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Bunk
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I would actually be happiest if the campy cheesed it to the extreme. I don't expect they will, and it will likely be pure horseshit, but hey - at least it's not a Michael Bay movie, right?
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I'm sorry again, but why are you guys even interested?! I'm not interested at all. In fact despite working at a theater, I never watched Transformers. Everyone was telling me what a great movie it was, but despite having been a fan of the cartoon as a kid, I just had zero interest in the movie. I have even less interest in seeing a G.I. Joe movie.
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Lakov_Sanite
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I LOVE the idea of a gi joe movie but yeah...those costumes scream street fighter the movie.
I almost expect snake eyes to take off the mask and see van damme, but he's probably too busy playing his mage.
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Lantyssa
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I'm not interested at all. In fact despite working at a theater, I never watched Transformers. Everyone was telling me what a great movie it was, but despite having been a fan of the cartoon as a kid, I just had zero interest in the movie. I have even less interest in seeing a G.I. Joe movie.
Samprimary's version was much better than the movie.
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I had no interest in Transformers either, but I kept getting good opinions from the most unlikely source (or perhaps the best source): Women who never knew anything about transformers. And it turned out to be not so bad when I finally saw it.
G.I. Joe is just flat out dorky though. Always has been. And Channing Tatum doesn't help.
[edit] Blast from the past last night: Summer Rental! Still a cool movie.
[edit] Oops, I meant One Crazy Summer (with Cusack).
I have to watch Summer Rental now though.
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Teleku
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I saw transformers for the first time about a month ago. And holy god, that was a fucking horrible movie. I'm not speaking from nerd rage or anything, they can rape that material all they want. Never really gave a damn about transformers. But jesus, the acting, the dialog, the story.......all garbage. The only thing the movie had was decent CG effects, but there wasn't even enough robot fighting to justify it. Just painful to watch all around, and I'm usually VERY forgiving about movies. I walked out of the theater after seeing Resident Evil 2 with more satisfaction than transformers. Also, lol at the "black" robot being the only good transformer to die 
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And holy god, that was a fucking horrible movie. I saw it on the in-flight movie system a few months back and man, I couldn't agree with you more. Never having seen the original cartoon or even remotely caring, I was completely underwhelmed at what a mediocre product it turned out to be.
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jpark
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Saw Iron Man tonight.
Wow. I thought this film was sure to bomb - I can't believe they pulled it off.
A must see.
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Margalis
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I've heard good things about Iron Man from everywhere.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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Abagadro
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It's running in the mid 90's on the tomatometer which is really high, particularly for a genre pic like this. The consensus seems to be that Downey just knocks it out of the park. I'm going to see it Friday afternoon.
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Saw it at 12:01, thought it was great, downey really pulls off a great stark.
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Hoax
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Go read comics for my thoughts. If you dont see Iron Man though you actually are everything Schild always accuses you of being for not seeing something your better off not seeing or playing that he is jumping the gun on. Iron Man is made of fucking  and shiney shiney goodness. Also, real actors, crazy but true. This is the best Marvel movie ever made. I can't pit it against Burton's Batman without hurting my soul so I wont go any further then that.
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schild
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Good thing Batman isn't a Marvel movie.
Also, Iron Man still sucks. I might watch Kiss Kiss Bang Bang tonight when my friends are seeing Iron Man because frankly, I just can't be bothered to care about it. It could have a 106 on Rotten Tomatoes and the hype still wouldn't get to me.
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Lakov_Sanite
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Good thing Batman isn't a Marvel movie.
Also, Iron Man still sucks. I might watch Kiss Kiss Bang Bang tonight when my friends are seeing Iron Man because frankly, I just can't be bothered to care about it. It could have a 106 on Rotten Tomatoes and the hype still wouldn't get to me.
Is I am legend out on dvd already? I hear it's the movie of the decade.
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schild
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Good thing Batman isn't a Marvel movie.
Also, Iron Man still sucks. I might watch Kiss Kiss Bang Bang tonight when my friends are seeing Iron Man because frankly, I just can't be bothered to care about it. It could have a 106 on Rotten Tomatoes and the hype still wouldn't get to me.
