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J.J. Abrams’ Bid To Transform 2010 West Virginia Into 1979 Ohio!! Do New Photos Offer Any Clues About SUPER 8??
J.J. Abrams is writing and directing a movie titled “Super 8,” somehow tied to a chunk of Nevada’s mysterious Area 51 getting relocated to Ohio in 1979.
The project, overseen by Steven Spielberg and starring 12-year-old Elle Fanning and 45-year-old Kyle Chander, has been shrouded in mystery. But perhaps this report from West Virginia offers an additional clue or two:
A buddy of mine snagged some pictures from the area where Super 8
begins shooting this week...in the Marland Heights area of Weirton,
WV.
Attached are photo's of: The "Lillian Heights Pharmancy" ; "Lillian
Heights Post Office" ; Interior shots of the Lillian Heights 7-11 &
Post Office (once a Marland Heights Market & Ice Cream Shop) ; Lillian
Middle School (once an old Marland Heights Primary School) and some
shots of the 70's era buses behind the building ; Arcade from downtown
Lillian, OH (actually shot in the older section of Main Street,
Weirton, WV) ; Used Car Sales lot in the same vicinity. The last photo
is the older area of Weirton, where the Arcade, Used Car Lot and most
of the city shots will be taking place downtown.
Filming begins this week in the Marland Heights and there will be
night shots around the school area. The casting calls are being sent
out between Sept 20th and the end of October so we're hoping that
sometime in the next couple weeks we hear something and be a part of
Hollywood! Enjoy the photo's, we'll see if we can get some shots of
cast or crew in the coming weeks! If ya use this, I'm Cookie and my
buddy's name is 3Huck, thanks AICN!
Hi there, I used to live in West Virginia and got the casting notices all the time from the Film office (still do even though I live in Los Angeles now) And this popped up in my inbox the other day. Might be useful info to have about the Paramount filming going on in Weirton. If you can use this, call me 10 Minutes of Silence.
J.
Please see notice below. Please direct all inquiries to the email address provided in the instructions below. Thanks!
Major Motion Picture from Paramount - Call for Stand-Ins / Photo Doubles. Paid positions. Must be available for 12 hour(**) days and or nights Monday through Friday. Filming takes place in and around Weirton, WV mid-September through mid-October 2010. Minors must be WV residents. Please submit headshot/resume AND current snapshots (with NO eye makeup) – full body, profile and head and shoulders to ParamountPickMe@gmail.com. In the body of the email, include your full name, D.O.B,, conflicts, phone numbers and email. No experience necessary. A great way to get on-set movie experience! Positions start September 20.
(**Reduced hours for minors, per labor law restrictions.)
Stand-ins/ Photo Double Positions available:
FEMALES: 18-25 years old
5’3 - 5’7
Blonde hair
Blue eyes
MALES: 18-25 years old
4’8 - 6’0
“Super 8” is due next year.
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I mean FOIST!
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My mind is blowing from the potential of those blimmin amazing shots that finally reveal the huuuuge scope that JJ is going for. <p> My Vote? <p> Mission accomplished JJ, and kudos to AICN for yet another world exclusive. Take a bow Harry....
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btw super 8 sounds interesting.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 4:52 a.m. CST
Is this going to be the 21st century “Gremlins”?
by NomoredirtyjokespleaseweareYanks
Obviously the answer is yes. JJ is up there with the greatest directors of all time. Forget Peckinpah, Lean, Kurosowa and Kubrick. <p> Thanks to AICN I know that the best filmmakers ever to exist on this planet are Rodriguez, JJ, Eli Roth and whoever has just phoned Harry.
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How many times a week can AICN post Jar Jar Abrams related "news"? How can AICN not be accused for being on Jar Jar Abrams's payrole?
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Mothman Prophecies forever!
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you fucking reply to it all with your jar jar bullshit. Pot. Kettle. Fool.
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Not at all and you know it. Cheap tactics only look bad on you. And if you have a problkem with the Jar Jar thing, next time chose a better director to admire.
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...that convenience store is obviously from the mid-80's or so and the traffic lights on the long horizontal poles are also off, they should be strung on cables. But, no one's really going to notice, anyway.
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I was never done before in the whole history of cinema!! Jar Jar Abrams always come up with the most inovative things imaginable!
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does not automatically make them an Abrams fan. Maybe they just find your shtick as obnoxious as you find JJ's.
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What's with all the hate for JJ Abrams and this unreleased film?
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since WV is about 30 years behind everyone else.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 6:17 a.m. CST
That would be weird to have a movie filmed on your block.
by CreasyBear
"You lived in the Poltergeist house?!" "Yeah, but they only took over for a few days for the outside shots. Sucks that they had to compact it into an infinitely small point of glowing light, though."
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Am I to take it you're not a fan of JJ Abrams's Star Trek movie?? <p> Please tell us all why you feel this way.
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I've liked some of JJ's stuff. Other things not so much. In fact, the obnoxious Asimov promotes JJ more than any movie site or magazine I've ever seen! ha <p>And for the record, Asimov, some of us like seeing set design for up coming movies, no matter how dull you think it is. Fuck off if it's not your thing. It's as simple as that. Stop being such a fucking child about it all.
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"Yeah. It's actually just two blocks up from the Poltergeist house."
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Funny how some think there is a lot of set design in these shots. There isn't. Thats how the place looks. Weirton saw its last heydey in the early 80's.
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I'm down the road from where they shot a lot of Shaun of the Dead. Much fun was had watching them film for a day.
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I see AsimovLives is using his razor-sharp sarcasm again. But now Nolan&Abrams are working together! How about them apples!
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out Michael Bay was directing the movie on your street. Then you're checking that your insurance is in order. Turn the lawn sprinklers on and get the fire extinguishers handy.
