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Brace Yourselves For A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR CHRISTMAS!! + John Cho Talks About TREK's "Lens Flares", Sorta...
Merrick here...
Collider spoke with John Cho, who said quite a bit a new HAROLD & KUMAR movie, and spoke significantly less about the next TREK film.
Regarding HAROLD...
- looks like it is happening
- we catch up a little bit later in Harold and Kumar’s lives
-takes place over the holiday season
- this could be a legit holiday movie
- the intent is to honor the holiday traditional style of movies
- Neil Patrick Harris is supposed to be in it
...Cho said to Collider HERE, in a piece which goes on to reveal a few more details about the second sequel. If you want to know more about H&K 3, or are waiting with bated breath to hear John's take on the use of "lense flares" in the last STAR TREK movie, you can view the embed below:
I really enjoyed HAROLD & KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE, and liked (but can't remember much of) ESCAPE FROM GUANTANAMO BAY. I'd totally be up for another film featuring these characters, 'specially if they get Santa high, or if the story features hot women wearing skimpy elf garb.
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- looks like it is happening
- we catch up a little bit later in Harold and Kumar’s lives
-takes place over the holiday season
- this could be a legit holiday movie
- the intent is to honor the holiday traditional style of movies
- Neil Patrick Harris is supposed to be in it
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Also, first.
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George Takei recalled Gene Roddenberry wanted the character to represent all of Asia, which symbolized the peace of the Trek universe in spite of the numerous wars in the continent. Roddenberry did not want a nationally specific surname, so he looked at a map and saw the Sulu Sea. "He thought, 'Ah, the waters of that sea touch all shores'," the actor recalled, "and that's how my character came to have the name Sulu."
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I'm a pretty preception guy, and critical, too, but I saw STAR TREK and didn't notice an overuse of lens flares, or even thought about lens flares when watching it.
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Those knowing looks that Pine was giving him all movie?
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that's all that matters
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That is all.
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My Christmas movie night can now include Harold and Kumar...long with Gremlins and Die Hard.
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and join the Obama administration or something?
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but the honeymoons over, obama sucks ass too it seems. havent had a good president since hillary clinton.
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You're officially my 'stupid cunt of the day'. Well done.
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...and not that Avatar ripoff movie the Smurfs...
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Agreed, I never felt distracted by lens flares, I liked the effect and it gave the movie this "bigger than life" feel to it.
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i realize an after-credits scene shows him getting up after that apparently fatal shotgun blast but considering its an xmas movie, it be sorta funny to have him appear as some sorta yoda like figure. of course he'd have to be riding that unicorn.
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ho has no time fo this shit.
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thank you.
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Seems odd there's no mention of wether or not Kal Penn feels the same way, as he left House and acting altogether to go work as an Arts and Foreign liason for the White House. Is he back so soon, after they had Kutner off himself?
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forgot the meds today?
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It is like killing herpes or Godzilla, can't be done.
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if it wasn't for H&K.
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... in the Star Trek movie is an ASSHOLE and is looking to bitch about something. Those flares adding more tension intensity to the movie. That interviewer should stop going to the movies and read Twilight books.
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What would be the fucking point?
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Since he died, will he come back as a ghost, to give it a Christmas Carol vibe?
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If you listen to the film commentary, they were put in to make the movie feel more like a documentary--as if all of this was really happening. They wanted the flares to give it a more gritty, real feel. Whether you agree or not, that's the reason from the mouths of the filmmakers themselves. Personally, I agree, but to each their own. (And, no I didn't watch the vidclip - network connection is ass right now. So, my apologies if Cho covered this.)
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noticed the lens flares, it was just part of the style, kind of like a throwback to the rainbow prism flares in Star Trek the Motion Picture.
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Mar 12, 2010 12:18:41 PM CST
Will Kumar smoke a joint in the White House with his boss?
by royston lodge
I'm just sayin'...
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I'm all for that if they get the real Obama, hehe. That fake "W" from HK2 was just terrible. Well, really when it comes down to it, the whole second movie did nothing for me. Watched it once and that was enough. But HK1? Damn, I've seen that like 400 times, at least. Hilarity.
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Did you ever notice all the white people in the H&K movies are bad? Except maybe the Jewish potheads in WC.
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is only doing that gig for a year I think. He should be done by now.
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could be a good sequel.
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Uh, I see.
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Got excited.
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I guess they couldn't have been that distracting...
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If only Cotton Hill was a Star Trek character.
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wanted it to look like Firefly. He also nicked the chase cam. Whedon said in the commentary on the Firefly discs that he purposely showed lens flares to give the show the gritty feeling of a 1970's show. Whedon probably nicked it from Tarantino.
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I hope it has a shitload more lens flare.
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I know, right? The fake Bush from Kumar 2 was awful. There are some really good Bush impersonators out there who look and sound just like him with the help of some make up...but that guy looked like an extra from Planet of the Apes. It wasn't believable at all. They could have at least forked over a few hundred bucks for a quality Bush impersonator...I doubt they are all that expensive.
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re-watch the first 30 seconds of that film, or pretty mcuh any other 30 seconds, and tell me there isnt an overabundance of lens flares... I love jj, but he needs to lose the flares.
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joss whedon is not the inventor of lens flare usage, and far far from it ... better more competent directors have been using them for years, but no one's ever overused them with the absurdity of jj's trek.
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god bless him for putting up with the interviewer for so long without complaint or anything.... longest 8 minutes of my life, and there were cuts in that clip, so Im sure it was longer.
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did you?
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I liked Abrahm's Trek, I just thought he used too much lens flare.
