Interview with the the dude who wrote Sharknado (his first name is THUNDER, fer serious): [link]
How are the sharks cognizant enough to keep biting people while they're flying through the air?
If you were a shark and you found yourself flying through the air, wouldn’t you keep biting? I think you’d be pretty pissed about being plucked out of your nice familiar ocean where you’re king of the predators, and you’d probably take it out on whoever got in your way. Honestly, I don’t understand why people are so perplexed by this concept. The logic is undeniable.
How many sharks does an average sharknado contain? How many sharks are ejected per 5-minute period?
I can’t count that high.
Lionsgate randomly supporting LGBT with Ender's Game premiere: [link] also points out they go way back with loving teh gheys: [link]
Good luck, guys! Hope this works out better for you than it did for DC.
I've spoken to Lionsgate employees and they were very friendly and enthusiastic in their support of All Over the Guy about 13 years ago. Still not going to spend a single penny on an Orson Scott Card project unless they can prove to me that he won't benefit from it, but I'll most likely check out their next movie as long as it's not adapting the work of a hatemongering bigot.
We just came back from Pacific Rim. I loved that film. Much more enjoyable and a better film than any of the action films we have seen this summer: IM3, STID, & MOS. I'm serious. Idris Elba (Don't Fuck with Stringer Bell) and Rinko Kikuchi were absolutely fabulous in this movie. The dialogue at times was pretty middling, but man they sure carried all of it off and then some.
Of the action movies I have seen this summer, it was the only one that didn't bore me and held my attention the entire time. I liked the beginning ~2 minutes of the film that gave the backstory. It was brisk, well done, and I followed it.
Sure there were times of unbelievability, but it's an action movie, so I am happy to hand wave. I need a movie to give me a good excuse to hand wave. I also liked being surprised here and there - which many of the other movies didn't really do for me. My fave of the summer so far. Hands down. "The East" was previously my favorite, but the latter third of the movie is so bad that it marred it for real.
So there's no ratings for Pacific Rim at Movie-Hurl.com yet; can anyone say whether there's much hand-held camera work in it? I would really like to see it, but not if it means I have to flee the theater, or lay down in a dark room for two hours afterwards...
No shaky-cam at all from what I remember. There is some 3D camera swooping, so if that makes you ill you might want to opt for the flat version.
'Suela, there is a lot of action, but I don't recall any hand held.
Note: we did not do 3-D or IMAX.
Awesome, thanks! I'll go for the 2D version, just to be safe.
I saw both Much Ado about Nothing and Pacific Rim today, the latter with a former roomie.
The former was very well done, an interesting modern-day adaptation. Amy Acker, Clark Gregg, Reed Diamond, and Sean Maher were all superb. And for the first time, I saw what people are talking about when they describe Fran Kranz as hot (maybe it's the short hair that finally did it). I didn't like Denisof as Benedick though - his nasal voice was just so unpleasant that I hated hearing him speak Shakespeare's words, and his attempts at physical comedy have always been cringeworthy to me. Also didn't like all the Dogberry stuff, but that's true of the play itself and not Nathan Fillion's fault (he was certainly a lot more tolerable than Michael Keaton in the role).
Pacific Rim
was just made entirely of awesome. Perhaps the best giant robot vs. monster movie I've ever seen.