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Post by jhar26 on Feb 8, 2015 3:20:13 GMT -5
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Post by robertaxel on Feb 8, 2015 10:31:53 GMT -5
Maybe the fad of video games passing as movies has run its course? (Foolish thought)... as far as Seventh Son goes - Mr. Bridges what were you thinking?!..
The Dude would not let this stand!!
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Post by profblues on Feb 8, 2015 11:31:04 GMT -5
to be fair they were both up against the SpongeBob movie  |
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Post by erik on Feb 8, 2015 12:19:46 GMT -5
There's only so much that advertising can do; and unfortunately, the ads were better than the films themselves (OOPS!)
But really, can't Hollywood please get away from these films based on video games and comic books?
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Post by profblues on Feb 8, 2015 13:40:21 GMT -5
I kind of like some of the recent Marvel movies
The Avengers
the two Thor movies
Captain America: The First Hero (or whatever it was called)
haven't seen the second Cap movie yet.
I don't go to the movies so I have to wait for them to come out on television or dvd
there are movies and there are films
these are movies as are the two movies that are the subject of this thread.
but on the other hand, 2001: A Space Odyssey is considered a film
go figure.
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Post by robertaxel on Feb 8, 2015 14:09:32 GMT -5
The only Marvel product I have enjoyed recently is Agent Carter, the TV show... Hayley Atwell does a great job in the title role, and the 1946 atmosphere and fight sequences are remarkable for TV... abc.go.com/shows/marvels-agent-carter |
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Post by erik on Feb 9, 2015 9:42:14 GMT -5
And for me, the only film I ever saw that was based on a comic book was SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE, and that was way back in 1978, when I was just eight years old. It's the only one of that type that ever really worked for me.
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Post by robertaxel on Feb 9, 2015 9:58:10 GMT -5
Superman (and Superman 2) were rare examples of those films that I cared about.. the John Williams score helped... Currently I prefer my films to be cape free (and explosion free where possible)..
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Post by erik on Feb 9, 2015 10:03:17 GMT -5
Quote by robertaxel:
And you had Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel himself, plus Margot Kidder (as Lois Lane), and Gene Hackman as the devious Lex Luthor. One must also remember that Richard Donner was in the director's chair, which I think gave that film a sort of gravitas among the comic-book heroics.
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Post by profblues on Feb 9, 2015 11:16:19 GMT -5
the Superman series didn't do that much for me. and I haven't seen any of the films in the recent Man of Steel series either
Christopher Reeve was a douchebag (I say that based on his actions and attitude as a Summer resident up home in Maine)
I liked the first Batman movie (but mostly because of Nicholson as The Joker) and have only seen bits and pieces of the others in that series.
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Post by erik on Feb 9, 2015 21:02:47 GMT -5
It really all boils down to the fact that Hollywood, despite enjoying one huge year after another, and in spite of the many films that clearly don't work or are so mind-numbingly expensive, doesn't enjoy uncertainty, even though most of the great films, especially those of the 1960s and 1970s, were really films made "outside the box."
As Stanley Kubrick once observed: "The sure thing is what everyone wants, and originality is not a nice word in this context. This is true despite the repeated example that nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing."
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