Bill Paxton should be president this time.
@bitsytimelord: Blech. I'd rather see a Larry David space opera than a Peter David one.
I was pretty open-minded about the trailer. Trailers are normally bad. Then I look up the director on IMDB and see that he directed The Core and Entrapment. Oye. I wish it was Peter Weir. . .
@Whitworthian: No, it doesn't. . .
Hey, that guy hacked Rush Limbaugh's DNA!
Picture from Sphere. . . word "awesomeness" in the title. . .
Does not compute. . . does not compute.
@matraggs: oops. Wrong place.
@steam23: He's either a plagiarist or God. Possibly both. RDM could have cleared this up by using an Eric Clapton song instead. Clapton is God.
Hmm. . . I like the concept of this video, but they would have been better off not referencing all the cruddy Superman movies. I'd have liked to see him do a T. Boone Pickens-like spiel for clean Kryptonite energy. The North Pole is the Saudi Arabia of clean-burning Kryptonite! Drill, baby, etc..
@David Schilling:@David Schilling: I think you undersell how Verhoeven uses violence. In Robocop and Starship Troopers especially, it's a commentary on the violence underlying both law enforcement and the military. With Watchmen it's superheros. With movies like Hancock, The Dark Knight and Superman Returns, where highly skilled and superpowered vigilantes take out bad guys at a PG13 level, they'd do more damage if it were "real life." I saw Watchmen's carnage as a reaction to that.
Also, much of it is funny. The Comedian fighting Ozy, the alley scene, the prison scenes. . . funny stuff. To me at any rate.
@edosan: Oh, I agree that the letter is in poor taste and doesn't help improve perceptions of the film. I was just feeling defensive about the mean people saying mean things about a movie I love.
I'll go over to a corner and cry.
@edosan: Don't let bad rape jokes get in the way of enjoying a good movie! That happened to me when Deliverance came out. I regretted it later.
@gods-n-clods: I couldn't say. I dozed off during Doomsday, while Watchmen kept me intrigued well into the wee hours. I think it had something to do with the former being a mediocre pastiche, while the latter was awesome.
Whoa, I didn't think there'd be this much vitriol directed at this movie, but I guess the best movies are never universally loved. I saw it as a super-violent Verhoeven-esque satire of superheros. It was funny, dark, witty, exciting. . . the adjectives good movies are made of.
It would have made more money if the filmmakers had watered it down to 2 hours and cast Will Smith as Nite Owl II. Luckily, they didn't.
We got a winner!
I wonder if Metal Gear Solid the movie will be more of a game than a movie since the last Metal Gear Solid game was. . . well you know.
Hayter gets a pass since he worked on the X2 script and not the X-Men 3 script.
And I'm just rambling on. . .
@Smittius: You're kidding right? Ebert is a huge scifi nerd. He wrote fanzines and love letters to Sir Arthur C. Clarke.
I wonder if Bale "accidently" cuts off Ironside's arm again.
@jasonof2000:
Is it really a big letdown if you already don't care?
I want to hear about modern authors who laze around on the weekends surfing blogs and forums until the boredom becomes so severe they must write before suicide becomes a nifty idea.
Not that that describes me. No no no no no no. . .
