If it's a Hollywood sequel, trust me, that ain't God speaking.
Look down.

it's gonna be great, no more jim carey, now steve carrell is god

Is it just me or does anybody else find that reading anything in CHUD by Devin Faraci similar to scraping rusty nails across a blackboard and then jamming them into your ankles?

There's a fine line between being a wry, cyincal smartass and just being a mean-spirited asshat. Devin pole vaults over that line on a daily basis. (But admittedly, this is perhaps the wrong forum to make that complaint.)

Eh, whatever. CHUD jumped the shark since becomeing Hellboy whores anyway.

/loves Steve Carell....in original movies
//although him as Maxwell Smart may be worth a look

Well, the Jews control Hollywood, and the Jews are God's Chosen People, so I guess it makes sense.

Although I gotta say, I was playing God as a guy in a white suit long before Morgan Freeman came on the scene...

When the four horseman saddle up, my hope is one will be wearing lipstick.


/didn't rtfa
//sue me
///eva a slashy ho!

Heroic Poser: Look down.

That's God.

SockMonkeyHolocaust

szmike: Is it just me or does anybody else find that reading anything in CHUD by Devin Faraci similar to scraping rusty nails across a blackboard and then jamming them into your ankles?

You mean you don't like it when a writer derails his article with a rant that is unrelated to the subject at hand?

I didn't read TFA. I clicked the link, saw the byline, and clicked right back.

Oh, you were referring to me. First of all, I did pay lipservice to the topic of the thread in the slashies. Secondly, how much is there to discuss over Bruce Almighty 2? Hollywood is out of ideas. Moving on.

If God cared about the movies, Jessica Alba would have been nude in Sin City.

more sequels to "Bruce Almighty"

More? Are there already sequels I don't know about? I never even saw the first, just find that a little shocking.

When the four horseman saddle up, my hope is one will be wearing lipstick.

But will they be eating pudding?

Challenge: No mention of Chuck Norris in this thread.

I hear god is a HUGE Brokeback Mountain fan.

If I get to see Jennifer Anniston pondering her breasts again, it'll be worth it.

Bruce Almighty 2: Honk Bag

/well, at least it would be better than most of the crappy sequels we have to put up with.

Well the first did have this:



Hottest Scientologist Evar.

We're about 2 years away from Peanut Butter Jelly Time winning an Oscar for Best Screenplay.

Chuck Norris.....is god.

szmike: /loves Steve Carell....in original movies
//although him as Maxwell Smart may be worth a look

Given a decent script and a few good comedy writers, and even a mediocre comedy director at that.. Steve would be perfect as Maxwell Smart.

He has the look, and the right delivery for the role.

Only an act of Jebus could make Steve Carrell any less funny. The whole "I say silly stuff with a straight face!" schtick should be punishable by death.

They were going with Bruce Almighty... Then! until Jim Carrey turned down the role.

Steve Carrell, who unjustly won the Golden Globe for his work on the American version of The Office (while the show is funny, Carrells character has none of the charm of Ricky Gervais, and just comes across as a sociopath due to Carrells deadpan performance, and not as a desperate loser)

Methinks ol' Devin has his head up his ass. Carrell is brilliant in the role and it would have been shiate if he just aped Gervais office manager from the BBC series.

That being said, the first film was a still-born turd.

it's pretty sad when the 80's beat you out on originality

Oh no, what have I done?!?



If I get to see Jennifer Anniston pondering her breasts again, it'll be worth it.

Boing, boing, schwing!

SockMonkeyHolocaust

szmike: Oh, you were referring to me. First of all, I did pay lipservice to the topic of the thread in the slashies. Secondly, how much is there to discuss over Bruce Almighty 2? Hollywood is out of ideas. Moving on.

No, that's what the article author does in the first paragraph. I wasn't referring to you. It's all good in the forums.

Good to hear. You're enough of a TF veteran that I would have been disappointed if you were genuinely criticizing me for what is routine in almost every Fark forum. Please excuse my snark.

And for the record, it's not Devin's digressions so much but his ugly tone in general. I do not believe that columnists should play the Pollyanna glad game and say only nice things about people, but as I said in the earlier post, there is a difference between being a smartass and being an unlikable asshat. See Maddox's Best Page in the Universe for an example for the former. He's caustic, but he's funny and always makes a point as to why he rants on a particular topic. Devin merely drops trou and takes a witless dump on everything. Got old real fast.

But like I said, I lost interest in CHUD during the non-stop Hellboy lovefest.

tdpatriots12, heh, word up on the Catherine Bell bit.

God likes indies like Moonstruck and Japanese porn.

/going to hell

Then again, I just saw a promo for "Big Momma's House 2", so I guess it could be worse.

The Big Momma's House 2 trailer seemed really awful when I saw it in the theatre... till it was followed by the trailer for The Benchwarmers. The BMH2 looked like Citizen Kane in comparison.

Just because this thread is heading towards a general discussion of unneccessary sequels...

That guy won a Golden Globe for The Office? I watched that show twice. The second time I made sure I locked away all my razor blades, nooses, and shotguns to avoid any more close calls.

Catherine Bell is hawt

/fap fap fap fap fap fap
//fap

Catherine Bell is hawt

I am forced to concur.

Bruce Almighty - The Sequel...



/hollywood strikes again

I am waiting for them to ruin more books.

Snow Crash the movie, anyone?

OK, but Bruce has to be played by Bruce Campbell.

with Keanu Reeves.

Catherine Bell gave birth about 4 months prior to filming. That's why her jubblies were so huge. Pity there wasn't more of them in the movie, since it would have made it infinitely more tolerable.

The ONLY funny scene in Bruce Almighty was when Jim took over Steve Carrell. Steve has this odd Danny Kaye delivery about him, and as someone who can still find Danny Kaye funny, that says a lot.

/The pellet with the poison is in the vessle with the pestle
//The flagon with the dragon holds the brew that is true

th0th

/The pellet with the poison is in the vessle with the pestle
//The flagon with the dragon holds the brew that is true

No, no, no!!!

The pellet with the poison is in the flagon with the dragon.
The chalice with the palace holds the brew that is true.

Sheesh!

Why are all "new" movies just sequels or remakes?

And if they're gonna remake so many movies, why don't they remake Sherlock Holmes into a decent film?

This "Honk Bag" idea seems to be catching. I think some enterprising idiot needs to do a five minute mpeg and let it tour the Internet.

I bet it would outperform "Hampster Dance".

Because Hollywood can't make a remake better than the original. Its simple universally accepted physics. Hollywood makes a good movie once, then milks it with sequels... then 30 years later makes a remake to pry more money from those people who still have fond memories of the original, and from all the people who've seen the now classic movie and think it can be done better in modern times. Then there is great dissapoint from the masses, but the Hollywood gets ever richer...

Who in gods name ever approved the Blair Witch Project... I saw it in the cheap theatre and I still wanted my money back!

Sherlock doesn't need a remake, Basil Rathbone was perfect. Plus there are all those TV adaptations including one not that old with that's his name, the bad guy from Inspector Gadget.

I support anything Steve Carell and/or Steve Oedekerk (Kung Pow) is involved with. Sequel to a Jim Carey movie he doesn't return for or not.

Blair witch was an indie, made for $35,000. It wasn't greenlighted so much as it was mortgaged/student-loaned into existence. Yeah, it was essentially plotless and pointless, but it was at least a different style and feel of movie as compared to the then (as now) crop of exsplosion-fests, unwanted remakes and carbon copy romantic comedies. It made more money for having one semi-original facet than any substance.