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A New Trailer For Zemeckis' A CHRISTMAS CAROL Humbugs Its Way To The Net!!
Merrick here...
A new trailer for Robert Zemeckis' motion capture adaptation of A CHRISTMAS CAROL is online in many forms of various QuickTime over at Apple.
At times this feels a bit too much like Dickens by way of Looney Tunes, but I suppose it'll at least have impressive 3-D?
WHAT DO YOU THINK???
WHAT DO YOU THINK???
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they still cannot get the eyes right on any of these movies.
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Sep 28, 2009 11:40:47 AM CDT
Also, it looks like lots of stuff is flying at the screen for 3D
by yackbacker
Icicles are just poppin' off the screen! The reason I "hate" on this mo-cap trend is because it really is distracting. I spend the whole time looking at the motion of the characters and analyzing their faces for any signs of life. This attempt to duplicate realism is a gimmick as of now. Unlike PIXAR, where they go for the stylized digital artwork (which feels a lot more tactile and substantial) Zemeckis' stuff appears very fake.
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And not the "spectacle" of 3-D, assuming I already know the story. Which come on, we all do, but I want to see how this story will be told in the narrative sense, not the visual. Be back in a few...
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What in the name of hell is that scene where he's smacking his head against icicles and catapulted into the air like something out of Road Runner??? Carrey is a good choice for this and the spirits should be great but it seems they've gone fucking MENTAL with the rest of it. And the animation just CAN'T replicate human facial subtleties. OK, this is meant to be more cartoony, but it's still not up to scratch. Carrey as live-action age makeup Scrooge would have ruled.
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I was hoping they would remake this. Its not christmas unless they've told this story no less then 5 times that year. A Christmas Carole, fucking over Avatar for IMAX space since 2009.
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Zemeckis said this is how Dicken's wrote it. Assfucker
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surfing on an icicle part when I read the book. But it really fits the tone of a classic Dickens tale. Well done Disney, well done.
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Once again, just like the teaser, they seem to be selling this movie on the spectacle instead of the story, the jokes and gags instead of the heart and the magic inherent in this classic tale. And that's extremely unfortunate. Robert Zemeckis, why have you fallen so low? And I really enjoyed Beowulf too.
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I usually like animated movies, Christmas movies, Jim Carrey, and even "A Christmas Carol", but I've been strangely unmoved by the trailers I've seen. I guess I'll see what the reviews are like, but it doesn't look especially promising at the moment.
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... a LOT of CTRL-C from the internet browser, CTRL-V into the word document. And where the FUCK are the Ed McMahon and the Polanski talkbacks?!
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BE VERY FUCKING AFRAID
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... it sucks.
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Looks gawd awful
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Thats all I could think of when I heard Marley.
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Zemeckis is dead to me now. Been years since he made a good film.
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best movie ever!
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Who really needs another Christmas Carol? If I feel a need to see a good - nay, the BEST - film version of Dicken's gothic Xmas tale, I'll watch the Alistair Sim version. If I want to watch a good re-imagining of that tale, I'll watch Scrooged (very underrated. Some of Bill Murray's best work.) I feel NO need to see this rubber-doll 3D bit of humbuggery. Bugger it!
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Of course Harry knows who Polanski is. He's probably organizing a Free Polanski protest as we speak.
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Zemeckis was my fave director growing up. he really was. here was a man who made three of my fave films. BTTF and my least fave the boring castaway. I saw gump in the US, where all the critics went mad for. It got the stuffing knock out of it in the UK and Ireland where it was lambasted. Paramount actually finessed that movie's popularity at the box office. they fixed the numbers to make it look like gump was more popular than it was. I didnt like beowolf and have come to dislike zemeckis with every passing new film he makes. oh and I just hope that the bergs new film is good. Indy 4 sure as hell wasnt. I want these directors to start making films like they used to. remeber when hollywood made epic films?....
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Jim Carey is not perfect casting for the most miserable man in London. If you want wacky and fun, hire Jim. If you want misery surely there must be someone better than him.
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Okay, first, 3D sucks. It's complicated and they include all these wild special effects in the movie to make the 3D stand out, and it's all junk.
Second, Jim Carrey is not funny any more, especially since he has been with that nut job Jenny McCarthy. Carrey's facial and physical gyrations are predictable. This is very reminiscent of that crapola The Grinch.
Third, Dicken's story is charming and transports us to a time of great human conflict with amazingly absorbing and human characters. Here, that is all obviously out the window. The "reimagining," in other words, steals the very essence of what makes the Dickens story so wonderful.
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Get back to making good movies like Back to the Future and Roger Rabbit.
