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by The Veidt Method
Aug 12th, 2008
12:21:23 AM
DO IT
J.J. Abrams is our new Irwin Allen
by KnightShift
Aug 12th, 2008
12:24:47 AM
And that's not a bad thing at all :-)
Isn't Brad Bird doing a Frisco quake movie?
by No Respectable Gentleman
Aug 12th, 2008
12:27:51 AM
Maybe the real thing will swallow them all before they get released.
J.J. Abrams wants to drop a Deuce...
by conspiracy
Aug 12th, 2008
12:29:15 AM
yet again.. Cloverfield...Armageddon..and now this fucking "Earthquake" remake? I smell pure unfiltered Deuce dropping here. I bet this Hack even goes for rebooted "Sensoround" seats like in the 70's....only rebooted for the 21st century.
Oh..and by the way,Earthquakes are boring ...
by conspiracy
Aug 12th, 2008
12:31:29 AM
Lived in Cali all my life...Earthquakes are boring..even the big ones....a few minutes of shaking...some collapsed section 8 housing, a few broken water and gas mains...an 48hours of sensationalized news coverage.....Then everything goes pretty much right back to normal. BORING.
Brad Bird's beat him to it
by GrendelGrendelGrendel
Aug 12th, 2008
12:32:47 AM
and Bird's a far superior storyteller and film maker.
Yawn.
by Hint_of_Smegma
Aug 12th, 2008
12:37:13 AM
Earthquake movie, JJ? Look, we know the new Trek movie will be cool but that's no reason to piss away the forthcoming goodwill with a snoozefest earthquake pile of poo. Fucks sake, do something interesting.
There was a thunderstorm today.
by YouAreAllMyBastardChildren
Aug 12th, 2008
12:38:53 AM
Lightning storm, too. Holy shit! That's a great idea for a movie! Get it made!
An earthquake movie? really that's what you got JJ
by Xiphos_2
Aug 12th, 2008
12:46:33 AM
Those old disaster movies were goofy fun in the 70's. Unfortunantly, ol' JJ will feel the need modernize the concept, you know, hip it up and all and in the prosses loose all the goofy campiness of the orginals.

Hey Abrams, how about something original? You know, instead of sequals and reboots of disaster flicks and Godzilla light ripoffs. Just a suggestion hoss.

Recent Earthquakes
by RokurGepta
Aug 12th, 2008
12:47:58 AM
http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteq s/
C. C. Lock Wants To Care!
by captainCAPSLOCK
Aug 12th, 2008
12:49:35 AM
but he can't surmount the JJ hype summit!
~~~HOW IS THIS NOT GOING TO SCIFI CHANNEL?~~~
by The Marquis de Side 3
Aug 12th, 2008
12:53:26 AM
bunch of Valley melodrama following an earthquake. normal stuff. how is he going to make this different from all the quake movies that came before?
fuck JJ Abrams!
by disfigurehead
Aug 12th, 2008
12:59:12 AM
Does anyone really care about earthquakes?
by Sappers Forward
Aug 12th, 2008
01:10:35 AM
Seriously?
NOT CANON!!!!
by Riley Martin
Aug 12th, 2008
01:14:44 AM
Oh, wait...
JJ Abrams wants to do everything...
by StarWarsRedux
Aug 12th, 2008
01:16:03 AM
...except "Lost," apparently...
Yay! I hope Kuntzman and Orcshit are involved
by SpencerTrilby
Aug 12th, 2008
01:25:26 AM
...not.
I want Cloverfield 2!
by Judge Briggs
Aug 12th, 2008
01:27:59 AM
And Dark Tower on HBO!
Giacchino to homage John Williams
by darthpigman
Aug 12th, 2008
01:46:15 AM
Embargo this flick if Orci and Kurtzman are involved
by Xiphos_2
Aug 12th, 2008
02:17:27 AM
Those two should be picketed by that retard group from the free speech TB. If anybody gives the metally challenged a bad name its those two shit flinging chimps.
JJ Abrams wants to learn the basics of film-making.
by Fortunesfool
Aug 12th, 2008
03:26:17 AM
Mission Impossible 3 was abyssmal.
All I can say is
by ElvisPresLeeHorsleyHarveyOswaldO prahWinFreeJackHorkheimer
Aug 12th, 2008
03:27:17 AM
Dy-no-mite!
