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B
11/26/08

In reply to Yes, They're Still Making Butterfly Effect 3
Personally, I liked the moral of Butterfly Effect. Life really is better without Ashton Kutcher.
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jajbowler
11/26/08

In reply to Yes, They're Still Making Butterfly Effect 3
Meredith, I find it highly suspect that you are so harshly judging a 3rd movie in a series before you have even seen it.

Wait, what am I saying?
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braak
11/26/08

In reply to Yes, They're Still Making Butterfly Effect 3
Just so you guys know, I'm actually writing a screenplay about the guy with SHARK EYES. In that movie, SHARK EYES eats all the people from The Butterfly Effect 3. I'm going to enter it into the After Dark Horrorfest and make a bajillion dollars.
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tetracycloide
11/26/08

@braak: will the character development be better than SHARK EYES vs. TWO SNAKES? SHARK EYES was obviously awesome (i mean come on, SHARK EYES!) and SNAKE was good but OTHER SNAKE was a little hollow. i'm sure OTHER SNAKE wanted to kill SHARK EYES but i had a hard time settling on what his motivation was, outside of being a SNAKE.
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braak
11/26/08

@tetracycloide: Well, I'll admit that by the time you get to SHARK EYES versus TWO SNAKES, I was relying on genre tropes in order to fulfill requirements set by meddling producers. Originally, SHARK EYES vs. TWO SNAKES was supposed to be SHARK EYES vs. SNAKE and VELOCIRAPTOR...there was a lot of compromised forced on me for that one.

But I think SHARK EYES vs. CAST OF THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT 3 is really going to shake the franchise up. It's a fresh approach, at least as good as SHARK EYES, maybe even as good as the seminal SHARK EYES vs. THE INTERNET.
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tetracycloide
11/26/08

@braak: there were rumors in the science fiction world that you would be returning to some of your original plans for SHARK EYES vs. SNAKE and VELOCIRAPTOR, that had to be axed to to creative differences, in a future title SHARK EYES vs. RAPTOR'S FLYING RAPTORS. did the air force provide you with the stock footage you needed to go ahead with that project or is this all simply rampant net speculation fueled by the disappointing OTHER SNAKE?
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corpore-metal
11/26/08

In reply to Yes, They're Still Making Butterfly Effect 3
The trouble I have with romance based time travel stories is the complete lack of emotional maturity their protagonists display.

You keep wanting to yell at the characters, "[S]He's dead! There are no soulmates you idiot! There are always other fish in the sea. Heal! Grow up and move on. It's what [s]he'd want for you."
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tetracycloide
11/26/08

@corpore-metal: it's funny because those are the same things i yell when i watch heroes.
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corpore-metal
11/26/08

@tetracycloide: You mean the TV series?
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tetracycloide
11/26/08

@corpore-metal: yes, heroes the tv series.
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MercuryPDX
11/13/08

In reply to Ridley Scott's Futuristic Monopoly Movie Should Not Pass Go
The Oiuja Board movie has not only been already done, it has two sequels:

Witchboard - [www.imdb.com]

Witchboard 2: The Devil's Doorway - [www.imdb.com]

Witchboard III: The Possession - [www.imdb.com]
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Grey_Area
11/12/08

In reply to Ridley Scott's Futuristic Monopoly Movie Should Not Pass Go
Monopoly: the MotionPicture. Keanu Reeves is the little pewter dog! The role he was born to play.
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RAHfanboy
11/12/08

In reply to Ridley Scott's Futuristic Monopoly Movie Should Not Pass Go
"Risk" could be alright, but it would be a twelve hour movie that you'd have to pause in the middle so you could get to class and then finish it the next night. Good times...
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CapnCalamity
11/13/08

@RAHfanboy for one, welcomes his Marxist overlords.: And the best line, from hour eleven:

"Will you JUST. LET. AUSTRALIA. GO?!?!?"
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RAHfanboy
11/13/08

@CapnCalamity: When we were about to lose, we'd always try to go to Afghanistan to die. Somethings never change.

