Your most anticipated future theatrical films?

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 25 Mar 2005, 16:43

What future theatrical films are you most looking forward to?

Mine:-
Batman Begins - Looks to be the best live action Batman film adaptation to date.
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance - Based on how excellent Park's past films are.
The Passion of the Clerks - Based on how great the original is.
Zatoichi 2 - Based on how awesome the original is.
Ong-Bak - When it finally gets a general theatrical run in NZ.

The "looks promising but undecided" pile:-
Sin City - Visual style looks fantastic and past Robert Rodriguez films have been alot of fun (El Mariachi trilogy, From Dusk Till Dawn).
War of the Worlds - Teaser trailer reminds me of Day After Tomorrow (or any other Ronald Emmerich bid-budget dreck) - bleh. But Spielberg has done solid scifi films in the past, lets hope this one is as well.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 25 Mar 2005, 17:24

Is there a list somewhere? I can never remember.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 25 Mar 2005, 17:50

I'm looking forward to:

Batman Begins
Zatoichi 2
Sympathy For Lady Vengeance (?) - wouldnt it have made more sense to do this after SFMV but before Oldboy?
Willy Wonka And The Chocolate factory
The Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy

Maybe:
The War of The Worlds - bloody hell its ages since I read the original book of TWoTW

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 25 Mar 2005, 18:21

* I'm looking forward to "Kingdom of Heaven" and "Unleashed". I really hope they're decent. I'm also looking forwars to Star War 3 and Ring 2.

Speaking of "Unleashed" it seems in France they're retaining the original title. Good on them!

* I also see "Doom" is coming. This will either be excellent or utter rubbish!

* The New World also looks very good (fascinating subject and Terrence Malick at the helm):

http://www.uk.imdb.com/title/tt0402399/

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 25 Mar 2005, 18:32

I'm looking forward to Star Wars 3 and Unleashed as well. 8) SW3 is meant to be very dark and will probably a 12A (at least) here. Lucas is aiming for a US PG-13 rating at least.

As for Doom, I've heard LOADS of bad press about that, one core element of the first game was that it was set on Mars (I think?) but the film isn't. Lots of other important plot points were removed.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 27 Mar 2005, 02:11

I downloaded and watched the trailers for Unleashed and Star Wars Ep3. Unleashed looks good, glad to see a west-produced Jet Li movie without bullet time or lame arse rapper/R&B singer co-stars. Looks film will some depth to the story and characters, and having the talents of Morgan Freeman and Bob Hoskins can only help it.

Star Wars Ep3 looks promising. No doubt it will have excellent action sequences, Lucas maybe be a poor storyteller, but he sure can make a spectacular action scene. I looking forward to seeing Palpatine and Anakin kicking lightside arse... and Natalie Portman in low-cut outfits

. I hope Mace Windu dies an agonising death.

grim_tales wrote:As for Doom, I've heard LOADS of bad press about that, one core element of the first game was that it was set on Mars (I think?) but the film isn't. Lots of other important plot points were removed.

From my understanding, they've removed all the hell elements and now they're just generic "aliens from another dimension". I had low expectations anyway since the director is responsible for the reportedly terrible Romeo Must Die, Cradle 2 the Grave and Exit Wounds; but they dropped even further when I heard the above news.

I'm guessing they removed them to appease the American christian conservatives, if this is so then what about fucking Constantine? God damn Hollywood producers for making movies these days to "reach a widest audience" possible.

What the hell (pun intended

) is the point of the movie then? They've alienated the the automatic gamer audience this film would've had. I guess it will appeal to the mainstream action fan who want to see The Rock "kick alien ass". You'd think they'd be put off by how poorly Chronicles of Riddick did.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 02 Apr 2005, 16:29

Batman Begins... War of the Worlds (because Minority Report was good) er, that's it!!

I have little expectation for anything else...

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 12 Apr 2005, 09:35

The Wonka film will actually be called "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (fair enough thats what the book was called)

I read that in 1971, the title of the film was changed to Willy Wonka because of Vietnam or something? Wasn't Charlie a nickname for the Viet Cong used by the US?

