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2010 Preview Part 2! Comedy, Horror and Comic Book flicks!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with the next 2010 preview list. Yes, I’ve already overlooked some movies, as was pointed out in the last talkback. RED DAWN will make the next installment, hitting tomorrow, which features action flicks.
If you see something missing let me know. I’ve intentionally not included movies that look horrid to me, but I am human and do fuck up a lot, so I’m always open to suggestion.
Today’s 2010 preview covers Horror, Comedy and (non-sequel) Comic Book movies. There’s not much horror on this list as I’m taking some of the bigger entries done by the masters and putting them on the final 2010 list, which will cover Awesome Directors and span all genres. Also horror as a genre is open to low budget surprises as the year progresses.
Let’s get started!
Click here to read AICN’s 2010 Preview, Part 1: Remakes, Reboots and Sequels!
THE BEAVER (Late 2010)
2010 not only (hopefully) marks Mel Gibson’s return to badassitude (with EDGE OF DARKNESS, coming soon to the 2010 preview list), it also marks his return to comedy. People forget how good Gibson is at the funny and if it turns out right this project is going to blow people’s minds. It’s a dark dark comedy about a family man who loses everything. No therapy or medication can help him, but one day he finds a beat up beaver hand puppet and he starts using it to talk through. It allows him to be the man he wants to be and oddly enough starts putting him on the right track. Jodie Foster directs and stars as Gibson’s frustrated wife, Anton Yelchin stars as his embarrassed son and Kyle Killen (Austin represent!) delivered a script that feels like it came from the same crazy creative pool that Charlie Kaufman fishes from.
PAUL (TBD 2010)
Greg Mottola follows up his great coming of age tale, ADVENTURELAND, with this comedy co-written by and starring the dynamic duo of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. The flick is about two British comic book geeks traveling cross-country who encounter an alien named Paul just outside of Area 51. An alien roadtrip movie with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and Seth Rogen as the voice of the alien? Sure. Add in appearances by Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Jeffrey Tambor, Jason Bateman, Jane Lynch, Sigourney Weaver, John Carroll Lynch, David Koechner and Blythe Danner and you have a must see.
DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS (July 23, 2010)
This should have been in the first article on remakes, reboots and sequels because Jay Roach’s comedy DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS is a remake of a French farce THE DINNER GAME by Francis Veber. If I’m going to be perfectly honest I totally forgot it was a remake until I got to the title here, having already put it in the “comedy” category. The original is about a weekly dinner held by an elite group of snobby friends. Each week one of them brings the stupidest person they can find as their guest, encouraging the guest to talk as much as possible at his or her own expense. The remake has a great cast including Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Zach Galifianakis, Ron Livingston and Bruce Greenwood to name a few.
THE OTHER GUYS (August 6, 2010)
ANCHORMAN’s Adam McKay directs Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg as two cops always overshadowed by the flashy duo of Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson. It sounds to me like a story about the other cops in a Lethal Weapon movie, which could be really funny. And it’s got a great cast. The movie also features Michael Keaton, Eva Mendes, Steve Coogan, Rob Riggle, Paris Hilton (?!), Derek Jeter (?!?!) and one of my favorite working comic actors: Craig Robinson.
GET HIM TO THE GREEK (June 4, 2010)
This one is also a quasi-sequel to FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL, but it seems more in the vein of a Leone spaghetti western where we follow one character over and the rest of the movie is populated by the same actors playing different parts than they did in the first one. The flick’s about a record company intern (Jonah Hill) charged with escorting notorious British rocker Aldous Snow (Russell Brand) from the UK to LA for the first show of his $100 million concert series. Of course if you saw Sarah Marshall you know what a character Aldous Snow is, so it has a kind of MIDNIGHT RUN vibe. Directed by Sarah Marshall’s Nicholas Stoller and produced by Judd Apatow.
YOUR HIGHNESS (October 1, 2010)
I’ve had the pleasure of visiting this set and if it comes together it’s going to be the craziest, wildest most out there studio movie of the year. Danny McBride and Ben Best co-wrote this screenplay (to give you an idea of the style of comedy, they also collaborated on the great EASTBOUND AND DOWN) as a love letter to the ‘70s and ‘80s fantasy they grew up on. Directed by David Gordon Green the film stars McBride as a lazy Prince living in the shadow of his pure-hearted, do-gooding brother (James Franco). Natalie Portman plays a warrior woman (and super hot, too… but I can say no more!), Zooey Deschanel plays a sought-after damsel in distress, Charles Dance plays the King and Justin Theroux is going for the Robert Downey Jr. Award for “most memorable crazy, but damn does it work performance”. Can’t wait to see this one come together. From what I’ve seen it’ll be vulgar, hilarious and nostalgic. A great three-fer.
HOT TUB TIME MACHINE (March 19, 2010)
The R-rated comedy is still in full effect, thank the movie gods, and this year sees John Cusack’s return to good comedy (if you don’t count 2012) in HOT TUB TIME MACHINE about four friends who invent a time machine that takes them back to the ‘80s. The main four are all very talented comedy actors… Cusack, Clark Duke, Rob Corddry and, once more, my personal favorite, Craig Robinson. But also in this cast are Crispin Glover (returning to the time travel genre!!!!!!!) and Chevy Chase (!!!).
COP OUT (February 26, 2010)
Yeah, the trailer makes it look kinda bland, but I have it on good authority that the script for Kevin Smith’s newest flick is hilarious. I think Tracy Morgan and Seann William Scott are really funny cats and what can I say? I love HUDSON HAWK, so Bruce Willis in a comedy has my money.
I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS (March 26, 2010)
I’ve wanted to see this since I heard word coming out of Sundance last year. It’s a comedy about Jim Carrey falling in love with Ewan McGregor in jail. See the below trailer.
CEMETERY JUNCTION (US TBD 2010, UK April 7, 2010)
Ricky Gervais has had a bit of a rocky run with his US film appearances. I know there’s been a bit of a backlash against him, but all you have to do is watch one episode of the UK OFFICE and you’re assured this dude knows his shit. Especially when teamed with Stephen Merchant. This is their first feature film together and from what I understand it’s more of a drama. When I interviewed Gervais and Merchant about this film they name-checked Saturday Night Fever as more the tonal template of this film. Set in the ‘70s it’s about three young guys who start to work for a Gordon Gekko type (Ralph Fiennes) at an insurance company. I know this one’s high on my own personal list of flicks hitting screens this year.
DUE DATE (November 5, 2010)
Todd Phillips’ follow-up to his mega-hit THE HANGOVER will be DUE DATE, which could very well be funnier. The movie pairs Robert Downey Jr. with Zach Galifianakis as a high-strung man forced to hitch a ride with a slacker in order to make it to the birth of his first kid on time. If GET HIM TO THE GREEK feels a bit like MIDNIGHT RUN this film has the air of PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES. I just can’t wait to see Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis bounce off of each other. A road trip movie starring those two can’t be anything but great. Also in the cast is the lovely Michelle Monaghan, RZA, Jamie Foxx, Juliette Lewis and the great Alan Arkin.
DAYBREAKERS (January 8, 2010)
I saw this film at Fantastic Fest and can vouch for it. The real success of The Spierig’s futuristic vampire tale is how it balances realism with fantasy. You get the feeling watching this film that this is how it’d be. It’s not a supernatural soap opera (sorry True Blooders and Twi-Hards), but an honest (and entertaining) look at the consequences of a planet run by vampires. They keep their human traits, good and evil, and adapt to the new world. It’s a sharp flick, a fun flick and Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill kill it.
