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Señor Spilebergo Wants To Make A Pirate Movie Based On A Yet To Be Published Michael Crichton Novel!!
Merrick here...
Steven Spielberg is developing a feature film based on PIRATE LATITUDES, a posthumously published Michael Crichton novel that won't hit stores until late November. It can be pre-ordered HERE
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David Koepp (JURASSIC PARK, THE LOST WORLD, WAR OF THE WORLDS, and...well...KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL) will adapt the book.
DreamWorks Studios describes the novel, set for release Nov. 24, as the story of "a daring plan to infiltrate Port Royal, one of the world's richest and most notorious cities, and raid a Spanish galleon filled with treasure."
"It's a mission movie, and we see it through the prism of what it might have been like to live on the island during that time," says Stacey Snider, Spielberg's partner in DreamWorks and the company's co-chair and CEO.
You may recall that DreamWorks has entered into a distribution deal with Disney. When asked whether this pirate movie would clash with that studio's future PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN films...
Snider says these swashbuckling movies won't clash because Pirate Latitudes will be more grounded in reality, as opposed to the supernatural fantasy of the Disney films. "We would only pursue this if it was wonderful in its own way, and didn't interfere with their films,"
...says THIS PIECE in USA Today.
It'll be interesting to see how LATITUDES stands up to EATERS OF THE DEAD (HERE
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"It's a mission movie, and we see it through the prism of what it might have been like to live on the island during that time," says Stacey Snider, Spielberg's partner in DreamWorks and the company's co-chair and CEO.
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ARRRRRR you serious?
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Those in favor of a pirate film based in reality please step forward. Not so fast Mr. Harlin.
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Lick the Cheetohs dust from your fingers, get off the sofa and get typing! Or aren't you interested in being the NUMBER ONE SITE??!! YEH!!!
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is Spielberg going to put in this movie to ruin it. I can just hear the shitty "adventure" music. I don't care if they're swashbuckling pirates or the current pirates, spielberg is making a sequel to "Hook" with this. At least this will hopefully keep him away from his idiotic Harvey remake.
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I laughed so hard at your post that I pissed my eyepatch.
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I would have put cautious "well..."'s before each of those Koepp titles, not just Indy 4. The man is very hit and miss (and miss, and miss, and miss...)
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Break another old story. This was out HOURS ago. lol
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It'll take a long time to live down Skull...Wasn't Prey in development at some point?
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with Michael Caine, but haven't seen it eons.
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Spielberg is awesome. Good news. Now if only they made a Monkey Island cartoon...
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fucking Ratner project?
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Gonna be on Dollhouse.
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You forgot Interspace, The Chicago 8, and Lincoln
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much more interested in the second posthumous, as-of-yet-unnamed techno-thriller adventure novel which is to published in the Fall of 2010. I'm sick of pirates...plus, doesn't "The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn", have a plethora of pirates in it? But anywho, Spielberg and Koepp adapting Crichton again...it does my heart good!
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Aug 27, 2009 11:23:33 AM CDT
I can say that the world of real pirates was damn interesting...
by flickapoo
...and hasn't been explored on film much. We normally get the fun but cartoon version of pirates. A lot of pirates were just sailors who had been shanghaied into the Royal Navy and went awol. Of course ditching the Royal Navy was a hanging crime...so now they spent the rest of their lives as pirates.
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Two days in a row of 13TH WARRIOR love. Excellent work, sir.
I read someone on Spielberg's team say "Steven has always wanted to make a pirate movie" and that made me laugh. What the heck do you call HOOK? Anyway, I dig the idea of Spielberg going back to Crichton. A lot of people want him to make the LINCOLN movie, but you know what, I'd rather see this from Spielberg. Unless he has a sequence where Abe and Mary Todd go down a raging waterfall in a lifeboat, let's just cut to the chase and have him make an action flick instead, yes? -
I thought Crichton was persona non grata with the liberal elite likes of Spielberg, since he had the audacity to buck up against the global warming hype in "State of Fear".
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I like the idea of a "real" pirate movie without all the supernatural mumbo-jumbo.
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FlickaPoo, I agree- the history of pirates vs. government-sanctioned vessels is fascinating. They were all chasing the same thing, but the pirates were treated more viciously than many people know.
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...but, Master and Commander was a pretty, darn tootin' good "lads at see a-fightin' each other with cannons and swords and whatnot" film.
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Aren't we all just waiting for the movie adaptation of the online MMPORG adaptation of the POTC franchise? eccchhh
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Harvey, Instersteller, Pirate thing, Lincoln or Indy V?
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Aug 27, 2009 11:36:09 AM CDT
Hope it's more exciting than The Great Train Robbery...
by toilet_terror
(other than Lesley-Anne Down's strip scene)
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It's one of those rare movies where everything works together perfectly. I am constantly amazed at its quality. I've probably watched it about ten times at this point. And the score is luxurious. It's also the best STAR TREK movie of recent years too...
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I am still picking splinters out of my hair after watching M&C. Those cannonball on ship's wood effects were 'spot on'!
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Wow, "liberal elite" AND "global warming hype" in one sentence! I didn't know that POS Sean Hannity posted here! As for this project, really, DO we need more pirates? Wasn't PotC 1 enough, really?
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He hasn't made a good film since Schindler's List.
I don't even know why we still talk about the guy other than his producing efforts.
He didn't even have the decency to put together a good transfer for Close Encounters on Blu Ray (it looked awful).
Christopher Nolan is the new and improved Spielberg. He's the one we should be talking about.
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direct..we know that right?
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He didn't piss on her too, did he? Or was that just the staff?
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Arrrrrrrr, yes, and its driving me nuts!!! When the hell is Spielberg to do something by Stephen King??? Not that he & Crichton aren't a money pairing.
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Sorry, I didn't mean to offend the locals. Let me restate, for your benefit:
I thought Crichton alienated himself from learned civilization, such as Sir Spielberg, since he so brazenly and wrongly challenged the scientific facts of the present dire climate change situation in such an ill-informed and non-erudite fashion. Of course, his book, "State of Fear," will never be made into a movie, so we don't have to worry about the ignorant, non-reading, knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, "Hannity" viewers ever getting wind of such vile drivel.
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after all the other projects or what?
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Yep, M&C was a completely immersive experience. Talk about a movie that should have played on IMAX! I have jsut started reading the Patrick O'Brian books too- excellent material. Check it out if you're interested.
