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James Mangold goes for sci-fi social commentary with his next flick, CYCLOPS! No, not the X-Man...

Sounds worth checking out by MaxG	Mar 18th, 2008 01:33:16 AM
3:10 to Yuma was a good time.
Done before by Mezzanine	Mar 18th, 2008 01:33:53 AM
Ohhh, it's the running man with (even more) fucking political overtones!!! I love Mangold, but I really, really, REALLY hope he drops this project when he sees how lame these scripts are going to be.
could be cool by mmaddox3	Mar 18th, 2008 01:40:08 AM
stress the could be
mangold can be hit or miss by mmaddox3	Mar 18th, 2008 01:41:47 AM
i mean i loved 3:10 and cop land was really good, but kate and leopold...identity, come on give me a break.
i will give the guy some props.... by mmaddox3	Mar 18th, 2008 01:42:49 AM
...for genre jumping as much as he does though, i think its cool when directors try out new things, another good example is sam mendes.
Well.. by Tourist	Mar 18th, 2008 01:47:27 AM
...Its not a bad idea for a fun quicke 80's vibed actioneer. Mangold though...3:10 To Yuma was absolutely the worst movie I watched in a cinema last year, but I love some of his other work. Some of its bland, yes, but Copland and Heavy were both really good. So its just sort of impossible to predict where it will go.
could be worth seeing by otm shank	Mar 18th, 2008 01:52:52 AM
needs to be R-rated though.
Sounds like Ghost Hunters by skywalkerfamily	Mar 18th, 2008 02:15:20 AM
Dude Run!
I WISH we'd get a Cyclops movie. by Shermdawg	Mar 18th, 2008 03:11:13 AM
Fucking Fox.
"the first real deal entertaining western in quite a while" by Shermdawg	Mar 18th, 2008 03:13:25 AM
That'd be Open Range, not 3:10.
Mangold's good. by TattooedBillionaire	Mar 18th, 2008 03:22:18 AM
I'll definitely give it a shot.
re: Oliver and Company by beamish13	Mar 18th, 2008 03:53:52 AM
Mangold has a great interview in an anthology book entitled "My First Movie", which details how he was recruited by Disney straight out of Cal Arts as a 22 year old and subsequently had his contract bought out after rewriting "Oliver". Fascinating stuff.
Shermdawg: Did Open Range have a dude on horseback by CreasyBear	Mar 18th, 2008 06:24:37 AM
taking out an enemy by blasting his satchel of dynamite and blowing up the whole damn thing, horse and rider? No further questions, your honor! (I suppose I shouldn't admit that I haven't seen Open Range yet.) :)
3:10 by MC-909	Mar 18th, 2008 06:36:59 AM
Yuma was yet another victim of overhype. I thought it was bland and completely glossed over...Cowboy Curtis was more Western than 3:10 to Yuma. It was a PG-13 movie masquerading as an R movie so I'm not getting my hopes up for "Cyclops" no matter how cool it sounds. Mangold is really good but he's no Eastwood.
wait a minute by waggy	Mar 18th, 2008 07:02:40 AM
A graphic novel called "Cyclops" was published and Marvel didn't sue them for everything they had? I gotta get to work on that unrelated Batman story I've been kicking around.
Cool by Cobbio	Mar 18th, 2008 07:59:29 AM
This is good news. Mangold has pulled great acting performances out of his hires, while not skimping on anything else in his recent films. "Walk the Line" and "3:10 to Yuma" both grabbed me from their opening scenes and held me till the credits. Mangold has become one of my favorite directors. So now a sci-fi story, huh? Bring it on.
Sounds like a Charlton Heston flick by donwillymo	Mar 18th, 2008 08:05:26 AM