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what the fuck was with the animal porn in Transformers 2!?
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would actually be pretty legitimately scary. Though from what I hear, he is very, very careful not to let anything go awry on his set. He runs such a tight ship.
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Like that alien bunny in Star Wars, right!? The one who was really annoying and useless? So that means Abrams is annoying and useless, too, right? I get it! Like all good satire, it's both true AND funny as hell! And like any joke, it gets even truer and funnier as heller the more you repeat it!<p>"Jar Jar Abrams." HA! Are there no limits to the brilliance of your acute and sharp satirical observations?!<P>"Jar Jar Abrams". Hoho. You, sir, should be in comedy. Who am I kidding, you already are, right? You're probably Jay Leno or Bill Maher or someone equally brilliant and edgy. <P>Kudos! By making fun of his name you have proven once and for all, incontrovertibly, that JJ Abrams is incompetent.
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Well . . . I'm sure things will pick up for you, eventually. Chin up. Recession's a bitch."
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they should have shot this in Douglas,Ga where i once lived. that place had it's heyday in 1978 and has been stuck 30 years behind the world too. the main street is unchanged and most stores (empty or open) still use their retro signage. i go back and take pics for that reason all the time.
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Will the "no rollerblades" sign be in the movie? If I remember correctly, those things were a nineties trend, not from the seventies.
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JJ and crew probably could have rented the entire town of Douglas Ga for a six pack of Pabst and a bag of Red Man chewing tobacco given to City Hall.
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No Dasani water machines in '79. Paying for "premium" water hadn't been thought up yet. And is that Pepsi machine from the period? Thee could kill believability in my opinion...
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The government would move anything top secret from Area 51, located in one of the remotest sections of the country, to Ohio, which is fairly dense.
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Because that way Abrams can skimp on special effects cost, just like he did in that insufferable crapfest Cloverfield.
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yeah i hope they are going to take those away, i imagine they will though it's odd they would go ahead and paint that signage and not have taken away the modern vending machines by now. the rollerblading sign is inside, probably recently taken off of the wall, and not yet put away. ditch the ice cream sign already. and i swear to god, if 8 kids get super powers in this, i'll puke.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 7:20 a.m. CST
HOPE HE GETS RID OF THE DASANI VENDING MACHINE.
by Half-Baked-Goggle-Box-Do-Gooder
Kind of a 2000's giveaway. Unless his aliens melt like the fucking Wicked Witch when THEY get doused, too.
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THIS IS THE SET FOR SHOOTING OF A MOVIE CALLED"DARLINGS" IN A SMALL STEEL TOWN IN THE 70'S.
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Where in this article does it praise Abrams as some kind of genius? All it does is give some location photos, like AICN does with other films as well. You are really taking this Abrams hate crusade a bit too far dude.
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both critically and commercially, just because I know it'll drive Asimov crazy.
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I mean, the guy doesn't even like pizza. Pizza for Christs sake! The greatest food that man has yet invented. What up with that Pedro?
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... I have to say, they pictures look great! I can name at least 3 towns locally in Ohio that are indistinguishable from the photos. But, c'mon, JJ. Come to Ohio! I'd be happy to work for you!
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In Asimov's defense, I believe once he mentioned that he is allergic to cheese or dairy, cannot remember which. So why would he like something that makes him sick? Come on now.
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Are you raging with jealous, AsimovLives? That JJ Abrams has created more shows, directed more movies than you ever will in your pathetic troll life? Go ahead and comment something defending yourself about how Cloverfield sucked, or something else pathetic. I'm sure it'll make you sleep at night.
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..but I have a feeling this could be very good. Im loving the fact its set in the 70s.
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Not even the whole thing. Just an individual wrinkle on a tiny shriveled dick. pathetic.
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for films. There are plenty of areas that still look like they haven't been updated since 1979!
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But really, hitching our geek wagon to this white dwarf of a directing star (who's more about slapping his name on every TV pilot imaginable and cannibalizing the directing tricks of a mid-80s Duran Duran video) doesn't seem the prudent move.
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Hmmm...
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Sept. 20, 2010, 8:29 a.m. CST
I dont think many of us actually hitch our geek wagon to Abrams
by rogueleader66
I Enjoyed MI III but didn't droll all over it, and I enjoyed Trek as well, but never saw one minute of Lost, Felicity, have no real interest in Undercovers. Sure Abrams has some fans, but he is not universally praised, at least not by a lot of the people I know on this site. Maybe AICN itself loves Abrams, but everyone on here? No way.
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As in "this site's."
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Here's his exact quote (in that fucked up broken English we've all grown so tired of deciphering) on the subject when RPLocke called him lactose intolerant: "No i'm not, i just don't like cheese... like millions others."<p>So I believe I'll continue poking fun at him for his lack of anything resembling good taste (as well as his refusal to learn the difference between 'this' and 'these' after posting ad nauseum for something like a year now). Sorry if it offends you.
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it probably barely has a script.
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...IN WONDERLAND.
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This just seems like an attempt to drum up the same kind of interest and level of hype as was seen for 'Cloverfield'.<p> I watched 'Cloverfield' for the first time earlier this year and, shorn of all hype, it's a pretty shit film in my opinion - I'd rather watch 'Godzilla', given the choice.
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Doesn't offend me at all dude, I just thought he was allergic or something. Hell I cant remember what happened to me yesterday so I am not surprised I cant remember something from months ago!
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Was thinking about pizza I guess..yum yum gimme some.
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"No i'm not really, i just think STAR TREK was entertaining... like millions others."
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when I was 16 in a packed theatre of people who loved it. I was so into it at the time that when I left the theatre I was physically sore because my muscles had been so tense throughout the movie. That kinda shit you don't forget.
