bart wrote:Several people brought Blade Trinity back and demanded refunds when I worked at Blockbuster.
I worked at a video store when the first Blade came out, and it's amazing how popular that movie was. I think I witnessed the birth of fan-boy culture as a video store clerk in the mid-to-late 90s.
It's actually kind of amazing how long it took to get comic book movies as mainstream and profitable as they've become.
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Tue October 25, 2016 7:50 pm
by epilogue
Rangi Guy wrote:I've hated pretty much all the Blade movies
I remember one being mediocre but still being interested in the second. But I'd totally lost interest by the third. So, I must not have really given a shit in the first place. But that's why I'd like to give them another go and see what I see.
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Tue October 25, 2016 7:51 pm
by LoathedVermin72
Trinity is very bad. But Parker Posey gives what might be one of my favorite performances ever in it.
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Tue October 25, 2016 7:52 pm
by epilogue
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Trinity is very bad. But Parker Posey gives what might be one of my favorite performances ever in it.
God, I love her.
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Tue October 25, 2016 7:52 pm
by epilogue
Have you seen House of Yes, verm?
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Tue October 25, 2016 8:05 pm
by LoathedVermin72
durdencommatyler wrote:Have you seen House of Yes, verm?
This latest story says that it wasn’t just Reynolds and Miller fighting each other with occasional studio refereeing. Arrayed against Miller were Reynolds and screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. Those three all saw a sequel that stayed close to the formula of the first, and—probably crucially in the studio execs’ heads—stayed relatively inexpensive.
Insiders told The Wrap that Miller wanted to do a more “stylized” version that would have needed three times the first film’s $58 million budget. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out why a studio would back Reynolds, Reese, and Wernick over Miller here. The former three are promising to basically do what made the studio a ton of money for very little investment again. Miller was asking for a lot more money to try something new.
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Wed October 26, 2016 4:30 pm
by Jorge
Fuck Tim Miller for having some ambition!
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Wed October 26, 2016 4:51 pm
by epilogue
theplatypus wrote:Fuck Tim Miller for having some ambition!
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Wed October 26, 2016 4:53 pm
by bada
Blade 2 is worth another watch Josephus.
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Wed October 26, 2016 4:54 pm
by epilogue
bada wrote:Blade 2 is worth another watch Josephus.
I caught a few minutes of Braveheart the other day. That Irish character doesn't hold up. Yikes.
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Wed October 26, 2016 7:17 pm
by Rangi Guy
Braveheart is a masterpiece!
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Wed October 26, 2016 9:48 pm
by epilogue
Anybody?
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Wed October 26, 2016 9:55 pm
by BurtReynolds
looks good
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Wed October 26, 2016 9:57 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Wed October 26, 2016 10:00 pm
by epilogue
Apparently (and I didn't get this from the trailer but from IMDB) it's about a vet who comes home to a post-apocalyptic America and desperately tries to find his son.
The trailer looks outstanding, I think. LaBeouf looks outstanding. But I think adding in the above description just elevates it even further. I really want to see it.
