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Any update on the Rogue Trooper film anyone ?

Here is the news thread:

http://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,34415.0.html

Here's hoping it happens, not sure I can see Worthington in the part but this is the property after JD I'd most like to see realised.
Hi, by the way, new here (in terms of not lurking anymore), great forum:)

Dunno what your problem with Worthington is. Rogue Trooper is just a blue, bald genetically engineered soldier. Doesn't really require much acting chops, and his character is pretty much 'blue, bald genetically engineered soldier'

He doesn't even have a chin to worry about like Dredd. Of any of the major league AD characters, rogue is the least challenging to cast. Anyone could play him

[PS - my 8 year old son loved it and declared it 'miles better' than The Avengers.]

I went to see this yesterday and was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it.

Andrew Garfield makes a much better Peter Parker/Spider-Man than Tobey MacGuire. Spider-Man acts more 'spidery', [spoiler]spinning and waiting in an actual web to catch the Lizard, scurrying over The Lizard, spinning a web cocoon[/spoiler] and the web slinging looks much cooler and more realistic.

There's none of the cheesy dialogue of the Raimi film either and the romance between Peter and Gwen is much more believable compared to the 'they're in love because we told you they were' relationship with Mary Jane.

The Lizard looks a bit ropey and doesn't really resemble the comic version but the fight scenes were fast, kinetic and exciting.

I'm looking forward to seeing where the sequel will go.

PS - my 8 year old son loved it and declared it 'miles better' than The Avengers.

So, if it's a 12 certificate, but I'm (obviously) with him, can my 6 year old boy get in to watch it? He's Spiderman nuts.

Yeah, it's a 12A so under 12's are okay as long as they're with an adult. I don't recall anything particularly scary or distressing. The Lizard is a bit menacing but that's about it.

My daughter is 5 and she was a bit concerned when Uncle Ben died (is that a spoiler? Arf!) but for the most part, her overwhelming reaction was boredom. She pleaded with us to take her to see it too...

Well, he's usually OK watching Spiderman 1 through 3 over and over and over and over again, so I don't think I'll have to worry about the boredom levels. Possibly just my own....

I assume its a 12a as you don't get 12 in the cinema anymore, but yes you can

Yay. He will be pleased indeed.

[PS - my 8 year old son loved it and declared it 'miles better' than The Avengers.]

I went to see this yesterday and was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it.

Andrew Garfield makes a much better Peter Parker/Spider-Man than Tobey MacGuire. Spider-Man acts more 'spidery', [spoiler]spinning and waiting in an actual web to catch the Lizard, scurrying over The Lizard, spinning a web cocoon[/spoiler] and the web slinging looks much cooler and more realistic.

There's none of the cheesy dialogue of the Raimi film either and the romance between Peter and Gwen is much more believable compared to the 'they're in love because we told you they were' relationship with Mary Jane.

The Lizard looks a bit ropey and doesn't really resemble the comic version but the fight scenes were fast, kinetic and exciting.

I'm looking forward to seeing where the sequel will go.

PS - my 8 year old son loved it and declared it 'miles better' than The Avengers.

So, if it's a 12 certificate, but I'm (obviously) with him, can my 6 year old boy get in to watch it? He's Spiderman nuts.

[Zombie Eye Gougers 14 - The Splattering]

ALIEN

The other night, while i couldnt sleep due to my knackered shoulder, i thought i'd put this on- hadnt seen it in donkey's years.

Sad to say it bored the absolute tits off me. Not in the least scary, slow, drawn-out, with a boring script, and the usual camp hamming from ian holm and john hurt. Not a single scare that wasnt telegraphed in advance like a clumsy film student trying his hand at horror, 'cos it's easy, roight?'. Absolutely hated it.

SBT

Proof, to me, that you live in a parallel dimension where good is bad and bad is good.

Alien is my absolute favourite film of all time and is perfect in every way. There's no 'camp hamming' from anyone, each performance is subtle, restrained and naturalistic. The scares and uneasiness come from the atmosphere and the sense that there's nowhere to hide. Terror lurks round every corner on that claustrophobic ship.

Leave the good stuff to us film fans, you go off and watch Zombie Eye Gougers 14 - The Splattering by Fulccino Georgino.

Hahahahaha!

And: Yep

[Donnie Darko]

Donnie Darko...I understand there's a 'directors cut' version - anyone know if it's worth finding, or if it's significantly different?

Different? I'll say. They essentially start off with a great film and shit all over it.

maybe not then...

ALIEN

The other night, while i couldnt sleep due to my knackered shoulder, i thought i'd put this on- hadnt seen it in donkey's years.

Sad to say it bored the absolute tits off me. Not in the least scary, slow, drawn-out, with a boring script, and the usual camp hamming from ian holm and john hurt. Not a single scare that wasnt telegraphed in advance like a clumsy film student trying his hand at horror, 'cos it's easy, roight?'. Absolutely hated it.