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As a fan of Area 51 and UFOolgy Wright Patterson Airforce Base in Ohio is said to have some overflow from Roswell as well as other Ufo crash sites.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 9:11 a.m. CST
I kind of like how this turned into a bash "AsimovLives" thread
by DiscoGodfather
Normally I ignore the personal attacks, but if the dude should have just shut up and let it go a year ago instead of reminding us every time a headline pops up that the letter J appears twice in. I mean, seriously, if the headline was "JJ Abrams' Grandmother Dies Slow Death From Painful, Untreatable Cancer", right after some douchebag posting "FIRST!" would be AsimovLives saying "Serves Jar Jar right for screwing up Star Trek!" Asimov, as one-schtick AICN trolls go, you're a first-ballot Hall of Famer, but maybe it's time to LET IT GO.
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Let me just... process that thought for a moment. Godzilla 1998. Over Cloverfield. Just amazing, the GENIUS of that. Because stating as such requires an absolute control of mind over emotion. It's like killing your own mother.
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That's really sad that you're growing up on mtv bullshit and being told what to like and what to go see. Cloverfield was trash, plain and simple. Think for yourself...if you can.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 9:17 a.m. CST
Sorry Asimov- I just think you're a douchebag. I'm UltraTron.
by UltraTron
I have spoken.
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Anyone who has hitched their geek hopes to Abrams, if there is such a person, must be mightily disappointed. Nothing he's done is very original, not even Fringe, which I think the concept is a stretch (you can tell they TRIED to be original) and it's really only saved by some of the acting. I still am not sure I understand the level of respect, power, and budget that he's able to command in Hollywood. I guess it's a scared town looking for someone to follow and hand the reigns to, so anyone who's part of a few projects that are even mildly successful (and truth be told, he's had more than a few) can rule the town. But my main problem with Abrams is I never get a true sense of his style, or that he really has any balls or TRUE vision whatsoever, like I get from Neill Blomkamp, Christopher Nolan, and even Duncan Jones. To me, he represents a level above generic in genre. But not much higher than that. I feel like he represents middle-of-the-road, highly passable mediocrity. His main function seems to be getting as many projects off the ground as possible, most of which do not come from anything truly original... an example would be, I'm not a huge fan of The Sopranos, but after reading a few interviews, I did get the feeling that it's very much David Chase's show and vision. I NEVER get that feeling with stuff Abrams shepherds, and his directing efforts are, again, competent yet highly generic. Anyway... I saw him in Dinner For Five or whatever Favreau's show was called on IFC, and it felt like he was someone who very much looked up to Spielberg, Lucas, etc., modeled himself after them without ever really having his own voice, is capable of brainstorming new ideas very well, and that he kissed a lot of ass and continues to do so. The impression I got from someone like Blomkamp, a genre director at the start of his career, is someone who is very much his own person with his own vision... he gives you his influences in interviews, but that's as far as it goes... besides that, you mostly hear strong opinions on just about everything. Anyway, I'm done analyzing Abrams... 8mm is more hero-worshipping 're-imagining' from him, and while I'll probably be there opening weekend cause I'm a sucker for aliens OR gremlins, I just expect a fun, easily digestible time at the movies, nothing more, nothing less... cause it's Jar Jar.
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I fell hook, line and sinker for the pre-release hype of Cloverfield and as a result vowed I would NEVER do it again...
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If you enjoyed 'Cloverfield', then good on you; but at least 'Godzilla' had the decency to be far-fetched and average without the 'real found footage' pretense.<p> 'Cloverfield' was just some hateful neo-yuppies acting totally unrealistically and running from blatant set piece to blatant set piece. I mean, considering they were supposed to be heading away from the crowds which you'd think the monster would be attracted to, it did seem as though the monster was following this tiny group around NY...
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Sept. 20, 2010, 9:38 a.m. CST
AsimovLives is going to have a field day when he returns
by KEVIN_COSTNERS_RECYCLED_PISS
And you just know he's going to reply to each and every post.
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Tense and thrilling, a great ride that leaves you wanting more. Obviously a huge suspention of disbelief is required for the 'real life effect', but if you allow yourself to buy into the premise it is a great movie. As for the monster seemingly following the small group around NY, given that the monster was huge and rampaging all over the city it seems obvious to me that the group would keep running into it. Roll on Skyline.
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Why not relocate Area 51 to Ohio, right next door to WV. Sounds like a great idea. There's enough oddity in WV. Coming to mind right off the bat is: Mothman, Flatwoods Monster (aka Braxton County Monster), Silent Hill, and getting eaten by mutant cannibals in Worng Turn. Don't forget JESCO! Oh, those school buses look fairly mid-90's at least. I did go to school in WV in the 70's and remember practically ALL the buses in my area were Internationals.
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...like most of you guys for breakfast...and the next morning he shits out little brown J.J. Abrams collectible statuettes and uses them for BB gun practice while sipping a fine Madeira.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 10:06 a.m. CST
If by "eats talkbackers for breakfast"
by KEVIN_COSTNERS_RECYCLED_PISS
You mean keeps saying the same thing over and over and over again until everyone else gets bored and moves on with their lives then yes, yes he does.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 10:09 a.m. CST
..."You mean keeps saying the same thing over and over...
by FlickaPoo
...and over again until everyone else gets bored and moves on". <P>If that were the case, this thread would be three posts long. Asi isn't even here and he's ruling this talkback.
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This isn't news it's a marketing ploy. <P> ffs somebody spam this shit
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I agree with Cloverfield's flaws. But if I give Cloverfield a 6.5 out of 10, I give Gino a 2. That's how simple it is. What you're saying is basically something like "I prefer 2012 over Fail Safe because, even though both are about the end of the world, 2012 doesn't take it too seriously on a farfetched scenario."
