Movies that were a waste of money when Serenity 2 could have been green lighted.
POSTED BY: SillyLittleDuck
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 1, 2006 07:49
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Now admittedly there are good movies out in this crazy mixed up world. I in no way am trying to say all movies are sucky and only Joss is qualified to direct (i might be thinking it, but darn it I'm not saying it)
It's just I'm so sick of movies that are really really dumb getting made when great stories with passion and heart are being neglected. I mean "Little man"? How did that happen, really? And "Date Movie"? Anyone else been victim to countless commercials and trailers to moronic films like "Lady in the water" or "Scary movie 4" perhaps tears have been brought to your eyes as you sit throught "The hills have eyes" When greatness like say... SERENITY 2 could be made...
*grunts and growls in annoyance at stupid people*
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I agree most movies suck. As does TV except BSG or Eureka. If you like horror....Wolf creak is cool or The hills have Eyes....Scifi...not so much!
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Well there's the new Miami Vice movie out. As if we NEEDED another old tv show made into a movie (I never liked it when it was on tv) I mean just look at the lobotimized execs that have no clue on how to see a potential good story because they're going back into the vault dragging up things that should have been left alone. (I've bitched about this plenty on other threads.) Little man, yes, sick, Don't let the real little actors face show, instead put a cgi'd face of one of the Wayan brothers on him and try to pass him off as a baby. If that's the extent of those people's IQ's that they can believe it IS a baby then they deserve what's coming to them.
Big Momma, can't believe that Go Se was made, same formula as other shows (like Little man, White Chicks.) And it got a sequel? THAT got a sequel? Basically it's as much of a crapfest in the theaters as it is on TV, and if the Hollywood industry doesn't change soon and reinvent itself it'll be going the way of the Dodo and we'll be getting all our entertainment form Indie films and Fans (as it should be since they're the only ones with brains left to know what a story is SUPPOSED to be.)
Nuff said.
Ah, here's another one. You Me and Dupree. Another movie about an idiot screwing over a friend and being rewarded for it. Ya, that's real deep.
If I'm a bitch, then life just got interesting
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I didn't much care for Wolf Creek. But then again, I'm not a big horror fan so that might have had something to do with it. I did see the Libertine the other day, and I think the world would be just fine without that movie. I haven't seen it, but I'm guessing Little Man would also fall in that category. I can't think of anymore right now, but I often see a preview or a film and ask myself, "What studio exec thought that flick would be a good idea?"
As far as sci-fi, I think The Island was the last major sci-fi movie (although Bruckheimer's involvement may have turned the genre to action for a lot of people) and I enjoyed it. The sad thing is that sci-fi movies don't seem to sell (unless they're a franchise, like Trek or Star Wars), due to the "nerd" stigma or whatever. Sometimes I tell my friends a movie is sorta sci-fi and they're turned off right there. But what can one do.
And shouldn't the thread topic say "greenlit" instead of "greenlighted?" Sorry for the grammar nitpick.
"All I got is a red guitar, three chords, and the truth...the rest is up to you"
--Bono
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Originally posted by jpstargazer:
I didn't much care for Wolf Creek. But then again, I'm not a big horror fan so that might have had something to do with it.
Hey JP!
As Wolf Creek was so very scary I have not seen it myself, despite being a huge supporter of the Australian Film Industry... however I dispute the idea that it was made at the expense of Serenity 2 'Coz Aussie films are notoriously underfunded and therefore it might have been made at the expense of one pair of Mal's tight pants or one of Jaynes T-shirts...
Just putting my 5 cents worth in - actually that would fund a low-budget film here in Australia!
My turn - Big Momma 1 & 2, White Chicks, You, Me & Dupree (I am a big fan of all three main actors but it was just the same old same old...), Any of the spoofs of like Scary Movie, Date Movie...ho hum..., Ace Ventura Pet Detective 2 (yeah - I know it's going back a bit but that's time & money I'll never get back!!), Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves (mimic Kevin Costner in thick USA accent "I'm Robin, of Locksly")...
, anything by Woody Allen with the exception of Match Point 
, almost anything with Dustin Hoffman (exception being Tootsy) - both Allen and Hoffman are so overrated!!! and Hoffman did not deserve that Oscar for Rain Man... -, Charlie's Angels 2, Ametyville of Horror... anyone want to stop me? 
sorry for being so down...Magda...x x {edit} to fix all my spelling errors - I'm on pain meds today so no sense I'm makin'
...also I think grammatically it should read "...received the green light"
couldn't help it! 
"I love my Captain!"
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Originally posted by Misstressahara:
Well there's the new Miami Vice movie out. As if we NEEDED another old tv show made into a movie...
Yeah, what are they thinking? Bringing a TV show to the big screen...sheesh.
Actually, I can't watch any movie (or TV show) preview nowadays without thinking "They coulda made more Firefly with that money..."
Don't even get me started about the SciFi Channel's "Original" Movies....
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...also - anything 'made for TV' and called a movie! Especially those that 'dramatise real life events' or give us a hypothetical like 'what if a .9 on the richter scale hit LA.. lets enjoy that for a couple of hours... is what it is!
... also - Several of the Star Trek films - and I was a huge fan when most of them came out!! "I love my Captain!"
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Ah, but Universal owns the right to make more movies. What are they doing with their money? That's what I want to know.
And the sad, sad thing is that these stupid movies are very successful because a lot of people watch movies/tv to "vedge" and therefore they don't want to think so they watch stuff that won't make them think. BAH!
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Just two words.
Superman Returns...
'Nuff said.
For every battle honour, a thousand heroes die along, unremembered and unsung...
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{Edit} Oh Damn - too slow - this to Gorgeous Phoenix Rose...
I know my darlin'... that's what gets me too... I was just watching something on TV & went channel surfing in the ad break to see a show called 'My Name Is Ed' - the biggest, steamiest most on the nose 'go se' I have ever stumbled accross (except maybe Big Brother) and this is 'entertainment'...
Panderin' to the lowest common denominator pays apparently...
We might be forsaken, but we are also, apparently, well above the average IQ when it comes to TV programming!!! 
Here endeth my rant...
{edit} Oh! No it doesn't - just realised that there should be a difference between 'vegging out' and actually watching such toxic 
that millions of brain cells are destroyed in the process... New Firefly Slogan? "Make brain cells, not kill them!" Now I'm done... I think"I love my Captain!"
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