Summer "Blockbuster" Movies all Flop

[freakazoid]

So far I have been pretty impressed with the movies that have come out recently.

[Perd Hapley]

Or lousy, imaginative writing.

Why do you hate imaginative writing? 

[CNYCacher]

You are hard to impress

I'm pretty impressed with Christian Bale's ability to change his body for different roles.

Here he is in "The Machinist" and "Batman Begins", approx 6 months apart.



Not sure what kind of training you have to do to lose 80 lbs, then put on 100lbs in a year.

edit: I accidentally a picture

[AZRedhawk44]

I thought World War Z was a fun movie.  On the subject of 3 D, I've been turned off to it ever since Beowulf came out.  The 3 D wasn't worth the extra money and my ears were bleeding by the end of the movie.

Vote we change dm1333's name here to Grendel.

[mtnbkr]

You are hard to impress

I'm pretty impressed with Christian Bale's ability to change his body for different roles.

Here he is in "The Machinist" and "Batman Begins", approx 6 months apart.

Not sure what kind of training you have to do to lose 80 lbs, then put on 100lbs in a year.

Yeah, that was pretty impressive of him.  He isn't the only one to undergo such changes.  Tom Hanks did something similar for Castaway.

Chris

[dm1333]

Vote we change dm1333's name here to Grendel.

Better than Grouchy I guess!   

[Boomhauer]

a freak wearing a dead crow on his head

THANK YOU. Johnny Depp's costume jumped the *expletive deleted*ing shark.

[AZRedhawk44]

I actually really liked that Beowolf movie.  Neat digitalization of the actors' bodies and converted into animation.  With Beowolf being classical fantasy, it would have required lots of special effects anyways.  It gave a sense of cohesiveness to the presentation, with the hero and monsters and mundane characters all subject to the same rules of physics on camera and so on.

A lot of cheap special effects films (and even some of the good ones), you can tell a CG rendered object apart from everything around it by how lighting interacts with it, wind blowing one person's hair but not another's, rendered gravity rate is different than reality or something like that.  Beowolf kept everything consistent by housing it all in the CG domain.  When everything is CG and you immerse in it, the storytelling improves.

[Hawkmoon]

Why do you hate imaginative writing? 

I don't hate imaginative writing ... only LOUSY imaginative writing.

[roo_ster]

I don't hate imaginative writing ... only LOUSY imaginative writing.

Inventing NEW ways to suck.

[BlueStarLizzard]

I beef with CG is when CG becomes an excuse for a story.

Example: UltraViolet. Visually, it's stunning. I've seen folks bitching because "you can tell it's CG and it looks fake." They obviously didn't get the memo. It was an attempt to look like anime with live action. The colors, lighting and contrast wasn't supposed to look realistic.
Unfortunatly the acting is subpar and the plot is nearly non exsistant. They could have just 86ed the dialogue and played some good music and it would have been better.

For some reason Hollywood can't always seem to figure out what they should give the CG budgit too and what they should just completly pass over.
The result is some really intresting stories get F'ed up by bad CG and poor cinimtography and crap gets to look beautiful.

As for the actors. They're are some really good ones. Bale is one of my favorites and has been for a long time. Quite a few of them do a lot more then look pretty for the camera. Depp is one of my favorites, too. I'm not sure why disney just can't let go of wacky Depp dressed in insane costumes. Captain Jack was awesome. Now let it go.

 You want to see character acting? Watch a few diffrent Depp movies. He doesn't play Johnny Depp in every movie. He becomes what the script requires. I'd recommend From Hell, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegus, Pirates of the Carribian and What's Eating Gilbert Grape (which also has another one who can act, Leonardo Decaprio).
Compare that to Keanue Reeves. Dudes been in some awesome movies that suited him very well, but that character is pretty much all he can do, ever. "Whoa"

[roo_ster]

I beef with CG is when CG becomes an excuse for a story.

Example: UltraViolet. Visually, it's stunning. I've seen folks bitching because "you can tell it's CG and it looks fake." They obviously didn't get the memo. It was an attempt to look like anime with live action. The colors, lighting and contrast wasn't supposed to look realistic.
Unfortunatly the acting is subpar and the plot is nearly non exsistant. They could have just 86ed the dialogue and played some good music and it would have been better.

For some reason Hollywood can't always seem to figure out what they should give the CG budgit too and what they should just completly pass over.
The result is some really intresting stories get F'ed up by bad CG and poor cinimtography and crap gets to look beautiful.

As for the actors. They're are some really good ones. Bale is one of my favorites and has been for a long time. Quite a few of them do a lot more then look pretty for the camera. Depp is one of my favorites, too. I'm not sure why disney just can't let go of wacky Depp dressed in insane costumes. Captain Jack was awesome. Now let it go.

 You want to see character acting? Watch a few diffrent Depp movies. He doesn't play Johnny Depp in every movie. He becomes what the script requires. I'd recommend From Hell, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegus, Pirates of the Carribian and What's Eating Gilbert Grape (which also has another one who can act, Leonardo Decaprio).
Compare that to Keanue Reeves. Dudes been in some awesome movies that suited him very well, but that character is pretty much all he can do, ever. "Whoa"

Liked Depp in 'Vegas.  Reeves in Much Ado About Nothing should have earned him a beating from every high school thespian east of the Mississippi.    Kenneth Branaugh will smoke a turd in purgatory for that casting decision.

[freakazoid]

I beef with CG is when CG becomes an excuse for a story.

Example: UltraViolet. Visually, it's stunning. I've seen folks bitching because "you can tell it's CG and it looks fake." They obviously didn't get the memo. It was an attempt to look like anime with live action. The colors, lighting and contrast wasn't supposed to look realistic.
Unfortunatly the acting is subpar and the plot is nearly non exsistant. They could have just 86ed the dialogue and played some good music and it would have been better.

For some reason Hollywood can't always seem to figure out what they should give the CG budgit too and what they should just completly pass over.
The result is some really intresting stories get F'ed up by bad CG and poor cinimtography and crap gets to look beautiful.

As for the actors. They're are some really good ones. Bale is one of my favorites and has been for a long time. Quite a few of them do a lot more then look pretty for the camera. Depp is one of my favorites, too. I'm not sure why disney just can't let go of wacky Depp dressed in insane costumes. Captain Jack was awesome. Now let it go.

 You want to see character acting? Watch a few diffrent Depp movies. He doesn't play Johnny Depp in every movie. He becomes what the script requires. I'd recommend From Hell, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegus, Pirates of the Carribian and What's Eating Gilbert Grape (which also has another one who can act, Leonardo Decaprio).
Compare that to Keanue Reeves. Dudes been in some awesome movies that suited him very well, but that character is pretty much all he can do, ever. "Whoa"

He even played a very serious person in Public Enemy.

Also, his version of Tonto was very helpful.

[Perd Hapley]

Inventing NEW ways to suck.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_the_Dead_%28film%29

[Scout26]

Reeves in Much Ado About Nothing should have earned him a beating from every high school thespian east of the Mississippi.    Kenneth Branaugh will smoke a turd in purgatory for that casting decision.

An excellent film with with great acting except for Reeves.  He deserved a beating from everyone who ever saw, heard, thought or knew about it.  Shakespeare should have risen form his grave shot Reeves between the eyes.   Branagh, Emma Thompson, Denzel Washington, Michael Keeton and the rest gave great performances.

I will forgive Branagh because that simply all of his other Shakespearean movies are top notch (His Henry V, better then Olivier's.)  Plus I'd bet the studio made him use Reeves as he as "Hot" at the time.

[Perd Hapley]

Not this again. Washington was terrible in that movie.