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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watership_Down_(miniseries)
http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/681125-animated-watership-down-mini-series-coming-from-bbc-and-netflix
http://deadline.com/2016/04/watership-down-miniseries-john-boyega-james-mcavoy-bbc-netflix-1201745167/

It's obvious that Bay grafted Megan Fox's character into the story to be titillating to male audiences and 'empowering' to female ones: ie a feminist view of what men 'only' want and what women 'should' want (it backfired however, there's no pleasing feminists). In the opening scenes, it's clear she knows cars and understands tech while Spike/Sam can barely handle the car he just bought. Throughout the movie, he's relegated to clueless idiot status. Even when he's entrusted with important tasks, the implication is that he's incompetent without her. This contrasts with the character from the original cartoon series who, at various points, was entrusted with critical tasks and challenges, no privilege checking needed.

I don't disagree with most of your points, but I would be wary about defending Megan Fox's character from Transformers. Some of what you said is certainly valid, but one of the biggest complaints feminists have with media is the objectification of women. And it's difficult to argue that's she's an empowered badass and not objectified at all when this is literally the first shot of her in the entire series.

I generally just try to take each complaint one at a time to assess if it's valid or not. Some feminists complaints about the industry, or media, or society, or fucking whatever are actually valid. Maybe even most, I don't know. But in my experience, there's roughly as many good arguments as bad from either side of these issues.

It was tongue-in-cheek.

http://cdn3-www.comingsoon.net...
Oooh, feminists, yuckie! Get them away!

Oh wait, you meant... never mind. Still... maybe the end has not yet been written...

Are you implying Hollywood can't think of original content?
What would ever make you think of that?

Arthur
Bill And Ted 3
Annie (3rd remake!)
Footloose (Did we really need this movie again?)
True Grit
The Three Musketeers THIS TIME IN 3D!
and much more!

The name of this drug wouldn't by chance be NZT http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=72274

"I couldn't really get past anybody that would spend the money that it would take to do it and keep an R rating," he explained, "Alternately, I wasn't really interested in pursuing a PG-13 version. Because the R rating is inherent. Little Sisters and injections and the whole thing. I just wanted to really, really make it a movie where, four days later, you're still shivering and going, "Jesus Christ!"... It's a movie that has to be really, really scary, but you also have to create a whole underwater world, so the pricetag is high. We just didn't have any takers on an R-rated movie with that pricetag."

http://comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=74095

he gave up the next pirates of the caribbean to do a bioshock movie. this is the guy who directed the american version of the ring. it would have been amazing. alas, tis not to be

You'd think that, but it does - bizarrely - appear that, for example, Blu-ray is taking off

It does? I just saw an ad for Disney's latest re-release. They're now bundling a DVD and a Blu-ray disc in the same package. They are spinning it as letting consumers take advantage of Blu-ray while getting the portability of DVD, but a less charitable way to put it is that consumers don't want to be locked into Blu-ray and have stayed away in droves, so Disney are giving Blu-ray discs away free with the DVDs in the hope of hooking them.

Hmm... yes, that's because they are doing The Black Freighter and Under the Hood as a seperate DVD set to coincide with the movies release.

Shameless self-promotion: see my re-creation of the Tales Of The Black Freighter story here:

http://boredomfestival.wordpress.com/2007/12/11/tales-of-the-black-freighter/

Hmm... yes, that's because they are doing The Black Freighter and Under the Hood as a seperate DVD set to coincide with the movies release.

german tax shelter

that's how he does it: you can't lose money backing a money losing film made by uwe boll. he basically has exploited a financial loop hole that the german goverment instituted in a well-meaning way to get german movies made, but instead their law got raped by a troll called boll making bad non-german movies based on video games

the good news: the germans repealed the law awhile back

so how and why is he still making movies?

because of comments like yours. no, really: the first rule of public relations is that there is no such thing as bad public relations. he gets his name out there. he is now riding on his notoreity. hated and vilified, but his name still gets out there. that gets him interest. really

want to never hear of another uwe boll movie again? stop mentioning him. i'm serious

and that online petition? guaranteed to wind up creating this, from two weeks ago:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/movies/18schw.html

which feeds the monste rof loathing him more, which gets more ocmments on slashdot, which means the undead troll boll lives forever

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/startreknews.php?id=41074

damn, beat me to it. Good lord do I ever love that movie. Hopefully Ron Howard's remake can do it justice. http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=19966

What is this, whiner's week?

