Search found 850 matches
- Thu Sep 27, 2012 7:46 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Pros and Cons of Modern Action Films and Directors.
- Replies: 144
- Views: 41813
EDIT: Yeah, might as well move the whole thread really, we already have a general TF4 news thread which, IIRC, has the news Bay was back in it. Unless anyone has any objections? The bay news was already somewhere? Sorry, missed that. If the film had flopped (and there's no shortage of big heavily p...
- Thu Sep 27, 2012 7:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Pros and Cons of Modern Action Films and Directors.
- Replies: 144
- Views: 41813
- Thu Sep 27, 2012 7:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Pros and Cons of Modern Action Films and Directors.
- Replies: 144
- Views: 41813
Best shows I've ever seen? Firefly Prime is shaping up very nicely but there's still plenty of time for it all to go very badly wrong. Probably others I've shamefully forgotten. I watch too much TV. Seems like. :) Of the ones mentioned I love Firefly and Prime. I think Prime's been great so far and...
- Thu Sep 27, 2012 7:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Pros and Cons of Modern Action Films and Directors.
- Replies: 144
- Views: 41813
Willow's largely written as a male character. She's a fairly standard male geek just played by an attractive female. She's adorable but until she gets with Ozz there's very little that couldn't have been said by a man. The same trick's done with the one with a perfectly spherical head in Firefly. F...
- Thu Sep 27, 2012 6:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Pros and Cons of Modern Action Films and Directors.
- Replies: 144
- Views: 41813
Whedon writes every female character like Buffy, when he's not writing them like Faith or Cordelia. Like J.J. Abrams he's something of a one-trick pony who lucked into doing the exact thing he was good at for a few years and built up an overrated reputation as a result. There's also Willow, Tara, F...
- Thu Sep 27, 2012 5:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Pros and Cons of Modern Action Films and Directors.
- Replies: 144
- Views: 41813
It's especially odd as his own film basically takes place in an alternate reality where Hydra and the Red Skull were the big bads of World War II rather than the Nazi's (even if there's the implication the rest of the war is happening around it). I'd never really thought about that. The world in Av...
- Thu Sep 27, 2012 2:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Pros and Cons of Modern Action Films and Directors.
- Replies: 144
- Views: 41813
You seem to accept his name as an inherent seal of quality and get a little tetchy when he's criticised. Not at all. If you look earlier in the thread I expressed my opinion on Dollhouse. I'm not keen on it. And you are the person calling me a fanboy and a cultist when I've leveled no such terms in...
- Thu Sep 27, 2012 1:45 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Pros and Cons of Modern Action Films and Directors.
- Replies: 144
- Views: 41813
Yeh, that's me laughing my arse off at how low your standards are and how easily you're conditioned. So I have low standards because I liked the Avengers movie? And I'm easily conditioned because I've watched Buffy and can recognise Whedon scripted dialogue? Huh. Joss [/color]:love: film because of...
- Thu Sep 27, 2012 1:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Pros and Cons of Modern Action Films and Directors.
- Replies: 144
- Views: 41813
Joss? Joss Stone? Joss Ackland? Jos Verstappen? FFS, he's a film/TV director, not your ****ing mate or a religious leader. Nice to see you treated it like any other film rather than an easily led cultist anyway. So, this isn't you getting riled up, telling me I'm a cultist (or a fanboy) and that I ...
- Thu Sep 27, 2012 1:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Pros and Cons of Modern Action Films and Directors.
- Replies: 144
- Views: 41813
Takes more than a :love: Joss :love: fanboy to get me riled. It's just amusing that you'd invalidate your argument is such a simplistic fashion. Don't really see the need for his full name in an Avengers discussion. And anyone who has seen Buffy, or any of his works, knows what his dialogue sounds ...
- Thu Sep 27, 2012 1:21 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Pros and Cons of Modern Action Films and Directors.
- Replies: 144
- Views: 41813
TF was the biggest seller of 2007 - 13.74m units. ROTF was the best-selling DVD of 2009 - 7.5m on DVD, 1.2m in the first week of Blu-Ray. DotM seems not to have done so well with about 4m combined on both formats (though IIRC overall DVD sales have been falling the past 2-3 years; consumers have la...
- Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:58 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Pros and Cons of Modern Action Films and Directors.
- Replies: 144
- Views: 41813
- Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Pros and Cons of Modern Action Films and Directors.
- Replies: 144
- Views: 41813
You honestly think the merging of four successful action franchises had less to do with the film's success than it being directed by the guy who made ratings dud Firefly? How many of those tickets were sold to people who knew who Whedon was? Firefly may have tanked in the ratings, partly due to the...
- Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Pros and Cons of Modern Action Films and Directors.
- Replies: 144
- Views: 41813
Avengers was too obviously written by the execs - something I don't think affected Transformers badly, especially considering the more overt product placement. Transformers is juggling car and toy manufacturers. Avengers is only selling us the stars of the films - they don't have to make a Camaro l...
- Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Pros and Cons of Modern Action Films and Directors.
- Replies: 144
- Views: 41813
- Thu Sep 27, 2012 12:04 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The Pros and Cons of Modern Action Films and Directors.
- Replies: 144
- Views: 41813
- Mon Sep 24, 2012 11:39 am
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: Transformers 4 News and Rumours
- Replies: 195
- Views: 97142
Transformers 4 News and Rumours
An interview with Michael Bay by the Huffington Post has confirmed that the director will be back for TF4 and that the reboot, well, isn't. Also, Peter Cullen will be back. I thought I was done. Then the ride came out [at Universal Studios Hollywood] and the two-and-a-half-hour lines. And then you'r...
- Wed Sep 19, 2012 8:41 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Advice on Star Wars Comics
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7965
Advice on Star Wars Comics
Hey everyone, I've recently decided to give some of the numerous Star Wars comic lines a go having ended several other long runs and I thought I'd seek some advice regarding which series are any good and worth reading. So, I'm reading Legacy by John Ostrander and am loving it. It's an excellent seri...
- Tue Sep 18, 2012 12:40 pm
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: IDW December 2012 Solicitations
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11313
Regeneration One: Sigh . Shouldn't judge the book by it's cover, but really? So, Scorponok is controlling the Dinobots and (as revealed in #82) a small army of Headmasters. Haven't we been here before? Is that really the plot? I'm surprised that got through editorial considering we're been there an...
- Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:39 pm
- Forum: Transformers Media / Fandom
- Topic: IDW December 2012 Solicitations
- Replies: 12
- Views: 11313