountant who, after getting hit on the head, begins to believe he is his
favorite action star.
* Miguel Sapochnik will develop and direct the thriller WIRED, about a woman
who is either experiencing schizophrenia or is about to unravel a major
conspiracy. Roy Carlson wrote the script. Sapochnik will also direct
HUMAN, based on his short film THE DREAMER, for Miramax.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTION TIDBITS
* DreamWorks Pictures is in talks to pick up the comedy SURVIVING CHRISTMAS
in turnaround from Sony with Ben Affleck attached to star. Tall Trees
Prods. is producing the pic about a man faced with spending the holidays by
himself, but goes back to his childhood home and persuades the family that
now lives there to take him in.
* Dimension Films is picking up the comedy BAD SANTA from Working Title
Films. Terry Zwigoff will direct the story of two con men who dress up as
Santa and an elf, traveling from mall to mall each Christmas to rob them,
until they meet a shy 8-year-old who reminds them of the true meaning of
Christmas. Joel and Ethan Coen will serve as executive producers.
* RGH/Lions Share Pictures has acquired rights to SUGAR WARS, based on the
life of 91-year-old Angelo Lonardo, a founding father of the Mafia, and one
of the highest ranking crime figures to go the turncoat route. The Lonardo
family fought the Porello family over control of corn sugar used to make
bootleg whiskey during the 30s. Paul Murray (VERY MEAN MEN) will write the
script. RGH/Lions Share is also working on a feature adaptation of the Ray
Cooney play FUNNY MONEY from an adaptation by Harry Basil and Leslie Greif,
with the latter making his directorial debut. Shooting begins in March.
* Buena Vista is in final talks to grab the remake rights to the
Spanish-language thriller INTACTO about a Nazi concentration camp survivor
who lives in the basement of a casino on a Spanish island. He possesses the
gift of "good luck," which can be bought, sold and gambled.
* Paramount has optioned William J. Forstchen's eight-part, time-traveling
sci-fi action series THE LOST REGIMENT' for C/W Prods. The first
installment in the series, RALLY CRY, centered on a Civil War regiment swept
in a time warp to a futuristic world where humans are slaughtered like
cattle.
* The Motion Picture Assn. of America (MPAA) denied New Line Cinema's appeal
of an earlier decision blocking use of the title AUSTIN POWERS IN GOLDMEMBER
for the third pic in their Austin Powers franchise.
* Miramax Films will finance and distribute a feature film version of David
Auburn's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play PROOF. Auburn also
wrote the screenplay. It's a drama about the daughter of a recently
deceased mathematician who must face the legacies of brilliance and madness
her father left her. Hart Sharp Prods. (BOYS DON'T CRY, YOU CAN COUNT ON
ME) will produce the pic with Miramax.
* Michael Mann plans to produce, in partnership with Spyglass Entertainment
and Mirage Enterprises, a biopic on Enzo Ferrari, whose family redefined the
concept of the high-powered Italian sports car and almost single-handedly
created Formula One racing. The project is inspired by Brock Yates' 1991
book ENZO FERRARI: THE MAN, THE CARS, THE RACE, THE MACHINE. David Rayfiel
(SABRINA) is writing the latest draft.
* Dimension Films has optioned the rights to the comic book/video game
SHADOW MAN about a dead man powered by voodoo and capable of dwelling in
both our world, Liveside, and the world beyond, Deadside.
Until next week...
Elston Gunn
elstongunn@hotmail.com
elstongunn@hotmail.com
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sounds like a good team up. Lets hope that director doesn't screw it up like Romeo must die.
Dacascos should have hit the big time years ago. Unlike Van Damme and Seagal he can act and has a likeable screen presence. -
"Nappily Ever After"? That's just "B.A.P.S", motherfucker. Don't let it happen again.
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I heard about this. Sounds good. Does anyone know anything more about it? I don't mind how bad it turns out to be. It's Monday. David Holloway sounds intriguing. Tell me more.
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...that more people aren't having shit fits about Michael Bay trying to remake TX Chainsaw Massacre. Maybe because he's got Tobe Hooper & Kim Henkel involved, folks are trusting him?