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therefore this movie will suck.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 10:17 a.m. CST
You have to admit, he does go on about Star Trek alot.
by KEVIN_COSTNERS_RECYCLED_PISS
Most people get caught up in a massive argument with him trying to defend it but personally, lifes far too short to care that much about a movie you don't even like.
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...you won't catch me arguing TREK with Asi. I'd rather talk Portuguese wine and Terry Gilliam.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 10:25 a.m. CST
Apparently he's partial to a nice Quinta do Crasto
by KEVIN_COSTNERS_RECYCLED_PISS
But he can be a mean drunk.
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I think I get it. He's like a kid who tells everyone he comes across that he has a secret he can't tell anything about. Every project of his is built around the hype around secrecy of his projects and makes sure that everyone comes to know of the fact that he is working on something secret. I'd like to see, for once, a project by him that truly surprises everyone, one where he is actually able to maintain the secret till it hits the screen.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 10:38 a.m. CST
AsimovLives: Well, at least he's consistent
by HarryKnowlesNonExistentInceptionReview
Obsessive-compulsive, irritating in large doses, but consistent.
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It's not like they went to Canada or Australia to do it cheaper. WV seems just as out of the way as OH, so why not shoot in OH?<p>Maybe it's splitting hairs, but why not give a little to the economy of the place you're supposedly setting your story in?<p>Or, conversely, why not set the story in WV?
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I grew up there. It is freaky to see these pictures. There is only one road in or out of Marlan Heights. It is surrounded by a Steel Mill off of the hill on one side and the Ohio River on the other side. You could throw a rock and hit Steubenville, Ohio from there. Home of Dean Martin and Traci Lords.
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After it's been built up so much it's never as interesting as it seemed it would be. Or like when a friend almost says something but holds back, then you pester them to tell you, and they're all like "it was nothing..it was stupid" and you're all like "come onnn tell mee" and they're all "if I say it now it'll seem really dumb" but you insist and they finally spit it out and you inevitably say "yeah that was kinda lame". Sorta like that onezeroone?
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And that's on my busy days. Imagine what i can do on my lazy days.
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I know part of the fun of AICN is to come here and bitch and argue. However, try to remember what it was like(pre-internet or when you were a kid) to get excited about movies or the fun of anticipating movie concepts. I know set pics are pretty pedestrian, but it can get the imagination rolling a little if you let it. The hype machine is just part of the ride to enjoy.
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As if i would give a shit about what you have to say.
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Doesn't it? I wonder.
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easy joke. sorry.
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You don't get the point, do you? AICN will find any excuse to promote Jar Jar Abrams, even if it's about no-news stuff. They have been doing that just quite often with SUPER 8. A movie whihc, we have learned recently, only now has the leads cast. Tell me how many other movies you lean of so much pre-production stuff? How many other movies get so much news about? Not that many, right? but Jar Jar Abrams fart and AICN runs like wild to know how it smells and make a report and a whole post about it. Not suspicious at all, right? Right! And to make things wors,t this devotion goes to one of the worst, most miserably untalented hacks working today. Way to go, AICN!
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It's the other Nolan. And anything that will be about that show most certainly it will be because of the Nolan, not Abrams. Though Abrams and his team will make everything in their power to make Abrams to be the "genious" who is the sole responsible for the whole show, like he did for LOST.
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I call him Jar Jar Abrams because i have no respect whatsoever for that miserable untalented hack. I don't use names to make a case for why he's untalented. I have writen dozens of thousands of words already about why he and his movies are worthless. And you know that quite well. So, please, stop the smart-arsery, will you? I call him Jar Jar Abrams out of the despise i feel for him. Capisce?
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AICN style.
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Hey Asi! I do like FRINGE, I must say.<BR><BR>I know some of you guys don't like him, but I consider The Choppah a good (albeit bugnuts) friend. <BR><BR>And TB seems so empty without him.
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Back before the internet, whenever an hack we disliekd made a movie, we only knew when they were released, unless you happen to have a subscrition to a movie magazine which was well informed about backstage news. Today with the internet, we are now more prepared with the inevitable bad movie that will come out.
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I watched a few episodes of that FRINGE show, and i have to say, it proves quite well it's the brain child of "genious" hacks Orci and Kurtzman. The series is quite dumb (though it thinks itself smart) but flashy. I do like a lot Anna Torv, but she is not enough to make me watch that retard piece of shit. She deserves better. Hell, they even have the fucking title wrong. The show is not about fringe science, it's about PSEUDO-SCIENCE. Of course, nobody expects that brain trust Orci and Kurtzman can undestand the difference.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 11:09 a.m. CST
Yes, you bring up some interesting points AsimovLives
by KEVIN_COSTNERS_RECYCLED_PISS
But I'd really like to get your take on JJ Abrams' Star Trek reboot. What do you think its merits are and would you say that it did a good job of connecting with exsisting fans while also introducing new comers to the franchise?
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They are one and the same, give or take a few hills here, a few cornfields there.
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It actually gets better as it goes along. I almost gave up because of the stupidity you mentioned. John Noble made me continue watching (his mad-scientist is hypnotic). <BR><BR>But by Season 2, it's really occasionally great. Try to find and watch "White Tulip" guest starring Peter Weller. One of the better, smarter time-travel tales told on TV. Great performances too. <BR><BR>I know you hate Abrams (and there are things to hate), but give FRINGE another go.
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. . . their aren't more UFO nerds chiming in. Lot of people say the shit from Area 51 was moved to the Air Force base in Dayton. I'll be shocked if thats not where the train's heading in the film.