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Sep 28, 2009 12:44:57 PM CDT
THAT POSTER LOOKS LIKE CARREY'S RIDING A COCK AND.....
by carlthormark1978
Waiting to take a load in the mouth.
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from that terrible day in 1991. when one of the innovative, creative and brilliant people of 20th century died suddenly. Jim Henson. He surrounded himself with the best writers, performers, best musicians and he inspired them all. the stuff after he died was awful and even the Jim Henson hour was appalling. but that is all beside the point. A mere 4 years after henson died. toy story came along. Hollywood was bought over by sillicon valley. or was it the other way around. I read somewhere that hollywood was going to relocate to silicon valley. But the computer industry took hollywood over.
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Everyone else is just swimming in his wake.
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I saw 'Cast Away' again the other day. What a lovely little film! That was by the Robert Zemeckis I know.Dunno who this tosser - the one who keeps churning out all this soulless CGI digi-bollocks...
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Sep 28, 2009 12:49:24 PM CDT
emeraldboy, READ 'EASY RIDERS RAGING BULLS' IT EXPLAINS EVERYTHI
by carlthormark1978
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The old George C. Scott version is charming too, and I love Scrooged - talk about a re-imagining - that movie is a hoot. When Bill Murray talks to the audience at the end about wanting to keep Christmas alive everyday, it feels like and I would bet it is a genuine plea - loved that.
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I chose to watch "Up" in normal 2D because I didn't want to be distracted by the 3D. 3D actually pulls me out of the movie.
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...did a film version which is worth a miss, but his one man show stage version is something to behold if you ever get the chance. Oh and this looks truly fucking awful.
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Sep 28, 2009 12:54:38 PM CDT
The Problem is he tries to make it look so photo real that it en
by erichaislar
I mean look at his clothes in the film they don't move correctly everything stretches. I have seen more realistic clothing in video games. It's a fun experiment but i jsut think a more stylized version would have been better suited. I will stick with the Muppets verson or SCROOGED instead.
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I believe Jim Henson died in 1990.
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I thought they didn't say Christmas any more.
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very long time. but I was blown away by it. when I did at the time.
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but 5 years later . pixar comes along and hollywood chucked creativity out the window. and studio execs say hey who needs a script when you can use computers instead.
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Zemeckis retired in 2000. That guy directing creepy CGI pieces of shit is this other guy who is controling his body after finding a portal to his brain.
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I think I might actually be in pain if I ever accidentally watch that film.
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The 1951 version with Alister Sim as Scrooge is getting a Blu Ray release in November.
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It's the PR boys behind the trailer to be upset with, you should be. Don't lose faith in Zemeckis.
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This looks pretty good.
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Sep 28, 2009 2:06:24 PM CDT
Disneys' 'Jim Carrey falling through the air a lot'
by judge dredds fresh undies
90 percent of that trailer was Scrooge falling and screaming.
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Sep 28, 2009 2:10:44 PM CDT
MAYBE ZEMECKIS GOT TIRED OF WORKING WITH HUMAN BEINGS?
by bringingsexyback
Can't say I blame him. I feel that way daily.
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That would be awesome.
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Fuck Robert Zemeckis and his dead-eyed creepy CGI cartoons. Fuck his bullshit CGI movies and fuck him. Fucking fuck! Zemeckis, Jar Jar Abrams and Michael Bay can all kiss my ass!
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Sep 28, 2009 2:16:13 PM CDT
WELL, THE ZEMECKIS WHO MADE CASTAWAY WAS PRETTY AWESOME
by bringingsexyback
That movie was perfect. Them's was the days.
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This looks awful in an bombastic, overblown Spielberg's Hook/Ron Howard's Grinch/Polar Express kinda way.
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...the Zemeckis who directed CASTAWAY. Whatever happened to THAT guy?
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Your cavalier attitude towards quality is why Hollywood keeps serving us all up shit.
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go watch that trailer again and then compare it to this shit.
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So Jim Henson dies. Pixar comes along and hollywood says "How needs a script when you have computers"?
If you are refering to pixar then you are wrong. It's common knowledge they do the oppisite and start with what they believe is a solid script.
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doesn't look better or worse to me, still kind of looks like rubbery stiff cgi
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really really bad. depressing actually.
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was a very, if not an excelent, filmmaker. The assclown who made the CGI cartoons afterwards can go fuck himself in his fucking ass. Fuck him. No, really, Robert Zemeckis can go fuck himself. And he can start it by getting all the DVD copies of Beowulf up his fucking ass! Fuck Robert Zemeckis. Fuck him.
