The BJMDDS General Discussion Thread......

[FormerBondFan]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/ ... 0120120223 Who cares? IMAX for Skyfull?

I was afraid of this. If it gets any worse than this on our side, you might as well bring in Carrot Top as Bond.

Who would pay more to see this? They are copying MI:4 now.....but it won't work. Right FBF?

If Pierce was 5 years younger and still Bond, then IMAX would work although it's not necessary.

[Omega]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/ ... 0120120223 Who cares? IMAX for Skyfull?

I was afraid of this. If it gets any worse than this on our side, you might as well bring in Carrot Top as Bond.

Who would pay more to see this? They are copying MI:4 now.....but it won't work. Right FBF?

If Pierce was 5 years younger and still Bond, then IMAX would work although it's not necessary.

What changed between here and the thread on Imax? Its the same story.

Twilight is out everywhere the next weekend I doubt Skynet will be a issue for most movie goers.

[FormerBondFan]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/ ... 0120120223 Who cares? IMAX for Skyfull?

I was afraid of this. If it gets any worse than this on our side, you might as well bring in Carrot Top as Bond.

Who would pay more to see this? They are copying MI:4 now.....but it won't work. Right FBF?

If Pierce was 5 years younger and still Bond, then IMAX would work although it's not necessary.

What changed between here and the thread on Imax? Its the same story.

Twilight is out everywhere the next weekend I doubt Skynet will be a issue for most movie goers.

I hope Twilight 4.2 will be in IMAX.

[FormerBondFan]

Trek cult is Shatner and Nimoy. Now to watch others play their younger counterparts in a past time is considered blasphemous FBF.

Blasphemous is not what I would describe the young cast. Pine and Quinto are young Kirk and and young Spock, respectively. Trek reboot cast makes MUCH more sense than the corrupted Bond reboot. As I much as I enjoy the Trek reboot, 2 more films for the younger TOS crew is enough. Two reasons: there are resistance out there against Abramsverse Trek and the cast will be too old to portray the younger versions of the TOS crew.

[Kristatos]

As I much as I enjoy the Trek reboot, 2 more films for the younger TOS crew is enough. Two reasons: there are resistance out there against Abramsverse Trek and the cast will be too old to portray the younger versions of the TOS crew.

The "resistance" seems to be in the minority, just as we are in the minority regarding the Bond reboot. The last Trek movie was the biggest-grossing of all the Trek movies, even adjusted for inflation. I believe that is because the film appealed beyond the fanbase, although the fans were mostly satisfied.

[bjmdds]

Ale's The Voice beat Idol this week in 18-49(6.3 vs. 5.3 maximum) and total viewers(16.9 vs. 16.4 maximum) . Idol lost 2.7 million viewers Wednesday from the prior week. See ya Nigel. http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/0 ... gs/121576/ American Idol fell 16% from last week to a 5.1 adults 18-49 rating. That's down a whopping 35% vs. last year's equivalent telecast (7.9 adults 18-49 rating on Wednesday, February 23, 2011)

[bjmdds]

http://chillertheatre.com/gt/gtc4.htm Some interesting guests scheduled for April's convention so far. Maybe the Shawshank warden or Luciana Paluzzi from Thnderball will be spotted, amongst others, at the local restaurant I go to prior to the Saturday night party they schedule. In the past I have already spoken to Eddie Munster.

[bjmdds]

Land Rover Defender to star in 2012's new James Bond film Skyfall
By Phil McNamara
Motor Industry
24 February 2012 13:48

Land Rover’s Defender will be one of the star vehicles of the new James Bond film Skyfall, due in cinemas this winter. The venerable 4x4 will be driven in a chase sequence by Naomi Harris’s character, Eve. And the assignment is shaping up to be one of the toughest in the Defender’s 64-year history, says Skyfall co-producer Andrew Noakes.

‘We are really going to test that car,’ says Noakes, ‘do things to it it’s not normally designed for. Some of the stuff is so hairy and dangerous, we have to use a stuntman in a pod on the roof to do the driving. We’ve had to crank up the suspension, and the Defender is going to work very, very hard.’

