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Andrew Kevin Walker and David Fincher together again!?!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Yes, it appears David Fincher and Andrew Kevin Walker are reteaming. No, it's not for 8ight, though that would be pretty damn ridiculous-awesome.
Fincher is attached to direct and Walker to write a remake of THE REINCARNATION OF PETER PROUD, which was a novel that was adapted in the '70s by the book's author Max Ehrlich for director J. Lee Thompson (Cape Fear, The Guns of Navarone, Happy Birthday To Me). So says THR's Heat Vision blog.
It's a fairly twisted story about a professor that starts to experience visions of a previous incarnation... which leads to some fairly John Phillipsy craziness.
So, yeah... right up their alley. Again, I'd love to see something original from this collaboration, but at the end of the day I just want a good movie.
Fincher is supposed to attack this project after THE SOCIAL NETWORK which is just about to lens.
-Quint
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I wonder if even Fincher can make that story worth watching. He's one of the only directors working that makes me remotely interested, anyone else I would call a hack. There has to be something awesome in there for him to make it, and to decide so quickly.
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am i reading fucking variety? jesus flipping christ
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...on it.Or maybe do...I bet Fincher could even make even that shit cool...
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I'm there.
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Was my least favorite Fincher flick, but is still a movie that stands out above any of the generic thrillers that seem to come out every month.
That being said, Fincher tackling a story that involves psychotic imagery and/or people is always fascinating. AKW only makes this better. -
is that I need to revisit The Reincarnation of Peter Proud. Thanks for jogging my memory AICN.
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Pretty good, Quint, prit-teh prit-teh good...
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That would be awesome!! Fight Club is coming out, But I want seven
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Yeah. Think about it!
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Not the sequel but probably the earliest this movie will get made according to Fincher's schedule.
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Don't get me wrong, I love Fincher; Fight Club is likely to remain on my Top Five list forever, and Panic Room has the coolest opening title graphics. But "Se7en" left me a bit underwhelmed. Too many "Boo!" scares and the premise was just a bit too farfetched.
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Just a small correction concerning Fincher's current project. It's called "The Social Network" and they've already begun filming. Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin has been updating his facebook page with stories/info about filming. If I remember correctly, they just recently wrapped location work in Boston around Harvard and Cambridge.
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stupid fucking fad bullshit site. OMG SOMEONE SENT ME SOME CUBAN CIGARS ON FACEBOOK I'M SO HAPPY IT HURTS!!!
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If Fincher doesn't make it, I wanna do it! Pick me! Pick me!
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I can't get enough of 'em
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It makes you look like a douche bag.
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What schedule? When the year began he was doing Torso but no one would pay for it. Now he is doing this film.
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That was what I suspected... And yet I stand by my "meh."
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fuck yes. oh, and "ei8ht" for the pseudo-title win.
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man with a serial killer name.
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I hope his next movie is in the style of Catch Me If You Can. Thats the only way that I can see this working.
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I'm going to keep yelling it until someone hears me: MAKE SNOWCRASH INTO A MOVIE ALREADY!! NO MORE RANDOM BOOKS NO ONE CARES ABOUT. Chiwetel Ejiofor for Hiro Protagonist!!
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The exciting tale of a couple of douchebags who started a website for pedophiles and narcissistic cunts, made billions, realized each other was a douchebag and went off to find other douchebag friends, all based on a book that got shat upon by reviewers and readers alike. This material is beneath Fincher, but that's not saying much since this shit is beneath Uwe Boll.
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considering they did immensely more to revolutionize the internet and the one of the biggest success story of the dotcom industry. Or for that matter make a movie about Steve Jobs. I think they did one about Bill Gates already. Anyway Facebook is a fad, just like how it replaced Myspace as the most popular networking site, just like how it itself is slowly being replaced by Twitter, which in a few years will be replaced by something else.
