Really? Huh. Well, ok, I guess people have different tastes...
Well, I figured you might be more excited for one of this generations greatest filmmakers next movie but at least you are willing to give it a shot....
Wuh... wha... what? WHAT?!?
2010 = the best year for sci-fi? Upcoming movies (includes non sci-fi)
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Go home, you have failed.[/QUOTE]
I disliked the movie, and I'm going to dislike the sequel. I'm not sorry for that and won't extol the virtues of something I don't like. I simply don't believe comic books should be made into movies, they loose something vital in the translation and become caricatures of themselves.
/sulks and watches Lost Highway
Wuh... wha... what? WHAT?!?[/QUOTE]
I dislike Peter Jackson, mainly for the reason that he's been given licences to do what ever he wishes because of LOTR, which I disliked heartily. He tries way, way too hard to make everything since that epic and sweeping regardless of whether or not the movie deserves it. It ends up being nothing more than, in my mind him saying "Look all all the giant scenery and emotion! You're supposed to be moved now!"
While it's fair to not like LOTR, I know many who don't, what movies are you talking about?
He's made 2 movies since then, and one of them JUST opened this weekend and I doubt you've even seen it yet. The other was KING KONG which... is kind of an epic tale so I'm getting the feeling you have some weird hate for Jackson that doesn't have much to do with his movies...
How many of his flicks have you watched exactly? LOTR? Heavenly Creaturs? Bad Taste? The Frighteners? Meet the Feebles? Dead Alive? I've seen pretty much every one of them and I can safely say the only ones that "seem epic" are the ones that are SUPPOSED to be EPIC.
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Why? Why can't you bless a bullet or a gun? Hellboy does it. And of course in pop culture, the only means to kill a werewolf is with the purity of a silver bullet. I guess you could tape it onto the end of a sword.
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Why? Why can't you bless a bullet or a gun? Hellboy does it. And of course in pop culture, the only means to kill a werewolf is with the purity of a silver bullet. I guess you could tape it onto the end of a sword.[/QUOTE]
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How about an Angel looking like they actually look like in the Old Testament? Solidified wind, fire, eyes and multiple wings with a booming voice?
North_Ranger
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Then people would bith about how the movie is copying Neon Genesis Evangelion...
Besides, our popular culture today is saturated with angels basically being pretty people with wings. Trying to give something "authentic" would just be weird to Phineas Q. Manofthestreet.
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Then people would bith about how the movie is copying Neon Genesis Evangelion...
Besides, our popular culture today is saturated with angels basically being pretty people with wings. Trying to give something "authentic" would just be weird to Phineas Q. Manofthestreet.[/QUOTE]
Ripping off NGE, or ripping of just about every piece of Western fiction involving angels? Statistically, the former's slightly more original. Just... let's ease off on the Freudian subtext this time, mmm?
Sounds unlikely... the intimidating factor was probably it... though would it even last long? And when where they using for them? If Greek Fire (which was basically a Molotov) was considered extraordinary.
Then people would bith about how the movie is copying Neon Genesis Evangelion[/QUOTE]Or Madeline L'Engle.
JCM, I would pay good money to see a well-done Preacher movie. Trouble is, they'd probably get Nicholas Cage to play Jesse Custer. I just don't think he'd do the role enough justice.
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Iron Man-going to be fucking awesome and enjoyable
The Wolfman-should be interesting with Anthony Hopkins
Tron-looks cool
Clash of the Titans-going to see how this one plays out to the classic one.
The Wolfman-should be interesting with Anthony Hopkins
Tron-looks cool
Clash of the Titans-going to see how this one plays out to the classic one.
I'm really excited for Clash of the Titans. I think it's shaping up to be pretty badass.
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Also forgot to mention the film Despicable Me
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WolfOfOdin
Yes, but technically, Angels don't have a form remotely resembling a human. They're either chimaric nightmare creatures (cherubim) or a mass of wings wreathed in fire and lightning
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Then people would bith about how the movie is copying Neon Genesis Evangelion...
Besides, our popular culture today is saturated with angels basically being pretty people with wings. Trying to give something "authentic" would just be weird to Phineas Q. Manofthestreet.[/QUOTE]
Ripping off NGE, or ripping of just about every piece of Western fiction involving angels? Statistically, the former's slightly more original. Just... let's ease off on the Freudian subtext this time, mmm?[/QUOTE]
Fair enough. I just wanted an excuse to use the name "Phineas Q. Manofthestreet"
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Wait, I just read the descriptions of angels from the Bible on several websites. While the Wheels certainly seem wacky, the seraphs and cherubim, and the new testament angels seem to fit the modern image fairly well. The seraph have 6 wings: 2 for flying, two over their heads, and two covering their body like robes. The cherubim are described as having four faces, but otherwise seem humanish. Michael is described as a man in Joshua. Gabriel is described in "the form of a man". Of course they do say "form".
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The Cherubim that guard the Throne of the Lord are supposedly a combination of Eagle, Lion and Man, covered in fire and light so bright that it burns to look at. Seraphim are either solidified lightning and wings with human faces in the center...the only ones remotely described as human-like are Gabriel and Michael whenever they see fit to talk to humans. I believe the original idea was that Angels, the first-born creations of God Almighty were so beyond our comprehension in their perfection and glory of form that our mind would kind of just impose an us-shaped image ontop of them so we didn't go stark raving mad at the very sight.
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BLAH IGNORE THIS
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Tom Brazelton had the red band trailer for Legion on his web site. http://www.theaterhopper.com/
GUNS!
GUNS!
Legion was fucking terrible, and the worst thing I can say about it is that it was boring. It was seriously the most bored I've been watchin a movie in a while. And for the stupid as fuck argument we were having earlier:
so lame. I honestly wish I had that time back, not to mention the money.
no angel fires a gun ever in the whole movie
so lame. I honestly wish I had that time back, not to mention the money.
I dunno if it's even good for that. All the lol-worthy stuff is in the trailer. Other than the Granny, it is boringly serious.
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