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The GOOSEBUMPS Movie Has Interesting Writers!?
Merrick here...
Yeah, I know, a GOOSEBUMPS movie (based on R.L. Stine's work) doesn't do much to excite me, either - although I'm frequently warm to producer Neil Moritz's particular brand of on-screen madness.
This said, I raised my eyebrow when I saw who they're getting to write the project: Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski.
The long-established duo may spend the rest of their lives trying to live down their association with the PROBLEM CHILD franchise...but they've also brought us a few very compelling projects:
Tim Burton's ED WOOD (one of my all time mot favorite-est films), THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLINT and MAN ON THE MOON (both from Milos Forman), and RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT - once a Burton project that Spike Jonze ultimately jumped onto (is he still involved?)
So, will we get the PROBLEM CHILD Alexander & Karaszewski...or the ED WOOD Alexander & Karaszewski? It'll be interesting to find out.
This per Hollywood Reporter.
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Yawn
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Their track record is more good than bad, and their most recent work seems to be their strongest. Cut them some slack, geez.
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Then I'll watch it.
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Now that's a great picture!! More of those movies, please. Reminds me of my gay son Jasper.
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Can't wait for this. Only kidding.
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...about twelve years ago.
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only then would I watch such piss poor horror.
They should really make a Eerie Indiana movie. Much more nostalgic for me than these shitty books. -
Blast from the past.
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Aug 18, 2008 8:57:34 AM CDT
Goosebumps movie sounds better than half the shit...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....endorsed on this site. They need to do that bad ass haunted theme park story...
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the problem child movie was Kramer punching a clown! "Look a giraffe!" "Look a FIST!" *SMACK* "EEEoUGh!..." Classic.
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And so will this Goosebumps movie be. So, seriously, which writing style of this screenwriting duo do you think we'll get?
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aicn staff, why dont you start your own websites awards for film and tv, the aicn version of the oscars? get some polls going, votes for each user and allow us all to participate in something. think of the kudos it could bring!
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I think that's more concerning.
Granted it's not a crime caper with Norm Macdonald, but still... it's a stain on an excellent track record. -
With perhaps more comedy.
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are you talking about the one where the kid narrating turned out to be a robot programmed to think she was real?
i really just don't get the appeal here. it would have vaguely made sense back when these books were in their prime, but that was fucking ages ago. are kids still reading those books? -
The appeal is to draw in people who read the books as kids since they (presumably) are all out of college now and have cash to blow on nostalgia. That's my guess, at least, but if that's the case, producers are about 8 years too early to see those readers married, childrened, and into theaters as a family.
Plus, they covered almost every book in that campy TV show they did. Wake me up when they make an Are You Afraid of the Dark? movie. -
Aug 18, 2008 11:39:29 AM CDT
where's the ARE YOU AFRAID OF THE DARK movie? our EUREKA'S CASTL
by gravitysrainbow
or better yet, how about GHOSTWRITER, the PBS show?!
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Aug 18, 2008 11:46:38 AM CDT
Fuck Goosebumps. Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark!
by lawyersgunsandfunny
That was the real shit, motherfuckers. Alvin Schwartz for life!
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Or David the Gnome, that shit could be intense
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Aug 18, 2008 12:06:32 PM CDT
Are You Afraid of the Dark? Was bad fucking ass.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Where the fuck is that DVD set of the original show? Remember the Lawn Gnome episode? Scary shit.
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sucked. The creepy illustrations were the only good things about those books. The actual stories were horrible, even for children's books. I remember one of those stories where this chick is walking up some stairs and she thinks that she hears something behind her. So she turns around and there's nothing there. And that was THE ENTIRE STORY.
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The one that hates blacks, or the kid that hates being hated?
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Two of the best. Or Night of the Living Dummy. As a kid those stories scared the shit out of me.
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That's what I don't get or will they just smash them all together. Which would be the most random movie ever made. Which sounds good to me haha.
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Carly Beth was cute!
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One of the trilogies like the Dummy stories or monster blood. Or maybe make it like a Twilight Zone/Cats eye movie. Though those I love New York and I J'aime Paris movies are all the rage, the last movie to do a collective directors experience was the Asian movie Three Extremes or Eros, both weren't that good.
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ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? THE MOVIE FUCKING OWNS. WHAT ARE YOU DOING, YOU CALL YOURSELF GEEKS?
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Holy shit. I never would have thought they had it in them. That was a great movie. Problem Child was fucking pathetic though.
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When are they gonna make THAT movie? That show was genious.
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But I was 12 or younger back then. Haven't really rewatched it recently, but you gotta admit that it has some great scenes, like when John Ritter wants to show Junior to his dad, opens the door to his room and everything is on fire!
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Problem child 1 and 2 and Stay Tuned is quite good too. These are the films are shaped who I am today: scared of Gingers and raised by television.
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...Which sucked balls. You could make a fun Monster Squad type movie out of the material.
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Crush multiple stories into one movie. But Lemony Snicket is brilliant and Goosebumps is dumb fun schlock, so who cares? The writers would do well to take all the Monster Bloods or Dummies and put them all in one movie. I have enough nostalgia to download this. Then again, I said that about the CGI Ninja Turtles, and haven't seen it yet.
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That even remembered Boogedy! There were 2 Boogedy movies, weren't there? Anyway, my younger brother read the Goosebumps books, and I picked up a couple of them, but I thought the TV show covered pretty much all the stories worth filming, so unless, like it's said, they anthology the stories or take a collected run, what's the point?
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I really hope this ends up being a good movie. They should do Camp Nightmare (was that the name?) or Night of the Living Dummy. Or what was the one with the dad in the basement experimenting on plants? That one was awesome. And I thought I was the only one that liked Problem Child . . .
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Loved them, awesome. Bet they don't hold up though....
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They look alike, save for he's got black hair and wacks off to his mom. Bet the other kid didn't wack off to John Ritter.
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Will pwn all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Seriously, that show cracked my ass up as a pre teen. The one bully kid who wore a ski mask all the time...that had milk all over it because he was always carrying a carton of milk and laughing that crazy ass MUUU HA HA HA laugh, damn that shit was funny. Is it on dvd yet?
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There is something worse than "Problem Child." It is called "Clifford," and it stars Martin Short and Charles Grodin. Check Netflix and prepare for pain.
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I believe the entire movie is on youtube.
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Movies based on John Bellairs' books would be far superior to Goosebumps. Might as well have Magic Eye and Where's Waldo flicks.
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Ed Wood driving in his convertible with the top down, while it's pouring rain and he's just smiling like hell. That is exactly Ed Wood.
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up until now, i've never met anyone else who had even heard of that mess! hell, i started to think it was just something i dreamt up as a child. i remember almost nothing about the movie whatsoever, but the title remains.
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