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First up, I think it's cool that Dacasos has a shot at a career. Seems like he tried to do the best projects he could with the status he had. Glad to see it paid off. Too bad its in another of Andrejz's movies. That guy is 0 for 2. He made a Jet Li vehicle into a movie with barely any Jet Li in it. Then there was that last DMX movie. I got a bad feeling about this one too. Also, Steve Gaghan sucks balls. I can't wait until his crappy movie Abandoned comes out and everyone can see just what hack this dude is. Oh and cool Lee and Norton working together but lets hope that book is better then the Stay script which was ludicrous. Oh and I said it before but it warrants repeating what is with the Chainsaw fucking remake? Don't need it! Dammit!
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Well, one can wish, can't one? I think one of the reasons that no one is really jumping on this is probably because no one expects it to ever see the light of day. I mean, I'm an old school horror fan, and I wouldn't necessarily mind seeing a reinterpretation of TCM (though *not* a re-imagining; piss off, Mr. Burton, for sticking us with that horrible phrase), but what on earth could you possibly to do improve upon the original? There's barely any gore in the film (though everyone mis-remembers that there is), so you don't need to update the makeup FX (besides, how the hell do you top Savini's work in TCM 2?), and there's no chance in hell of capturing the claustrophobic nightmare that is the Dinner Party scene, so really, what's the point? // Now, I think I read somewhere that the concept of this version is going to be a series of flashbacks told from the point of view of the Sally Hardesty character (played by Marilyn Burns in the '74 version) after she escapes Leatherface- so, they're just going to tell the story in reverse? You know, I'll see it (if it ever gets made, let alone released) because I'm a completist, but I'm really not expecting much. And don't *even* get me started on that semi-sequel/semi-remake "Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (aka "Texas Chainsaw Massacre- The Next Generation")....*that* was just....horrifying. Comments? // e.
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I don't even want to know from where you're pulling those arrows, but could you do us all a favor and give us fewer naked Harrys? Some of us like to check this site on our lunch hour, for God's sake....
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I realize this is off the topic, but Boo's Mommy, you were dead on with your comments on the third installment of RR, which I finally got around to watching, God help me... Now, who gets the award for chewing scenery - Nancy Travis? Julian Sands? Emery's mother? Emery? Talk about short-circuited scares and a total lack of suspense... Can't wait 'til the sequel with the haunted condos or shopping mall built on the site - King is retiring? No matter, ABC will find some hack to provide us with Rose Red Rises or Rose Red Returns or Wrath of Wose Wed or some other alliterative mish-mosh... I need an aspirin...
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Does NO ONE at AICN remember this 1991 cheese-fest with Dacascos as an expert in the Brazilian martial art of copeira??? Remember him getting Geoffrey Lewis, as the teacher, to get up and boogie in the high school auditorium? NA-NA NA WAY, NA-NA NA WAY NA! NA-NA NA WAY, NA-NA NA WAY NA! WHY DON'T ANY FANBOYS REMEMBER THIS MOVIE???? ARRGHHH! HBO used to show it every day, and it's AWESOMELY funny, the only image I can ever get of Dacascos.
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To the remake or whatever of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. If Tope Hooper's involved...that's a good thing...but Micheal Bay...I don't trust the mother. I won't make an assumption until I see a trailer, and or some reviews. I just don't know what to think as of now. I'm a bit scared really...I don't see how you could remake something that is already classic in horror...maybe update...but not remake....
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"So, what's this all about,Winona?" "A job, Buzz. Your kind of job." "No. I'm through with that." "You can't pass this one up." "I'm married, Winona. I have a wife and child. They want me to go straight, settle down, maybe open up a nice meth lab and lead the quiet life." "What're you going to live on, Buzz. I know you lost your life savings betting on Darth Maul to win in THE PHANTOM MENACE." "I'll do all right." "Just hear me out, then if you can walk away from it, fine." "Okay, I'll hear you out, but this better not just be shoplifting at Nordstroms or Wal Mart or whatever you did." "I'm talking about a home invasion--" "That's punk work, Winona." "Are you going to hear me out or not?" "Go ahead." "We'd be going after something that's rightfully mine." "Not the Oscar?" "Fuckin' A, the Oscar. Paltrow saw the SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE script on my toilet tank and she took it. That should be my Oscar. Now, are you in or out?"...SEE YOU AT THE TRIAL.
