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#1 2009-09-15 2:24 pm
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More Game Movie Craptacularity...
http://weblogs.variety.com/bfdealmemo/2 … eship.html
Battleship.
You heard me right. Battleship.
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#2 2009-09-15 3:12 pm
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Re: More Game Movie Craptacularity...
So instead of a drama about the last battleship engagment during WWI, we are going to get a Seal story?
I am so under<insert colloquial word for coitus>whelmed.
I'm not dead yet.
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#3 2009-09-15 3:46 pm
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Re: More Game Movie Craptacularity...
You are underscrewingwhelmed?
Back on topic: such movie projects are one of several reasons why I almost never go to a theater. Between the people who act in the theater as if they were in their own living room and the screaming kids under 10 at movies with topics absolutely inappropriate for their age, the studios want me to pay to see such crap?
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#4 2009-09-15 3:56 pm
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Re: More Game Movie Craptacularity...
D'Eyncourt wrote:
You are underscrewingwhelmed?
Back on topic: such movie projects are one of several reasons why I almost never go to a theater. Between the people who act in the theater as if they were in their own living room and the screaming kids under 10 at movies with topics absolutely inappropriate for their age, the studios want me to pay to see such crap?
I have to assume that's part of the reason that home theaters became so popular so fast.
People hate movie theaters.
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#5 2009-09-15 6:59 pm
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Actually I love movie theaters. I think there is a substantially different experience in seeing a movie in a crowd that cannot be replicated by a home theater system no matter how good it may be. Unfortunately my recent theater experiences involved variations of my complaints in my previous post nullifying any benefits, which is why it takes a lot to get me to go at all. While there is something to be said for simulated "Surrond-sound" of a home theater, if I am at home I'm perfectly happy watching any movie on my MBP or my TV via a DVD player.
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#6 2009-09-17 5:40 am
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Re: More Game Movie Craptacularity...
sturner wrote:
So instead of a drama about the last battleship engagment during WWI, we are going to get a Seal story?
I am so under<insert colloquial word for coitus>whelmed.
No, it's the usual bit about an unrelated story grafted onto a property to milk it for mo' money.
Deal is part of a two-picture pic pact Berg has made with U, where he'll follow "Battleship" with an Afghan war drama "Lone Survivor."
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Berg made something of a quid pro quo pact with the studio to follow "Battleship" with "Lone Survivor," a fact-based story he scripted about a Navy SEAL team that is sent to Afghanistan and is ambushed.
"It was pretty obvious to me they weren't jumping head over heels to make a war film in the Middle East right now," Berg said. "So they said, ‘what if you give us ‘Battleship' for July 2011, and we guarantee you'll follow with ‘Lone Survivor?' I already loved the take we had on ‘Battleship,' so that wasn't a hard deal to make.' "
After the boilerplate enthusiasm about navel warfare yada yada, he seems ideal for a movie about that classic wargame 'Checkers.' I can't wait for that one. Plot guesses? Casting?
I kinda think this one will fall short of 'Das Boot.'
Berg called the pic "a contemporary story of an international five-ship fleet engaged in a very dynamic, violent and intense battle" -- but he would not disclose any details about the enemy force.
It's roughly equivalent to the good guys', and there's plenty of the fog of war? That was hard.
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