JJ Abrams farts!
by Frye777
Aug 12th, 2008
03:47:37 AM
AICN is there to smell it!
JJ Abrams barfs!
by Frye777
Aug 12th, 2008
03:48:14 AM
AICN is there to eat it!
JJ Abrams shits!
by Frye777
Aug 12th, 2008
03:49:09 AM
AICN is there to taste it!
NO MORE FUCKING DISASTER FLICKS.
by Shermdawg
Aug 12th, 2008
03:59:09 AM
Especially non-alien/monster/paranormal disaster flicks.
Zzzz Zzzz
by The Gospel According to Bastardface
Aug 12th, 2008
04:25:38 AM
Earthquakes make for boring movies. The ground shakes, shit falls over, people get trapped, some go rescue them, threat of aftershocks, lots of people die, some survive. The end. That's not a story, it's an incident. Incidences don't make good stories. They make good jumping off points.
I know this doesn't have anything to do with anything...
by Mr Gorilla
Aug 12th, 2008
04:58:42 AM
...but I just saw this trailer and I think it might be the best damn trailer I have ever, ever, ever, ever, ever seen:http://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=D-HUPDYfva8
AND I DON'T WANT TO WATCH IT
by PervOmatic
Aug 12th, 2008
05:12:35 AM
JJ Abrams and Joss Whedon are fucking hacks and they should both be driven from Hollywood with pitchforks and torches. How this site continues to suck their dicks is beyond me. They both turn out the same hackneyed bullshit drivel over and over and over and yet they have some moronic fanbase which laps it up like famished swine. I'm tired of these glorified pulp TV directors given the treatment of godemperor when they are less like Shai-Hulud and more like earth worms, eating up dirt and shitting out the same dirt.
Hell, just wait to film the real thing.
by mrfan
Aug 12th, 2008
05:18:40 AM
Isn't California suppose to have a big one in the next few years?
Uh....bad idea.
by Yeti
Aug 12th, 2008
05:28:11 AM
Possiden anyone?
J. J. Abrams presents "Rain"!
by Stalin vs Predator
Aug 12th, 2008
06:07:56 AM
After a recent rain in Los Angeles, the Warner Bros executives were horrified to find their newly purchased coats covered in wet stains. In what one of them described as "a cathartic experience", they promptly greenlit J. J. Abrams's latest project, a movie about a rain that soaks Los Angeles for half a day. Shia la Boeueoeoeoeoeuf is in talks to start as the TV Weather Guy.
That's one of the most boring headlines
by Larry Sellers
Aug 12th, 2008
06:08:42 AM
Let's hold off on the disaster flicks for a few...um forever. It's tripe. It's all the same. Some lame, formulaic melodrama squeezed in between highways collapsing and buildings splitting in half. The only upside to disaster movies is that most of the characters are dead by the end. What's he planning to do differently?
From the guys who've seen too many movies... EARTHQUAKE MOVIE
by Nasty In The Pasty
Aug 12th, 2008
06:48:40 AM
Featuring send-ups of classic earthquake movies like Airport and The Towering Inferno!
Yay. Geat movie - well due a remake with shiny FX
by Col. Tigh-Fighter
Aug 12th, 2008
06:50:06 AM
I'm still hoping for a 9/11 Towering Inferno movie, but I suspect I will have to wait years for that one!
Everybody is expecting the Big on in LA...set it elsewhere..
by Alice Cooper Stalker
Aug 12th, 2008
07:04:43 AM
somewhere where people aren't expecting it...like Chicago or NY.
Damn You Michael Bay
by MCMLXXVI
Aug 12th, 2008
07:05:31 AM
Damn You Michael Bay
it better be good
by Mr_X
Aug 12th, 2008
07:16:11 AM
all the disaster movies of late have been crap ( although i did like the day after tomorrow). could work but only if i see carnage on a fucking massive destructive scale.
The Dark Tower???
by dirty john
Aug 12th, 2008
07:43:19 AM
make that JJ. No one cares about another disaster movie.
JJ Abrams wants to make Star Trek!
by kwisatzhaderach
Aug 12th, 2008
07:44:59 AM
Erm, hang on...