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One of the oldest and most revered piece of the english language literature turned into a dumb stupid action mvoie blockbuster, with all the stupid retard cliches of the genre and a dumb attempt at intelligence and pathos as if designed by a retard with alzeimers. I don't blame the scriptwriters, i blame the fucking Zemeckis and his shallow ass. fucking useless piece of shit that Zemeckis turned out to be. He's as good as Michael Bay and Jar Jar abrams, as in, ciompletely fuckinguseless and good enough to be put on an oil barrel and sent it to the bottom of the ocean. Fuck Robert Zemeckis up his fucking ass!
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It's never enough to say this.
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Sep 28, 2009 3:32:15 PM CDT
Dead Eyed CGI Zombies: The Movie Part III - A Christmas Carol
by asimovlives
Fucking up a Charles Dickens classic in the ass, Beowulf style.
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Again we found ourselves at the same sid eof the barricade. I'm so honoured and proud to be in your regiment, sir.
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Just wanted to say it too. Fuck him, and his "I wanna hold your hand" CGI mocap remake. Zemeckis, along with Lucas and Spielberg, is FUCKING DEAD. MOTHER. FUCKING. DEAD.
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total ass
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Boobs and Lenny & Squiggy and Gerrit Graham (Beef forever!) and sleazy Kurt Russell and boobs and Joe Flaherty and cursing and The Fuchs Bros and Frank McRae going batshit crazy and boobs.
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Zemeckis' films have no sense of taste artistically. This film looks like a Thomas Kinkade 99-cent Walmart Christmas card in motion, with 90 minutes of Carrey screaming while flying towards the camera. Oooh, so exciting because it's a "thrill ride." Merry fucking Christmas.
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And your stupid 3D CG.. That has destroyed the art of caricature..
Damn that feels good saying that.
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I never though i would one day feel nostalgic for a movie like Used Cars in Zeemckis' career. That's how fucking low the man has gone. Fuck Robert Zemeckis in his fucking ass.
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Sep 28, 2009 4:04:37 PM CDT
It's great to see that Zemeckis is not fooling people anymore
by asimovlives
At least in here, it's good to see that many people are no longer fooled by Zemeckis' bulslhit, and that they can see him for the fucking hack he really is and go past beyond the Back To The Future nostalgia bullshit. Fuckin' A, dudes.
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the animation is garbage it looks like a scene that would play on a PS2
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the animation is garbage it looks like a scene that would play on a PS2
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You were only as good as your last picture... now as long as you have the marketing idiots on your side you can spread that crap forever. After the Polar Express he should have been pumping gas, in Nevada.. (No insult to gas attendants or Nevada.)
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First trailer, I was hopeful. This one just looks retarded. HATE that conventionally frentic music, the lifeless faces, the incessant screaming and flailing designed to amuse three-year-olds. Fuck you, Zemeckis.
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Brought to life with all the artistry and subtlety of an elephant wearing ballerina slippers.
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Finally, a filmmaker has re-envisioned Dickens' moral fable into what it was always clearly meant to be: an amusement park ride. THANKS ZEMECKIS!!!!!
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The animation for the first close-up looks decent, if overdone, but the rest looks like bad video game mo-cap. And, yes, we can do without the falling and surfing and 3-D "wow" moments. I want to see a good retelling of the Dickens tale, and this ain't it.
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At least we have good taste. We'll fight the good fight for quality cinema and one day we'll get the film we deserve compadre!
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You're wrong. Avatar is several levels above this crap.
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...Charlie Brown movie.
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That could be cool, if they kept the artwork style from the strips.
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Does every trailer have to use music from Hocus Pocus now?
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I wouldn't call Zem a hack. His 80's output (Romancing Stone, Future,Roger Rabbit) is pretty damn good.
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I consider Bob Z to be on my list of top 5 filmmakers. Look at the resume of great films: Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump, Contact, Cast Away and pretty damn strong films: Used Cars, Romancing the Stone, Death Becomes Her. Beowulf was definitely groundbreaking and I found it to be an interesting, well written take on a classic story. You may want to write him off for these new CGI efforts, but he's made too many classics to be shit on like this. Whether you like these mocap films or not, this man is a pioneer in the field.
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is hands down the best version ever put on the screen.
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That's not an association anyone should ever make when trying to get an audience to see their newest work.
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So what happened to using the same animation tech from benjamin button?
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Starring Dakota Fanning as Tiny Tim, and the corpse of Ed McMahon as the ghost of Christmas Past
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Fuck him up his mo-cap ass.
