2013 blockbusters you're looking forward to
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Reno
The In Kraut
Gravity by Alfonso Cuaron is the one I'm looking forward to the most. I think he's the best director working in mainstream films now.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1454468/
Also Elysium and the new Star Trek film.
Seen Django Unchained, which is good if not great.
Not a blockbuster, but Jonathan Glazer is making a film of Michael Fabers sci-fi horror novel Under the Skin. Despite that I think Scarlett Johansson is miscast in the lead role, I'm still intrigued because I loved the book and thing Glazer is a great director.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1454468/
Also Elysium and the new Star Trek film.
Seen Django Unchained, which is good if not great.
Not a blockbuster, but Jonathan Glazer is making a film of Michael Fabers sci-fi horror novel Under the Skin. Despite that I think Scarlett Johansson is miscast in the lead role, I'm still intrigued because I loved the book and thing Glazer is a great director.
bi0boy
Power User
"Astronauts attempt to return to earth after debris crashes into their space shuttle, leaving them drifting alone in space."
ohh sounds good...
....staring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney
Reno
The In Kraut
"Astronauts attempt to return to earth after debris crashes into their space shuttle, leaving them drifting alone in space."
ohh sounds good...
....staring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney
I don't have a problem with them. Both perfectly capable actors. The thing is that you can only get the type if idiosynchratic, yet expensive films Cuaron makes off the ground is if you cast big names.
bi0boy
Power User
I just have memories of gratuitous shots of Clooney's arse in the Solaris remake. To put him in a sci-fi film just seems like terrible miscasting.
Reno
The In Kraut
That blink and you miss it moment was all the tabloids focused on when the film came out, hence it's apparently still only thing worth talking about. A film about grief, identity and a bleak take on romance rather than a film about naked arses, I really liked the Soderberg Solaris and thought that Clooney was very good in it. I don't see why casting him in a sci-fi film is "miscasting". He's handled himself well in a wide range of films by now.
In the end I rarely watch films because or despite of the actors. I'm more interested in directors and writers. I think both stars are skilled enough to manage a sci-fi adventure.
TitanSound
Mr Beardy Drummer
They're making a Riddick 3? Interesting....
Reno
The In Kraut
To me the only thing interesting about it is that they now make sequels to flops.
The directors cut is an awesome film though. Amazing design in that film.
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bi0boy
Power User
No he was distraction, the film was shit anyway.
He suits James Bond type movies, rom coms etc. But iot sci-fi. It would be like casting Kiefer Sutherland in Hugh Grant's role in a remake of Notting Hill.
Reno
The In Kraut
I quite enjoyed Pitch Black, but Chronicles of Riddick was shit. Apart from wildly overestimating the appeal of walking, talking plank Vin Diesel the characters looked poorly integrated into the mostly CG environments. I suppose the desings were great if you are a goth, it all looked rather camp to me (and Thandie Newton was the only one to realise that)
Reno
The In Kraut
Whatever, skip the film then. I'm still very much looking forward to it. And your cast iron rules about what actors to cast in which genres with you having no idea what type of role he is playing, is frankly dumb. As if all sci-fi films have the same acting requirements. It's all about opinion rather than knowledge these days, isn't it ?
TitanSound
Mr Beardy Drummer
Indeed. The sets were unconvincing and the CGI was far too obvious. I liked the story though. Just poorly executed.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Chronicles was a big disapointment for me- hopefully the third installment will be better. Pare down the bloat. Pitch black was perfect. Monsters, a well worn set of characters (cowardly posh englishman, grizzled prospector woman, bounty hunter with a dark past etc) and people dying in an orderly fashion.
bi0boy
Power User
Ah yes, I was forgetting that opinion has no place in discussions of art. It should be all about facts, otherwise how can you ever win an argument?
Reno
The In Kraut
It's basing opinions on next to nothing, which I find a little odd. You are already discounting Clooney, an actor who is generally held in high esteem, in a role in a film you know nothing about. How is that "discussing art" ? To make a generalisation that an actor who has already been successful in many genres, can't be in a sci-fi film, is patently absurd.
And thanks for selectively quoting me and to take that sentence out of context, just to engage in a bit of point scoring.
dylanredefined
Not a house elf a tiger
Giant Robots
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
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SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
After a year of shit additions to ageing franchises (Dark Knight Rises, Prometheus, Skyfall, Amazing Spider-Man, The Bourne Necrophilia etc) I'm not gonna bother looking forward to anything hollywood curls out for quite a while.
Not until Avengers 2 is due out anyway.
Not until Avengers 2 is due out anyway.
dylanredefined
Not a house elf a tiger
Your looking forward to a remake of MAx Q so I'll ignore you.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Giant Robots
Looks like another film where Idris Elba can't quite remember what accent he's supposed to be doing
Reno
The In Kraut
Only God Forgives
The next film from Nicolas Winding Refn after Drive, again with Ryan Gosling, looks like more of the same, but that's fine by me. I also can never get enough of Kristin Scott Thomas, who seems to be channeling Angelica Huston in The Grifters, which also works for me.
The next film from Nicolas Winding Refn after Drive, again with Ryan Gosling, looks like more of the same, but that's fine by me. I also can never get enough of Kristin Scott Thomas, who seems to be channeling Angelica Huston in The Grifters, which also works for me.
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