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first? by Hedorah	Mar 16th, 2007 10:52:49 PM
first?
The opposite of carnivorous. by thebearovingian	Mar 16th, 2007 11:49:20 PM
A very herbivorous review indeed. Skunks hate the sound of Industry...Killer! Is Gosling going to be type-cast in these roles now?
Emily Mortimer has an amazing pair of tits! by thebearovingian	Mar 16th, 2007 11:55:27 PM
It's called word association. You say, "Emily Mortimer" and I instantly think, "Great tits!" and begin to envision them in my mind (i.e. her tits in Young Adam).
good review... by cornponious	Mar 17th, 2007 06:22:07 AM
sounds like it's much better than Cats.
Taking a Jackass-style public prank and expanding by CreasyBear	Mar 17th, 2007 09:04:57 AM
it into a heartfelt movie? Sounds interesting, but if his girl has a dick-hole mouth (does he clothe it?) and is blatantly sexual, it'll be difficult to get a big audience. I do find it interesting how a concept can be twisted to fit different genres. The fact that movies as disparate as Memento and 50 First Dates can share the same basic premise is pretty odd.
Wasn't there a coffee table book of pictures of... by Alonzo Mosely	Mar 17th, 2007 11:11:37 AM
Guys with their 'Real Dolls' in ordinary relationship type poses. One was a guy lying on the grass with his laptop while she laid next to him sunbathing etc etc... It was very creepy, but I wonder if it inspired this movie...
PIN by JohnRevik	Mar 17th, 2007 12:04:43 PM
Reminds me of the disturbing 80's flick 'PIN'. Also, it's Brother-in-law.
Stardust footage by Bloo	Mar 17th, 2007 02:37:45 PM
is gone off the main page
All well and good by feckdrinkarse	Mar 17th, 2007 03:32:42 PM
But I want to see Ms. Mortimer's allegedly fantastic breastuses. Linkage, bitches ?
Why? by ApneicMonkey	Mar 17th, 2007 09:03:26 PM
Why would I waste time reading that review when I can just call IndustryKiller an ass right now?
dude, where's the Stardust trailer story? by Amy Chasing	Mar 18th, 2007 02:40:55 AM
where's the Stardust trailer story, dude?
industrykiller by BendersShinyAss	Mar 18th, 2007 02:57:55 AM
Having heard nothing but praise from everyone who's seen little miss sunshine, how can you sit there and talk down on it. likewise, where do you really get off on this Transformers bashing? Granted, it MAY be shite.... but every department behind that film has shown nothing but the highest integrity to the source material. What is your problem? If it's simply the fact that you can't believe the transformer designs aren't blocky.... then all I can say to that is THANK FUCKING CHRIST the transformer designs aren't blocky. If you don't like it because Michael Bay put out the pieces of shit movies 'the island, pearl harbour and armageddon.... then all i can really say is The island LOOKED good and WAS good until the dreadful 3rd act. Pearl harbour Looked shit and was shit until the awesome 3rd act (the actual attack that is) and if you didn't like armageddon then you really have no life left in you. Armegeddon may have it's flaws and granted i had trouble with it the last dvd sitting..... but when i first saw it in theatres I was in movie going geek heaven.... and so were you. You know it. I know it. Every armageddon hating bitch knows it. Spielberg + Bay + Transformers = Something to be excited about!
Would you be my girl (Sally)? by BannedOnTheRun	Mar 18th, 2007 05:09:18 AM
Sounds like this year's Little Miss Sunshine!
usually don't agree with this guy by T 1000 xp professional	Mar 18th, 2007 11:08:45 AM
I too am excited about Transformers....I'm wary of when a talkbacker's name is IndustryKiller ( the token "fight the MAN" guy), but nice review holmes. I'm excited to see this one, and i haven't seen half-nelson so I guess I'll pick that one up as well.