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And much closer to reality, unfortunately!
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...best STAR TREK...I like that. In researching a book project I did about Charles Darwin I came across repeated comparisons between sea exploration in the 1800's and space travel...the idea of setting out into the void in a tiny and fallible man made craft...in a world before photographs you were truly seeing things for the first time yourself, and maybe the first "civilized" person ever...communication home was either impossible or took months...when someone left on a ship the chances of never seeing them again were very high...
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One of, anyway.
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I am GUESSING you are trying to establish the word "WELL" as a drawn on long word, but again, you should not add more letters in a "Professional" article to any words, for I see it more as yet another exampole of your typos.
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Michael Crichton is a favorite author of Rush Limbaugh. Don't mean anything by that, just sayin'.
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It's not like he said Global Warming wasn't real. Infact, quite the opposite. He states quite clearly the he believes personally it exists and is a problem the needs to be dealt with. He merely pointed out some flaws he saw in many of the arguments (not just on global warming either, but in all forms of nature preservation arguments). Flaws he felt needed to be addressed and fixed to give the proponents a stronger case.I enjoyed the book and actually agreed with some of his points as he presented them. He may well be wrong in his views, I don't know. I also enjoyed and agreed with "An Incovient Truth" so take it for what its worth.Personally I'm just glad he had more works that could be made public. I look forward to this book and movie.
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Perhaps that has something to do with why they are two of the most successful contemporary fiction authors.
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crazy wenches
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I agree with your take on Crichton's opinions, and how he reflected them in "State ...".
The problem is, the proponents (those that profess that global warming is man-made, and other similar nature preservation arguments) are not interested in having a robust scientific debate on merits. They are interested in pushing a social agenda on the backs of environmental issues. The minute science/facts are introduced, their emotional case withers to dust. It is not in their interest to pursue factual debate. -
Why everyone uses this guy is beyond me.
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Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton the unmitigated successes they are today. And I thought I'd heard everything...On-topic, I don't really see this getting made, but let's see what happens with the techno-thriller coming out next year...
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You need as many h's in there as possible.
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Let's hope
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on to ninja, now.
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Come on spielberg lets get the ball rolling on that one, i know you won't direct but the franchise is yours and you need to take the first step to getting it made
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Aug 27, 2009 12:23:10 PM CDT
Damn! I mean: BoRock_A_Boomer, I'd actually pay money to see
by fa_tass_dinomolester
A pirate movie where Woody Allen, Larry David, Lewis Black, Albert Brooks, Mel Brooks, Julie Kavner, and Rhea Pearlman were the crew. They could call it "Pirates of the Kvetch-ibean".
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Aug 27, 2009 12:23:20 PM CDT
Imagine if Crighton had written a Pirates vs. Ninjas novel!
by royston lodge
That's gold Jerry! Gold!
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Just make the damn thing already. You're not building a colony on Alpha Centauri, Spielberg! Make a prequel! Make a musical, you senile twit! I actually loved the sound of that Monahan/Sayles script that Moriarty reviewed back in 2004, (which STILL hasn't turned up online), but I think I was the only one...
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Love swashbucklers...my biggest complaint with the POTC movies was the crazy fantasy elements...Plus I'd love to see more pirate action outside the nautical world! Hopefully this is done in the tradition of Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power!
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Spielberg kinda screwed up Hook, so I hope he doesn't cast Jim Carrey or Will Ferrell or some such thing as the lead...
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Who cares?
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considering every movie besides fast and the furious they put out this summer bombed horrible, they had big plans for Bruno, land of the lost and funny people, and neither made more then 60 million at the box officeUniversal needs to presure Speilberg and co into starting production of a fouth jurrasic movie
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I've been waiting for this Crichton book and that would be cool for Spielberg to do it. Of course as usual he'll telescope the whole thing and make it shmaltzy but it'll probably still be good.
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All the Spielberg movies Koepp has worked on have had terrible screenplays.
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The physical logistics of the swordfight in/on the runaway wheel in POTC2 was pure Spielberg.
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...why aren't there more shark movies. Shark Week is super popular. You'd think some Hollywood exec would jump up on that.
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Yet another Spielberg project that doesn't star Liam Neeson in a fucking Abraham Lincoln beard. Fuck! Leave the adventure movies alone, Stevie, you clearly don;t have them in your heart anymore as was made evident by that fucking abortion Crystal Skull movie that I refuse to recognize as an Indiana Jones film. Make the fucking Lincoln movie and get back to doing what you do best, Spielberg. Become an important director again. BTW, I'm sure 13th Warrior was based on a Crichton novel if you say so, Merrick. Let's not forget that even if that' so, it's still Crichton attempting to give us Beowoulf in a way that our dumb asses will watch it. Give credit where credits due. I agree that 13th Warrior is incredibly underappreciated as a fantastic movie, but that doesn't change the fact that it's just Beowoulf in a shiny package.
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Been looking forward to this book, and we need a realistic pirate movie.
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Thats like asking, "Why aren't there more terrorists execute a master robbery in a high rise office building movies?" Because its been done to perfection already...
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That doesn't seem to stop Hollywood with anything else. Just look at the recent vampire craze or 5 years agos' fantasy craze.
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Aug 27, 2009 12:53:00 PM CDT
Koepp's indy 4 script was at least better then Frank Darrabont's
by jettl93
Wow, talk about a shitty fan made screenplay. Darrabont is a talented filmmaker but he tried to hard with that script to fit in every "wink wink... nudge nudge" moment from the first 3 films (and a few Star wars references, because that is somehow relevant in indy's world?). He wrote it as a fan that didn't understand the franchise rather then as a writer making a good story. Indy 4 still wasn't that great but most of the bad parts originated in Darrabont's horrible City of the gods screenplay, including hiding in the fridge and the whole alien dealy do at the end. Blame for the addition of Mutt still belongs with Keopp, but pretty much every other terrible moment in indy 4 came from Darrabonts idiotic script
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Word!
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Toss out whatever lame Mr. Limpet script is floating around. I want to see a shark movie where the shark has been genetically developed to have a larger brain and is taught to do things, like selectively identify its favorite foods (wink wink). Then, by accident, it is released into the ocean near the triathlon training facility/recreational boating marina/popular beach. Several people end up dead before the sheriff/lifeguard/cub scout/whatever figure out that the shark is only eating red heads/blue bathing suits,
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I'd see that.
