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See Where Parts Of Paul W.S. Anderson's THREE MUSKETEERS Film Will Be Shot!!
Merrick here...
...with a quick preview at some of the locations we'll be seeing in Paul W.S. Anderson's forthcoming 3D MUSKETEERS movie.
These come to us from a reader called moman47, who indicates the production will soon be shooting around Germany. So...faithful, generous, industrious, kind German readers (I know you're out there, and I'm friends with a few of you)...consider this a call to arms. Get your spy skills and zoom lenses ready. We'd love to hear from you. Until then, here's moman47...
Long-time reader....yadda yadda...:-)
Just wanted to let you know some details about some of the filming locations for The Three Musketeers 3D by Paul W.S. Anderson.
Now I am aware of the infamous filmography of this director, but I am actually looking forward to this. Especially because one of my favorite actors, Christoph M. Waltz of Inglorious Basterds, is involved next to Orlando Bloom.
The shooting will start in September and will take place in several locations in Germany or to be more specific in Bavaria, which is supposed to star as 17th century Paris. My hometown of Wuerzburg will play a major role in the shooting of this movie. The crew are currently casting 2.500 extras for the shoot and I have attached some pictures from the three main shooting locations to give your readers an overall idea about the setting they are going for with this movie:
1.) The "Festung", a medieval castle built in the 13th century, nestled on top of a beautiful hill overlooking the oldtown of Würzburg.
2.) The "Residenz", a former residence of the Wuerzburg prince-bishops, is one of the most important baroque palaces in Europe. It was completed in 1780. The "Kaisersaal", the biggest and most pompous hall of the Residenz, will be used to shoot the big ballroom scene according to my information.
3.) The "Alte Mainbrücke" (=Old Bridge over the river Main) is one of the sightseeing highlights in the Wuerzburg oldtown and will also be used in the movie.
Please call me "moman74" if you decide to use this...:-)
Huge thanks to moman47 for sending these in. I can't process these as 'embiggenable' at the moment, but may swoop in and make them so later. So check back if you wanna see these larger. Hopefully we'll have more to come...
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Just wanted to let you know some details about some of the filming locations for The Three Musketeers 3D by Paul W.S. Anderson.
Now I am aware of the infamous filmography of this director, but I am actually looking forward to this. Especially because one of my favorite actors, Christoph M. Waltz of Inglorious Basterds, is involved next to Orlando Bloom.
The shooting will start in September and will take place in several locations in Germany or to be more specific in Bavaria, which is supposed to star as 17th century Paris. My hometown of Wuerzburg will play a major role in the shooting of this movie. The crew are currently casting 2.500 extras for the shoot and I have attached some pictures from the three main shooting locations to give your readers an overall idea about the setting they are going for with this movie:
1.) The "Festung", a medieval castle built in the 13th century, nestled on top of a beautiful hill overlooking the oldtown of Würzburg.
2.) The "Residenz", a former residence of the Wuerzburg prince-bishops, is one of the most important baroque palaces in Europe. It was completed in 1780. The "Kaisersaal", the biggest and most pompous hall of the Residenz, will be used to shoot the big ballroom scene according to my information.
3.) The "Alte Mainbrücke" (=Old Bridge over the river Main) is one of the sightseeing highlights in the Wuerzburg oldtown and will also be used in the movie.
Please call me "moman74" if you decide to use this...:-)
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Will be another location shoot, since Paul W.S. sold his soul to continue making films - all of them require one shot of eternal damnation...
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For a second there, I thought we were gonna get DUPED with a shot of a studio green screen. Either way, I DON'T CARE...
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Well, yes, I mean, I know there are very regular shootings in Houston....
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Maybe when all the plebeians stop going to then?
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I loved the first Resident Evil, AVP was shockingly smart, Soldier has a lot of depth going on, Event Horizon freaked me out, Death Race was better than I expected... fuck the haters, this guy rules. That's right, Internet Hive Mind. Suck on it.
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You know there's a studio exec out there who is already congratulating himself for coming up with the oh-so-original idea of having the posters read: Three-D Muskateers
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Sweet zombie Jesus..all this fuss over a movie about a candy bar...although i think Oliver Stones "Twix" Film is the movie to see
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Could the latest Resident Evil movie be any more of a hack job? He literally STOLE SHOTS from better movies.
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...even all that great (apologies, Mr. Dumas).
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THIS GUY AINT ONE OF US!!!!