Earthquake in the Red Light District...
by turketron
Aug 12th, 2008
08:04:51 AM
Scenes in strip clubs where the jiggle factor is increased 10x!

But seriously, I can't get excited about this. Seen enough shitty movies on Sci Fi to care about this. They already did an "Earthquake in NY" movie too. Only way this can be good is if the quakes are related to something cool... like moving an island, the space time continuum, or giant pissed off monsters and/or aliens swimming through the magma beneath the earth's crust.

Lets hope that the solution to the quakes isn't the old "drop a nuke down the fault line" trick...

You go for it, J J Abrams
by Franklin T Marmoset
Aug 12th, 2008
08:16:50 AM
If you want to make an earthquake movie, you just go right ahead and make an earthquake movie, and don't let anyone tell you you can't make an earthquake movie. Live the dream, buddy, just like Jessica Alba in that film about dancing.

By the way, I saw J J Abrams the other day. Not in real life, because I don't think he comes here to Bristol very often, but in an acting role in the film Six Degrees Of Separation, which starred young Will Smith as a gay con man. It was weird. I did not know J J Abrams was ever an actor, but there you go. It was like when I saw Michael Bay playing a jock douche in some film I can't remember the name of.

Do people still use novelty cursors?
by Franklin T Marmoset
Aug 12th, 2008
08:29:23 AM
What a strange thing to bother advertising on a classy site like the Ain't It Cool News.
Remake-Again?
by CloneWars
Aug 12th, 2008
08:46:18 AM
Flooding, Volcanoes, etc...
DARK TOWER?!!!????
by Unlabled
Aug 12th, 2008
09:34:39 AM
WHAT THE FUCK JJ>? DO THAT SHIT!!!
Cool!!!!!
by darthvol
Aug 12th, 2008
09:59:01 AM
At least in an earthquake move Abrams will have a reason to not show what is destroying everything. What a tool.
A giant lion causes the earthquake
by Abominable Snowcone
Aug 12th, 2008
10:00:08 AM
or was it a squid?
DARK TOWER
by SpawnofAchilles
Aug 12th, 2008
10:11:16 AM
yes make that, not this dogshit, who wants a fuckin earthquake movie? NO ONE thats fuckin who...FUCK
Well if you don't revamp "Sense-A-Round"...
by Kid Z
Aug 12th, 2008
10:18:20 AM
...don't bother, JJ!
Can Shatner be in this in the Heston Role????
by picardsucks
Aug 12th, 2008
10:19:16 AM
That would be fuckin A sweet!!!! Shatner saves earthquake survivors and dropkicks looters!!!
for the record
by SpawnofAchilles
Aug 12th, 2008
10:51:48 AM
I really enjoyed MI3, thought it was easily best in the series, the first was convoluted and confusing and the second was just silly...so why the hate? But to reiterate my real point...please get to work on THE DARK TOWER as soon as possible
JJ saw a honeybee today! Pitches remake of The Swarm!
by CerebralAssassin
Aug 12th, 2008
11:04:01 AM
Redic.
Just got off the phone to JJ. He didnt' say much cos
by HarryBlackPotter
Aug 12th, 2008
11:07:45 AM
George Lucas slapped an embargo on his ass.
J.J. Presents 'Snow!'
by Judge Briggs
Aug 12th, 2008
11:11:53 AM
A weather-related day off of school following the wacky adventures of Shia LaBeuof! Hilarity!
Earthquake movies are cool...
by DoctorWho?
Aug 12th, 2008
11:14:22 AM
...when you're 12.
JJ wants to make a movie about getting off the phone
by ArcadianDS
Aug 12th, 2008
11:19:23 AM
with Harry Knowles.

Oh and he wants to make a movie about looking over at B list celebs to see if they're laughing. Its called, "A Bugnuts Movie"

JJ To Direct Sexiest Tomboy Beanpole
by ArcadianDS
Aug 12th, 2008
11:20:16 AM
Stinky the Hutt is writing the screenplay.
JJ wants to make every movie already made
by ArcadianDS
Aug 12th, 2008
11:20:48 AM
I'd love to tell you about them, but Im under 10,527 individual embargoes.
