dudalb Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 (edited) On 11/6/2019 at 2:24 PM, TalismanRing said: I thought the great success of LOTR and then Potter would harbinger an era of great fantasy films. But studios were so hot to jump on the bandwagon they produced a bunch of junk and killed it - either by making films from fad junk novels (Eragon) turning lovely series (The Dark is Rising, Earthsea) into hot garbage, making original bilge ( Lady in the Water), doing bad adaptations of games (Dungeons & Dragons, Warcraft) or animation ( Avatar: The Last Airbender) or shooting themselves in the foot with the director and wrong lead (John Carter). Every time a film is a huge hit, every studio tries to cash in with wannabe films.. I am sure there were dozens of wannabe ripoffs of "The Great Train Robbery" back in 1902. But I really, really, hate what they did to "Earthsea". The Narnia series did fairly well for the first couple of films, then folded up. Most of the Potter/LOTR wannbes were flops.It's like they tried to get a trend started, but failed. On the other hand New Line had a hot mess and a box office disasterwith "His Dark Materials",which they obviousl;y expected to be another LOTR but the new BBC miniseries pretty much nailed the books. Hell, people tried to ripoff LOTR before it opened. The D and D movie opened a couple of weeks before FOTR. Not unusual for a studio, when it thinks another studio is going to have a big hit, to rush a film into production to try to beat it to the box office. Edited December 10, 2019 by dudalb 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrGlass2 Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 (edited) Quote Oscar Isaac on his thoughts of Denis Villeneuve’s ‘DUNE’: “There are some things that are, for lack of a better word, nightmarish about what you see. There’s just this kind of brutalist element to it. It’s shocking, scary & very visceral.” Isaac should say it is f-u-n (FUNE). A fun Christmas movie for the whole family. Edited December 10, 2019 by MrGlass2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudalb Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 On 11/6/2019 at 2:11 PM, MrGlass2 said: I would love it if science-fiction classics automatically became "biggest ever" movies, maybe Hollywood would adapt more than one per decade then - instead of ever more obscure CBMs. But that's unlikely. On the other hand, Hollywood has not done very well adapting Classic Sci Fi novels to the big screen. I give you "I Robot" as an example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dementeleus Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 I, ROBOT is decent enough. PUPPET MASTERS, though.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudalb Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Plain Old Tele said: I, ROBOT is decent enough. PUPPET MASTERS, though.... God, yes. I Robot was OK if you could forget how shallow it was compared to the Asimov novel, but Puppet Masters made Robert Heinlein turn over in his grave. His comments on that film if he had been alive when it was made would have been great to read. And though it has quite a few fans, I don't care for Starship Troopers because it is such a distortion of Heinlein's novel. Movies have not been kind to Heinlein. And Stranger in a Strange Land has been optioned and consigned to development hell by just about every major studio. Main reason is script problems; it's a really hard novel to adapt to the screen. Edited December 10, 2019 by dudalb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGAR4LIFE Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 (edited) Was there footage of this during the montage that WB created for CCXP? I know it featured footage from the likes of Tenet, Godzilla vs. Kong, and the new unreleased Birds of Prey trailer. They may be changing their marketing all around but it would be nice to see a small teaser attached to Star Wars. Edited December 10, 2019 by JGAR4LIFE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudalb Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 2 minutes ago, JGAR4LIFE said: Was there footage of this during the montage that WB created for CCXP? I know it featured footage from the likes of Tenet, Godzilla vs. Kong, and the new unreleased Birds of Prey trailer. They may be changing their marketing all around but it would be nice to see a small teaser attached to Star Wars. I don't think Disney is going to do Warners a favor by attaching a trailer for a Warners movie to TROS. Warners could release a trailer in hopes of it being shown with TROS, but that is different then an attachement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrGlass2 Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 I, Robot was extremely disappointing, even more so because it is one of the very few (alleged) adaptations of the Robots/Empire/Foundation series ever, along with Bicentennial Man. Thankfully Tim Apple is spending some of his billions to make one of those prestige TV dramas adapting Foundation on screen, finally. (though I just looked it up and one of the co-creators left before production so... let's hope for the best) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SLAM! Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 3 hours ago, EarlyDeadlinePredictions said: I 100% agree with Denis Villeneuve winning an award such as this; I think he is potentially the one director that uniquely embodies the 2010s like very few directors do. This was the decade in which he debuted and the decade in which he made his mark. Here's to a bright future for a talented visionary. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WittyUsername Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 5 minutes ago, SLAM! said: I 100% agree with Denis Villeneuve winning an award such as this; I think he is potentially the one director that uniquely embodies the 2010s like very few directors do. This was the decade in which he debuted and the decade in which he made his mark. Here's to a bright future for a talented visionary. I wish they would’ve gotten him to direct the new Batman movie. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrGlass2 Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 I want some of what the guys at IGN have been smoking: Quote Projected Domestic Top 20 for 2020: Wonder Woman - $493.6 million Dune - $472.6 million Fast & Furious 9 - $357.8 million Dune making half of that domestically would be beyond my wildest dreams... Here's to hope 2020 doesn't suck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warmaster506 Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 Would love for that number to come true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alli Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 Quote Fast & Furious 9 - $357.8 million LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XXRDJisDoctorDoom Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 9 minutes ago, MrGlass2 said: Projected Domestic Top 20 for 2020: Wonder Woman - $493.6 million Dune - $472.6 million Fast & Furious 9 - $357.8 million What in the hell is this.... Dune will be lucky if it can double BR2049 domestically, much less sniff half a billion. And FF9 losing the Rock but going up nearly 60% domestically?!? 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TMP Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 3 minutes ago, VenomXXR said: Dune will be lucky if it can double BR2049 domestically, much less sniff half a billion. This movie isn't the sequel to a cult film that bombed like BR2049 was Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XXRDJisDoctorDoom Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 4 minutes ago, TMP said: This movie isn't the sequel to a cult film that bombed like BR2049 was Yea you're right, it's the remake of a cult film that bombed.... 2 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudalb Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 43 minutes ago, VenomXXR said: Yea you're right, it's the remake of a cult film that bombed.... And LOTR was a remake of a cult film (the 1978 Bashki Animated version) that bombed. Question is can VIllenueve make a film of the novel that will appeal to the general audience in a way that the Lynch film did not. Certainly the novel has all the ingrediants for a successful film;it's all in the execution. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudalb Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 BTw there is a "Dune" reference in "The Rise Of Skywalker":the running joke they have about "Spice Merchants" with it being clear "Spice" is a drug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XXRDJisDoctorDoom Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 14 minutes ago, dudalb said: And LOTR was a remake of a cult film (the 1978 Bashki Animated version) that bombed. $30m box office on a $4 million budget isn't bombing. Quite the opposite, actually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...