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That Darabont script is no good, and I was rolling my eyes when everyone was pining for it to have been made instead of Koepp's script. I'd love to see this Crichton project a lot more than any other Spielberg project aside from Interstellar. I hope he directs this. www.agenesisfound.com
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Too politically incorrect.Pity.
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And the army of monkeys? Pretty much everything awful in Crystal Skull was created by Darabont, or so I've heard. I love Darabont, but no filmmaker/writer is perfect.
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I think that was a Lucas thing that started in the Chris Columbus Monkey King script and somehow survived. I can't remember it being in the Darabont draft. But Darabont did have like 10 supporting characters that continually double-cross each other. I suppose fans of the Pirates sequels would have loved that aspect of the story. www.agenesisfound.com
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That would just about cover it.
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Aug 27, 2009 1:25:25 PM CDT
Indy 4's bad ideas came from LUCAS - it's well documented
by shiftyeyeddog2
from the vvery first indy 4 script - Boam's I think, and then in all the ones that followed, Lucas had certain scenes, plotlines, etc, HE required them to incorporate. Unfortunately, these writers were all just writers-for-hire, writing what the man in charge told them to. And yes, Mutt was all Lucas's idea, too.
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He needs to stick with big destructive things like robots and dinos.
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You can never have enough pirates. NEVER.
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I forgot this site hates everything.
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Yup, Darabont's script was fucking atrocious!
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Do it!
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Make Interstellar already. I see what he's doing. He's taking a lot of genre films that are usually told in a stylistic fashion and adding the realism back to them. Cool idea. I just wish he would do it to the genre that could benefit from that approach the most: science fiction. C'mon, Stevie. You were halfway there with AI and Minority Report, now just take that next step...
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he should reprise his role as Col. Clegg Forbes in "Interstellar". Now THAT would be jaw-droppingly awesome. Too bad the damn thing's never going to happen, apparently...
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Were they all drunk?
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Anyone complaining about Spielberg directing a realistic pirate movie has no business watching movies.
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Maybe to Tintin and Abe, and big NO to Harvey or Oldboy. If he does either of the latter two, I'd like the screenwriter to combine the ideas: A man is abducted and locked up for twenty years, during which he develops an imaginary giant rabbit as his best friend. Upon his release, he goes searching for revenge, blaming all the murders on his giant rabbit friend. Rated PG, starring Tom Hanks, winner of 12 Acadamy Awards.
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It's called Hook. Spielberg and pirates don't mix.
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Michael Crichton considered himself a libertarian. Disclosure and Rising Sun were also criticized for being politically incorrect. However, I would say that Jurassic Park has many anti-capitalistic ideas.
The 13th Warrior was based on Crichton's Eaters of the Dead.
I loved Airframe as well. It would make a terrific film. However, it is a pro-business and anti-media book. However, unlike Disclosure, it has a smart, tough woman in an executive position. -
I would much rather have that!
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It's also really fucking scary
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I will watch that.
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Forgot paragraph breaks.
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is incredible! One of the best of the decade... Is the blu ray worth buying? I hate to replace my wonderful Collector's Edition standard version. www.agenesisfound.com
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Aug 27, 2009 1:39:45 PM CDT
HOW ABOUT WE PRETEND THE STAR WARS PREQUELS DON'T EXIST
by bringingsexyback
and let Spielberg do a do over on eps 1 to 3?
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How about you're a fucking loser?
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...has really gone down hill (work wise) this last several years. He completely dropped the ball by removing the original ending to Minority Report. I'm not excited about this project.
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And in my version Boba Fett is STILL Jaster Mereel, Journeyman Protector of Concord Dawn, and not some little fake-giggling ten-year-old Kiwi git! So piss off Lucas, you clueless cretin!
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How about you give your mouth a rest?
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Didn't really like the original downer ending anyway. However, everything else he's done since has been mediocre at best (Catch Me If You Can, Munich) to God-awful at worst, (The Terminal, War of the Worlds, Crystal Skullfuck).
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I like that! Spielberg would make Jango a rockin merc, not a guy who chit chats with Obi Wan.
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Aug 27, 2009 1:48:57 PM CDT
Meant "Minority Report was great". Fuck this keyboard in the fac
by fa_tass_dinomolester
Hasn't worked since I spilled Coke on it.
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This coming from the guy who posts in all caps all the time.
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Almost flawless, each of them. War of the Worlds, Terminal, and Indy IV are fine to good, as well. The talk of Spielberg losing it as a DIRECTOR is pure plateau-wishing hyperbole. His script selection and producing might be worth criticizing, but his decisions regarding performance, shot selection, editing, music, and tone are all spot-on. www.agenesisfound.com
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This coming from the most hated talkbacker ever.
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Spielberg "guest" directed a couple of scenes in Episode 3 and they where still cheesy. Yoda vs Emperor and I think some or all of Obi vs Anakin & Obi vs. Grievous.
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I never heard that. I know Lucas had some help with polishing some dialogue but I never heard about Spielberg being involved.
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The National Enquirer has just confirmed that Tom Cruise has been cast in the role of Bilbo Baggins in the up coming game-changing revolutionary Hobbit movie directed by Guillermo del Toro .
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The National Enquirer has just confirmed that Tom Cruise has been cast in the role of Bilbo Baggins in the up coming game-changing revolutionary Hobbit movie directed by Guillermo del Toro .
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The National Enquirer has just confirmed that Tom Cruise has been cast in the role of Bilbo Baggins in the up coming game-changing revolutionary Hobbit movie directed by Guillermo del Toro .
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why, was it not stilted and clunky and unrealistic enough?
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Have to disagree regarding Indy IV. That movie was worse than the Phantom Menace. Harrison looked like he was asleep half the time, the quicksand, the vine swinging, the HORRIBLE use of Karen Allen, the AWFUL double-crossing sidekick guy, terrible Mummy/National Treasure climax, embarrassing wedding, etc. Although I do recognize that Lucas probably had more to do with these problems than Spielberg...
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Trying to offend a few Mexicans, Merrick?
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You could clearly tell that was not Lucas' doing.
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Pretty positive about Obi Wan vs. Grievous and Yoda vs Emperor. I know he directed the animatics for those scenes. Supposedly he had so many ideas for Grievous vs Obi Wan that his first pass was 1/2 hour long. He had a pretty silly idea for Yoda vs. Emperor where the cameras in the Senate where turned on and Yoda vs. Emperor played out on news television all across the galaxy...
