Posted on 05/23/2013 7:25:14 AM PDT by C19fan
World War Z could be the most expensive flop in cinematic history. Brad Pitt's zombie action flick has been mired by negative publicity concerning rewrites, re-shoots and an inexperienced creative team that has caused the film's budget to increase from $170million to a reported $400million. Based upon Max Brooks's science fiction novel, the film now has the biggest budget ever recorded.
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I would assume Oblivion.
I heard about that one. It’s supposed to be quite spectacular. Heck, even Medved liked it.
. . .and I feel fine. . .
“Oblivion” has made $260,000,000 million in the US and worldwide to date on a budget of $170,000,000.
Though not a hit of at the level of “Mission: Impossible,” it’ll be solidly in profit by the middle of summer.
I plan on checking it out when it’s released on Blu-Ray.
There’s was a book written about it. Changed Hollywood. they gave free reign to the director of the Deer Hunter because that had been such a huge hit. he rest is Hollywood history.
Ping.
I liked The Postman.
>> caused the film’s budget to increase from $170million to a reported $400million
With budget busting experience like that under their belts, they should send their resumes to Treasury if they lose this gig.
I kinda liked waterworld.
I probably shouldn’t say that too loudly, should I.
There's your problem right there. It wasn't an action/adventure book. It was actually rather introspective in most places, and there wasn't a single outstanding hero or heroine in the thing - its premise was that this was how ordinary people dealt with the situation, how some became heroes and some did not; its structure was that of oral history, and it was necessarily episodic. Turning that into an action shoot-em-up with Bad Brad saving the world would be like turning Studs Terkel's The Good War into an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. What you get won't be anything like the original, and evidently it wasn't.
I'm not surprised that the ending was a problem. In the book the war wasn't even over yet. Time for a rewrite, a deft rearrangement of scenes, and a large write-off.
I saw Pitt in Interview with a Vampire back in the ‘90s, thought he was excellent in it, looked forward to watching his career and his talent grow. Only the career grew.
The talent? I don’t think he has much. He’s just a puer, the eternal boy. What’s interesting about that? He cannot play mature roles.
I don't get the fascination with zombies that people have.
Every zombie I have ever seen looks like death warmed over.
Nothing better than a good zombie apocalypse movie. I’ll see it for sure, but not at the movies, or even pay-per-view. I’ll see it when I can get it at redbox for $1.50
I also like Postman and Waterworld
When I used to have tv (before 1997) I considered Babylon 5 to be the best tv scince fiction series ever created. It had Larry Niven’s Kilrathi from Ringworld, for crying out loud. ;-)
I also like Postman and Waterworld
I’ve actually rented a lot of notoriously bad movies and thought, “maybe I’ll like this in a ‘Plan 9...’ sort of way.” I don’t do that any more. I finally figured out just how bad a big budget film can be, and the kind of bad they can be.
But both Waterworld and Postman can be interesting entertainment on a rainy saturday afternoon.
I heard how bad waterworld was. When I finally watched it I liked it and watch it when I see it playing. Kind of a mad max on water. I guess movies are like types of food, what you like I may not and Vice-versa.
But in the six years since then, the film went through a complete rewrite by Matthew Michael Carnahan (The Kingdom) to make it fit into the action genre more readily.
My wife likes the Colin Firth version from PBS. I could have used more car chases. And a few characters needed to die. Horribly.
I plan on checking it out when it’s released on Blu-Ray.
It’s also less sticky.
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