Fri, 25 July 2008 Chris' wife make a cameo appearance as the female-type person confused by a new trailer. We also talk about Wall-E and The Spirit, among other movies. Comments[4] |
So Scott, did you pay money to watch "A Caveman's Valentine" and "xXx: State of the Union"?
posted by: Blake Dennis Matthews on Mon, 7/28 11:44 PM EDT
Halfway through, and I have some comments.
1) Christian Bale's Next Project: Either Hawkeye in "The Avengers", or else someone will do a "JLA" movie and he'll be Batman for three more films. (Although it probably wouldn't be "JLA" these days, more likely only "JL", because as we all know America is bad and wrong and evil and nobody would ever want to be associated with that bunch of total assholes!)
2) WALL-E: I think that the idea was that there was a whole corps of WALL-E, and they'd just been abandoned on Earth but left running. Over the 700 years they'd broken down one by one, until our hero was the only robot left on the planet.
Also, it's possible that the scout ships had indeed been getting upgraded and remodeled over the intervening time period; the robots' names were job descriptions, not individual labels. There could have been any number of EVE robots, of all possible descriptions.
I think that the problem with the ending is that it's a cop-out. The filmmakers wanted to have their cake and eat it, too; they wanted the emotional payoff of WALL-E smashing all the stuff he'd collected, but they also didn't want to make the audience be angry at them for a sad ending. (I can't help but wonder how a remake of 'Old Yeller' would end; no doubt they'd invent a magic rabies vaccine.)
3) Watchmen: There are several problems with the idea of a 'Watchmen' film. One, which you identified, is that the general audience isn't going to have any clue what the property is supposed to be; they'll just think it's 'X-Men 4'. So you'll either wind up with a mediocre superhero movie that doesn't satisfy the comic-book fans, or you'll have a movie that's dead on the comic and has absolutely nothing to offer the general audience.
Another problem is that the contemporary geopolitical situation is vastly different from the 1980s when Watchmen was made. Back then, conventional weapons had been made irrelevant in the face of nuclear power; this is why you had costumed heroes with no superpowers at all, juxtaposed with Doctor Manhattan. The book was about whether and how heroes could be relevant in a world where force majeure was a reality. These days, atomic holocaust is much less of a perceived threat; the relative power levels of Manhattan and the rest of the cast wouldn't really resonate with a modern audience.
1) Christian Bale's Next Project: Either Hawkeye in "The Avengers", or else someone will do a "JLA" movie and he'll be Batman for three more films. (Although it probably wouldn't be "JLA" these days, more likely only "JL", because as we all know America is bad and wrong and evil and nobody would ever want to be associated with that bunch of total assholes!)
2) WALL-E: I think that the idea was that there was a whole corps of WALL-E, and they'd just been abandoned on Earth but left running. Over the 700 years they'd broken down one by one, until our hero was the only robot left on the planet.
Also, it's possible that the scout ships had indeed been getting upgraded and remodeled over the intervening time period; the robots' names were job descriptions, not individual labels. There could have been any number of EVE robots, of all possible descriptions.
I think that the problem with the ending is that it's a cop-out. The filmmakers wanted to have their cake and eat it, too; they wanted the emotional payoff of WALL-E smashing all the stuff he'd collected, but they also didn't want to make the audience be angry at them for a sad ending. (I can't help but wonder how a remake of 'Old Yeller' would end; no doubt they'd invent a magic rabies vaccine.)
3) Watchmen: There are several problems with the idea of a 'Watchmen' film. One, which you identified, is that the general audience isn't going to have any clue what the property is supposed to be; they'll just think it's 'X-Men 4'. So you'll either wind up with a mediocre superhero movie that doesn't satisfy the comic-book fans, or you'll have a movie that's dead on the comic and has absolutely nothing to offer the general audience.
Another problem is that the contemporary geopolitical situation is vastly different from the 1980s when Watchmen was made. Back then, conventional weapons had been made irrelevant in the face of nuclear power; this is why you had costumed heroes with no superpowers at all, juxtaposed with Doctor Manhattan. The book was about whether and how heroes could be relevant in a world where force majeure was a reality. These days, atomic holocaust is much less of a perceived threat; the relative power levels of Manhattan and the rest of the cast wouldn't really resonate with a modern audience.
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