en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/297356 Comments by CleverEpithet http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/06/11/gary-ross-writing-lance-armstrong-biopic/#IDComment23957094 Then why did you click through to the story to comment? I'd think that would've only exacerbated things -- now it's not just a brief glimpse of a picture on a page with many stories, but rather the only picture on a page where you knew the picture would be repeated. Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:45:20 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/06/11/gary-ross-writing-lance-armstrong-biopic/#IDComment23957094 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/06/05/abc-fall-line-up-ad-features-dead-lost-castaway/#IDComment23476228 I'm a complete wanker when it comes to insisting on not being spoiled about stuff especially having to do with Lost, but I'd be so happy to have this person back that I don't even care that it's spoiled. Fri, 5 Jun 2009 22:57:02 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/06/05/abc-fall-line-up-ad-features-dead-lost-castaway/#IDComment23476228 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/06/02/watch-steve-wiebe-become-the-king-of-kong-live/#IDComment23089918 I'm shocked by the lack of interest in this here as well as the lack of familiarity with King of Kong. Great doc, guys. Check it out. Tue, 2 Jun 2009 19:41:57 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/06/02/watch-steve-wiebe-become-the-king-of-kong-live/#IDComment23089918 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/05/28/funny-people-viral-marketing-you-teach/#IDComment22572688 This would be relevant (and funnier) in 1999, but now it seems a bit anachronistic. That's fitting, I suppose -- Apatow has been out of television comedy for awhile, and even when he was in it he never found commercial success. To these eyes that grew up on sitcoms exactly like this, though, I say great job. Fri, 29 May 2009 02:07:01 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/05/28/funny-people-viral-marketing-you-teach/#IDComment22572688 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/05/17/tomorrowland-movie-details-revealed/#IDComment21764277 When you're making a movie for 140 million dollars, it's a hell of a lot easier to justify that kind of outlay if you're dealing with a property that already has name recognition. Considering that Disney owns hundreds of intellectual properties that people know the name of, not capitalizing on that is foolish. Star Trek, Dark Knight, Spiderman 2, Pirates, and many other recent movies have been old ideas made new (and good) again. It's not unoriginal ideas or recycled properties that are the problem -- it's executing them poorly. Mon, 18 May 2009 15:34:41 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/05/17/tomorrowland-movie-details-revealed/#IDComment21764277 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/04/16/armored-movie-trailer/#IDComment19029078 Tavis, I believe the Armored script on the Blacklist was the one by Andrew Kevin Walker, which has been floating around at Paramount for forever and a day. Most recently, David Ayer did a rewrite on that script -- it's about a guy who's trying to catch the bank robbers who killed his son, and in order to do it he goes undercover at an armored car company where he gets embroiled in a heist. It's bloody and pretty good. THIS script is actually a remake of a Canadian movie called Porvoir Intime from the 80's by Yves Simoneau (he directed Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, most recently, and he's doing the V remake I think). If I'm not mistaken, he did a fresh draft of Porvoir a couple years ago and that's what Simpson worked off of for this piece of shit -- and it IS a piece of shit. Porvoir, on the other hand, is hit-you-in-the-back-of-the-neck rad. Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:29:04 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/04/16/armored-movie-trailer/#IDComment19029078 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/04/12/page-2-48/#IDComment18654848 Winter's Discontent is the most crass and funniest script I read last year. Fifteen minutes in, a woman dies while the main character is having sex with her. His friends' reaction: get used to it. It comes with the territory. I'm torn about Extract. It was a problem-filled script that I doubt was improved before production. Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:51:48 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/04/12/page-2-48/#IDComment18654848 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/25/neveldinetaylors-game-italian-movie-trailer/#IDComment17591092 It was an interesting script with some real potential, I think. We'll see if it translates. There was a great script called Passengers about ten years back (not the Jonathan Spaihts script from last year) that had some similarities in the conceit, especially in the expression of the virtual world as being a place where you control real people, but from a distance. The Sleep Dealer has that same sense of plugging in to a world far away from you, but with that movie they're controlling robots. Game is more a crazy action movie with the concepts buried under a lot of Neveldine/Taylor's prose acrobatics. Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:00:30 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/25/neveldinetaylors-game-italian-movie-trailer/#IDComment17591092 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/24/this-week-in-dvd-quantum-of-solace-bolt-watchmen-tales-of-the-black-freighter-and-more/#IDComment17519801 But he's stealing water. WATER! Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:40:14 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/24/this-week-in-dvd-quantum-of-solace-bolt-watchmen-tales-of-the-black-freighter-and-more/#IDComment17519801 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/24/caprica-7-video-clips/#IDComment17519759 There are so many inconsistencies with the show that I just stopped trying to reconcile all of them after awhile. Considering where BSG ended up, it seemed clear that Ron Moore was flying by the seat of his pants the entire time. The guy can write great characters and relationships, but give him anything approaching a mythology and long arc to sustain, and he'll surely muff it up. I'd rather he work on a show that was more politics and people and less big ideas and big stories. Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:39:20 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/24/caprica-7-video-clips/#IDComment17519759 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/18/whats-in-the-box/#IDComment17201374 No company would use other works' assets (HL2 models, Lost music) in making a video, no matter how underground or viral. Just wouldn't happen. They'd open themselves up to legal action, cease & desists, it wouldn't be worth it. Seems like this is just some smart guys who did a good job of creating some buzz about their short. Copyright date on the website seems to be 2007, interestingly. It's in very small type at the bottom of the page. I could be reading that wrong. Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:25:40 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/18/whats-in-the-box/#IDComment17201374 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/16/the-return-of-page-2/#IDComment17138405 Thanks, Talking goat. I call it my badge of courage. Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:16:53 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/16/the-return-of-page-2/#IDComment17138405 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/16/the-return-of-page-2/#IDComment17125525 I kind of agree with you, allynd. There's something... off about it. Maybe it's the muted colors? Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:04:57 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/16/the-return-of-page-2/#IDComment17125525 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/16/the-return-of-page-2/#IDComment17125500 You're right. Movies that make money suck. Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:03:23 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/16/the-return-of-page-2/#IDComment17125500 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/15/imagine-that-movie-poster-with-eddie-murphy/#IDComment17125487 I won't deny that younger Eddie Murphy was more my taste than Eddie Murphy now, but Eddie Murphy now makes a crapload of movies that make a crapload of money, but for an entirely different audience, and arguably an audience that is more relevant to the marketplace. Movies aren't just about what *we* like -- a significant majority are simply money-making propositions, with no pretensions to be anything more than that, and the sooner we all realize that, the easier movies like these will be for us to comprehend. Tue, 17 Mar 2009 07:02:30 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/15/imagine-that-movie-poster-with-eddie-murphy/#IDComment17125487 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/15/imagine-that-movie-poster-with-eddie-murphy/#IDComment17048151 This is the best idea I've heard in a long time, and I'm only half joking. There's probably a great cross-dressing comedy somewhere in Ratner and Murphy's future. Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:03:08 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/15/imagine-that-movie-poster-with-eddie-murphy/#IDComment17048151 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/15/imagine-that-movie-poster-with-eddie-murphy/#IDComment17047208 You mean like we got him back for Dreamgirls? Yeah, you guys are right. An actor who makes successful, middling movies for audiences who aren't you should be dragged out and shot. This was pretty good when it was a script called NowhereLand, and it's probably still pretty good. The insularity of the people who comment here isn't surprising, but it is depressing. Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:25:23 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/15/imagine-that-movie-poster-with-eddie-murphy/#IDComment17047208 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/06/the-hangover-teaser-trailer-is-so-amazing-it-might-eat-your-babies/#IDComment16402165 This looks great. Fri, 6 Mar 2009 20:08:48 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/03/06/the-hangover-teaser-trailer-is-so-amazing-it-might-eat-your-babies/#IDComment16402165 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/02/16/votd-the-untitled-sal-lupo-project/#IDComment15343452 I'm not sure if he's making fun of amateur filmmakers, spy movies, Hollywood, trailers, or if he's actually just making fun of us. I'm inclined to say that we're the joke here. I'm laughing. Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:32:55 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/02/16/votd-the-untitled-sal-lupo-project/#IDComment15343452 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/02/08/mark-strong-names-cate-blanchett-as-nottinghams-maid-marian/#IDComment14879973 Brendon, are you talking about the Reiff/Voris draft from '06? Because that's the last draft that came across my desk just a couple weeks ago -- as of now, this is what they're going with, and it's what they're sending around. I don't think the Crowe-playing-both-roles thing will survive (if it isn't just a rumor in the first place). Mon, 9 Feb 2009 05:38:05 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/02/08/mark-strong-names-cate-blanchett-as-nottinghams-maid-marian/#IDComment14879973