All star-cast please and EARTHQUAKES can make good cinema!
by Spacesheik
Aug 12th, 2008
11:38:55 AM
I loved the sensurround effects of the original and the Heston flick and enjoyed the Universal Studios ride as well. The original had great effects and matte work by Albert Whitlock and this new one could work as well with todays technology - great thing about earthquakes they make great drama and affect everything: cities, power plants, homes, damns, etc and can lead to floods, fires etc -not to mention an aftershock - so basically you could have three main setpieces in JJ Abrahms flick, the initial quake, the aftershock and the aftershock drama/dilemmas. Get George Kennedy to cameo and Im in.
JJ Abrams wants to have a beer and cheat on his wife
by brainstormchaser
Aug 12th, 2008
11:45:42 AM
Let JJ keep busy with stuff like this and Star Trek and Fringe, that way he doesn't try and wrangle Drew Goddard into an unnecessary Cloverfield sequal, especially with Goddard about to make his directorial debut with Cabin in the Woods co-scripted by Joss Whedon.
JJ's Earthquake movie...
by Banzai Rootskibango
Aug 12th, 2008
11:46:07 AM
...staring a strong-willed twenty-something female protagonist who uses tranquilizers against the earthquake while riding a smoke monster.
You won't even need a shakey cam.
by Andre the Frog
Aug 12th, 2008
12:35:57 PM
It'll shake all by itself. Ha Ha. Ignore if I'm the third person do do this joke.
J.J. Abrams Wants To Make It With Your Wife!!
by rev_skarekroe
Aug 12th, 2008
12:46:28 PM
And Your Firstborn Son!!
the shaker that hit Greater Los Angeles?
by SkeletonParty
Aug 12th, 2008
01:09:27 PM
ScriptGirl set this in motion?
Set This Fucker In San Francisco!
by Cadillac Jones
Aug 12th, 2008
02:24:29 PM
If any a city needs to be wiped off the planet, its that fucking hive of liberal scum and hippy villainy. Ya' gots the San Andreas AND the Hayward faults to boot!

I'm totally with Space Shiek too.

Combine his idea with the fucker who suggested setting it someplace else (New York does in deed sit on top of an ACTIVE fault).

And yeah - I know there's been a SciFi NY-Earthquake original; it's about quality, not quantity. ;)

JJ Abrams wants to piss on your leg...
by EverythingEverywhereStinks
Aug 12th, 2008
02:25:47 PM
and tell you it's raining. That seems to be his specialty. But at least he WILL be honoring the original.
Is this related?
by EasyEastCoast
Aug 12th, 2008
02:29:17 PM
http://www.earthquakeLA.com I don't recognize any of those faces but then again thats what he did with Cloverfield.
VOLCANO 2: EARTHQUAKE
by palimpsest
Aug 12th, 2008
03:01:05 PM
Yay! Tommy Lee scowls at another natural disaster
THAT'S ARMAGGEDDON
by MCVamp
Aug 12th, 2008
03:06:52 PM
C'mon, J.J....just admit your given birth name was J.J. Bronkowitz.
BORING
by Ray Gamma
Aug 12th, 2008
03:22:21 PM
HOW THE FUCK ARE THEY GOING TO STRING THIS OUT INTO A 2 HOUR MOVIE? EARTHQUAKES ARE NOT STORIES.
Ray Gamma...
by MCVamp
Aug 12th, 2008
03:43:59 PM
It's not about the earthquake, man...it's about the people...the emotional drama. About man's struggle to survive in the face of nature's fury, and of the undying spirit and camaraderie of...nah, I'm bullshitting. I agree with you Ray. Been there, done that, gave the thumbs down. C'mon, J.J., do something interesting, not recycled corn-filled shit filled with CGI porn and a cast of has-beens and TV actors who don't require a fat paycheck.
So this plus the Star Trek movie
by Geekgasm
Aug 12th, 2008
03:57:59 PM
show that JJ Abrams has a serious interest in making disaster films. Bah-zing!
"Look, we know the new Trek movie will be cool ..."
by Geekgasm
Aug 12th, 2008
04:07:12 PM
I know no such thing.
Victoria Principal...
by REDD
Aug 12th, 2008
04:40:46 PM
was hot in the original.
MONSTER ATTACK > EARTHQUAKE
by Mullah Omar
Aug 12th, 2008
05:26:51 PM
No way can a natural disaster compete with some kind of rampaging monster. I can't remember any movie based on a natural disaster that I ever wanted to see twice.