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Don't even set foot in the cinema. If you go, even to check out if your hunch was right about how bad it could be, you are still giving you money to the studio and supporting the Zemeckis CG Disaster Era. Please, don't give Bob Zombie any reason to do this again!!
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What is this shit? I'd rather watch the Sim version or the Mr Magoo's kiddy musical over this Zemeckis crap any day.Roman Polanski Christmas Carol sounds pretty good too, though. Doubt it would get a talkback, though...
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I'm so fucking tired of trying to get quicktime to work.
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But it was an adult film made for adults, whereas this is a kid's film. But if you haven't seen Beowulf, please do, I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was as a movie, putting aside the animation, which was amazing anyway. One of the better films I've seen in the past few years.
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How many fucking movies do we need of this story? I mean seriously.
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This looks terrible.It might even make Polar Express look good.
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This looks like complete ass. I thought this new version would be interesting, but jesus it looks terrible. whats with all the jokes and gags?
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This technology has come a long way and it looks AWESOME! The haters are just sick. You can't please them. "OH it looks like Looney Tunes, What's with the Icicles?" If it was the traditional interpretation of A Christmas Carol, you'd bitch about that. Do any of you ever Self examine yourselves as to why you can't like anything? Just Asking. Continue with the hate you sad little creatures. This is not meant for everyone in here who might not like what they see, but for those who have built a rep on their insipid knee JERK reactions. You know their screen names.
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This technology has come a long way and it looks AWESOME! The haters are just sick. You can't please them. "OH it looks like Looney Tunes, What's with the Icicles?" If it was the traditional interpretation of A Christmas Carol, you'd bitch about that. Do any of you ever Self examine yourselves as to why you can't like anything? Just Asking. Continue with the hate you sad little creatures. This is not meant for everyone in here who might not like what they see, but for those who have built a rep on their insipid knee JERK reactions. You know their screen names.
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This technology has come a long way and it looks AWESOME! The haters are just sick. You can't please them. "OH it looks like Looney Tunes, What's with the Icicles?" If it was the traditional interpretation of A Christmas Carol, you'd bitch about that. Do any of you ever Self examine yourselves as to why you can't like anything? Just Asking. Continue with the hate you sad little creatures. This is not meant for everyone in here who might not like what they see, but for those who have built a rep on their insipid knee JERK reactions. You know their screen names.
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Hey the new trailer is out for the Nightmare on Elm St remake..check it out here...
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for the multiple post. Ain't it cool glitch. I swear!
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Jim Carrey playing all the crackwhores?? http://sickpicks.blogspot.com/
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...For not using the theme from EDWARD SCISSORHANDS...
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Jesus H. Christ
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Sep 28, 2009 9:35:35 PM CDT
This is AWFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by ricky retardo
Charles Dickens should sue!
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To the site's writers, I really think your readers would be more interested in the "Nightmare on Elm Street" reboot's trailer than this "Christmas Carol" one.
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AtheistScum has pretty much summed up my feelings about this. The original story is startlingly good and almost never done justice. This trailer gives me suspicions that nobody even cracked it in preparation. Sure their have been some quirky reimaginings in the past that I've loved (shit, I even dig Scrooged) but this just looks like so much money for no substance. This hasn't cost me a cent, and yet I feel like one of the mobsters watching the Joker burn that mountain of cash. I miss Castaway Zem.
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Was very impressed with it, you can even see the hairs on his nose. Ummm yeah...this CG impressed me more than Avatars...
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I don't like it.
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As i said before, Zemeckis used to be pretty good, if not occasionally excelent. And i LOVE Castaway and i think What Lies Beneath is terribly underrated. But there had been signs that Zemeckis was bitting more then he could chew before, specially with the trouble warning signs that were Forest gump, and most specially, Contact, the late a move that should had been called "Let's fuck Up Carl Sagan's Book By Turning It Into A Pagaentry For Neo-Con Evangelical Bullshit And Call It An Adaptation".The Zemeckis of today is a fucking hack. The dude who once made some pretty entertaining and lightweight simple movies has been replaced by this obnoxious succumbus who is as big an hack as Michael Bay and Jar Jar Abrams. Fuck Robert Zemeckis. Fuck Robert Zemeckis up his fucking ass.
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Zemeckis a top 5 filmmaker. Unless you are talking about a VERY PERSONAL LIST OF PREFERENCES and only extremewly limited to a very particular type of blockbuster making filmmakers, there's no way that Zemeckis would ever belong to any top 5 list of anything other then the top 5 filmmakers who fucked up their early promise by doing stupid usless CGI cartoons only a fool would like. As for top 5 filmmakers, Zemeckis belongs to no list, not when there's far better filmmakers AROUND THE WORLD still alive making movies.