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Opera scene is my favorite of the prequel trilogy. Actual tension!!
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So that's how Indy 4 got greenlit. The Beard does not do well while intoxicated.
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Opera scene is one of the only scenes where Lucas didn't make the actors ADR their dialogue. Hayden's acting is a little better when he doesn't have to re-record.
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A character from THE SIMPSONS.
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actor choice = shia laboooooooof
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Star Wars prequels?
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His last two books were politcally based bull shit so its nice to hear he got back to some form of adventure
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It was called Amistad...epic FAIL...too long and BORING!
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Good point. Sorry...
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Anderton DOES commit the murder, proving the lack of free will in his actions. I seem to remember he escapes at the end to outer space, but can't recall exactly how. The film's ending was more satisfying and cinematic.
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I could be having a conversation with someone about which nursery school we should send our kids too and inside of a minute i'll somehow be talking about how the concept art from episode 2 was so much better than the final renders. Moodier, atmospheric, epic even...
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was a period legal "thriller". The ship-based action was rather ancillary to the main story, just shown briefly. However, I agree it was too long and waaaayyyy too boring. As I said, I'm a bit confused as Spielberg's Tintin movie is about pirates, so I don't see him wanting to make another film about the same subject anytime soon...
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Aug 27, 2009 2:25:37 PM CDT
"Eh, Schindler beuno... Senor Burns... uhhh, El Diablo!"
by vote fa stokes brutha
secretcylon- I'm one of those pathetic shlubs that thinks the prequels are okay, Revenge of the Sith is GREAT (you're right about all the Spielberg directed action), and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is underrated. BUT, I'll cop to the fact that the script could have been a lot better... but that's my point. Spielberg still had some dynamite directing choices in there: Indy and Spalko talking about mind control and mind possession while Indy's tent is backlit, framing a shadow head around HIS head... Complex stuff there, and very nicely placed. The long take in the Peruvian city, the action scenes (looking past the glitchy effects)... It's an impressively laid-out film. www.agenesisfound.com
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Hehehe.
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Aug 27, 2009 2:37:08 PM CDT
"Yes, I'm Mr. Ssssnurb... Yes, that will do..."
by vote fa stokes brutha
Amistad's opening sequence and closing court scene are wonderful, but the McConaughey casting boggles the mind.
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I get War of the Worlds and Crystal Skull bashing, but Munich? Thought that was a near perfect film. Minority Report's awesome too, although the end gets a little soggy.
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I wanted to love that movie, hell I wanted to watch it and not laugh. The book was way better because of the translator. The movie has "magical understanding of the Norse language by listening to it being spoken around a campfire". It's fuckin' lazy and insulting to the audience.
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would be Duel and Jaws. He was best when he did gritty fare, ever since that his childlike wonder movies are just nauseatingly preachy and leave a bad aftertaste and his historical movmies are boring and also annoying especially that shitburger Saving Private Ryan.
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this movie will be golden.
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and do a "Trakk: Monster Hunter" movie, Stevie? Now THAT would be exciting: http://www.amazon.com/Trakk-Monster-Hunter-Stan-Winston/dp/1582407134
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Actors that bog down an otherwise solid cast.
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Aug 27, 2009 2:57:23 PM CDT
I forty second the request for Jurassic Park 4!!!!!!!!!!!!
by soylentmean
Some site posted an article about new exclusive Jurassic Park toys being available at Toys 'R Us and man, that's like shaking a stick in front of a super hyper ADHD dog all hopped up on coco puffs and adrenaline after chasing down a family of squirrels and putting them out of their fluffy misery.
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Needs to take place 50 years later, with dinos having re-inherited Planet Urth and humans living in the ruins of cities, trying to survive. That'd be cool. The escape from an island idea has been done three times now.
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a cruise liner runs off course in a storm and shipwrecks off the island, the survivors (and there better be a lot of survivors, at least initially) have no choice but to head toward the island or drown. They KNOW what the island is (hell, its the reason the cruise ship was so close in the first place) and massive, massive amounts of carnage ensue.
I want to see that movie. They owe us for the brief runtime of JP3. They also owe us a dino that has chameleon like abilities, including but not limited to, the ability to blend in with a CHAIN LINK FENCE! They can do this now. Dammit! -
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It's like Jurassic Park on insanocrack, but instead of dinosaurs its overly evolved super speedy insectoid/crustacean/every fuckin' nasty predator type species doin' the chompin' on humans. If you haven't read that book Speilberg, well then what the hell are you doing? Read the damn thing!
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That's how you get them on the mainland. Except the mainland is Costa Rica, and yeah, everybody knows they have to get the Dinos to the good ol' U.S. of A. for the Hollywood suits to feel comfortable. I wouldn't mind the dinosaurs being on the mainland, just make it somewhere not in America.
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Aug 27, 2009 3:19:22 PM CDT
Get me David Koepp's non-union Mexican equivilent!
by nasty in the pasty
Exxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxcellent.
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Sucked major balls. Hate that movie. Watch One Day In September instead. Eric Bana is not a good dramatic actor, he (like the Dingo) started off life in Australia as a comedian. Also how come a bunch of Blimy brits get to stand in for jews and middle easterns? Can Speilberg not directed anyone that isn't a star already?
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Sounds and looks too much like Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
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Written by the guy who wrote Speed 2...... how did this guy make it in the film world?
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Really? Was that not him in Troy, playing Hector? Whoever that guy was, he was excellent... couldn't have been Bana though because he's apparently "not a good dramatic actor." Must've been his twin, who is a good dramatic actor.
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On AICN alone, over the past couple of months? Shouldn't he just STOP and go away?
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Ummmm not a good movie? Shit I'd rather watch Munich then that crap. Also James Horner's death my trumpet sound in that movie kind of erased any memory of it.
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I wish Spielberg and Jackson were doing this instead of Tintin: Pulpy sci-fi, an alternate Venus, a Ranger in the US Aerospace Force, ancient civilizations, mysterious alien artifacts, Russian baddies, dinosaurs, prehistoric beasts, and "Wergu beast-men", with machine guns! it's like an awesome, unholy marriage of JP, LotR, and Indy: http://www.amazon.com/Sky-People-S-M-Stirling/dp/0765314886/ref=ed_oe_h
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Did I? I was talking about an actor in the movie.
