Another Day
I'm not feeling the Comic-Con current as much today. I don't think anything can top what happened at yesterday's Avatar presentation It's all downhill from here. I'd like to attend the Hall H Warner Bros. show (10:00 am to 12:30 pm) but maybe I won't. I don't need to see product reels for Where The Wild Things Are, The Box, The Book of Eli, Sherlock Holmes and the new Jackie Earl Haley Nightmare on Elm Street. I don't care what cheesy-genre-wallower Robert Rodriguez might say. I'd like to see Focus Features' 9 presentation, however; ditto Sony's District 9 and Legion presentation, which happens from 3:45 to 5 pm. I'm down for the James Cameron-Peter Jackson "visionary" discussion, of course, at 6:30 pm.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on July 24, 2009 at 7:45 AM
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Stringer Bell
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Can't think of anyone besides Haley who has gone 20-25 years of being completely out of the business who's now working again constantly.
Posted by Stringer Bell
at July 24, 2009 8:14 AM
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Midwest Doug
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MOOOOOOOOOOOD POCKET!
Posted by Midwest Doug
at July 24, 2009 8:47 AM
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longrunner
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^lol, Doug!
Posted by longrunner
at July 24, 2009 9:19 AM
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actionman
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you're underestimating Where the Wild Things Are
Posted by actionman
at July 24, 2009 9:36 AM
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actionman
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and can't wait to hear about District 9
the new tv spots are killer
Posted by actionman
at July 24, 2009 9:38 AM
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CitizenKanedforChewingGum
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Yeah, you should def. check out anything to do with WtWTA...
Posted by CitizenKanedforChewingGum
at July 24, 2009 10:12 AM
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p.Vice
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All the energy's gone now that you've fulfilled your contractual obligation to verbally massage Avatar to the point of ejaculation? Just another typical guy who falls asleep after shooting his wad...
For an antidote, I heartily recommend checking out the AICN play-by-play description of the footage, which sounds like more thuddingly obvious Cameron writing married to CGI overload. A pinch of Aliens... a cup and a half of the Abyss... sprinkle with cliches that were beaten into the ground before the Titanic sailed and let simmer for a decade. Maybe the $20-per-ticket 3-D will have a little novelty to it but as a movie Avatar is looking pretty sorry.
Posted by p.Vice
at July 24, 2009 11:09 AM
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DeeZee
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Jeff: Just see Miyazaki.
Posted by DeeZee
at July 24, 2009 11:40 AM
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Terry McCarty
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Stringer Bell wrote:
Can't think of anyone besides Haley who has gone 20-25 years of being completely out of the business who's now working again constantly.
Closest I can think of is Piper Laurie, who after THE HUSTLER in 1961, didn't reappear onscreen until De Palma's CARRIE fifteen years later and had a revitalized career afterwards.
Posted by Terry McCarty
at July 24, 2009 12:58 PM
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Terry McCarty
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Re p.Vice's comment:
You may be right, but I'd rather see Cameron working in the sci-fi/fantasy genre again than sit through another TITANIC.
Posted by Terry McCarty
at July 24, 2009 1:00 PM
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CitizenKanedforChewingGum
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Vice - No love for J. Cameron in the SF genre? You are one tough cookie, brutha...
Posted by CitizenKanedforChewingGum
at July 24, 2009 3:06 PM
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drbob
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Does anyone think there might be some confusion over the fact that Nine, 9, and District 9 all open within a few months of each other? Completely different movies, but doesn't the MPAA have some kind of rule against this. I remember the Coen brothers had to get permission from Steve Guttenberg to use the title "The Man Who Wasn't There."
Posted by drbob
at July 24, 2009 4:03 PM
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Alboone
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Devin over at CHUD has me worried about the Avatar footage. I trust his taste because they usually align with mine. From reading articles about the making of the movie one gathers the impression that they were trying to do photo realistic CGI(if that's even possible). But when he says the footage goes into the cartoon realm I can't help but think of the Phantom Menace. Now its going to be up to the story and the acting to really drive it home.
Posted by Alboone
at July 25, 2009 6:35 AM