Is I am legend out on dvd already? I hear it's the movie of the decade. Hey, I was as let down as everyone else. And even more burnt by the superior alternate ending. The commercials made it out to be better than it was. Now here we have one of the most boring vigilantes in an suit in the history of non-superpower-superheroes with an awesome actor inside led by one of the most self-indulgant people in the history of cinema. Oh, yea, I forgot, Jon Favreau can lick my balls too. Point being, I'll just watch Kiss Kiss Bang Bang if I want Downy in a good movie. There's no way Gwyneth Paltrow can even compare to Val Kilmer. So sorry. Nor can Jeff Bridges. Unless he's opposite Tim Robbins and the movie is called Arlington Road. Also, Iron Man still sucks. In Closing, My Interest in the movie fucking disappeared the MOMENT they played Iron Man in the fucking trailer. Ugh, so gay. Just hit me over the head with a bat next time, Hollywood. (Also, I've been saying I won't see it because of that song being in the trailer since the trailer debuted. Just soooooooo weak.)
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Good thing Batman isn't a Marvel movie.
Also, Iron Man still sucks. I might watch Kiss Kiss Bang Bang tonight when my friends are seeing Iron Man because frankly, I just can't be bothered to care about it. It could have a 106 on Rotten Tomatoes and the hype still wouldn't get to me.
The funny thing is, your irrational hatred of the Iron Man movie goes back to when you heard the song "Iron Man" in the trailer (you know, the thing put together by the marketing people as opposed to the guys actually working on the movie) and decided that they had ruined the movie. You know, it's ok to admit when you're wrong.
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Murgos
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Schild (s-child): v 1. To engage in unwarranted hyperbole particularly when it is obvious that the target of the hyperbole actually sucks.
2. To refuse to be swayed from trivial beliefs, often in a childish and immature fashion.
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Hoax
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Iron Man fucking kills the first new Batman. I'm sorry. The whole ninja thing was super gay. Also Scarecrow? Fucking lamesauce. Finally? Katie Homes and not saying "I am Batman" and instead launching into a diatribe about his childhood memories and the struggle to figure out justice? Fuck that 4 times. This second new Batman looks great, also no Katie Holmes. But the ONLY reason I didn't say best comic book movie ever is because of Tim Burton's Batman.
Iron Man is a great movie, and frankly why the fuck Marvel would insist on making another Hulk movie is what you should be bitching about. But yeah, its Schild when he's wrong he likes to go all fucking out.
John Favreau hatred? Now your just trying to be trendy.
P.S. I could be wrong but I didn't notice the song until the credits, they certainly don't play it when they did during the preview(s).
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A nation consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual's morals are situational, then that individual is without morals. If a nation's laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn't a nation. -William Gibson
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schild
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Good thing Batman isn't a Marvel movie.
Also, Iron Man still sucks. I might watch Kiss Kiss Bang Bang tonight when my friends are seeing Iron Man because frankly, I just can't be bothered to care about it. It could have a 106 on Rotten Tomatoes and the hype still wouldn't get to me.
The funny thing is, your irrational hatred of the Iron Man movie goes back to when you heard the song "Iron Man" in the trailer (you know, the thing put together by the marketing people as opposed to the guys actually working on the movie) and decided that they had ruined the movie. You know, it's ok to admit when you're wrong. Jon Favreau is a self-indulgent prick. It's more than likely that he picked that song and that's how it ended up in the trailer. Also, wrong about what? Iron Man sucking? As in the character? No, I don't think so. It's a completely gay character. I'm just not a fan of superheroes that aren't super. Nor are they heroes. They're vigilantes. Even Batman being just some dude in a suit pissed me off. But then, at least Batman has interesting villains (like the Joker, and then The Joker a second time), a kick ass cape, and toys. John Favreau hatred? Now your just trying to be trendy. No, trendy would be pretending to like Swingers. Which was also a self-indulgent (AND ANNOYING) piece of shit. Also, it's called Batman Returns, not Tim Burton's Batman. Wait, are you talking about the first one where Keaton plays like, the wussiest Batman ever? Or the second one which was a brilliant homage to early german cinema?
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Velorath
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I'm just not a fan of superheroes that aren't super. Nor are they heroes. They're vigilantes.
Virtually every superhero is, or started off as, a vigilante (Captain America would be one of the exceptions I suppose). I'm honestly not sure where you're going with that. Also the idea that a character that gets his powers from technology is somehow inherently worse than a character who actually has powers (from say, a radioactive spider bite) is just  . By the way, I don't give a fuck about Jon Favreau's previous movies. When I sit down to watch Iron Man, I'm not also being forced to watch Elf, or Zathura. For the record though, he wrote the screenplay for Swingers (12 years ago no less), he's the director on Iron Man. Two different skill sets there, and just because you think he's bad at one doesn't mean he's bad at the other.