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...but it hasn't help up very well.Still, every once and a while you get in the mood to sit around reading the latest copy of GUNS AND AMMO while masturbating in your own feces.It's been a while though...
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It did leave me gob-smacked as I was walking out of the theater... and then I thought about it for a bit... and was, like, "hey, wait a minute..." And now I'm in the mood for some fecal-encrusted, firearms-enhanced self-abuse... again... and it's not even lunchtime...
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what a douche
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...that movie blew everyone away. Years later I was hanging out with someone who hadn't seen it...I did the old "...oh, man, you HAVE TO SEE IT...I wish I was you so I could see it again for the first time! We have to see this tonight! Right now!So we made a quick run down to the local video store, because that's the way things were done, and we watched the crap right out of THE USUAL SUSPECTS.I felt embarrassed. It wasn't terrible or anything...it was just ok. Some good lines and stuff...I'd really rather not talk about it. I don't know why I brought it up.
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Actually, I loved that movie, but what I hate is that it popularized the whole idiotic "movie title that's a number with one letter changed to a number" trend that's induced a nation of sheeple to start speaking in corporate logos. I mean, when you guys talk to your friends about this movie, do you refer to the movie as "Sesevenen"? Actually, if you do, you're fucking awesome.
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Must not have been too "meh" because it's look and plot are the most ripped-off in recent history. See: both HOSTELS, every SAW movie and pretty much every horror movie made in the last fourteen years.
But for what it's worth, I also found STAR WARS, THE EXORCIST and THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy farfetched as well. I mean, like, that REALLY couldn't happen and stuff... -
Shit. I LOVE that movie... and I've only seen it the one time... maybe I should keep it that way. But, of course, that's really the prob. with all big, twisty surprise-ending movies. After that first "ka-pow!" you know what's coming, so the next viewing is never near as good... unless the performances are just stellar or there's copious nudity...
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...I'm in the minority. Yes, Se7en was a big hit and has been a huge influence on many movies that have followed. For the record, I do think Star Wars, The Exorcist and the Lord of the Rings are all way too farfetched. They REALLY suck. That Peter Jackson - what a talentless dick.
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...I was in the minority; rather, I made it clear I understood that I was in the minority... There. Now back to the self-abuse...
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...a room in an old Victorian house from a friend of a friend. The guy was out of town when I first showed up, and our work schedules were opposite so I had been there for a couple of weeks before I met the guy. People at work kept asking me "...so, have you met so and so yet?". Things in the house would change while I was gone, but I was always alone and never saw anyone. Finally, after a couple of weeks I get home late one Saturday night and my invisible landlord and housemate is sitting cross legged in the middle of the hardwood floor of the parlor...in the dark...with just a couple of candles...in his boxer shorts...and some sort of army uniform jacket and hat...sporting a Hitler mustache and little gold John Lennon glasses...with a big glass of red wine...cleaning a musket...Carmina Burana blasting on the stereo.I had never even heard of Civil War re-enacting at the time. It made for a pretty good story at work the next day.
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...if you see it again I wish you the best of luck. It wasn't bad or anything. I made it out to be some sort of life changing experience...and it was not. Regarding SE7EN being imitated...I think sometimes being influential like that works against a film. People see it later and the very thing that made it so great at first has been imitated and in some cases taken much further. The original ends up looking lukewarm...I think it's one of the dangers of being too stylish.Some movies of course are the first and best regardless of imitators or changing fashion.
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...wish it was on dvd, but you can oly get a pan and scan bootleg. It didn't have a lot of gore or murders like a lot of 70's occult films(though it did have a couple) but had a pretty fair amount of nudity and was genuinely creepy as the guy kept seeing things that he had previously only saw in his dreams. But I still hope they make this if for no other reason than we may finally get a decent dvd of the original(the only good thing about The Stepfather remake.)
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That's some creative anachronism right there...
