JULY 22nd 2008
THE GOOD: Angels & Demons is officially filming, starring Tom Hanks reprising his role as Robert Langdon in this prequel based on Dan Brown's novel. The reason this qualifies as "Good" is because the storyline and plot are much more intriguing and less controversial for the sake of being controversial. Plus there's a helping hand of science involved. Oh, and Ewan McGregor is attached to the project. So that's definitely good. Ron Howard will be reprising his role as director, and overall, the film looks to be amazing, but especially so if everyone's gotten over some of the mindless controversy surrounding the first one. This prequel truly is the better of the two though. Let's hope the cinematic interpretation is equally so.
THE BAD: Jurassic Park IV. Okay, so that poster is fake and I had to search Google to find it, but that's the not the point of this (though it equally qualifies as "Bad"). Jurassic Park IV is listed in script form, not yet even to pre-production. There are a few glimmers of hope perhaps for this work, one is that William Monahan is the screenwriter for this project. Monahan wrote the scripts for The Departed and Kingdom of Heaven and having said that, knows how to write a decent screenplay (of course). However it would seem that unless Christian Bale (the newly appointed Savior of Franchises) becomes attached to this project, it's unlikely it'll be able to save the great novel and original film from the filth that Jurassic Park III and even the ending of The Lost World carved out for it.
THE UGLY: Dragon Ball the goddamn movie. Yeah, I know. You see why I saved it for last? The plot involves Young Goku (I knew my worst fears were confirmed when I read that) following his dying father's wishes and searching out Master Roshi. Now as far as I can tell, it's going to follow (roughly) the plot of the original series. They're probably saving the Z suffix for the sequel, God help us if it warrants a sequel. I can't even begin to fathom what else I could say regarding this....it comes out 2009....I'm gonna go kill myself.
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I loved the Dragonball and Dragonball Z animes...but I agree with you in saying that a silver screen premier is just frikkin stupid. And as far as JP4 goes, I'd see it if it had Jeff Goldblum in it. Just cause he's a badass.
Yeah, I loved the animes, but live action just seems like a bad idea in general. And I'd still see JP4, don't get me wrong, but since Crichton only wrote two novels, I just don't like the idea of weaseling more money out of it for two extra flicks. And let's face it, 3 wasn't too hot, entertaining yes. But not too hot.
3 fucking sucked. That's the best way to put it. I agree.
Well said, heh. And here I am trying to be diplomatic. When will I learn?
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