FROZEN (February 5, 2010)
I’ve seen this movie and the below trailer doesn’t do it justice. No offense to the marketing team, but that preview only serves as a way of getting the story across and it feels cheesy without any hint of the well-done character work from Adam Green, who takes a giant step forward from his fun, but cheesy callback to ‘80s exploitation HATCHET. Shawn Ashmore, Kevin Zegers and Emma Bell are great as three people left behind on a ski lift as a storm winds its way in. It’s a smart, low budget flick having its official premiere at Sundance.
SEASON OF THE WITCH (March 19, 2010)
More Nicolas Cage! In a period horror movie! As a knight escorting a witch! I think this movie is going to be what they call fucking awesome in some circles. Co-starring Ron Perlman and Christopher Lee. Christopher. Lee. As a Cardinal, no less. If you remember his awesome turn as Rochefort in the ‘70s Three Musketeers movies then you know why that’s so cool.
LEGION (January 22, 2010)
While not a particularly religious man I love religious iconography and mythology imbued in horror movies. Demonic possession, pissed off angels… yeah, that’s up my alley. My hope is that Scott Stewart’s film, Legion, is small enough to be particularly brutal and fucked up, but big enough to have a lot of action, gore and fun. Paul Bettany is an angel (Michael) who descends to protect a small group of people holed up in a diner as the apocalypse begins. In that small group is a woman pregnant with mankind’s last chance at redemption. The flick also stars the great Doug Jones, Dennis Quaid, Kevin Durand, Lucas Black, Tyrese Gibson and Adrianne Palicki.
PRIEST (August 27, 2010)
Keeping the Scott Stewart and Paul Bettany connection going, let’s dip into our first comic book film on the list: PRIEST. Based on the graphic novel by Min-Woo Hyung Bettany plays a priest who breaks from the church to hunt down the vampires that kidnapped his niece. The cast is rounded out by Alan Dale (Charles Widmore himself), Cam Gigandet, Maggie Q, Karl Urban and the great Christopher Plummer.
KICK-ASS (April 16, 2010)
Yes, it’s as good as I said it was. A smart, fun deconstruction of the super hero myth that somehow also plays as a great super hero movie itself. It’s also fitting this film kicks off the 2010 preview as Nicolas Cage will feature pretty prominently in the line-up, thank God. He’s awesome in this movie as are Aaron Johnson, Chris Mintz-Plasse, Mark Strong and, of course, Chloe Moretz.
JONAH HEX (June 18, 2010)
A revenge western with a supernatural twist starring a scarred up Josh Brolin, a corseted Megan Fox, Will Arnett, John Malkovich and Michael Shannon, Jonah Hex is based on a well known DC anti-hero. I saw some footage from the movie at Comic-Con and it looked good. Lots of talent in front of the camera that will hopefully deliver a super fun movie… Or it’ll be WILD WILD WEST minus a giant mechanical spider, but plus dudes puking up crows.
THE LOSERS (April 9, 2010)
Based on the comic by Andy Diggle and Jock, THE LOSERS promises to be a return to the tough, machismo men (and women) on a mission movie about a group of Black Ops soldiers who are betrayed and left for dead. They survive, of course, and plot their revenge on the people responsible. The comics end on a dour note and from what I found out on my set visit this first film doesn’t cover all the graphic novels out there, so it could be a franchise if successful. Zoe Saldana, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chris Evans, Idris Elba, Columbus Short and Oscar Jaenada round out the team seeking revenge and Jason Patric plays the mysterious heavy.
SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (TBD 2010)
Near the tippy top of my most anticipated films of 2010 is Edgar Wright’s next film, an adaptation of the super fun comic series by Bryan Lee O’Malley about a twenty-something that must battle and defeat the 7 evil ex-boyfriends of his dream girl. One of the best times I had on a set last year was this on. Granted, Edgar and I go back a few years, but the overall scope of what he’s doing here… well, let’s just say it’s an ambitious, crazy-ass project that if done right will be a classic, but if done wrong will be a trainwreck. Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Anna Kendrick, Alison Pill, Mark Webber, Johnny Simmons and Ellen Wong round out the core group with the evil ex-boyfriends including Chris Evans, Brandon Routh and Jason Schwartzman as the big baddie, Gideon.
That wraps up Part 2. Now it looks like there’ll be 4 total 2010 Preview articles. Tomorrow brings Drama, Action, Fantasy and Animation!
-Quint
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THE BEAVER (Late 2010)
PAUL (TBD 2010)
DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS (July 23, 2010)
THE OTHER GUYS (August 6, 2010)
GET HIM TO THE GREEK (June 4, 2010)
YOUR HIGHNESS (October 1, 2010)
HOT TUB TIME MACHINE (March 19, 2010)
COP OUT (February 26, 2010)
I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS (March 26, 2010)
CEMETERY JUNCTION (US TBD 2010, UK April 7, 2010)
DUE DATE (November 5, 2010)
DAYBREAKERS (January 8, 2010)
FROZEN (February 5, 2010)
SEASON OF THE WITCH (March 19, 2010)
LEGION (January 22, 2010)
PRIEST (August 27, 2010)
KICK-ASS (April 16, 2010)
JONAH HEX (June 18, 2010)
THE LOSERS (April 9, 2010)
SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (TBD 2010)
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man that looks really really terrible...more than the rest.
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Lots of interesting stuff there, but your optimism on some of these titles is questionable to me. However, I admire your positive vibe. Makes you like the Paula Abdul of movie preview articles.
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Jim Carrey, as much as I love the man, I'll be skipping that one. You know the one!
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The Beaver just shot up my must-see list. I loves me some crazy-Gibbo.
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If a friend downloaded this lot asked "what do you want to watch", I think my answer would be "TV". And to think the industry wants for films of this quality to all be 3D one day! I just don't understand the appeal of most of these, especially any with Mel Gibson. I'm looking forward to Ricky Gervais' Hollywood career to completely dry up. Not because I don't like him, I do, but he's far better off when he writing, working and staring in British TV programmes. As for Russell Brand I couldn't be more thankful he's developing a careeer in American movies... keeps him away from British TV and radio. Will any of these films be remembered by the time you wake up the next day from seeing them?
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...actually looks kinda cool. When I read the synopsis, my first thought that this was Nic Cage has to protect girl with powers from evil forces type thing. The trailer gave away a bit much though.
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Rock that creepy beaver idea!
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I have never wanted to see a trailer for a movie this bad in a long time. I hope it lives up to the hype.
Nice to hear that the script for Cop Out was better than the trailer. It played to a full house in front of Sherlock Holmes and maybe got one tiny chuckle from the crowd.
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"Losers" will win an A in team! "Daybreakers" is truer blood than new moon! "Kick Ass" shall! Natalie Portman is mine and "Your Highness"! "Paul" really is the best beatle! "Season Of The Witch" may not be a bitch!
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But those are the flicks that are sounding really intriguing to me.
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She and Taylor Kitsch are my fave parts of Friday Night Lights. I'm curious to see more of her charaqter in Legion, who is supposedly the mother of the second coming of Christ. Or maybe there's a twist and she's not it? Bettany looks to like he's gonna really roq in that fliq, too.