It’s not the first time the Defender has appeared in a Bond chase: the 4x4 ended up plummeting from the rock of Gibraltar in the 1987 film The Living Daylights.

Jaguar-Land Rover is providing some 70 vehicles to the film: some are production support cars, others like the XJ and Evoque are set to figure on the screen. James Bond himself is set to drive an Aston Martin once more, but whispers suggest it might be a classic instead of a current model. DB5 anyone, with a nod back to 1964 and Goldfinger, as the franchise celebrates its 50th anniversary?

Noakes says the production company, EON, is delighted with the support of Jaguar-Land Rover. ‘The films may be made with American money and producers, but James Bond is British and we try to make associations with British companies. Land Rover is one of the oldest and most well-known. We’ve had offers from other companies but we’d prefer not to take James Bond out of a British environment.’ It sounds like the BMWs of the Pierce Brosnan era won’t be making a comeback anytime soon. (Yawn).

[FormerBondFan]

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2012/02/24/st ... ry-quinto/ Star Trek 2 (not II as in TWOK) looks promising.

[bjmdds]

While Ale recuperates from her Italian flu this news will make her feel better: Fast National ratings for Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012 :For the most part, shows that cratered in last Thursday's ratings rebounded some last night. A notable exception was "American Idol," which fell by more than a million viewers and six tenths of a point in adults 18-49 compared to its numbers at 8 o'clock last week. The Voice now ruled the week in the ratings Da Voice ...(from Fantasy Island's Tattoo).........Da Voice ............American Idol is done in terms of what it was. It's ratings are down almost 40% over last year Good.

[Omega]

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2012/02/24/st ... ry-quinto/ Star Trek 2 (not II as in TWOK) looks promising.

You can escape the Vulcan Death Grip You know the spoiler photos for star trek are how ya do it, the Bond stuff by comparison is very dull

I'm told i need to check out act of valor

[FormerBondFan]

From the new stills of Trek 2 (not II), it looks like there will be no Klingons as the bad guys, but I could be wrong.

[bjmdds]

Now that the filming is complete on the Zack Snyder-directed Superman reboot, Man of Steel, it's more and more likely that we will get a first look at the trailer sometime this summer. A couple of days ago, I was sent a very in-detail description of the rough cut trailer for the film, which Warner Bros. has been developing for a while now. I should mention that this might not be the final cut; just one version they're currently working on. So, that explains the "Rumor" you see in the headline, because nothing is confirmed just yet. The person who sent this to me worked on the film. And judging from info he told me personally, the source is very well legit as far as I'm concerned. The description is, like I said, very in-detail and contains some interesting stuff. Check it out below:

"Opens with a shot of space. The camera is panning around the planets and zooming through space. There's a voiceover of Jor-El (Russell Crowe) saying, "My son, our world is no longer safe for you." Suddenly, one of the planets explodes and a small ship is seen zooming out of the flames, and the camera pans around it to face it flying away. Shot of Jor-El and Lara placing a young baby into a ship. "We have been hit by an unexpected force." Shot of General Zod leaping off of a low bridge with a sword, about to hit Jor-El who is holding a shield. The bridge has been sliced in half, as the front is smoking red.

New Shot: The spaceship flies quickly past some satellites. The camera pans around to reveal that it is entering Earth's atmosphere (BTW, that deep "bbboooowwww" sound that keeps on being in trailers for action movies is present in this trailer). Shot of scientists looking at scans, seeing an unidentified object entering Earth. Then the ship crashes into the Kent Farm, with dirt flying everywhere. Different shot of lots of trucks driving down a road. Jonathan and Martha Kent race out of their house and look down at the ship. Jonathan mutters, "What is that....?" The ship starts to make noises and show strange languages appearing above it. The Kent's stand back. The roof of the ship slides back and a chair is erected up, with a small child sitting on it.