Also according to the UCI website, Star Wars Episode III is PG-rated (not 12a). Strange because George Lucas was pushing for a US PG-13 rating.
The 12a cert is a joke though

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 12 Jun 2005, 09:20

Hey,

Will probably see Batman Begins soon, and Kung Fu Hustle if it plays locally

Mr. and Mrs. Smith looks good too, some reviews I've read call it a great fun popcorn film (no bad thing)

brassmonkey001 · Post by **brassmonkey001** » 12 Jun 2005, 22:36

Viet Cong = V. C. = Victor Charlie in the phonetic alphabet.
"Charlie don't surf!"

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 13 Jun 2005, 16:48

What does that mean? (The don't surf part)?

Batman Begins is a 12A BTW:

Advice for consumers
Concise Contains strong fantasy horror and moderate violence

The main spoken language in this work is English.
The BBFC has placed this work in the ACTION, FANTASY genre(s).

When submitted to the BBFC the work had a running time of 139m 55s.
The running time of this film was calculated from the measured length of 12591+14 ( feet + frames ).

This work was passed with no cuts made.

At the time of classification Warner Brothers was the distributor of this film.

Directed by Christopher Nolan Producer(s) Emma Thomas; Larry Franco; Charles Roven

The cast for this work includes: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, Ken Watanabe, Katie Holmes, Cillian Murphy, Tom Wilkinson, Rutger Hauer, Sara Stewart, Richard Brake, Gus Lewis, Emma Lockhart, Linus Roache.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 27 Jul 2005, 20:17

Doom the Movie:

http://media.filmforce.ign.com/media/49 ... 83839.html

brassmonkey001 · Post by **brassmonkey001** » 28 Jul 2005, 22:47

grim_tales wrote:What does that mean? (The don't surf part)?

Have you seen Apocalypse Now?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 29 Jul 2005, 09:37

Nope

(welll not properly).

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 Jul 2005, 12:32

You won't get it then. Not that I get why Brass brought it up in the first place.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 29 Jul 2005, 14:14

bradavon wrote:Doom the Movie:

Why bother? It's from the director of drecks like Exit Wounds, Romeo Must Die and Cradle 2 the Grave.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 29 Jul 2005, 14:17

Romero will love it and call it the best film of 2005...

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 Jul 2005, 17:16

I didn't know that.

The game is an uber classic though so for that alone it's worth mentioning.

It's a pity some of the sheer gameplay from Doom and Doom 2 has been lost in Doom 3.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 06 Aug 2005, 15:02

Has anyone else seen the trailer for "V for Vendetta"? OMG it looks amazing. I can't wait for that one.

Everyone must check it out here:

http://pdl.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/vfor ... eflect.mov

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 06 Aug 2005, 15:40

EvaUnit02 wrote:
bradavon wrote:Doom the Movie:
Why bother? It's from the director of drecks like Exit Wounds, Romeo Must Die and Cradle 2 the Grave.

All 3 of them films are great fun. and yes it could be bloody great, just hope it is.

V looks odd, not exactly great yet, it isnt exciting me much at the moment. Looks like I have seen it all before a hundred times

just hope thats a cracker too.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 07 Aug 2005, 07:15

grim_tales wrote:Romero will love it and call it the best film of 2005...

Is his favourite director Paul WS Anderson then?

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 07 Aug 2005, 10:44

I wouldn't be surprised if it was.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 07 Aug 2005, 13:20

No, but Anderson has made some superb films.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 08 Aug 2005, 11:38

romerojpg wrote:No, but Anderson has made some superb films.

*Backs away from Romero slowly*
RE, Mortal Kombat, Soldier and ESPECIALLY Event Horizon were all FUCKING AWFUL films IMO (haven't seen AVP yet).

I do love Buffy, Angel and at least the first two seasons of Alias (S3 hasn't shown here yet, plus I've heard it went downhill after Abrams cut his creative reins of the show to work on Lost.)

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 08 Aug 2005, 12:36

I think Event Horizon is great and thought Mortal Kombat was decent but really only comparing it to Street Fighter which is saying very, very little.