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    The Box Office Thread

    in MOVIES & TV

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    What needs to happen is a reigning in on the budgets of things that don't have Iron Man or Batman (or maybe Spider-Man and Superman.)  

     

    Cause, hey, if you do that, and the movie DOES take off, you make more money.  And if it turns out to be The Lone John Carter, Ranger of Mars...  At least you aren't out 250 million bucks.

     

    According to Indiewire's The Playlist, Fincher's long-planned 3D remake of Disney's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," from a script by "Contagion" screenwriter Scott Z. Burns, is sleeping with the fishes -- despite an April report that the Australian government was luring the production down under with enticing tax incentives.
     
    The project has actually been dead for some time, the site reports, in part because of casting difficulties, which started when Brad Pitt passed. The proposed 140-day shoot was too much for most of the actors Fincher and Disney wanted (including Daniel Craig and Matt Damon), and when Fincher finally settled on Channing Tatum, the studio balked and suggested Chris Hemsworth, one of their golden boys thanks to the "Thor" movies and "The Avengers," instead. With that, Fincher decided to depart the project, thus killing our hopes of ever seeing a Civil War-set Disney "Avengers"-style movie that would team up John Carter, Tonto, and Captain Nemo.
     
    Over on the financial front, Indiewire's Thompson on Hollywood claims Sony wants to avoid a ballooning budget, something that could happen under Fincher's "headstrong" direction. 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

    They got to start drug testing some of these directors. 

    MMA Talk.

    in BOXING & MMA

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    Ricardo Mayorga got guillotined in under 2 minutes by former street fighter turned MMA fighter Rene Level Martinez after attempting a guillotine. Not surprisingly, it looked like Ricardo Mayorga trained at a Wingstop. He was in every shape except in shape.

    What are the WORST films you have seen?

    in MOVIES & TV

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    I would never argue that Battlefield: Earth is anything but horrible, but I find it entertainingly so. Probably my favourite truly bad movie to watch once a year and just riff on it/laugh at how utterly absurd it is. Travolta alone is an endless parade of comedy, but... man. The whole thing. It's just amazing that it actually happened.

    I was waiting for Barry Pepper and Forest Whitaker to be choppered out of the movie. It's just so great that Travolta thought his character was going to be so awesome.

     

    The worst non-Tyler Perry urban (urban meaning black) genre movies have to be Gang of Roses and Gang of Roses 2. A close third would be Hot Boyz (written AND directed by Master P). My favorite scene is when Clifton Powell is tossed/falls off a tall building and they cut to a falling white stunt double who is clearly in brown facepaint/makeup. Oh my god, that was amazing. It would have been first but the zaniness of Gary Busey counteracts a lot of the awfulness. Fourth and fifth would the State Property movies. Hot garbage.

    The Box Office Thread

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    Yeah, things have gone too far with some of these blockbusters. It's one thing if you're pushing Batman, Iron Man, or a Pixar film.  Those are licenses to print money.  But Hollywood has totally forgotten how to produce a mid-range film.  Maybe in a couple of years, we'll see them come back in style.

    The Wolverine is basically a heat check by Marvel Entertainment. Some of their movies are bound to flounder if they keep cranking them out.

    What are the WORST films you have seen?

    in MOVIES & TV

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    There's a lot of good MST3K ones that would likely apply: Time Chasers (nerdy guy develops a time machine and battles a giant corporation that buys him out and has its headquarters located in a public library); Space Mutiny (Awful Star Wars knock-offs that is so poorly edited that a dead character is later spotted working on the bridge); and the Coleman Francis trilogy Beast of Yucca Flats/Red Zone Cuba/ Skydivers.

     

     

     

    NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNDO FINE! RUNNIN HARD AND RUNNIN FAST!

    Spider-Man, X-Men, Wolverine, Fantastic Four and other non Marvel Studios films.

    in "COMIC BOOK" MOVIES & TV

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    Did someone actually LIKE X-Men Origins?

     

     

    The Wolverine was...okay. Felt more like an episode of a TV series than a big budget movie. Silver Samurai was real lame looking, Viper is a crappy villain. There's Asian Hawkeye and ninjas. They don't do much, not as much as you'd want. Jean Grey is the worst wet dream. But there's a god damn CG BEAR. Jackman obviously loves the character and he's still pretty damn good in the role, he IS Wolverine. I know everyone hates it and bitches about it but I liked Origins enough to buy it on Blu Ray. Haven't seen it in ages but I had a lot of fun with the action in it. Didn't have as much fun in this one, It's not bad but ehhh.

     

    Found him!

    MMA Talk.

    in BOXING & MMA

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    Shitting on Bisping and Rockhold and then you bring up Munoz and Boetsch.  Come on.  The reason he hasn't fought the other guys you listed is because they weren't trying to have him fuck up other potential title fights for Silva.  Those guys don't beat Vitor.  

     

    And pre-Weidman Munoz could have smothered him too.

     

    Not with that porous defense and wet papery chin.

    What are the WORST films you have seen?

    in MOVIES & TV

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    I saw Easy A on television today, and Emma Stone's Olive character has to be one of the least endearing, obnoxious, repulsive characters in the history of film. When she goes dancing across the floor, I just wanted someone to take a lead pipe and any close blunt object to her head. I can't believe they are letting Will Gluck direct the Annie remake. He can go suck a bag of dicks for this putrid pile of feces.

    MMA Talk.

    in BOXING & MMA

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    Bolster may be a bit of a strong word for a bunch of dudes that can't draw. How many buys is Demetrious Johnson vs. John Lineker really adding to a show despite the potential to be fight of the night? I think they made a commitment to Fox to have title fights if they could and found a loophole by giving them Ben Henderson and Demetrious Johnson. The problem with taking those fights away is it will be hard to differentiate main Fox programming from the shows on Fox Sports 1 and not in a good way. You can't go from Velasquez-Dos Santos I to random superfight that may or may not do barely acceptable numbers on Fox. I don't it's a wakeup call because you had many instances since they moved from Spike where people just decide to skip the paid shows. They're backed into a corner one way or another.

    UFC on Fox 8: Johnson vs. Moraga (7/27/2013) - Seattle, WA (KeyArena)

    in BOXING & MMA

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    So what the fuck was your point about Rory then?

    You guys wouldn't be so upset if he didn't have personality. You can't call someone wooden and bland and then blow up when he actually does something that makes him stand out.

     

     

    I think with Rory the issue is more "this guy is creepy and irritating and I don't want to watch him" rather than someone like Floyd Mayweather where it's "this guy is an asshole, and I will pay my hard earned money to watch someone try and shut him up"

     

    Bad comparison. Floyd had a history of people actually believing that he could not and would not ever draw a reasonable dime. It took him NINE YEARS from the time he won fighter of the year until the Ricky Hatton fight for people to actually get on board. By the time Floyd was Rory's age, people began to wonder if his drawing power could actually catch up to this persona he began to create once he came out his first retirement/hiatus. It wasn't enough that he had beat Diego Corrales and was talking about how good he was. He had another five years before he became someone. 

    MMA Talk.

    in BOXING & MMA

    Posted

    Please be Weidman

    Dude, did you see Weidman's house before (and subsequently after) Hurricane Sandy? I doubt he could afford it. Keep in mind, Gamboa makes like five or six times a fight than what Weidman makes.

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