Huh. That looks potentially not shitty.
[Movies] The Upcoming Movies Trailer Thread
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Huh... anyone ever hear of Cobra? Japanese sci-fi cartoon? Has a really similar plot to this. Was made 12 years before it too.
You watch anime from 1954?
The only Japanese thing I know made in that year is green and has spikes on it.
Quick-time is a pretty good video file thinamajig. I just wish more sites had those rather than those crappy streaming ones. Sure they can look better but a lot of the time the picture get's all weird for no reason.
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I finally gave up on Quicktime after getting sick of of it's controls not auto-hiding in full screen. I also hated that it constantly nagged me to install iTunes and Safari.
It's kind of annoying that I can no longer watch trailers on Apple's site because I don't want to use their crappy software, but that's a price I'm willing to pay to be free of Quicktime.
He's referring to the fact that the original Philip K. Dick story was written in 1966.
Remember when people said that about The Dark Knight? Remember when they were really, really, really wrong about that? That's why I tend to wait until after the movie's out before making that kind of judgement. Sometimes, advertising people actually good at their job, especially when they have decent material to work with.
Then again, I liked Alien but really didn't like Robin Hood (except for Kevin Durand as Little John. Kevin Durand is the shit) that much. So I'm a little torn on Prometheus, though it should be free of my history-based gripes.
I bristled when people called True Grit a remake. I personally think that, absent attempts to directly copy aspects unique to prior adaptions, you can't call movies True Grit or The Amazing Spider-Man remakes. They're difference adaptation of the same source material, with their own visual styles and emphasis on different aspects of the material. I was planning to rant and rave here about this principle.
Then I remembered that Total Recall departed from its source material quite a bit and this flick seems to be follow the same path, and I felt like a tool.
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I'd be more into the Total Recall remake if they used the awesomely-weird title of the original story: We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
Oooooooooooooooooh. Huh, pretty influencial story I guess.
I might have posted this question before, but when the hell is Godzilla 3-D to the max comin' out? That thing is in all KINDS of production hell I assume.
Philip K Dick is terrible at naming things.
He tried to make a serious scienc-fiction book with the title "Do robots dream of electric sheep" didn't he? There is a reason the movie is called Blade-runner.
It's "androids". It's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep". He also had a completely separate story named "The Blade-Runner". It wasn't so much that he was bad at naming things, its that his stories were far more....introspective? Existential? Trippy? Than the movies that get based on them.
Sorry, I was thinkin' of the song from Hitchikers guide. The movies based off his stuff are more straight-forward ain't they?
Quite a lot. And most of them bear little more than passing resemblance to the story they're based on.
It's why I've put off watching Blade Runner for so long.
which version?
So...watch it? I'm getting mixed messages here.
....depressing sci-fi Harison Ford ending? SOLD!
I will be watching the HELL out of this.
I am also seeing the hell out of that. DAMN! Straight up Aasimov type shit right there.
That looks really cool.
Time travelling mob-hit Bruce Willis. What's not to like?
Yup, that works. At one time I agreed with speculators that the movie should be animated to avoid the whole aging problem, but that would likely take away from some of the harshness.
I plan to read this again this year. One of my favorite books and pretty much the only Orson Scott Card novel I enjoy without reservation.
Okay, that looks fucking awesome. Seeing it.
I'm so there.
Ok pretty cool, two questions, why wasn't Bruce Willis sent back with a hood, so he'd just pop him instead of looking at him, like first target he popped (kinda spoiled it for me), and what the hell happened to Joseph Gordon-Levitt didn't even recognize the kid?!?
A Fantastic Fear of Everything
Jack (Simon Pegg) is a children's author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into the lives of Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, persecuted by the irrational fear of being murdered. When Jack is thrown a life-line by his long-suffering agent and a mysterious Hollywood executive takes a sudden and inexplicable interest in his script, what should be his big break rapidly turns into his big breakdown, as Jack is forced to confront his worst demons; among them his love life, his laundry and the origin of all fear.
I keep wondering why they didn't just install the landing pad upside down over the blast furnace. Seems like it would save a few steps in the process.