Films Of 2004

[MolliG]

Related to the other thread :). I'm personaly looking forward to seeing (on the basis of trailers etc)...

School Of Rock (http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/school_of_rock/)
Starsky & Hutch (http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/starsky_and_hutch/)
*The Passion Of The Christ (http://www.apple.com/trailers/newmarket/thepassionofthechrist-tlr.html)
*The Girl Next Door (http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/girl_next_door/)
Van Helsing (http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/van_helsing/superbowl/)
*Troy (http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/troy/)
The Day After Tomorrow (http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/dayaftertomorrow/)
Spider-Man 2 (http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/spider-man_2/)
*King Arthur (http://www.apple.com/trailers/touchstone/king_arthur.html)
Blade: Trinity
*Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow (http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/skycaptainandtheworldoftomorrow/)
*The Incredibles (http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/the_incredibles/)

*Going to defiantly watch.

... This year. Now what about you lot?

:D

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kill bill volume II

alexander (the great oliver stone)

Shrek 2

Harry Potter :P

hellboy

Around the world in 80 days (hmm alan partrige and jackie chan?)

alien vs. predator

[Rantanplan]

Starsky & Hutch (http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/starsky_and_hutch/)

Holy ****zzle!!!

[Roger Rabbit]

Shrek 2

Kill Bill 2

Troy

[Operation Ivy]

Starship Troopers 2!!! woot

[Rantanplan]

Starship Troopers 2!!! woot

realy!!??!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!

[Rantanplan]

Hmmm, i wached just now the trailer. Man, this movie looks crappy!

http://img1.photobucket.com/albums/v40/Rantanplan/STARSHIPTROOPERS2.jpg

[Ratamacue]

Starship Troopers 2 is going to be a straight-to-video movie. As if the first movie wasn't bad enough...

[Seiyuuki]

I will try to see all the movies, but chances are I'll probably 90% of this list on DVD:

The Battle of Algiers
Troy
The Polar Express
Againt the Ropes (Just for Meg Ryan)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Hellboy
Van Helsing
The Chronicles Of Rid****
The Village
King Arthur
The Alamo
Hidalgo
Spider-Man 2
The Punisher
Shrek 2
The Incredibles
Kill Bill: Vol. II
Zatoichi (Remake)
Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow
Monsieur Ibrahim
The Fog of War
*Hero
Alien vs. Predator



*Already seen it, but it is release worldwide this year, recommend you all go see it.

[Sir Zach of R.]

Miracle and The Passion are the only good ones I've heard of so far. Hellboy looks like s*** by the way. What's the new WW2 movie named (It takes place in the Pacific)?

[Merik]

Whats the movie with Tom Cruise about the Battle of Britain?

[millhouse]

Around the world in 80 days (hmm alan partrige and jackie chan?)


AND ARNOLD!

[mocking_loudly_died]

Whats the movie with Tom Cruise about the Battle of Britain?

The following was found on some movie site:


Hollywood re-writes Battle of Britain history


12:45 15 September 2003 - James Salter
General News

Tom Cruise is to star in a new movie which makes out an American played a huge role in winning the Battle of Britain.

Cruise will play Billy Fiske, a US airman which the script claims lead the Allies in their fight to crush the Luftwaffe.

However, the real Fiske only ever flew 3 combat missions, never downed a Nazi plane and was killed when his aircraft crash landed.

Hollywood has already been hit with massive amounts of criticism for films such as U-571 which suggested it was the US Navy rather than the Royal Navy which was responsible for capturing the Enigma codebook from the U-boat.

The new film, with the provisional title of The Few, is no less likely to attract just criticism for its willingness to alter history to turn the hero into an American.

What next? A film about the suffering of American cities during the Blitz? Coventry changed to San Diego?

[Ghostwolf]

Ah yes, the Eagle Squadrons story.
Just hope they don't f*** up big time
like Pearl Harbor.

[Tengu]

can i get a link to that site mocking_loudly_died??

And yes Ghostwolf i cant understand why they ****ed up the facts in pearl harbor. An insult for all the men and women who died that day imo.

[Ghostwolf]

And yes Ghostwolf i cant understand why they f*** up
the facts in pearl harbor. An insult for all the men and women who died
that day imo.

You know you should not trust the Hollywood movies so much, they are
not all facts. Instead of blaming me for defaming those brave men and
women died in this coward act, you should be blaming Michael Bay(the
director) for bending the historical record.

For example,

In the movie: the character played by Affleck, a young US military flyer,
volunteers for the Eagle Squadron, which let American pilots fly in the
British Royal Air Force before the United States entered the war.

In fact: The Eagle Squadron existed, but none of the volunteers were in
the US military, the documentary says; all were civilians, and some had
been rejected by the US armed forces.

In the movie: US Adm. Husband Kimmel, who had charge of the fleet at
Pearl Harbor, criticises Washington, saying: "For four months now
Washington's been blowing pink smoke about the threat from Japan. It
could make us lose our fighting edge. I'm determined not to let that
happen."

In fact: Kimmel had received intelligence warnings about the Japanese
threat but felt these were vague and incomplete and chose not to place
his forces on full scale alert. He was forced to retire after Pearl Harbor.

In the movie: The code breaker played by Aykroyd says in the movie
that he expected the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor.

In fact: None of the code breakers ever believed the Hawaiian harbour
was the target.