The only way you're going to keep control of the listening experience is by renting users their devices and using DRM to keep them from compressing it. ...um, on second thought, that's not going to work either, is it?

This reminds me of Michael Moore's rather novel objections to the Sicko leak. His problem wasn't that piracy would effect his bottom line, but that he intended the film to be seen in a theatre, and not on an mobile media player.

Well, guess what, buddy - if I paid for the thing fair and square, I don't care what you think (not that I'd care even if I didn't pay for it, but that's just me). I'm going to make my own decisions about how I enjoy my copy of the music you created.

Try being a little less of a tightwad and control freak about my life.

Oh no, it's already happening. We're doomed.

I have also seen a few occasions recently where there were no early screenings for films. There are various reasons claimed but I imagine it has a different reality. When movie studios spend so much money on advertisement and "buzz" having a small percentage of people (including critics) see the movie early is detrimental to profits unless the movie lives up to its hype. We all know how rare that is.

See New Line Cinema's (Owned by Warner) Snakes on a Plane http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=15 465.
Also another list I found though I am not sure of its accuracy: http://www.indiescene.net/archives/New-Line/New-Li ne-Decides-Aga.html

'Aeon Flux,' 'Cursed,' 'Phat Girlz,' 'Scary Movie 4,' 'See no Evil', 'The Benchwarmers,' 'The Fog,' 'The Hills Have Eyes,' 'Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion,' 'Ultraviolet,' 'Underworld: Evolution', and 'When a Stranger Calls.'

Shrek 3 is being revised.

What ever happened to the Spaceballs sequel that was announced a couple years ago?

Mel Brooks Writing Spaceballs Sequel
Source: Ain't-It-Cool-News
September 28, 2004


In a Q&A with Playbill magazine, Mel Brooks says that he's currently working on a Spaceballs sequel. Here's the clip from the interview which starts off by talking about the big screen adaptation of The Producers.

Playbill: Will you have a role in it?

MB: It's doubtful, but I'm writing myself back into the Spaceballs sequel that I'm now writing, so you haven't seen the last of my face. Why another Spaceballs? It wouldn't feel right have anyone else play Yoghurt and the first one was the best experience I've had making a movie since Blazing Saddles.

Playbill: When can we expect that?

MB: Best case scenario: a week before the new Star Wars opens. Worst Case Scenario: a year after the new star wars opens.

This version does specify Yogurt and Skroob.

Finally! Another way to donate to one of my favourite charities: The Lucas Family Inheritance

I wonder if he will be re-releasing Star Wars in 3-D in the original, and altered formats?

The money will never run out at this rate ;)

"SILENT HILL worked for me because of the confidence and command of director Christophe Gans. I'm not familiar with the source material at all, so I'm not going to discuss it as an adaptation, except in the broadest terms. I can't tell you how faithful it is to the already-established mythology of the various SILENT HILL games, but I can tell you that there are certain touches in the way the film's put together that seem like a sly nod to the basic experience of gaming. ...

Roger Ebert seemed to find the film's explanations baffling even as he was impressed by it technically. I'm not sure why this would confuse anyone... basically it boils down to a vengeful spirit looking for payback against the town that did it harm... but I also think the answers are far less important than the way the questions are presented. For example... I have no idea what the fuck Pyramid Head is, or how he's connected to the Demon, or what purpose he serves aside from freaking my shit out, and frankly, I don't care. He's one of the most striking images I've seen in a horror film in recent memory, and both of his big scenes are exhilarating. If you're tired of teenagers in danger and you're tired of remakes of

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) (with MGM Home Entertainment) has announced 20 initial titles, including The Fifth Element, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Desperado, For a Few Dollars More, The Guns of Navarone, Hitch, House of Flying Daggers, A Knight's Tale, Kung Fu Hustle, The Last Waltz, Legends of the Fall, Resident Evil Apocalypse, RoboCop, Sense and Sensibility, Stealth, Species, SWAT and XXX. Black Hawk Down and The Bridge on the River Kwai will also be available on 50 GB, dual-layer Blu-ray Discs Summer 2006.

At Blu-ray Disc launch, Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment will release Four Brothers, Sahara, Aeon Flux, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, The Italian Job, Tomb Raider, U2: Rattle and Hum, Sleepy Hollow, We Were Soldiers and The Manchurian Candidate. Paramount will continue its roll out of Blu-ray titles throughout 2006 and beyond, including the highly anticipated release of Mission: Impossible: III alongside Mission: Impossible and Mission: Impossible 2. These titles will also be available for HD DVD, the format competing with Blu-ray, which the studio supports as well.