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who'd you rather see get a twelve inch nail through his viewfinder eye- anderson or ratner...? only one nail available at time of going to press.
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Isn't there a porn, The Count Of Monte Crisco...thank you ladies and germs.
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You beat me to, NinjaRap is shockingly stupid.
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Weasel Shit should just hang it up and retire.
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Milla Jovovich pregnant. He still probably had to view some pornos, to steal some moves, to get the job done.
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He's a pompous, arrogant ass. Anderson may be as well, but he doesn't show it every chance he gets whether its a public appearance or a press junket.
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Actually, a lot of people that hate his work are movie fans that like movies that aren't made for 14 year-old brain dead jack offs like yourself. I'm jussayin...
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This is basically a list of places that will be scarred by having anything to do with this film.
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Fuck Anderson, I hate him and everything he does. I hate it SO much I clicked on a link just so I could bitch about it even more. Because I'm a sad nerd with no other outlet for my frustration at Harry not reviewing Inception so I'll click on every single link and bitch about it.
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EVERY movie I have seen of his I had wished another director would have chosen. Soldier and Event Horizon especially. I say he sucks because it is easier than saying he makes mediocre films where someone else would probably make a winner.
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The only two movies that might qualify as hits are Mortal Kombat and AvP, and both of those probably had more to do with their respective franchise tie-ins than any "quality" genre film making from Anderson.
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i never gave anybody permission to film in my land! least of all P W S Anderson and his resident evil cronies!
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Was AvP shit? Yes. But it was always going to be shit. Franchise crossovers always suck. Bottom line is he makes watchable films. You can hate on Res Evil all you want, but it fucking trumps the dreadful plots from the games. The games are fun to play, but lets not act like they're particularly well-made story wise.
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if Harry disabled the talkbacks. WHAT would you nerds do then? How would you vent your frustration? I'd love it and laugh for hours - then I'd cry because Harry still hadn't reviewed Inception.
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That makes me sad. Its not that he has ruined franchises or properties that would have been better served by another director (A Danny Boyle Resident Evil? THAT I'd pay to see), its that he doesn't have an original bone in his body. Like DVader stated earlier hehas been stealing shots and influences for years. And not homages like DePalma did with Hitchcock, but just plopping visual influences from other films like Cube, Don't Look Now, etc. into his own.
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and I'm bored.
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I LOVED Death Race - because if you're going to remake Shawshank, you've got to go all the way.
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And some people have this thing called perspective. They're not saying Anderson is a great director, or a good one -- rather that he makes enjoyable nonsense.
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On a movie website, calling its readership "nerds", Insulting talkbackers for having nothing to do but talkback... and he does it by playing in the talkbacks. Talk about your irony.
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You must be really, really, really bored. Most people, when they get to that level of boredom start playing Farmville. I love movies too, and for every five shit movies being produced there's at least one good one on the way.
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As if movie geeks don't understand homage (and you aren't even arguing that point, but if you were smart, you would). There's a big difference between homage and outright theft, and I'm speaking specifically about the shot he rips off from The Matrix Reloaded, the camera following a female as she jumps out of an office building window, turning around, and firing a machine gun.
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I don't go in EVERY talkback, only the ones I'm interested in. And film-lovers and nerds are two very different types of people. Nerds bitch about the colour of Green Lanterns gloves, the lack of Thor's helmet and no Inception review from Harry. Film lovers bemoan that all the talkbacks are full of bitching, instead of discussion about films. And if you have nothing better to do than bitch in every talkback...
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means nothing. As a movie, I rank it with movies, and none of them fare well so far.
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have more horror and suspense than any of the movies combined. Yeah, the story is pathetic i the games AND movies, but at least with the game you get a sense of I MIGHT DIE where in the movie its more like she is a superhero who you know will make it. Which tons of other movies do better.
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You line Anderson and Ratner's heads up one behind the other. Drive the 12-inch nail into the eye and out the back of the head of the first, into the eye of the second. Dwight Schrute taught us how to solve this problem last season.
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I felt a great disturbance in the Talkbacks, as if millions of talkbackers suddenly started posting in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has been posted.
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But bitching can have to effects and reasons: 1. Its to let those in charge know they are unhappy with the product that is being presented with the hopes the powers that be will listen and get their act together. 2. It IS a form of discussion, albeit, in a crass sort of way, but it also often starts interesting discussions with people wanting to debate why such and such "sucks cock" or whatever colorful euphemism the complainer uses.
