The Day After Tomorrow
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- blackspade0
i like the matrix, both the people that hate it and those that over analyize it are taking it too seriously...
but certain ideas and concepts in movies (not just the matrix) can be traslated into the 'grand scheme of things' as you put it, or your own life for that matter
thats the beauty of cinema
- tc_fisher0
yeah, i see what you are saying blackspade but the main concern with me and the matrix is that i've read that story before. Terrance Mckenna brought about this idea a while ago. Phil K Dick took this idea and destroyed it book after book.
i've seen it in comic form. fuckng Grant morrison lived this story for years and now he can't really make The Invisibles a movie, to put more ideas and concepts in 'the grand scheme of things'
sure certain ideas and concepts, mirroring life or adding to make cinema beautiful, but at least let me have it in a original more thought provoking form. that's all i ask.
- unknown0
"translating the grand scheme"
Old Yeller does a fantastic job of doing just that.
And without Keanu Reeves, I might add...
- tc_fisher0
mg33 - this addiction to reeves is incredible. i mean, everyone has an actor or a director the love to hate.
truthfully, i don't know what your post is supposed to mean.
is it that old yellar would have been bad if reeves was in it?
sure. he's too old for the part or: of course, he's not a dog.
you can't tell me that if reeves wasn't in that movie(s), it would have a better movie(s).
you know kevin costner was up for that roll?
yeah, tell me how bad that would have sucked.
i love that bit on the simpsons where they are in the big mega department store and lisa is watching the postman with commentary on dvd on one of those big screens and kevin costner is actually behind the tv, giving the commentary and then asks lisa if he can have a sandwhich... ahh, that's great.
and again, it doesn't matter who played neo. it's bigger than that. the problems i mean. and there are many problems. and keanu isn't at fault. he didn't write the script. he did fucking shoot the movie. he just sat in front of motion control. how can you blame a character that is 50 percent real and 50 CG ninja?
can we stop talking about the matrix and get back to why roland emmerich needs to find another occupation on another continent, outside of the creative world?
for the love of pete, kids.
- gabriel_pc0
I'm still going to go see it.
- jimeeboy510
Don't forget about this movie..less than 2 months til opening. this movie looks nutty! cant wait to see it. anyone else?
- CyBrainX0
tc_fisher, you are right on target on this one. The trend you speak of is growing worse as the script writers get lazier and the cg people get better.
Hollywood would rather have Julia Stiles marry a prince or have another slow motion gradiose explosion than spend 10 minutes brainstorming their next fart.
- pascii0
word mr. fisher!
- AD___________0
damn, tc_fisher thinks as i do.
i remember seeing the trailers for independence day and thinking "looks good", then i saw independence day, hahaha just think of the fresh prince punch out that alien ahh... crap.
- pascii0
personally, my duty these days is to see every single movie that stanley kubrick made.
- CyBrainX0
I also object to movies that prey on peoples' 9/11 anxiety.
- BeachBoy0
Holy good god of satin, what is wrong with you people! What is wrong with going to see a movie that is visually amazing and sets the heart racing! Ok Godzilla was crap, ok in Independence day it took a black man, a jew and a drunk to save the world, and ok there hasn't been a seriously decent plot to a disaster/sci-fi movie since war of the worlds, but christ, get over yourselves! Movies are made to entertain, not to change the world! And TDAT looks like one hell of a movie! I saw the trailer at the cinema, and was blown away - a Spring/summer blockbuster to look forward to at last!!!