Bad Year for Movies?

Early B.
Early B. Posts: 7,900
edited January 2005 in Music & Movies
I read an article this weekend about the upcoming movies for the year. None of them seemed interesting, not even King Kong IMO. Lots of stuff that's already been done before ad nauseum. Do we really need another Batman movie? Yuck.
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited January 2005
    Off the top of my head I come up with these, hardly a bad year for movies...looking to be a great year as I see it.


    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    Kingdom of Heaven
    Revenge of the Sith
    Batman Begins
    Robots
    War of the Worlds
    Fantastic Four
    Elektra
    Sin CIty
    Bewitched
    Magnum PI
    Jurassic Park IV
    James Bond 21
    A Sound of Thunder
    Die Hard 4
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    If...
    Ron dislikes a film = go out and buy it.
    Ron loves a film = don't even rent.
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited January 2005
    Originally posted by Ron-P
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    Cool!!!!
    Never Forget
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited January 2005
    Originally posted by Ron-P
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    Kingdom of Heaven
    Revenge of the Sith
    Batman Begins
    Robots
    War of the Worlds
    Fantastic Four
    Elektra
    Sin CIty
    Bewitched
    Magnum PI
    Jurassic Park IV
    James Bond 21
    A Sound of Thunder
    Die Hard 4
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    OK, whether you like them or not, of those 16 movies you listed :
    - 4 are remakes of either an older movie or a TV series
    - 6 are sequels or prequels to existing successful movies
    - 3 are based on existing books

    That leaves like 4 or 5 (soime of the above overlap) movies that are actually ORIGINAL. What is going on with the creativity in Hollywood? How about instead of 20 movies a month that no one watches, you do 10 quality ORIGINAL movies? So we don't have to see Die Hard 6 when Bruce Willis is 65 years old.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited January 2005
    Remakes, sequels, book based, based on a TV series, makes no never-mind to me as long as they are done well and are entertaining.
    How about instead of 20 movies a month that no one watches
    Don't speak for everyone. If no one watched'em, they wouldn't make'em.

    Most from that list I will not see in the theater but will buy on DVD.
    If...
    Ron dislikes a film = go out and buy it.
    Ron loves a film = don't even rent.
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited January 2005
    Oh yeah, add Alone in the Dark to that list as well, the cool factor is high on this one.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited January 2005
    Okay I'm looking at the list ROn gave us...and that's just the few that have been announced already...

    So how is this a bad year for movies???

    I'm with Ron, if they're entertaining and done well, then what difference does it make how they are spawned
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited January 2005
    I'm with Ron-P on this one.
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  • bknauss
    bknauss Posts: 1,441
    edited January 2005
    Originally posted by Ron-P
    Off the top of my head I come up with these, hardly a bad year for movies...looking to be a great year as I see it.


    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
    Kingdom of Heaven
    Revenge of the Sith
    Batman Begins
    Robots
    War of the Worlds
    Fantastic Four
    Elektra
    Sin CIty
    Bewitched
    Magnum PI
    Jurassic Park IV
    James Bond 21
    A Sound of Thunder
    Die Hard 4
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

    Get rid of all of the sequels since they usually are junk. Get rid of the comic book movies since they are almost always terrible. That doesn't leave too much :)

    My guesses from that list that are going to really suck:
    Batman
    Fantastic Four
    Elektra <--- would put lots of money on that one
    Magnum PI
    James Bond
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  • Billm57
    Billm57 Posts: 689
    edited January 2005
    looking at Rons list just supports Early B's statement more..yet another year of remakes & sequels
    obviously they make money otherwise they wouldnt make them
    but it just makes me support independent films more..just my opinion of course
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  • Shell
    Shell Posts: 134
    edited January 2005
    Jurassic Park IV
    Stop already. The second one sucked big time, the third was not that good. The first one was great end it.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited January 2005
    Originally posted by Shell
    Stop already. The second one sucked big time, the third was not that good. The first one was great end it.
    True, the second one sucked really bad...I actually liked the third one though...
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited January 2005
    Originally posted by Billm57
    looking at Rons list just supports Early B's statement more..yet another year of remakes & sequels
    obviously they make money otherwise they wouldnt make them
    but it just makes me support independent films more..just my opinion of course

