After watching the "Clash of the Titans" remake trailer, I am officially disgusted. They totally missed the charm, style and feeling of the first. I own the first on DVD, but THAT is classic cheese. Yip.
As Lois Griffin says, "That's not art, that, that BLOWS!" ... Yap.
Titans Will Rock TrailerislefoxNovember 12 2009, 12:32:13 UTC
I'd say I was unsurprised (sadly) rather than disgusted but certainly agree it misses the charm of the original. I'd say the original captured my imagination much more than the remake will for todays kids.
I don't have any abiding love for the original, so the remake isn't bothering me, although I admit it looked an awful lot like a sequel to 300. (Would that be 301...Dalmatians?)
Gotta say, though, I too was horribly disappointed in the NOUN...WILL...VERB in the trailer. That alone almost turned me off the movie.
Yes, the cloned-style of 300 would bug me for any movie, as a friend of mine pointed out that gratuitous intensity is not acting out a scene. Yap.
... OK. I'm a bad person. >:) Like a train-wreck, I could watch a parody of 301 Dalmatians, as I would be highly curious as to how the mechanics of puppies fighting grueling & blood battles would work. Or if they pop like zits! Yap! Thanks for the bust of imagination. :) Yip!
Re: dc movieps238principalNovember 12 2009, 19:28:34 UTC
I just had a vision of his Kryptonian spaceship smashing into the northern New York borough, followed by a screech, honking, and someone yelling "Hey, I'm tryin' to drive, heah!"
I actually owned the Micronauts Battle Cruiser! That was the one and only time in my childhood when I actually had "big item" from a toy-line, instead of just gazing wistfully at it in a catalog. 72 different parts, many of which had spring-loaded launchers (ah, 70s toys...dangerous, and we liked them that way), and all of them breakable.
In fact, I think I had rather a lot of Micronauts toys, now that I look back on it. Odd that I don't have the same affection for them as I do for my Star Wars or Transformers collections. I wonder what happened to them?
I liked how they were dual-purpose. I, too, had the battle cruiser (I still remember those rubber-tipped missile-guns fondly), and parts of it became my "laser pistols" as I'd pretend I was in some combination of "Star Trek" and "Doctor Who."
Then there was this tall micronaut whose name I forget, but if you took his head and winged jetpack and put them together, it was a passable version of that bird-boomerang thing the leader of "G-Force" threw around in the cartoons.
1. Can we get beyond Infinite Earths? 2. I'm just miffed the National Weather Service didn't try to debunk the Global Warming induced Day the Earth Froze movie. I hadn't seen a weather flick that more wrong about it since Twister. 3. Little Known Fact about the Mayan Apocalypse (as I like to call it): Just because they have the world ending roughly Dec. 21, 2012 (Just in time for Christmas, and it's on a Friday!) doesn't mean they didn't foresee events happening beyond that day. One day of Mayan ascension was figured out to happen on October 13, 4772, which probably is Tuesday, but my new Windows 7 Calculator gets Y2K trying to figure out that date. Although personally, if they wanted to do 2012 right, they should just create the movie prequel to Shadowrun RPG. I tag Emma Watson as an Oregonian hippie who turns into an elf and develops a nasty English accent in the process!
Why haven't they made a "Shadowrun" movie? Or at least a knock-off? I can't believe some producer hasn't figured out that taking people and slapping some makeup on them from LOTR by way of The Matrix will cost next to nothing, and you can just use modern-day sets.
And I never saw "The Day After Tomorrow," though I've seen it used a bit as a meme; There's apparently a scene where the characters are running away from cold.
Modern day sets, or find wherever the Blade Runner sets are struck... I think what would keep a Shadowrun movie down is the urge to pile on too much stuff in a relatively short movie.
It could be cool though, bring in the Mummy/GI Joe director or something.
I think you've got a typo in your golf ball number. "300,000 million" lost golf balls would mean one about one lost ball per day for every single person on the planet, for the whole year. And that's just crazy, because nobody golfs in the winter.
It's always summer someplace, there's that silly "other hemisphere" where they have the opposite season we're having in ours. Plus it's always frelling godawful hot at the equator. :)
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As Lois Griffin says, "That's not art, that, that BLOWS!" ... Yap.
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Gotta say, though, I too was horribly disappointed in the NOUN...WILL...VERB in the trailer. That alone almost turned me off the movie.
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... OK. I'm a bad person. >:) Like a train-wreck, I could watch a parody of 301 Dalmatians, as I would be highly curious as to how the mechanics of puppies fighting grueling & blood battles would work. Or if they pop like zits! Yap!
Thanks for the bust of imagination. :) Yip!
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In fact, I think I had rather a lot of Micronauts toys, now that I look back on it. Odd that I don't have the same affection for them as I do for my Star Wars or Transformers collections. I wonder what happened to them?
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Then there was this tall micronaut whose name I forget, but if you took his head and winged jetpack and put them together, it was a passable version of that bird-boomerang thing the leader of "G-Force" threw around in the cartoons.
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2. I'm just miffed the National Weather Service didn't try to debunk the Global Warming induced Day the Earth Froze movie. I hadn't seen a weather flick that more wrong about it since Twister.
3. Little Known Fact about the Mayan Apocalypse (as I like to call it): Just because they have the world ending roughly Dec. 21, 2012 (Just in time for Christmas, and it's on a Friday!) doesn't mean they didn't foresee events happening beyond that day. One day of Mayan ascension was figured out to happen on October 13, 4772, which probably is Tuesday, but my new Windows 7 Calculator gets Y2K trying to figure out that date. Although personally, if they wanted to do 2012 right, they should just create the movie prequel to Shadowrun RPG. I tag Emma Watson as an Oregonian hippie who turns into an elf and develops a nasty English accent in the process!
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And I never saw "The Day After Tomorrow," though I've seen it used a bit as a meme; There's apparently a scene where the characters are running away from cold.
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It could be cool though, bring in the Mummy/GI Joe director or something.
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