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Merrick here...
Hollywood Reporter says that Stephen Sommers is closing in on a reworking TARZAN for Warners. He'll also co-write with COLLATERAL's Stuart Beattie.
Jerry Weintraub ("Ocean's Eleven") is producing through his Jerry Weintraub Prods. Jessica Goodman and Jesse Ehrman will oversee for the studio.
Guillermo del Toro had been attached to direct a script written by John Collee ("Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World") when the project was announced two years ago. But "The Mummy" director will get his shot now that Del Toro is committed to a four-year stint choreographing dwarves in New Zealand for the MGM-Warner Bros. two-fer of "The Hobbit."
...says THIS ARTICLE in Hollywood Reporter.
Beattie has recently been peddling his spec script & concept material based on Eric Nylund 's novel HALO: THE FALL OF REACH. You can find some coverage of that project HERE.
A Stephen Sommers TARZAN is almost as difficult to conjure as, well, a Stephen Sommers G.I. JOE...or a Stephen Sommers anything for that matter. I suspect it'll go something like this...but with better photography:
Guillermo del Toro had been attached to direct a script written by John Collee ("Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World") when the project was announced two years ago. But "The Mummy" director will get his shot now that Del Toro is committed to a four-year stint choreographing dwarves in New Zealand for the MGM-Warner Bros. two-fer of "The Hobbit."
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Who gives a shit
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too bad this will suck. We need an updating of "Greystoke". That was a great adaptation of Tarzan, for it's time.
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Merrick posts a good video.
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As close as I'll ever get to First. Sommers sucks.
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"Here we go again!"
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...Harrison Ford and his gay earring.
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FUUUUUUUUUUCK!
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....and Batman's nipples.
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lolz.
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Can not be topped. It would like trying to remake Titanic or The Dark Knight.
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...that includes Tarzan "experimenting" with apes if ya know what I mean.
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F...U...C...K. FUCK stands for being arrested in olden days "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge". Kinda, lessen the effect of it.
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...making a GIANT sucking sound. (OK I'm done.)
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Almost Forgot, The lead singer (Jimmy McShane) in The Music Video...TARZAN BOY by the group BALTIMORA died in 1995 of AIDS. I only learned that yesterday. Just a little music trivia.
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I wouldn't want Sommers anywhere near John Carter, but Tarzan is a little simpler, easier to film, etc. He might be able to make a fun film. Trouble is I really doubt he'll keep it faithful to the book. Pity; dozens of Tarzan movies, and none of them stick to the INCREDIBLY POPULAR book. Greystoke was close to the book for the first thirty minutes or so...
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What other easily available characters are currently being lined up for Hollywood to fuck...
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I was actually way more excited about Del Toro doing Tarzan than I am about The Hobbit. I would be even more stoked if he'd direct Conan instead of The Hobbit. But anyway, I'm getting off topic. This will be a complete turd, guaranteed! Sommers movies lack a certain something...I think they call it "watchability."
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Sommers sucks huge alien cock, but Collateral was pretty decently well written...I'm withholding judgement until I see it. speculating beforehand is just irresponsible...SIIIIKKKKKEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! I'm a talkbacker, I never live in the now.and this movie will suck.
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...what do you mean he's not dead?
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...about the Coens supposedly writing a Tarzan movie to star Billy Bob Thornton? Or did I just dream that one? Whatever, it would've been a damn sight more interesting than this turd-in-the-making.
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Me Tarzan. Me so horny. Me love you long time.
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Sep 03, 2008 1:06:45 AM CDT
~~~BRANDON FRASIER AS TARZAN: "I HATE MUNKEYS!"~~~
by the marquis de side 3
totally over the top with CGI loincloths and vines and naked black women bearing their tits since it'd be indecent for white chicks to do that =0p
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That's not true. http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/fuck.asp (mind the gaps, obviously)
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I haven't seen that video in about 20 years. The 60s were awesome. Much more awesome than these little twats that try to dress 80s think it was.
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the 60s can suckit.
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I was ready to tell him the same thing.
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...The Mummy. And even that wasn't great. Everything else has been fucking unwatchably dire. And Stuart Beattie too? Jesus christ, could you get anyone more boring for a Tarzan flick. I guess the world hated the Towne one so much they decided to go as generic as humanly possible.
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and never will.
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Can't be much worse than that version of Tarzan
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Greystoke has yet to be outdone...and this willy-tickler isnt the guy to do that.
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Sep 03, 2008 1:55:44 AM CDT
But, um, Harry, you're a Steven Sommers fan. Did I miss somethi
by stifler's mom
That's a very negative reaction from a guy who loved Steven Sommers last two movies. Maye you're finally ready to admit that Mummy Returns and Van Helsing are pure, steaming cinematic dog shit?
