[Tsundoku]

Illuyankas, on 26 March 2011 - 04:30 PM, said:

Oh come on, from the scenes of Milla Jovovich doing impossible actiony scenes you can tell it's a Paul W. S. Anderson movie. It's in his contract that all of his movies have his wife playing a superhero, otherwise he doesn't get any at home.

Ah yes, I thought she looked familiar. Trouble is I find it hard to make anything out in detail with these modern flash-everything-so-fast-you-don't-know-what-the-fuck-is-going-on-so-you'll-be-overwhelmed trailers.

This could be ball-out stupid fun or it could be just balls-out stupid. Sombra's Shit-o-meter is undecided so far. Maybe the next trailer will give more hints.

I just hope it's not another "Clash of the Titans". Surely that movie must be somewhere near the top of the list of "movies that should have been quietly forgotten let alone even contemplating making a sequel"?

This post has been edited by Sombra: 26 March 2011 - 11:34 PM

[Slow Ben]

Soooooooo....its a Bristish version of Wild Wild West?

[QuickTidal]

Sombra, on 26 March 2011 - 11:33 PM, said:

I just hope it's not another "Clash of the Titans". Surely that movie must be somewhere near the top of the list of "movies that should have been quietly forgotten let alone even contemplating making a sequel"?

The Clash of the Titans remake was a blast, and there is very little to actually dislike in it. The 3D conversion was awful, but the film itself I thought was damn fun....just like the original.

[Tsundoku]

QuickTidal, on 27 March 2011 - 12:19 PM, said:

Sombra, on 26 March 2011 - 11:33 PM, said:

I just hope it's not another "Clash of the Titans". Surely that movie must be somewhere near the top of the list of "movies that should have been quietly forgotten let alone even contemplating making a sequel"?

The Clash of the Titans remake was a blast, and there is very little to actually dislike in it. The 3D conversion was awful, but the film itself I thought was damn fun....just like the original.

I think we've had this conversation before. Deja vu?

There were 3 good things in The CotT remake - Mads Mikkelsen and Gemma Arterton's chesticles.

[Cyphon]

You didn't need the suffix for Gemma. She just stands as a reason to watch on her own.

[Gothos]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT, WAS THAT TITUS PULLO?
Is this sorta steam/clockwork punk version, too?
This looks very promising!

[Cause]

It only takes one properly choreographed sword fight to make a good movie.

For all that I remain skeptical. Still if pullo kills someone while shouting Thirteenth I will go see it.

[Slow Ben]

Gothos, on 28 March 2011 - 11:10 AM, said:

HOLY FUCKING SHIT, WAS THAT TITUS PULLO?

Sweet. Ray Stevenson is in this. I'll watch it for that reason alone.

[Tapper]

I dunno. Pullo is a better fun-loving Porthos than a depressed aristocrat Athos, imho.
Also, was that Richelieu dueling? And Milady de Winter as a love interest for d'Artagnan? If so, preposterous.

It's fine and dandy making an alternate reality with magic, steampower, gadgets and 'splosives in a 17th century Paris swashbuckling movie/ setting - but why use Dumas story then?

[QuickTidal]

Sombra, on 28 March 2011 - 07:54 AM, said:

and Gemma Arterton's chesticles.

You make a solid point...and this is also the reason I went to see Prince Of Persia too...LOL

[Abyss]

Macros, on 26 March 2011 - 07:41 PM, said:

never beat the charlie sheen kiether sutherland one

Seconded. That movie was all kinds of awesome awesomeness, with Oliver "i eat scenery" Platt as the mostest glorious Portos (the Pirate!) evah!

Fist Gamet, on 26 March 2011 - 10:06 PM, said:

..., I do not want to see that dressed up as the Three Musketeers. Why the hell not just make a really awesome and cool and original film with flying ships, guns,...but NOT call it the Three Musketeers???

Bcs name recognition is worth something, and the SHERLOCK HOLMES movie showed that sexing up an olde property with shiny fx and maybe a few mid-level stars can boost a shite movie to boxoffice success.

Slow Ben, on 27 March 2011 - 12:59 AM, said:

Soooooooo....its a Bristish version of Wild Wild West?

I laughed. i hope not, but i laughed.

Cause, on 28 March 2011 - 11:33 AM, said:

It only takes one properly choreographed sword fight to make a good movie.

For all that I remain skeptical. Still if pullo kills someone while shouting Thirteenth I will go see it.

If he does that I will BUY it.

[Cyphon]

Tapper, on 28 March 2011 - 02:15 PM, said:

And Milady de Winter as a love interest for d'Artagnan?

In the books that was the case until he realised she was batshit crazy.

[Bauchelain the Evil]

Hmm. No. In the books D'artaganan had taken someone else's identity was trying to gain some information but things went badly. D'Artaganan's only love interest was Constance.

[Coco with marshmallows]

Bauchelain the Evil, on 28 March 2011 - 04:46 PM, said:

Hmm. No. In the books D'artaganan had taken someone else's identity was trying to gain some information but things went badly. D'Artaganan's only love interest was Constance.

Not strictly true. it's also at least intimated that D'artagnan nearly went for Queen Anne as well. Randy git

[Bauchelain the Evil]

Really? I remember Anne having an affair with Buckingam and then with Mazzarino in Twenty Years Later and not much else. I think it's time for a re-read of all three books.

[QuickTidal]

Cyphon88, on 28 March 2011 - 03:28 PM, said:

Tapper, on 28 March 2011 - 02:15 PM, said:

And Milady de Winter as a love interest for d'Artagnan?

In the books that was the case until he realised she was batshit crazy.

No, in the movie she is a villain and not a love interest at all.

[MTS]

There have been so many film/TV adaptations of this book made that the list has its own wiki page, we do not need another one, no matter how wacky or clever the reimagining is. It's like remaking Dracula, Frankenstein or Jekyll and Hyde. It's all been done before.

This post has been edited by MTS: 29 March 2011 - 07:08 AM

[Tapper]

Cyphon88, on 28 March 2011 - 03:28 PM, said:

Tapper, on 28 March 2011 - 02:15 PM, said:

And Milady de Winter as a love interest for d'Artagnan?

In the books that was the case until he realised she was batshit crazy.

Hmm, not how I remember it... maybe a moment of seduction, but nothing longue durée - he had a girl he was chasing and she was Athos' ex.

[Cyphon]

Either way he was getting some smooch action off of her, and from the trailer, that's about all we know as well.

We're really not going to attribute intention behind kissing from a snapshot trailer.

Also QuickTidal, I'm ashamed of you citing the film of a book over the book.

[QuickTidal]

Cyphon88, on 29 March 2011 - 10:13 AM, said:

Also QuickTidal, I'm ashamed of you citing the film of a book over the book.

I was just being informative....

...and I've never actually READ the book...


LOL!