Sex and The City On Mars
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
Mars Attacks On Mars
― kinder, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
John Carpenter's Ghosts Of Mars On Mars
― Aunt Acid and the Gaviscons (aldo), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
Mask of Mars
― goole, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
Star Wars Of Mars
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
Delta of Venus of Mars
― bring back the dream of buzz bin (Phil D.), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
To Live and Die in L.A. of Mars
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
Freddy vs. Jason of Mars
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
The Passion of the Christ of Mars
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil of Mars
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
Holes of Mars
― goole, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
A Trip to the Moon of Mars
― bring back the dream of buzz bin (Phil D.), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
Schindler's List of Mars
― scott seward, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
Just got back. This movie was perfectly fine! I will say, however, that the stuff that doesn't work about it largely falls at Stanton's feet: his misbegotten promotion ideas, his inability to find a rhythm (talk talk talk ACTION talk talk ACTION talk), his lack of experience dealing with in-the-flesh actors and occasional tough time simply putting a movie of this scope together (weird framing and mismatched scenes abounded). Bummer we won't get a sequel, because obviously the foundation is there. How did fucking Clash of the Titans get a sequel? Was that a blockbuster? How did Battleship get made at all?
This movie did leave me wanting a six-legged butt-dog of my own, though. And a Lynn Collins.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
I have a butt-dog but alas, she only got 4 legs.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
his inability to find a rhythm (talk talk talk ACTION talk talk ACTION talk),
i think this is a big problem yeah. i still think any scene where characters are gravely spewing 30 different goofy alien names at you is just dead-on-arrival. i also didnt care for how JC felt like a cardboard Reluctant Modern Movie Hero - right down to the phoned-in hero refusing the call moments. most of the stuff about his backstory was unnecessary, especially all the stuff where he keeps telling people he's done with fighting other peoples wars or whatever - it doesnt resonate, and it drags the movie down. you never believe him as a southern gentleman from virginia either
How did fucking Clash of the Titans get a sequel? Was that a blockbuster?
a big one!
How did Battleship get made at all?
thats kind of a funny story actually. universal was desperate for franchises a few years ago and hasbro had just switched to an aggressive firm looking to make some deals, so universal bought the rights to a bunch of hasbro properties, with penalty clauses if they didnt get projects off the ground within a certain amount of time. so to avoid a 7 figure penalty, they commit to a $200 million Battleship picture because it was the best choice out of a bad lot. i think their deal recently went in the toilet so there probably won't be any more boardgame movies in the near future.
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
you mean we're not going to get Ridley Scott's Monopoly?
― Number None, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
I want to see that list
― (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
Clue II
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
The Cluening
it was Battleship, Candy Land, Clue, Magic: The Gathering, Monopoly, Ouija, and Stretch Armstrong
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
how on earth is battlefield the best of those? lol this industry
― goole, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
do you think any of the others are clearly 'better'
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
tim burton's candy land
― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
^ what we're all thinking
― goole, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
tho that would suck hard
Monopoly could be great. Candy Land also if done similarly to Mr. Show's take on the Kroffts.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
xxxpost
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
i can in my mind's eye imagine good movies of all of them but battleship but maybe i'm being contrarian at this point
― goole, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
they should have bought risk and made a four-hour the longest day kinda thing that just cross-cuts between 500000 a-list names shooting each other in ten different locations. AROUND THE WORLD.
― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
...in a teal & orange steampunk napoleonic cgi style? please?
― goole, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
soundtrack is just fake gregorian chants and a couple songs from smash
― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
― goole, Wednesday, March 21, 2012 5:08 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark
well i mean their concern wasnt what will be good, it was what can they sell. and it's easy to sell a big budget transformers knockoff
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
LIFE: people getting born, growing up, going to college, making out, getting married, raising kids, getting jobs, starting businesses - all from inside their cars. kind of like taste of cherry, but more cheerful. shot entirely in pink and blue.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
read: CGI action movie, CGI kids film, thriller, CGI fantasy, adult drama, supernatural thriller/horror, CGI action comedy
pretty obvious why they chose the one they did - biggest potential ROI
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
Ouiji could be a genuinely neat movie. Think: supernatural comedy/romance
― aka vanilla bean (remy bean), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
Ghost
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't you see Witchboard back in the 80s?
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
a Tawny Kitaen classic
It was more than just a matter of too much talk. It was that as soon as I'd get into the mythology a little bit, there'd be this rushed, chaotic action scene which really showed the limitations of the director's abilities, cool as what I could catch in all the commotion seemed to be. Also, they failed to illustrate the parameters of John Carter's Mars powers. Like, how many times was he chained up in this movie until he was just motivated enough to break his chains or something? And the movie really should have started with John Carter and earned him his Oz moment when he woke up on Mars, not with a great Mars aerial battle. Given how little the blue-eyed people stuff made sense to this neophyte, they really didn't need to show McNulty getting his magic blue electro arm thingy. Or rather, they could have easily slipped that in somewhere else, later, once the movie got its legs.
I did love all the stuff I recognized from numerous movies that have mined this material before. Did not love seeing that kid from "World's Greatest Dad," who once I realized it was him took me out of his bits
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
I should stress that all these complaints have little to do with the material and more to do with how it was incorporated, or how the story was told. Which again, lays it at the feet of the director.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
And the movie really should have started with John Carter and earned him his Oz moment when he woke up on Mars, not with a great Mars aerial battle. Given how little the blue-eyed people stuff made sense to this neophyte, they really didn't need to show McNulty getting his magic blue electro arm thingy. Or rather, they could have easily slipped that in somewhere else, later, once the movie got its legs.
yeah, i objected to the same thing upthread. there was just no reason to start the movie with sab than getting the 9th ray armband thing. we could easily have found out later that the therns were guiding him to victory.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
I was a little worried by that intro, I was like..oh wait maybe it isn't that great? The Onion review was otm about that, it was pretty much everything everyone fears about scifi movies
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
It felt like the start to a cable mini-series, not a feature film. Maybe they should have gone with a scroll? "A long time ago ..."
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 March 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
I really liked the electro arm start! Just jumping straight in there.
― kinder, Thursday, 22 March 2012 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
don't tell anyone this...but i totally just dissed d@viD D^nby in my emp thing i'm reading at nyu on friday. if you are morbz you shouldn't miss it...
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 March 2012 03:19 (eleven years ago) link
i couldn't help myself...
and i make fun of old people but morbz should come anyway...
― scott seward, Thursday, 22 March 2012 03:20 (eleven years ago) link
:D
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 22 March 2012 03:20 (eleven years ago) link
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/global-box-office-climb-continues-in-2011
― aka vanilla bean (remy bean), Friday, 23 March 2012 01:29 (eleven years ago) link