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Deep Rising 2!
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I thought you liked Sommers. Dude you even enjoyed that shit cgi orgy mess that was VAN HELSING. Or am I remembering that review wrong? Anyway, go ahead Sommers, CGI the shit out of this property. Let's see who complains about swinging Shia after this.
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sigh...
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http://tinyurl.com/6kx4xx
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A spastick edited, cgi laden version of Tarzan. I knew my life was missing something. Oh and Octagonproplex, barring, Ridley Scott , Michael Mann and Danny Boyle, I wouldn't let anyone betwen 11-20 direct traffic, far less a major motion picture.
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What the fuck, man? Harlin should be several slots above Emmerich, not sitting in Shitsville at number 20! Renny is just the motherfucker to bring Tarzan into the... the whatever the fuck this decade is! Christ!
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What the fuck?!? Peter Jackson, Guillermo Del Toro, Martin Scorsese, Neil Marshall... the list goes on
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I wil not watch anything Somnober does coz he can't make a movie that lasts longer in your head than the walk back to your car!
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it should have been entitled "First 20 directors I thought of"
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Do we really need another version of Tarzan, or perhaps I am a little jaded...we've had countless film versions in the 30s, 40s, 50s etc. A serious version in Greystoke (great film BTW) and a Disney version...not to mention a soft porn Bo Derek film and numerous DTV TV versions. Also Sommers- sweet Jebus...
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I'm just sayin'
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Trust me, if you don't get his films, you probably don't read literature. And I'm hoping this will resemble "Greystoke".
Will Kemp for Tarzan? -
Now that could be awesome...I think the original books offer an opportunity for some great, pulpy films, but this will likely not be that, sad.
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First, this could just be another announced project that will never see the light of day, like so many others. Second, I'm not a fan of Sommers films but I'm not sure if it's his direction or the scripts. Third, if John Colle wrote the shooting script I'd at least give this some hope of being a good story. I thought Master and Commander was an excellent movie. Granted, you had Peter Weir directing and not Stephen Sommers. Fifth, Greystoke was a snoozer. Completely missed the point of the character. Tarzan was all about man's ability to adapt to his environment. He thrived in the jungle and civilization. In Greystoke, he became a wimpering mess and had to go back to the jungle. I loved the first part of the movie, when they stayed close to the book. I'd love to see someone follow through on that story and show us the badass Tarzan who comes to America looking for Jane and denies his true heritage and the I want to see the sequel "The Return of Tarzan". Those books are excellent adventure stories and they've never shown the character as he was in those books. Fearless, violent and honorable. Great stuff. I'd be more excited if it was a more esteemed director, but I wouldn't piss on this yet. And one last thing about Greystoke... I waited 10 years for that movie. They announced it in the back of a DC Tarzan comic in the early 70s and nobody was more excited to see that Holst-fueled trailer on Sudden Impact than I was. I saw that movie three times just to see the trailer. But that movie was not about Tarzan. It was about John Clayton. And Harry, wouldn't you love to see the scene at the outpost with the big game hunters and Tarzan taking a knife and rope to go kill a lion, even if it was directed by Stephen Sommers?
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not with Stephen Sommers directing. Nope.
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seems like the kind of movie maker who has a good idea in the beginning, and then just goes totally batshit crazy. Van Helsing was a cool, fun concept. But he took it way over the top with pretty bad cgi and let the characters get way to cheesey. Wouldn't a darker Van Helsing movie be cool? I always thought a sequal with Jackman looking for Jack the Ripper would be great. And the kicker...never have him figure out who the ripper was.
As for Tarzan...Once again I'm sure we'll see glimmers of coolness...but then we will just kill it with cheese. -
Sep 03, 2008 9:13:12 AM CDT
Sommers is the Michael Bay version of Steven Spielberg
by nasty in the pasty
All the F/X "spectacle" with none of the coherence, charm, or filmmaking craft.
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The perfect Tarzan... for 1970s tv. Liked Christopher Lambert in Hugh Hudson's 1981 film, as that frenchie was learning english in the film. "Razor, John! Ra-Zor!"
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You hit the nail on the head when you mentioned The Jungle Book, which I think Sommers did a fine job in the jungle setting. You do cast a wide net when you list your directors though.And is anyone really clammoring for a Tarzan redo? If so, how about...Wernor Herzog's TARZAN
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Now we can have gorillas playing soccer!
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To a movie which doesn't even have a screenplay as of yet. Nice. Well maybe Judd Apatow can get involved and then Harry can jerk off all over it.
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Look it for it to be all wacky apeman hijinks in second rate CGI effects. Burroughs weeps.