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that computer technology has dented hollywods creativity especially in the story dept.
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I agree. It used to be a liberating tool in the early days, where creative directors were doing things never done before. But thanks to the hacks, today CGI is getting a pretty bad rep, and a backlash is going on strong, even among filmmakers. And this mo-cap stuff is the lowest and more crazy mfucked up CGI shit ever invented so far. Good for videogames, terrible to make a WHOLE MOVIE out of it.
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The CGI Beowulf movie is a movie made by adults who still think like teenagers without much of formal education who decided to go serious and profound but makes a dumb assclown movie filled to the neck with the most mind numbing pedantry and platitudes imaginable. Beowulf is the dumb uneducated teenboy version of an intelligent movie. As in, it isn't. Tokyo Gore Police has far more intelligence and true subtext then the Zemeckis CGI mo-cap pseudo-medieveal pic bullshit. It also pisses and shits on one of the most important and earliest anglo-saxon culture reference. Good job, Zemeckis. Why don't you go fuck yourself in your fucking ass?
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Fuck Robert Zemeckis in his fucking ass.
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Craziest = Most Crazy
Crazier = More Crazy
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I know dreamworks failed. On so many levels. I know someone who is a person of very high authority who told me it was a mess. not saying who that is confidential. or the company that this person works for.
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Good for you.
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Suffices to say that Dreamworks made The Island and the two Transformers and gave them to be made to Michael Bay. With those, they gave up on any atempt at artistic integrity they strived and was their motto when they started. Nowdays, Dreamworks is nothing but just another studio, with all the follies and faults that they are famed for. Of all the studios, give me Warner Brothers anyday of the week. Those guys are allowing Christopher Nolan since day one to make SMART and ENTERTAINING blockbusters, the very kind of stuff that Dreamworks claimed was one of their major aims when they started.
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With them involved it was never going to be a 100% serious take on it. The moments of 'action' in the trailer will have been demanded by them. I reckon Bob and Carrey will pull it off WITHIN the realms of the Disney bullshit.
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He used to be one of my all-time favourite directors. This is the man that gave us the Back To The Future trilogy and Who Framed Roger Rabbit, for fuck's sake! This just looks diabolical. It's a real shame.
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....broken keyboard.
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In Contact is actually one of the major themes of the book itself. the scientist lead turns to the preacher for consolation when she can produce no proof that the trillion dollar machine she spearheaded produced no physical evidence of having done anything at all. She learns the value of Faith in her mechanistic worldview.
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please, don«t try to spin on me the book Contact, which is just one of my favorite books. and the fucking Zemeckis book is a fucking travestry on everything the book stands for. The "consolation" that Allie finds with Jesse Palmer is not religious, but simple human contact, simple human friendship between two HUMAN BEINGS, regardles of what their convictions. The fucking retarded neo-con bulshit ass kissing fucking movie subverted and fucked that up to sell it's neo.con agenda. The movie can go fuck itself, and Zemeckis who made it and the fucking neo.cons to masturbate on the basterdization that he movie did to the "heathen" Carl Sagan's book. Fuck them all in their fucking asses.
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Just because it's a disney movie is no excuse for stupid misguideness idioticy. Being Disney is no license to dumb.
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I'd like to thrown the Contact book, hardcover edition, at the teeth of Zememckis for his neo-con ass kissing bullshit basterdization as a movie. Fuck Robert Zemeckis. Fuck Robert Zemeckis up his fucking ass.
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I really don't see these mo-cap/3D movies becoming the next big thing. Not yet anyways.
Two main issues, as I see them, are:
1. The mo-cap still looks off and unnatural. This is very evident in stuff, that should portray reality.
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faith in zemeckis directing ability. I found the movie to be utterly tedious in the extreme. i never read anything by sagan, though we did have one of his books in our house. in ireland. I cant believe what an apathetic filmmaker he has become.
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Read cosmos and then watch the TV series, it will make you hooked on science and the universe. You will never watch the night sky the same away again.
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Whenever i see hacks like Zemeckis talk about mo-cap and how it's such a wonderful technology to capture real life actor performances, i'm reminded of another type of technology that does too with a much great capability and sucess and costs 1000 less to achieve: PHOTOGRAPHY. And video is nowdays quite up to standards too. All that mo-cap talk is technological masturbation. Good for games and special effects, terrible to make a movie wholesome based on it. Stick to what works, photography and video. If it aint broken, don't fix it.