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I agree that he's got a good screen presence... he was by far the best thing about the overrated Brotherhood of the Wolf. Unfortunately, the project in question is sure to be a piece of crap... not only is it from the producer and director of the prievious crapfest Romeo Must Die... it is also the project that heralds itself a "remake" of "M", despite the fact that it is going to have nothing in common with "M" and no one would have noticed any similarities if the no good bastards involved in the project didn't keep publicizing it as a remake of "M". Joel Silver would be the on the top of the list of the most sleazy hack producers in Hollywood if it weren't for Jerry "I wanna make a movie about 9-11!!" Bruckheimer.
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When it first came out with Bob Hall as the writer/artist. It was very cool. Looks interesting. Three Christmas movies? Bad Santa sounds good, I have a soft spot for the Santa Clause, but the Affleck movie. Forget about it!
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There is a difference between a sophisticated film goer not liking a movie and it actually being an overrated movie.
I have personally never seen a movie that so satisfied every single thing I look for in a cinematic experience.
You may not like it, but it is an incredible achievement and now my favorite movie of all time.
On another note, as much as I would love to see a great epic gothic movie of "ShadowMan," Dimension films has yet to put out a horror/sci-fi movie that had any originality.
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Uh-huh. Slightly worried about that. Still, I dare say they know what they're doing. As for re-making The Singing Detective, please do kindly piss off. Downey Jr? Horrible idea. I know this is hardly an original lament (ooh, there's irony) but why do people only ever re-make things in no need of a remake? Admittedly when you're re-making in a different format like this the chances of producing something that isn't unremittingly awful are somewhat reduced, but it's still almost never as good. In a way, those cases are even worse, because you can forget about dire remakes, whereas when they're only a bit worse it's often the inferior copy that gets remembered, especially when it's a TV series remade as a film: if Traffik/Traffic is remembered it'll be Michael Douglas who gets the recognition instead of Bill Patterson, which is grossly unfair. Hey ho. While I'm whinging, why do Americans always have to refer to any TV series with episodes in single figures as a miniseries? I wouldn't mind, but that term always makes me think of dire Aaron-Spellingesque big-hair melodramas, which is about as far from the likes of The Singing Detective as you can get.
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I can't believe that the headline of Michael Clarke Duncan's Daredevil casting was in bold but the movie the 25th Hour was not. Spike Lee and Edward Norton?! Look ahead Elston, this is going to be brilliant.
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Feb 04, 2002 8:55:43 PM CST
Action Abramowitz? Sounds like a Buzz Maverik movie spoof
by regis travolta
Cast Howie Mandel in it with Jackie Mason as Old Man Abramowitz and you've got a movie that Jews everywhere will flock to see. That's what this country needs you know, more Jewish Super Heroes! How about Super Jew? Bat Jew? Spider Jew? Ultra Jew? Aqua Jew? Jesus Jew?
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it had it's moments
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Where in God's good name is Cherub Harry pulling those arrows from in that little animation?
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I think I just heard the gates of hell creak open a few inches wider.
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Well, I call it overrated because I had heard so much praise for it and I went to see it and didn't care for most of it. Isn't "overrated" as subjective as any other word used to describe the quality of something?
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Feb 05, 2002 12:09:12 AM CST
Every week Buzz seems to be getting closer to the truth.
by cash bailey
And that disturbs me greatly.
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I remember Only the Strong. My first Dacascos movie. Most amusing. Didn't quite snatch the cheese crown of No Retreat No Surrender but jolly entertaining nontheless. Why isn't Brotherhood of the Wolf out in Japan??
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'Over-rated' depends on your point-of-view. Hanging around Aint-it-Cool all day might make you believe that films like the great 'Devil's Backbone' and 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' are over rated, but since the average non-geek population has never heard of either yet, I don't think the term applies. The best example of over rated would be Crouching Tiger, critically regarded as the most moving, beautiful epic chinese movie ever, but in fact simply a very good Kung-fu / Love story.
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I too remember Only the strong, cheesy, but is strangely rewatchable, and you end up rooting for the school to sort itself out, where normally you couldn't give a shit. The Caporea (spelling ?!!!) is very easy on the eye.
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Emery's mother, without question. Oh, it was timeless.
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I want to eat meals off Ultra-Jew's stomach. I hope he's into Latinos.
