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Warner Bros. makes Quint Cry by making a new movie, that happens to be called MONSTER SQUAD!
Hey folks, Harry here with a story that is gonna make Quint cry. You see, the boy loves MONSTER SQUAD - and I s'pose that he'd need suicide watch, if MONSTER SQUAD was being remade. Although, making an entirely different film with the very specific title, MONSTER SQUAD... will probably irk him mightily.
Now Brian Lynch, wrote a screenplay nearly a decade ago called NIGHTCRAWLERS... It was handed around town to a number of different writers in a neverending search for something better than what they bought apparently Well "Sky High" director, Mike Mitchell, comes along and now... Apparently at some point in 2011, we're probably going to see this film under the nome de release, MONSTER SQUAD.
So, how do y'all feel about this - it is an original story, with a recycled title. How mad does that get you?
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Wolfman's got nards! I feel for ya Quint....this is bullshit.
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All involved, please throw yourself under the nearest train. Sincerely, The Rest of the World.
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they're not re-making monster squad, and therefore this is not news. :^D
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It's come to the point where I'd rather see very late sequels than remakes. (don't even mention prequels)
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Classic movie!
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unless you have merchandising like Star Wars.
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--for last chance of some pie.
He he he. Seriously though, they can eat a bowl of dicks. Couldn't come up with a new title and had to resort to one from the mid to late eighties?
Hey Warners, why not The Adventures of Pluto Nash, or Battlefield Earth, or The Postman?
How about re-using one of those abortomatic human misery generators instead of a beloved kids movie made in a time where you could actually have kids acting like kids (not to be confused with acting like Kids, which was a whole other kind of kids movie, if you see what I mean).
In conclusion, Fuck Warner Brothers.
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Oct 19, 2009 2:59:20 AM CDT
With every "cherished" movie of our youth that gets remade..
by immorganfreeman
... why don't you just have a fill-in-the-blank template. Yes, it's a tragedy. No, none of our griping will ever stop the money machine, no matter how many District 9s and Paranormal Activities prove that wide audiences want original content. Even this post is futile, and part of the machine.
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Oct 19, 2009 3:01:58 AM CDT
If anything, people will buy the real Monster Squad by mistake
by nivekj
Cash in! That's what I say. "Just be-WARE of the Monster Squad!" Yeah, just as long as they leave the groovy theme song alone.
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Hah! This is the movie my friends get on my case for never having seen. I'd never even heard of it and they're like WTF???
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Is an update with kids put in the position to stop the "new" horror movie icons. I think watching a group of kids trying to stop Jason, Leatherface and Michael Myers led by the diabolical minds of Pinhead, Freddy or The Tall Man would be a kinda cool follow-up.
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Oct 19, 2009 3:36:03 AM CDT
Steven Seagal's THE PATRIOT vs. Mel Gibson's THE PATRIOT
by gibsonusa returns
Who cares?
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They replace "Scary German Guy" with, "Reclusive Washed-Up Actor" (think Boo Radley from TKAM mixed with Peter Vincent from Fright Night) who the kids have to access for help.
No spoilers, but it rhymes with Spruce Bamble.
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So the best y'all can do is try to start some half-assed "controversy" about a studio reusing a title? Oh no! A movie in development for over TEN YEARS might finally get made someday and released with under the title of a movie from TWENTY TWO YEARS ago... but they have nothing else to do with each other! GASP!And by the way, if you're going to rip off a news item from Hollywood Reporter, you might want to mention that while the original spec script was written by Brian Lynch, the actual current script was written by Brad Copeland. Jesus, are you guys gonna try to get people pissed off that there's an Italian musical named "Nine" only MONTHS after the animated apocalyptic film "9"?Get real.
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Oct 19, 2009 3:45:24 AM CDT
So... is it like monster superheroes fighting the good fight?
by mojination
...and what's the legality with using titles for films that already exist?
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It's a classic and should be left alone. Is nothing sacred.?
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Kick him in the nards, wolfman doesn't have nards . . . WOLF MAN HAS NARDS!
http://www.moviequotes .com/repository.cgi?pg=3&tt=82060
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I mean there was a TV series that preceded Fred Dekker and Shane Black's The Monster Squad by a decade, so I guess turnabout is fair play. And I think Nivek is right that this movie will only cause people to talk more about the awesome '80s movie. Scary German Guy Lives!
