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Never saw the first one, had zip interest in the second one, could give less of a shit about this.

Fresh:

1)...YAWN!!!

2) Now I'm more intersted in this Guardians movie. Zoe Saldana is hot & can truly kick ass as an actress.

3) I've never known about these artists, but I've seen their works in various places, & they're gorgeous. And since it has both Burton & Adams involved as well as the writers of Ed Wood, this will make it all the better for me. This is the best news this week.

4) Ghost Story? GUILLERMO DEL TORO?!?? Amazing for sure!

5) Yawnville.

6) More Yawnville.

7) Still more Yawnville.

Rotten:

2) Still more fucking Yawnville.

1) So, as uninteresting as this is, this is still considered more rotten over a movie getting a sequel it DOESN'T NEED OR DESERVE because the director thought it did over John Carter? (as much as that film sucked, it arguably needs one over Finding Derpy)

Apr 5 - 05:48 PM

Del Toro hasn't made a good Hollywood film yet.

Apr 5 - 07:46 PM

Hellboy, Hellboy 2. Go troll somewhere else.

Apr 5 - 08:31 PM

yeah . . . then there's Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, the worst piece of CRAP in Horror Movie History. At least Lucio Fulci's Quella Villa Accanto al Cimitero had more atmosphere and overall character. Del Toro should never be able to get behind a camera again after producing Don't Be Afraid of the Dark.

Apr 6 - 08:58 AM

del Toro's exercise in shlock reminds me of House by the Cemetery hence the comparison.

Apr 6 - 09:00 AM

First off, as bad as Don't be Afraid of the Dark was, the worst horror movie in history spot is already taken by House of the Dead or An American Haunting. Secondly Del Toro's only involvement in that movie was being the producer & screenwriter. No direction involvement did he have.

Apr 6 - 10:12 AM

True, he did attach his name to it tho - and not in a subtle manner, more like a headline. Maybe he should have watched it first lol?

Apr 6 - 09:17 PM

LOL, yes I am trolling because I think the Hellboys are not good movies. Is there anything worse than an idiot who starts calling people trolls for not liking shytty movies?

Apr 7 - 11:51 AM

You mean like an idiot calling one of the best comic book adaptions a bad movie & can't even spell the word "shitty" properly? Yeah, sure there is.

Apr 7 - 02:17 PM

@Val

Well, I'm assuming he didn't watch it either, otherwise he would have seen how bad that one really was.

Apr 7 - 04:00 PM

Yawnville indeed on that #2 Rotten idea. As if the world needs yet another World War II movie. I'm getting sleepy just thinking about it.

Apr 6 - 08:32 AM

sounded like Farmville for a second. Yawnville, now that's AND IDEA. a game about Lazy-Days in a fictitious town named Yawn-Ville.

Apr 6 - 08:55 AM

Steven Potgeter

What happened to PIXAR? Why are they making all of these sequels all of a sudden? At least DreamWorks keeps upping their game.

Apr 5 - 05:58 PM

I don't consider The Croods upping thier game.

Apr 5 - 06:01 PM

Steven Potgeter

I thought The Croods was great.

Apr 6 - 04:55 AM

Me too, better then ROTG.

Apr 8 - 05:37 AM

They have How To Train Your Dragon 2 next year so I don't think there on a streak.

Apr 5 - 07:05 PM

True. I just hope it measures up to the first film, which is one of my favorite animated films.

Apr 5 - 07:24 PM

I think so too, Shrek 2 was as good as its predecessor, Kung Fu Panda 2 was pretty good and Madagascar 2 was better then its predecessor.

Apr 5 - 07:57 PM

What happened to Pixar? Disney bought it. To Disney, Pixar is just yet another product to milk. The same will be happening soon in a galaxy far, far away. If you think that Lucas was ruining the Star Wars name, just wait until you see what Disney does to it. They're going to make his marketing ploys seem like kids' play. The quality and edginess that once was there in Pixar movies have been growing weaker and weaker ever since Disney bought it.
They already made a sequel to Cars, the worst Pixar movie yet, and now they're going to do a Cars spin-off, Planes. It's all about pushing toy units off the store shelves.
The Pixar that made those early Toy Story movies and The Incredibles is a thing of the past.
There's no way in the world that the DISNEY Pixar of today would make anything like The Incredibles.