SBT

Add this to the long list of great movies that you don't like! 

It's not as long as the list of utterly risible shite films he does purport to like.

But that's his schtick: the lone wacky voice of this website - and I suspect many others - taking that 'hey wait a minute' stance that demands everyone to re-evaluate and have a stunning moment of realisation as he tears down the flimsy walls of accepted opinion about films, books, comics and music.

And that would be great. If he wasn't wrong about absolutely *everything*

$35m in its first day of release. Less than any of the Raimi films, but first week BO estimates still looking respectable at c.$120-130m.

It's a lot easier than having identical pouches...

Unless you're drawing them in six panels a page, six pages a week...

That reminds me of the apocryphal McMahon classic:

"Are there going to be loads of people fighting this Block War every week?"
"Er, yeah"
"Fuck that"

I am making an assumption here so feel free to disagree, but I reckon the movie bods' thinking was that they had to do the origin story again because they wanted a teenage Spidey and if they just skipped the origin as you suggest, audiences would assume that this was a direct continuation of the adventures of the Spidey from the Raimi flicks, who by the end was a guy in his late 20s and far outside the age range ASM is aiming for.

Garfield's 28 already. The same age as Maguire was.

I think it would have been far braver - and more interesting - to do a Spiderman who genuinely was at school. And have a kid play him at 17 or whatever. A bit like the Harry Potter films, except not fucking shit.

But, as feared, they've gone for the halfwit teeny angst Twilight dollar, and as such it will be rubbish in comaprison to the Raimi film.

TRUFAX

The People under the Stairs.

I've seen it  few times (although a most of those weren't all the way through) but it's always enjoyable.

I watched it too.

I do sometimes wonder if my affection for it is largely nostalgia-driven because it is one of the many classic films me and my brothers rented out (several times) from our local video shop for the weekly Friday night gore-fest when we were all back at home.

Then I watch it again, and nope, it's still fucking great fun and is on our all-time favourite list of films we all watch over and over again. cf Tremors, The Hidden, The Thing, Aliens, Predator, They Live, In The Mouth Of Madness, Excorcist III

[plus we had a brand-new top-quality screen entirely to ourselves]

Thew wife and I ditched our many responsibilities and went to a lunchtime showing today.  Absolutely marvelous experience to see it in the cinema, plus we had a brand-new top-quality screen entirely to ourselves.  Rather than developing some new material for my next letter to Penthouse*, we carried on like a blissed-out version of Statler and Waldorf, pointing out things we'd never seen before, reveling loudly in the genius of it all... for about 10 minutes, after which time we became completely absorbed and STFU.

Great stuff, highly recommend.  We wandered out in into the rain musing on why there wasn't always a classic film to watch of a wet afternoon, and drawing up a list..

You've answered that question yourself, see the bit in bold.

I had a bad experience when I went to see Young Adult, which is quite a slow, quiet film. There were a few people just talking the whole way through the film. What really irked is that they were talking even over the credits. They clearly had no interest in giving the film a chance, so why were they even there? Why not just go to the pub instead?

Indeed. This baffles me. I mean, handing over something in the area of £10 to NOT watch a film?? As you say, you can go tot the pub and not watch it there, and have more money for some f*cking WKDs or something. Too much disposable income I think.

When I saw Prometheus for the second time with civilians, there was a bloke in there who'd clearly spent a lot of time in the pub *before* going to the cinema. He was fucking *smashed* and kept shouting at the screen.

Some funny similarities with Dredd here, especially on youtube:

"It's a rubbish remake of the 90s one" - People with no idea of the origins of the story
"No Arnie, no deal" - 90s muscle-man fanboys

Lots of differences too: Total Recall was ace and made lots of money. Judge Dredd was shit and didn't.

Do "The Cursed Earth" or "The Apocalypse War".

Obviously.

To anyone still unhappy with the look of the film:

Different artists have always rendered dredds world in their own style.
We should be use to that.

bollands dredd, Ron smiths dredd, ezquerras dredd, Steve dillons dredd (my favourite)

The film is simply travis and garlands dredd.
As long as the tone, the black humour the characterisations are right, who cares about vehicles?

I guarantee if 2000ad printed a dredd comic drawn exactly like the world in the trailer, all fans would love it as visionary and 'out there'.  Even the naysayers.

I don't really think the more realistic (ie not expensive) vehicles are that big a deal. The film won't succeed or fail because of a few cheapo cars and vans. But what IS annoying is people trying to post-rationalise the look and feel of the film as a "vision". The vehicles look like they do because of one thing: the budget.

So yes, Dillon's Dredd, Ezquerra's Dredd, McMahon's Dredd all had a slightly different look and feel. But the star of the show, Mega-City One, always looked very much "of the future" as did its denizens, and the various technology they used.

I don't recall Bolland drawing many Transit vans. I do recall lots of Mo-Pads, zipways, H-Wagons, Manta Tanks and hoverboards though.