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is doing REvFatF. Thats Resident Evil versus The Fast and The Furious. I can feel it happening in his brain right now.....how to combine two terrible film series to make one EXTREME film that everyone will apparently love!
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I suggest starting with making a good one.
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wasn't known to be a Uwe Bol film than I would have guessed it was a Paul WS Anderson film.
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1. The powers that be are NOT going to change in any way because of some messages in a talkback. Anderson and Bay will still get directing gigs no matter what is said against them.
2. Granted there is occasional intelligent discussion, but take this talkback, nobody has commented on the fact that the location should suit the movie, they've just seen Anderson's name and commenced bitching.
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Just because I didn't respond to your Peter Jackson comment in no way means "ripoff is becoming the word homage when it comes to Peter Jackson eh?", and its shameful you'd try to twist it that way. No "Double Standards" here. I haven't seen Mortal Kombat in over ten years, so I do not feel I'm qualified enough to comment on whether or not Peter Jackson "ripped off" a shot from P WS Anderson. Still, would you consider this rising 360 shot one of the more famous shots from Mortal Kombat, the kind that most everyone would recognize? I would argue No. Does that condone someone stealing it? No, but I'd say it makes the chances of someone knowingly "stealing" it less likely, as it just seems like an obvious, generic shot choice. As for the shot of the girls going backward into an office window and firing machine guns while wearing black leather... That shot from The Matrix Reloaded IS one of the more famous shots from that particular movie and is very well-known. To see Anderson do the EXACT same thing, only adding a second girl to the mix, with RE reeks of theft because just about every element is the same, AND its a well-known shot. If the shot could talk, it'd say "Hey, we all remember this from The Matrix, right? And The Matrix was cool, right? See! We're cool too!" I mean, if you're gonna have that same action (girl jumps out window backwards firing machine gun), do it DIFFERENTLY. Establish yourself as someone who is creative, don't do the EXACT same thing by having the camera follow the actor in just about the EXACT same way AND film it in slow motion too. Then you're just asking to get crucified.
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1. I disagree. I believe they do listen and have changed things before (not large drastic changes, like updates to the website design), but even if they don't, they should, as we are what keeps this site popular. No one can disagree with that point. Bitching about Anderson and Bay is not what I was talking about. I was speaking to bitching about AICN and Harry and "lack of Inception" reviews. 2. If you *really* wanted to discuss the location of the film, by all means, no one is stopping you. However, I think you'll find the majority of the readers here would much rather debate the levels to which Anderson sucks. No one wants to talk locations. That's a boring topic no matter what, and it makes for boring talkbacks.
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I thought I made that clear in my last post. I have not seen Mortal Kombat in 10 years and have no idea what shot you are talking about.
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he's not totally awesome either, his movies are watchable more so than other shite people on here champion, but he does go for the Geek properties so he's targeting him self for all the hate he gets.
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Aug 11, 2010 1:45:51 PM CDT
And here I thought this would be a Goatse spread...
by rockhardtobascoslimjim
Spread. Goatse. Paul W.S. Anderson. Widescreen Shit. Ya know? Poop? Poop. Celluloid feces? No? Fuck it.
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than any of the articles. The articles are everywhere anyways. You don't really have to come here for them. You could say I only come here for the talkbacks almost. often don't even comment myself I'm just in a mood of boredom/its rainy and humid out/and I really do dislike the thought of Anderson making a Three Musketeers film. He could surprise me. As much as I will bitch and moan and poke fun that doesn't mean he couldn't sweep the oscars next year or win me over. Odds are he won't BUT this is a movie site and none of my friends watch as many movies as me or care about movies as much as I do, so I find myself wandering here, just for the banter sometimes. Also, nobody makes anyone read my negative or useless posts, just like skipping the article you could easily just not read what you don't want to.
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Between an homage and a rip off is whether we like the guy responsible. If Hitchcock were making movies today we'd have people calling him a hack.
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where he zooms in or out of a digital map or something and overlays it, that's not bad I don't suppose he invented it though did he?
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You're intelligent, I'll give you that, but what if Harry disabled talkbacks? Traffic wouldn't change as thousands of movie lovers would still come here every day to keep up with the news - the minority actually post. Thus the talkbacks make no difference to the site and therefore neither do the opinions expressed. And please, let the Inception thing go now...
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Fuck you, you've nearly single-handedly destroyed my crusade to clear up the talkbacks. Stop talking reason!
