FF movie delayed a week to avoid War of the Worlds

[Trippy]

As seen here.

Normally I wouldn't post about such a minor news story except I thought this quote was priceless:

"We are not running from 'War of the Worlds,"' Fox president of distribution Bruce Snyder said. "This (new) date just works better for us."

Edit: Fixed subject

[Comstar]

I saw a very short clip about WotW. Seemed to be a movie about Tom Cruise running away from every location with the kid on his back looking frightend.

[Ironwood]

WotW will probably suck hairy donkey balls while Fantastic Four will be an interesting and entertaining film that takes gratuitous liberties with the comics.*

And the world will spin on.





* and Jessica Alba.  Hmmm.  Indeed.

[HaemishM]

As wary of the FF film as I am, I still have yet to see anything about WotW that interests me. It's Speilberg, so there will be impressive special effects, but it won't really say anything I haven't heard before. I suspect it'll be preachy as all get out. I'm still trying to figure out why Tim Story was given the Fantastic Four job, since Barbershop was not actiony at all. It seems almost as out there as the miscasting of Jessica Alba as Sue Storm.

But oh will she look teh hawtness.

And I love this:

Fox isn't abandoning July 1 altogether -- instead it is moving "Roll Bounce," starring rapper Bow Wow, onto that date in a bit of counterprograming.

Yeah, let us know how that does against WotW. I'm sure it'll do all right.

[angry.bob]

As wary of the FF film as I am, I still have yet to see anything about WotW that interests me. It's Speilberg, so there will be impressive special effects, but it won't really say anything I haven't heard before. I suspect it'll be preachy as all get out.

I'm interested in seeing how the world's second most over-rated director will manage to work Nazis (or some form thereof) in as the bad guys. The fucker haasn't made a movie without Nazis since what, E.T.?

[SirBruce]

As wary of the FF film as I am, I still have yet to see anything about WotW that interests me. It's Speilberg, so there will be impressive special effects, but it won't really say anything I haven't heard before. I suspect it'll be preachy as all get out.

I'm interested in seeing how the world's second most over-rated director will manage to work Nazis (or some form thereof) in as the bad guys. The fucker haasn't made a movie without Nazis since what, E.T.?

IMDB says:

Director - filmography
(In Production) (2000s) (1990s) (1980s) (1970s) (1960s) (1950s)

Untitled Steven Spielberg/Abraham Lincoln Project (2007) (announced)
Indiana Jones 4 (2006) (announced)
Vengeance (2006) (pre-production)
War of the Worlds (2005) (filming)
The Terminal (2004)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Minority Report (2002)
Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)
... aka A.I. Artificial Intelligence (USA: poster title)
The Unfinished Journey (1999)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Amistad (1997)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair (1996) (VG)
Schindler's List (1993)
Jurassic Park (1993)
... aka JP (USA: promotional abbreviation)
Amazing Stories: Book One (1992) (V) (segment "The Mission")
Hook (1991)
The Visionary (1990) (V) (segment "Par for the Course")
Always (1989)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
The Color Purple (1985)
"Amazing Stories" (1985) TV Series (episode "Ghost Train") (episode "The Mission")
... aka Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories (USA: complete title)
"Strokes of Genius" (1984) (mini) TV Series (introductory segments) (uncredited)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) (segment 2)
Poltergeist (1982) (uncredited)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
... aka E.T. (USA: short title)
... aka E.T. the Extra- Terrestrial: The 20th Anniversary (USA: longer version)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
... aka Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (USA: video title)

So since E.T. I count 14 of 18 films without Nazis.  And that's not even counting his Producer credits.

Yeah, what a shitty Director.

Bruce

[Nazrat]

I'm pretty sure that the coffin in Poltergeist was filled with a Nazi.  I mean, come on.  He used the word Poltergeist when ghost would have been sufficient.  Damn Nazi lover. 

[HaemishM]

Maybe the Martians will be Nazi Martians who were aided by and aided the Third Reich in secret as they searched for the Spear of Destiny?

[ahoythematey]

Why the Spielberg hate?

[stray]

Why the Spielberg hate?

Umm...Nazi's? 

[Teleku]

Its a well known fact that anything is made 20 times better with the inclusion of Nazi's.  Same goes for pirates.

[Rodent]

Its a well known fact that anything is made 20 times better with the inclusion of Nazi's.  Same goes for pirates.

Now a nazi-pirate-zombie ( with a hint of ninja ) movie, that'd be the best movie ever made.

[angry.bob]

Googled crap posted without thinking about it just like always

Nazi-like entities in some form assfag, and you knew it. It said "in some form" in my post. And that narrows it down to about 4 movies that don't have nazis in them. And two of those haven't been made yet and one is a fucking documentary about directing. But I'll bet you that there's actors acting out their parts as psuedo-nazi entities in the background or stock footage. I'd go movie by movie and tell you what organization represented the Nazis, but since you'll just ignore it I won't waste my time. Besides, your collie is probably in heat and I'd hate for you to waste valuable dog-fucking time with something like reading stuff that's right or having to google up an inappropriate response you won't bother to read through before you post it. Fucking subspecies you.

