NationStates Jolt Archive

I think we missed one:
http://movies.channel.aol.com/movie/main.adp?mid=16408

Well is this movie gonna tank or is this movie gonna tank?

I hope it does better than Catwoman.

Holy crappoly...is that coming out this Friday?! I hate working the theater when kiddy movies come out. This is going to be probably almost as bad as Shrek...

(By the way, I hope King Arthur was on that list of terrible summer movies.)

I hope it does better than Catwoman.
Spiderman is beating Catwoman in the box office still. (As in Spiderman gets more profit per day than Catwoman, despite being 6 weeks old compared to Catwoman being like 2 weeks old)

I thought the Village and King Arthur sucked.

Spiderman is beating Catwoman in the box office still. (As in Spiderman gets more profit per day than Catwoman, despite being 6 weeks old compared to Catwoman being like 2 weeks old)
So it probably will do better than Crapwoman then.
*Sigh of relief*

So it probably will do better than Crapwoman then.
*Sigh of relief*
Crapwoman--it's craptacular!!!!!

Anyoe else seen the Boondocks series lately where Grandpa is punishing one of the kids by making him go see Catwoman because he didn't take out the garbage? Funny shit.

It's almost as if the point of children's entertainment these days is to sell toys, or vice versa.

It's almost as if the point of children's entertainment these days is to sell toys, or vice versa.
Isn't it? Hell--that's been the reason George Lucas made his last 4 films (including the latest one). It certainly wasn't because he had a story to tell.

Good lord, but I hate anime. King Aurther was sucky. Refused to go see Catwoman (it's in the dollar theaters here already). Spiderman2 was good on action, bad on personal aspects. Collateral was pretty good.

Isn't it? Hell--that's been the reason George Lucas made his last 4 films (including the latest one). It certainly wasn't because he had a story to tell.

My friend, I couldn't agree more!

I think we missed one:
http://movies.channel.aol.com/movie/main.adp?mid=16408

Well is this movie gonna tank or is this movie gonna tank?

My sister is actually looking forward to that, the TV show sucks so bad when I watch it my eyebrows become permanantly raised in disbelief at how awful it is.

I've said it a number of times before--Lucas suffers from two huge handicaps as a filmmaker. The first is simple--he's gotten so big and independent and has made himself so solitary up in San Rafael at Skywalker Ranch that no one tells him "Dude--that sucks" anymore. In the early days of the first two Star Wars flicks, when studios still had some say over his work, people gave Lucas shit all the time, and to good effect. They got rid of the crap and honed the story till it was tight and sharp. That doesn't happen anymore, and the progression from Jedi (decent except for the Ewoks) to Phantom (mediocre without Jar-Jar, execrable with him) to Clones (MST3000 worthy) just shows what happens when you surround yourself with yes-men.

The second is more complex, and it involves something a bit more sacrosanct. Lucas ain't a genius. He's not even that good of a writer. The screenplays for Star Wars and Empire were ghostwritten by a lady (can't remember her name) who died of cancer not long after Empire was released. And all that stuff about Lucas gaining inspiration from Joseph Campbell? Maybe once he got Star Wars done and people started making connections on their own, Lucas went with it, but Lucas was far more influenced by westerns and space operas from the 50s and 60s. The reason there seems to be a Campbell influence is because the story Lucas told was the same one storytellers have told for eons--this one was just done with cool special effects.

It bugs me, too, because I watch Star Wars and Empire and even Jedi and I feel so drawn in by the story--it's an eternal story, truly--and then I see how motivated by merchandising the movies became starting with Jedi and continuing into today and it just pisses me off to no end.

My sister is actually looking forward to that, the TV show sucks so bad when I watch it my eyebrows become permanantly raised in disbelief at how awful it is.

WOW - that's sad. Actually I have a friend my who likes yugioh cards (i think he just collects them so he can sell them later for some cash) - yet im 15

I thought the Village . . . sucked

You're not alone.

I work at a movie theatre and I've had to refund almost a dozen tickets because people hated it that much.

So I saw it myself by "checking" on the theatre for a long time, and thought it was horrible.

The only thing that brought people to that movie was M. Night's (spelling, sorry) name.

They're just putting it into the cinema as a quick-money thing and attention-grab. This is the kind of movie that'll pretty much kill at the DVD rack.