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I've seen the movie about three times now and have never even remotely sensed an evangelical agenda behind it. What moment(s) specifically are you referring to, Asimov. They pretty much say at the end of the movie that what happened to Allie was real with the reveal by Angela Basset that the camera recorded hours of static.
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a classic shown in a way you wish it had never been shown before.
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George C Scott didn't need CGI and 3-D
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If you think Tokyo Gore Police has more intelligence and subtext than Beowulf. Come on now man, lay off the hyperbole for awhile.
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You're right - it seems like mo-cap is just a really expensive way to replace film (or hard drives - or whatever.) We know from experience that if it tries to look "real," it fails and ends up looking creepy. If it ever succeeds in looking real, then what's the point?
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So that some day, we and all other future generations can enjoy "Megan Fox Loves Angelina Jolie: Part 347" -
You're locked in a soundproof room, armed with a gun loaded with one bullet and a license to kill one person, and in front of you, Zemeckis is signing to remake Blade Runner with mo-cap, while JJ Abrams is signing a 10-picture directing deal for an ongoing Star Trek franchise. Whom do you shoot? Zemeckis, Abrams, or yourself? -
Fuck Robert Zemeckis up his fucking ass.
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The fucking Contact mvoie is a fuckignbloody pagentry on accepting shit on blind fucking faith, the whole fucking movie is one long lesson in for the Jodie foster character Allie to eat humble pie at the end, when çeople accept the truth of her travel to the stars because they have FAITH ON HER, evne though she hasd no fucking evidence that she did the trip to the aliens.Which is a very big fucking contrast to the book in which Allie herself does not trust her own experience and spends the last chapters of the book in searching of a clue, a proof, the real clue that could tell she did made the trip and she didn't imagined the whole thing. Her and, i might had, in the book she has companions, other scientists from other countires, and not just the movie star trip to the stars alone we got in the fucking movie.Basically, in the book, Allie acts like a scientists through and through, and when faced with what seems like a fantadtic aexperience evenshe cannot tell for sure it really did happen, she goes looking for the one clue that could tell it really happened. And that clue is something PUT into the very fabric in the universe, and which cna only be found by searchign for the universe's deep truth. And she did that with MATHEMATICS, more specifically, to search the number PI to find it's final end, which she finally does, and in there there's a signature that the aliens said she would find when she visited them and theytook the shape of her father.In the fucking bullshit pussy ass of a evagelical ass kising fucking bullshit movie that fuckign Zemeckis did while he sucked a fat dick from a fundamentalist tele-evangelical preacher, the fucking movie has her the Jodie Foster character to accept the wonders of having faith, becvause faith is like the sweetest chocolate cake in the whole fucking world. How awesome is to have faith, so there are people who can believe in you, even if you cannot produce one single fucking piec eof evidence you ar enot telling a fat porky lie.No, really, fuck the movie Contact, fuck Robert Zemeckis fir making it the way it is, and fuck him for thedeep betrayal the fucking movie is of the book. The fucking mvoie is a fucking disgrace. And they say Hollywood is liberal. Liberal my ass, Holylwood is always kissing andf sucking the dick and kissing the ass of the midwest biblebelt Bible masturbating fundamentalist loonies. Fuck that shit! If they wanted to make a movie to suck Fundies' dick, wriote your own fuckign mvoie, don't fuck up a book that was anything but that. Fuck Robert Zemeckis up his fucking ass.Fuck Robert Zemeckis up his fucking ass.
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Fuck him.
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Contact is based on a book? Or a book Z-meck wrote about another book?
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Tokyo Gore Police HAS MORE SUBTEXT AND INTELLIGENCE then the retarded bullshit that is Zemeckis' fucking up of a english literature classic Beowulf movie with the dead eyed CGI zombies. It's a testement to the blind zeal that people have to the Zemeckis pices of shit hackl that just because 20 years ago he made a simple but effective entertainment movie that evne to this dfay people prefer to do the monkey with the eyes covered and pretend thare's meaningful bulslhit in that retarded shallow stupid filled with platitudes to the grills bulslhit that is the Zemeckis Beowulf shit. It' s mindblowing how people can find any intelligence in that fucking movie, when in fact it's a parade of stupidity from beginign to end.Fuycking shit, dudes, just because Zemeckis one did Back to The Future doesn't mean he has to have a free from jail pass for every fucking stupid bullshit he does. Forest Gump, Contact, and every of his dead eyed CGI zombies movies are all that, very fucking stupid movies made by an intelelctual midget with pretentions of intelligence and profoundity. Fucking Zemeckis is an intelligent director when he doesn't tries to be intelligent, like in Castaway. It's a testement to the limitations of his intelligence he hasn't figured that shit yet, after all this eyes.Fuck Robert Zemeckis. Fuck Robert Zemeckis up his fucking ass. He could go to Jar Jar Abrams house and do a mutual dumb stupid hack who think they are smarter then they are and fuckm each other in their fucking asses and have Michael Bay watching while sucking his own cock. Fucking asses deserve each other. Fuck them. Reall,y fuck them. And fuck Roberty Zemeckis.
