"but I never saw anyone say that the When A Stranger Calls remake wasn't a remake because it was based on an urban legend." Maybe because urban legends aren't set in stone. They have lots of variations, so it kind of depends on what area you live in which version you hear and think of as "the...
"If there's almost no similarities between The Thing and The Thing From Another World then you can say the same for many remakes." The big difference, probably, is that those horror movies you're talking about were originals, not based on other material. Like Halloween. If you make a new...
I thought the big battle was weak with a few high points, and it lost all its energy at the final duel. Voldemort's death had to be public. Remember, he's disappeared before and come back, and everyone who knowing nothing about horcruxes is going to start trumpeting his return as soon as they...
"Just a question for the experienced Harry Potter fans/readers." As a moderately experienced HP fan, I'll take a shot at this. Harry wasn't "killed" in the forest. The piece of Voldemort's soul within him was killed, and the shock sent Harry into limbo. Re: the final duel, yes, Voldemort...
"I just find it unlikley that the offspring would have as dark of a complexion as the actress they used for the part did." This is a ridiculous statement, considering that the mother is never shown. It sounds like you're still expecting a child's complexion to be a mixture of both parents (white...
" I have to give them credit for producing a sequel that really is different from the original film."
It's a simple reversal. The first one is "sophisticated guy in the sticks." Reverse it, and you get "unsophisticated guy in the big city," which automatically makes it Mater's story, expands...
"Honestly, I don't really have a further explanation. It's just something that takes me out of the movie whenever I see it. Based on her complexion I don't believe that she is the offspring of White Father. I would have expected a child who was lighter skinned, is all." We've already...
"What bugged me was that I had a very hard time believing she could have been the offspring of a White parent. I suppose that maybe she wasn't his biological child, but since this is never brought up, I just assume Malcolm is supposed to be her real father." You're kidding about this, right...
"But it was laughably, horribly, astonishingly bad." I have to laugh when people use prose like this. I just watched Puma Man again on MST3K. You don't have a clue when it comes to laughably, horribly, astonishingly bad.
"Hal Jordan is not a wise-cracking, overgrown frat boy, but that's what he was in the movie."
This is a common complaint with adaptations -- most recently with Green Hornet. People expect the fully-developed hero they've grown accustomed to in comics/TV shows/whatever to be there in the...
"It is the casual fan or newbie to GL that is going to be disappointed because the story just didn't hold up compared to others like Thor."
Except I'm a casual fan/newbie to the GL world, and I thought the movie was good as light entertainment (like you, I liked Thor a bit better). The...
I wouldn't mind being able to visit an earlier time (for example, Los Angeles from about 1925-1935, when the streets were decorated with small shops in the shapes of igloos, owls, derby hats, dogs, etc), but wouldn't want to stay there.
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I probably liked Superman Returns better than most people, but I think it's safe to say that it was a dead end. It's possible that if Kevin Smith's Superman had been produced, it might have lead to more movies. If nothing else, Burton gummed up the works for a long time. Do you...
Where did I say "directed"? He got a big payday to do so (5 mil). Kept the project in development hell by abandoning Kevin Smith's script and starting anew. Cast Nicolas Cage (20 mil). Delivered nothing. Cost the studio 30 mil. So yes, I would say (sarcastically, of course) that he...
Actually, Robert, it's true of the comic book as well. They were inspired by the fables, but didn't try to be true to them. The movie is just one more step away, and an attempt to tie in better to the coming Avengers film. In my opinion, it works. As for "god of thunder," they call...
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And I think you misread something. These are not gods. Period. I too was concerned about Thor fitting with the rest of the Marvel characters, but they did a good job of basing him in a pseudo-scientific world. He's NOT a god. Go see the movie; you're just adding to the...
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Is this true? Hollywood either has to shoot the film in 3D or pay for a conversion. The theaters have to spring for new equipment and screens, and someone has to clean all those darn glasses... it's not like turning on a spigot and collecting free money. There has to be a...
Travis, satire or not, you can also pick up a lot of misinformation about a movie without seeing it. Trailers can be misleading, include scenes that aren't in the final film, people who talk about a movie with a skewed agenda...
"Oh, brother, here we go again!" It still seems like you're faulting them for the movie you wanted them to make, rather than the movie they made. As far as I know, the comics were only loosely based on Nordic mythology, and the movie loosely based on the comics. Maybe you haven't seen many...
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Thanks, Terry. Then Jose is right that 55% of the revenue from 2D shows a definite trend among viewers on this title. So the question is: where is the breaking point where it stops being feasible to release in 3D?
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What's the percentage of screens showing it in 3D vs. 2D? At least in the past, there were fewer 3D screens producing a larger amount of the revenue, and that drove the push to get more theaters 3D equipped.
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Where did you get the idea that they are "Viking gods"? As presented by the movie, they are a race of beings with highly advanced technology. They visited the Earth in the past and so inspired stories about gods -- but those stories are not true. So they're not wearing animal...
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I think that's what J.J. Abrams is good at -- delivering the "feel." I don't like the way his stories turn out, however. He doesn't seem to know how to make all the smoke and mirrors pay off. Hopefully with Spielberg involved, this one will be different.
So long, Dee Dee. In case anyone's interested, here are the 12 songs that Dolores wrote or co-wrote for Elvis: Barefoot Ballad Beyond The Bend Big Love, Big Heartache Cindy, Cindy Do The Clam Have A Happy I Got Lucky I'll Take Love Rock-A-Hula, Baby Spinout Steppin' Out Of Line You Can't...
I can't imagine committing to buying something I haven't seen, even if I find that it's bad. I don't understand that at all. Are you a huge PoTA fan or something, Sam?