The Season of a Thousand Deaths

slyc_willie

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Hollywood's going on a killing spree, it seems. We're about to be deluged with movies that are racking up the body counts:

1. Halloween. Rob Zombie's reimagining aims to get inside Michael Myer's head. I have to admit that this just might outdo the original. Malcolm McDowell, at least, will outshine Donald Pleasance as far as I'm concerned.

2. The Brave One. Jodie Foster gets a little gritty when she becomes a vigilante after being attacked. The only thing that seems a little rediculous, though, is the line, "I want my dog back."

3. Death Sentence. Kevin Bacon takes arms to hunt down criminals that target his family. The first previews I saw painted him as just a desperate target. But now it seems he goes on the offensive in the movie.

4. Shoot-em-up. Don't really care if this movie has a plot or not. Definite testosterone fare.
 
slyc_willie said:
Hollywood's going on a killing spree, it seems. We're about to be deluged with movies that are racking up the body counts:

1. Halloween. Rob Zombie's reimagining aims to get inside Michael Myer's head. I have to admit that this just might outdo the original. Malcolm McDowell, at least, will outshine Donald Pleasance as far as I'm concerned.

2. The Brave One. Jodie Foster gets a little gritty when she becomes a vigilante after being attacked. The only thing that seems a little rediculous, though, is the line, "I want my dog back."

3. Death Sentence. Kevin Bacon takes arms to hunt down criminals that target his family. The first previews I saw painted him as just a desperate target. But now it seems he goes on the offensive in the movie.

4. Shoot-em-up. Don't really care if this movie has a plot or not. Definite testosterone fare.

I saw the preview for Death Sentence when I was at the movies last weekend. It looks pretty good and action-packed.
 
I'm a sucker for a decent western. There's a couple of new ones I want to see:

September Dawn, starring Jon Voight. Reviewers hated it, but I'll see it, although maybe not in the theater.

And 3:10 to Yuma, starring Russell Crowe and Peter Fonda. No reviews as of yet, but the trailers look good, anyway.
 
Oh, and then there's the latest Resident Evil movie, Resident Evil: Extinction. Not that I'm a fan, but I might see it just because of Milla :catroar:
 
cloudy said:
I'm a sucker for a decent western. There's a couple of new ones I want to see:

September Dawn, starring Jon Voight. Reviewers hated it, but I'll see it, although maybe not in the theater.

And 3:10 to Yuma, starring Russell Crowe and Peter Fonda. No reviews as of yet, but the trailers look good, anyway.

That's right. 3:10 to Yuma looks pretty good. I've always been a fan of both Christian Bale and Russel Crowe.
 
slyc_willie said:
Oh, and then there's the latest Resident Evil movie, Resident Evil: Extinction. Not that I'm a fan, but I might see it just because of Milla :catroar:
Hot women carrying guns...yes, I will see it too. :cool:

And I will The Brave One too, I have such a crush on Jodie Foster. :eek:
 
slyc_willie said:
Oh, and then there's the latest Resident Evil movie, Resident Evil: Extinction. Not that I'm a fan, but I might see it just because of Milla :catroar:

Milla Jovovich is the greatest actress in Hollywood.

THE GREATEST!!

I also want to see Shoot 'Em Up. I almost changed my mind when I heard the radio commercial earlier. You hear gunshots, then the hero guy goes "I counted six shots. You just blew your load."

And I was like "WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF LINE IS THAT?!"
 
Lee Chambers said:
Milla Jovovich is the greatest actress in Hollywood.

THE GREATEST!!

I also want to see Shoot 'Em Up. I almost changed my mind when I heard the radio commercial earlier. You hear gunshots, then the hero guy goes "I counted six shots. You just blew your load."

And I was like "WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF LINE IS THAT?!"

Lol. Got your attention, didn't it? :p

Yeah, sexualizing firearms seems to be a theme in the movie. The stunts seem way over the top, too. Like when the main character gets into a head-on collision with a van, flies out the front window and into the van. Very Jackie Chan ;)
 
slyc_willie said:
Hollywood's going on a killing spree, it seems. We're about to be deluged with movies that are racking up the body counts:

1. Halloween. Rob Zombie's reimagining aims to get inside Michael Myer's head. I have to admit that this just might outdo the original. Malcolm McDowell, at least, will outshine Donald Pleasance as far as I'm concerned.

2. The Brave One. Jodie Foster gets a little gritty when she becomes a vigilante after being attacked. The only thing that seems a little rediculous, though, is the line, "I want my dog back."

3. Death Sentence. Kevin Bacon takes arms to hunt down criminals that target his family. The first previews I saw painted him as just a desperate target. But now it seems he goes on the offensive in the movie.