Ultratron, I especially apologize for offending your delicate sensibilities. However, I'm not sure what else you expect from a complete and utter fucking moron. I guess maybe I should read some more Kirk-Spock slash fiction so I can become smarter. -
Yes. All the white people (except NPH) are "bad". But considering the writers are whiteboys and they did that on purpose, I don't see the problem.
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Agreed 100%. But even a better W wouldn't have saved HK2. It was way too over the top the entire time. At least in HK1 by the time we get to the truly ridiculous stuff (like riding a cheetah) the audience is invested in the characters and story enough to go, "well, ok, it's silly, but I'll buy it". With HK2 they made the most common sequel mistake: everything must be bigger and better and louder, etc etc. It ruined it.
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Sorry to split cunt hairs, but it's da troof.
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Sorry, Merrick. I shouldn't have doubted you.
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http://tinyurl.com/ye3tl78
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This guy should write for Larry King. Fucking nerd.
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Whenever anyone throws out the "my opinion is law" BS I just have to laugh. Obviously JJ and crew didn't think it was overused, so it IS open for debate. Hehe. I love this site.
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It was an inferior sequel, for sure...though I still liked it. But I haven't seen it twice. It definitely tried too hard to up the ante...killing NPH (even if he comes back after the credits) was one example.
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Did someone really say the lens flares added "tension intesity" to the movie? Yeah.....that's what it did. Star Trek wasn't bad but it had even less of a noteworthy plot then Avatar did. Fact.
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That's a true sign of Avatar backlash.
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Cho was a good sport, though.
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I noticed lens flares constantly during the film. Even during the ship scenes they were used too much. For me the flares were a distraction. But I also have ADD so maybe that made a difference.
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Personally, I love the look of the flares. Visually, TREK kicked the ass of all three WARS prequels. If AVATAR had not landed awesome mo-cap...TREK woulda won the Oscar.
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jesus titty fucking christ, i can't believe a bunch of people are debating the use of flares on st. i erased that movie from my memory as soon as i walked out, it was so boring. it made mission impossible 3 look like a masterpiece. i still don't get what the big fuss is on aicn.
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I scratched one of my eyes before watching Star Trek, and believe me, that bright white fucking lens flare made me watch that fucker with one eye. Trust me it's there, even Abrams joked about it. Still liked the movie though, just crank it down for part 2.
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Mar 12, 2010 5:41:36 PM CST
always some brainless unprepared douche doing interviews
by swivile bobble fizz fizz
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The flares were fucking stupid, way over-used, but you guys already knew that. It was like watching a fucking Volkswagen commercial at times.
Hey, at least AsimovLives isn't on here frothing at the mouth. Yet... -
I could have sworn that he started to move at the end of the last film. could be wrong though.
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Thought he turned his back on Hollywood, or some pretentious shit.
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Is large amounts of bottomless women who had some bush. Great scene. That's how I'm throwing me next pool party now that I think about it. At least, as soon as I get a pool.
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...Budweiser plant, with the camera just panning back and forth - scene after scene, creating infinite lens flares as the characters take turns traveling through giant sewer pipes.
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... and shakes, shakes, shakes!
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the best scene was still the bottomless pool party, holy shit
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got a great reaction in theaters from some I assume stoned guys, never would I have thought I'd see a landing stripped bush projected on the big screen, it was epic
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Much cooler than some holiday movie. I'd pay to see that one, if they went all the way and even brought Paul Reubens on board as well as NPH.
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Mar 13, 2010 9:14:17 AM CST
Yeah much RESPECT to Harold and Kumar for the bush!
by hollywoodhellraiser
Seriously when today films are overloaded with massive amount of guy's dicks(yeah I know that guy was bottomless) and asses, it great to see some female flesh.
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I remember John Knoll getting all annoyed at the excessive use of lens flares since cinematographers go to great lengths to eliminate them.
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H&K3 will definitely be a great sequel if Kal Penn gets wiped out in some amazing hi-tech fashion, HOLLYWOOD-STYLE!!! Kal Penn is the BIGGEST exploitative sell-out of all time!
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i mean they literally just pointed flashlights at the camera to create them, its not it was actual lens flares.
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In the butt
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...my thought is, "Why do they have the lights turned up so blindingly bright on the inside of this ship that this is happening?"
See, to my mind, you use lens flares to symbolize lights that are extremely bright. I got the opposite feeling from that guy: inside, you want your light nice and even in an operational setting, so fewer hotspots.
Outside, though, the dynamic range of the lights is higher, and the power of the lights, like the Sun, planets reflecting the sun, is pretty high.
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this is what I want to fucking see.
harold and kumar are on a public tour of nasa with their girlfriends during a highly publicized mission where NASA is sending chimps to the moon.
H&K get the brilliant idea of getting the chimps high on some of their best weed and how awesome itwould be for them to be high while high.
so they somehow sneak aboard and get sent to the moon WITH the chimps... in 3D!!
there will be a brilliant shot of them looking back at earth smoking some herb giggling their asses off while chimps are floating in zero gravity right in front of them. the ULTIMATE get high movie....ALL IN 3D!!!
now it cant happen cuz i wrote it here :( -
and the commercial would feature sinatra singing fly me to the moon while all this shit is going on.
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Just kidding. I'd rather see your movie.
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i thought damn that bridge would be hard on the eyes if you were actually there working on it. ST2 should just be an hour and a half of a floodlight pointing straight at the camera
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Cho did talk about Kal Penn about 1:30 in. He doesn't know how his job will affect production...he doesn't even really seem to know what exactly Penn does. There is also no director. And yeah there were way too many lens flares.
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