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Yuen Woo Ping is directing Shang Chi Master of Kung Fu for MARVEL. Check his IMDB page. I think it could be sweet. Has anyone seen his old movies like Shaolin Drunkard? Man did that movie rock. You can catch it all on youtube.
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thats all
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Whatsn that line near the beginning of the movie where one of the kids mentions something about wolfman having a boner? Man, Ive been trying to find it online and cant... someone, please.
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Neither was remotely scary and was barely entertaining. Seriously I don’t mean to piss off the older crowd that have some nostalgic love for these movies, I just never saw the appeal (and I’m an 80’s child myself). The actors were mostly lame, there was a silly sub plot in TMS involving the cracks in the marriage of the main kids parents that seemed tacked on and went nowhere. In FN ALL the actors were shit, especially the goofy friend with the spiky hair. Anyways my point is if anyone on these posts in their teens or early 20’s that have never seen these movies my advice is Don’t Bother! The average episode of Buffy is much better in pacing/plot/ACTING and general entertainment value. And if you’re a Buffy fan you will be bored to tears with these movies!
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Saying Buffy is better than Monster Squad and Fright Night does not compute. You and I exist on radically different planes of thought, my friend.
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since he seems to be THE buffy fan, but only a handfull of those shows inch theirselves out of the pit of t.v. mediocrity. not that buffy is bad, but it's not great either. fright night transcended and was an experience.
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Buffy has monsters and vampires! Unless comparing a entire 7 season TV show to a couple of movies is unfair.In which case ill re-phrase my opinion. Any ONE episode of Buffy is more entertaining than Monster Squad and Fright Night.Ha!
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You can't write for shit.
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What the...I dont understand how you can say Buffy is better than both Monster Squad and Fright Night, thats not even a decent comparison. The only redeeming feature that show possessed was in Gellar's hotness.
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as long as this one has that really fuckin awful song at the end credits... I'm good.... that song was epicly bad.
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I have no idea what the fuck you just said Harry- "Now Brian Lynch, wrote a screenplay nearly a decade ago called NIGHTCRAWLERS... It was handed around town to a number of different writers in a neverending search for something better than what they bought apparently Well "Sky High" director, Mike Mitchell, comes along and now... Apparently at some point in 2011, we're probably going to see this film under the nome de release, MONSTER SQUAD." What the fuck is a "Well director"? Does he direct Wells? Does he tell the contractors where to dig? Wtf? I love the site Harry, but jeezus. Stop eating the special brownies before you post.
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FRIGHT NIGHT and MONSTER SQUAD not as good as BUFFY...
Move along, lil buddy. You've no idea how this works, have you?
BUFFY was chick-lit wish-fulfilment with added supernatural shenanigans. I've no idea why Joss Whedon hates men so much in the BUFFY series, and he does make amends for that with ANGEL and FIREFLY, but that show was so oestrogen led, by the end of the last season I got my rag.
For a dude, that's disquieting, to say the least.
BUFFY was good - on occasion, even GREAT - but it didn't come close to the camp classic status of FRIGHT NIGHT or the sheer pre-pubescent joy of THE MONSTER SQUAD. Go back to your decade-old Sarah Michelle Gellar FHM issues, and we'll all talk about some REAL entertainment. -
Have you actually seen ADVENTURES OF PLUTO NASH? It ain't worth the $100 mil plus spent on it, but damn if it ain't a fun, entertaining family flick. With added Rosario Dawson. There's no such thing as too much Rosario Dawson. She's teh hotness.
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I was just throwing out Buffy as an example of modern horror/comedy compared to the teen horror/comedy movies of the 80’s and how the show put an amusing spin on the same decades old monster movie stuff that’s been done to death. I have seen the monster squad and fright night recently again and (I’m sorry guys) but they very dated are not that good. The Lost Boys/ and Near Dark however have aged well. I could recommend them to anyone who’s never seen them before and be sure they would love them. I could not however recommend the fucking monster squad of fright night because they are not great movies in there own right! Nostalgic to some late 20’s early 30’s geeks sure, but to newbees? I doubt anyone who has turned on a TV the last 10 years would find them the holy grail that some people think!
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Hollywood ignores the fact that mainstream audiances do seem to be looking for original content, however fandom does nt appear tobe too much, seems more interested in films about the toys and computer games we played with as kids or endlessly rebooting series or just making more sequals and prequals to fill in every blank that ever existed. So remake everything I say, give fanboys what it is that they really want....their endless nostalgia blowjobs....