A voiceover of Martha Kent, as clips appear. "When you were a child Clark, well, the easiest way to put it was that you were special". Shots of Clark lifting the car off the ground for Jonathan to get underneath and fix it, Clark in school spinning a pencil in the air using telekinesis and finally Clark standing in his room with a strained expression, pointing his head upwards. The camera directly faces his feet firmly on the ground, before they rise about an inch. "You could do things that the other kids couldn't." A bus is falling off of a bridge, and a teenage Clark is seen in the window, looking panicked. Shot young Lana Lang looking terrified. Suddenly the bus stops. The camera pans down to the bottom to show Clark floating in mid-air holidng it up. "Which caused friction with the other kids." Clark is being cornered in the school park and beaten. A new shot of an adult Clark wearing a cap and grimy brown jacket standing in an alleyway, he then pulls up his hood and walks away. "You were extraordinary. You could do amazing things. You were a Superman." New shot of Martha talking to adult Clark in the kitchen. "I know all of this. But why? It's been kept from me all my life. I'm about to go out into the world, and I'm not leaving until I know what they are." "Clark, that's the reason you're leaving." Clark walks into the barn and takes his old ship out of a crate. There are a quick-cut shots of him watching videos, reading documents etc and looking worried.

NEW SHOT: Clark dives into the water in an icy area shirtless. He walks into a massive ice hall (Fortress of Solitude). Clark is in an igloo with an old man, warming their hands over a fire. "We don't get much visitors here. Why are you here?" Clark sits back and says, "I have powers. Unimaginable powers. And I don't know what to do with them." A rock music track starts playing. A plane lands on the runway and Clark walks out. New shot of him pulling a blue outfit out of his ship, with the 'S' emblem. The camera zooms in and the shot changes to a man falling out of a vortex and into a building, looking dirty and rugged. It's Zod. Superman is flying in the sky and flies down, using heat vision to attack an unknown flying thing infront of him (Probably Zod but I don't actually know). The Kent's rushing out of their farm and trying to get into the bunker as a massive Tornado sweeps across the land. Superman flying through different buildings and smashing through the windows, holding a strange monster just bigger than Supes. Superman straight falling off of a mountain (aerial view, shot straight down) and then edging forward in the air, before he is fully flying. Clark Kent talking to Lois Lane in the Daily Planet. "So, you're new here. Good luck trying to get anything first, I'm quick with all the hot scoops." There is then a new shot of stacks of papers being thrown into a van with Clark and Lois standing next to it. On the front of the papers, there's an image of Superman flying through the air with the headline, "SUPER-POWERED VIGILANTE HITS THE STREETS OF METROPOLIS; DUBBED "SUPERMAN". Clark walks away back into the Daily Planet saying, "What was that you said yesterday Lois?" Now it's a montage of shots of Superman punching various different crooks and beating them up. Voiceover of Martha Kent: "I can't believe you're back, it's so surreal." "I discovered my purpose in life. My journey is beginning. And it might have led me to my end." The final shot is Superman and General Zod on the streets of Metropolis, battling using heat vision. The beams are meeting in the middle, and flames are flying all around them. The red light in the middle grows brighter and larger, and consumes the whole screen. The Superman emblem appears, with the words "Man of Steel" written across it. Then the words, "Coming Soon"."

There you go... What do you think?

[bjmdds]

Star Trek 2 opens May 17, 2013 and will be in competition with The Man Of Steel June 14, 2013. Will FBF see each the same amount of times? http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/ ... aldana.jpg http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/ ... quinto.jpg http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/ ... -image.jpg http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/ ... 2-imax.jpg Predictions? Which film will gross more in the USA and worldwide? That's a tough one to figure. Star Trek 2009 did
worldwide $385,680,446.

[bjmdds]

MI 4: Worldwide: $671,069,197----- Bond 23 will never reach this total. What say yee FBF? “I think that might have been the plan earlier on, but as the film progressed and we enjoyed it so much I think the idea of Ethan Hunt retiring fell by the wayside. Tom suddenly remembered why he loved doing these films so much and suddenly thought ‘well maybe I do want to do more?’ It’d be nice to see them go into a mission a little better equipped and prepared and have some things that actually work.”

As for director Brad Bird, it’s possible that he may be back for the next installment as well, if we can take his following quote seriously:

“Hey man, what a good idea! cross pollinating the bad robot films!”, Bird says of bringing Leonard Nimoy’s ‘Paris’ back from the classic series. “I’ll bring that up with JJ. I’ll be sure to discuss it.”