Spielberg is a mediocre director who's good at churning out formula movies for the lowest common denominator. He does nothing that anyone on this board with the same resources couldn't do. Yes, even Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan were mediocre formula movies. But the bright side for most of you should be that he's not as over-rated as last year's robot jesus Quentin Tarantino.

[Ironwood]

Yes, even Schindler's List  ... mediocre formula movies.

Not to get in the way of a good angry rant, but I disagree.

Not that you're looking for discussion on the subject.

[stray]

Why are you so angry, angry.bob? It's a thread about Spielberg for crissakes.

[Nazrat]

Some of you thought I was kidding about Poltergeist.  I told you it was full of Nazis. 

Hey, angrybob, do you ever see "Nazi-like entities" on the way to work or after drinking? 

[Tebonas]

What are Nazi-like entities and can we call them Nazinoids instead. It rolls easier over my lips.

[angry.bob]

Some of you thought I was kidding about Poltergeist.  I told you it was full of Nazis. 

Nah, though I would ultimately win any discussion where I liken what's-his-fuck creepy preacher guy to Hitler as a leader. THough he didn't appear to be an antisemite like Hitler. Or Mel Gibson. ho ha ho.

Hey, angrybob, do you ever see "Nazi-like entities" on the way to work or after drinking? 

Yes, they're called "Neo Conservatives". A winnar is me!

And Nazinoids is a delightful name. I wholly endorse it.

[angry.bob]

Maybe the Martians will be Nazi Martians who were aided by and aided the Third Reich in secret as they searched for the Spear of Destiny?

That would be stealing from this season's Star Trek...

[SirBruce]

Oh, no, I get it.  In Empire of the Sun, the Japanese are the Nazis.  In Hook, Captain Hook and his pirates are the Nazis.  In Jurassic Park, the dinosaurs are the Nazis.  In Minority Report, Orwellian future cops are the Nazis.  In Amistad, it's our own country that acts as the Nazis.

In other words, angry.bob is insane in the membrane.

Bruce

[Murgos]

You know you're not coming off too well when Sir Bruce is holding up the point of view of sanity in the conversation.

[schild]

Oh, no, I get it.  In Empire of the Sun, the Japanese are the Nazis.  In Hook, Captain Hook and his pirates are the Nazis.  In Jurassic Park, the dinosaurs are the Nazis.  In Minority Report, Orwellian future cops are the Nazis.  In Amistad, it's our own country that acts as the Nazis.

In other words, angry.bob is insane in the membrane.

Brilliance. Bob, step back for a moment, you just got trashed.

[HaemishM]

By BRUCE, no less.

Its a well known fact that anything is made 20 times better with the inclusion of Nazi's.  Same goes for pirates.

Now a nazi-pirate-zombie ( with a hint of ninja ) movie, that'd be the best movie ever made.

Actually, if you then add in an army of monkeys, you will have achieved cinematic perfection. Because everything is better with monkeys.

Tarantino was Robot Jesus in '94. Now, he's just highly controversial, because you either thought Kill Bill was complete and utter crap or it wasn't. If you are a religious right nutter, then Mel Gibson is last year's Robot Jesus. If you're a comic book geek, Sam Raimi is last year's Robot Jesus. And if you're Jesus, you just wept.

[Big Gulp]

The problem with Spielberg, except for two exceptions (Raiders, Jaws) is that he doesn't have the faintest idea of how to wrap up a movie.  He's just horrible, horrible, horrible at concluding a story.  However, if that's his biggest sin, big freakin' deal.  He's still more talented than 99% of the directors out there.

[schild]

The problem with Spielberg, except for two exceptions (Raiders, Jaws) is that he doesn't have the faintest idea of how to wrap up a movie.  He's just horrible, horrible, horrible at concluding a story.  However, if that's his biggest sin, big freakin' deal.  He's still more talented than 99% of the directors out there.

<not sarcasm>Particularly that overrated hack, George Lucas.</still not sarcasm>

Spielberg has, however, gotten quite rusty in his old age. His new movies aren't near as impressive as his early stuff. It's a shame really. Senility didn't make Hitchcock suck and arguably he got better near the end there. Maybe Spielberg will have another run of awesome shit.

Tarantino, however, will never be good. And to keep on topic with the original post, as little as I care about War of the Worlds, it's still more than I care about the Fantastic Four. They are the single most boring supergroup ever.

[WindupAtheist]

I had just posted this over in the Den, after whatshisname called Sammy Sosa a gorilla, and it goes here too!



PS - Can you imagine how much more kickass Jurassic Park was in Bob's mind?  Nazi Dinosaurs would fucking own.

[Llava]

That's what's missing from Warcraft III.  I knew they had a blind, half-demon, dual wielding, demon hunting dark elf ninja as a major character, but they didn't have Nazis.