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Seriously...theres parts of that state that are completely untouched by the hand of time. Remember JJ...if you hear Banjo's,paddle(or run or drive) faster!!!
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And makes you come across as rambling and irrational. <P>Capisce?
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The way I actually look at it is "Did GINO make me want to fall asleep; no. Did Cloverfield; yes."<p> Though I will say I was jetlagged - I had only flown to NZ from UK a few days before, and been out on a stag night the previous evening. That doesn't excuse the fact that I hated every single character in the film though, and didn't give a shit if they lived or died, and felt absolutely no sense of excitement while watching the film at all.
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I don't know any 18-year-olds who are that short unless they're certified midgets. And if there's a midget in this movie, my interest just skyrocketed.
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Asimov, we know nothing we say will change how you are, but consider this, and this is coming from someone who does not bash you and has respect for you.<P>Name calling is just plain silly, bordering on immature, and you are above such things. If you have true confidence in your beliefs (and we all know you do) then name calling just makes you seem childish. It's like the kid in the school yard who runs around calling a kid stupid head or whatever over and over....name calling in your case is far from necessary because we all know how you feel about Abrams, and calling him Jar Jar is not driving the point home any more than if you just called him Abrams. All I am saying is that it doesn't add anything to your arguments on him. If anything it takes away from it. I know you won't agree with me, but I am telling you how I see it, that's all.
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Cloverfield: Stupid,meaningless title. Pretense that it's a love story? Tell that to the chick they shotgun to death because of the predominate sci-fi plot taking place in the film involving monsters taking over the city/world to such extremes that there is no longer central park in new york. A monster never explained. So basically you can redeem the whole thing with a ps3 3D move enabled D-Box game involving the army VS these things. Show us what happens that destroyed central park forever to where it's now formally know as that. That sounds like world monster take-over shit to me. Have it play from several perspectives including the monster where you have to walk/crawl with 2 move controllers and pickup people etc. I still wouldn't fucking buy it though. Ps3 is hacked now so I would never pay for Jar Jar Abram's shit. ...I said I would never pay that stupid hack Jar Jar Abrams any money.... Holy shit that feels great! I totally forgive ya Asimov. Something about calling him Jar Jar activates endorphin centers in my brain too. You guys should try it! Oh no wait a minute I forgot. I was just smoking pot at the same time I was typing this.
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If old, are the same people who make the "I'd tell you but I'd have to kill you" har har's at offices all over the country. If they're young they often watch anime and cry foul the misunderstanding of the asian cultures by westerners from their bedrooms in Pittsburgh.
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I earned the right to namecalling him, because i payed to watch the fucking movie he made. I'm a payed consumer, and i got served shit. Fucker will have it until i get tired, and i'm not getting tired anytime soon. Capisce?
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I have to leave that to another time, because i'm not in the mood right now to repeat what i have already said LAST WEEK. Sorry.
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Asimov goes to away from the talkback to shoot what must be the cheapest tequilla he could find, THEN blasts back onto the boards with sloppy writing and grammar; totally nullifying any impact his points might have had. Performance art at it's best! Garbblegarbble JarJar sux blaharrg voooommitonhim mmmffgh..classic
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No doubt that John Noble does great things in the series. The man is extremely watchable, adn he steals the damn show. I'd say, the show is quite very well cast. No worries about the actors. But i have sene episodes from both first and second season, and boy, there's not a single one i see where a major retard stupidity pops up. It's useless to watch anymore of it, there's always something every stard and stupidn coming out. Really, that show is the result of idiots trying to sound smart. I don't hate Abrams, i despise him. And same thing with his two assclowns Orci and Kurtzman. Those clowns' names in the show makes me have as much desire to watch any more of it as i have to contract AIDS. I'm much better off it. And if i ever feel the need to watch good TV, i pop my DVD of ROME, thank you very much, i don't need any crap made by Orci, Kurtman and El Jar Jar.
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I'd love to see you write in portuguese, english professor.
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... this portuguese never mistakes "they're" with "their", unlike EVERY AMERICAN i ever seen in here. So there.
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I can't even be arsed to have the conversation with you again.
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I seem to remember somehting about eating tonka trucks and a purple suit and candyland or something.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 1:06 p.m. CST
You guys remember when Spielberg used to associate with good dir
by AsimovLives
Remember when Spielberg produced movies for the likes of Joe Dante, young Robert Zemeckis, Barry Levinson, Richard Donner, you know, really good directors? Nowdays, Spielberg only associates himself with the worst hacks in Hollywood, Mickey Bay and Jar Jar Abrams! I mean, what he hell? What went wrong? Money is all it matters for him now? Talent no longer a factor? The Island, two Transformers and one Crystal Skullfuck and now Jar Jar Abrams. I'm not recognizing Spielberg anymore. Was he replaced by a pod or something?
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And who told you i ever had any interest in having a conversation with you?
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Sure, noone's denying you your right, Asimov.<P>I'm just saying you should be aware how you come across by doing that. You know, resembling a petulant child, making your entire line of argument basically moot, etc. That sort of stuff. <P>But I'm sure that was intentional. <P>You are, btw, hilarious. <p>Hugsnkisses.
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If you look carefully at the 2nd pic, The united states post office In the stonework on the wall by the door you can see an alien, holding some kind of weapon?? look carefully???????
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hopefully they don't film the sidewalk. Handicap accessible sidewalks like that didn't exist in 1979.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 1:51 p.m. CST
where do they get all the 1979 supermarket products from?
by DioxholsterReturns
all that stuff where do you get it?
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This is being shot pretty close to where I live. =x
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for me to poop on
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if you say you despise jj abrams, why do you continue to come on here. at least explain why you do despise him so much. did fire you or something. did he put a gun in your face. did he take away your girlfirend in high school. your not doing a very good job of turning people around to your argument. if you are trying to get people to hate jj abrams.