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I really hope this movie is one of those Office Space-type movies thats really funny but has a crappy trailer, cause there were crickets chirping after they showed it to a packed house on Christmas day.
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Jan 04, 2010 12:34:42 AM CST
at first I thought that Ricky Gervais in the pic above was......
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Ray Stevenson. Man I got Punisher War Zone on the brain.
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And I don't curse too awful much 'round these parts. Really excited for that one. As is often said in these talkbacks, I think that's one that could surprise people. I really, REALLY enjoyed the first five Scott Pilgrim graphic novels after the folks in these talkbacks convinced me to read them. But! I really, REALLY think Michael Cera is a TERRRRRIIIIBBLLLE!!!!! choice to play the lead (and is really getting on my nerves lately - he's just himself in every role). Also read in these talkbacks that he may be part of why they're getting made, though. So, meh. Whatever. Not sure I'll see this one in the theater yet.Jonah Hex..... I mean, Jonah Hex? Really? Nobody could come up with any better comic book property than this to adapt for the big screen. Because I can think of, oooooh, A THOUSAND OF THEM! without even trying very hard. Been diggin' Brolin lately, though. And Malkovich is the man. This is a definite maybe for theater viewing. I'll check out Cop Out in the theater because I'm one of those people who helps every Kevin Smith movie make $20-30 during it's theatrical run. No, really, I'm looking forward to seeing that one.The last trailer posted here for Hot Tub Time Machine was so ridiculous that I laughed repeatedly. My fear is that those are all the beats I would laugh at if I paid to see it in the theater. Still a maybe.Everything else on this rather large list is still a maybe or an outright no for me. I don't pay to see Jim Carey movies anymore - they all feel the same. I wasn't all that impressed by most of the "next film by..." entries, so those will have to wait for good word of mouth. I want, for sure! to be excited about a Galifanakis and RDJ movie, but for some reason, I'm just not. The Beaver, I hope is great, but it's just not "my kinda movie" unless the aforementioned word of mouth convinces me otherwise. Soooo, that's six from the first entry, one for sure and three maybes from this entry; I'm up to 7 in the theater for sure and three maybes this year.
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....it reminds me far too much of Cage in The Wicker Man. And I was permanently scared by that mess. So while I want to be excited for this, I'm just, ya know, not.
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Shouldn't Legion have been listed as a remake? It looks startlingly like The Prophecy minus Christopher Walken as Gabriel.
Any reason this isn't being pegged as a remake?
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Except of course as the mental patient he should be in real life. And that stupid Russell Brand movie was once called "My Favorite Year." Another question: why is Ethan Hawke still working? He's an unwashed horde!
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Fuckin hell I love me Mel. The crazy thing is I'm jewish. Wait...I guess that just makes me the classic self-loather. The anti-semetic cunt can drunken rant as much as he wants as long as he keeps making films like Apocalypto. It's like my urology doc, he's a piece of shit as a human, but the best at what he does. He can be as arrogant and aloof as he likes so long as my bladder stays healthy....
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For shame Quint, for shame.And I have a feeling that Jonah Hex and The Losers are both going to surprise, hope so anyway. In particular I think The Losers has the potential to give us what The A-Team probably won't manage, a quality, gritty, vioent and anarchic 'betrayed men on a mission' flick. Jonah Hex looks good, but I still wish they hadn't toned the Hex make up down so much...his facial scarring just isn't extreme enough for my tastes.
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Looks like 2010 is going to be filled with a bunch of comedy, horror, and comic book flicks. Hollywood is dead.
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....might turn out out to be this years hot merchandise ticket if this hits big....Speaking of hitting big, since 'Avatar' has passed the billion dollar mark after only 17 days(!)....a certain Mr. Cameron must be feeling mighty satisfied....
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I was one of the 10 people in the theater when this played at AFM. It's a cool flick, but it's somewhat... underwhelming. Still worth the watch - not much big adult fantasy anymore, so I'll take what I can get.
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and I didn't like the Cop Out trailer, but I gotta love the fact you tick up for HUDSON HAWK Quint, I just love that movie. Back to Cop Out though, I have friends that see Kevin Smith's name on something or know what he's doing and think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread and they don't believe it when I say I didn't find the trailer funny...of course they didn't like Evil Dead or Evil Dead 2 so I'm beginning to question their taste
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...and check out Dark Horizon's 8-part 2010 movie list. it has some other types of films on it besides, you know, the kind you mentioned. NTTAWWT.
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I was just riffing on talkbackers from Quint's first part of the preview list.
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I picked up the graphic novel series after hearing Edgar Wright would be directing and fell in love and have crazy high expectations for it. Also where can I get my hands on the Scott Pilgrim poster, if in fact that was a real poster, you had on there.
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My Sarcast-o-Meter didn't pick that up.
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Errr, not sure which poster you're referring to. But the guy that does Scott Pilgrim had a poster for sale on his website (at least at one time he did), if memory serves. But really, you're excited to see Cera as Scott Pilgrim? Because I'm really not.
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For a second when I saw the Priest name, I thought Preacher... for some strange reason I know about the comic movies coming out, instead of the comedies (which I actually look forward to more)>
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...would most definitely be on my list of must sees, and would for sure be one of those thousand comic books I would have gone after before Jonah Hex. Mage or Grendel, anything Neil Gaiman, how about a bug-fuckin' crazy Transmetropolitan (or any other bug-fuckin' crazy Ellis adaptation)? Meh, tired. So many other interesting choices out there. But, a) the studios aren't looking there, and b) the big two are basically their own studios now, and they're (obviously) only going to look at their own properties.
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Looks about as wrong as a film can possibly be.
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when his wife is about to take half of everything he owns for getting his girlfriend pregnant is what could be described as unfortunate timing...
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Man I'm genuinely looking forward to that one. Merely reading the concept got me laughing my ass off.
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...trailers? FUCKING EMBARASSING
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Boy, didn't that title sound odd. Anyway, Mel Gibson's beaver movie sounds like the original plot behind the UPN sitcom "Unhappily Ever After" (before the show switched focus to Nikki Cox's developing body) except with a beaver puppet instead of a rabbit puppet.
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Yeah, like how Toy Story was like Childs Play.
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A lot of those comedies look potentially very good...will have to wait to hear reviews first to find out...but the comedies of this year look better than the blockbusters.
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...I'd have to disagree. He's hit and miss, but he still delivers good films...one I'm looking forward to is "Brooklyn's Finest" coming out this March...
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Reckon Cage gets to punch a chick again?
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Quint, would it have killed you to put these in order of release? What kind of sense does it make to list upcoming releases in alphabetical order?
This site sucks nowadays. And, yes, you fucking inevitable haters, I still come here to bitch and moan about it.
There was an old Inside Edition episode (you can find it on YouTube) where they did a piece on Harry. In the piece, Ebert was interviewed and cautioned that should Harry succumb to the seductions of the studios, the site would lose its essence, its power, and its purpose.
Harry sold out and that's exactly what happened.
Now, we're left with his shit-for-brains baby cousin running the show, who, incidentally, is only capable of fluff piece interviews and these bullshit lists.
There is nary an advanced review or spy report to be found on this website anymore. Just upcoming DVD lists, best of lists, and upcoming releases lists.
