SofaKingHuge: unchikun

If that picture is accurate, then I congratulate Abrams on ripping off Sin from Final Fantasy X:

Yes, because monsterifying a humpback whale is obviously such an Earth-shattering idea that nobody in the monster movie industry would ever think of it on their own, especially when you consider that the monster-movies are based on giant monsterified bugs, lizards, apes, and so on. They'd NEVER think of a whale if it weren't for Square.

Allen. The end.: Poop. I'll go see it, but DAMN did I want a pretty straightforward Cthulhu!

hang in there for Del Toros In The Mountains of Madness. I honestly don't know who I'd rather have in charge of my eldrich non-euclidean goodness.

This

Wow, did I touch a nerve there?

fireclown: Allen. The end.: Poop. I'll go see it, but DAMN did I want a pretty straightforward Cthulhu!

hang in there for Del Toros In The Mountains of Madness. I honestly don't know who I'd rather have in charge of my eldrich non-euclidean goodness.

man i re-read that story after hearing he wanted to direct. it'd be so friggen fantastic if he did that- if anyone can pull it off it'd be him!

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SofaKingHuge: Wow, did I touch a nerve there?

Yes indeed, because I'm sick of "X is ripped off from Y" all the stupid anime fanboys whine about non-stop.

apeiron242:

Besides, i already know what it looks like:


And unless they have a wish spell handy, Manhattan is farked.

Great! But really, it depends on if they're using 3.0 or 3.5, it wasn't that bad in 3.0, but in 3.5 it's hardcore.

7pointedstar2008-01-14 03:24:43 PM
Note to Hollywood:

Handheld shaky-cam is not "artsy," nor does it create "tension." It does, however, contribute to the number of people leaving the theatre early to vomit in the nearest restroom.

Point of Order: It was artsy and created tension the 1st time it was done. The fact that Hollywood feels compelled to repeat it ad nauseum is not The Blair Witch's fault.


/on a separate note, I read once that the reason Hollywood can't come up with new ideas is because film students go to school to study what OTHER people have done already.

The truly original works come from the independent film makers ala Robert Rodriguez.

did someone say princess leia?

TheSilverOne: Whoa whoa whoa whoa... back the train up. What's this about a Princess Leia muffin shot?

There's a great pic out there of some interviewer dressed up in the Leia Slave Girl outfit, and she's leaning over to put the mic in someones face.

You get a sneak peek at the interviews whooptydoo. Not a pr0n shot, but still cute.

lucyfer [TotalFark] Quote 2008-01-14 01:39:11 PM
i think ill actually wait to see the film before passing ridiculous judgment on it.

i think i'll actually wait till critics pass judgement on the film before paying a ridiculous 10 bucks to see it in theaters myself.

I am the Cloverfield monster.

Crewmannumber6

Whoosh! Over your head! Although, I don't know how you'd get the reference if you didn't know who the guy is already.

But to end belaboring the point: J.J. Abrams is, among other things, the creator of Lost.

Asa Phelps: No, it aspires to having the community anticipation that Snakes on a Plane did.

But SoaP would have been far better if the producers had let the original director signed to it actually make it, instead of trying to take it mainstream and then giving up.

Yeah. SoaP could have been awesome, but they had to make it pg-13, which is absurd.

I've always wondered, why does everything bad [in movies] have to happen in NYC?

You'd think that NYC would be a barren place [in movies] because of all the bad luck they seem to have.

NYC [in movies] = Sodom and Gomorrah

/in movies

The whale pic isn't the monster. Its a piece of fan art.

Link (new window)

I could endure the movie and hackneyed monsters and plots if it weren't for the frakin' steady cams and tortured souls melodrama.

It's Battlestar Galactica for Manhattan.

/Shoot me, I'm not afraid
//I feel myself coming apaaaaaaaarrtt!

Crewmannumber6: earthwirm: Crewmannumber6 Quote 2008-01-14 03:28:02 PM
Wrath of Heaven: Crewmannumber6
Who the fark is this J.J. Abrams, and why do I give a fark about his farkin movies?

You're lost, dude.

I don't consider myself lost just because I don't know what the flavor of the month's dick tastes like

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I think it was a bad attempt at a joke. LOST is the TV show JJ Abrams produces.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH! My bad. Sorry.

You may not have gotten the joke, but you do have a way with a phrase!

/"I don't know what the flavor of the month's dick tastes like"
//Great phrase

It looks like the smoke monster from LOST

donnyd: I posted this in another thread, but what the hell, right? I mean Fark just loves repeats these days.

Here is a picture that's supposedly pretty darn close to the monster.

If you read the review here it matches the simple sketch the reviewer posted. I dunno. Just something for all the curious people out there.


It has testacles on it's cheeks.

pnome: I am the Cloverfield monster.

The Big Chicken...

I work about ten minutes from that landmark. If you know where the Big Chicken is, you can get anywhere in Atlanta.

Oh awesome, I'm only like the fifteenth person to point that out.

