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SteelClip49
6/29/2011, 01:55 PM
- Indiana Jones 5
- Independence Day 2
- Independence Day 3
- Bad Boys 3
- Austin Powers 4
- Mission: Impossible 4

are in the works.

Sad thing is, we as Americans are drawn to the movies and I will see all these.
tator
6/29/2011, 01:56 PM
I'll probably see the Austin Powers one. The others, meh, maybe.
Fraggle145
6/29/2011, 01:57 PM
You forgot that they are remaking Top Gun. FML.
Mongo
6/29/2011, 02:01 PM
I'll probably see the Austin Powers one. The others, meh, maybe.

that would be the last out of all of those I'd see. AP 3 was horrible
Midtowner
6/29/2011, 02:02 PM
You forgot that they are remaking Top Gun. FML.

Typical Hollywood.... I hear Goose survives and marries Maverick at the end.
soonervegas
6/29/2011, 02:03 PM
Occasionally you get an Inception though.....

Nevermind that was a Scrooge McDuck Cartoon 1st
NormanPride
6/29/2011, 02:04 PM
I'll watch Indiana Jones unless it starts that Shea Le****** kid.
salth2o
6/29/2011, 02:04 PM
they ran out of ideas years ago.
yermom
6/29/2011, 02:08 PM
I'll watch Indiana Jones unless it starts that Shea Le****** kid.

i will see it, but i am sure i won't enjoy it
Mongo
6/29/2011, 02:12 PM
I'll watch Indiana Jones unless it starts that Shea Le****** kid.

the trend is the odd numbered Indy movies are good
NormanPride
6/29/2011, 02:19 PM
That makes me smile.
Soonerfan88
6/29/2011, 02:37 PM
You forgot that they are remaking Top Gun. FML.

And War Games. I guess they'll just continue to recycle movies every 20-30 years from now on.
StoopTroup
6/29/2011, 02:40 PM
Independent films and foreign Films are still around....just open your eyes and quit expecting good movies to only come from Hollywood.
Jammin'
6/29/2011, 02:41 PM
Independent films and foreign Films are still around....just open your eyes and quit expecting good movies to only come from Hollywood.

Can you give us your top 5 non-hollywood movies of all time?
Hot Rod
6/29/2011, 02:42 PM
they ran out of ideas years ago.

This is proof with all the movie "reboots" that are happening lately.
Mongo
6/29/2011, 02:44 PM
the new Transformers is actually a redo of Gone With the Wind
The Maestro
6/29/2011, 02:45 PM
- Indiana Jones 5
- Independence Day 2
- Independence Day 3
- Bad Boys 3
- Austin Powers 4
- Mission: Impossible 4

are in the works.

I thought this **** stopped once we caught bin Laden!
texaspokieokie
6/29/2011, 02:50 PM
And War Games. I guess they'll just continue to recycle movies every 20-30 years from now on.

They re-did Ocean's 11 & they thot it was so good they had 12 & 13.

then "true grit".
soonerinabilene
6/29/2011, 02:52 PM
Some should be good, like ghostbusters 3 if murray stays involved, and jurassic park 4 with spielberg back in charge.
They just released the trailer for MI4, looks better than the 3rd, but thats not saying a whole lot.
Mississippi Sooner
6/29/2011, 02:53 PM
Wake me when they remake Showgirls.
StoopTroup
6/29/2011, 02:57 PM
Seven Samuri/1954 Japan
Breathless /1960 France
Life is Beautiful/1997 Italy
Once/2006 Ireland
Das Boot/1981 Germany
SpankyNek
6/29/2011, 03:03 PM
Seven Samuri/1954 Japan
Breathless /1960 France
Life is Beautiful/1997 Italy
Once/2006 Ireland
Das Boot/1981 Germany
I really liked Pan's Labrynth as well.

Seven Samurai is in the discussion of best movie ever made.
I also liked Dreams by Kurosawa.

The Fountain showed promise, but was just a bit too surrealist for my taste.
Jammin'
6/29/2011, 03:22 PM
Seven Samuri/1954 Japan
Breathless /1960 France
Life is Beautiful/1997 Italy
Once/2006 Ireland
Das Boot/1981 Germany

I've seen one of those. And judging from my movie watching currently, that's all I'll ever see. Thanks though.
MeMyself&Me
6/29/2011, 03:32 PM
To the OP, I was thinking this when I went to see Pirates of the Caribbean 4 (wife wanted to go see it) and saw a trailer for Cowboys vs Aliens (title says it all) and another another trailer for a movie that appeared to be about a human training a robot boxer (do we really need the robots to get us to watch this?)... REALLY?
Mississippi Sooner
6/29/2011, 03:35 PM
To the OP, I was thinking this when I went to see Pirates of the Caribbean 4 (wife wanted to go see it) and saw a trailer for Cowboys vs Aliens (title says it all) and another another trailer for a movie that appeared to be about a human training a robot boxer (do we really need the robots to get us to watch this?)... REALLY?

