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Re: What Are You Looking Forward To?
By: Neumatic Date: January 7, 2015, 8:38 am
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Film School Rejects gives us a reality check: Ghost In The Shell
is going to suck
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/> Makes the ethnicity issue seem pretty unimportant.
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Re: What Are You Looking Forward To?
By: Chiprocks1 Date: January 7, 2015, 8:49 am
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I agree that casting ScarJo is a head-scratching decision on
their part for the reasons explained. But having said that,
she's also the very reason why I'm gonna end up checking the
movie out. I read the Trade Paperback pf Ghost in the Shell
years ago and always wondered when they would make a big budget
flick for it.
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Re: What Are You Looking Forward To?
By: Neumatic Date: January 7, 2015, 1:55 pm
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No, casting Margot Robbie was a headscratcher, casting ScarJo
makes perfect freaking sense, there's very few people who can
open a movie and only a sliver of those are women. ScarJo is
one of them, so yeah, of course they're minds are going to go
there. I wouldn't have thought of her, but I think she might be
the ONLY actress who could really do that part. And honestly,
I'm not offended like I am by the idea of a white-washed Akira.
Why? Because Akira is about being Japanese, Ghost In The Shell
is about being human. The character is barely human, let alone
Asian, so I think in this case it's okay.
There's a movie I love called Hachi, it's the story of Hachiko,
a famous Japanese folk tale, transposed to modern day New York
with Richard Gere in the role of the Professor. No outrage,
first because it's not a well-known film, but also because that
film isn't about being asian either, it's about a man and his
dog. It's universal. The dog, I will point out, is still
Japanese.
You also had The Grudge, Ringu and a bunch of Asian horror
flicks adapted into American films with American leads. No
outrage.
But then you have sh*t like Godzilla. We've never been able to
make a good Godzilla film in the states, and that's because
Godzilla is inherently Japanese, so much stuff goes into it even
at an unconscious level. Japan reveres nature, but nature was
constantly destroying them. They had been annihilated by a
nuclear weapon and were still frightened to the core by it, and
the people who dropped the bomb were now in the country
protecting them. That's an insane thing to get your head
around.
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Re: What Are You Looking Forward To?
By: Neumatic Date: January 14, 2015, 5:58 pm
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So I got a free ticket to an advance screening of Kingsmen,
which I want to see. Great! It's at a crummy theater ages
away. Screw that! Annoys me.
I feel slightly more vindicated about wanting to see movies at
home now that I heard (read) Soderbergh talking about 2001: A
Space Odyssey
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and
saying that the best version he saw, including a 70mm print, is
the version on blu-ray.
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Re: What Are You Looking Forward To?
By: Chiprocks1 Date: January 14, 2015, 7:03 pm
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Anyone else think that movie theaters will be a thing of the
past and that VOD will eventually take over 100%?
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Re: What Are You Looking Forward To?
By: Neumatic Date: January 21, 2015, 5:12 am
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As long as theaters keep doing stuff like this, I think they'll
stay alive for a while...
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Let's also not forget that the upcoming 4K upgrade is going to
be a consumer nightmare for the next couple of years
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Re: What Are You Looking Forward To?
By: Mac Date: January 21, 2015, 11:56 am
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[quote]Anyone else think that movie theaters will be a thing of
the past and that VOD will eventually take over 100%? [/quote]
Anything can happen. I think my generation will keep movie going
alive. I don't know the younger generations view on theaters.
Hell, I'm not sure of their support for movies in general.
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Re: What Are You Looking Forward To?
By: Neumatic Date: January 26, 2015, 12:55 pm
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While I'm not looking forward to it, the casting (and concept)
of Adam Sandler's Ridiculous Six
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/>has a few things that I find interesting (Vanilla Ice as Mark
Twain, for example).
If it marks a return to at least semi-decent parody movies, I'll
be happy.
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Re: What Are You Looking Forward To?
By: Mac Date: January 26, 2015, 2:47 pm
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[quote]While I'm not looking forward to it, the casting (and
concept) of Adam Sandler's Ridiculous Six has a few things that
I find interesting (Vanilla Ice as Mark Twain, for example).
If it marks a return to at least semi-decent parody movies, I'll
be happy.[/quote]
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/>If I could say this about that
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and
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Re: What Are You Looking Forward To?
By: Neumatic Date: January 26, 2015, 3:29 pm
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Hey, I look for the gems in sh*t. I'm like a hunter. Where
people see a bad movie, I see something to play around with, to
tinker or to mash up with something else, or something I can
strip for parts.
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