Site name should be: www.fuckinglists.com
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DC has the rights to almost every neil Gaiman thing that was great(SANDMAN, PLEASE WARNERS???), Preacher and Transmet. Not to mention 100 Bullets, of Hellblazer (come on, Constantine needs a real movie based on the books, not that stupid reeves vehicle). These are all Vertigo titles and Vertigo is the DC Comics imprint, so I really don't think it would be to hard for them to do that...
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I want a 7 Part Sandman movie franchise, which stays very close to the books, filmed by Guillermo del Toro. Yes, I like.
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Your highness and Losers could be possibilities.
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Would much prefer to see Preacher Y The Last Man and Transmetropolitan made into shows on AMC/HBO.
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Seaon of the Witch - an early prediction for bottom 10 of the ye
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With Kick-Ass - we will get ok Cage, with Season of the Witch we will get - "Needs to pay his lawyers" Cage
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....in the genre of comedy for 2010 that is. Honestly the rest sound like shite.
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Firstly a rant when your drunk should never be held against you,love ya Mad Mel and your beaver.2010 is looking shit hot and a big improvement over 09.I notice a lot of the fish in your talkback bowl talk big can they do it in the real world,curse worlds only have any power when you know when and how to use em.
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with the team that is behind it, The Beaver, apart from the childish but amusing jokes about Mel Gibson being in Jodie Foster's Beaver, can't say I am overly interested, but will be one to watch out for and see how it goes down
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use sub manson kiddie industrial music when it set in the olden times !!!!
it's the wicker man part 2 !!!!!
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also it should be interesting seeing Jodie Foster's debut directing job. You got to give it to Mel Gibson. Unlike Harrison Ford, this man takes risks. He could easily just be in another Mad Max (which we all want him to be) and make some easy money.
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Fuck that no talent Russell Brand cunt. Kenny Everett wants his act back.
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that were forgettable. But this is her coming back behind the camera after such a long time. In a project that sounds entertaining. I'm excited, Mel Gibson can be immensely funny when he wants to be.
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Note for future sci-fi movies set your sci-fi movie really far in the futute, we aren't going to Jupiter and sorry Zemeckis the Hoverboard isn't looking like a good chance in 5 years time, and also don't like my chance of getting a hot replicant before 2019.
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Bad, unnatural lighting...corny dialogue...nu metal music with music video style editing...it looks like shit catering to the goth and fantasy crowd.
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And I think most decent artists need to be a little crazy to be interesting and taking on interesting and challenging projects. RDJ is another good example. Surely its this craziness, being in an unreal world that also means they are far more likely to do other stupid things as well.
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FLOCKA!!!
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And so here we have yet another film that perpetuates the lie, written by some idiot who doesn't have a fucking clue what witchcraft actually is. Yes, it's just a crappy looking movie, but movies have power, especially when spoon fed to the brain dead masses who have already been brainwashed by organised religion. I truly despise films like this. They create hate and misunderstanding.
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I know he's only putting stuff on his list that interests him, but it's amusing that he seems to geniuinely think they are all going to be solid films. I actually respect that more then angry geeks who think every film ever released will be shit, but I do acknowledge that he's setting up some of those to be severe disappointments. If Hollywood has taught us anything, it is sadly that more shit films will be released then actual good ones.
You see, Hollywood seems to think they can hire some pretty faces and put a nice shiny coat on a shit script and make money off of it. And sadly it seems to work, but that doesn't make the movies good. I mean look at this past year alone...Year One, Funny People, Land of the Lost, Transformers, T4, Wolverine, etc, etc. All could have been great films that would have certainly been found on Capones list, but all of them were just terrible. And that's not even scratching the surface. -
...do people STILL call "Legion" a "Prophecy" remake?? PROPHECY = Gabriel coming to earth to get the soul of the cruelest military mind available because only humans can sink to the depths of depravity needed to defeat God's angels ... LEGION is about God hitting the "reset" button again but Michael breaking rank in order to save (what we think is) the Second Coming. oh wait! the fact that there's angels automatically makes it a Prophecy remake! I had forgotten that there were NEVER angels in movies before that one!
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Is the worst trailer I've seen in years. Because of that trailer, I will actively avoid EVER seeing that movie. The audience was laughing at it... it looked worse than the trailer for Piranha 3.
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This might as well be titled: "Brokeback Dumberer". Hollywood may as well hire Jonah Hill, but him blackface, and churn out a flick called "Pookey" dealing with the day-to-day life of young love in a Harlem high school. holy fuck this is gonna break the offensive-meter
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"They create hate and misunderstanding."
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Nic Cage making a bold early charge for worst film of the year. He's playing a Knight? Gold! I hope they keep the metal on the soundtrack.
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The trailer for Cop Out descended on my Sherlock showing like an elevator fart, but maybe it's like mercury poisoning and will have a cumulative effect.I am sad my love affair with the second coming of RDJ will end with Due Date - I though The Hangover was boring.Not bad for comedy overall. Phillip Morris makes me happy for a lot of reasons, but mostly because Jim looks like he's playing it straight, ahahaha. Your Highness - yes please.Nothing in the other categories get me more than meh. Another bad year for horror. Where are the French when you need them?
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Can someone here explain the love for this property? I'm not hating on it, but I read the first trade, and found it cute alright but not engaging. Maybe because I'm not a gamer, I miss some references, but the characters and story left a bit to be desired. I'm also not sure how they'll get the "look" across on the big screen.
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it's gonna burn
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There cannot possibly be, in this or any other universe, a movie that I want to see less than this. Including the "squeakuel," which I would happily run to see in place of this. Carrey and Ewan as two dudes who love each other and get involved in a con--equals big box office.
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...pick up every stitch Beatnicks are out to make it rich ooo ooo Must be the Season of the Witch Starring Nicholas Cage!
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...so why doesn't he look old?
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The script is one of those scripts that has floated around for a while and most studios were afraid to produce it because of the religious overtones. But i'll tell you myself and a few other writers did some polishing up and the final script is amazing. I was on set and i've also seen an rough cut of the film, this movie has the potential to be amazing, It easily going to shatter so many records
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- I also love HUDSON HAWK, but the studio really pussied out on the title. I'll be calling it A COUPLE OF DICKS when I go to see it.
- SCOTT PILGRIM...Ever since YEAR ONE, Cera is dead to me, but I'm seeing it because a) it's Edgar Wright and b) the rest of the cast is full of people I still like. Funny that Cera didn't want to do the ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT movie for a while, but he did want to do YEAR ONE. Makes you think, doesn't it?
- Read script reviews for GET HIM TO THE GREEK, DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS and DUE DATE. None of them sound very promising. DUE DATE...why couldn't it be a KISS KISS BANG BANG sequel that reunited Downey and Monaghan?
- LEGION...meh. In fact, super-meh.
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and Zooey Deschanel in the SAME movie and not one is yet to acknowledge this? You call yourselves geeks. Shaaame
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After seeing that trailer it has officially jumped to the top of my "must-see" list for this year.
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to be interested in at least. Im on board for Losers just because Idris Elba is in it, and he was great in The Wire. I usually dont rush out to see comedies in the theater, but I might if it has Robert Downey in it. Legion and Priest both have Paul Bettany so that right there is enough to catch my interest.
