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He will be Bond until a new Bond is named when that happens all these guys going on about Craig will be going on about Worthington or Bale.
I don't think Craig's movies will be remember well as time goes on. CR is terribly dated and QOS is dead awful. CR is too long and dull and QOS feels like it goes on longer than Return of the king extended edition.
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Omega wrote:He will be Bond until a new Bond is named when that happens all these guys going on about Craig will be going on about Worthington or Bale.
I don't think Craig's movies will be remember well as time goes on. CR is terribly dated and QOS is dead awful. CR is too long and dull and QOS feels like it goes on longer than Return of the king extended edition.

WORD to all of that. USA Network has the rights to CR(and thereby can show it on sister channels like SyFy-more like inflicting it on us, really. ) :twisted:
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Riley Keough, the 21-year-old granddaughter of Elvis Presley, is in talks to join the cast of the fourth "Mad Max" movie.

The plot of "Fury Road" is being kept secret, but things take place a short while after the story detailed in 1985's "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome," the third in the series. That keeps Mad Max relatively young and allows him to be played by Tom Hardy ("Inception").

Keough will play one of the "Five Wives," a group of women that Hardy must protect from the bad guys. Zoe Kravitz (Lenny's daughter), Teresa Palmer and Adelaide Clemens are three of other wives. Charlize Theron and Nicholas Hoult ("A Single Man") round out the cast.

The movie is eyeing a start date for early next year. Series creator George Miller is writing and directing.

Keough, who started modeling at 14, made her film debut in this year's "Runaways," the biopic of the 1970s female rock band. She played Marie Currie, the sister of band member Cherie Currie.

This year, Keough -- the elder child of Lisa Marie Presley and musician-actor Danny Keough -- shot "The Good Doctor" with Orlando Bloom, and replaced Olivia Thirlby as Jack in "Jack and Diane," a lesbian-themed werewolf romance that also stars Juno Temple (Julien's daughter) and Kylie Minogue. Both pictures are due to be released next year.
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Lesbian werewolves?Normally, I would say "not that I have a problem with that". But I do. Less to do with lesbians and more to do with werewolves. The whole vampire/werewolf/zombie thing is overdone.Hollywood doesn't seem to get that though. They figure this is the sort of movie than can coast on the success of movies like Twilight. :cuss:
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NPR again went into depth and reported MGM needs 2 Billion Dollars to belong to a "new " owner... In the on going recession it is hard to locate a buyer... thus no movement with Bond or other projects..... looked at was the films of the past 1939 Gone with the wind... Wizard of Oz... etc.. that was produced from this national treasure of film making producing and Marketing....... Oh yes the mention of Bond perked me up and was indicated that tons, tons of $$$ for a franchise as this is required due to Worldwide Marketing......Big Big Business lays ahead.. at any rate I just received from Netflix the remake reversion redo, redone, retake of The Wolfman...... and will view it from the privacey of the living room at a good time......Katied.......how true it's all about Vampires, Wolfpeople currently but the change is near.. I suspect we may go back to Aliens.. Dinosours,
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Harvey danish wrote:NPR again went into depth and reported MGM needs 2 Billion Dollars to belong to a "new " owner... In the on going recession it is hard to locate a buyer... thus no movement with Bond or other projects..... looked at was the films of the past 1939 Gone with the wind... Wizard of Oz... etc.. that was produced from this national treasure of film making producing and Marketing....... Oh yes the mention of Bond perked me up and was indicated that tons, tons of $$$ for a franchise as this is required due to Worldwide Marketing......Big Big Business lays ahead.. at any rate I just received from Netflix the remake reversion redo, redone, retake of The Wolfman...... and will view it from the privacey of the living room at a good time......Katied.......how true it's all about Vampires, Wolfpeople currently but the change is near.. I suspect we may go back to Aliens.. Dinosours,

My sister-in-law and niece saw the remake of The Wolfman and really liked it- I might have to check it out myself.
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It's been 10 years of Vampires, zombies, and werewolves. Avatar is beginning of a swing back to fun fantasy movies.
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Omega wrote:It's been 10 years of Vampires, zombies, and werewolves. Avatar is beginning of a swing back to fun fantasy movies.
As long as we don't wind up with a bunch of carbon copies of Avatar,I'm all for it! :up:
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"The Expendables" is an exercise in nostalgia for the bygone era of muscly, macho action films. It's willfully out of date, like an aging hair band that can't pack away the spandex.

Sylvester Stallone, the director, co-writer and star, has said he set out to make a movie "with brains and brawn, not modern technology."