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TO THE EXTENT of if it actually matters. Showing a 360 degree tower or some shit in either film is pointless and in no way makes the movie. There is no "Famous Mortal Kombat 360 camera tower pan" scene. Likewise for Jackson's. I don't care that Anderson stole from The Matrix film either, has nothing to do with the film being miserable. Honestly, I thought LotR was miserable as well. I would be mad I think if someone stole like the exact wording and scene from an IMPORTANT part of a movie. If a horror movie today came out and at the end it ripped off Seven with the leads wife head in the box and him flipping out, then I would call bullshit. I'm pretty sure we'd all be surprised at how many scenes from movies probably have an earlier doppelganger.
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Yes, both films use an almost identical spiralling-up shot of a gothic tower.
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Seven was just good. I was just thinking a Saw movie or something might rip that off
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piece of property in Monaco he could use!!
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Because if they come here only for the news, then they are missing out, as this place hardly EVER has "news" anymore. They ignore cool stories but post stuff like this that not many film geeks care about, or they post something after its already been reported elsewhere days, sometimes weeks earlier. AICN is not what it once was, and they need to get back on the ball, show that they actually care instead of doing the bare minimum, which is what they appear to be doing. If they disabled the talkbacks, I wouldn't come here first out of my day like I've done for the past 14 years, because I know I'll get better news elsewhere and I'll be better informed for it. But I will continue to disagree with you that the talkbacks make no difference. If they didn't, then I think Yoko's failed music column would still be going strong, and we'd have more ridiculous book stories like that "GONE" debacle, or whatever it was. As far as Inception goes, I don't care about his review. I care for more about the "Headgeek" promising to do one thing, failing in it, and then doing another. If you want to be credible, you need to hold yourself to your word.
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I can't say. I like to know what I'm talking about when I'm in a debate, and if I say yes or no, I will clearly not know what I am agreeing to.
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If you think my choosing not to comment on an issue I know only 50% of is the same as having double standards. Find another example to prove your point, but don't for one second twist the facts to say you've won. That's a dick move, and you'd been doing so well up to that point.
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Do you know if Jackson has ever actually watched Mortal Kombat? Do you know that it wasn't the same cinematographer working on both films? Fanboys are fucking irritating, but to fight them, you first have to do some research.
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Anderson probably did rip off the Matrix shot and I doubt he'll lose much sleep over it. The spiralling upwards shot is much more in tone with a fantasy gothic vibe that tries to encompass a "dark tower", therefore it's concievable that both directors came up with it individually. Jackson is not a director to rip-off other peoples work - and I don't even like LOTR.
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Must be beneath you I guess. Case closed indeed.
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you are hilarious. you've picked one scene of drivel to compare and it is an almost automatic shot (360 around a tower to the top? NO WAY! Who would have ever thought of that except EVERYONE!) Such a pointless argument yet you seem to think it is the most important thing in the world. Thats like saying other filmakers have copied the fade to black before credits or the freezing the last frame and running credits over it. Terrible argument.
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doesn't really defend any argument at all. A lot of hacks don't make it okay to be a hack.
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would enjoy the quicker, crappy Anderson films to seeing the long drawn out boring LotR films again. At least I would drink and watch them for free on TV anyways.
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great timewasters.
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I know who to avoid the next time I want to have a well-reasoned discussion. Cause usually what people do to prove their point, see, is find more than one example to back up their argument. That way, if the other side is unfamiliar with my first example, I can use a second one that can then be discussed. Because if I tried to use the other person's lack of knowledge of a specific example as proof that they are wrong, why, I'd just be an idiot without an argument.
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That *disproves* my accusation that Anderson is a hack.
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there's your argument won D.Vader
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Cameron, Spielberg, Scott, Nolan, Jackson, then below them you've got the Sommers, Cohen, Moore, Lawrence, Proyas, etc. Anderson would fall between that group and lets call Uwe Boll the absolute bottom. And we're arguing the artistic merits of the guy?
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actually taking place? Someone give the top a spin because if we're actually debating whether W.S. is a hack, I've got to be fucking dreaming.