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It's not a remake of The Monster Squad, just using the same title so who cares, really? Our beloved movie has enough entrenched fans now that using the title isn't going to hurt it by association. THEMANWHOCAN - I'm afraid I have to take umbrage with you stating Fright Night and The Monster Squad are not classics and only have status due to nostalgia - absolute rubbish. Both were examples of great moviemaking - and while I love Monster Squad and think it thoroughly deserves it's cult status, Fright Night is a full-on classic movie, one of the best vampire films ever made. You even mentioning it in the same post as Buffy the Vampire Slayer makes me queasy - and now I've done the same, I'm going to have to go and flay myself in pennance. Just because you don't like a certain film does not mean it doesn't have inherent worth - and personally I don`t recall a better, purer vamp film since it was made. There`ve been other great ones, but none better.
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I am 36 and Monster Squad & Fright Night are two of my favorite movies ever. In fact, my two favorite movies ever are Fright Night and Angel Heart. I watched all three of those movies with my 23 year old wife and she LOVED them all. So your theory is complete crap.
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I understand totally where your coming from but I just think you could of used a better example than Buffy.
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Both of those movies were fecking great when we were kids, i loved them but fuck me have they not aged, i couldnt even bring myself to finish both of em when i seen em lately, new kids today would find them hilarious and us old'uns need to stop looking back at films with rose tinted glasses and holding them up to be fucking beacons of greatness.. yes they were when we were 8 y.o. but as adults there pretty fucking shit.. cept for lostboys and Near Dark, now thems 2 horror flicks from the same period that still hold up.. but nothing and i mean nothing holds a candle or has come close to the greatness that is "Thing" & "Alien"
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"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" is clever and cute, but not exceptional. And, the self-conscious dialogue becomes distracting after season 3.Also, the "GQ"/"FHM" casting of "Buffy" appeals to a junior high school demographic that expects all actors look like models and that somehow translates into good performances.Overall, "Buffy" is good for it's demographic, but it's not 'classic' or great. It had a handful of great episodes and some truly rotten ones; it's suburban middle class angst for the emotionally inexperienced.
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Oct 19, 2009 7:23:37 AM CDT
And seriously, "The Lost Boys"?! That film didn't work in '87
by blakindigo
It had GREAT cinematography and a good score. Plus, Jason Patric, Sutherland, and the Coreys—but it was too bland.
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My girlfriend loves the monster squad and hated angel heart! Where as I only saw angel heart for the first time a year ago and loved it! Found it in a DVD collection in relatives holiday home we were staying in and thought it was brilliant.so ive learned my lession!And it sounds like a lot of people here don’t like one particular blond vampire slayer so Ill tries not to bring that show into my rants in future!
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Most bad assed line in the original. As far as this new one is concerned, I'm making the call right now that the title is going to change. After daily questions of "So...is it a remake?" They'll probably brake and call it some totally original title. Like "Jack Brooks, Monster Slayer." or "Tropic Thunder."
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Still do, and it's one of my favourite movie soundtracks too (GOOD TIMES is awesome!).
BUT...
There's one thing you CAN say about THE LOST BOYS - it HAS dated, and NOT in a good way. Unless you think young men nowadays still wear pastel jackets with Hawaiian shirts, have homoerotic Rob Lowe posters on their 80s louvred wardrobe doors, still make references to "watching too much DYNASTY" and would choose to read comics than drool over Jami Gertz in full effect (and in full 80s big 'do too).
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Haven't seen him in ages.
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And everyone on here's entitled to their opinions - I just think a lot of people preferred BUFFY on TV, and don't consider it equal to the great vampire movies it occasionally borrowed from and subverted.
But what would I, the humble Spud, know? I actually LOVED the movie! Luke Perry was great, as was Donald Sutherland, Kristy Swanson is SO much sexier than SMG will EVER be, and Rutger Hauer is loving every second of his villain turn. And Paul Reubens has the best (and longest!) death scene EVER...
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GOONIES is SO much better which Monster rips off, and as far as 80's comedy horror goes, The Lost Boys blows Monster Squad out of the water.
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You crack me up. Caught Lost Boys not too long ago and couldn't believe how dated it was. And I couldn't get over that damn Rob Lowe poster. WTF???? I think it was a pic of him from Schumachers' St.Elmo's Fire to boot . . .