[FormerBondFan]

MI 4: Worldwide: $671,069,197----- Bond 23 will never reach this total. What say yee FBF?

I hope you're right 200%.

As for director Brad Bird, it’s possible that he may be back for the next installment as well, if we can take his following quote seriously:

“Hey man, what a good idea! cross pollinating the bad robot films!”, Bird says of bringing Leonard Nimoy’s ‘Paris’ back from the classic series. “I’ll bring that up with JJ. I’ll be sure to discuss it.”

I say go for it. It would be nice to see a little more of Leonard outside of Trek.

And stupid question but since the movie Jim Phelps turned out to be a bad guy (which really pissed both fans and original MI cast), is it best to consider it that this Phelps is nothing more than an impostor? The TV Phelps probably was probably assassinated by the either the movie Phelps or his henchmen, and that assassination was then covered up as the movie Phelps himself steals his identity, leading Ethan to think that the Phelps character turned evil. That's just a thought though. Or maybe I haven't seen the first MI movie for a long time.

[Omega]

I Don't like it. It might looks different in the real ad and the write up might be a little poor.

Now that the filming is complete on the Zack Snyder-directed Superman reboot, Man of Steel, it's more and more likely that we will get a first look at the trailer sometime this summer. A couple of days ago, I was sent a very in-detail description of the rough cut trailer for the film, which Warner Bros. has been developing for a while now. I should mention that this might not be the final cut; just one version they're currently working on. So, that explains the "Rumor" you see in the headline, because nothing is confirmed just yet. The person who sent this to me worked on the film. And judging from info he told me personally, the source is very well legit as far as I'm concerned. The description is, like I said, very in-detail and contains some interesting stuff. Check it out below:

"Opens with a shot of space. The camera is panning around the planets and zooming through space. There's a voiceover of Jor-El (Russell Crowe) saying, "My son, our world is no longer safe for you." Suddenly, one of the planets explodes and a small ship is seen zooming out of the flames, and the camera pans around it to face it flying away. Shot of Jor-El and Lara placing a young baby into a ship. "We have been hit by an unexpected force." Shot of General Zod leaping off of a low bridge with a sword, about to hit Jor-El who is holding a shield. The bridge has been sliced in half, as the front is smoking red.

New Shot: The spaceship flies quickly past some satellites. The camera pans around to reveal that it is entering Earth's atmosphere (BTW, that deep "bbboooowwww" sound that keeps on being in trailers for action movies is present in this trailer). Shot of scientists looking at scans, seeing an unidentified object entering Earth. Then the ship crashes into the Kent Farm, with dirt flying everywhere. Different shot of lots of trucks driving down a road. Jonathan and Martha Kent race out of their house and look down at the ship. Jonathan mutters, "What is that....?" The ship starts to make noises and show strange languages appearing above it. The Kent's stand back. The roof of the ship slides back and a chair is erected up, with a small child sitting on it.

A voiceover of Martha Kent, as clips appear. "When you were a child Clark, well, the easiest way to put it was that you were special". Shots of Clark lifting the car off the ground for Jonathan to get underneath and fix it, Clark in school spinning a pencil in the air using telekinesis and finally Clark standing in his room with a strained expression, pointing his head upwards. The camera directly faces his feet firmly on the ground, before they rise about an inch. "You could do things that the other kids couldn't." A bus is falling off of a bridge, and a teenage Clark is seen in the window, looking panicked. Shot young Lana Lang looking terrified. Suddenly the bus stops. The camera pans down to the bottom to show Clark floating in mid-air holidng it up. "Which caused friction with the other kids." Clark is being cornered in the school park and beaten. A new shot of an adult Clark wearing a cap and grimy brown jacket standing in an alleyway, he then pulls up his hood and walks away. "You were extraordinary. You could do amazing things. You were a Superman." New shot of Martha talking to adult Clark in the kitchen. "I know all of this. But why? It's been kept from me all my life. I'm about to go out into the world, and I'm not leaving until I know what they are." "Clark, that's the reason you're leaving." Clark walks into the barn and takes his old ship out of a crate. There are a quick-cut shots of him watching videos, reading documents etc and looking worried.

