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A cavalcade of good ideas
Dec. 16th, 2008 01:38 am#1: A sequel to a movie that is more than a decade old! (Yes, I've seen it.)
They are terribly specific about the budget on this. Almost suspiciously so. Either the economic downturn has forced the Hollywood bean-counter types to demand estimated costs of production with greater degrees of precision, or they've already gotten the bill for this movie because it's done and ready to slink into theaters for a weekend and disappear again. (Punisher: War Zone, you will not fade into obscurity alone!)
#2: When your star is going to jail for tax evasion, it is time to recast and remake!
This remaking modern movie thing is OUT OF CONTROL. Granted the last Blade movie was ridiculous (and, yes, I saw it and liked it anyway because I'm broken and I'm totally slutty for Ryan Reynold's body and Parker Posey's EVERYTHING), but isn't that an argument to let the thing die for at least ten years and then only maybe consider revisiting?
#3: A 'reinvention' of a genre-defining film that died when its sequels went straight to DVD! To be brought to you buy the guy who directed LXG, no less. Which, hilariously, this article mentions was the last film both he and Sean Connery worked on. I'm sure that it will be a smashing success. Everything he says fills me confidence:
"Whereas Proyas' original was gloriously gothic and stylized, the new movie will be realistic, hard-edged and mysterious, almost documentary-style."
THE MAN WHO BROUGHT YOU LXG would like you to know that his "reinvention" of The Crow is going to be totally different from the awesome, generally beloved 1990s movie. (Nowhere mentioned: the long shadow cast by the death of the promising young star of that film.) No need to worry, citizens of LJournia! You are free from the tyranny of style and the cohesive adaptation of James O'Barr's distinctive graphic novel! Free, I tell you, free!
#4: I like some of his movies, but Kenneth Branagh always sounds like a douche in interviews.
How can you read this...
“I am directing “Thor” or “The Mighty Thor’ as you might like to call it,” he said with a smile before clarifying what the title of the film will be. “I think it will be ‘Thor.’”
...and not want to immediately, like, punch him in the face. "You see, the kids have these things called 'KA-MICK BOOKS' and they have these little titles that they just take so seriously."
Jon Favreau and Robert Downey Jr. are already on record as giving Thor's inclusion in the inescapable Avengers movie the hairy eyeball. This is not helping:
He continued excitedly, “There’s science fiction and science fact and fantasy all woven into one. It’s based on Norse legends which Marvel sort of raided in a brilliant way.
Keep in mind that the journalist caught up with him at a Valkyrie premiere, so he must have been wetting himself with excitement to talk about how great it was that he was fighting Hitler and that much has been edited out. Also missing: any pithy connections between the title of his current film and his next project. Kudos to you, interwebs writer for those edits.
They are terribly specific about the budget on this. Almost suspiciously so. Either the economic downturn has forced the Hollywood bean-counter types to demand estimated costs of production with greater degrees of precision, or they've already gotten the bill for this movie because it's done and ready to slink into theaters for a weekend and disappear again. (Punisher: War Zone, you will not fade into obscurity alone!)
#2: When your star is going to jail for tax evasion, it is time to recast and remake!
This remaking modern movie thing is OUT OF CONTROL. Granted the last Blade movie was ridiculous (and, yes, I saw it and liked it anyway because I'm broken and I'm totally slutty for Ryan Reynold's body and Parker Posey's EVERYTHING), but isn't that an argument to let the thing die for at least ten years and then only maybe consider revisiting?
#3: A 'reinvention' of a genre-defining film that died when its sequels went straight to DVD! To be brought to you buy the guy who directed LXG, no less. Which, hilariously, this article mentions was the last film both he and Sean Connery worked on. I'm sure that it will be a smashing success. Everything he says fills me confidence:
"Whereas Proyas' original was gloriously gothic and stylized, the new movie will be realistic, hard-edged and mysterious, almost documentary-style."
THE MAN WHO BROUGHT YOU LXG would like you to know that his "reinvention" of The Crow is going to be totally different from the awesome, generally beloved 1990s movie. (Nowhere mentioned: the long shadow cast by the death of the promising young star of that film.) No need to worry, citizens of LJournia! You are free from the tyranny of style and the cohesive adaptation of James O'Barr's distinctive graphic novel! Free, I tell you, free!
#4: I like some of his movies, but Kenneth Branagh always sounds like a douche in interviews.
How can you read this...
“I am directing “Thor” or “The Mighty Thor’ as you might like to call it,” he said with a smile before clarifying what the title of the film will be. “I think it will be ‘Thor.’”
...and not want to immediately, like, punch him in the face. "You see, the kids have these things called 'KA-MICK BOOKS' and they have these little titles that they just take so seriously."
Jon Favreau and Robert Downey Jr. are already on record as giving Thor's inclusion in the inescapable Avengers movie the hairy eyeball. This is not helping:
He continued excitedly, “There’s science fiction and science fact and fantasy all woven into one. It’s based on Norse legends which Marvel sort of raided in a brilliant way.
Keep in mind that the journalist caught up with him at a Valkyrie premiere, so he must have been wetting himself with excitement to talk about how great it was that he was fighting Hitler and that much has been edited out. Also missing: any pithy connections between the title of his current film and his next project. Kudos to you, interwebs writer for those edits.