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The fucking movie Contact directed by mega-hack Roberty Zemeckis is a bastardization of an 2adaptation" of the pretty good book also titled Contact writen by Carl Sagan, better known as an astronomer and the creator of the magnificent TV series Cosmos. Zemeckis's Contact movie is as dumb and bad as Cosmos is great and intelligent. Which is a lot, baby.
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The answer is easy, my friend. I would line up Zemeckis and Jar Jar Abrams head to head, and then use one bullet to shot both of those hacks. And it it failed to kill both, i would bash the brains out of the survivor with the grip of the gun hammer-like. And then i would find Michael Bay and cut his balls off with a spoon.
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Discuss WHY Tokyo Gore Police has more intelligence and subtext than Beowulf does WITHOUT all the insults and without all the comments about the CGI. Because your last post did nothing to convince me and makes me think you really don't have a convincing argument.
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I would force him to watch Castaway non-stop for a whole year, and afterwards i would force him to wrote a one million word dissertation on: 1- why he did things so perfectly on Castaway and how much he has fucked up since; 2- why Beowulf is such an horrible piece of shit which he should had never make, and how he has learned his lesson and nevermore he will ever do bullshit such as that; 3- why Mo-Cap is stupid beyond belief and a complete waste of everybody's motherfucking time.
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I read it about 12 years ago and obviously don't remmeber any of that shit you were saying Asimov. not saying it isn't true though. Sounds liek you may have a point.
But regarding Cast Away (yes it's two words nimrods), let's not overinflate this film. It was DECENT. Some of you guys are acting like it's some fucking masterpiece when it's pretty much just a mildly entertaining, glorified FedEx commercial. -
The Beowulf movie. It was what I thought 300 was going to be.
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Is that A) Its two words and B) "FOUR YEARS LATER".....ummmmm ok sure.
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Is in A Christmas Carole? Surprised they aren't trying to sell up Oldman more with TDK and all.
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And Asimov's only argument against so far seems to be that its CGI. And made by Zemeckis. And oh yeah. CUUUUUURSE WORDS!
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...would have been a lot more entertaining than another weird stiff animation. I thought he was great in that movie.
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BTTF, Forrest Gump, Roger Rabbit. The dude is a genius, but damn, enough with the mo cap!
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Decent (as in Cast Away - thanks for the correction) is far better then the SHIT that we are getting from Zemeckis lately, namely, the abortion called Beowulf.
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300 is dumb, stupid and irritating. Beowulf is INFURIATING.
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Try reading my posts next time you tell what's my opinions on something is. My major point agaisnt Beowulf is that it's an incredibly dumb and stupid movie that thinks it's smart because it spews the most banal and idiotic platitudes imaginable and trying to pass that as pathos and intelligence. It's dumb beyond belief. That's my real problem with that piece of shit movie. The CGI mo-cap absurdity is the icing on the cake of it's stupidity.
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Indeed. If they wanted to make Carrey play Scrooge, just paly make up on him. What you refered was the movie Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events, which is one terribly underrated movie.
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Unless one is a Bush loving neo-con uneducated fundamentalist evangelical loony white-trash fuckhead. Yeah, technically, the movie is to be admired, but everyuthing else in that movie is a fucking disgrace. Fuck Forrest Gump and fuck Robert Zemeckis for making it as it is. Fuck Robert Zemeckis. Fuck Robert Zemeckis up his fucking ass.
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Fuck Robert Zemeckis up his fucking ass.
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was Zemeckis's last great film. 24 long years ago. All his recnt stuff just seems totally phoned in. Bland, corporate crap.
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"And i'll do with with creppy dead eyed mo-cap CGI zombies!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAH!! MUAHHAHAHAHAHHA!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!! AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I'M SO FUCKING EEEEVIIIIIIIIIIIL! AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!"
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is not the direction, it's a great screenplay. It's all in the writing folks. As soon as Kurtzman and Orci became the go-to-guys for blockbusters everything has gone down the tubes. They're the writers of Xena for fuck's sake.
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I actually think that Cast Away is Zemeckis' best movie in his career. The Back To The Future movie might be more fun, but Cast Away is his true masterpiece. After that, it's all FUCKING SHIT! And he did two terribly pice of shit movies before, the dreadful Forrest Gump and the traitorous evangelical ass-kissing/balls licking Contact.