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the vampire Peter Pan version?
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I'm not mad about this news either. It's not a direct remake, so it doesn't count. Nothing will ever beat the original movie.
"Quint"
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Joel snuck that one in as well.
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Oct 19, 2009 8:25:17 AM CDT
It's Not A Direct Rape Of My Childhood . . .
by adiehardfanwithalethalweapon
but I'd rather it have a different title too. They're just cashing in on a cool name and possibly anyone dumb enough to see it out of nostalgia. I won't be one of them.
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Oct 19, 2009 8:37:22 AM CDT
This makes me think of KEVIN_COSTNERS_RECYCLED_PISS
by isleptwithkathybatesandallthatigotwasthi
I really don't know why. Probably something to do with the words 'recycled' and 'piss'. If Kevin Costner appears in this, it's almost as though i can see into the future.
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dorks who hold all these fucking ancient films up on some untouchable shrine.. i'm all for remaking the shit out of loads of 80's flicks, so what you wanked over it when your a kid, your an adult now (and i say that loosely) so who gives a fuck if they remake some flick from your childhood? if your really the type to get emotionally distraught over it, you should do the world a favour and remove your genes from the planet and go kill yourself for being a fucking loser. I say bring em all on, even The Thing / Alien, if its a fucking travesty.. WHO GIVES A FUCK! every so often we'll get a gem of a remake, aka Dawn of the Dead
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But those monsters are not all under one house. This time instead of a group of kids fighting the classic monsters. You'd have a group of immature horror nerdy adults who do the cosplay and autograph hunt stuff at horror conventions. One of them steals book of the dead prop from a dealer on the floor. Who refused to sell it, because it he claimed it once belonged to 4E. Our group of horronerds go back to their hotel rooms after meeting most of the main actors who played the slasher icons. Including the remake actors. Everyone gets drunk. They crank up some metal music. Someone reads the book on the shitter releasing. Robert Englund is in the room next to theirs, he is awakened by the loud tunes. He bangs on their hotel room door telling them to turn it down. A demon posses him, one of the horror nerds answers the door wearing a Krueger mask, and replica glove, Demon posessed rob breaks into the room he attacks the kid in the nightmare mask. he steals the glove, grabs the book. He leaves the room and heads for the conventions floor. He gives life to a bunch of replica slasher dummies displayed on the floor, and they go after the geeks amblin about convention floor. Our original group eventual seeks the help of the remake actors to defeat the original replica versions of the slasher plus K'd out Robert. Something like that.
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yo mouth
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He was in Austin back in the spring, and said of all his films, he'd like to see a remake of Monster Squad. Evidently there was about an hour of his script that got cut out, and he'd like to see the original script made.
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Oh man, you spent all that time bitchin just to loose your credibility in the last sentence. I tried watching it recently and I could barely stand the shit. You might try a better choice of film next time.
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I mean seriously what the fuck was wrong with it? its not the be all and end all of horrors but it was pretty damn fucking good in my book, everyone i know enjoyed it, the cinema went nuts for it and after having watched it recently its still a great popcorn horror flick. Your not one of those koolaid drinking romero nuts are you?
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in it, nuff said.
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than the entire movie. johnny cash was a nice try, but the original still slaps it around like a redheaded step child. zombies dont run. no sorry. impossible. nothing it working right muscles stiffen, nerve receptors die, vessel clot, lots of pain, and inablity to get true motor control.
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I don't care. That is all.
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...would be my personal favorite. I realize it has three words instead of two, but I'm a maverick.
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I'd go into great detail about it but you sum it up nicely with popcorn horror flick. And so you know . . . I rarely drink the koolaid romero hands me. You never know what them goofy fuckers from catering put in it.
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REALLY MAD
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Is she a virgin?
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heh heh
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Oct 19, 2009 9:22:48 AM CDT
You and I exist on radically different planes of thought, man.
by pooroltintin
That shit made me spill my lucky charms, dude. Funny.
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I agree with ya, Snyders DOTD remake is much more enjoyable than 95% of the other shitty zombie movies getting made today...but was your rant some kind of way for you to justify masturbating over Monster Squad?
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Really?
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Im getting a lot of flack from talkbackers and even big Quint (on his higher plane of existence or whatever) for expressing my opinion. I think he has a nostalgic childhood memory connection to this movie that’s clouding his judgement!