PLANT! by 900LBGorilla	Mar 18th, 2007 11:57:12 AM
Someone had to say it.
Industrykiller...we disagree again by 900LBGorilla	Mar 18th, 2007 12:14:34 PM
Because I thought Al Gore deserved the award for “Best Actor” ... (I couldn't resist).
highest integrity to the source material by drave117	Mar 18th, 2007 01:06:25 PM
Can't... breathe... laughing.... too hard....
NEW RULE: Andy Sidaris, RIP by Bill Maher	Mar 18th, 2007 03:17:54 PM
One of the great filmmakers died almost two weeks ago and all we hear about is some gay-as-hell movie about Greek cheek-splitters.
Emily Mortimer by Wyatt Wingfoot	Mar 18th, 2007 05:51:29 PM
http://tinyurl.com/3r78t
What about Kelli Garner by sincerefan	Mar 18th, 2007 07:20:19 PM
Hey IndustryKiller, why didn't you mention anything about Kelli's performance. She is such a talented young lady so I find it hard to believe that you didn't remember any part of it, or even notice her. I knew this film would be awesome when I saw the cast. I've been following Kelli's career now for several years and this is probably one of my most anticipated films of hers.
Sincerefan by IndustryKiller!	Mar 18th, 2007 07:46:00 PM
You are absolutely right Kelli garner was great in it. I had actually never heard of her before this and I had to IMDB her afterwards. The reason i didn't give a mention was that I didn't want the review to get stupidly long with praise, I felt retardedly long with praise was suitable. Also given that information on this film is so limited I felt it would be best to stick to the basics sort of as an intro. I'm sure, or at least I hope, that when the film gets closer to release everyone will hear more. But if you like Kelli Garner sincerefan, or if you ARE Kelli Garner, good job.
messi, something tells me I've made more films than you by BendersShinyAss	Mar 18th, 2007 09:25:44 PM
My audiance is only 15000 people small though. I'm getting there. As for blocky transformers... I've said this before, And chances are I'll say it again until it becomes common accepted knowledge, the original cartoons weren't blocky. They changed into nice streamline robots the likes of which the toys just COULD NOT do. What I see witht he new film is a way of making the transformers turn into robs and retain a sleakness. If you put the original robot toy of optimus up against the new film robot design of optimus .... dude, they've done fucking brilliantly. Nothing you or anyone can say will counter this argument. If you wanted optimus to look like the original toy transformer, then I'm terribly sorry your dreams have been shattered. If you wanted optimus to look like the original cartoon, then the only way that cartoon truck design could change into the cartoon robot design is for dramatic alterations to the way the actual transforming takes place. It's awesome the way these robots have a hundred moving parts and gears during their transforming.
Bendersshinyass by IndustryKiller!	Mar 19th, 2007 12:17:39 AM
I think you are only half right on LMS. Little Miss Sunshine did get a lions share of praise when it was in theatres. But now, in the Oscars orbit, there is a growing tide against it. In fact at the Oscar nomination talkback, you'll see that LMS best picture nom was one of the most controversial subjects. If you want some background on why I didn't like it; i thought it was so perfectly quirky it would make Wes Anderson (whom I love btw) squirm, the characters lives fall apart in perfect unison according to which joke needed to be told, the characters themselves werent human so much as dipshit archetypes, and by the end of the film NOTHING was resolved, in fact I felt that the worst was yet to come for these people who havent even begun to pick up the pieces of their shattered dreams. I dont buy that getting on a stage and dancing for the little girl somehow made them closer as a family. Only in movieland could that even remotely occur. So i guess what i was trying to say is this film is the opposite of that. there are no cheap outs or silly jokes at the characters expense. About Michael Bay. it seems like we fundamentally disagree here. I simply have not liked anything the guy did after The Rock. Bad Boys and the Rock are amazing action films, and after that I really outright don't like his movies. With that said, my distaste for Transformers Ill admit goes a bit beyond Bay and blocky robots. I've read the script. A script that at this point we know is DAMN clsoe to what is being rpesented onscreen, and it's terrible. Scriptwise, besides Pearl Harbor, maybe the worst thing Bay has ever taken on. A good film should start with a good script. Not always. SOmetimes they write as they go and we get Casablanca, sometimes they finish it well ahead of tiem and we get Transformers. THe fact that I grew up since infancy with the Transformers biases my opinion a bit. If you didn't grow up with them your chances of enjoyment increase. But the fact remains is that the script isn't good, not for a Transformers movie, not for any movie. You don't have to lsiten to me. but I think it's pretty unfair when I am attacked as some kind of hater who has it out for Transformers because of some personal vandetta. if you look back on some old talkbacks when Bay was first announced I was actually defending his hiring cause I thought he could get a budget directors of lesser stature would be unable to secure. On another note congratulations on your film, 15,000 strong is a damn fine start. Keep fighting the good fight.