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its fun, you should all join in. its like a weird text funhouse
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I said Anderson stole a shot straight out of the Matrix. Killik didn't disagree, but demands I say yes or no to Peter Jackson stealing a shot from Mortal Kombat. I say I don't know what shot he's talking about, I haven't seen the movie in over 10 years, so I can't say yes or no to how similar the shots are. Instead of providing another example, he claims I have double standards because I can't say yes or no. And fin. (I think even in the end, Killik would agree Anderson is a hack)
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That slo-mo shot of sunglasses being thrown toward the camera is straight out of Mission Impossible 2, I'm pretty sure of that. And I think that slo-mo shot of ninja stars flying at the camera was already done last year in Ninja Assassin, but I could be wrong there.
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Are slo-mo. Go figure.
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And you're a fool for believing it is, for demanding someone to comment on a situation he is unfamiliar with. Its the epitome of foolishness.
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Got a film shoot to be at. Adios muchachos.
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Is that it's been done so definitavely well with the Richard Lester films. It sort of makes anything that comes after that's dealing with the same source material redundant. The 1993 Musketeers film is almost a Robin Hood Prince of Thieves sequel and the Musketeer is pretty bad in my opinion. No, it's a steaming pile of shit I guess.The Lester films have great casts and a great atmosphere - they're funny as hell and when it comes to the end dramatic and dark as hell.I'm not a huge Anderson fan - I thought Event Horizon was probably a decent film stymied by editing rather than anything else but nothing else he's done has really registered with me.
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Aug 11, 2010 2:59:35 PM CDT
I could be wrong but didn't the Musketeers...
by harryknowlesnonexistentinceptionreview
...take place in France??? This ain't friggin Die Schwei Swordenmiestermenschen or some shit is it?
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Now you're defending Paul WS Anderson? Have you no concept of editing, story, or character development? Every time you open your mouth you reaffirm that you have no idea what you're talking about.
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If I had a gun with only two bullets and I was in a room with W.S., Hitler and Bin Laden...I would shoot W.S. twice.
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Anderson is nowhere near as good a director as Jackson (Why not put Herzog up against Boll?), and it was probably the studio who decided on the matrix shot. The tower shot films may be under the same studio, but studios only distribute and fund. The producer has the say on cinematographers and these two films do not have the same producer. Jackson did not/would not rip off the shot.
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Damn I had to post a comment didn't I? Now it looks like I do care. For the record fuck Anderson and his non-talented cow of a wife
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yeah, if I was going to film an epic fantasy trilogy, I would watch a video-game adaptation for inspiration. Jackson wouldn't have had to stick only with New Line films, he could have gotten hold of any film he wanted. And like I said, it's likely the shots were down to a cinematographer/photographer and not the directors. You can carry on liking Anderson's films, but I wish you all the luck in the world in defending him as a quality director, because you'll always be in the minority and maybe one day when you're older you'll see why. Out.
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the dictionary will tell you all you need to know.
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they go the BANANA SPLITS Three Musketeers route (they obviously won't)!
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For what he is? A hack? Yeah, he's an excellent hack. One of the best. And art is not always subjective. For example, if you say The Godfather is a bad movie... you're simply wrong. Some movies transcend opinion. Don't get me wrong, I like some bad movies, and dislike some good ones. But my feelings don't make me right. I'm not a huge fan of Clockwork Orange, but I can still recognize it as a great movie. I enjoy Event Horizon, but I know it's the product of a hack. The acting is atrocious, the editing is inconsistent, and it has massive plot holes. These are technical flaws.
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The spiralling upwards shot is in tone with a fantasy gothic vibe that tries to encompass a "dark tower", therefore it's concievable that both directors came up with it individually.
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about Anderson. After all there is nothing new anyway. Its all a variation of whats been done. Is every POV shot a rip off of Hitchcock, or the reverse zoom track shot he employed on Vertigo which was used famously in Jaws, and countless films since? Can we just admit that he's the Shawn Levy of genre directors? A guy who brings nothing to the table, but still gets hired film after film. Yes, their films make money and have some degree of popularity. America's Got Talent is the number one show all summer, so what?You say poTAYto, I say poTAHto. Lets call the whole thing off.
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is probably the best video-game to film adaptation ever made, but if you consider how bad all the others have been, it's hardly a challenge.
