Movies in 2011.

[Johny Cee]

Long Tall Sally, she built sweet, she got everything, that Uncle John need.

[Rasix]

I suspect they could alter the story just a bit and avoid that little problem too. 

Maybe they could get Paul Verhoeven to direct. 

[ghost]

He already made that movie.

[Abagadro]

He already made that movie.

It was so good he should make it again.

[WindupAtheist]

Yeah, I got that part as I moved along.  But #5 by itself shouldn't be a hold up.  I would love to hear some WUA ranting.

As far as I can tell, the way to make a movie that grosses a billion dollars is to find some internet nerd's childhood and then rape it. Transformers, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, whatever. If thirty-five year old men with action figure collections are pissed off, you're doing at least $300 million domestic.

If on the other hand "oh man the geek demographic will love it" then you're probably flushing money down the toilet. Scott Pilgrim couldn't even beat that horrible Marmaduke movie with the CGI dog that nobody liked.

Far be it from me not to appear when specficially invoked. Also, god doesn't exist, mechs are stupid, and UO rules.

[Paelos]

Time to rape Quantum Leap then.

[Ironwood]

I was sure they'd done that.  Wasn't there a 'leaping into body and time' film recently ?

[Lakov_Sanite]

It has nothing to do with 'nerds' really, just nostalgia. Transformers,GI joe, Star wars(new ones) all take things that adults with disposable income remember as kids and show them again.  You didn't have to be a nerd to have watched transformers even a couple times and that's the hook that gets people into the seats. One reason A-team failed is it came out 5-10 years too late, the audience who would remember it as kids were just a bit too old, nostalgia based movies need to hit the 20-30 age range.

[DraconianOne]

This GQ article is more insightful and more appropriate to the current discussion than the Cracked article.

Even so, I still disagree with his conclusions if you look outside the studio backed films that have budgets of $100m+

[schild]

Bad Teacher is going to be awesome.

[Der Helm]

A-team failed

 

[Trouble]

Because children are sweetness and innocence. Or see half the episodes of the latter half of Star Trek the next Generation.

Children of that age are innocent, self-absorbed, amoral little bastards... who can still be sweet, sometimes.  


No.  The problem is that some things that work on the written page fail as a visual work.  No one wants to see small children who are still supposed to be sympathetic do that.  Lolita is an interesting book, but no one ones to see a simulated pedophiliac relationship on screen.

It's the same reason why we have dozens of movies where we have a sexual disorder portrayed as some version of sex addiction/nymphomania, and none where the hero is afflicted with chronic masturbation or an attraction to their own fecal matter or <insert another hideous example here>.  

They did make a movie out of Lolita though...

[stu]

I noticed Gary Oldman in the new PG-13 Red Riding Hood commercial. I wonder if it's any good. 

[Johny Cee]

Because children are sweetness and innocence. Or see half the episodes of the latter half of Star Trek the next Generation.

Children of that age are innocent, self-absorbed, amoral little bastards... who can still be sweet, sometimes.  


No.  The problem is that some things that work on the written page fail as a visual work.  No one wants to see small children who are still supposed to be sympathetic do that.  Lolita is an interesting book, but no one ones to see a simulated pedophiliac relationship on screen.

It's the same reason why we have dozens of movies where we have a sexual disorder portrayed as some version of sex addiction/nymphomania, and none where the hero is afflicted with chronic masturbation or an attraction to their own fecal matter or <insert another hideous example here>.  

They did make a movie out of Lolita though...

Twice.  How many people watched either?  Not alot. 

[WayAbvPar]

And most of them were wearing raincoats.

[UnSub]

I noticed Gary Oldman in the new PG-13 Red Riding Hood commercial. I wonder if it's any good. 

I'm more interested in seeing him in "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy".

[stu]

Oh, hell yeah. I've never read le Carre, but that's something I've been meaning to pick up. I've been nudging through a Queen & Country novel and wouldn't mind another dose in that same vein.

[Engels]

I think the BBC did a 8 hour TV series on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. A bit on the dry side, to be honest, but most of le Carre's early stuff was a bit fastidious that way.

[stu]

At the very least, it's a fantastic title.

[NowhereMan]

I think the BBC did a 8 hour TV series on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. A bit on the dry side, to be honest, but most of le Carre's early stuff was a bit fastidious that way.

It's not exciting action but it's a really great series. One of those lazy Sunday afternoon things that is just really enjoyable to watch. Somehow I don't think it will in any way resemble the movie.

[Morat20]

Dark Crystal 2 was I think initially supposed to be 2010, just lots of delays.

The Jim Henson Company has been trying to make Dark Crystal 2 for almost 15 years.  They were close to going with it as their next project before switching to Farscape back in '97 or '98.

Holy shit, Farscape suddenly makes a lot more sense.

[K9]

This GQ article is more insightful and more appropriate to the current discussion than the Cracked article.

Even so, I still disagree with his conclusions if you look outside the studio backed films that have budgets of $100m+

Thanks, that was a really interesting read.