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...what I took for "Lennon" glasses were Civil War period round metal glasses...the 'stache was as long as he could get away with at work, then he would quickly let it grow out as long as possible for the proper look before "events". It was all in service of the cause.
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Funny, though, that a long mustache was verbotin at work, but not the Hitler look...
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...and would be completely indignant. I envied his complete obliviousness. A real life Royal Tenenbaum.
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Speaking of Michael Sazzarin, anyone remember "Harry In Your Pocket," with James Coburn? Loved that movie...
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...even though I figured out the ID of the final victim as soon as Richard Roundtree said that they were "as yet unidentified." The movie remains an achievement in style, atmosphere, and action (the chase through the building is absolutely thrilling).
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Whatever happened to Sazzarin? He still works, but barely...
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...much to everyone's disappointment.
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By all means, share. I just went off thinking about old Sazzarin movies and wondered about the guy...
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anything Fincher touches will get my money, but god dammit... quit dicking around and start working on that adaptation of charles burns's "black hole." now!
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Zodiac was incredible but Button was an Oscar-seeking bloated mess.
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And I thought he should get another movie made by someone who's not afraid to stand by some dark material and not get it rewritten. So I guess I'm happy.
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Nov 09, 2009 3:11:37 PM CST
...I liked BUTTON. I think it probably isn't a very good...
by flickapoo
...movie, and I won't see it again for a long time.I liked watching it though. It was all prologue and epilogue with no movie in between.
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...The Reincarnation Of Peter Proud a few weeks ago and thought it was a pretty decent movie, but I'm a sucker for 70's mystery/thriller/horror flicks.
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Nov 09, 2009 3:56:11 PM CST
There better be A HEAD IN A BOX at the end of the Facebook movie
by snakecharmer
otherwise, I don't get why he's doing it.
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and so glad I saw them on the big screen before the deluge of rip-offs. Two stunning cinema experiences, in my opinion
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Fincher is one of the best directors alive and Walker's got the goods. I can't wait for this shit. Se7en is an unreal movie. Such an amazing neo-noir. Holds up today as well as it did in '95. Fucking stoked for this movie.
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'How' did you watch TROPP?
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...for me, because it was the last movie I ever rented from an old mom-and-pop video store. Not a big chain like Blockbuster, but the one in the strip mall with the tanning booths in the back (and also rented furniture and you could smoke inside) and had that amazing maze of middle aisles stuffed full of 80's VHS crap-horror with all of the cool box covers of either half naked, bloody teenagers or something really gory and disgusting (or both). They always had those nearly incomprehensible plot summaries on the back because they would outsource that shit to Korea or somewhere. I remember my dad rented The Toxic Avenger for me and a friend when we were like 9 years old b/c the plot summary said something like "family fun" and "all American hero" or whatever, and he got pissed off and returned it after watching the first five minutes with us. Anyway...Se7en was the last film I rented there because I remember when I went to return it, there was a big cardboard box out front that read "Returns" on the front, and was filled with VHS tapes in those old clear plastic boxes. No one was there, and I suppose I could've just kept the damn thing, but I didn't, and renting movies has never been the same :(
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I admittedly don't have much evidence to substantiate these claims, and only have Wiki and IMDb pages to back me up, but another reason Fincher is great is (besides being a great filmmaker) because of his defiance to studio heads that try to excise content from his films. I liked that him, Pitt, and Freeman wanted the ending to remain as is in Se7en (amazing ending to one of the best films of all time) in addition to Fincher keeping most of his Fight Club content that Fox tried to eliminate. He learned from his terrible experience on Aliens3.