In the movie: The code breakers said they have broken the Japanese
naval code, and warned of imminent attack.

In fact: Only the Japanese diplomatic code was broken, the naval code
was never broken until the end of war.

There were a lot more evidence of altered historical facts in the movie, in
order to make the movie more appealing to the audience, certainly not to
mention the errors in the cinematic "effects". Not only the historians
disagree with this movie, the National Geographic Channel also made a TV
special about the "Pearl Harbor" fiction movie and the real facts.

[Tengu]

hehe Ghostwolf, i am aware of those facts and i wasn't blaming you. I was blaming the director :) .

[Merik]

GW, I dont think its a Eagle Squadron movie. If it is then I havent heard anyone actually say Eagle Squadron in thier highlights of the movie.

[Scrim]

Thought this was pretty funny, bloody Yanks! ;)

Column: Man in the UK
Column by Edmund Colley
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Issue 1: 'Ello Chaps!

Issue 1: 'Ello Chaps!
Jolly nice to meet you all! Ed Colley Esq. here, writing from good old Blighty, updating you lovely Yank types about the all the film goings on in Her Majesty's Kingdom. Or should that be Queendom?

Well, I can tell you that the biggest news hot off the press in our green and pleasant land is the fact that we aren't too bloody happy about some of the potential plans of your Mr Tom Cruise. Apparently, he's planning to make a film where he stars as an American WWII ace who single-handedly defeats the Hun in the Battle of Britain. And this has got plenty of our chaps fuming at the little squirt's cheek.

First of all it was that Spielberg fellow who decided to empty northern France of any British soldiers whilst that Mr Hanks traipsed around wondering how big the pot had got. Then it was that strange young man Mr McConaughey who we don't see in films anymore leading a merry band of submariners to whisk the Enigma machine from under the Hun's nose, even though it was our boys who in reality did all the hard work. And now Hollywood has got the cheek to fool uneducated oiks the world over that the Battle of Britain was won by a small man who wasn't tall enough to see out of his cockpit.

To cap it all off, now you Yank chaps are taking some of our classic films and draining every last drop of character from them. Case in point - The Italian Job. What was once a glorious film with wonderful actors shouting, 'You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off' in a cockney accent, The Italian Jon remake now comes to our screens as homogenised as the milk you chaps across the big pond make (and which I wouldn't slop into my Darjeeling for all the tea in China). Instead of the wonderful Noel Coward, we now have Donald Sutherland grinning inanely. Instead of good old Mickey Caine we have that dullard Mark Wahlberg (who, if anyone who had to sit through 'Planet of the Apes' will tell you, was acted off the screen by the chimpanzees). And instead of all those wonderful mini's involved in a stupendous chase sequence sticking it to the Italians, we now have two minutes of the (admittedly delectable but rather sillily named) Charlize Theron doing a couple of hand-brake turns before showing us how great her hair looks. So, in short, would you please leave our national cinematic treasures alone? Goodness knows what travesty your lot will come up with next. No doubt there are plans a foot to do a 're-imagining' of 'Peeping Tom' as a hilarious comedy starring Ashton Kutcher.

Anyway, that's my lot for now chaps. Next month I'll report on how the UK has taken to seeing the perky Meg Ryan go starkers for her new flic 'In The Cut', directed by that slightly strange Aussie woman who likes like Meryl Street in 'The Hours'.

Cheerio for now!

[Merik]

I hated Pearl Harbor by the way. That was a total screwup and Im surprised that it did so well in the box office.

[Tengu]

ahahahahah Scrim rofl

[California Joe]

Alamo looks cool. And believe me, I'll know if they use a flintlock that's period incorrect.

Van Helsing looks wicked.

[Trigger]

All I can say is, if you base your knowledge of history on Hollywood films, you've got issues. There's nothing wrong with action flicks that are based in different periods of history. Just don't expect accuracy and enjoy the explosions.

As far as Tom Cruise is concerend, I generally think he's a fine actor but he seems to get cast in some really hard to believe roles like Lestat in 'Interview with the Vampire'. In my opinion the worst possible choice for that particular role.

Why don't they just re-make 'Battle of Britain' with British actors?
There's lots of them out there. I don't get it.

[Scrim]

Trigger- apparently, the films publisist when contacted said there is no way that Americans would go see a movie with a British actor in the lead role????WTF?Over.
Case in point, Jason Statham in the Transporter, with a horrible American accent.(Did anyone go and see that anyway?!)

[California Joe]

That's retarded. Speaking as a representative for every American.

[Trigger]

WTF indeed.
Isn't Jude Law British? Pierce Brosnan? that kid who plays Harry Potter?

If they have to put an American in the lead they should at least pick someone who can pull off an English accent.
Mel Gibson?
Brendan Fraser?

'The Transporter' was unbelievably awful. Thank God I only rented it...

[Haiw]

If they have to put an American in the lead they should at least pick someone who can pull off an English accent.
Mel Gibson?
Gibson ain't no yank...

[Trigger]

^Born in New York. Raised in Australia.

[Seraphim]

Have you guys seen the trailer for Euro Trip... rofl

[Haiw]

^Born in New York. Raised in Australia.
Makes him an Australian to me...

[Roger Rabbit]

I went to see Transporter. In the trailer it showed him deflected a rocket (LAW i believe) with a silver tea try. Bastards cut it from the movie though. I was well dissapointed, tempted to buy the DVD and see if its on there in the extras though.