The Batman.... live action thoughts
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Wednesday, July 6, 2011 21:58
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Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
I find new sci-fi films are viewed with great 'snobbery'. iRobot was a victim of this.
Cloverfield I loved! Though I should confess a weakness for monster flicks. So I'm loving what J.J. is doing for the genre. Super 8 a worthy addition to the style.
I also love Cloverfield (I, Robot is great too) and was expecting Super 8 to be similar but in small town America instead of the city. It was much better than that and is a great pastiche of Spielberg's works from that time.
I also agree with the 'snobbery' towards sci-fi. And to the people who make sci-fi. JJ Abrams has had some stick for Super 8 yet, to me, he has tried to do a well worn story from a different POV instead of just going down the straight forward 'monster attacks people' route. There's very little (if any) true originality left so if he can keep seeing things differently then I'll keep watching his movies/TV.
If folks want the same thing over and over with no substance then they can watch a Transformers movie.
"The greatest invention ever is not the wheel. It's the second wheel." - Rich Hall
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Originally posted by lwaves:
And for further non-locals info if you headed directly south from Wollaton Hall you'd find a little village called Gotham!! Nothing to do with the films, just a related name.
Gotham, Nottinghamshire is probably the source of the name of Batmans 'hood, albeit via an indirect route: Its the source of the legend of the "Wise Men Of Gotham" (in which the locals pretend to be loonies in order to put the King off building there) - this led to the name being used as a nickname for New York, which was picked up by the writers of Batman. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotham,_Nottinghamshire
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Originally posted by ImNotHere:
Quote:If ever there was a time to use your signame as a play on words it was THIS POST!!
NB: Talking of Batman, apparently they've been shooting The Dark Night Rises about half a mile from where I live...
Anyway. I get your point about the need to shoehorn action into sci-fi being a little frustrating, but it's one of those, damned if you do, damned if you don't moments. Seems folk are so picky with the sci-fi genre.
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Originally posted by lwaves:
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I also love Cloverfield (I, Robot is great too) and was expecting Super 8 to be similar but in small town America instead of the city. It was much better than that and is a great pastiche of Spielberg's works from that time.
I also agree with the 'snobbery' towards sci-fi. And to the people who make sci-fi. JJ Abrams has had some stick for Super 8 yet, to me, he has tried to do a well worn story from a different POV instead of just going down the straight forward 'monster attacks people' route. There's very little (if any) true originality left so if he can keep seeing things differently then I'll keep watching his movies/TV.
If folks want the same thing over and over with no substance then they can watch a Transformers movie.
Indeed Lwaves. I like what J.J. is bringing to cinema. He is trying to entertain but also maintain a degree of plot and narrative that relate to the concept. (not too dissimilar to Spielberg)
I took my nephew, who is 13, to see Super 8 and he loved it so much! He just couldn't stop talking about it. He was so excited at the whole idea. The reason being that he and his friends go out and make their own films together too. And he could engage with the idea on a very profound level. So for him Super 8 will be one of the films of his childhood. And that's kinda how it should be really.
As i become older I realise the sort of people who watch films and destroy the magic of them are really all my friends; who are basically just getting old and boring. They can't engage on the same level. Me too to an extent. We all know how the tricks are done so it's almost impossible to become wrapped up in the wonder anymore.
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Got my Baman vinyl kit from Hong Kong already!
Bought it here:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Movie-Batman-Ver-3-BAT-1-6-Figure-Vinyl-Model-Kit-
/120666366210?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c1846a102
Just $15 plus nominal shipping.
Nice model- it should turn out to be amazing.
The laughing Chrisisall
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