Apr 6 - 08:37 AM

Flai Man

They made Wall-e and UP after been bought by Disney... I like those better than any Pixar movie

Apr 6 - 01:35 PM

Kurtiss Keefner

Disney isn't necessarily ruining Pixar. The company has been downhill since Steve Jobs and several of their other top tier directors/writers/thought-provokers left. The company simply just lacks the talent it used to have, and that's why the films they make suffer in creativity.

Apr 6 - 08:38 PM

You keep conveniently forgetting the four movies that came before Cars 2, all of which are considered classics and were made after Disney had bought Pixar (Personally, I?d rate all of them higher than Incredibles and that?s saying something). I?d argue that Pixar has never been in more control of their films, given that it was after Disney bought Pixar that John Lasseter was promoted to chief creative officer, and now he even has a say in the non-Pixar Disney animated movies (which is arguably part of the reason why they?ve bounced back after spending so much time playing second fiddle to Pixar and Dreamworks).

As for Brave and Cars 2, well personally I don?t think they?re as bad as their reputation, but as for why they?re not as good as previous Pixar films it could be that Pixar is finally starting to buckle under the pressure to keep delivering hits that they?re starting to play it a little too safe, but it could just as likely be that they disappointed due to certain circumstances. After all Brave had a lot of production problems, including the replacing of a director halfway through production. You could argue that it?s impressive enough that it didn?t end up being a complete mess. As for Cars 2, well John Lasseter is an automobile nut (he was the one who wanted Planes to be released in theaters instead of direct to DVD) and I think he might have gotten too obsessed with how the cars looked at the expense of the story.

Apr 7 - 08:20 AM

Joseph Felton

Planes isn't being made by Pixar studios, its being made a disneytoons the ones who do all the disney sequels.

Apr 7 - 11:49 AM

Disney has nothing to with the Pixar sequels, so stop using them as your scapegoat. John Lassetter already made it clear that that POS Cars 2 movie of his was a personal project that HE wanted to do, & Disney had no involvement in it. And Steve Job had all the rights to Pixar's films, so he called the shots as to whether they would make a sequel/prequel or not to it. Since his death, whoever runs Pixar now can let whoever the hell they want give a sequel to whatever movie they want to (in which frankly none deserve save for Incredibles).

Apr 7 - 04:03 PM

Steve Jobs had the rights form Toy Story to Cars. Disney owned all Pixar movies after that.

Apr 7 - 04:40 PM

The best news for me this week is Guillermo Del Toro's new movie casting. I love Chastain and Cumerbatch, so knowing they will be in it makes me even more pumped for it. Also the fact it's a ghost story, which I always am interested in checking out. And Del Toro is good with the genre(Devil's Backbone was fantastic).

Apr 5 - 06:03 PM

Devil's Backbone was fantastic as was Pan's Labyrinth and Cronos but unfortunately he hasn't made a good movie in Hollywood yet.

Apr 5 - 07:48 PM

I loved Pan's Labyrinth as well. Have yet to see Cronos. He also produced the Spanish ghost story, The Orphanage, which was very good as well. He obviously knows the genre well, so I have high hopes for this new project.

Apr 5 - 09:10 PM

Hard to believe it's been five years since we've had a new Del Toro movie, so I'm glad he's lining them up at a faster pace.

"Ed Wood" is also the best film that Alexander/Karaszewski have made, so hopefully the symbiotic magic will be there, although I wish they were doing the reported "Addams Family" project instead.

