Movie News & Miscellany

[Yoshimickster]

Yeah, the show's best character was a monkey who gave speeches in the third person. That's really not going to work. This could be amazing if they just lean way into being in on the joke, especially on the CW, where everything is a soap opera. To make a self-aware parody of their bread and butter? That would be epic.

Of course they won't, but a boy can dream.

GOD-I hope they go in that direction, the pilot script had SOME self-aware elements but it was mostly just typical CW fanfare.

I'm just hoping in the redone pilot they make Mojo Jojo not a human. You can make him LOOK human, holograms, genetic engineering yadda yadda, but COME ON.

 

[Shawn]

Coming soon on the CW:

The Smurfs!

Follow the intense drama of 99 dwarf men with argyria who live in an isolated cult-run village not far from a city that resembles Vancouver. When a sassy blonde with a dark past arrives things quickly start to get heated.

 

[Dave]

Isn't that the plot of New Girl?

 

[Celt Z]

 

[PatrThom]

Coming soon on the CW:

The Smurfs!

Follow the intense drama of 99 dwarf men with argyria who live in an isolated cult-run village not far from a city that resembles Vancouver. When a sassy blonde brunette with a dark past arrives things quickly start to get heated.

FTFY

--Patrick

 

[figmentPez]

Well, they got the silhouette right:


Cate Blanchett as Lilith in the upcoming Borderlands movie.

 

[PatrThom]

Well, they got the silhouette right:


Cate Blanchett as Lilith in the upcoming Borderlands movie.

I thought that was Jamie Lee Curtis? Or was she just the one who shared the pic? (Or else random redditor dude where I saw it was just entirely wrong...)

--Patrick

 

[figmentPez]

I thought that was Jamie Lee Curtis? Or was she just the one who shared the pic? (Or else random redditor dude where I saw it was just entirely wrong...)

Jamie Lee Curtis is playing Patricia Tannis, and from what I'm read she's the one who took the pic.

 

[figmentPez]

Jamie Lee Curtis is playing Patricia Tannis, and from what I'm read she's the one who took the pic.

This is Jamie Lee Curtis (and I suspect the rumors that she took the previous pic are incorrect.)

 

[PatrThom]

The smartypantses in the media department thought ahead and processed the image. You can’t pull any detail out of either silhouette, I tried.

—Patrick

 

[figmentPez]

More character silhouettes:



Tiny Tina
Claptrap
Krieg
Roland

Also, not in costume, Tiny Tina, Krieg, and Krom

 

[Dave]

If they do Tiny Tina right it won't matter to me what they do with the rest of the movie, it'll already be a win.

 

[GasBandit]

Has there ever actually been a good video game movie?

 

[ThatNickGuy]

Has there ever actually been a good video game movie?

The first Silent Hill was decent. But the bar is still pretty firmly low for video game adaptations.

 

[evilmike]

Has there ever actually been a good video game movie?

I still maintain that Apollo 11 is about the best Lunar Lander adaptation that you could hope for.

 

[blotsfan]

Has there ever actually been a good video game movie?

Do you count detective Pikachu?

 

[Ravenpoe]

Has there ever actually been a good video game movie?

Mortal Kombat, the original. I'll die on that hill, I fucking love that movie.

Also can we count Event Horizon as a Doom movie?

 

[PatrThom]

I expected Roland to be taller.

Has there ever actually been a good video game movie?

I enjoyed Tomb Raider the same kind of way I enjoyed National Treasure.

--Patrick

 

[Frank]

Mortal Kombat, the original. I'll die on that hill, I fucking love that movie.

Also can we count Event Horizon as a Doom movie?

No, because it's a prequel set 38900 years before Warhammer 40k

 

[Ravenpoe]

No, because it's a prequel set 38900 years before Warhammer 40k

I can accept this, that ship definitely went through the warp

 

[Shawn]

Mortal Kombat, the original. I'll die on that hill, I fucking love that movie.

Also can we count Event Horizon as a Doom movie?

That movie is shit except for that rad 1st person POV scene.

 

[bhamv3]

I expected Roland to be taller.

I enjoyed Tomb Raider the same kind of way I enjoyed National Treasure.

--Patrick

Which Tomb Raider?

 

[figmentPez]

If they do Tiny Tina right it won't matter to me what they do with the rest of the movie, it'll already be a win.

Her actress seems to be having fun with the role:

 

[PatrThom]

Which Tomb Raider?

The only one of them I’ve seen…the first one.

—Patrick

 

[Ravenpoe]

That movie is shit except for that rad 1st person POV scene.

That's why I said event horizon and not the actual Doom movie

 

[@Li3n]

Guess i'm including this in the misc. part of the thread, since i don't know where else to put it:

 

[Squidleybits]

Do you count detective Pikachu?

I was going to say that this is the best video game movie ever!

 

[figmentPez]

"New Line Cinema and Warner Bros animation announce a new animation project 'Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim' from the director of Ghost in the Shell, with film Philippa Boyens attached to consult on the project."

 

[bhamv3]

"New Line Cinema and Warner Bros animation announce a new animation project 'Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim' from the director of Ghost in the Shell, with film Philippa Boyens attached to consult on the project."

This is not something I would've expected them to do. Let's see how it turns out.

 

[figmentPez]

I'm not sure how I feel about this:



Good Omens is getting a second season.

 

[AshburnerX]

I'm not sure how I feel about this:

Good Omens is getting a second season.

Is Gaiman writing? It'll be fine, though I'm sure it'll lack some of Sir Terry's wit.

Is Gaiman passing? Yeah, I'll pass too, thanks.

EDIT: Per Entertainment Weekly...

Neil Gaiman is also returning to serve as co-showrunner with Douglas Mackinnon and co-writer with John Finnemore, and the new six-episode season will begin filming in Scotland later in 2021.

Gaiman's co-writing and co-running the show. It'll be fine.

 

[Gryfter]

While proceeding with more Good Omens without Pratchett feels weird, at least he and Gaiman had been working on a second book that never happened and the notes for that will factor heavily in the second season, according to Gaiman.

 

[Celt Z]

So there's going to be ...another apocalypse? Is this Buffy now?

 

[Gryfter]

Not necessarily, it could just be the further adventures of Aziraphael and Crowley through time.

 

[PatrThom]

Not necessarily, it could just be the further adventures of Aziraphael and Crowley through time.

"Doctors Who"

--Patrick