Decisively bad, just like every other year in cinema. Oh there will be rave reviews of course, but only because in comparison to the rest of the dreck out there some films will look good. In and of themselves they will be horrifically average at the very best. Hollywood doesn't have what it takes to put out excellent movies anymore.

Done in 1!

Greek myth sequel Clash Of The Titans 2 - and these are all due out in March.

Oh God no

So a shiatload of crappy comic book and cartoon adaptations are coming out .. how is this any different from the last 5-7 years.

Wake me up when we get a year of movies for adults were the human pathos isn't dumbed down to spandex clad good guys vs. greasepaint wearing bad guys.

FTFA:Earlier this year, Universal decided to abandon its ambitious plans to create a film trilogy and television series adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower, and also dropped plans to adapt HP Lovecraft's At The Mountains Of Madness.

If Del Toro won't do it, make it John Carpenter's big comeback. In the Mouth of Madness is the greatest Lovecraft story not written by Lovecraft.

Vash's Apprentice: FTFA:Earlier this year, Universal decided to abandon its ambitious plans to create a film trilogy and television series adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower, and also dropped plans to adapt HP Lovecraft's At The Mountains Of Madness.

If Del Toro won't do it, make it John Carpenter's big comeback. In the Mouth of Madness is the greatest Lovecraft story not written by Lovecraft.

IIRC, Del Toro dropped out because they wanted him to aim for a PG-13 rating.

Balchinian: Decisively bad, just like every other year in cinema. Oh there will be rave reviews of course, but only because in comparison to the rest of the dreck out there some films will look good. In and of themselves they will be horrifically average at the very best. Hollywood doesn't have what it takes to put out excellent movies anymore.

I disagree.


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I would happily trade every movie listed in that article for another true sci-fi movie like Moon or Children of Men.

WTF do you need 158 million to make The Lone Ranger? I guess they were going to have a giant mechanical spider at the end?

Electric_Banana: WTF do you need 158 million to make The Lone Ranger? I guess they were going to have a giant mechanical spider at the end?

Real silver for the bullets adds up quick.

I saw a preview for hunger games it looked like a whiter version of battle royle

Hunger Games will end up being the next Twilight. It will make a lot of money and force Hollywood to develop more movies aimed at younger women. Hollywood will certainly still target the 18-25-year-old male, but probably less than they did in the past ten years.

Balchinian: Decisively bad, just like every other year in cinema. Oh there will be rave reviews of course, but only because in comparison to the rest of the dreck out there some films will look good. In and of themselves they will be horrifically average at the very best. Hollywood doesn't have what it takes to put out excellent movies anymore.

The Spider-Man reboot looks horrible. It's like they saw Nolan's success with Batman and said, "We need to make it all dark and edgy, because that shiat sells" and forgot about the fact Spider-Man is tradionally neither of those.

And seriously, ANOTHER farking origin movie? We can't have a Spider-Man reboot without the writers relying on that crutch. Spider bites a geek, gives him super powers. We get it!

InmanRoshi: So a shiatload of crappy comic book and cartoon adaptations are coming out .. how is this any different from the last 5-7 years.

Wake me up when we get a year of movies for adults were the human pathos isn't dumbed down to spandex clad good guys vs. greasepaint wearing bad guys.

Thanks.

Shrugging Atlas:

And seriously, ANOTHER farking origin movie? We can't have a Spider-Man reboot without the writers relying on that crutch. Spider bites a geek, gives him super powers. We get it!

I feel this way about *any* superhero origin movie. It's been done to death. Person has traumatic event, person discovers strange abilities, insert Campbell's Monomyth, promise sequel.

For once, I'd just like to see a movie that says, "Look, we all know who Superman, Spider-Man, Batman, are, let's just get down to it."

Yes, such films exist, but they are few and far between.

Electric_Banana: WTF do you need 158 million to make The Lone Ranger? I guess they were going to have a giant mechanical spider at the end?