Don't be so hard on Braaad. It's worth noting that Ayer's own script on "End of Watch" produced his fresh film, and since he's also writing this new one, it's much more promising. (I guess, I still haven't seen "End of Watch")

Nothing much else, but why do I suddenly hope Pixar will adapt "Slaughterhouse Five"?

Apr 5 - 06:07 PM

Jackson Eckert

Because there's no Slaughterhouse One, Two, Three, or Four. Sounds like a slasher movie to me; a lot of blood and Vonneguts.

Apr 6 - 08:30 AM

Sean D

I chuckled at that last pun. Well done.

Apr 7 - 12:14 PM

Sean D

More Del Toro is never a bad thing. I would like to see a fresh retake on "Slaughterhouse Five" done well.

Apr 7 - 12:15 PM

I'd take any Vonnegut adaptation, but of course they're all difficult to pull off. I liked 1999's "Breakfast of Champions", though it's hated by most people.

Apr 7 - 04:13 PM

Lining them up hasn't been Del Toro's problem, actually making them and finishing them has. Love the guy, but getting a bit tired of hearing about projects he's attached to, only to hear how he's dropping out of them shortly after.

Apr 7 - 08:18 PM

He actually brought up that in an interview recently. He claimed that a lot of the time so many projects he signs up for get canned for one reason for another, which is why he attaches himself to so many films.

Apr 8 - 12:03 PM

I guess those five years were pretty much burnt up with his work on "Hobbit" and "Mountains of Madness". Still a shame.

Apr 8 - 05:21 PM

We need Incredibles 2!

Apr 5 - 07:04 PM

That one would make more sense than a Finding Nemo sequel.

Apr 5 - 07:24 PM

Incredibles 2 actually ended with a cliffhanger.

Apr 5 - 07:58 PM

Exactly. Plus, they are super heroes. There is so much you can do with it. As for "Finding Dory"...oops, we lost another fish! C'mon Disney.

Apr 8 - 02:20 AM

They're too lazy thinking of sequels for films that don't need it to consider a sequel for that one.

Apr 5 - 08:30 PM

Typhon Q

I think that Incredibles would actually be a better franchise for Pixar than Cars.

Apr 5 - 10:06 PM

Not with Disney in charge of Pixar. All we'll get is some watered-down awful sequel designed to sell toys. Look how weak Brave was. I can only think of how good the Brave concept would have been if Pixar made it, pre-Disney ownership.
As is, it's a soggy, weak, typical Disney movie with Pixar graphics and a good idea for a heroine.
The ship has sailed on an Incredibles sequel. No way in the world a Disney Pixar movie would deal with issues of suicide, unemployment, corporate/insurance exploitation of the elderly, etc.
Maybe they'll make a cutesy subplot about bears and fair maidens. That all would sell toys, right?

Apr 6 - 08:41 AM

Joseph Felton

Disney funded all their features and bought them at the time incredibles got released, they've made amazing movies since then.

Apr 7 - 11:51 AM

Exactly Joseph, Disney has been involved in Pixar in one way or another since the beginning and if Academy Award winner for Best Animated Picture Brave(Which 4 out of 5 critics liked btw) is the example you're using to show Disney's weakness...well, that pretty much speaks for itself.

Apr 7 - 08:23 PM

although I was a bit skeptical about Finding Nemo getting a sequel at first, I am still looking forward to seeing it since it is still Pixar, who is still one of the finest animation studios out there (I'm going to get a ton of hate for saying that since they are considered to be one of the "shittiest" companies that has ever lived aren't I?

Apr 5 - 07:39 PM

I have never heard anything but praise for Pixar. Personally I think they are vastly overrated but not sure why you would say they are considered.

Apr 5 - 07:49 PM

they are apparently considered to be the murderers of hand drawn animation even though they love and care a lot about hand drawn animation

Apr 5 - 08:01 PM

it also doesn't help that a lot of people consider CGI films to be crappy junk food compared to the so called elegant hand drawn animation. Don't get me wrong I love hand drawn animation, I just don't like it when people judge an animated movie on its what animation style it uses rather than the story itself.