...

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment's initial titles include Fantastic Four, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Behind Enemy Lines, Kiss of the Dragon and Ice Age along with others that will bring Fox's total number of first wave releases to 20 titles.

Liongate will add to the mix 10 titles, including Lord of War, The Punisher, The Devil's Rejects, Saw, T2: Judgment Day, Reservoir Dogs, Total Recall, Dune and Rambo: First Blood. The line-up will also include the upcoming feature film See No Evil.

Here's a review of Pom Poko, an interesting little disney movie. Found on fark under the headline "Couple watching Disney DVD surprised to discover it contained 100 percent more raccoon testicles than previous Disney films" http://www.comingsoon.net/news/dvdreviewsnews.php? id=10819

Force becomes necessary when people try to mix groups with materially differing beliefs, especially on things like ownership of property and conflict resolution, and they do not have the will to compromise.

In such a situation, I think the results would be a willful segregation of the populace into their separate factions (like the U.S. splitting into the Union and Confederacy) note that the Civil War was not actually a forgone conclusion to this dispute. The two of them could have amicably agreed to exist as separate countries (you might want to check out the independant film C.S.A.), but I daresay it was a measure of greed on both sides to "have it all" that caused the War to take place.

After all, if someone tells me to do something I would do on my own, am I under their control or my own?

I would say you were under your own control even if they told you to do it. The choice to obey them was yours.

But what happens in the hypothetical totalitarian state if the "ruling party" is strong enough to contain the population?

For that to happen, the ruling party would have to exist in a proportion great enough to actively control the entire population, and you end up with a government that may be bigger than the populace it's trying to rule. A situation like that would be more like a cult with an enslaved subgroup.

The result would still be the same, though. Barring a form of thought control, the decision to be ruled still rests with the people, they can revolt, and maybe they will die in the supression, but they wont be ruled anymore one way or another. It would be self-defeating for a ruler to kill all his own subjects.

The government is allowed to rule because the populace places that person or group above them (sometimes literally, a la carrying him on a throne above their heads). The moment the populace stops carrying him and lets him fall, he is nothing more than one of them.

Getting back on topic, Microsoft can demand a licensing fee for the iPods, Apple can choose to respect their authority to lobby such a fee and pay it. If businesses in masse decided the patent system was broken and to ignore it, what do you think would happen?

Back in November, we already knew this... http://comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=7091

During the Christmas party, Sergey and Larry were driving a large radio controlled SUV around the offices.

Nothing unusual there.

So a few weeks later this same SUV comes bumping around the corner, with the top ripped off and a remote controllable camera mounted on the chassis. One of the two (Sergey & Larry) was navigating it, while the other was operating the camera.

I expect this is all part of their new Search Engine Strategy.

we love google, yes we do. without google we wouldn't know about this while searching for a louis vuitton leopardskin defrobnicator...

There's also a fairly good Q&A with the film-makers at Coming Soon!. It's hard to take much of what you read at AintItCool seriously, when you consider that the guy reviews movies from the standpoint of a five year old at best.

Not to mention it was woven to work around an unforseen cast change when the season 1 part was written and it still works perfectly.

If Trek was smart they would have thrown a bunch of money at JMS to get good scripts written for the show but now he's busy working on The Memory of Shadows.

I thought I would spew out a few links to reviews of the movie if you want to see what movie critics have to say...

Hollywood Reporter
NY Times (requires registration)
ReelTalk Reviews
ComingSoon.net
E! Online (with trailer)

while you are at it check the other movies made by Timothy Hines.

They are almost all low-budget sci-fi movies, so don't get to mutch hopes about this film. Altougth a low budget/home made could turn out to be some great cult movies (Peter Jackson) this film doesn't give much hope on that happening.

So I think that Spielberg can handle the competition, and by he way his film was already rumored for a name change so it's probable that is version his very different from the book.

http://mp.aol.com/audio.main.adp?mxid=1153566 Hear the soundtrack

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sky_captain/ Rottentomatoes reviews

http://imdb.com/title/tt0346156/externalreviews Page with links to several reviews

http://the-flying-legion.com/ fan site

http://imdb.com/title/tt0346156/board/nest/1163158 9 FAQ on IMDB

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0451411633/ qid%3D1094844850/ the book on Amazon

And no, you couldn't find this stuff in 5 seconds on google.

