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A war-time horror flick going into production with a damn fine cast?
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Check out this cast: Ray Winstone, Cuba Gooding Jr., Taryn Manning, Valerie Cruz, Henry Rollins, Zack Ward, Bill Moseley, Jason London and Ron Perlman. When I first read the trade report on this untitled flick I thought it was a serious straight up men on a mission war movie, then they left-hooked me with a supernatural element.
They say it's about an elite squad sent in to retrieve a missing scientist from some underground lab. Perlman plays the scientist and Rollins plays a priest (odd choice, but interesting...) who tells them all that an ancient evil has been released in this underground lab, something that will cause their greatest fears to come to life.
Okay, reading back on it now I guess that does sound like a typical approach to one of these kinds of movies, but on my first read through I thought it sounded like a non-genre flick. I wonder which war this is set during? It'd be cool if it was something like WW1 and not some hip modern day science lab, all DOOMed out.
Jason Connery (Sean's son) is directing... Crazy to see Winstone following up BEOWULF and INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL with this project. Hope it turns out badass.
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sure sounds like it.
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Sounds pretty similar in tone.
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...Ray Winstone is a great actor, Ron Perlman is a geek favorite, and Cuba Gooding Jr. (amazingly) still has some residual goodwill off of his Oscar win in 1997. But that's still a pretty tepid bill, and the rest of the actors listed only dilutes it. Jason London? Zack Ward? I hope getting Henry Rollins to play a priest isn't Connery's idea of humor, and I try not to be dismissive of stuff in the early stages of production, but this sounds like a turd in the making.
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April fools aint till April ya know.This sounds like the cast from a Paul WS Anderson flick.
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Keep the horror films coming, I say. Doesn't sound too original, but if they can create some atmosphere maybe they can breathe new life into this idea.
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is probably as a favour to his old Robin of Sherwood buddy, Connery Jr. As for the rest, hey, it's a job!
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Oh, another movie where people see their greatest fears!! How come we never see movies in this subgenre where we see some dude visualizing his uncle molesting him. Of course that would be horrible to see, but god damn, people would be more afraid of that shit than another person seeing snakes or zombies or whatever. Still, Quint's idea about taking it back in time is solid as hell, especially if it's WWI. If it's WWII that's going to suck because Zemeckis will own this shit with Wolfenstein. Now, about the casting - Rollins as a priest is hilarious, but Cuba Gooding Jr? Really? What, did Snow Dogs 2 and Boat Trip 3 both get put on hold because of the strike?
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Avery that was going to do Wolfenstein? It's late, I am tired, and I don't remember.
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I just want a modern film set in WW2 without the pathos and soul-searching. Basically I want a bunch of real American heroes blowing things up and shooting automatic weapons at Nazi soldiers. Godammit!
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I already have that movie on DVD. It's called the Dirty Dozen and it's fucking fantastic.
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Hope it's not as shit though.
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Wouldn't be surprised if they are all dead from the beginning. WHAT a TWIST!
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They should film Grahm Masterton's, The Devils Of D-Day.
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It sounds exactly like Wolfenstein. I hope it is, actually!
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make is be Return to Castle Wolfenstein, please.
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Ron Perlman appears in this movie with NO MAKEUP. By his own admission, he can't act without makeup. (I'll point to City of Lost Children as a counterexample, but that was in French, so it might not count.)
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Think Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez would be able to get his son a better gig then directing a direct to dvd/Sci-Fi Late night special.
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I'm getting in line now!!
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still pretty unbelievable though
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This year's little miss all your base are belong to snakes on a plane
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Nov 30, 2007 9:54:10 AM CST
Perlman may have a face like a the rebar in a demolished Vegas h
by xevoid
That was bad. Not enough coffee to think properly.
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Now only if Tangerine Dream or Vangelis will do the soundtrack.
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Henry Rollins as a priest, very strange choice but god damn, I'll watch it.
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its not World War fucking II. I am so bleeding sick of World War II movies I could puke all over every one that's already out, and still have some left over for this movie.
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Poor Sci-Fi Channel always having their shit jacked from them.
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He's gonna need a few estrogen shots to pull that off.
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word.
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Damn, you beat me and everyone else to that punch. You know you are so right. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Take the Dirty Dozen, combine with the Magnificent Seven, add John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, and you have the original old school bad mo fos.
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Nov 30, 2007 2:53:52 PM CST
"Mah name is Beer-woof. I am 'ere to kiw your monchstah"
by fitzcarraldo2
Ray Winstone is a hoot.
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If this is WWII, then BOO. I enjoy a good Nazi occult scientist plot (Indiana Jones, Hellboy, et al) as much as the next guy, but it's been done to death already. But if set in some other period like WWI--or hell, do something really original and put it in the Napoleonic era or the Crusades or something--then it could be good. I don't hold out much hope for that though.
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That movie was a shitfest (made part one look like the original 'Halloween'), but I thought Henry Rollins was a lot of fun to watch; he had just the right attitude for the material.
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With Henry Rollins pretty much means its going to suck (minus SNOW DAY! That movie ruled!). So yeah i thought that guy Carmilla von damn was wrong but there is a Cabin Fever 2? Doesn't say that Henry Rollins is in it, so I still thinks he is speaking of Wrong Turn 2, which was much better then 1 (but thats not saying much).
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sorry i cant support that. ww2 occult nazis improve any film of this sort. i mean what are the other choices? scifi it up? THATS been overdone.
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...and then the metaphors went silent, knowing they were looking upon their king returned.
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What the Hell is he talking about? A great cast? Sounds like the cast of a low budget direct-to-dvd flick, or SciFi Channel movie. Cuba Gooding is getting awfully close to starring in some short-lived sitcom on the CW. Everything he touches turns to shit. He cannot pick a good script.
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who will be topless?
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Actually, any comparative imagery preceded by like is a simile.
And the crab simile was better -
Instead of his dad, like Sean Connery wanted!
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the biggest name in the cast is ron perlman, and hes playin a scientist...cuba gooding jr as a commando ? pulllease...... im missing the evidence of a great cast here...
now IRON MAN has a "great cast"...
the cast listed above with the exception of perlman is about as great a cast as the OC -
I realize I should have used 'simile', I'll give you that, but I'll have to call you out on the suggestion that a bucket of smashed crabs is funnier than a bag of smashed assholes. Both similes involve a container full of something that is smashed, but the unusualness of smashed assholes, combined with the question of who would collect assholes, how they were gathered, and what was used to smash them give it a slight edge over the more commonplace bucket of smashed crabs.
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but it does have a good cast. So who knows.
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"ww2 occult nazis improve any film of this sort. i mean what are the other choices? scifi it up? THATS been overdone." Read my post again and you will see suggestions for other historical settings that have nothing to do with sci-fi. I would really like to see more SF/horror plots set in different time periods, like medieval Normandy or whatever. WWII is played out.
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what the Hell happened to this?
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But then again it sounds pretty typical.
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I agree, I want Dog Soldiers 2 and I haven't even seen the first one.
I have seen like five minutes of it and I loved it.
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WEIRD WAR! WEIRD WAR! WEIRD wAR! A movie of the comic is looooooooooooooooooooooooooooong over due!!
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