I do believe that you, my dear movie manufacturing industry, have utterly and completely jumped the proverbial shark.
To wit:
Seriously? This is the best you can do? Remake one of the very WORST movies ever made?
What, did all the writers of original screenplays die? Are they all too busy smoking crack? Do they all have a bad computer virus? Have their typing fingers seized? Because for the LOVE OF GOD this cannot be the best you people can come up with.
And Thor: look. I enjoy a good super hero movie as much as the next red blooded American girl, and who doesn’t like to
Fine, he's cute, but bleached eyebrows? UG.
see cute boys on the big screen? But isn’t Thor really scraping the bottom of the barrel? And if you simply MUST have a movie about a blond superhero, could you consider casting an ACTUAL FUCKING BLOND to play the role? Honestly, all I can do is look at the crappy bleaching job they did to the actor’s eyebrows.
I’ll admit that once in a while something slips through. For instance, I just saw Bridesmaids. Robin was right – it was HILARIOUS. But I would love, if possible, to just ONCE to see a comedy that doesn’t involve puke or shit. Seriously. I don’t need to be grossed out to laugh. Promise.
I suppose I could just stop going to see movies. But I love movies! I really do. Sitting in the dark eating greasy popcorn while enjoying a fantastical adventure on the big screen. I just want to enjoy a hard bodied superhero without a distracting bad dye job, a women’s comedy without diarrhea, or Conan the fucking Barbarian.
Please.
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Just when I think the world is a lost cause I remember it caused “Juno” and “Zombieland” to happen
Twitter Name: Anissa Mayhew
I agree but will only say a few words. Jason fucking Momoa. Hot hot hot! Have you seen him in Game of Thrones? Boy is smoking! One of the main reasons I watched Stargate:AtLantis!
Ok now I’ve got to hide.
Twitter Name: Dochaseve
I’m glad I’m not the only one to not enjoy Thor. I was beginning to think I was missing something really obvious. I will admit to having bit of a thing for Conan, but I was really young at the time and overcome with hormones and that is my excuse and I’m sticking to it.
Twitter Name: penbleth
I loved Iron Man. More like that please.
Twitter Name: csiracusa
Since I have 2 small children and a husband who works night, I rarely get to the movies. I can’t go to a crappy movie just to see a hot guy. I have to for a movie that I will really like or laugh at (hoping desperately to get to bridesmaids this week). What makes it a 5star movie for me – if the the movie is funny and plausible. If the movie is funny but nothing I can picture happening in real life to….anyone….I don’t find it that funny. Finally watched Date Night with my hubby last night and though the plot was not so realistic, Steve Carrel and Tina Fey’s reactions to the plot, as the average America married couple were, and that’s what made it so flippin’ funny to us! Even the movie American Pie…saw it a few years after graduating college…so effing hilarious….because you could picture it…the sequels just didn’t live up because really, no one is that stupid…or are they? Just my 2 cents. So I hear ya’. I guess that’s all I really needed to say.
Twitter Name: HeatherSchiavo
“Remake one of the very WORST movies ever made?”
First of all, the new Conan film is not a remake. It’s a new film featuring a character created in 1932, and thus is no more a remake than Batman Begins was a remake of Burton’s Batman. I’m more amazed there haven’t been MORE Conan films than the two we got.
Secondly, even by hyperbolic standards that’s stretching it. 1982′s Conan the Barbarian was flawed and a terrible adaptation of the Conan character, but it has themes, good acting by the actual actors and impressive attempts by the non-actors, solid production design, and one of the finest scores by Basil Poledouris. To say it ranks as one of the worst films ever made suggests an enviable lack of experience with the true dregs cinema has to offer.
100% I agree with you about Bridesmaids. It was 26 kinds of awesome. But I must admit I really enjoyed the puke and shit parts. Cuz I’m nasty like that. And it’s refreshing to know I’m not the only one who craps myself sometimes.
Twitter Name: coolwhipmom
I agree. If people can write good books, why can’t other people write good movies?
I think one problem is the lack of actual talent by actors. Too many are just good-looking or being pushed on us by really good agents. Ryan Reynolds is NOT a leading man!!! Quit trying to make him one!!!!
Also, are we allowed to mock other comments on this site? I want to play by the rules…..buttttt…..I have snark coming out of my brain.
Twitter Name: TalkIsPrimary