Showing posts with label stupid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stupid. Show all posts

December 25, 2008

The film that can't be made...

Remember when Watchmen was first banded about as a film project, they all said it couldn't be done. Remember Alan Moore publicly washing his hands of the project, cursing it's existence, saying how he'd written it with it never being filmed in mind?
Well it was all going sooooo well, apart from no giant squid at the end, but it looks as if the Watchmen curse has started.
Fox wins ruling in the Watchmen case. Read the Variety article here. Hopefully we'll still get to see the final cut but Fox seem to have won distribution rights off Warner Bros. Nothing is ever easy.
Happy Chrimble one and all dogs...

July 30, 2008

You can't do this to me, I'm an AMERICAN...

If you thought Indy 4 was arse, check out this interview with a Mr. G. Lucas. The bit I liked was when he said:
'Steven wasn’t that enthusiastic. I was trying to persuade him. But now Steve is more amenable to doing another one.'
ANOTHER ONE! What? Have you seen Crystal Skull? And I wonder why he wasn't enthusiastic? Is that because of the dumb alien script?
He continues:
'Yet we still have the issues about the direction we’d like to take. I’m in the future; Steven’s in the past. He’s trying to drag it back to the way they were, I’m trying to push it to a whole different place. So, still we have a sort of tension. This recent one came out of that.'
He's trying to drag it back the way they were! What an idiot, why would anyone want that? I'm sure the fans would love to see where Lucas can take it, see how many CGI characters we can crowbar into a poorly written script. Why don't you set it in space or in another dimension? Or you could make him a ghost and he could do archeology on the banks of the river Styx in the underworld.
I'm going back to bed.

July 7, 2008

DONNIE DARKO 2 (what the F**K?)...

That's right people they only went and did it. The sequel to Donnie Darko is heading our way with a (hopefully working) title of Samantha Darko. Remember his annoying little sister who pranced about to Duran Duran? Well it's all about her. The plot is sketchy but the gist seems to involve Samantha being all grown up, her car breaking down on a road trip, a meteor hitting the earth and obviously her being told the exact time of the impending destruction of the universe. Sounds familiar? It bloody should. When asked if any of the original team were involved Darko Entertainment told us a story about a ten foot pole and not wanting to touch this project with it. I don't blame 'em. Again it seems to be a case of if it ain't broke don't sodding break it. Be afraid!!!!!!