The Incredibles

Release Date: November 5, 2004
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures
Director: Brad Bird
Starring: Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Lee, John Ratzenberger, Wallace Shawn, Sarah Vowell, Brad Bird
Genre: Action, Animation, Adventure, Comedy
MPAA Rating: Not available
Official Website: TheIncredibles.com

Plot Summary: From the Academy Award-winning creators of "Toy Story", "Monsters, Inc." and "Finding Nemo", comes this hilarious action-packed animated adventure about superheroes. Bob Parr used to be one of the world's greatest superheroes (known to all as "Mr. Incredible"), saving lives and fighting evil on a daily basis. But now fifteen years later, Bob and his wife (a famous superhero in her own right) have adopted civilian identities and retreated to the suburbs to live normal lives with their three kids. Now he's a clock-punching insurance claims adjuster fighting boredom and a bulging waistline. Itching to get back into action, Bob gets his chance when a mysterious communication summons him to a remote island for a top-secret assignment. Pixar Animation Studios stretches the boundaries of the art form with this stylish and entertaining film. Acclaimed filmmaker Brad Bird ("The Iron Giant") directs.

For those that cannot wait, here is what your May 25th purchase is going to look like when you pop it in.

More info here.

With that said, he came back to the show a few years ago and the show didn't get much better. So I still don't have very high hopes for this movie. The thing that made the Simpsons great was its loving, hilarious-yet-almost-plausible depiction of a small town and all of its quirky inhabitants. It stopped doing that a long time ago and started sending the main characters on ludicrous adventures crammed full of celebrity cameos -- in a nutshell, situational humor rather than character-based humor. It became just another cartoon. There have been ups and downs in quality, but I think it's pretty clear to everyone that the series has never been as good as it was during seasons 3-6.

I would like to believe that a feature length film would allow the series' greatest contributors to sit down and really focus on their craft again, and create a legacy that can be used to put the series to bed. More likely it will be used as an excuse for a plotline that's even more outlandish than usual. I'm not looking forward to it.

According to this DVD release date site, Firefly will release on DVD on December 3, 2003. However, I think that it mainly just means "in December of 2003."

or can that happen only after december?

Or maybe you meant Early Novermber unless you know something I don't?

Switching gears... In an interview released today over at Coming Soon, Lawrence Fishburne gives a pretty detailed account of (some of) his experience with The Matrix and playing Morpheus.

What was it about the first film that struck the chord with so many people? There's a lot of things, and I think the major thing is that in crafting their story and structuring their story, the Wachowski brothers relied heavily on Greek mythology and primarily the old myths: the hero's journey, the reluctant messiah story, which is one of the oldest stories and has been with us in every culture, in every time in some way or form. And they basically put it in a modern context...

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/i/indy4.php

lazy no-linkin bastards...

How can the first post be marked redundant? All I said was that T3 was gonna be a great movie. Well, from now on I'll shamelessly karmawhore:

More previews are availble Here

In Quicktime, WMP and Realplayer.

That sounds almost as fightening a concept as the new metroid movie

Variety reports that Zide/Perry Entertainment has acquired the feature rights to video game franchise Metroid. Producers Warren Zide and Craig Perry, who've produced both the "American Pie" and "Final Destination" franchises, are currently going out to writers and directors to adapt the property, to which no talent is attached as yet.

And no talent attached ever probably.

Now for an on topic comment: haven't we had enough comic book hero movies for one life time? The answer seems to be no, as it was first Superman, then Batman, and now Spider-Man who have repeatedly broken box office records every time a new one is released.

Now the bad news: we all have to wait two years for the movie to develop. So why is it such big news now?

Looks like Slashdot isn't the only one covering this, so here's some mirrors in case anyone's interested:

Movie-List
Comingsoon.net
FilmHobbit.com
ZDNet
Movies.com

Here's the original article from Coming Soon that Harry Knowles referred to. The Sci-Fi site should have credited Coming Soon instead of Knowles, since Knowles added nothing, just cited the article.

The technology behind Aki is so advanced, she even made the cover of Maxim Online!check the link for the pinup (rated PG)

how's THAT for a final Fantasy :)

The fact that I read about Indiana Jones 4 about six months ago here (great source for IJ4 news, too), and /. refused the article when I tried to pass it through. What? Suddenly the quickest source for movie news is irreputable because no one else knows what they know? You don't trust their information but it's right anyway? And I thought it was just about me...