Sleepy Hollow's where he fell off completely for me
― sans lep (sic), Friday, 18 January 2019 22:14 (five years ago) link
tim burton's early stuff is mostly pretty good, up through ed wood at least, and some of his stop-motion films since have been good
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 18 January 2019 22:14 (five years ago) link
I remember almost nothing about Sleepy Hollow or Sweeney Todd.
Saw the Pet Semetary trailer last time I was at the theater. Looks like good trash, will watch.
― composed of atoms just as all posters have been (Dan Peterson), Friday, 18 January 2019 22:14 (five years ago) link
Todd could have been good w/ decent leads
― resident hack (Simon H.), Friday, 18 January 2019 22:15 (five years ago) link
xpost inasmuch as it felt completely empty and everything since has looked utterly terrible so I haven't seen it
curious about Big Eyes for Karazewski / Alexander script though
― sans lep (sic), Friday, 18 January 2019 22:16 (five years ago) link
Big Eyes kind of sucked; beautiful set design for the home though. Script just didn't work great and that story should have been ore compelling. The Burton touch is very light.
I think the last film of his I enjoyed seeing was Sweeny Todd and not sure how I'd feel about that now. If Corpse Bride counts I'd say that's his last really good film.
― akm, Friday, 18 January 2019 22:23 (five years ago) link
pet semetary looks like fun. I'm all for a slew of King reboots and remakes.
― akm, Friday, 18 January 2019 22:24 (five years ago) link
oh wow this might be the grimmest one of these lists yet. i'm gonna have to ponder this.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Friday, 18 January 2019 22:26 (five years ago) link
I thought Big Eyes was pretty decent and a nice (sort of) change.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 18 January 2019 22:32 (five years ago) link
I hope the Playmobil movie sets up the Kinder Eggs trilogy like they've been teasing this whole time. Fan service or not, it's what I want to see.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 18 January 2019 22:34 (five years ago) link
I'm cool with the Starry Eyes peeps but having rewatched it recently I can confirm that Pet Semetary is hardly among the King adaptations begging to be remade.
― A Nugatory Excrescence (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 January 2019 22:34 (five years ago) link
Hey I know, even though it's only been a couple of years why not take a stab at a Dark Tower adaptation that somehow avoids being universally panned?
― A Nugatory Excrescence (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 January 2019 22:36 (five years ago) link
because the series itself is an actual car crash ending
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Friday, 18 January 2019 22:52 (five years ago) link
I hated Burton’s Willy Wonka remake too much to be properly outraged by his Alice. Also, I only got about 30 mins into it.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Friday, 18 January 2019 23:01 (five years ago) link
Is it a 'remake' of the first movie or a new adaptation of King's book?
because the book is one of his best. No reason someone else shouldn't have a crack at it
― Number None, Friday, 18 January 2019 23:41 (five years ago) link
Well, it's an unnecessary readaptation, then.
I still wanna know why no one's taken a crack at The Long Walk yet (possibly my favorite).
― A Nugatory Excrescence (Old Lunch), Saturday, 19 January 2019 00:41 (five years ago) link
xpost
You bring up a good point. If this is another go at adapting a well known novel, than it shouldn't be here for the same reason that I didn't include Greta Gerwig's Little Women. I guess it comes down to determining whether the filmmaker is treating the source material as the novel or the earlier adaptations. In both cases, the popularity of these novels likely outweighs the popularity of any one film adaptation of either of them. I shouldn't have included it.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Saturday, 19 January 2019 01:44 (five years ago) link
Stephen King is the franchise.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 19 January 2019 01:48 (five years ago) link
― gray say nah to me (wins), Saturday, 19 January 2019 09:49 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 24 January 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
Glass was fairly hilarious. bring back two characters nobody's seen in almost 20 years, give them very little dialogue or purpose, and have most of the talking done by the psychiatrist sitting in a chair. 45% of the movie.
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 24 January 2019 01:47 (five years ago) link
i believe sopranos has a similar idea
― topical mlady (darraghmac), Thursday, 24 January 2019 02:20 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 25 January 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
Predicting now that the (correct) winner will also make the most money and get a sequel.
― E Pluripubis Unum (Old Lunch), Friday, 25 January 2019 00:05 (five years ago) link
I only just learned this morning that somehow Aquaman is a massive, billion-dollar-+ global hit instead of the hideous tanking bomb it so obviously ought to be (this is based on not watching it, because why would I do that to myself?).
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 25 January 2019 00:10 (five years ago) link
Oh, I see Aquaman wasn't even an option. nor Bumblebee.
Both released last year in the states.
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 January 2019 00:11 (five years ago) link
Have a vague suspicion that Bumblebee is secretly launching a Transfomers reboot series tho.
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 January 2019 00:12 (five years ago) link
heard Bumblebee described as "basically a horse/girl movie"
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Friday, 25 January 2019 00:35 (five years ago) link
Bumblebee was actually...fun. slight but fun.