I dunno why I keep bothering to make this point by drave117	Mar 19th, 2007 01:49:13 AM
It is not the blockiness of the original Transformers that made their designs great, and it is not the non-blockiness of the new ones that makes them crap. And it doesn't have anything to do with how far the new designs have strayed from G1. (Well, maybe it does for some people.) IN MY OPINION, the reason that the original G1 designs of the Transformers resonate with people is because you can look at the robot and clearly see the car it comes from. That's all. The pleasure of recognition, and the simple cleverness of how a wheel well becomes a shoulder, or a grill becomes a chest. When I look at a Transformer in robot form, I want to see the shape of the thing it transforms into. If I can't recognize the vehicle somewhere in the shell of the robot, then the object has absolutely no Transformer-ness to it. On this front, all of the designs that I have seen (so far) from this new movie are complete and total failures. Yes, they look pretty freaking cool. But they do not look like Transformers to me, and I suspect the majority of the movie's detractors feel similarly, at least on a subconscious level. How about it, fellow detractors? Am I on the money here? Oh, and just so this is not TOTALLY off topic, I think this Lars and the Real Girl movie looks potentially interesting, but I want to reserve judgment until I see a trailer. grin
PLANT!!! by BannedOnTheRun	Mar 19th, 2007 05:10:22 AM
I just wanted to drop in and remind you that I love each and every one of you. This talkbalk needs more love.
getting a little tired of you calling me a cunt, messi by BendersShinyAss	Mar 19th, 2007 09:27:51 AM
This is talkback, and only one of us is being a cunt. really.
industrykiller by BendersShinyAss	Mar 19th, 2007 09:39:39 AM
Thanks bud, for keeping it civil. I was merely pulling you up on the fact that there was abit of hatred towards Bay and transformers, and I made the assumption you were in league with the haters. I asked questions, but didn't attack your integrity. You're responce has been enlightening to me... You've read the script, and you think it sucks. Thats fair enough. But you know, I've read so many scripts that i thought wouldn't be pulled off well as films.... and I've been proven wrong time and again that these days I just consider myself to not be as visionary as i ought to be. In fact, I thought the script for batman begins was eons better than the finished film, so it does go both ways I guess. That said.... Is the script really that poor? I thought the action at the end was just pure Transformers bliss. I also thought that it kept true to the original G1 premise. At least in the film, they don't arrive looking like transformed trucks and cars that they haven't yet been configured too. And there here for energon cubes. It's a film, pretend for a second you're a kid watching the cartoon and that trailer for the film comes on. Works for me :)
The script is dire- by Lost Prophet	Mar 19th, 2007 10:03:38 AM
there's no way around it. The real killer blow is the lack of action, as if you are attempting to excuse the weakness of the Human interest through "Giant robots fighting" then there had better be a decent amount of Giant Robots Fighting. just a thought, as IndustryKiller is omnipresent does that make him god? If so, you've a lot to answer for.

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