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Those words will be spoken a day after the trailer is released. Its like making a space porn under the name of Star Wars: A New Hope. Hollywood execs need to jump off their balconies and die.
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Oct 19, 2009 9:48:12 AM CDT
Nightcrawlers is actually a better title! Fecking idiots!
by silentbobafett2
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@ThePilgrim are you seriously trying to explain why zombies cant run? ok say we go down the Zombies exist road.. how bout the freshly dead, they technically should be able to run, once you get into various states of decay then you get into the shambling, shuffling zombs from the Romero flicks that are as bout as scary as a fucking hannah montana, Snyders zombies are Scary with a capital Fucking S, Romeros blue painted harry chrisna would be laughed at while it shuffled slowly towards me before being whacked in the head with a gold stick.. now if that 1 armed asian in the remake came after me, id cry like a girl up the nearest tree....... @Diehard, the Dawn remake didnt set out to be anything other than a kickass entertaining horror flick for the masses, nothing more nothing less..... @Ghengis i can hardly remember monster squad, my rant is over the fuckers that cry into there transformers G1 pillow cause somebody is remaking a film they love, which as i stated, who gives a fuck what they do, hollywood is a business and if you cant understand how a business works then you really should just stick to daytime tv
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Now there is an oscar worthy movie!
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I'm so mad and I don't know why!!!
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Game on! Gaaaaaame on! Game on! GAAAAAAAAAME ON!
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It's probably been mentioned that there was a '70s show called "Monster Squad"...now I'd like to see a redo of that. :)
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Inglorious Monsters?
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That movie was fun but could have been better. And Monster Squad is a classic. It's pure 80's. Does it hold up to a movie by today's standards. Um have any of you watched G.I Joe, or Transformers?
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Hollywood already used Hitchcock's Mr. and Mrs Smith and Notorious for title theft, so this doesn't mean the movie will have ANYTHING to do with the beloved Monster Squad. Unless the recent Notorious was just a Biggie version of the Cary Grant movie.
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Rob Lowe isn't in The Lost Boys jerk off. And it's way better than Monster Squad.
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So they couldn't come up with some other word combinations to make a new title? Fuck these assholes making this movie.
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...1970s television show?
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Seriously, didn't we hear word over a year ago that Rob Cohen was working on a remake? Possibly to helm himself?
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Did it turn out to be just a false rumor? I know Cohen is doing Medieval and all, but I'm pretty sure he'd been developng a Monster Squad remake too.
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I'm late to this party, but I had to chime in: "Pluto Nash" is a DISASTER of a movie. Sure, some of that $100 mil is up on the screen, but it is an unholy mess of storytelling. Even Rosario, with all her hotness, can not save it. Nor Randy Quaid. With all his... whatever.
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It's my own script about a college for monsters... will that piss y'all off too much? I can change it...
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...had to say it. Even the actress who turned out to be a lesbian is super-cute.
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They've gotta.
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What if this triggers some sort of cosmic surge that causes Brent Chalem to rise from the grave and attack Mike Mitchell?
Harry, as I recall, gave Sky High a great review. I rather enjoyed that film. Mike cast a lot of awesome comics in that flick, alums from SNL, Kids in the Hall, Broken Lizard, Mr. Show and UCB. If he shows the same kind of attention to detail here then this could actually be good.
Still, I'm not going to pretend I'm excited about this one. Although I would be if Fred Dekker were directing a sequel/remake of his own film. I hope they release Night Of The Creeps on Blue Ray! -
I agree. Monster Squad is just a poor man's Goonies. Sorry, Quint, but that's the truth.
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Fucking tards.
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Oct 19, 2009 12:53:09 PM CDT
Loving PLUTO NASH - The love that dares not speak its name
by spud mcspud
Well, dammit, I enjoyed it. Even with Randy Quaid doing his... whatever.
Now, NORBIT is a different animal. Worst fucking movie Eddie has EVER made. And yeah, I've seen HAUNTED MANSION. But I haven't seen MEET DAVE.
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Haunted Mansion? Bad, but it's got Jennifer Tilly, so can't be all bad.
