[Movies] The Upcoming Movies Trailer Thread
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Let's be honest. Given how much Futurama covered during its run, almost any sci-fi movie will be compared to an episode or two.
...by people who don't recognize or remember the original material that Futurama is parodying.
--Patrick
*Checks date* Nope, not an April Fool's joke, this is real. Fleh, I admit to liking the first one so extremely soft maybe it'll be good!
Whyyyyyyy? Just...just whyyyyyy? Was there seriously a high demand - hell, ANY demand - for this?
More a cult following, but these are the people who broke even on "Jack and Jill" they'll try anything and everything.
While I agree with the sentiment- more good movies, fewer bad ones, please- Comedies are a whole lot cheaper than actions to shoot, so the return on investment is less risky. It's not Hollywood's fault that a shitty comedy makes more money than a good action flick. If it's anyone's fault it's the audience's.
Still, it'd be nice if we were at least getting sequels to GOOD comedies.
What's more, without looking it up I'm guessing Adam Sandler's production company is behind both of those properties. Dude makes so much money off so many shitty movies starring he and his friends, he can float the bill for shitty movies for his friends too. There's enough lazy writing to go around!
Also, it's not even hitting theaters, apparently, just that stream service I've never heard of.
You know what comedy I wouldn't mind seeing another of? Austin Powers. Especially these days with all the remakes and reboots. You could have all the original characters (aka: Myers' roles) teaming up to fight their rebooted counterparts (all played by another actor, like Myers does?). I've been throwing this idea around for years and I think it'd be hilariously meta.
I'd actually be on board for this as well and I didn't even like the third Austin Powers movie very much. But I feel like enough time has passed, we' ve overcome the nonstop Austin Powers quote onslaught and could return for another round. Unfortunately, Myers had had such a string of bad movies since Goldmember, I don't think he holds much clout anymore. Hollywood is pretty fickle with comedians.
Yeah I went to look, and outside of Shrek it's basically all crap. Plus he hasn't even done a new movie since the last Shrek in 2010. In fact outside of a couple SNL cameos, he hasn't really done anything since 2010.
Adam Sandler consistently makes more money off of his lower rated movies than he ever did for his good ones. He KNOWS how to make a good movie. He'd just rather help his friends make enough money to keep the lights on instead... I mean fuck, when was the last time David Spade was in anything noteworthy?
figmentPez
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Crackle is pretty bottom of the barrel. I've watched some movies there, but most of the time they've shown the same ad at every commercial break. I think it was Days of Thunder I watched there, and every single ad break was for Sienfeld, the exact same spot each time.
Exactly.
Michael Myers? No... he's generally been out of the industry since The Love Guru bombed and he took it very personally. I think the only live action roles he's done since are something for Madonna (as Austin Powers), Ed French in Inglorious Bastards, an short, and some appearances on Saturday Night Live (one as Wayne when Dana Carvey was hosting and one as Dr. Evil in the Amy Adams episode). He's basically just been doing voice work since 2008, which is fine because he's making a SHITTON of money doing it.
There's also Austin Powers 4, but who knows if that's actually happening at this point.
The Love Guru, on top of The Cat in the Hat, in particular, ended Myers' box office desirability. But The Love Guru was just awful. The few bits that were actually funny were generally recycled, and the movie honestly made me feel more uncomfortable than amused, sort of like when your drunk uncle thinks he's telling a joke but he's just kind of going on a racist rant for like 20 minutes.
I decided to check, and the last thing he's done was direct a documentary. It's called Supermensch, and it's about Shep Gordon, a talent manager who's served for such folks as Alice Cooper, Blondie, and Pink Floyd.
Is... is Batman a vampire? Wonder Woman appears to be from space and/or the future? Superman is HISPANIC?! Everything's all crazy!
Still, you had me at Bruce Timm.
So Man-bat is Batman, Zod Jr is Superman, who is Wonder Woman? I assume a New God what with that Kirby-esque hat deally.
It's been 20 years and those are clearly new designs... it's not necessarily a retcon.
Having not yet watched either trailer, I'll just say that TIE Advanced and TIE Defenders, having shields, could operate in the atmosphere in games and EU. TIE Fighters couldn't. 20 years afterwards, yeah, I don't necessarily see why a new version couldn't. I don't know what scene he's referring to, though, so it's possible it's a retcon for other reasons.
I got choked up. Damn.
GasBandit
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I'll only cease being butthurt about it if somebody in the movie explicitly says "These new TIE designs are capable of atmospheric flight" or some such, because I've been grousing over this for at least 20 years, when some dingbat over at lucasarts got lazy in Rebel Assault and put TIE fighters in canyons and caves on tatooine.
Putting aside for the moment that EU isn't canon (and really, vast swaths of it *shouldn't* be), what game was it that had the TIE/A and the TIE/D in atmosphere? And was it specifically said that their shields were what made atmospheric flight possible?[DOUBLEPOST=1429212857,1429212825][/DOUBLEPOST]
That scene of driving past the crashed ISD is pretty pants-wetting, to be sure.