Posted on 01/01/2005 2:06:28 PM PST by dware
Ping - I survived the nite! Back on my feet again and sans hangover. Hooray!
That's it?
Admit it, posters... didn't you think at first that these had to be made-up, satire films, because no one would actually produce something so stupid?
Please, please nuke Hollywood and let us start over with new idea's and new writers.
I saw the trailer for "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and didn't recognize Johnny Depp at first. It looked like they'd cast a woman in the role! No facial hair, no wrinkles; all absolutely smooth pale skin... creepy.
Also saw the trailer for "War of the Worlds", in which suburban folks, viewing the distant glow of battle, are blown away by a fireball. That's the best they could show in the trailer? Not nearly as scary as the '53 version.
"Rvenge of the Sith" because I am a Star Wars fan. The rest...sequels and remakes. Johnny Depp as Willie Wonka? No way! "Fantastic Four?" Probably not; liked the Comics from that era, but this was just silly.
Bad News Bears
Die Hard 4: Die Hardest (2006)
Jurassic Park IV (2006)
Mission: Impossible 3
Superman Returns (2006)
The Transporter 2
Ain't Hollyweird great? < /sarcasm>
I have a feeling Burton will stay closer with the book. It was somewhat dark, after all, and I like the idea of Depp as Wonka. The paleness, etc., is necessary because, if you remember, Wonka was supposed to have disappeared into the factory for sometime prior to opening it up. The use of Depp looking the way he does fits with the story.
That's kinda what I was thinking. This is just another sad, sad attempt by Hollyweird to piggyback off the success of previous comic book movies.
Maybe, but it's a little too Michael Jackson-ish for me. Ewwww!
In Hitchhiker's Guide," who has been cast as Zaphod, Marvin, or Trillian? I haven't heard much about that one.
Rockwell
Zooey Deschanel(The New Guy) has been cast to play Trillian, another good choice.
Deschanel
Finally, the depressed robot marvin will be played by Warwick Davis of Star Wars/Willow/Leprechaun fame, a rather interesting casting decision.
Davis
Perhaps the most interesting casting decision was Mos Def (The Italian Job, Monster's Ball) as Ford Prefect.
Mos Def
The front of the Batmobile
The rear of the Batmobile
Most certainly not what we're used to, ya know?
Warwick Davis has also played Professor Flitwick in the Harry Potter movies
Supposedly, this is supposed to be able to really move, well over 100 mph.
Bad News Bears
Die Hard 4: Die Hardest (2006)
Jurassic Park IV (2006)
Mission: Impossible 3
Superman Returns (2006)
The Transporter 2
...
You have got to be kidding me
How can we take people seriously when they make up such stupid names for themselves?? Mos Def??
War of the Worlds is going to *suck* - Stephen Spielberg never met an alien he didn't like. There is a British War of the Worlds that's either just come out, or is going to - it looks far more in line with the book.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - it will be *great.* Tim Burton is the ultimate director for anything by Roald Dahl. Maybe we'll get lucky & they'll use the *original* Oompah-Loompah songs.
Hitchhikers - it's *Disney,* for crying out loud. They're going to wreck it.
The only one of these I'd probably see is Batman.
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