We'd set up what we called "Mutual Concession Stands" where two allies would trade an army back and forth to build up our forces until we had to fight it out. That's partially why our games lasted so long.
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lightninglouie
11/12/08

In reply to Ridley Scott's Futuristic Monopoly Movie Should Not Pass Go
I'd pay money to see Eli Roth's Operation.
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RAHfanboy
11/13/08

@lightninglouie: Or Iron Man's.

Tony: "Just don't touch the sides. Like in 'Operation.'" (BZZT!!) "AHHHH!!!!"

Pepper: "What's 'Operation'" (BZZT!)

Tony: "AHHHH!!!!"

Pepper: "Oops. Sorry."
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SundaySunday
11/12/08

In reply to Ridley Scott's Futuristic Monopoly Movie Should Not Pass Go
In the future, we'll all be wearing spats and top hats?

But seriously, I think this movie could work if perhaps it was a comedy about two rivals like the 2 old guys in Trading Places, who try to buy up all the property in Atlantic City. But not in the future. Maybe in some comic book-styled '30s city.
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bonniegrrl
11/12/08

In reply to Ridley Scott's Futuristic Monopoly Movie Should Not Pass Go
All I ask for is IMAX Spirograph!

[www.grrl.com]
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lightninglouie
11/12/08

In reply to Ridley Scott's Futuristic Monopoly Movie Should Not Pass Go
Sadly, most of the dialogue consists only of words containing the letters Q, X, and Z.
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BullfightsOnAcid
11/12/08

In reply to Ridley Scott's Futuristic Monopoly Movie Should Not Pass Go
Ballbuster the Movie, AKA America's Funniest Home Videos the Movie.

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lightninglouie
11/12/08

In reply to Ridley Scott's Futuristic Monopoly Movie Should Not Pass Go
I'm holding out for Charlie Kaufman's Scrabble. It's about an aphasic poet who can only communicate via triple word scores.
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Alexis
11/12/08

@lightninglouie:

At least that would be well written.
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Daveinva
11/12/08

In reply to Ridley Scott's Futuristic Monopoly Movie Should Not Pass Go
For the record, the Ain't It Cool News talkback to this idea was an instant classic.

[www.aintitcool.com]

Some of my favorites:

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Lars Von Trier Plays Charade at a Party With Friends

...no special lighting or sets. A cute, ruddy redheaded actress as one of the charade players. She gets raped at the end. America is shown as evil. It takes home multiple awards at Cannes.

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Eli Roth to direct Operation.

"Don't touch the sides!!!"

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Paul Haggis to write/direct "Connect Four"

A sample of the dialogue: "You've triumphed by placing your pieces in such a way that they form an consecutive, unbroken line of four in a diagonal pattern, much like we all yearn for personal connection...pretty sneaky sis."

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David Cronenberg's DON'T BREAK THE ICE, starring Christopher Walken

In 2011, the ice...is gonna break!
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Alexis
11/12/08

@Daveinva:

Sometimes when I want to feel like a better person, I read the AICN talkbacks.
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twDarkflame
11/12/08

In reply to Ridley Scott's Futuristic Monopoly Movie Should Not Pass Go
I wouldnt at all dismiss this.

Monopoly is purely a flexible starting point, and could have a decent flix done from that.

I mean, seriously, surely everyone here is at least curious how Blade Runner could mix with Monopoly?

A microcosm future of societys economics? Or a more casual and fun stylised future story akin to Speed Racer?

Its no more crazy then some of the videogame movies we have had.

And it will probably turn out vastely better then the Sim's movie. (which sooner or later will have Jim Carry attached, I swear, given the preposed plot).

The best Sims movie was already done mind you, only it wasnt at all, and it was called The Nines.
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Alexis
11/12/08

@twDarkflame:

I think you may have lost your mind, dear sir.

It's Monopoly. Monopoly. A fucking game about buying real estate. It's not a social commentary on economics. It's fucking Monopoly.

And it's a fuckton more crazy than the videogame movies coming out now.
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Alexis
11/12/08

@Evlsushi:

Wow, I think I just reached my 'fuck' quota for the day..ahem, hour.
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vrey_oneida
11/12/08

@Evlsushi: Actually I heard it WAS a social commentary on economics! It was originally a statement against privatization or in favor of communism or something like that.
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Alexis
11/12/08

@vrey_oneida:

How does that even work?
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