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...have a movie career? She can't act and I can't imagine many people deciding what movie to see using PH as a deciding factor. I think the only reason I might want to see a movie featuring someone who became famous for doing home porn would be if they got naked and did some kind of sex scene. But PH is not that hot, and she doesn't usually get naked anyway. It's the same as that Kardashian chick. I saw her on a CSI, oh my god, she was horrible, I mean, you don't watch CSI for the acting, but even grading her on a curve she was horrible. You could probably drag someone off the street and get more feeling in the line reading. I couldn't imagine being a director and using either on of these idiots as anything other than maybe "naked girl in background". And they both have horrible speaking voices so more like "silent naked girl in background."
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I hope "The Beaver" is better. Frozen looks tedious. Bruce Willis doesn't look as old as Mel because he doesn't start his day with a fifth of vodka and proceed to out drink David Hasselhoff with a cheeseburger every day.
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I'm sorry but after The Invention of Lying,and that Ghost movie he was in I can't really sign up right away. I'm afraid that Jonah Hex will be another Ghost Rider,but again over all this list sounds like stuff I'd enjoy.
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WHOA! What will they come up with next.
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It was written and directed by the writers of "Bad Santa".
One of it's producers is Luc Besson.It is based on a true story.There is 'shockingly' graphic gay sex within the first ten minutes of the film that is said to be the reason the film has had such a hard time finding distribution in the states; the film has been re-edited to be more palatable to the largely homophobic America. -
Beaver (holy shit, what the fuck is this? Wow), Paul, Other Guys, Your Highness, Hot Tub Time Machine, Cop Out, Daybreakers, Jonah Hex, and the Losers. I'm well away some of those are probably going to suck, but from just whats here they all sound interesting at least.
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with kick ass. especially hit girl. there is something very wrong with that film. amoral? possibly. sure cage looks like he has found his mojo. but a 13 year girl who spits out expletives and shoots dead a room full of bad guys. is wrong to my mind. I have scene the clips where Cage is shooting his daughter and To my mind that is wrong. I know its a film and all fictional. But the whole thing seems really unappealing to me.
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well that's not right, it's the 7 evil ex's coz they ain't all boys! also, if Get Him To The Greek is a spin-off from Sarah Marshall why is Jonah Hill playing an entirely different character??
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Al Gore in that photo.
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Why don't you just drop the fucking act already? It's not funny, nobody in their right mind actually believes you, and your accomplishing nothing but making yourself look progressively douchier. Maybe if you didn't act like your involved in making every single movie that comes out, you could actually fool someone. Really though I doubt there's a single person in Hollywood who has their hand in as many movies as you do. If you really were that busy and important you sure as fuck wouldn't be posting here this frequent, and you wouldn't write like a 12 year old boy.
But don't worry, I remember a good handful of your "scoops", all of which are pretty laughable. When none of them come true I'll have all of the hard evidence I need to prove your a hack (not that I really need it). -
FUNNY HOW HALF OF THESE FILMS ARE OF THE "MICHAEL BAY" ILK AND CALIBER (especially that cop out) SANS THE EXPLOSIONS, BUT THAT'S OK.
because it's made by one of our goody goody geek buddy filmmakers.
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I was screaming NOOOO in my head the entire time I was reading your comments about Sandman... until you said that it should be helmed by Del Toro. YESSSSSSSS. That might actually work.
However, as cool as a Sandman movie (or franchise) would be, I vote Transmet FIRST. Holy crap would that be awesome :) But a real Hellblazer movie would be cool, too, a whole bunch more likely.
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No preview available? Nothin?
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If you don't get Jonah Hex, I highly suggest you check out the Joe Lansdale mini-series. Storyline, characterization, tone, and dialog are all movie-worthy.
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I did some freelance work in the editing bay for the film and I will tell you that even after hours of editing the film into what it is, I was still getting chills up and down my spine. I really hope you all see the movie in theatres because it deserves to be seen with a group of your peers and in total darkness. I can't confirm anything yet, but I have heard rumblings of a sequel. A writer I interviewd for a position on both the star wars live action TV show and the jennifer's body series we are trying to get off the ground claimed to have been involved with a Frozen sequel. Which he belived to have a working title of "FRO2EN: The Ice thaws""
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Do you have ANY idea how deep my envy is of you right now?
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The kind of groan you get when they announce Final Destination 5
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Jan 04, 2010 10:40:18 AM CST
YOU FORGOT TO INCLUDE "DATE NIGHT" WITH FEY AND CARELL
by bringingsexyback
Didn't you catch the funny as fuck trailer during Sherlock Holmes?
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...looks huuuuge!
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Jan 04, 2010 10:45:09 AM CST
WHERE IS THE YOUR HIGHNESS SET REPORT WITH PICS????
by bringingsexyback
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have aired the thing hasn't made it play any better. The set design, special effects, costuming, etc. are all the best big budgets can buy, it just couldn't make up its mind of its tone. Buddy-buddy comedy, overblown special effects comedy, action adventure, a bit of overdone violence, Will Smith vehicle, etc.
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it wasdone by 2 employess who work at Warner bros. I happend to be at the studio a few weeks ago and i ran into smith, We go way back but he didn't have time to talk because he was on his way to give the studio head shit for pumping out that porrly made trailer without his approval, as smith quoted to me:
"You know how after a laugh theres those few beats, well they took those beats and put them in the trailer but the thing they don't relaize is that those beats are only funny if they follow the fucking jokes. Either someone in marketing has clearly not ever heard of comedy or they were trying to market the film to soccor moms"
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Think I'll pass on half of these. Book of Eli might just be a veggietales movie w/ post apocalyptia, but at least it has that. Too many films with anti-religious messages (Legion, knight thing w/ Cage)...bleh I'll pass on those and I'm not even religious. Just don't give a shit about it.
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THATS the title they came up to replace A Couple Of Dicks? Thats like those generic comic titles from the '70s..Fire Sale, Hot Stuff, etc.
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On wiki I saw its from the same guy who direqted The Saint, which is another fliq I really dig. So its nice to see him get another "high profile" projeqt. And I thought I read that aj wouldn't make aqtion fliqs anymore cuz of her children, nice to see she did this despite what I read/heard. And for a while in it she has a short hair wig, which is great because I thinq she looks great with short hair; loved seeing her roq the short(er) hair in Hackers.
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getting your allowance this week. Seriously, you spend all your time on the internet, clean yourself up. After that, do your homework, take out the trash, and maybe if you're a good boy, I'll give you your allowance.
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..well, at least in the Talkbacks? Too many of you basement dwellers are in denial methinks! I think "I LOVE YOU PHILIP MORRIS" looks entertaining (though I admit I had to look away at the kissy bits) and I won't be in the least surprised if it gets awards noms out the wazoo. It looks like the kind of thing those committee people go for. "BEAVER" sounds as though it's gonna be great, "PAUL" I'd never heard of but I'm now anticipating it greatly. "JONAH HEX"? Well I've never read any of the comics, but I've yet to read a Vertigo series I've thought was shite so I'm sure it will be good (except for Megan Fox, that bitch has one fucking facial expression and it's "slap me I'm a cunt") as will "THE LOSERS" which I have read some of. Hey alan_poon, at least Kenny Everett was funny! Russell Brand makes my fucking skin crawl. I can't believe that sleazy greasy bastard is getting to pork Katy Perry (aka Zooey Deschanel lite). What an absolute cunt!