4. Shoot-em-up. Don't really care if this movie has a plot or not. Definite testosterone fare.

You forgot to mention that The Brave One is essentially a remake of Death Wish, with Jodie Foster in the role that Charles Bronson made famous. Of course, the movie would work just as well with a female protagonist, since as Colt used to advertise, "God created man, Colt made them equal."

I am curious how the Halloween remake will turn out. The original was made on a shoestring budget and little aside from style going for it. I hope the new one doesn't try too hard to be a typical hollywood horror, and gets back to the roots of horror movies.

Death Sentence looks like it could be good. I just hope they don't use the shaky cam. As for Shoot-em-up, you really really should have mentioned Monica Belluci! How can you say testosterone fare and forget to mention Monica!
 
only_more_so said:
You forgot to mention that The Brave One is essentially a remake of Death Wish, with Jodie Foster in the role that Charles Bronson made famous. Of course, the movie would work just as well with a female protagonist, since as Colt used to advertise, "God created man, Colt made them equal."

That's a good point. I never cared too much for Bronson myself, didn't see too many of his movies, so I didn't make the connection. The aspect of the killing on the subway, however, does remind me of Bernard Goetz.

I am curious how the Halloween remake will turn out. The original was made on a shoestring budget and little aside from style going for it. I hope the new one doesn't try too hard to be a typical hollywood horror, and gets back to the roots of horror movies.

My experiences with Rob Zombie's movies so far have left me with the impression that he likes a lot of shock value. But Halloween appears to be a departure from that, from what I've seen in the previews.

Death Sentence looks like it could be good. I just hope they don't use the shaky cam. As for Shoot-em-up, you really really should have mentioned Monica Belluci! How can you say testosterone fare and forget to mention Monica!

You're absolutely right, and I humbly beg for your forgiveness. ;)
 
slyc_willie said:
That's a good point. I never cared too much for Bronson myself, didn't see too many of his movies, so I didn't make the connection. The aspect of the killing on the subway, however, does remind me of Bernard Goetz.

For once, it was a case of Life imitates Art. Hard for me to believe that the original Death Wish was filmed ten years before the Bernard Goetz case. I think the Jodie Foster movie is closer to Death Wish than the Goetz case, at least based on the previews.

She and her lover are attacked (in the movie it was the wife and daughter). The police can't/won't do anything. The victim starts taking revenge by making himself/herself a target for muggings, where self-defense would apply.

Although, oddly enough, the IMDB says that Death Sentance (the Bacon movie) is a remake of Death Wish, and doesn't list The Brave One as such. Apparently they are based on the same book.

BTW, a great bit of dialog about the making of Death Wish. Apparently the director and Bronson were talking:

Director: "The best script I've got is Death Wish. It's about a man whose wife and daughter are mugged and he goes out and shoots muggers,"
Bronson: "I'd like to do that,"
Director: "The film?"
Bronson: "No... shoot muggers."
 
We were just talking in another thread about abject sex - the sex of gore and violence. It seems to be on the rise.

Must be a coincidence.
 
dr_mabeuse said:
We were just talking in another thread about abject sex - the sex of gore and violence. It seems to be on the rise.

Must be a coincidence.

You don't believe in coincidences, Zoot.
 
only_more_so said:
I am curious how the Halloween remake will turn out. The original was made on a shoestring budget and little aside from style going for it. I hope the new one doesn't try too hard to be a typical hollywood horror, and gets back to the roots of horror movies.
I doubt it will be horror at all. I had the misfortune of seeing House Of 1000 Corpses and have to say that Zombie may be my least favorite director in history. This Halloween is exactly like his other movies (from the review talk I've heard). In a Hollywood that has given up on even trying to use suspense to scare you and has gone directly to gore in almost every pic lately, this will probably be adequately popular with the kids. I will avoid it like the plague.

I have to admit, the new Alien vs Predator looks pretty cool though. :cool:
 
slyc_willie said:
4. Shoot-em-up. Don't really care if this movie has a plot or not. Definite testosterone fare.


I saw a poster for this, i like the fact that Paul Giamatti is given a role in which he is not cast as a blithering nervous little man, for once. At least...the poster suggests he can weild a weapon...eh.
 
S-Des said:
I have to admit, the new Alien vs Predator looks pretty cool though. :cool:

First I have heard of it. The first one didn't really impress me, but I still have hopes for the director after Soldier and Event Horizon.
 
But now that I think about it, there are tons of things that an imaginative writer could do within the AvP universe.

I would like to see what the Alien and Predator home worlds look like (assuming Aliens are natural creatures and not genetic experimentations). And not in one big movie either. I'd like those to be two seperate movies. Split the franchises back up again for that one.