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So- Tim Burton's Batman > Batman Begins, and you say Iron Man is great? Pretty much seals me ever watching it. Anyone who can say anything from Tim Burton is better than anything other than a snuff film involving my close friends and family has completely different tastes than I do. I'm just not a fan of superheroes that aren't super. Nor are they heroes. They're vigilantes. I think I am the opposite. The more plausible the superhero origin, the more intriguing the story.
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Lantyssa
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So- Tim Burton's Batman > Batman Begins, and you say Iron Man is great? Pretty much seals me ever watching it. Anyone who can say anything from Tim Burton is better than anything other than a snuff film involving my close friends and family has completely different tastes than I do.
 Edward Scissorhands. Nightmare Before Christmas.
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stray
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Really, really fun movie.
[edit] Batman Begins is better than anything Burton.
But Burton made Ed Wood, so I'm not going to hate on him too much.
Anyhow, Batman Begins and Iron Man are two completely different movies, but equally good in my eyes.
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Hoax
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Since we're having one of these gay movie threads that I already wish I had stuck to not posting in. Batman Begins is fucking overrated. Liam Neeson wasn't that cool, the Scarecrow was fucking lamesauce, Katie Holmes grossed me out and the whole fucking Katie Holmes angle sucked balls. The training bit and the end bit both were crap. I think this next one looks fucking brilliant and I'm happy to see Batman movies that don't suck but FFS people sucked Begin's cock WAAAAAY too much. Also Iron Man is good. Schild's history of irrational hatred for good things based on barely plausible excuses is well fucking known and tbh I can't think of one time he's ever recanted. It doesn't matter which comic book movie you think is the best, however, personally I judge it like this: Batman 1 & 2 (I just watched some imdb videos to double check which ones had what) are both awesome. I haven't seen either in a long time but the one w/ Joker (Burton's) sticks with me very much. Though DeVito's Penguin was pretty grim and awesome too. Those were awesome in a way that I doubt comic movies will ever be awesome again. They were dark and gritty and good. But that was the early 90's masquerading as the 80's since the 90's mostly sucked. They dont build it like that anymore. Therefore I will not even try to compare the two. Luckily they never made a good Marvel movie back then which is why I specified best Marvel movie to KISS. Batman Begins I would accept people liking more then Iron Man, personal preference. Katie Holmes and certain scenes ruined it for me. But I liked it the way I liked the new Bond. Finally they have resurrected a franchise I like despite the stupid shit (No Limit in Bond FFS that was bad). I think that it gets waay too much love from people who really want to see decent Batman flicks. I'm ok with that. But I thought Iron Man was a better product. Iron Man demolishes Spiderman movies, which for me have gotten worse with each iteration. It is better then the other Marvel stuff as well, including the first X-Men which I did really like. That is my opinion. the second one which was a brilliant homage to early german cinema This shit is why I stay the fuck away from movie discussions. I feel bad for people who actually want me to care this much.
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A nation consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual's morals are situational, then that individual is without morals. If a nation's laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn't a nation. -William Gibson
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So- Tim Burton's Batman > Batman Begins, and you say Iron Man is great? Pretty much seals me ever watching it. Anyone who can say anything from Tim Burton is better than anything other than a snuff film involving my close friends and family has completely different tastes than I do.
 Edward Scissorhands. Nightmare Before Christmas. The only thing worthwhile in Scissorhands was Depp. I just loathe Tim Burton's whole cinematic outlook. Dark and goth-y and pathetic. It is like he is terminally stuck in his rebel adolescent phase and wants people to think he is edgy. I just think he is a douche.
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The only thing missing from Iron Man: Stark was portrayed as a fun drunk. No depiction of alcoholism. Not sure why they didn't do that. The movie was pretty much all fun -- a good thing -- but I hope in a sequel they tap into his dark side.
I guess it really is the best Marvel flick though. Best "first" movie in a series at least. Spider-Man 2 was great, Spidey 1 just good. X-Men 2 great, X-Men 1 OK. Punisher and Hulk -- guilty pleasures. Daredevil and FF4 and Blade - Meh. Elektra and Ghost Rider - unwatchable.