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 25 January 2019 00:35 (five years ago) link
More family friendly
Have actually heard good things, first non-animated Transformers movie I've had the slightest spark of interest in, sometimes these cynical cash-ins can surprise u
― E Pluripubis Unum (Old Lunch), Friday, 25 January 2019 01:43 (five years ago) link
Sorry, I am in Australia and also very old, so for all I know these movies came out in 2014
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 25 January 2019 04:25 (five years ago) link
Child's Play- assuming this is just the 8th Child's Play by Don Mancini, keep going man. If it's some dumb remake, I hope Mancini gets a bunch of money and wanted to stop
so it turns out this is some dumb remake, but Don Mancini, the creator of Child's Play and writer of every movie and director of most, did NOT want to stop and is now doing a Chucky TV show that may or may not be in a third continuity
Son of Shaft- afaik the Sam Jackson one was already Son Of Shaft and that was fuckin' NINETEEN YEARS AGO. I'm down if it's Jackson playing his own son this time though
so it turns out Sam Jackson was the NEPHEW of Shaft in the 2000 Shaft, but he is Shaft again in the 2019 Shaft, but now Richard Roundtree (of the 1971 Shaft and Shaft's Big Score (1972) and Shaft In Africa (1973)) is the grandfather of Jacksonshaft's son John Shaft III?
also, it is called Shaft, not Son Of Shaft, probably due to this confusing and dumb situation. wake me up when they have the guts to finally adapt the second novel though
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zjeSwmEp5AY/Tn5dD6e8IBI/AAAAAAAAIaA/7s8cwkonUg4/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/Shaft+Among+the+Jews-1.jpg
― The Very Fugly Caterpillar (sic), Thursday, 7 February 2019 08:05 (five years ago) link
omg
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Thursday, 7 February 2019 15:44 (five years ago) link
The way things are going we’ll be waking sic up before the decade’s out tbf
― gray say nah to me (wins), Thursday, 7 February 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link
- this seems pretty ill-advised all around but Mignola seems to have pursued it actively so he can do what he likes
turns out iii: he's been cutting the creators of B.P.R.D. characters out of participation and royalties, so fuck this one too :(
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Saturday, 2 March 2019 22:15 (five years ago) link
"The Addams Family- wtf? anyway I just saw Addams Family Values for the first time two months ago and I'm down if Ricci is in it and Sonnenfeld's directing"
neither are; it's a computer animated thing. sounds terrible, could be good, who fucking knows
― akm, Sunday, 3 March 2019 02:34 (five years ago) link
If it has a remake of Hammer's "Addams's Groove", this movie will be amazing
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 3 March 2019 02:35 (five years ago) link
It is in fact a feature-length adaptation of the 'Addams Groove' video so you're in for a treat, yeah.
― a meating wes convaned (Old Lunch), Sunday, 3 March 2019 15:47 (five years ago) link
pretty ill-advised all around but Mignola seems to have pursued it actively
nope:
What were your conversations with director Neil Marshall like?Well, I never … I mean, I never really had much of a conversation with Neil. I only met him once or twice, I guess, before filming began.Why allow a new, rebooted movie to happen?I have no say in these matters because I don’t hold the film rights.
Why allow a new, rebooted movie to happen?I have no say in these matters because I don’t hold the film rights.
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Sunday, 14 April 2019 01:47 (five years ago) link
If one considers what is inherently promised by these sequels and reboots, one finds that the promise is often fulfilled.
― Hangover Ape (Old Lunch), Sunday, 14 April 2019 02:22 (five years ago) link
detective pikachu
it’s good, folks
― RUSSIA’S SEXIEST POKER STAR ELECTROCUTED BY HAIRDRYER (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
This sure looks like a contender, folks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R1-ZZTcTBY
― Morrie Antoilette (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 22:30 (four years ago) link
I have zero attachment to the Banana Splits but the fact that this is happening makes me IA.
― Morrie Antoilette (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 22:32 (four years ago) link
https://www.tor.com/2019/07/05/almost-every-sff-horror-comic-book-upcoming-adaptation/
List was so long I couldn't look at each one.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 6 July 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
I imagine some of these will be in development for another decade.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 6 July 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
between the new Ghostbusters and the computer-animated Scooby-Doo reboot titled Scoob!, 2020 is shaping up to be the year it was too late to cancel projects after Terminator: Dark Fate and Charlie's Angels
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 9 December 2019 16:30 (four years ago) link
Oh my god, is there seriously a fucking Fantasy Island movie coming to theaters next year
Why does Hollywood hate us so deeply?
― Masters of Engilsh Litera-ture (Old Lunch), Monday, 9 December 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link
(To be released the same day as Sonic the Hedgehog, so start saving your nickels now, kids.)
― Masters of Engilsh Litera-ture (Old Lunch), Monday, 9 December 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link