They finally made a Rock Em Sock Em Robots movie? See, Hollywood isn't out of new ideas yet.
SoonerofAlabama
6/29/2011, 03:47 PM
To the OP, I was thinking this when I went to see Pirates of the Caribbean 4 (wife wanted to go see it) and saw a trailer for Cowboys vs Aliens (title says it all) and another another trailer for a movie that appeared to be about a human training a robot boxer (do we really need the robots to get us to watch this?)... REALLY?

It is called Real Steel.


And did anyone else hear that they are remaking Conan the Barbarian?
yermom
6/29/2011, 03:49 PM
yeah, also dumb idea

just like Superman (again??) and Spiderman (already?)
Jammin'
6/29/2011, 03:50 PM
It is called Real Steel.


And did anyone else hear that they are remaking Conan the Barbarian?

Yeah, I saw a Conan trailer or something not too long ago...maybe here. The issue they have is that they needed someone as big as Arnold was, or bigger, but they went with a much smaller guy. Terrible.
sappstuf
6/29/2011, 03:55 PM
I just happened to see the Mission Impossible trailer this morning.. It doesn't really look bad at all.. If you can look past the 5'2 midget punching people out part....

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810179899/video
delhalew
6/29/2011, 03:56 PM
City of Lost Children
The Girl On the Bridge
Jammin'
6/29/2011, 03:57 PM
I just happened to see the Mission Impossible trailer this morning.. It doesn't really look bad at all.. If you can look past the 5'2 midget punching people out part....

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810179899/video

sidenote: does bjorn post here?
tator
6/29/2011, 04:01 PM
Yeah, I saw a Conan trailer or something not too long ago...maybe here. The issue they have is that they needed someone as big as Arnold was, or bigger, but they went with a much smaller guy. Terrible.
http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/late-night-barbarian-20100510-121945.jpg
Jammin'
6/29/2011, 04:08 PM
Arnold as Conan:
http://darrenhardy.typepad.com/blog/images/arnold19_1.jpg

New candy *** as Conan:
http://www.giantkillersquid.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/0000039130_20070413145208.jpg
NormanPride
6/29/2011, 04:10 PM
I really liked Pan's Labrynth as well.

Seven Samurai is in the discussion of best movie ever made.
I also liked Dreams by Kurosawa.

The Fountain showed promise, but was just a bit too surrealist for my taste.
As much as I liked Seven Samurai, I thought Ronin was even better.
saucysoonergal
6/29/2011, 04:11 PM
Arnold as Conan:
http://darrenhardy.typepad.com/blog/images/arnold19_1.jpg

New candy *** as Conan:
http://www.giantkillersquid.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/0000039130_20070413145208.jpg

Well, he is kind of red like Conan was supposed to be, but he needs to bulk up a bit.
NormanPride
6/29/2011, 04:12 PM
He looks like Eegah.
47straight
6/29/2011, 04:14 PM
It's been like this for years it seems.
Bourbon St Sooner
6/29/2011, 04:21 PM
Speaking of out of ideas, what is the point of the romantic comedy? Every galdam one of them is the same and my wife fuking loves 'em. Girl hates dude. Girl falls in love with same dude. We got it. For the trillionth fuking time!
Ike
6/29/2011, 04:33 PM
The last few years worth of movies have only reinforced my belief that one should never pay more than $1 to see a movie.
SoonerStormchaser
6/29/2011, 04:45 PM
Typical Hollywood.... I hear Goose survives and marries Maverick at the end.

Yah...till Goose finds out he gets a tailhook on his poop deck!
sooner ngintunr
6/29/2011, 06:03 PM
Can you give us your top 5 non-hollywood movies of all time?

Alot of them are kind of mainstream. Not really a top 5 list but these come to mind.

Eternal sunshine is good.
Juno was ok.
Garden state wasn't horrible.
Requiem for a Dream was really good for a one time watch, the cinematography blows me away.
I enjoyed Little Miss Sunshine.

As far as only foreign films; Fist of Legend is one of the greatest movies evar!!! Elevator to the Gallows is another foreign that I like. And of course Pans Labyrinth was already mentioned.
MR2-Sooner86
6/29/2011, 06:17 PM
Lets not forget the remakes being discussed that, hopefully, fall through in the end.

Robocop
Lethal Weapon
The Crow
The Warriors
Escape From New York
Howard Stern’s Porkys
Short Circuit
rekamrettuB
6/29/2011, 06:58 PM
I mentioned this the other day when I went by our local theatre and the 4 movies showing were:

Fast Five
Kung Fu Panda II
The Hangover II
Pirates of the Caribean IV
StoopTroup
6/29/2011, 07:18 PM
I've seen one of those. And judging from my movie watching currently, that's all I'll ever see. Thanks though.