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If this pair is gonna team up again, THAT needs to be the target acquired. Walker can adapt my novella, as I cannot write a proper screenplay for shit.It's a ruminative discourse about a man's quest for inner peace using the respective behaviors of the Three Stooges as a template. Our main character (let's call him Frank) begins in the Larry Phase as a prototypical dweeb: socially inept, downtrodden, plagued by an endless string of bad-hair days. He's frustrated, and that morphs into anger, bitterness, and mild sadism (the Moe Phase). After serving 18 months in prison for excessive bitchslapping (this part will be a montage, because obviously they can't make a movie 18 months long that dwells on every moment of imprisonment. Duh!), he makes a pilgimage to the Gobi Desert where he befriends a cross-eyed camel named Steve and opens a Sno-Cone stand. Eventually he realizes he's having no fun whatsoever, and that his life should be the unrelenting pursuit of fun, no matter how irresponsible or haphazard it may be (here begins the Curly Phase). He finds happiness as a chucklehead and all seems well, but the movie ends omniously with a tracking shot of a girl with Tourette's Syndrome juggling three dead kittens.My one concern is that Fincher would have a kneejerk reaction and tap Brad Pitt for the role of Frank (seeing as how Pitt has covered similar territory in Seven Years In Tibet and Benjamin Button). I'm hoping he casts either Skeet Ulrich or Balthazar Getty, and either Bob Goldthwait or Shaq as the camel Steve.Anyway, once the ink's dry on the contract, it's out of my hands.
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But I'd rather see him take a stab at Rendez-vous with Rama, Black Hole, or Torso first. And Benjamin Button was arguably his worst movie. A big, empty shell of a film, handsomely mounted and technically superb, but also with nothing to say. There WAS a great movie buried in the subject matter of Button, but it certainly wasn't in evidence in Fincher's version. The last act was a complete cop-out, both on a technical (fincher - "we ran out of money") and controversial thematic level. Forrest Gump was a better movie, and I'm not joking.Actually, at one time Fincher WAS planning a pseudo-sequel to Seven. It was an early version of 8mm, about snuff tapes, and would have had Morgan Freeman reprise his role as Detective Somerset. Thought that would have been pretty cool - Freeman's character as the only constant or link to Seven, pessimistically wandering the earth and investigating all these dark subcultures. Instead we got the Joel Schumacher abomination with Nic Cage over-acting and snuff movie producers as cod-Batman villains. Batman and Robin for the S&M crowd! (er, wait, wasn't that just Batman and Robin anyway - rubber nipples and cod pieces?)
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Nov 09, 2009 4:45:42 PM CST
In before lockesbrokenleg posts something dumb
by liesandpicturesofalsolies
also hooray for good screenwriters
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funny story about the Toxic Avenger. my parents used to rent videos from a similarly low-rent movie chain(with the ultimate in generic names: "Movie Time") that also had incredibly vague plot summaries. thats how I got to see "Troll" and "Leprechaun" at an extremely young age. my sister was scarred; i was ushered into a life-long phase of loving shitty scary movies. thanks movie time!
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Seven was great. I liked 3/4 of Fight Club(the end? uhh..its all in his head and he shoots himself and LIVES?????)The Anarchy was sweet. Everything else..meh. Plus could he be any gayer for Brad Pit? To much George Micheal and Madonna elbow rubbing I guess.
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...but it sure smells good!
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Nov 09, 2009 6:37:40 PM CST
this is aint it Lame news! FOXY BROWN HAS BEEN CAST AS AMANDA WA
by superwelling
PAM GREIR AS AMANDA WALLER HELL YEAH NOW THATS COOL NEWS!! http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/11/09/exclusive-smallville-lands-pam-grier/
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I surely do remember "Harry in Your Pocket"! Sarrazin taping bills back together after Coburn tore up his share of the take for fucking up. "Harry NEVER holds."
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...and The Eskimo's "amazing maze of middle aisles". Man, that SCREW BALLS video box illustration whispered my name...you'd try to look at it out of the corner of your eye without your dad noticing...I didn't know exactly what it was I wanted from girls, but it involved what was happening on that movie box.Then of course there was the doorway to that back curtained off room...pulsing with a hypnotic hellfire glow that everyone pretended not to notice...The old couple that ran the store seemed so nice and normal...I always wondered what it would be like to go back there and re-arrange cassettes as part of your job...