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I really struggle to warm to most of Stanley Kubrick films, objectively I realise they are great, technically astounding films but subjectively I find his characterisation a bit cold and unappealing to me.Sorry, being a giant fucking pedantAnd much as it pains me to get into the did Peter Jackson rip off Mortal Kombat debacle - well, there's a fairly large difference from having an establishing shot and a character copying an almost exact stunt. However - to be honest Raiders of the Lost Ark - which is both subjectively and objectively for me the best film ever made did have a Truck Chase that was pretty much designed to showcase a series of narrative stunts by Yakuma Canutt in either Stagecoach or one of the Zorro serials (or both).Doing this in itself doesn't make you a hack - Spielberg isn't a hack in the slightest, but I guess you have to make a decision based on the quality of work that surrounds the homage / rip-off. Anderson does seem to like his movies, all the Blade Runner background stuff in Soldier seems to show that. I think he's this generations Peter Hyams - not a good director and not really that bad a director either. I think that where he does differ is in the fact that he seems to have obtained a more elevated position in the movie making world than he should have.
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can YOU prove that Jackson ripped off the scene from MK, and that Anderson didn't rip off the scene from The Matrix?
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Canutt, not performed by him.
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Before I start, you should know that I liked Mortal Kombat. It's still a bad movie, but it's a fun bad movie. I can't believe I'm being asked to explain why MK is bad, but here goes: 1. The acting is amateurish from all parties involved. You can't deny that. The guy who plays Liu Kang is particularly bad, and he's the star. 2. The effects are atrociously unconvincing (reptile, for example), which detracts from being immersed in a fantasy world. 3. The dialogue: "Brother? Wait! You're not my brother!" No shit Sherlock, you're brother's dead... did you forget that you just saw the villain TURN INTO HIM? 4. Editing. There is no concept of scene progression or buildup. 5. Takes itself too seriously and lacks humor. Aside from Lambert's "Hahaha... sorry" line, everything in this film is way too serious. They had an opportunity for humor with Johnny Cage, who should be the Han Solo type character, but the writing is too inept to allow him to be funny. It's like it's written by a five year old. "I'm surrounded by a bunch of guys who probably want to kick my ass... it's like being back in high school." Do you actually find that funny?
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Aug 11, 2010 4:58:06 PM CDT
Btw Killik, you seem to misunderstand the term "Fanboy"
by mattmanreturns
I'm clearly not a fanboy in this case, as I'm criticizing Anderson. You're the fanboy here, since you seem to hold a director widely regarded as a hack in high regard.
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The shots in MK and The Matrix is the one being referenced, ripped off, whatever is pretty much one of the iconic shots from the Matrix. It was in the trailers, heavily showcased in film review shows etc. The spiraling tower shot - wasn't.
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Have fun in there.
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Have you people seen Boogie Nights or There Will be Blood.
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Aug 11, 2010 5:02:40 PM CDT
And I seriously doubt Peter Jackson even SAW Mortal Kombat
by mattmanreturns
It did okay, but it wasn't some huge, critically acclaimed movie. Peter Jackson doesn't even fit the age group. I was a teenager at the time, and so was everyone else in the theater.
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Anderson rips off everyone else. Event Horizon ripped off the Shining and Alien. AVP ripped off... well you know... Aliens and Predator. Resident Evil is ripping off the Matrix now. Name one bit of originality in an Anderson film and I'll find you its source. But don't seriously try to convince me that he has influence on greater filmmakers. Please.
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What a brilliant rebuke.
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You can't prove me wrong any more than I can prove you wrong. And with no actual evidence on either side there's no way either of us can ever win this argument.
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It was Anderson's debut and starred Jude Law. Just wondering...
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Are the only 'original' things that he's done. Everything else has been an adaptation or remake. So, he's not an original man.
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I'll give Anderson a shot. I don't know why, but I just ahve a good feeling about this one.Heck I liked Peter Hyams' Musketeer a good deal. I mean it was gorgeously shot like a moving Carravagio and the fight choreography was pretty fresh. Anderson can certainly be horrible but there's usually something fairly cool or pleasurable that can be taken away from each of his films at least. Even if it's just Milla Jovovich sands clothing for a few ticks. Death Race was better than it had any right to be and Event Horizon was solid. Not that this is a glowing endorsement but AVP-Requiem made Anderson's look like Casablanca by comparison. So things could be much worse.
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A mess, it's kind of a mixture of all the Trainspotting influenced films that were about at the time - pertaining to show a gritty Britian but so heavily stylised that - and if I remember a review said it was like it was set in Gotham City by way of Blade Runner.
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Aug 11, 2010 5:18:37 PM CDT
MattmanReturns - I don't disagree with you but...
by the_genteel_gentile
Name one bit of originality in any film from the last 50 years and I'll find you its source. Anderson is just too obvious I suppose.