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werent you megan fox pussy juice?
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munich. it has a great opening and has a great cast and there are some outstanding moments in the film. but it is obvious that this was the berg's last ever film as a film maker. I was bored to tears by the terminal. i found that movie to be utterly empty and vaccous. I am part of that generation who was wowed by star wars and ET and indiana jones. there were moments of brilliance in Saving private and one scene that was the most gripping thing speilberg has put on film. I cannot wait to see what the berg does with tin tin. or what peter jackson does with tin tin either. but yeah the end of the 20th century was not a great period for the berg.
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Suck an 18-wheeler full of dicks. FACT!
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Hey dude I live in Douglas and its obvious you haven't been around for a while. It would at least take a few kegs and about a kilo of Blow. We have moved uptown.......lol. Ok maybe a few hookers thrown in for good measure.
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Way to look professional and trustworthy, next thing they'll tell you to fax them a check to Nigeria.
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STARGATE UNIVERSE SEASON 2 IS STARTING ON SEPTEMBER 28TH! BITCHES!
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I wish JJ could do a Silent Hill 2. It would be great.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 3:15 p.m. CST
DERAIL!!!!!!!!! i used that word for a reason people!
by DioxholsterReturns
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one of the best horrors better than cloverfuck
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http://wp.me/pZjm4-9t <P> what do you think? better than AVATAR right?
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Or ramp up the dosage, depending on how bunched up his panties are right now. What a douche. This looks interesting and will at least warrant a rental one day.
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no way JJ not again.
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Keep up the good work, Asi! <BR><BR>Keep the faith, brother! You know what you like and what you don't like. Don't let 'em cut ya down!
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when you can catch a random flick and it turns out to be original and good. my dick loved that.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 4:12 p.m. CST
a world without stargate is a world not worth living
by DioxholsterReturns
i cant believe there was a time when stargate didnt exist. how did people live? how?!!
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go home fucker!!!!!
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Then we'd really see some fireworks around here.
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I BET YOU LIKE PUTTING SMALL FURRY ANIMALS INTO YOUR RECTUM TOO.
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I BET YOU LIKED BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER AND WEAR PINK PANTIES THAT MATCH ASIMOVLIVES
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I BET YOU PICK YOUR NOSE AND EAT BOOGERS
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YOUD PROBABLY LET A PARROT GIVE YOU A BLOWJOB
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YOU PROBABLY PUT KETCHUP ON YOUR RAT SHIT TACOS
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Just wondering why the Gremlins movie was referenced.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 5:22 p.m. CST
because if you go and see this movie
by CAPTAIN_AMERICAS_COCK_SHAPED_HELMET
at the midnight opening, you will turn into AsimovLives and come here and bitch about the scene where the alien farts and the little girl laughs and says "e.t. farts home"
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I'm new to this site but after reading your posts, you come across as a spurned lover of his. Did he not return your calls after fucking you up the ass?
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1979 rules out the kids seeing E.T. at the drive-inn. Before they accidentally capture a quick snip of the alien on film while making a homemade movie- and that homemade super 8 flick could have homaged "E.T." <P> Makes me kind of sad because that would make a killer play out. How killer would it be to have the kids discover the evidence of an alien on their homemade super 8 fanvideo attempt of "E.T. 2" These kids decide to lie to the parentals ala- tell them everyone's staying over whats his or her names house and off they go into the woods for the weekend to find the squashy guy- Hoping to befriend him with reese's pieces and a speak and spell. Oh but are they in for some fucked up shit. The alien is not nice and cuddly like the ham head in E.T. So the kids get fucked up and killed one by one until theres just 2 who barely escape, a brother and sister. The Gerdy girl is still trapped and injured out there in the woods. Her Brother is the one who gets out. He is found on the side of a road by a truck driver and taken to the hospital- Guess who the fuck shows up. Black suits baby! They want to know where in the woods he was so they can find his sister before it's too late. the town sends a search and rescue team into the woods, with the blacks taking to the skies. Yeah something like that but nope. 1979. No E.T. homage or bait. Kids thought aliens were good guys after E.T. came out. The logic is totally there for kids to do something dumb, to see them making a homemade ET sequel movie of their own just before they discover that theres a real alien out there, and then they band up goonie style to go get it, only to get fucking killed off as they try to escape the alien and the woods. The woods alone can fuck a person up. The girl who loved tom gordon anyone... <P> Oh well expect the smashing pumpkins song I guess at some point in the film. And we dont even careeeeeee.
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CREATURE DESIGN FOR STEVES ORIGINAL EVIL E.T. SCRIPT.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 6:32 p.m. CST
I didn't know that 1979 Ohioans enjoyed Dasani bottled water...
by MrMysteryGuest
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DONT GET IT!!!
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Sept. 20, 2010, 6:56 p.m. CST
WHY NOT FILM INSIDE RPLOCKES ASSHOLE
by CAPTAIN_AMERICAS_COCK_SHAPED_HELMET
THERES LOTS OF GERBILS IN THERE
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Sept. 20, 2010, 7:26 p.m. CST
BECAUSE THE MILEY CYRUS CONCERT WAS SOLD OUT?
by CAPTAIN_AMERICAS_COCK_SHAPED_HELMET
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WHERE ALIEN BLOOD GETS SPRAYED ON THE DASANI VENDING MACHINE AND IT TURNS INTO AN ALIEN CYBORG AND BREAKS OUT INTO THE STAYIN ALIVE DISCO DANCE WITH A CAMEO BY JOHN TRAVOLTA TRYING TO BUY A DASANI
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If the film is set in Ohio, then film it in Ohio, goddamnit.
