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ALUmnus wrote:Is it just me or does Cars 2 look really bad? Could be Pixar's first mistake.
Saw Hanna the other day. It was enjoyable, but nothing really original about it, with a couple strange, awkward scenes thrown in.
LUconn wrote:Sly Fox wrote:My kids are stoked about Cars 2. Me, not so much.I am so scared of this movie. I'm a huge Pixar fan and they have not had 1 movie that was not an A+ yet (although most people seem to think Cars was Pixar's worst movie, it was still very good). But I just don't see how this movie will be able to do it. I really want it to be good but from everything I've seen, I think it's gonna be there first let down.
LUconn wrote:Yeah, but what did you base it on? The previews are just coming out. It appears it's all about the tow-truck saying really unfunny lines and acting stupid. Nothing seems right about it. My kids seem to like everything, but I hope they see through this one and how dumb it looks.ALUmnus wrote:Is it just me or does Cars 2 look really bad? Could be Pixar's first mistake.
Saw Hanna the other day. It was enjoyable, but nothing really original about it, with a couple strange, awkward scenes thrown in.
Yeah, it's just you.
LUconn wrote:Sly Fox wrote:My kids are stoked about Cars 2. Me, not so much.I am so scared of this movie. I'm a huge Pixar fan and they have not had 1 movie that was not an A+ yet (although most people seem to think Cars was Pixar's worst movie, it was still very good). But I just don't see how this movie will be able to do it. I really want it to be good but from everything I've seen, I think it's gonna be there first let down.
When Darren Aronofsky announced that he’d be turning one of his “hard to make” screenplays into a comic book, a lot of people immediately began speculating that he could be referring to his Batman origin story script. However, it turns out the filmmaker was actually referring to Noah, his retelling of the famous Biblical tale about (essentially) the end of the world.
Now that Black Swan has proven that an Aronofsky film can actually be a big hit at the box office, the director is looking to realize his version of the Noah story as a big-budgeted film production.
Deadline says that New Regency is already considering a role as co-financier of Noah, which is being envisioned as a $130 million undertaking that’ll feature Aronofsky at the helm – working from his original script, which is currently being revised by Oscar-nominee John Logan (Gladiator, The Aviator). If things work out, this could very well fill the hole left in Aronofsky’s work schedule after he stepped down as director of The Wolverine.
Part of the reason Noah is such a difficult sell has to do with Aronofsky’s approach – namely, to retell the tale of Noah and his Ark in a manner that remains true to the tone and nature of the original Bible story. However, therein lies the problem, as Aronofsky has pointed out before:
“[Noah was the] first environmentalist. [The] first person to plant vineyards, drink wine and get drunk. I was stunned going back and realizing how dirty some of those [Bible] stories are. They’re not PG in any way. They’re all about sleeping with your brother’s sister who gives you a child who you don’t know. That kind of stuff got censored out of our religious upbringing.”Aronofsky has also cited the theme of “environmental apocalypse” in the story of Noah as one that was particularly attractive to him. When you also consider that in combination with the general content (tests of faith, loss of human life) and the overall gloomy atmosphere of the tale, it become a bit more obvious why Aronofsky is so taken with this particular Bible story.
Noah still reads as being a pretty risky proposition for studios – between its high cost, adults-only content and potential to attract a healthy amount of controversy – so it’s not yet guaranteed to become a reality. Even if things don’t work out for the Noah film, Aronofsky fans will at least get to see the project brought to life in a non-compromised fashion in comic book form.
ALUmnus wrote:Is it just me or does Cars 2 look really bad? Could be Pixar's first mistake.I liked Hanna. They could have done a little more character background stuff but overall I liked it. Sort of a primer IMO for The Hunger Games. Gettting audiences used to an <18 heroine.
Saw Hanna the other day. It was enjoyable, but nothing really original about it, with a couple strange, awkward scenes thrown in.
We revamped the whole story, the whole bad-guy arc. To me, there always needs to be a logic to our movies. No matter what subject matter it is, they have to be logical for the world we’re creating. I kept thinking about, “OK. A spy movie in the world where cars are alive. What would be a really good kind of über bad guy? Who is an über bad guy?” I kept going to big oil. This is before what happened in the Gulf of Mexico.Typical.
Why isn’t alternative fuel more… Why isn’t everybody jumping on that bandwagon? It makes so much sense: Electricity, solar, whatever. There’s ethanol. There’s all this stuff you could be doing. And so I thought, well, that could be really cool in that you could have big oil versus alternative fuel. That’s when we kind of crafted the bad guy’s story.
The greatest bad guys, you understand where they’re coming from. They believe they’re doing the right thing. Sometimes it’s for greed, sometimes it’s for other reasons, but they are what they call the center of good. They always believe they’re doing the right thing.
Brave is set in the mystical Scottish Highlands, where Merida is the princess of a kingdom ruled by King Fergus (Billy Connolly) and Queen Elinor (Emma Thompson). An unruly daughter and an accomplished archer, Merida one day defies a sacred custom of the land and inadvertently brings turmoil to the kingdom. In an attempt to set things right, Merida seeks out an eccentric old Wise Woman (Julie Walters) and is granted an ill-fated wish. Also figuring into Merida’s quest — and serving as comic relief — are the kingdom’s three lords: the enormous Lord MacGuffin (Kevin McKidd), the surly Lord Macintosh (Craig Ferguson), and the disagreeable Lord Dingwall (Robbie Coltrane).
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ALUmnus wrote:Hey, an original concept! And, of course, it comes in the form of science fiction. That seems to be the only movie genre with any grain of originality.Looks promising.
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