Movies that were a waste of money when Serenity 2 could have been green lighted.

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UPDATED: Tuesday, August 1, 2006 07:49
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IMNOTHERE

Friday, July 28, 2006 4:26 PM

OK - don't get me wrong, but....

Serenity

(ducks)

Yes, the BDM was great but it only provided 2 hours of relief from cold turkey. With hindsight, it was always going to be a hard sell - although the "hey - lets market it as Buffy in space (and leave the space bit out of the poster)" attitude surely didn't help. How much new Firefly could have been made for the money?

Second choice:

Wonder Woman
OK - not made yet (so there's still time!), but the idea leaves me cold. Not only is it consuming money that (in a world of fantasy economics) could pay for more Firefly/Serenity, but its also consuming irreplacable Wheedon-years! I'm prepared to be proven wrong, but I can't see what it can say that Buffy didn't.

Third choice (again - still time!):

The Golden Compass (Dark Materials 1)
If this film series turns out true to the (excellent - for the open minded) books, then global warming will become a thing of the past as the sun is blotted out by the smoke from burning cinemas in Middle America. Bound to be dumbed-down beyond recognition - and unless they settle for a PG-13 rating (for a film of a childrens' book) I don't just mean the bits about religion!

ASAFLAYFEATHER

Friday, July 28, 2006 7:23 PM

I just don't get people's facination with horror films. Sure--adrenaline rush. But hey, guess what--you can get that from an action movie...*resists temptation to go into horror film rant*

i'm relitively new to the Firefly/Serenity fandom, and I ADORED the movie. I think that the big screen NEEDS something like Firefly. Lately, most movies seem so washed out! THey're not up to par, or theres a crappy plot, or some other such sucky-ness....

Sequels, Cliche plots....Can someone PLEASE just clue in and say "-hmm...this movie came out last year, and it's doing pretty good....good fanbase....maybe we should do something with this!"

River, honey, he's putting the hair away now.

ROCKXWL

Friday, July 28, 2006 8:38 PM

Funny thing I have noticed for the last couple of years. Has anyone else noticed that of all the movies made each year, probably only 10-20% of them are actually original screenplays? EVERY movie made nowadays it seems is "based on a true story" or a re-make, or a TV show, novel, short story, comic book, or what-have-you that was made into a movie. Where has the IMAGINATION in Hollywood gone!? Surprising enough, the most original screenplays are in the comedy genre. How much longer before this trend starts to dwindle? Or at least how long before there are no more tv shows and books to adapt into movies?

"What'd you all order a dead guy for?"

MSG

Friday, July 28, 2006 9:05 PM

Ok not sure what it's called but it just came out. It's a movie where a midget undercover cop pretends to be a baby ( it's a Wayans movie) that looks utterly dreadful!!!!

I choose to rise instead of fall- U2

WICCA303

Friday, July 28, 2006 9:52 PM

Fast and the Furious 3

Can't say anything else! I think that sums up cinema today.

Sorry am saying something else, just to defend Stormbreaker...YES, I would take Serenity 2 or FireFly season 2 over it anyday but... It stuck to the book pretty closely and all those British bits are part of what the book's about. And at the end of the day it's a kids film.

99% of the time Brits in movies p**s me right off, I'm from Yorkshire (Northern England - not Scotland) and I don't speak BBC english with a cut glass accent, but I do realise that the Powers That Be (Tony Blair etc) do speak like that. So what's wrong with it.

Sorry rant over.

I love my Captain
"You hold till i get back."

MISSTRESSAHARA

Friday, July 28, 2006 10:49 PM

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Originally posted by msg:
Ok not sure what it's called but it just came out. It's a movie where a midget undercover cop pretends to be a baby ( it's a Wayans movie) that looks utterly dreadful!!!!

I choose to rise instead of fall- U2

MSG the movie your talking about is called Little man, I mention it in my first post at the top of the thread. He's not a undercover cop he's a thief trying to hide out from the cops pretending to be a baby and getting adopted by two very dumb very stupid very clueless people. Ya, I knew it was a piece of Go Se the minute I saw the first commercial, so you know it'll make tons of money on the opening weekend because it'll be catering to the lowest common denominator and unfortunately the average movie goer HAS had their intellegence reduced in the last few years.

Oh hey, here's someone who's very movie salary can finance a Serenity sequel and whom we really don't need to see any more of. Martin Lawrence.

Nuff said.

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ONEMANSHORT

Friday, July 28, 2006 11:02 PM

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Originally posted by rockxwl:
Funny thing I have noticed for the last couple of years. Has anyone else noticed that of all the movies made each year, probably only 10-20% of them are actually original screenplays? EVERY movie made nowadays it seems is "based on a true story" or a re-make, or a TV show, novel, short story, comic book, or what-have-you that was made into a movie. Where has the IMAGINATION in Hollywood gone!? Surprising enough, the most original screenplays are in the comedy genre. How much longer before this trend starts to dwindle? Or at least how long before there are no more tv shows and books to adapt into movies?

"What'd you all order a dead guy for?"

I know exactly what you mean. Making a movie from a television show...tsk tsk

I think we can all make an tiny exception for our 'verse. But honestly, the lack of original ideas is somewhat sickening. In fact, I almost prefer to see a movie with an original idea than one that's a remake or based on something else, although if it is really good I will see of of course. (Lord of the Rings anyone?) Recently I saw Nacho Libre...okay it wasn't brilliant...but it was original. Same with Slither, and I'm not just saying that because Nathan was in it

Original ideas are hard to come by, and it's even better to see them well done.

JAYNESBOWIE

Friday, July 28, 2006 11:10 PM

Lady in the water isn't bad! I totally agree about the other films. Big Mama's house 2? God, stupid. Bring it on, ok maybe intertaining vaguely, bring it on again? Stupid film, didn't deserve to get any attention. :( Now their making ANOTHER freking remake of that la-sa film. It makes me want to scream. Great films like Serenity while Goh Sah films like Break back mountian get all the attention. :(

Jayne: "Testing, testing. Captain, can you hear me?"
Mal: "I'm standing right here."
Jayne: "You're coming through good and loud."
Mal: " 'Cause I'm standing right here."

NVGHOSTRIDER

Friday, July 28, 2006 11:39 PM

Okay, I saw Slither in a Henderson movie theater fidded with pre teen bastards. I would just like the world to know, JR HIGH KIDS STINK!
Little (explative deleted) couldn't stay off the gorram phone, wouldn't stop seat hoppin, and wouldn't shut up. Wanted so badly to fly off into a violent rage, ripping theater seats from the floor, traumatising them forever. Or, at the very least, take their cell phones so I could tell their parents how they utterly failed the human race.
I was in the special hell!

"...And them chains them chains
Their 'bout to drag me down"

GUYWHOWANTSAFIREFLYOFHISOWN

Friday, July 28, 2006 11:52 PM

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Hollywood has made the masses dumb. It has convinced them that all we need is more fat jokes, more race jokes, & more sex jokes & we've got the makings of great cinema & if we can't make em laugh let's just gross them out with gore. Story has become irrelevant.

How very true.

let's change this a bit. what was the last good movie anyone remebers? the last one I can think of is The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch, and the wardrobe. yes, I know it's based on a book, but at least it's a good book, and at least they stuck to the book.

now, for bad movies.....

the list is so long that if I start now I'll still be here by the 3rd Serenity movie.

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