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Aug 27, 2009 3:27:31 PM CDT
There are a lot of good unused JP ideas in the book
by david cloverfield
In the book, some of the raptor babies are able to change color for some unknown reason, and there are huge carnivores able to mimick their surroundings (chain ling fence as someone said). dinos are leaving the island left and right - bird like migration, lot of raptors already escaped by the time Grant and co. arrive to the island. Good stuff left unexplored.
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Aug 27, 2009 3:29:58 PM CDT
"Can Spielberg direct anyone who's not a star already?"
by nasty in the pasty
Yeah, Eric Bana, Mathieu Kassovitz and Ciaran Hinds are such HUGE stars (and even Daniel Craig was pre-007 at that point). The biggest "name" in that film was friggin' Geoffrey Rush, and he was in the film for -- what -- ten minutes?
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Like Ridley Scott, Spielberg seems to have fallen into a creative paralysis; once a month now he puts out a press release stating a new film which he's "anxious to make his next directorial project", but he can't commit to any one film so he doesn't make any of them: just recently he announced his intentions to do Harvey, Matt Helm, and Halo, (as producer), and before that Chocky, Oldboy, Interstellar and Lincoln, yet none have materialized. Granted, he's been preoccupied with DreamWorks-related strife for the past year or so, but still...man, just make Lincoln and Interstellar already. Neeson's gonna look like the emancipated corpse that is Harrison Ford before you start shooting...
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Mathieu Kassovitz was the amazing give me the cash guy and been doing it for a long time. Daniel Craig has been acting for a while as well. Ciaran Hinds is in like 10 movies a year. Sorry maybe I should have said, direct unknowns/new people. Or is his ego to big to work with new actors?
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Levine, Thorne, Guttierez, Dodgson, the color-changing Carnotaurs, and the Raptor attack on the High Hide/Jeep/Motorcycle chase from Crichton's "The Lost World" novel.
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...I must admit that Jurassic Park remains a highly-quotable film."Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they COULD that they didn't stop to think if they COULD!""Oh, I dunno, 'progress' is a violent, penatrative act that scars everything in it's path. What you call 'progress'...I call the rape of that natural world."
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That nothing was good about it. When a movie sucks that much its hard to remember any of the acting. In fact had you not mentioned that movie I probably wouldn't have remembered it ever again.
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Christian Bale. Empire of the Sun. Probably the best child performance I've ever seen.
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was the removal of the Greek deities. They were a VITAL part of the myth and the book...without them, it's meaningless violence.
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um, the armada anyone...
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Guy really deserves his own franchise...
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It's flawed, but acting like it's "SO bad" is over the top. There were plenty of fine performances in it, nice cinematography, and some decent dialogue. The director's cut is better. I agree that James Horner's score is dreadful, and the movie fails to create a lasting impression. However, the Hector/Achilles fight is very well done.
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Can't wait for Game of Thrones.
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Bana, Kassoviz and Hinds are familiar and busy CHARACTER ACTORS, but not one of them could be remotely thought of as a "star". Not ONE of these actors can open a movie on their name alone. Yeah, The Hulk was a fairly big movie, but who saw it BECAUSE Eric Bana was in it? No one was complaining when he got immediately recast in the sequel/remake five years later. Troy made some coin too, but Brad Pitt was the star draw (even though Bana acted him off the screen. I still laugh thinking about Pitt's strangled cries of "HEK-TAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" going on for like ten minutes of screen time). Munich is about the LEAST star-packed Spielberg movie of the past decade.
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to at least graze Tom Cruise's character a little bit, you know, maybe lop off an arm or two. But they kept fuckin' missing...
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Yeah that was back in the 80s? I am talking now.
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But Munich should have been a bunch of unknown local actors. I mean how many times is Daniel Craig going to play a pissed off jew?
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Koepp is the shit spewer that for some reason has Spielberg sucking his dick for sorry ass screenplays. Jesus, where's Larry Kasdan? Get that high-pitched fucker back here to steer Spielberg on the right path. (Also, an R-rated pirate movie would be pretty awesome if it was done right. They steal, rape and pillage. Duh.)
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Exactly how deep do you want to drive that idea into the ground? First was great, second had it's moments, third was shite and had no ending. How about he makes an original film? Christ if you're desperate for more dinosaurs then start agitating for a DINORIDERS movie! http://tinyurl.com/cuco7t
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Especially with adventure stuff.
I forgot about that Matt Helm rumor. What a bizarre time for Spielberg. IMDB has Tintin listed as in Post. Did I blink out for a few months, or is that just the listing they give for post-heavy mocap movies? www.agenesisfound.com -
I think doing a pirate movie in the vein of "Master & Commander" would be damned entertaining, but it cannot be TOO realistic or self-important lest it lose the cinematic momentum of the POTC series. And Spielberg needs to avoid taking the material too seriously and imbuing it with too much importance and weight - this shouldn't be Amistad or Saving Private Ryan, it should be more Minority Report & Catch Me If You Can. If Spielberg can find that balance, he'll likely make an amazing picture.
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The first is incredible, the second is a fantastic adventure movie, the third is sad. I was convinced that Spielberg, Monahan, and Sayles could find new ground to cover, but it sounds like Munich With Dinosaurs... WHICH WOULD BE MIND BLOWING OKAY MAKE THAT ONE PLEASE www.agenesisfound.com
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Why can't studios and writers come up with good movie titles anymore? Pirate LATITUDES? What the fuck? That doesn't even MEAN anything. And I know what latitude and latitudes means/are. Movies used to have fucking awesome titles, like The Maltese Falcon, or The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, or Blade Runner. Try aiming for something as awesome as The Hurt Locker. Pirate Latitudes. Who the fuck wants to see that?
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The genie is out of the bottle now...personally, I'd love to see different genetics companies breeding new strains of dinosaurs for their own purposes, like in the rejected script from back in 2004...
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Mattman, amen brother.
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mixing human and dino dna to make a hybrid man/dino monster.
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the pteradactyls(sp)and the cell phone in the dino's belly, which was good for a chuckle.
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That's what I'm gonna start having the dude who mows my lawn call me.
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I suppose I have a purist in me that doesn't really think the JP series is about DNA Frankenstein scenarios. I just like seeing dinosaurs, with a little commentary about ethics in science. If they want to go to Dr. Moreau directions with dinosaurs, that really changes the dynamics of the JP universe.
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They probably think they are being clever by making a reference to the term "horse latitudes," but, yeah, it is an awkward title, I agree.