Anthony Mingella has died... by gobofraggleuk	Mar 18th, 2008 08:30:53 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/ent ertainment/7302841.stm
Damn, I was hoping this would be a Turanga Leela movie by Osmosis Jones	Mar 18th, 2008 08:37:45 AM
Sexiest cyclops EVER.
Re: Anthony Mingella has died... by The Grug	Mar 18th, 2008 09:00:32 AM
Damnit, and only in his 50s - too young. Minghella really knew how tell a story - The English Patient was wonderful and I still think his script for Talented Mr. Ripley was one of the best I've ever read (the movie was very good, but the script he wrote for it was even better). I'll miss him.
ehhhh 3:10 sucked by Series7	Mar 18th, 2008 09:18:56 AM
But I saw it like a week ago and I am right in the middle of watching Deadwood season 1 for the first time. And its hard not to compare the two. As for Ben Foster's scene stealing role, ummm he was just gay, like Brokeback gay for Gladiator and not as cool as I thought he would be. I thought that the best acting outside of Bale was the love child of Jason Bateman and John Ritter: Dallas Roberts. He held his own against that scene stealing son of a bitch Alan Tudyk and Peter Fonda. It was like Dallas and Bale took the movie seriously and everyone else just didn't work, seriously Gladiator was just WAY too nice to be seen as a bad guy turning good. Well i feel watching this in the middle of Deadwood seriously takes away from anything good about this movie. Same thing happened to me when I was watching like 4 Law and Orders a day and tried to watch Zodiac. At least then I couldn't tell the difference. The typical western characters are just so much better in Wood then they are in Yuma. That said nice Wilson cameo.
Waggy, by raw_bean	Mar 18th, 2008 09:35:03 AM
I'd be impressed if Marvel could defend a claim to own the name 'cyclops', there were these folks in Greece quite a long time ago who beat them to it methionks! :D
This movie by Series7	Mar 18th, 2008 09:36:04 AM
Sounds like The Condemned, which was an above average man flick that had the unfortunate luck to be realeased in the shit year for films 2007 and was forced into using the too cool to fight oscar winning quick cut The Bourne Ultimatum editing style, that hopefully was sucessfully killed by Shoot'em Up. Now that Sylvester Stallone has given action movies their balls back, hopefully a movie like this can turn out awesome, and not MEH like what happened to what should've been awesome Condemned (i guess they fucked themselves with the name). Also hopefully Hostel 2 and the rest of the torture porn 07 showed us that those movies aren't brutal, they are just gay. Brutal is Rambo ripping out your fucking throat for trying to fuck with his women, just like King Kong destroyes your city for fucking with his women. Plus 3:10 showed that Mangold likes to go for the straight on action.
Put your face on my lap and meet cyclops! by donwillymo	Mar 18th, 2008 10:15:37 AM

Running Man??? by bobinnova	Mar 18th, 2008 10:19:59 AM
This sounds more like "Universal Soldier" with JCVD and Dolph Lundgren.
I'm sorry Van Damme...even though by Reel American Hero	Mar 18th, 2008 10:46:50 AM
You're trying to go by initials now, you still haven't been in a decent movie since Timecop. WWJCVDD...I'm sure someone's coined this one already, but just in case..
X-Man sounds like something a mother would say by Lefty Lefterson	Mar 18th, 2008 11:41:03 AM
'I don't know who this Wolverine person is, Dear. Is he an X-Man, from your little stories?'
Ha! Nice one, Lefty. by JTStarkiller	Mar 18th, 2008 12:06:00 PM

I'M INTRIGUED BY THIS MOVIE by BringingSexyBack	Mar 18th, 2008 01:06:07 PM
James Mangolden nuggets.
hepatitus by lucky slevin	Mar 18th, 2008 01:31:11 PM
word keep the updates coming on this, it sounds pretty amazing
hey watch ur fuckin mouth quint by donwillymo	Mar 18th, 2008 02:01:40 PM

my team is the goonies, they call me one eyed willy by donwillymo	Mar 18th, 2008 02:40:47 PM

Shermdawg "That'd be Open Range, not 3:10." by DDodge	Mar 18th, 2008 02:50:50 PM
No that'd be The Proposition, not Open Range. Open Range was a huge piece of crap.
3:10 to Yuma was better than I expected. by Rakafraker	Mar 18th, 2008 02:55:54 PM
It's #3 in my comtemporary western list. Unforgiven, Open Range, then 3:10. Thank the stars that Mangold didn't turn it into another Young Guns-type property (which was OK if like a bit of fromage). Mangold pseudo Sci-fi? I'm in. Though the Running Man theme is a bit obvious, Mangold will likely put a nice spin on it.
3:10 was cool. The orginal was cool, too by skywalkerfamily	Mar 18th, 2008 03:12:04 PM
They were both great.
3:10 To Yuma was a dissapointing... by poeticwarriorII	Mar 18th, 2008 04:38:13 PM
contrived mess. The original kicked its ass.
he graduated from my high school by livahd	Mar 18th, 2008 04:40:26 PM
prolly the only person who made a decent living
Very good comic-book ! Could make a helluva movie !! by Bellock	Mar 18th, 2008 08:02:15 PM
Some terrific pages from Jacamon here : http://www.bedetheque.com/seri e-12312-BD-Cyclopes.html

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