i don’t think aronofsky really would work as a big budget director anyway, so I don’t see him doing a super hero movie
i’m surprised he even got the fountain made like he did (with 35 million+ budget and very vague and artsy) and released.
his movies are more like artsy/make you think/european type films, which history has shown over and over aren’t profitable at the US box office. in the US everyone wants closure on everything (See the Sopranos) except his movies don’t really have any. They’re more about making you think and will take multiple viewings to really understand.
the more money at risk in a movie the more people you need to answer to and compromise your vision, which sucks, but at the same time its not your money so what can you do.
about movies i finally saw matrix and in HD. looks really nice in 1080p, audio is awesome on my sound setup too.
and then i watched death wish 1-4 all in a row, sad to see how bad the series got by the 4th one
Maybe they could’ve explained how they sold the trick in the movie instead of expecting us to just shrug it off at face value. There’s nothing to explain about the ‘new’ director comment.
Just thought I’d share some quick comments my friend just gave me. He saw an advanced screening of Rob Zombies Halloween. Sorry if this is vague, I’ll call him later fro more details but this is some stuff he told me about the movie.
Michaels mother is a stripper, and his father is a drunk…he said they reminded him of rednecks.
When he is in the asylum he makes several masks while he’s there and hangs them all over his walls.
The guards in the asylum encourage and allow him to rape the female patients.
He lusts after his sister.
and worst of all…he talks.
Again, sorry if this is vague, just trying to relay what he told me. As you can see though it doesn’t look good, as expected. He said it’s like Rob Zombie used the House of 1000 Corpses formula and just used Halloween as the theme.
Just was Secret Window yesterday, pretty good actually, Depp was great as always, the rest of the acting was good, the concept was not that original, but nonetheless enjoyable, anybody else see it?
ya i saw it, thought it was alright, i kinda figured out what was going on early in the movie but still decent nonetheless…
if anyone here has not seen Dark City you should check it out, i think it is one of the best movies ever made…that shit is so amazing and it totally got overlooked…
I don’t like it when classics are re-made. Imagine if some low-mid level niche director tried to remake the 1970’s Star Wars trilogy… uh, yeah. No thanks.
Halloween is considered a not just a horric classic that essentially started the slasher genre, but is a cinematic classic that has great historical importance. And then Rob Zombie fanboy/wannabe director comes along and tries to modernize it or some shit… Ugh.
True, The Thing (1980’s remake) was quite good… but who directed that 1980’s film? Uh yeah, John Carpenter. So, chances are that it’s going to be good, remake or not.
However, by and large, remakes have been historically a bad decision. Maybe profit-wise, it’s a success, but in terms of critical and fanbase support? For every one successful, well-done remake, I can name 3 that sucked bad. And after that horrible remake is made, it’s like the original is tainted to me then…
I don’t know, imo, leave originals alone, unless the film is sooooooooooo far back in eras that an updated version needs to be made. But the original Halloween came out in the 1970’s, that isn’t exactly a long time ago. Fuck, if we want to start having low-mid level directors like Rob Zombie direct 1970’s classics, we should give him the GodFather, Deliverance, The Deer Hunter, etc…
Right but for every one successful, well-done non-remake you can also name 3 non-remakes that sucked bad. And Halloween is ancient compared to several other movies that have been remade in the past few years (the hitcher springs to mind). The problem is that the current crop of remakes, for whatever reason, have all seriously blown. Perhaps one of the reasons is that for the most part the current remakes are of films that were already classics or very successful in their own right, while back in the day for the most part remakes were to “take a second crack” at a good concept that had not turned into the best movie or was a “remake” in the sense that both films just used the same source material. Another reason to look at, especially for the remakes in the horror genre, is that no one is trying to do anything that the originals didnt. John Carpenter loved The Thing From Another World, but he didnt want to make that movie. He took the themes, and created something new. Cronenberg took this idea a step further when making his remake of The Fly. Zack Snyder, Alexandre Aja, and the other losers dont seem to get this, they seem too wrapped up in their fanboy adoration to give us something different. It is ironic that perhaps it will be Rob Zombie after all who gives us the freshest take on a remake so far.
In general, I agree. However, in this case, I have faith in Rob Zombie; he’s one of the few directors you can count on for an interesting, unique take on a horror film.
Rob Zombie has a very small body of directorial work to his credit. I think he should focus on perfecting his craft, with original bodies of work, rather than trying to remake possibly the most influential horror film of the modern era (the 70’s-present). Just my $.02.
I always loved Carpenter’s Halloween(1978) probably my favorite horror movie of all-time with Psycho(1960) coming in a very close second.
Anyway, those scenes that you guys have talked about, those who have seen advanced screening of Zombie’s Halloween(2007), the movie dont have me that excited, sounds like Zombie is going for a more disturbing kind of movie like House of a 1000 Corpses which i thought was decent atleast, but was expecting more out of Devil’s Rejects. I’ll still see it opening night though, i know right now its not gonna have anything of the original.
I just recently watched Free Jimmy. Not quite as funny as I expected, but worth watching, at least for it being the first feature length adult CGI movie.