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comparable to humans, like Warren Ellis' take on Devil Dinosaur in Nextwave...or make them anthropomorphic dinosaur/lizard men. Or just do a straight up Kirby-esque Devil Dinosaur and Moonboy movie. ;-)
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You know it'll just be the same hackneyed shit with some people somehow getting trapped on the island again, or at best some other Jungle somewhere else. Either way it'll amount to the same thing. How many Dinosaur chase films do you want?
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Really, what other answer is there to a question like that?
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and "Monkey Island". I'd prefer both of those to a Crichton pirate movie.Heck I'd prefer both of those to most other movies in development right now probably...
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That should spice up JP4.
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Dinosaur chase films. With such movies as Smokey and the Raptor, Beverly Hills Iguanadon, and Chasing T-Rex, well shit, no wonder people are sick of these films that are oversaturating our cinemas. I mean Chasing T-Rex has "chasing" in the title, they're not even trying to hide the fact that it is, indeed, another dreaded Dinosaur chase film.
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Except Spielberg and CO. already HAD a script for JP4 which was nothing like that, so we know that it probably wouldn't.
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Like The Real World, but with dinos. Would have to be subtitled though. I think dubbing would ruin the authenticity.
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Oh yeah...pirates. If he does it serious it has a shot.
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Aug 27, 2009 5:20:20 PM CDT
Spielbergo is going to make a movie about my shwank
by basement_cheetoh_eater
But in all seriousness, everyone bitches about his work. And yes, War of the Worlds was fucking awful...but Minority Report was pretty decent. And hey, maybe it'll be a remake of the homosexual epic 'Cutthroat Island'.
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Like... uh... The Dark Knight... and... um... fuck. That's all I got.
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So like Roddenberry and other dead writers, we're going to see his name again and again as they find new unpublished books of his in a shoebox under his bed and back of his closet, eh?
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Aug 27, 2009 5:38:02 PM CDT
Spielberg announces project, checks AICN, abandons project
by ricarleite2
He is crying SO hard now... This is his 8th attempt this month!
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Out of interest do you have any ideas as to what it was about then?
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a thousand mexicans are fucking everything in site in a drunken celebration over their favorite director, senor spelbergo
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Senor Spilebergo will make a wwII epic starring Tom Hanks and Ben Affleck.
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Here's the original script review by Moriarty from August 2004. It's pretty out there, but I love it: http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=18166
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Anyone else think he's spreading it too thin? It seems like he has a thousand buns in the oven. I'd rather see him focus on one good Oscar-worthy flick than to shotgun-approach the industry. Christ, I love ya Steve..but you haven't hit one out of the park since RYAN.
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One of his few scripts that didn't feel like it was written by a computer. I like that one. Of course, he'll always get props for Jurassic Park, but I dunno what happened with The Lost World...
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Howard the Duck. Starring George Lucas' turd. C'mon, do it for the fans.
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'Out there'?! Thats batshit insane! Certainly not 'random guys on the island' again, I'll give you that.
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probably would've been the Highlander II of the JP franchise, if it had made it onscreen. But intriguing none the less...
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Aug 27, 2009 7:33:36 PM CDT
crystal skull? why that movie was godawful!
by supercowbell5thecowbellhasspoken
episode 1 bad!
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I don't want a documentary.
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OK, so he also collaborated with Crichton when he was alive, but this news reminds me of The Beard taking over Kubrick's A.I.
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Really...all Pirate movies should have a random Pornstar in them.
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I actually think Stir of Echoes is one of the better films to come from Koepp. It unfortunately got overshadowed by the Sixth Sense.
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or both. They should change the name and the should of kept the name for Eaters of the Dead. Awesome title. 13th warrior, ok.
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I went and saw a Sea Shanty chorus earlier and they sang Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum. BUT they looked like a Jimmy Buffett themed chorus because they all had on Hawaiian shirts. Hmm.... Anyway I'm gonna go ahead and start worrying that pirates are the new vampires.
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Dinosaurs chasing people NEVER gets old.
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come out of the woodwork! Keep spreading the word and maybe we'll get a sequel one day. That would have been an awesome franchise for Crowe and Bettany.
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Have been shit. Lost World could be the worst big budget sequel ever. And JP, while having great F/X, was absolute shit compared to the book.
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That's the best part of Stir of Echoes. I laughed for about five minutes straight. Hasn't Crowe been pushing for another Master & Commander film? I thought I read that rumor a few weeks ago. Why don't they just merge M&C2 and JP4? Aubrey and Maturin hunt the time-displaced T. Rex ship from The Lost World.
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I hereby nominate for movie of the week: Swashbuckler starring Robert Shaw and a very young yet outstanding James Earl Jones. "There once was a lady named Starkey, who had an affair with a ******. The result of her sins was quadruplets not twins, one black, one white, two khaki."
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But instead of upping the ante looking for the next Event Movie, I wish he would go totally in the opposite direction and: Cleanse the Palate.Low Budget. No CGI. No effects of any kind. No sequels or remakes or properties with a pre existing fanbase. No toys or happy meal tie ins. No historical events like Lincoln or Munich or World War II. No Sci-Fi or Dinosaurs. No John Williams score telling us how we're supposed to feel every five minutes. Just find a really good dramatic original screenplay that occurs in the here and now that noone would ever expect him to make. A real story about real people in a real setting. Find some good actors noone's ever heard of, or at least that he's never worked with before. And just make a fucking movie. A good one. Put up or shut up. And throw it out there without all the hype and bullshit. Nothing to sell it but his name as Director. And see what happens.He's the only one in Hollywood who can basically do whatever the fuck he wants. I'd like to see him cut himself off from all the safety valves that have made him so successful. Make a fucking Spielberg Dogma 95 movie with natural light in a real setting and whatever the actors wear to the set.That would take more Balls and Creativity than any of these half baked pre packaged projects he's running up the flagpole. What has he got to lose? Wouldn't it be pretty awesome to see a small personal Spielberg film about actual human beings in the middle of all this Hollywood Horseshit? You and Lucas killed the 70's with your popcorn thrillrides, Steve. You're the person people would least expect to bring them back. Instead of making a slightly better scripted Cameron/Bay/Ratner/McG/Wachowski film, here's an idea: JUST MAKE A FUCKING MOVIE.
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How the fuck does this guy keep on getting work and why the fuck does Spielberg keep on using him. There isn't a story concept high enough that Koepp can't make mundane.
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Arrgh, avast ye wretched scallywags. Yer gonna need a biggur boat.
