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Reply 7220
I quite like the idea of Michael Fassbender taking over as Bond?
Reply 7221
Yep.

Original post by Ruin.
Christopher Nolan is apparently interested in directing Bond 24. I'd like that. Presumably we would have Christian Bale as Bond, Michael Caine as Q, Morgan Freeman as Felix and Marion Cotillard as the Bond girl with roles for Gary Oldman Tom Hardy. :tongue:


Still love how after losing a leg, Felix grows it back and changes ethnicity. :lol:


Just watched the BBC drama Bert and Dickie, I really enjoyed it!
Reply 7223
Original post by Mess.
Exactly! There are probably other films but those are the major ones I hear people whingeing about 'having to watch by themselves/confuse them/have to think about to understand' and other such nonsense.


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Shutter Island was slightly confusing for me :p: But don't really get what is so confusing about a big majority of the rest of the films.


Also, on the note of Superman, it will probably suck, he's a lame superhero as far as character development is concerned and seeing that in a main character is extremely important I think.

(TDKR, the fall and rise :tongue: for example )
Original post by SirMasterKey
Still love how after losing a leg, Felix grows it back and changes ethnicity. :lol:


Just watched the BBC drama Bert and Dickie, I really enjoyed it!


Yeah, the thing is erm, prequel? Yeah, prequel. He actually has yet to lose the leg or turn white.
Original post by Colonel.
Yeah, the thing is erm, prequel? Yeah, prequel. He actually has yet to lose the leg or turn white.


Casino Royale was said to be the prequel? o.O
Original post by SirMasterKey
Casino Royale was said to be the prequel? o.O


They're all prequels so far, I think. All the Craig years anyway. Like, a total reboot.
Original post by Colonel.
They're all prequels so far, I think. All the Craig years anyway. Like, a total reboot.


Mhey fair enough then. Learn something new every day.
Reply 7229


I read that before. So many involve Jimmy :rofl2:

The 'why batman is objectively better than superman' article was great as well.


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Yeah, twas. I remain a strong Superman fan though :king3:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/cloud-atlas,83003/

Cloud Atlas trailer. It looks very big and very overwrought.

Life of Pi and this. FFS, it's the year of magical realism.
Cloud Atlas looks like several distinct films mashed into one. It's a bit reminiscent of The Fountain too.

I haven't read the books for Life of Pi and Cloud Atlas. Are they worth reading?
Original post by Ape Gone Insane
Cloud Atlas looks like several distinct films mashed into one. It's a bit reminiscent of The Fountain too.

I haven't read the books for Life of Pi and Cloud Atlas. Are they worth reading?



The Cloud Atlas book is six loosely-connected stories in different genres nested within each other, so that's likely purposeful. I found bits of it really great (stories 1, 2 and 4), and bits of it incredibly ponderous (3, 5). It was inconsistent (almost by design) but overall pretty good, if not game-changing or amazing or anything.

The Fountain thing you're referring to is presumably the centuries-spanning Tom Hanks/Halle Berry love story which, if I'm remembering the book correctly, has been made up out of whole cloth for the film. The book does contain the idea that several different people in several different bodies are actually just the same soul in different times, but it's not that...explicit, and it's not a sentimental romance type thing at all.

Life of Pi's difficult for me to give an opinion on. I really liked it when I first read it, but years, evolving tastes, and a bitter hatred for magical realism have kind of soured it in my mind. I will say that the relationship between the tiger and the boy is fascinating in parts, and the ending is fantastic, but you'd be forgiven for finding the whole thing kinda cloying.
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Life of Pi is a fantastic book, but ****, it is hard to read all the way through. Took me four attempts.
Reply 7235
Finally got round to seeing The Dark Knight Rises! Thoughts:

Spoiler

Reply 7236
Watched the Copycat last night. Can't say that it was as good as people say it is.

Watching The Glow now.

Oh and watched Young Adult recently. Waste of time
Not sure if posted before but:



The 62-year-old actor made one little boy's wish come true when he showed up in his full Hellboy makeup and costume for a day of hanging out with his big screen hero. Six-year-old Zachary had expressed to Make-A-Wish his desire "to meet and become Hellboy." The boy is undergoing treatment for leukemia, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Enter Spectral Motion, the creature effects house that brought to life the many fantastical characters in Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy 2 (2008).

They in turn approached Perlman, who "loved the idea and donned the makeup once more," Spectral Motion said on its Facebook page.

Perlman then underwent the four-hour makeup application procedure it takes to become Hellboy and shocked a delighted Zachary -- who later got the opportunity to become a pint-sized Hellboy himself. More photos of the memorable encounter are posted on Facebook.


According to Empire, he also bought everyone lunch that day. What a man.
Ron Perlman is such a cool ****ing guy.


In other news, 300-page children's book to be made into epic trilogy:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/yep-peter-jackson-is-making-three-hobbit-films-now,83110/

:facepalm2: Sigh. If there were any legitimate creative reason to do this, it'd be fine, but there's really not. Two films is already pushing it.
Reply 7239
Just waiting for The Hobbit to be ruined tbh.

Star Wars trilogies all over again?

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