/Ctrl+R should be my friend

The monster is a lion, and it is huge

The monster is David Cloverfield?

apeiron242: And unless they have a wish spell handy, Manhattan is farked.

I couldn't decide whether to make a Tarrasque joke or a "Lost Monster finally gets his due as a lead actor" joke. You win though.

SnoreCriminal,

yeah but they forgot reason #8 which is that Harry from Ain't It Cool News raved about the film. When ever he starts raving about something, like HD-DVD, it usually means it's a dud.

This

Yes indeed, because I'm sick of "X is ripped off from Y" all the stupid anime fanboys whine about non-stop.

Yeah, because God forbid that people draw comparisons between things!

Do you get upset when some one says that Crispix is like Rice Chex?

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No farking way.

I was at the premiere and it was full of smart ass jackasses like me with snakes stuffed in their pants and girls dressed like all slutty B movie actresses.

We were pitching snakes all during the movie and it was an awesome community movie watching experience.

Cloverfield is lame viral marketing.

earthwirm
I think it was a bad attempt at a joke. LOST is the TV show JJ Abrams produces.

Way to go champ... now I have to find another way to kill these last couple hours of work.

Way to systematically, point-by-farking-point, somehow miss the entire premise of the movie, and completely mistake who the plot is aimed at. Congratulations, Mr./Mrs. Tucker, you've just shown everyone in the world how lousy you are at writing movie reviews.

letdogsvote: It has testacles on it's cheeks.


/approves

E.S.Q. & letdogsvote

I concur that the monster appears to have "Man Tonsils" on the side of it's face. How did this ever get a PG-13?

I think snakes on a plane got internet hype from being one of the stupidest sounding movie ideas ever it was all sarcasm. This movie actually seems kinda cool

It's sort of like they finally got around to figuring out how to make a Blair Witch movie for $100+ million.

star_topology Quote 2008-01-14 03:45:47 PM
I've always wondered, why does everything bad [in movies] have to happen in NYC?


NYC is the only real city that the United States has. No one is going to pay to see a giant monster mashing up some shacks in Salt Lake City or whatever.

apeiron242: Besides, i already know what it looks like:
And unless they have a wish spell handy, Manhattan is farked.

I'm with apeiron242:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrasque_(Dungeons_&_Dragons) (new window)

This one has a name. It happens to be Cloverfield.

Hey, just because a movie has a terrible story, bad acting, stupid plot, and unbelievable characters is no reason not to watch it. I mean... come on.. giant monster decapitates the Statue of Liberty. What's not to like? That right there sold me. You can do anything to my brain after that and I'll be happy I watched the movie.

This: Yes, because monsterifying a humpback whale.

There be whales here?

Thank you, hprotagonist, for the mamtastic break in the otherwise entertaining geek-on-geek barb-trading action.


/geek (epsilon class)

floorpie: Thank you, hprotagonist, for the mamtastic break in the otherwise entertaining geek-on-geek barb-trading action.


/geek (epsilon class)

you're welcome.

now if only i could arrange a way to introduce myself to the girl in question...

tlchwi02: frankly, i thought the concept looked good, but i groaned at the "halo" effect that you get when mediocre cgi is blended into film. a prime example of this is to watch the first LOTR and then the 3rd (when there was a huge difference in the quality of the CGI with the same animated characters and people doing it, so you can't really compare anything but technology)

I'm pretty sure all 3 LOTR movies were shot and produced at the same time - were you thinking Star Wars, with 2-3+ years between movies?

are you sure you didn't watch the first two on video (where the cgi really shows up - different levels of black in video), then go out and see the third on screen?

H31N0US: Judging from the trailers, Manhattan is populated exclusively by twenty-something hipsters and party people.

Who knew?


and monsters, it's like america's monster island, where we stick all giant freaks of nature.

I lol'd at the idea that JJ Abrams is one of the only people in Hollywood these days who can produce quality entertainment.

IMHO, he's the only one in Hollywood who can create awesome, enticing insinuation (like Rimbaldi or "the Monster"), and then lose all interest because he 1)never had an idea about how to follow through with the insinuation and 2)starts a new series/project and abandons his former project to rot.

/Got sucked in by Rimbaldi and was crushed that it never led anywhere
//Have been cautious with my enthusiasm for LOST
///Thank God for John Locke, or I'd'a been done several seasons ago

Now I'm forced to either let some jackass take totalfark advice or buy $5 just to ask if he's tried rubbing blood on it. Now that is some bullshiat.

/i like snakes

star_topology: I've always wondered, why does everything bad [in movies] have to happen in NYC?

Tons of nationally recognizable landmarks in a confined space. YOu can't just drive an armored SUV out of Manhattan.

The only other option, really, is DC and I don't think too many people would care about the seat of our government getting destroyed.

donnyd: E.S.Q. & letdogsvote

I concur that the monster appears to have "Man Tonsils" on the side of it's face. How did this ever get a PG-13?

Yeah, I'm stumped . . .