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SPINAL TAP: UNPLUGGED. The boys are back, with their amps turned down to -1 (acoustic). MINDFUCK a man who may actually be a woman believes he/she is close to solving a conspiracy. Or is she just crazy? Or both? Find out (maybe) this summer. Or later on video.
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WARNING - SPOILERS. I went into this movie with the highest of hopes, I really wanted it to be very good, but was severely dissapointed. Granted, there were some cool scenes, the first 10 minutes were great, but the huge holes in the plot just ruined it for me. What's the story with the withered "hidden/bound" hand? What's the background with the brother/sister love story (that was totally out of the blue)? The way over-used plot device with three different people dying and coming back to life (the little girl, the main guy and his love interest)?I really liked the design of the beast, but it didn't work at all on screen. In the one scene where they were in the cave and the beast was released to fight the dogs, they really shouldn't have shown them together. It glaringly illustrated how off the movements were of the beast. I could go on and on (the sappy, retarted final scene with the spreading of the ashes, the fact that they "faked us out" and almost ended the movie three different times before it actually ended - blah). I generally give movies the benefit of the doubt and try to enjoy them for what they are, but I just couldn't ego along with this crapfest. They needed to just pick maybe three or four of the 15 different movies they were trying to make and stick with that. Wait for the DVD rental.
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Yeah, I really *do* have to know: AquaJew?!? That's either inspired or disturbing, and possibly both. // Emery's Mommy was the tour-de-force role of the year as far as televised drama is concerned, what with the complete loss of the English language/ spitting & drooling act in the kitchen. 'Six Feet Under' and 'The Sopranos' have got *nothing* on this performance by Laura Kenny (who got her acting start in that timeless classic, 'Harry & The Hendersons'). Emmy voters, you have been prepared! // e.
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At least the other guy who didn't like it had a more reasonable explanation of why not and didn't undermine his argument with a word like crapfest.
For me, "Brotherhood of the Wolf" was like the greatest Hammer Horror film ever made. It had interesting political and environmental issues and great memorable characters. It was beautiful to look at and added twists and intrigue to an interesting myth/legend.
You have the right to like it and I accept people's reasons for their opinion, but I think it's a pretty sad age when people find so much fault with a movie like "Brotherhood of the Wolf."
I would guess you would have to be a pretty jaded movie fan not to find some fun in it.
And as far as the brother/sister angle, I thought that was pretty obvious.
Whatever. I think everyone should check this out because it's a great movie and perhaps the only decent one I have seen in a long time. It was the best movie I have seen in the last two years anyway.
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Feb 05, 2002 1:01:20 PM CST
Well I strongly disagree with your strong disagreement of my cal
by twan_deeth_ree
So there. I really didn't like the movie. I'm not a jaded movie fan, I can generally overlook all kinds of plot flaws and weaknesses in light of a fun ride, but I just couldn't get past the problems I had with this crapfest. I went with a group of friends and two of them said it was the worst movie they'd seen in years. One of them said it was right next to The Messenger on their worst movies of all time list. So I'm not completely alone in my feelings about it. I liked it a lot more than they did, but I still felt like I wasted 2.5 hours of my life by watching that crapfest. I really, really wanted to like it, I was very excited about seeing it. But alas, it was a crapfest. Oh well. (Remember, we're allowed to disagree, that's the nature of human experience, it's kind of, like, um, subjective and stuff, Mr. silly pants.)
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What the hell is that? Huh? I have no words except I'm sure the Coens and Zwigoff have something up their sleves, but damned if I know. **** On a side note, has there been a movie besides Christmas Story where Santa comes heavily into play that didn't suck wind? Help me out here, and I haven't seen the 70s Tales from the Crypt movie.... **** "Naughty!" "Punish!"
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Hands down, the 1964 'Santa Claus Conquers The Martians'- yeah, I know Ben Edlund is remaking this (spoon!), but you cannot deny the power of Pia Zadora's acting debut. Nothing better, man.
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Feb 06, 2002 3:07:32 AM CST
Anyone catch the ad for Cameron Diaz' new romantic comedy ?
by silenceoffreedom
Damn, I am getting SICK of romantic comedies ! "Notting Hill" kicked ass, but all the rest of them are rather downhill. And "The Grinch" was a piece of shit.
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