I went to see Iron Man today...hint to all going to watch it there is a clip after all the credits. Gwenyth Paltrow is hot as Pepper...wow she can be my sexy secretary anytime. ..she gets a 10/10 just for being sewn into her costumes.. Iron Man itself (7.5/10) a good interpretation of the comic and played homage to past animations/reincarnations/graphic novels and Downey Jr, I never would have guessed could pull off this role; the end clip (11/10)<- tcf only
There were some pretty weird movie trailers at the beginning of the movie as well as the full Indiana Jones trailer(had historical pictures of cast/crew & new movie scenes). I am not posting the Indy trailer b/c I felt it had potential spoiler material in it. There is a new HULK movie..the trailer was totally awesome..it looks way better than the first movie and does not appear to be in sequel to it.
The Hulk movie is a sequel to the original only in that he already has become the Hulk and some of the same characters are present (from what I read), otherwise Banner wants to de-Hulk himself and the government wants to exploit him and/or the process for making more of him.
I saw Forbidden Kingdom on Saturday - I thought it was really well put together. It presumes you like the cheesy kung-fu movies that have been made.. some of the "English" actors are pretty bad (the bully's acting is atrocious, but that seems to be common in Jackie Chan movies for minor role characters). There is a good story behind the whole thing and Chan-Li have a couple really good fight sequences. I'd give it 8/10.
I think all the Marvel super heroes should be cast by Ben Affleck. Daredevil, Iron Man, Spider Man, all of the Fantastic Four, and especially She-Hulk.
No no, SheHulk should be played by MAAAATT DAMON! Not the actual actor, but that marionette version of him from the Team America movie.
If they do a Thor movie, I bet they make it some wrestler like Triple H (or whatever his name is now).
Captain America will wind up being some one like Marky Mark Walberg probably.
Apprently if they do another Spiderman, it will have to be done by someone other than Toby McGuire - but I think that franchise should stop at 3 anyhow. When you have 3 rich stories to draw from and throw in a musical number where Spiderman struts down the street like a moron, it is time to throw in the towel on that franchise. Same with FF, two was enough in that series. X-men could go for another one if they keep introducing new characters, but I doubt it will anyhow.
I've done a little more digging and found wikipedia has an entry. The film is to be released on may 22, 08. Apparently, the only print was sent to the US but lost when a ship sank. Two sons of the producer scoured the ocean for 4 years to find it. and they did.
I just replied about the Hobbit movies under the "transformers" discussion and released it really belonged here.. ah well. To follow up with something Diddly might be interested in... the director I mentioend, Guillermo del Toro, will be directing a Dr Strange movie as well.. not that THAT is of interest to Diddly.. but what is possibly is that Neil Gaiman is signed up to write the script (he also did Stardust and the recent iteration of Beowulf).
Ok so in addition to all the super heroes movies that are due out (apparently Brad Pitt is in talks now to play Thor) there is talks about bringing some really cool sci-fi/fantasy books to the silver screen too.
Dan Simmon's Hyperion Cantos is slated to be running in 2010 (though it has no details posted yet, a page has been created on IMDB). Also in the online article I read it said that Terry Brook's Shanara series is being considered for the big screen too. It would be interesting to see an adaptation of either of these... Diddly who do you think should play the Shrike?
The Shrike has to be played by Freddy Mercury, who's cadaver is puppeted by Frank Oz (of course). Anything else would be a waste of film.
No, seriously, does it matter? The Shrike had zero speaking parts, and was just a big spiny monster. He'd probably end up being mostly CG.
I don't think Hyperion/Endymion would translate well to the screen. Maybe Endymion, but you'd really lose something without spending sufficient time building up the mythos.
Shannara, however, would make fantastic money at the box office, if done well. It's a very classic story. You have an unwilling hero, and wise mentor, and a scary villian bent on destroying everything. Hero must retrieve object of unspeakable power and/or take it somewhere unbelievably difficult to save the world. Lather rinse repeat. All they have to change is the main character, who just ends up being a descendant of a previous movie's hero. They could film ten of them simultaneously and just release them every few months. It'd be like printing money!
One thing I never quite understood... Why do so many fictional villains want to destroy everything? How can they enjoy their victory if the world is dead?
One thing I never quite understood... Why do so many fictional villains want to destroy everything? How can they enjoy their victory if the world is dead?[/quote]
Why is the demolition stage of a home renovation the most fun?
Also, usually they bad guys have some sort of fascination or obsession with chaos.. they kinda get off on things being not what normal people would like... also, who would tell a tale where the "villian" loved rainbows, unicorns and fields of daffodils.. that's never a good way to make everyone sympathetic to your "good" cause, right?
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