Apr 5 - 09:02 PM

I haven't heard that criticism in a looong time. I think most people are over it now.

Apr 5 - 09:08 PM

They care about hand drawn animation? Really? So why haven't they made any effort to keep the medium alive?

Apr 7 - 04:20 PM

They have. John Lasseter was the one who reversed Disney's decision to stop making traditional animation and got them to re-hire much of the staff they had let go after Home on the Range bombed in order to make Winnie the Pooh and The Princess and the Frog. The trouble is neither of those films did as well as expected, which is why Disney decided to put their focus on CGI animated features instead. Also, John Lasseter is the one who oversaw the dubbing of Miyazaki's films for their release in the states.

In fact, most of the Pixar guys are huge fans of classic Disney and Miyazaki (something you can see in some of the references to those films they've put in their films, such as the toy Totoro in Toy Story 3 or the death of the villain in Up).

Apr 8 - 11:21 AM

That whole "neither of those films did as well as expected" is a load of crackpot; those two films did well in the box office, especially The Princess & the Frog (Winnie the Pooh's problem was being put in competition with the LAST HARRY POTTER movie), but not as well as Disney WANTED them to do. Which in that case only tells me that they don't care about bringing the medium back because as Frisby/George has already pointed out, they only give a shit about money rather than what people truly think (just like Stuart Sneider who is currently running....ahem, ruining CartoonNetwork). Which then closes that. (and the fact that they changed my all-time favorite book by Anderson from being done in CG rather than 3D won't tell me otherwise)

And the fact that the guys working at Pixar are huge fans of classic Disney is irrelevant as to why they don't help 2D remain alive. And if it was relevant, they clearly aren't showing it.

Apr 8 - 05:22 PM

Disney didn't promote "Pooh" as well as their CGI films, but it's one of their best of recent years.

Apr 8 - 05:22 PM

Did you seriously just use the "account name implies something about the user" argument? What are you 12 years old? And judging from your colorful use of vocabulary & writing, possibly so. Anyways, the last response was not designated to you, you fucking nimrod. But now that you responded, I don't care what you obey, it makes no difference to me. CGI animation is something I always have, & always WILL hate (with the minor exception of Tangled, because at least that one actually feels like a hand-drawn movie) with every fiber in my being. And just because you've got your panties in a bunch still doesn't change the facts; CGI is still a form of animation used to get easier money, & films like The Snow Queen, Horton Hears a Who, & the soon-to-be-ruined How the Grinch Stole Christmas are perfect examples; even King Simba has already pointed out that since Disney's last two hand-drawn movies didn't do so well in the box-office (even though they did), they continued on with CGI since that what will make more money towards stupid little kids.

P.S. Learn what a troll is.

Apr 10 - 04:26 PM

Yep, definitely 12 years old. Listen kid, learn that posting a clusterfuck of cussing words doesn't make your 'argument' better or offensive, just makes you look more like some idiot. I'm done with you.

P.S. Just because you don't like hand drawn films or appreciate them doesn't mean you know better about a person because they don't like another form of animation.

Apr 10 - 10:59 PM

@Troy

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Apr 10 - 11:04 PM

have fun trying to convince that Frisby fellow about that. He will tear anything apart that isn't hand drawn. stop motion, fairy tales, or musicals. Because according to his bullshit law, you have to one of those mediums in order to be considered a great animated movie even if the story makes the Phantom Menace look like the Avengers.

Apr 6 - 12:31 AM

You're just begging for me to tell you off, aren't you?

Apr 6 - 10:08 AM

Alberto Zeeky

A lot of people seem to be against World War Z, personally I can't wait for it. I've heard a lot of complaint comes from it not following the book, which I've never read, so maybe that's why I'm still all for it?

Apr 5 - 08:08 PM

People are against World War Z? I've actually heard tons of people wanting to go see it all over the place.

Apr 5 - 08:29 PM

Yeah, I've heard a lot of people were disappointed with the first trailer.