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LOVE!
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People keep bitching about all these movies that ripped them off. I am not suggesting that this is not the case, only that no examples come to my mind. Please give some.
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rachel Mcadams as blackCat in Spidey 4 HELL YEAH!! http://www.mania.com/spiderman-4-villain-revealed_article_118760.html
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...but another cool thing about those "middle aisles" in the movies stores (even back then most people went for the New Release rack first except fledgling future movie geeks like myself- and probably most of you guys) was that we were the majority of the demographich who first discovered (what is now) Mixed Martial Arts. I remember begging my folks to rent the Ulitmate Fighting Championship (or whatever it was called then), and them finally relenting, and me seeing a young Hoyce Gracie's knee destroy the face of some burly Irish guys in wresteling trunks. That was the coolest shit ever! And now I don't even watch UFC unless I'm just flipping around. (That was also how I saw all the Wrestlemania's since most pople in my town didn't have cable or pay-per-view capability unless you had a sattelite dish in your yard the size of a pick-up truck.)
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It may be about a social network that annoys the living shit out of me and maybe a lot of you. But the STORY of how it came about (essentially horny college guys rating chicks on campus with a web site) has got a lot of potential for humour, controversy and drama. I mean, I HATE most of what Hearst has done with the media over the decades, but Citizen Kane is still one of the best films of all time. You don't have to LIKE the subject for the film to be amazing. The difference is that CK was based (not very) loosely on Hearst. Odd to think that a loose adaptation of reality may be closer to reality than something based on what really happened using all the names, places, etc. But it could be the case, since the Facebook boys may actually have a say in the way the story is told. I still trust that it's going to at least be a very entertaining look at how a couple of horny geeks earned millions and turned something pretty close to cringe-worthy into something close to respectable. But I still hate Facebook. Where privacy goes to die. Trying to avoid an ex? Log in to Facebook, where they just pop back into your life through some odd association with a guy you met once who just added you. *cringe*
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Are you dream about something? It's human nature to want a quality member! Build a home for your youth in(Sugarloves-com) which the best club for seeking rich!
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...obsessive scrap booker and collage artist. These serial killer motherfuckers must spend all of their money at Micheal's Discount Arts and Crafts. I wouldn't want to have their glue stick, exacto knife, spray mount, and acid-free artist's tape bill. I don't know if SE7EN was the very first, but it was the epicenter. After SE7EN all serial killers are bookish performance artists trying to send some sort of coded message to society too. At this point, if a movie involving a killer has an obsessive wall of photographs or scribbling I turn it right the fuck off. And god forbid an evil collage of doom or photographs with the eyes scratched out.
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CALL OF DUTY
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What hope has hollywood got?
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SNOW CRASH, SNOW CRASH, SNOW CRASH! what is wrong with you, hollywood? INFERNAL ANGEL! DEMONS! ETC, ETC, ETC! check out some of my stuff; hell, you throw money at garbage every day, i sure as hell couldn't be a worse bet. HARRY IN YOUR POCKET - saw that in a theater. now that it's been brought up, it will go in the remake queue, too
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...that all the serial killers in films (and TV- see every other episode of law and order, for instance) all have these annoyingly convenient shrines or some sort of obsessive compulsive disorder that prompts then to create some sort of fucked up homage to their victims in their lair or at the crime scene. And it's always a "big reveal" when the detectives stumble on it like we didn't see it coming a mile away. That was cool when Se7en (granted it wasn 't really the "first" do do this; but it was one of the first films that did it to arguably the best effect) but now it's just cliche. The scariest killer plots are the one where a seemingly normal person kills just because they love kiling so much. That's what made American Psycho so great...it didn't fit the mold, and even though it was a comedy of sorts, was still also terrifying to think that the character played by Lord Bale (whatever happened to DGDB anyway?) could be the same guy you share coffee with in the office breakroom...that you would never never know the monster that he really was.
