@tokyo 14 Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 Skyfall (Bond) gets a teaser http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24mTIE4D9JM Yeah looks all serious again. Inject some humor and lightness in there please. Enough of the serious bond! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 Michael Collins..............Rob Roy (ok maybe just for me)................ Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 Skyfall (Bond) gets a teaser http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24mTIE4D9JM Yeah looks all serious again. Inject some humor and lightness in there please. Enough of the serious bond! actually i preferred the more serious Bond. I went to see it in the cinema (the first craig one) and I was impressed. BUT I also bought it recently on DVD from Book Off and I'm quite disappointed as to how tame it actually is........it seems that time has made it pretty crap Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 Casino Royale was pretty good. The mood fit the story and so was acceptable. But Quantum of Solace was terrible and way too serious. And had almost no "Bond" flavour to it at all. More of that not welcome, they need to lighten up. Link to post Share on other sites
cal 6 Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Three Rivers with Bruce Willis in it. Not great, but a decent cop thriller type Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 ah yeah, I think the English/Hollywood name for it is Striking Distance......where Bruce is a disgraced cop demoted down to the boat police. Cheesy but a decent watch Link to post Share on other sites
Slippery Jim 65 Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 The Buccaneer, Yul Brynner & Charlton Heston. Loads of fun. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 Ah yes "Three Rivers". Great name isn't it. It's the one where Bruce Willis plays Bruce Willis. The version with a bit of fluff at the top. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 Prometheus is out round about now in most of the civilized world. Japan waits until later in August! Link to post Share on other sites
DumbStick 13 Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 Damn, can't wait to see that one Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 who decides release dates? You'd think that in the age of the internet and digital deviants (like Ippy ) taking the movie and putting it online, that they'd try and release it at the same time across as much of the world as possible to try and maximise cinema profits Link to post Share on other sites
iiyamadude 6 Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 I think they need that much time for the top class translations! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 you know what....I didn't think about someone having to translate em all Link to post Share on other sites
iiyamadude 6 Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 Let's face it though, there's often a pretty long time between post-production and release, so it's still a poor excuse. Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 Even on big movies sometimes the translations not only get a nuance wrong but the meaning completely the opposite as well! Takes time to be so crap! Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 Well, cinematic releases are generally safe (DVD screeners notwithstanding) since i personally hate cam/telecine rips. Also... Firstly, downloading is pretty rare outside of young people and guardian readers. And of those young folks some people actually want to the whole cimnematic experience. if its something you kinda want to see, youre going to go to the cinema because its way more of an event than just downloading/streaming it and kinda browsing the net while you should actually be watching it. Secondly of course, hollywood is predominantly english. Not everyone in the world likes watching movies in English. They also tend to use sites that are popular within their own country and so they dont even know that theres a scene release out there. For example, i dont know where to get the latest japanese whatevers because i dont use the sites that the cool kids in japan might know about. Instead ill get hold of them after theyve gone through the english speaking/sub groups prism. And for a cinematic release, a lot of sub groups wont bother with a cam rip except for a bit of scene cred. Finally, language barrier in general and subtitling/dubbing for official releases. So really theres not quite as huge of a worldwide impact for staggering a cinematic release. DVD releases/TV programmes on the other hand... And now with streaming massively taking off its kinda harder to justify anything but a full world wide release. I dont wait for episodes of family guy to hit the UK, and i cant understand why people would wait for programmes they love to release on TV. And i also dont understand why the comedy central/south park studios thing hasnt been taken up by more companies. HBO would likely make a killing from advertising if it opened up its gates, and why would people go to the trouble of uploading their programmes if they were freely available anyway? When i went back to the UK i loved having the beeb online as well as 4oD. These are massive brands, and that means a global audience for their products. But its closed to countries outside the UK (okay, in the beebs case i understand since its funded by the license fee, but 4od is a commercial operation). Its all odd. Back in teh old days you bought the VHS of movies or tv programmes because you wanted to watch them at your convenience. Thats all changed. You can pretty much watch anything you like now at your convenience. Now they buy dvds also (and id dare say mainly) for a) the identity youre associating yourself with - its an object to be seen... oh! youre a star trek type of person! oh! you like the big bang theory! i like the big bang theory too! we have something in common! ... identity politics. We also buy them because they have the extra shit we havent seen and the kinda stuff we might not see (not many uploads of a major release with the directors commentary for example. YOu want that, you buy the dvd usually). We also buy them to support a person, group or whatever to keep making more of something (the "firefly" campaign as an example - but honestly ive bught loads that i didnt need to just because i like the person and want to make sure they make a bit of cash from the royalties (though itd probably be better to just send them the cash direct of course). What else? Gifting. Oh, and the convenience of watching them (or better yet stopping and returning to them later) of course in about as high quality as you can currently get outside a cinema. And the fact that plugging in a dvd, sitting around the plasma screen with some mates with surround sound blasting out mimics the cinematic experience whereas streaming is still just sticking something on and watching a back lit titchy screen beaming into your face. I dunno. Plenty of reasons people keep buying dvds, but the whole driving force of ye old days (you want to watch the programme when you want to watch it and not when itv starts repeating it), isnt really the big one. So instead of fighting pirates, why not just offer subscription packages to yoru network or better yet use advertising to recoup potential losses from those people who would have ONLY bought the dvd so they could watch it when they like. Those people arent a very big proportion now of the market anymore. Well, not the market thats going to shape the next twenty years. Sure not everyone streams or has heard of it, but internet speeds and dispersion makes it an inevitability that they will within the next few years. Bear in mind theres also a lot of pressure on illegal ownership right now (with massively disproportionate fines/sentences). This just makes streaming a pretty safe alternative. Except the malware/keyloggers of course... Link to post Share on other sites
2pints-mate 0 Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 Empire's verdict: "Buffeted by a lack of suspense, threadbare characters, and a very poor script, the stunning visuals, gloopy madness, and sterling Fassbenderiness can’t prevent Prometheus feeling like Alien's poor relation." Link to post Share on other sites
miller 1 Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 Seems to be getting pretty mixed reviews. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 Predictable. Still want to see it though. Link to post Share on other sites
Karnidge 2 Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 I reckon that whatever the film is like, lots of average and some poor reviews were going to be inevitable given the Alien connection. Just have to go see. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Last night I watched Die Hard 4.0 post title hey. Realised I had never seen it! Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 I only saw that one once. Got it recorded it was on recently hey. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 Bruce gets one or two quite funny one-liners in there. And Maggie Q is rather nice. Link to post Share on other sites
frannyo 2 Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Don't laugh, I watched Dune at the weekend. I really should have known not to hey. Link to post Share on other sites
ippy 66 Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 Last weekend in a hell of a state i watched John Carter and Megamind. I tell you, both were great. Now i know john carter got a bit of a panning, but it was actually a lot better than i thought it was going to be. Its also a genuinely warm little tale. As for megamind, best thing will ferrell has done since zoolander... oh, okay, since anchorman Link to post Share on other sites
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