I think I remember a previous article stating they needed 250 million dollars to create realistic Loup Garou (werewolf) antagonists. Still WTF.
And it sounded more like "The Tanto Show" from the synopsis.

abrannan: Shrugging Atlas:

And seriously, ANOTHER farking origin movie? We can't have a Spider-Man reboot without the writers relying on that crutch. Spider bites a geek, gives him super powers. We get it!

I feel this way about *any* superhero origin movie. It's been done to death. Person has traumatic event, person discovers strange abilities, insert Campbell's Monomyth, promise sequel.

For once, I'd just like to see a movie that says, "Look, we all know who Superman, Spider-Man, Batman, are, let's just get down to it."

Like the first X-Men movie, right?

Captain America and Iron Man would be exceptions since they didn't just discover their powers.

I don't think so.

I'm waiting for a comic movie to take a storyline from the comics and just turn it into a movie, no origin questions asked. Movie jump in on the middle of peoples' lives all the time and we're expected to keep up, I don't see why it should be any different just because there's superheroes involved.



Death of Superman. You could almost do this page-for-page and it'd be an awesome movie.

I'm tellin' ya, DC.
Do it.

abrannan: I feel this way about *any* superhero origin movie. It's been done to death. Person has traumatic event, person discovers strange abilities, insert Campbell's Monomyth, promise sequel.

For once, I'd just like to see a movie that says, "Look, we all know who Superman, Spider-Man, Batman, are, let's just get down to it."

Yes, such films exist, but they are few and far between.

The only defense I'll offer for Batman Begins is the fact the previous movies never really explained how he gained the abilities that made him Batman. We all know about the parents dying, but that and billions of dollars alone do not a super hero make. And Nolan went in a direction that was interesting (at least to me), that in an of itself was an interesting story which then tied into later developments in the movie.

But with Spider-Man, seriously, how many ways can you say the dorky kid gets bit by a spider. There's nothing all that compelling about how he gains his powers...they basically just 'happen.' And certainly not enough to tie an entire movie around it like Nolan did with Batman Begins.

I love the Spider-Man character, but I have absolutely zero desire to see Peter Parker go from geek to hero all over again. None. How hard would it have been to have him start as Spider-Man, work in Gwen Stacey as the love interest he attempts to pursue while dealing with the trials of being Spider-Man, and then possibly have the story revolve around the green goblin and Stacey's ultimate demise?

Instead we get the Lizard as the bad guy, the actor looks like he's 25, and maybe worst of all there appears to be some mystery angle they are going to work in around Parker's parents disappearing. Is that really a story that needs to be told? And still so relatively recently since the last movies. Maybe it's just me, but I still think the first two hold up well.

Will 2012 be the last year of insipid question headlines?

VaportrailFilms: I'm waiting for a comic movie to take a storyline from the comics and just turn it into a movie, no origin questions asked. Movie jump in on the middle of peoples' lives all the time and we're expected to keep up, I don't see why it should be any different just because there's superheroes involved.

Death of Superman. You could almost do this page-for-page and it'd be an awesome movie.

I'm tellin' ya, DC.
Do it.

Go big or go home. Kingdom Come. Trilogy. Pure awesomeness.

I'll probably be a decent year, at least until May when they release the Armageddon remake.

Quasar: Electric_Banana: WTF do you need 158 million to make The Lone Ranger? I guess they were going to have a giant mechanical spider at the end?

I don't know if you know this, but spiders are the fiercest creatures in the animal insect kingdom.

Polar bears are the fiercest killers in the animal kingdom.

/After Superman's guards.

InmanRoshi: Wake me up when we get a year of movies for adults were the human pathos isn't dumbed down to spandex clad good guys vs. greasepaint wearing bad guys.

Just for that, I hope they make a Top Ten movie.

Shrugging Atlas: Go big or go home. Kingdom Come. Trilogy. Pure awesomeness.

Red Son! Make a Red Son movie.