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Maybe he can help Julie Benz out of doing punisher reboots and boondock saints sequels. Not that there's anything wrong with that, Darla Gotta Eat, right? Waiting for punisher war zone to hit the bargain bin, and the 1st boondocks saints bluray is on sale but I don't know if I wanna support a director who's had his primadonna ways be the subject of a documentary.
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Well, you're not only wrong, you're wrong by a few hundred million. Currently, Facebook has over 175 MILLION users and is growing at a rate of about 600 thousand a DAY. That's not a poll result, it's not a study, it's the factual numbers. If that is "no one", as you say, you have a precarious grip on reality. But with a name like yours, I guess maybe that's expected? Unless you're just a Duvall fan, in which case I'll apologize in advance. It's nothing personal, I just think that when you make broad statements like that, you should try to have at least one foot in reality. There are levels of wrongness, and then there's the basement. It floods once a year down there, would you like a bucket? Am I not merciful?
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Please.
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Seven is perfect.
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Nov 10, 2009 6:29:35 AM CST
The FACEBOOK movie will be AWESOME, bitches!
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
According to Jettl93....Christian Bale stars as a Mafia Boss who, after surviving an attack by Werewolves and Vampires, discovers that someone has been super-poking his girlfriend. That someone is none other than some dude he's never met who has been harrassing him to become his 'friend' because he doesn't have enough friends. After his Energy has recharged, Bale goes out to kick the asses of the vampires, the werewolves and the mysterious dude (who, scarily enough, nobody can describe as he appears as a cartoon avatar in all of his photos). To discover the man's identity, Bale has to discover the fabled FACE BOOK which shows a picture of everyone who has ever lived.
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I actually like it. I've been going through and watching the Alien movies in sequence (I've got the big Alien Quadrillogy box set thingy). Now I will admit the dialogue and CGI in the movie is pretty terrible, but the overall look is pretty cool. I remeber kind of liking s7e7e7n also but I hated the ending. Sorry, I wanted sunshine and rainbows.
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what was it about? Hollywood movie stars telling me to be less materialistic? 'Do as I say not as I do' that sort of thing?
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Then the circle will be complete.
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As much as I do appreciate 70s style thrillers (The Conversation is my fave Hackman thriller from that era), I have not yet seen Night Moves. Many have let me know that's a real problem. Should rent it one of these days.
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I can't even express how disapointed i was with that movie. It was Forest Gump Part II: Gump Harder. I can't even believe that i actually got to be disapointed with a Fincher movie, it's beyond belief. But there is it. I was as disapointed with Benjamin Button was i was amazed and pleased with Zodiac, and that's a lot, baby! They don't even look like they were made by the same director, which i guess is kinda the point, but still...Somebody needs to remind Fincher that he really don't need that oscar so much, so please no more oscar bait movie,s it's not your style. If it will ever happen, it will happen. Look at No country for old Men, on eof the coen's most uncompromising movies, and look what happened. David Fincher, Sir, please, no more oscar baits, pretty please with sugar on top.
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until he made Seven and Twelve Monkeys, and my opinion of him turned 180 degrees (not 360º or else that would be a complete circle and i would return to where i started from - so i learned by watching Last Action Hero).
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Again i find myself in complete agreement with you.
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Nov 10, 2009 10:25:17 PM CST
Is is just me or is that title exactly like Benjamin Button
by glory_fades_immaxfischer
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The alien was a puppet or a guy in a suit except for one shot!
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I guess you've never heard of Kurosawa's Rashomon eh? Although I guess in the lineup (haw!) of Rashomon remakes, it was better than most.
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"There better be A HEAD IN A BOX at the end of the Facebook movie.."
You may have caused me my first real LOL I've gotten from years reading here. I definitely went beyond snickering.
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