Stallone thus comes across as a kind of Rip Van Winkle, had Van Winkle only been a die-hard Guns 'N Roses fan. "The Expendables" is awash in motorcycles, tattoos, black leather, glistening biceps and big guns. Though the "Rambo" star's suggestion that contemporary movies have lost something of their masculinity and authenticity bears some truth, surely the answer isn't to pretend the last two decades never happened.

But here we are with "The Expendables," which immediately — and without irony — announces its defense of such kitsch with, yes, a fade to a full moon.

Stallone is Barney Ross, the leader of a group of mercenaries who are played by most of the remaining defenders of high body count, testosterone-filled action: the British action star Jason Statham (blade expert Lee Christmas), the Chinese martial artist Jet Li (as Yin Yang), WWE wrestler Steve Austin (Paine), ultimate fighter Randy Couture (Toll Road), former NFL player and Old Spice commercial actor Terry Crews (as the absurdly named Hale Caesar) and Dolph Lundgren, famously the Russian boxer Ivan Drago from the "Rocky" films (as the loose cannon Gunner Jensen).

But the "all-star" action lineup also includes cameos from Bruce Willis (as a contractor) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (as a rival mercenary). Schwarzenegger makes a brief appearance, entering through a light-soaked doorway like an action film angel. The scene is played for as many wink-wink laughs as possible; as he exits, Willis' character wonders what his problem is, while Barney wryly replies: "He wants to be president."

The most respected actor to be summoned for duty is Mickey Rourke, who plays the group's job hunter, a grizzled former mercenary named Tool. It's a testament to Rourke's abilities that he somehow manages to move through "The Expendables" enlivening it with old warrior wisdom (in a monologue, he says he's dead inside, "Dracula dead") while still maintaining his dignity.

The crew is hired out to storm the fictional Caribbean island of Vilena, where a corrupt general (the usually comedic David Zayas) and a villainous, rogue CIA agent (the well chosen Eric Roberts) are in power. The general's daughter (Giselle Itie) is leading a resistance, and she quickly becomes a focal point of the mission ("Bad Shakespeare," notes Roberts' character).

There are the slightest of political undertones: The mercenaries — perhaps like America — have become too soulless in their warring occupation. There's a gratuitous waterboading scene, as well. The possibility of redemption hangs in saving Vilena.

But the world of "The Expendables" has shockingly little connection to anything like the real world. The principle setting on Vilena is a military compound like that of any "Rambo" movie or shoot 'em up video game: cargo boxes, sand bags and watch towers — all of your cliche fodder for explosions.

"The Expendables," too, has the shallowest of world views. There's little room for women (Charisma Carpenter plays Lee Christmas' cheating girlfriend, who quickly recedes from the film) and the men are most comfortable bantering with each other and cheering knife throwing contests. Morality isn't complicated, the only really firm rule being that hitting women is intolerable — quite the moral stance.

Frequently, "The Expendables" is so incoherent, even on its own terms, as to be laughable. Menacing one-liners (like the one after a traitorous minion is shot: "Now we can see the inside of him, and I see lies!") and poor production values made me wonder if I walked into not a movie theater but a time warp. This is a movie world where irony never happened.

But that Stallone can be so ardent about returning to this kind of film gives "The Expendables" a strange charm. It's absurd, easy to make fun of and remarkably out of touch. But one imagines it's exactly the movie Stallone wanted to make. He loves this stuff, and one is inclined to allow him his quixotic, boyish dream where he is forever leaping through explosions and killing bad guys.

"The Expendables," a Lionsgate release, is rated R for strong action and bloody violence throughout, and for some language. Running time: 103 minutes. One and a half stars out of four.
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Is Bond expendable??????????..............................seems so these days.............
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Harvey danish wrote:Is Bond expendable??????????..............................seems so these days.............
Of course he's not Harv.
Bond expendable. :roll:
Have a little faith brother. Come on where's your optimism? We can rejoice when Daniel Craig appears in the 23rd Bond film. I know some of you will not participate, but I know we'll all be checking it out.
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Nash............ thank you for the heart felt up lift.. I know we are on different sides of the fence with DC as Bond - A - Son but yes we will all be checking it out..
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Is David Fincher about to throw the Hollywood remake of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" a few curves? As in, the Lamborghini curves of Scarlett Johansson? Although the "Fight Club" director reportedly was looking for an unknown for the role of hard-boiled, bisexual Lisbeth Salander in his adaptation of the late Stieg Larsson's smash novel, a source close to the situation tells us not to rule out Scar-Jo..