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enjoyed his Mummy flicks....well the first one anyway, Deep Rising sucks but its a good way to kill a couple hours i guess....Van Helsing is horrible, drawn out, and bloated....G.I. Joe....dosen't look promising, and a Tarzan flick....well you get the idea.
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I actually think Deep Rising is Sommer's best film. It's intentionally tongue-in-cheek, moves at a really brisk pace, and quite entertaining overall. Yes, it's definitely silly, but I think Deep Rising's silliness was intentional. I think in Sommer's later films (where he got bigger budgets and production values) he started having that silliness become unintentional. That aside, I think he's fine for Tarzan. It's not exactly hallowed ground.
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Rob Cohen.
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...suck then. Figures.
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Tarzan will be a club owner. Yes, like a bar. Which means, yes, this is probably modern. I know of at least 10,000 Tarzan stories I'd rather see than "Tarzan: Nightclub Owner."
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Due to the fact that DelToro WAS attached to this but no longer..Boo Hoo Harry boo hoo.Any reboot or remake will make this family friendly. I say, make this a savage story where Tarzan is a creature of the jungle, much more ape than man, as previous incarnations have humanized him. I've never read Burrough's work, but I think the character would work as a brutal killing force. Even killing or maiming a member of the exhibition team.( Hearing screams in the night, the team investigates to find one of their own, lying in a pool of blood with what appears to be human bite marks about the neck ). But, of course, the studios would never greenlight a dark version, even after Dark Knight.
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he gets to escaped dtv hell..hurrah.
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I think Deep Blue Sea is like Renny's Deep Rising, a fun film with "nautical creatures"..but I don't see him crawling out of direct-to-video land any time soon. Its not just Driven, but Mindhunters, Exorcist Beginning, Covenant and The Cleaner that he has to take credit for. There is even talk of a direct-to-video Deep Sea 2...which would fit the natural progression...And hey, I even liked Die Hard 2. Where else will you see an icicle to the eye in a big budget thriller?
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indicate Herzog can deliver "in the jungle". Of course, I was thinking of a director of a Tarzan I would like to see, perhaps not the studio.
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but Excalibur had beautiful nature, as did The Emerald Forest. John Boorman would excel in the themes of man and beast and nature versus civilization...get one last classic out of the man.
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..and, duh, Deliverance...
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a teen idol playing Tarzan wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. Tarzan is supposed to be very good looking and about 18-20 years old.
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Come to think of it, the theme of the lost child raised in the wild is very much in the vein of Tarzan...
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You know it's going to come to pass.
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Sure was.
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Another TARZAN movie?!*YAWN*Wake me for breakfast, eh love?
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Why is it every talkback I decide to get involved in, someone brings up John Boorman? I mean, we got a little Zardoz talk going on before, but I think I had my say back on the Avatar TB. Boorman is like Frankenheimer—some good movies made, but I couldn't tell you what their style was. I saw "Emerald Forest" as a kid, and liked it. Every time I toy with the idea of joining Netfliks, that movie is one of the movies I'd plan on renting 1st. I just remember the kid telling his girlfriend he was invisible, and disappearing into the green, and that was actually an affective moment. Also, the girls on the GreatGlam ads are hot, but I miss the Busted Tees girls. They were much more attractive somehow.And finally, about Tarzan. I was a HUGE Burroughs fan back in the day, and still have a soft spot in my heart for all of his creations, but I always preferred Mars, Venus and Pellucidar over straight-up Tarzan. The concept of Tarzan was great, but eventually it became a series of lost civilizations series, and I wasn't interested in those as much as monster-laden worlds. Admittedly, I loved the concept of Opar (Atlantis' surviving colony) with its gorgeous nude women and savage half-men, but after that, there weren't that many cool places Tarzan visited. The Ant Men? The Lost Roman civilization? Guys in leopard skins? Not as interesting to me. (Loved Pal-ul-don, but that was pretty much a surrogate Pellucidar, with monkey men and Triceratopses. And for some reason, I think audiences (maybe even ones including me) would have a tough time buying lost civilizations on the screen, unless the movie was a period piece. The world, aside from the bottom of the ocean, is pretty picked over by now, and there's not much unexplored land for Ant Men to be hiding in.
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Sidney Lumet is 84.You know what they say, 80 is the new 70....(I don't know)AND, they both have their next projects lined up.And off subject still...yes, PETER SELLERS showed more creative imagination than 99.9% of bio-flicks produced, which are more like Classics Illustrated versions of one's life. Speaking of which, the new trailer for "Milk" looks very good. Sean Penn looks like a lock for another nomination.Now, back to Tarzan...
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Point Blank, Deliverance, Zardoz, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest...any director would be damned proud to have those on their resume (sp. the first 2). And it's not so much the style, but the themes he explored and was interested in.
