Ok, after yesterdays confirmation, that in the closed season, we can have discussions about anything - I thought I would start a nice thread regarding movies. Now we can either use this as a review thread - i.e. See a movie and give it a quick review. Or we can use it as a general movie related discussion. I will start the discussion off with this - http://www.empireonline.com/news/feed.asp?NID=27443 Apparently, Will Smith has now signed up to 2 sequels to Independance Day! They will be shot Matrix/LOTR style back to back - but where can this story line go? Surely everyone has had enough of disaster movies after the abortion of a film that was 2012....or is there money left in this what would be franchise?
Where can the franchise go with the story though? Last scene was all the spaceships grounded and the yanks claiming they won (when we know the Brits would have had an idea and implemented it first). I just cant see where the story can go!
Correction Mike, we Brits would have had the idea, discussed it at length in various committees, decided we could not afford it, then sold it to the Americans who changed it and made it work although it was nowhere as clever or effective as the original idea would have been.
It's a shame that Philip K Dick died so many years ago. He could have taught these modern day writers, a thing or two, about telling a tale. More of his stories are crying out to be made into films.
I have just watched 'The Kings Speech' on DVD. What an excellent film, with brilliant performances by Colin Firth & Geoffrey Rush. It's good to be British. The Americans; if they had made the film; would probably have cast Bruce Willis & Sylvester Stallone in the lead roles !! AND we would have had 'The Kings Speech 2 - Armaggedon', 'The Kings Speech 3 - I'll Be Back', 'The Kings Speech 4 - Total Wipeout', etc., etc., as sequels !
I saw The Kings Speech the other evening also on DVD. I enjoyed it - I wouldn't bother watching again though - its a watch once kind of film! It appears that a lot of the oscar winners have always been a 1 time watch film.
Instead of constantly remaking remakes, Hollywood should look to all those class novels that have yet to be filmed. I'd love someone, for example, to make John Wyndham's story 'The Kraken Wakes' into a movie.
....or actually make some of the movies that have been promised for years - Red Dwarf the Movie, Thunderbirds (and actually do a decent version and not with kids) or even take anything gerry Anderson ever made and make a feature length move - surely someone can write a good script for Captain Scarlet? He was invincible for gods sake!
I would love to see a red dwarf movie!! Ah man, but most of them are really quite old now arent they...I mean Cat might be needing a zimmer sometime soon....
I have heard good things about Thor too. Will be trying to get to the picture house this weekend to see The Hangover 2 - the first was very funny, hopefully they can re-jig the same story to make a second film. I saw I Love you Man last night for the first time properly - i must say that is a very very funny bloke film - and if you are a fan of Rush - it has a great soundtrack also!
OK here is a list of ten films that I rate very highly, that some of you might like too! Withnail and I. No-one can swear in a posh accent better than Richard E Grant. (Or me!) Twelve Monkeys. Not usually a fan of Bruce Willis, but it's such a clever story. Blade Runner. Generally regarded as one of the best SF films ever. (Philip K Dick again) Spirited Away. Won the Oscar for best animation 2003. Urusei Yatsura. 90 minutes of sheer Japanese animation anarchy. Brilliant. Napolean Dynamite. Best film about Nerds I've seen. John Heder only got $1000 but it made him a star. The Big Lebowski. John Goodmans finest hour IMO. My Neighbour Totoro. A beautiful Animé about magic and the imagination of children. The Castle of Cagliostro. Another gem, in the long series of the master thief Lupin, and his long suffering nemisis, Inspector Zenigata (Pops) The league of Extraordinary Gentlemen. To me it's like an old fantasy story from a "Boys Own" brought to life on screen.
