I've seen this poster in theater lobbies for a while now, and assumed it was some Great Gatsby kind of deal, with old-fashioned people driving motorcars, listening to jazz and perhaps enforcing an arranged marriage. After all, that lead couple front and center look super-uncomfortable in each other's arms.
So then they bring out this featurette to stress how acclaimed the actors are that are in it, which of course is self-evident, though they've also been in movies like Dungeons & Dragons, Nanny McPhee and Dragonball: Evolution. I figured maybe it would give me an idea what the concept is...
...Twilight with more CGI?
Put aside for a second the fact that Twilight is dumb and badly plotted. Does that poster give any indication it's the type of movie they're selling?
It's not my job to decide how to market a movie, but I figured maybe it was my place to give you a heads-up that silly teen supernatural romance is not yet dead.
However, it is just a tiny bit embarrassed about what it is.
Eh, I liked the book well enough. I file these types of books in the same way I treat pop music. Its fun, easy to digest, and a good time waster. Not going to make you have deep thoughts or anything, but an entertaining read. I'll probably Netflix the movie, but I'm doubtful I'd pay to see this one in the theaters.
its twilight with witches only the belle and edward roles reversed . the guy human the lady a witch . and also minus any werewolves this time.
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Oh wow, it's like Twilight only this time the BOY is human and the GIRL is ohfuckitIcan'tevenfinish
@Canadian.Scott @Bearr Indeed I am. Follow me and I shall guide you to all manner of shiz and junk.
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How dare you disparage Nanny McPhee! It's a well realized delightful piece of fantasy. Seriously, it's so good, the story is lovely and the visuals are absolutely gorgeous. This neo classic of children's cinema doesn't belong in the same sentence as Dungeons & Dragons and that hideous Dragonball movie. Don't get it twisted!
@Canadian.Scott @RobynRobotron Yes, because the only people who can like something enough to speak up about its merits are those who created it.
If there were awards for esoteric gifs, you would be giving an acceptance speech right about now.
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I am glad Jeremy Irons tells us what a good film it is, we would never tell from the phoned in performance we see from the film clips.
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I kept thinking this was a rip off title from 1997 and starred Kevin Kline but that was Fierce Creatures...So if anything this movie makes me want to see other movies.
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@Canadian.Scott Same here. I saw that in theaters. It wasn't better than A Fish Called Wanda by any stretch even though it was the same cast, but I liked it even though I only saw it that one time and I've seen Wanda like 16 times.
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@10glfan59 Well i got into a car accident this morning...so between police reports, insurance calls and rental pick ups. I have wasted my day away. I am fine and so is the other driver but let's just say i'm glad tomorrow is almost here.
@rabidronnie @Canadian.Scott @10glfan59 I have already told my household, do not bother me Easter weekend, Who is back on.
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@Canadian.Scott @10glfan59 Well, happy things for Scott. . . let's see. SHIELD started filming today! Also, Doctor Who returns on March 30th, confirmed! Also. . . I got nothing. But I'm so glad you're okay and so is the other driver! Take a well-deserved rest. And eat chocolate. Everything is better with chocolate.
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@10glfan59 Thank you . Thank god i have this place to get away for a minute. Now if i wasn't met with this news.
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@Canadian.Scott @10glfan59 Really sorry that happened Scott but glad everyone is ok.
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@Kozmik_Pariah @ComradeDread Yes, but if you rip out its plot, stitch it together in a laboratory with Twilight, and then give the whole thing half a brain before jolting it with electricity, you have not created a beautiful creature, you have created an unholy abomination that will ultimately hunt you down and murder everyone you care about.
@ComradeDread I think the running title until the focus groups got a hold of this movie was "Unholy Abomination".
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How does this get made and i can't get a live action Dragonlance? Why Hollywood why?
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Looking forward to Warm Bodies.. hopefully the only supernatural-esque rom com worth checking out these days.
@Kozmik_Pariah I was slightly up for that just for Rob Corddry, but then I saw the Revenant and lost all interest.
@Kozmik_Pariah @EliasAlgorithm It's pretty awesome but if you've seen any kind of indie horror comedy, you can predict most of the beats. I forgave David Anders for all of Heroes within twenty minutes tho.
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I actually read the book a while ago and it wasn't too terrible (certainly not twilight painful) but I started the second book and literally gave up before finishing the first chapter.
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@scottsee Helpful! We need to start a TR review forum where we can get feedback from each other on this stuff and save one another valuable time/money/sanity points.
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@rabidronnie @scottsee For now, how about this comment thread? What other bad books should we avoid?
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@LYT @rabidronnie @scottsee I should clarify here that I tore it out to show folks, not to 'make the book better', because it was an awful book.
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@LYT @rabidronnie @scottsee I'd hazard to suggest avoiding 80% of Dean Koontz' books. I tore one page out of one I was reading where the first sentence compared one person exiting a restaurant to a horse. That was perhaps forgivable as a simile, but what wasn't was the entire paragraph built around it, you know, discussing her main and fetlocks and whatnot. Dean Koontz has many terrible, awful similes in his books, but some are pretty effin' horrible...
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I saw a trailer for this when I went to the movies a month ago. And I was really interested in it...until they said it was made by the Twilight people. Which you can kinda see by the lighting because everyone looks like they have been rolled though the soft colors fx on your camera app. I am usually not into rom/coms (though I am sure it is going to be more rom than com), though I think the cast will sway me to go see it. I mean I gave the first Twilight movie a chance, till he sparkled, then I shut it off and threw my tv out the window and hid in the closet for a week.
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@GeekGamerGirl I keep going back and forth about it. Twilight was. . . yeah. We'll just pretend that didn't happen. I can't decide whether to give this a chance or not, since the last teenybopper rom-com I risked my date night on was Beastly, and I was apologizing to my husband for the rest of the week. I'm already taking a chance on Warm Bodies when it comes out (though I've heard lots of good things), so I feel like playing with fire twice might be a bad idea.
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I saw the trailer for Warm Bodies too. I am putting my foot down on that one. It's bad enough that tween movies made vampires sparkle, I will not shell out money for a tween movie to tell me that a zombie can think/fall in love. THAT IS RIDICULOUS!!
@EliasAlgorithm@GeekGamerGirlhttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7DGFSI8w0Jg/S57ObYD61-I/AAAAAAAADdU/1aB_ksLvPIY/s400/03_14_10.jpeg --I think this is what you will expect to see.
@GeekGamerGirl I keep waiting for the tween version of the Gill-Man from Creature From The Black Lagoon.
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Yes, I know and I am not lost on that I just think that the movies now are killing (no pun intended) the pure monster.
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day of the dead; although it wasn't supposed to be a tween what-ever-the-fuck warm bodies is supposed to be.
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Spoony talked about it in one of his vlogs. I was curious thinking "It can be that bad... can it?"
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Well, fuck me, IT CAN BE AND IT IS. Fuck you, specific demographic that support this shit. Jeremy Irons deserves better.
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@kegs Yeah, he was in Eragon, too, and that was easily one of the biggest botches in book-movie adaptation ever. He really hasn't been in a lot of good things of late.
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