Film Fanatics - Chat Thread II

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Finally watched The Prestige. I thought it was largely enjoyable, though a little disappointing at the end. Bale's accent caught me off guard.

Reply 3901

py0alb

Original post by Abiraleft

Finally watched The Prestige. I thought it was largely enjoyable, though a little disappointing at the end. Bale's accent caught me off guard.

I was disappointed as well. It started off as such a good film when it was just like a really clever and lavishly made version of a Jonathan Creek mystery...

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Reply 3902

lukejoshjedi

pretty interested in the upcoming new Alien film (sequel), need to find out a bit more info about it though

Reply 3903

ahq

Original post by lukejoshjedi

pretty interested in the upcoming new Alien film (sequel), need to find out a bit more info about it though

Do you mean Prometheus? It isn't directly affiliated to the Alien franchise any more (it was originally designed as a prequel).

Other than that, there aren't any Alien sequels coming up as far as I'm aware...?

Reply 3904

lukejoshjedi

Original post by Abiraleft

hmm you're right I saw news about a sequel today so I thought it was that - maybe those were just rumours, yeah I know about Prometheus already though

http://www.avpgalaxy.net/alien-movies/prometheus/, there's some footage of it on io9.com btw

Reply 3905

Sonny_J_D

Original post by Abiraleft

I read somewhere that it's set in the same universe, but it won't be a pre/sequel

Reply 3906

ahq

Yup

Wikipedia

Scott downplayed the film's ties to the Alien franchise. He said, "While Alien was indeed the jumping-off point for this project, out of the creative process evolved a new, grand mythology and universe in which this original story takes place. The keen fan will recognize strands of Alien's DNA, so to speak, but the ideas tackled in this film are unique, large and provocative." However, speaking to MTV on February 12, 2011, Fassbender stated the film was still an Alien prequel, saying, "Prometheus is absolutely connected to Alien... There's a definite connecting vein." In a June 2011 interview, screenwriter Damon Lindelof claimed it will be a prequel to the Alien films but follow a different story, stating "a true prequel should essentially [precede] the events of the original film, but be about something entirely different, feature different characters , have an entirely different theme, although it takes place in that same world. That was my fundamental feeling about what this movie wanted to be".

Also, just look at that cast. I suppose we'll find out how good Noomi Rapace is fairly soon (this December, is it?), but the rest of that cast is already a win. :coma:

Reply 3907

Jace Falco

Isn't it about the Space Jockey in the crashed ship from the first film?

Reply 3908

ahq

Original post by Jace Falco

Isn't it about the Space Jockey in the crashed ship from the first film?

The above comments would suggest not. :dontknow:

Reply 3909

Jace Falco

Original post by Abiraleft

The above comments would suggest not. :dontknow:

Tbf I haven't actually read anything about it, I was just going off stuff I'd heard.

Saw Cowboys & Aliens yesterday. I liked it.

Reply 3910

thecurators

Apparently Ridley Scott is due to make a new Blade Runner film too... No plot or casting details yet, but this could either be amazing or a really bad idea...

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=31821

Reply 3911

Christien

Original post by thecurators

If it's a direct sequel, then yeah, a really bad idea. Seeing the continuing adventures of Rick Deckard would completely ruin the ambiguity of the ending. Also, Harrison Ford and Sean Young ****ing hate each other.

If it's another story set in the same universe...still probably a bad idea, but as the video game showed, it *could* work.

Also, while we're talking about the Scotts...

http://www.avclub.com/articles/tony-scott-wants-to-remake-the-wild-bunch,60660/

no.

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Reply 3912

JessicaW

Original post by maskofsanity

Watched The Devil's Double.

Meh.

I would have been annoyed if it wasn't on a Wednesday.

I liked it. Maybe because Dominic Cooper was a lot better than I thought he'd be, but yeah, I thought it was fairly decent.

Also saw Captain America and was pleasantly surprised, though my expectations for that had been way low.

Now to watch Cowboys and Aliens and The Guard by the end of the week. :moon:

Reply 3913

Deshi

Managed to watch The Lovely Bones today, it wasn't as good as I thought it would be, as I tend to enjoy Peter Jackson films. Apart from the performances in the film nothing else really stood out.

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Reply 3914

channy

Original post by Christien

Kosove: "There are opportunities to think about either, what our world will be like in our almost immediate near future. Or to think about what the world is after Blade Runner, because we have things that have come into our being, things that are a part of our consciousness now that we couldn't have imaged many years ago.

Taken from io9.

Reply 3915

ahq

Original post by thecurators

I hope it isn't true/doesn't go through either way. I'm terrified they'll screw it up.

Also, anyone else really creeped out by this trailer?

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Reply 3916

Jace Falco

Original post by Abiraleft

Also, anyone else really creeped out by this trailer?

I saw the original play, and it was pretty ****ing scary.

Daniel Radcliffe looks pretty fit with that hair, though :awesome:

Reply 3917

aja89

The Woman In Black on stage in London is brilliant and scared the crap out of me. I have a feeling that the film won't be able to recreate some of the scariest moments on screen because they wouldn't really work off of a stage. Sort of like the Defying Gravity moment in Wicked.

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Reply 3918

lukejoshjedi

http://darkesthourmovie.com/

looks interesting, I like Emile Hirsch. And yeah if there were ever an alien invasion movie that's impossibly in favour of the aliens, it's this