Maybe in T4 someone will finally have the idea we all had a long time ago--send the damn robot back to the factory right after Sarah Conner killed the first Terminator and is lying wounded on the floor. Shortest Terminator film ever, and it'd be the first one to make actual time-travel sense.
Buffy: You tossed that vamp like he was a... little teeny vamp. Riley: You wanna go again? C'mon. I bet this place is just teeming with aerodynamic vampires.
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Mr. Broom - Sep 27, 2004 12:25:56 pm PDT #4163 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
evil jimi - Sep 27, 2004 1:00:01 pm PDT #4164 of 10001
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Maybe in T4 someone will finally have the idea we all had a long time ago--send the damn robot back to the factory right after Sarah Conner killed the first Terminator and is lying wounded on the floor. Shortest Terminator film ever, and it'd be the first one to make actual time-travel sense.
Actually, the best thing to do--and probably the most fun--would be to send a terminator back to the Sixties to wipe out Sarah Conner's parents before she's born. A hippie terminator!
Jessica - Sep 27, 2004 5:41:30 pm PDT #4165 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I saw two movies tonight, Primer and p.s.
Primer was a kickass mindfuck that would have made a much better novella than a movie, but hey, the writer wanted to make a movie. And for $7,000, no less.
p.s. has some very strong performances by Laura Linney and Topher Grace, but is otherwise an incoherent mess.
evil jimi - Sep 27, 2004 7:50:06 pm PDT #4166 of 10001
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Going back to the video-game-to-movie discussion. Just found out Roger Avary and Christophe Gans are writing the Silent Hill adaption. Should be interesting to see what they come up with.
eta: and to see if Mark Dacascos gets a role.
Fiona - Sep 28, 2004 1:33:43 am PDT #4167 of 10001
About Ocean's Twelve - I think Soderbergh and Clooney try to mix up their big commercial hits with smaller, more personal and more "indie" features, because the one allows them to do the other. From a Guardian interview with both of them:
Q6: You were talking about focus groups, and I heard a rumour that Solaris had one of the worst ratings despite it being brilliant. How are your relations with the studio? Is there a relationship in the sequence of films that you work on, for example doing Ocean's Twelve after Solaris?
SS: There's a very direct relation for me. There were three projects that I wanted to do after my sabbatical. Ocean's was one of them. I had the idea when we were actually in Europe promoting the first one.... The Informant and The Good German are seriously strange movies, really weird but, I hope, interesting. When Solaris tanked in the States on the heels of Full Frontal tanking, I immediately called George and said, "We're going to do Ocean's first."
I can't get Warners to pay for The Informant and The Good German on the heels of these two films. I wouldn't pay for them.
GC: Warners were really happy - we sat them down and said, "Okay, we've got good news: we're going to do Ocean's Twelve," and they said, "Oh, Jesus, thank God." Then we said, "And you have to pick up the tab for The Good German and The Informant," and they went, "Okay, fine, whatever."
SS: And that's the reality of the film business - all three of them are movies that I'm excited about. There's a commercial and practical issue that you can't pretend doesn't exist.
GC: It goes back to what we're trying to do, which is do the films that we think are interesting and that people should see, within the structure of the studio system. And part of that means that we have to find some compromises that will help get it done. I don't think you can look at Solaris and think, "That's a compromise film." If the compromise is Ocean's Eleven, that's a good film and we're proud of it, so we'll do this, and happily, because entertainment's a good thing and I don't think it's something to be ashamed of. It's a balancing act, though.
Link here.
Jim - Sep 28, 2004 3:02:13 am PDT #4168 of 10001
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
You were talking about focus groups, and I heard a rumour that Solaris had one of the worst ratings despite it being brilliant.
Way to go with the hardhitting questions, Graun!
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 28, 2004 3:49:56 am PDT #4169 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Yeah, it seems like the transcript is missing the sound effect of the interviewer unzipping Soderberg mid-chat.
Jim - Sep 28, 2004 4:15:56 am PDT #4170 of 10001
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
To be fair that's a fan question at a post-screening Q&A.
Aims - Sep 28, 2004 6:39:14 am PDT #4171 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
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How did folks around here feel about The Good Girl?
We caught it a couple of days ago and was really surprised by it.
JohnSweden - Sep 28, 2004 7:22:09 am PDT #4172 of 10001
I can't even.
How did folks around here feel about The Good Girl?
I was surprised by it too. The kind of slow, character study kind of movie that I really enjoy. Painful to watch at times, but in a genuine way.