Just make a sequel to CLOVERFIELD.
I agree with Mullah Omar, in fact, take it one step further...
by MCVamp
Aug 12th, 2008
05:42:39 PM
And make it a ridiculous balls-out Monster Island movie where the Cloverfield Monster feasts upon the spawn of the fake US Godzilla and battles the dragon from Dragonheart (voiced by Sean Connery.)
Good thing Heston is dead because even
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
Aug 12th, 2008
06:42:02 PM
in his 80s he'd kick your ass for remaking his film. Either that or he'd be buried in makeup for a cameo. Damn you Hollywood for your remakes. Damn you all to hell.
Felicity Meets Earthquake...
by quantize
Aug 12th, 2008
07:00:25 PM
of course it will be
Another C-List Casting Call
by bswise
Aug 12th, 2008
07:21:46 PM
This will of course have scene after scene after scene of skinny low-rent model-type Hollywood "actors" getting crushed by falling debris, falling into cracks, getting electrocuted by falling power lines, blowing up, sucked into jet engines, etc.... 'Cuz JJ hates bad actors that much.
Is he done with TREK yet?
by NiceGuyEddie19
Aug 12th, 2008
07:47:13 PM
Shouldn't he be working on that?
Will it be in SENSURROUND!?
by Chingachgook
Aug 12th, 2008
08:18:34 PM
That would be awesome. Then he can remake Rollercoaster and Midway. Bring it on.
JJ's EARTHQUAKE movie...
by Banzai Rootskibango
Aug 12th, 2008
08:30:42 PM
...starring Zachary Quintos eyebrows.
www.EarthquakeLA.com
by KeepDownTheHouse
Aug 12th, 2008
09:42:18 PM
They're already at it.
Or Judge Judy
by KeepDownTheHouse
Aug 12th, 2008
09:52:34 PM
About the same level of acting skill
Ahh, yes. Sensurround...
by Teddy Artery
Aug 12th, 2008
11:42:17 PM
You kids wouldn't remember that fun lil' gimmick, but it was a triumphant bit of showbizzary back in the '70s... lotta fun.
J.J. Abrams fucking sucks....
by TheWaqman
Aug 13th, 2008
12:49:01 AM
Of all of his creations only Lost is interesting (and even that can be fucking stupid at times). Oh and HE wrote Armageddon? LMFAO, so it looks like Bay wasn't the only one to blame for that shit (for once in his life). Don't forget that Cloverfield shit. I'm guessing this movie will be like Cloverfield except with earthquakes *yawn*
J.J. is Galactus
by capitan_trueno
Aug 13th, 2008
05:24:23 AM
First Cloverfield and now this. It seems the man wants to destroy us all!
Earthquake at Universal
by Bill Brasky
Aug 13th, 2008
06:05:19 AM
Does anyone have fond memories of going to Universal Studios (Orlando) and walking through this attraction? Man, this brings back the 80's/90's for me. And how about that hot-as-shit actress that was in the film; Geneviève Bujold. Smoking hot in that 70's kind of way. Oh yeah, and she's in 'Coma' too. Just the poster alone used to scare the shit out of me, all those people hooked up to machines....
EARTHQUAKE at Universal has been modified, its now DISASTER!
by Spacesheik
Aug 13th, 2008
11:16:22 AM
They scrapped Heston and the 'Earthquake' footage and brought on Chris Walken as a campy Irwin Allen-like producer but the subway train crash and flooding is still there albeit with a 'Rock' trailer featuring audience members as part of MUTHA NATURE! - the flick audience members are featured in.
I'm shaking my booty already
by La Frog
Aug 13th, 2008
12:10:21 PM
Yeah! J J Abrams is remaking an already useless movie. Uber-viral marketing on its way, with first "Shaky-sensurround" websites ever to open next week. Billions expected to fall in the pockets of brainless executives. First reactions from foreign markets don't seem promising though. La Frog : " Me no buy ticket for cette merde". Salope!
But wasn't Cloverfield an earthquake movie?
by BrandLoyalist
Aug 13th, 2008
08:05:57 PM
I thought it was about a monster attack during an earthquake. Then why was the camera jerking around so much?
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