I'm not sure what that means but I think if you haven't seen those that you might just go to a Library and rent anyone of them or any that have been nominated for an Oscar for best Foreign Film and that should keep you busy for a very long time as well as save you a **** load of money and maybe educate you to the fact that Hollywood has completely gone towards making blockbusters with huge budgets even though in the last two decades some folks have been able to make a movie that brought in insane profits that was made with a Video Camera and hardly any budget.
RacerX
6/30/2011, 06:26 AM
Real Steel = Rock'em Sock'em Robots

I really want it see it.
crawfish
6/30/2011, 06:45 AM
Real Steel = Rock'em Sock'em Robots

I really want it see it.

Real Steel = remake of a Twilight Zone episode

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_(The_Twilight_Zone)
RacerX
6/30/2011, 12:35 PM
Real Steel = remake of a Twilight Zone episode

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_(The_Twilight_Zone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_%28The_Twilight_Zone))

Very cool. Now I'm going to watch that.
The Maestro
6/30/2011, 12:37 PM
Timely article out today on Grantland by Bill Simmons about movie stars in Hollywood...Ryan Reynolds and Will Smith are under the microscope.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6716942/the-movie-star
RacerX
7/4/2011, 03:28 PM
Very cool. Now I'm going to watch that.

Netflix - The Twilight Zone (Original Series) episode #104 - Steel

Lee Marvin stars
silverwheels
7/4/2011, 03:45 PM
Occasionally you get an Inception though.....

Nevermind that was a Scrooge McDuck Cartoon 1st

Nolan claims to have been working on Inception since around 2000, before that cartoon came out.

Ghost Protocol looks pretty decent. I haven't seen the 3rd one, though.
Thaumaturge
7/4/2011, 04:50 PM
Nolan claims to have been working on Inception since around 2000, before that cartoon came out.

Oh, so it was the Scrooge McDuck people who stole the idea from his unconscious mind!


(Dom Cobb. Dom Cobb.)
GKeeper316
7/4/2011, 06:18 PM
what most people that don't know more about writing other than how to turn in a research or arguement paper don't understand is that, when you strip away all the periferrals (setting, characters, etc) there's only about 12 plots that have ever been conceptualized. writers just try to put new spins on them.

movie studios dont care about originality, they only care about selling tickets.

hollywood is still driven by profit above all.
TheLadiesMike
7/4/2011, 07:14 PM
what most people that don't know more about writing other than how to turn in a research or arguement paper don't understand is that, when you strip away all the periferrals (setting, characters, etc) there's only about 12 plots that have ever been conceptualized. writers just try to put new spins on them.

movie studios dont care about originality, they only care about selling tickets.

hollywood is still driven by profit above all.

Star Wars was nothing but archetypes. Jaws and Jurassic Park are similar to monster movies. But those blockbusters were well done when it comes to peripherals and that's what made them stand out and stand the test of time.
MR2-Sooner86
7/4/2011, 07:15 PM
what most people that don't know more about writing other than how to turn in a research or arguement paper don't understand is that, when you strip away all the periferrals (setting, characters, etc) there's only about 12 plots that have ever been conceptualized. writers just try to put new spins on them.

movie studios dont care about originality, they only care about selling tickets.

hollywood is still driven by profit above all.

You mean the Hollywood model that reached it's apex in the 1940's and has been recycled to death since then?

The only way to get a fresh idea out is if you have a big name. For instances a new guy can have an awesome film idea but the studio won't back it (see 300). Steven Speilberg can come up with some utter crap (War of the Worlds remake) but because it's Steven Speilberg it gets the nod.
MR2-Sooner86
7/4/2011, 07:17 PM
Star Wars was nothing but archetypes. Jaws and Jurassic Park are similar to monster movies. But those blockbusters were well done when it comes to peripherals and that's what made them stand out and stand the test of time.

The difference with Jurassic Park and Jaws is that they were taken from best-selling books. Star Wars had many themes and old stories put into it. One thing Lucas talked about with Empire is that a major studio would've freaked out that a major battle is at the beginning, not end, which is not rather typical.
StoopTroup
7/4/2011, 07:24 PM
Monte Carlo was awesome.

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StoopTroup
7/4/2011, 07:35 PM
Timely article out today on Grantland by Bill Simmons about movie stars in Hollywood...Ryan Reynolds and Will Smith are under the microscope.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6716942/the-movie-star

Fact: People believe Will Smith is the world's biggest movie star (even though he doesn't make great movies).

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ouleaf
7/4/2011, 07:50 PM
I know you always run the risk of the movie not living up to the book, but I'm very interested in seeing this when it comes out later in the year.

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