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I enjoyed Cast Away but felt it went on too long. Some great stuff in it though.
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I might have liked it more if it hadn't been a giant fucking FedEx commercial.
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I asked you why Tokyo Gore Police was more intelligent and deep than Beowulf, and your reponse was that Beowulf was incredibly dumb and pretends to be smart. But can you explain that? I did try reading your posts and it was hard to get through them because of all the mangled curse words.
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Your argument is nothing other than "its stupid and it sucks". I need more here. I need examples and some more in-depth criticism to believe your insane claim that TGP is more intelligent and has more subtext.
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Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. Can't wait for the second half of 'Oporto Mammaries whining 333 hours straight about Mikey Bay and JJ Abrams' gag.
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Or the studios would stop financing them. There's a place for mo-cap and 3D, but he has absolutely no idea how to do it. Get back to making films with real actors with real stories. His best film is still the first Back to the Future. Sad to think if he made that now, it'd be mo-cap.
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The judge must surely have given him a slap on the wrist, and in exchange demanded that he appear in this shitfest. Instead of a few months in jail, he was mandated to destroy his cinematic legacy. That's rough.
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wrong TB.
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is the only great part of the movie. and my main criticism of the movie. is why did zemeckis by pass all the other actors when tom hanks got marooned. it was all hanks for 4 hours. it would have made for a much better movie. if hanks had got rescued early. or two years later. how would he have survived on the mainland. all hanks films have been awful lately and i cant think of one film where he has been great or at his best.
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To answer to you with any satisfaction, you would need to know a bit of the history of Japan in the early 20th century. Do you know it? And i'm not talking about WWII, i'm talking about EARLY 20TH Century Japan. Believe it or not, Tokyo Gore Police uses the same historical context of the early 20th century Japan as it also inspired the anime Akira. You know some of that stuff, you are into why even a blood spatter gorefiest Tokyo Gore Police is smarter then that retarded dumb stupidity that is Beowulf.
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like they are sensitive new-age los angeles californians. IN A STORY SET IN THE 8TH CENTURY AD!!! Fuck that shit. Fuck robert Zemeckis. Fuck Robert Zemeckis up his fucking ass.
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I love Cast Away. I really love that movie. for once in his lifetime, Zemeckis reached a Kubrickian level of filmaking excelence. Even the faults i found in that movie are, frankly, nitpicks. I wish the movie had never once had a score music playing throughout the whole movie, even after his return home. I think all the scenes before the crash, the crash and at the island are cinematic pefection. And the return home, while there's some descent to melodramatism, still the movie makes the narrative right choices, and it was a particular smart move to not have Tom Hanks's character return to Helen Hunt, that she had her own life now, and that she was not abdicating her family for the same of a love from the past. It's all good, smart, adult stuff.Zemeckis in Cast Away revealed maturity and intelligence without forcing it to us, without preaching, without posturing, without having characters talk platutudes. Even the product placement of FexEx is well handled, which is no msall feat, since the other megahacks like Jar Jar Aberams and Michael Bay were never able to handled that with any elegance.I'll always defend Cast Away to kingdom come. And Robert Zemeckis can go fuck himself. Fuck Robert Zemeckis. Fuck Robert Zemeckis up his fucking ass.
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Well, i have this idea that a good movie is never too long. I don't think Cast Away is to long. And i really love the fact that Zemeckis decided to pace the movie very slowly. It builds great tension and help us to be totally in Hanks' shoes (so to speak) throughout all his predictements. As i said before, and even in some scenes happening after his return home, Zemeckis achieved a Kubrick level of excelence. As a filmmaking goes, Cast Away is Zemeckis' masterpiece, and a near masterpiece in the history of cinema.
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My god, a whole trailer of Jim Carrey screaming retardedly. Hard to take, this looks like complete shit. And next this fucking asshole will ruin Yellow Submarine, have the Zombie of John Lennon walk around and imbue it with "action" in exactly the style we have seen in this trailer.FUCK YOU ZEMECKIS!I know this is not a nice thing to say, but Jesus, i hope that guy gets pancreatic cancer and kicks the fucking bucket before he gets to make that abomination.
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Fuck Robert Zemeckis up his fucking ass.
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i hope the ghosts of John Lennon and George Harrison fuck Zemeckis up in his fucking ass. With a little help from their still living Beatles friends.
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that's what I think
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Better yet, Scrooged all day, any day over this.
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Fuck Robert Zemeckis up his fucking ass
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