Apr 5 - 09:08 PM

Ashley Blalock

I read the book and honestly while the style works great for a book it would be horrible as a movie. From the trailers and rumors it seems to follow many of the themes from the book but in a form that works better on film.

Apr 5 - 08:53 PM

In otherwords it's nothing like the book. Well from what I can gather Pitt will play like a reporter/writer who instead of gathering peoples stories afterwards (like in the book), is there first hand to experience it. So I'm sure they took some liberties with the material.

Apr 5 - 10:45 PM

King Crunk

It looks nothing like the book, which sucks because the book is fantastic, but I can live with breaking from the source material if the result is still a good movie. I am not going to flat out say that World War Z is going to be bad since I have not seen it, but the trailers have been outrageously disappointing. CG Zombies, a clich�d plot, clich�d character motivations, and the scale even seems muted from the footage. I honestly hope it turns out well, but am keeping expectations very low at this point.

Apr 5 - 11:33 PM

The worst stories I've heard (other than stopping production last summer to rewrite - twice - and reshoot the third act) was DP Ralph Richardson's quarreling with director Marc Forster, who Richardson claimed was unprepared and too uncertain, and generally ill-equipped for the material. These weren't public comments, so sue me for spreading gossip.

Apr 5 - 11:59 PM

I had even heard that Brad Pitt was fighting with the director, whom he had chosen to direct the movie. That's not a good thing when you're arguing with the director that you hand-picked for your own project.

Apr 6 - 08:43 AM

WORLD WAR Z looks like THE END ALL BE ALL of ZOMBIE MOVIES . . . its a $125 MILLION DOLLAR ZOMBIE MOVIE --it can't go wrong. (only: it looks like a $125,000,000.00 remake of Umberto Lenzi's Incubo Nella Citta Contaminata; with Brad Pitt assuming the role of Hugo Stigltz) Brad Pitt, the only star in both Killing Them Softly AND World War Z? it appears as though he's saying "I'll be in your movie, just pay me enough" Like all of us he has to work to put his kids through college. Amen? Amen.)

Apr 6 - 08:54 AM

World WAR Z Will probably fail at the Box Office because it has too much competition (Man Of Steel comes out the week before and it opens the same day as Monsters University.)

Apr 7 - 10:37 AM

Well, in defense of the CGI it would be logistically difficult in the least to gather 50,000 or so zombie extras to shoot some of the scenes they had to film. But zombies running like Sonic the Hedgehog seem a bit far fetched...um for zombies that is.

Apr 6 - 09:21 PM

LOL, I like that you caught yourself there.

Apr 7 - 08:26 PM

Bram Sterling

Nervous, but optimistic about Finding Dory. Let's hope it's awesome...

Apr 5 - 09:38 PM

This week in dogshit movie news.

Apr 5 - 10:42 PM

You're always so optimistic...

Apr 5 - 10:44 PM

Can you honestly claim excitement?

Apr 6 - 09:22 PM

Well, the new casting for Del Toro's new movie. But yeah, otherwise, it's looking a little grim.

Apr 8 - 12:26 AM

King Crunk

Finding Dory and Dark Places are the only things that really interest me this week. Saldana in Guardians is a nice addition, but I am still nowhere near sold on that film.

On a side note, who has seen the Only God Forgives trailer??? I got goosebumps. July 19th, baby!

Apr 5 - 11:28 PM

Why can't July 19th come sooner...

Apr 5 - 11:38 PM

Sean James

why isn't the death of roger ebert up there. it should be at least acknowledged as the worst thing to happen to cinema

Apr 6 - 07:42 AM

That would have overshadowed the whole week of news in more Yawnville than it was already.

Apr 6 - 10:19 AM

Yeah, well I'm sorry if he didn't agree with you on every single film (though at least he didn't try to present his opinion as fact or say that anyone who didn't like such and such film can suck it), but he was one of the most infleuntial critics of all time whose death has recieved more attention than most celebrity deaths (critics, directors, actors, heck even Obama have all commentated on his passing) and far more than what any new movie development is going to recieve.

