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    All things Batman and the big screen.

    in MOVIES & TV

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    So, with the slate cleared, if you could pick anyone to direct a Batman reboot for the Man of Steel DCU, who would you go with?I'd love to see a Steven Soderbergh Batman movie even though I know it'll never in a million years in a million universes happen.

    I have to believe that everyone's shortlist includes a bunch of people that have never had a budget over 60 million dollars. I'm talking about people that would be available to do it and not people already attached to projects or big budget summer films. If Transcendence does well (who knows with Depp nowadays), Pfister might get the gig. Joseph Kosinski (Tron: Legacy, Oblivion) has already did two $100 million+ films. But his films are the most beautifully shot pieces of boring shit I ever saw. I don't know how true the Rian Johnson rumor was, but it's been a long period of time since that I think they may go big instead of smart. A Justin Lin directed DCU movie isn't that much of stretch anymore given that he has already made Universal a shitload of money without good actors. 

     

    My shortlist: George Nolfi, Nicolas Winding Refn, William Friedkin (at least give him Green Lantern, fuck), Neil Blomkamp

    I would've included Del Toro, but he is already doing Crimson Peak and trying to revive At the Mountains of Madness

     

    Who will probably get it: Wally Pfister, Joseph Kosinski, Justin Lin, Gary Ross, Rupert Wyatt, Brad Bird

    ITT We resume arguing about MAN OF STEEL

    in MOVIES & TV

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    Also, I am an unabashed fan of the way Zack Snyder shoots action.  I think the set-pieces were ill-conceived (see above re: my complaints) but that was as good of disaster porn as anything since Titanic way back when.  Except for the fight on Krypton, where it looked like Snyder had been replaced by the hack who directed the Bourne films.  But then the stuff on Earth was beautiful.

    If I'm not mistaken, the Bourne series had three different directors (Doug Liman, Paul Greengrass, and Tony Gilroy who wrote for all of the movies).

    Zimmerman Not Guilty

    in LAND OF CONFUSION

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    He killed an unarmed kid who was doing nothing and walked. I just don't understand how that works. The trial went exactly how I thought it would go but it is still killing me inside. This is affecting me way more than I thought it would.

    This shit doesn't even phase me. I'm still waiting on justice for Joe Pullum, Eddie James Stewart, Booker Wright, Fred Hampton, etc. His name just goes on a long list of others, young, old, and everything in between.

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    Zimmerman Not Guilty

    in LAND OF CONFUSION

    Posted

    In two days, everyone will be on to their next Sharknado tweet-a-thon and nothing will happen much like with the school shootings.  Remember all the change that was going to come from that?  Yeah...

    You mean the Occupy movement didn't do anything either?

    Zimmerman Not Guilty

    in LAND OF CONFUSION

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    Yep. And now we'll resort to name calling and using a hashtag on Twitter so we can feel like we're making a difference.

    Never have I been more ashamed of my race (a close second is Love and Hip Hop) than when the hoodie thing started last year. This goes especially for all those urban models/strippers/backpage escorts who did it while selling their ass on Twitter and Facebook. Shit, some people need to be hit in the head with a hammer. There is no Twitter avatar or hashtag you can have to affect the outcome of a case one way or another. Does decency and integrity not exist anymore?

    Zimmerman Not Guilty

    in LAND OF CONFUSION

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    The fact that people are celebrating an unarmed black teenager getting stalked and murdered makes me weep for the future of society.

    One of Emmett Till's killers admitted to killing him in Rolling Stone. So yeah, I'm not surprised by ANY of this. 

    MMA Talk.

    in BOXING & MMA

    Posted

    I like that they kept Rousey/Tate on there and didnt move it to another show.

    I think they were forced to. I don't think they want Ronda to be out until SuperBowl Saturday or share the media coverage despite the game being on FOX.

    SHARKNADO~!

    in MOVIES & TV

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    I didn't care much for Sharknado, but I must say that someone needs to make a GIF of this one scene in particular early in 2-Headed Shark Attack. At one point, Brooke Hogan is talking to four nondescript actors and actresses (including Carmen Electra) while facing in front of them. She starts talking about someone stealing a boat and then the dialogue just stops cold. The camera pans towards the four people trying to their best to emote without using words and then pans back to a wooden Brooke Hogan trying her best to convey this dire situation with facial expressions. It's simply the most brilliant shit I ever seen. You don't learn that shit at Julliard, folks.

    2013: UPCOMING MOVIES/CASTING/RUMORS/ETC

    in MOVIES & TV

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    I have never seen Oldboy. That trailer was great. I must see the original then?

     

     

    I think it's a great movie. The lead performance is fucking awesome, the hammer scene is one of my favorite fights in cinema in the last 10 years probably, and Park has a very awesome aesthetic and dark dark humor. I'd recommend it, but it's up to you if you think any of that sounds like fun.

    Niners, here are some Korean movies you should definitely see along with the original Oldboy if you haven't: I Saw the Devil, Bedevilled, A Bittersweet Life, Breathless, The Man From Nowhere, Pieta, the other movies from the Vengeance trilogy (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance), The Chaser, and The Good, the Bad, the Weird.

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