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#251 2008-11-08 3:43 am

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Re: Game movie craptacularity continues, intensifies

Being into the holiday quarter, a visit from the Ghost of Craptacularity Past:

Ever wonder what Dennis Hopper thinks of his role in the universally reviled Super Mario Bros. movie? Fifteen years after the fact, the Academy Award-nominated actor finally spilled his guts on last night's Late Night with Conan O'Brien. When asked if he regretted any of the nearly 150 films he's been involved with, Hopper responded with this anecdote about his son Henry:

"I made a picture called Super Mario Bros., and my six-year-old son at the time -- he's now 18 -- he said, 'Dad, I think you're probably a pretty good actor, but why did you play that terrible guy King Koopa in Super Mario Bros.?' and I said, 'Well Henry, I did that so you could have shoes,' and he said, 'Dad, I don't need shoes that badly.'"

Not exactly a glowing endorsement from the Hopper family, but what would you expect from a movie that's currently sitting at a 6 percent Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes?

Dennis Hopper Talks Super Mario Bros. the Movie


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#252 2008-11-08 5:05 am

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Re: Game movie craptacularity continues, intensifies

It sure can't hold a match to classics like Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.


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#253 2008-11-08 9:38 pm

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Re: Game movie craptacularity continues, intensifies

...and you still haven't seen Forbidden Planet? Hasn't enough boredom & ennui set in yet? wink


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#254 2008-11-09 6:41 pm

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I think its the only bona fide pre-70s sci-fi classic I haven't seen, other than A Trip to the Moon.  I'm still waiting for the complete print of Metropolis that was found last year to come out.


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#255 2008-11-09 6:51 pm

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Leslie Nelson was better in it than he was in any of the comedies he was in.

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#256 2008-11-10 4:51 am

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Leslie Nelson was better in it than he was in any of the comedies he was in.

Who's Leslie Nelson? Was he at Trafalgar? confused

(Speaking of which... was Walter Pidgeon better than he was in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, or Warren Stevens better as Doc or as an Andromedan? wink)


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#257 2008-11-10 4:56 am

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Re: Game movie craptacularity continues, intensifies

Btw, it seems JM Straczynski (B5) is interested in doing a remake.


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#258 2008-11-10 7:20 am

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Re: Game movie craptacularity continues, intensifies

My bad! Leslie Nielsen.

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That said Nielsen used to be in a lot of non comedy roles back in the day and of the ones Ive seen, he always seemed a so much better actor than he did in the comedies. I loved Pidgeon in both the FP & VttBotS roles but without seeing them together I be pretty hard pressed to say which I thought he did better in right now. Warren Stevens, I only remember from FP.

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#259 2008-11-10 3:52 pm

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Hint: he turned a lot of redshirts into cubes. smile


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#260 2008-11-10 4:35 pm

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Ahh!!!!!

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#261 2008-11-23 10:02 am

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#262 2008-11-23 4:02 pm

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Oh, thats not right! blech

Well, probably wouldn't be much worse than the new Star Trek coming out. Finally saw the trailer with actual actors in it on XBL...my joy turned into terror as it looked like they're turning Trek into another teen movie. Visuals reminded me of Galaxy Quest more than Star Trek too. Instead of the cut and clean professional look, it had that goofy fun thing going which is more suited for Galaxy Quest than Trek. Then changing things around in the story with starships being built on earth vs the space docks...I'll go see it just to see it cause i'm a trek fan, but I reserve to right to demand a refund if it sucks.


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#263 2008-11-23 4:07 pm

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Is that trailer real though? For Mega Man I mean


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#264 2008-11-23 4:46 pm

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MacZiMiZer wrote:

Is that trailer real though? For Mega Man I mean

No, but it looks like a fun fan film anyway.


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#265 2008-11-24 6:48 am

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Ya, if that was real...it would be classified under ultracheese flicks lol


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#266 2008-11-24 7:16 pm

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Re: Game movie craptacularity continues, intensifies

Nothing for Mega Man at Movie-List.com, so if there is it's not a major studio release... but they do have a new re-encode in their Classics series, Chuck Heston in "The [O]mega Man." (No Soylent Green yet, so no "Soylent Green- it's made out of NCs, it's made out of NCs!") smile


Vaguely related, just added- "Astro Boy." In the 'actually promising' category, "Watchmen."


And for NC, a trailer page for the '09 ST. (I know, don't thank me). wink


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#267 2008-11-25 11:43 am

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Re: Game movie craptacularity continues, intensifies

AstroBoy??

Oh, smurf!


Aw, he's no fun, he fell right over.

Unless you become as little children, there's no way you will believe this crap.

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#268 2008-11-25 12:49 pm

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Bat wrote:

Nothing for Mega Man at Movie-List.com, so if there is it's not a major studio release...

Or a US studio release anyway.

Seems to be an independent specializing in Short Films, Fan Films, and one feature film

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#269 2008-11-25 4:18 pm

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AstroBoy??

Oh, smurf!

First, that's not a video game, that's anime.

But, yeah. I saw the first trailer, and I'm not too happy. Though I must say that I saw Speed Racer expecting to hate it, and I didn't.

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#270 2008-11-25 8:04 pm

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I know what it is - anyway, I used to watch AstroBoy on our black and white Philco while wearing my jammies.

This looks like a glossed up version - I wonder if they kept the odd sense of - everything - that was in the original series. The inclusion of weirdo Nick Cage gives me hope.


Aw, he's no fun, he fell right over.

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#271 2008-11-25 8:26 pm

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I watched the trailer.  There really wasnt anything there to indicate they are going to butcher it.  At least they didnt try to make it live action... that would have had my eyes rolling.  I am going to be hopefully optimistic on this once.


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#272 2008-11-25 9:24 pm

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Re: Game movie craptacularity continues, intensifies

ukimalefu wrote:

user wrote:

AstroBoy??

Oh, smurf!

First, that's not a video game, that's anime.

But, yeah. I saw the first trailer, and I'm not too happy. Though I must say that I saw Speed Racer expecting to hate it, and I didn't.

Actually it's both

http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/astroboy/index.html
http://www.gamespot.com/gba/action/astroboy/index.html

There's also a new one coming out next year.

http://www.1up.com/do/gameOverview?cId=3169679

Of course that does bring up the inverse of this topic, crappy games based on shows and movies.

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#273 2008-11-26 5:10 am

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ET. Atari 2600.

I win!


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#274 2008-11-26 8:20 am

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Re: Game movie craptacularity continues, intensifies

Warin wrote:

ET. Atari 2600.

I win!

Why do you win? I had that. And I... did not hate it.

Some people say that game killed Atari.

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#275 2008-11-27 11:07 am

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Nothing can turn out as bad as Max Payne


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