NEW SHOT: Clark dives into the water in an icy area shirtless. He walks into a massive ice hall (Fortress of Solitude). Clark is in an igloo with an old man, warming their hands over a fire. "We don't get much visitors here. Why are you here?" Clark sits back and says, "I have powers. Unimaginable powers. And I don't know what to do with them." A rock music track starts playing. A plane lands on the runway and Clark walks out. New shot of him pulling a blue outfit out of his ship, with the 'S' emblem. The camera zooms in and the shot changes to a man falling out of a vortex and into a building, looking dirty and rugged. It's Zod. Superman is flying in the sky and flies down, using heat vision to attack an unknown flying thing infront of him (Probably Zod but I don't actually know). The Kent's rushing out of their farm and trying to get into the bunker as a massive Tornado sweeps across the land. Superman flying through different buildings and smashing through the windows, holding a strange monster just bigger than Supes. Superman straight falling off of a mountain (aerial view, shot straight down) and then edging forward in the air, before he is fully flying. Clark Kent talking to Lois Lane in the Daily Planet. "So, you're new here. Good luck trying to get anything first, I'm quick with all the hot scoops." There is then a new shot of stacks of papers being thrown into a van with Clark and Lois standing next to it. On the front of the papers, there's an image of Superman flying through the air with the headline, "SUPER-POWERED VIGILANTE HITS THE STREETS OF METROPOLIS; DUBBED "SUPERMAN". Clark walks away back into the Daily Planet saying, "What was that you said yesterday Lois?" Now it's a montage of shots of Superman punching various different crooks and beating them up. Voiceover of Martha Kent: "I can't believe you're back, it's so surreal." "I discovered my purpose in life. My journey is beginning. And it might have led me to my end." The final shot is Superman and General Zod on the streets of Metropolis, battling using heat vision. The beams are meeting in the middle, and flames are flying all around them. The red light in the middle grows brighter and larger, and consumes the whole screen. The Superman emblem appears, with the words "Man of Steel" written across it. Then the words, "Coming Soon"."

There you go... What do you think?

[Omega]

Well Girl with the Tattoo did make more than $200 million.
Worldwide: $221,131,090

Might be all she wrote, got to be a disappointment for Sony. This was supposed to be the monster adult hit of the season. But it didn't win over many people who liked the original and feel the Hollywood version is less authentic. There is some love for the remake but on almost any movie board the are a significant number of people who prefer the original. I don't think it is Craig reaction just a reaction to the Hollywood re-makers.

[bjmdds]

One web story last month claimed it went over $300 million worldwide. It must have been wishful thinking. It was another Cr-egg egg, with the emphasis on the 'egg. http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/92459/ Wrong information being printed.

[Omega]

MI 4: Worldwide: $671,069,197----- Bond 23 will never reach this total. What say yee FBF?

I hope you're right 200%.

As for director Brad Bird, it’s possible that he may be back for the next installment as well, if we can take his following quote seriously:

“Hey man, what a good idea! cross pollinating the bad robot films!”, Bird says of bringing Leonard Nimoy’s ‘Paris’ back from the classic series. “I’ll bring that up with JJ. I’ll be sure to discuss it.”

I say go for it. It would be nice to see a little more of Leonard outside of Trek.

And stupid question but since the movie Jim Phelps turned out to be a bad guy (which really pissed both fans and original MI cast), is it best to consider it that this Phelps is nothing more than an impostor? The TV Phelps probably was probably assassinated by the either the movie Phelps or his henchmen, and that assassination was then covered up as the movie Phelps himself steals his identity, leading Ethan to think that the Phelps character turned evil. That's just a thought though. Or maybe I haven't seen the first MI movie for a long time.

Bird did a good job on MI4 too bad he never got a Bond movie.
Bringing back a 70 year old man for a tv tie in might not be a good idea, maybe if they want to establish the Jim Phelps was a cover name use by the bad guy in MI and the real Jim was not a bad guy it would be a welcome idea.