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One of these days, the AICN PTB will actually have to do something about this. At this point, it's beyond ridiculous. It just KILLS every single Talkback and nothing further or interesting gets discussed.<P>Yep, it's time to TCB, baby.
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The show is always fresh and exciting. Im so glad its back in Sept. 28th! looking forward to this event!
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Too many items that weren't even created yet appear in those pictures. You would think particular attention would be made for this.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 9:01 p.m. CST
maybe thats the idea, maybe its 1979 mixed with 2010?
by DioxholsterReturns
worlds colliding?
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Maybe its called super 8 because its a cloverfield prequel filmed using an 8mm home movie camera filmed from a townsperson's perspective. After all, there were no home video cameras in 1979.
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who doesnt like trains.
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really isn't a "retard piece of shit" come on. I have a degree in biochemistry and I do enjoy a chuckle at what passes for science on the show, but it's entertainment and they have the luxury of dramatic license. There are a few weak episodes, but it's a well-written and well-made show. Can't wait for the new season to start.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 9:35 p.m. CST
Super 8 is about invincible future beings surveillance
by DioxholsterReturns
oh boy i spoiled it. im in trouble now.
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you can do your own weed right?
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I take it you've never been to WV. Deliverance isnt a movie there...its a how-to documentary. And the banjo joke may be old,but it works in summing up the environment quite well. You would prefer I said that WV is a desolete hell-hole full of ignorance and poverty and inbred rednecks who beat their sisters before they fuck them? 'Cause thats all true...its just not as funny as the banjo joke. Now bend over and squeal like a pig.
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Sept. 20, 2010, 11:19 p.m. CST
I lived in WV for 25 years. Nothin to film, cept the prison...
by Tigger Tales
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Some sci fi shows on TV are so afraid to answer some questions in an hour.
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do you mean create my own strain? I probably could, but that's botany not biochemistry. Walter Bishop is supposed to be a biochemist, but he seems to know rather a lot about physics and pretty much every other branch of science that the plot requires him to know about too.
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Sept. 21, 2010, 12:41 a.m. CST
They want beautiful people to shoot and the whole town is empty?
by ludmir88
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Smells like War of the Worlds.
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UPDATE: Is Super 8 shooting under multiple fake titles? Another report by WOWK has turned up a Paramount production with the title Wickham, described as being "about a group of teenagers who spend summers together and share the struggles of growing older." It is also noted that the press release for Wickham lists an anticipated PG-13 rating. Production is slated to begin in late September in Weirton, but is listed as going for less than a month. Athena Wickham is the name of a longtime Bad Robot Creative Executive. UPDATE #2: Further casting details (under the title Wickham appear in the Weirton Daily Times where it noted that the call is being put out for "middle school and high school aged people, police, soldier and EMT types as well as townspeople." Full details are supposed to be announced today at the town's Marland Heights 5K Classic. In this article, the plot is similarly described as being about a group of teens, but lists the inciting incident as "a train crash [that] forces the town to come together." A train crash is also the focus of the events in the Super 8 teaser trailer, which you can watch using the player below.
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scariestthingieversaw.com rocketpoppeteers.com twitter.com/RocketPoppeteers I hate to say it but it has all the makings of a standard Hollywood affair. Viral sites are sooooo 2008..
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Needs a foreign shoe ad. Preferably a Muslim shoe ad, so all you guys can fund bin laden by buying your jordans.
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Only $50! Visit Jj wharehouse.com!
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other films have shot 2nd unit stuff here. The economy is so bad it's not like we'd have anything to lose letting crews take up entire city blocks for a couple days. Depending where you are, they might be empty anyways. And if you want rural, we got plenty of that just south of here.
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I live in a large city and it's like that too.......... America = the next Mexico. Soon we will be the border crossers.
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Looking forward for Slusho! Or, maybe, it will be Rocket Poppeteers?..
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Seriously, want to see something funny? Ban AssLives and then watch as a totally new Portuguese guy shows up who -- holy coincidence, Batman! -- also happens to hate JJ Abrams and Michael Bay and posts endlessly tedious Aspergian tracts on fucking EVERYTHING. <p> When he was banned as BladeRunnerUnit he came back as "totally new Portuguese guy" MemoriesOfMurder. When he was banned under that name he came back as "totally new Portuguese guy" AsimovLives. Please, ban him and watch incredulously as he shows up as yet another "totally new Portuguese guy" and insults your intelligence by presuming to be able to convince you folks that only one Portuguese guy at a time can post on AICN. <p> By the way, nice to see the AssLives hate in this board. Keep up the good work.
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for crimes against ruining the pacience for enduring stalker assholes with nothing better to do then bug the pacience of others for their own pathetic little reasons.
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... to make a period movie. But the brillant Jar Jar Abrams, the genious Jar Jar Abrams, the man whose talent is so awesome, according to his own press and publicity, he's the first time ever who come up with the idea of just making a town look like it was in the past, instead of going to the past for real, like the other smuck filmmakers. The photos above prove once again what a fantastic original talent that Jar Jar Abrams is (according to his own press and publicity).
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The only Stargate i know is the movie. Never saw the TV shows. Not in a hurry to see them either. Besides, i would be 10 years and 3 different series too late, and damn if i'm going to waste my time trying to keep up.
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It's "Quinta do Castro".
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Ah ah ah, very funny, how droll. Too bad you come late to the party, you have lost quite a lot of fun.
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Someday, AICN PTB willr ealsie all you do in here is bitch about other talkbakcers and you do no posting of your own or talk about movies. If ever an ass deserved banning, it's pedantic sanctimonious asses like you. Even The_Choppah mannages to make some contributions, and that guy wrote the bok about trolling. You are a nobody who tries to be a somebody by thinking yourself better then others. Pathetic ass!
