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I've heard it mentioned that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was pushed back from November 2008 to July 2009 because of finishing touches in post-production, but I wonder if it's because Warner Bros didn't necessarily need another box office hit in 2008 after The Dark Knight provided such a fantastic bottom line for their fiscal year. 2009 was shaping up to be bleak, thanks not only to the writer's strike but the recession as well, so why not push back a surefire box office hit like HP so that this year wouldn't like a total loss compared to 2008?
06/15/09
06/16/09
The official statement was that they had an opening in the summer lineup, which would be a more profitable time for a big blockbuster movie to premiere than November.
06/15/09
and Natali has been working on the film for about 10 years so a 'script' has been around for a while...
as for the long VFX work, we finished ahead of schedule :)
06/15/09
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06/15/09
we can't wait for Splice to come out...
06/15/09
A contractor who goes ahead and builds the house before the foundation is poured is just an idiot.
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06/15/09
A movie that tries to tackle some challenging themes and tells a good story about the subjectivity of good and evil and the fight against crime is pretentious? No.
The Dark Knight:
Ambitious? Yes
Overhyped? Yes
Pretentious? No
06/16/09
Even Hermes Conrad couldn't limbo under that bar.
06/16/09
06/16/09
Boring? Yes
I didn't think that thing was ever going to end. After what felt like an hour I asked my wife if it was about over then looked at the clock and it had only been 30 minutes. Good grief! I kept saying "ok, something can happen now." The whole plot with the Chinese seemed totally unnecessary - what it set up could have been done much tighter some other way.
06/16/09
Ah, you're from the Michael Bay shool of moviegoing, where you boil off anything that even remotely resembles plot until you have a nearly pure 'splosion reduction ready to serve.
06/16/09
Lower than a limbo stick during carnival time, and that's as low as limbo sticks go!
(excited about Futurama's return)
06/16/09
Also excited, but a bit more hopeful that the return to their rightful format will also signal a return to their previous level of quality. The movie-sodes barely rise to the level of the least funny regular eps when they're at their best.
@Evil J:
They did explain the Joker's origin. Two of them, even, just in case you didn't like the first one.
06/17/09
I liked that ambiguity, but I did hear at least one person who was kind of like "So... why was his face like that?" walking out of the theater.
I hate questions about origins when the story Alfred told pretty much explained that his origin doesn't matter since he is what he is; that there was no motive, no event that would create a psychopath like the Joker.
Then again, that's for people who don't need it spelled out for them (not talking about you, just bitching about people who perceive the film as "dull"... they're usually the type of audience that kind of liked Batman & Robin).
06/22/09
I think it's been pretty well established that noone liked Batman & Robin. Anyone who says they did is lying just to piss everyone off.
06/15/09
And did anybody expect GI Joe to be in line for a pulitzer?
06/16/09
"And did anybody expect GI Joe to be in line for a pulitzer?"
Did some newspaper reporter recently lose a drunk-bet where he had to have his name legally changed to G.I.Joe? No? Then "no" to your question as well.
06/15/09
So, they won't have that crutch to use if they fail.
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05/11/09
Next time try to actually watch the trailer and not just read the headline before you voice your reply ;)
Or shut yo mouth your ignorance is showing...
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Who am I kidding. I'm still gonna see it.
05/11/09
Norks?
03/25/09
"It takes place in the future where online multi-player games feature real people," Ventimiglia explains. "In this game convicted killers are put in real war situations, but their actions are controlled by outside players. To see this world that Game's writers and directors Brian Neveldine and Mark Taylor created was really cool. When I first read the script it was so difficult for me to visualize, but when I walked onto the set and saw the costumes and everything, I got really excited. What Mark and Brian can do with a camera is indescribable. They represent the next wave of filmmaking."
SOUCRE: Geek Monthly magazine
03/25/09
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03/25/09
Oh and I agree, Manson should be shot to the sun in a rocket..that or he could be in this film as an expandable and very killable character..we can only dream!!
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