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Good preview. Comedy looks good this year.
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I would be very surprised if The Beaver doesn't flop.
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It's Jaws meets alive meets cloverfield. It really is a remarkable film that will both greatly alter the face of low key cinema as we know it. What they were able to do with CGI on such a low budget is amazing
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Sounds great. The only thing preventing me from getting really pumped is that John Cusack is in it.
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And your career could be over. Brilliant on television. Movies are ho hum.
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...the Legion looks good but god dammit, I wont ever have a writing career in Hollywood if all my ideas are stolen... this is probably the 2nd time one of my scripts has become a movie already (the 1t one was Constantine...not the char parts but the plot and the spear...)...damn u Hollywood! get prepared to be sued!
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...ya should stuff JettL in a oven then be ashamed ya produced such a specimen...
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what the fuck... i expect this from Jim Carrey, maybe even Will Ferrel... but Ewen Mcgregor?.... WTF?
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I thought about acknowledging it, but then remembered how disappointing the last geek girl pairing of Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johanson went (and of course when I say geek I mean to say they were in geek movies, not that the girls are actual geeks, though that would be a layer of extra hotness). And agree that the title Cop Out isn't as fun as A Couple of Dicks, but its at least a step up from the first alternate title, which was simply A Couple of Cops. Though in the end, its still a Kevin Smith film, that he didn't write it doesn't do much to mute my cynicism.
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I am not sure about that film.
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Sorry, but they do. 2010 is looking like a shitty year for movies already.
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I agree on Kenny Everett entirely. Brand has been ripping his style off for years.
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in Sarah Marshall, but now I am so tired of his "look mate I used to hook up blown out of my mind, but now I get to boff luscious ladies AND remember it the next day, and oh, how's my hair look?" Please go back and star on some obscure BBC series, so the rest of the world can ignore you, okay?
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Seriously. Come on,son!
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Am I the only one whose curousity has been peaked by this flick? I haven't seen anything like it in some time. The comparisons to The Prophecy are inevitable, but I'm hoping this one amps the story and action up.
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I were a high school gradeeate.
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The rest of the stuff looks like DTV material including Jonah Hex. But that's not really a bad thing as legion and season of the witch looks promising.,p>Of course, none of these can touch IronMan Duex.
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I'm not that excited to see Cera as Pilgrim because I think he lacks the energy, but I think with Wright's help he could be able to pull it out. But we will see. The poster I'm talking about was the one right before the blurb about it, where it looked like it was drawn by O'malley it just looked awesome.
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People like to rag on Megan Fox because all they have seen her in is transformers and perhaps jennifer's body, i sugesst you check out "How to lose friends and alienatye people" she was great in that are really showd the talent she is capable of. I'm not involved with Jonah Hex, but i have seen the trailer and it's amazing josh brolin gives a robert downey jr type performance in this one folks, and Fox is where its at, she adds so much to a lifeless role
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Jan 04, 2010 1:47:18 PM CST
kevin (Smith) would have scored points had he left the title as-
by stalkeye
..meaning A couple of Dicks.That's a funny ass title for a movie and wouldv'e made for a bigger audience.But in the end, the censors/studios always have their fucking say.
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The only thing I'd go out of my way to see is Iron Man 2. But if I hear good things, I'd make an effort to see Robin Hood and Legion.
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I'm sure this will change, but I'm only really looking forward to Inception, although I haven't already made up my mind that it'll be "awesome."
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I'm looking forward to that, because how can you not?
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All I can say is wow, this film is in the league of Dark knight, spiderman 2 and xmen 2 when it comes to comic book sequels. bigger better and badder (in a good way). I actually vomited from excitment
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Seriously. You were amusing for a little while. But that’s like five or maybe more steaming piles of BS in a single thread? Just stop. I almost never post, and you have managed to annoy me enough to sign in just to beg you to stop.
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last i checked it was due in august 2010...certainly one of my most looked forward to
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I must be the only one that thought I Love You Phillip Morris looked funny. Definitely want to see Kick-Ass. oh and stop hiring Zooey Deschanel (spelling sorry) she is good eye candy,but always puts up a horrible,wooden performance. peace to all who seek it.
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Not using the original title he has "copped out." I can kinda relate, that's how I first started using the q's. I wanted to be a goody two shows didn't want to type out certain curse words correqtly (hee hee!) and placed a q instead, then I started placing it in other words. Obviously I'm still placing q's in words but for my New Year's Resolution I'm going to *try* not to curse anymore, verbally or written. Instead of placing a q in the f word I'm going to just avoid it or if I'm quoting someone I'll just use &*&#$%. On the flip side, I wonder why out of all names they're using Phillip Morris. Subtle jab at the smoking industry? Hopefully there's a better reason, and not one that benefits that partiqular industry.
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Wouldn't it have been better to just pull the cap over your face, snuggle up close and weather the night? I mean come the fuck on.
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Using the Trajan font for its logo. Any time a studio wants to "class up" a film, they go with that old warhouse... very tired.
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I will now go into my happy place, contemplating the possibilities.
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Jan 04, 2010 4:15:00 PM CST
I WOULD RATHER SEE ZOOEY AND NATALIE IN THAT PHILIP MORRIS MOVIE
by bringingsexyback
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So we don't have to hear that bewildered, quavering hipster pixie voice that so grates on my nerves.
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..mostly (thought some of the Vertigo titles had their rights purchased away from DC), but it was late and I was tired.Sandman, imo, SHOULD be done on cable so it can be a long series (at least a few eps per book), but should NOT be done by one director. One of the reasons Sandman worked so well was because the art changed over the course of the series. It kept your interest, kept you paying attention.
