So... I see the "Great Idea Shortage" of the early 21st century is still moving along unabated...
Will Smith.
As Captain Nemo.
Directed by a rock video guy.
Who's last three movies were drivel.
And they're willing to plug $100 mil into it.
As Captain Nemo.
Directed by a rock video guy.
Who's last three movies were drivel.
And they're willing to plug $100 mil into it.
Is this some kind of sick f*cking joke?
I certainly CAN "imagine greater" for that sad, sad little channel... I could improve it greatly by just kicking the f*cking wrestling off of it, and cancelling that idiot "ghost hunting plumbers" show. All I'd have to do to regain the viewership, and increase it, would be to replace those BS programmers with blocks of classic "sci fi" films (the REAL stuff, not their sh*t in-house stuff) and it would be back on the road to recovery. Who the f*ck has been running things there? And what Crackerjack box did they get their broadcast credentials out of?
A perfect example of how poor planning costs producers vast amounts of money. Had Bay actually planned the sequence a bit better, he would have realized that the shot was needed LONG before the time crunch happened. Hell, had there been enough lead time, they could have done those same 40 frames in classic stop motion, using a molded silicone head of the actress, and a single guy working in a garage could have done it as well! (and on time, and with a fraction of the budget.)
The classic production triangle applies: You can have it fast, cheap, or good... but you can only pick two at a time.
What a schmuck! They paid him HOW MUCH for being incompetent?
And if this is a success, then it's only a matter of time before Matheson's "Prey" gets remade too...
Am I the only one who sees this as a stylistic rip off of the Jacklin "Story of O" adaptation? It's cute, but it is soooo 1970's "soft core" that it's painful.
"Earthstar Voyager" meets "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here." Third rate TV SF combined with fourth rate reality TV.
Thanks for the warning.
60 years later... and the local wildlife is still being affected by the FIRST a-bomb test...
And the GOP wants us to go "all in" for nuclear power...
Morons.
The problem with the "V" TV series was that they used the same hack writers on it that also churned out scripts for "The Dukes of Hazzard."
You know... I really hope that someday soon... science fiction will shake off this "alien invasion" plot, and maybe move on to something a little less... overworked?
Why hasn't anyone done "Foundation" yet?
Or how about "The Disappearance" by Phillip Wyle?
"Lords of Light?"
A stack of Heinlien juviniles?
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars?
"Girl Genius?"
"Ringworld?"
This is EXACTLY why I hate using public restrooms...
No "Destination Moon?" Really.
You know... there ARE some other Who aliens/villians out there that we haven't seen in a while... It would be kind of nice to have a story with... maybe... I don't know... some Zyghons? Or even the Rutans might be pretty cool... hell, at this point, I'd go with a a Krinoid, or maybe even Morbieus' brain in a jar...
The Daleks just haven't had the same creepiness since they decided to show us what's in the shell... before then, there were the boogyman under the bed...
I still think I liked this movie better the first time around... when Parker and Stone did it with puppets a-la "Thunderbirds."
I might go see it if it's a mid summer movie, and I'm dying to get out of the heat... BUT... if the soundtrack is still a kick butt jazz version of the original Hoyt Curtain main theme, done by someone in the Elfmann mode... I'll be picking up that soundtrack even before I get near the theatre.
Hummm... the question about if today's post AIDS-era audiances would respond well to an erotic science fiction comedy like this is a valid one. Most science fiction heroines of late (Laura Croft, Aeon Flux, Underworld 1,2,3...) all have been more of the fetish-clad ass-kicker variety.
Personally, the first guy I'd hire, to do the conceptual design, for something like a Barbarella reboot, would be Michael Manning.
A little sad that piss, fart and poop jokes are considered the height of "adult" humor these days...
It's weird, but I don't recall the character of Rick Marchall being a buffoon before... or that he was romantically interested with Holly.
It's weird, but I don't recall the character of Rick Marchall being a buffoon before... or that he was romantically interested with Holly.
Can't say I agree much with Bill Lee's uniformed post as to what this show was all about. Sure, the 1970's, pre-Star Wars, were not the best times for shot-on-viedotape special effects. But the very fact that this show even attempted stop motion sequences on a weekly basis was pretty ballsy!
The first season of LOTL was a great little marvel of storytelling: edited by David Gerrold, they had scripts from Norman Spinrad, D.C. Fontana, Walter Koenig and others. Even Larry Niven had input on the show. Overall, it was a bout three people, a family unit, that tried to survive in a vest pocket universe where almost anything could happen. No, it's not "greatness on par woth Star Trek" but for saturday morning TV, this show was stunningly original!
But now it seems to have been turned into a slapstick comedy... something to go on a double bill with the old Ringo Starr film, "Caveman."
What a pity. What it could have been!
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Every time there is a change, there are people who complain, and say that things are just going to hell. Well, I'm sorry, but if Dr. Who can survive "The Happiness Patrol" then it can survive a direct hit with a nuke.
The new guy will bring his own stamp to the show... Me, I was hoping they'd go for someone a bit older, someone whom we could believe in as being 500 years + old... Maybe Jim Broadbent, or Brian Blessed...
But I'm perfectly willing to see what the new guy can do with it before I open my yap and start tearing him down.
ManchurianCandidate,
For all you know, this is just part of her repartee... maybe the sub she "owns" (and who cleans up the play space afterward) is female. :)
Perfect movie? Well, maybe if you're brain dead...