[edit] Also, how could anyone possibly hate Sabbath (not a question). That's crazy talk. Like, they're a rite of passage and shit. You are not a man unless you've spent your youth skipping school, smoking weed in a garage, with Iron Man playing in the background.
Also, Tony Stark jams to Suicidal Tendencies -- I think the only other film with that track in it was Repo Man. Cool shit.
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Llava
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That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell. -Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
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It's so on the nose, and it's still made of win. Fuck all other opinions. Ozzy wrote that song for this film.
Sometimes something can be so obvious, that'd be a crime not to pay some kind of nod to it.
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Llava
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No.
Movie people, you can trust me. I'll make the connection myself.
And while I'm on the topic, stop with that fucking joke in movies where they make some mention of the plot of the movie, or the attributes of the character, then say something like "Who would pay to see that?" and then slyyyyyyyyyyyly look at the screen. HA HA I GET IT THIS IS A MOVIE. Seriously, fucking stop it. That basket's all out of funny, Jay and Silent Bob took the last one.
And let me head you off at the pass- if you make a modern Perry Mason movie, don't fucking put the Ozzy song in that trailer either.
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That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell. -Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
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The only thing missing from Iron Man: Stark was portrayed as a fun drunk. No depiction of alcoholism. Not sure why they didn't do that. The movie was pretty much all fun -- a good thing -- but I hope in a sequel they tap into his dark side. I have no problem accepting the idea that Stark started out as a fun drunk. I imagine once the pressures of handling his new superhero identity (will he flip flop back and forth like he has in the comics, one minute claiming to be Iron Man, the next setting it up to look like he isn't) and love life and business and everything else build up enough, he could easily fall from being a fun drunk to being a booze soaked prick. ESPECIALLY if some potential future major Villain decides to do a number on his personal life.
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No.
Movie people, you can trust me. I'll make the connection myself.
And while I'm on the topic, stop with that fucking joke in movies where they make some mention of the plot of the movie, or the attributes of the character, then say something like "Who would pay to see that?" and then slyyyyyyyyyyyly look at the screen. HA HA I GET IT THIS IS A MOVIE. Seriously, fucking stop it. That basket's all out of funny, Jay and Silent Bob took the last one.
And let me head you off at the pass- if you make a modern Perry Mason movie, don't fucking put the Ozzy song in that trailer either.
Yes. Movie people don't need to trust you. Favreau wears a fucking giant ever growing money hat now to prove it. If you simply don't like Sabbath, that's one thing, but just say that then. Don't get all douchy about what should be good for movies though. Especially this one. You could not have found a guy with better instincts on how to present it.
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Batman Begins was decent, but yes Katie Holmes sucked. Her face is all frozen and distorted and I can't buy her as a DA any more than I can buy Denise Richards as some nuclear physicist. I thought Scarecrow was the best part, wanted more of him. Horse breathing fire = best part of movie.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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Iron Man Good.
I thought that Sabbath in the trailer was stupid, but good for the average consumer who has no idea who the Hell Iron Man is. Remember, the job of marketing is not to accurately represent jack shit -- they are there to get the mainstream to see something and say "Hey, that's neat looking! I must part with my precious dollars and have it." So yeah, stupid trailer. Welcome to Hollywood and big effing deal.
Sheesh.
The movie itself didn't follow cannon at all (My brother has like the first 250 or so Iron Man comics, I read them all and bought the other ones). That's good though. Cannon is for the geeks and comic books. This is a good movie. Action, story, good characters, great acting. Robert Downy is perfect for Stark. Stark is a dick. I didn't pay attention to the build up at all so I was surprised by Pepper and Stane -- but everyone did a great job.
I enjoyed it to no end this morning, and am going back with the wife and kids tomorrow. Zero regrets on paying to see it twice either. I enjoyed it. Did it change my life or get me a BJ while I watched the film? Nope. It entertained me.
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Abagadro
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Very good flick. It is amazing how much better a film can be when you have good actors in the roles. Even with fairly standard comic/action fare having good actors just raises things to another level.
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Llava
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If you simply don't like Sabbath, that's one thing, but just say that then. Don't get all douchy about what should be good for movies though. Especially this one. You could not have found a guy with better instincts on how to present it.
I have no problem with Sabbath, stop trying to make it about that. It's on the nose and I can't believe they got away with that. In fact, it significantly dulled the awesomeness of the trailer for me. But you're right, people ate that shit up. People eat a lot of shit up.
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