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This is why I get so frustrated that every comic property adapted is either a classic superhero or a vampire (9 out of 10 of them are, at least). And yes, there are still some vampire and the occasional superhero in my list, but I'd like to think they aren't the same cut and paste movies we've been getting in the last ten years. Anyway, on to the way too ridiculously long list of titles and or creators (probably in alphabetical order, because that's how I have them separated) that I like to see made into movies. Apologies to Jonah Hex - it's nothing personal. And apologies for my lack of knowledge regarding projects already being made (because I really have none). ABC Warriors from 2000 AD (Atomic, Bacterial, Chemical, btw), 100 Bullets (Has this one been started yet? If no, why the hell not?!), Age Of Bronze - The Story of the Trojan War, Air (thanks to whoever it was that recommended that to me here in the talkbacks - great read!)… Alan Moore would fall right around here somewhere but I’m going to skip all of his books completely. That doesn’t mean I wouldn’t like to see a bunch of them as films, I would. I just don’t want to get into the heated arguments such thoughts tend to bring.American Freak - A Tale of the Un-Men, Anita Blake - Vampire Hunter; Aphrodite IX - not the greatest book ever, but it would fill a niche of adult sci-fi adventure that’s very lacking in the movie world, and I just like it, y’all know how that happens with comics; Aria, pretty much anything by Ashley Wood and/or Ben Templesmith (Wormwood - Gentleman Corpse, anyone?), but man do I love me some Ashley Wood; Astro City - as much as I don’t love super heroes, yes, this would be cool; Battle Chasers, a cable anthology of Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children, Fables …yeah, duh! Fables. But how about something else random from Willingham like Pantheon or Proposition Player; Bipolar, Blacksad - this is how anthropomorphic talking animals should be done! If you haven’t done so yet, find it and read it!; Blankets… yeah, I’m going to include this one - almost didn’t; Blood & Water, Box Office Poison, Breathtaker; Brian K Vaughn - Ex Machina and Y The Last Man; Brian Wood - DMZ, Northlanders, Super Market; Cairo, Castle Waiting, ack, out of order - BONE!, Rose and anything else by Charles Vess, an anthology of The Books of Ballads and Sagas would be lovely, but that’s like, lottery odds of ever happening; Chris Bachalo’s Shade The Changing Man or Steampunk, animated; Concrete, Courtney Crumrin, Criminal, Dalgoda, Danger Girl, Darkstalkers, Daughters of the Dragon, everything by David Lapham - but Young Liars and Stray Bullets would be my first choices; Dead West, Death Rattle, Divine Right - The Adventures Of Max Faraday, Elfquest - ooooooh booooooy do I hope they finally get around to making an Elfquest movie, and that it makes so much money that they’ll; be forced to make, like, 18 sequels. Supposedly “a script” was finished on Dec 3, 2009. But this has been a wet dream since I was 12, so I don’t hold out much hope for this one.; Exit Wounds, Faker, Fallen Angel - the Peter David book; Ferryman, Fishtown, Fun Home, Gangland (Vertigo), Preacher? Hell yes! And about 10 other Ennis titles, Gen 13, Gen 13 and uh, oh yeah! Gen 13, Grant Morrison’s Invisibles, Animal Man, Dare, Kill Your Boyfriend, Sebastian O, The Filth, Vimanarama - and those would just be my choices amongst his books, other people would want something different; Hellblazer done right? Hell yes! (pun intended) A good Sandman movie could help with that; Oh I forgot this book called Fusion from back in the late eighties/early nineties boom of non-superhero b&w books. Seems like exactly 7 people have ever read it, but I’m one of them. Great sci-fi action story that deserved(s) far more attention than it got.; It’s A Bird… it will never happen, but damn it would be cool if it did; NYC Mech, Jamie Delano’s Hell Eternal and Narcopolis; Joe Kelly’s I Kill Giants and Enginehead with Ted McKeever. Joe also works on Steampunk with Chris Bachalo; Jonathan Hickman’s Red Mass For Mars, Lisner’s Dawn, Just A Pilgrim - another Ennis book; King City, Locke & Key, Lone Wolf & Cub - yeah, Americans would screw it up, but I’d still like to see it; Love & Rockets, Loveless, on the Matt Wagner front - Grendel, Mage or even Madame Xanadu. All of his books are motion picture ready. You can see it while reading them.; The Mice Templar (hey, I still worship The Secret of NIMN, sue me!); anything Michael Turner ever did - but preferably Fathom, which I thought I‘d heard was being made; Midnight Mass, I dig the Hellboy movies - but I could go for another try, or just a sequel; Mouse Guard - I’d actually like to see this before The Mice Templar, Myth Adventures, Conceptions etc - any of Asprin’s Myth stories; Neil Gaiman… ummmm… Sandman, Death, The Books of Magic, Lucifer, The Books of Faerie, a proper adaptation of Neverwhere, any of his kids books with Dave McKean or Charles Vess, but more than anything, stepping out of the comic book realm, I want to see American Gods up on the big screen. How one of the most respected and loved storytellers of our time has managed to have so little of his work make it all the way into production is beyond me. It’s like, everybody thinks it’s a good idea to buy the rights, but then they get scared and do nothing with them. Garr!; Neozoic - I really liked that one, Nevada, Nikolai Dante - from 2000 AD, Nyx, Optic Nerve, Peter Milligan’s Egypt, Enigma, Greek Street, Human Target, Shade The Changing Man (again), The Eaters, The Extremist, The Minx, The Plain Janes, Poison Elves, Puma Blues - yeah, not very likely, but I can dream; Runaways, Scalped, Scourge of the Gods, Sentences - The Life of MF Grimm, Shaolin Cowboy, Shi, Sky Doll, Slaine - from 2000 AD, Spawn - I would definitely like to see another try at this property; Starman - the James Robinson book, StrangHaven, Strangers In Paradise, Sunglasses After Dark, Tattered Banners, Ted McKeever’s Metropolis & Industrial Gothic, Tell Me Dark, That Salty Air, The Cross Bronx, The Killer, The Luna Brothers book - Girls, The Secret History, The Shipwrecks of Ythaq, The Technopriests, The Umbrella Academy (yes, I do actually like this one quite a bit), The Unwritten, The Walking Dead, Tongue Lash, User, Veils, Vermillion, Warren Fucking Ellis - that’s right, just his name. The man should have a couple movies made of his work each year in a perfect world. The fact that this doesn’t happen is all the proof I need to prove that we are definitely NOT living in a “perfect world”. Transmetropolitan, Aetheric Mechanics and Wolfskin would be three of my top picks; Wasteland, Zatanna - Everyday Magic…. OK, good enough.
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"Alluring" is another.
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That also takes me to my happy place... God, would I love to make her hipster pixie voice quaver...
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is co-producing the new, so-called "Mad Max" movie? Every time I see this "Beaver" promo photo, I just want to cry...
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I didn't know that, I think. But actually, that gives me some hope that it could be the completely crazy Mad Maxish movie that we all want. Mel doesn't hold back with his productions. And I need to see Bronson before I can completely dismiss Hardy.
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That also looks meh. The talkback about the trailer is worth reading, esp. the contributions by drturing.
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movie that I want has Mel Gibson in front of the camera, not behind it. The small boy inside me that still believes in all things good and right is holding out against hope that with Icon involved, Mel just might... maybe... do a tiny cameo... or something. I swear, I'll take almost anything. As long as he's Max.
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...the new movies main character NOT being Max. They could certainly tell a story in that world without doing so. But I get the impression that that's the direction they're going. However, Mel could play old Max to Hardy's young Max. That could work, and it is possible they're just staying quiet on that front. It would be nice to actually be surprised by a movie again. Anyway, do we have confirmation that Hardy is in the movie? I saw somebody else say they were less worried about him being in it after having seen Bronson. But now I can't find confirmation of him BEING in it.
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...and who's out. It's all very mysterious and frustrating and maddening...
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It looks about 7 inches long with no elbow in that poster, nice Photoshoping.
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You really expect anyone to believe you worked on half this list ranging from huge summer releases to tiny indie horrors? Do you have mirrors in your house? Do you have to walk briskly past them to avoid your own reflection because should you catch your own reflection you would be nailed to the spot and forced to stare at the face of an abhorrent, compulsive liar? Thus reducing you to a quivering, sobbing mess in a self-induced agony and left curled into the fetal position? For shame....
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Is she missing some ribs?
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please note that he hasn't collaborated with Stephen Merchant on any of his other films before this. Doubt it all you want, but he's going to knock this one out of the park.
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I guess you meant in the same capacity as THE OFFICE, but still...
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JettL93: A True Story
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good call quint. i also think rob riggle is great. dont forget about date night, i love tina fey and steve carrel. i am surprised how many good looking comedies are on that list, usually they dont even look to have potential but almost all on that list do. of the horror and comics, none seem that great but jonah hex might be cool.
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unless something surprises me, i would say this. Tron, Your Highness, and Inception.
