Film Fanatics - Chat Thread II

I would rather not have another film in the Inception universe. I like original ideas and films which focus around a strong concept. Sequels have a tendency to ruin it, which is why I like to pretend that there's no such thing as The Matrix Revelations and Revolutions.

Nolan should tackle time travel as his next core concept. He would do it so well.

I would rather not have another film in the Inception universe. I like original ideas and films which focus around a strong concept. Sequels have a tendency to ruin it, which is why I like to pretend that there's no such thing as The Matrix Revelations and Revolutions.

Nolan should tackle time travel as his next core concept. He would do it so well.

"The phrase 'dark of the moon' makes virtually no sense, and suggests that it was going to be 'dark side of the moon' until about two days before the release date, when a studio executive's son suddenly reminded him of the title of his third favourite Pink Floyd album.

Looking at the title for the third film, Dark of the Moon, I'm getting the niggle (and I also heard this being mentioned on a podcast) that the film was supposed to be called Dark Side of the Moon before Pink Floyd's lawyers got in touch. Suspicions were somewhat confirmed when the phrase 'dark side of the moon' is tossed around several times in the film.

I think the Matrix is a very different thing though - the Matrix felt from the very first film that it was part of a larger story and one that would be told in full. Yes the sequels did sour the taste somewhat, but that was because they were poorly thought out and executed rather than being pointless. The Matrix would probably have felt far more disappointing if the sequels didn't exist, no matter how bad they ended up being.

Everyone is having that niggle then.

Finally saw up in the air a few days ago, quite a depressing film but great nonetheless. Clooney was really good in it, same with Vera Farmiga

Would I be thrown out of the society if I said that Revenge Of The Sith was my favourite Star Wars film?

Prometheus
Sir Ridley Scott coming back to science fiction should have been a no-brainer, in terms of generating excitement. But when we saw the actual footage from the film, in Hall H, and everybody went breathless, we were sold all over again. This film looked like a mashup of Stargate, 2001 and Scott's own Alien, with a huge focus on space horror as well as the vastness and implacability of space. And Charlize Theron doing naked pushups, and a new source of creepiness in the form of some kind of space goo, sealed the deal. This movie already has our ticket money.

Total Recall
We still have a ton of hope for this remake of the Arnold Schwarzenegger/Paul Verhoeven classic, especially after talking to director Len Wiseman. But the footage shown at Comic Con looked like a generic action movie rather than a worthy reimagining of the paranoid Philip K. Dick adaptation, and one person tweeted, "I'm getting tired of" the panel halfway through. Plus we didn't really hear people buzzing about this film, in particular, afterwards. Let's just say that Total Recall emerged from Comic Con with people's skepticism about yet another remake still intact.



Mass Effect
Casey Hudson, Executive Producer of the Mass Effect series, and screenwriter Mark Protosevich joined the stage for a preliminary discussion of the video game-turned-film, which is believed to be releasing in 2012. It was announced that the movie will be based on the first game in the ultra-successful BioWare series, from 2007.

Protosevich felt that a certain depth of story and world was essential for the success of a film project based on a video game, adding that it is too easy to be "seduced into thinking a game you are playing would be a good movie." The duo felt that other game-based movies have fallen flat because they tried to recreate the experience of playing the game, instead of determining whether the story was of merit or whether the characters had any substance.

Hudson noted that BioWare had been waiting for the right partner to make the film as well, stating that he had e-mails from production companies discussing a Mass Effect movie dating back to 2006, prior to the release of the game, and they were enthused to have Legendary Pictures as a partner due to their quality track record. No images from the film were shown, as it is in very early stages of pre-production, however, the entire audience was given copies of the most recent installment of the Mass Effect franchise, Mass Effect 2, on the console of their choice.

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Len Wiseman is the best guy they could find to direct Total Recall? ... a sign of the times, man

Biel, Beckinsale and Farrell .. can't be arsed to comment on that ridiculousness.

Is there any footage of Prometheus floating about the web?

In Time
Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried and Cillian Murphy

In the future people stop aging at 25 and must work to buy themselves more time, but when a young man finds himself with more time than he can imagine he must run from the corrupt police force to save his life.