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bowman9991 writes:
While the new Predators movie starring Adrien Brody has a great premise and an excellent opening sequence, overall it disappoints. The acting is superior to that of previous Predator incarnations, but the plot loses it completely just short of half way. Someone forgot to tell producer Robert Rodriguez and director Nimrod Antal that Adrien Brody is not Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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bowman9991 writes:
Is watching 'Doctor Who' well into your 40s something you should be embarrassed to admit in public? SFFMedia asks whether 'Doctor Who' fans have been suckered into watching a kids television show, letting their viewing standards drop in the process. Is embarrassment warranted? In the interests of science, and to purge feelings of guilt, embarrassment and general social discomfort on the part of the writer, a selection of older and younger Doctor Who fans were surveyed and a colourful 3D Excel chart created to display the results. While Matt Smith has captured the essence of the character and executive producer and writer Steven Moffat (who took over from Russell T. Davies after David Tennant retired from the role) has done a fine job in season one, perhaps older fans should be rethink their devotion.
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bowman9991 writes:
Remember to check your palm to ensure that your crystal hasn't gone black. If it has, you better start running. The 1976 science fiction classic 'Logan's Run', starring Michael York, is being remade in 3D with British writer Alex Garland now onboard to write the screenplay. Garland's film 'Sunshine', directed by Danny Boyle, was one of the stand out science fiction films of the last decade and he wrote the screenplays for Leonardo DiCaprio's 'The Beach' (based on Garland's own novel) and the science fiction horror '28 Days Later' (a massive adrenaline rush of a movie). This should give first time director Carl Rinsch some great material to work with — a great premise meets a great writer.
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bowman9991 writes:
By now you may have read some negative early reviews of Iron Man 2, the sequel to Marvel Comics' first Iron Man movie starring the inimitable Robert Downey Jr. Variety declared that the 'Visual and CGI effects are the best and worst thing about Iron Man 2. The film relies far too much on them. They catch one up in the action, but, unfortunately, nothing else does.' The Hollywood Reporter said 'Well, that didn't take long. Everything fun and terrific about Iron Man, a mere two years ago, has vanished with its sequel.' Well you can forget about all these reviews right now. I'm serious, put them out of your mind. Burn them if you have too. They miss the mark completely. These reviewers and many more had either blown fuses when they wrote their material (assuming they're robots), missed their media previews and had to write something in a rush to meet a deadline (and decided just to make the whole review up) or somehow they all slipped into a parallel universe and then slipped right back out again as the final credits rolled. I swear these guys were watching a completely different film. Don't believe the critics (except this one) Iron Man 2 is a cut above the typical Hollywood CGI blockbuster and surpasses the original with style, wit, flair and intelligence.
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bowman9991 writes:
Christopher Nolan's latest is a mind warping psychological thriller called Inception where Leonardo DiCaprio stars as a James Bond type figure battling criminals trying to steal other people's dreams. Like Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunset of a Spotless Mind, there appears to be a lot of mental gymnastics, freaky twists and reality distortion to be experienced and some tremendous visuals to go with it. For Christopher Nolan, director of the Batman hits Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, this is a pet project he's been trying to get off the ground for years.
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bowman9991 writes:
Even after Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly, Total Recall, the Minority Report, Paycheck, Impostor and Next, it appears Hollywood's lust for movies based on Philip K. Dick material continues. The Adjustment Bureau, starring Matt Damon, Emily Blunt and Terence Stamp is the latest, and features some classic Dick themes, including the fragile nature of reality and a fight against a world controlled and manipulated by powerful unseen entities. When Congressman David Norris meets the love of his life after a political defeat, he must peel back the layers of reality to discover why a mysterious group is so desperate to make sure they never meet again. He is up against the agents of fate itself — the men of The Adjustment Bureau. The Adjustment Bureau adaptation follows news that Terry Gilliam will adapt Dick's novel The World Jones Made, that Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said and Ubik are being adapted and that a remake of Total Recall is being developed by the ironically named Original Films Studio.
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bowman9991 writes:
If one isn't enough, there are reports that 2 sequels to Roland Emmerich's 1996 alien invasion blockbuster Independence Day are in the works. Will Smith is back too. Apparently he delayed a sequel earlier by asking for too much money. Fox have made so much Avatar 3D cash they are planning as many big budget franchise movies as they can find (or invent).
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bowman9991 writes:
The last time we watched Godzilla lose his reptilian marbles, destroying buildings and killing people at will, it was with director Roland Emmerich and star Matthew Broderick back in 1998. If you can't remember it, you should try to keep it that way (the less remembered the better). Now the giant dinosaur thing is returning once more, hopefully better than before (and probably in 3D too). Legendary Pictures is co-producing and co-financing a new Godzilla movie with Warner Bros. A 2012 release date is on the cards. Legendary obtained the rights to the Godzilla character from Japan's Toho Co., which has overseen the development of 25 separate Godzilla films. That's a lot of lizard.
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bowman9991 writes:
Battlefield Earth is a travesty of a movie and now its main screenwriter has admitted that he is just as disturbed and appalled as everyone else. The amazingly bad feature film based on a novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard was a shocker with 'campy dialogue, aliens in KISS boots, and everyone wearing Bob Marley wigs.' J.D. Shapiro apologises in an open letter to the New York Post. 'It wasn't as I intended – promise. No one sets out to make a train wreck. Actually, comparing it to a train wreck isn't really fair to train wrecks, because people actually want to watch those.' Strangely, John Travolta reportedly loved the script and called it 'the Schindler's List of sci-fi.' Shapiro writes that 'out of all the sucky movies, mine is the suckiest.' New York Post article.