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which he hasn't done since Extras. This film will be fucking great.
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Never saw that trailer before. Looks like eyeball foreplay.
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Hey, if you think America's homophobic, try and imagine that movie playing in Mexico, anywhere in South America, Africa, Russia, the Middle East, Japan or China. Now those are some homophobic motherfuckers right there. America is light years ahead of those guys but admittedly, far behind many countries. Fuck, even the UK has civil unions. That said, I wouldn't touch Phillip Morris with a 10 foot fucking pole. What a disgusting trailer. If they're lucky enough to find a distributor, that movie will sink like a stone. They should shoot for a DVD release. It'll be a huge hit with the gays for sure.
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"Hey, if you think America's homophobic, try and imagine that movie playing in Mexico, anywhere in South America, Africa, Russia, the Middle East, Japan or China."Bravo Sierra. Hollowood and 51% of the country has effectively and efficiently conditioned me to believe that it is America that sucks the hardest, loudest, and longest. Who the hell are you to expect to claim that I'm not a belligerent ignoramus? Bullshit all over your face, you closeted racist homophobe sexist Dubya-voting teabagging speciest intellectualist socioeconimiscist Fox-watching culturalist nationalist ethnocentrist phallocentrist heteropatriarchalist motherfucker!!........./sarcasmHey, that's what they've called me on here for much less...
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That's one hell of a run of "ist" insults! I'm seriously impressed. And you really do raise a good point. I tend to skew liberal but I've noticed a strong tendency in left-leaning folks to cast the US as the very center of evil on this earth, and it just ain't true. I disagree with a lot my government does, but I also make an effort to remind myself just how many truly amazing human rights strides this country has made in its 200+ years of existence.
Real quick - recently saw a bit on Koreans born in Japan and still living there. These people are treated like second class citizens. They have seperate "alien" ID cards. They can't vote. They are ostracized in the very country they were born in. There's no chance for these people to adavance their lot in life. We may have a violent, tumultous past (and present) in regards to race and equal rights but we're making progress, and today in America a black man or a Korean man (born in Korea no less) can make it in America, and do very well. You won't see that in Japan, or France, or Scandanavia.
OK enough earnestness. It's just that the TBer who made the post about how awfully homophobic America is ought to take a look around the world. And I realize my previous comment on Phillip Morris made me seem homophobic but nothing could be further from the truth. That trailer really turned me off, but hey, live and let live. I'm just not the target audience for a flick like that. -
but that Nicolas Cage witch movie sounds OK to me, as long as it won't feature that ugly metal music. I love both Christopher Lee and Ron Perlman, especially in a medieval movie.
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That's what She said!
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California and New York are different than South Carolina and Ohio. Wyoming and Minnesota are different than Washington and Texas. None of those states really go together, and that's my point. It's nearly impossible to say "America is this way", because sometimes it's different from neighborhood to neighborhood and city to city, never mind state to state. I just don't believe that you can take anything as serious as homophobia or racism and say "America is this way", regardless of what any pollster may try and tell you. It just doesn't work that way.
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...I'm guessing Robert Downey Jr.'s character comes to realize that his wife is an uptight bitch who is in turn making him uptight, bros before hos (but in a totally not-gay way), etc.
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episode about Ricky Gervais. very good show. Unless you are psrt of his inner circle, things he does break you into his inner circle are utterly obnoxious. Gervais`s long time editor on tv is part of his inner circle and his initiation was to have his face tied up with sellotape so that he looked like a pig and after that Gervais grabbed him in headlcok where he nearly suffocated. Gervaise warned the studio that if he caught any executive on the the Invention of lying he would have them removed by security. Karl pilkington and gervais are very good friends but in the beginning Karl described him as one of the most borderline obnoxious people he had ever met. gervais is a bully.
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christ, what a shitty year 2010 is going to be.
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My mate and I were super angry that France are getting Scott Pilgrim before we do. I've been a huge fan of the novels and Edgar Wright's for ages, and I want this movie NOW! Or at least a trailer.
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but still a good read. I never really get hyped about comedies... the best ones are usually the ones that sneak up on me. I am really looking forward to "Your Highness" though, because I'm a disciple in BSB's church of Zooey, and the rest of the cast is great too. Really looking forward to Jonah Hex... know nothing of the source material, but sci-fi and western blends are fucking great to me(see: Dark Tower). And I for one think Phillip Morris looks good, although tonally uneven. that might be due to a faulty trailer, though. i'm the type of hetero that doesn't even notice homosexual stuff unless its blatantly in my face, but personally I don't find the trailer all that offensive... i've seen a lot worse
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It's why he's churning out so many shitty movies recently. Some finance guy or manager screwed him over, and his over spending did the rest. But wow does Legion look like shit, looks like they did the effects using photoshop on a mac -- and I can tell you the baby will be a girl.
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Not a genuinely funny person by any stretch of the imagination. The UK office IS good but that’s the only good thing he was ever in. the show Extras was gimmicky and ripped of characters from other shows. Id bet real comedians hate his guts secretly but are wary of speaking out against him because of his undeserved sway with Hollywood these days, the same way no actor and I mean NOT ONE actor speaks out against The Simpsons (being shit for the last 10 years) for fear of being blacklisted by FOX. (Other examples are this very site downplaying the awfulness of Wolverine and complying with various review embargoes!). Sure Pricky Gervais has done stand up, but only idiots would think any of his material was funny. He just sounds like an obnoxious child looking for attention. Almost anyone can make a room full of strangers laugh with a few vaguely funny observations, and UK and Irish audience seem to be very easy to get an audible group laugh from, its like a group mentality thing when you laugh because everyone else is even when the same joke may only make you grin (and sometimes not even then) if you were watching the same thing on TV on your own. This false feedback gives the likes of Gervais and other lame stand up comedians the idea that they are actually funny when in fact they are not. I was at a music festival last summer and there was a “comedy” tent! Fuck! I’ve never seen so many people laughing at terrible material in my life. Real funny people are the ones who can make there friends laugh, I doubt Ricky has any real friends now anyway.
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sure he sounds like a demented wannabe, and I often skip over anything he says, but this is the Internet: you're allowed to adopt personas and act them out.Doesn't anyone want to be SamWorthington93 or something?
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and his incredibly annoying [fake] accent.
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Jan 07, 2010 12:54:45 PM CST
Cop Out has one of the worse trailers I've ever seen.
by moonlightdrive
It's ironic that Kevin Smith's first film with someone else's material has that title.
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Jan 07, 2010 1:05:10 PM CST
PLEASE give Paul a 2010 US release date and stick to it.
by moonlightdrive
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Jan 07, 2010 1:37:49 PM CST
Hadn't heard of Due Date, sounds interesting, thank you.
by moonlightdrive
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Jan 07, 2010 1:39:15 PM CST
The losers won't be successful and therefore won't be a franchis
by moonlightdrive
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Looks like it's trying WAY to hard to be edgy and controversial. Nic Cage's "I act like I'm wholesome but I'm really a sociopath" is not only lame and obvious but forced. I dunno. Maybe it's good, but what I've seen looks terrible. It's not funny or cool when it's SO glaringly obvious what they're shooting for. But if I was a rageaholic 13 year old (about 99% of the people who visit this site), I'd probably be excited. "You know, like, the grownups don't know that we're actually hardcore, man!" *Chortle*
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