    So, it may not be a bad year for movies then. Some of my favorite films of this year were independents. The list here isn't all that's coming out this year. That list is hardly concrete. I'm not willing to throw out the year after 11 days....
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  • Toxis
    Toxis Posts: 5,116
    edited January 2005
    Revenge of the Sith = HELL YEAH!!! How bad **** does this look?
    Batman Begins = Again, total bad ****!
    Sin City = Looks a lot better than I was expecting... I'll see it.
    War of the Worlds = The trailer is more of a teaser... didn't really give you any idea about the movie so I'm not sure how to feel about this one yet.
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory = No thanks. Looks like it's for kids and drug users... I'm neither.
    Kingdom of Heaven = Looks good but I think it (much like Troy) is trying to hard to be epic. Not sure if I'll see it in the theater...
    Fantastic Four = Eeehhhhh....
    Elektra = HAHAHAHAHAHA Thanks, but no thanks.
    Bewitched = :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
    A Sound of Thunder = WHAT THE HELL IS THAT? I just puked in my mouth.
    Robots = Looks cute... Probably will wait til it comes on PPV.
    James Bond 302193832 = No thanks, I'd rather watch Waterworld... :rolleyes:

    Now Magnum PI, Jurassic Park 4 and Die Hard 4 are all rumors, nothing set in stone from what I'm seeing. And I can't find anything on the Hitchhiker's guide.
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited January 2005
    Hitchikers guide to the Galaxy is coming out. I just saw the trailer for it when I saw The Life Aquatic in the theatre.
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  • Toxis
    Toxis Posts: 5,116
    edited January 2005
    I almost forgot... they're redoing the AmityVille Horror! That's bad ****!!! Loved the original and I have a feeling they'll do it justice here. But a lot of people hated the remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre but I thought it was bad **** as well.
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  • Early B.
    Early B. Posts: 7,900
    edited January 2005
    We need to save this thread and revisit it at the end of the year. It would be kinda interesting to see if our predictions are accurate.

    I'm sick of remakes. Most of them are rarely do the original any justice. And haven't we had enough comic book movies. Geez. We've really reached rock bottom when some television shows are more interesting than most of the movies out there.
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited January 2005
    Revenge of the Sith = HELL YEAH!!! How bad **** does this look?
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory = No thanks. Looks like it's for kids and drug users... I'm neither.

    I'm of the exact opposite here. Give me Charlie over a very poorly acted, plastic looking CGI fest. Lucas may (and I hope) tie the two trilogy's together but between the rest of the crap surrounding what little story there may be I just don't think I can sit through it. I may see it in the theater but it's near the bottom of the list.

    Here's a link to a very early teaser for
    Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
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  • Toxis
    Toxis Posts: 5,116
    edited January 2005
    Originally posted by Early B.
    And haven't we had enough comic book movies. Geez.
    There's a lot more to come too! They're doing Spiderman til #6, X-men to #4 and then will spin off of that with each character having their own movies, potentially a Gambit movie (unless they include him in #4 then he'll have his own), Hulk 2, who knows with Batman, Daredevil 2, Elektra 2, Fantastic Four 2... and that's only what I know off the top of my head. For me? I say bring 'em on! I never was a huge comic book kid but I love what they're doing with the movies personally.
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  • hamzahsh
    hamzahsh Posts: 439
    edited January 2005
    I'll buy these 4 on DVD for sure!



    Revenge of the Sith
    Jurassic Park IV
    James Bond 21
    Die Hard 4

    :D
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  • begbie
    begbie Posts: 630
    edited January 2005
    Why it is a bad year !? We need more movies with stuff blowing up !!?? ;)



    Seriously, it's all business and $$$$. Intellectual and thought processes come a distant second......
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  • Early B.
    Early B. Posts: 7,900
    edited January 2005
    We need more movies with stuff blowing up !!??
    Let's at least hope that more movies come out in DTS this year.
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  • MrAnderson
    MrAnderson Posts: 37
    edited January 2005
    Charlie and the Chocolate Factory = No thanks. Looks like it's for kids and drug users... I'm neither.

    Robots = Looks cute... Probably will wait til it comes on PPV.


    You won't watch a kids movie but you will pay to see a movie that's cute?
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited January 2005
    Yep, looks much more entertaining.

    With Depp, Burton and Elfman behind this you can't lose. I just hope it follows the book (rumors are it does) as the previous Wilder version did not.
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  • Shell
    Shell Posts: 134
    edited January 2005
    True, the second one sucked really bad...I actually liked the third one though...
    What got me in JIII is how they ripped off aliens II with the raptors. You know the egg is all the raptors wanted. Give me a break they are lizards. Early in the movie they state how those incredibly smart raptors would have ruled the earth with their large brain cavity. Other than that the movie was great.

    Yep that was a rant.:)
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