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I can't believe Spielberg would actually go back to using such an utter hack yet AGAIN. It was bad enough that he shitted out THE LOST WORLD, but WAR OF THE WORLDS was a crime against movies. Seriously, how the hell do you fuck up an alien invasion movie, especially one based on THE most famous alien invasion story of all time? I was sooooo looking forward to that movie and even as it was playing out I couldn't believe the stink it was creating in the theater.What makes me think of Koepp as being a total hack and totally fuck-up that is far too full of himself were some interviews he gave back when WOTW opened. I remember at one point someone noted the lack of action and other disappointing things, and Koepp tried to defend the movie by basically saying there was no point to doing an alien invasion movie where they blew shit up since INDEPENDENCE DAY had done that. So I remember him basically saying something along the lines of "so I just thought that was too cliche and played out. What would be MORE interesting would be to follow this dysfunctional family in the midst of an alien invasion, to showcase their feelings" -- some bullshit like that.Right, David. That's JUST what everyone wanted to see in WAR OF THE WORLDS as a big summer movie. Rather than seeing lots of action or seeing cool looking martians destroying the shit out of things, what we REALLY were dying to see instead was Dakota Fanning acting like a spoiled, whiny little bitch who spends 2 hours doing some new age kid psychology bullshit ("Fold your arms in front of you. That's it. Just remember, that's your safety zone. That's YOUR space.")FUCK YOU, DAVID KOEPP. You owe me 2 hours of my life back for the utter crap that WOTW was or a free ticket to a GOOD summer movie!
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bloody brilliant my friend. I know we all want it, but it'll probably never happen. I so desperately, desperately want a big name, big talent director to come out publicly and say, I'm going to make something real, and small, and fucking awesome. Unforuantely, in this world we live in, the people with the money can't seem to part with it unless they are sure there IS gonna be a toy and a happy meal, etc. I applaud your desire for this though. Maybe one day it'll actually happen.
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I think you are onto something there with Devil Dinosaur and Moonboy. If done right that would rate a SOLID 11 on the Rock-O-Meter... maybe then the POB would magically GET what made Kirby such a badass and crank out Kamandi and OMAC. Nah.. now I'm just being silly.
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oops! meant PTB not POB
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I'd love to see something Kirby in a Kirby-esque style on the big screen. Tim Story stupidly believed only a few name drops here and there was sufficient.
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Aug 27, 2009 11:38:01 PM CDT
WOTW worked BECAUSE it didn't have the "disaster porn" shots
by nasty in the pasty
I liked that that movie eschewed the usual Roland Emmerich bullshit of seeing EVERY even remotely famous landmark getting toppled over, incerated, or flooded in loving detail. I liked the fact that it viewed an alien invasion from the perspective of a single family, and never deviated from that. It made the film a lot more frightening than it would have with a bunch of technically adept but ultimately boring mega destruction scenes. The scene where the tripods are advancing over the hill was scary as shit because we DIDN'T see the giant army battle. Or would Jaws have been better if the shark worked 100% of the time and Spielberg had it mowing down on tourists every five minutes? Spielbergo's MOTW is seriously underrated, and people only hate it because of Cruise's couch-jumping antics (and Cruise is DAMN GOOD in that movie).
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WOTW was a wasted effort. The idea of a single family trying to survive this horrible ordeal is interesting, the execution was horrible. This suffered the same problem as CLOVERFIED (but not as bad) where they stuck you with characters who didn't act or respond like real human beings. These were obviously movie characters full of movie character cliches. That is what David Keopp brings to the table.
And I think Cruise is a good actor, but he was horribly miscast in WOTW. Blue-collar Tom Cruise is not. As the son of a construction worker and nephew to a dock worker, Tom Cruise is hardly believable in the role. He is good as hot-shots and over-achievers, not common folk. -
In my opinion, that project was doomed from the start because it was set in the wrong time period. Modernizing it was a very poor idea. I can live with it in the Pal version because well, it's George Pal and it seemed appropriate during the atomic age. But a major source of the impact that book had was mainly based on the fact that the we were visited by Martians with vastly superior technology (heat rays, chemical warfare, flying machines etc.) and during that time in our history the pinnacle of our firepower was an iron-clad battleship. Horrifying. That being said, all of the other silly stuff (like kids) in Spielberg's attempt just made it worse. There's some nice technical stuff in there, but that just makes me more bitter about what could have been.
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since Jurassic Park.
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Those of you who think Banderas' character "magically" learned Norse after one sitting around a campfire are morons. The very clear implication is that during the weeks, and perhaps months, spent traveling north to Scandinavia on horseback, he picked up bits and pieces of the language until he finally grasped it. His character was a scholar and poet as well so it's not like he was an idiot either.
You knobs probably were confused by the "time travel" in Highlander and thought that the Soviet crew in Hunt For Red October suddenly started speaking English for no reason at all.
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Yeah it's raining one minute, not raining the next, etc... although McTeirnan or Crichton or whichever was directing at that point should've made that more clear. Great movie otherwise! The cave stealth infiltration is classic.
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Sure, he can handle different genres. But many of his "classics" are total fucking bullshit.Like Amistad, The Lost World, A.I., Minority Report, Always, 1941.And so many of his other "classics" are simply boring as hell, like Saving Private Ryan, Indy 4, Indy 2, Hook.
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Go back to watching Anime, shithead.
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Who wastes their time arguing about THAT piece of shit?
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It's on the top of my "Why are people hating this movie?" list.
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HOLY SHIT! Are you fuckers gonna see that, too?
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Calling Spielberg a hack is laughable at best.
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I don't care what anyone else says about it, that movie gets to me. That and Empire of the Sun. Great stuff.
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Aug 28, 2009 2:43:38 AM CDT
I predict Spielberg's filmography will not age well
by takingscorpioscalls
He's getting delusions of grandeur and his created iconistry in his own age are the type of stuff which no one will give a shit about 10 years down. Even now many of his movies are preachy and wishy washy awfulness. His novelty is tackling all the genres, yet in no genre has he made the definitive or best film of said genre.
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Aug 28, 2009 2:52:09 AM CDT
"Yet in no genre has he made the definitive best film"
by mattmanreturns
I assume you're excluding Raiders of the Lost Ark from this statement? Jaws? Schindler's List?
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All Lucas. Jaws best blockbuster movie? Beaten by Star Wars. Shindler's List best holocaust movie? Okay i'll give you that one.
