Pacific Rim looks a little too cheesy to me, but who knows it might be a fun Netflix movie. After Earth and Oblivion both look like they could be interesting. Hopefully they have enough substance to them to make a compelling film and not be one of those concepts that would be better served as nice concept art or a short film.
Pacific Rim looks terrible as a film, but as a giant-robots crushing things looks awesome. Transformers was also a terrible film, but it was still a fun robot action smash fest.
I enjoy watching these movies for the design, the trailers look good, looking forward to them.
For 2012, the most convincing ID world was Total Recall (2012), the products and the âphysicsâ of the world were well thought out. with the exception of the light rope. The Blade Runner homage world was the best yet.
The star navigation interface from Prometheus was mind blowing. Surgery machine, great concept, not so convincing after the shock settles.
Thereâs something called âThe Hostâ by the author of those teenybopper Twilight films. Stars Diane Kruger which is a shame since the film looks pretty weak - sheâs too good for that. But its futuristic and slick and Gattaca-esque judging from the trailers.
Re: Prometheus, 2013 should at least have some more info on the sequel (to the prequel)âŚ
Youâre right, some films I like to watch just because of the design of the world the story takes place in, but sometimes the writing/directing/acting are just too much of a deal breaker for me. I also think that surgery machine from Prometheus seemed pretty wonky. I mean why would a female captain have a med pod in her room that was only calibrated to work on males?
I really like Benedict Cumberbatch from BBCâs Sherlock so Iâll be checking out the next Star Trek.
not gonna lie, that med pod scene made me really squeamish. The dude next to me also just happened to be munching on a big bag of dried cuttlefish at the time.
The subtext is that Shaw is a lone female in a misogynist spaceship society. She canât do what she wants, canât get the healthcare she needs, and the medpod canât help her either.
Am I alone in seeing resemblances between the medpod shape and the alienâs head? Something about the machine reminds me of the original Giger drawing.
Ridley Scottâs redo of Blade Runner out in 2013? Probably not:
âHarrison Ford may take a small role in Ridley Scottâs forthcoming Blade Runner sequel, according to the director.
In an interview with the Independent, Scott said he hoped Ford would take a guest role in the planned project. âI donât think itâll be Harry [starring],â he said. âBut Iâve got to have him in it somewhere. Thatâd be amusing.â
It emerged earlier this year that Ford was in talks for the new Blade Runner film, which has since been revealed as a sequel with a female protagonist at its core. The actor, now 69, played the lead role of replicant hunter Rick Deckard in Scottâs classic 1982 future noir. Scottâs involvement was revealed in March last year and followed his decision to return to science fiction film-making after three decades with Prometheus, a film âset in the same universeâ as 1979 futuristic horror Alien.â
I dont know whether to feel good that an Evangelion inspired movie is coming out or be bummed because now there will probably never be an Evangelion movie because it will just seem like it was a pacific rim knockoff
anyways, anything guillermo del toro is usually good in my book.
Hey, canât quote out of context - I clearly said it looks terrible as a film, but awesome as a 90 minute barrage of robots beating stuff up.
If you sit through that and go âwow this plot of people trying to save the world from an Alien worm hole is a novel conceptâ then I have a DVD collection I want to share.
i see your point, and im not excitied about it because i think its a novel concept, but the same could be said about almost everything in this world, movies, music, food, even design!
rarely is there anything anyone on this board comes up with that is a COMPLETELY new concept or idea, but we dont come out of the woodwork bashing it, (well maybe some of us do )
point being, yes i love movies of that genre, so when another one comes out and is kind of just a rehash of the aliens vs us or giant monster vs us concept im happy because i enjoy it and it never gets old to me.
I think most people feel that way about genres but yet feel the need to try and flex their âFilmâ knowledge by stating that the plot is not new or the acting is not award worthy, etc.
Not gonna say that people cant voice their opinion, but i just think its a moot point, and generally no one disagrees with what you are stating, they just dont care.