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?

Comments

[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.