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Originally posted by: RRS-1980
The problem is that even 10-year old rumors sometimes become reality... DOOM anyone?
The problem is that even 10-year old rumors sometimes become reality... DOOM anyone?
When I first heard of the DOOM movie, I instantly thought of two things: "BOMB", and "straight to DVD". It's the #1 box office in america. What... the... hell?!
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
When I first heard of the DOOM movie, I instantly thought of two things: "BOMB", and "straight to DVD". It's the #1 box office in america. What... the... hell?!
When I first heard of the DOOM movie, I instantly thought of two things: "BOMB", and "straight to DVD". It's the #1 box office in america. What... the... hell?!
it isn't difficult to debut at the #1 position in america. the movie industry currently operates on the idea that blitz-advertising can outrun word-of-mouth. i.e. word-of-mouth is slow, so if the movie sucks, they just need to advertise it more in order to get people's money before they hear how bad it is. they also rush bad movies to DVD, further demonstrating the outrun-word-of-mouth idea. for example, xXx 2: state of the union came out on dvd literally just several weeks after it ran in theaters.
also, it isn't difficult to reach the position of "#1 ________ movie of all time" and claim that a movie made x times as much box office $$$ as star wars. for example meet the fockers was #1 live-action comedy of all time. made more money than any other live-action comedy. but that's only true if you don't consider economic inflation, and the fact that a movie ticket costs about $9 or $10 USD, whereas there used to be a time when you could go to the theater for 25 cents.
it has a lot to do with corporatization and the fast-food-chain effect, too. up till the early 1980s, there were a lot of drive-in theaters and independent theaters in the u.s.a. so it was easy for independent film-makers to get funding for a cheap little movie and have it distributed throughout various regions of the u.s.a. but they didn't need to get national distribution to make a modest profit. then most of the drive-ins closed, most of the indie film-makers started doing straight-to-VHS, and all of the theaters are now owned by a few big chains. so now there are less than a dozen films showing in mainstream theaters in the u.s.a. at any given time. people used to have a lot more to choose from... they could see hollywood movies, american independent movies, foreign independent movies dubbed into english... but now the selection is very, very narrow. people have relatively few choices, when they go to the movie theater now. it's no wonder that something like DOOM or meet the fockers is able to reach #1 so easily. it's no wonder that mcdonald's hamburgers are #1, when they're certainly not the best food in the world... they're not even the best hamburgers.
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Also, I wanted to see "Good night, and Good Luck", but this movie was shown here at ONE theater, only ONE night only! Sad to see how good movies are treated like that, and crappy flicks such as Doom get 500 screens...
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By the way, Stallone is at it again!
Where were you in '77?
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Originally posted by: ricarleite
Also, I wanted to see "Good night, and Good Luck", but this movie was shown here at ONE theater, only ONE night only! Sad to see how good movies are treated like that, and crappy flicks such as Doom get 500 screens...
Also, I wanted to see "Good night, and Good Luck", but this movie was shown here at ONE theater, only ONE night only! Sad to see how good movies are treated like that, and crappy flicks such as Doom get 500 screens...
I have just seen this film, I highly recomend it.
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one such writer is peter biskind. he wrote easy riders, raging bulls.
“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.
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"Miss you, I will, Original Trilogy..."
"Your midichlorians are weak, Old man." -Darth Vader 2007 super deluxe extra special dipped in chocolate sauce edition.
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Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
theres books and magazine articles out there that accuse lucas and spielberg for ruining movies by making huge sucess of popcorn kiddie flicks. So serious films don't get the billing they deserve.
theres books and magazine articles out there that accuse lucas and spielberg for ruining movies by making huge sucess of popcorn kiddie flicks. So serious films don't get the billing they deserve.
Spielberg has made serious films. Schindler's List for example.
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Two of the people who have accused lucas of creating this current hollywood mentality, albeit very quietly are Martin scorcese and francis ford coppola.
Francis Ford Coppola even went so far to say that star wars has robbed the world of any "good" film george could've made, because of it's monster success. He thinks George should've made the advant garde films like he made at usc and thx 1138, the kind of films they talked about making at american zoetrope.
Scorsese's beef is that it is almost impossible to get grittier more violent, serious films made these days like they did in the sixties. Taxi driver for example. Movies like that got killed by a little movie called star wars.
“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.
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Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
Francis Ford Coppola even went so far to say that star wars has robbed the world of any "good" film george could've made, because of it's monster success. He thinks George should've made the advant garde films like he made at usc and thx 1138, the kind of films they talked about making at american zoetrope.
Francis Ford Coppola even went so far to say that star wars has robbed the world of any "good" film george could've made, because of it's monster success. He thinks George should've made the advant garde films like he made at usc and thx 1138, the kind of films they talked about making at american zoetrope.
That is interesting. I wonder what would George Lucas be directing if he never had filmed Star Wars (because if Star Wars had floped, he would be directing porn or infomertials)
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Red heads ROCK. Blondes do not rock. Nuff said.
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Originally posted by: Warbler
I don't see how. Many of Scorcese's hits came after Star Wars. I don't see how Star Wars stands in the way of making more serious and/or violent films.
I don't see how. Many of Scorcese's hits came after Star Wars. I don't see how Star Wars stands in the way of making more serious and/or violent films.
They don't really "stand in the way of" per se. It's that now that movie blockbuster mentality has struck and firmly rooted itself (since the releases of Jaws and Close Encounters and Star Wars - all Lucas and Spielberg), studios want the next big cash cow. And this tends to keep them from seriously considering some of the smaller films that are made that won't bring in much bank. Guys like Scorsese have their name which almost guarantees that their films will be made. But there are so many other filmmakers with no marquee name and no budget and little to no chance that their films will ever be seen. Thank God for Sundance and Cannes and the Web. These are the only venues for many no-name filmmakers.
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According to a news report I saw today stallone is making rocky 6 and rambo 4 back to back, similar to how they reported that arnold is doing
t4 and true lies 2 back to back, cringe.
What's next, The matrix 4, die hard 4, back to the future 4, speed 3 ?
“Always loved Vader’s wordless self sacrifice. Another shitty, clueless, revision like Greedo and young Anakin’s ghost. What a fucking shame.” -Simon Pegg.
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Originally posted by: skyjedi2005
According to a news report I saw today stallone is making rocky 6 and rambo 4 back to back, similar to how they reported that arnold is doing
t4 and true lies 2 back to back, cringe.
What's next, The matrix 4, die hard 4, back to the future 4, speed 3 ?
According to a news report I saw today stallone is making rocky 6 and rambo 4 back to back, similar to how they reported that arnold is doing
t4 and true lies 2 back to back, cringe.
What's next, The matrix 4, die hard 4, back to the future 4, speed 3 ?
If Cameron is directing T4 I expect ggod things.
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Hell, all I know is that's what they're thinking. Cross promotion, I'm betting.
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Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: I'm a nice man.
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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
Ah, come on! The world needs more movies featuring Angelina Jolie in body-hugging gear beating the crap out of men 5 times her size.
Ah, come on! The world needs more movies featuring Angelina Jolie in body-hugging gear beating the crap out of men 5 times her size.
I don't care about the beating the crap out of men part so much as I do the body-hugging gear part. I've never seen either of the TR movies thus far. Just watch scenes here and there on mute. Lovely, lovely woman.
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Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: I'm a nice man.