To call his death yawnvile is an insult to his legacy.

Apr 7 - 07:48 AM

Sorry, but I'm not a fan of a guy who's reviews I can compare to watching paint dry.

And a legacy?
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Apr 7 - 03:58 PM

You're living in Denialville if you can't acknowledge how influential Ebert was as a movie critic. Ask anyone to name 3 movie critics and Ebert is probably going to be mentioned, probably followed by a long pause as they try to think of anyone else.

Apr 7 - 08:29 PM

Yes, legacy. As Bigbrother said, there's no denying how infleuntial Ebert was, even if you didn't agree with him. He used his show to bring attention to many smaller films that would normally have come and gone without notice. His "thumbs up" gesture is iconic. Also, while many people love to point out all the classic movies he gave negative reviews to (and in his defense, he was far from the only one at the time who didn't like films such as Blade Runner or Fight Club) let's not forget all the highly positive reviews he gave to films that at the time were seen as underserving of such high ratings whether due to the film being underappreciated at the time (his 4 star rating of 2001 was one of only positive reviews for the film when it released) or because they were part of a genre that most critics looked down upon at the time (The Star Wars original trilogy, the first two Superman movies, heck even his 4 star rating of Spiderman 2 raised quite a few eyebrows due to it being a comic book movie).

Also, I realize this is all a matter of opinion but watching paint dry? I'd advise you to read more than just the reviews of films he disagreed with you on. While I've disagreed with him countless of times, one thing I wouldn't call his reviews is boring. When he hates a film he'll typically deliver a review that makes it almost worth it that the film got made just to read his trashing of it (just check out his hilarious reviews for Last Airbender, Sex and the City 2, Freddy Got Fingered, The Village, Battlefield Earth and most infamously North), while when he loves a film he'll usually go into great depth over a lot of the things that made the film work so well (eg: any of his great movies reviews as well his more recent reviews such as Million Dollar Baby, Sweeney Todd, Children of Men, among countless others).

Apr 8 - 11:59 AM

I'll give George some credit for not trolling the three Ebert articles, which would have been just classless.

Apr 8 - 05:24 PM

And his influence is supposed to mean something to me?

Also, I've read more than just the reviews that he's idiotically negatively reviewed (Howl's Moving Castle, Edward Scissorhands). I've read from his positive/negative reviews on films I could give less of a shit about to the reviews on films I could truly trash the living hell out of, & al of them as I've said are like watching paint dry. The closest reviews of his I've ever been to not being bored to death or practically leaving the sit out of is his review to the Grudge, The Last Airbender, & Battlefield Earth.

Apr 8 - 05:28 PM

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Apr 7 - 04:31 PM

Ummm...what?

Apr 8 - 03:32 AM

Sean James

why isn't the death of roger ebert up there. it should be at least acknowledged as the worst thing to happen to cinema

Apr 6 - 07:46 AM

Roger Ebert's death isn't an idea until Millennium Pictures secures the rights to "The Siskel and Ebert Story" which it just did I am told. "SISKEL & EBERT: A LOVE STORY" is due out Christmas of 2014 from Millennium Pictures

Apr 6 - 08:45 AM

Dave J

What the hell... Gordon- they were never into each other because Siskel already had a family with kids, and Ebert made a rule for himself that he didn't want to marry until well after his mother's death! Ebert did say that Siskel was the brother he never had, and that for a great percentage of the time they seen together they had never publicly talked to each other except when if a camera was pointed at them! That was how much they used to hate each other! I also know for a fact that Siskel And Ebert would never even hang out!

Apr 8 - 05:10 PM

Scorsese is working on a documentary on Ebert.

Apr 8 - 05:26 PM

Dave J

Actually, as I recall it was a docu-drama co-written by Steve Zillian writer of Schindler's List!

Apr 8 - 05:40 PM