Last Tuesday, our source says Johansson auditioned for Fincher in L.A., and the director and his team were "very impressed" with the bodacious babe. Johansson was told to come prepared with an accent for the Swedish character of Salander, which shouldn't have been a heavy lift. The 25-year-old actress, has already sported foreign dialects in "Girl With A Pearl Earring" and "The Other Boleyn Sister." (Swedish actress Noomi Rapace played Lisbeth in the original 2009 European film adaptation.)

Our source tells us that if Fincher doesn't go with an unknown, Scar-Jo is a "shoo-in" for the role of Lisbeth, especially since production is reportedly slated to begin just after Labor Day. The picture is scheduled for a December 2011 release.

On July 28, Hollywoodinsider.com posted that Fincher had eliminated all of the big names he originally had on his casting wish list, including Carey Mulligan, Ellen Page and Natalie Portman.

Subsequently, Fincher was said to be looking to go the way of "Twilight," by casting a fresh face to star along-side his leading man, Daniel Craig.

Whoever wins Fincher's approval will most likely win more than a single role. "Dragon Tattoo" is the first of Larssson's three-novel "Millennium" trilogy, and Hollywood is betting there will be three films as well.

As Variety Senior Editor Pat Saperstein said last week, the role of Lisbeth "could really make an actress's career."

Johansson included, who, after turning heads in "Iron Man 2" could use a leading lady role with legs. According to our source, Johansson wants the role "bad."
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Nash has been wrong for the last 3 years.We all will rejoice when Bond 23 is out.Nash will clap n' cheer like an obsessed girl trying not to swoon when The Beatles walk on stage when the new Bond has a proper intro where he turns and shoots thus beginning the inaugural movie for Bond number 7.A return to proper story telling,good music with good wholesome Bond action.

Craig will be shown in dark theaters nearly empty theaters where Nash can watch him in the Girl Who Plays With Fires limited run.While the papers will be heading Bond 7 is the best to play Bond since Connery!MI6 will become a new fanboy net in total devotion to Bond number 7.Suddenly Craig will have faults and it will unanimously be agreed Craig missed nearly all important aspects of a good Jame Bond and the new guy,Bond number 7 nails it like nobodies business! :twisted:

:cheers: To the future :cheers:
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I have a few concerns about The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Fincher threw out his list of potential Lisbeth Salanders(including Carey Mulligan who I think would have been perfect!)


There will no doubt be a lot of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo was great!" "No, it was crap". "Great!" "Crap!". You get the idea.
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Summer round up
Inception is at $566,943,257 Good numbers for Bond clone film and begs the question on why does Eon screw up so often.
Salt $188,202,762 Didn't do as good as I thought it would but still not bad considering it too is another Bond clone.
Iron Man 2 $621,695,360 Weaker story but shows the kind of performances, actors and stories Bond should be getting.
The Last Airbender $$198,819,070 Crashed hopefully totaling the sequels and entombing M.Nights career for good.
Knight & Day Who cares! The two plastic people didn't do very well. Good.
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Omega wrote:Summer round up
Inception is at $566,943,257 Good numbers for Bond clone film and begs the question on why does Eon screw up so often.
Salt $188,202,762 Didn't do as good as I thought it would but still not bad considering it too is another Bond clone.
Iron Man 2 $621,695,360 Weaker story but shows the kind of performances, actors and stories Bond should be getting.
The Last Airbender $$198,819,070 Crashed hopefully totaling the sequels and entombing M.Nights career for good.
Knight & Day Who cares! The two plastic people didn't do very well. Good.

My nephews wanted to see The Last Airbender but it was gone from movie theaters pretty quickly. The only movie theater showing it was half an hour away.
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katied wrote:
Omega wrote:Summer round up
Inception is at $566,943,257 Good numbers for Bond clone film and begs the question on why does Eon screw up so often.
Salt $188,202,762 Didn't do as good as I thought it would but still not bad considering it too is another Bond clone.
Iron Man 2 $621,695,360 Weaker story but shows the kind of performances, actors and stories Bond should be getting.
The Last Airbender $$198,819,070 Crashed hopefully totaling the sequels and entombing M.Nights career for good.
Knight & Day Who cares! The two plastic people didn't do very well. Good.

My nephews wanted to see The Last Airbender but it was gone from movie theaters pretty quickly. The only movie theater showing it was half an hour away.
Did your nephews watch the original cartoon series? The movie version suffered horrid reviews.
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Yup, they watched the cartoon. Given the bad reviews the movie it got, I'm kinda glad they didn't get to see it! :mrgreen:
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M. Night Shyamalan f***** up the movie version.
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