Movies, movies, movies, movies, movies, movies

[trinityvixen]

-Iron Man is the first movie of 2008 to make it to $300M domestically. So, no matter how huge the take for the first weekend of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull...well, SUCK IT STUPID MOVIE. (Sorry, this is directed at my dad, who liked the latter and said the former was "stupid." And who...doesn't read my LJ. MY RAGE! IT IS MISDIRECTED!)

-Is it a poster for the live action G.I. Joe movie or the movie version of Mass Effect? Duke or Commander Shepard? I swear that the scar on "Duke's" face is one you can select in the damn game. (The facial hair definitely is.) I don't love the old character design, or anything, but sheesh. Who is this guy?

-Pixar is awesome, and Wall-E is going to be awesome, and shut it anyone who says otherwise. I wish I had any talent in the areas in which Pixar excels. Then I could work there.

-Spider-Man 4 release date!?!! Right on top of the proposed Avengers movie and the second of two movie installments of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Most notable is the fact that although absolutely no one has been hired to do anything for the movie, Sony has decided the release date. I smell success, don't you?

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[droidguy1119.livejournal.com]

Someone said in a review on AICN that everything in the trailers for Wall-E is only from the first third of the movie. I don't know if it's true, but the possibility has my mind boggled with the wonder of Pixar.

I don't know if you've heard, but Marvel is lowballing Favreau on the Iron Man sequel. I figured you'd know, but you didn't mention it so I figured I should. I guess the guy in charge there says Iron Man II will be a hit with or without Jon so a raise in pay is not necessary, which is what Jon asked for. Sounds like rocky territory. Favreau has also been vocally skeptical of the 2010 release date, saying it's less time than they had to make the first one and he's not sure they can deliver, given that they have no script. If Marvel wants not to fuck up their fantastic $550m-worldwide-plus-another-$20-probably-plus-$200m-on-DVD franchise they've got going (made all the more profitable by hiring less expensive underdogs like Favreau in the first place) then they should take less notes from Sony on how to rush a product to the market.

As far as it goes in and of itself, Sony's slotting of SM4 works out with Sam and Tobey's current schedules, so clearly Sony is not done trying to woo them. I care so little about the franchise at the moment that I'd be more disappointed to see Raimi and Maguire treading tired ground than that Sony won't give up on them.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I did hear about the low-balling for Favreau. Honestly, it sounded like one big gay love-in on the set of Iron Man, I'm hoping that Robert Downey Jr. pulls for him. (Because RDJ is the non-negotiable draw for that movie that they can't afford to fuck over.)

And, yeah, I saw the AICN report that was like "Fuckers, do you want to keep your talent happy so they make better shit, or do you want to have a schedule!?" One more year, fuck, half a year wouldn't kill them. Delay the goddamned Avengers movie. (No one is going to go if Iron Man 2 doesn't soar.)

As for Spidey, the burnout is palpable. I'm not saying that they shouldn't go with new people, only that I see that it will be hard to do so. I'd prefer fresh perspectives on this. Maguire was old for the part six years ago, and there are other candidates I've seen mentioned who would just fine to step in for a re-direct. As long as they work on getting substance versus (AGAIN) scheduling, I don't care who's behind the mask. It just needs to be Peter Parker; what he looks like is irrelevant.

[droidguy1119.livejournal.com]

Well, RDJ is already signed. So it doesn't really matter what RDJ pulls for, which sucks, because I'm sure he'd like to pull for Favreau, but he's locked in either way, so he can't afford to fuck over the movie for the sake of getting his director back.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Right, like RDJ hasn't had a long and legendary habit of fucking things up. At least this time, he'd be using his reputation for good!

[droidguy1119.livejournal.com]

True, but I think he'd be in kind of a rock-and-a-hard-place here. He clearly loves the character and the franchise, and I'd bet he wouldn't want to let the audience who loves the comic and the characters down just because Favreau got the short end of the stick.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Also! The wonder of Pixar! It's the man who gave me Finding Nemo! I trust! I already love!