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The problem is he doesn't give anything his own style, much like Ratner. He just carbon copies and expects people to swallow it. Nolan's hallway scene in Inception may be inspired by the Matrix, but he filmed it with his own style and originality. The scene in that new Resident Evil trailer is taken DIRECTLY from the Matrix.
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Aug 11, 2010 5:28:37 PM CDT
Am I the only one that confuses Anderson's Shopping with
by the_genteel_gentile
Stephen Norrington's The Last Minute? In my mind both vague recollections have melded into one. They both had Jason Isaacs. Come to think of if, Stephen Hopkins' Dangerous Game is also in my blended stew memories of those films.
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That dude needs to make a comeback. He made one of the coolest comic book films of all time, and followed it up with one of the worst comic book films of all time. Sigh.
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Do you have Aspergers Syndrome? I only ask because of your obsession with getting a yes or no answer from people.
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Isn't he now "rebooting" The Crow? Joy...
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I don't think it's fair to say the hallway fight in Inception has anything to with The Matrix. For one it has gravity and the reasons behind it's "moving around" and the reasons for the fight itself are wholly different. Granted, Nolan says he wrote Inception ten years ago...
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...that bottomless pit in Garden State. and i mean right inside it so Anderson and anyone who would even consider working with him would fall in and disappear for all eternity.
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WANTING to like it. Hell, it included Joan Allen and Ian McShane along with 'ol Mr. Stubblehead, so I knew it had some charasmatic acting talent involved. And they were good in their barely ONE dimensional roles, with no cliche left unturned. And the car interior scenes, or cockpit scenes were shot in a hyper jittery style along with sharp mini zooms that were supposed to imply fast dangerous action, but simply became annoying in the obvious manner of aping Greengrass. It not that Anderson copies. It's just that he's..SO..FUCKIN..OBVIOUS. And Killik, I haven't seen Mortal Kombat since VHS days, nor do I care to rewatch it. And Mattman pretty much explained Event Horizon's flaws.
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Well, I'm not sure that sequence would exist as it does without the Matrix. Then again, there were plenty of films that influenced the Matrix as well. So it's all a healthy collaboration of ideas in the end... and it's about how you use them. Anderson doesn't understand that. As with any hack, he sees a cool moment in a film, and wants to do it himself, but doesn't offer anything new. In fact he doesn't even seem to understand what made the idea cool in the first place, so it comes off as a carbon copy, but without any life. Also, the great directors understand that character is the most important factor. You care about Trinity when she's in the plummeting helicopter. You cheer when Joseph Gordon Levitt wins that hallway fight (at least, the audience did all 3 times I saw it). That's the most important thing. I've never cared about a single Anderson character, because they don't feel like people to me. They feel like actors reading stilted dialogue.
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I absolutely loved Death Race, but then the story is such a blatant rip-off of Shawshank that I couldn't not. Even Stephen King rated it as one of his favourite films that year alongside The Dark Knight and Slumdog Millionaire. Skimm, watch it again, but this time make sure your brain is unplugged and lower your expectations.
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Aug 11, 2010 5:52:01 PM CDT
MattmanReturns - True, but Anderson was doing that kind of
by the_genteel_gentile
Anime/Video game inspired camera moves before the Watchowski's made it their bread and butter. It's just that the Watchowski's did it better. When I think of Anderson's style, I think of sort of gimmicky-cool stuff like that shot in the Matrix. It actually distracts from the story but it's pretty cool. Lot's of unmotivated light and lazers. Anderson's always doing shots that move directly into an eye or flys around the geography of a given set in a physically impossible camera move. Always some gimmicky shot that takes the viewer out of the reality of the scene. Usually some horrible throbbing industrial rock-techno accompanies these feats. Not unlike the Wachowskis. I think Anderson definitely does have his own aesthetic, it's just rather gaudy and contrived is all. I think he burried some of these baser instincts on Event Horizon and Death Race, which is why they're his best work.
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Killik is still trying to find evidence that Anderson doesn't rip off other film makers. He's going to be gone some time...
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I don't feel like reading back through all this crap.
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You know the way the race was designed in Death Race, with the over-the-top car designs and especially the "power-ups" that have to be driven over, I'd rather play Death Race the videogame, if one existed (yeah I know about Twisted Metal), than watch the movie again.