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If you were much over 12 when "Monster Squad" came out, you should have yawned at it. I did, when I finally saw it on TV. This, "The Goonies" and most of the '80s movies about groups of kids having adventures were dull for adults. Even if you were a kid and loved them, you should view them today with an adult's eye and admit they are just the guilty pleasures of childhood. Gee whiz, people. It's like thinking "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is a truly great movie as opposed to just a great scare the first few times.
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I suspect that Hollywood is in the schadenfreude business, and they are taking their pleasures in making movies that insult and pisses on the audiences while they watch them still pay to watch those same movies made by people who hate audiences. This year's blockbusters (except Harry Potter) was proof of that.
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Consider my mind boggled... with a vengence! But i should had expected this. i mean, there's a certainy shitty movie LOSELY based on an 60s Tv show which also got a lot of love, so love for Pluto Nash shouldn't be all that unexpected, i guess. But it's still freaky! There should be vaccines for that.
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I don't know why so few people hated PLUTO NASH, other than the fact that the critics hated it. So what? The critics hated GI JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA, and that movie is EXACTLY what it says on the tin: a stupid movie based on a toy line with LOADS of SFX, explosions and implausible fights. It ain't THE BOURNE LEGACY, and nor should it be! Same goes for TF2 - I knew it would be a shitty loud mess, akin to being mugged by a washing machine - and I was right, but I went into it knowing I'd at least enjoy the robot-on-robot scraps, the way Bay shoots Megan Fox (fucking GLORIOUS) and the whole OTT explosions tone of the flick. TF2 did for me what it said it would, and only because I didn't go into a movie about giant robots fighting expecting fucking Brecht or something.
Same goes for PLUTO NASH. It claims to be a family comedy set on the moon, with Eddie being set up by amysterious villain as he tries to get a nightclub on the moon to work for him financially (someone should have told him why discos NEVER work on the moon - because there's no atmosphere! Heh heh). THAT'S what the movie claims to be. And it is - lots of jokey bits with Eddie avoiding loan sharks on the moon, some low-gravity jokes, lots of jokes about Randy Quaid being his obselete model personal assistant droid, a nifty twist when you discover who's actually behind the villain side of it all (nope, not spoiling it, I enjoyed it!), some decently composed action sequences, and lots and LOTS of Rosario Dawson, who (as has been explicitly explained a few posts ago) you can NEVER get too much of, is really sweet and engaging in this movie. Eddie is Eddie, for good or bad, and though the budget was RIDICULOUS for what the movie was, it was more than watchable - it was fun, in an undemanding, family-oriented, way. I wouldn't put it in my top 10, I wouldn't tell you all to go see it, I wouldn't even say choose it above most other titles - I'm just saying that (a) I really enjoyed it, and (b) don't always believe the critics, because not only are they frequently WRONG, but most of the time they obviously expect a totally different movie to what they are getting. PLUTO NASH is pretty much like RV, and DADDY DAY CARE, and THE PACIFIER, etc etc - an inoffensive family comedy that is a million miles away from Kevin Smith-type coedy territory, and offers laughs when you're at your most undemanding. It's fine, it's not THE GOONIES, but it's NOT - emphatically NOT - a BAD movie. If Now Eddie doesn't float your boat the way Beverly Hills Cop Eddie or Delirious! Eddie once did, then avoid it like the plague. If you enjoyed DADDY DAY CARE, or CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN, and daren't admit it to anyone, you'd enjoy PLUTO NASH.
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"I think science is cool. I DIG IT MAN!" "I smell like the 40's" "..accident with powertools? Falling out a window..onto a bomb!" Seriously this movie kicks all kinds of ass. All the classic monsters in it and it is actually kids(not teens) fighting them. The weapon building montage to "Rock until you Drop". Wolfman exploding and sucking back together. Kids with shotguns and bows. Man..you are fucking dead inside if this movie doesn't influence the whole way you watch a horror movie. Great dialogue and gore for a "kids movie". Once again..a great profiling tool to find out whose opinions are shit."You and I exist on radically different planes of thought, my friend." Can't wait for Groundhog Day part XVIII
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Remaking the Squad ranks up there as high on my list of wants as a Goonies remake. However there is an easy way of stopping this madness, don't go see these remakes. Your vote is with your wallet and as long as the numbers in Variety come up positive on Monday morning, Hollywood will keep pumping them out.
And on Snyder's Dawn vs. Romero's Dawn.