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I do post about movies, TV shows, and any other topic I have an active interest. Amongst these active interests is my fellow Talkbackers and the nature of their conversations.<P>Due to your myopic perception problem, maybe you're too blind to be aware of this. However, I have noticed that whenever I direct a post anywhere near you, you are drawn to it like a moth to a flame.<P>Quote: "You are a nobody who tries to be a somebody by thinking yourself better then others."<P>Really?!?! Have you read your posts lately?!<P>Get the fuck over yourself, egomaniac!
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...for enduring stalker assholes with nothing better to do then bug the pacience of others for their own pathetic little reasons." <p> Sooo.... is the crime AGAINST ruining the "pacience" or is the crime the actual ruining of the "pacience"? <p> The only crime committed here, you Iberian fucktard, is your rape of common sense and restraint.
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...because "it's James Cameron's favorite drink." <p> How sad is that?
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Did anyone else catch that fleeting image just after the doors blow off in the trailer? Here's a cap of it... http://tiny.cc/5jmsm
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Sept. 21, 2010, 11:20 a.m. CST
AsimovLives ---- you can see SGU without knowing the past
by DioxholsterReturns
think of as Star Trek set in 2010. SG-1 had a lot of WTF moments and is quick paced plot-wise, the villains change pretty quickly too. Atlantis is alittle slower and not in a rush, but its more of the same with a "fantasy-setting" twist. Characters are more laid back and stuff, as the military act as a bodyguards and nothing more. SGU is totally different, its more firefly/bsg like focusing on the character's motivations and instead of showing scientists meddling with advanced tech or secrets or aliens like in the past shows, now its more that they are the ones being meddled with.
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Remember when they ripped his Superman script guts out of its own asshole? It probably would have been better than Returns was, but this site destroyed it.
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sort of
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I really don't get it. Abrams have done some neat tv shows but his movies have been nothing but overblown tv pilots with a big budget. He's very overrated here at AICN.
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that have a GASP different opinion from his?
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<P>And again!<P>Spit take! <P>ROFL!<P>You really made your point this time!
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..I wanna stab at this AsimovLives guy too.
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Nah, that's impossible!<P>Yeah, as if Lockles has never been insulted by Assimov for *GASP* disagreeing with his opinions.<P>Idiot.
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Pretty much every movie with an alien and what do you know they are naked as a jay. Theres something wrong with that, as well as them not have genitals. Too bad this thread is nearly dead cause i justy realized something. Ok so the teaser shows a train flipping over. The government would step in say there was a chemical spill. They would fly some helicopters over the area that night with some chemical gas to kill and poison anything with in sight range of the flipped train. Cows dogs cats would die and some people would get sick. Area cleared, now they have an alien on the loose. Obvious from the trailer as well. As soon as they have the area cleared they go attack the surrounding woods and houses wearing hasmat suits. They regas the entire area as well as the woods nearby with sleeping gas. Our kids come into play at this point. They are half goonie half stand by me. They want to get as close to the accident as they can so they can film it. Obviously the area is blocked off. So they do the woods onto a bluff route. One of them knows of just such a spot that should get a nice a view of that area. And thats where the super 8 cam comes into play. they plan to record what they see, imagine now just how messed up they will be when they head out there only to find a bunch of government types exploring the area and dropping sleeping gas. Birds and deer and foxes and squirels all laying on the ground dead and lifeless. Gotta get it on camera. wonder whats doing this. helicopter overhead appears emitting a fog like gas as it sweeps over the forrest. Teams of hasmat suited guys sweeping the area with strange detectors. our team hides and runs hides and runs and films. Until eventually they find something they never expected to see. The alien. Where to go from there, fuck if I know they could get attacked and run for it. one of them gets out back to the town winds up in the hospital because he was bite by the creature and is very sick, he tells his parents what he saw. Tells them to trust no one to find the others kids before the other guys do. I dont knwo lots of directions you could go. The kids could just capture the alien on film run away tells others. The government does what it has to do to make this news die, but i think it would be more scary to have them attacked and only one or two of them gets out to get help, but who can they go to. This is top secret shit here. The government has to protect it's secrets at all costs. If a kid did see this if he got away and his other friends did not, if he was taken to a hospital and then word came down and got to them they would go to the hospital and kill him somehow, if the parents found out even more people to kill, a car accident maybe. Oh yeah why are the aliens always nakie. Seriosly it's hard enough to believe in an advance interstellar race when it has three fingers and no thumbs, but when it doesnt have clothing and no anotomy between those naked legs. It's just wrong man.
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Shouldn't even had existed in the first place.
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Cunt.
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It's just that everyone's laughing so hard about that Jar Jar-schtick that we're unable to type.
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which is right across the river from Weirton. And it is just as shithole. If there is any place on the planet that is stuck in the past and needs to be destroyed by an alien invasion.......it's Weirton. <P> Also, the Deer Hunter was filmed right up the road from there in Mingo Jct. Ohio. It has not changed since then either. I moved away when I was 18 and never looked back.
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You can add all of Jackson County WV (especially Ravenswood and Ripley) to that purge. The most evil, debilitating place in America.
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I drove through Ripley (via I-77) when I travel home to visit family in Northern Ohio. I currently live in Savannah, GA. I hear you. Trailer parks and auto-graveyards.
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I live in Weirton...grew up here..moved away..and came back. It is exactly fitting of the late 70s early 80s because little to nothing in this town changes...the mill barely operates, most families live in the same homes they did in the 60s or earlier, etc. Internet is still considered other worldy technology here...wait we opened a new super walmart this year....woot! we rock lol
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