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Aug 11, 2010 6:27:47 PM CDT
I always thought Anderson would make a good Production Designer.
by the_genteel_gentile
That's where his talent seems to truely reside. Or as skimm alluded, a video game designer.
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Everything comes from somewhere previous. Everything. I guess the complaint would be not that it comes from somewhere but that it doesn't build on it. It should build upon what has come before instead of regress into a faint imitation of it. So I do see both points. You're both right I think.
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he's lost the argument.
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PAUL WS ANDERSON film, telling a story that's been told a bazillion times already by more talented film makers than him which is in 3D and will probably see it's posters saying "The Three D Musketeers"!!! Not cool. Not news.
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nuff said
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When I saw that trailer for the new Resident Evil movie I immediately thought 'ripoff' when I saw that particular shot.
As for Peter Jackson, I seriously doubt he's even seen Mortal Kombat. Besides, the shot that Killik keeps mentioning sounds pretty generic to me. I'm sure it's been in some other movie before Mortal Kombat too. -
That he cannot come up with ANY OTHER EXAMPLE to support his viewpoint. When I said I could not in good conscience, and according to the expected rules of reasoned debate, comment on something I have no knowledge of (which any intelligent person would respect) he STILL boils it down to a yes or no answer and claims victory. That, my friends, is a fool.
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Peter Jackson borrows from Mortal Kombat in LOTR. Not to mention 50 million other films!
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That massive zoom out in Outworld
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The giant beam of light in Outworld
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never have seen Mortal Kombat... that's the dumbest thing I've ever read in my life.
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Peter Jillson borrowed for the LOTR trilogy.
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Mad Max's face shot being carried by the helicopter
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Indiana Jones laughing then not, cos of his Dad
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That shot of the little girl remembering Ghost Dog
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Army of Darkness
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The Giant Advertisements in the Simpsons killing people
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Peter Jackson's a total hack. And a thief.
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Get away from her, you bitch
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Or is there a pre-existing list somewhere else?
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I have some bizarre place in my brain where I remember things from movies. And Simpsons quotes!
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All artists steal, hell, Tarantino makes a living out of it!
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"...some of the locations we'll be seeing in Paul W.S. Anderson's forthcoming 3D MUSKETEERS movie" what could it be? Oh, I know, "we". No, "we" will not be seeing those locations in that film, because "we" wouldn't touch a Paul W.S. Anderson film with a 10-foot-pole, and "we" certainly wouldn't let Pawl U.A. Snderson's certain-to-be-horrid "reimagining" of the 3 Musketeers to enter our thoughts again after this article.Nice locations though, some day they'll have to shoot a 3 Musketeers film there that isn't destined for absolute failure on every level that matters.
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I can't believe PWSA did that movie. He actually made a decent movie. How did that happened? What happened to the guy, he was repleaced by a pod or something, body snatchers type?
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So everybody can.
Hahaha "once". No pun intended. -
Its funny, the other day I was trying to think of the most disappointing director, and Lee Ramahori was one of the names that popped in my head.
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powerful films I think I've ever seen. XXX: State of the Union... not so much.
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La Haine, also powerful. Babylon A.D... not so much.
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MULHOLLAND FALLS is not too bad either. And Jennifer Connelly has at least one topless scene in that movie, not exactly a bad thing.
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THE CRIMSON RIVERS is pretty good, and the man has quite an extensive carrer in France, most of his movies never having been released in USA. And he's Amelie's boyfriend.
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... the 3 Muskateers vs Predator. The idea was that the gun in Predator 2 presented to Glover once belonged to d'Artagnan.
Aramis: iz bullshit! Pathos iz no fraid a no mousieur
Porthos: there iz something in those guillotines. An it aint no mousieur. We is all gonna die
But these days the studios only let him screw up one beloved franchise at a time.
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Yeah, both those films were okay.
Kasso DID get to kiss Audrey Tautou, major respect to him! -
his Oscar win to roles in important projects, just like Halle Berry, Forrest Whitaker and Adrian Brody.You know the only reason this is being made is because it's in 3D, and the heroes of the piece fight when long pointy objects, and swinging from chandeliers will look cool also.
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Raquel Welch. Charleton Heston. Richard Chamberlain. Seriously, how are they going to beat that cast? This is a non-starter.
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He makes studios money. Say whatever you want, you can't argue that fact.
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They're not even going to beat Kiefer Sutherland, Oliver Platt, Charlie Sheen, Chris O'Donnell, Tim Curry and Rebecca De Mornay.
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