I would like to see the race that introduced us to the Aliens. Was it an experiment gone wrong like in Alien Ressurection? Or was it just a transport ship that had problems?

A war between humans and any number of Alien races, with the Predators on our side, but only because we are losing that war and the PReds want a challenge ;)
 
Lee Chambers said:
Milla Jovovich is the greatest actress in Hollywood.

THE GREATEST!!


And The Fifth Element is the best movie ever. Really. I'm serious. Well, one of my all time favorites.
 
only_more_so said:
You forgot to mention that The Brave One is essentially a remake of Death Wish, with Jodie Foster in the role that Charles Bronson made famous. Of course, the movie would work just as well with a female protagonist, since as Colt used to advertise, "God created man, Colt made them equal."

Actual quote from the Colt history web site: "Abe Lincoln may have freed all men, but Sam Colt made them equal."
 
TheeGoatPig said:
But now that I think about it, there are tons of things that an imaginative writer could do within the AvP universe.

I would like to see what the Alien and Predator home worlds look like (assuming Aliens are natural creatures and not genetic experimentations). And not in one big movie either. I'd like those to be two seperate movies. Split the franchises back up again for that one.

I would like to see the race that introduced us to the Aliens. Was it an experiment gone wrong like in Alien Ressurection? Or was it just a transport ship that had problems?

A war between humans and any number of Alien races, with the Predators on our side, but only because we are losing that war and the PReds want a challenge ;)
This is going to be another earth-based one. It appears to be about a Predator ship crashing, releasing the aliens on a city. The trailer is filled with violence and gore, so it looks like it'll be an 'R' rating this time around. I'm trying not to get too excited because they've screwed up so many of these "can't miss" premises over time. However, the trailer looks very cool.
 
S-Des said:
I doubt it will be horror at all. I had the misfortune of seeing House Of 1000 Corpses and have to say that Zombie may be my least favorite director in history. This Halloween is exactly like his other movies (from the review talk I've heard). In a Hollywood that has given up on even trying to use suspense to scare you and has gone directly to gore in almost every pic lately, this will probably be adequately popular with the kids. I will avoid it like the plague.

I'm reserving judgement until I actually see the movie. Last night on Sci-Fi, Rob Zombie introduced three different clips that had not been released as previews. They reminded me quite a bit of 70s-style camerawork. the whole feel of the movie (at least, based on these clips) make me think Zombie's trying to stay pretty close to the original concept.

I've never seen any of his other movies, simply because I'm not a fan of gore. But I'll give him a shot on this one.

I like his music, though. ;)
 
slyc_willie said:
...Rob Zombie introduced three different clips that had not been released as previews. They reminded me quite a bit of 70s-style camerawork.

Your thread title reminded me of a comment made about Conan the Barbarian, Conan The Destroyer, and Red Sonja in the 1980's -- "They must have gotten a three-for-one bulk discount on beheadings from the special effects department."

In looking up the dates ('82, '84, '85 respectively,) I noticed that Conan the Barbarian and Red Sonja are in pre-production stages for remakes in '09 and '08, along with three other movies based on Robert E.Howard stories/characters.

I wish "Hollywood" would quit re-making movies and go back to the 20's and 30's when they actually made NEW movies; (ETA) New movies that didn't depend on the SFX budget for fake blood.
 
Weird Harold said:
Your thread title reminded me of a comment made about Conan the Barbarian, Conan The Destroyer, and Red Sonja in the 1980's -- "They must have gotten a three-for-one bulk discount on beheadings from the special effects department."

In looking up the dates ('82, '84, '85 respectively,) I noticed that Conan the Barbarian and Red Sonja are in pre-production stages for remakes in '09 and '08, along with three other movies based on Robert E.Howard stories/characters.

I wish "Hollywood" would quit re-making movies and go back to the 20's and 30's when they actually made NEW movies; (ETA) New movies that didn't depend on the SFX budget for fake blood.

The first Conan was good. Very faithful to the concepts of Howard's stories. It even managed to portrasy Schwarzenegger as the kind of Conan Howard intended: direct, brutal, simple, but with a sort of innate, common wisdom. Of course, maybe that was because of Oliver Stone's input in the script.

Conan the Destroyer and Red Sonja sucked. Period. I liked them as a 13-year-old kid, but that was about it.
 
Oh, new directors for AvP 2. It looks like they went for straight-out gore. I thnk I saw a woman getting killed by a pred weapon. They are only supposed to go after people that they consider a challenge. Suburban women aren't normally all that challenging to 7' tall alien monsters. I don't think I care about this one.
 
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