Kristatos wrote:A third-rate book can make a first-rate film (Jaws, anybody?), i think the main reason they've never used the continuation novels is that they'd have to buy the rights to them, and it is simpler just to develop scripts from scratch.
Katied.............did you rise off your seat when the mutilated head appeared through the hole in the boat...........i did even after the 3rd viewing and so did everyone else!...............katied wrote:Kristatos wrote:A third-rate book can make a first-rate film (Jaws, anybody?), i think the main reason they've never used the continuation novels is that they'd have to buy the rights to them, and it is simpler just to develop scripts from scratch.
True that. I didn't see Jaws 'till I was an adult(I grew up near the beach so my brothers and I weren't allowed to watch it-which was a smart move on my parents' part!)
Chief of Staff, 007's gone round the bend. Says someone's been trying to feed him a poisoned banana. Fellow's lost his nerve. Been in the hospital too long. Better call him home.
The ad for it looked good. Scary but good.English Agent wrote:Only one week now to the opening of 'PROMTHEUS' in the UK...............
The film has had huge advanced ticket sales here!
Hope the film is really nasty and scary..........just as i like it!
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Chief of Staff, 007's gone round the bend. Says someone's been trying to feed him a poisoned banana. Fellow's lost his nerve. Been in the hospital too long. Better call him home.
Has to be one of the greatest films of all time. It's in my top 10, and is my joint all-time favourite Spielberg film, along with Raiders.Dr. No wrote:Watched Jaws when I was way too young summer vacation and it cam on tv a few days before we went to the beach every fish at the beach about freaked us out. Thank god there were not any dolphins around the fins would have kept us on land for sure.
THANK YOU for pointing this out and doing so with such clarity, Mazer. I very well remember the Hugh Jackman comments as I have been following him closely for a LONG time. I thought I was the only one who remembered that.EON rushes into production half ready because they don't do due diligence before hand, somehow they land on their feet most of the time. When they hired Craig there was supposed to be a plan for a trilogy, what he was signed for, obviously they never had a trilogy. Hell they didn't have a plan for the sequel movie they're were supposed to originally drop in May 2008.
Amy Pascal didn't want Craig, she is part of the reasons he had a 24hr screen test and she was talking to Pierce about coming back a few weeks before Craig was anointed, presumably Craig was already signed at this point. Once the deal is done - announced they have to follow through enthusiastically. "There is no s**t like our s**t! Wait until you see our s**t! It's the s**t!"
A lot of dirty stuff happened leading up to CR. And Craig wasn't as innocent as people like to think. He has a bad rep for reason, same reason Hugh Jackman said he didn't like him.
It was very much a trashy airport blockbuster, though, in the same literary class as Dan Brown or Jeffrey Archer. It worked much better as a film than it did as a book.Thunderpussy wrote:It's been years since I read it But I rather enjoyed Jaws.
I agree. I tried the book and didn't get past a few pages. The movie, however, is an entirely different story. I don't even like scary movies at all, but Jaws is something else.Kristatos wrote:It was very much a trashy airport blockbuster, though, in the same literary class as Dan Brown or Jeffrey Archer. It worked much better as a film than it did as a book.Thunderpussy wrote:It's been years since I read it But I rather enjoyed Jaws.
I guess it's because I'm not trying to judge this trailer too much, mainly because its only a teaser trailer - so doesn't give much away, and also because trailers can often give a very different picture to what the final product will be. How many times have we seen brilliant trailers end up as crappy films, and vice versa.Alessandra wrote:Sweeney, you said you didn't have much problem with the trailer and then listed three major reasons... you do know that's an oxymoron, right?
What planet are these drones living in or are they all on the vegetable's payroll? Name another lead actor with such abysmal box office results that keeps getting hired? There "ain't" none These are spin doctors for Eon. Sweeney, saying that the trailer "doesn't look particularly Bondian" again puzzles me about you. This is a Bond film. Shouldn't it ALL look Bondian? It's not an avant-garde genre and what you are doing is "dumming down" the expectations for a proper Bond film, much as the USA has done to our education requirements, thereby producing nitwits without brains graduating high school here. There is NO such thing as a "not very Bondian" Bond film. It's all or none.......No middle ground.......no excuses, just to tolerate the perpetuation of an ill conceived muse by the horny green vegetable who plays Jane in her DC Tarzan fantasy in her mind 