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Most directors are directing someone else's story and characters. It was Spielberg's direction, and it smacks of Spielberg all the way through. And as for Jaws, I don't consider "Blockbuster" a genre. I was talking suspense film... and I think it is in the top five, if not the best.
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Check out Hitchcock shithead.
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Yes even over Adventures of Robin Hood. However unlike most other writers/director teams, Lucas had much more sway in it through story and producer that it cannot be considered pure Spielberg like so many of his other failed films.
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As a war movie is bettered by such few like All Quiet on the Western Front, Cross of Iron, Das Boot. Close Enouncters is totalled by Star Wars of the same year.
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I have quite a few Hitchcock DVDs. Notorious is one of my favorite movies.
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Fucking rules!
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Best flick as director is Stir of Echoes. Trigger Effect is also very good. Ghost Town was okay. Secret Window is abysmal. As screenwriter I'd say his best work is Carlito's Way or The Paper.
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Just not the stuff he has made in the last 25+ years.
Raiders, Jaws and Duel will go down as master pieces (and so will Schindler's List) IMO. Close Encounters, ET, Indy 2 & 3, Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan - I don't think the years will be good to them.
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The buildup to the T-Rex breakout and the subsequent nonstop chaos from then on is spot on. And the effects STILL look better than most of the overused CG nonsense today. I think it will hold up just fine, as it has for almost two decades now. It was a game changer (a word being overused right now... but Jurassic Park actually earned this title).
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But the movie is filled with movie cliche after movie cliche and boring characters (excluding Goldblum). Give me the middle class/everyman Brody who has to team up with the working man Quint and the intellectual elite Hooper to take on a threat to a community over the kids in trouble of JP any day of the week.
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Spielberg's direction was fine, it was the butchering of the characters from book to movie that I have a problem with.
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Spielberg is a gassbag. I'll believe it when I see it.
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don't you? He has come up with a couple of good ideas for stories, but his writing is pretty bland. I remember reading an interview where he said so himself. Anyways, the Jurassic Park movie was actually better than the book. I'm glad Spielberg changed some of the characters, especially the park owner who was a boring mustache twirling villain in Chrichton's book.
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Seriously, why does he even post here? He's utterly useless.
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Aug 28, 2009 8:56:11 AM CDT
Señor Spilebergo Wants To Make A Pirate Movie Based On A Yet To
by gluecifer
To apologyze for the horrible Hook?
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I'll see it. Grittty, real and filled with pestilence. YUMMY!
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There's some fantastic moments in there, and I think the decision to tell it all from the perspective of the family works, and makes the some of the action genuinely horrifying.That said, the behaviour of the family just seems unrealistic as fuck, and of course, there's THAT ending. When I saw that in the cinema you could almost hear the collective "oh fuck off!" from the audience.
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A tasteless fucktard.
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...a talkbacker further up there actually "reveal" that 13th Warrior is Beowulf in a "new shiny package"? As pretty much everyone with at least half a brain knows, Crichton's book, Eaters Of The Dead, plays with the idea that there may have been real events which gave rise to the legend of Beowulf and turns these musings into a novel.
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I wrote a great script for JP4 the other week becuase I was between novels, there is so much to be done with that paticular universe. Also Master And Commander is the greatest movie ever made concerning boats. Fact
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Agreed about WOTW. I actually liked it as well. The son was a bit irritating, but he thankfully disappeared during half of the film. The heat ray scene near the start and ferry were both amazing scenes. I don't know why the movie gets so much hate. It's not like the 1950s one was any more Victorian. Quite a few of my friends missed the recent WOTW and I've been recommending it to them. I think it was on USA telly a few days ago. One caught it and loved it. I wouldn't be surprised if more people like WOTW and just refuse to admit it, fearing the flack they may get.
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5. JURASSIC PARK
4. SCHINDLER'S LIST
3. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND
2. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
1. JAWS -
Conando!
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At least I don't argue about worthless movies like 12th Warrior.
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You fucking hate everyone, and by the looks of it, the feeling is mutual.
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I don't hate everyone. But let's take a look at your statement:Quote: "You fucking hate everyone, and by the looks of it, the feeling is mutual."Are you saying that you hate everyone, lockes? Pitty.Now, why do I post here? Because I like film and a couple of TV shows. I like the insanity and the passion of the AICN Talkbacks. I also like making fun of clueless, spamming Talkbackers who make statements like this:"At least I don't argue about worthless movies like 12th Warrior."It's the 13th WARRIOR, moron.
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In other news, the sun rose today.
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Aren't you the guy who referred to ESB's Yoda as being from "20 years ago"?
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You're too clueless for me to get "angry" at you. You're like a dog that's just been shown a card trick.
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Aug 28, 2009 3:55:36 PM CDT
DocPazuzu Aren't you the giuy that loves Beastmaster?
by lockesbrokenleg
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Fuck yeah, I love Beastmaster. What of it?
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Someone suggested "No Country For Old Men" a while back, then someone said "Khan in Rasputin's Shadow" and "Song of Ice and Fire" for books turning into films/series. Don't know, but I loved Crichton, and loved "Sphere" and "The Great Train Robbery" (but neither one of the movies).
We're all just floating -
Posthumously publishing books after death. Next, we will know that Crichton has directed a new movie fromhis grave. Death has no dominion on Crichton.
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Well, if you put it online, I for one would be interested...
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NEXT and STATE OF FEAR. Both books abandoned storytelling for political rants. And before anyone gets upset, I actually agreed with the rantings in ONE of those books, but I buy Crichton for stories, not scientific policy briefings.
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Ever since The Terminal came out people bashed it. It's an excellent, entertaining, good-hearted film...and an ingenious character study. The score was one of Williams very best (listen to the european tonalities) and there wasn't one boring moment in the whole film...I defy all of you to show me a dull scene. One of the most underappreciated movies in spielberg's career. Oh, and I see this new pirates movie to be a little Munichy...with more action. Can't wait for the novel!
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Is there such a thing? Because there was a lot of sodomy going on aboard those ships, and after Speilberg was threatened with rape by that stalker, I doubt Spielberg will include any "peg boys" in his film.
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I really miss Crichton and the idea of Spielberg doing another Crichton movie, especially one about pirates excites me and on an interesting side note Stephen King's new novel comes out February, as I've said a few times before Spielberg needs to make a King movie
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but anyone who doesn't like Jurassic Park can suck on my balls and fuck off from AICN forever
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