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is Randy Couture?.right j/k but list is fail when you mentioned Roland Emmerich and Renny Harlin.
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10,000 as most of his films are completely asinine. Like Bay he might be good at one aspect but will that excuse the rest of the movie. He might be a great set designer but like Bay would be or is a great stunt Coordinator but when it comes to the full scope of directing a movie they dont have what it takes.
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Damn! Ouch! In the words of M-O-M, you have "hit the nail in the head". "As it were."
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about Tarzan anyway? How many bad Tarzan movies have there been before this? Too many. He's like Dracula or Roger Moore's James Bond. Every movie with this character sucks. I have as much interest in a new Tarzan movie as I do another direct-to-video Disney sequel.
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was cast Wes Studi in Deep Rising. Everything else has been Saturday morning cartoon-level. These days I view a new Sommers movie the way I see the launch of a new celeb perfume. Obviously it must matter to somebody, but not me.
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i am not a big fan of the Sommers, but taking away Tarzan from Mr Fantasy himself and giving it to a man that has openly and directly compaired his work to that of David Lean (see the making of van shitsling). NO!!
almost as stupid as the warners not giving the good lord Singer another shot at superman. Re-boot my arse -
I would pick just about anybody but Stephen Sommers!Certain directors should not be aloud behind the camera after they make one Shitty movie after another.He has yet to make a decent,watchable movie.That also goes for Roland Emmerich and Rob cohen.I would seriously put these guys way below Ed Wood on a all-time best directors list(at least he had passion and loved making movies).
I would put these guys on the list to helm a tarzan film(IN NO ORDER):
WERNER HERZOG
Alfonso Cuaron
Wayne Kramer
Robert Rodriguez
Marc Forster
Scott Frank
Martin Campbell
William Friedkin
Christopher Nolan
Nimrod Antal
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Fernando Meirelles
Paul Haggis
Sam Raimi
Chan-wook Park
James McTeigue
Kathryn Bigelow
Chris Gorak
Francis Lawrence
Neil Marshall
Francis Ford Coppola
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I see you've taken to hiding out in "hack" threads that I don't visit and giving your usual unsolicited horseshit out to the unwary.
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You talkin' to me?
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I'm talking to Memories-of-murder. Just above you.
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Sommers is a great filmmaker The Mummy film was tops the sequeal great but for the Scorpion King and his only mistake in Van Helsing was to take three stunning women and ugly them up as vampires. Otherwise it was a fun romp. Maybe if he'd just been honest and called it Monster Mash no-one would care.
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right-the-fuck-ON!!! Memories is a fucking stooge....a class-less douche bag of cinema who LOVES his fair share of SHIT movies....but they simply cant be SHIT if M-O-M likes it right??? they should get the guy that directed The Relic to do it right M-O-M???....im sure he'd fuck it up good and proper
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Anyone who states The Mummy Returns and great in the same sentence IS a nut job.
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its good to laugh.....thats a first step down a looong path to NOT being a douche bag. a little progess is still progress right??? and i hear laughing burns calories, so go for it
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as you know.....EVERYBODY farts.....yes, even girls
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Hollywood does look at the bottom line, so the profits of Mummy and Mummy Returns look good enough to them. Van Helsing was a giant wash (no sequels, no theme park ride..you know Universal was hoping to cash in on that), so Sommers has to cool his heels before returning.So back to the original question. I wouldn't call Sommers a complete hack. He has some sequences that I think are well done. The mummy sword finale in the first was a nice tribute to Harryhausen and Fraser did some wonderful mime work. The bus fight and harpy attack in Returns and Van Helsing were also well staged and edited, in my opinion. So I think he has some degree of talent, its just the movies as a whole fall completely apart.
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i said EVERYBODY....not EVERYTHING, but hey....even Tupperware farts
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no....but i suppose its a "thing" that makes fart noises...is that a better notion? if ya wanna find out if fishies fart....dunk ya head underwater and listen REAL hard, but don't listen TOO long....or.....well you get the idea, so can you smell a fart underwater???....kidding, please DONT TRY IT....i can already imagine you running to the bath tub to "test it out".
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Sep 04, 2008 11:06:17 PM CDT
Tarzan, Flash Gordon, Sinbad, why aren't GOOD directors interest
by drath
There must not be an intelligent director in all of Hollywood, because even if there are good directors, they are not making great movies out of these classic icons. I know, I know, you give an established property to a good director and you'll get an Altman Popeye or a Huston Annie...both movies I loved as a kid, but most critics blasted them for those films, and directors everywhere got scared shitless of critical snobbery. But dangit, the only good thing coming for a long time was John Milius making another Conan and that idiot Arnold made T3 instead and then became a politician. This place sucks.
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