‘Transformers’ worked. That hurts to say but it connected with kids and made transforming boat loads of cash.
‘Battleship’ didn’t work. That feels nice to say. The public said no, movies based on toys are stupid.
So why was a Tonka Truck movie just greenlit? But wait, it gets worse…
Making a Venom movie at this stage of the film re-incarnation is a really bold concept. You already butchered the character in an unnecessary sequel, and you are in the process of relaunching Spiderman as what appears to be an unnecessary franchise. So with this new incarnation barely off the ground, it’s a really dumb idea to try and give Venom his OWN movie for many reasons
1) Avi Arad stated that the Venom of these films would be both Eddie Brock and a heroic Venom. He wouldn’t be bad or anything until he saw Spiderman.
2) a Venom standalone movie doesn’t work because his entire origin is tied far too closely to Peter Parker, so unless Venom shows up in this new Spiderman series, and then gets spun out, it wont work.
3) Venom is not nearly the household name people think it is. He also looks like a monster which means, you will continually have to use CGI for your main character who is an A-level spidey character, but a C-level Marvel Universe character. Hulk all CGI works cause everyone on earth knows hulk.
4) Venom is kind of a brat. “I want to be a hero too, but fuck that guy [spiderman]”. I don’t know how you get people behind that character unless you drastically change his motivations, origins, and intrinsic characteristics. At that rate is it really worth it.
The basic issue at hand is that Sony owns the rights to the Spiderman universe and they can’t make a Spidey movie every year, so they have to get creative with how they monetize that world. If I were them I would just sell the rights back to Marvel at a PREMIUM and use that cash to go and buy some other franchise. Marvel can do it better than you, and you can go use that money keep other projects afloat.
I should be an exec, cause I would kill this movie in a heartbeat before it becomes an uninspired stillborn wreck.
We mentioned it on the podcast though no one had any idea how it could be done, but alas ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ is getting the sequel treatment. It’s a movie starring hot young actors that grossed over $50m its opening weekend, it was bound to happen.
If you saw the movie, the question on your mind has got to be: What the hell would it be about?
First off I hate the Hangover series. I did not find the first one funny. Granted some of this might have been due to the extremely high expectations created by, well everyone. It just wasn’t for me. When previews for the second film came out my intelligence was insulted by it being practically shot for shot retread of the first.
They’ve announced the third film will start in LA, move to Vegas, and then end up in Tijuana further continuing the pattern of crazy city.
This might be a crazy idea, but I think they should go in the complete opposite direction. The third film should take place in some Small Town USA.
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This week I had no idea what the hell to make a shitty diapery movie about this week, until I started listening to Zombie by The Cranberries. Then it came to me: A movie about zombies for kids!
In 2040, the world has been ravaged by war and nuclear fallout. 97% of the population in the world has been killed as a result. One unintended side-effect of the war is that once the radiation began devastating the land, with it came the zombie plague. Apparently zombies can be created by taking perfectly normal people and exposing them to radiation. That is necessary for this movie. Ok so there are very few uninfected humans left on earth, and the zombies have begun banding together to, like families to find the humans and feast on them so that they can survive.
Welp. Another week and I have nothing for this weeks #FMF. So…. here’s another title I have written down in an old notebook:
The Computer Whisperer
Let’s make this quick because this idea does’t deserve much space…(Spoiler: it’s so fucking long still)
‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ comes out in two weeks. I think Seth Grahame-Smith is bullshit. Let’s see how easy it is to write one of these stink burgers. I’m doing no research on this, other than looking up the circumstances of his death, birth year, and wife and children info.
William Taft: Demon Slayer
We open on a woman running through the woods. Its 1857, and she’s being pursued by men with torches. She looks terrified and upon making it to the river we see she is carrying a child. She lays him down in a basket.
“No one will hurt you. My beautiful Tafty.”
Have you missed us? It’s been a while. Too long some might say, not long enough for others. But fuck those others because Movie Movie Podcast IS BACK! Join Russ, Peter, Alex and myself for a MEGACAST during which we discuss Snow White and the Huntsman, Chernobyl Diaries, Men in Black 3 and Moonrise Kingdom.
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Throughout the Wes Anderson film ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ the female main character Suzy reads excerpts from a few of her favorite young adult novels that she brought on the adventure at the center of the story. The cover of each book was drawn in a different style by a different artist. They’ve made a short feature animating each of the excerpts. Head over to Entertainment Weekly to see them. They are narrated by Bob Balaban’s narrator character and contain NO SPOILERS.
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/06/07/moonrise-kingdom-animation/