Two different films. Aside from a few nods to the original, the mall and the film title they have little in common. The original works so well because it draws you into the psyche of the survivors over their months of seclusion as they slowly become isolated from the world. It eventually makes you think "What would I do in that situation and how would I survive?" Snyder's "Dawn" was an action flick. There are some awesome visuals in there though like Sarah walking out onto her front lawn and seeing here neighbors being chased down by zombies. The gas station car crash, the frantic car cam sequence of Sarah escaping her neighborhood, the little girl bouncing up to her feet and so on. But it lacked the emotion that the original had. The only character that you really care about was played well and honestly by Jake Weber. Bottom line, the original couldn't be remade. Why? Because the attention span of the average viewer is far too small for anyone to care. -
GHOULBUSTERS?......... oh god now I'm just giving them ideas.
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Yet don't use the same name. Call it something as easy as Monster Club if you have to. Yet not Monster Squad.
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Oct 19, 2009 5:39:21 PM CDT
I love how completely UNSOURCED this story is...It's just Harry
by glory_fades_immaxfischer
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It is another raping of our childhood.. It's like the title Ghostbusters being stolen from that cartoon.. What a ripoff.. lol..
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Very Angry
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Very angry.He's seen Spud Mcspud defending PLUTO NASH and now he's going to rip Spud a new asshole!
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It'll be nothing but CGI and Smash Mouth songs. The 80's are now raped beyond all recognition.
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because it was a messy piece of shit that was shelved for about 2 years then when it came out it lost I believe...$95m? Just sayin'. There's a few guilty pleasures of my own.
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sounds pretty convincing, but would you say it's a better movie than "The Haunted Mansion"?I also understand what you're saying about "Transformers 2" and "GI Joe" but, honestly, would you pay MONEY to go see them? If they're on late night cable I might take a look, just to escape my post-coitus regrets and misadventures with beer goggles.But, I've got to say, I admire your unabashed defense of "Pluto Nash."
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I dunno about BETTER than HAUNTED MANSION - I preferred it, but I can see why so many would also enjoy HAUNTED MANSION - another inofeensive family comedy with a few quite gripping sequences and a lot of decent SFX. Again, I got nothing against HAUNTED MANSION - but it ain't in my extensive DVD collection. (Or my old school VHS collection. Fuck progress.)
I did pay to see TF2 and GI JOE, but I knew EXACTLY what I'd be in for - and was right both times. TF2 DID feel like I'd been mugged by a washing machine, but it was intersperesed with those spectacularly filmed slo-mo shots of Megan Fox and Megan Fox's Aussie Nemesis, and the action (when the editing is slow enough for you to actually SEE IT) is well worth the money. I've been a Bay fan since the first BAD BOYS and THE ROCK, and I still think he's unsurpassed in how beautiful he can make wholesale destruction look onscreen - well, except for Tony Scott, who is who Bay so obviously wants to be when he grows up. If they EVER want to remake THE LAST BOY SCOUT (God forbid), Bay is your man.
GI JOE was, I hoped, Stephen Sommers' apology for VAN HELSING - and it wasn't too far off. Not as unfocussed or bloated as VH, but certainly as fast-moving, and unless you have a burning hatred of Marlon Wayans (I know a lot of you do), it's a damn good movie. It ain't Shakespeare - but it's EXACTLY what you want from a movie based on toys aimed at 8-year old boys.
Some movies I hold to a harsher standard - JJ Abrams, for example, because he SHOULD know what he's doing (LOST is just awesome writing) - but if you expect anything more than an adolescent wet dream of an action movie from Sommers, then you're expecting too much. Michael Bay is who Stephen Sommers wants to be when HE grows up... -
Chill! It's just a movie!!
Was that you I saw van surfing in that 80s movie all those years ago? I was the guy with his cock out in the last shot when your team won the basketball... ;D -
did a decent job with Trek; it's a fun popcorn flick that's closer to "Die Hard 3" than a cerebral SF actioner. I don't mind it, even with it's flaws.Michael Bay movies feel like an actor that screams every line in the shrillest voice possible—then explodes. "The Rock" is his best, IMO and even then the manipulative way he uses the music to stir emotion takes me out of the movie. He's talented with the eye candy, but a jumbled hot mess on the narrative.
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I personally dont give a flying fuck. The movie was lame in the 80s and its equally lame now. THey can make 10 sequels out of monster squad and i could care less than zero. If only it was a porn film...
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Why? Zombie Baby. No other reason is necessary.
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